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 received some kind of counter proposal from them, and he got it today at 5:00 p.m. With all due respect to Mr. Shevlin, it is totally unacceptable to his client. The best he can say is we have given our good faith and best laid efforts to try to meet and come to an accord with both the Marenas and Ocean III. He is sure we will hear some objections,the bottom line to those objections, we are an as-of-right project. Projects that are built are in some ways disruptive because they are being built, and again, we had hoped that we could reach an accord as to our duties and obligations to them that met and in many cases exceeded the requirements of the City Code but we were unable to use them. But for the purposes of record,he is entering into the record the proposed agreements with both Ocean III and Marenas. Mayor Scholl opened the public hearing and asked if we have any lawyers here representing the neighbors. Barry Shevlin,Esq. said he is representing Marenas Condo Association,he was retained two days ago. With this representation that Mr. Schulman gave with all due respect, he met with the President of the Association once,and had one other phone conversation with him, there were no detailed conversations or proposals. There was a legal proposal some 16 pages long. You have seen beautiful renderings and fantastic monies being thrown around to buy additional FAR and TDRs and the mass of this project is unprecedented in Sunny Isles Beach. Then they said they would like 72 months to build it. The notice that was given on this application was improper. They were mailed by the City on November 7, 2015,and they were received on November 10, 2015. Today is November 19, they gave us 9 days to try to put something together. He attended a Board meeting Monday night and they were all shocked as to the fact that the City was going to move forward on this. When he finally looked at the notice when they gave him a copy of it, he was shocked. The City notice says "The applicant is seeking approval of a site plan for a 56-story mixed use building." It doesn't say it is seeking a site plan of two huge towers, both 56 stories,and his client's building is 26 stories, 25 feet from his client's building is going to be a massive 56-story building. The 72 months that they want to construct this building is basically going to put my client's hotel condominium out of business. Once the noise and the pumping from the dewatering, and all the other problems that he outlined in his letter to Mr. Schulman,is beyond belief,and they are going to lose 30%—40%of their business regularly. The sheer size of this project next to his client's 100-foot lot that needs the revenue generates to its hotel desk,to have the maintenance paid, and have the 133 employees paid for by the hotel, is going to put them out of business. You are going to be hurting 210 units of voters who voted for you guys, the massive size of this project and in the time they want to build it,and the business disruption that it is going to occur to his clients,it is unbelievable. Collins Avenue runs north on that side,and they would pour from construction trucks, from disruption from all the noise from the dewatering, the construction debris that is going to fall on his client's property. It is going to make a major financial and utter impacts on his client's property. He would ask because of the fact that this notice is improper, and his client's didn't have proper notice. We can't stop them from building a project on this site,they bought the property,they applied without variances,but we need to have some time to digest what they are planning, how they are planning it, and how they are going to protect Marenas, the Millenium, and what are they going to do with Ocean III. There has to be some kind of plan where everybody can get together and live with to protect the business interest of the hotel, to protect all the residents of Sunny Isles Beach. There should be 30 to 60 days delay. After hearing residents' comments and concerns, Mayor Scholl closed the public hearing. 7