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BEll DAVID PLANNING GROUP, INe Novigoling Florido's Plonning Requirements MEMORANDUM TO: Mayor and Commission, City of Sunny Isles Beach FROM: Jerry H. Bell, AICP RE: Executive Summary Proposed Adoption of EAR-based Ameli DATE: December 13, 2007 The City of Sunny Isles Beach adopted its Comprehensiv Evaluation and Appraisal Report (EAR) in September 2005. The EAR w equently found sufficient by the Florida Department of Community A' ). As the next step in this proces e City has prepar pplications for amendments to the Com d EAR. These amendments are intended to: implement the recommen contained in the City's adopted EAR; generally update the Comprehen Ian and its goals, objectives and policies; address issues that have ari Ince the date of the EAR, and; address subsequent changes in State gro anagement legislation. The amendments are collectively referred to as .~- ased amendments. The 11 applications correspond to the Comprehehsive Plan elements to which amendments are recommended, and the Monitoring & Evaluation Provisions. The City approved transmittal of its EAR-Based Amendments to DCA for preliminary sufficiency review upon first reading of the adopting Ordinance on May 17, 2007. In the August 24, 2007 Objectives, Recommendations and Comments (ORC) Report, DCA provided five objections and four comments to the proposed amendments. The City's response and proposed corrective actions are as follows. The proposed amendments to Future Land Use Policy 15A. (Application No.1, Future Land Use Element Amendment 32, pp. 8 - 9) have been revised to remove language that might be interpreted to suggest that the City is increasing densities and intensities in the Town Center District beyond what is presently 1