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 residential land use, and it says "whereas the provisions of the plan authorize land use or development intensities different or greater than the underlying land use designations and future land use map, the more liberal provision shall govern when jointly adopted by the affected property owners", commercial and residential use means a mixed use and mixed use is high density, 50-80 units average according to the Comprehensive Plan. He said on page 22, the Town Center is encouraged to become the hope for future urban development intensification, and on page 23 it says the Town Center should be intensely developed, and he said the traffic on Sunny Isles Boulevard, if we use the maximum, will be 7%. He said that the Comprehensive Plan says we have to have intense development and the density we have on Sunny Isles Boulevard, by taking each individual parcel both the north and south side, in summary the south side has 11.1 acres which is 633 units with the Mayor's proposed sliding scale and that comes out to the average of 57 units per acre. Commissioner Iglesias further stated that the north has 9.73 acres and with the proposed sliding scale it gives you 249 units which is 30 units per acre, the total Sunny Isles Boulevard acreage in this area is 20.83 acres, totaling the units of 927 which is the max you can build there and you are looking at a density of 44 units per acre. He said regarding height: the building closest to whatever is going to be developed there is Oceania which has 323' 8" to the top, and we are proposing a height of 190-feet, which is 60-70% less, and he showed a building he drew, you go up 20-feet but take away 40-feet from width of building. He suggested going up 200-210 feet including the mechanical room. Mayor Edelcup said this is another demonstration of tall and skinny, where we can get buildings to be tall and skinny, we get wider view corridors or wider separation between towers, and when you force the height to come down, you get squattier buildings and you begin to get the wall effect because you don't have space between towers because the developer is going to use that space to still max out the number of square feet that he is able to build on that site. Commissioner Brezin said what Commissioner Iglesias didn't deal with is the base of the building, and we are talking about the entrance to our City, and she does not think that going from lot line to lot line is beautiful, and would like to cut it down to 120-feet instead of 190-feet, and have a smaller building. Mayor Edelcup said that the base that we are dealing with, has to have retail stores, parking for retail stores, and parking for the building, which is six stories in the base. He said that if we intend to have retail in Town Center you are committing in effect that you are going to have a wider base, and every building that comes before us has to meet site plan approval, the fire code approval, and various other approvals, including traffic. He said that our Comprehensive Plan mandates that we have to have a Town Center, so to have that you have to have a base with the stores in there. Commissioner Thaler showed a drawing of the entrance coming off the bridge with buildings at lO-stories, which is squattier. He feels that the area should have retail stores, 7