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City of Sunny Isles Beach
Special City Commission Meeting — Thursday, February 18, 1999
1. CALL TO ORDER/ROLL CALL OF MEMBERS
The meeting was called to order by Mayor Samson at 5:06 p.m. with the following officials
present:
Mayor David Samson
Vice Mayor Irving Turetsky
Commissioner Danny Iglesias
Commissioner Lila Kauffman
Commissioner Connie Morrow
City Manager James DiPietro
City Attorney Lynn M. Dannheisser
City Clerk Richard Brown-Morilla
2. ORDINANNCE FOR FIRST READING AND PUBLIC HEARING:
A. AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF SUNNY ISLES
BEACH, FLORIDA, AMENDING ARTICLE XIX, RU-4A, HOTEL APARTMENT
HOUSE DISTRICT, SECTIONS 33-217 THROUGH SECTION 33-223, OF THE CODE
OF MIAtMI-DADE COUNTY, TO PROVIDE FOR USES PERMITTED; TO PROVIDE
FOR SITE PLAN REVIEW GENERALLY; TO PROVIDE FOR THE CRITERIA FOR
SITE PLAN REVIEW; TO PROVIDE FOR MINIMUM LOT WIDTH AND AREA;
PROVIDING FOR SETBACK REQUIREMENTS; PROVIDING FOR VIEW
CORRIDORS TO THE BAY OR OCEAN AND MAXIMUM BUILDING
OBSTRUCTION OF VIEWS OF THE BAY OR THE OCEAN; TO PROVIDE HEIGHT
REQUIREMENTS; TO PROVIDE FLOOR AREA RATIO AS DEFINED INCLUDING
FLOOR AREA RATIO BONUSES, BEACH OR BAY ACCESS BONUS, BUILDING
AMENITIES BONUS, COLLINS AVENUE BUILDING SETBACK BONUS;
ADDITIONAL SITE SETBACK BONUS; BEACH RE-NOURISHMENT AND
FACILITY MANAGEMENT BONUS; PEDESTRIAN SAFETY IMPROVEMENT
FUND; MEDIAN LANDSCAPING BONUS AND BEACH BOARDWALK BONUS;
PROVIDING FOR A MAXIMUM NUMBER AND MINIMUM FLOOR AREA OF
UNITS; PROVIDING FOR DENSITY BONUSES INCLUDING A LOCAL MASS
TRANSIT DENSITY BONUS; BUS STOP AND SHELTER DENSITY BONUS;
MEDIAN LANDSCAPING DENSITY BONUS; BEACH BOARDWALK DENSITY
BONUS; BEACH RE-NOURISHMENT DENSITY BONUS; PROVIDING FOR
SUBDIVISION OF HOTELS AND MOTELS; PROVIDING FOR PARKING AND
OPEN SPACE; PROVIDING FOR TREES AND LANDSCAPING; PROVIDING FOR
ACCESSORY USES AND OTHER SPACING; PROVIDING FOR CONSOLIDATION
OF REQUESTS REQUIRING APPROVAL BY PUBLIC HEARING INTO ONE
HEARING APPLICATION; PROVIDING FOR SEVERABILITY, INCLUSION INTO
THE CODE AND PROVIDING FOR AN EFFECTIVE DATE.
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ACTION: (City Clerk's Note: The following documents were submitted into the record:
Summary Minutes of the February 16, 1999, Citizen Planning Advisory Committee
meeting; single page summary sheet dated February 16, 1999, from Tim Lunney; single
page proposed amendment to page 31, Section 33-222 (4)(b) from Tim Lunney; single
page proposed amendment to hotel amenities exclusion from FAR calculations, from Peter
Weiner)
City Clerk Brown-Morilla read the title and the public hearing was opened. Tim Lunney
• of Walter Keller, Inc:, summarized changes to the proposed ordinance since the City
Commission Joint workshop with the Citizen Planning Advisory Committee on February
8, 1999. He also summarized the positions expressed by the Planning Advisory
Committee members at their meeting of February 16, 1999.
Public Speakers: Tim Lunney of Walter Keller, Inc.; Robert Lilienfeld, Chairperson of the
Citizen Planning Advisory Committee; Bill Lone; Ellen Wynne; Kobi Karp; Cliff
Schulman, Esq.; Sam Richter; Charles Sieger; Gerald Goodman; Peter Weiner; Steve
Lesnick
City Attorney Lynn Dannheisser clarified Mr. Lunney's proposed amendment to page 31,
Section 33-222 (4)(b), by noting that the first paragraph was a repetition of already
proposed language and could therefore be stricken from the amendment handout.
Robert Lilienfeld, Chairperson of the Citizen Planning Advisory Committee reviewed the
views of the Committee, noting they were in favor of aiding quality hotel development,
but the Committee was not in favor of going beyond a FAR of 3.5. He said he was
personally opposed to unlimited height, and suggested a maximum height of 500 feet.
City Manager DiPietro requested an amendment to pages 32 and 37, adding the words
"and management." Commissioner Morrow moved and Commissioner Iglesias seconded
a motion to approve adding the words "and management" to pages 32 and 37. The
motion was approved by a roll call vote of 5-0 in favor.
Vote: Commissioner Iglesias y
Commissioner Kauffman Les
Commissioner Morrow yes
Vice-Mayor Turetsky ves
Mayor Samson des
Cliff Schulman, Esq., used diagrams to propose allowing lots with widths of 400' or larger
to be permitted to construct a building wider than 200'. There was also discussion
regarding the rationale behind the consistency of dealing with property including the 100'
wide lots.
The public hearing was closed.
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Mayor Samson moved and Commissioner Iglesias seconded a motion to approve the
proposed ordinance on first reading with the following amendments:
1) an overall 55 story height limitation; and
2) page 4, "unified ownership or control by unity of title ..."; and
3) page 27, "excluding water submerged lands ; and
4) page 31, Building Amenities Bonus, (b)f l"...up to a maximum of twenty (20%)
percent of the total floor area bonus shall be excluded from calculation of allowable
floor area ratio uthe'I)I5C gr autcd fur the building. [City Clerk's Note: see also
Lunney's handout (as corrected by the City Attorney) for specific language of new
paragraph]: and adding a new paragraph (b)(ii); and
5) granting authority to the Building Official to include such other technical
amendments as he deems appropriate based on the issues discussed with Charles
Sieger; and •
6) pages 32 and 37, adding the words "and management."
The motion was approved by a roll call vote of 5-0 in favor. Second reading, public
hearing will be on Monday, March 1, 1999, at 5:01 p.m.
Vote: Commissioner Iglesias
Commissioner Kauffman yes
Commissioner Morrow yes
Vice-Mayor Turetsky yes
Mayor Samson des
3. ADJOURNMENT:
The meeting was adjourned at 7:07 p.m.
Respectfully submitted by: Approved by the City Commission this I day of
MarchAZ
1999.
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Richard B'rbsivn-Morilla, City Clerk David Samson, Ma or
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