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Summary Minutes:Regular City Commission Meeting September IS,2016 City of Sunny Isles Beach,Florida
<br /> the public will know, we can't order them "you can't come in here because you don't live
<br /> here." There is accessible parking, that semi quasi area where people are allowed to come
<br /> into. Who is it that is coming in, that is the bigger issue. Even when we tell them that they
<br /> cannot block the driveway, and they just say they want to unload and go to the Pier. Well
<br /> they will and they will leave their car there,they will not come back and their car is basically
<br /> perpendicular to the other parking spaces. And it goes on and on, and then we have
<br /> confrontations when they go inside the building to those spaces, unfortunately, and have
<br /> confrontations with the residents. He said even back then, it is never a good thing to have
<br /> outsiders going into a private building. We have had to go in there and pull people off from
<br /> different floors on which they don't belong, totally irrelevant to the area of the parking
<br /> spaces. Why are these comments important? Because he knows they are the root cause of
<br /> the problem that is going to continue. Even if you reduced it to two(2)parking spaces from
<br /> what you have there, it is not going to change anything. As long as they have the
<br /> accessibility to come in and park,you will have 20 people fighting over those two(2)parking
<br /> spaces. That is the root cause of the problem.
<br /> Eric Glazer. Esq. clarified that yes tonight you primarily heard from the residents of La Perla
<br /> but it is not just about the residents of La Perla. Earlier in the week he presented a series of
<br /> letters that he filed with the City Clerk, one from Trump Towers Condominium, another
<br /> from the Pinnacle Condominium, another from Ocean I Condominium, and another from
<br /> Sands Point Condominium all in favor of relocating the parking spaces and as you can see,it
<br /> is a tremendous liability and safety issue to any traffic that is driving north on Collins
<br /> Avenue. He doesn't want this Commission to think it is only about La Perla because it is
<br /> not, it effects everybody that is driving in and out of this City. In conclusion, he hopes that
<br /> the testimony of everybody here this evening convinced this Commission of the real danger
<br /> of the current status of the 29 parking spaces,and the true desperate need to relocate them to
<br /> Gateway Park. He thanked everyone for their time and their attention this evening, and he
<br /> hopes we can get this matter to a public hearing by year's end.
<br /> Mayor Scholl said he would like to frame some things so you can understand, like
<br /> everything, there is no silver bullet solution,and unfortunately in this case, it was bad policy
<br /> that started it, it was the developer and he disagreed with Richard Brown Morilla because
<br /> ultimately those decisions were made before the building was built, it wasn't a bait and
<br /> switch after the building was built. Those decisions were made by a Commission that was
<br /> very developer friendly, it was bad policy to begin with, and former Commissioner Danny
<br /> Iglesias is sitting back there, it was a mess to start with, and unfortunately the developer did
<br /> not characterize that entrance properly when that building was built. In his mind, the
<br /> situation was doomed from the start. Again for clarity, he probably met with these folks a
<br /> dozen times over the years and you know, negotiated the garage spaces, the fact is, what is
<br /> difficult here is that there were trade-offs given to that developer when there was a true
<br /> vision that became a public asset, and so as much as it would like to sound like we should
<br /> have just given you those 29 spaces, the public owns those spaces, they weren't your spaces
<br /> unfortunately. What he is trying to say is the space is in the garage, we are talking about in
<br /> the garage now because those spaces were characterized, and again those spaces belong to
<br /> the public, Pier Park belongs to the public,and we have got a trade-off there now. We have
<br /> got a series of conflicting priorities, he doesn't disagree, it is a terrible problem. He does
<br /> agree that we have to look at it more closely to try to find some solutions but now we have a
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