Feb 03, 2025 Commission Meeting

WE'RE GONNA HAVE, UH, LET'S GO WITH OUR INVOCATION.

I'M GONNA INVITE SARAH P MIAMI BEACH POLICE DEPARTMENT, DEPARTMENT CHAPLAIN TO, UH, GIVE OUR INVOCATION TODAY.

GOOD MORNING, MR. MAYOR, MR. CITY MANAGER, AND ALL THE COMMISSIONERS AND EVERYONE JOINING US HERE TODAY.

IT IS A BLESSING AND HONOR TO SHARE IN THIS CALLING BEING ADVOCATES FOR OUR CITY, MIAMI BEACH.

WE REPRESENT THE CITY FROM DIFFERENT VIEWPOINTS AND IDEAS, BUT ULTIMATELY, WE LONG TO SEE THE CITY THRIVE IN PROVERBS 15 VERSE 22.

PLANS FAIL FOR LACK OF COUNSEL, BUT WITH, BUT WITH MANY ADVERSARIES, THEY SUCCEED.

I WOULD LIKE TO THANK YOU ALL FOR YOUR LOVE AND SUPPORT DURING OUR CHALLENGING TIME FOR THE MIAMI BEACH FAMILY.

THE LOSS OF ARTHUR MARTINO HAS IMPACTED US ALL.

I CARE FOR HIM DEEPLY AND I WANT TO THANK YOU ALL FOR YOUR SUPPORT.

THANK YOU FOR ALLOWING ME TO PRAY FOR YOU TODAY.

PLEASE BOW YOUR HEAD, ALMIGHTY GOD, WE COME BEFORE YOU AS YOUR PEOPLE WITH HEARTS FILLED OF PRAISE, YOUR MAJESTY AND GRACE.

YOU ARE OUR CREATOR OF ALL THINGS, THE LORD OF GLORY AND THE SAVIOR OF SOULS.

WE THANK YOU FOR EVERYONE THAT IS GATHERED HERE TODAY, AND WE ASK YOU TO SURROUND US WITH YOUR POWERFUL LIFE-CHANGING PRESENCE.

THANK YOU FOR LOVING EACH AND EVERY ONE OF US THAT'S HERE CALLING US TO WALK WITH YOU.

WE COME BEFORE YOU AS WE MEET AND DECLARE OUR INDEPENDENCE ON YOU, BE OUR LAMP ONTO OUR FEET AND OUR LIGHT ONTO OUR PATH.

WE THANK YOU FOR YOUR PRESENCE, YOUR GUIDANCE, YOUR PROTECTION, AND YOUR PROVISION.

WE THANK YOU FOR THE HONOR AND THE PRIVILEGE OF WORKING ON BEHALF OF THIS CITY TO ENSURE SAFETY, SECURITY, UNITY, PEACE, WHILE RESPECTING THE GREAT DIVERSITY THROUGHOUT THE CITY AND AMONG US THAT ARE GATHERED HERE TODAY.

PLEASE LORD GUIDE OUR CONVERSATION, VARIOUS ITEMS ON THE AGENDA IN WAYS THAT ARE RESPECTFUL, PRODUCTIVE, ENLIGHTENING, AND PEACEFUL.

PLEASE HELP US TO REMEMBER THAT EACH OF US CARRY A UNITED PASSION FOR THE BETTERMENT OF THE CITY.

I THANK YOU FOR THE LIVES AND THE CALLINGS OF EACH DEDICATED CIVIL SERVANT IN THIS ROOM.

AND I PRAY FOR YOUR BLESSING UPON EACH PERSON HERE TODAY.

WE PRAY TO GOD ALMIGHTY.

INDIVISIBLE WITH LIBERTY JUSTICE.

THANK YOU SO MUCH, SARAH.

BEFORE WE START THE STIC HOUR, I'M DO THE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE.

I'M GONNA ASK, FIRST OF ALL, THANK YOU EVERYONE.

GOOD TO SEE EVERYONE HERE TODAY, UM, AND WELCOME BACK FROM OUR, UH, I GUESS THE NEW YEAR'S.

I'M GONNA ASK, UH, DAVID SUAREZ TO LEAD THE PLEDGE.

AND CONGRATULATIONS, MALO TO YOU AND LIZETTE FOR YOUR BABY GIRL RECENTLY ARRIVING IN THE WORLD, SOPHIA

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WENDY, GOOD MORNING.

GOOD

[R9 C DR. STANLEY SUTNICK CITIZEN'S FORUM. (8:35 A.M./1:00 P.M.)]

MORNING, GARY.

GOOD MORNING TO YOU ALL ON THE DAY IS, UH, I DON'T KNOW WHAT ADJECTIVES I COULD USE EXCEPT ONE WORD, SUPERB TO DESCRIBE JANUARY'S LECTURERS AT BELL PLAZA.

I THINK, YOU KNOW, I'M THE COORDINATOR OF LECTURES AT BELL PLAZA.

MANY OF YOU HAVE BEEN THERE ALREADY, BUT OUR HONORABLE MAYOR PRESENTED US WITH HIS PRESENCE AND SUPERB KNOWLEDGE OF THE CITY, FIELDED QUESTIONS FROM OVER 50 RESIDENTS AND REALLY MADE US ALL PROUD TO BE RESIDENTS OF MIAMI BEACH.

SO KUDOS TO YOU, MR. MAYOR, AND MAY YOU BE AROUND FOR A LONG TIME.

AND SECONDLY, MS. LAURA DOMINGUEZ.

COMMISSIONER DOMINGUEZ WAS OUR SECOND JANUARY PRESENTER, AND ALSO WITH HER WARMTH AND ENCHANTING SMILE GAVE OUR RESIDENTS AN UPDATE ABOUT ALL THE CONSTRUCTION, WHICH THEY WANTED FIELDED QUESTIONS.

AND I COULDN'T HELP BUT SMILING THROUGHOUT BOTH LECTURES AND I KNOW THAT ALL OF YOU WILL KEEP ME SMILING FOR A VERY LONG TIME.

SO THANK YOU AGAIN.

ON BEHALF OF BELL PLAZA RESIDENCE, GARY RUG 20 ISLAND AVENUE.

I'LL BE BRIEF THIS MORNING, MY WIFE AND I GO OUT EVERY MORNING ON OUR BEAUTIFUL PARK TO DO OUR WALK.

AND THIS COUPLE OF WEEKS AGO, WE NOTICED THAT THE FLAGPOLE HONORING JIMMY HAD NOT BEEN PULLED DOWN.

AND WE SAW A POLICE CAR IN VENETIAN WAY.

WE WENT OVER THERE AND WE FOUND ROBERT MC, WHAT WAS HIS NAME? RODRIGUEZ RODRIGUEZ, OFFICER RODRIGUEZ.

AND HE SAID HE WOULD CALL IT IN.

THEN HE STOPPED AND HE SAID, TAKE ME OVER TO THE FLAG POLE.

WE DID.

HE LOWERED THE FLAG AND WE WANT TO APPRECIATE WHAT THE POLICE OFFICER DID.

OF COURSE, IT WAS VERY IMPORTANT.

WE'RE GONNA GO NEXT VIRTUALLY TO JOHAN MOORE.

MR. MOORE, PLEASE STATE YOUR NAME, ADDRESS, AND YOU HAVE TWO MINUTES.

GOOD MORNING, JOHAN MOORE, 7 1 7 JEFFERSON AVENUE.

UH, I ALSO WANT TO TAKE THIS OPPORTUNITY TO EXPRESS MY CONDOLENCES AND MARIE IN COURT COMMUNITIES CONDOLENCES TO OUR BELOVED OFFICER DEBRA MALINO, ON THE LOSS OF HER HUSBAND.

UH, I WANT TO, UH, EXPRESS MY SUPPORT FOR VARIOUS ITEMS THAT ARE BEFORE YOU TODAY.

UH, ITEM C FOUR AG, UH, THE DETAILS OF WHICH I'M SURE WILL BE REVEALED.

UH, THANK YOU COMMISSIONERS DOMINGUEZ SUAREZ BOT AND MAGAZINE.

UH, AN IMPRESSIVE CO-SPONSOR LIST, UH, SUSTAINABILITY COMMITTEE.

LOOKS FORWARD TO THAT IN ANY CASE.

UH, I WILL ALSO THANK COMMISSIONER DOMINGUEZ, UH, FOR ITEM C SEVEN R, UH, SOLAR PANELS ON THE MUNICIPAL FLEET FACILITY, UH, EXPLICITLY ON BEHALF OF SUSTAINABILITY COMMITTEE.

THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR PUTTING THIS, UH, AGENDA, UH, ITEM BEFORE THE COMMISSION AND WE HOPE THAT YOU WILL ALL SUPPORT THAT.

UH, COMMISSIONER B FOR ITEM C SEVEN G, I WANNA THANK HER FOR THAT.

UH, SHORT TERM RENTALS PROPERTIES LIST, UH, A PREVIOUSLY CENTRALLY INVOLVED, NOW MOVED AWAY, UH, MEMBER OF FPNA JEFF DONNELLY HAD YEARS AGO SUGGESTED THAT THE NEIGHBORHOOD TRIED TO ESTABLISH SUCH A LIST AND IT SEEMED LIKE A DAUNTING TASK.

SO THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR PURSUING THAT.

AND FINALLY, I WANT TO THANK COMMISSIONER ROSEN GONZALEZ FOR ITEM C SEVEN A G, WHICH I KNOW HAS BEEN BEFORE YOU BEFORE AND IS NOT ADVANCED, UH, SUPPORTING STAFF'S RIGHT TO USE MEDICAL MARIJUANA.

UH, OBVIOUSLY NOT DURING WORKING HOURS, AND SO IS TO AVOID IMPAIRMENT, UH, AS A, UH, AS THE PERSON WHO, ALONG WITH OTHERS, UH, DECRIMINALIZED MEDICAL MARIJUANA IN NEW YORK STATE, I WANT TO THANK HER FOR THAT AS I WANT TO THANK HER FOR HER GENERALLY ECLECTIC SUPPORT OF VARIOUS BELEAGUERED COMMUNITIES.

UH, AND I TOO, UH, LOOK FORWARD TO HER CONTINUED TIME IN PUBLIC OFFICE.

NEXT PLEASE.

NEXT, PLEASE STATE YOUR NAME, ADDRESS, AND YOU HAVE TWO MINUTES.

THIS IS YASMIN MATT FROM 8 5 1 MERIDIAN AVE.

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I'M BACK.

IT'S BEEN A WHILE BECAUSE YOU GUYS ARE SO EARLY AND I NEVER WAKE UP THIS EARLY, BUT THEN I FOUND OUT YOU'RE HERE TILL 7:00 PM THAT'S CRAZY.

AND WE DO A SUT NICK GENERALLY AT ONE O'CLOCK.

SO, CONGRATULATIONS, JOE MAGAZINE.

SOMETIMES IT VEES BY A FEW MINUTES, BUT SO YOU COULD ALWAYS HAVE THE AFTERNOON OPTION.

OH, YEP.

I DIDN'T KNOW THAT.

WELL, HERE I AM .

I'M HERE ACTUALLY, JUST TO SAY THANK YOU, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR WHAT YOU GUYS DO FOR MIAMI BEACH, FOR THE CITIZENS THAT YOU MAKE THIS POSSIBLE.

I DON'T KNOW IF PEOPLE COME UP HERE TO EVER SAY THANK YOU BECAUSE I THINK WE MOSTLY COME TO COMPLAIN AND DON'T WORRY, I'LL COME BACK TO DO THAT TOO.

BUT THIS TIME I'M JUST SO GRATEFUL FOR EVERY ONE OF YOU, ESPECIALLY JOE MAGAZINE AND ASSISTANT LUIS, WHO HAVE BEEN REALLY SINCE THAT DAY I CAME TO TALK WITH ME HAND IN HAND.

I FEEL LIKE I'M THE ONLY PERSON THEY'RE HELPING.

THAT'S HOW MUCH ATTENTION I GET.

AND THEY'RE JUST AMAZING.

I UNDERSTOOD SO MUCH BETTER HOW MIAMI BEACH WORKS.

AND I ALSO UNDERSTAND THAT WE, WE CAN DO SOMETHING THAT WE CAN COME UP HERE, TALK, COMMUNICATE, EXPRESS WHAT WE FEEL, HOW WE WANNA MAKE OUR CITY BETTER.

'CAUSE AT THE END OF THE DAY, IT IS OUR CITY.

AND IF YOUNG PEOPLE DON'T COME UP, I MEAN, I'M 30, OKAY? I'M NOT THAT YOUNG.

BUT IF PEOPLE DON'T COME UP HERE AND SAY WHAT THEY WOULD LIKE TO CHANGE IN THE CITY, NOTHING'S GONNA HAPPEN BECAUSE MANY THINGS YOU'RE NOT EVEN AWARE OF, RIGHT? SO, YEAH, I'M JUST HAPPY TO BE HERE.

I AM USING ALL OF THE GREAT AMENITIES AND OPPORTUNITIES MIAMI BEACH HAS.

AND IT'S ALSO SO GREAT TO SEE THE COMMISSIONERS ALWAYS AND ALL OF THESE AMAZING EVENTS SUCH AS RECENTLY WE HAD GUAP PALOOZA, WHICH WAS THIS GREAT CROSSFIT EVENT, WHICH WAS MOVED TO THE BEACH, WHICH I'M HERE FOR BECAUSE I LOVE CROSSFIT AND I LIVE ON THE BEACH.

SO I WALKED DOWN MY STREET TO THE EVENT AND IT WAS AMAZING.

AND ALSO, RIGHT NOW, WE HAD EYE CONNECTIONS, WHICH IS A HUGE GLOBAL TECHNOLOGICAL EVENT WITH AMAZING SPEAKERS.

AND JOE MAGAZINE WAS ACTUALLY ALSO ONE OF THE SPEAKERS THERE.

THANK YOU GUYS, AND I'LL BE BACK IN THE AFTERNOON.

SO THANK YOU SO MUCH.

NEXT, PLEASE STATE YOUR NAME, ADDRESS SO YOU HAVE TWO MINUTES, SIR.

MY NAME'S BRUCE BERMAN FROM 1255 COLLINS AVENUE.

I WANT TO, UH, THANK THE MAYOR AND, AND, AND ALL THE COMMISSIONERS FOR PROVIDING THE PUBLIC WITH AN OPPORTUNITY TO DO THIS.

NOT EVERYBODY DOES, AND IT MEANS A LOT TO ME.

I'M HERE TO SPEAK IN FAVOR OF THE MIAMI BOAT SHOW RESOLUTION C SEVEN Q AS ADVOCATES FOR THE ENVIRONMENT AND OUR COMMUNITY.

MY WIFE PATTY AND I HAVE RAISED MORE THAN $10 MILLION TO RESTORE AND PROTECT BOSTON HARBOR AND MASSACHUSETTS BAY AND OUR SUMMER HOME FOR SAVE THE HARBOR, SAVE THE BAY, AND TO SHARE IT WITH THE PUBLIC, UM, 30,000 KIDS A YEAR FOR FREE PROGRAMS. UH, NOW THAT WE'RE HERE IN MIAMI BEACH THIS FEBRUARY, WE'RE ORGANIZING THE VERY FIRST CUPID SPLASH FUNDRAISER AT COLLINS PARK BEACH.

WITH ALL PROCEEDS GOING TO THE BISCAYNE BAY RECOVERY FUND, WE HOPE THIS EVENT WILL BECOME A TRADITION HERE AS IT HAS IN BOSTON.

WE'RE PROUD TO HAVE EARNED THE SUPPORT OF THE MIAMI BOAT SHOW FOR THIS YEAR'S SPLASH, AND WE SUPPORT REESTABLISHING THE BOAT SHOW ON INDIAN CREEK, WHICH WE BELIEVE IS A GREAT WAY TO EDUCATE THE PUBLIC ABOUT THE FUN AND RESPONSIBILITIES OF RECREATIONAL BOATING.

I KNOW THE ORGANIZERS AND I KNOW THEIR PLANS, AND I'M CERTAIN THAT THEY'LL LEAVE INDIAN CREEK, BISCAYNE BAY, AND THE SPOIL ISLANDS IN BETTER SHAPE THAN THEY ARE TODAY BECAUSE OF THE PROCESS THAT YOU RUN IN THIS CITY.

SO THANK YOU FOR THAT.

AND, UH, THANKS FOR LISTENING.

UM, I WAS DELIGHTED TO HEAR THAT COMMISSIONER SUAREZ HAS RECENTLY HAD HIS CHILD.

'CAUSE THAT MEANS THAT HOPEFULLY WE'LL BE ABLE TO SEE HIM AND HE'LL BE JOINING US IN THE FREEZING 70 DEGREE WATER, UM, BEHIND.

UH, AND, AND, AND, AND I UNDERSTAND FROM MAYOR MINER'S WIFE THAT HE'LL BE THERE AS WELL.

UM, SO THANK YOU ALL FOR, UH, FOR, FOR SUPPORTING THAT EVENT AND, AND I'M LOOKING FORWARD TO SEEING THE BOAT SHOW BACK ON INDIAN CREEK.

UH, DAN DAN SIDE, UH, TALKED ABOUT R TWO A SPEED DETECTION IN SCHOOL ZONES.

UM, I'M HERE TO REQUEST THAT THE COMMISSION APPROVE THE INTENT TO AWARD, UH, TO MY COMPANY AXO INSTEAD OF REISSUING THE RFP.

THERE WERE TWO PROTESTS OUT OF NINE TOTAL BIDDERS ON THE PROCUREMENT.

UH, I DO BELIEVE THE CITY HANDLED THE PROTESTS, UH, CORRECTLY, AND IT SENDS A BAD MESSAGE TO REISSUE THE RFP JUST 'CAUSE SOMEONE PROTESTS.

UH, WE'VE BEEN YOUR PARTNER ON RED LIGHT ENFORCEMENT FOR OVER 15 YEARS, AND QUITE FRANKLY, THIS WOULD GIVE THE SAME TECHNOLOGY THROUGHOUT THE WHOLE CITY.

UM, LASTLY, WHAT WASN'T CAPTURED PROPERLY ON THE PROCUREMENT IS TO SAY THAT WE DON'T COLLECT ANY REVENUE FROM UTC NOTICES, WHICH QUITE FRANKLY MAKES US ABOUT 1.3 MILLION LESS EXPENSIVE THAN THE SECOND PLACE VENDOR.

GO AHEAD, SIR.

A WEEKEND BEFORE OF THE THICKNESS.

UH, GOOD MORNING.

UM, I'M JOSE FRIS, UH, LIVE 90 ALTON ROAD.

UM, ALSO IS, THIS IS A TOWNHOUSE RIGHT BY THE MARINA.

UH, UM, SORRY, I GET A LITTLE NERVOUS WHEN I SPEAKING THE MICROPHONE, SO JUST BEAR WITH ME.

UM, FIRST I WANT TO CONGRATULATE THE CITY FOR THE EVENT THAT YOU HAD LAST A WEEK OR

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IT WAS GREAT.

I WAS THERE.

I MEAN, I DIDN'T HAVE THE, THE HONOR TO SEE, UH, MR. SWATI.

I CONGRATULATED PERSONALLY, BUT THAT WAS A GREAT, GREAT EVENT.

UH, THANK YOU SO MUCH.

UM, I WANT TO ALSO SAY ABOUT THE MARINA FOR THE LAST TWO, COUPLE LAST COUPLE MONTHS.

I'M BEING ASSAULT TWICE, UH, AT THE MARINA.

UM, IT'S TWO POLICE REPORT RIGHT HERE.

UM, AND SHE SAYS, I ASKED THE MARINA, I TOLD THE MARINA ABOUT IT.

I SAY, YOU GOTTA DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT.

THE MARINA SAY WE DON'T HAVE TO DO ANYTHING ABOUT IT.

THIS IS, YOU'RE ON YOUR OWN ON THAT.

AND THIS IS, UH, THIS PEOPLE IS, UH, THEY ARE BEING ASSAULT IS A PATENT.

AND I SENT A LETTER A LONG TIME AGO TO THE, ONE OF THE HIGH LEVELS FROM SOME TEXT ABOUT ONE INDIVIDUAL, AND THEY DON'T DO ANYTHING ABOUT IT.

SO IT LOOKS LIKE THEY'RE PROTECTING ALL THESE OTHER PEOPLE.

UM, AND THEY KNOW WHO THE BAR ACT ACTORS ARE, AND THEY DON'T DO ANYTHING.

UM, ALSO IN THE LAST QUARTER, CODE ENFORCEMENT ONLY GAVE TWO VESSELS, BTR VIOLATION AND GAVE ONE CURFEW IN THREE MONTHS.

IN SEPTEMBER IT WAS 11 VIOLATIONS.

AND WARNING IT WAS TWO FOR, UH, IN THE LAST QUARTER WAS TWO FOR TWO WARNING FOR BALLOONS, TWO BTRS ON ONE.

CAREFUL HOW THAT CAN BE.

IT'S, IT'S, IT'S, IT'S CRAZY.

IN, IN NEW YEAR, YOU KNOW, ALL THE BUDGET WERE COMING AFTER.

IS THAT MY TIME? THAT'S IT.

CAN YOU PLEASE HAVE A 30 SECONDS? OKAY.

UH, UM, BY CHRISTMAS, THE BAY WALKED, THIS IS ABOUT PUBLIC SAFETY.

THE BAY WALKED BY THE MARINA, BY THE JACK CLUB.

THE LIGHTS WERE OFF FOR FOUR OR FIVE DAYS.

I REPORT THAT TO MY MANAGER.

THE MANAGER SENT A LETTER TO THE CITY.

THE CITY TOOK CARE RIGHT AWAY, AND IT TOOK 15 DAYS.

WITHOUT THAT, THAT POWER BE CONNECTED.

SO THE CITY DID SOMETHING WITH THE MARINA AND THEN THEY JUMP IT.

AND WE HAD LIGHT FOR CHRISTMAS AND NEW YEAR, BUT IT WOULD'VE BE 15 DAY WITHOUT LIGHTS.

UM, YOU GUYS, I'M BEEN READING THE MARINA, THE MARINA LEASE, AND YOU GUYS HAVE A LOT OF POWER AS A LANDLORD, PLEASE ENFORCE IT.

YOU KNOW, IT'S A, IT'S THE MARINA, THE MARINA, THE NEIGHBORHOOD.

IT'S JUST GETTING AFFECTED AND IT'S NOT GOING ANYWHERE, YOU KNOW, IT'S JUST PLEASE, PLEASE ENFORCE IT.

SOMETHING'S GOING TO HAPPEN.

WE'VE BEEN VERY LUCKY THAT NO CASUALTY, NO DEBT, NOT SOMETHING IS BEHIND ME, PLEASE, UNFORTUNATELY.

AND THAT'S ALL I HAVE A COUPLE OTHER THINGS, BUT I DON'T REALLY, I DIDN'T REALLY WANNA JUST GET ALONG BECAUSE I TOOK, I TAKE TOO LONG.

OUR NEXT VIRTUAL SPEAKER IS MITCH NOVIK.

MITCH STATE YOUR NAME, ADDRESS, AND YOU HAVE TWO MINUTES.

GOOD MORNING, MITCH NOVIK, 9 0 1 COLLINS AVENUE.

I, TOO WANNA EXPRESS MY CONDOLENCES TO DEBORAH, UH, FRIENDS AND, UH, COLLEAGUE OFFICERS OF, OF OFFICER MARTIN.

NOW, HIS PASSION FOR THE POLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE WAS COMPELLING, UH, AND IMPRESSIVE.

UH, I JUST WANT TO SPEAK BRIEFLY ABOUT THE COSTLY CLOSURE OF THE NORTHERN END OF OCEAN DRIVE, WHERE TAXPAYERS ARE SPENDING 700,000 ON PRIVATE TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT.

MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, UH, DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION HAS REPEATEDLY STATED OCEAN DRIVE WAS, OR OCEAN COURT WAS NEVER DE DESIGNED TO HANDLE THE TRAFFIC CAPACITY THE CLOSURE CREATES, AND WE KNOW IT'S VERY DANGEROUS.

A POOR, UH, MAN HAD BOTH HIS LEGS AMPUTATED AFTER BEING RUN OVER BY A TRUCK IN 2023 ALONG OCEAN COURT.

UH, IF, IF YOU'RE COMPELLED TO LEAVE IT CLOSED, I ASK THAT YOU, UH, REMOVE THE BURDEN ON TAXPAYERS.

JUST TWO WEEKS AGO, ON JANUARY 19TH AND OTHER GATE, THE NEWEST GATE ABUTTING, THE BETSY HOTEL WAS DAMAGED BY YET ANOTHER VEHICLE.

AND, AND, UH, ENOUGH IS ENOUGH, AND I WOULD ASK, UH, I HAVE NO, UH, PREFERENCE IF IT'S ONE WAY, BUT THAT SECTION OF OCEAN DRIVE, AGAIN IS A COSTLY BURDEN ON ALL TAXPAYERS.

GO AHEAD, PLEASE.

SO YOU HAVE TWO MINUTES.

REPRESENTING A GROUP OF RESIDENTS AND PROPERTY OWNERS AT 1500 OCEAN DRIVE AND OTHER RESIDENTIAL BUILDINGS.

GOOD MORNING, HONORABLE MAYORS COMMISSIONER AND CITY MANAGER.

MY NAME IS IAN AND I'M THE PRESIDENT OF OCEAN DRIVE PROMINENT COMMUNITY, A NONPROFIT ASSOCIATION

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TODAY I STAND BEFORE YOU WITH A PETITION SIGNED BY 155 SUPPORTERS WHO SHARE A CLEAR AND UNIFIED MESSAGE.

OCEAN DRIVE MUST REOPEN AND MORE AD DRAINING EVERY DAY.

FOR YEARS, WE HAVE WATCHED THIS ONE, STRIVING STREET DECLINE INTO EMPTINESS.

BUSINESSES HAVE CLOSED, SAFETY CONCERNS HAVE INCREASED.

AND THE AREA, ONCE THE BIDDING HEART OF MIAMI BEACH HAS LOST ITS ENERGY AND VITALITY, WHAT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE A PEDESTRIAN FRIENDLY VISION NEVER MATERIALIZED.

INSTEAD, THE CLOSURE AS DISCOURAGED VISITORS HURT LOCAL BUSINESSES AND LEFT TO ONE'S ICONIC AVENUE, DESERTED AND STRUGGLING BEYOND THE ECONOMIC DAMAGE DISCLOSURE HAS ALSO CREATED A SERIOUS SAFETY HAZARD HAZARD.

THE DEAD END ON OCEAN DRIVE IS A TICKING TIME BOMB FOR ACCIDENTS WITH NO PROPER TRAFFIC FLOW.

CARS ARE FORCED INTO DANGEROUS U-TURN, CREATING CONFUSION AND UNSAFE CONDITIONS FOR DRIVERS, CYCLISTS, AND PEDESTRIAN ALIKE.

IT'S ONLY A MATTER OF TIME BEFORE SOMETHING WORSE HAPPEN.

RESIDENTS, PROPERTY OWNERS, AND BUSINESSES WANT OCEAN DRIVE BACK.

THE COURT HAS RULED IN FAVOR OF REOPENING AND FURTHER DELAYS WILL ONLY CAUSE MORE HARM KEEPING THE STREET CLOSED DURING AN APPEAL PERIOD SERVICE.

NO ONE EXCEPT THOSE WHO PROFILE PROFIT FROM STAGNATION.

WE URGE YOU, OUR CITY LEADERS TO LISTEN TO THE PEOPLE YOU SERVE, SUPPORT THE REOPENING UNDER THE CORE DECISION, AND HELP US AND RESTORE SAFETY, ECONOMIC VITALITY, AND THE SPIRIT OF OCEAN DRIVE.

OUR NEXT VIRTUAL SPEAKER IS JESUS ADE.

PLEASE STATE YOUR NAME, ADDRESS SO YOU HAVE TWO MINUTES.

JESUS.

UNMUTE YOURSELF PLEASE.

PJ.

LET'S THEN GO TO TROY WRIGHT.

MR. WRIGHT, YOU HAVE TWO MINUTES.

THIS IS TROY WRIGHT, THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF THE WASHINGTON AVENUE BUSINESSES IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT.

SORRY ABOUT MY VOICE THIS MORNING.

UM, HOWEVER, THE LIGHTS ON WASHINGTON AVENUE LOOK AMAZING.

UH, SO A SPECIAL THANK YOU TO COMMISSIONER GONZALEZ AND THE ENTIRE, UH, MIAMI BEACH CITY COMMISSION, UH, FOR YOUR SUPPORT.

IF YOU HAVEN'T SEEN THEM YET, YOU NEED TO GO BY AND TAKE A LOOK AT THEM AT NIGHT.

UM, THE WASHINGTON AVENUE BUSINESS IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT FULLY SUPPORTS THE PROPOSAL BY COMMISSIONER ALEX FERNANDEZ TO REFER THE DISCUSSION OF REDUCED PARKING RATES FOR MIAMI BEACH'S WORKFORCE TO THE FINANCE AND ECONOMIC RESILIENCE COMMITTEE.

UM, OUR CITY'S HOSPITALITY AND SERVICE INDUSTRY EMPLOYEES ARE ESSENTIAL TO THE, UH, SUCCESS OF OUR LOCAL BUSINESSES.

SO YET THEY FACE SIGNIFICANT FINANCIAL CHALLENGES DUE TO HIGH PARKING COST, PARTICULARLY NON-RESIDENTS WHO COMMUTE DAILY TO WORK ON MIAMI BEACH.

BY PROVIDING, UM, REDUCED PARKING RATES WOULD NOT ONLY EASE THE FINANCIAL BURDEN ON THESE EMPLOYEES, BUT ALSO, UM, HELP BUSINESSES RETAIN A STABLE WORKFORCE.

SO MANY HOSPITALITY WORKERS ON WASHINGTON AVENUE STRUGGLE WITH THE INCREASING COST OF TRANSPORTATION AND IMPLEMENTING A MORE AFFORDABLE PARKING SOLUTION WOULD DIRECTLY BENEFIT THEM, UM, WHILE REINFORCING MIAMI BEACHES REPUTATION AS A CITY THAT VALUES AND SUPPORTS IT WORKS FOR.

SO, UM, WE NEED SUPPORT THERE.

ALSO, REALLY QUICK, UM, THE BID PROUDLY SUPPORTS THE RESOLUTION OF CONGRATULATING MIAMI BEACH FOR BEING NAMED THE TOP CITY TO VISIT IN NORTH AMERICA BY TRAVEL AND LEISURE MAGAZINE.

SO, GREAT JOB COMMISSION.

THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR THE LIGHTING AND LET'S CONTINUE TO MOVE FORWARD.

IT'S A SIGNIFICANT INVESTMENT.

UH, NEXT, PLEASE STATE YOUR NAME AND ADDRESS.

YOU HAVE TWO MINUTES, PLEASE.

YES, MY NAME IS BRIAN O'BRIEN.

I LIVE AT 90 ALTON DRIVE, UH, WHICH AFFRONTS THE MIAMI BEACH MARINA.

AND THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME AND CONSIDERATION THIS MORNING.

I JUST WANT TO EXPRESS MY CONCERNS, UH, ABOUT THIS AREA.

WE'VE LIVED THERE FOR OVER 10 YEARS, AND AS YOU KNOW, IT EXTENDS A GOOD FIVE BLOCKS.

IT'S A SIGNIFICANT AMOUNT OF PUBLIC ACCESS, AND IT HAS, IT HAS DETERIORATED FROM A SAFETY STANDPOINT.

I HAVE CHILDREN, I HAVE GRANDCHILDREN, AND, UH, I DIDN'T KNOW UNTIL THIS MORNING WHEN I HEARD MR. FRIS, UH, TALK ABOUT HIS ALTERCATIONS THERE.

BUT WE HAVE WITNESSED MANY ALTERCATIONS THERE AND I THINK IT'S A SIGNIFICANT, UH, UH, AMOUNT OF INVESTMENT AND AREA THAT JUSTIFIES MORE SECURITY, MORE OVERSIGHT OF SOME SORT.

I MEAN, IT, IT'S, IT'S, IT'S A POSTCARD FOR OUR AREA HERE.

AND WHEN YOU SEE WHAT GOES ON ON A DAY-TO-DAY BASIS, JUST THIS PAST WEEKEND WAS, WAS CRAZY.

AND, AND THE TRANSIENT NATURE OF THE PEOPLE COMING OFF AND ON BOATS AND SO ON, YOU DON'T SEE

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ANY GUARDS.

YOU DON'T SEE ANY TYPE OF OVERSIGHT.

SO I'M NOT ASKING FOR ANY TYPES OF NEW RULES OR REGULATIONS.

I THINK THEY'RE IN PLACE.

THEY JUST NEED TO BE RE REINFORCED.

OUR NEXT VIRTUAL SPEAKER IS LARRY SCHAFER.

MR. SCHAFER, YOU HAVE TWO MINUTES.

PLEASE STATE YOUR NAME AND ADDRESS.

THIS IS LARRY SCHAEFFER, 2 3 3 80 FIRST STREET IN NORTH BEACH.

I'D LIKE TO RAISE SOME AWARENESS OF MIAMI BEACH'S UPCOMING BLUE ZONES MIAMI BEACH COMMUNITY EVENT.

THAT'S THIS WEEK, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 5TH AT THE NEW WORLD CENTER.

SEVEN, UH, 517TH STREET IN MIAMI BEACH.

UM, IT STARTS AT FIVE AND THEN THERE'S A PROGRAM AT SIX.

THE FIVE O'CLOCK IS REGISTRATION AND NETWORKING.

AND THERE'S BEEN A LOT OF DISCUSSION OF THIS ITEM ON ONLINE, ON THE FACEBOOK GROUPS.

AND, UH, I JUST WANT TO ENCOURAGE EVERYONE TO ATTEND, FIND OUT MORE ABOUT THIS, COME WITH AN OPEN MIND AND COME WITH ALL THOSE OBJECTIONS THAT HAVE BEEN VOICED ONLINE.

UM, COME WITH GOOD QUESTIONS, EXPECT GOOD ANSWERS, AND I THINK WE SHOULD REALLY CHALLENGE THEM.

BUT OVERALL, THIS EFFORT IS DESIGNED TO PROMOTE HEALTH AND WELLBEING FOR ALL OF OUR RESIDENTS.

THERE'S, I DON'T THINK ANY EVIL IN HERE.

IT'S DESIGNED FOR OUR HEALTH AND LONGEVITY AND THE BLUE ZONES.

THERE ARE MANY CRITICS 'CAUSE THEY'RE VERY SUCCESSFUL, BUT THERE ARE ALTERNATIVES OUT THERE IN THE LONGEVITY SPACE.

PEOPLE LIKE DAVE ASPREY BULLETPROOF COFFEE, AND HE WANTS YOU TO PUT OIL AND BUTTER IN YOUR COFFEE, AND THAT'S KIND OF QUACKERY.

THERE'S ALSO BRIAN JOHNSON, WHO HAS THE DON'T DIE, UH, THAT'S A NETFLIX SPECIAL AS WELL.

HE TAKES A HUNDRED PILLS OF SUPPLEMENTS A DAY, AND HE ACTUALLY HAS A LONGEVITY SUMMIT COMING TO MIAMI BEACH ON, UH, MARCH 22ND, 2025.

SO, YOU KNOW, THE BLUE ZONES FOLKS OUT, THEY'RE OUT THERE.

THEY'RE ACTUALLY THE KIND OF THE MOST SANE PEOPLE OPERATING IN THE LONGEVITY SPACE.

AND I THINK IT'S A GOOD THING THAT, THAT OUR LEADERS HAVE DECIDED TO, UM, GET STARTED ON TRYING TO BE PROACTIVE ABOUT HEALTH AND LONGEVITY FOR OUR RESIDENTS.

UM, I'M GOING THERE WITH AN OPEN MIND.

I'M NOT IN UNIVERSAL SUPPORT.

I'M EXCITED THAT THIS IS HAPPENING.

SO, UM, THE LAST THING I'D LIKE TO MENTION IF I HAVE SOME MORE TIME IS THERE WAS A RECENT MEETING ABOUT THE BELL IS ASSOCIATION.

THEY NEGOTIATED PUBLIC BENEFITS FOR THEIR SUPPORT OF ENTITLEMENTS FOR A DEVELOPMENT.

AND MY QUESTION TO THE COMMISSION IS, WELL, IF, YOU KNOW, I DON'T AGREE WITH THE WAY THEY WENT ABOUT WHAT THEY DID, BUT SOMEBODY'S GOTTA TALK TO THESE DEVELOPERS AND OBTAIN PUBLIC BENEFITS WHEN THEY WANT TO OBTAIN ENTITLEMENTS TO INCREASE HEIGHT.

MY NAME IS BERT FOWLS.

UM, 8 3 8 MACARTHUR CAUSEWAY, REPRESENTING YACHT HAVEN GRAND MIAMI.

I WANNA THANK THE COMMISSIONERS FOR YOUR LEADERSHIP.

I'M HERE TODAY TO REPRESENT THE MARITIME COMMUNITY.

IT IS SOMETHING THAT MIAMI HAS GUIDED CORRECTLY, AND MIAMI BEACH HAS BECOME A SHINING STAR IN THIS REGARD.

I'M HERE TODAY TO SUPPORT THE MOVE TO COLLINS AVENUE BECAUSE OF COMMUNITY SUPPORT FOR SMALL BUSINESSES AND THE ABILITY TO BE A LEADING, A LEADING SHOW FOR NOT ONLY FLORIDA, BUT FOR THE NATION.

IT IS IMPORTANT THAT WE UNDERSTAND THAT THE SHOW DYNAMICS ARE A COMPETITIVE ONE.

THERE ARE GLOBAL MARKETS LOOKING JUST WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR IN THESE AREAS.

THERE HAVE TO BE CHANGES AND THEY WILL BE WORKED OUT.

IT IS AN OPINION THAT INFORMA IS THE MOVING IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION IN THIS REGARD, BUT ALSO WORKING WITH THE COMMUNITY.

IT IS IMPORTANT THAT WE REMAIN A COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE, NOT ONLY IN FLORIDA, BUT THE NATION.

AND YOUR GUIDANCE HAS PROVEN THAT.

BUT WE'VE GOT TO LOOK AT THE MARKET DYNAMICS TO SUPPORT THE BUSINESSES AND ALSO UNDERSTAND THE DYNAMICS THAT ARE GOING TO OCCUR.

I APPLAUD YOU ON EVERYTHING YOU'VE DONE BECAUSE WE ARE THERE, BUT WE MUST GO FURTHER.

AND THIS MOVE SUPPORTS A DYNAMIC CHANGE TO MAKE SURE THAT THE FUTURE HOLDS STRONG TO BUILD FROM STEP TO STEP.

I WANT TO THANK YOU AND THAT'S ALL I HAVE TO SAY IN THAT REGARD.

APPRECIATE IT.

OUR NEXT VIRTUAL SPEAKER IS JESUS EZ.

PLEASE UNMUTE YOURSELF.

AND I'M SURE THERE'S SMART DEVELOPMENT ALTERNATIVE EXISTS TO A DEVELOPMENT IF THAT IS THE PATH FORWARD.

MY NAME IS JESUS EZ FROM 1662 LINCOLN COURT.

THANK YOU EVERYONE THIS MORNING AND ATTENDEES AND COMMISSIONERS FOR THE OPPORTUNITY TO TALK.

UM, I AM TALKING TODAY, UH, ARGUMENT AGAINST THE PRIVATIZATION OF PUBLIC LAND FOR A PADDLE CLUB.

A REMINDER OF PUBLIC LAND IS MEANT TO SERVE THE CO COLLECTIVE NEED OF ITS COMMUNITY, NOT PRIVATE FINANCIAL INTEREST.

THE PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT FOR A PROFILE PRO FOR-PROFIT PADDLE CLUB AT THE EXPENSE OF AN EXISTING PARKING LOT, NOT ONLY DISREGARDS PUBLIC NEEDS, BUT ALSO THREATENS LOCAL BUSINESSES BY ELIMINATING A CRUCIAL SHARED RESOURCE.

I UNDERSTAND AN ALTERNATIVE, UH, PARKING HAS BEEN FOUND FOR THIS, AND THIS JUST MEANS THAT WE SHOULD HAVE THAT ALTERNATIVE PARKING AND THE EXISTING PARKING.

TO ME, THERE'S FOUR THINGS THAT ARE CRUCIAL TO THIS, AND THAT IS THE LOSS OF PUBLIC ACCESSIBILITY, DIRECT HARM TO LOCAL BUSINESSES, DISPLACEMENT OF EXISTING COMMUNITY USES,

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THIS PROPOSAL IS AN ATTACK ON LOCAL BUSINESS AND ECONOMY ACTIVITY.

IT WOULD HARM SMALL BUSINESSES, DISCOURAGING CUSTOMERS, AND AN UNDERMINE SUCH DEVELOPMENTS WOULD PRESERVE ACCESSIBILITY, EQUITY, AND INTEGRITY OF PUBLIC LAND.

I ENCOURAGE YOU ALL TO THINK OF THIS AND YOUR CONSTITUENTS WHO ARE LOCAL AND THINK OF THE ECONOMY AND LOCAL ECONOMY AS THIS SEEMS VERY ANTI-BUSINESS.

AND THAT IS THE LAST THING WE NEED IN A PLACE RESTRICTED BY ACCESS TO PARKING, AND WE WANT A THRIVING COMMUNITY AND ECONOMIC COMMUNITY HERE IN SOUTH BEACH.

NEXT, PLEASE STATE YOUR NAME AND ADDRESS.

GOOD MORNING, MAYOR COMMISSIONERS, MR. CITY MANAGER, MR. CITY CLERK, AND MR. CITY ATTORNEY.

MY NAME IS MATTHEW HANOFF AND I LIVE AT 1 25 JEFFERSON AVENUE.

AND THIS MORNING I'M SPEAKING AS A PRIVATE RESIDENT OF THIS CITY.

FIRST I WANT TO CONGRATULATE AND ZEL TAB TO MR. SUAREZ ON THE BIRTH OF HIS NEW CHILD.

AND I HOPE THAT THE MOTHER AND THE BABY ARE DOING JUST GREAT.

UM, I ALSO WANNA SPEAK ON R NINE A J, WHICH IS A DISCUSSION ON THE CONFIGURATION OF OCEAN DRIVE FROM FIFTH STREET TO 14TH PLACE.

UH, THE, AS YOU ALL KNOW, THE JUDGE MADE AN ORDER LAST MONTH AND THE CITY APPEALED THAT IN THAT APPEAL, THERE WAS AN AUTOMATIC STAY ON THE JUDGE'S ORDER, WHICH WOULD REMOVE THE CURRENT CONFIGURATION, WHICH WAS DECIDED BY THE CITY COMMISSION IN A SEVEN ZERO VOTE IN 2021.

UH, ON WEDNESDAY, THERE IS A MOTION BY THE CLEVELAND TO VACATE THAT AUTOMATIC STAY AND TO ENFORCE IT AND REQUIRE THE BICYCLE LANE TO BE REMOVED AND TWO-WAY TRAFFIC TO BE RESTORED.

THE, THE, THE, UH, THE PLAINTIFF CLAIMS THAT THE CITY WILL NOT LIKELY PREVAIL.

WELL, I WANNA OFFER SOME INSIGHT HERE, AND I URGE THAT THE CITY ATTORNEY'S OFFICE AND THEIR COUNSEL THAT THEY DEFEND THIS VIGOROUSLY.

THE CLEVELANDER HAS NOT PROVIDED ANY EVIDENCE THAT THEY HAVE HAD ANY NEGATIVE EFFECT.

THERE'S BEEN NO REVIEWS FROM CUSTOMERS.

THEY HAVE NOT PROVIDED ANY FINANCIAL STATEMENT, NOR HAVE THEY PROVIDED ANY DISCOVERY TO ANY OF THE DEFENDANTS IN THIS CASE.

SECONDLY, IN THE JUDGE'S RULING, THEY CITED THAT THERE WAS A URGENT PUBLIC SAFETY CONCERN.

WE ALL KNOW THAT THE FIRE CHIEF PROVIDED TESTIMONY TO THIS BODY IN 2023 STATING THAT THERE IS NO PUBLIC SAFETY CONCERN.

WE ALL KNOW THAT BEING OUT ON OCEAN DRIVE, THAT FIRE ENGINES, RESCUE TRUCKS AND POLICE HAVE FREE, UH, FREE REIGN OF OCEAN DRIVE COMPLETELY FROM CURB TO CURB.

UH, SO AGAIN, THIS IS A POLICY DECISION, NOT A JUDICIAL DECISION.

AND I URGE THAT EVERY ACTION BE TAKEN, THAT A VIGOROUS DEFENSE OF THIS BE TAKEN SO THAT THIS WONDERFUL PUBLIC AMENITY THAT EVERYONE, UH, THAT MANY PEOPLE TALK ABOUT, THAT THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE ENJOY, WHETHER THEY'RE ON CAR, ON FOOT, ON BICYCLE OR MICRO MOBILITY.

AND THIS PUBLIC AMENITY, UH, CONTINUES TO STAY FOR YEARS TO COME, IN FACT, IS IMPROVED WITH THE GEO BOND MONEY THAT IS, UH, SLATED TO BE IMPLEMENTED SOMETIME THIS DECADE.

AND LASTLY, I JUST WANT TO ENCOURAGE EVERYONE AS ALWAYS TO, TO HAVE PROPER DECORUM, DECORUM ON THIS DAY AS DURING THIS COMMISSION MEETING TODAY, AND THAT EVERYONE IS RESPECTFUL OF ONE ANOTHER, INCLUDING MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC.

OUR NEXT VIRTUAL SPEAKER IS IRENE.

THANK YOU, MAN.

JUST TO LET YOU KNOW, WE, UH, AS YOU MENTIONED, OUR COMMISSION HAD APPROVED THAT THE JUDGE OVERTURNED IT, UH, WHICH I'VE ALREADY COME OUT PUBLICLY AND SAID, I THINK IT'S PRETTY OUTRAGEOUS THAT A JUDGE IS OVERRULING THE DETERMINATIONS BY OUR CITY THAT HAD SPENT COUNTLESS, NOT JUST HOURS, YEARS, COMING UP WITH THIS, UH, WITH THIS PLAN.

BUT WE ARE APPEALING AND WE ARE, WE ARE DEFENDING OUR, OUR INITIAL VOTE.

THANK YOU, MR. MAYOR IRENE, UNMUTE YOURSELF.

UH, WERE BECAUSE OF A VERY, UH, YOU KNOW, CARING, UH, ADVOCATE.

GOOD MORNING, EVERYONE.

YES, THIS IS IRENE VIGOR, PRESIDENT OF THE ART DECO NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION.

I'D LIKE TO THANK MATTHEW, UH, FOR HIS WORDS AND, UH, SAVING ME A FEW MINUTES AS HE STATED SOME OF, UH, THE FACTS THAT I WAS GOING TO, UH, STATE, UM, AS PER A A'S, UH, COMPREHENSIVE LETTER THAT WE SENT OUT TO THE COMMUNITY, UH, THAT INCLUDED EVIDENTIAL, UH, CORROBORATING EVIDENCE OF THE BENEFITS OF PROMENADES.

AND I WANT TO EMPHASIZE THE HISTORIC MAJORITY SUPPORT, UH, THAT PADE, UH, RESIDENTS HAVE HAD FOR THIS PROMENADE.

SO I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT THAT PEOPLE REALIZE IN, IN THE PUBLIC, THIS HAS NOT COME OUT OF THIN AIR.

UM, IN MY, UH, IN MY LETTER I, I MENTIONED THAT, UH, OTHER FAMOUS PROMENADE THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY THAT HAVE DONE WELL AND ARE SUCCEEDING,

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THE ADVOCACY GROUPS, UH, THE CITY COUNCILS AND THE MAYOR WHO TOOK A STRONG STANCE, KNEW WHAT WAS GOOD FOR THEIR COMMUNITY, AND, UM, AND GOT THIS DONE.

UM, AND IT'S, QUOTE, A WIDELY SUCCESSFUL TRANSFORMATION OF THE NEW YORK TIMES SQUARE WAS MADE POSSIBLE BECAUSE OF THIS.

AND, UM, I I JUST WANT TO ADDRESS, UM, I HAVE MORE TO SAY, MAYBE I'LL SAY IT AT ONE O'CLOCK, BUT I WANNA ADDRESS SOME OF THE DISINGENUOUS, UM, COMMENTS MADE BY, UH, PEOPLE AGAINST ESPECIALLY, UH, PEOPLE WHO I'VE HEARD PERSONALLY.

UM, THE PREVIOUS SPEAKER HEADING, UH, THIS COMMUNITY GROUP WHO IN FACT HAS THE WORD PROMENADE IN THE NAME AND I, WELL, I CANNOT UNDERSTAND THE CHANGE IN STANCE.

I DO KNOW THAT IN A PREVIOUS MEETING, UM, THIS ORGANIZATION DOES NOT REPRESENT ALL THE RESIDENTS OF 1500 OCEAN DRIVE WHERE I LIVE MYSELF.

IN A MEETING WE WERE ALL AT TOGETHER, THE MAJORITY OF THE RESIDENTS EXPRESSED, UH, SUPPORT FOR THE PROMENADE, INCLUDING THE SPEAKER WHO ALSO, UH, HAD MENTIONED POSSIBLY EXTENDING IT TO 15TH STREET.

BUT AFTER ONE RESIDENT, UM, SPOKE AGAINST IT, NOW WE SEE A, A CHANGE.

I I JUST WANNA MAKE SURE THAT ALL OF THESE COMMENTS, EVERYBODY HAS A RIGHT TO SPEAK, UH, THEIR MIND AND TO PROTEST AGAIN.

THANK YOU SO MUCH, MA'AM.

OUR NEXT SPEAKER IS YEAH, IN SFL.

I ALSO LIVE AT 1500 OCEAN DRIVE.

AND I'M HERE TO SPEAK PERSONALLY.

SO GOOD MORNING MAYORS AND COMMISSIONERS.

I'M HERE TODAY TO ASK YOU TO STOP THE DAMAGE THAT HAS BEEN INFLICTED ON OCEAN DRIVE BUSINESSES FOR THE PAST 10 YEARS.

FROM 2:00 AM ALCOHOL BANS TO STREET CLOSURES.

OCEAN DRIVE IS OUR MOST ICONIC STREET AND VALUABLE REAL ESTATE ASSET IN MIAMI BEACH.

YET SOME OF YOU BELIEVE THAT BANNING CARS ON TWO BLOCKS WILL MAGICALLY TRANSFORM OCEAN DRIVE INTO AN AMERICAN CITY, UH, INTO AN EUROPEAN CITY.

BUT MIAMI-DADE COUNTY LACKS THE PUBLIC MASS TRANSIT OF EUROPE, AND THE MAJORITY OF OUR MIAMI BEACH RESIDENTS HAVE VOTED AGAINST MASS TRANSIT FROM MIAMI TO MIAMI BEACH.

THEREFORE, CARS ARE, ARE AN ESSENTIAL PART OF OUR DAILY WAY OF LIFE NOW, AND FOR THE FORESEEABLE FUTURE, INSTEAD OF REMOVING ROADS AND PARKING SPACES, YOU NEED TO BUILD MORE OF IT BECAUSE WE ARE CAR DEPENDENT.

THIS IS OUR REALITY.

THE PROMENADE.

WE HAVE ALREADY QUITE A FEW IN OUR CITY.

AFTER RECITING FULL-TIME AT 1500 OCEAN DRIVE FOR 26 PLUS YEARS, I KNOW OCEAN DRIVE BETTER THAN MOST.

EVERY DAY I SEE TWO CLOSE BLOCKS ON OCEAN DRIVE DIRECTLY FROM THE 10TH FLOOR OF MY APARTMENT, WINDOWS AND BALCONY.

AND I INVITE ANY OF YOU TO COME AND SEE MY VIEW OF THESE TWO BLOCKS EMPTY 99% OF THE TIME, DAY OR NIGHT OR WEEKENDS.

YOU NEED TO, UM, WITH THREE EXCEPTIONS NEW YEAR'S, UH, DAY VETERANS DAY AND OUR DECO WEEKEND ILLEGAL CLOSE ILLEGALLY CLOSING THESE TWO BLOCKS HAS TO DISRUPTED TRAFFIC, GENERATED TRAFFIC, CONGESTION, CONFUSION, AND ACCIDENTS ON OCEAN DRIVE ALLEY COLLINS AND WASHINGTON AND HER BUSINESSES.

YOU ALL RUN AS LOW AND ORDER CANDIDATES.

NOW THERE IS A COURT ORDER.

COULD I HAVE A FEW MORE MINUTES? THERE'S A COURT ORDER, UM, UH, TO REOPEN OCEAN DRIVE.

