2012-0315 Regular City Commission Meeting

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Summary Minutes: Regular City Commission Meeting March 15,2012 City of Sunny Isles Beach, Florida 68. Request of Sunny Isles Kids' Club, Located at 17395 North Bay Road #102, for the Following: (Hearing Z2012-04) The Applicant is requesting a conditional use approval and a variance to increase the number of children for a child-care center from six (6) children to twenty five (25) children. I. Pursuant to Section 265-13 of the City of Sunny Isles Beach Land Development Regulations, the Applicant is requesting a conditional use approval for a Daycare Center in the RMF-2 Zoning District. 2. Pursuant to Section 265-15 of the City of Sunny Isles Beach Land Development Regulations, the Applicant is requesting a variance of Section 265-44 (D)(2) to pernlit a Child Care Center with a maximum of25 children where 6 children are permitted. Protests 0 Waivers 0 Ex Parte 0 Action: [City Clerk's Note: A Traffic Memorandum was distributed prior to the meeting. See additional action under Item 4A. Mr. Price distributed information to the Commission and a Hearing Binder to the City Clerk.) Mayor Edelcup gave opening remarks on zoning procedures/decorum and City Clerk Hines read a disclaimer for the Zoning hearing, and administered the oath to witnesses. City Planner Claudia Hasbun reported that at this time the City has no objections to the Applicants request and it is generally consistent with the Land Development Regulations and the Comprehensive Plan. Public Speakers: Stanley Price, Esq.; Juan Calderon, Traffic Consultant; Victoria Rubinovich; Francel Thompson; Anastasiya Boikovf; Rod Feiner, Esq. Stanley Price, Esq. representing Sunny Isles Kids' Club reported that this is a request to permit as a conditional use a daycare center located in a prope11y which has traditionally been used for commercial uses. At the time of the original approval in 1970 Miami-Dade County did not have a mixed-use form of use in the Zoning Code, and therefore based on the representations of the developer of Winston Towers, the Commission granted a blanket variance for BU-] uses in this small commercial center located in the epicenter of Winston Towers. The daycare center is utilizing one bay which is approximately 1,600 square feet, and is presently permitted to have six (6) children under five (5) years old. They are requesting that it be increased to twenty-five (25) children, and have made ce11ain restrictions which he will address later on in regard to the possibility of future utilization of this area. The name of the facility will be the Sunny Isles Kids' Club. Daycare facilities are becoming a more and more common place type of usage in communities and the State Legislature has taken specific care in regard to licensing standards. He said that Mayor Edelcup was interviewed in Miami Today a couple of months ago and discussed at great length the change in demographics of this community. He noted census indications in 2000 compared to the 20 I 0, the demographics of school children under the age of 14 has increased from approximately 1,000 students to over 2,700 students today. The age classification of children under five years of age has gone from 491 in 2000 to 1,007 in 20] 0, and at this growth we are probably reaching ] ,300 to 1,400 children under the age of five. Mayor Edelcup had recognized in that interview with Miami Today that the City needs to keep in pace with the shifting demographics that are taking place in this community. 4