2004 0506 Regular City Commission Meeting

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Summary Minutes: Regular City Commission Meeting May 6, 2004 City of Sunny Isles Beach, Florida bonus go away or if we go to Summary Chart E on page 16, where your base FAR is on the same sliding scale as your density, she asked if they were saying that each base FAR goes up by .5? Commissioner Iglesias said that was correct. She said she has a concern about adding it to the base at this conjuncture without having an opportunity to really anal yze what that does, because a lot of thought went into the base F ARs for the different components within the Town Center. She said that any types of bonus FARs were to encourage certain design criteria that are desirable for a mixed use dense intense Town Center and one of those was to encourage the retail you get a .5 and she said she has a concern to just arbitrarily raise everything at a .5 at this juncture at second reading when we have been discussing this for many months. Commissioner Thaler said why do we have to add a bonus if we are requiring it. Mayor Edelcup said perhaps change the mixed use bonus from a .5 to a 1.0 and you would still get there then, and Commissioner Iglesias said that is correct. He said right now you have a.5 bonus for additional FAR for mixed use bonus, and Ms. Eichner said that was to encourage people rather then require. Commissioner Iglesias said that you have a public baywalk enhancement bonus of .25, you have a site assembly bonus of .5, just spread them out. City Attorney Dannheisser said that the elimination is not a substantial change but changing the base FARs of everything is a substantial change, and Mayor Edelcup said we will not change the F ARs, but we can still get there by changing the other bonuses, spread that .5 that you just took away for one and put on each of the others. Ms. Eichner asked if it is the desire of the Commission to amend this so that retail is required, and the Commission said yes but only on the south side of Sunny Isles Boulevard. Ms. Eichner said in that case you can keep the FARs the way they are andjust not eliminate, it was just an additional bonus, it wasn't an additional base FAR, and on Summary Chart E on page 16, if you are going to require all properties on the south side of Sunny Isles Boulevard to have retail on the first floor, the mixed use bonus for those properties needs to be removed. She said on Summary Chart E, where we start off, if your property is 100 - 149 feet where it is now a 1.5 FAR, you are saying that it should be 2.0 FAR. City Attorney Dannheisser said we don't want a substantial change, and Ms. Eichner said that we are only talking about the retail on the south side of Sunny Isles Boulevard which is only the FAR then should be in Summary E, it doesn't affect the rest of Town Center. Mayor Edelcup said we are talking about not giving a bonus for retail, now all we have to do is decide can we put that .5 FAR on something else in a way of a bonus. Joe Milton said that if we don't count the FAR the retail against the FAR the developer is being accounted for, get rid of the bonus just don't count FAR the retail against the FAR that is being counted for the developer, garages don't count, eliminate the bonus. Commissioner Iglesias said good point, that if you have retail you don't count the FAR toward the retail because we want the retail in there, we are including it. Ms. Eichner clarified, only first floor retail on the south side of Sunny Isles Boulevard, and the Commission agreed. Stanley Price, Esq., said that in the mixed use category, the term 100% retail is not a defined term and you are going to need a lobby area, you need to put in a percentage of what the retail is going to be. It was the consensus of the Commission 10