DO IT THEN LET'S HAVE A DIS REAL DISCUSSION ON HOW TO HELP AND SUPPORT OUR BUSINESSES AND WORKERS ON OCEAN DRIVE THE 46 RESTAURANT ON OCEAN DRIVE.

ACCORDING TO SESI STRUGGLE, FINDING, HIRING, OR HOLDING GOOD WORKERS BECAUSE RENTS ARE TOO HIGH ON THE BEACH AND PARKING IS SCARCE AND EXPENSIVE, WHILE RESIDENTS ON OTHER BUILDINGS WITHOUT GARAGES ARE ALLOWED STREET PARKING AT DISCOUNT.

AND THE PHANTOM BLUE HOTEL UNION WORKERS GET OCEAN FROM PARKING BUSINESSES ON OCEAN DRIVE ARE UNDER ATTACK.

IT'S TIME TO OPEN TRAFFIC AND HELP OUR BUSINESSES AND WORKERS ON OCEAN DRIVE.

THANK YOU, MAYOR.

WE'VE, WE'VE GONE OVER THE 30 MINUTES AND WE STILL HAVE THREE ON ZOOM AND TWO IN PERSON THAT I CAN SEE.

DO YOU WANT, LET'S DO ONE MINUTE EACH.

SO WE'RE GONNA GO WITH ONE MINUTE, UH, WHOEVER'S NEXT, PLEASE GO AHEAD.

STATE YOUR NAME AND ADDRESS.

COFFEE CHE WITH JUST A LITTLE BIT OF SUGAR.

HI FOLKS.

UH, THANK YOU FOR THE OPPORTUNITY TO, UH, SPEAK THIS MORNING.

UH, QUARTER TO EIGHT.

MY WIFE WOKE ME UP AND SAID THE MEETING WAS AT EIGHT 30, NOT AT, UH, 10 AS I HAD IMAGINED.

I WAS PLANNING ON AN EMPANADA AND A LARGE

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AND THEY LITTLE IT, I APPRECIATE IT.

BUT YOU HAVE ONE MINUTE.

SO BY THE WAY, YOU, YOU, I UNDERSTAND, I UNDERSTAND.

THIS WON'T COUNT AGAINST YOUR MINUTE.

YOU MAY HAVE .

WE HAVE, WE HAVE AN AFTERNOON SUT HOUR AS WELL AT ONE O'CLOCK.

SO I'LL KEEP IN MIND I FINISH THAT WITH THE REMAINING 30 SECONDS.

MY WIFE AND I BOUGHT DOWN HERE IN 2009.

WE LIVE AT, UH, 1560 JEFFERSON.

UH, WE'RE TICKLED TO BE A PART OF THIS COMMUNITY.

OUR BUILDING RIGHT NOW IS FACING A CERTAIN UNCERTAINTY BECAUSE OF THE AMOUNT OF WORK THAT, UH, MAY BE REQUIRED AS FAR AS, UH, CONCRETE MITIGATION, UH, MITIGATION AND CRACK AND POSSIBLY FOUNDATION.

UH, WE FORESEE THE POSSIBILITY OF NOT BEING ABLE TO STAY IN OUR BUILDING AGAIN, THE STATUS OF THE BUILDING IS VERY UNCERTAIN.

WE HAD HOPED TO BE HERE.

I HAD HOPED FOR THIS TO BE MY RETIREMENT DOWN HERE.

I'M 76.

I'M NOT IN THE BEST OF HEALTH.

I WANTED TO, UH, BE A PART OF THIS PLACE FOR, UH, FOR WHATEVER TIME IS REMAINING.

THAT SAID, UH, I, I JUST WANT TO SAY THANK YOU TO ALL WHO MAKE THIS PLACE MIAMI BEACH.

AS COMFORTABLE AS IT IS, AS EXCITING AS IT IS, AS STABLE AS IT IS, AND AS FORWARD LOOKING AS IT IS, I, I APPRECIATE EVERYTHING THAT YOU FOLKS DO.

I SAW YOU AT, UH, MAYOR AT, UM, PUBLIX A COUPLE OF YEARS AGO.

I BUMPED YOU IN THE MORNING AND I I THANKED YOU THEN AND I'M THANKING YOU AGAIN AND ALL THANK YOU, SIR, FOR, FOR YOUR TIME.

I DIDN'T CATCH YOUR NAME.

I'M GOING TO GO TO THE NEXT VIRTUAL SPEAKER.

HAS A SCREEN NAME OF IPHONE JANIE, GO AHEAD PLEASE.

HI, GOOD MORNING.

FIRST OF ALL, THANK YOU TO EVERYBODY.

LIKE THE GENTLEMAN SAID PREVIOUSLY, WHO MAKES THE CITY RUN? IT'S A PRIVILEGE TO LIVE HERE.

MY, MY PHONE CALL THIS MORNING IS I'M, UM, POLITELY ENRAGED ABOUT WHAT THEY WANNA DO TO THIS PADELL TO THIS CITY PARKING LOT TO MAKE A PADELL, UH, COURT, WHICH IS IN THE INTEREST OF BIG BUSINESS.

AND THEN THEY WANT US TO USE A PRIVATE LOT THAT CHARGES $20 AN HOUR OR THEY BOOT YOU CAR, BOOT YOUR CAR, OR GIVE A REALLY BIG TICKET.

THIS IS CLEARLY BIG BUSINESS.

LINCOLN ROAD IS HALF EMPTY AND THIS IS NOT GONNA MAKE IT ANY BETTER.

PEOPLE NEED PARKING AND THERE ARE MANY ISSUES THAT THE CITY FACES AND GIVING THIS LOT TO PRIVATE PEOPLE WHO WANNA USE THEIR BENEFITS AND THEIR MONEY FOR THEMSELVES.

THEY HAVE NO, NO INTEREST IN WHAT BENEFITS THE PEOPLE.

MIAMI BEACH, THE PEOPLE WHO COULD LIVE HERE WHO PAY TAXES, THE PEOPLE WHO COME VISIT AND THE PEOPLE ENJOY.

AND I WOULD URGE ANYONE WHO PREVIOUSLY VOTED FOR THIS PADE COURT TO BE MOVED SOMEPLACE ELSE BECAUSE THIS IS IN MY MOST HUMBLE WAY.

AND I HOPE THIS DOESN'T COME OUT RUDE.

THE ULTIMATE ACT OF SELFISHNESS.

IT IS, IT IS NOT BENEFITING THE RESIDENTS.

I'M SURE IT'S A GREAT SPORT.

IT CAN BE PLAYED SOMEPLACE ELSE.

YOUR TIME IS UP.

I SORRY ABOUT THAT.

WHOEVER'S NEXT, PLEASE GO AHEAD.

STATE YOUR NAME, ADDRESS.

UH, GOOD MORNING, GREG PARKS 1, 3 0 0 0 LAUREL HILL, TALLAHASSEE.

I'M HERE REPRESENTING RED SPEED, UH, REGARDING R TWO A.

UH, AND WE URGE YOU TO SUPPORT THE COMMITTEE'S RECOMMENDATION TO HAVE THIS REBID AND REEVALUATED, UH, FOLLOWING UP ON ONE OF THE EARLIER SPEAKERS.

THIS IS WAY DIFFERENT THAN RED LIGHT CAMERAS.

YOU COULD ARGUE THIS BE ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT POLICY DECISIONS YOU MAKE PROTECTING YOUR KIDS IN THE SCHOOL ZONE DURING THE SCHOOL DAY.

UH, CONTRARY TO THE EARLIER STATEMENT, IT'S VERY RARE TO HAVE TWO PROTESTS OUT OF NINE RESPONDENTS.

UH, WE HAVE BEEN AWARDED EVERY ROP IN THE STATE THAT'S GONE TO CONTRACT AND NONE HAVE BEEN PROTESTED BY ANY VENDOR.

WE OPERATE ALL THE EIGHT PROGRAMS THAT ARE OPERATIONAL IN MIAMI-DADE COUNTY.

AND NONE OF THOSE HAVE BEEN PROTESTED THAT, UH, IT'S A UNIQUE TECHNOLOGY, IT'S UNIQUE LAW.

YOU MUST FOLLOW IT AS ALL UNIQUE PROCEDURES.

AND THE BASIS OF OUR PROTEST WAS WE WERE ACTUALLY RANKED HIGHEST IN THE QUALITATIVE BY YOUR COMMITTEE.

AND THERE WAS A SCRS ERROR IN OUR PRICING AND WE THINK THE OPPORTUNITY TO RECONSIDER WOULD BENEFIT THE CITY.

SO WE APPRECIATE YOUR CONSIDERATION.

MOBILITY HAS BECOME SUPER POPULAR AND THAT'S FOR A REASON.

OUR NEXT VIRTUAL SPEAKER IS JOHN S JOHN STATE YOUR NAME, ADDRESS, SO YOU HAVE ONE MINUTE PLEASE.

HI, MY NAME IS JOSH SQUIRE, 3 4 6 WEST 47TH.

UM, I'M HERE TO DISCUSS THE THREE ITEMS THAT IMPACT TRANSPORTATION.

ONE IS THE RESTRICTION OF MICRO MOBILITY AT BAY WALK AND THE OTHER END SIDEWALKS.

AND THEN THE, UM, UM, SUBSIDY OF HOTEL PAR PARKING FOR HOTEL UH, WORKERS.

UM, SO MICRO

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IT SAVES MONEY, IT SAVES TIME, AND IT KEEPS YOU HEALTHY.

AND, UH, MORE TEENAGERS ARE USING IT, MORE ELDERLY ARE USING IT, AND DEFINITELY EMPLOYEES WHO CAN'T AFFORD CARS ARE USING IT.

WE HAVE A HUGE TRAFFIC ISSUE IN THE CITY.

IT'S TIME TO THINK DIFFERENTLY.

IT'S TIME TO PAUSE THE ENFORCEMENT AND START THINKING OF SOLUTIONS TO ADD BICYCLE INFRASTRUCTURE ON, ON THE OCEAN FRONT THROUGHOUT THE CITY.

ADDING RESTRICTION, ADDING ENFORCEMENT.

WHAT YOU'RE DOING IS YOU'RE PROMOTING PEDESTRIAN SAFETY, BUT YOU'RE SENDING OUR CHILDREN, OUR TEENAGERS ONTO THE STREET WITH, WITH ELECTRIC SCOOTERS.

YOU'RE SENDING, UH, ELDER AND YOUNG FAMILIES OFF THE OCEAN FRONT ONTO THE STREETS.

THANK YOU WITH CARS AND THAT'S NOT THE SOLUTION.

PLEASE RECONSIDER THESE MOTIONS.

NEXT, PLEASE STATE YOUR NAME, ADDRESS, AND YOU HAVE ONE MINUTE PLEASE.

MY NAME IS ALEXANDRA PEG AND I'M HERE ALSO REPRESENTING PHILIPPE PERRI, WHO I WORK FOR AND IS OWNER OF PROPERTIES IN MIAMI BEACH THREE 20 AND THREE 40 WEST TOLEDO.

REGARDING ITEM NUMBER R FIVE A, WE WANTED TO SHOW SUPPORT FOR THE RECOMMENDATION MADE BY ADMINISTRATION TO REMOVE THE REQUIREMENT OF MANDATORY APPROVAL FROM DRB OR HPB FOR PROPOSED UNDERSTORY HOMES.

WE BELIEVE THERE SHOULD BE LESS BURDEN PLACED ON HOMEOWNERS AND BUILDERS TO BUILD THESE TYPES OF HOMES SINCE ONE OF THE POSITIVE OUTCOMES OF BUILDING THEM IS THAT THEY WORK TO ADDRESS THE PROBLEM OF RISING SEA LEVELS AND THEIR HIGHER ELEVATIONS MAKE THEM MORE RESILIENT.

WE BELIEVE THAT THE REQUIREMENTS TO PRESENT AND BE APPROVED BY DRB OR HPB CAN ALSO POTENTIALLY DISINCENTIVIZE OTHER OWNERS THAT ARE TRYING TO ADDRESS THESE CONCERNS, WHICH IS ONE THAT AS A COMMUNITY, MIAMI BEACH IS CONSTANTLY TRYING TO ADDRESS FOR THE FUTURE.

THERE'S ALSO THE BURDEN IT CAN PLACE ON OWNERS IN TERMS OF TIME, BECAUSE THE ENTIRE PROCESS FROM SIGNING UP TO APPROVAL CAN TAKE SEVERAL MONTHS IN WHICH CARRYING COSTS AND ADDITIONAL FEES OWED TO DIFFERENT PARTIES ACCRUE.

SO FOR THOSE REASONS, WE WANTED TO BE HERE TODAY TO SHOW, SHOW OUR SUPPORT FOR THE MAYOR AND THE MEMBERS OF THE CITY COMMISSION TO ADOPT THE ORDINANCE.

OUR NEXT VIRTUAL SPEAKER IS KEN KOPPEL.

KEN, GO AHEAD.

UNMUTE YOURSELF.

UH, CAN YOU HEAR ME? YES, GO AHEAD PLEASE.

UH, I'M, I'M HERE TO, UH, SUPPORT, UH, THE P PEDESTRIAN PRO PROMENADE, UH, IRENE.

AND, UH, AND MATTHEW GOOV, I THINK MADE THE CASE OF VERY STRONGLY, AND I HAVE LITTLE TO, UH, TO ADD.

UM, THE, UH, OPPONENTS, UH, HAVE BROUGHT UP SAFETY ISSUES THAT ARE TOTALLY A BOGUS.

UH, AND SEVERAL OF THE PEOPLE WHO, UH, HAVE OPPOSED THIS DON'T EVEN LIVE IN THE AREA.

THERE ARE REALLY TWO FACTS ON, ON THE GROUND THAT I DON'T THINK, UH, CAN BE QUESTIONED.

UH, NUMBER ONE IS THAT THE CITY AND COUNTY MANDATED A, A BALLOT WHEREBY STAKEHOLDERS, UH, VOTED WHETHER THEY WANTED TO CONTINUE IT OR NOT.

A TWO THIRDS, UH, OF VOTE WAS REQUIRED TO CONTINUE IT.

UH, THE RESIDENTS EXCEEDED, UH, TWO THIRDS.

THAT'S A FACT ON THE GROUND.

THE SECOND FACT ON THE GROUND IS THAT FOR THE PERIOD THAT THE PROMENADE HAS BEEN, UH, OPEN, IT HAS BEEN TOTALLY PEACEFUL.

AND THE MAIN ACTIVITY THAT YOU SEE ARE VISITORS AND RESIDENTS TAKING PICTURES OF OUR GORGEOUS ARC DECO ODS.

THIS IS ONE OF THE REAL TREASURES OF, UH, OF OUR CITY.

IT'S ONE OF THE REASONS TRAVEL AND LEISURE NAMED US THE NUMBER ONE DESTINATION IN NORTH AMERICA SHOWING US THE PEDESTRIAN PROMENADE.

PLEASE KEEP IT, IT MAKES SENSE.

UH, GO AHEAD.

PLEASE STATE YOUR NAME, ADDRESS SO YOU HAVE ONE MINUTE.

WANDA JAMIE, 83 0 5 KRISPY BOULEVARD.

UM, GOOD MORNING CITY MANAGER, COMMISSIONERS AND MAYOR MINOR.

AS YOU GUYS KNOW, UH, A FEW WEEKS AGO I HAD AN INCIDENT REGARDING E-BIKES AND SCOOTERS.

I THANK COMMISSIONER DOMINGUEZ AND BLACK FOR SPONSORING C FOUR L.

I HAVE REACHED OUT TO EVERY SINGLE ONE OF YOU IN THIS DAYS RIGHT NOW.

I RECEIVED ALL RESPONSES EXCEPT FOR THE MAYOR STEVEN MINOR.

WE NEVER GOT A RESPONSE.

BLAKE NEVER GOT IN TOUCH WITH ME.

UH, THIS IS VERY DANGEROUS FOR CITY.

I KNOW YOU ARE LAW AND ORDER MAYOR AND THIS SCOOTERS AND THIS E-BIKES PRESENT A REAL DANGER, NOT ONLY TO THE PEDESTRIANS, NOT ONLY TO THE CHILDREN.

MY GRANDDAUGHTER ALMOST GOT RAN OVER ON THE SIDEWALK WAITING FOR A BUS GOING ON.

ALIS THIS IS OUTRAGEOUS.

WHAT'S HAPPENING IF THEY ARE ALLOWED TO TRAVEL OUR STREETS? SO RIGHT IN OUR STREETS, HOWEVER, THEY WANT TO WEAVING AND CUTTING, THEY SHOULD BE RESPONSIBLE THE SAME WAY THEY COULD USE OUR STREETS, BUT THEY ARE NOT BEING HELD RESPONSIBLE, NOT BY PD AND NOT BY ANYBODY IN THE CITY.

SO I'M ASKING THOSE THAT ARE LISTENING TO ME, THOSE THAT I RECEIVED MY EMAIL TO, PLEASE SUPPORT

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C FOUR L.

THIS IS A VERY DANGEROUS, I'M SURE THAT EVERY ONE OF YOU, THANK YOU, MA'AM, HAVE HEARD OF OTHER RESIDENTS SAYING THE SAME THING.

THIS IS, UH, EXTREMELY DANGEROUS, BUT THEY HAVE NO LIGHT.

THEY, THEY HAVE NO RESPONSIBILITY.

ME.

THE REGISTERED DRIVERS ARE THE ONES THAT ARE DRIVING.

AND I WOULD LIKE TO SEE MR. MAYOR, THAT, UH, YOU'LL PUT THIS, UH, LOOK INTO THIS AND SAY YES TO THIS BECAUSE I'M SURE EVERY SINGLE ONE OF YOU HAVE HAD THE SAME EXPERIENCES.

I ALMOST RAN SOMEBODY OVER SATURDAY, 85TH AND HARDING, THERE'S NO, THERE'S NO LIGHTS, BICYCLE WITHOUT ANY LIGHTS.

BY THE TIME I LOOKED AT IT, THE SKY'S IN FRONT OF ME.

THANK YOU, MA'AM.

SO I'M, I'M ACTUALLY GONNA DO SOMETHING I DON'T USUALLY DO.

FIRST OF ALL, I'M GONNA ASK OUR POLICE CHIEF TO COME UP AND ADDRESS SOME OF THE ISSUES.

UH, I ALSO, IT IS A, IT IS A MISSTATEMENT TO SAY WE DON'T RESPOND TO YOU.

WE DO, YOU DO REACH OUT A LOT.

AND WE DO RESPOND AND WE DO DEAL WITH OUR POLICE DEPARTMENT.

YOU, I'M SAYING YOU DIDN'T RESPOND YOUR OFFICE, EVERYBODY RESPONDED.

BUT YOUR OFFICE, I'M JUST SAYING, AND I I LIKE YOU, BUT YOU DIDN'T, YOU DIDN'T RESPOND TO ME.

WE, WE ACTUALLY DID.

WE ACTUALLY DID THAT.

BLAKE NEVER DID.

BLAKE CALLED ME.

I'M NOT GONNA DEBATE, I'M NOT GONNA DEBATE YOU ON THE DAY HERE, BUT I WANNA CALL THE CHIEF UP TO, UH, HEY.

HI, BABE.

NOT NECESSARILY ENFORCEMENT INITIALLY.

WAYNE JONES, UH, UH, POLICE CHIEF.

UH, APPRECIATE YOUR CONCERNS, UH, THIS MORNING.

I KNOW MR. MAYOR, UH, AND I THINK WE HAVE BEEN RESPONSIVE TO YOU.

YOU HAVE BROADLY, BROADLY SPEAKING.

UM, YOU KNOW, WE'VE JUST ENTERED INTO AN EDUCATION CAMPAIGN, UH, TO DEAL WITH, UH, FOLKS ON BICYCLES, MICRO MOBILITY, ELECTRONIC VEHICLES THROUGHOUT THE CITY.

YOU KNOW, PART OF MY PET PEEVE, I SPEAK WITH MY EX ABOUT THIS ALL THE TIME, IS THESE KIDS RUNNING AROUND SCHOOL KIDS ON THESE ELECTRONIC DEVICES WITHOUT HELMETS.

OFTENTIMES THAT BEING, UM, THE TRAFFIC LAWS.

AND, AND SO WE ARE REALLY, REALLY DEDICATED TO, UH, PUSHING OUT A LOT OF EDUCATION FOR THESE KIDS.

IN PARTICULAR, UH, ONE OF MY BIGGEST CONCERNS IS ONE OF THESE KIDS, UH, GETTING HIT BY A CAR.

WE KNOW THAT'S NOT GONNA TURN OUT WELL, EVEN AT LOW SPEEDS.

AND SO DEDICATED TO, TO MAKING A POSITIVE DIFFERENCE.

AT SOME POINT THAT MAY COME, BUT THE IDEA IS REALLY TO EDUCATE PEOPLE, UM, TO HOPEFULLY MAKE A POSITIVE DIFFERENCE.

IT'S NOT ONLY KIDS.

AND THERE IS AN ORDINANCE IN MIAMI BEACH THAT SAYS, NO E-BIKES OR E SCOOTERS.

YOUR OFFICERS ARE TELLING ME, NO, IN FLORIDA THEY COULD DO THIS, BUT NOT IN MIAMI BEACH.

'CAUSE WHEN THE MAYOR CLOSES UP CURFEW AT 2:00 AM IT'S 2:00 AM IF I GO OUT AT 3:00 AM I COULD GET A CITATION OR I COULD GET ARRESTED OR WHATEVER THE CASE MAY BE.

WE HAVE TO FILE LAWS.

THIS IS A LAW.

THIS IS A CITY OF LAW AND ORDER.

WE SHOULD HAVE LAW AND ORDER.

I SHOULD NOT BE RESPONSIBLE FOR THOSE ACTIONS OF THE PEOPLE THAT I COULD.

THEY ARE USING OUR STREETS, OUR SIDEWALKS, NO INSURANCE, NO NOTHING.

THEY COULD, THEY COULD, THEY, THEY, THEY RAN INTO MY CAR.

THEY RAN INTO MY CAR.

THEY DIDN'T DO DAMAGE.

I COULD'VE KILLED SOMEBODY.

I WOULD'VE BEEN, YOUR OFFICERS WOULD'VE TOLD ME, WELL, YOU KNOW, IT'S NEGLIGENT HOMICIDE.

I HAVE TO THINK FOR MY SAFETY.

AND FOR THOSE OF OTHERS, AND I'M NOT SPEAKING FOR MYSELF.

EVERYONE IN THIS DAY IS HAVE HEARD FROM RESIDENTS SAYING THE SAME THING.

NOT NOW, NOT LAST MONTH, BUT FOR MONTHS.

THIS IS AN INVASION ON E-BIKES AND E SCHOOLERS.

THEY DON'T RESPECT TRAFFIC.

AND BY THE WAY, THANK YOU.

AND THERE ARE MULTIPLE ITEMS ON THE AGENDA ABOUT THIS.

AND AS THE CHIEF HAS, HAS MENTIONED, THERE'S, THERE'S, THERE'S, THERE'S A LOT OF ATTENTION BEING PAID TO THIS THERE.

I'VE ACTUALLY PERSONALLY SEEN OFFICERS APPROACH, UH, INDIVIDUALS AND, AND STOP THEM RECENTLY.

IT THERE.

SO THERE'S DEFINITELY AN EFFORT BEING MADE TO ADDRESS THESE ISSUES.

BUT SOME, IS THAT AN EFFORT? SOMETHING HAS TO BE DONE.

IT IS ENOUGH.

IT IS ENOUGH FOR THE SAFETY OF ALL OF US.

EVEN THE RIDERS THEMSELVES, EVEN THE RIDER.

IT'S NOT ONLY, I'M TALKING ABOUT MYSELF.

I'M TALKING ABOUT, IT'S JUST SO SCARY TO DRIVE.

AND NEXT THING YOU KNOW, YOU HAVE SOMEBODY CUTTING IN FRONT OF YOU, A 3000 POUND TRUCK, TWO OR 200 POUND BIKE.

WHAT DO YOU THINK THE DAMAGE WILL BE? RIGHT? NO, THANK YOU.

AND BY THE WAY, I SAID I, I DON'T WANNA OVERSTATE, BUT I THINK THERE ARE TWO OR THREE ITEMS ON THIS ALONE.

UH, UH, I'VE PERSONALLY BEEN TALKING TO THE CHIEF AND OTHERS ABOUT THIS.

I'M SURE MY COLLEAGUES HAVE AS WELL.

I KNOW COMMISSIONER FERNANDEZ WANTS TO SAY SOMETHING.

OUR CHIEF, IT HAS CERTAINLY DEDICATED A LOT OF TIME AND PASSING ALONG THE MESSAGE TO ITS TO, TO HIS OFFICERS TO, UH, TAKE THIS SERIOUSLY AS WELL.

AND THANK YOU, MR. MAYOR.

UH, IN FACT, UH, YOURSELF, UH, ME AND COMMISSIONER BOND, WE'RE, WE'RE SPONSORING AN ITEM DIRECTING THE ADMINISTRATION TO ENHANCE ENFORCEMENT AGAIN, AGAINST THESE INDIVIDUALS OPERATING THESE MOTORIZED DEVICES.

AND THEY'RE GONNA BE COMING BACK ON A MONTHLY BASIS FOR UPDATES AT THE PUBLIC SAFETY COMMITTEE.

SO WE'RE GONNA BE TAKING A STRONG, UH, LOOK AT THIS.

A LADY GOT, UM, I AND I, AND, AND I REACTED TO THIS AFTER A LADY THAT GOT VIOLENTLY HIT BY, UH, BY ONE OF THESE MOTORIZED DEVICES OUTSIDE OF A TANNING SALON ON 41ST STREET.

AND IT REALLY IS EVERYWHERE WE'VE HEARD OF SENIORS GETTING HIT.

WE'VE HEARD OF, OF CHILDREN GETTING HIT.

SO IT'S SOMETHING THAT WE NEED TO TAKE SERIOUSLY.

THE ELECTED OFFICIALS ARE TAKING IT SERIOUSLY.

AND I KNOW

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WE FEEL YOUR PASSION.

AND THAT'S WHY'RE AND MOST OF YOU GUYS HAVE, I JUST HAVEN'T HEARD FROM THE MAYOR AND I CAME HERE NOW, BUT THERE, THERE IS AN ORDER THE WAY ALREADY BY 70 DASH SEVEN.

NO, NO, I'M NOW I'M GONNA CUT IT.

YOU LOVE SAYING THAT.

I, BUT BY THE WAY, THIS WHAT IT IS.

BUT BY THE WAY, NOTICE I'M A CO-SPONSOR ON THE ITEM.

OH, WELL THANK I DIDN'T SEE IT.

THAT'S A COME, I GRABBED THIS, BUT I THANK YOU.

AND THIS IS OH, A PRIME SPONSOR.

OKAY, SO THIS IS FOR OUR SAFETY NOW THE POLICE DEPARTMENT.

NO, THIS CONVERSATION'S OVER.

NO, WE HAVE THE ITEM.

WE HAVE THE ITEM.

THEY DO NOT KNOW ABOUT THE ORDINANCE.

THERE'S AN ORDINANCE ALREADY ON THE BOOKS.

UNDERSTOOD.

THEY DO NOT UNDERSTAND THIS.

MY FRIEND WAS THANK YOU.

WAS CITED.

ITEM C SEVEN Y IS BEING DEFERRED TO FEBRUARY 26TH.

AND THIS IS NOT THANK YOU.

IT SHOULDN'T BE THAT WAY.

THANK YOU MAYOR.

WE HAVE ONE LAST SPEAKER.

UH, IT'S AARON.

AARON STATE YOUR NAME, ADDRESS.

YOU HAVE ONE MINUTE, YOU ARE THE LAST SPEAKER.

JUST REAL QUICK TO FOLLOW UP.

UM, SORRY.

MADE ME ADDRESS.

AARON ZEKI 43 50 ON LIST DRIVE.

UM, REGARDING THE UNDERSTORY, UM, I THINK IT'S GREAT IF THAT GETS REMOVED FROM A DRB UH, PROCESS.

IT'S KIND OF A SIMPLE MOD.

I THINK THE ZONING DEPARTMENT DOES A GREAT JOB.

UM, BACK OFFICE HANDLING A LOT OF THE, UH, UH, MODIFICATIONS OR, YOU KNOW, UH, ADJUSTMENTS THAT NEED TO BE DONE.

WE RAN, WE WERE APPROVED FOR AN UNDERSTORY.

IT TOOK EIGHT MONTHS, NINE MONTHS OF ADDITIONAL TIME.

UM, SO ANY WAY THAT WE COULD ALLEVIATE THAT WOULD BE AMAZING BECAUSE I THINK IT GIVES A LOT OF OPPORTUNITY FOR, UH, DIFFERENT DESIGNS WITHOUT NECESSARILY, UH, GOING THROUGH THOSE HOOPS.

[CONSENT AGENDA]

UH, FOR THE CONSENT AGENDA YOU HAVE, YOU HAVE ON THE, TODAY IS THE SEPARATED ITEMS. MAYOR MINOR IS SEPARATING TWO ITEMS, C SEVEN Q AND C SEVEN AG G COMMISSIONER DOMINGUEZ IS SEPARATING C SEVEN N.

COMMISSIONER FERNANDEZ IS SEPARATING C FOUR C.

COMMISSIONER MAGAZINE IS SEPARATING C TWO M AS IN MARY.

COMMISSIONER ROSEN GONZALEZ IS SEPARATING C TWO M AS IN MARY AS WELL.

AND JUST FOR THE RECORD,

[C7 Y A RESOLUTION OF THE MAYOR AND CITY COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF MIAMI BEACH, FLORIDA, URGING THE ADMINISTRATION TO FILL KEY POSITIONS IN ALL CITY DEPARTMENTS TO ENSURE THE EFFECTIVE OPERATION OF CITY SERVICES AND MEET THE DEMANDS OF THE COMMUNITY.]

C SEVEN Y IS BEING DEFERRED TO FEBRUARY 26TH.

AND DISCUSSION

[R9 AG DISCUSS/TAKE ACTION – RECLASSIFICATION OF ASSAULT OR BATTERY OFFENSES AGAINST PARK RANGERS TO INCREASE THE POTENTIAL PENALTY FOR DEFENDANTS.]

ITEM R NINE 80 G, THE MAYOR IS REQUESTING THAT THAT ITEM BE REFERRED TO THE PUBLIC SAFETY NEIGHBORHOOD QUALITY OF LIFE C UH, COMMITTEE.

AND WE WILL BE DOING SO, UH, VIA THE CONSENT AGENDA IS CR NINE A G.

SO R NINE AG IS DISCUSS, TAKE ACTION.

RECLASSIFICATION OF ASSAULT OR BATTERY OFFENSES AGAINST PARK RANGERS.

THAT WAS, UH, THE MAYOR'S DISCUSSION ITEM.

HE'S REQUESTING THAT IT BE A, UH, REFERRAL PUBLIC SAFETY.

HAVING SAID THAT, I, I'M REQUESTING A MOTION TO APPROVE THE CONSENT AGENDA, EXCLUDING THE SEPARATED ITEMS. MOVE SECOND.

THE CONSENT AGENDA IS ACCEPT.

UH, ACCEPTED.

UH, UH, JUST FOR THE RECORD, THE MAYOR HAS NOT APPROVED THE ADDENDUM ITEMS. THEY WILL BE HEARD AFTER 5:00 PM THANK YOU SO MUCH, MAYOR.

JUST TAKE CARE OF A COUPLE OF NECESSARY, UH, UH, ADMINISTRATIVE ITEMS. R SEVEN ER SEVEN E IS A MANDATE.

LET'S

[R7 E A RESOLUTION OF THE MAYOR AND CITY COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF MIAMI BEACH, FLORIDA, AMENDING RESOLUTION NO. 2024-33395, WHICH SET THE 2025 MEETING DATES FOR THE CITY COMMISSION, MIAMI BEACH REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY (MBRDA), AND NORTH BEACH COMMUNITY REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY (NBCRA) MEETINGS, BY ADDING A FINAL BUDGET HEARING ON SEPTEMBER 30, 2025.]

SO FOR 2025 COMMISSION MEETING MIAMI BEACH REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY NORTH BEACH CRA.

MEETINGS TO ADD SEPTEMBER 30TH, 2025 AS A FI FINAL BUDGET MEETING, THE BUDGET DEPARTMENT HAS NOTIFIED US THAT, UH, THE STATE HAS STATED THAT WE CAN ADD THAT DATE AS OUR BUDGET MEETING.

IT DOES NOT CONFLICT WITH THE COUNTY.

IT DOES NOT CONFLICT WITH THE SCHOOL BOARD.

SO IT IS JUST A HOUSEKEEPING ITEM BECAUSE WE HAD NOT SET THAT DATE EARLIER.

IT'S SEPTEMBER 30TH IS A DATE THAT THE STATE IS SAYING THAT WE CAN DO OUR FINAL BUDGET MEETING.

IT WILL START AT FIVE O'CLOCK.

SO I HAVE A MOTION BY COMMISSIONER FERNANDEZ, SECONDED BY COMMISSIONER SUAREZ.

ALL IN FAVOR OF R SEVEN E.

PLEASE SAY AYE.

R SEVEN E.

STILL A COUPLE OF, UM, SECOND READING ITEMS. R 5G.

[R5 G NOTICE REQUIREMENTS FOR LAND USE BOARDS AN ORDINANCE OF THE MAYOR AND CITY COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF MIAMI BEACH, FLORIDA, AMENDING THE CODE OF THE CITY OF MIAMI BEACH, SUBPART B, ENTITLED “MIAMI BEACH RESILIENCY CODE,” CHAPTER 2, ENTITLED “ADMINISTRATION AND REVIEW PROCEDURES,” ARTICLE II, ENTITLED “GENERAL DEVELOPMENT APPLICATION AND HEARING PROCEDURES,” SECTION 2.2.4, ENTITLED “PUBLIC HEARING,” SECTION 2.2.4.1, ENTITLED PUBLIC NOTIFICATION,” BY MODIFYING THE PUBLISHED NOTICE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE CITY’S LAND USE BOARDS; AND PROVIDING FOR CODIFICATION, REPEALER, SEVERABILITY, AND AN EFFECTIVE DATE.]

BY MODIFYING THE PUBLISHED NOTICE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE CITY'S LAND USE BOARD AND PROVIDING FOR CODIFICATION, REPEALS HAVE ABILITY ON AN EFFECTIVE DATE.

R 5G IS AN ORDINANCE OF THE MAYOR AND CITY COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF MIAMI BEACH, FLORIDA.

AMENDING THE CODE OF THE CITY OF MIAMI BEACH SUB PART B ENTITLED MIAMI BEACH RESILIENCY CODE CHAPTER TWO, ENTITLED ADMINISTRATION REVIEW PROCEDURES.

ARTICLE TWO ENTITLED GENERAL DEVELOPMENT, APPLICATION AND HEARING PROCEDURES SECTION 2.2 0.4 ENTITLED PUBLIC HEARING SECTION 2.2 0.41 ENTITLED PUBLIC NOTIFICATIONS

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THIS IS A SECOND READING.

SECONDED BY COMMISSIONER FERNANDEZ.

I MOVE MY ITEM.

I SECOND.

HOLD ON.

SO I HAVE MOTION BY COMMISSIONER SUAREZ.

ANY DISCUSSION IF NO, COMMISSIONER DOMINGUEZ? YES.

VICE MAYOR B? YES.

MAYOR MINOR? YES.

THAT WAS ITEM R 5G.

LEASE PURCHASE AGREEMENT.

LET'S GO TO R SEVEN F.

[R7 F A RESOLUTION OF THE MAYOR AND CITY COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF MIAMI BEACH, FLORIDA, APPROVING THE LEASE PURCHASE AGREEMENT DATED JANUARY 13, 2025, BETWEEN THE CITY (PURCHASER) AND LIPT COLLINS AVENUE, LLC, A DELAWARE LIMITED LIABILITY CORPORATION (TENANT OR SELLER), FOR THE PURCHASE OF TENANT'S LEASEHOLD INTEREST IN THAT CERTAIN GROUND LEASE, DATED AS OF DECEMBER 1, 1999, BETWEEN THE CITY, AS OWNER/LANDLORD, AND TENANT, INCLUDING TENANT'S TITLE AND INTEREST IN THE IMPROVEMENTS ON THE LAND LOCATED AT 1027-1041 COLLINS AVENUE (LAND), CONSISTING OF A PARKING GARAGE CONTAINING 278 REGULAR PARKING SPACES AND 61 VALET PARKING SPACES (339 TOTAL SPACES), AND APPROXIMATELY 3,350 SQUARE FEET OF GROUND FLOOR RETAIL SPACE (COLLECTIVELY, THE PROJECT), IN THE AMOUNT OF $15,000,000 PLUS CLOSING COSTS (COLLECTIVELY, THE TRANSACTION); AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO PROCEED WITH THE CLOSING OF THE TRANSACTION; AUTHORIZING THE CITY TO CONVERT THE PROJECT INTO A CONDOMINIUM FORM OF OWNERSHIP, IN ORDER TO SEPARATE THE RETAIL AND GARAGE COMPONENTS AND SECURE THE MUNICIPAL TAX EXEMPTION FOR THE GARAGE UNIT; AND FURTHER, AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER AND CITY CLERK TO EXECUTE ANY AND ALL DOCUMENTS AND AGREEMENTS IN CONNECTION WITH THE TRANSACTION AND THE CONDOMINIUMIZATION PROCESS.]

R SEVEN F APPROVE.

10 27 THROUGH 10 41.

COLLINS AVENUE PARKING GARAGE, SEVEN F THESE ARE NOT TIME, NOT, UH, MAYOR.

COMMISSIONERS.

UH, THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

JASON GREEN, CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER.

UH, SO THE ITEM MAY HAVE, UH, IN FRONT OF YOU IS THE APPROVAL FOR THE CITY TO PURCHASE OUT THE LEASEHOLD, UH, FOR WHAT IS KNOWN AS THE PELICAN GARAGE.

UH, I THINK A COUPLE OF THE IMPORTANT THINGS IS, UH, THERE WAS A, AN OFFER FROM A PRIVATE INDIVIDUAL TO PURCHASE THIS FROM THE EXISTING, UH, TENANT, UH, FOR $15 MILLION.

UH, PER THE LEASE AGREEMENT, THE CITY HAS THE ABILITY TO, UM, WRITE A FIRST REFUSAL.

BASICALLY, UH, THE CITY DID REVIEW THIS.

UH, THERE IS AN INDEPENDENT APPRAISAL, WHICH DID HOLD UP THAT VALUE.

UH, SO WE BELIEVE THAT IS A GOOD VALUE TO THE CITY.

WE DID GO THROUGH ALL OF THOSE NUMBERS, AND THE IMPORTANT THING HERE IS THOSE DOLLARS ARE COMING FROM, UH, THE PARKING DOLLARS ITSELF.

IT'LL COME FROM A MIXTURE OF PARKING IMPACT FEES FOR SOUTH BEACH.

SO THE DOLLARS SPECIFICALLY MEANT TO HOLD OR RETAIN THOSE TYPE OF PARKING FACILITIES AND PARKING OPERATIONS.

SO THIS WOULD HAVE NO IMPACT ON ANY OTHER CAPITAL IMPROVEMENTS OR CAPITAL PROJECTS, UH, FOR THE CITY.

IS THERE ANY QUESTIONS, MR. MAYOR? COMMISSIONER FERNANDEZ? THANK YOU, MR. MAYOR.

UM, JUST FOR PURPOSES OF IFICATION IN THIS AREA OF THE CITY, HOW MANY PARKING SPACES DO WE HAVE? UH, RIGHT NOW IN THIS AREA OF THE CITY? I'D ASK PARKING TO.

YEAH, IT'S PARKING TO COME UP AND ADDRESS THE NUMBER OF PARKING SPACES.

GOOD MORNING, JOSE GONZALEZ, TRANSPORTATION MOBILITY DIRECTOR, INTERIM PARKING DIRECTOR.

COMMISSIONER.

IF YOU DON'T MIND, GIVE US JUST A COUPLE MINUTES AND WE'LL PROVIDE THAT, THAT, BUT IN GARAGES, HOW MANY PARKING, THE TOTAL INVENTORY IN THAT AREA, WE, WE CAN PROVIDE THAT.

AND LET US JUST CALCULATE THAT NUMBER REAL QUICK.

SO, MR. MAYOR, IF I COULD JUST A LITTLE BIT OF COLOR TO THIS CONVERSATION.

UM, OBVIOUSLY THE COMMISSIONER HAS ASKED FOR THE GARAGE INVENTORY THAT WE HAVE IN THE AREA.

UM, THE PRIMARY GARAGE THAT WE HAVE IN THIS AREA IS THE SEVENTH STREET GARAGE.

UM, IT'S IMPORTANT TO NOTE THAT THE SEVENTH STREET GARAGE HAS 646 SPACES IN IT.

AND THAT GARAGE MAY BE, UM, THE DISCUSSION OF A BUYOUT OPTION THAT IS WITHIN THE EXISTING CONTRACT AGREEMENT.

THAT WOULD BECOME EFFECTIVE APRIL OF 2026.

SO WE COULD POTENTIALLY LOSE 646 BASIS FROM OUR INVENTORY WITHIN THIS AREA.

I BELIEVE WE, SO IN APRIL? IN APRIL, WE MIGHT, APRIL NEXT YEAR, WE MIGHT BE LOSING OVER 600 PARKING SPACES IN THIS AREA OF MIAMI BEACH.

RECOUP THESE PARKING SPACES.

AND THIS OPTION THAT YOU'RE ASKING US TO EXECUTE WILL ALLOW US TO AT LEAST MAINTAIN A CERTAIN FOOTPRINT IN THAT AREA.

THEN IT WOULD PICK UP APPROXIMATELY 330 ADDITIONAL SPACES, UM, THAT ARE CURRENTLY PRIVATELY HELD THAT WOULD PUT IT INTO THE CITY'S INVENTORY.

THAT WOULD GIVE US A MUCH BETTER ABILITY TO PROVIDE PARKING IN THIS PARTICULAR AREA.

AND IF WE DON'T DO THIS NOW, HOW MANY YEARS WOULD IT BE BEFORE WE COULD RECOUP THESE PARKING SPACES? SO THESE PARKING SPACES ARE CURRENTLY IN A LEASEHOLD INTEREST ON CITY OWNED LAND THAT RUNS FOR ANOTHER 25 YEARS.

SO THEN IT'LL BE ANOTHER 25 YEARS BEFORE THE CITY OF MIAMI BEACH COULD

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COULD POTENTIALLY BE 25 YEARS.

THANK YOU, MR. MANAGER.

MR. MAYOR.

UM, NO, I SUPPORT THE PURCHASE OF THIS PARKING LOT.

UM, YOU KNOW, WHEN YOU GO TO THE CITY OF CORAL GABLES, NO MATTER WHERE YOU GO, THERE'S PUBLIC $5 PARKING.

WHEN YOU GO TO THE DESIGN DISTRICT, THERE IS PUBLIC, UH, $5 PARKING.

I WOULD LOVE TO SEE ACROSS MIAMI BEACH.

UM, ADDITIONAL PUBLIC $5 PARKING, SO YOU CAN JUST PULL UP IN VALLEY OR CAR.

RIGHT NOW, OUR CITY RATES ARE AROUND $20 PER CAR.

I WOULD LIKE TO SOMEHOW SUBSIDIZE THAT LOWER IT, AND I THINK THAT BUYING THIS PARKING GARAGE, UM, IS SMART ECONOMICALLY BECAUSE THEN WE COULD POTENTIALLY HAVE THE SPACES TO, UH, VALET THESE CARS.

AND THAT'S WHAT I'M WORKING ON.

I KNOW THE CITY MANAGER TOLD ME THAT $5, UH, SEEMS TOO LOW, BUT I, I THINK THAT IF WE DID THAT AND HAD DIFFERENT BIDS ACTUALLY HELP PAY INTO THIS SO THAT WE COULD, UH, SUBSIDIZE OUR PARKING, WE WOULD BE IN A MUCH BETTER SPACE AND PEOPLE WOULD BE MORE APT TO COME TO MIAMI BEACH IF THEY CAN PARK EASILY.

SO THAT'S WHY I'M SUPPORTING THIS.

ERIC, CAN, CAN YOU CLARIFY WHAT THE COMMISSION JUST MENTIONED ABOUT $20 PARKING IN CITY LOTS? SO RIGHT NOW, IF WE DO A DAILY RATE INSTEAD OF AN HOURLY RATE, I BELIEVE IN THIS DISTRICT, IT'S A $20 DAILY RATE, CORRECT.

AND PER HOUR, UM, FOR MIAMI BEACH RESIDENCE? $1 PER HOUR, SIR.

ARE ABSOLUTELY TIED TOGETHER.

COMMISSIONER ROSE GONZALEZ, I DON'T THINK YOU UNDERSTOOD.

I WAS TALKING ABOUT OUR VALET RATES.

FOR EXAMPLE, THERE'S A CITY VALET ON WASHINGTON AVENUE, AND I DROVE UP AND I SAID, HOW MUCH IS THIS $20 WHEN CITIES LIKE CORAL GABLES ARE CHARGING FIVE? AND I WOULD JUST LIKE US TO BE ABLE TO GET THERE.

AND I THINK THIS GARAGE GOES A LONG WAY IN REALIZING THAT FOR OUR BUSINESSES, UM, ALSO THE DESIGN DISTRICT HEAVILY SUBSIDIZES THEIR PARKING.

AND, UM, AND WE NEED TO MAKE SURE THAT WE CAN OFFER THE SAME THING.

AND IT'S NOT GONNA BE EASY BECAUSE IF YOU HAVE VALET SERVICES THAT ARE USED TO CHARGING $20, UM, YOU'RE GONNA HAVE TO, NUMBER ONE, HAVE THEM SLIGHTLY LOWER THEIR RATE.

AND THE SECOND PART OF THIS IS THAT, YOU KNOW, WE'RE GOING TO HAVE TO SUBSIDIZE AT SOME POINT, BUT WE CAN'T DO IT IF WE DON'T HAVE THE SPACES.

AND IT TAKES US A LONG TIME TO BUILD A GARAGE FROM THE GROUND UP.

THIS ONE IS ALREADY BUILT.

WE'RE GETTING A VERY DECENT PRICE ON IT.

SO I COMMEND YOU, UM, ERIC, FOR NEGOTIATING THIS AND HOPEFULLY WE WILL, UH, REALIZE THIS OFFER.

ERIC, LAST TIME WE SPOKE ABOUT THIS, UM, THERE WAS, UH, THERE'S ANOTHER LOT THAT WE HAVE POTENTIALLY THE OPTION OF PURCHASING WITH 600 PLUS SPOTS.

CAN YOU, CAN YOU DESCRIBE THAT AND IF THERE'S ANY NEGOTIATIONS RELATING TO THAT LOT? SO THAT WOULD BE OUR SEVENTH STREET GARAGE.

UM, RIGHT NOW WE COME TO THE END OF THAT 30 YEAR OR AGREEMENT IN APRIL OF 2026.

UM, AT THAT POINT IN TIME, THE, JUST, JUST MAYBE EXPLAIN TO EVERYONE WHO CONTROLS THAT LOT RIGHT NOW.

SO RIGHT NOW THAT'S UNDER CITY CONTROL.

UM, IT IS PART OF A JOINT DEVELOPMENT WITH THE GROUND FLOOR RETAIL OWNER, UM, ON THOSE PROPERTIES.

UH, THE JOINT OWNERSHIP OF THE GROUND FLOOR RETAIL AND THE GARAGE BASICALLY WAS CONDOMINIUMIZED AND IT WAS CREATED WHERE THEY OWN GROUND FLOOR RETAIL.

WE OWN THE PARKING GARAGE, BUT IN THE AGREEMENT THEY HAVE THE ABILITY TO BUY US OUT AT THE END OF THE 30 YEAR WINDOW.

THAT 30 YEAR WINDOW RUNS OUT APRIL OF NEXT YEAR.

SO WE ARE IN A DISCUSSION WITH THE OWNER OF THE GROUND FLOOR RETAIL TO SEE IF THERE'S A WAY THAT THE CITY COULD POTENTIALLY MAINTAIN CONTROL OF THE PARKING WITHIN THAT FACILITY.

ULTIMATELY, WE THINK THAT THAT WOULD BE A GOOD THING FOR US TO MAINTAIN OUR FOOTPRINT IN THIS DISTRICT, UM, POTENTIALLY EVEN EXPAND OUR FOOTPRINT IN THIS DISTRICT.

AND WE HAVE HEARD, OR I'VE PERSONALLY HEARD FOR YEARS, THAT IF WE WANT TO ELEVATE THE EXPERIENCE IN THIS ART DECO CULTURAL DISTRICT, ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE SHOULD LOOK TO DO IS CREATE MORE OF AN OPPORTUNITY FOR CENTRALIZED VALET.

AND SO THAT IS SOMETHING THAT, UM, WE ARE INTERESTED IN AND WE WOULD ULTIMATELY HAVE TO PARTNER WITH A PRIVATE VENDOR TO BE ABLE TO PROVIDE THAT.

ARE THOSE NEGOTIATIONS TIED TO THIS LOT IN ANY WAY TO YOU? SO THEY, THEY CERTAINLY INTERPLAY ONE, THEY ARE STANDALONE TRANSACTIONS, BUT THE ABILITY TO NEGOTIATE

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IN WHAT WAY? UM, SO I THINK THAT ULTIMATELY THE, UM, THE CITY HAS A NEED TO PROVIDE SOME PARKING IN THIS AREA.

I THINK IF WE DON'T OBTAIN THIS PARKING, IT PUTS US IN A POSITION WHERE WE COULD POTENTIALLY BE A MORE MOTIVATED TO NEED TO HOLD ON TO THE 646 BASE IN, IN G IN G ONE.

SO BY BUYING THIS LOT, IT HELPS US IN THAT DISCUSSION, MR. MAYOR, THE RIGHT THEM.

I'M HAPPY TO MAKE A MOTION.

COMMISSIONER FERNANDEZ AND COMMISSIONER MAGAZINE? NO, I I WAS SAYING AT THE RIGHT TIME, I'M HAPPY TO MAKE A MOTION TO, OH, COMMISSIONER MAGAZINE.

SORRY, I, I HAD THIS TALK WITH OUR CITY MANAGER YESTERDAY.

UM, I'M NOT GOING TO BE SUPPORTIVE AND LET ME LAY OUT THE REASONS AS THE WHY, RIGHT? UM, NOT TRYING TO LOBBY AGAINST, BECAUSE I THINK THERE'S, UH, GOOD ARGUMENTS ON BOTH SIDES, BUT WE'RE ESSENTIALLY NOT ADDING SINGLE ADDITIONAL PARKING SPOT YET.

WE'RE USING $15 MILLION OF TAXPAYER MONEY, RIGHT? WE'RE NOT ACQUIRING A SINGLE ADDITIONAL PARKING SPOT.

ADDITIONALLY, I'M SORRY.

ADDITIONALLY, WE COLLECTIVELY AS THE CITY, ARE NOT IN DANGER OF LOSING THESE PARKING SPOTS, RIGHT? I'M TALKING ABOUT FOR OVERALL SUPPLY, NOT WHO CONTROLS THEM, WHETHER IT BE A PRIVATE OPERATOR OR A PUBLIC OPERATOR.

IT'S NOT AS IF THIS CAN CONVERT TO SOME OTHER USAGE BECAUSE THIS PARKING LOT HAS TO REVERT BACK TO THE CITY'S HANDS IN 25 YEARS.

SO THERE WILL NOT BE A SINGLE ADDITIONAL PARKING SPOT THAT'S ADDED TO MIAMI BEACH'S PARKING INVENTORY.

AND I DON'T MEAN OUR PUBLIC CONTROL, I MEAN, COLLECTIVELY AS A CITY, WE WON'T, MIAMI BEACH WON'T ADD A SINGLE ADDITIONAL PARKING SPOT.

THE ONLY REASON WHY WE WOULD BUY THIS WITH $15 MILLION OF TAXPAYER MONEY IS TO SUBSIDIZE THE PARKING RATES FOR LARGELY DAY TRIPPERS, RIGHT? THESE AREN'T FOR RESIDENTS.

THIS ISN'T IN A RESIDENTIAL AREA.

AND WE HAD TRANSPORTATION AND PARKING OPINE, UH, LAST MEETING THAT THERE ARE NOT SIGNIFICANT AMOUNTS OF RESIDENTS THAT PARK IN THIS BUILDING.

SO ESSENTIALLY WHAT WE'RE LOOKING TO DO WHEN WE ALL SIT UP HERE AND LAMENT HOW BAD TRAFFIC IS, WE ARE ENCOURAGING DAY TRIPPERS TO COME AND DRIVE IN AND OUT OF OUR BEACH.

NOT ONLY ENCOURAGING THAT WE'RE SUBSIDIZING WITH TAXPAYER MONEY.

