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<br />Summary Minutes: City Commission Meeting
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<br />April 1, 2004
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<br />City of Sunny Isles Beach, Florida
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<br />Iglesias stated for an example to relate to traffic, at the north end, with 80 units per acre
<br />for everything, this comes out to 788 units on four lanes of traffic, six units less than one
<br />single building on North Bay Road that only has two lanes of traffic, which is the
<br />Intercoastal Yacht Club. On North Bay Road, there is a total of 2,586 units, all on a two
<br />lane road. He continued with traffic rates, at the north end, going at 80 units per acre, you
<br />can only go four at 60 units, to put condos on the north end is not feasible because you are
<br />taking the height of only four stories, the average rate for a high-rise condominium is 4.2
<br />vehicles, at 80 units per acre, not the sliding scale, you are generating 3,296 trip ends per
<br />day, the traffic on Sunny Isles Boulevard is currently over 44,000 vehicles per day,
<br />therefore if we take the worst scenario, at 80 units per acre, you are looking at adding 6%
<br />more traffic, and is less then two fast-food restaurants with 86 seats with a drive-in
<br />window, in other words we are looking at 6% of increase providing we keep the same
<br />density, which is not the case because some of those buildings are going to go away and
<br />become condos, so if the traffic was a major problem on 788 units, what happens on North
<br />Bay Road when you have 2,560, so bottom line is that density is not an issue.
<br />Commissioner Thaler said that Commissioner Iglesias is forgetting about the traffic that is
<br />already there, and he believes it is 10% not 6%. Commissioner Iglesias did not agree, he
<br />said the actual traffic counts from FDOT was 44,000 vehicles, and he said that you are
<br />looking at a 5% to 7% increase if everything stays the way it is, but it is not going to.
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<br />Vice Mayor Goodman said that Sunny Isles Boulevard has a bridge and when it is up the
<br />traffic backs up all the way to Collins Avenue, the traffic isn't coming from Sunny Isles
<br />Beach but people passing through Sunny Isles Beach to get to other points. He said that
<br />we need to do a new survey. Mayor Ede1cup said whether it is 60 or 80 units per acre we
<br />are going to have the traffic because it is coming from outside of the City. Commissioner
<br />Brezin said that a problem already exists when that bridge is up, and we don't need a lot
<br />more traffic, and agrees with Commissioner Thaler at 60 units per acre. Vice Mayor
<br />Goodman asked Ms. Eichner how this affects the maximum height of the buildings, and
<br />she said it doesn't affect that.
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<br />Public Speakers re: Maximum Density: Henry Kay; Joseph Milton; Chris Humberstone;
<br />Roslyn Fabian; Teresa Lewis; Cecile Sippin; Cliff Schulman;
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<br />Mayor Edelcup summarized that he thinks both sides are trying to come up with lower
<br />density and lower number of units. He said one side is saying basically to make it 60
<br />straight across, and the other side is to have a sliding scale from 25 to 80 units per acre.
<br />He said which ever way we go, at the end we will wind up with about the same.
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<br />Ms. Eichner said on page 7, requirements dealing with minimum unit size, the building
<br />parameters as far as defining the different types of streets in the concept, the size of
<br />buildings, height of buildings, setbacks, are based on street types. Mayor Ede1cup pointed
<br />out a typo in Section d) on page 7, forth line down, it says "extend one hundred (100)" the
<br />word "feet" should be added there.
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