2012-0301 Special Commission Meeting

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Summary Minutes: Special City Commission Mecting March 1,2012 Sunny Isles Beach, Florida uniqueness which is only on the Park. Commissioner Gatto said her comment was to bring it down proportionately to the land they are working with and the space that they have to work with. Vice Mayor Thaler said he was looking at narrowing it so that it would fit within Code as against that variance, in setbacks we have already set the precedent on I OO-foot lots when it comes to the variances, there is more than one building that we issued the zero setbacks on, not only Park Place but also the Sayan Building. The overall 16-18 feet, we have to look at the future of what probably will go next to it and we have an older building there that some day will be replaced and this building is a beautiful building and if we do want to change it and we go to what would be allowed, the parking would cover more than the 18 feet that you have here, and Mr. Karp said that is correct. Vice Mayor Thaler said so in the future somebody could come in with no variances and the building would be built with five stories of parking and be higher than what you are talking about. You have an excess in handicapped parking, the new ordinance we set up for parking has certainly helped you in giving you additional parking, and he sees no problem in any of those areas. In looking at the building and listening to concerns, no matter what is there, somebody's view is going to be blocked. Every building on the ocean has had their views blocked. He asked in what area is the service trucks, is there room for them off from Collins A venue, and Mr. Karp said yes, we have the staging area for the FPL and the Fire Trucks already located and approved by the Fire Department and FPL. They pull in, and then they back out on the site, they turn around and they face out, there is no service on Collins A venue. Commissioner Aelion said we were presented tonight here with some variances that were mentioned by the Architect, and he wants to make surc with the City Attorney what we have is what was stated. City Attorney Otlinot said that the record is correct, the only variance that the Applicant withdrew was a tower set on the backside. Commissioner Aelion said Rendering A I on the plan is the building height and the permitted height allowed is unlimited and he thinks that should be corrected with a certain height and not an unlimited amount. On the same page he understands that the parking structure is going to be tandem parking at 94%, and it should be a mechanized three stories for the garage, now in your designs did you give consideration to the possibility of having most of the parking below ground so that you could create the structure on Collins A venue or at least partial so that not the whole length of the building would be all a solid height of21 feet, and Mr. Karp said yes they did, and it is not possible. Mr. Schulman said because we are in a coastal area, we have to get permits from the State of Florida Department of Environmental Protection because there is a coastal construction control line that goes through the center of this property, and under those rules and regulations, the amount of fill or soil that you excavate cannot leave your site, it has to be put somewhere else on the site, and this is a small site. Therefore how deep we can go is not limited by the water table, it is limited by if you excavate any deeper we have got too much soil that we cannot put on the site and we can't get a permit from the State. We put this pedestal down as low as we could under the State rules, and so wc have to balance the City's rules and the State rules. We are already creating a vegetated dune on the beachfront with some of that soil as have others but everybody in this City is limited as to how deep they can go by what they can do with the fill. 8