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<br />Summary Minutes: Regular City Commission Meeting <br /> <br />July 8, 2004 <br /> <br />City of Sunny Isles Beach, Rorida <br /> <br />Intracoastal Towers where the submerged land acres were counted, has been consistently <br />not to include submerged land. She said that the RU-4A was specifically amended to <br />exclude submerged land. <br /> <br />Commissioner Iglesias said that it was specifically said at that workshop if you don't <br />count submerged lands you are not going to get anything developed, there is no room, <br />and what Mr. Milton said is correct. Commissioner Iglesias made a motion to clarify <br />what was said at the February 8, 2004 Workshop, and Mr. Milton played a copy of a <br />cassette tape, Side B, from the February 8, 2004 Town Center Workshop regarding <br />submerged land: <br /> <br />Shelley Eichner: The final item that was discussed at the last meeting was <br />whether wet lands and submerged land should be included in the FAR <br />calculation, and at that time the consensus was that wet lands should be included, <br />submerged land excluded. Out of an outgrowth of that and I think one of the <br />major areas of the City that you all saw when you got your big aerials was the <br />area again on the south side of Sunny Isles Beach Boulevard and there is that <br />canal and in reviewing some of the older plats and as you all saw, we developed <br />those maps with the parcel lines which is what you had requested, there were <br />some questions raised whether or not the maps were accurate and the question in <br />particular came up was whether the water area the canal area south was part of <br />the property of the lots or whether it wasn't and to add further to the confusion <br />when one pulled out, so when we went back to our office and researched <br />everything and when we did pull out the old recorded plat which, I have my <br />surveyor Joe Aldecosta here who heads up our Survey Department, I believe it <br />was recorded in 1950 Joe? <br />Joe Adecosta: 1951, April. <br />Shelley Eichner: In 1951, for whatever reason that we don't understand there is a <br />line that shows the bulkhead line and then there is a dotted line that goes out into <br />the middle of the canal, 65-feet into that canal, that says property line. So therein <br />rose some confusion as to whether our maps were accurate and what was going <br />on. We have done much research over the last two days and we have now come <br />to the conclusion that we don't know why the word "property line" is there but <br />clearly and without a doubt, the land, the water area is owned by the State of <br />Florida. So all of the property owners on the south side of Sunny Isles Beach <br />Boulevard they own to the bulk head line, some of it may be under water, which <br />you can clearly see from the aerial, you see it even better on the larger aerial that I <br />delivered the other day, so those properties go to the bulk head line which is in <br />essence the property line and that would then be an appropriate measure on which <br />to base your FAR, and lets not even really, you know, get into the issue of <br />wetlands and submerged land. <br />Commissioner Iglesias: Just the property owners, correct? <br />Shelley Eichner: The property line. <br />Commissioner Iglesias: I agree.e <br />13 <br />