2012-0328 Special Commission Meeting

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Summary Minutes: Special City Commission Meeting March 28. 2012 Sunny Isles Beach, Florida requested by the Commission at the last Workshop [March 2, 2012], and Mr. Milton said ycs, that they want to corrcct that on the record, they wrote in there by mistakc that it was requested by the Mayor when it should say rcquested by the Commission [page 3 of letter]. Mr. Schulman said lastly while we havc flexibility in our landscape plan, it is still their intention to create what their Landscape Architect has called a Butterfly Park with plants that attract butterflies which is a vcry unique European idea and they would like to try to keep that going. The project has developed quickly and very extcnsivcly for the future of the City. Commissioner Aelion said we gave ourselves a cciling of$16.5 Million for the project, and we are at that level. On the footnote in the letter [page 2] you note that you don't have a soil rcport yet, and once this is incorporated into the final design you may have a variance of cost and you mentioned $20 a square foot, is that something that may potentially incrcase the number that we have or is it something that you took into account, and Mr. Castiiieira said it is actually the other way around, it would decrease the number. Right now we have it priced in the worst case scenario which is with the structural slab. So once we get the soil rcport, and oncc wc get the engineer involved and actually doing an analysis, if we can do it as a non-structural slab and more of what they call a floating slab or slab on break then thcre will be a reduction. They call it a floating slab because it is not attached to the main structure, it would be a fraction of an inch ifanything. City Manager Cohen said to clarifY for the record, the slab that we are talking about is specific only to the storage area, the rest of the structure will be built on a pile system with the structural slab. This is where based on the soil conditions it will be determined whether or not thc slab in the storage area requires a structural slab or a floating slab. Commissioner Aelion said on the possible future built of a banquet hall above the garage structure, he noted there are side built elevations from the garage, protruding up, on top of the level of the open space of the garage, is that taken into consideration for the future built, when you build something on top and you havc thosc two protruding site structures, he finds it hard to see how that can be incorporated into a future build on top. Mr. Castifieira said as part of the process of dcsign at this moment and to get to this point, we did a study of a possible 4th floor addition already, and thc 4th floor will actually be layered back so that the element doesn't become a conflict and it becomes actually part of the artistic element. Commissioner Aelion asked about the potential bridge, it was not clear that from south going north if the connection would bc from the 2"'1 floor or from the 3rd floor garage area going across and is it something from the ground bcing built as an ercction with a elevator or walk and then across. Mr. Castiiieira said in the previous package they had photographs of it, it is going to be the towers at either end of the pedestrian bridge which are completely indcpendent of the garage, and they house the elevator shaft, the elevator in the middlc, with a stair that wraps them to also have stair access to the pedestrian bridge. Commissioner Aelion also wanted to address the issue of the 8-foot fence which is quite visible and clevatcd, it is the aesthctic look and so he doesn't know if we need to make some enhancements. City Manager Cohen passed around the page from the schematics, at the bottom of the page it shows what the fence would look like at this location ifit were 6-foot, and the difference is on the south side there is no berm and we would leave a 6-foot fence but on the north side because of the berm, the fence is only extending about a foot. Ifit werc 6