2005 0609 Regular City Commission Meeting

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Summary Minutes: Regular City Commission Meeting June 9, 2005 City of Sunny Isles Beach, Florida and how traffic runs in Sunny Isles Beach. He said when people come out of the development, they are going to have to make a right turn and head north and if they want to go south they are going to have to go north and make a u-turn. He said if they put their entrance where the traffic light is on 159th Street in the middle of their buildings, that would give them entrance and exit from all directions. Commissioner Goodman said that he has yet to see a building being built with three tandems and after looking at their plans, they have 63 triple tandems, that is 189 cars that would have to be moved in and out, and there are 813 apartments and 700 parking spaces. He said everyone says they have valet parking, he can agree with valet parking, but if he was buying an apartment in that building and you had 813 and you are giving 977 parking spaces, the apartments are 2-bedroom, 3-bedroom, some are larger than that and parking circumstances is 1.20, and he feels it should be 1.50 or 1.62. Mr. Daly said they have developed an internal circulation plan where everything exited at the light and were criticized by staff and consultants because there is a 75-foot setback required from the curb line to the building and the criticism was that in the internal circulation plan that the 75-feet is substantially chewed up by roadways coming back and forth because they were horizontal/parallel roadways to the street and that was rejected, they then went to multiple interest actions the FDOT said they would not allow no different. . ., Ocean IV is a intersection with a roadway at Rascal House and FDOT said they didn't want an intersection at the light, they wanted it to either go in before the light and go out after the light, which is what they did at Ocean IV at the request ofFDOT. He said when staff and consultants suggested that they not have parallel roadways chewing up all the landscape areas they then went to multiple entrances which require a u-turn if you want to head southbound on an exit. He said staff and consultants did not approve it, they said to go to FDOT and get them to approve it if that is what they want and FDOT approved it. Commissioner Goodman said that the problem is that we don't own Collins Avenue, anything that happens on Collins Avenue has to go to FDOT and Miami-Dade County. He said that Miami-Dade County controls the traffic lights and FDOT controls the road, but they don't live here and the citizens of Sunny Isles Beach are becoming very upset and we have no avenue to try to change anything because we only have one street. Mr. Daly said they have 100% valet parking for the residents. Mr. Seiger said that in reference to the beach access, they have given two and the north one is substantially larger then the requirement, so they tried to compensate the fact for not going through the middle of the site. Mayor Ede1cup said it is apparent that we have a problem with the variance, and Mr. Daly said to consider the variance gone. Mayor Edelcup said that we can therefore look at this on the basis then if you are withdrawing the variance that we are basically going to have to move this into a deferral. He said we can move forward to get additional comments from the public and Mr. Goldstein said he would like to hear public comment. Commissioner Brezin said that the continuous 825 feet frontage on Collins Avenue to her is certainly out of character and harmony and the compatibility of the surrounding structures. Mayor Edelcup said that one of the reasons we came up with a liberal code was to get rid of those old two-story motels that were a blight on the east side ofthe City and one of the major trade-offs for that was that we would allow tall, skinny buildings with view corridors and beach accesses and that was the promise that this Commission and the previous Commission made to the public and he thinks we are duty-bound to live by our promise to the public and we have to keep that in mind when 5