2015-1119 Regular City Commission Meeting

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Summary Minutes:Regular City Commission Meeting November 19,2015 City of Sunny Isles Beach,Florida developer is doing. One of the things that we keep saying is the quality of the architecture in our City goes up and up and up with each of these developments simply because it is getting more and more competitive. He has said many times in the past that these buildings really aren't occupied much,especially when we start to get into this level of high-end development. If you drive down the City at night, even during the season and you look at the more expensive buildings,there are very few lights on,and so the intensity of this development once it is built,he thinks we will find that the intensity of the development of the City is going to be pretty. What we are going to find is that looking at the building it congers up the horrible because of the size but ultimately these buildings are just not largely occupied. Mayor Scholl said as Mr. Schulman pointed out earlier that we have done the traffic studies, believe it or not, our development really isn't contributing materially to the traffic as 72%of the traffic is coming from outside of the area every day. We are going through a very comprehensive traffic pedestrian study now,we haven't gotten the results yet. We had a lot of public meetings to support that,and so we are getting to the bottom of that. We have got ways that we are looking at, some potentially pedestrian bridges and other things to make it safer for our pedestrians to get back and forth across Collins Avenue,and along Collins Avenue, Also to mitigate some of the traffic issues,and so we are working on that as well. With that in mind again, he thinks we have a quality developer, we have five (5) acres of oceanfront, we have a 435-foot site where we can get multiple buildings built on, and we are getting two and a unified site plan, and truly the only way to mitigate your concerns is to tell them they cannot build. Fortunately you elect us to protect the City and to protect you, we will get sued from now until the cows come home if we turn down as-of-right projects that conform to our Code. It is not popular with the public and he knows when we are getting to the right answer when the developer is not happy and the public is not happy, somewhere in the middle is where we are sitting. This is a completely as-of-right project,they are not asking for variances, and he has shot down a project from the developer's partner that has appeared before us in the past, but that is not the case here. We have this tradeoff and he knows the construction is going to be frustrating, it is temporary, we are going to try to do something about the extended hours and the beeping on trucks backing up. Commissioner Aelion said something was voiced here about this 4:00 a.m. disturbance of noise and trucks,it does happen. For the record and everybody should know for the future that any structure that is approved and starts to be erected, there is this basic two to three day inevitable application of truck after truck of cement pour that has to happen for the foundation. It has to happen within a very limited time,and cannot happen other than in those wee hours. That is an exception, it happens twice maybe for any structure being built. Mayor Scholl asked Hans to structure the motion,and City Attorney Ottinot said assuming that the Commission will approve this project, it would be a motion to approve the modification of Condition No. 10, reducing the pedestrian crosswalk proffer from $300,000.00 to $150,000.00, due at the time the Applicant pulls the Building Permit; modification of Condition No. 20 based on wording submitted by Commissioner Aelion,"That the Applicant shall address comments P rovided by City's Traffic Consultant regarding traffic and shared parking analysis. The City Manager along with the City's Traffic Consultant will be satisfied with the comments and will necessitate their approval."; and clarification that the developer had requested an extension of 72 months for the Building Permits, not to build. 15