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Summary Minutes:Regular City Commission Meeting July 17.2003 City of Sunny Isles Beach.Florida <br /> For the record, Mr. Price repeated the following: The City of Sunny Isles Beach came up <br /> with a Comprehensive Plan to capture their vision of what the City should be, and one of <br /> the goals was to see tall and slender buildings, not lot line to lot line. He said that in the <br /> Plan there is a section called "Community Vision" and it says "by preserving vistas and <br /> view corridors to the ocean and creating green waves and shoreline walkways linking <br /> beaches and shores via access corridors to neighborhoods". He said that this project <br /> exemplifies what that vision is. He said that Objective Five of the Master Plan, the Land <br /> Use Plan Map contained in this element, establishes allowable land uses and density and <br /> intensities for each land use category and is declared to be an integral part of the adopted <br /> land use policies and this property is designated MU-R, 80-units per acre under the City's <br /> Comprehensive Plan. <br /> Mr. Price stated that the next issue is the utilization of the City's bonus system. He <br /> referred to Objective 15 of the Comprehensive Plan which encourages and endorses a <br /> bonus system in order to ensure the town certain amenities be advanced by the <br /> development community. He noted that the Bonus Plan is a voluntary plan and that <br /> Objective 6 of the Plan, by 2003, the City shall require all new development and existing <br /> and planned transient corridors to be planned and designed to promote pedestrian and <br /> transient uses through the encouragement of the bonus system, asking developers to <br /> provide access to the beach,to help with landscaping on Collins Avenue,or to contribute <br /> to a parking fund. Mr. Price said that the applicant has availed itself of three bonuses: <br /> public beach recreational enhancement, Collins Avenue Public Streetscape, and public <br /> parking. <br /> Mr. Price stated that the Town of Golden Beach does not like the goals and objectives of <br /> the Comprehensive Plan, and that they don't like that the City is providing high density in <br /> high-rise buildings on the ocean, they say it is not consistent with their plan. He argued <br /> however that if the Town of Golden Beach did not like the Comprehensive Plan, by <br /> statute they were required to challenge the Comprehensive Plan within a prescribed period <br /> of time and only if they appeared at the public hearings and only if they voiced specific <br /> objection, their appeal would be limited to that specific objection. <br /> Planning and Zoning Administrator Jorge Vera presented the staff report,noting that this <br /> project had been approved prior through the Administrative Site Plan Review process <br /> established under Dade County regulations, and they are now coming before the City <br /> under the City's regulations with an additional six units added to the site. Mr. Vera said <br /> that Planning recommended approval with conditions, and noted that the applicant is <br /> purchasing TDRs and requesting site plan review, and purchasing 38, 847 square feet of <br /> Floor Area Ratio (FAR). <br /> John K. Shubin, Esq.,representing the Town of Golden Beach,two residents from Golden <br /> Beach, and ten residents from Sunny Isles Beach, noted that he wants to incorporate into <br /> the record the petition that was filed with the City of Sunny Isles Beach on behalf of the <br /> 3 <br />