SO IF WE WANTED TO SIT HERE AND ADD ADDITIONAL PARKING TO THE CITY, IT'S NOT SOMETHING I'M VERY ENTHUSIASTIC ABOUT.

HOWEVER, I THINK $15 MILLION TO TAXPAYER MONEY WOULD BE BETTER SPENT ON ANOTHER PARKING GARAGE ADDING ACTUAL SPACES TO THE OVERALL INVENTORY OF SPACES IN MIAMI BEACH.

BUT I DON'T SUPPORT USING $15 MILLION OF TAXPAYER MONEY TO SUBSIDIZE THE PARKING COSTS OF DAY TRIPPERS COMING DOWN TO THE MXC DISTRICT ON A DAILY BASIS TO COME IN AND OUT.

THAT'S JUST WHERE I'M AT.

MR. MAYOR, I, I STRUCK, UH, COMMISSIONER ROSE GONZALEZ'S HAND THEN COMMISSIONER SUAREZ.

MOST SUCCESSFUL TOURISM INDUSTRIES IN THE WORLD, AND WE NEED TO PROTECT IT BECAUSE SUBSIDIZES OUR RESIDENTS, BOTH OF THEM, UM, EQUALLY, YOU, YOU HAVE TO BALANCE THIS.

THIS WOULD PUT THOSE SPACES IN THE CONTROL OF THE PUBLIC DOMAIN.

AS FOR NOT WANTING DAY TRIPPERS TO COME TO MIAMI BEACH AND FREQUENT OUR BUSINESSES AND OUR RESTAURANTS AND OUR HOTELS AND OUR EVENTS, YOU REALIZE THAT IF WE DO NOT SUPPORT OUR TOURISM INDUSTRY, THAT OUR TAX OUR TAXES ARE GOING TO GO UP 20, 30, 40%.

BUT WE'RE GONNA HAVE TREMENDOUS TAX INCREASES.

SO OF COURSE, THIS IS IT.

IT'S DISINGENUOUS TO SAY THAT WE'RE NOT INCREASING OUR INVENTORY BECAUSE WE'RE GETTING THEM IN 25 YEARS.

WE ARE TAKING CONTROL FROM A PRIVATE PARKING LOT AND MAKING THOSE CITY RATES.

IF YOU WANT PEOPLE TO COME HERE, I MEAN, I LIKE THIS IS KIND OF ANTI-BUSINESS, WHICH DOESN'T MAKE SENSE BECAUSE NORMALLY YOU'RE VERY SUPPORTIVE, UM, OF OUR BUSINESSES.

I WANT PEOPLE FROM AROUND MIAMI-DADE COUNTY TO COME TO MIAMI BEACH.

I WANT THEM TO EAT IN OUR RESTAURANTS.

I WANT THEM TO BE ABLE TO PARK.

I THINK IT IS AN ESSENTIAL PART OF OUR ECONOMY.

AND THAT'S WHY YOU, YOU CAN'T SAY THAT WE'RE NOT INCREASING, WE'RE INCREASING PUBLIC SPACES.

AND YES, IT'S FOR THE NEXT 25 YEARS, BUT WE'RE TELLING YOU RIGHT NOW THAT WE NEED IT.

AND BY THE WAY, IF YOU HAD TO BUILD THAT GARAGE NOW PER SPACE, IT WOULD BE MUCH MORE EXPENSIVE THAN THE PRICE THAT WE ARE GOING TO PAY.

GETTING THE LAND, GETTING THE SPACES OVER THE NEXT 25 YEARS.

WE NEED IT.

WE JUST HEARD PEOPLE THIS MORNING TALKING ABOUT THE FACT THAT THERE IS NO PARKING FOR OUR EMPLOYEES.

WE HAVE ONE OF THE LARGEST AND

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IT'S NOT AN EASY BALANCE.

BUT TO SAY, WE DON'T WANT PEOPLE TO COME HERE, THAT DOESN'T MAKE ANY SENSE TO ME.

IS THERE ANY WAY TO QUANTIFY THAT DATA TO WHO'S PARKING THERE? RESIDENTS OR DAY TROOPERS? I DON'T KNOW THAT WE HAVE THAT ABILITY TODAY BECAUSE IT'S A PRIVATELY HELD LOT.

AND SO I DON'T BELIEVE WE HAVE THE INFORMATION BECAUSE WE'RE NOT TRACKING IT.

CORRECT? CORRECT.

YEAH, IT'S PRIVATE.

AND MR. CFO, MAY I ASK YOU A QUESTION? HOW MANY, UH, SPACES ARE IN THE LOT? UH, THE LOT HAS 378.

2 78.

AND THERE'S TAN, UH, TANDEM ONE SIR.

61.

AND THEN HOW MANY? 61.

AND THEN A 61 TANDEM, WHICH WOULD BE USED COULD BE USED FOR VALET.

SO HOW MANY TOTAL SPACES WOULD IT BE? THREE 30.

3 39.

SO THAT'S AT A COST OF $45,000 PER PARKING SPOT.

SO THE COMMENT THAT IT WOULD SAVE A LOT OF MONEY NOT BUILDING NEW, I THINK, YEAH, TO BUILD A NEW SPOT IS ACTUALLY ABOUT $40,000 PER SPOT.

COMMISSIONER SUAREZ, UH, THANK YOU MR. MAYOR.

YEAH, LOOK, I I ECHO MY COLLEAGUE, UH, COMMISSIONER MAGAZINE'S POINT THAT WE SHOULD BE ADDING PARKING SPACES, NOT SUBSIDIZING ONES THAT ALREADY EXIST.

UM, AT THE END OF THE DAY, THE, THE PARKING GARAGE IS GOING TO STILL BE A PARKING GARAGE AND THEY'RE GOING TO WANT TO RENT THEIR SPACE TO MAKE MONEY.

THEY'RE CAPITALISTS.

UM, I, I THINK IT, IT WOULD BEHOOVE US TO REALLY ADDRESS A LACK OF PARKING BY INCREASING PARKING SPACES WITH THIS $15 MILLION, NOT BUYING, NOT PAYING $15 MILLION FOR SOMETHING, WE'RE GONNA GET BACK FOR FREE IN ABOUT 20 YEARS.

TO ME, THAT'S NONSENSICAL.

UM, BUT, UM, I'M GONNA BE A NOBO ON THIS.

WHAT'S THE CURRENT PRICING STRUCTURE OF THIS LOT? DO YOU HAVE THE PROFIT? IT FLUCTUATED DEPENDING ON THE EVENT AND, AND THE HOW MANY RESIDENT, HOW MANY VISITORS ARE COMING IN? SO YOU MIGHT DRIVE BY THERE AT ONE TIME AND IT'S $20 AND THEN YOU MIGHT DRIVE BY AN HOUR LATER AND IT'S $50.

ARE THERE RESIDENT RATES THERE? I DON'T BELIEVE SO.

IT'S PRIVATE.

I MEAN, IS THAT, HAVE WE TRIED TO NEGOTIATE THAT? 'CAUSE WE, I MEAN WE, WE HOLD THE CARDS HERE, RIGHT? 'CAUSE WE CAN EXERCISE THE OPTION OF DOING IT.

SO CERTAINLY WE HAVE A STRONG HAND.

HAVE WE TRIED TO NEGOTIATE WHERE THEY WOULD PROVIDE RESIDENT RATES AND, AND WITHOUT US TAKING CONTROL.

SO WE WOULD SAVE A CONSIDERABLE AMOUNT OF MONEY.

SO I WOULD JUST OFFER THAT WHAT WE'RE PROCEDURALLY DOING HERE IS EXECUTING OUR RIGHT OF FIRST OFFER TO STEP INTO THE ROLE OF THE PURCHASER ON THIS PARTICULAR PROPERTY.

UM, THE EXISTING PROPERTY OWNER, UH, MAY OR MAY NOT BE WILLING TO ENTERTAIN THAT KIND OF NEGOTIATION BECAUSE ULTIMATELY THEY'RE TRYING TO OFFLOAD THE PROPERTY.

THE, UM, PERSPECTIVE PRIVATE PURCHASER, WE'VE HAD SEVERAL CONVERSATIONS WITH AND WE'VE TRIED TO NEGOTIATE SOMETHING THAT WOULD BE MUTUALLY BENEFICIAL.

BUT AS OF TODAY, WE DON'T HAVE ANYTHING ON THE TABLE AS FAR AS A POTENTIAL THREE PARTY AGREEMENT.

AND WHAT'S OUR DEADLINE? FEBRUARY 7TH IS WHEN THE, UM, THE CONTRACT REQUIRES US TO SUBMIT A, UH, DEPOSIT, A PORTION OF WHICH IS NON-REFUNDABLE.

AND HOW MUCH IS THAT? THE NON-REFUNDABLE PORTION, RICK, PLEASE CORRECT ME IF I'M WRONG, BUT I THINK IT'S $50,000.

STRUCTURE WOULD BECOME A CITY OWNED PARKING GARAGE COM.

THE DEPOSIT'S SEVEN 50.

AND IF WE TERMINATE AFTER THE CONTRACT WAS HARD, WE WOULD BE RESPONSIBLE FOR REIMBURSING, UH, EXPENDITURES UP TO 50,000, WHICH WE BELIEVE THEY, THEY HAVE MET.

AND WE MAY LOSE OUR RIGHT OF FIRST OFFER FOR FUTURE.

WE WOULD ALSO LOSE IF, IF WE TERMINATE AFTER FEBRUARY 7TH, WE WOULD LOSE OUR RIGHT OF FIRST OFFER FOREVER.

SO IT'S NOW OR, OR NOT NOW.

AND BEFORE I TURN TO COMMISSIONER FERNANDEZ, UH, COMMISSIONER MAGAZINE MENTIONED 25 YEARS, I BELIEVE.

I UNDERSTAND, BUT CAN YOU EXPLAIN WHAT HAPPENS IN 25 YEARS? SO IN, IN 25 YEARS, THE LEASEHOLD INTEREST ON THE LAND THAT THE CITY OWNS SUNSETS.

AND SO AT THAT POINT IN TIME, THE STRUCTURE THAT IS ON OUR PROPERTY, WHICH IS CURRENTLY BEING LEASED, WOULD REVERT BACK TO THE CITY.

SO AFTER 25 YEARS, THAT

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UH, COMMISSIONER FERNANDEZ AND, AND COMMISSIONER MAGAZINE.

I WAS GONNA MAKE A MOTION AND I'M NOT GONNA MAKE THAT MOTION.

'CAUSE I WAS LISTENING TO COMMISSIONER MAGAZINE AND HE MAKES SOME, SOME REALLY GOOD POINTS.

AND TO YOUR WISDOM, UH, MR. MAYORS, WHILE YOU'RE APPOINTED TO BE THE CHAIR OF THE FINANCE COMMITTEE, UM, YOU KNOW, YOU'RE SPENDING $45,000 PER SPACE, UH, IN ESSENCE TO GAIN THE SPACES.

SO YOU'RE GONNA GET BACK ANYWAYS IN 25 YEARS.

AND AT THE END OF THE DAY, YOUR INVENTORY IN THE DISTRICT REMAINS FLAT.

YOU'RE NOT INCREASING THE, THE, THE INVENTORY.

UM, AND, AND IF I, IF I WERE A BETTING PERSON, I WOULD SAY PEOPLE ARE PARKING IN THIS GARAGE.

YOU KNOW, THERE IS A DEMAND AND PEOPLE ARE PARKING THERE, REGARDLESS OF WHETHER IT IS AT THE CITY DISCOUNTED RATE OR AT THE, UH, AT THE CURRENT RATE.

AND, AND, YOU KNOW, FOR ME, WHAT STANDS OUT TO ME AMONGST ALL OF THIS IS THAT WE HAVE AN EXHIBIT FOUR AS PART OF THIS ITEM, AND THAT THE APPRAISED VALUE OF THIS GARAGE IS $15 MILLION.

AND WE WOULD BE, IN ESSENCE, PAYING THE SAME AMOUNT AS THE APPRAISED VALUE, NOT EVEN NEGOTIATING IT DOWN A LITTLE BIT.

AND FURTHERMORE, AS PART OF THE ITEM BEFORE US, IT'S EXPLAINED TO US THAT THE PURCHASE PRICE OF $15 MILLION EQUATES TO THE APPROXIMATE COST TO CONSTRUCT A NEW SIMILAR GARAGE STRUCTURE.

I WOULD, IF WE HAVE THE NEED FOR PARKING IN THIS AREA, THEN I WOULD MUCH RATHER INVEST THE TAXPAYER'S DOLLARS INTO A STRUCTURE THAT WILL INCREASE THE AVAILABILITY OF PARKING IN THE CITY IT COSTS RATHER, RATHER THAN INVESTING THAT $50 MILLION AND NOT GET A SINGLE EXTRA PARKING SPACE.

SO COMMISSIONER MAGAZINE, I'M GONNA, I'M GONNA SUPPORT YOU.

YOU'VE MADE SOME VERY ELOQUENT POINTS AND I THANK YOU FOR, FOR BRINGING THOSE POINTS FORWARD BECAUSE IT HELPED, UH, SHAPE MY POSITION IN THIS.

COMMISSIONER MAGAZINE AND COMMISSIONER ROSE GONZALEZ.

YEAH, I PROMISE.

YEAH, JUST TO REITERATE, UH, YOU STATED THAT ELOQUENTLY, COMMISSIONER FERNANDEZ, WHERE WE'RE NOT ADDING ANY INCREMENTAL SPOTS TO THAT DISTRICT AT THE EXPENSE OF $15 MILLION.

SO THAT'S WHERE I HAVE AN ISSUE WHERE IT'S, YOU KNOW, REALLY JUST, IT'S BEING ABLE TO SUBSIDIZE THE COST.

IT'S EITHER GONNA BE A PRIVATE OPERATOR THAT OPERATES THIS, OR IT'S GOING TO BE A PUBLIC ENTITY THAT OPERATES THIS.

AND GIVEN THAT THEY ARE IN THE BUSINESS OF MAKING MONEY, THEY ARE GOING TO HAVE THEIR RATES AT A PRICE LOW ENOUGH THAT THEY'RE GOING TO HAVE DEMAND.

RIGHT? SO THAT'S WHERE I'M AT.

IF WE NEED MORE PARKING IN THAT AREA, I'D RATHER THIS $15 MILLION GO TO ACTUALLY ADDING NEW INVENTORY AS OPPOSED TO JUST SUBSIDIZING EXISTING INVENTORY THAT'S ALREADY OUT THERE.

COMMISSIONER ROSE GONZALEZ, I WOULD LOVE TO ADD INVENTORY TOO.

I WOULD LOVE TO DO BOTH.

BUT THERE'S ALSO A QUESTION OF EXPEDIENCY.

FROM THE TIME THAT WE PROPOSED THE PARKING GARAGE IN COLLINS PARK TILL THE TIME THAT WE BUILT IT, HOW MUCH TIME WENT BY? THAT WAS A CIP PROJECT.

SO I'M GONNA DEFER TO CAPITAL IMPROVEMENTS FOR THAT.

I THINK IT WAS LATE.

IT WAS EASILY A DECADE, EASILY.

AND RIGHT NOW WE'VE BEEN STRUGGLING WITH THE 72ND GARAGE, UM, THAT PASSED ON REFERENDUM IN, UH, 2018.

AND HERE WE ARE IN 2025, AND NOT A SHOVEL IN THE GROUND.

SO WHEN WE'RE LOOKING AT THE ECONOMICS OF THIS SUBSIDY THAT WE'RE PROPOSING SO THAT WE HAVE AN ADDITIONAL GARAGE WITH A CERTAIN AMOUNT OF SPACES, YOU'RE LOOKING AT INVESTING IN YOUR COMMUNITY, IN THE BUSINESSES IN THE RESIDENCE, AND OFFERING MORE PUBLIC PARKING RIGHT NOW.

NOW WE'RE EXERCISING THIS OPTION BECAUSE IT WAS A GOOD DEAL.

THE PRIVATE SECTOR CAME IN AND SAID, WE WOULD LOVE TO PURCHASE THIS GARAGE AT THIS PRICE.

WHY? BECAUSE THEY KNOW THAT IT WAS GOING TO BE LUCRATIVE.

BUT IF I COULD CHARGE AN EMPLOYEE A DOLLAR PER HOUR VERSUS $20 PER DAY, DON'T YOU THINK THAT, THAT THAT'S WHAT WE SHOULD DO AS A STEWARD OF TRYING TO IMPROVE OUR ECONOMY? ALSO, I WOULD QUESTION RIGHT NOW, THE $40,000 PER SPACE, I WOULD LOOK AT WHAT WE'RE PAYING PER SPACE AT THE 72ND STREET GARAGE.

I WOULD LOOK AT WHAT WE'RE PAYING PER SPACE AT THE COLLINS PARK GARAGE.

I THINK IT WAS IN EXCESS OF THAT.

HOW LONG DID IT TAKE FOR COLLINS PARK TO GET BUILT? SO I'M NOT SURE EXACTLY HOW LONG IT TOOK FOR COLLINS PARK TO GET BUILT, BUT I KNOW THAT THAT WAS UNDER DISCUSSION WHEN I STARTED HERE IN 2013.

AND I DON'T BELIEVE IT CAME ONLINE UNTIL AROUND 2020.

SO I MEAN, IT'S A SEVEN YEARS, IT WAS A NUMBER OF YEARS.

AND I ALSO ASKED DAVID,

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UM, WHAT IT COST US PER SPOT IN THE COLLINS PARK GARAGE.

AND IT WAS $45,000 PER SPOT IN THAT GARAGE WHERE WE ALREADY OWNED THE LAND.

I WOULD ARGUE THAT IT MIGHT EVEN BE MORE EXPENSIVE GIVEN CURRENT CONSTRUCTION PRICES.

NOW, IF THE OKAY, I'M NOT QUITE SURE, IS, ARE, ARE THE, UH, ARE THE PARTIES HERE WHO INITIALLY WANTED TO PURCHASE THE GARAGE AT $15 MILLION? BECAUSE IF, IF THEY WANTED US TO NOT EXERCISE OUR OPTION, I'D LIKE TO UNDERSTAND.

BUT I THINK THAT THEY CAME FORWARD AND SAID, WE DON'T MIND.

IF THE CITY WANTS THIS AND THE CITY NEEDS THESE SPACES, THEN WE SHOULD DO IT.

I THINK THAT ALL OF US ARE CONCERNED ABOUT OUR HISTORIC DISTRICTS.

WE WANT THE BUSINESSES TO THRIVE THERE.

WE HAVE NEW BUSINESSES THAT ARE OPENING UP.

JUST LIKE I SAID, VIVIAN WESTWOOD IS COMING TO COLLINS AVENUE.

I GOT AN EMAIL YESTERDAY.

THERE WERE THIS PRIVATE WINE CLUB, THEY PURCHASED ANOTHER BUILDING.

WE ARE REDEVELOPING COLLINS AVENUE AND WE WANT TO HAVE WIDESPREAD AFFORDABLE PARKING.

WE ALSO WANNA HAVE, UM, EXTREMELY INCENTED TO INCENTIVIZE PEOPLE TO COME THERE.

WE WANNA HAVE CHEAP PARKING.

AND THIS IS MOVING IN THE OPPOSITE DIRECTION NOW.

I DON'T, I DON'T THINK IT'S THAT CONTROVERSIAL WHEN YOU LOOK AT, AT MAKING THIS INVESTMENT REALLY IN THE HISTORIC DISTRICT.

UM, I, I COMMEND ERIC FOR MOVING FORWARD AND, UH, TRYING TO PURCHASE THIS GARAGE.

THIS IS ABOUT 25 YEARS.

IT'S ABOUT SEVEN YEARS.

IF YOU, IF WE SAID WE COULD ADD THAT INVENTORY IN THE NEXT COUPLE OF YEARS, I'D SAY FINE.

BUT GIVEN OUR PAST HISTORY, IT'S TAKEN US NEARLY A DECADE TO BUILD THESE GARAGES.

SO TO SAY THAT WE'RE JUST GONNA GET PARKING OVERNIGHT, THAT'S NOT WHAT IT IS.

THE ADMINISTRATION'S TELLING US THAT WE NEED PARKING NOW.

AND THAT'S THE BIG DIFFERENCE.

THERE'S SOMETHING THAT I DON'T KNOW THAT'S GOING ON BEHIND THE SCENES HERE, BUT SOMEBODY TELL ME WHAT'S HAPPENING.

BUT TO ME THIS SEEMS LIKE A PRETTY GOOD DEAL.

CAN I JUST ASK ONE MORE QUESTION? I GUESS IT'S JUST FOOD FOR THOUGHT FOR THE GROUP, RIGHT? NOT LOOKING FOR A SPECIFIC ANSWER, BUT WOULD WE CONSIDER THE NEW WORLD SYMPHONY GARAGE PART OF THIS DISTRICT? RIGHT? I THINK IT'S, YOU KNOW, A LITTLE BIT OF YES.

LITTLE BIT OF NO.

RIGHT? I I MEAN IT'S ON WASHINGTON AVENUE.

IT'S AROUND 17TH STREET.

'CAUSE RIGHT THERE WE HAVE 500 SPOTS AND WE HAVE A 20% UTILIZATION, RIGHT? THE ENTIRE TOP ROOF IS JUST STACKED WITH CITY FLEET VEHICLES, RIGHT? AND THAT'S BORDERING THIS DISTRICT.

SO I JUST QUESTION THE DEMAND FOR THE INCREMENTAL PARKING.

WE HAVE A CITY OWNED GARAGE THAT SITS THERE EMPTY, THAT EMPTY 20% UTILIZATION.

THAT'S A LOT OF CONCRETE IN A BARRIER ISLAND THAT JUST SITS THERE.

EMPTY COMMISSIONER BOT AND LET'S CALL THE VOTE.

I THINK EVERYONE'S GOT THEIR POSITION.

OH, AND, UH, COMMISSIONER BOT, COMMISSIONER DOMINGUEZ, WE'LL CALL THE VOTE.

OH, SORRY.

A PEDESTRIANIZATION, UM, COMPLETE REIMAGINATION WITH THE KOVICH PLAN, WHETHER OR NOT THAT GOES FORWARD, TO HAVE THAT CONVERSATION, YOU NEED TO HAVE A PLACE TO PUT CARS.

LISTEN, IF YOU GOT IT, FLAUNT IT.

UM, SO I'VE, I'VE REALLY BEEN, UM, VACILLATING ON THIS ISSUE.

I, I SEE COMPELLING ARGUMENTS FOR AND AGAINST, BUT HERE'S WHY I'M GOING TO BE SUPPORTIVE OF THIS.

I DON'T SPEND $15 MILLION LIGHTLY.

IT IS NOT CHUMP CHANGE.

IT IS A LOT OF MONEY.

HOWEVER, WE ARE BUILDING MORE RESTAURANTS, MORE BUSINESSES IN THIS PART OF THE CITY, AND WE NEED TO MAKE SURE THAT PEOPLE CAN COME TO THEM WITHOUT SITTING, CIRCLING, LOOKING FOR TRAFFIC, UH, LOOKING FOR PARKING.

THE MIAMI DESIGN DISTRICT, CITIES ACROSS THE CITY, UH, THE STATE AND THE COUNTRY HAVE ORGANIZED, CITYWIDE ORGANIZED, UM, VALET PARKING PROGRAMS WHERE YOU PAY A FLAT FEE OF FIVE OR $10, SOMETHING MANAGEABLE FOR THE ENTIRE DAY.

AND YOU CAN GO DROP YOUR CAR TO CENTRAL POINT AND PICK IT UP AT ANOTHER CENTRAL POINT.

I DON'T WANT, AS WE TRY TO REFURBISH AND REENERGIZE THE ART DECO CULTURAL DISTRICT, WHICH IS SO IMPORTANT TO OUR COLLECTIVE FUTURE.

AND AS TRAFFIC CONTINUES TO BE AN UNHOLY NIGHTMARE, WHY ARE WE NOT DOING EVERYTHING IN OUR ABILITY TO TRY TO MAKE IT EASIER FOR PEOPLE TO COME HERE, TO SPEND THEIR DOLLARS HERE, TO HAVE A SAFE AND EASY TIME OF, OF THEIR CARS.

AND ALSO TO PROVIDE, IF IT'S NECESSARY, A DISCOUNTED EMPLOYEE PARKING SPOT.

UM, UH, RATE FOR PEOPLE WHO STAFF THOSE RESTAURANTS AND BOUTIQUES AND HOTELS.

WE WERE JUST VOTED ONE OF THE BEST CITIES TO VISIT IN THE ENTIRE COUNTRY.

HOW FAR DO YOU THINK THAT'S GONNA GO IF ALL OF A SUDDEN OUR EMPLOYEES CANNOT GET HERE AND PARK AT A REASONABLE PERIOD? THE OTHER THING, AND IT'S A LONGER TERM CONVERSATION, BUT AS WE TALK ABOUT WHAT WE WANT THE ART DECO DISTRICT TO BE, AND WHETHER OR NOT WE ARE GOING TO REALLY TRANSFORM IT COMPLETELY WITH

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YOU NEED TO BE ABLE TO DROP PEOPLE OFF CLOSE BY AND THEN PARK THEIR CARS CLOSE BY.

IF WE HAVE COMPLETE CONTROL OVER THIS PROPERTY, WE THEN HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO CREATE THE VISION THAT WE WANT.

YOU GUYS HAVE ALL HEARD ME SAY IT, PLAN FOR THE CITY YOU WANNA BE, NOT FOR THE CITY YOU ARE.

AND SO WITH THAT, I'M GOING TO SUPPORT THIS MOTION.

UH, THANK YOU VICE MAYOR.

BUT, UM, I'M IN THE SAME POSITION AS YOU.

WHEN I HAD MY AGENDA REVIEW, THE CITY, UH, MANAGER STATED THE IMPORTANCE AND THE URGENCY OF HAVING THIS PARKING NOW.

AND IT WOULD REALLY HURT OUR BUSINESSES, THE EMPLOYEES AND EVERYONE IN THAT AREA.

IF WE DON'T SUPPORT THIS ITEM.

IF I COULD, UH, ADD ONE ITEM.

'CAUSE THERE WAS SOME QUESTION ABOUT UTILIZATION JUST IN, UH, THE CITY DOES CONTROL A CITY, UH, GARAGE AT 13TH AND COLLINS.

UM, IN TALKING TO PARKING, THAT'S A VERY, HE HEAVILY UTILIZED, UH, UH, GARAGE THAT'S FILLED MANY TIMES.

AND ONE OF THE REASONS THEY STATED WAS BECAUSE IT HAS CITY RESIDENT RATES, THEY DO FIND THAT RESIDENTS DO TEND TO, YOU KNOW, TO MIGRATE THERE AND, AND UTILIZE THAT.

SO I THINK THAT'S SOMETHING TO, UH, KEEP IN MIND.

I'D LIKE TO MAKE A MOTION.

MOTION TO, TO CALL THE VOTE.

BUT IN MOTION IN FAVOR OF THE ITEM OR AGAINST THE ITEM.

THERE'S NO MOTION.

I'M MAKING A MOTION TO, TO, TO CALL THE VOTE.

SO, SO COMMISSIONER FERNANDEZ JUST MADE A, UH, MOTION TO, TO DECLINE TO REJECT THE, UH, THE, I'LL, I'LL SECOND THAT.

SO, MOTION TO REJECT THE RESOLUTION BY MADE BY COMMISSIONER FERNANDEZ.

SECOND, SECONDED BY COMMISSIONER SU SUAREZ TO REJECT THE ITEM.

DO YOU WANNA DO A ROLL CALL TO MAKE IT EASIER SINCE, YES.

SO, UH, I'M GONNA START WITH COMMISSIONER SUAREZ.

I'M A, I'M A NO.

WELL, YOU ARE.

NOW YOU'RE, SORRY.

I KNOW IT'S GETTING CONFUSING.

I REJECT THE ITEM.

SO, YES.

TO REJECT THE ITEM? YES.

SO COMMISSIONER BOT TO REJECT THE ITEM.

I, I I REJECT THE ITEM.

SO, SO YOU'RE A YES.

I'M A YES.

SO YOU ARE NO, NO, I'M A NO, YOU'RE A NO.

WELL, YOU JUST SAID THAT YOU, YOU JUST SAID THAT YOU WANTED THE GARAGE, WHICH WOULD MEAN THAT I DO.

YOU'RE A NO, YOU'RE A NO ON THIS.

CAN YOU, CAN YOU MAKE A MOTION FOR THE GARAGE SO IT'S NOT SO CONFUSING? OKAY.

YOU CAN, YOU CAN MAKE THAT MOTION IF YOU WANT.

JUST KEEP GOING.

BUT WE HAVE A MO NO, WE, WE HAVE A MOTION ON THE TABLE.

IT'S TO REJECT.

REJECT, IT'S TO SAY NO TO THE RECOMMENDATION OF THE CITY ADMINISTRATION.

SO COMMISSIONER SUAREZ WAS A YES.

COMMISSIONER THOUGHT IS A NO, CORRECT.

COMMISSIONER DOMINGUEZ IS A NO NO.

COMMISSIONER FERNANDEZ IS A YES.

I'M A NO.

SO HERE WE GOES.

GO THERE.

MIND MR. MAYOR TRUMP THE, YES.

SO THE ITEM IS APPROVED WITH THE REJECTION OF THE MANAGER'S RECOMMENDATION.

SO A NEW RESOLUTION WILL BE MADE.

I'D ACTUALLY LIKE TO JUST TAKE A MOMENT TO, UH, TO RECOGNIZE OUR RECENTLY ELECTED MIAMI-DADE COX TAX TILT COLLECTOR DARIEL FERNANDEZ.

THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE WITH US.

AND I'M, AND I'M EXCITED.

HOPEFULLY YOU'LL MENTION, BECAUSE THERE'S AN ITEM ON THE COMMISSION AGENDA TODAY THAT YOU'RE GONNA BRING A DMV TO MIAMI BEACH.

SO, SO THANK YOU FOR THAT.

SO I, I WANTED TO SAY THANK YOU.

THANK YOU ALL OF YOU.

THANK YOU, MAYOR.

COMMISSIONER ALI FERNANDEZ AND ALL THE COMMISSIONERS.

UH, WE ARE HERE TO HELP YOU.

WE ARE HERE TO SUPPORT YOU.

WE ARE HERE TO WORK TOGETHER, UM, FOR THE RESIDENT OF MIAMI BEACH.

WE'RE GOING TO BRING THE SERVICE THAT WE PROVIDE AND THE, UH, DOWNTOWN MIAMI HERE TO, UH, THE VIEW THE CITY.

BEAUTIFUL.

ON MIAMI BEACH.

UH, WE WANT TO BE A DIFFERENT SERVICE THAT WE WANT TO PROVIDE, LIKE, RENEW YOUR TAX AND YOUR VEHICLE.

LIKE, UH, GET YOUR NEW DRIVER LICENSE, GET AN ID IF YOU NEED A LICENSE FOR YOUR BUSINESS, A LOCAL BUSINESS TAX, SO, AND MUCH MORE SERVICE.

SO WE ARE HERE TO SUPPORT YOU.

ANYTHING THAT YOU NEED, IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTION, I'M HERE TO ANSWER ANY THANK YOU.

AND THANK YOU FOR PASTORA.

NO, ABSOLUTELY.

AND I, I HAVE TO SAY, AND, AND HOPEFULLY, UH, THIS HAS, UH, BEEN REPRESENTATIVE FROM THE ENTIRE DAY AS YOU'VE BEEN SO INCREDIBLY ACCESSIBLE BEFORE EVEN YOU, YOU WERE ELECTED.

BUT CERTAINLY SINCE YOU WERE ELECTED, YOU REACHED OUT RIGHT AWAY.

YOU CAME DOWN HERE, YOU'VE BEEN, I SEE YOU EVERYWHERE.

UH, WHICH IS RIGHT.

TRY MY BEST.

UH, NEED TO COME TO OUR OFFICE.

I HAVE A VERY GOOD TEAM.

I ALSO WANTED TO SAY THANK YOU TO THE RESIDENT OF MIAMI BEACH.

YOU KNOW, BECAUSE, UH, FOR A LONG TIME, THE PEOPLE OF MIAMI-DADE COUNTY,

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NOW WE'RE GOING TO THE RESIDENCE.

SO WE'RE GOING TO CONTINUE TO PROVIDE THE SERVICE THAT THEY NEED.

AMAZING.

AND I JUST WANNA TAKE A MOMENT OF PERSONAL PRIVILEGE, BECAUSE SEEING THAT, UH, MOVE UP TO ELECTED OFFICE, IT REALLY IS THE STORY OF THE AMERICAN DREAM.

WHEN THEY TALK ABOUT THE AMERICAN DREAM, THERE'S NO ONE THAT, UH, THAT SYMBOLIZES IT MORE THAN OUR TAX COLLECTOR, A HARDWORKING FAMILY MAN WHO'S WHO, YOU KNOW, WORKED HIS OWN BUSINESSES AND JUST A DESIRE TO CONTRIBUTE TO, FOR, TO THE COMMUNITY.

FOR, FOR AS LONG AS I'VE KNOWN DAR HE'S WANTED TO CONTRIBUTE TO, TO THE COMMUNITY IN SOME WAY WITH HONESTY AND WITH ETHICS.

AND I'M SO PROUD, UH, THAT, THAT YOU ARE IN THE POSITION THAT YOU HOLD TODAY, AND THAT YOU'RE PARTNERING WITH OUR CITY TO HELP IMPROVE THE SERVICES THAT OUR RESIDENTS AND TAXPAYERS RECEIVE.

MR. MAYOR, THANK YOU FOR ALLOWING ME TO JOIN YOU ON THIS RESOLUTION.

VERY PROUD TO BE THAT.

WE'RE GONNA CALL R FIVE

[R5 A UNDERSTORY REQUIREMENTS IN SINGLE FAMILY DISTRICTS AN ORDINANCE OF THE MAYOR AND CITY COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF MIAMI BEACH, FLORIDA, AMENDING THE RESILIENCY CODE OF THE CITY OF MIAMI BEACH, BY AMENDING CHAPTER 7, ENTITLED “ZONING DISTRICTS AND REGULATIONS, ARTICLE II, ENTITLED “DISTRICT REGULATIONS,” SECTION 7.2.2, ENTITLED “RS-1, RS-2, RS-3, RS-4 SINGLE FAMILY RESIDENTIAL DISTRICTS,” AT SUBSECTION 7.2.2.3, ENTITLED “DEVELOPMENT REGULATIONS (RS)”, TO AMEND THE REQUIREMENTS FOR UNDERSTORY HOMES; AND PROVIDING FOR CODIFICATION, REPEALER, SEVERABILITY, AND AN EFFECTIVE DATE.]

SO WHAT WE'RE GONNA DO HERE IS WE HAVE A NUMBER OF INDIVIDUALS WHO CAME TO SPEAK ON THE ITEM.

THERE ARE ALSO A NUMBER OF INDIVIDUALS, I THINK, ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE ITEM THAT ARE COMING AT FIVE O'CLOCK.

SO, UH, I DON'T COMPARE MYSELF TO SOLOMON, BUT TRYING TO COME UP WITH A, UH, WITH, WITH SOME KIND OF COMPROMISE.

WE'RE GONNA HEAR THE ITEM NOW.

IT'S GONNA BE OPEN AND CONTINUE TILL FIVE O'CLOCK WHEN WE WILL TAKE, WE'LL FURTHER CONTINUE THE DISCUSSION AND THEN VOTE.

LET ME, UH, COMMISSIONER SUAREZ FOR, FOR THE SAKE OF, UH, THE PEOPLE HERE, HERE ON TIME, I'D LIKE THEM TO SPEAK.

UM, 'CAUSE I, I, I WAS UNDER THE IMPRESSION THAT THIS WAS GONNA BE AT NINE 15.

UM, AND TO, TO, TO, UH, ACCOMMODATE THEIR TIME.

CAN, CAN WE ALLOW PUBLIC SPEAKING NOW? YES.

SO THANK YOU.

UH, THIS IS ITEM R FIVE A IS AN ORDINANCE OF THE MAYOR CITY COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF MIAMI BEACH, FLORIDA, AMENDING THE RESILIENCE CODE OF THE CITY OF MIAMI BEACH BY AMENDING CHAPTER SEVEN ENTITLED ZONING DISTRICTS AND REGULATIONS.

ARTICLE TWO ENTITLED DISTRICT REGULATIONS SECTION 7.2 0.2 ENTITLED RS ONE RS TWO RS THREE RS FOUR, SINGLE FAMILY RESIDENTIAL DISTRICTS AT SUBSECTION 7.2.

POINT TWO 0.3 ENTITLED DEVELOPMENT REGULATIONS RS TO AMEND THE REQUIREMENTS FOR UNDERSTORY HOMES AND PROVIDING FOR CODIFICATION, REPEAL, OR OBSERVABILITY, AND AN EFFECTIVE DATE.

THE ITEM REQUIRES A FIVE SEVEN VOTE.

CAN WE OPEN UP THE MIC FOR SPEAKERS? RAFAEL, THERE IS NO ONE ON ZOOM.

IF THERE'S ANYONE WHO WISHES TO SPEAK UP ON THE ITEM IN PERSON, PLEASE APPROACH THE PODIUM.

UH, GOOD MORNING, MR. MAYOR, COMMISSIONERS.

MY NAME'S GLENN BOYER.

I'M A, UH, 20 YEAR RESIDENT OF MIAMI BEACH.

I LIVE JUST A BLOCK NORTH OF HERE AT THE MERIDIAN.

UM, I, UH, AM AN ARCHITECT BY EDUCATION, AND I'VE BEEN IN DEVELOPMENT AND ASSET MANAGEMENT AND CONSTRUCTION MY ENTIRE, UH, PROFESSIONAL CAREER.

I THINK IN SOME OF THE EARLIER HEARINGS THERE, UH, MAY HAVE BEEN SOME EXAMPLES OF SOME OF THE ISSUES WITH THE BERM HOMES THAT HAVE BEEN, UH, BUILT.

AND I DON'T KNOW IF THAT'LL BE COVERED AT FIVE O'CLOCK OR LATER IN THIS DISCUSSION, BUT I THINK THE CITY'S DONE A VERY ADMIRABLE JOB ADDRESSING THE, UM, THE SUSTAINABILITY ISSUES.

AND I THINK THEY GAVE TWO VERY CLEAR PATHS THAT HAVE BEEN CODIFIED FOR EITHER TO BUILD A HOME, UH, WITH A BERM OR TO BUILD A HOME WITH AN UNDERSTORY.

AND THEN I THINK, UNFORTUNATELY, THE CITY THEN SORT OF PUT ITS THUMB ON THE SCALES.

AND BY REQUIRING PEOPLE WHO WANT TO BUILD AN UNDERSTORY TO ACTUALLY GO TO, HE GO TO HEARINGS AND GO THROUGH THE PROCESS, AND THE ADDITIONAL MONEY AND THE ADDITIONAL TIME, ET CETERA, WILL RESULT IN, YOU KNOW, 99 OUT OF A HUNDRED APPLICANTS.

JUST CHOOSING THE, THE MORE STRAIGHTFORWARD PATH OF BUILDING THE BERM HOME, WHICH AGAIN, I THINK HAS SOME, UH, SORT OF OBVIOUS SHORTCOMINGS WITH SIDE YARD ISSUES, WATER, RETAINAGE, WATER POURING ONTO, UH, NEIGHBORS, THE BIG RAMPS IN THE FRONT, ET CETERA.

I HAVE 30 SECONDS LEFT, SO I JUST WANNA BRING UP ONE OTHER THING.

I KNOW THAT, UM, AS OF JANUARY 1ST, THE, THE NEW CODE REQUIRES THAT THE GROUND FLOOR, UM, ELEVATION, THE FINISHED FLOOR ELEVATION BE RAISED 10 FEET FROM NINE FEET.

SO NOW THE TWO PROJECTS ARE GETTING A FOOT.

THE, THE TWO BUILDINGS RESULTING BUILDINGS ARE GETTING A FOOT CLOSER TO THE, TO EACH OTHER.

AND I THINK IT'S ONLY GONNA CONTINUE TO GO IN THAT DIRECTION.

IT'LL BECOME 11 FEET.

AND THEN THERE'S, THEY'RE REALLY INDISTINGUISHABLE IN HEIGHT, WHICH I THINK IS ONE OF THE BIG ISSUES WITH THE, WITH THE UNDERSTORY.

AND LASTLY, I WOULD SAY THAT WITH THAT ADDITIONAL FOOT AND HEIGHT, YOU GET MORE ISSUES WITH THE RAMPS UP FRONT, MORE ISSUES WITH THE SIDE YARD ISSUES WITH THE DRAINAGE ISSUES, UM, AND THE COHESIVENESS OF THOSE HOMES IN OUR NEIGHBORHOODS.

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OUR NEXT, OUR FIRST VIRTUAL SPEAKER IS EDWARD K EDWARD, UNMUTE YOURSELF.

PLEASE STATE YOUR NAME AND ADDRESS.

HI, GOOD MORNING EVERYONE.

CAN YOU HEAR ME? YES, SIR.

GO AHEAD.

UH, I SPOKE, MY NAME IS EDWARD COLIUS.

UH, I OWN, UH, UH, PROPERTY ON THE SUNSET ISLANDS.

I ACTUALLY SPOKE AT THE PREVIOUS MEETING, I BELIEVE IT WAS BACK IN NOVEMBER, REGARDING THIS ISSUE.

AND, UH, I, I'M GONNA KEEP IT, UH, SHORT.

I I SEE YOU GOT A FULL HOUSE OVER THERE TODAY.

UM, BUT YOU KNOW, I, I'M A, I'M A DEVELOPER, BUT I, I, YOU KNOW, AND THIS, THIS ITEM OBVIOUSLY NOT ONLY AFFECTS AND PEOPLE LIKE ME THAT BUILD HOMES FOR A LIVING, BUT ALSO FOR, FOR HOMEOWNERS, UH, THAT WISH, YOU KNOW, TO BUILD A HOME THAT'S, THAT'S GONNA LAST IN MIAMI BEACH.

UM, CLIMATE CHANGE IS AN ISSUE THAT CAN'T BE REFUTED.

WE ALL KNOW WE'RE ALL AFFECTED BY IT IN ONE WAY OR ANOTHER.

WE SEE IT EVERY DAY.

UH, SO I, I BELIEVE WE SHOULD BE INCENTIVIZING BUILDING RESILIENT HOMES, UH, THAT CAN WITHSTAND CLIMATE CHANGE, NOT IMPEDING THE PROCESS.

I I REMEMBER THERE WAS SOME GOOD IDEAS PASSED AROUND AT THE, THE PREVIOUS MEETING, UH, REGARDING HOW IT, THE PROCESS CAN BE INTEGRATED INTO THE BUILDING PERMIT PROCESS.

SO IT'S NOT A, A, A, A STANDALONE ISSUE WHERE ANOTHER REVIEW, UH, AN ADDITIONAL REVIEW BY THE DRB OR WHOEVER IT MAY BE, HAS TO BE INCLUDED.

IT SHOULD BE SOMETHING THAT, UH, IT IS PART OF IT.

THIS IS GONNA BE THIS NEW NORMAL, UNFORTUNATELY, I'M AFRAID FOR HOMES THAT, THAT WANT TO SURVIVE FOR THE NEXT 50, YOU KNOW, 75 A HUNDRED YEARS.

SO IT'S SOMETHING THAT IF WE GET IN FRONT OF IT NOW, AND, UH, YOU KNOW, I BELIEVE MR. SUAREZ IS A, IS A PRETTY GOOD CHAMPION OF THIS.

I THINK WE CAN, YOU KNOW, START INTEGRATING IT WITH SOME GOOD IDEAS INTO THE BUILDING PERMIT PROCESS.

SO ALL THE KINKS ARE IRONED OUT AND, UM, YEAH, I THINK THAT'S THE DIRECTION THAT WE NEED TO GO.

THANKS, UH, ANYONE ELSE WISHING TO SPEAK ON THIS ITEM? GO AHEAD, SIR.

HI, GOOD MORNING.

MY NAME IS COLBY KARP.

UM, BASICALLY RIGHT NOW, IF I'M DESIGNING A HOUSE FOR YOU, TANYA, WE CAN DESIGN IT AS OF RIGHT TO MEET ALL THE SETBACKS.

OR ANY, ANYBODY IN THE COMMUNITY, ANYBODY IN THE COMMUNITY.

WE CAN DESIGN A HOUSE FOR, UM, THAT MEETS ALL THE SETBACKS AND ALL THE HEIGHTS.

UM, BUT IF WE WANT TO TAKE THE PARKING INSTEAD OF PUTTING IT ON THE GARAGE, UH, ON THE PROPERTY, AND WE WANT TO TUCK IT UNDER THE HOUSE, WHICH WILL GIVE US MORE GREEN SPACE, MORE OPEN SPACE ON THE PROPERTY, MEANING IF WE TAKE THE PARKING ITSELF AND PUT IT UNDER THE HOUSE, THEN ARGUABLY WE HAVE MORE GREEN SPACE, MORE LANDSCAPE SPACE ON THE LOT ITSELF IF WE SO DESIRE.

UM, AND FOR THAT, WE RIGHT NOW NEED TO GO TO DESIGN REVIEW BOARD, WHEREBY MY CLIENTS WOULD SAY, YOU KNOW WHAT, KOBE, FORGET IT.

IF I NEED TO GO TO DESIGN REVIEW BOARD, JUST LEAVE IT ON THE LOT.

SO THAT'S WHERE THE FAIRNESS DOES NOT EXIST, AND THAT'S WHY I CAME HERE THIS MORNING.

USUALLY I DO NOT COME HERE IN FRONT OF YOU THIS MORNING, BUT IT'S A PLEASURE TO SEE YOU GUYS ON A MONDAY MORNING.

IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS, UM, PLEASE FEEL FREE TO CALL ME.

YOU'RE WELCOME TO COME ANYTIME.

UH, IT, I JUST FELT THAT, YOU KNOW, SOME PEOPLE FEEL THAT IT IS NOT RIGHT TO GO TO DESIGN REVIEW BOARD IF THEY WISH TO PUT THE PARKING UNDER THE HOME AND HAVE MORE GREEN SPACE, AND IT'S BEEN GOING 50 50 ON THE CLIENTS.

UM, SO THAT'S WHAT I'M HERE IN FRONT OF YOU.

YEAH, FOR THE RECORD, I'M NOT DESIGNING A HOUSE FOR TANYA, BUT , BUT IF SHE EVER DOES WANT TO IN THE FUTURE, BE MY HONOR, MY PLEASURE TO DO, SAY THANK YOU.

HOUSE THAT'S NEXT TO THE UNDERSTORY HOME, UM, IS PERFECTLY FINE.

ANYONE ELSE WISH TO SPEAK? I WOULD LIKE TO ASK.

UH, MY NAME'S MATT CRANE.

I LIVE AT 2 0 4 4 PRAIRIE AVENUE.

UM, AND, UH, I HAPPEN TO HAVE AN OLD 1929 HOUSE.

UH, IT'S PROBABLY ABOUT FIVE FEET ABOVE FLOOD.

UH, ON MY LEFT IS ANOTHER HOME BUILT IN THE SAME YEAR THAT'S ABOUT THE SAME HEIGHT.

AND TO MY RIGHT, I HAVE A BEAUTIFUL RENEE GONZALEZ HOME AT 2038 PRAIRIE.

THAT IS AN UNDERSTORY DESIGN AND PROBABLY ONE OF THE FIRST ONES THAT WAS AROUND.

UM, I REALLY PREFER THIS SETUP TO HAVING A BRAND NEW HOUSE ON A BERM, UH, UH, TO THE RIGHT OF ME.

AND A, A GOOD EXAMPLE THAT I WANT TO GIVE IS THE FACT THAT I OWN ANOTHER HOME ON MERIDIAN AVENUE 24 89 MERIDIAN, WHICH IS SANDWICHED BETWEEN TWO BERM HOMES, WHICH WERE BUILT IN THE LAST FIVE YEARS.

ONE OF THEM BRAND NEW ONE ABOUT FIVE YEARS AGO.

AND THAT HOME THAT, THAT I OWN WAS BUILT IN THE FIFTIES AND IS A GOOD BIT LOWER.

AND WHEN IT RAINS HARD, AS WE ALL KNOW, IT DOES SOMETIMES IN THE SPRING.

THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE TWO PROPERTIES IS REALLY NIGHT AND DAY.

UM, MY, MY

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AND THE DRIVEWAY'S, YOU KNOW, TOTALLY FINE.

WHEREAS THE OTHER PROPERTY HAS A MASSIVE PUDDLE BECAUSE THE WATER'S DRAINING FROM BOTH PROPERTIES, WHICH HAS, EVEN THOUGH EITHER OF THEM HAVE A RETAINING WALL, UM, IT JUST KIND OF PULLS UP RIGHT IN FRONT OF THE HOUSE.

SO I THINK FROM THAT STANDPOINT, THE, THE UNDERSTORY DESIGN WORKS BETTER IN THE CONTEXT OF THESE NEIGHBORHOODS WHERE WE HAVE SOME REALLY BEAUTIFUL OLDER HOMES THAT HAVE BEEN RESTORED.

AND I THINK IT'S BETTER FOR THOSE HOMES TO, UH, TO MAKE IT EASIER FOR THE UNDERSTORY NEW HOMES TO BE BUILT.

THANKS A LOT.

COME ON UP.

HELLO, MY NAME IS Y KASH.

I'VE BEEN A MIAMI BEACH RESIDENT FOR 15 YEARS.

I LIVE HERE WITH MY FIVE CHILDREN AND MY WIFE, UH, WE BOUGHT A HOUSE TO BUILD AND WE'VE DECIDED TO GO WITH ANOTHER STORY.

WE STARTED WORKING WITH STAFF IN, UH, JULY LAST YEAR.

AND, UH, THE PROCESS HAS BEEN VERY, VERY HARD FROM THE MEETING BEING FULL IN, UH, IN SEPTEMBER THAT WE GOT PUSHED TO OCTOBER, ONLY FOUR MEMBERS WERE HERE IN OCTOBER.

SO INSTEAD OF HAVING FOUR OUT OF SEVEN, WE NEEDED, WE HAVE FOUR VTS, SO ANONYMOUS VOTING, WHICH DIDN'T WORK OUT.

UH, WE HAD ONLY FIVE DAYS TO RESUBMIT FOR THE FOLLOWING, UH, FOLLOW FOLLOWING MEETING.

SO IT GOT, GOT US PUSHED.

AND IN JANUARY, I WAS HERE WITH MY, WITH MY LAWYER, WITH MY ARCHITECT TO, TO, TO PRESENT, TO DO A PRESENTATION.

AND ONLY THREE MEMBERS WERE HERE.

SO THEY DIDN'T HAVE A QUORUM.

WE COULDN'T, UH, THEY COULDN'T VOTE ON THE, ON THE PROPOSAL.

SO HE PUSHED US BACK TO FEBRUARY.

THIS SEVEN MONTHS OF BACK AND FORTH COST ME ABOUT $250,000 WORTH OF CARING COST INSURANCE, UH, REAL ESTATE TAXES AND EVERYTHING.

WHEN, IF WE WOULD HAVE ON THE FIRST MEETING THE SEVEN MEMBERS THAT WERE SUPPOSED TO BE AT, AT DRB, WE MIGHT HAVE HAD THE MAJORITY AT THAT TIME.

SO I SUPPORT, UH, COMMISSIONERS WHO, UH, UH, PROPOSAL TO, TO NOT TO HAVE THE UNDERSTORY IN THE PART OF THE DRB.

AND JUST EIGHT YEARS AGO, WHEN I BUILT MY FIRST HOUSE WHERE I LIVE NOW, IT WAS ALREADY A QUESTION ABOUT UNDERSTORY.

SO IT'S BEEN SOMETHING THAT HAS BEEN GOING ON FOR A VERY LONG TIME.

AMI BEACH, AS WE AS WE KNOW.

TO STOP YOUR, YOUR DEVELOPMENT AND, UH, YOU KNOW, UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES.

SO THE COMMISSION HAD A STUDY DONE, I'M SORRY, START WITH YOUR NAME.

OH, I'M SORRY.

FRED CARLTON, 1800 PURDY AVENUE.

SO THE COMM, THE COMMISSION HAD A STUDY DONE WHILE AGO, AND THE STUDY CAME BACK FOR RESILIENCY USING STORIES.

THEY VOTED FOR IT AND THEY APPROVED IT.

WHAT THIS GENTLEMAN'S SAYING IS TRUE ABOUT A QUORUM, BUT I HAVEN'T, I TAKE ISSUE WITH NON-PROFESSIONALS OPINING ON DESIGN WHEN THEY DON'T HAVE THE EXPERTISE.

