2007 1115 Regular City Commission Meeting

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Summary Minutes: Regular City Commission Meeting November 15,2007 City of Sunny Isles Beach, Florida 4. Release of Declaration of Restriction recorded on ORB 3972 Page 328 dated August 30, 1954, only as it applies to the subject property. 5. Partial Release of Easement, more specifically described as, the West 10- feet of a vacated alley approved by the City of Sunny Isles Beach, City Commission under Resolution No. 2003-51 I passed and adopted on February 20,2003. (Deferred from 9/20/07) Protests 1 Waivers o Ex Parte ~ Action: [City Clerk's Note: A protest letter from property owner Marie Bundick was distributed prior to the meeting.] Mayor Ede1cup gave opening remarks on zoning procedures/decorum and City Clerk Hines read a disclaimer for the Zoning hearing, and administered the oath to the witnesses for the Zoning hearing. Community Development Director Robert Solera reported. Public Speakers: Jeffrey Perlow, Esq.; Mike Strohl, Architect; Jeffrey Perlow, Esq., representing the applicant, reported that they will accept the staffs recommendations and all the conditions contained in the report except one, the exclusive easement for FPL. He said that they have a letter from FPL indicating that they don't need it as an exclusive easement, and so they want to have that I 0- foot easement as a utility easement for other potential utilities as well. He stated that there are currently 16 existing duplex units which will be demolished and they will build four (4) buildings with five (5) townhome units in each with a price range of $1.4 to $1.7 Million Dollars. He said they hope to start within six months, with sales beginning with the approval tonight. Architect Mike Strohl presented renderings ofthe project, and Commissioner Brezin said that there is a lack oflandscaping on this project. Mr. Strohl said that the rendering is not a perfect representation of their landscape plans because when they went through the zoning comments, the landscaping increased substantially. He presented the landscape plans in L1 which shows landscaping all along Atlantic Boulevard, and the area in back is heavily landscaped. Commissioner Brezin asked about the wall going across the rear of the property in the swimming pool area, is there landscaping there, and Mr. Strohl said there is landscaping from the east and west side of the wall with heavy landscaping by the chain-link fence He said that wall is going to be similar to the current 6-foot wall on Lehman Causeway to keep the consistency. Commissioner Brezin said the landscaping along that wall is actually part of the site plan approval and we are assured that the property will be properly landscaped, which would meet with our beautification project, and Mike Strohl said yes. Commissioner Iglesias said he agrees with Commissioner Brezin, we would like to see an elaborate landscaping plan. Assistant City Manager/Services Jorge Vera said there are two things happening back there, the remaining 10- feet of that easement is going to have to stay clear because FPL is using that easement, and we are going to be putting in some transmission bolts and they need access. He said we can see if they can create some kind of hedge close to the wall, such as ficus which would hide the wall, and also we have plans on that northern end to redo all that landscaping, the FDOT area, which is going to be heavily wooded. Commissioner Goodman asked whose 3