2012-0419 Regular City Commission Meeting

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summary Minutes: Regular City Commission Meeting April 19, 2012 City of Sunny Isles Beach, Florida have had, and Mr. Parker has done seminars for condo associations and invited them to attend because they have a specific need and requirement, and maybe you can do a separate one for single - family homeowners if they wanted to be updated. Mr. Parker said he also had some of the local contractors ask him if we are going to be able to educate them, and so we will be glad to put that together. Commissioner Aelion said it is one of the things to bring to the next City Advisory Committee meeting to Tony LoCastro that heads up the Sub - Committee for Condominiums. City Manager Cohen said they are meeting next week to discuss some initiatives and so he will add that to the list. 12B. Discussion on Conceptual Design for Intracoastal Parks. Action: [City Clerk's Note: City Manager Cohen handed out a photograph and two renderings of walls. ] City Manager Cohen presented a conceptual design of the Parks. What is before the Commission is a very rudimentary drawing that shows a Park with grass and trees, meandering pathway, and a small playground. There is an indication along the perimeter of the Park of what is intended to be a wall structure and he did discuss that at the Workshop. What he handed out this evening is an actual picture of the coral rock wall at Oceania Park, and the material of this wall is what we intend to use for the wall at Intracoastal Parks to blend in with the adjoining Park. The other two drawings that he distributed are renderings that show a straight -on look and looks similar to the wall both at Oceania Park and on the Atlantic Isles Bridge that have these similar light towers. The other drawing shows a side view which has as a path meandering through it. The reason why this wall design is being suggested with being broken up with the fence is we did receive some feedback from the public about previous designs that folks wanted at least some visual access to the water, and so this design allows us to continue the aesthetics of the other Park, yet provide that visual access to the public all in one design. The wall will be surrounding the entire Park, and there will be some nuances with that, for example, how we integrate with the entrance to the Poinciana development, and going around the two edges by the two adjoining properties at the north and south extremes of the Park. The Park has some small rectangles in it which indicates benches, the actual placement of those benches is not indicated in here, this is simply a random placement to indicate that we would put them in. The two checkerboard squares indicate actual checkerboard or chess tables that we would place someplace in the Park. In the yellow area on the left hand side is where the playground would go. He indicated the entrances to Poinciana Drive, Atlantic Isles, and Marina Del Mar. Public Speakers: None Commissioner Aelion asked about the height of the wall in the rendering, and City Manager Cohen said 4 -feet tall. Commissioner Scholl said he didn't think we needed the wings, if you put the posts in with the light on top and it is more open, he just questions the reason for breaking it up with the wings on the side of the posts because he thinks if you do the nice rock post with the lights, it will be a lot less expensive, and you have the open work in between. The biggest pushback he got on the Oceania wall was that everybody said we should have put a fence up and left it open so folks could see the water. City Manager Cohen said one thing we can do to address what he is already hearing is that we can increase the spacing in between these posts so you can have your wings, and this space would be double the size, and it would accomplish what you are looking for. Commissioner Scholl said that the porte - cochere that we have now looks more constrictive than open. 16