YOU'RE HIRING PROFESSIONAL ARCHITECTS, YOU'RE HIRING PROFESSIONAL ENGINEERS, AND THEN YOU HAVE PEOPLE WHO DON'T KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT IT THAT ARE TELLING YOU WHAT YOUR DESIGN SHOULD BE, WHAT YOUR COLOR SHOULD BE.

ALSO, THIS IS MY BILL FROM MY ARCHITECT TO GO TO DRB 20, ALMOST $24,000.

THAT'S NOT INCLUDING MY LEGAL, AND THAT'S NOT INCLUDING, AS THIS GENTLEMAN SAID, CARRY COST.

AND THEN IF THERE'S NOT A QUORUM, AS HE SAID, I HAVE TO REAPPLY AND COME BACK, IT'S TENS AND TENS AND TENS OF THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS.

OKAY, MAYBE HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS.

IN MY CASE, IT COSTS ME ALMOST A HALF A MILLION DOLLARS.

SO FOR ME, IT'S ONE THING WHAT HAPPENS TO THE GENTLEMAN WHO CAN'T AFFORD TO GO BACK AND FORTH AND BACK AND FORTH.

SO AS LONG AS YOU'RE BUILDING WITHIN WHAT IS NORMALLY BUILT ON MIAMI BEACH, YOU SHOULDN'T HAVE TO BE GOING TO A, A, A BOARD AND YOUR NEIGHBORS SHOULDN'T BE ABLE TO TELL YOU WHAT YOU SHOULDN'T, SHOULDN'T BE ABLE TO DO.

WE'RE SETTING VERY DA DANGEROUS PRECEDENTS HERE BY ALLOWING PEOPLE

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AS I MENTIONED TO YOU THE LAST TIME, YOU DON'T GET ALONG WITH YOUR NEIGHBOR.

THEY WANNA HOLD YOU UP, YOU KNOW, THEY WANT SOMETHING FROM YOU, THEY WANNA HOLD YOU UP.

THIS WHOLE PROCESS REALLY, REALLY IS NOT A GOOD PROCESS.

I REALLY THINK THAT YOU, YOU SHOULD JUST ALLOW STAFF TO DO WHAT THEY DO AND JUST APPROVE THE UNDERST STORIES, WHICH YOU GUYS HAVE ALREADY AGREED TO, TO APPROVE.

ANYONE ELSE WISH TO SPEAK ON THIS ITEM? DAMIEN NARVAEZ, UH, 2,500 REGATTA AVENUE.

I THINK IT'S ALREADY BEEN.

UM, SAID.

UM, YOU HAVE TWO GENTLEMEN WHO ARE SPENDING THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS, UM, TO, UM, HAVE THEIR PROJECT, UM, GO THROUGH A PROCESS THAT THEIR PLANS ARE ALREADY, UM, PERMITTED UNDER THE, UNDER THE CODE.

THEY'RE, THEY'RE PROBABLY BUILDING WITH NO VARIANCES.

THEY'RE NOT ASKING FOR ANY VARIANCES YET.

THEY STILL HAVE TO GO THROUGH THIS PROCESS.

SO THAT'S ONE ISSUE.

THE SECOND ISSUE IS JUST THE CHILLING EFFECT OF ANYONE WHO WANTS TO BUILD A HOME TO BUILD AN ENVIRONMENTALLY SUSTAINABLE HOME.

THEY'RE, THEY'RE NOT GONNA CHOOSE THAT OPTION.

WHY WOULD YOU CHOOSE THAT OPTION IF THAT OPTION, UM, REQUIRES YOU TO SPEND THOUSANDS AND THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS? SO IF THE CITY REALLY DOES WANT TO ENCOURAGE THE ENVIRONMENTALLY SUSTAINABLE HOMES LIKE SOMETHING WITH AN UNDERSTORY, THEY'RE NOT DOING THAT RIGHT NOW AND THEY'RE DISCOURAGING IT.

SO THAT'S ALL I WANTED TO SAY.

THANKS.

ANYONE ELSE? YES.

HI, MY NAME IS ALEX KAKO FROM BUILDING HERE ON MIAMI BEACH.

COUPLE OF HOUSES IN MIAMI, COUPLE OF HOUSES IN GOLDEN BEACH.

I'M ARCHITECT WORKING WITH THE CITY FOR A WHILE, AND I CAN SAY THAT DESIGN REVIEW BOARD IS A, IT'S NOT JUST A PAIN IN THE NECK FOR THE CUSTOMERS.

THEY'RE AFRAID OF IT.

THEY'RE NOT GOING FOR IT.

IF YOU WANT TO DO SOMETHING BEAUTIFUL, IT'S IMPOSSIBLE.

'CAUSE IT'S TAKING TOO MUCH TIME AND TOO MUCH MONEY.

IT'S RIDICULOUSLY A LOT OF MONEY SOMETIMES.

AND WHAT I CAN SAY THAT, ANYWAY, THE COUPLE OF TIMES WE JUST RECEIVED ABSOLUTELY OPPOSITE REQUEST FROM DESIGN REVIEW BOARD.

ONE TIME IT WAS GARAGE IS TOO HIGH, WHICH IS NOT ABOUT THE CODE, NOT ABOUT GOLDEN MEAN, WHICH I WAS TRYING TO EXPLAIN WHY IT CAME TO THAT POINT.

AND ANOTHER ONE WAS, GARAGE IS TOO LOW AND ALSO , IT'S LIKE A FUNNY POINT, BUT IT'S COST CUSTOMERS A LOT.

AND WE BASICALLY, SOMETIMES WE JUST CUTTING EDGES AND NOT GOING FOR THE DESIGN.

WE DECIDED FROM THE BEGINNING.

SO BASICALLY THAT'S WHAT I WANNA SAY AND I'M APPROVING SOURCE FOR THE GOING.

WHAT I CAN SAY IS WE HAVE TO REGULATE IT SOMEHOW.

SO BASICALLY THE, IT SHOULD BE JUST IN THE CITY REGULATION.

YOU'RE GOING FOR THAT, YOU'RE DOING IT.

THERE IS A PLUS, THERE IS MINUSES AND YOU DON'T HAVE TO SPEND THAT AMOUNT OF TIME.

SO THE PROCESS SUPPOSED TO BE EASY, BASICALLY DESIGN REVIEW BOARD.

SOMETIMES WHEN YOU ARE ASKING FOR VARIANCE, IT'S SUPPOSED TO BE HERE, BUT IT SHOULD BE SOMEHOW BETTER ORGANIZED, MAYBE MORE REGULATED, OR IF IT'S UNDERSTORY IS APPROVED OR LESS APPROVED, IT IT AND KEEP IT.

OUR NEXT VIRTUAL CALLER IS LARRY SCHAFER.

HELLO, LARRY SCHAFER, 2 3 3 80 FIRST STREET, NORTH BEACH.

UH, I WOULD LIKE TO, UH, JUST ENCOURAGE, THIS IS A GREAT ITEM.

UM, I WOULD LIKE THAT, UH, FOR THIS TO BE CONSIDERED THE UNDERSTORY FOR, UM, TWO TO FOUR UNIT MULTI-FAMILY BUILDINGS, DUPLEXES, TRIPLEXES, QUADS.

UM, I KNOW THE ITEM RIGHT NOW IS FOR SINGLE FAMILY HOMES, BUT THIS IS A GREAT DIRECTION FOR OTHER TYPES OF BUILDINGS AS WELL.

ANYONE ELSE WISH TO SPEAK? MAYOR, THERE'S NO ONE ON ZOOM AND I SEE NO ONE IN THE AUDIENCE.

COMMISSIONER SUAREZ, THIS IS YOUR ITEM.

OKAY, WELL WE SAID WE'RE GONNA COMMISSIONER SUAREZ, IT'S GONNA CONTINUE.

WE'RE GONNA OPEN AND CONTINUE AT FIVE O'CLOCK AND, UH, THEN WE'LL HEAR FROM WHOEVER ELSE WANTS TO SPEAK AT THAT TIME.

WE'RE NOT GONNA HAVE REPEAT SPEAKERS, SO WHOEVER HASN'T SPOKEN WANTS TO SPEAK, WE'LL, WE'LL HEAR IT THEN AND THEN WE'LL, WE WILL TAKE THE, THE VOTE.

ENTITLED ADMINISTRATIVE AND REVIEW PROCEDURES.

LET'S CALL R

[R5 B UNIFIED DEVELOPMENT SITE - LDR TEXT AMENDMENT AN ORDINANCE OF THE MAYOR AND CITY COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF MIAMI BEACH, FLORIDA, AMENDING THE MIAMI BEACH RESILIENCY CODE, BY AMENDING CHAPTER 2, ENTITLED “ADMINISTRATIVE AND REVIEW PROCEDURES,” ARTICLE II, ENTITLED “GENERAL DEVELOPMENT APPLICATION SUBMISSION AND REVIEW,” SECTION 2.2.3.4, ENTITLED “UNIFIED DEVELOPMENT SITE,” BY INCLUDING REQUIREMENTS FOR THE TRANSFER OF FLOOR AREA FOR PROPERTIES THAT ARE SUBJECT TO THE TERMS OF A DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT WITH THE CITY AND WHICH CONTAIN PROPERTIES WITH DIFFERENT ZONING CLASSIFICATIONS, AS WELL AS PROPERTIES LOCATED IN THE ALTON ROAD GATEWAY; AND PROVIDING FOR CODIFICATION, REPEALER, SEVERABILITY, AND AN EFFECTIVE DATE.]

FIVE B.

R FIVE BR FIVE BR FIVE B IS IN ANCE OF THE MAYOR OF CITY COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF MIAMI BEACH, FLORIDA, AMENDING THE MIAMI BEACH RESILIENCY CODE BY AMENDING CHAPTER TWO

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ARTICLE TWO ENTITLED GENERAL DEVELOPMENT APPLICATION SUBMISSION AND REVIEW, SECTION 2.2, 0.3 0.4 ENTITLED UNIFIED DEVELOPMENT SITE BY INCLUDING REQUIREMENTS FOR THE TRANSFER OF FLOOR AREA FOR PROPERTIES THAT, THAT ARE SUBJECT TO THE TERMS OF A DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT WITH THE CITY AND WHICH CONTAIN PROPERTIES WITH DIFFERENT ZONING CLASSIFICATIONS AS WELL AS PROPERTIES LOCATED IN THE ALTERNATE ROAD GATEWAY AND PROVIDING FOR CODIFICATION, REPEAL OR S ABILITY ON AN EFFECTIVE DATE.

THIS IS ITEM R FIVE B.

IT IS THE SECOND READING PUBLIC HEARING.

IT REQUIRES FIVE SEVENS VOTE.

R FIVE B VICE MAYOR BOT.

UM, I'LL LET TOM DO THE HEAVY LIFTING ON THIS, BUT BASICALLY IT'S A CLEANUP TO MAKE SURE THAT THE CANOPY PARK REMAINS A PARK IN PERPETUITY.

UH, THIS IS ACTUALLY A COMPANION ITEM TO ITEMS R FIVE AC AND R FIVE AD, WHICH HAVE 5 0 1 AND 5 0 2 TIMES CERTAINS.

AND THIS WAS APPROVED AT FIRST READING BY THE COMMISSION, UH, IN NOVEMBER.

AND WHAT IT BASICALLY DOES IS IT PROVIDES A VERY MINOR TEXT AMENDMENT TO ALLOW FOR THE EXISTING UNIFIED DEVELOPMENT SITE THAT'S PART OF THE DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT THAT AFFECTS CANOPY PARK AND 500 ALTON ROAD TO REMAIN IN PLACE AND NOT BECOME LEGAL NONCONFORMING.

THERE'S NO ONE IN ZOOM.

IS THERE ANYONE IN THE AUDIENCE? SO PUBLIC HEARING IS CLOSED.

CAN I MAKE THE MOTION? YES, MA'AM.

SO I, I HAVE A MOTION FROM COMMISSIONER BOT.

I ACTUALLY HEARD, UH, COMMISSIONER FERNANDEZ OR DOMINGUEZ.

OH, COMMISSIONER DOMINGUEZ.

SO VICE MAYOR BOT COMMISSIONER DOMINGUEZ FIRST VOTE.

VICE MAYOR BOTT.

COMMISSIONER SUAREZ IS OUT.

THAT WAS ITEM R FIVE B.

IT'S CALL R FIVE

[R5 H HOTEL APPROVAL PROCESS AN ORDINANCE OF THE MAYOR AND CITY COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF MIAMI BEACH, FLORIDA, AMENDING THE MIAMI BEACH RESILIENCY CODE, BY AMENDING CHAPTER 2, ENTITLED “ADMINISTRATION AND REVIEW PROCEDURES,” ARTICLE VII, ENTITLED “COMMISSION WARRANT,” TO CREATE SECTION 2.7.2, ENTITLED “HOTEL APPROVAL PROCEDURE,” TO REQUIRE THE APPROVAL OF A WARRANT BY THE CITY COMMISSION PRIOR TO THE REVIEW OF A LAND USE BOARD APPLICATION OR BUILDING PERMIT FOR A HOTEL, SUITE HOTEL, APARTMENT HOTEL, OR HOSTEL, SUBJECT TO EXCEPTIONS, AND ESTABLISH PROCEDURAL REQUIREMENTS AND REVIEW CRITERIA; AND PROVIDING FOR CODIFICATION, REPEALER, SEVERABILITY, AND AN EFFECTIVE DATE.]

R FIVE H IS AN ORDER TO THE MAYOR AND CITY COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF MIAMI BEACH, FLORIDA.

AMEND MAY BE REACHED RESILIENCY CODE BY AMENDING CHAPTER TWO ENTITLED ADMINISTRATION AND REVIEW PROCEDURES.

ARTICLE SEVEN ENTITLED COMMISSION WARRANT TO CREATE SECTION 2.7 0.2 ENTITLED HOTEL APPROVAL PROCEDURES TO REQUIRE THE APPROVAL WARRANT BY THE CITY COMMISSION PRIOR TO THE REVIEW OF A LAND REUSE BOARD APPLICATION OR BUILDING PERMIT FOR HOTEL SUITE, HOTEL, APARTMENT, HOTEL OR HOSTEL, SUBJECT TO EXCEPTIONS AND ESTABLISHED PROCEDURAL REQUIREMENTS AND REVIEW CRITERIA I'M PROVIDING FOR CODIFICATION REPEALS OF MOBILITY ON AN EFFECTIVE DATE.

SO IF THERE'S A FIVE OR SIX STAR HOTEL ON THE WATER, BY ALL MEANS GO AHEAD AND, AND BUILD THE BEST THAT YOU CAN.

IT IS R FIVE H COMMISSIONER MAGAZINE.

UH, THANK YOU MR. MAYOR.

UH, ITEM I'M VERY PROUD OF AND TO WORK HAND IN HAND WITH MY COLLEAGUES.

UM, AND THIS WAS, UH, ESSENTIALLY ONE OF SEVERAL ITEMS THAT WE'VE HAD, UH, OVER THE COURSE OF THE PAST YEAR SINCE THIS NEW COMMISSION WAS ELECTED THAT REALLY WANNA SWING THE PENDULUM IN OUR CITY TO A MORE RESIDENTIAL FOCUS THAT IS NOT THROWING THE TOURISM BABY OUT WITH THE BATH WATER.

WE WILL ALWAYS BE A PLACE THAT WELCOMES OUR TOURISTS, UH, WELCOMES AND THRIVES ON OUR HOSPITALITY, BUT THE PENDULUM HAS SWUNG SO FAR IN THE DIRECTION THAT WE HAVE REALLY, UH, GONE JUST SO FAR OUT OF OUR WAY IN EVERY SINGLE USAGE AND EVERY SINGLE NEW DEVELOPMENT BEING A NEW HOTEL AS OPPOSED TO RESIDENTIAL.

WE ARE THE ONLY CITY IN ALL OF FLORIDA THAT HAS ACTUALLY LOST FULL-TIME RESIDENCE YEAR OVER YEAR.

AND THAT'S HAPPENED IN TWO WAYS.

ONE IS NOT PROVIDING ANY NEW HOUSING INVENTORY OF ANY MATERIAL SUPPLY, BUT THEN ALSO, UH, JUST AS IMPORTANTLY, A LOT OF THE OLDER MULTI-FAMILY HOMES THAT, UH, SERVE AS ORGANIC, AFFORDABLE, AND ATTAINABLE HOUSING FOR SOME OF OUR SERVICE WORKERS.

OUR OLDER RESIDENTS, OUR SENIOR CITIZENS, UM, SOME OF OUR RESIDENTS MOST IN NEED, RIGHT? THEY'VE BEEN KICKED OUT OF THEIR HOMES TO TURN THEM INTO HOTELS, RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF RESIDENTIAL AREAS.

IT'S THE SINGLE ITEM.

THERE WAS A CATALYST TO GET ME OFF THE SIDELINES TO RUN.

NOW MAYBE SOME PEOPLE APPRECIATE THAT, MAYBE IT'S NOT.

UH, BUT, UH, IT, IT WAS AT A MARCH, UH, HPB MEETING WHERE A, UM, MULTI-FAMILY BUILDING IN COLLINS PARK, UH, WAS PROPOSED TO BE CONVERTED INTO A HOTEL.

SO THIS ORDINANCE, IT'S MIRRORED AFTER SOMETHING THAT WENT FORWARD IN NEW YORK CITY ADDS AN EXTRA LAYER TO THE HOTEL APPROVAL PROCESS.

SO NO LONGER CAN YOU JUST BUILD AS OF RIGHT, IT HAS TO COME TO THE COMMISSION FOR APPROVAL.

IT EXCLUDES OUR, UH, AREAS ON THE WATER.

AND THE THOUGHT BEHIND THAT IS THAT'S NOT THE AREA WHERE WE'RE GOING TO HAVE OUR AFFORDABLE OR ATTAINABLE HOUSING THAT IS FOR RESIDENTS, RIGHT?

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HOWEVER, IF YOU'RE SOMEWHERE ALONG WASHINGTON AVENUE OR FIFTH STREET OR COLLINS PARK, WE ARE JUST SIMPLY OVERSUPPLIED WITH HOTELS.

AND THIS, THIS GIVES THE COMMISSION A SHOT AT THE TABLE TO SIT THERE AND SAY, WELL, IF WE DON'T WANT A HOTEL IN AN INFILL AREA IN THE MIDDLE OF A RESIDENTIAL DISTRICT, WHAT CAN WE DO TO WORK TOWARDS GETTING THE PRODUCT THAT WE WANT? COPYING MY COLLEAGUE AND FRIEND, UH, VICE MAYOR BOT, HAVING A VISION FOR THE CITY THAT YOU WANT, NOT WHERE YOU CURRENTLY ARE.

UM, BUT WHAT I'M MOST PROUD OF HERE IS HOW IT PROTECTS OUR VULNERABLE RESIDENTS.

SO NOW, UH, SOMEBODY THAT WOULD GO IN AND WANT TO BUY UP A MULTI-FAMILY BUILDING AND KICK OUT, RESIDENTS WOULD HAVE TO COME TO THE COMMISSION AND SAY, I WANT YOUR APPROVAL TO ESSENTIALLY DO THIS AND TURN IN A HOTEL.

HOTEL.

UH, TOM, I'LL KICK IT OVER TO YOU, UH, TO SEE IF THERE'S ANYTHING YOU WANT TO ADD TO THIS.

IF ANYTHING, I MISSPOKE.

UM, BUT THOSE ARE THE TWO THINGS THAT ARE REALLY DRIVING THIS ORDINANCES.

ONE, WANTING TO SHIFT THE, UH, WHEN THERE IS GOING TO BE INFILL DEVELOPMENT TOWARDS A MORE RESIDENTIAL FOCUS AWAY FROM TRANSIT USAGES.

AND THEN TWO, PROTECTING SOME OF OUR MOST VULNERABLE RESIDENTS THAT LIVE IN SOME OF THESE MULTI-FAMILY BUILDINGS THAT HAVE HISTORICALLY, UH, IN RECENT YEARS BEEN CONVERTED INTO HOTELS.

UM, THANK YOU COMMISSIONER.

UH, THE ONLY THING I WILL ADD TO THAT IS THAT THE PROPOSAL, AS YOU STATED, CREATES A CITY COMMISSION WARRANT PROCESS FOR ANY NEW HOTELS MOVING FORWARD.

SO BEFORE SOMEBODY WHO WANTS TO DO A HOTEL, A HOTEL IN A DISTRICT THAT ALLOWS HOTELS EITHER SUBMITS A BUILDING PERMIT APPLICATION, OR GOES BEFORE LAND USE BOARD, THEY MUST FIRST COME BEFORE THE SAME COMMISSION FOR A WARRANT.

THE LEGISLATION WAS APPROVED BY THE COMMISSION AND FIRST READING ON DECEMBER 11TH WITH NO CHANGES TO THE LEGISLATION.

AND ADDITIONALLY, AT THAT TIME, THE COMMISSION REFERRED A SEPARATE COMPANION AMENDMENT FOR CLARITY PURPOSES TO THE PLANNING BOARD IN ORDER TO IDENTIFY ALL OF THE ZONING DISTRICTS AND MAKE IT CLEAR THAT THE WARRANT PROCESS WILL BE APPLICABLE IN, IN EACH OF THOSE DISTRICTS THAT DOESN'T HAVE ANY IMPACT SUBSTANTIVELY ON THIS ORDINANCE.

AND WE ANTICIPATE THAT THAT ORDINANCE WILL BE COMING TO YOU FOR FIRST READING, EITHER IN MARCH OR IN APRIL.

UH, WITH THAT, THE ADMINISTRATION RECOMMENDS ADOPTION OF THE ORDINANCE.

MR. MAYOR, COMMISSIONER FERNANDEZ THANK YOU, MR. MAYOR.

AND I WANT TO COMMEND MY COLLEAGUE, COMMISSIONER MAGAZINE BECAUSE THIS IS THE TYPE OF LEGISLATION THAT I THINK CREATES LEGACY.

UH, YOU ARE, YOU ARE ADDRESSING THE MOST CRITICAL NEED OF OUR RESIDENTS, WHICH IS THEY'RE BEING PUSHED OUT OF THEIR HOMES, YOU KNOW, SENIORS ON FIXED INCOMES, INDIVIDUALS WHO CAN'T AFFORD EVEN MARKET RATE HOUSING IN THIS CITY, BEING, BEING PUSHED OUT OF THEIR HOMES AND BEING, BEING REPLACED, UH, BY THESE, UH, MASSIVE, UH, STRUCTURES THAT, UH, THAT DON'T SERVE OUR RESIDENT BASE.

SO I WANNA CONGRATULATE YOU ON THIS.

UM, 'CAUSE I DO THINK THAT, THAT THIS IS A LEGACY SETTING POLICY.

I WANNA PROPOSE, 'CAUSE YOU MENTIONED OCEAN FRONT.

UM, AND I JUST WANT TO ASK OUR, OUR PLANNING DIRECTOR, FOR EXAMPLE, AN AREA LIKE OCEAN DRIVE IS AN AREA LIKE OCEAN DRIVE CONSIDERED OCEAN FRONT? NO, IT'S NOT.

IT'S NOT.

IF YOU DON'T MIND, I, I'D LIKE TO SPEAK ON THAT.

SO I JUST WANT TO PROPOSE AN, AN AMENDMENT BECAUSE I THINK BEING AND AND ACHIEVING THAT GOAL OF THE CITY WE WANT TO BE.

I THINK IT'S ALSO IDENTIFYING, YOU KNOW, WE DO WANT TO CONTINUE HAVING A CERTAIN LEVEL OF TOURISM, BUT IT HAS TO BE IN THE RIGHT PLACE.

WE CAN'T HAVE TOURISM NEXT TO WHERE PEOPLE ARE LIVING.

AND WE CERTAINLY CAN'T DISPLACE OUR, OUR ELDERLY TO BUILD A NEW HOTEL.

BUT I THINK AREAS LIKE, UH, OCEAN DRIVE AND EVEN, YOU KNOW, THE, UH, THE, THE HISTORIC PARTS OF, UH, OF COLLINS AVENUE, THOSE ARE AREAS WHERE, WHERE THEY HAVE BEEN HISTORICALLY, YOU KNOW, TOURISM BASED, YOU REALLY DON'T HAVE A LOT OF RESIDENTS LIVING IN THAT AREA.

AND IF YOU WERE TO BE HAVING HOTELS ANYWHERE, THAT'S PROBABLY WHERE YOU WOULD WANT TO HAVE HOTELS.

SO I'D LIKE FOR THE CITY ATTORNEY TO READ INTO THE RECORD, UH, AN AMENDMENT, IF YOU'RE WILLING TO CONSIDER IT, UH, COMMISSIONER MAGAZINE TO ADDRESS THIS.

I'D BE HAPPY TO.

UM, GOOD MORNING MAYOR AND MEMBERS OF THE COMMISSION.

SO THIS IS AN AMENDMENT TO THE EXEMPTIONS SECTION OF THE ORDINANCE, WHICH CURRENTLY EXEMPTS, UH, HOTELS PROPOSED TO BE LOCATED ON AN OCEANFRONT PROPERTY.

THE, THE AMENDMENT WOULD SAY, OR IF THE HOTEL IS PROPOSED TO BE DEVELOPED WITHIN A CONTRIBUTING BUILDING THAT WAS ORIGINALLY CONSTRUCTED AS A HOTEL ON PROPERTIES WITHIN THE MIAMI BEACH ARCHITECTURAL DISTRICT ALONG COLLINS AVENUE OR OCEAN DRIVE.

AND SO, IF, IF YOU'RE WILLING TO, I THINK IT, IT'S, IT'S ALIGNED WITH THE SPIRIT OF YOUR ITEM.

UH, IF YOU'RE WILLING TO, I THINK,

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'CAUSE, YOU KNOW, I GOT A CALL FROM, UM, ONE OF THE LOBBYISTS, UM, AROUND TOWN, UM, AND HE ASKED IF I CAN BE OKAY WITH THIS.

AND I, AND I, I TOLD HIM, UH, NO, I, I DON'T THINK THAT WE SHOULD BE CONVERTING ANY RESIDENTIAL BUILDING INTO A HOTEL OR GIVE THEM THE ABILITY TO DO THAT.

UM, YOU KNOW, PEOPLE LIVE, I THINK THERE'S ONE PROPERTY THAT THIS IS, YOU KNOW, TRYING TO TARGET ON, UM, COLLINS AVENUE.

YOU KNOW, PEOPLE LIVE THERE CURRENTLY, FULL-TIME SENIORS.

AND IF WE, IF WE GIVE THEM THE ABILITY TO CHANGE IT INTO A HOTEL AT ANY POINT, AND WHAT IS, WHAT'S GONNA HAPPEN TO THE PEOPLE THAT LIVE THERE NOW, UM, I UNDERSTAND THAT IT'S ALSO, UM, THAT YOU'RE ALLOWED SHORT TERM RENTALS THERE, BUT I THINK WE SHOULD BE GOING IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION FOR MORE RESIDENTIAL, NOT MORE TRANSIENT.

SO, YOU KNOW, I I, I'M, I'M NOT GONNA BE SUPPORTIVE OF THIS AMENDMENT, UM, TO, TO TO BASICALLY MAKE A RESIDENTIAL BUILDING INTO A HOTEL.

AND I UNDERSTAND THAT IT WAS A HOTEL IN THE, IN THE PAST, BUT LOOK, WE'VE, WE'VE PUT FORWARD LEGISLATION TRYING TO TURN OFFICE SPACE INTO RESIDENTIAL.

I DON'T THINK WE SHOULD BE GOING BACKWARDS FOR ACTUAL RESIDENTIAL BUILDINGS TO BE, UM, TURNED INTO HOTELS.

MAD VOICEMAIL.

UM, VERY MUCH APPRECIATE THE SPIRIT OF THE AMENDMENT.

AND IF I DIDN'T KNOW ABOUT ONE SPECIFIC INSTANCE, I'D BE COMPLETELY SUPPORTIVE.

UM, BUT IT WAS BROUGHT TO MY ATTENTION.

I, I MET WITH A PROPERTY OWNER WHO I THINK IS, HAS DONE GREAT THINGS FOR OUR CITY, AND I UNDERSTAND THE ROCK AND THE HARD PLACE THAT YOU'RE IN.

UH, AND IT WARRANTS A FURTHER DISCUSSION THAT SOME OF THESE OLDER RESIDENTIAL BUILDINGS DON'T HAVE THE ECONOMIC MEANS OR VIABILITY TO PROPERLY INVEST AND MAINTAIN A, A STANDARD OF LIVING.

UM, BUT I WAS APPROACHED BY A, A PROPERTY OWNER, UH, ABSOLUTE GENTLEMAN, ABSOLUTE GENTLEMAN, THAT, THAT IS STUCK BETWEEN A ROCK AND A HARD PLACE WHERE HIS COSTS IN MAINTAINING THIS HISTORIC BUILDING ARE FAR EXCEEDING THE RENT THAT HE'S ABLE TO GET IN FROM KEEPING THIS, UH, IN, IN OLDER RESIDENTIAL BUILDING.

UM, SO I'M VERY, VERY TORN, UH, BETWEEN THIS.

BUT AT THE END OF THE DAY, THERE ARE OVER A HUNDRED MIAMI BEACH RESIDENTS THAT ARE LIVING THERE.

AND IN FACT, THIS IS KIND OF THE ENTIRE SPIRIT OF WHAT WAS BEHIND, UH, THIS LEGISLATION.

YOU KNOW, UH, IT'S THE SAME THING IN COLLINS PARK, RIGHT? IT WOULD'VE BEEN A GREAT HOTEL.

AND I, I UNDERSTAND THE ECONOMIC DIFFICULTY IN MAINTAINING THAT IS A FULL-TIME RESIDENTIAL BUILDING, AND I THINK IT'S AN ITEM THAT WE NEED TO ADDRESS.

BUT FOR THIS SPECIFIC INSTANCE, UM, I, I URGE OR, OR I WOULD RECOMMEND TO, UH, HAVE IT SEPARATE, HAVE A VOTE ON THE AMENDMENT.

UH, I'M GOING TO BE A NO, UH, JUST BECAUSE OF THIS ONE SPECIFIC BUILDING I AM AWARE OF, UH, THAT REALLY GOES TO THE SPIRIT OF THE LAW THAT I WAS LOOKING TO CRAFT, AND THAT'S LOOKING TO PROTECT SOME OF THESE OLDER, VULNERABLE PROPERTIES FROM TURNING INTO A HOTEL.

I TOTALLY AGREE THAT THAT IS THE RIGHT AREA WHERE WE WOULD HAVE HOTELS IN THE MIDDLE OF, UH, THE HISTORIC MXC.

UM, BUT FOR THIS, UH, ONLY BECAUSE I'M AWARE OF THIS ONE PARTICULAR BUILDING THAT WOULD BE EXEMPTED, UM, I, I WOULDN'T BE COMFORTABLE GOING FORWARD WITH THE AMENDMENT.

UH, THAT BEING SAID, I, I, I WOULDN'T BEGRUDGE PEOPLE HAVING A DIFFERENT VIEW.

AND IF YOU WANNA GO FORWARD WITH A VOTE, UM, I'LL SIMPLY BE A NO.

AND, YOU KNOW, CONTINUE ON WITH THIS ORDINANCE.

UH, BUT THAT'S WHERE I STAND.

I'LL, I'LL, I'LL WITHDRAW THE, THE AMENDMENT.

IT'S YOUR LEGISLATION, AND IF YOU'RE NOT WILLING, IT'S, I DON'T WANT TO WATER.

IF YOU'RE NOT COMFORTABLE WITH IT, I'LL, I'LL WITHDRAW THE ITEM.

UM, SORRY, DOMINGUEZ.

JOINT PRE-APPLICATION MEETING WITH TRANSPORTATION AND PLANNING STAFF BEFORE NOVEMBER 26TH, 2024.

UH, COMMISSIONER, UH, I WAS SUPPORTIVE OF COMMISSIONER FERNANDEZ'S AMENDMENT.

UM, THE PARTICULAR PROPERTY THAT, UM, HE MENTIONED, UH, WAS PURCHASED AS A HOTEL.

IT'S A PROPERTY RIGHTS.

UH, IT'S NO CURRENT PLANS OF CHANGING IT FROM RESIDENTIAL TO HOTEL, BUT, UM, IT'S IMPORTANT TO RESPECT THAT OWNER.

UM, IF THE DEPUTY CITY ATTORNEY WOULD ALSO READ ANOTHER AMENDMENT THAT I WOULD HAVE, YES, I'D BE HAPPY TO.

AND THIS IS THE SECOND AMENDMENT THAT I PASSED OUT A FEW MINUTES AGO.

UM, THIS WOULD BE AN APPLICABILITY CLAUSE, UH, AND I'LL JUST READ IT INTO THE RECORD.

THIS ORDINANCE SHALL NOT APPLY TO PROPERTIES FRONTING THE WEST SIDE OF COLLINS AVENUE BETWEEN 77TH STREET AND 79TH STREET, THAT HAVE APPLIED FOR A

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AND THIS IS INTENDED TO ADDRESS AN, UH, AN APPLICANT WHO HAD INITIATED THE PROCESS.

SO THERE, UH, WERE PEOPLE WITH APPLICATIONS IN PROCESS, AND THAT'S WHAT THIS APPLICABILITY WOULD BE FOR.

UM, IN ADDITION, I HAD ALSO SPOKEN TO ANOTHER PROPERTY OWNER, UH, WHO OWNS TWO HOTELS AND A THIRD PROPERTY THAT HE OWNS IS OPERATED AS THE DAILY, WEEKLY, OR MONTHLY.

UH, I'M CONCERNED ABOUT THAT OWNER'S, UM, MOVING FORWARD, IF THIS PASSES, AND COMMISSIONER, YOU'RE SPEAKING ABOUT THE, THE JAMES MANOR? CORRECT.

WHICH IS, I THINK IT'S 1849, UH, JAMES AVENUE, THAT'S AN APARTMENT BUILDING WHERE SHORT-TERM RENTALS ARE, UH, ARE ALLOWED.

AND I THINK THERE'S A RESORT TAX QUESTION OF, OF WHETHER HE HAS TO CHANGE HIS LICENSE FROM APARTMENT TO HOTEL, BUT I, I, I CAN'T SAY FOR SURE, BUT I, I DON'T KNOW THAT IT WOULD BE IMPACTED BY THIS ORDINANCE.

WELL, I, I WOULD NEED TO KNOW FOR SURE, UH, TO MAKE SURE THAT THEY'RE PROTECTED.

UM, HOW WOULD WE FIND OUT? UM, I, FROM MY, MY OPINION IS THAT IT'S THAT THERE'S NOT A ZONING ISSUE THERE THAT, THAT, SINCE IT IS A RESIDENTIAL APARTMENT BUILDING, AND, AND I BELIEVE IT OPERATES AS A RESIDE RESIDENTIAL APARTMENT BUILDING WITH SHORT TERM RENTAL UNITS, UM, I DON'T SEE WHY THEY WOULD NEED TO PULL A HOTEL RESORT TAX ACCOUNT IF IT'S NOT OPERATING AS A HOTEL.

UM, SOMEBODY IN FINANCE TOLD HIM HE NEEDED IT.

SO I NEED TO GET THAT CLARIFIED.

AND THEN, UNLESS ANYBODY WANTS TO SPEAK, LET'S CALL THE VOTE.

THANK, AND I JUST, I, I JUST WANT TO CLARIFY, UH, THE PURPOSE OF THE, OF THE AMENDMENT.

I MEAN, IT'S, I DID, I DID GET A CALL FROM, UH, FROM A PROPERTY OWNER TO, TO COMMISSIONER SO'S POINT.

UM, BUT THAT'S NOT THE PURPOSE OF THE, OF, OF THE AMENDMENT.

YOU KNOW, WE ARE AT A POINT WHEN OUR HISTORIC PRESERVATION STANDARDS ARE VERY UNDER GREAT SCRUTINY.

AND WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE, UH, THE REQUIREMENTS OR, YOU KNOW, THE, UM, THE, THE STANDARDS OF THE SECRETARY OF INTERIOR FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION, THOSE STANDARDS DICTATE AND ENCOURAGE THE RETENTION OF THE BUILDING'S ORIGINAL USE.

AND THAT'S WHY, FOR, THAT'S WHY I FELT IT WAS APPROPRIATE THAT WITHIN THE MIAMI BEACH ARCHITECTURAL DISTRICT, THAT WE WERE ABLE TO GET ACCEPTED FROM OTHER STATE PREEMPTIONS, THAT WE STICK AS MUCH AS WE CAN TO THE SECRETARY OF INTERIOR STANDARDS AND BE ABLE TO ENCOURAGE, NOT, NOT TO ENCOURAGE, BECAUSE THIS WOULD ENCOURAGE, BUT IT WOULD FACILITATE IN A WAY THAT WE'RE NOT FACILITATING IN OTHER AREAS, THE BUILDING'S ORIGINAL USE.

UH, I ALSO THINK IT WAS A WAY TO DIRECT HOTEL USES AWAY FROM THE RESIDENTIAL AREAS, UM, INTO THE MORE ENTERTAINMENT, TOURISM DRIVEN AREAS OF OUR, OF OUR CITY.

UM, BUT, BUT I WANT TO RESPECT THE WILL OF, OF THE SPONSOR BECAUSE THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT POLICY, AND I GUESS WE CAN SEE HOW IT WORKS.

AND THE GREAT THING ABOUT POLICY IS THAT WE CAN ALWAYS AMEND IT OVER TIME.

AND IF WE SEE THE NEED TO AMEND THIS POLICY IN, IN THE FUTURE, WE CAN ALWAYS DO THAT.

MR. MAYOR, COMMISSIONER SUAREZ? YEAH, I, I JUST WANT TO REMIND EVERYONE FROM LAST YEAR, JULY 22ND, 2024, AFFORDABLE HOUSING APARTMENT CONVERTING TO BOUTIQUE HOTEL TENANTS BEING ASKED TO MOVE OUT OR FACE EVICTION.

I I, I HAVE A PRETTY GOOD MEMORY, AND I, I SPECIFICALLY REMEMBER MANY RESIDENTS STAYING, SITTING OUTSIDE OF THIS PLACE WITH ONLY A 30 DAY NOTICE, UH, HAVING NOWHERE TO GO, AND, AND THEY WERE ELDERLY.

UM, I'M, I'M NOT GONNA BE COMFORTABLE WITH HAVING RESIDENTS WHO HAVE LIVED HERE FOR DECADES BEING KICKED OUT OF THEIR PROPERTY.

UM, I, I UNDERSTAND IT, IT'S IN A HISTORIC DISTRICT, BUT I PREFER PEOPLE O OVER, UH, AND THEIR LIVES OVER THE, THE DIRECTION OF, OF HISTORIC DISTRICTS.

I, I THINK THAT'S THE MORE SENSIBLE AND HUMANE THING TO DO IN THIS SITUATION.

SO, UM, YOU KNOW, I, I, I THINK WE'RE JUST GONNA BE SETTING OURSELVES UP FOR ANOTHER SITUATION WHERE PEOPLE ARE GIVEN A 30 DAY NOTICE TO LEAVE THEIR, UH, HOMES WHERE THEY'VE PROBABLY BEEN THERE FOR DECADES AND THEY'RE GONNA BE LOOKING FOR, FOR HELP.

UM, AND THIS IS THE SITUATION WHERE WE CAN ACTUALLY PROTECT PEOPLE FROM, FROM BEING KICKED OUT OF THEIR HOMES FOR ANOTHER HOTEL.

SO, UH, MAY I RESPOND, MR. MAYOR? GOOD MORNING.

GOOD

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MORNING.

MY NAME IS MEL SCH LESSER.

UH, AND I THINK I AM THE SUBJECT OF MOURNING, MR. MAYOR AND, UH, COMMISSIONERS.

I THINK I'M THE SUBJECT OF DISCUSSION HERE.

I'M NOT COMFORTABLE AT ALL BEING DRAPED IN A BLACK CAPE IN A BLACK HAT AS THE EVIL LANDLORD THAT IS GOING TO THROW PEOPLE OUT ON THE STREET.

IF I WAS GOING TO DO THAT, IT WOULD'VE HAPPENED ALREADY BECAUSE I'M IN A SHORT TERM RENTAL LOCATION.

AND WHAT YOU'RE DOING IS FORCING FOLKS WHO ARE IN THESE SITUATIONS TO FRANKLY CHANGE TO SHORT TERM RENTALS.

SO YOU'RE NOT PROTECTING ANYONE BY DOING WHAT YOU'RE DOING.

UH, THE ALAMAC, WHICH IS WHAT WE'RE ALL TALKING ABOUT, THAT'S THAT 800 POUND GORILLA THAT'S SITTING OUT HERE THAT I AM THE OWNER OF, WAS ORIGINALLY A HOTEL IN 1988 AND 89.

I CONVERTED IT INTO FROM 116 ROOM HOTEL.

I REESTABLISHED A RETAIL ON THE GROUND FLOOR, AND I CREATED 45 RENTAL APARTMENTS.

AND I HAVE RAN IT THAT WAY FOR A NUMBER OF YEARS UNTIL THE PRESENT DAY.

I HAVE NO IMMEDIATE PLANS WHATSOEVER TO CHANGE THAT INTO A HOTEL, BUT I DO WANT TO PRESERVE THE RIGHT IN THE CENTER OF THE MXE DISTRICT.

AND I REPEAT THE MXE DISTRICT BECAUSE I HAVE HEARD HERE A LOT OF TALK ABOUT RESIDENTS, RESIDENTS, RESIDENTS, AND, AND COLLINS PARK.

AND COLLINS PARK AND COLLINS PARK.

I AM SITTING IN THE CENTER OF THE RESIDE OF THE, UH, MXE DISTRICT.

I AM SURROUNDED BY HOTELS.

I AM PROBABLY THE LARGEST AND ONLY RESIDENTIAL BUILDING IN THIS, THIS, IN THIS IMMEDIATE VICINITY.

MY TENANTS ARE CONSTANTLY SUBJECT TO THE NOISE, THE ACTIONS OF THE STREET.

IT IS SOMETIMES UNBEARABLE.

SOME OF THE APARTMENTS, ALTHOUGH WE'RE RENTED NOW, BECAUSE I AM BELOW THE RENTAL RATES IN THE AREA, WE DO NOT HAVE PARKING.

AND IT IS, IT HAS, DOES BECOME A DIFFICULTY TO MAINTAIN THAT BUILDING IN THE, IN THE CURRENT ECONOMIC CONDITIONS BETWEEN THE, THE WINDSTORM REQUIREMENTS THAT THE BANKS HAVE HAD, THE LIMITED AMOUNT OF RENT THAT I CAN GET BECAUSE THE, THE APARTMENTS ARE RESTRICTED ON PARKING.

UH, I HAVE A SERIOUS ISSUE.

IT WAS NEVER MY INTENTION TO CHANGE THIS AT THIS TIME.

HOWEVER, I DO WANT TO PRESERVE THE RIGHT IN THE FUTURE IF I WANT TO DO CHANGE IT TO A HOTEL THAT I HAVE THAT RIGHT.

EVERY BUILDING AROUND ME, FOR THE MOST PART IS E IS EITHER A HOTEL OR SEVERAL CONDOMINIUMS ARE IN THE AREA, BUT THERE ARE VERY FEW, IF ANY RENTAL APARTMENTS I CAN THINK OF RIGHT NOW.

THE WEST SIDE OF COLLINS AVENUE IS AN MXE PARTY DISTRICT.

WHETHER WE LIKE IT OR NOT, IT IS, AND QUITE FRANKLY, ALAMAC CAN BRING CLASS TO THAT AREA BECAUSE ANYBODY THAT IS GOING TO TAKE THAT OVER TO A HOTEL WILL BE SPENDING SIGNIFICANT FUNDS, AND IT WILL ONLY BE A FOUR OR FIVE STAR HOTEL.

SO WHAT YOU'RE DOING IS PREVENTING SOMETHING THAT IS GOING TO HAPPEN AT SOME POINT EVENTUALLY.

AND YOU'RE RESTRICTING THE USE THAT I BELIEVE I HAD A RIGHT TO HAVE, AND SHOULD I WANNA MAKE THE CHANGE.

I COULD HAVE THROWN PEOPLE OUT OF THAT BUILDING SEVERAL YEARS AGO.

I HAVE THREE APARTMENTS ALREADY THAT ARE SHORT-TERM RENTALS AT ONE TIME.

I CHOOSE NOT TO GO FORWARD, BUT MAYBE TOMORROW I WILL GO FORWARD BECAUSE YOU'RE RESTRICTING PEOPLE'S RIGHTS WITHOUT ANY POSSIBLE GAIN.

THIS IS A, HIS, THIS IS A HISTORIC HOTEL.

IT IS NOT COLLINS PARK.

IT IS NOT THE ISSUES THAT YOU'VE DEALT WITH IN OTHER AREAS OF THE CITY.

THIS IS THE ENTERTAINMENT DISTRICT.

THAT'S WHAT IT SHOULD BE.

I CANNOT RUN IT FOREVER AS A RESIDENTIAL BUILDING.

AND I WANT THE RIGHT TO BRING IT BACK TO WHAT ORIGINALLY WAS MR. MAYOR, COMMISSIONER SUAREZ.

PROPERTY OWNER OUT THERE THAT WANTS TO CONVERT THEIR RESIDENTIAL USE INTO, UM, INTO ANY SORT OF TRANSIENT USE, I'M, I'M GONNA BE A STAUNCH NO, COMMISSIONER ROSE GONZALEZ.

I, I, MEL I THINK IT'S, UH, I UNDERSTAND WHERE YOU'RE COMING FROM.

UH, YOU, YOU STATED THAT YOU DO NOT HAVE AN INTENT TO KICK THEM OUT, BUT WHAT IF YOU SELL THE, THE BUILDING AND, AND LET ME FINISH.

WELL, I HAVE ONE YEAR, JUST FOR THE RECORD, MEL, LET, MEL, LET'S, IT'S, I APPRECIATE YOU.

IT'S NOT A BACK AND FORTH THOUGH, SO LET, OKAY.

SO, YOU KNOW, IF YOU, WE HEARD YOUR POINT.

IF YOU PERHAPS SELL THE BUILDING, AND THE NEXT OWNER DECIDES, I WANT EVERYONE OUT, AND YOU HAVE 30 DAYS, WHICH HAS HAPPENED ALL THE TIME ON MIAMI BEACH, I'M NOT GONNA BE COMFORTABLE WITH THAT.

I UNDERSTAND.

THIS IS WHAT YOU MAY HAVE BOUGHT.

THINGS HAVE CHANGED.

YOU KNOW, A LOT OF US GOT ELECTED TO IN AND, AND, AND THE, LIKE WHAT MAGAZINE SAID, THE CRUX, THIS POLICY IS BECAUSE WE'RE MOVING AWAY FROM TRANSIENT USE, WE WANNA MOVE TOWARD MORE RESIDENTIAL.

IN FACT, WE HAVE LEGISLATION TRYING TO TURN OFFICE SPACE INTO RESIDENTIAL.

SO IT, IT, IT'S, IT'S, IT'S, TO ME, IT'S A LITTLE DISINGENUOUS TO SAY THAT WE WANT TO, WE WANNA MOVE IN DIRECTION OF RESIDENTIAL, YET WE'RE ACTUALLY MAKING IT EASIER TO TURN RESIDENTIAL UNITS INTO A, INTO HOTELS.

SO, UH, AGAIN, I'M GONNA BE A NO ON THIS EVERY TIME.

SO IF THERE IS A

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LLOYD, I KNOW YOU'RE GONNA KILL ME ON THIS, BUT I SEE YOU OUT THERE AND I KNOW, DO YOU OWN A PROPERTY THAT'S GONNA ALSO AFFECT, CAN YOU PLEASE COME UP AND SPEAK LLOYD? BECAUSE I'M VERY CONCERNED ABOUT THIS SIMPLY BECAUSE, UM, LLOYD AND MEL ARE LONG TIME INVESTORS.

HE'S SAYING THAT HE HAS NO PLANS, IMMEDIATE PLANS ANYTIME SOON TO DISPLACE ANYBODY.

AND IT'S FINE IF, UH, YOU WANNA TAKE AWAY PROPERTY RIGHTS.

UM, BUT I'M NOT IN THE, I'M NOT IN THE BUSINESS OF DOING THAT, ESPECIALLY, UM, WHEN HE CAN TURN THESE UNITS INTO SHORT TERM RENTALS.

LLOYD, HOW IS THIS GOING TO AFFECT YOU? MY NAME IS LLOYD MANDEL.

UM, I'VE BEEN A HOTEL OPERATOR IN MIAMI BEACH FOR MORE THAN 50 YEARS IN DIFFERENT PROJECTS.

UM, I WILL ASK, IF YOU COULD CLARIFY FOR ME, IF THIS ORDINANCE WILL ABSOLUTELY POSITIVELY RESTRICT THE ABILITY OF HOTELS TO BE ESTABLISHED IN, UM, IN MIAMI BEACH WHERE THEY WERE ORIGINALLY RESIDENTIAL, OR WHETHER IT WILL MAKE IT MORE DIFFICULT AND MORE COMPLICATED.

IT LOOKS TO ME LIKE YOU'RE TRYING TO MAKE IT IMPOSSIBLE, BUT IN SPECIFICALLY, I WILL TELL YOU ABOUT ONE BUILDING I PURCHASED 25 YEARS AGO, A BUILDING CALLED THE JAMES MANOR.

UM, AND THAT BUILDING HAS BEEN OPERATED AS SHORT TERM RENTALS FOR 25 YEARS.

WE HAVE NEVER HAD ANY RESIDENT STAYING IN ANY OF THE, THE WHAT WERE ORIGINALLY APARTMENTS.

UM, KITCHENS WERE BASICALLY REMOVED, AND IT'S ALWAYS OPERATED FOR SHORT TERM RENTALS.

UM, THIS ORDINANCE IN A PARTICULAR, AND WE'VE DONE IT ETHICALLY.

IT'S NOT A PARTY HOTEL.

IT'S BEEN, UM, VISITOR SPOT FOR LONGER TERM OR SHORTER TERM RENTALS, I SHOULD SAY.

UM, IF THIS, AND I MISTAKENLY OPERATED IT WITH AN APARTMENT, UM, LICENSE, UM, EVEN THOUGH THE ACTIVITY WAS FOR SHORTER TERM RENTALS, IF THIS WILL RESTRICT MY ABILITY TO CONTINUE BUSINESS THAT I'VE BEEN DOING FOR 25 YEARS, IT WILL ABSOLUTELY BANKRUPT THIS PARTICULAR BUILDING.

UH, I WILL ASK FOR YOUR CONFIRMATION ON, ON THIS AND YOUR CONSIDERATION.

UM, YES.

UM, MR. MAYOR, CAN I SAY SOMETHING? I WANNA JUST CLARIFY SOMETHING.

I, SO, SO FOR, FOR EVERYONE TO UNDERSTAND.

WHAT, WHAT WE'RE PASSING HERE IS THE ABILITY FOR THE COMMISSION TO DECIDE ON A CASE BY CASE BASIS OF HOTELS.

SO WE'RE NOT SAYING THAT YOU'RE NOT GONNA, YOU'RE NEVER GONNA BE ABLE TO, TO DO THIS.

IT'S JUST IF YOU DO DECIDE TO SELL AND SOMEONE DECIDES TO KICK EVERYONE OUT AND TURN IT INTO HOTEL, WE'RE GONNA BE ABLE TO MAKE THAT DECISION ON A CASE BY CASE BASIS.

IT'S NOT SAYING THAT YOU, YOU AUTOMATICALLY CANNOT, UH, BE A HOTEL.

THIS IS JUST GONNA COME BEFORE THE COMMISSION AND, AND DECIDE.

AND SO I THINK THAT'S IMPORTANT BECAUSE IF YOU DO EVENTUALLY DECIDE TO SELL MEL AND YOU'RE A NEW OWNER, DECIDES TO KICK EVERYONE OUT, THAT GIVES THE PEOPLE WHO LIVE IN THAT BUILDING RIGHT NOW AN OPPORTUNITY TO COME OUT HERE AND SPEAK TO US AND TELL US WHAT'S GOING ON, AND IF THERE'S BEEN PROPER CONCESSIONS FOR THEM TO, YOU KNOW, MAYBE FIND A NEW HOME OR, OR, OR GIVE THEM A, A MOVING FEE.

SO, I, I JUST WANNA MAKE SURE THAT EVERYONE IS CLEARLY IS ON THE SAME PAGE, THAT WE'RE NOT PROHIBITING ANY MORE HOTELS.

THIS IS JUST GOING TO BE A DECISION OF THE COMMISSION TO DECIDE ON A CASE BY CASE BASIS IF WE'RE GONNA APPROVE A HOTEL OR NOT.

AND, UM, WE COULD REFER IT TO LAND USE IN THE INTERIM AND HAVE A DISCUSSION, UM, AT, AT COMMISSIONER, UH, FERNANDEZ'S LAND USE MEETING.

