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Summary Minutes:Regular City Commission Meeting November 19,2015 City of Sunny Isles Beach,Florida <br /> Commissioner Goldman said from what we have reviewed the landscaping needs some work, <br /> so there were a lot of comments on the landscaping, and just kind of pay attention to our <br /> environment and hopefully you will be able to patch that up. <br /> Mayor Scholl said he is going to do something that the developers always do to us which is he <br /> g g g P <br /> is going to parade the horrible, and in this case the developer amassed a five-acre oceanfront <br /> site with 435 feet plus or minus a frontage,and so what does that mean? That means that four <br /> (4)buildings could be built there on 100-foot lots,and so you can either end up with a Master <br /> Plan development like we have before us, or we can have four (4) individual buildings that <br /> could get built over the next ten(10)years on 100-foot lots which take a lot longer to be built <br /> because the staging to build on a 100-foot lot is very difficult. And so he knows that is not <br /> what you want to hear but that is the economic reality of it. The fact is that the developer <br /> could even be in a position where they can probably make more by breaking the five(5)acres <br /> up and selling them in the smaller lots. As Commissioner Aelion pointed out, by having the <br /> Master Plan progress we have much simpler ingress and egress, it will be relative to that <br /> project. Getting five (5) acres on the oceanfront, a lot like the Acqualina project, the Estates <br /> next door, it is a similar situation whereby the developers are amassing more land to create a <br /> higher end resort type of a project. This is actually better for the City and for the residents in <br /> the long run because we don't end up with a bunch of little buildings up and down the <br /> beachfront, which he for one has always been opposed to and he wanted to do away with 100- <br /> foot lot construction a long time ago. In the south end of the City it is a new developer and <br /> they partnered up for this reason to take two separate lots and put them together to build the <br /> Ritz Carlton Residence which again has less intensity because it is on a larger piece of land. <br /> Mayor Scholl said unfortunately everybody that is here tonight who lives in an oceanfront <br /> building as Mr. Shechter pointed out earlier, that building had to get built at some time, and <br /> that building upset the neighbor that was next door when that particular building was built. <br /> The good news is our City is almost built out, he knows it is ugly for the next three or four. <br /> years and we all have to live through it but the fact is that we are getting close to being built <br /> out. When the City is built out,with the quality of the architecture that these developers keep <br /> upping the game, we continue to have an evolving beautiful City. Unfortunately, we cannot <br /> take away the rights for the folks to build just like we can't go into your building and tell the <br /> apartment owner next door to yours that they can open up a dance hall because you would be <br /> very upset because you bought your property with a certain expectation level of the rules of <br /> that particular building. The difficulty that we always face on the Commission is the tradeoff <br /> between getting things built and getting them built properly and getting it over with and having <br /> a beautiful building and the rights and the frustrations of the adjacent property owners. And he <br /> sympathizes with Luni because she has been living next to the Porsche building for what has <br /> been going on for two years now, fortunately it is coming to an end. <br /> Mayor Scholl said what he completely agrees with is that we have got to start paying more <br /> attention to extended hours on construction,and he has talked to staff about this before and he <br /> is going to get feistier about it because we shouldn't be starting so early. If for some reason <br /> they are starting early to get extended hours, there is an Ordinance where they can turn off <br /> those reverse beepers. That is something that we can concentrate on. But a real tradeoff here <br /> is, believe it or not, we are lowering the intensity of what was there. We had 350+ in the <br /> Varadero which was not the banner property of Sunny Isles Beach as we had a lot of folks that <br /> 13 <br />