2004 0401 Regular City Commission Meeting

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Summary Minutes: City Commission Meeting April 1, 2004 City of Sunny Isles Beach, Florida Commissioner Iglesias moved and Commissioner Brezin seconded the motion. LP A Resolution No. 2004-16 was adopted by a voice vote of 5-0 in favor. 5e.2 An Ordinance of the City Commission of the City of Sunny Isles Beach, Florida, Adding Section 265-37 of the Land Development Regulations, Relating to the Creation of a Town Center Zoning District; Providing for Permitted Uses, Conditional Uses and Prohibited Uses; Providing for Site Development Standards; Providing for Architectural Design Minimum Requirements; Providing for General Design Standards; Providing for Landscape and Open Space; Providing for a Repealer; Providing for Severability; Providing for Inclusion in the Code; Providing for an Effective Date. Action: City Clerk Hines read the title, and Shelley Eichner, AICP, Planning Consultant, and Planning and Zoning Administrator Jorge Vera reported. Shelley Eichner, AICP, Planning Consultant, reported that she wanted to make a correction on page 16 on Summary Chart E, Lot Width categories, the first category should be 100-149 feet; and the second category should be 150-299 feet, which was the consensus at the last meeting. Ms. Eichner proceeded to go through the Ordinance noting that there are a lot more graphics included in an attempt to better explain the chart system, and have now put the text, in terms of setbacks and height, into text format into the diagrams and charts. Commissioner Thaler stated that, regarding Maximum Dwelling Unit Density, the difference between 80 units per acre and 60 units per acre, assuming the full use of that property which is approximately 10.9 acres on the south side of Sunny Isles Boulevard, at 80 units per acre we come up with 873 units that can be built on the property; at 60 units per acre we come up with 655 units and that is without the TDRs. Commissioner Iglesias said it is less acres than 10.9 acres, and said the numbers should be 788 vs. 633. Commissioner Thaler said if you add the 30% on it you come up with an additional 262 units on the 80 per acre against 197 units, and the differential between using 80 units per acre and 60 units will come to 283 units, if you take the statistic that the Herald had run, of the average of 1.7 cars per unit, it comes to a difference of 481 cars in that area just by going from 60 to 80 density. Commissioner Thaler said the difference between 80 projecting it out using 1,135 times 4.2 comes to 4,767 trips and with the 60 it comes to 3,578 trips a day. He said if we stay at 60 units which is where we have the west side, we will have almost 500 cars less driving these streets. Commissioner Iglesias, using the 6th Edition ofthe Institute of Traffic Engineers Manual, stated if you go from the south to the north, the corner lot has .86 acres of what we are allowing and that is 42 units. He said if you go down the line from the Lagoon to the Miami Subs, has a total of acres that would allow 633 units on the sliding scale, and with Commissioner Thaler's figures it goes from 633 units to 534 units. Commissioner Page 5 of 13