UM, I WOULD LIKE TO MAKE A MOTION TO DEFER THIS ITEM WHILE I SPEAK TO BOTH LLOYD AND MEL AND UNDERSTAND BETTER.

I'M GONNA WITHDRAW MY SPONSORSHIP ON IT RIGHT NOW, TOO, 'CAUSE I WAS A CO-SPONSOR, BECAUSE I DON'T THINK IT'S FAIR THAT IT DOESN'T APPLY TO OCEANFRONT HOTELS TOO.

SO, UM, IT SHOULD APPLY TO EVERYONE.

THAT IS A FAIR LAW.

I WOULD LIKE EVERY HOTEL HOTELIER TO GO THROUGH THIS PROCESS.

IF WE ARE TAKING AWAY RIGHTS FROM SOME PROPERTY OWNERS, I THINK IT SHOULD APPLY TO EVERYONE.

I THINK THAT IS WHAT IS FAIR AND EQUITABLE.

UM, AND THAT WOULD BE, I WOULD JUST LIKE TO DISCUSS THIS FURTHER AND FIND OUT WHY IT'S NOT APPLYING TO OCEANFRONT HOTELS.

'CAUSE RIGHT NOW I'M A LITTLE CONFUSED ABOUT THAT.

UM, SO I'M NOT SAYING THAT I'M, I'M A NO, BUT AS OF RIGHT NOW, UM, I WANNA BETTER UNDERSTAND, UH, THE REPERCUSSIONS OF ALL OF THIS AND MAKE THE LAW MORE FAIR AND EQUITABLE SO THAT IT APPLIES TO EVERYONE EQUALLY.

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I'M KNOW IF ANYBODY WOULD LIKE TO SECOND THAT MOTION.

WHAT? NO.

COMMISSIONER COMMISSION.

COMMISSIONER SU SUAREZ, IF I MAY JUST RE RESPOND FOR A MOMENT.

UM, AND, AND I UNDERSTAND WHERE YOU'RE COMING FROM.

I UNDERSTAND YOUR, WHAT, WHAT YOUR CONCERNS ARE.

I, WHAT I DON'T UNDERSTAND IS THAT, AND I WAS PART OF THIS MIAMI BEACH DEVELOPMENT AT THE TIME THAT WE CREATED THE MXE, THE WHOLE CONCEPT OF CREATING AN MXE WAS TO CREATE AN ENTERTAINMENT DISTRICT.

FOLKS WHO ARE LIVING IN ENTERTAINMENT DISTRICT UNDERSTAND THE CONSEQUENCES, UH, OF, AND, AND UNDERSTAND THAT WE'RE, WE'RE IN A, AN AREA WHERE THERE ARE MOSTLY HOTELS.

AND TO TAKE AWAY THAT RIGHT NOW OF, UH, AN OWNER FROM WHO HAS INVESTED IN THIS DISTRICT WITH THIS POSSIBILITY, ALWAYS IN MIND, UH, I THINK IT'S HARSH.

THERE IS A PRACTICAL PROBLEM WITH SAYING THAT YOU'RE GOING TO COME TO THE COMMISSION, WHICH REQUIRES A SUPER MAJORITY VOTE, AND THINK THAT YOU'RE GONNA GET A DEAL DONE TO POSSIBLY SELL A BUILDING TO A HOTEL, UH, OPERATOR.

IN MY PARTICULAR CASE, I CANNOT, UH, IN VIEW OF THE, THE REQUIREMENTS AND RESTRICTIONS IN MY NEW FINANCING, I CANNOT MAKE ANY KIND OF A DEAL, UH, A SALE FOR AT LEAST A YEAR.

AND THEN THERE ARE SIGNIFICANT PENALTIES.

THIS IS NOT SOMETHING I'M LOOKING PERSONALLY TO DO QUICKLY, BUT I NEED THAT.

RIGHT? AND I CAN ASSURE YOU FROM, AGAIN, FROM A PRACTICAL POINT OF VIEW, IT WOULD BE VERY, VERY DIFFICULT FOR SOMEBODY TO SIT BACK WHILE THEY'RE, THEY'RE HAVING A CONTINGENT CONTRACT THAT HAS TO GO THROUGH A COMMISSION, A COMMISSION APPROVAL THAT COULD TAKE SEVERAL MONTHS AND REQUIRE A FIVE SEVEN VOTE.

AGAIN, THIS IS AN ENTERTAINMENT DISTRICT.

I UNDERSTAND YOUR CONCERNS WHEN YOU HAVE THE, UH, A RESIDENTIAL DISTRICT.

THIS IS NOT THE SAME CASE.

UH, MEL, I, I LIVED ON THE MX CI LIVED AT THE DRE HOTEL .

AND THAT'S IN SMACK DAB IN THE MIDDLE OF AN ENTERTAINMENT DISTRICT.

GUYS, GUYS, I DON'T WANT THIS.

COMMISSIONER ENDERS, THEN COMMISSIONER DOMINGUEZ.

LAST POINT.

AND THEN I'M GONNA, I'M GONNA, I I APPRECIATE IT.

I DON'T MEAN THIS IN ANY DISRESPECT.

USUALLY PEOPLE COME UP AND THEN THEY SIT DOWN 'CAUSE IT'S A ONE TIME SHOT.

I GOTTA KEEP THIS MOVING ALONG.

I'LL LET LLOYD ONE COMMENT THEN.

AS A 75 YEAR RESIDENT OF MIAMI BEACH, I WILL TELL YOU THAT I CARE VERY MUCH ABOUT THE RESIDENTS IN APARTMENT BUILDINGS AND IN RESIDENTIAL AREAS.

AND SO I WOULD VERY MUCH SUPPORT AND REQUEST, AND THIS IS AN ORDINANCE THAT HAS VERY SERIOUS IMPLICATIONS THAT YOU DO POSTPONE IT AND LOOK AT IT FOR THE DETAILS.

UM, I'M PERSONALLY NOT OPPOSED TO PROTECTING THE RESIDENTS OF MIAMI BEACH.

I THANK YOU.

THANK YOU, THANK YOU.

LET'S CALL A VOTE.

AND COMMISSIONER DOMINGUEZ.

COLLINS IS ON THE DAYS, AND I READ THAT INTO THE RECORD ALREADY.

THERE ARE MANY REASONS WHY PEOPLE RUN FOR OFFICE, AND THIS WAS THE REASON WHY COMMISSIONER MAGAZINE RAN FOR OFFICE.

THIS WAS WHAT HE WAS, UH, CAMPAIGNING ON.

THIS IS WHAT HE WAS KNOCKING DOORS AND DOORS ON.

AND THIS IS WHAT EARNED FOR HIM THE SUPPORT OF THE ELECTORATE THAT HAVE ENTRUSTED US WITH THE OPPORTUNITY TO MAKE THESE DECISIONS.

AS I MENTIONED PREVIOUSLY, YOU KNOW, IF, IF THERE ARE UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES WITH THE POLICY, WITH THE BEAUTY, OUR POLICY IS YOU CAN ALWAYS CHANGE THE POLICY.

THIS HAS BEEN TO LAND USE.

AND AS I MENTIONED TO INDIVIDUALS THAT REACHED OUT TO ME, THIS HAS BEEN AT THE LAND USE COMMITTEE.

WHY ARE WE HEARING ABOUT THIS AT THE 12TH HOUR? YOU KNOW, IF THERE WERE CONCERNS ABOUT THIS, THIS DISCUSSION SHOULD HAVE HAPPENED AT THE COMMITTEE, AT THE LAND USE COMMITTEE, AND WENT THERE, I THINK MULTIPLE TIMES.

COMMISSIONER MAGAZINE, UH, AND YOU'VE BEEN WORKING ON THIS FOR A LONG TIME.

AND YOU KNOW, I, THIS PLACE IS RESIDENCE FIRST.

IT, IT PROTECTS RESIDENTS ABOVE ALL ELSE.

AND ALL THAT IT DOES IS THAT IT GIVES THE CITY COMMISSION SOME ABILITY TO LOOK OUT FOR THE RESIDENTS THAT HAVE ENTRUSTED US WITH THE OPPORTUNITY TO SERVE IN PUBLIC OFFICE.

COMMISSIONER MAGAZINE, I'M HAPPY TO SECOND YOUR MOTION AT, AT THE, AT THE APPROPRIATE TIME TO, TO, TO PROVE YOUR ITEM.

'CAUSE I DO THINK THIS IS, THIS IS GOOD POLICY.

WE HAVE SO MANY OTHER POLICIES THAT WE'RE LOOKING AT TO PROTECT OUR, OUR RESIDENTS.

I PRESENTED A FRIENDLY AMENDMENT, BUT YOU ARE NOT WILLING TO ACCEPT IT.

I'M FINE WITH THAT.

AND IF WE NEED TO DO IT IN THE FUTURE, I'M HAPPY TO, UH, BRING HIM BACK IN THE FUTURE.

COMMISSIONER DOMINGUEZ, UH, THANK YOU MAYOR.

UM, DEPUTY CITY ATTORNEY, IF YOU COULD COME BACK UP.

UM, I WOULD STILL LIKE TO MAKE AN AMENDMENT HERE.

UH, MY NARROW AMENDMENT, THE 1 4 70 SEVENTH STREET AND, UM, CLARITY FOR, UH, LLOYD MENDEL'S PROPERTY.

UM, OKAY, WELL, YOUR, YOUR AMENDMENT FOR THE 77 10

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UM, WOULD THE COMMISSION LIKE TO, WOULD YOU LIKE TO MAKE A MOTION ON THE YEAH, I'D LIKE TO MOVE THAT ONE.

THAT PEOPLE THAT ARE IN PROCESS WITH APPLICATIONS ARE.

AND, AND IF I COULD, MADAM VOICE MAYOR, UH, COMMISSIONER, I BELIEVE THAT THIS IS JUST A VACANT PORTION OF LAND, CORRECT? UH, THE, UM, HEY, I'M, PLEASE GO AHEAD.

HI, GOOD MORNING.

MAD.

I'M STUART LAMORE BURKE, HOWARD DE FERNANDEZ.

LARKIN AND TAPPEN IS, UH, HERE ON BEHALF OF, UH, 77 10 COLLINS AVENUE, LC.

AND THE OWNERS ARE SITTING OVER THERE.

UM, IT, IT HAS TWO STRUCTURES, TWO UNITS ON IT, WHICH ARE BOTH VACANT, UH, IS A VERY NARROW PROPERTY.

IT'S ONLY 50, UH, FEET WIDE AND ONLY 8,750 SQUARE FEET.

THEY'RE PROPOSING A BOUTIQUE HOTEL.

THEY'VE BEEN IN THE PROCESS OF, UH, VETTING THE PROPERTY AND PURCHASING IT FOR TWO YEARS NOW, AND BEEN IN THE PROCESS TO GO TO THE DRB FOR MANY MONTHS.

UH, AND WE JUST WANT TO, AND SO WE'VE BEEN DELAYED SINCE THE PLANNING BOARD ACTED IN NOVEMBER.

SO THAT'S TWO MONTHS OF DELAY NOW.

AND I BELIEVE IF WE HAD TO GO THROUGH THE WARRANT PROCESS, THAT'D BE ANOTHER THREE MONTHS DELAY.

AND AGAIN, WE, WE ARE ALREADY IN THE PROCESS.

UH, IT'LL BE, UH, ONE RESIDENTIAL UNIT AND 14 HOTEL UNITS.

THAT'S ALL.

IT'S A FIVE STORY BUILDING.

BUT THERE'S NO RESIDENCE BESIDES THE PROPERTY OWNERS THAT ARE LIVING ON THERE NOW PLACE AT THIS TIME? NO.

IS THIS AN APARTMENT HOTEL? YES.

THERE'LL BE A, A UNIT THERE FOR, UH, THE MANAGER OF THE HOTEL READ THIS.

HEY DANIEL, LET'S CALL THE VOTE.

MR. I NEED MOTION EXCUSE, MR. MR. MAYOR, MAY I, MAY I JUST RESPOND TO MADE STATEMENTS? PLEASE, SIR.

I'LL GIVE YOU 30 SECONDS, BUT NOW WE CAN'T KEEP COMING.

THAT'S, I JUST WANNA POINT OUT, I HAVE ONE YEAR LEASES IN, IN THE ALAMAC.

THEY'RE ONLY ONE YEAR LEASES.

MOST OF THE TENANTS, OF COURSE, ARE LESS THAN ONE YEAR BECAUSE THEY'VE LIVED HERE FOR SOME TIME.

I WOULD AGREE, IF YOU COULD GIVE THE EXEMPTION TO AN HISTORICAL HOTEL, A HISTORICAL BUILDING, IT WASN'T A HOTEL AS THE ALAMAC WAS THAT, UH, I WOULD NOT MOVE ANY CONVERSION OR TERMINATE ANY LEASES WITHIN A YEAR.

UH, I CAN'T GIVE ANY MORE PROTECTION THAN THAT.

BUT TOMORROW, OF COURSE, I COULD CHANGE IT INTO A SHORT TERM RENTAL.

SO I'M, I AM WILLING TO GIVE THAT UP AND SAY THAT I WILL NOT DO ANYTHING WITHIN A YEAR.

IF YOU COULD GIVE ME THE POSSIBILITY HERE OF CON OF AT THE, IN THE FUTURE TIME TO CONVERT IT TO A HOTEL.

THANK YOU, MA.

UH, THANK YOU FOR ALLOWING ME TO DO THAT.

UM, SO MY AMENDMENT FOR 70, FOR THE 77 70 SEVENTH STREET.

WOULD YOU LIKE TO MOVE THAT AMENDMENT? I'D LIKE TO MOVE THAT.

THE MOTION TO AMEND REQUIRES A SECOND AND HAS TO BE VOTED ON.

YOU CAN DISCUSS THE AMENDMENT, OR, I, I'D LIKE TO DISCUSS IT A LITTLE BIT.

I I JUST LOOKED IT UP.

AND 77 10 IS LITERALLY SANDWICHED BETWEEN TWO RESIDENTIAL BUILDINGS.

AND LOOK, I, TO ME, IF THEY'VE BEEN IN THE PROCESS FOR ABOUT TWO YEARS ALREADY, I, I, I'M NOT GONNA, I'M, I DON'T THINK IT'S MY, I DON'T THINK IT'S RIGHT FOR ME TO IMPEDE ON THAT.

SO I, I'M GONNA SUPPORT THAT, UH, AMENDMENT BECAUSE THEY'RE IN THE PROCESS.

UM, AND THERE'S BEEN PLENTY OF NOTICE FOR THAT.

SO I, I'M, I'M GONNA BE SUPPORTIVE OF THAT.

MAYOR, CAN YOU CALL THE VOTE ON THAT AMENDMENT? CALL THE VOTE.

VOTE.

SO ON THE AMENDMENT PROPOSED BY COMMISSIONER DOMINGUEZ, I HAVE A MOTION BY COMMISSIONER DOMINGUEZ, A SECOND BY COMMISSIONER BOT.

ALL IN FAVOR OF THE AMENDMENT? AYE.

UM, THE SECOND AMENDMENT I HAVE, I UNDERSTAND THAT COMMISSIONER FERNANDEZ HAD A MUCH BROADER ONE THAN THE VERY NARROW ONE THAT I HAD.

THE SITUATION WITH THE ALAMAC HOTEL, IS THAT BEFORE AND AFTER HIS STREET? IT'S OKAY.

AND, UM, READ INTO THE RECORD MY AMENDMENT AND I, LET'S SEE IF I CAN GET A SECOND.

SO THIS AMENDMENT, UM, IS, IS AN APPLICABILITY CLAUSE.

AND IT WOULD READ, THIS ORDINANCE SHALL NOT APPLY TO PROPERTIES FRONTING THE WEST SIDE OF COLLINS BETWEEN 13TH AND 14TH STREETS, WITH A CONTRIBUTING BUILDING WITH LESS THAN 50 RESIDENTIAL UNITS.

IF THE CONTRIBUTING STRUCTURE WAS ORIGINALLY CONSTRUCTED AS A HOTEL AND THEN LATER CONVERTED TO APARTMENTS.

SUCH STRUCTURE IS EXEMPT FROM THE SCOPE OF THIS ORDINANCE AND CAN BE CONVERTED BACK TO A HOTEL USE.

THIS IS MUCH MORE NARROW THAN THE OTHER AMENDMENT.

AND I'D LIKE TO MOVE THIS ITEM.

THIS IS FOR THE, THIS IS FOR THE SAME PROPERTY THAT MR. SCHLESINGER IS CORRECT, CORRECT? YEAH, BUT THIS IS THIS.

NEED A SECOND, THE, A SECOND.

IT'S ALL THE VOTE.

SO THIS ON THE SECOND AMENDMENT ON 13TH AND 14TH STREET.

UH, ALL IN FAVOR? AYE.

ANY OPPOSED? NO OPPOSED.

SO ONE OPPOSED BY, BY

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SECONDED BY.

IS THERE ANYONE ELSE? I'M A NO.

SO MAGAZINE IS A NO, WE NEED, I THINK WE NEED A ROLL CALL THIS, YOU WANT MS. MAYOR ROLL CALL.

SO, OKAY.

I'M GONNA GO ALPHABETICALLY ON THE SECOND AMENDMENT.

COMMISSIONER BOTS? YES.

COMMISSIONER ROSE GONZALEZ? YES.

COMMISSIONER MAGAZINE? NO.

COMMISSIONER SUAREZ? NO.

AIR MINOR? YES.

MOTION PASSES.

SECOND AMENDMENT IS ACCEPTED.

DANIEL, AND THEN WE'LL CALL HIM THE VOTE.

OKAY, THANK YOU.

UM, AND THEN, UM, THE LAST CLARIFICATION HAS FINANCE, GIVEN THIS CLARITY ON, UH, LORD MANDEL'S PROPERTY, UH, IT, IT SOUNDS LIKE THE ISSUE IS THAT, THAT, UH, MR. MANDEL DOES NEED TO CONVERT THE, UM, HE NEEDS TO DO A CHANGE OF USE TO HOTEL TO REFLECT WHAT'S ACTUALLY HAPPENING ON THAT PROPERTY.

AND DID HE ALREADY APPLY, UH, FOR THAT? UM, I ASKED MR. MANDEL ASKED HIM, AND SO IT WOULD BE IN PROGRESS.

HE ALREADY APPLIED FOR MAKING THAT CHANGE.

I WANNA MAKE SURE THAT ANYONE THAT'S SUPPLIED, UH, IS PROTECTED.

SO, UM, HE SAYS HE HAS A BUILDING PERMIT PROCESS NUMBER.

SO, WHICH MEANS HE'S INITIATED THE APPLICANT.

I CAN'T CONFIRM THAT ON THE, ON THE FLY, BUT, BUT THAT HE HAS A BUILDING PERMIT PROCESS NUMBER, UM, TO CONVERT TO HOTEL.

SO, SO THIS ITEM WOULD BE PERSPECTIVE? NO, IT WOULD APPLY.

IT WOULD APPLY.

'CAUSE HE ONLY, HE ONLY PULLED HIS PROCESS NUMBER RECENTLY, SO WE WOULD SO YOU, IF YOU COULD PROPOSE A THIRD UH, CLAUSE TO SAY THAT THE ORDINANCE SHALL NOT APPLY TO PROPERTIES RENTING THE WEST SIDE OF JAMES? YEAH, I WOULD.

EAST SIDE, YEAH, I WOULD PROBABLY SAY FOR PROPERTIES FRONTING JAMES AVENUE BETWEEN 18TH AND 19TH STREET, WHICH HAVE APPLIED FOR A PROCE, AN APPLICABLE PROCESS NUMBER TO CHANGE THE USE AS OF THE EFFECTIVE DATE OF THE ORDINANCE.

I WILL MOVE THAT THIRD FRIENDLY AMENDMENT THROUGH THE VICE MAYOR.

WHO'S THAT FOR? I'M SORRY.

SORRY FOR THIS IS FOR THE JAMES MANOR, WHICH IT SOUNDS LIKE 1849 MAR 1849 JAMES AVENUE AND THE JAMES MANOR AND MR. UH, PLANNING DIRECTOR, WHAT IS IT CURRENTLY REGISTERED AS? IS IT CURRENTLY REGISTERED AS SHORT-TERM RENTAL? IT APPEARS THAT FROM THE INFORMATION THAT WE'VE LEARNED, THAT IT WAS ORIGINALLY A RESIDENTIAL BUILDING AND THEY MADE SOME MODIFICATIONS THAT, UM, ACTUALLY MAY HAVE MADE THEM HOTEL ROOMS AND THAT THEY WERE REQUIRED OR NOW BEING REQUIRED TO EITHER ADD KITCHENS BACK AND GET A SHORT-TERM RENTAL LICENSE BECAUSE SHORT-TERM RENTAL.

SO WHAT IS IT REGISTERED NOW AS AN APARTMENT? APPARENTLY IT IS A RESIDENTIAL BUILDING NOW.

SO WE'RE GOING TO PROVIDE AN EXEMPTION TO CONVERT A RESIDENTIAL BUILDING INTO A HOTEL.

IT'S NOT BEING CONVERTED, IT'S OPERATED AS A SHORT-TERM RENTAL TODAY, DAILY, WEEKLY, MONTHLY.

YEAH, CORRECT.

SO IT'S, I IT'S IMPORTANT NOBODY LIVES THERE.

TO KEEP AS MANY RESIDENTIAL UNITS IN THE CITY AS POSSIBLE.

IT'S IMPORTANT TO DISTINGUISH BETWEEN SHORT-TERM RENTALS AND HOTELS.

SHORT-TERM RENTALS REFER TO THE SHORT TERM RENTAL OF AN APARTMENT UNIT.

SO YOU CAN ONLY DO A SHORT-TERM RENTAL OR GET A BTR FOR A SHORT TERM RENTAL.

IF YOU ARE A RESIDENTIAL APARTMENT, HOTELS DON'T REQUIRE A SHORT-TERM RENTAL.

SO A LOT OF PEOPLE USE IT INTERCHANGEABLY, BUT THEY ARE INHERENTLY DIFFERENT.

I BELIEVE THE CASE WITH THE JAMES MANOR IS THAT SOME KITCHENS MAY HAVE BEEN REMOVED AND THEY MAY NOT TECHNICALLY QUALIFY AS RESIDENTIAL UNITS NOW.

SO THEY EITHER HAVE TO REINSTALL KITCHENS AND BECOME A RESIDENTIAL UNIT, UH, OR THEY COULD CONVERT TO A HOTEL IN WHICH THEY WOULD NOT REQUIRE THE REINSTALLATION OF THE KITCHENS.

I THINK THAT'S WHAT THE ISSUE IS NOW, FROM, FROM WHAT I UNDERSTAND, AND ACCORDING TO THE OWNER, THEY'VE INITIATED THE PROCESS TO CONVERT THE BUILDING FROM RESIDENTIAL APARTMENT TO HOTEL.

SO IF I UNDERSTAND THIS CORRECTLY, THIS IS BOOKKEEPING CATCHING UP WITH ACTUAL USE, IT'S NOT GOING TO EFFECTIVELY DEFACTO CHANGE THE USE, RIGHT? BECAUSE IT'S BEEN USED AS A NO, NOT NECESSARILY COMMISSIONER, BECAUSE WE DON'T KNOW WHETHER OR NOT THE WORK THAT WAS DONE BY REMOVING THE KITCHEN WAS PROPERLY AUTHORIZED.

AND SO THEY MAY VERY WELL HAVE TO DO A CHANGE OF USE, UH, AND OBTAIN A BUILDING PERMIT FOR A CHANGE OF USE FROM RESIDENTIAL TO HOTEL.

SO IS THERE AN OPPORTUNITY TO BIFURCATE THIS FROM EVERYTHING ELSE AND TREAT THIS SEPARATELY? SINCE IT DOESN'T SOUND LIKE WE HAVE OUR COMPLETE SET OF FACTS IN FRONT OF US? WE'RE, WE'RE ALL TRYING

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WE ALSO DON'T WANNA PENALIZE SOMEBODY FOR, UM, YOU KNOW, FOR OVER THE DECADES, A MISTAKE HAVING BEEN MADE OR I'M NOT, I'M NOT EVEN SURE WHAT WHAT THE TRUE ISSUE IS HERE, BUT I DON'T, WE HAVE OVER 200 AGENDA ITEMS TODAY.

CAN WE TAKE THIS SEPARATELY AND DEAL WITH IT AS A SEPARATE ISSUE? THE CHALLENGE COMMISSIONERS THIS, VICE MAYORS, THIS IS SECOND READING.

SO THE WAY WE WOULD DO THESE AMENDMENTS IS AS AN APPLICABILITY CLAUSE.

SO I WOULD RECOMMEND YOU DO IT AS PART OF YOUR VOTED SECOND READING.

SO WHAT IS THE BEST WAY TO MOVE FORWARD HERE? WELL, THIS IS A POLICY CALL FOR THE COMMISSION, RIGHT? SO IF YOU'D LIKE TO, UM, IF YOU'D LIKE TO EXEMPT THE, IF YOU'D LIKE TO ADDRESS THE, THE SITUATION FOR THE JAMES AVENUE PROPERTY, IT WOULD BE TO INCLUDE AN APPLICABILITY CLAUSE, UM, SIMILAR TO THE OTHER TWO.

IT'S CALLED A SIMILAR VOTE , WHICH COMMISSIONER? F*****G, DO YOU HAVE ANY WHO, WHO HAD THE MORE NARROW AMENDMENT ON THIS? I'M SORRY.

WHERE DID, WAS THAT YOURS? UH, WELL, THAT ONE ALREADY PASSED.

UM, I'D LIKE TO DO A NARROW AMENDMENT GIVEN THE FACT THAT HE'S BEEN OPERATING THIS WAY FOR 25 YEARS AND HE, HE'S ALREADY MADE THE ATTEMPT TO MAKE THE, OKAY, SO, SO MAKE YOUR, MAKE YOUR AMENDMENT, UM, MOTION.

SO, SO THE AMENDMENT IS THAT THE, THAT THE ORDINANCE, UH, SHALL NOT APPLY TO PROPERTIES ALONG JAMES AVENUE BETWEEN 18TH AND 19TH THAT HAVE OBTAINED AN APPLICABLE PROCESS NUMBER, UH, FOR CONVERSION TO A HOTEL.

IS THAT RIGHT? YEP.

SO I'LL MOVE THAT.

I'LL SECOND ANY DISCUSSION, CALL A VOTE.

SO ON THE THIRD AMENDMENT, 18TH, 19TH, JAMES AVENUE.

ALL IN FAVOR? AYE.

ANY OPPOSED? MAY? NO.

SO I HEAR TWO COMMISSIONER MAGAZINE AND, AND MAYOR AND, UH, COMMISSIONER SUAREZ, IS THAT CORRECT? AND I'M A NO ALSO, AND MAYOR IS A NO.

SO THAT'S THREE NOS.

THE AMENDMENT PASSES.

OKAY, DANIEL, AND THEN WE'LL CALL ON THE VOTE ON THE MAIN ITEM.

WELL, IF, IF I, I DON'T, I DON'T KNOW.

I HEARD ALEX BECAUSE HE IS BEHIND A MASK.

WERE YOU A YES OR WERE YOU A YAY OR NAY? ? THIS IS, YOU KNOW, I, I GOTTA TELL YOU THIS, IT REALLY PUTS ME ON A, IN A DIFFICULT POSITION BECAUSE AT LEAST MEL, I MET WITH MEL, I UNDERSTOOD MEL'S SITUATION.

I MET WITH THE INDIVIDUAL FROM NORTH BEACH.

I UNDERSTOOD THE INDIVIDUAL'S SITUATION IN NORTH BEACH.

AND, YOU KNOW, I'M BEING ASKED TO VOTE ON SOMETHING ON THE FLY THAT I HAVE NO IDEA THE CIRCUMSTANCES ON.

AND AFTER SOMETHING HAS BEEN THROUGH A PUBLIC VETTING PROCESS AND COMMITTEE, THIS CAN'T CONTINUE HAPPENING.

AND I'M TELLING YOU, PUTTING IT OUT THERE TO ALL THE INDIVIDUALS THAT DEAL WITH THIS POLICY, THERE'S A REASON WHY WE SPENT HOURS DISCUSSING THINGS AT COMMITTEE.

THERE'S REASONS WHY WE OPEN UP PUBLIC OPPORTUNITY TO BE HEARD AT COMMITTEE SO THAT WE DON'T HAVE THESE AMENDMENTS AT THE 12TH HOUR THAT BENEFIT.

NO ONE.

SO I'M GONNA VOTE NO ON IT.

THANKS.

SO HAVING HEARD COMMISSIONER FERNANDEZ'S VOTE, THE THIRD AMENDMENT IS NOT APPROVED.

AND BY THE WAY, THAT THAT WAS WELL SAID.

COMMISSIONER FERNANDEZ, I, WE, I'M SITTING HERE AND, AND I UNDERSTAND I'M NOT BLAMING ANYBODY.

IT'S OBVIOUSLY PEOPLE ARE REACHING OUT TO US, BUT IT, IT PUTS US IN A DIFFICULT POSITION AFTER WE'VE VETTED THIS FOR MULTIPLE MEETINGS, DANIEL, AND THEN WE HAVE A MAIN ITEM TO VOTE ON YOU.

YES, THANK YOU.

DANIEL SER WITH MIAMI DESIGN PRESERVATION LEAGUE.

SO, UM, I HADN'T BEEN FOLLOWING IT AS MUCH, AND EXCEPT FOR THE ORIGINAL PROPOSAL, WHICH WAS VERY WELL RECEIVED, I DID GET CONTACTED BY SOME FOLKS THAT ARE LOOKING AT WASHINGTON AVENUE POTENTIAL PROJECTS AND THEY SAID THIS ORDINANCE MIGHT STOP THAT, BUT IT SOUNDS LIKE IT'S MORE OF A STEP.

IS THAT CORRECT? THAT YOU ALL GET TO VOTE? SO I GUESS IF THE SPONSOR WERE WILLING MAYBE TO SHARE HOW THAT PROCESS WOULD WORK, AND IF YOU'RE DEFINITELY NO ON WASHINGTON AVENUE OR THAT YOU'RE OPEN TO CERTAIN BUILDINGS BEING, UH, YOU KNOW, POTENTIALLY CHANGED.

BECAUSE WHAT I WANNA SAY IS THAT, YOU KNOW, RESILIENCY IS ALSO ABOUT ADAPTABILITY.

AND WE HAVE A LOT OF HISTORIC BUILDINGS WHICH HAVE CHANGED OUR USE.

LOOK AT ALTON ROAD, THE SINGLE FAMILY HOMES IN THAT AREA WHERE YOU HAVE DENTIST'S, OFFICE, ET CETERA.

YOU HAVE SO MANY DIFFERENT BUILDINGS THAT HAVE BEEN ADAPTED.

SO I THINK WE DO HAVE TO LISTEN TO THE PROPERTY OWNERS AND THAT FLEXIBILITY THAT COMES WITH A CHANGE OF USE WHILE ALSO PROTECTING THE RESIDENTIAL, UH, HOUSING THAT IS SO IMPORTANT.

SO THANK YOU.

I FEEL SO, OKAY, LET'S CALL A VOTE COMMISSIONER MAGAZINE.

DO YOU MAKE THE MOTION AS AMENDED THEN? , WHICH AMENDMENT MEANING THE TWO AMENDMENTS ARE 77 70 NINTH STREET, 13TH AND 14TH STREETS.

WELL, THEY

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PASSED.

THEY DID, BUT IN OTHER WORDS, I DON'T HAVE A MAKER OF THE MOTION YET.

ON THE MAIN ORDINANCE.

ON THE MAIN ORDINANCE, YES.

I'LL, I'LL MAKE A MOTION.

SO AS AMENDED, UH, COMMISSIONER MAGAZINE MADE THE MOTION, AND I RECALL THAT COMMISSIONER FERNANDEZ SAID HE WOULD SECOND IT.

VICE MAYOR B? YES.

SEVEN Q IS A REESTABLISHED PORTION OF ANNUAL MIAMI BEACH INTERNATIONAL BOAT SHOW ON INDIAN CREEK.

MOTION IS ADOPTED AS AMENDED WITH THE TWO PREVIOUS AMENDMENTS THAT WERE MENTIONED.

R FIVE H, EASY COMMISSIONER MAGAZINE, RIGHT.

SMOOTH, UH, C SEVEN QC

[C7 Q A RESOLUTION OF THE MAYOR AND CITY COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF MIAMI BEACH, FLORIDA, AUTHORIZING THE ADMINISTRATION TO FINALIZE, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUCH DIRECTION AS THE CITY COMMISSION MAY PROVIDE, A LONG-TERM LICENSE AGREEMENT WITH YACHTING PROMOTIONS, INC. (LICENSEE) FOR THE MIAMI INTERNATIONAL BOAT SHOW (MIBS) IN MIAMI BEACH TO RE-ESTABLISH A PORTION OF THE ANNUAL MIAMI INTERNATIONAL BOAT SHOW ON THE INDIAN CREEK WATERWAY WHICH AGREEMENT AUTHORIZES THE LICENSEE TO TEMPORARILY OCCUPY (1) A STRIP OF LAND ABUTTING THE INDIAN CREEK WATERWAY ACROSS COLLINS AVENUE FROM PARKING LOT P-71, (2) A PORTION OF PARKING LOT P-74 CONSISTING OF NO MORE THAN 150 PARKING SPACES AND (3) THE NORTHERN PORTION OF INDIAN BEACH PARK (EXCLUSIVE OF THE PLAYGROUND AREA) CONSISTING OF APPROXIMATELY 31,540 SQ FT FOR A FIVE-YEAR LICENSE PERIOD FOR THE 2026-2030 ANNUAL SHOWS SUBJECT TO PAYMENT OF AN ANNUAL LICENSE FEE OF $154,800, AND SEPARATE AND APART FROM THE LICENSE FEE, AN ANNUAL RESIDENT BENEFIT CONTRIBUTION TO THE CITY IN THE AMOUNT OF $250,000 FOR WATERWAY AND SPOIL ISLAND CLEAN UP, WATER QUALITY AND RESTORATION EFFORTS OR OTHER WATERWAY HEALTH AND SAFETY-RELATED PROJECTS; AND FURTHER, AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER AND CITY CLERK TO EXECUTE THE LICENSE AGREEMENT.]

IT WAS SEPARATED BY MAYOR MINOR AND THAT'S IT.

AND SO THIS IS, UM, A, A NEW OPERATOR OF THE INTERNATIONAL BOAT SHOW THAT IS PROPOSING TO BRING BACK THE PORTION OF THE BOAT SHOW ON IN INDIAN CREEK.

THE REASON WHY I PULLED THE ITEM IS, UM, AND WE'LL, WE'LL HEAR MORE ABOUT IT, BUT I'LL SUMMARIZE IS THAT THERE ARE, MY UNDERSTANDING AND READING IS THAT THERE ARE A NUMBER OF GUYS, GUYS, IF WE CAN, THERE ARE A NUMBER OF SAFEGUARDS TO PROTECT, UM, LITERALLY SPECIFICALLY REGARDING TRAFFIC.

BUT THE REASON WHY I PULLED IT IS BECAUSE I LIVED THROUGH THE BOAT SHOW PRIOR TO WHEN I WAS EVEN COMMISSIONER.

SO I WAS NOT AN ELECTED OFFICIAL, BUT MY APARTMENT LITERALLY FACES INDIAN CREEK AND COLLINS, I WATCHED IT AND I'M SORRY, IT'S A DIFFERENT OPERATOR AND I KEEP SAYING THAT BECAUSE THEY SHOULD NOT BE HELD TO BLAME FOR WHAT HAPPENED, BUT IT WAS NOT A PRETTY SIGHT.

I REMEMBER AS A RESIDENT, I DIDN'T EVEN HAVE TO, I USED TO WALK OVER THERE SO I DIDN'T HAVE TO DRIVE IT, BUT I USED TO GET FRUSTRATED BECAUSE I'D SEE THAT LANE BLOCKED ON COLLINS AND SOMETIMES FOR LOADING, SOMETIMES JUST THE LANE WAS BLOCKED AND CARS ARE TRYING TO GET AROUND IT AND THE TRAFFIC WAS UNBEARABLE.

AND WHAT'S HAPPENED IN MID BEACH IS THE TRAFFIC HAS GOTTEN, UH, EXPONENTIALLY WORSE SINCE THAT TIME, JUST IN GENERAL.

UM, AND, AND THAT IS TRUE OF SOUTH FLORIDA IN GENERAL IN MIAMI BEACH.

AND I, I, IT BEHOOVES ME TO, TO BRING THIS UP, I, AND I'M CALLING IT BEFORE NOON BECAUSE I UNDERSTAND THE TRAFFIC CONSULTANT FOR THE BOAT SHOW OPERATOR IS HERE.

UM, BUT I I, I JUST, IT'S CRITICAL TO ME BECAUSE I I PERSONALLY THINK THAT PEOPLE ARE GONNA BE VERY CONCERNED THEY'RE GONNA, WHEN THEY HEAR ABOUT THIS, THEY'RE GONNA BE VERY CONCERNED BECAUSE I KNOW THE, UH, THE, THE CONCERNS AND THE FRUSTRATION THAT OUR RESIDENTS HAD, UH, IN YEARS PAST.

SO I'LL TURN IT OVER TO YOU.

RAQUEL WILLIAMS, ASSISTANT CITY MANAGER.

HONORABLE MAYOR, VICE MAYOR AND COMMISSIONERS.

SO ALONG WITH THE TOURISM AND CULTURE AND TRANSPORTATION MOBILITY TEAMS, WE NEGOTIATED AN AGREEMENT TO REINTRODUCE THE YACHT SHOW, UH, DISPLAY AS PART OF THE MIAMI INTERNATIONAL BOAT SHOW.

THE BOAT SHOW HAS BEEN A PARTNER WITH MIAMI BEACH FOR SEVERAL DECADES.

AS YOU RECALL, THEY OCCUPY THE CONVENTION CENTER IN FEBRUARY OF EVERY YEAR.

THEY BRING THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE TO MIAMI BEACH INTO MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, AND THEY ALSO OFFER A BILLION DOLLARS WORTH OF ECONOMIC IMPACT TO THE REGION.

SO THE YACHT PORTION OF THE BOAT SHOW ESSENTIALLY WILL HELP TO ELEVATE THE SHOW IN ITS ENTIRETY AND TO REALLY POSITION MIAMI BEACH AS A DESTINATION, UH, FOR THOSE, UH, INSPIRED BY BOATS, THOSE WHO ARE IN THE MARKET FOR BOATS AND THOSE WHO JUST, YOU KNOW, WANT TO COME TO THE BEACH FOR SOMETHING SPECIAL.

UH, WE HAVE NEGOTIATED A MULTI-YEAR AGREEMENT, WHICH WOULD BEGIN NEXT YEAR IN 2026 AND RUN THROUGH 2030.

THERE'S ALSO AN OPTION FOR A FIVE YEAR RENEWAL.

THE AGREEMENT CALLS FOR A LICENSE FEE FOR ABOUT $156,000.

THERE IS ALSO A PUBLIC BENEFIT TO THE TUNE OF $250 PER YEAR FOR WATERWAY RESTORATION AND CLEANUP EFFORTS THAT WOULD SIGNIFICANTLY ASSIST OUR ENVIRONMENT AND SUSTAINABILITY DEPARTMENT IN MAKING SURE THAT OUR WATERWAYS ARE PRISTINE.

WE HAVE NEGOTIATED SOME STRINGENT RESTRICTIONS AS IT RELATES TO TRANSPORTATION AND MOBILITY, AS IN YEARS PAST.

THERE, THERE WERE ROAD CLOSURES ASSOCIATED WITH THESE EVENTS, BUT NOW WE'RE NOT GONNA BE HAVING A ROAD CLOSURE AT ALL.

UH, THE FLOAT MOBILIZATION PROCESS THAT WILL ALLOW THE DOCK TO BE ASSEMBLED, THAT WILL ALL TAKE PLACE FROM THE WATERWAY.

UH, WE DO WANT TO ALLOW THEM TO HAVE SOME ACCESS TO INDIAN BEACH PARK AS WELL AS 150 PARKING SPACES ACROSS FROM THE, UH, WATERWAY ABUTTING, UM, INDIAN CREEK.

THE, WHERE ARE THOSE 150 SPACES? SO THE PARKING LOT JUST NORTH OF THE EDEN ROCK AND FOUNTAIN BLUE, IT'S TO THE NORTH END OF THAT PARKING FACILITY THAT'S P 71 AND INDIAN BEACH PARK IS ADJACENT

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TO THOSE PARKING SPACES.

SO THERE WILL BE SOME ACTIVATION IN TERMS OF STAGING AS WELL AS SOME OPERATIONAL BACK OF HOUSE, UH, OPPORTUNITIES FOR THE SHOW.

HOW, HOW MANY SPOTS ARE IN THAT LOT NOW, JUST GENERALLY? SO THERE ARE 150 SPACES THAT WILL BE UTILIZED FOR THE BOAT SHOW.

I THINK THERE'S OVER 500 SPACES TOTAL.

I THINK OUR TRANSPORTATION TEAM CAN CONFIRM.

SO, UH, WE DO RECOGNIZE THAT FOR THE SHORT PERIOD OF THE LICENSE, UH, PERIOD, WHICH IS 22 DAYS PER YEAR, WE DO NOT ANTICIPATE THAT THIS WOULD CREATE A SIGNIFICANT IMPACT IN THE AREA.

UH, WE DO KNOW THAT THE BOAT SHOW WILL BE PARTNERING WITH THE HOTELS IN THAT CORRIDOR AS WELL, AND THEY WILL ALSO UNDERSTAND THAT THE PARKING NEEDS IN THAT AREA WILL HAVE TO BE ACCOMMODATED FOR THE BOAT SHOW.

UH, I DO WANNA SHARE THAT WHEN YOU SAY THERE'S AN UNDERSTANDING, IS THAT CONTRACTUALLY REQUIRED? SO THE BOAT SHOW WILL HAVE TO SUBMIT TO THE CITY, UH, THEIR AGREEMENTS OR VERIFICATION OF THEIR AGREEMENTS WITH THOSE UPLAND PROPERTY OWNERS.

SO CONSIDER THE FOUNTAIN BLUE TO EDEN ROCK TO DEMONSTRATE TO THE CITY THAT THEY WILL HAVE ACCESS TO USE, UH, THE PROPERTY ALONG INDIAN CREEK.

UH, THE SHOW WILL CONSIST OF NOT ONLY PUBLIC PROPERTY, BUT ALSO PRIVATE PROPERTY.

THE AGREEMENT BEFORE YOU IS FOR THE PUBLIC PROPERTY, BUT WE DO HAVE SOME, UH, REGULATIONS AND REQUIREMENTS TO DEMONSTRATE THAT THEY DO HAVE ACCESS TO THAT PRIVATE PROPERTY.

UH, I DO WANNA MENTION THAT THE SITE PLAN HAS SIGNIFICANTLY BEEN REDUCED BY ABOUT 50% SINCE THE LAST TIME THE YACHT PORTION OF THE SHOW WAS HERE IN 2018.

THEY'VE ALSO REDUCED THE NUMBER OF BOATS.

IT WAS ABOUT 250, NOW IT'S JUST OVER 400 BOATS THAT WILL BE A PART OF THE YACHT SHOW.

UH, CAN YOU SAY THOSE NUMBERS AGAIN? WHAT WAS IT? AND WAS IT NOW? SURE.

IT WAS 250 AND NOW IT'S ABOVE 400.

ABOUT 450.

BUT YOU, YOU SAID IT WOULD REDUCE THE FOOTPRINT.

THE FOOTPRINT HAS BEEN REDUCED BY 50.

I'M SORRY, YOU, YOU'VE INCREASED THE NUMBERS.

THAT'S ALL RIGHT.

UH, THE FOOTPRINT HAS BEEN REDUCED BY 50%.

RIGHT? SO IT WAS FOUR 50, NOW IT'S TWO 50.

THAT, THAT, THAT'S THE, THAT'S THE NUMBER OF BOATS.

SO THERE'S, THERE'S TWO THINGS.

THE FOOTPRINT IS THE LENGTH, THE, THE LINEAR FOOTAGE THAT HAS BEEN REDUCED BY 50%.

THE NUMBER OF BOATS HAS ALSO BEEN REDUCED AS A RESULT OF THE REDUCTION IN THE FOOTPRINT.

SORRY IF I WAS UNCLEAR.

UH, I DO ALSO WANNA MENTION THAT THE SHOW WILL BE BRANDED WITH MIAMI BEACH AS PART OF IT.

SO THE YACHT PORTION THAT IS SPECIFIC TO INDIAN CREEK WILL HAVE MIAMI BEACH AS PART OF ITS NAME, LOGO, AND BRAND, WHICH IS A TREMENDOUS OPPORTUNITY FOR THE CITY BECAUSE THIS IS THE ELEVATED ELEMENT OF THE SHOW.

WE DEFINITELY WANT TO ASSOCIATE THE CITY WITH AN ELEVATED BRAND.

AND SO WE'RE DELIGHTED THAT THE EVENT PRODUCERS HAVE AGREED TO THAT STIPULATION.

THERE'LL ALSO BE NO STYROFOAM OR PLASTIC PRODUCTS.

THE, UH, DOCK MATERIALS WILL NOT BE MADE OF STYROFOAM AS IT HAD BEEN IN THE PAST.

AND SO WE WANTED TO MAKE SURE THIS WAS ENVIRONMENTALLY FRIENDLY.

HOW, HOW MANY DAYS RESIDENTS, HOW MANY DAYS IS THE SHOW BETWEEN, UH, LOAD IN THE SHOW AND LOAD OUT? THAT'S 22 DAYS.

NO, BUT HOW LONG IS THE ACTUAL SHOW? THE ACTUAL SHOW IS ABOUT FIVE DAYS.

FIVE DAYS.

AND AND RESIDENTS WILL ALSO GET A DISCOUNT OF 50% FOR ANY ELEMENT OF THE SHOW.

SO WHETHER IT'S AT THE MIAMI BEACH CONVENTION CENTER OR AT INDIAN CREEK, RESIDENTS WILL RECEIVE 50% OFF.

AND DOES THE 22 DAYS INCLUDE THE FIVE DAYS OF THE ACTUAL SHOW? YES.

22 DAYS INCLUDES LOAD IN SHOW DAYS AND LOAD OUT.

AND WHAT ABOUT USE OF THE SWELL BY INDIAN CREEK? SO THEY WILL HAVE ACCESS TO THE PROPERTY.

UH, WE WILL MAINTAIN THAT THE SIDEWALK BE AVAILABLE TO THE PUBLIC, BUT THEY WILL HAVE ACCESS TO THE PROPERTY ABUTTING INDIAN CREEK THAT IS, UH, UNDER THE OWNERSHIP OF THE CITY.

UH, WE'RE EXCITED, UH, TO BE HERE AND HAVE THE, THE CITY, UH, CONSIDERING THIS ITEM.

AND IN THE CONTRACT IT SPECIFICALLY SAYS THAT NO LANES AT ANY TIME SHOULD BE BLOCKED OFF? THAT'S CORRECT.

AND, AND THAT'S BOTH CONTRACT AND WHAT HAPPENS IF THAT'S VIOLATED? WHAT, WHAT IS THE CONTRACT CALLED FOR AS A PENALTY? SO WE, WE HAVE A TERMINATION FOR CONVENIENCE CLAUSE AND WE ALSO HAVE DEFAULT PROVISIONS.

AND SO WE'RE GONNA BE MONITORING THEM VERY STRICTLY TO ENSURE THAT THEY ADHERE TO THE REQUIREMENTS OF NOT ONLY THE AGREEMENT, BUT THE ASSOCIATED MOBILITY PLAN, WHICH THEY WILL SUBMIT TO THE CITY FOR REVIEW AND APPROVAL EACH YEAR.

AND THAT MOBILITY PLAN WILL OUTLINE ALL OF THE TRAFFIC MITIGATION AND TRAFFIC CIRCULATION THAT WILL BE REQUIRED FOR EACH ANNUAL SHOW.

IS THERE A WATER TAXI COMPONENT TO MOVE PEOPLE BACK AND FORTH? SO I, I KNOW THAT THEY ARE HERE AND WOULD LOVE TO EXPOUND ON THE MOBILITY PLAN AND WHAT THEY INTEND TO OFFER.

AND SO THIS IS SPENCER CROWLEY, UH, REPRESENTING INFORMAL MARKETS.

GOOD MORNING, MAYOR.

UH, COMMISSIONERS.

THANK YOU FOR HAVING US.

MY NAME IS SPENCER CROWLEY, 98 SOUTHEAST SEVENTH STREET.

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UM, IN RESPONSE TO YOUR SPECIFIC QUESTION ABOUT WATER TAXI, THERE IS A WATER TAXI THAT GOES TO GIBB PARK BECAUSE THAT PARK IS SPECIFICALLY SET UP WITH FLOATING DOCK TO ACCOMMODATE A WATER TAXI.

UH, AT THIS TIME WE'RE NOT PLANNING TO HAVE WATER TAXI GO TO THE INDIAN CREEK PORTION OF THE SHOW.

UM, JUST BECAUSE OF THE LOGISTICS OF HAVING TO GO UP NORTH, UH, AND THEN DOWN BACK INTO THE CREEK.

IT'S, IT'S A REALLY LONG BOAT RUN.

SO RICK, WHAT IS CONVENIENCE? SO THIS IS A FIVE YEAR CONTRACT? UH, THAT'S CORRECT.

SORRY, I'M ALWAYS SORRY FOR THIS HYPOTHETICAL.

I'M GIVING WORST CASE SCENARIOS, BUT WORST CASE SCENARIO, TRAFFIC LANES GET BLOCKED.

IT BECOMES NOT, NOT A PRETTY SITE AFTER YEAR ONE.

WHAT'S OUR IS IS CONVENIENCE CALLED FOR IN THE CONTRACT? IS, IS BLOCKING OF TRAFFIC LANES CONSIDERED A A A A VIABLE REASON TO VOID THE CONTRACT? WELL, TERMINATION FOR CONVENIENCE MEANS YOU COULD TERMINATE FOR ANY REASON OR NO REASON.

WHAT YOU HAD RAISED DURING YOUR BRIEFING WAS THE CONCERN THAT THE TERMINATION FOR CONVENIENCE IS ONLY ON FEBRUARY 1ST.

MEANING THAT IF THE FIRST YEAR SHOW PROCEEDS IN 26TH, YOU WOULD NOT BE ABLE TO CANCEL THE 27 SHOW, YOU WOULD ONLY BE ABLE TO CANCEL THE 28 SHOW FOR CONVENIENCE.

AND MIKEL IS LOOKING LIKE SHE WANTS TO ADD SOMETHING.

SO WE WANTED TO ALLOW THE, UH, EVENT PRODUCER AND OPERATOR TO HAVE THE ABILITY TO WORK OUT ANY POTENTIAL KINKS.

AS WE KNOW, BRINGING A SHOW BACK, UH, AFTER A NUMBER OF YEARS WITH A DIFFERENT FOOTPRINT AND WITH A DIFFERENT, UH, PRODUCER MIGHT HAVE A FEW AREAS WHERE WE WOULD WANT TO MASSAGE AND TWEAK FOR THE SECOND YEAR.

AND WE DIDN'T WANT TO PENALIZE THEM FOR, UH, NOT NECESSARILY HAVING ALL OF THOSE KINKS WORKED OUT IN YEAR ONE.

HOWEVER, IF THERE'S A DESIRE TO MOVE THE TERMINATION FOR CONVENIENCE DATE, WE CAN CERTAINLY, UM, HAVE THAT DISCUSSION.

AND I, I THINK THERE'S SOME FLEXIBILITY THERE.

BUT OUR INTENT TO OTHERWISE, THE TWO YEAR CON, IT'S A TWO YEAR DEAL REALLY WITH, 'CAUSE WE WON'T HAVE ANY, ANY EVIDENCE OF IT UNTIL, WELL, WE CERTAINLY, YOU KNOW, WE WANTED TO ENSURE THAT WE HAD A, A SMOOTH SHOW AND THAT WE WOULD MONITOR, UH, THE SHOW AND EVERY ELEMENT OF IT.

BUT WE ALSO UNDERSTAND THAT WE PROBABLY WILL HAVE TO MAKE SOME TWEAKS ONCE WE OBSERVE THINGS AND, YOU KNOW, OBSERVE LESSONS LEARNED FOR THE FUTURE.

AND THEN WE WOULD IMPLEMENT THAT IN YEAR TWO.

AND MR. MAYOR, IF YOU WILL, UM, I THINK, AND THE ATTORNEY WILL, UH, CITY ATTORNEY WILL AGREE THAT THERE'S A DISTINCTION BETWEEN TERMINATING FOR A CONVENIENCE AND DEFAULT.

