2004 0401 Regular City Commission Meeting

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Summary Minutes: City Commission Meeting April 1, 2004 City of Sunny Isles Beach, Florida Ms. Eichner discussed on page 8, lot coverage and minimum setbacks. Commissioner Iglesias said when you allow 5-feet on Sunny Isles Boulevard, you are introducing an alleyway, and he thinks you can leave it on the back but not the side. Ms. Eichner explained that initially on the south side of Sunny Isles Boulevard, the original in the workshop settings was a O-setback, subject to site plan approval, then at the last workshop the consensus was to have a tower separation of 50-feet. The tower set back 20-feet from the pedestal, so if you have 20 on one side and 20 on the other, you only have 40, so the only way to get 50-feet was either make the towers 25-feet setback from the pedestal, or throw an extra 5-feet on either side. Commissioner Iglesias still feels you are creating a alley, so remove at least the 5-feet side. Commissioner Brezin noted that there would only be lO-feet in between the buildings, and if there was a fire there, emergency vehicles wouldn't be able to get in. Commissioner Iglesias said they would go through the building, but Commissioner Brezin said they need to get through the side of the building, and she is proposing that we have a minimum of 10-feet, and she proposed that we have buildings no higher then llO-feet, and the housing for the elevators or air conditioning units is not counted in the 110-feet. Vice Mayor Goodman said if you get the two properties and there is no setback at all, that means they are building lot line to lot line. He said there are two towers, on one end the tower with the entrance to the delivery side would be, would be no problem for the emergency vehicles, but when you get to the other side, where the other tower is, there will be no way for an emergency vehicle to get in. Mayor Ede1cup said that we should be talking about this at Site Plan Review, because each building will have to have a site plan review that includes the Fire Department signing off as to whether or not it is feasible. Ms. Eichner added that the setbacks listed are minimums, and Commissioner Thaler agreed with Commissioner Brezin that they should all be ten. Ms. Eichner said on page 10, Maximum Height, the heights of buildings are based on the street type frontage, and heights throughout the City varies from 75-feet up to 190-feet. The Collins Court which is the area fronting Collins Avenue as well as the north side of Sunny Isles Boulevard where it is 50-feet for the first 130-feet, and then 100-feet for the next 100-feet, then up to the 170-feet which is the 15-stories, set further back, and all the others are generally maximum heights, width, a pedestal, a tower, and a penthouse. Ms. Eichner further reported on Landscaped Open Space and Tower Separation and Tower Width, with a minimum separation of the towers of 50-feet and maximum tower width of 200-feet. She noted that the next group of pages is the same text, the same concepts, but just put into a chart format and diagrams. She said the last part of the Ordinance gets into architectural design minimum standards, and those came about working with some of the developers and architects in the community and coming up with suggested architectural guidelines that should be reviewed in conjunction with site plan approval when these come to the Commission to ensure that there is some type of theme and consistency and pedestrian friendly type of concept within the Town Center, and finally there are some general and open space requirements, and that summarizes it. Page 7 of 13