2012-0328 Special Commission Meeting

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Summary Minutes: Special City Commission Meeling March 28. 2012 Sunny Isles Beach, Florida fence to 8-feet in ordcr to prevent that situation, and that has been acknowledged. 6. We added an cntry walkway at the NE corncr of the Park, again this is a very practicable walkway that was not there from thc previous design but wc agrecd that it makes a lot of sense. 7. We left the wallnvay path around the Great Lawn at 16-feet. Again, at one point there was a discussion to reduce it in part of the efforts to rcducc costs but then again therc is a strong feeling that the type of evcnts that are going to be happening in the Park are going to require a Kiosk and things of that naturc, it is going to require a l6-foot walkway all around the Great Lawn in thc ccnter. They have acknowledged that there will not be any loose gravel on that walkway. It was a great idea and part of that European Parisian type of idea but there is a practicality to it that it does not go well with the usage of the Park for these events. So the intent is to use a paver of some sort that will have the look of that loose gravel but it is not a loose gravel material. The subsoil underneath thc pavers will be done in a way that you will be able to drive over the pavers and that was again onc of the staffs recommendations in regards to the maintenance and even for events where you need to havc trucks go in and deliver things and those types of activities. 8. The Great Lawn was made wider at 15-fcet towards the north so that it actually grew in this direction. Again, the original idea was a very interesting one having the combination between the Great Lawn and thcn the berm, we all thought at the end of the day that thc berm was widcr than it needed to be, and staff preferred that the Great Lawn grew in width to accommodate events, and so that was a wise choice. 9. We are making sure that the daytime and nighttime lighting is in a separate circuit and all of these are with the conscious of encrgy conservation for the building and to save moncy in the long term usage of the building. 10. Incorporate LED lighting. Again, part of thc energy conservation, no fluorescent lighting, and we have an allowance there that definitely is going to maintain in order to be able to get the right fixtures and introduce that into the design. II. Make sure that the water features havc a covcrcd area for pumps and chemical storage. They don't want any of those elcmcnts to be exposed, and they are not very nice to look at and it will all bc cnclosed with structures and planters, etc., so it will not be visible. 12. We climinatcd the small berm and again, this is one of thosc design features that artistically was very nice but at the end of the day we realized that there was monies involved in that, and thosc are monies that could bc better put to use in other areas or saved. We decided to eliminatc that berm and keep that arca flat as part of the flat surface of the Great Lawn but we did keep a low bench-like elemcnt with a stone coping that will be used for people to sit along the edge and watch an event, etc. 13. There is an exotic plantcr, this is an architectural elemcnt that has bcen there from very early on in the project and again at one point there was a discussion of that element having a watcr feature element, there were issues of maintenance, and so the decision was made to kecp it as a dry planter, still keeping the artistic expression but making it much simpler so it functions simpler without maintenance issues. 14. We arc going to be studying the proximity of thc trces locatcd in the plaza to the children's water court, and it is something that he has already spoke to Landscape Architect Barry Miller about and they will be looking at the canopy of the trees and the distance. The idea there is to not have a lot of leaves and foliage fall into thc kids play area and clog the water jets, etc, and again, the idea is to do a final version of the plaza by 3