SO IF WE DEFAULT ON AN AGREEMENT PROVISION, THE CITY CAN CANCEL THE AGREEMENT.

UH, IF THE CITY WANTS TO CANCEL FOR, UH, WHATEVER REASON, THEY JUST DON'T WANT A BOAT SHOW.

THAT'S WHERE THE THE DATE COMES INTO, INTO PLAY.

SO, I MEAN, YEAH, BUT WE ALL KNOW HOW THIS, LIKE YOU'RE SAYING, IF WE, IF WE BLOCK COLLINS AVENUE, THAT'S A DEFAULT TO THE AGREEMENT.

THE CITY CAN TERMINATE RIGHT AWAY.

YEAH, I I I GET THAT.

BUT, AND I'M, I'M SORRY TO KEEP ASSUMING THAT IT'S GONNA HAPPEN 'CAUSE UH, BUT WE HAVE TO ASSUME WORST CASE SCENARIOS, BUT OH, BUT COME ON, MAYOR, OR COME ON, COMMISSIONERS.

THE 18 WHEELER, YOU COULDN'T GET IT BACKED UP ONTO THE SW WITHOUT BLOCKING THE TRAFFIC.

IT WAS, IT WAS 15 MINUTES, IT WAS 20 MINUTES.

I'M JUST SAYING THERE, THERE'S, THERE'S, THERE'S LEVELS OF DEGREE.

I JUST WANNA MAKE SURE.

'CAUSE THERE, THERE'S REALLY, WHEN IT COMES TO THIS TRAFFIC, AND THAT'S WHY I'M TRYING TO, I'M, I'M, I'M SPENDING SO MUCH TIME ON THIS, THERE LITERALLY IS NO ROOM FOR ERROR.

THAT TRAFFIC IS SO BAD.

IT'S, IT'S, IT'S ALL WE HEAR ABOUT FROM OUR RESIDENTS ALL OVER THE CITY, ESPECIALLY MAIN BEACH.

WE DON'T EVEN HAVE THE, THE, THE ABILITY TO SAY WE'RE GONNA BLOCK THE TRAFFIC FOR FIVE MINUTES.

IT WILL SEND FOR MILES, IT WILL BLOCK, IT'LL, IT'LL, IT'LL SPIRAL OUTTA CONTROL.

THERE'S, THERE'S NO ROOM FOR ERROR HERE.

ZERO.

AND THAT'S WHY I'M, THAT'S WHY I AM BRINGING THIS UP BECAUSE I I I'M, I HAVE TO ASSUME I HAVE TO WHEN, IF WE'RE GONNA APPROVE THIS, THE WORST CASE SCENARIO AND THE WORST CASE SCENARIO IS WHEN WE GET CALLS, WHY IS OUR LANE BEING BLOCKED? WHY IS TRAFFIC ON COLLINS BEING BLOCKED? AND I, AND I'M, THAT'S WHAT I'M, THAT'S WHY I'M PULLING THE NOT SO I'M TELLING YOU.

WE'LL SEE.

PARTNER TO, TO DO OUR BEST AND, AND TO MAKE SURE THAT THERE ARE, UH, VERY LIMITED ISSUES.

WE UNDERSTAND THE SENSITIVITY TO IT.

WE INCLUDED IN THE AGREEMENT AND BOLD ALL CAPS.

IN NO EVENT WILL COLLINS AVENUE, UH, LANE ENCLOSURES OR INDIAN CREEK CORRECT.

THAT IT'S JUST NOT, WE'RE WE'RE NOT ALLOWED TO DO THAT.

IF WE DO IT, WE DEFAULT CITY CAN DEFAULT US.

AND THIS WHOLE THING IS OVER.

WE UNDERSTAND.

WE TAKE VERY SERIOUSLY, UM, OUR IMPACT ON THE COMMUNITY.

WE WANT TO BE GREAT PARTNERS.

I THINK INFORMA IS A LONG TIME PARTNER OF THE CITY WITH THE CONVENTION CENTER.

THEY HAVE OVER SIX, UH, HALF A DOZEN SHOWS AT THE CONVENTION CENTER.

UM, AND I WILL SAY YES, YOU HAVE, AS FAR AS I CAN TELL, YOU'VE BEEN A VERY, VERY GOOD PARTNER.

SO THIS IS, THIS IS VERY MUCH INCUMBENT UPON US AS PART OF BEING A GOOD COMMUNITY

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SO WE, WE GET IT, WE TAKE IT VERY SERIOUSLY.

WE HAVE HIRED THE BEST, UH, TRAFFIC ENGINEERS IN THE CITY, UH, KIMBERLY HORN WHO ARE WITH US TODAY TO HELP, UH, COME UP WITH A MOBILITY PLAN.

AND WE'LL BE WORKING WITH THEM THROUGHOUT THE SHOWS SO WE UNDERSTAND THE CONCERNS, WE UNDERSTAND THE SENSITIVITY.

WE'RE, WE'RE TAKING IT VERY SERIOUSLY AND WE THINK WE'RE GONNA DO A GREAT JOB.

AND, AND JUST TO ADD, THE BOAT SHOW IS ONE OF THE FEW MAJOR SHOWS THAT COMES TO THE CITY AND INVESTS IN A MOBILITY PLAN AND TRANSPORTATION AND TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT.

UH, WE HAVE SEEN THEM ACTIVATE YEAR AFTER YEAR AND, UH, RATHER THAN ALWAYS COMING TO THE CITY ASKING US TO PROVIDE FUNDING FOR, FOR THOSE RESOURCES, THEY HAVE ALWAYS COME TO THE TABLE AND MADE SURE THAT THEY OFFERED THAT AS AN ELEMENT OF THEIR SHOW.

AND SO WE HAVE NEGOTIATED IN GOOD FAITH AND WE BELIEVE THAT THIS OPERATOR HAS BEEN RESPONSIBLE AND WILL CONTINUE TO BE RESPONSIBLE AND WE ARE IN SUPPORT OF ALLOWING FOR THIS FIVE YEAR LICENSE AGREEMENT.

ARE YOU AMENABLE TO MOVING THAT DATE TO MARCH 1ST? UM, IF THAT MAKES THE COMMISSION FEEL BETTER, THAT'S OKAY WITH US.

I WAS JUST GONNA SAY, LOOK, I, I THINK WE'VE STRUCK THE FEAR OF GOD INTO THEM.

UM, AND, AND LOOK, THIS IS A, UH, THIS IS A PARTNERSHIP.

WE'RE LOOKING FOR A LONG-TERM, UM, YOU KNOW, RELATIONSHIP.

WE'RE I DON'T THINK THAT THE BODE SHOW IS ACT IS LOOKING FOR A WHAM AND BAM AND, AND GET OUTTA TOWN.

THIS IS, UM, THE, THEY, THEY HAVE THE BEST INTEREST OF THE COMMUNITY, UM, IN MIND.

AND WHEN, WHEN THEY APPROACHED ME FOR THE BOAT SHOW, BEING THE BOATING COMMISSIONER, I GUESS, UM, I SAID, ABSOLUTELY NO, NO LANE CLOSURES AT ALL.

UM, EVERYTHING SHOULD BE BUILT FROM THE WATER.

AND, AND THEY AGREED.

UM, AND SO I THINK THAT THIS IS GOING TO BE A GREAT, UH, BONUS FOR, FOR MIAMI BEACH.

AND, AND WE HAVE, WE'RE THEY'RE, THEY'RE DOING A COMMUNITY BENEFIT OF 250,000 THAT'S GONNA GO DIRECTLY TO OUR WATERWAYS.

HALF OF MIAMI BEACH IS WATER.

UM, AND, AND IT'S GONNA BE RECURRING.

SO, UM, I I WELCOME THE SHOW.

I, I I USED TO LOVE GOING TO IT.

UM, AND NOW THAT WE'VE, WE'VE REALLY SIGNIFICANTLY LOWERED THE FOOTPRINT BY 50%, UM, IT'S GONNA BE SUCH AN ADDED BENEFIT.

AND, AND THE FACT THAT ALSO THIS SHOW IS GONNA BE PLASTIC FREE, RIGHT? THERE'S NOT GONNA BE A, A SINGLE PIECE OF PLASTIC AT THIS SHOW.

UH, THEY'RE GONNA HIRE SPECIFICALLY PEOPLE JUST TO BE ON THE DOCK AND ON A KAYAK TO MAKE SURE THAT IF THERE, IF THERE IS ANY TRASH FLOATING AROUND, THEY'RE GONNA PICK IT UP RIGHT AWAY.

UM, SO IT, IT, IT, IT REALLY SETS THE STAGE ALSO FOR A PRECEDENT OF, OF EVENTS THAT WE WANNA SEE IN MIAMI BEACH THAT ARE SUSTAINABLE AND, AND ARE PLASTIC FREE.

SO WITH THAT, I'D LIKE TO MOVE THE ITEM.

IF I COULD JUST FOLLOW UP ON, ON ON ONE ISSUE BEFORE I TALKED.

I KNOW COMMISSIONER FERNANDEZ, UM, WE WERE TALKING ABOUT, CAN YOU, CAN YOU GO INTO THE, UH, 'CAUSE RICK, WE ALSO DISCUSSED THE DEFAULT PROVISION RELATING TO TRAFFIC.

CAN YOU, CAN YOU EXPLAIN THAT? SURE.

WELL, CURRENTLY THE DEFAULT PROVISION ALLOWS FOR A 10 DAY, UM, OPPORTUNITY TO CURE.

SO TO YOUR POINT, IF TRAFFIC IS OR FAILURE TO COMPLY WITH THE TRAFFIC PROVISIONS, IS, IS MEANS FOR A DEFAULT, IT WOULD BE MEANINGLESS UNLESS IT'S LIKE AN AUTOMATIC TERMINATION.

IN MY VIEW.

ANY OBJECTION TO THAT? WELL, I THINK IF IT'S RELATED TO A LANE CLOSURE OR LANE BLOCKAGE, THAT'S, THAT'S FINE.

DO YOU THINK IT NEEDS, UH, YOU'RE COMFORTABLE WITH THAT? I, I THINK WE COULD DO THAT FOR A LANE BLOCKAGE.

I THINK MAYBE WE COULD SHORTEN THE CURE PERIOD IF IT'S SOMETHING, UH, SUBSTANTIAL, BUT THAT DOESN'T ENTAIL A LANE BLOCKAGE, MAYBE.

DO YOU HAVE A PROPOSAL? IS THIS FINE? LET'S JUST BE CLEAR.

IS THIS, I'LL TURN TO ERIC NOW.

IS THIS FINAL, ARE WE LITERALLY NEGOTIATING THE FINAL TERMS OF THE CONTRACT RIGHT NOW? SO YOU ARE APPROVING A LICENSE AGREEMENT IN SUBSTANTIAL FORM TO WHAT WAS ATTACHED TO THE ITEM.

HOWEVER, IF YOU HAVE TWEAKS OR WOULD LIKE TO SEE US MODIFY SOMETHING, NOW'S THE TIME THAT WE WOULD LIKE TO HAVE THAT FEEDBACK SO THAT WE CAN INCORPORATE IT IN.

THAT'S WHAT I THOUGHT.

THE FINAL AGREEMENT.

AUTOMATIC, RIGHT? THAT'S, YOU'VE

AND I, I WOULD LIKE FEEDBACK FROM TRANSPORTATION AS TO WHAT WOULD BE AN APPROPRIATE TIMEFRAME FOR THE CURE.

A LINK CLOSURE IS AUTOMATIC.

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GIVEN ME SOME, BY THE WAY.

YOUR RESPONSES HAVE GIVEN ME COMFORT.

WELL, I MEAN, WE, TRUST ME, MR. MAYOR, WE'RE, WE'RE, AS I MENTIONED BEFORE, WE UNDERSTAND THE SENSITIVITY.

WE UNDERSTAND IF THIS DOESN'T GO WELL, THEN IT'S GONNA CREATE PROBLEMS FOR US DOWN THE LINE.

WE DO NOT WANT TO BE A PROBLEM.

WE WANT TO BE AN ASSET TO THE CITY OF MIAMI BEACH.

WE KNOW CITY OF MIAMI BEACH IS TRYING TO ATTRACT THE RIGHT TYPES OF EVENTS, UH, TO COME BACK TO THE BEACH.

WE BELIEVE WE'RE A MARQUEE EVENT THAT'S BEEN IN THIS COMMUNITY FOR DECADES.

UM, ALONG WITH, YOU KNOW, FOOD AND WINE FESTIVAL, THE, THE WATER PALOOZA, THESE OTHER EVENTS THAT ARE NOW COMING TO THE BEACH AND HAVING REALLY GOOD IMPACTS.

THAT'S THE, THAT'S THE TYPE OF EVENT WE BELIEVE WE ARE.

WE KNOW IF WE CREATE SIGNIFICANT NEGATIVE IMPACTS, WE'RE NOT GONNA LIVE UP TO THAT.

SO WE'RE VERY, UM, NO, AND, AND YOU HAVE BEEN A GOOD PARTNER.

AND WE, AND WE KNOW THAT WE HAVE TO LIVE UP TO WHAT WE'RE, WHAT WE'RE SAYING.

SO, AND, AND THE AND THE BOATS THAT ARE COMING IN, THE YACHTS, THEY'RE COMING IN BY WATER.

JOSE, TRANSPORTATION DIRECTOR.

UH, SO JUST WANTED TO ADD, WE'RE GONNA BE MONITORING ALL ACTIVITIES IN THE PUBLIC RIGHT OF WAY, VERY CLOSELY.

UH, BOAT SHOW WILL ALSO HAVE THEIR CONSULTANT MONITORING OUR CON OUR CONTRACTOR WILL BE MONITORING TRAFFIC AS WELL.

IF IT'S NOT ABOUT A, IF YOU RECEIVE ANY REPORTS, IT'S NOT A AMOUNT MONITORING, IT'S ABOUT A, A CONTRACT PROVISION THAT WE'RE PUTTING IN.

UNDERSTOOD OUR EXPECTATION.

IF, IF WE RECEIVE ANY, BECAUSE WE ALL KNOW WE, WE, WE, I I APPRECIATE THAT, JOSE, BUT WE ALL KNOW THERE'S, WE, YOU JUST CANNOT ENFORCE AND MONITOR EVERYTHING.

IT'S JUST, IT'S IMPOSSIBLE.

WE, WE, THAT'S BEEN PROVEN TIME AND TIME AGAIN.

THIS IS A CONTRACTUAL PORTION THAT WE'RE NEGOTIATING HERE.

WHAT WOULD BE A REASONABLE TIME? LANE CLOSURES AUTOMATIC.

WHAT ABOUT, AND THAT'S WHAT I WAS GONNA SAY.

OUR EXPECTATION IS THAT IF, IF WE ARE MADE AWARE OF A LANE CLOSURE, THERE ARE NO LANE CLOSURES ALLOWED.

SO IF, IF IT HAPPENS, IT NEEDS TO BE CURED INSTANTANEOUS, I IMMEDIATELY, BECAUSE THEY'RE COMMITTING TO NOT CLOSING ANY LANES THROUGHOUT THE SHOW OR BEFORE OR AFTER, OR DURING LOADING AND LOADOUT.

RICK, DO YOU HAVE ANY FOLLOW UP? UM, NO, BUT IN TERMS OF SOMETHING OTHER THAN A LANE CLOSURE, WHAT WOULD BE A REASONABLE PERIOD OF TIME TO, TO CURE IF THERE'S, UM, EXCESSIVE TRAFFIC AS A RESULT OF ACTIVITIES OR IF THEY'RE, UM, OUTSIDE OF THEY'RE, THEY'RE DOING CONDUCTING ACTIVITIES OUTSIDE OF HOURS.

AND YOU DON'T HAVE TO DECIDE THIS NOW.

I SUPPOSE WE CAN WORK ON THIS OFFLINE.

COMMISSIONER FE, COMMISSIONER FERNANDEZ.

I MEAN, I JUST WANNA MAKE SURE 'CAUSE THAT'S WHY I TURNED TO ERIC ABOUT YEAH, I MEAN, WE, I CAN TALK TO THE TEAM, BUT I THINK WE'D BE OKAY WITH SOMETHING LIKE THREE BUSINESS DAYS OR, YOU KNOW, FIVE DAYS JUST TO, BUT, BUT FOR SOMETHING THAT'S TRAFFIC RELATED, IF THE SHOW ITSELF IS ONLY FIVE DAYS, IT, IT WOULD NEED TO BE WITHIN AN HOUR.

WELL, TRAFFIC, I, I THOUGHT WE WERE INCLUDING WITHIN THE AUTOMATIC DEFAULT, SO, OKAY.

I I THOUGHT IT WAS ONLY A, A LANE CLOSURE WAS AUTOMATIC, BUT TRAFFIC IN GENERAL IS AN AUTOMATIC DEFAULT.

WELL, I MEAN, , WHAT DO YOU MEAN BY TRAFFIC? LIKE, IF, IF THERE'S LIKE EXTRA CARS ON THE ROAD, WE CAN'T JUST DEFAULT THE, I THINK WE NEED TO TO WORK ON THIS AND REFINE IT A LITTLE BIT.

I MEAN, IT, IT'S LIKE, I THINK IT'S VERY CLEAR IN THE AGREEMENT, THE TRIGGERS FOR DEFAULT, RIGHT? SO NOW WE, AND THAT'S ALREADY BEEN LAID OUT, THAT'S ALREADY BEEN NEGOTIATED.

THE DEFAULT CURE PROVISION IS 10 DAYS.

SO NOW WE'RE TALKING ABOUT JUST REDUCING THAT TO SOME LOWER AMOUNT, WHICH FOR DEPARTMENT DOING DEFAULT THREE, THREE BUSINESS DAYS OR FIVE DAYS, I THINK WE NEED TO HAVE A CONVERSATION.

IF THERE'S, IF THERE'S AN IMPACT DURING, UH, PEAK TRAFFIC TIMES, THEN THAT'S, I THINK AN HOUR OR TWO TO RESOLVE THE ISSUE WOULD BE MOST APPROPRIATE.

RIGHT? I DON'T KNOW THAT AN IMMEDIATE CURE WOULD BE FEASIBLE AND CORRECT, REALISTIC, BUT I THINK A COUPLE HOURS AT TWO THE MOST DURING PEAK TRAFFIC HOURS, I THINK THAT WOULD BE REASONABLE.

WHAT DO WE, WHAT DO WHICH, WHICH ASPECT? SO FOR TRAFFIC, UH, BLOCKAGE OR TRAFFIC IMPACTS, UH, THAT DO NOT NECESSARILY MEET A CLOSURE, BUT HAS AN IMPACT TO THE CITY IN SUCH A WAY THAT IT WELL, MAYBE IT NEEDS TO BE CURED THE NEXT DAY IS THE OTHER POSSIBILITY, OR THE NEXT PEAK TRAFFIC PERIOD.

THAT'S FINE.

SOMETHING LIKE THAT.

US FOR SOLUTIONS? AND WE'RE TELLING THEM THAT WE'RE DOING EVERYTHING WE ABSOLUTELY CAN TO TRY TO MITIGATE AND IMPROVE TRAFFIC, WHILE AT THE SAME TIME CASTING A VOTE TO BRING A SPECIAL EVENT INTO THIS AREA OF THE, OF THE CITY.

I HAVE MANY OF THE SAME CONCERNS THAT YOU SHARE.

UM, WHEN WE, WHEN WE THINK ABOUT THIS AREA OF THE, OF THE CITY, THE NUMBER ONE CONCERN THAT I RECEIVE FROM RESIDENTS IS TRAFFIC.

COLLINS AVENUE GETS, UH, GETS, GETS SQUID LOGGED.

AND YOU KNOW, I I, I APPRECIATE THE IMPORTANT ROLE OF THE, OF THE BOAT SHOW.

IT'S 50 YEAR HISTORY WITH OUR CITY, AND IT'S ALWAYS EXCEEDED ALL OF ITS EXPECTATIONS.

UM, BUT, YOU KNOW, YOU KNOW, I TOO GOT A CALL FROM THE LOBBYIST AND THAT WANTED TO BRING THE SHOW BACK TO MIAMI BEACH.

AND, AND WHAT I TOLD THEM IS THAT I HAVE THE CONCERNS OF THESE RESIDENTS.

WHAT DO I TELL MY RESIDENTS WHO ARE SITTING IN TRAFFIC BEGGING

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I'M HOPEFUL BY EVERYTHING, BY ALL THE SAFEGUARDS THAT MR. CROWLEY HAS PUT IN PLACE, THAT HOPEFULLY IT'LL ALL WORK OUT WELL.

UH, AND I TRUST IN THE WORD OF, OF WHAT'S BEING, OF WHAT'S BEING SAID HERE AND THE DESIRES TO MITIGATE EVERYTHING.

I JUST TODAY, I, YOU KNOW, OUT OF RESPECT TO ALL OF THOSE RESIDENTS WHO I HAVE TOLD THAT I'M TRYING TO DO EVERYTHING THAT I CAN TO IMPROVE THEIR QUALITY OF LIFE, TO REDUCE THE AMOUNT OF TIME THAT THEY SIT IN TRAFFIC, ESPECIALLY DURING THIS TIME OF THE YEAR, I CAN'T SUPPORT THIS ITEM TODAY.

GOSH, I WISH I WOULD HEAR SO MUCH PASSION ABOUT TRAFFIC WHEN WE'RE TALKING ABOUT DENSITY INCREASES WHICH AFFECT TRAFFIC THE ENTIRE YEAR.

UM, THEN EVERYBODY GOES QUIET.

BUT HERE'S WHAT I WOULD SAY ABOUT THE BOAT SHOW WHEN WE LOST THE BOAT SHOW AND WHEN DID WE LOSE THE BOAT SHOW? HOW MANY YEARS AGO? 2018 WAS THE LAST YEAR THAT THE YACHT PORTION WAS HERE.

YEAH, I THINK IT WAS DEVASTATING, UM, FOR SO MANY PEOPLE, FOR THE ECONOMY IN GENERAL.

UM, I'M VERY HAPPY TO HAVE IT BACK.

I UNDERSTAND THAT, UM, DURING CERTAIN EVENTS LIKE THE BOAT SHOW AND OUR BASEL, YOU KNOW, UM, IT'S UNCOMFORTABLE.

IT ABSOLUTELY IS.

UM, AND I'M GLAD THAT YOU'RE PUTTING THESE PROTECTIONS IN PLACE, BUT I ALSO THINK THAT WE NEED TO RECOGNIZE THE BENEFITS THAT COME ALONG WITH IT, ESPECIALLY AT A TIME WHEN, UM, OUR BUSINESS COMMUNITY, UH, YOU KNOW, IT IS SAYING, HEY, YOU KNOW, WHERE'S THE SEASON? WE'RE NOT, YOU KNOW, SEEING IT.

SO I'M, I'M HAPPY TO HAVE IT BACK BECAUSE IT'S SOMETHING ICONIC.

IT'S WORLD RENOWNED.

IT'S, UM, THE EXACT TYPE OF TOURISM THAT WE WANNA CREATE.

IT'S THE INVESTMENT THAT WE'VE MADE IN OUR CONVENTION CENTER.

IT'S THE $75 MILLION THAT WE JUST ALLOCATED AS A GRANT TO BUILD THAT CONVENTION CENTER HOS HOTEL.

SO WHILE IT IS, UM, YOU KNOW, I THINK THAT THEY'VE AGREED TO MAKE AS MANY TRAFFIC, UM, ACCOMMODATIONS AS THEY COULD POSSIBLY DO.

SO I'M HAPPY TO SUPPORT THIS.

AND, YOU KNOW, FOR, UM, MY COLLEAGUES THAT ARE SO CONCERNED ABOUT TRAFFIC, I KNOW THAT THERE ARE SEVERAL DENSITY ITEMS COMING UP TODAY, AND I HOPE THAT THEY WILL LOOK AT THOSE WITH THE SAME TYPE OF PASSION, UM, BECAUSE THOSE, UH, CAUSE DISCOMFORT 365 DAYS OF THE YEAR AND NOT JUST A FEW, UH, DURING THE BOAT SHOW.

I, I ACTUALLY NEED A SECOND TO HAVE A LOOK.

I SECONDED IT.

SO ALL IN FAVOR OF THE ITEM AS AMENDED, PLEASE SAY AYE.

ANYONE OPPOSED? COMMISSIONER FERNANDEZ IS OPPOSED.

COMMISSIONER FERNANDEZ ITEM IS APPROVED.

C SEVEN Q AS AMENDED.

THANK YOU ALL VERY MUCH.

GOOD MORNING COMMISSIONERS.

NINE AC,

[R9 AC DISCUSS A POTENTIAL PARTNERSHIP WITH BEACH BOX FOR THE INSTALLATION OF BEACH BOX KIOSKS AND/OR PORTABLE LOCK BOXES ON THE CITY’S BEACHES.]

SORRY.

R NINE AC IS DISCUSSED.

PARTNERSHIP WITH BEACH BOX, INSTALL KIOSK AT CITY BEACHES, R NINE AC.

MADAM COMMISSIONER EZ , I'M JUST KIDDING.

YOU TOLD ME FERNANDEZ EARLIER.

UM, HI.

UM, I, UH, WAS BROUGHT THIS ITEM FORWARD BY, UH, JERRY LIPIN AND, UH, THE RESIDENT, UM, WHO HAD THIS IDEA IS HERE AS WELL.

AND, UH, I WILL LET THE CITY ADMINISTRATION TAKE IT AWAY.

MR. MANAGER, MR. ATTORNEY, MR. CLERK.

UM, ELIZABETH MIRO, ASSISTANT DIRECTOR FOR FACILITIES AND FLEET MANAGEMENT.

FOR THE RECORD, THIS ITEM WAS BROUGHT FIRST, UM, BEFORE THE FINANCE AND ECONOMIC RESILIENCY COMMITTEE.

UM, MR. I EUGENE HERE, UM, HE PRESENTED THIS ITEM AND FOR, DID NOT GO FORWARD WITH THIS CONCEPT, HOWEVER, IT WAS LATER DISCUSSED AT THE DECEMBER 13TH, PUBLIC SAFETY AND NEIGHBORHOOD QUALITY OF LIFE MEETING.

THE ITEM HE'S PRESENTING BEFORE YOU TODAY IS A BEACH BOX, WHICH ARE SAFES THAT WE CAN PUT ON THE BEACH.

UM, HE'S PROVIDED THIS CONCEPT AND ALSO A PROPOSAL.

THE CITY'S ADMINISTRATION'S POSITION, HOWEVER, IS IF WE WERE TO GO FORWARD WITH SOMETHING LIKE THIS TO ISSUE AN RFP.

BOUCHER BROTHERS, WHO IS THE CURRENT CITY CONTRACTED CONCESSIONAIRE FOR LUMAS PARK, DOES HAVE EXCLUSIVITY, AND THEY DO OFFER A SIMILAR PRODUCT CALLED AQUA VAULTS ON OUR CITY'S BEACHES.

UM, NOW IN MY AGENDA REVIEW, THE CITY ATTORNEY'S OFFICE HAD CONCERNS THAT THIS CONFLICTED WITH, UH, EXISTING AGREEMENTS WITH OUR BEACH VENDOR, AND IF SOMEBODY FROM THE CITY WOULD SPEAK ON THAT.

YES, ABSOLUTELY.

SO THERE'S TWO THINGS THAT SHOULD BE NOTED.

ONE, AT CURRENT, UH,

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ADDITIONALLY, UNDER THE FIFTH RESTATED RULES AND REGULATIONS, WE DO NOT ALLOW THIS TYPE OF PRODUCT ON OUR BEACHES, UM, FOR, YOU KNOW, UPLAND PROPERTY CONCESSIONAIRES AS WELL.

UM, AND, UH, THE VENDOR.

YOU HAVE CONTRACTS WITH HOTELS CURRENTLY, AND AS IT STANDS, CAN HE CONTINUE TO WORK WITH HOTELS ON? HE CAN CONTINUE TO WORK WITH HOTELS, HOWEVER, UM, NOT ON THE CITY'S, UM, YOU KNOW, SAND.

THIS IS NOT ONE OF THE APPROVED COMMERCIAL CONCESSIONS THAT WE ALLOW UNDER THE BEACHFRONT RULES AND REGULATIONS.

HEY, UH, THANK YOU GUYS.

GOOD MORNING, UH, MAYOR STEVEN MINOR.

UH, ESTEEM COMMISSIONERS.

UH, SO I WOULD LIKE TO DEFER THIS ITEM.

I'M GONNA BE WORKING WITH POTENTIALLY, UH, BOUCHER BROTHERS MANAGEMENT TO, UH, FORGE A PARTNERSHIP TOGETHER.

UM, AND THEN I WOULD LIKE TO REVISIT THIS, UH, THIS ITEM.

SO WHAT I'LL DO IS I'LL WITHDRAW THIS ITEM AND THEN, UM, WHEN YOU HAVE SOMETHING FRESH AND NEW, YOU CAN APPROACH US AND WE WILL, SOMEBODY WILL PUT IT FORWARD.

THANK YOU GUYS.

I'M SORRY, CAN YOU STATE YOUR NAME? I DIDN'T GET IT.

UH, AUSTIN, NICE TO MEET YOU.

OKAY, LET'S CALL R FIVE

[R5 I FAR EXCEPTION FOR GENDER-NEUTRAL RESTROOMS AN ORDINANCE OF THE MAYOR AND CITY COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF MIAMI BEACH, FLORIDA, AMENDING THE CODE OF THE CITY OF MIAMI BEACH, SUBPART B, ENTITLED “MIAMI BEACH RESILIENCY CODE,” CHAPTER 1, ENTITLED “GENERAL PROVISIONS,” ARTICLE II, ENTITLED “DEFINITIONS,” SECTION 1.2.1, ENTITLED “GENERAL DEFINITIONS,” BY AMENDING THE DEFINITION FOR FLOOR AREA TO CREATE AN EXCEPTION FOR UNISEX OR GENDER-NEUTRAL RESTROOMS; AND PROVIDING FOR CODIFICATION, REPEALER, SEVERABILITY, AND AN EFFECTIVE DATE.]

R FIVE I IS AN ORDER OF THE MAYOR OF CITY COMMISSIONER TO CITY OF MIAMI BEACH, FLORIDA.

AMEND THE CODE OF THE CITY OF MIAMI BEACH, SUBPART B ENTITLED MIAMI BEACH RESILIENCY CODE CHAPTER ONE, ENTITLED GENERAL PROVISIONS ARTICLE TWO ENTITLED DEFINITIONS, SECTION 1.2 0.1, ENTITLED GENERAL DEFINITIONS BY AMENDING THE DEFINITION FOR FLOOR AREA TO CREATE AN EXCEPTION FOR UNISEX OR GENDER NEUTRAL RESTROOMS AND PROVIDING FOR CODIFICATION, RE REPEATABILITY AND AN EFFECTIVE DATE.

IT'S R FIVE I SPONSORED BY COMMISSIONER FERNANDEZ, CO-SPONSORED BY COMMISSIONER'S MAGAZINE, LAURA DOMINGUEZ AND VICE MAYOR B FERNANDEZ.

UH, THIS IS AN ITEM WE BROUGHT FOR THESE GENDER NEUTRAL RESTROOMS HAVE SEVERAL BENEFITS, UH, INCLUDING CREATING SAFE AND ACCESSIBLE ENVIRONMENTS FOR ALL PEOPLE, IRRESPECTIVE OF GENDER THAT CAN BE USED BY FAMILIES, THEY CAN BE USED BY, UH, BY, BY, BY ANYONE, AND, AND EVERYONE.

UH, THIS INCLUDES ACCOMMODATING PEOPLE WITH SPECIAL NEEDS, PEOPLE WITH SMALL CHILDREN, ELDERLY INDIVIDUALS WITH A CAREGIVER, AS WELL AS THE TRANSGENDER AND GENDER NON-CONFORMING, UH, INDIVIDUALS.

EXEMPTING SUCH RESTROOMS FROM FAR CALCULATIONS IS INTENDED TO ENCOURAGE THEIR USE BY ALLOWING THE SQUARE FOOTAGE OF SUCH FACILITIES TO BE ALLOCATED TO OTHER USES IN THE BUILDING.

UH, THERE'S, UH, THERE'S, THIS WAS, UH, THIS ONE BEFORE THE PLANNING BOARD.

IT WAS APPROVED, IT WAS TRANSMITTED BACK TO THE CITY COMMISSION.

AND TOM, I DON'T KNOW IF THERE'S ANYTHING ELSE THAT WE NEED TO ADD REGARDING THIS ITEM.

JUST THAT IT WAS APPROVED UNANIMOUSLY AT FIRST READING IN DECEMBER.

WITH THAT, MR. MAYOR, I MOVE MY ITEM.

I'LL SECOND ALL THE VOTE.

I SEE MS. IRIS DONAHUE REQUESTING TO SPEAK.

MS. DONAHUE, ARE YOU SPEAKING ON ITEM R FIVE I MS. DONAHUE, PLEASE UNMUTE YOURSELF.

PJ MS. DONAHUE HAD HER HAND UP FOR A WHILE, SO IT MAY NOT BE FOR THIS ITEM.

I SEE.

SO NO ONE ELSE HERE IN THE AUDIENCE IF THERE IS NO OTHER DISCUSSION BY CALLER ROLE.

COMMISSIONER SUAREZ IS ABSENT.

JR FIVE J IS THE NOTICE OF MAYOR CITY COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF MIAMI BEACH, FLORIDA.

THAT'S 5 2 1.

YEAH, IT, IT IS APPROVED.

5, 2, 1 AND ONE ABSENT.

R FIVE

[R5 J AN ORDINANCE OF THE MAYOR AND CITY COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF MIAMI BEACH, FLORIDA, AMENDING CHAPTER 50 OF THE CODE OF THE CITY OF MIAMI BEACH, FLORIDA, ENTITLED "FIRE PREVENTION AND PROTECTION," BY AMENDING SECTION 50-10 THEREOF, ENTITLED "OTHER PERMITS AND REVIEWS," BY PROHIBITING THE ISSUANCE OF FIREWORKS PERMITS FOR THE DISPLAY, USE, OR DISCHARGE OF FIREWORKS IN BISCAYNE BAY OR IN ANY RESIDENTIAL AREA IN THE CITY; AND PROVIDING FOR REPEALER, SEVERABILITY, CODIFICATION, AND AN EFFECTIVE DATE.]

AMENDING CHAPTER 50 OF THE CODE OF THE CITY OF MIAMI BEACH, FLORIDA.

ENTITLED, FIRE PREVENTION AND PROTECTION BY AMENDING SECTION 50 DASH 10 THEREOF, ENTITLED OTHER PERMITS AND REVIEWS BY PROHIBITING THE ISSUANCE OF FIREWORK PERMITS FOR DISPLAY USE OR DISCHARGE OF FIREWORKS IN BISCAY BAY, WHERE IN ANY RESIDENTIAL AREA IN THE CITY, AND PROVIDING FOR REPE SERVICEABILITY CLARIFICATION AND AN EFFECTIVE DATE.

B CO-SPONSORED BY COMMISSIONER DOMINGUEZ.

THE ITEM REQUIRES FOUR SEVENS VOTE.

R FIVE J ICE MAYOR

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UM, WELL WE HAD THE SAME IDEA AT THE SAME TIME.

SO, UM, BASICALLY FIREWORKS ARE INCREDIBLY DAMAGING TO OUR WATERWAYS.

UM, WE WON'T EVEN MENTION OUR DOGS WELLBEING, BUT FOR OUR WATERWAYS, AND WE ARE STEWARDS OF OUR PUBLIC LANDS.

AND SO, UM, THERE REALLY SHOULD NO BE AS OF RIGHT PERMISSION TO, UM, SHOOT FIREWALK WORKS OFF INTO THE BAY.

UM, AND SO I WILL LET THE CITY STAFF WHO WROTE THIS, UM, PROVIDE SOME DETAILS, BUT AS SOON AS THEY'RE READY, I WILL MOVE IT, UNLESS LAURA WANTS TO SAY SOMETHING IN ADDITION.

NO, I COMPLETELY AGREE.

AND I'D LIKE TO MOVE THE ITEM.

CITY STAFF, YOU MISSED YOUR OPPORTUNITY.

UH, COMMISSIONER DOMINGUEZ? YES.

SO I HAVE MOTION BY COMMISSIONER DOMINGUEZ, SECONDED BY COMMISSIONER BOT.

IF SO, UH, AND THERE IS NO ONE IN THE AUDIENCE REQUESTING TO SPEAK.

COMMISSIONER SUAREZ IS YES.

COMMISSIONER SUAREZ IS A YES.

THAT WAS ITEM R FIVE JR FIVE

[R5 P AN ORDINANCE OF THE MAYOR AND CITY COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF MIAMI BEACH, FLORIDA, AMENDING CHAPTER 70 OF THE CITY CODE, ENTITLED “MISCELLANEOUS OFFENSES,” BY AMENDING ARTICLE II, ENTITLED “PUBLIC PLACES,” BY AMENDING DIVISION 2, ENTITLED “BICYCLING, SKATEBOARDING, ROLLER SKATING, IN-LINE SKATING, MOTORIZED MEANS OF TRANSPORTATION, ELECTRIC BICYCLES, MOPEDS, MOTORCYCLES, MOTORIZED BICYCLES, AND MOTORIZED SCOOTERS,” BY AMENDING SECTION 70-66, ENTITLED “DEFINITIONS,” BY CONFORMING THE DEFINITION OF MOTORIZED SCOOTER TO STATE LAW; AND BY AMENDING SECTION 70-67, ENTITLED “PROHIBITED ACTIVITIES,” BY PROHIBITING MOTORIZED MEANS OF TRANSPORTATION, BICYCLING, IN-LINE SKATING, ROLLER SKATING, AND SKATEBOARDING ON THE BAYWALK; AND PROVIDING FOR REPEALER, SEVERABILITY, CODIFICATION, AND AN EFFECTIVE DATE.]

P AS IN PAUL.

R FIVE P IS THE NOTICE OF THE MAYOR AND CITY COMMISSIONER OF CITY OF MIAMI BE FLORIDA.

AMENDING CHAPTER SEVEN, CODED ENTITLED MISCELLANEOUS OFFENSES BY AMENDING ARTICLE TWO ENTITLED PUBLIC PACES AMENDING DIVISION TWO ENTITLED BICYCLING SKATEBOARDING ROLLERSKATING INLINE SKATING, MOTORIZED MEANS OF TRANSPORTATION AND ELECTRIC BICYCLE MOPEDS MOTORCYCLES.

MAYOR, I'VE BEEN TOLD THAT THAT IT, THIS ITEM IS BEING REQUESTED TO BE OPEN AND CONTINUED TO FEBRUARY 26.

COMMISSIONER SUAREZ, LET'S, UH, REMOVE ECHO TOWARDS, BUT LET THE CLERK ANNOUNCE IT.

YEAH, THANK YOU.

THERE HAS TO BE A MAP ATTACHED TO IT AND IT WASN'T READY YET.

SO FEBRUARY 26.

OKAY, GOOD TO KNOW.

R 5K.

[R5 K AN ORDINANCE OF THE MAYOR AND CITY COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF MIAMI BEACH, FLORIDA, AMENDING CHAPTER 82 OF THE CODE OF THE CITY OF MIAMI BEACH, FLORIDA, ENTITLED "PUBLIC PROPERTY," BY AMENDING ARTICLE III, ENTITLED “USE OF PUBLIC PROPERTY,” BY AMENDING DIVISION 1, ENTITLED “GENERALLY,” BY AMENDING SECTION 82-72 THEREOF, ENTITLED “COMMERCIAL VESSEL ACTIVITY HOURS OF OPERATION AT PUBLICLY-OWNED MARINAS,” TO MODIFY EXCEPTIONS TO THE PROHIBITED HOURS OF DEPARTURE FOR COMMERCIAL VESSELS AT PUBLICLY-OWNED MARINAS AND MARINE FACILITIES; AND PROVIDING FOR REPEALER, SEVERABILITY, CODIFICATION, AND AN EFFECTIVE DATE.]

COMMISSIONER SUAREZ MOVE.

R 5K IS THE NOTICE OF THE MAYOR OF CITY, COMMISSIONER OF THE CITY OF MIAMI BEACH, FLORIDA.

AMENDING CHAPTER 82 OF THE CODE OF THE CITY OF MIAMI BEACH, FLORIDA ENTITLED PUBLIC PROPERTY BY AMENDING ARTICLE THREE ENTITLED USE OF PUBLIC PROPERTY BY AMENDING DIVISION ONE ENTITLED GENERALLY BY AMENDING SECTION 82 DASH 72 THEREOF ENTITLED COMMERCIAL VESSELS ACTIVITY, HOURS OF OPERATION OF PUBLICLY OWNED MARINAS TO MODIFY EXCEPTIONS TO THE PROHIBITED HOURS OF DEPARTURE FOR COMMERCIAL VESSELS OF PUBLICLY OWNED MARINAS AND MARINE FACILITIES, AND PROVIDING FOR REPEALS OF ABILITY, CODIFICATION, AND EFFECTIVE DATE.

THIS IS A SECOND READING PUBLIC HEARING.

IT IS ITEM R 5K.

I'LL SECOND IT'S CALL THE VOTE.

ONE MINUTE.

SUAREZ.

UH, IT HAS BEEN, UH, MOVED BY COMMISSIONER SUAREZ, SECONDED BY COMMISSIONER FERNANDEZ.

THERE IS NO ONE IN THE AUDIENCE REQUESTING TO SPEAK NEITHER IN THE AUDIENCE OR IN ZOOM.

UH, COMMISSIONER ROSA GONZALEZ.

FIVE E IS THE NORTH MAYOR CITY COMMISSIONER OF THE CITY OF MIAMI BEACH, FLORIDA.

THAT WAS ITEM R FIVE KR FIVE ER

[R5 E VISIBILITY TRIANGLE REQUIREMENTS FOR OCEANFRONT PROPERTIES – LDR AMENDMENT AN ORDINANCE OF THE MAYOR AND CITY COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF MIAMI BEACH, FLORIDA, AMENDING THE RESILIENCY CODE OF THE CITY OF MIAMI BEACH, BY AMENDING CHAPTER 7, ENTITLED “ZONING DISTRICTS AND REGULATIONS,” ARTICLE III, ENTITLED “OVERLAY DISTRICTS,” DIVISION 1, ENTITLED “DUNE PRESERVATION AND OCEANFRONT OVERLAYS,” SECTION 7.3.1.2, ENTITLED “OCEANFRONT,” BY REFERENCING COMPLIANCE WITH NEWLY CREATED SECTION 14-1 OF THE MIAMI BEACH CODE, ENTITLED “BEACHWALK ACCESS AND VISIBILITY,” AND ADOPTING CORRESPONDING AMENDMENTS TO THE LAND DEVELOPMENT REGULATIONS; AND PROVIDING FOR CODIFICATION, REPEALER, SEVERABILITY, AND AN EFFECTIVE DATE.]

AMENDING THE RESILIENCY CODE OF THE CITY OF MIAMI BEACH BY AMENDING CHAPTER SEVEN ENTITLED ZONING DISTRICTS AND REGULATIONS.

ARTICLE THREE OVERLAY DISTRICTS DIVISION ONE ENTITLED DUNE PRESERVATION AND OCEAN FRONT OVERLAY SECTION 7.3 0.12 ENTITLED OCEAN FRONT, UH, REFERENCING COMPLIANCE WITH NEWLY CREATED SECTION 14 DASH ONE OF THE MAN BEACH CODE ENTITLED BEACH WALK, ACCESS AND VISIBILITY AND ADOPTING CORRESPONDING AMENDMENTS TO THE LAND DEVELOPMENT REGULATIONS PROVIDING FOR CODIFICATION REPEALS OF ABILITY AND EFFECTIVE DATE.

R FIVE F AS A COMPANION ITEM BOTH BY VICE MAYOR BOT? YES, SIR.

THE ITEM REQUIRES A FIVE SEVEN VOTE.

AND, UH, RALPH, CAN YOU CALL

[R5 F SHRUBBERY AND FENCING HEIGHTS – CHAPTER 14 AN ORDINANCE OF THE MAYOR AND CITY COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF MIAMI BEACH, FLORIDA, AMENDING SUBPART A OF THE CODE OF THE CITY OF MIAMI BEACH ENTITLED “GENERAL ORDINANCE,” CHAPTER 14, ENTITLED “BUILDING REGULATIONS,” ARTICLE I, ENTITLED “IN GENERAL,” BY CREATING SECTION 14-1, ENTITLED “BEACHWALK ACCESS AND VISIBILITY,” TO ESTABLISH MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS FOR PEDESTRIAN VISIBILITY TO AND FROM THE BEACHWALK; AND PROVIDING FOR REPEALER, SEVERABILITY, CODIFICATION, AND AN EFFECTIVE DATE.]

R FIVE F IS AN ORDINANCE OF THE MAYOR AND CITY COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF MIAMI BEACH, FLORIDA MANY SUBPART A OF THE CODE OF CITY OF MIAMI BEACH ENTITLED GENERAL ORDINANCE CHAPTER 14 ENTITLED BUILDING REGULATIONS ARTICLE ONE ENTITLED IN GENERAL BY RECREATING SECTION SIX, UH, 14 DASH ONE ENTITLED BEACH WALK, ACCESS AND VISIBILITY TO ESTABLISH MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS FOR PEDESTRIAN VISIBILITY TO AND FROM BEACH WALK AND PROVIDING FOR REPEALS OF ABILITY, CLARIFICATION, AND EFFECTIVE DATE.

THIS IS ALSO A SECOND READING PUBLIC HEARING.

IT IS ITEM R FIVE F VICE MAYOR BACH.

GEARED TOWARDS THAT IMPROVING THE VISIBILITY TRIANGLE WHEN YOU COME ONTO THE BEACH WALK OR LEAVE THE BEACH WALK SO THAT THE, UM, SHRUBBERY IS CUT IN A WAY AND THE THE LANDSCAPING IS CUT IN AWAY SO THAT YOU DON'T HAVE TO GET OUT AT A RIGHT ANGLE AND GET RUN OVER BY A FAST MOVING BICYCLE OR WHATEVER.

SO, UM, FOR THE BETTER PART OF THE LAST YEAR PLUS, UH, WE'VE WORKED WITH A CROSS POLLINATED TEAM FROM STAFF AS WELL AS RESIDENTS AND NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATIONS TRYING TO IDENTIFY LOW HANGING FRUIT ON HOW TO IMPROVE SAFETY ON THE BEACH WALK WHEN YOU ARE, UH, ON BOTH YOUR OWN FEET AND VARIOUS TYPES OF WHEELS.

UM, IT DOESN'T MEAN THAT WE'RE NOT ALSO LOOKING AT THE BIGGER CORNIER ISSUES, BUT WHERE WE CAN KNOCK OFF THE LOW HANGING FRUIT FASTER.

WE ARE DOING EVERYTHING IN OUR POWER.

SO BOTH OF THESE ITEMS ARE

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UM, AND THE SAME THING WITH, UM, THE SHRUBBERY AND THE FENCING HEIGHTS TO MAKE SURE THAT AS YOU COME AROUND, UM, CURVES, YOU HAVE A BETTER SHOT AT NOT BEING RUN OVER.

SO WITH THAT, I'LL, WHICH SEEMS LIKE A GOOD THING, I DON'T KNOW, CALL ME CRAZY, BUT I'LL LET TOM, UM, EXPLAIN IT ANY FURTHER AND THEN I WILL MOVE MY ITEM.

I THINK THAT, UH, YOU COVERED EVERYTHING.

UM, VICE MAYOR AND THE COMPANION ITEM, UH, R FIVE E WOULD SIMPLY CREATE A VERY SMALL TEXT AMENDMENT TO THE LDRS TO REFERENCE THIS NEW SECTION SO THAT WHEN NEW PLANS ARE SUBMITTED FOR REVIEW, STAFF WOULD BE ABLE TO REFERENCE THAT.

AND THE ONLY OTHER THING I WOULD ADD IS BOTH OF THESE WERE APPROVED AT FIRST READING UNANIMOUSLY IN DECEMBER, AND THAT FOR ITEM R FIVE F, WE DID ADD AN APPLICABILITY CLAUSE OF 90 DAYS FROM THE EFFECTIVE DATE SO THAT WE CAN BEGIN TO NOTIFY PROPERTY OWNERS OF THE UPCOMING CHANGES.

I'LL SECOND, LET'S CALL THE VOTE.

SO THERE IS NO ONE IN ZOOM, NO ONE IN THE AUDIENCE REQUESTING TO SPEAK.

THIS IS A VOTE.

A VOTE FOR BOTH ITEMS. SO BOTH FOR R FIVE E AND F.

UH, COMMISSIONER ROSE GONZALEZ.

VICE MAYOR BOTT? YES.

BOTH ITEMS ARE APPROVED.

SO THAT WAS R FIVE ER FIVE FR APPROVED.

SEVEN G IS ACCEPT RECOMMENDATIONS, IMPLEMENT ENHANCED PUBLIC SAFETY MEASURES.

LET'S CALL ONE LAST ITEM BEFORE WE BREAK FOR LUNCH.

R SEVEN GR

[R7 G A RESOLUTION OF THE MAYOR AND CITY COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF MIAMI BEACH, FLORIDA, ACCEPTING THE RECOMMENDATION OF THE PUBLIC SAFETY AND NEIGHBORHOOD QUALITY OF LIFE COMMITTEE, MADE AT ITS NOVEMBER 6, 2024 MEETING, FOR THE MIAMI BEACH POLICE DEPARTMENT TO CONSIDER ADOPTING THE PROPOSED PLAN, AS SET FORTH IN EXHIBIT “A”, TO IMPLEMENT ENHANCED PUBLIC SAFETY MEASURES THROUGHOUT THE YEAR.]

OF THAT NATURE, BUT THROUGHOUT THE YEAR HAVE A CONSISTENT LEVEL OF ENFORCEMENT THAT SORT OF SURPRISES OUR, OUR BAD GUYS AND OUR BAD GIRLS.

THIS IS AN ITEM I'VE SPONSORED AIMED AT EXPLORING WAYS WE CAN ENSURE CONSISTENT LEVELS OF ENFORCEMENT THROUGHOUT THE YEAR COMPARABLE TO WHAT WE IMPLEMENT DURING CERTAIN OF OUR HIGH IMPACT, UH, PERIODS.

UH, DURING CERTAIN TIMES OF THE YEAR, WE SEE A HEIGHTENED LEVEL OF ENFORCEMENT, WHETHER IT'S TRAFFIC ENFORCEMENT, DUI CHECKPOINTS OR TAG CHECKS.

THESE MEASURES NOT ONLY HELP PREVENT CRIMINAL ACTIVITY, BUT ALSO ALLOWS US TO INTERCEPT POTENTIAL CRIMINALS BEFORE THEY EVEN ENTER OUR CITY.

THE GOAL IS TO MAINTAIN THIS LEVEL OF VIGILANCE AND DETERRENCE RANDOMLY YEAR ROUND, NOT JUST DURING PEAK TIMES WHEN THEY'RE EXPECTED.

WE'VE SEEN, UH, A CERTAIN LEVEL OF, OF, I DON'T, I DON'T LIKE TO USE THE WORD SUCCESS WITH WITH SPRING BREAK, BUT CERTAINLY A, A GREAT LEVEL OF IMPROVEMENT IN PUBLIC SAFETY DURING SPRING BREAK AS INDIVIDUALS WITH OPEN WARRANTS OR THOSE ATTENDINGS TO COMMIT CRIMES THINK TWICE BEFORE COMING TO OUR CITY.

AND I'M HOPING WITH THIS, UH, RESOLUTION, UH, WE CAN MAINTAIN THAT SAME LEVEL OF DETERRENCE THROUGHOUT THE YEAR WHERE INDIVIDUALS WILL THINK TWICE AND THEY HAVE OPEN WARRANTS AND THEY'RE THINKING OF COMMITTING A CRIME.

THEY'LL THINK TWICE BEFORE COMING TO MIAMI BEACH, UH, BECAUSE THEY COULDN'T, UH, GET, GET CHECKED, UH, IN, IN, IN ONE OF THESE, UH, HEIGHTENED LEVELS OF ENFORCEMENT BY RANDOMLY ENFORCING THESE SAFETY MEASURES.

WE WANT THOSE CONSIDERING CRIMINAL ACTIVITY TO REMAIN UN TO, TO REMAIN UNCERTAIN AND WARRING KNOWING THAT THEY CAN NEVER BE SURE WHEN THESE MEASURES WILL BE IN PLACE.

UH, I'VE ASKED THE POLICE DEPARTMENT TO PUT TOGETHER A PLAN DETAILING HOW THROUGHOUT OTHER TIMES OF THE YEAR THIS WILL BE IMPLEMENTED.

AND I SEE WE HAVE OUR, UH, DEPUTY CHIEF PAUL ACOA HERE, UH, WHO I'D LIKE TO RECOGNIZE WHO WALK US THROUGH ONE THEY PREPARED.

