2012-0315 Regular City Commission Meeting

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Summary Minutes: Regular City Commission Meeting March 15,20]2 City of Sunny ]sles Beach, Florida Mayor Edeleup said that the Winston Towers complex of 2,800 units is not an adult community. It was populated originally by that age bracket but there is nothing in the documents of the Winston Towers Condominium Association that sets an age limit, and therefore children are going to be moving in. That shopping center was essentially set to be a benefit to the residents of Winston Towers, it didn't specify an age bracket, he doesn't buy into the fact we have some people that don't want to have anything to do with children in that particular shopping center. The traffic comments don't really have anything to do with what is before us. What we are looking at primarily is a conditional use. Almost any kind of retail operation would bring traffic to that area. He originally was operating a bank there ten years ago and we had as much traffic if not more particularly in the morning hours when people who drove to or from work would stop at the bank in the morning creating a traffic flow. The biggest traffic flow in there that no one has mentioned is the Temple that is there. We need an area in the City for children to be in a safe environment and it is much better to be in an area that is off Collins A venue, and so it meets that criteria as well. The space behind it is the backyard, it is not across the street, it is opening the back door and walking into the yard. When this application was before us before and they wanted over 40 people there we had a problem with the unknown as to what it would take to facilitate a good space for these people, and at that time the backyard was not being enclosed. For these reasons, he does not see a problem in granting a conditional use for a daycare center there. The relevancy of whether it is six or twenty-five children he does not think was related to only six children being in a daycare center, he thinks that was the number caleulated on a square footage and had nothing to do with a daycare center, and so moving it from six to twenty-five is not indicative only strictly for what a daycare center would have been required to have. Commissioner Aelion asked what the ceiling is for the number of students in the facility, and Mr. Price said they have 1,600 square feet and it can go up to 4,000 square feet, and can go up to 200 children. Commissioner Gatto added that one of the Presidents of the Winston Towers buildings had asked for a crossing guard at the corner of North Bay Road and 174th and the Police Department put someone in. When the school bus stops everything stops. Vice Mayor Thaler noted the addition of the dedicated parking spaces. City Attorney Ottinot said that the Applicant also agreed to include the 25-student cap in the Covenant, which means in order to change that they would need a public hearing to modify it. Mayor Edeleup said what we are approving also is that it doesn't necessarily restrict them to the students living in Winston Towers. City Attorney Ottinot said that is a business decision. Vice Mayor Thaler moved and Commissioner Scholl seconded a motion for approval, subject to staff conditions. Rcsolution No. 12-Z-128 was adopted by a roll call vote of3- 2 (Commissioncr Aelion and Commissioner Gatto opposed) in favor. Vote: Commissioner Aelion no Commissioner Gatto no Commissioner Scholl ~ Vice Mayor Thaler ~ Mayor Edeleup ~ [City Clerk's Note: The Commission took a 7-minute recess and noted that Item IOH will be heard before Item lOA. Commissioner Aelion had a conflict and left the meeting after Item 6B was heard. ) 9