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Summary Minutes:Regular City Commission Meeting December 18,2003 City of Sunny Isles Beach.Florida <br /> Mayor Edelcup asked that we change our formal procedures so that we don't get last <br /> minute amendments and to establish a better timeframe. City Attorney Dannheisser <br /> agreed and would like to consider the publication of the agenda be the cut off, and then <br /> any changes that come up afterwards could be made from the dais. Mayor Edelcup stated <br /> that another option would be to defer the item if there is a rewrite and there was consensus <br /> within the Commission. <br /> Mayor Edelcup summarized that there are approximately three different significant items <br /> in the revised TDR Ordinance: limit each project to 50,000 square feet of Transferable <br /> Development Rights that can be purchased from the City; hold back 100,000 square feet <br /> of Transferable Development Rights for future need at the discretion of the Commission, <br /> that would stay basically in the City inventory in case some future project came along that <br /> the City felt is so important to the City that it could use these TDRs as further inducement <br /> for that project to go forward,and, the last amendment essentially rewards site assemblage <br /> to give a FAR an 80-unit density and a 10-year life for those parcels that would be three <br /> acres or more, donated to the City and not to build on. City Attorney Dannheisser stated <br /> that there is one more, which is the consolidation of the process so that the Site Plan <br /> Review is to occur at the same time. <br /> Public Speakers: Cliff Schulman, Esq.; Henry Kay; Mary Ann Eicke; Bob Welsh <br /> Shelley Eichner,the City's Planning Consultant,reported that she reviewed the proposed <br /> TDRs Ordinance and the revisions, particularly those suggested by Commissioner <br /> Iglesias, noting that the amendments are specific to the Town Center,and she feels that if <br /> denied by the Commission,then it should be contained within the proposed Town Center <br /> Zoning Ordinance, because this proposed TDR ordinance really deals with the overall <br /> requirements for the process of determining the sender and receiver sites, the process by <br /> which TDRs are handled and reviewed by the Commission and the establishment of the <br /> TDR Bank and other requirements relative to TDRs in general. She feels that it would be <br /> more appropriate to place criteria specific to a zoning district in the regulations for that <br /> district, she is recommending instead of carving an exception in the overall TDRs <br /> Ordinance, to put whatever exceptions are approved by Commission relative to TDRs in <br /> the Town Center Ordinance, which hopefully will be approved in early 2004. She stated <br /> that the other issues are all prior versions of the TDR Ordinance has existed in time as <br /> well as the current proposed one, there has always been a five-year time limit for the use <br /> of those TDRs to either use them or they are extinguished and there doesn't appear right <br /> now to be any rationale why a site within Town Center be granted ten-years. Ms.Eichner <br /> also stated that since the Town Center Zoning is not yet in place, it is really in a draft <br /> form, and she doesn't feel it is necessarily appropriate at this time, to establish a Floor <br /> Area Ratio or a density number for the purposes of transferring Development Rights. She <br /> noted that what she is suggesting is anything peculiar to the Town Center belongs more <br /> appropriately in the Town Center Ordinance and would give us more time to work through <br /> some of these issues. <br /> 8 <br />