GOOD MORNING EVERYONE.

MAYOR COMMISSION.

UM, MA, UH, MR. CITY MANAGER, PAULA A COSTA ON BEHALF OF THE PD, PLEASE REMIND ME NOT TO RUN EVER AGAIN DOWN HERE.

UM, IT TOOK ME A SECOND TO GET MY BREATH, BUT UM, UM, WHEN WE RUN MORE, WE, WE PAN LESS.

YOU'RE RIGHT.

WE WOULDN'T HAVE THIS ISSUE, WOULD WE? , UH, MR. COMMISSIONER, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR BRINGING THIS, UM, THIS RESOLUTION TO THE POLICE DEPARTMENT.

WE WERE ABLE TO TAKE A LOOK AT, UM, A NUMBER OF EVENT OF EVENTS THAT ARE IMPORTANT TO OUR CITY IN TERMS OF PUBLIC SAFETY THROUGHOUT THE YEAR IN WHICH WE THINK WE COULD BOLSTER OUR PRESENCE AND, UM, ENHANCE OUR POLICE VISIBILITY TO ENSURE THAT OUR RESIDENTS AND THOSE VISITING OUR CITY ARE ABSOLUTELY SAFE.

UH, WE WERE ABLE TO WORK WITH THE COMMISSIONER ON A NUMBER OF DIFFERENT EVENTS THAT WE OUTLINED THAT WE THINK ARE SUPER IMPORTANT ONES THAT TAKE PLACE THIS YEAR AND OTHERS THAT TAKE PLACE IN THE FOLLOWING YEARS AND MAKE THIS A TEMPLATE FOR OUR CITY.

UM, THE IDEA WOULD BE TO HAVE, UM, NOT JUST ON SPECIAL EVENT, UH, WEEKENDS OR THINGS

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UM, WE'RE GONNA INCREASE OUR DUI SATURATIONS AND THAT TAKES PLACE THROUGHOUT THE CITY.

WE HAVE, UM, UPCOMING SCHEDULE FOR APRIL, MAY, AND JUNE WITH THOSE EVENTS, UH, TO INCLUDE DUI CHECKPOINTS, UM, HIGH VISIBILITY ENFORCEMENT IN TERMS OF PEDESTRIAN AND BI AND BICYCLE ENFORCEMENT TO INCREASE SAFETY OF, UM, AROUND OUR CITY.

UM, OCCUPANT PROTECTION DETAILS, WHICH IS ALSO SEATBELT ENFORCEMENT.

UM, INCREASE LPR DETAILS, UM, THROUGHOUT THE CITY.

UM, AND THROUGHOUT THE YEAR, UM, WE FEEL AS THOUGH WE'RE ABLE TO, UH, MAINTAIN THIS LEVEL OF CONSISTENT ENFORCEMENT AND IT'S ALSO GONNA MAKE OUR CITY A LOT SAFER.

AND CHIEF, UH, I JUST WANT TO FOLLOW UP ON THAT BECAUSE YOU'VE ENUMERATED, UH, ABOUT 14 DIFFERENT OCCASIONS, FOR EXAMPLE, IN THE CURRENT FISCAL YEAR.

WHEN, UH, WHEN, WHEN THIS WOULD BE IMPLEMENTED, BUT IN ADDITION TO THOSE 14, UH, SPECIAL EVENTS, THERE'LL BE OTHER THAT'S RANDOM EVENTS.

NON-SPECIAL EVENTS.

YOU'RE ABSOLUTELY CORRECT, COMMISSIONER.

UH, DURING WHICH YOU WOULD BE DOING, UH, THIS, THIS LEVEL OF PRESSMAN PRESENCE OR, OR ENFORCEMENT TO MAKE SURE THAT, YOU KNOW, THIS IS RANDOM, THIS ISN'T, THAT'S CORRECT.

THIS ISN'T TARGETING A WEEKEND AND THIS ISN'T TARGETING A SPECIAL MAN.

THIS IS JUST RANDOM THROUGHOUT THE YEAR SO THAT THOSE WHO ARE SEEKING TO COME TO OUR CITY TO COMMIT A CRIME OR, OR SIMPLY JUST CRIMINALS THEY THINK TWICE BEFORE COMING HERE ON A RANDOM WEEKEND.

THE WHOLE IDEA IS TO INCREASE OUR VISIBLE PRESENCE THROUGHOUT THE CITY, NOT JUST IN THE AREAS THAT ARE TYPICALLY KNOWN TO SEE POLICE AND KEEP OUR BAD EYES AND BAD GIRLS GUESSING THROUGHOUT THE YEAR.

NEVER KNOW WHEN COMING.

AND I WANT TO THANK, UH, THE POLICE DEPARTMENT FOR THEIR COLLABORATION IN PUTTING THIS PLAN TOGETHER.

AND WITH THAT, I MOVE MY ITEM.

ANYBODY HAVE ANYTHING ELSE? UH, I'M A CO-SPONSOR AND I'LL SECOND THE ITEM.

SO, ALL IN FAVOR, PLEASE SAY AYE.

THANK YOU, COMMISSIONER FERNANDEZ.

AND COMMISSIONER SUAREZ IS A YES ON THIS ITEM.

GOOD ITEM.

AND THANK YOU FOR WORKING ON THAT WITH OUR, UH, POLICE DEPARTMENT.

LET'S, UH, LET'S BREAK FOR LUNCH AND, UH, WE'LL COME BACK AT ONE O'CLOCK FOR THE AFTERNOON.

SUT NICK PORTION.

OKAY, WELCOME BACK FROM THE LUNCH BREAK AND WE'LL CONTINUE WITH SUT NICK FORUM.

DOES ANYBODY WANNA SPEAK? SO ANYONE WHO WISHES TO SPEAK, PLEASE COME UP TO THE PODIUM.

PLEASE STATE YOUR NAME AND ADDRESS.

GO AHEAD, PLEASE.

OKAY, SO, GOOD AFTERNOON, HONORABLE MAYOR, COMMISSIONERS AND CITY MANAGER.

SO MY NAME IS VAN IAN, AS I SAID THIS MORNING, AND I'M THE PRESIDENT OF OCEAN DRIVE COMMUNITY, UH, PROMINENT COMMUNITY.

I MAKE A MISTAKE MYSELF, A NONPROFIT ASSOCIATION REPRESENTING A GROUP OF RESIDENTS AND PROPERTY OWNERS AT 1500 OCEAN DRIVE AND OTHER RESIDENTIAL BUILDINGS.

SO I'M ORIGINALLY FROM THE CITY OF NICE FRANCE.

I WANT TO CLARIFY THE TERM PROMENADE THAT IS A FRENCH WORD.

SO IN FRANCE IN FRENCH, IT RE IT REFERS TO A PLACE WHERE PEDESTRIAN CAN ENJOY YOUR WORK, BUT IT DOESN'T EXCLUDE CARS.

THE PROMINENT IN NICE FRANCE IS A PERFECT EXAMPLE WHERE THEY IMPLEMENTED SECURITY MEASURES WITH BOLLARDS ALONG THE SIDEWALK TO ENSURE PEDESTRIAN SAFETY WHILE ALLOWING CARS TO CIRCULATE, PRESERVING ACCESSIBILITY.

THIS SHOW HOW HARMONY MONEY BETWEEN PEDESTRIAN AND VEHICLES CAN BE ACHIEVED, BENEFIT, BENEFITING, BENEFITING BUSINESSES AS WELL.

IT'S VERY IMPORTANT THAT WE, WE SHOULD ALL AGREE AND, UH, MORE BALANCE, UH, SYSTEM.

SO LASTLY, I'D LIKE TO EMPHASIZE THAT MY PETITION ON CHANGE.ORG IS A SERIOUS AND VERIFY, UH, PETITION REPRESENTING THE VOICES OF MANY RESIDENTS IN RESIDENTS IN MIAMI BEACH, INCLUDING AT 1500 OCEAN DRIVE.

IT IS A CREDIBLE AND RECOGNIZED WORLDWIDE PLATFORM FOR OUR COMMUNITY TO EXPRESS OUR VIEW VIEWS PETITION ARE EVEN AUTOMATICALLY SENT TO LOCAL AUTHORITIES TO INFLUENCE DECISIONS.

THANK YOU THAT I JUST WANTED TO HAVE THOSE THINGS.

OUR NEXT VIRTUAL SPEAKER IS ZORAN ZORAN STATE YOUR NAME, ADDRESS, AND YOU HAVE TWO MINUTES.

THANK YOU FOR ALLOWING ME TO MAKE SOME COMMENTS.

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UH, I LIVE AT 1605 PENNSYLVANIA.

SOME OF YOU, UH, KNOW ME AS, UH, PICKLEBALL ADVOCATES, BUT I'M MORE OF AN ADVOCATE FOR ACTIVE AND HEALTHY LIFESTYLE.

UH, AND I WOULD LIKE TO MAKE SOME COMMENTS ON THE PADEL.

UH, RFP.

I DON'T KNOW ENOUGH TO COMMENT ON THE PARKING IMPACT AND IMPACT ON THE BUSINESSES, BUT, UH, AS A PROPONENT OF HEALTHY AND ACTIVE LIFESTYLE, I'M EXCITED ABOUT THIS PROJECT.

THE COMMENT I HAVE IS THAT PADEL CLUBS RECOGNIZING THE PICKLEBALL AS A HOMEGROWN, HUGELY POPULAR SPORT IN, UH, USA OFTEN INCLUDES PICKLEBALL COURTS IN THEIR FACILITIES.

AND THAT'S WELL ILLUSTRATED BY RESERVE OVER AT, UH, EA JUST OUT OF COSTCO THAT HAS 10 PAR AND TWO PICKLEBALL COURTS.

SO I THINK IT WOULD BE PRACTICAL THAT IF THE RFP COULD NOT BE LIMITED OR RESTRICTING THE, THE PROPOSERS VENDORS TO JUST PADEL, BUT ALLOW THEM IF THEY DECIDE TO INCLUDE, UH, A FEW FOUR MAYBE PICKLEBALL COURTS.

I'M JULIE BASNER AND I'M HERE ON BEHALF OF THE MIAMI BEACH SENIOR HIGH PTSA.

UM, I CAME TO SPEAK ABOUT ITEM C FOUR AP, BUT I BELIEVE THAT IT ALREADY HAS PASSED AND, UM, IS GOING ON TO THE BUDGET AND FINANCE COMMITTEE, UM, AND FOR DISCUSSION.

AND SO I JUST WANTED TO SAY THANK YOU, UM, AND THAT IT, I WILL BE, UM, ATTENDING THE QEC MEETING AT THE END OF THIS MONTH.

UM, AS I IMAGINE THAT THIS WILL BE A TOPIC OF CONVERSATION AND IF, AND I WANTED TO ALSO THANK, UM, COMMISSIONER FERNANDEZ, COMMISSIONER MAGAZINE, AND I BELIEVE COMMISSIONER, UM, DOMINGUEZ FOR CO-SPONSORING IT.

HELLO, ELLO, UH, RESIDENT AND INVESTOR.

UH, 1881 WASHINGTON AVENUE AND 64 84 INDIAN CREEK.

UH, COMMISSIONER BAT, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR COMING AND TAKING A LOOK AT THE PROBLEM WE HAVE WITH THE PUBLIC WORKS PEOPLE, THEY, THEY'RE IN CONTACT WITH US AND HOPEFULLY IT WILL BE SOLVED SOON.

AND I AGAIN, WANT TO THANK BLAKE THAT KEEPS TENACIOUSLY ON TOP OF FPL.

I HEARD THIS MORNING, THE LADY TALKING ABOUT THE PROBLEM WITH THE SCOOTERS.

I'M SOMEBODY THAT WALKS A LOT IN MIAMI BEACH AND THIS IS REALLY TERRIBLE.

NOT ONLY IN THE STREETS, THEY DO NOT, UH, RESPECT THE SIGNALS, BUT UNFORTUNATELY THEY USE THE SIDEWALKS AND THEY DON'T, NOT ONLY DO THAT, THEY RING THEIR BELLS AND THEY WANT TO PASS IN FRONT OF YOU.

MY NEPHEW HAD A ALREADY AN ACCIDENT IN HIS SCOOTER, ANOTHER SCOOTER, UH, CROSS IN FRONT OF HIM AND HE COULD NOT EVEN SEE WHO IT WAS.

SO I DON'T KNOW IF YOU HAVE THOUGHT ABOUT HAVING LITTLE TAG FOR THE SCOOTERS.

SO THE PEOPLE HAS TO REGISTER WITH A CODE LIKE WE DO FOR PARKING PERMITS OR WHAT AS WE REGISTER OUR CARS IN THE DMV.

SO AT LEAST WE KNOW WHO'S CAUSING THESE PROBLEMS BECAUSE OTHERWISE, YOU KNOW, THEY JUST, THEY JUST TAKE ADVANTAGE OF IT.

SO I, I WANT TO PIGGYBACK ON THAT.

NO, THANK YOU.

I, BY THE WAY, ONE OF THE CHALLENGES WE HAVE, I THINK ON THAT ONE, I DON'T WANNA PUT YOU ON THE SPOT, RICK.

I BELIEVE WE MIGHT BE PREEMPTED BY THE STATE.

YOU WANNA EXPLAIN? YEAH.

SO I'M PUTTING ON MY LAWYER HAT.

UM, UH, THIS IS SOMETHING WE'VE BEEN WORKING ON, LIKE I SAID, FOR OVER A YEAR, AND OUR LAWS, UM, PROHIBIT ELECTRIC MOTORS FROM BEING ON, UM, SIDEWALKS UNLESS YOUR WHEELCHAIR USER IN THAT OBVIOUSLY IS PERMITTED.

THE PROBLEM IS THERE IS A HUGE AMOUNT OF CONFUSION ABOUT WHAT IS AND ISN'T UNDERSTOOD, AND THEN THERE IS A LOT OF JUST BLATANT DISREGARD FOR THE LOSS.

SO, NO, MY, MY POINT SPECIFICALLY WAS SHE'S SAYING THAT THEY, THAT ALL SCOOTERS NEED TO BE REGISTERED AND THAT WE WOULD OH, I THOUGHT YOU ABOUT THE NO, NO, NO, NO.

I KNOW THAT'S LEGAL PLATE.

IT'S THE REGISTRATION ASPECT.

SO FOR THE ELECTRICAL, UH, IT'S OKAY.

I DON'T BELIEVE THAT'S SOMETHING THAT THE CITY COULD DO.

THAT, THAT'S THE ISSUE ON THE, ON THE, ON REGISTERING THEM, WHAT HAPPENED ON, ON HAVING THEM REGISTERED.

SO THEY HAVE A TAG.

SO LIKE YOU'RE SAYING LIKE THE POLICE WOULD BE ABLE TO IDENTIFY IT BY A VEHICLE TAG.

UM, WE CAN FOLLOW UP, BUT I KNOW WE LOOKED INTO THIS ISSUE AND WE WE'RE PREEMPTED BY THE STATE, MEANING THE STATE DOESN'T ALLOW US TO DO CERTAIN THINGS, BUT IN KIK THEY TOTALLY FORBID THE SCOOTERS.

BUT THAT'S, YEAH, THAT'S A DEFINIT ISSUE.

YEAH, WE, WHICH WE DO.

WHICH WE DO.

AND WE HAVE ITEMS ACTUALLY WE TALKED ABOUT A LITTLE EARLIER WHERE WE, WE HAVE, THERE'S SEVERAL ITEMS ON THIS COMMISSION AGENDA WHERE WE'RE TRYING TO INCREASE ENFORCEMENT

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OF THAT.

AND ACTUALLY OUR POLICE IS ALREADY, UH, STARTING TO INCREASE ENFORCEMENT.

I WAS JUST ADDRESSING THE SPECIFIC ISSUE ON THE TAG.

WHICH IS MORE PROBABLE, WELL, HOPEFULLY ALTOGETHER CAN FIND A SOLUTION BECAUSE IT'S REALLY DANGEROUS, ESPECIALLY AT NIGHT YEAH.

TO WALK ON WITH THESE PEOPLE GOING LIKE CRAZY.

YES, IT'S DEFINITELY, UH, IT'S DEFINITELY AN ISSUE.

SO OUR NEXT VIRTUAL SPEAKER IS MARINA BRA RAYEN.

PLEASE UNMUTE YOURSELF.

HELLO? UM, GOOD AFTERNOON.

UH, MY NAME IS MARINA BRANAN AND UM, I, UH, I USED TO BE A RESIDENT OF MIAMI BEACH, UM, BUT NOW I LIVE IN BROWARD COUNTY.

UM, I AM HERE TO SPEAK, UM, IN SUPPORT AND OF COURSE, THANK THE COMMISSION.

UM, I'M THE ADVOCACY AND OUTREACH MANAGER AT SAVE LGBT SOUTH FLORIDA'S LONGEST SERVING LGBT ADVOCACY ORGANIZATION IN SOUTH FLORIDA.

AND WE'D LIKE TO THANK COMMISSIONER FERNANDEZ FOR INTRODUCING RF ONE.

AND ON BEHALF OF ALL OF SAFE, WE'D LIKE TO THANK THE ENTIRE COMMISSION AND THE CITY OF MIAMI BEACH FOR PASSING THAT ORDINANCE.

UM, AS RESTRICTIVE, UH, BATHROOM LAWS CONTINUE TO MARGINALIZE THE TRANSGENDER COMMUNITY, MIAMI BEACH IS TAKING ACTION AT THE LOCAL LEVEL TO COUNTER DISCRIMINATION.

THIS ORDINANCE PROVIDES A CLEAR PATH FOR BUSINESSES AND DEVELOPERS TO CREATE MORE WELCOMING ENVIRONMENTS.

REGARDLESS OF STATE LEVEL ATTACKS ON LGBT RIGHTS, ACCESS TO RESTROOMS SHOULD NEVER BE A SOURCE OF ANXIETY OR DISCRIMINATION.

THIS ORDINANCE TAKES A PRACTICAL STEP TOWARDS ENSURING TRANSGENDER AND NON-BINARY INDIVIDUALS, AS WELL AS PARENTS AND CAREGIVERS, HAVE ACCESS TO FACILITIES THAT ACCOMMODATE THEIR NEEDS WITHOUT FEAR OR EXCLUSION.

BY OFFERING A FLOOR AREA RATIO EXCEPTION THAT MIAMI BEACH IS ENCOURAGING DEVELOPERS TO INCORPORATE GENDER NEUTRAL RESTROOMS INTO THEIR DESIGNS, REMOVING BARRIERS TO INCLUSIVITY, AND MAKING IT EASIER FOR BUSINESSES AND PUBLIC SPACES TO PRIORITIZE ACCESSIBILITY.

AS A LONGSTANDING LEADER IN LGBTQ PLUS RIGHTS, THE CITY OF MIAMI BEACH IS REINFORCING ITS COMMITMENT TO EQUALITY BY DEMONSTRATING THAT INCLUSIVITY AND SMART POLICY CAN GO HAND IN HAND, SETTING A MODEL FOR OTHER CITIES SEEKING TO ADVANCE EQUITY THROUGH URBAN PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT INCENTIVES.

SO THANK YOU AGAIN, COMMISSIONER FERNANDEZ FOR INTRODUCING AND PASSING R 51.

ABSOLUTELY SUPPORT IMPROVEMENTS IN BETTER ALTERNATIVES TO THE PROMENADE.

NEXT, PLEASE.

HI, UH, GOOD AFTERNOON EVERYONE.

IRENE BIGGER, UH, PRESIDENT OF THE ART DECO NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION AND RESIDENT AT 1500 OCEAN DRIVE.

MAY I TAKE A SECOND TO, UM, HAND OVER SOME INFORMATION TO YOU, MAYOR, WHILE I SPEAK? THANK YOU.

THESE SESSIONS ENOUGH FOR EVERYONE.

NO, I'M SORRY I DIDN'T GET A CHANCE, UH, TO DO THAT.

I'LL TRY TO PASS IT AROUND.

UM, MY PURPOSE, THE PURPOSE RIGHT NOW FOR ME IS TO JUST, UM, CORRECT CERTAIN, UM, UH, STATEMENTS THAT WERE MADE REGARDING SAFETY CONCERNS, PRESENT ACTUAL, UM, VISUALS OF THE PROMENADE AND SOUTH OF THE PROMENADE, AND REMIND EVERYBODY ABOUT THE WILL OF THE PEOPLE.

THIS PROMINENT IDEA JUST NOT COME OUT OF THIN AIR.

UM, SO AS, UH, SAFETY IS A FEATURE THAT WE ALL AGREE ON AND WE WANT A SAFE, PROMINENT AREA, I JUST WANT TO EMPHASIZE THAT WE AGREE WHAT WE'D LIKE FOR IS TO SEE ANY STATISTICS OR DATA ON THE CONTRARY.

FIRST AND FOREMOST, WITH RESPECT TO THE EMERGENCY VEHICLE ACCESS, AS WE ALL KNOW, OUR MIAMI BEACH FIRE CHIEF SAID THAT THE EMERGENCY VEHICLE ACCESS WAS AND IS NOT A PROBLEM.

THERE'S ALSO NO DIFFICULTY OR LIMITATIONS AS ACCESSING, UH, PROPERTIES OF OWNERS WITH RESPECT TO THE MAN.

AND THAT'S THE FIRST, UM, UH, SET OF INFORMATION I GAVE YOU WITH RESPECT TO THE MAN WHO SUFFERED INJURIES IN 2023.

FROM WHAT I'VE GATHERED FROM A WITNESS ACCOUNT, INCLUDING THE POLICE REPORT SUBMITTED THIS UNFORTUNATE, THERE'S A PICTURE THERE.

THIS UNFORTUNATE INCIDENT INVOLVED A HOMELESS MAN THAT WAS INJURED BY A LARGE TRUCK SEEMING TO MAKE A TURNAROUND AND DID NOT SEE THE MAN SLEEPING AMONGST THE GARBAGE BEDS IN THE ALLEY.

THE ACCIDENT COULD HAVE HAPPENED EVERYWHERE, ANYWHERE, BUT TO BLAME THE PROMENADE IS INCORRECT BECAUSE ONE OF THE REASONS IS THIS LARGE VEHICLE, COULD IT HAVE BEEN ON THE OCEAN DRIVE, ON OCEAN DRIVE.

ANYWAY, WE DO NOT BELIEVE IT SHOULD HAVE OR WOULD'VE BEEN ALLOWED ON OCEAN DRIVE.

THIRD, TAKING AWAY THE PROMENADE AND OPENING IT TO A TWO-WAY TRAFFIC MEANS TAKING AWAY THE BIKE LANE.

THIS WILL SURELY INCREASE BIKE TRAFFIC ON THE BEACH WALK, WHICH ALREADY HAS SIGNIFICANT SAFETY ISSUES WITH SPEEDING BIKES, WITH PEDESTRIANS AND BIKE ACCIDENTS.

LET ME FURTHER EMPHASIZE, WE WOULD

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IF YOU CAN BEAR WITH ME, I'D LIKE TO ALSO JUST HIGHLIGHT OR ADDRESS, UM, THE BUSINESSES STRUGGLING.

WE ALL WANT A THRIVING LOCAL ECONOMY.

I'D LIKE TO UNDERSTAND IF THERE'S DATA OUT THERE THAT SAYS OTHERWISE THAT IT IS DUE TO THE PROMENADE.

IT IS NOT FOR US RESIDENTS TO DETERMINE WHY BUSINESSES CONTINUE TO EITHER DO WELL OR NOT DO WELL.

THERE ARE MANY FACTORS.

THERE ARE COMPETING FACTORS ACROSS THE CAUSEWAY AND OTHER ECONOMIC, UH, ISSUES THAT HAVE BEEN HAPPENING, UM, NATIONWIDE.

AND THE SECOND SET IS THE PICTURES.

THE FIRST SET OF PICTURES SHOWS.

IF I CAN JUST HAVE 30 MORE SECONDS, I'D APPRECIATE IT.

GO AHEAD.

SECOND, UH, SET OF SHOWS A PROMENADE FULL OF PEOPLE LEISURELY WALKING WITH RESTAURANTS FULL OF DINERS AND PATRONS.

ALSO IN THE PICTURES YOU SEE CRUISERS STILL CRUISING DOWN THE MAJORITY OF OCEAN DRIVE.

AND WHILE THE CONGESTION BACKS UP CARS AND THEY CAN LOOK AT THE BEAUTIFUL BUILDINGS, IT HAS NOT STOPPED MANY BUSINESSES AND THE ONE IN PARTICULAR IN THE PICTURES FROM ENJOYING SUCCESS, THERE SHOULD BE SOMETHING ON OCEAN DRIVE FOR EVERYONE.

THE LAST SUBMISSIONS ARE JUST A REMINDER OF THE SUPPORT FROM BOTH RESIDENT STAKEHOLDERS AND BUSINESSES IN AND AROUND THE PROMENADE THAT HAVE SUPPORTED THIS PROMENADE FROM MONTHS EVEN YEARS, REGARDLESS OF WHERE ANYONE STANDS ON THE PEDESTRIAN PROMENADE.

WE CAN ALSO ALL AGREE THAT DEMOCRACY, TRANSPARENCY AND DUE PROCESS IS IMPORTANT.

THE RESIDENT STAKEHOLDERS WILL PROMISED THE PROCESS TO BE FOLLOWED THROUGH ON, BUT IT WAS STOPPED SHORT BY A JUDGE WHO DOES NOT GET FULL AND ACCURATE INFORMATION.

WE ASK THAT THIS PROCESS BE COMPLETED.

OUR NEXT VIRTUAL SPEAKER IS DAVID WALLACH.

MR. WALLACH STATE YOUR NAME, ADDRESS, AND YOU HAVE TWO MINUTES.

HELLO, CAN YOU HEAR ME? YES.

UH, I WASN'T GOING TO SPEAK, BUT AFTER LISTENING TO THE LAST SPEAKER, I HAD TO SPEAK UP.

ANY PERSON CAN GO TO STARBUCKS UP AT DIAGGIO OR HAAGEN DAS AND BUY A COFFEE OR AN ICE CREAM AND SIT AND LOOK AT CAR AFTER CAR AFTER CAR, GETTING CAUGHT UP INTO THAT QUAGMIRE AT 14TH COURT AND HAVING TO STOP, TAKE A LOOK, AND THEN MAKE A U-TURN TO GET OUT THREE AT A TIME, FOUR AT A TIME, A TOTAL MESS.

AND IF ANY EMERGENCY VEHICLE PULLS IN, AND BY THE WAY, THAT HAPPENS ALL DAY AND ALL NIGHT, MULTIPLE VEHICLES, EVEN SINGLE VEHICLES COMING IN U-TURN, U-TURN, U-TURN.

AND THAT'S A THREE POINT TURN SLOWLY MADE FOR EACH CAR.

THAT IS DAY AND NIGHT.

EVERY HOUR, EVERY 15 MINUTES, YOU'LL SEE 10 CARS TURNING AROUND.

AND IF ANY EMERGENCY VEHICLE PULLS IN DURING ANY ONE OF THOSE TIMES WHERE THOSE CARS ARE MAKING U-TURNS, THEY HAVE TO BE DELAYED.

THAT MEANS THE SERVICE TO THOSE TWO BLOCKS PLUS EVERYTHING SOUTH OF THOSE, THE BARRIERS ALL THE WAY TO FIFTH STREET WOULD GET DELAYED EMERGENCY SERVICE.

THAT IS A GROSS LIABILITY ON THE PART OF THE CITY OF MIAMI BEACH AND OF DADE COUNTY.

AND THAT IS THE MAIN PROBLEM HERE.

THE BUSINESSES ARE A SECONDARY ISSUE THAT THEY'RE CHOKING TO DEATH ON THE NOOSE OF THE NORTH END AND SOUTH END MAIN ENTRANCES BEING CLOSED.

THE MAIN CONSIDERATION SHOULD CERTAINLY BE LIFE SAFETY AND FOR ANYONE TO GO AND TAKE A LOOK, THEY WILL ABSOLUTELY SEE THOSE CARS BACKING UP, YOU TURNING AND BECOMING AN OBSTRUCTION FOR ANY, ANY EMERGENCY VEHICLE, INCLUDING MULTIPLE POLICE CARS COMING AROUND THAT TURN TO ANSWER ANY EMERGENCY.

AND THEN FROM 13 TO 14, TWO BLOCKS THAT HAVE BEEN CLOSED PERMANENTLY.

NEXT, PLEASE GO AHEAD.

GOOD AFTERNOON EVERYONE.

I HOPE YOU ALL HAD A GOOD LUNCH.

UM, WHAT I WANTED TO TALK ABOUT IT TODAY IS ABOUT WHAT WE HAVE RIGHT NOW ON OCEAN DRIVE.

SO RIGHT NOW ON OCEAN DRIVE FROM ZERO STREET OKAY.

TO FIFTH STREET, IT'S A TWO-WAY STREET AND YOU HAVE BUSINESS DRIVING IN THESE FIVE BLOCKS.

THEN FROM FIFTH STREET TO 13TH STREET.

YOU HAVE ONE WAY IN THE WRONG DIRECTION INTENTIONALLY PROBABLY TO DISCOURAGE ANYONE FROM JUST CRUISING UP AND DOWN OCEAN DRIVE.

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SO A TWO BLOCK CLOSURE IS NOT A PROMINENT ALREADY I SAID, BUT ALREADY ON THE OCEAN, WHICH, YOU KNOW, IT'S ONLY A FEW FEET AWAY.

WE DO ENJOY IT.

AND, AND, AND A BEACH T EXISTS FROM THE TIP OF MIAMI BEACH ALL THE WAY TO B HARBOR.

AND THEN IN ADDITION, YOU HAVE LUMOS PARK FROM FIFTH TO 14 THAT ALREADY HAS TWO PROMINENTS ON BOTH SIDES, EAST SIDE AND WEST SIDE.

SO YOU HAVE A WEST SIDE PROMENADE ON LOOMIS AND EAST SIDE YOU HAVE OCEAN WALK AND TWO CLOSING TWO BLOCKS DOESN'T CREATE A PROMINENT, IT ONLY CREATES AN OBSTRUCTION ON THE, ON THE SURVEY THAT THE CITY CONDUCTED ON THIS AREA, ON THIS SUBJECT.

THE, THE RESULTS WERE INTENTIONALLY SKEWED.

BUT IF YOU LOOK AT THE ACTUAL VOTES OF ONLY THE PROPERTIES AFFECTED ON THE TWO BLOCK PROMINENT CLOSURE, THE RESULT IS 53 OF THOSE VOTES VOTED IN FAVOR OF KEEPING A CLOSE AND 47 VOTED AGAINST KEEPING A CLOSE OR OPENING.

UH, AND BUT THEN I ALSO NOTICED THAT OF THESE, UH, PROPERTY OWNERS IN THESE TWO BLOCKS THAT, UM, THAT THE PENGUIN HOTEL, WHICH YOU KNOW, IS ALL OF THE OTHER HOTELS ONLY HAD ONE VOTE.

I COUNTED THE VOTES, YOU KNOW, AT THE PENGUIN CAST 45 VOTES.

WOW.

SO, UH, SO IF ONLY ONE VOTE IS COUNTED ON BEHALF OF THE PENGUIN HOTEL, THEN THE PERCENTAGE JUST FLIP DRAMATICALLY.

OKAY? SO THE PERCENTAGE GO TO 31 IN FAVOR TO 68 AGAINST.

AND THESE ARE THE PEOPLE THAT ARE ON THOSE TWO BLOCKS THAT ARE CLOSE, AND THESE ARE THE PEOPLE THAT I THINK COUNT.

THANK YOU MA'AM.

AND THE NARRATIVE THAT YOU HAVE A SEVEN 30, UH, YOU KNOW, UH, FAVORITE FAVORITE IN IN THIS AREA, IT'S JUST, UH, IS NOT VERY, UH, TRANSPARENT.

CAN YOU STATE YOUR NAME? I DIDN'T CATCH YOUR NAME IN FLEX 1500 OCEAN DRIVE.

SO OUR NEXT VIRTUAL SPEAKER IS ADDRESS RES SAN GO AHEAD SIR.

STATE YOUR NAME, ADDRESS, AND YOU HAVE TWO MINUTES.

ANDREA, 1000.

I HAD, UH, GIVEN A SUGGESTION TO THE DIRECTOR OF OF TRANSPORTATION AND, AND SOME OF THE COMMISSIONERS A WHILE BACK REGARDING A MEETING OF THE MINES, WHICH IN MY OPINION IS TO TAKE OCEAN DRIVE AND HAVE THE TRAFFIC FLOW NORTHBOUND, WHICH WILL GIVE THE NICE FLOW OF TRAFFIC FROM EITHER ZERO TO 15 TO TO FIFTH STREET OR THE CARS THAT ARE COMING EAST ON FIFTH STREET TO BE ABLE TO MAKE LEFT HAND TURN ONTO OCEAN DRIVE.

AND THEY COULD STILL PARK TOWARDS THE LEFT HAND SIDE, JUST LIKE ONE WAY STREETS IN DOWNTOWN MIAMI, UH, AND HAVE THAT FLOW ALL THE WAY THROUGH.

UH, AND FOR THE EMERGENCY VEHICLES, EMERGENCY VEHICLES, IF THAT OCCURS, STILL GO ON ONTO THE SHOULDER, ONTO THE SIDE OF THE A BIKE LANE AND, AND THAT PATH THERE TO GET THROUGH IN THE MAIN, IN THE EVENT OF AN EMERGENCY.

THE OTHER THING IS THAT THE MAIN CONCERN IS HOW DO YOU DRIVE MORE TRAFFIC ONTO OCEAN DRIVE? AND SO ONE OF MY OTHER IDEAS WAS THAT IF YOU CREATE A MUSEUM STYLE, UM, SCULPTURE GARDEN AT THE PARK WHERE YOU HAVE THREE OR FOUR BEAUTIFUL POTATO LIKE STRUCTURE, UH, UH, SCULPTURES, YOU'RE GONNA CREATE AN ENVIRONMENT AND A REASON FOR MORE PEOPLE TO COME INTO OCEAN DRIVE TO GO AND VISIT THAT FREE S MUSEUM IN THE PARK, WHICH WILL GIVE A LOT OF TOURISTS AND OTHER PEOPLE REASON TO GO ONTO TO OCEAN DRIVE.

SO YOU ATTRACT MORE PEOPLE ONTO OCEAN DRIVE, THE FLOW OF TRAFFIC WILL BE BETTER NATURALLY ON OCEAN DRIVE IF THE TRAFFIC GOES NORTHBOUND VERSUS GOING SOUTHBOUND.

AND YOU'RE GONNA BE ABLE TO HAVE SOMEWHAT OF MEETING OF THE MIND BETWEEN THE PEOPLE WHO WANT MORE TRAFFIC ON OCEAN DRIVE AND THE PEOPLE WHO WANTED TO STAY AS A ONE LANE STREET.

THAT'S JUST MY IDEA.

I'M REINSTATING IT BECAUSE I THINK IT COULD BE A WAY OF, UH, OF MEETING IN THE MIDDLE BETWEEN BOTH THOUGHTS.

ACTUALLY ENJOY WITHOUT HAVING TO WORRY ABOUT THE CARS WITH MUSIC SCREAMING.

SARAH DE LOS REYES, 1800 SUNSET HARBOR.

UM, I URGE YOU TO CONTINUE TO KEEP THE PRADE TO KEEP OCEAN DRIVE CLOSE.

I THINK IT'S GREAT ON SUNDAY, EVERYBODY WAS ENJOYING WALKING AROUND ON THE STREET BIKING.

IT WAS, IT WAS SO GREAT TO HAVE.

AND NUMBER TWO, THE BAY WALK IS NOT A PRADE, IT'S A BAY WALK.

THE PRADE ARE ESPANOLA WAY IS A PRADE LINCOLN LINCOLN ROAD IS A PRADE AND THIS WILL BE ANOTHER ONE BECAUSE YOU HAVE ALL THE RESTAURANTS AND HOTELS AND, AND, AND COMMERCIAL THAT PEOPLE CAN WALK INTO AND

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AND THAT'S ALL THEY DO.

AND THEY KEEP GOING AROUND AND AROUND AND ALL WE HAVE IS LIKE POLLUTION AND THEY DON'T REALLY DO ANYTHING.

THEY DRINK, THEY SCREAM.

AND THAT'S NOT SUCH A GOOD USE OF THAT.

SO I THINK YOU SHOULD CONTINUE TO FIGHT.

SO THIS WILL WE WIN AND KEEP OCEAN DRIVE CLOSED.

OUR NEXT VIRTUAL SPEAKER IS LARRY SCHAFER.

GO AHEAD SIR.

HELLO, LARRY SCHAFER 2 3 3 FIRST STREET IN NORTH BEACH REGARDING THE BELL ISLE AND THE PRIVATE NEGOTIATION OF PUBLIC BENEFITS FOR DEVELOPER ENTITLEMENTS AND THE STANDARD REDEVELOPMENT, UM, FROM BARRY STERNICK OF STARWOOD.

COMMISSIONER SPEZ DID A GOOD THING BY SHINING A LIGHT ON WHAT IS GOING ON AND BY SPENDING TIME TO HOLD A TOWN HALL MEETING REGARDING THE SITUATION.

PUBLIC BENEFITS FOR DEVELOPMENT ENTITLEMENTS SHOULD BE NEGOTIATED IN PUBLIC.

IF WE DON'T NEGOTIATE THESE BENEFITS IN PUBLIC, THE PEOPLE INVOLVED MAY NEGOTIATE PRIVATE BENEFITS FOR INDIVIDUALS OR POLITICIAN BENEFITS IN THE FORM OF CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTIONS THAT ARE DIRECT OR VIA PAC CONTRIBUTIONS.

OR WE MAY EVEN END UP WITH DONATIONS TO PRIVATE NONPROFITS OWNED BY PRIVATE INDIVIDUALS.

RIGHT NOW, DAVID MARTIN AND THE MARIA LOS HAVE A PROPOSAL TO DEVELOP THE VILLE REPLACEMENT WITH TWO TOWERS THAT CANNOT BE BUILT WITHOUT A DIVISION ADDITIONAL DEVELOPER ENTITLEMENTS.

THESE ENTITLEMENTS ARE VERY VALUABLE.

AND SO IT BEGS THE QUESTION, WHAT ARE WE THE PUBLIC GETTING IN EXCHANGE FOR THESE DEVELOPER ENTITLEMENTS? AND GIVEN THE CONCERN ABOUT THE BELL ISLE DEAL EXPRESSED BY MR. SUAREZ AND OTHERS, HOW DOES A NORTH BEACH RESIDENT AND THE PUBLIC IN GENERAL GET INVOLVED WITH THE NEGOTIATIONS FOR THAT SITE? WHAT PUBLIC BENEFITS ARE WE GETTING FROM THESE GUYS? THE LAST TIME DAVID MARTIN BUILT IN NORTH BEACH AT 87 PARK, 100 PEOPLE DIED NEXT DOOR.

THE ELLOS HAVE DISPLAYED TROUBLING BEHAVIOR IN THEIR HANDLING OF THE DOVAL SITE.

THERE WAS A SUSPICIOUS FIRE, THERE WAS A DEMOLITION THAT I THINK INVOLVED ASBESTOS AND AFTER ALL THAT THEY TEAM UP AND ASK FOR BIG TIME ENTITLEMENTS PLEASE.

SO WHAT DO WE GET AS PUBLIC BENEFITS FROM THEM? ARE THESE PUBLIC BENEFITS COMMENSURATE WITH THE VALUE OF THE REQUESTED ENTITLEMENTS? THANK YOU.

ANYONE ELSE IN IN THE AUDIENCE WISH TO SPEAK? IF NOT, MR. ALDO, GO AHEAD PLEASE.

UH, YES.

HI.

DANIEL SER OOPS, WITH MIAMI DESIGN PRESERVATION LEAGUE.

ACTUALLY, I JUST WANTED TO MENTION, UH, BASED ON THE PRIOR SPEAKERS, UH, UH, MENTIONING ABOUT THE VILLE IS THAT WE ARE MDPL IS PLANNING A NEIGHBORHOOD MEETING ON FEBRUARY 20TH AT 5:30 PM UP IN NORTH BEACH.

SO WE ARE GONNA SEND OUT THE INVITE AND WE HOPE EVERYONE CAN ATTEND.

WE'RE STILL FINALIZING THE LOCATION BECAUSE WE DO THINK THE MORE PUBLIC INPUT THE BETTER.

AND, UH, SEE YOU GUYS LATER.

ANYONE ELSE? IF NOT, MR. NOVIK? MITCH, GO AHEAD.

THANK YOU, RALPH.

I JUST WOULD LIKE TO REMIND EVERYBODY OF THE YOUNG FATHER WHO WAS SHOT DEAD BACK IN 2021 IN FRONT OF THE NOW SHUT, UH, MEXICAN RESTAURANT ON 14TH AND OCEAN DRIVE.

UNFORTUNATELY, FIRST RESPONDERS HAD TO CARRY THE VICTIM TO 15TH STREET ON AN A TV WHERE AN A AMBULANCE WAS WAITING.

UH, AGAIN, I WOULD URGE YOU TO REOPEN UP, UH, THIS CLOSED SECTION OF OCEAN DRIVE, WHICH HAS COST US MILLIONS OF DOLLARS IN PRIVATE PARKING MANAGEMENT.

UH, WE SHOULDN'T BE PAYING FOR THIS.

UH, AND AGAIN, I HAVE, UH, I'M IN DIFFERENT, IF IT'S ONE WAY TRAFFIC OR OR OR TWO WAY, I WILL SAY WE ARE, UH, WE'RE, WE'RE, WE'RE CERTAINLY NOT EARNING ANY PARKING REVENUE.

THANK YOU AGAIN.

SEEING NO ONE ELSE.

MAYOR, WE CAN CONCLUDE OUR SUBJECT.

AS WELL, BUT I THINK IF YOU GIVE A FLAVOR TO US AS WELL AS THE PUBLIC, IT WOULD BE GREAT.

THANK YOU FOR ALL THE, UH, COMMENTS AND, AND CALLS.

JUST TO PROCEDURALLY ON THIS, WHAT'S HAPPENING IS THERE WAS A, A JUDICIAL DECISION.

THE CITY IS ACTUALLY APPEALING THAT DECISION MOSTLY ON JURISDICTIONAL GROUNDS THAT WE DON'T BELIEVE THAT THE, UM, JUDGE HAD JURISDICTION TO MAKE THE DECISION.

UM, I THINK WE HAVE GOOD STANDING LEGALLY ALSO COMMON SENSE, BUT IT'S NOT JUST US.

THERE'S A COUNTY INVOLVED AS WELL, AND THEN WE CAN WORK OUT THESE ISSUES.

SO IT'S HELPFUL TO HEAL EVERYONE'S OPINION, BUT ULTIMATELY THE, WE ARE IN THE PROCESS OF APPEALING THAT.

AND THEN WE'LL, UM, WE'LL GO FROM THERE.

LET'S CALL

[R9 AD PRESENTATION BY CHAIR ROBERT WOLFARTH, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR JAVIER BETANCOURT, AND MUNICIPAL PROGRAM MANAGER MARIANA PRICE OF THE CITIZENS’ INDEPENDENT TRANSPORTATION TRUST (CITT) REGARDING TRANSPORTATION INITIATIVES.]

R NINE AD.

WE HAVE A PRESENTATION BY CITT, THAT'S TRAFFIC REPRESENTATIVES ON TRANSPORTATION INITIATIVES.

I KNOW YOU PROBABLY COULD GO ON FOR HOURS ABOUT THIS, BUT, UH, I WON'T.

I WON'T, BUT I, I, I APPRECIATE IT.

WE CAN DO THE HIGH LEVEL BECAUSE OBVIOUSLY WE HAVE A LOT, LOT TO COVER TODAY.

SO, AND OBVIOUSLY WE'RE ALL ACCESSIBLE

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WELL, I, WE CAN SEE FROM LISTENING TO YOUR PRESENT, UH, FROM YOUR MEETING EARLIER TODAY, A LOT OF IT IS ABOUT TRANSPORTATION.

AND SO I KNOW YOU'RE PROBABLY VERY INTERESTED IN HOW THE COUNTY'S MOVING FORWARD, SO WELL PLEASE INTRODUCE YOURSELVES.

SO, UH, SO LET, I'LL INTRODUCE HIM AND THEN, UH, WE'LL WE WILL KICK IT BACK TO ME.

SO FIRST OF ALL, THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME.

JAVIER BETTEN, COURT EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF THE CITIZENS INDEPENDENT TRANSPORTATION TRUST, OR CITT FOR SHORT.

UM, I DO WANNA INTRODUCE, UH, VERY QUICKLY OUR CHAIRMAN, SOMEONE WHO YOU KNOW VERY WELL, BEACH RESIDENT, UH, AND, AND CERTAINLY ACTIVE HERE IN THE CITY.

ROBERT WOLFHARD.

ROBERT.

THANK YOU MR. EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR AND GOOD AFTERNOON MAYOR AND, UH, COMMISSIONERS AND, UH, UM, CITY MANAGER, UH, CITY ATTORNEY AND CITY CLERK.

UH, THANK YOU FOR HAVING US HERE TODAY.

UH, WE REALLY APPRECIATE YOU PUTTING US ON THE AGENDA.

SO AS WE MOVE OUR WAY THROUGH ALL THE MUNICIPALITIES IN MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, AS WELL AS OTHER ORGANIZATIONS SUCH AS, UH, CHAMBERS OF COMMERCE, AND AS OUR EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR SAID, I'M ROBERT WOOLWORTH, CURRENTLY SERVING AS CHAIR OF THE CITIZEN'S INDEPENDENT TRANSPORTATION TRUST.

I REPRESENT DISTRICT FOUR APPOINTED BY, UH, MICKEY STEINBERG.

OUR TRUST IS MADE UP OF 15 MEMBERS, 13 OF WHICH ARE THE, UM, COUNTY COMMISSION DISTRICTS APPOINTED BY THOSE COUNTY COMMISSIONERS.

ONE APPOINTMENT BY THE MA, UH, BY THE COUNTY MAYOR, AND ONE APPOINTMENT BY THE LEAGUE OF CITIES.

UM, IF I HAD TO SUM OUR WORD UP IN, IN, UH, SUM, SUM OUR JOB, IN ONE WORD, IT WOULD BE THE WATCHDOG.

SO WE ARE THE FIDUCIARY OF THE HALF PENNY SURTAX, WHICH WAS PASSED APPROXIMATELY 22 YEARS AGO, ALONG WITH THE, UH, PTP, WHICH IS THE PEOPLE'S TRANSPORTATION PLAN, UH, WHICH IS THE HALF PENNY IN ORDER TO GET TRANSPORTATION MOVING IN MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, UH, WITH MASS TRANSPORTATION.

AND SO MOSTLY WHAT WE FOCUS ON IS THE SMART PLAN.

SO THE SMART PLAN IS SIX SEGMENTS OF THE, UM, MIAMI-DADE TRANSPORTATION CORRIDORS.

AND, UH, UH, OF THOSE, I'M HAPPY TO ANNOUNCE THAT WE HAVE THE OPENING OF OUR SOUTH CORRIDOR, WHICH IS GONNA BE HAPPENING LATE THIS SUMMER, WHICH IS GONNA GO FROM DELAND SOUTH ALL THE WAY TO HOMESTEAD.

IT'S GONNA BE PREEMPTIVE BRT BUS, RAPID TRANSIT.

MIAMI, UH, VICE MAYOR ANDERSON FROM THE CITY OF CORAL GABLES HAS REACHED OUT SO THAT WE CAN HAVE BETTER INTER CONNECTIVITY BETWEEN ADJACENT MUNICIPALITIES.

AND SO THAT'S GONNA SHORTEN UP THE TIME CONSIDERABLY.

UH, ANOTHER PROJECT THAT WE'RE DILIGENTLY WORKING ON IS THE NORTHEAST CORRIDOR.

THE NORTHEAST CORRIDOR GOES FROM MIAMI CENTRAL ALL THE WAY UP TO THE BRIGHT LINE AVENTURA STATION.

THERE'S GONNA BE FIVE STATIONS IN BETWEEN THOSE.

AND, UH, ONE OF OUR JOBS AS THE CITT IS TO LEVERAGE THE FUNDS THAT WE GET IN, WHICH IS ABOUT $400 MILLION A YEAR.

SO LIKE ON THE SOUTH CORRIDOR, IT WAS ONE THIRD LOCAL FUNDS, ONE THIRD FEDERAL FUNDS, ONE THIRD, UM, UH, STATE FUNDS, UH, ON THE NORTHEAST CORRIDOR.

WE ARE WORKING DILIGENTLY TO GET CONGRESS TO PASS THE NEARLY $400 MILLION THAT'S BEEN ALLOCATED BY THE PRIOR ADMINISTRATION, UM, AND THROUGH THE INFRASTRUCTURE ACT.

AND, UH, WE'RE TRYING TO GET THAT MOVED THROUGH CONGRESS SO THAT WE CAN EQUALLY MATCH THOSE FUNDS.

AND WE HAVE SOME GREAT PTP PROJECTS WITH A LOT OF THOSE STATIONS THAT ARE GONNA BE COMING IN.

WE'RE ALSO WORKING ON THE NORTH CORRIDOR, WHICH IS A CORRIDOR FROM MLK STATION ALL THE WAY UP TO HARD ROCK.

AND THERE'LL BE SOME STATIONS IN THERE.

THE LPA, THE LOCAL PREFERRED ALTERNATIVE IS ELEVATED HARD RAIL.

AND, UM, RIGHT NOW THERE ARE PD AND E UH, DESIGN AND ENGINEERING STUDIES THAT ARE HAPPENING WITH THAT AS WELL.

UM, CLOSER TO HOME, WE HAVE THE, UM, WHAT WAS CALLED, UH, WHAT WHAT IS NOW CALLED THE BEACH CORRIDOR, WHAT WAS CALLED BAY LINK BEFORE.

AND SO THE COUNTY HAS HEARD THIS COMMISSION LOUD AND CLEAR.

NEARLY A YEAR AGO, THIS BODY PASSED A RESOLUTION, UH, LOOKING FOR AN ALTERNATIVE.

AND I KNOW THAT THE COUNTY IS WORKING ON THAT.

THE STATE IS WORKING ON TRAFFIC STUDIES RIGHT NOW IN ORDER TO MOVE FORWARD WITH THE DIRECTION THAT, UH, WE WILL BE MOVING IN WITH THAT.

BUT ALSO, KEEP IN MIND THAT PART OF THE BEACH CORRIDOR IS ALSO, UH, THE SEGMENT THAT'S IN THE DESIGN DISTRICT AS WELL.

AND SO THE COUNTY IS MOVING A LITTLE FURTHER AHEAD WITH THAT FROM WHAT WE UNDERSTAND FROM DTPW.

UM, ALSO WHAT WE DO VERY IMPORTANT IS WE WORK WITH OUR MUNICIPALITIES.

UM, PART OF THE $400 MILLION PER CODE IS 2020 TO 23% GO TO THE MUNICIPALITIES FOR THEIR TRANSIT AND TRANSPORTATION PROJECTS, RIGHT? SO ABOUT 80% GOES TO THEIR TRANSPORTATION PROJECTS, ABOUT 20% FOR TRANSIT.

SO HERE, LIKE, YOU KNOW, IN THE CITY OF MIAMI BEACH, WE HAVE AN EXTENSIVE TROLLEY SYSTEM.

I ALSO OFTEN CALL OUT MIAMI BEACH FOR THE SUCCESSFUL TROLLEY SYSTEM THAT, THAT, THAT, THAT WE HAVE.

UM, AND, UM, THE, YOU KNOW, CALLING THAT OUT AS, AS WELL AS OTHER MICRO MOBILITY PROJECTS.

SO CITY OF MIAMI BEACH IS VERY PROGRESSIVE IN THAT.

AND FINALLY, BEFORE I TURN IT BACK OVER TO JAVIER, OUR EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, MR. BETTENCOURT, I'D JUST LIKE TO SAY PART OF OUR DIRECTION HAS ALSO BEEN TO WORK WITH NEIGHBORING MUNICIPALITIES.

SO RIGHT NOW WE'RE WORKING WITH THE CITY OF SOUTH

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SO WE'RE WORKING ON GETTING THEIR TROLLEY SYSTEM AND TRANSIT SYSTEM TO WORK TOGETHER.

AND RECENTLY WE MET WITH THE MAYOR OF NORTH BAY VILLAGE MAYOR ST.

STRATFIELD.

AND SHE, I KNOW, HAS BEEN TALKING TO SEVERAL OF YOU ABOUT TRYING TO GET SOME KIND OF CONNECTION BETWEEN NORTH BAY VILLAGE AND THE NORTH PART OF MIAMI BEACH, UH, SO THAT WE CAN GET SOME KIND OF CONNECTION BETWEEN THE FOUNTAIN AND ALSO THE BANDSHELL THERE, WHERE I THINK THAT THAT COULD BE VERY SUCCESSFUL.

