2016-0915 Regular City Commission Meeting

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Summay Minutes:Regular City Commission Meeting September 15,2016 City of Sunny Isles Beach,Florida commercial enterprise there,we have a Pier, and a restaurant that gets used in the evening for that as well. Unfortunately it is not just your set of priorities any more, it is a public piece of land. It should never have been done that way in the first place, it is terrible. That entrance is a disaster, it has been a disaster from day one, and like you said, the problem has gotten worse, we have tried to escalate our response to it, and helped the best we could. So the issue has been over the years, we've continually escalated our response and to the Chiefs point, he completely agrees with the Chief, it has been a mess. Mayor Scholl said your proposed solution is interesting but basically you created a custom entrance to your building at the behest of a public piece of land. He is not totally convinced that people aren't still going to try to pull in and drop their people off at the beach and you are going to say, well put an entrance gate in so that only we can get in. Well, he doesn't know if we can do that either. He doesn't think the answer is going to be as simple as relocating the spaces but at the same time he believes we have got a conflicting set of priorities with the Pier,with the restaurant lease,and there are other issues going on there. So his point is that we hear you, and we appreciate everybody coming out. He is very familiar with it, to the gentleman with the five (5) questions, he has been there on the weekends, he knows it is a mess, when he goes there he goes on his scooter because he can park by the bicycle racks on the end to go to the restaurant. But he thinks we are going to have to look at it in a public policy standpoint as well as a life safety issue because it is both because it is very difficult for us to ignore the other pieces that are there. He does believe with the Park opening hopefully we are going to have some alternatives, and we are going to look at that. The City Manager brought up to him the other day about the fact that the lease for the Pier restaurant has got a parking requirement in it. Your own Condo docs are very loose when it comes to short term rentals, and so you are creating intensity on your building as well. So the answer might be a trade-off between all of us. We may try to de-intensify some of it,and you might have to try to de-intensify some of it as well. He can tell you, the short term rentals,they put a lot of pressure on your building and they bring an element in your building that is very undesirable. The Chief will tell you, most of the issues we have in buildings today is because of B&B and short term rentals and he gets called all the time because of this. So, this is an issue as well that you might have to address. So again, his point is that we are going to look at it vigorously, he can promise you, but there is a series of trade-offs here unfortunately because it just is not our land to give you. He has said this many times, it was a bad situation to begin with and we have created a situation that gave ingress and egress to public land and so it is just not so easy to redecorate it and make it a custom entrance. Even with the handicapped spaces there, it is still pretty ugly because he still believes that people are going to want to pull in and drop people off. But he does believe that there might be some ways to mitigate it, moving the spaces but also mitigating the way the ingress and egress works which he thinks we have got to go to the staff and let the staff take a hard look at it. But again, his point is there is no silver bullet, it is a problem that is going to have to be managed, and we have to look at it carefully. The one thing he appreciates is he loves it when people show up and they are upset, it shows him that people care about their community because many nights we sit here and the staff is in the audience and we are making all our decisions and we don't really feel the intensity and the emotion of the community and so it is very important that you came tonight. He appreciates the organization, he appreciates the calm too, we have had meetings in here where people are screaming and yelling, and frankly that doesn't get your point across but he thinks you all 28