2003-1218 Regular City Commission Meeting

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Summary Minutes:Regular City Commission Meeting December 18,2003 City of Sunny Isles Beach,Florida which means you actually now have money to start breaking ground. He said if the developer is breaking ground on the east side, he still has to sell the other 50%,but if the Sales Center is on the east side which may have cost $200,000.00 to $3 Million, then it has to be taken down because the foundation has to be put in, so it really has to be on either one. He stated further that many developers wants to put it on the west side so they know that their east side property is clear for the development to start quickly once they get their construction funding, so he would like to have the flexibility of that to have it off-site on the west side of Collins Avenue and then have the construction actually going on, on the east side. Commissioner Brezin has no objection to having it on the other side, but she thinks we should have exercised certain rights that the structures don't look like some of the structures that we currently have now, that are objectionable to the people that live there. She said it would not be objectionable to the residents, or this Commission if these trailers/buildings met with approval architecturally, structurally, and in every other way. Commissioner Thaler asked how long a Sales Center would be up,and Mr.Schulman said as long as it needs to be in order to sell the number of units, and they don't want to keep them up any longer then necessary, because what they want to see on the site is foundations going in, and buildings going up, because every day that they have a Sales Center and they don't have construction, they are paying interest money and they are not getting their money out. Mayor Edelcup said that there really is a time limit that when the project is CO'ed and Mr. Schulman said yes,because it is no longer a permissible use, as soon as there are no longer units to sell,the Sales Center becomes illegal,because it has to be linked to sales taking place in a particular site. Edith Sandquist complained about the Sales Trailers on the property located on the corner of 158th Street Bay View Drive and Collins Avenue. She said they downgrade the neighborhood, and they have been sitting there for three months, and she would like the Commission to provide time limits on this Ordinance. Mayor Edelcup said that it is at the stage that it is in because the Commission had to act and the developer wasn't allowed to move forward on the development of that trailer so he was stuck with the fact that the trailers were there and he couldn't move forward until we finally moved forward, and Commissioner Iglesias agreed. Mayor Edelcup said what this developer is waiting for,is for the Commission to pass the Ordinance so that he may move forward,and certainly the City will maintain the ability to have a Site Plan approval on that site and we won't approve it if it is not up to our standards, and if it isn't up to our standards, then we won't allow those trailers to stay there indefinitely,they will have to either meet the standards or go. Peter Weiner,Esq.,representing Dezer Properties, said that the City issued a Building Permit for the trailers and that is why they were on the site, the Building Permit was then revoked, and he was then told that they could not move forward with any permits until the Ordinance was changed, and they have gotten a Landscape Permit within the last week, they have gotten an Electrical Permit, and they intend to remove the fence and put in some landscaping but they can't go forward with the actual building and reconstruction of the 14