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<br />Summary Minutes: City Commission Meeting <br /> <br />April 1, 2004 <br /> <br />City of Sunny Isles Beach, Florida <br /> <br />the word shall or may? City Attorney Dannheisser said she believes in this particular area <br />it is may, and based on the zoning and the planning, she believes that the Commission <br />would be successful in any Bert J. Harris challenge on Sunny Isles Boulevard. Cliff <br />Schulman asked Mr. Vera, on areas other than Sunny Isles Boulevard, in the other areas <br />that are affected by the height limitations that are set forth in this Ordinance, what are the <br />height limitations on the area on the bayfront at the present time. Mr. Vera said that in the <br />RMF2 is 190 right now, and Mr. Schulman asked what this Ordinance suggest it be, and <br />anything less than 190 will be a down-zoning of those properties. Mr. Schulman asked <br />what the height requirement on the BU2 sections within the Town Center, and Mr. Vera <br />said it is BU3 and there is no height limitation, the entire shopping center is ~U3. Mr. <br />Schulman said that this Ordinance deals with that, there are property owners who's <br />property right now have unlimited heights, or 190-feet in areas of the City that you are <br />considering lowering. City Attorney Dannheisser said that the focus of this discussion is <br />solely Sunny Isles Boulevard. Mr. Schulman said that this Ordinance doesn't only rezone <br />or downzone the south side of Sunny Isles Boulevard, and City Attorney Dannheisser said <br />that is correct but their issues only relate to that. Commissioner Iglesias noted on page 21 <br />of the Comprehensive Plan (Ordinance No. 2000-105), under Town Center it states <br />"Where the provisions of the plan authorize land uses or development intensities different <br />or greater than the underlying land use designations on the future land use map, the more <br />liberal provisions of the plan shall govern when jointly adopted by affected property <br />owners and the City." <br /> <br />Mayor Ede1cup said to go back to the issues we need to resolve tonight: 1) Height on <br />Sunny Isles Beach Boulevard; 2) Density on Sunny Isles Boulevard; 3) Side Setbacks on <br />Sunny Isles Boulevard; and possibly 4) Height on Bayfront. Commissioner Thaler said <br />that he doesn't think the bayfront has ever been mentioned as long as he has been sitting <br />here, it has been 190 without the electrical work on top. Vice Mayor Goodman said that <br />he can recall that they were discussing the equipment on the roof that would be invisible, <br />Mayor Ede1cup proposed on page 14 where the asterisk appears on maximum height, that <br />that asterisk up till tonight was only meant to cover, at this point, the south side of Sunny <br />Isles Boulevard, and that asterisk does not apply to any of the other areas, and he thinks <br />that is where we left it at the last Commission meeting, and that would resolve the <br />problem here tonight, at this point accept the asterisk as being only on that one line item. <br />Vice Mayor Goodman asked for clarification on the 190-feet, with or without the <br />equipment, and Mayor Ede1cup said he just did, or everything other than Sunny Isles <br />Boulevard, it includes the elevators and any electrical equipment on top and it has to be <br />covered and camouflaged, Sunny Isles Boulevard at this point until we address height <br />problems, it is stated as an asterisk to mean, 190 plus the mechanical to be hidden, and <br />Vice Mayor Goodman said that would make it 21O-feet. <br /> <br />Mayor Ede1cup said we can address that problem first or density first, and Commissioner <br />Iglesias said to address this one first, and he proposed leaving it the way it is because thick <br />buildings would cover more views. Commissioner Brezin said she would like to make a <br /> <br />Page 9 of 13 <br />