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<br />Summary Minutes: Regular City Commission Meeting
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<br />May 17,2007
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<br />City of Sunny Isles Beach, Florida
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<br />Action: Mayor Edelcup gave opening remarks on zoning procedures/decorum and City
<br />Clerk Hines read a disclaimer for the Zoning hearing, and administered the oath to the
<br />witnesses for the Zoning hearing.
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<br />Public Speakers: Lynn Dannheisser, Esq.; Martin A. Diaz Yabor, Architect; Bob Welsh;
<br />Marianna Talalaevsky
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<br />Lynn Dannheisser, Esq., representing the applicant, reported noting that this property is
<br />located at 17150-17190 Collins A venue, where the Rascal House currently sits, and that the
<br />owners have filed for a minor modification for uses that were previously approved. She said
<br />this is a IS-story mixed-use project featuring retail on the first two floors, office space on the
<br />second two floors, and a condominium tower of 243 units. She said within a month of this
<br />approval, the Starkmans [owners] were advised by their marketing and feasibility people that
<br />they would need to adjust the square footage internally so that retail will be increased, which
<br />originally was 20,500 square feet, they are requesting an increase to 38,463 square feet; the
<br />office square footage must decrease to go with the marketplace, from 77,400 square feet to
<br />44,689 square feet; the number of residential units will remain the same except the applicant is
<br />going to reduce the units to 222 apartments and going to add to the mix 21 tower townhome
<br />units. She said the accompanying parking spaces will be the same in number, 746, but the
<br />allocations will be a little bit different because the Code requirements changed, 383 spaces
<br />that remain constant; all of the floor plates remains the same square footage, this is merely an
<br />internal shift.
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<br />Martin A. D. Yabor, Architect, presented renderings ofthe project including a board with the
<br />color pallets, materials, glass, etc. He noted that everything happens internally, there is very
<br />minor variation to the exterior at the townhome level, some of the wing walls changed to
<br />accommodate the terraces. He said retail space is less intensive then office, hence, you are
<br />going to gain parking, and by gaining parking, you gain parking internally because it didn't
<br />change, none ofthe plates changed from the 746, they still remain with 746, and they added
<br />six (6) additional handicapped spaces that were requested before.
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<br />For the record Ms. Dannheisser asked Mr. Yabor the following: Under this modification does
<br />the lot coverage, setbacks, height limitations, density or intensity calculations set forth in the
<br />site plan that was originally approved changed in any way? Answer: no; The requested
<br />change does not require a variance and in fact meets the requirements of the Code? Answer:
<br />the requested change would not require a variance and it meets the requirements; There is no
<br />change in the location, size and general site compatibility of the building, lighting or signs?
<br />Answer: No; There is no increase in the average daily number oftrips if anything there would
<br />be an increase with the change? Answer: there would be a decrease with the change. Does the
<br />internal square footage change or alter the location points of ingress or egress or vehicular or
<br />pedestrian patterns? Answer: no; Did the changes in any way decrease the value of or
<br />substantially change the character of location of any of the improvements or amenities?
<br />Answer: no; In this application, are there any changes to the landscape material or the
<br />planting size, everything remains the same? Answer: yes, except now we have the actual
<br />patterns and pavers that will connect to the streetscape; Except for the internal shift in the
<br />allocation of square footage to retail and office, everything else that was originally approved
<br />was the same? Answer: yes.
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