SO THANK YOU ALL VERY MUCH.

I'M GONNA TURN IT BACK OVER TO OUR EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR TO GO THROUGH THE PRESENTATION RIGHT NOW.

THANK, THANK YOU.

IF WE COULD HAVE THAT, UH, PUT UP ON THE SCREEN.

PERFECT.

THE GOOD NEWS IS HE PRETTY MUCH GAVE MY PRESENTATION, SO I'LL BE ABLE TO FLY THROUGH IT AND SKIP A NUMBER OF SLIDES.

SO HERE'S THE REFERENDUM LANGUAGE.

I'M GONNA JOKE THAT HE LEFT YOU 90 SECONDS , IT'S GREAT.

I COULD DO IT IN 80.

UH, SO HERE'S A REFERENDUM LANGUAGE, UH, THAT APPROVED THE HALF PENNY.

WHAT I WANT TO POINT OUT IS THE VOTERS, UM, ALSO APPROVED THE CITIZENS' INDEPENDENT TRANSPORTATION TRUST AT THAT TIME TO OVERSEE THE FUNDS.

AS THE CHAIRMAN SAID, WE ARE CHARGED WITH MONITORING, AUDITING, REVIEWING AND OVERSEEING THE USE OF CERTEX FUNDS BY BOTH THE COUNTY AND THE MUNICIPALITIES, AND THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE PEOPLE'S TRANSPORTATION PLAN.

HERE ARE THOSE, UH, 15 MEMBERS, UM, THAT, UH, THE CHAIRMAN SPOKE ABOUT ALL CITIZEN VOLUNTEERS.

UH, YOU HAVE TWO GREAT REPRESENTATIVES, UH, REPRESENTING THE CITY, BOTH THE CHAIRMAN AND THE FIRST VICE CHAIR WHO REPRESENTS DISTRICT FIVE.

THAT'S MARY STREET.

SO YOU'RE IN VERY GOOD AND CAPABLE HANDS.

UM, WE DO HAVE THREE VACANCIES, BUT THEY'RE ALL OUT WEST AND DOWN SOUTH.

SO I WON'T BOTHER TO, UH, TO TALK ABOUT THAT.

BUT IF ANYONE WANTS TO BECOME A MEMBER OF THE CITT, YOU CAN APPLY.

IT'S EASY.

THE INFORMATION IS ON OUR WEBSITE.

THE CITT IS SUPPORTED BY WHAT IS PROBABLY THE SMALLEST OFFICE IN MIAMI-DADE COUNTY.

THE OFFICE OF THE C-I-T-T-I HEAD THAT UP.

WE HAVE SEVERAL, A COUPLE MEMBERS OF OUR TEAM HERE TODAY.

MARIANA PRICE, WHO'S THE MUNICIPAL PROGRAM MANAGER, AND WORKS WITH YOUR STAFF ON A REGULAR BASIS.

AND BY THE WAY, YOU HAVE AN AMAZING STAFF WORKING ON TRANSPORTATION AND, AND TO HAVE PENNY, UH, LED BY JOSE GONZALEZ, UH, WHO I'VE KNOWN FOR MANY YEARS.

AND WE ALSO HAVE CARL DAMIAN, WHO IS A MIAMI BEACH RESIDENT AND IS OUR COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT OFFICER.

SO YOU ARE WELL REPRESENTED AT THE STAFF LEVEL TOO.

ONE OF OUR PRIMARY FUNCTIONS IS TO AUDIT ALL THE CITIES AND THE COUNTY ON A REGULAR BASIS.

I'M HAPPY TO SAY THAT THE CITY OF MIAMI BEACH HAS ALWAYS PERFORMED WELL IN THESE AUDITS.

YOU DO GOOD THINGS WITH YOUR MONEY, YOU SPEND IT WISELY, ETHICALLY, AND, UH, ON ELIGIBLE PROJECTS.

SO HOW PENNY MAY NOT SOUND LIKE A LOT, BUT IT ACTUALLY ADDS UP TO QUITE A BIT.

SINCE ITS INCEPTION, WE'VE COLLECTED NEARLY $5 BILLION IN THAT HALF PENNY.

WE'RE COLLECTING ABOUT 400 MILLION, A LITTLE OVER 400 MILLION NOW ANNUALLY.

TWO THIRDS OF THAT IS SPENT OR HAS BEEN SPENT ON TRANSIT.

UH, ABOUT 20 TO 22% GOES TO THE CITIES, UH, FOR ALL OF YOUR BOTH TRANSIT AND TRANSPORTATION PROJECTS.

LESS THAN 10% HAS GONE TO PUBLIC WORKS FOR ROADWAY PROJECTS.

SO PEOPLE THINK THAT THE HALF PENNY WAS MISSPENT, THAT IT WAS ALL SPENT ON ROADWAYS INSTEAD OF TRANSIT.

SIMPLY NOT TRUE.

UH, AND I'M PROUD TO SAY LESS THAN 1% GOES TO OUR OFFICE FOR OVERSIGHT WHO ARE ALLOWED TO SPEND UP TO FIVE.

WE KEEP IT UNDER ONE BECAUSE WE WANT THE MONEY ON THE STREET PROVIDING SERVICES TO THE PEOPLE.

HERE'S THE SAME INFORMATION, BASICALLY OVER THE 20 YEARS.

HERE'S THE ACTUAL BUDGET FOR THIS YEAR.

EVEN A LARGER PERCENTAGE OF THE BUDGET IS GOING TOWARDS TRANSIT, LESS AND LESS TO PUBLIC WORKS FOR ROADWAYS.

IF YOU'RE REALLY INTERESTED IN THIS STUFF, WE HAVE A 40 YEAR PERFORMER.

EVERY PENNY IN EVERY PENNY OUT, IT'S ON OUR WEBSITE.

GEEK OUT.

UH, I WON'T GO THROUGH IT HERE IN THE INTEREST OF TIME.

ALRIGHT, SO ENOUGH ABOUT US AND ENOUGH ABOUT THE MONEY.

LET'S TALK ABOUT WHAT PEOPLE REALLY CARE ABOUT.

WHERE'S IT GONE? WHAT IS IT, UH, DOING TO HELP, UH, MOVE PEOPLE? SO THERE WERE MANY PROMISES THAT WERE MADE 20 YEARS AGO.

IT WASN'T JUST METRO RAIL, IT WAS IMPROVED BUS SERVICE.

IT WAS FAIR FREE FOR SENIORS.

IT WAS FAIR FREE METRO MOVER.

IT WAS, UH, A LONG LIST OF MAJOR HIGHWAY ROADWAY IMPROVEMENTS.

AND OF COURSE THE RAPID TRANSIT CORRIDORS, WHICH AT THE TIME WE ASSUMED WOULD BE METRO RAIL.

UM, BUT ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT FEATURES OF THE PROGRAM IS THE MUNICIPAL PROGRAM.

20% OF THE FUNDS GO THERE.

UH, ALL OF THE CITIES AT THIS POINT ARE OPERATING EITHER A FIXED ROUTE, UH, TROLLEY TYPE OF SERVICE OR AN ON DEMAND SERVICE, LARGELY THROUGH A, A COMPANY CALLED FREEBIE OR SOME COMBINATION THEREOF.

AND THIS CITY IS NO EXCEPTION.

YOU USE A HUNDRED PERCENT PLUS OF YOUR SIRTEX FUNDS FOR TRANSIT, UH, WHICH IS GREAT.

AND, UM, OUR MUNICIPAL PROGRAM MANAGER IS JUST GONNA SPEAK BRIEFLY ABOUT WHAT YOU GET AND WHAT YOU SPEND.

IMPROVING THE CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE.

HAPPY MONDAY.

THANK YOU FOR HAVING ME HERE.

UM, SO THE CITY OF MIAMI BEACH, UH, LAST YEAR RECEIVED ABOUT $5.2 MILLION IN SURTAX FUNDS.

THE MINIMUM REQUIREMENT IS TO SPEND 20%, BUT CITY OF MIAMI BEACH ACTUALLY SPENT, UH, 95%, UH, QUITE THE INVERSE.

SO GREAT JOB ON THAT.

AND THEY GRACIOUSLY PROVIDE ME THE FREEBIE BECAUSE THERE'S NOT ENOUGH FUNDS TO COVER THE EXPENSE OF YOUR FREEBIE, BUT THEY STILL PROVIDE ME THE, THE RIDERSHIP.

UH, THANK YOU TO JOSE ANIEL, WHO RECENTLY PRESENTED AT OUR MUNICIPAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE GALA, BRENDA AND

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MISHA.

YOU HAVE A GREAT STAFF.

SUPER RELIABLE REPORTS ARE EARLIER ON TIME AND THEY ARE ONE OF OUR MOST RELIABLE CITIES.

YOU ARE ONE OF OUR MOST RELIABLE CITIES, SO THANK YOU SO MUCH.

THANK YOU, MARIANA.

UM, AS I SAID, THERE WERE A NUMBER OF ROADWAY PROJECTS.

THOSE ARE ALMOST ALL COMPLETE OR IN THE PROCESS OF BEING COMPLETED AS THOSE ROADWAY PROJECTS GET COMPLETED.

WE'RE NOT ALLOWING THE COUNTY TO ADD MORE IN 'CAUSE WE WANT TO FOCUS EXCLUSIVELY ON TRANSIT AND FIRST LAST MILE CONNECTIVITY TO IT.

'CAUSE THAT'S WHERE WE'RE THE FURTHEST BEHIND AS A COUNTY.

UM, ONE PROJECT, HOWEVER, UNDER ROADWAYS, UH, THAT WE DO SUPPORT IS THE ADVANCED TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT SYSTEM.

THIS IS A FANCY TERM FOR SMART SIGNALS, RIGHT? TO THE EXTENT THAT WE CAN SQUEEZE OUT MORE CAPACITY, UH, FROM OUR EXISTING ROADWAYS AND MAKE THOSE INTERSECTIONS MORE, UH, EFFICIENT, UH, AND GET PEOPLE THROUGH THEM FASTER, YOU KNOW, WE'RE ALL ABOUT THAT.

AND THAT IS A PROJECT THAT IS BEING IMPLEMENTED AS WE SPEAK.

WE DID, UH, INVEST IN A NUMBER OF TRANSIT PROJECTS, UM, FROM NEW FLEETS TO PARKING RIDES TO TRI RAIL, AND OF COURSE THE METRO RAIL EXPANSION TO THE AIRPORT.

UM, WE HAVE NOT INVESTED AS MUCH, FRANKLY, ON EXPANDING THE BUS SYSTEM.

HOWEVER, THE COUNTY DID RECENTLY UNDERGO WHAT I'M SURE EVERYONE HERE KNOWS IS A BETTER BUS NETWORK TO MAKE THAT SYSTEM, UM, MORE, UH, MORE EFFICIENT, UH, AND PROVIDE GREATER FREQUENCY IN SHORTER HEIGHT HEADWAYS.

UM, AS I SAID, THE ONE EXPANSION OF RAPID TRANSIT THAT WE DID ACHIEVE AND THE 20 YEARS WAS THE EXPANSION OF METRO RAIL TO THE AIRPORT AND SERVICE TODAY.

AND I'M SURE MANY OF THE, UH, VISITORS YOU GET HERE, UH, ARE TAKING THAT AS WELL.

BUT WE FAILED ON ACHIEVING THE OTHER FIVE TO SIX QUARTERS THAT WERE PROMISED.

UH, THE GOOD NEWS IS THEY ARE ALL UNDER SOME KIND OF, UH, PLANNING, DEVELOPMENT, ENGINEERING OR CONSTRUCTION PHASE AT THIS POINT.

CHAIRMAN DID A GOOD JOB OF KIND OF GIVING YOU AN OVERVIEW OF THEM.

SO I WON'T NECESSARILY NEED TO DO THAT.

HERE'S JUST A PICTURE OF THAT SOUTH DADE CORRIDOR BUS RAPID TRANSIT PROJECT, WHICH SHOULD OPEN THIS YEAR.

THE BEACH CORRIDOR, OF COURSE WE SPOKE ABOUT, I WON'T GO THROUGH THAT AGAIN, BUT THERE YOU COULD SEE THAT NORTHERN ALIGNMENT THAT HE SPOKE TO, TO THE DESIGN DISTRICT, IN ADDITION TO THE LINE THAT'S COMING OUT TO THE BEACH, THE EAST WEST CORRIDOR, STILL TRYING TO FIGURE OUT WHETHER THAT'S GONNA HAPPEN ON THE DOLPHIN EXPRESSWAY OR PERHAPS FLAGLER OR PERHAPS THE CSX LINE.

COUNTY'S TAKEN A STEP BACK AND IS REEVALUATING THOSE POSSIBILITIES.

KENDALL CORRIDOR IS ON HOLD, WE WON'T TALK ABOUT IT.

NORTHEAST CORRIDOR YOU ALREADY SPOKE TO.

THIS IS VERY PROMISING.

WE HAVE ALL OF THE FUNDS KIND OF ALIGNED AND THIS WILL RUN ALONG THE BRIGHT LINE TRACKS AND SERVE THE LOCAL COMMUNITIES ALONG THERE AT AN AFFORDABLE PRICE POINT, WHICH IS A KEY DIFFERENCE TO WHAT YOU WOULD FIND ON BRIGHT LINE.

NORTH CORRIDOR IS THE ONE THAT IS SLATED TO BE METRO RAIL, THEREFORE IT IS THE TOUGHEST TO ACHIEVE.

BUT THAT IS SLATED TO CONNECT EXISTING METRO RAIL, UH, UP 27TH AVENUE TO THE BROWARD LINE INVESTED IN A NUMBER OF PARKING FACILITIES.

WE NEED TO FIND MORE FUNDING.

UH, HERE ARE SOME OF THE OTHER THINGS WE'RE FOCUSED ON FIRST, LAST MILE CONNECTIVITY, BICYCLE PEDESTRIAN CONNECTIONS TO THOSE STATIONS THAT WE'RE INVESTING IN.

DOESN'T MATTER WHAT YOU BUILD, IF IT ISN'T, UH, WELL MAINTAINED, IF IT ISN'T CLEAN, IF IT ISN'T SAFE.

ENHANCING COUNTY MUNICIPAL CONNECTIVITY.

WE ACTUALLY HAVE 35 DIFFERENT TRANSIT SYSTEMS IN THIS COUNTY.

WE HAVE TRANSIT TRI RAIL, AND 34, 33 CITIES DOING THEIR OWN THING.

SO WE'RE WORKING TO BRIDGE, UH, ALL OF THOSE TOGETHER SO THAT IT IS ONE SEAMLESS SYSTEM FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF THE WRITER.

AND FINALLY, COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT.

YOU KNOW, WE FEEL IT'S IMPORTANT TO TELL THE STORY OF THE PTP 'CAUSE THE PEOPLE WHO VOTED FOR THAT HAVE PENNY DESERVE TO KNOW WHAT'S HAPPENING WITH IT OR WHAT HASN'T HAPPENED SO THAT WE CAN ADDRESS THOSE SHORTAGES.

UH, WE ARE RECRUITING CITT AMBASSADORS.

THESE ARE PEOPLE WHO RIDE THE SYSTEM ON A REGULAR BASIS TO BE OUR EYES AND EARS IN EXCHANGE FOR PROVIDING FEEDBACK.

THEY GET POINTS WHICH THEY CAN EXCHANGE FOR REWARDS.

GREAT PROGRAM.

LOOK IT UP ON OUR WEBSITE.

AND FINALLY, WE LAUNCHED A PODCAST A COUPLE YEARS AGO, FOCUSED ON TRANSPORTATION AND MOBILITY.

HAVE HAD DOZENS AND DOZENS OF OFFICIALS ON THERE.

I'D LIKE TO INVITE YOU ALL TO BE ON MY PODCAST SOMETIME.

SO IF YOU'RE INTERESTED, UH, PLEASE REACH OUT.

IT'S EVERY OTHER THURSDAY FROM NINE TO 10:00 AM ON FACEBOOK LIVE.

TO PROVIDE SIRTEX FUNDS OR OTHER FUNDS, THAT'S A CONVERSATION WE CAN FACILITATE WITH THE DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION AND PUBLIC WORKS.

AND WE ARE HAPPY TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS.

WATER TAXES, WATER TAXI.

THE ONE THING I DIDN'T COVER.

YOU GOT, YOU CAUGHT ME.

SO, UM, THAT'S NEW, RIGHT? AND I, I UNDERSTAND THAT THE CITY OF MIAMI BEACH IS EXPLORING THAT.

WE BELIEVE, ALTHOUGH WE'D HAVE TO RUN IT THROUGH OUR COUNTY ATTORNEY'S OFFICE, THAT IT COULD BE AN ELIGIBLE EXPENSE OF CERT TAX FUNDS.

UM, IT'S UNCLEAR TO ME WHETHER THAT WOULD REQUIRE SOME KIND OF INTERLOCAL AGREEMENT WITH THE COUNTY.

YOU DO HAVE ONE FOR YOUR, YOUR TROLLEYS AND FOR ANY ON-DEMAND SERVICE.

UM, BUT I THINK EVERYONE IS OPEN TO THE DISCUSSION.

IT, IT MAKES A LOT OF SENSE IF WE CAN FIGURE OUT HOW TO, YOU KNOW, NOT KILL MANATEES ON THE WAY, BUT I KNOW THERE ARE NEW TECHNOLOGIES AT PLAY THAT MIGHT MAKE THAT POSSIBLE.

WHAT DO YOU NEED FROM ME OR US TO MAKE THAT HAPPEN STARTING NOW? SO IT'D BE GREAT IF, OBVIOUSLY WE, WE, WE GOT SOME GRANT FUNDING FROM THE STATE.

WE'RE LOOKING AT FEDERAL FUNDING.

OBVIOUSLY WE, WE WANNA BE PARTNERS WITH THE COUNTY.

SO WHATEVER WE NEED TO DO, UH, IT DEPENDS ON HOW YOU'RE APPROACHING IT.

IF YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT USING CITY CERTEX FUNDS TO LAUNCH THAT SERVICE, THEN WE CAN HAVE THAT CONVERSATION WITH OUR ATTORNEYS TO SEE IF THAT'S ELIGIBLE.

AND THEN IT'S REALLY JUST THE CITY TAKING THE LEAD.

IF YOU'RE LOOKING FOR THE COUNTY

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IT WOULDN'T NECESSARILY BE US, UM, DOING THAT, BUT WE, WE'D LOVE TO MAKE THAT CONNECTION.

APPRECIATE ALL THE WORK THAT YOU DO.

OBVIOUSLY APPRECIATE IT.

AS, AS YOU POINTED OUT, IT WAS A BIG TOPIC OF A CONVERSATION THIS MORNING.

IT'S A BIG TOPIC OF CONVERSATION IN OUR MEETINGS GENERALLY AMONGST OUR RESIDENTS.

SO THANK YOU FOR TRYING TO MITIGATE THE TRAFFIC CONGESTION AS MUCH AS WE CAN.

OF COURSE, IT'S, IT'S A BIG TOPIC OF CONVERSATION THROUGHOUT THE COUNTY, AS YOU MIGHT HAVE MENTIONED.

YES, ABSOLUTELY.

UM, ALRIGHT, THANK YOU ALL VERY MUCH.

BUT COMMISSIONER FERNANDEZ HAS A QUESTION.

OH, JUST A QUESTION.

UM, TODAY WE'VE, WE'VE VOTED ON A NUMBER OF ITEMS. I THINK, UH, COMMISSIONER SUAREZ HAD AN ITEM HAVING TO DO WITH INTERCONNECTIVITY WITH, UH, WITH NORTH BAY VILLAGE.

I HAD AN ITEM HAVING TO DO WITH, UM, EXPANDING THE GEOFENCE OF THE FREEBIE PROGRAM IN NORTH BEACH TO SERVICE MORE OF THE AREAS IN FREEBIE.

UH, AND I'M GONNA BE HAVING A MEETING WITH, UM, WITH COMMISSIONER DAMIEN PARDO IN THE CITY OF MIAMI AND SEEING WHAT WE CAN DO MORE BETWEEN THE EAST END OF THE CITY OF MIAMI AND MIAMI BEACH.

ARE THESE THINGS THAT, THAT WOULD BE ELIGIBLE, UH, FOR, FOR THE CITT? LIKE, LIKE, LIKE FOR EXAMPLE, LIKE A DIRECT CONCERN I HAVE IS WHETHER HEADWAYS ARE GOING TO INCREASE EXPANDING THE GEOFENCE FOR THE FREEBIE PROGRAM, AND LET'S SAY WE NEEDED TO BRING MORE, MORE VEHICLES, MORE FREEBIE VEHICLES ON BOARD TO BETTER SERVE NORTH BEACH.

IS THAT THE TYPE OF, UH, STUFF THAT UH, ABSOLUTELY IT'S ALL ELIGIBLE.

THERE ARE LIMITATIONS IN THE ORDINANCE.

I THINK THE FREEBIE COULD ONLY GO A MAXIMUM OF FIVE MILES IN ANY DIRECTION.

AND THEN, UH, IN TERMS OF THE TROLLEY SERVICE, UH, ONLY 30%, UH, MAXIMUM OF THAT SERVICE CAN BE OUTSIDE OF YOUR BOUNDARIES.

NOW IF YOU'RE EXPLORING SOMETHING THAT KIND OF EXCEEDS THOSE THRESHOLDS, WE COULD ALWAYS GO BACK AND AMEND THE ORDINANCE.

WE'VE DONE IT IN THE PAST.

UM, AND, AND THERE ARE EXAMPLES ALREADY OF MUNICIPALITIES WORKING TOGETHER ON, ON COMMON SYSTEMS. SO MIAMI SPRINGS AND VIRGINIA GARDEN RUNS ONE, UH, CONNECTED SYSTEM AND THEN ALSO HIAL AND HIALEAH GARDENS.

AND WE ENCOURAGE THAT.

WE THINK IT'S GREAT, RIGHT? BECAUSE PEOPLE JUST WANNA GET FROM POINT A TO POINT B, THEY DON'T CARE ABOUT JURISDICTIONAL BOUNDARIES.

UH, AND SO WE NEED TO, YOU KNOW, DO A BETTER JOB OF CONNECTING ALL THESE SYSTEMS. SO WE'D LOVE TO BE A PART OF THOSE CONVERSATIONS IF WE CAN HELP.

WE'VE ALSO RECENTLY LAUNCHED A STUDY ON TRANSPORTATION MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATIONS OR TMAS.

SO, UH, WE HOPE FOR THAT STUDY TO BE COMPLETED IN SIX MONTHS.

AND THEN MAYBE YOU CAN TAKE SOME OF THOSE LESSONS LEARNED OR BEST PRACTICES AND APPLY 'EM HERE.

AND, AND, UH, AND I ALSO JUST WANNA THANK THE CITT FOR ACKNOWLEDGING THE CITY'S COMMISSION'S POSITION ON THE TECHNOLOGY SELECTED FOR THE BAY LINK.

SO THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

MR. MAYOR, CAN I ASK THANK YOU COMMISSIONER ROSE GONZALEZ.

THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR PRESENTATION.

CAN WE ACTUALLY TAKE ACTION ON THE WATER TAXI RIGHT NOW AND PASSING MOTION FOR OUR TRANSPORTATION COMMITTEE TO ENTER, TO BEGIN TO MEET WITH THE CITT TO, UH, I DON'T KNOW, GET SOME SORT OF FUNDING FOR THIS NEXT YEAR? BECAUSE WE'VE ALREADY ORDERED THIS WATER TAXI, I'M PRETTY SURE WE'RE, WE'RE WORKING ON THE PROCUREMENT, CORRECT? FOR PARDON? WE'RE ALREADY DOING THAT PETITION FOR END DESIGN.

WHAT WE'RE WORKING ON AN ITEM FOR REWARD THING.

WELL, YEAH, BUT WHY DON'T WE GET FUNDING FROM THE CITT AT THE SAME TIME? MAY I JUST TWO DIFFERENT THINGS.

BUT ALSO VERY MUCH ABOUT MICRO MOBILITY AND, UH, THE WATER TAXIS ALSO, WHICH I KNOW OUR TRUST IS VERY, VERY INTERESTED IN EXPLORING FURTHER.

CLARIFY SOMETHING.

WE DON'T HAVE ADDITIONAL FUNDING TO GIVE YOU .

SO THERE IS A FORMULA BY WHICH WE, WE PROVIDE FUNDING TO THE CITIES.

IT'S BASED PURELY ON POPULATION.

THERE MAY BE OTHER FUNDING SOURCES, TPO GRANTS, FDO GRANTS THAT MAY BE AVAILABLE, BUT THOSE AREN'T THINGS THAT WE'RE IN CHARGE OF.

WHAT WE COULD DO IS FACILITATE CONVERSATIONS WITH THOSE ENTITIES, BUT I JUST WANNA SET EXPECTATIONS.

I DON THINK THERE'S ANYTHING WRONG WITH, UH, DIRECTING OUR TRANSPORTATION, UM, WITH DIRECTING JOSE TO BEGIN CONVERSATIONS WITH THE CITC.

SO IN THE FUTURE, IF YOU DO HAVE ANY AVAILABLE FUNDING, WE BEGIN TO ALLOCATE A PORTION OF IT TO THE WATER TAXI AND THAT WOULD GO IN CONJUNCTION WITH YOUR PROCUREMENT ON THE WATER TAXI.

AND, AND WE'D BE, WE WOULD BE HAPPY TO JOIN IN AND FACILITATE THAT.

PARTICULARLY SINCE WE ARE A COUNTY ENTITY, EVEN THOUGH WE ARE INDEPENDENT, YOU KNOW, WE DO HAVE A GOOD RELATIONSHIP WITH DTPW, DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION AND PUBLIC WORKS AND RIGHT NOW WE ARE FACILITATING CONVERSATIONS, AS I MENTIONED EARLIER, WITH THE CITY OF SOUTH MIAMI AND THE CITY OF CORAL GABLES TO GET SOME INTERCONNECTIVITY GOING THERE.

RIGHT NOW WE'RE ALSO WORKING WITH BAY HARBOR BELL HARBOR SURF SIDE TO GET INTERCONNECTIVITY THERE.

SO THERE'S A GREAT OPPORTUNITY FOR US AS AN INDEPENDENT COUNTY, UH, BOARD TRUST TO FACILITATE THAT AND WE WOULD BE HAPPY TO DO THAT.

UM, LIKE YOU JUST WERE MENTIONING, UH, YOU PASSED EARLIER ON NORTH BAY VILLAGE, WE'D BE THRILLED TO DO THAT ON WATER TAXIS ALSO, BECAUSE WE'RE NOT JUST ABOUT DOING THE TROLLEYS AND FREEBIES,

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ARE YOU GUYS SUPPORTIVE OF STARTING A CONVERSATION? YES.

IF YOU HAVE TO.

ALRIGHT, SO I THINK WE SHOULD JUST DIRECT THE CITY ATTORNEY TO PREPARE, YOU KNOW, TO, WE CAN TAKE THAT ACTION RIGHT NOW.

RICK, ENTER INTO A PRELIMINARY, MY MOTION WOULD BE TO ENTER INTO A PRELIMINARY CONVERSATION WITH THE CITT SO WE CAN BEGIN THE CONVERSATION TO FIND, TO JUSTIFY SOME SORT OF FUNDING MOVING FORWARD IN FUTURE YEARS.

OBVIOUSLY, I, I, I DON'T SEE A PROBLEM WITH THAT.

THIS IS A PRETTY BROAD DISCUSSION ITEM.

SOMEONE WANT TO SECOND THAT? SECOND? OKAY, HERE WE GO.

SO, ALL IN FAVOR? AYE.

LOOKING FORWARD TO IT.

YEAH, WE WILL.

AND WE'LL BE SPEAKING WITH, UH, DIRECTOR JOSE GONZALEZ ABOUT THIS ITEM.

ALSO YOUR DIRECTOR OF TRANSPORTATION.

THANK YOU, COMMISSIONER.

KEEP UP THE GREAT WORK.

APPRECIATE IT.

ENGAGE CONVERSATIONS WITH CITT.

IT'S

[CRA-1. A RESOLUTION OF THE CHAIRPERSON AND MEMBERS OF THE BOARD OF THE NORTH BEACH COMMUNITY REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY (NORTH BEACH CRA) ACCEPTING THE RECOMMENDATION OF THE NORTH BEACH CRA ADVISORY COMMITTEE AT ITS DECEMBER 10, 2024 MEETING, AND APPROVING, SUBJECT TO APPROVAL BY THE CITY OF MIAMI BEACH, THE USE OF CRA FUNDS FOR SIGNAGE ENHANCEMENTS AT NORTH SHORE PARK, INCLUDING NEW ENTRANCE SIGNAGE AND SUPPORTING DIRECTIONAL SIGNAGE. JOINT CITY COMMISSION AND NBCRA]

CALLED CA ONE AND I BELIEVE, UH, THE COMPANION ITEM R SEVEN A.

SO WE ARE RECESSING AS A CITY COMMISSION MEETING AND CONVENING AS THE NORTH BEACH COMMUNITY.

WE DEVELOP AN AGENCY, THIS IS A JOINT ITEM.

THIS IS ACCEPT, ACCEPT N-B-C-R-A-C RECOMMENDATION, USE CRA FUNDS FOR SIGNAGE ENHANCEMENTS AT NSPI MOVE THE ITEM I SECOND.

I HAVE A MOTION BY COMMISSIONER FERNANDEZ.

UH, UH, SECONDED BY BY MAYOR BOT.

ALL IN FAVOR? AYE.

R SEVEN A, IS THAT CORRECT? YES.

ITEM IS APPROVED.

COMMISSIONER STEINBERG IS ABSENT THE COM UH, WE ARE NOW CONCLUDING THE NORTH BEACH CRA MEETING AND WE ARE RECONVENING AS A CITY COMMISSION MEETING.

WE'RE GOING TO DO

[R7 A A RESOLUTION OF THE MAYOR AND CITY COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF MIAMI BEACH, FLORIDA, ACCEPTING THE RECOMMENDATION OF THE NORTH BEACH COMMUNITY REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY (NORTH BEACH CRA) ADVISORY COMMITTEE AT ITS DECEMBER 10, 2024 MEETING, AND APPROVING, SUBJECT TO BUDGET APPROPRIATION BY THE NORTH BEACH CRA BOARD, THE USE OF CRA FUNDS FOR SIGNAGE ENHANCEMENTS AT NORTH SHORE PARK. JOINT CITY COMMISSION AND NBCRA]

UH, WHICH IS ACCEPT NORTH BEACH C-R-A-A-C, UH, REQUEST YOU CRA FUNDS FOR SIGNAGE USES THIS COMPANION ITEM.

MAY I HAVE A MOTION? I MOVE THE ITEM SECOND MOTION.

AND A SECOND.

UH, ALL IN FAVOR OF R SEVEN A PLEASE SAY AYE.

O IS AN ORDER TO THE MAYOR OF CITY, COMMISSION OF CITY MIAMI BEACH BOARD AMENDING CHAPTER 58 OF THE MIAMI BEACH CITY CODE ENTITLED HOUSING BY AMENDING ARTICLE ONE ENTITLED IN GENERAL BY CREATING SECTION 58 DASH TWO THEREOF TO BE ENTITLED, FAIR APPROVAL PROCESS REQUIRING CONDOMINIUM ASSOCIATIONS TO APPROVE OR DISAPPROVE AN APPLICATION FROM A POTENTIAL RESIDENT WITHIN 15 BUSINESS DAYS.

MOTION PASSES SEVEN ZERO R SEVEN A.

LET'S GO.

R FIVE OR FIVE

[R5 O AN ORDINANCE OF THE MAYOR AND CITY COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF MIAMI BEACH, FLORIDA, AMENDING CHAPTER 58 OF THE MIAMI BEACH CITY CODE, ENTITLED "HOUSING," BY AMENDING ARTICLE I, ENTITLED “IN GENERAL,” BY CREATING SECTION 58-2, THEREOF, TO BE ENTITLED "FAIR APPROVAL PROCESS” REQUIRING CONDOMINIUM ASSOCIATIONS TO APPROVE OR DISAPPROVE AN APPLICATION FROM A POTENTIAL RESIDENT WITHIN FIFTEEN (15) BUSINESS DAYS; AND PROVIDING FOR REPEALER, SEVERABILITY, CODIFICATION, AND AN EFFECTIVE DATE.]

AND PROVIDING FOR REPEAT OR SERVICEABILITY QUALIFICATION AN EFFECTIVE DATE.

R FIVE OH COMMISSIONER FERNANDEZ.

MR. MAYOR.

UM, I'VE HADN'T INTENDED FOR THE ASSIGNMENT TO BE AN OPEN AND CONTINUE 'CAUSE I'M STILL HAVING MEETINGS WITH STAKEHOLDERS, SO I DON'T KNOW.

UM, MR. ATTORNEY, WHAT WOULD BE THE PROPER WAY OF OPENING AND CONTINUING THIS? I THINK YOU JUST DID IT.

OH, THAT WAS EASY.

SO BY ACCLIMATION, WE CAN OPEN AND CONTINUE THIS ITEM TO FEBRUARY 26TH.

LET'S KEEP DOING THIS.

WE GET THROUGH THIS AGENDA.

R FIVE S SIR.

ACTUALLY, COMMISSIONER MAGAZINE IS NOT HERE.

SO LET'S GO TO

[R5 X COURTESY NOTICE REQUIREMENTS FOR RESIDENTIAL TENANTS AN ORDINANCE OF THE MAYOR AND CITY COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF MIAMI BEACH, FLORIDA, AMENDING THE CODE OF THE CITY OF MIAMI BEACH, SUBPART B, ENTITLED “MIAMI BEACH RESILIENCY CODE,” CHAPTER 2, ENTITLED “ADMINISTRATION AND REVIEW PROCEDURES,” ARTICLE II, ENTITLED “GENERAL DEVELOPMENT APPLICATION AND HEARING PROCEDURES,” SECTION 2.2.4, ENTITLED “PUBLIC HEARING,” SECTION 2.2.4.1, ENTITLED “PUBLIC NOTIFICATION,” BY CREATING A COURTESY NOTICE REQUIREMENT SPECIFIC TO RESIDENTIAL TENANTS OF PROPERTIES THAT ARE THE SUBJECT OF A CITY LAND USE BOARD APPLICATION; AND PROVIDING FOR CODIFICATION, REPEALER, SEVERABILITY, AND AN EFFECTIVE DATE.]

R FIVE X.

R FIVE X IS AN ORDINANCE OF THE MAYOR OF CITY, COMMISSIONER OF THE CITY OF MIAMI BEACH, FLORIDA.

THE CODE OF THE CITY OF MIAMI BEACH SUBPART B ENTITLED MIAMI BEACH RESILIENCY CODE CHAPTER TWO, ENTITLED ADMINISTRATION REVIEW PROCEDURES ARTICLE TWO ENTITLED GENERAL DEVELOPMENT, APPLICATION AND HEARING PROCEDURES SECTION 2.4 ENTITLED PUBLIC HEARING.

SECTION TWO POINT ENTITLED PUBLIC NOTIFICATION BY CREATING A COURTESY NOTICE REQUIREMENTS SPECIFIC TO RESIDENTIAL TENANTS OR PROPERTIES THAT ARE SUBJECT TO A CITY LAND USE BOARD APPLICATION AND PROVIDING FOR CODIFICATION OR REPEAL SEVERABILITY AND AN EFFECTIVE DATE.

IT IS ITEM R FIVE X COMMISSIONER FERNANDEZ CO-SPONSORED BY VICE MAYOR BOT AND MAGAZINE.

PROPERTY OWNERS WITHIN 375 FEET OF THE PROPERTY THAT IS SUBJECT TO THE APPLICATION.

AND EARLIER TODAY WE WERE TALKING ABOUT THE IMPORTANCE OF PROTECTING PEOPLE'S HOMES, ABOUT MAKING SURE THAT WE WOULD DO WHATEVER WE WE COULD TO PREVENT THE DISPLACEMENT OF THOSE INDIVIDUALS THAT HAVE LIVED IN OUR CITY FOR A LONG TIME.

THIS ORDINANCE, UH, GOES ALONG WITH THAT, TO INCREASE TRANSPARENCY AND COMMUNICATION WITH TENANTS LIVING IN PROPERTIES SUBJECT TO DEVELOPMENT APPLICATIONS.

CURRENTLY, WHEN A LAND USE APPLICATION IS SUBMITTED, NOTICES ARE REQUIRED TO BE MAILED, BUT THEY'RE MAILED ONLY TO PROPERTY OWNERS.

UH, SO THOSE

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WHILE THIS PROCESS ENSURES A NEARBY PROPERTY OWNERS ARE INFORMED, WE RECOGNIZE THAT EXISTING TENANTS IN THE BUILDINGS ALSO HAVE A VESTED INTEREST IN ANY CHANGES THAT MIGHT IMPACT THEIR HOMES, YET THEY'RE NOT BEING NOTIFIED OF THE DEVELOPMENT APPLICATIONS.

THE PROPOSED AMENDMENT THAT WE HAVE BEFORE US WOULD REQUIRE AN ADDITION TO NOTIFYING NEARBY PROPERTY OWNERS.

ANY ADDITIONAL COURTESY AND ADDITIONAL COURTESY NOTICE BE SENT TO OUR CURRENT TENANTS OF A PROPERTY THAT IS PART OF A DEVELOPMENT APPLICATION.

THIS NOTICE WOULD INCLUDE KEY DETAILS ABOUT THE APPLICATION, SUCH AS THE REQUEST BEING MADE, THE DATE AND TIME AND LOCATION OF THE MEETING, UH, AND A LINK TO THE HOUSING IMPACT STATEMENT RE RELATED TO THE PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT.

THIS ADVANCE NOTICE WILL HELP ENSURE THAT TENANTS ARE FULLY INFORMED ABOUT ANY POTENTIAL CHANGES THAT MAY AFFECT THEIR LIVING SITUATION.

UM, AND ESPECIALLY LIVING IN SUCH A VOLATILE, UH, HOUSING, UH, MARKET, IT GIVES PEOPLE JUST ADEQUATE TIME TO BE ABLE TO START MAKING THEIR DECISIONS PROPERLY OF WHERE TO LIVE.

SOME PEOPLE NEED STABILITY AND NOTICE IS ONE OF THE FEW THINGS, UM, THAT WE CAN DO.

IT IS A SIMPLE YET MEANINGFUL WAY TO ENSURE TENANTS ARE KEPT INFORMED AND GIVING THEM AN OPPORTUNITY TO PARTICIPATE IN THE PROCESS AND UNDERSTAND HOW A POTENTIAL DEVELOPMENT COULD IMPACT THEIR HOUSING SITUATION.

BUT I'M GONNA TURN IT OVER TO TOM, UH, TO IF YOU, THERE'S SOMETHING ELSE TO CHIME IN ABOUT THIS.

UH, UH, NO, COMMISSIONER, I THINK YOU COVERED EVERYTHING, SO THANK YOU MADAM VICE, SIR, AT THE RIGHT TIME I'LL MOVE MY ITEM.

UM, GO AHEAD BECAUSE I WAS GONNA SECOND IT.

OH, PERFECT.

I THINK THERE'S A THIRD OVER THERE TOO.

UM, I THINK THIS IS WELL, WELL PAST DUE THE NUMBER OF TIMES THAT WE'VE FOUND OUT FROM RESIDENTS THAT THEIR BOARD, CONDO BOARD OR THEIR BUILDING MANAGER OR WHOEVER DIDN'T FORWARD THE INFORMATION AND THEY WERE LEFT OUT IN THE COLD OF ANY DECISION MAKING POSSIBILITY.

SO I COMMEND YOU FOR BRINGING THIS IN.

I THINK WE SHOULD CALL THE VOTE.

PUBLIC HEARING.

I HAVE MR. ERALDO ON ZOOM.

HI, DANIEL ERALDO WITH .

UM, THIS IS REALLY IMPORTANT FOR RESIDENTS RIGHT TO KNOW AND I WANTED TO THANK THE COMMISSIONERS FOR BRINGING THIS FORWARD.

IT'S SO IMPORTANT THAT ALL NEIGHBORS HAVE A SEAT AT THE TABLE AND ARE AWARE OF WHAT'S GOING ON IN THEIR NEIGHBORHOOD.

IT'S IN LINE WITH MIAMI BEACH'S RECORD OF NEIGHBORHOOD PARTICIPATION AND ECONOMIC GROWTH.

AND THANK YOU FOR THE PROPOSAL.

THERE'S NO ONE ELSE IN ZU.

I SEE NO ONE ELSE IN THE AUDIENCE.

SO WE MAY TAKE A ROLL CALL IF YOU WISH.

IT'S CALL THE VOTE.

VICE MAYOR BOTT? YES.

PUBLIC HEARING IS SCHEDULED FOR APRIL 23RD.

[R5 S AN ORDINANCE OF THE MAYOR AND CITY COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF MIAMI BEACH, FLORIDA, AMENDING CHAPTER 2 OF THE MIAMI BEACH CITY CODE, ENTITLED "ADMINISTRATION," BY AMENDING ARTICLE III, ENTITLED “AGENCIES, BOARDS AND COMMITTEES,” BY AMENDING DIVISION 14, ENTITLED “NEXT GENERATION COUNCIL,” BY AMENDING SECTION 2-176, ENTITLED “ESTABLISHED; PURPOSE,” SECTION 2-177, ENTITLED “POWERS AND DUTIES,” AND SECTION 2-178 , ENTITLED “COMPOSITION,” TO REVISE THE REQUIREMENTS FOR SERVICE ON THE NEXT GENERATION COUNCIL; AND, PROVIDING FOR REPEALER, SEVERABILITY, CODIFICATION, AND AN EFFECTIVE DATE.]

R FIVE S.

THANK YOU MR. ONE SEC PLEASE.

R FIVE S IS AN ARTICLE OF THE MAYOR OF CITY COMMISSION OF CITY MIAMI BEACH, FLORIDA.

AMENDING CHAPTER TWO OF THE MIAMI BEACH CITY CODE ENTITLED ADMINISTRATION BY AMENDING ARTICLE THREE ENTITLED AGENCIES, BOARDS AND COMMITTEES BY AMENDING DIVISION 14 ENTITLED NEXT GENERATION COUNSEL BY AMENDING SECTION TWO DASH 1 76 ENTITLED ESTABLISHED PURPOSE SECTION TWO DASH 1 77 ENTITLED POWERS AND DUTIES AND SECTION TWO DASH 1 78 ENTITLED COMPOSITION TO REVISE THE REQUIREMENTS FOR SERVICE ON THE NEXT GENERATION COUNSEL AND PROVIDING FOR REPEAL OBSERVABILITY CLARIFICATION AND EFFECTIVE DATE.

IT IS ITEM R FIVE S COMMISSIONER MAGAZINE.

THANK YOU MADAM VICE MAYOR.

UH, MAYBE THIS IS MY OWN SELF-SERVING WAY TO TRY AND FEEL A LITTLE BIT YOUNGER IF I COULD, UH, YOU KNOW, BE CLOSER TO THE AGE RANGE ALLOWABLE FOR THE NEXT GENERATION COUNCIL.

BUT I THINK THIS IS AN IMPORTANT, UH, COMMITTEE THAT WE HAVE.

UM, WE HAVE, UH, A VERY WIDE AND DIVERSE ARRAY OF INTEREST IN OUR CITY, AND A LOT OF THESE BOARDS ARE ADVISORY TO THE COMMISSION, UH, TO BE OUR EYES AND EARS ON THE GROUND.

ONE OF THEM, UH, THAT I THINK IS VERY IMPORTANT TO GET INVOLVED IS OUR YOUNGER DEMOGRAPHIC, UH, AS THROUGH THE TITLE, THAT'S GONNA BE OUR NEXT GENERATION.

AND THIS JUST, UH, ESSENTIALLY UPPERS THE LIMIT FOR THE, UH, AGE THAT IS CONSIDERED TO BE INVOLVED IN THE NEXT GENERATION COUNCIL.

HISTORICALLY, OVER THE YEARS, WE HAD HAD SOME, UH, DIFFICULTY FILLING THESE SPOTS, AND I THINK THAT SPEAKS TO IN EVEN GREATER NEED THAT WE REACH OUT TO, UH, THE YOUNGER PEOPLE IN OUR COMMUNITY URGE THEM TO GET INVOLVED.

IT'S A, UH, UNDERTAKING THAT I'M ABSOLUTELY COMMITTED TO, UH, FOR THIS SPECIFIC COUNCIL.

MY MY STAFF AND MY TEAM HAVE BEEN GREAT AS

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OF CITY STAFF.

UH, AND THIS IS JUST KIND OF, UH, EXPANDING THOSE BOUNDARIES FOR WHO'S ABLE TO GET INVOLVED IN SUCH A CAPACITY.

, YOUR HONOR.

SO I HAVE A MOTION BY COMMISSIONER MAGAZINE, SECONDED BY COMMISSIONER FERNANDEZ.

I SEE NO ONE IN ZOOM.

I SEE NO ONE IN THE AUDIENCE.

IF THERE'S NO FURTHER DISCUSSION, MAY I CALL THE ROLE? ANYBODY ELSE HAVE ANYTHING TO SAY? NO, THAT'S GREAT.

GO.

PUBLIC HEARING IS SCHEDULED FOR FEBRUARY 26TH.

POINT OF ORDER.

MR. MAYOR? SURE.

FIVE Y ONE SECOND PLEASE.

MR. ATTORNEY FOR THE SECOND READING, CAN WE RENAME THIS A FOREVER YOUNG ORDINANCE? NO, YOU CAN'T CHANGE THE TITLE.

OH MAN, .

IT'S A GOOD SONG.

BUT ALEX, ALEX, YOU CAN SING IT.

[R5 Y AN ORDINANCE OF THE MAYOR AND CITY COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF MIAMI BEACH, FLORIDA, AMENDING THE CODE OF THE CITY OF MIAMI BEACH, CHAPTER 66, ENTITLED “MARINE STRUCTURES, FACILITIES AND VESSELS,” ARTICLE III, ENTITLED “PIERS, DOCKS AND BOAT RAMPS,” BY AMENDING SECTION 66-107, ENTITLED “USE OF THE BARRY KUTUN BOAT RAMP AND ASSOCIATED PIERS/DOCKS AT MAURICE GIBB PARK,” TO ALLOW MIAMI BEACH RESIDENTS TO PICK UP AND DROP OFF PASSENGERS AT THE BARRY KUTUN BOAT RAMP AT MAURICE GIBB PARK; PROVIDING FOR REPEALER, SEVERABILITY, CODIFICATION AND FOR AN EFFECTIVE DATE.]

R FIVE Y IS AN ORDINANCE OF THE MAYOR, CITY COMMISSIONER OF THE CITY OF MIAMI BEACH, FLORIDA.

THE CODE OF THE CITY OF MIAMI BEACH, CHAPTER 66 ENTITLED MARINE STRUCTURES, FACILITIES, AND VESSELS.

ARTICLE THREE ENTITLED, USE OF THE BERRY C**N BOAT RAMP AND ASSOCIATED PI DOCKS AT MAURICE GI PARK TO ALLOW MIAMI BEACH RESIDENTS TO PICK UP AND DROP OFF PASSENGERS AT THE BERRY COTEN BOAT RAMP AT MAURICE GI PARK, PROVIDING FOR REPEAL OR SEVERAL ABILITY CATION AND AN EFFECTIVE DATE.

HOME IN MIAMI BEACH OR AT THE MARINA IN MIAMI BEACH, WHY DO YOU NEED A THIRD PLACE TO DOCK? I MEAN, WE'RE TRYING VERY HARD TO BE CONSISTENT AS BEST AS POSSIBLE.

IT IS ITEM R FIVE Y, COMMISSIONER ROSE GONZALEZ.

UM, SO THIS ITEM IS KIND OF A CLEANUP TO THE OTHER ITEM.

OBVIOUSLY, YOU KNOW, UM, I UNDERSTAND WHAT COMMISSIONER SCHWARZ WAS DOING, BUT SEVERAL, UM, RESIDENTS WHO'VE HAD BOATS HERE THEIR ENTIRE LIFE, UM, EVERY ONCE IN A WHILE PICK UP FRIENDS OR FAMILY MEMBERS.

AND SO IF YOU ARE A RESIDENT AND NOT A COMMERCIAL BOAT OPERATOR, UM, AND YOU SHOW AN ID SAYING YOU'RE MAYBE SURE YOU SHOULD BE ABLE TO PULL UP AND PICK PEOPLE UP.

NOW I'VE HAD TWO PHONE CALLS FROM, UM, A LONG TIME MIAMI BEACH RESIDENCE.

I, ONE WAS ROGER BAUMAN AND I GOT ANOTHER TEXT THE OTHER DAY FROM SOMEONE WHO LIVES ON NORTH BAY ROAD WHO HAS A BOAT TOO.

SO, UM, I DON'T THINK THAT THIS IS INTENDED IN ANY WAY TO HINDER ANY INITIATIVE.

I REALLY DO THINK THERE'S A FEW RESIDENTS WHO LIVE ON THE BEACH WHO HAVE BOATS THAT WANNA BE ABLE TO PICK UP THEIR NEIGHBORS AND, UM, OR FRIENDS.

UM, AND WE SHOULD ALLOW THEM TO DO SO, ESPECIALLY IF THEY SHOW RESIDENCY IN MIAMI BEACH.

AND THEY'RE OBVIOUSLY NOT COMMERCIAL VESSELS.

NOW IF WE PASS THIS AND THERE'S SOME SORT OF SHENANIGANS OR YOU SEE THAT SOMETHING'S HAPPENING THAT YOU KNOW, WOULD NOT WANT TO HAPPEN, I COULD SEE THAT.

BUT, UM, SOMETIMES THERE'S UNINTENDED CON CONSEQUENCES AND THIS IS ONE OF THEM.

SO IT'S JUST, JUST A REAL, IT'S JUST A SMALL, UM, CLEANUP ITEM SO THAT PEOPLE WITH BOATS WHO LIVE ON MIAMI BEACH CAN PICK UP PEOPLE IF THEY SO CHOOSE AT THE DOCK.

SO, UM, VICE MAYOR, IF I CAN CALL THE COMPANION ITEM, THE COMPANION ITEM.

WHAT IS THE COMPANION ITEM? WELL, IT'S NOT REALLY A COMPANION ITEM.

IT'S, IT'S MY VERSION OF CAREFULLY, UH, ALLOWING FOR RESIDENTIAL PICKUP AND DROP OFF.

THAT WASN'T CONSENT.

OH, IT'S ALREADY PASSED.

IT'S ALREADY, OKAY.

SO CAN WE, SO THAT'S BEEN REFERRED, RIGHT? NOT CONSENT, IT'S PASSED.

WIFE WANTED ORDINANCE.

SOMEONE'S, UH, RESOLUTION MAYBE ROB, YOU CAN CLEAN IT UP.

THANKS.

UH, YOU PREVIOUSLY AMENDED THIS ORDINANCE TO ALLOW A DOCKAGE AGREEMENT TO ALLOW, UH, CERTAIN BOATS OWNED BY RESIDENTS OF MIAMI BEACH TO DOCK FOR UP TO TWO HOURS AT THE BOAT RAMP.

YOU AUTHORIZED THAT BY ORDINANCE, UH, ON SECOND READING LAST MEETING.

AND AT THIS MEETING YOU PASSED THE RESOLUTION THAT EFFECTED WHAT WAS ALLOWED BY THAT ORDINANCE.

THIS, UH, COMMISSIONER ROSELAND GONZALEZ IS PROPOSING TO FURTHER, UH, AMEND THE ORDINANCE THAT YOU AMENDED LAST, UH, MEETING TO ALLOW, UH, RESIDENTS OF MIAMI BEACH TO PICK UP AND DROP OFF, UH, UH, PASSENGERS AT THE BAR COTEN BOAT RAMP.

SO IT'S, IT'S ALREADY PASSED.

NOT THIS ONE.

NO, NO.

THIS, THIS PART IS ON FIRST READING FOR TODAY.

SO TO THE SPONSOR, IF I MAY HELP ME UNDERSTAND, IF YOU ALREADY HAVE A BOAT THAT IS DOCKED AT YOUR

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LET ME PULL UP THE EMAIL.

SO THAT YOU CAN UNDERSTAND.

AND THEN, UM, OKAY, KRISTEN, QUESTION FOR YOU, NOW THAT THIS ORDINANCE HAS BEEN INACTIVE, THIS IS FROM ROGER BAUMAN.

HE'S LIVED LESLIE BAUMAN'S, UM, DR.

BAUMAN'S HUSBAND.

I CAN NO LONGER USE THE RAMP TO PICK UP FRIENDS.

THIS ORDINANCE TAKES AWAY A VERY OLD DECADES AND VALUABLE BENEFIT FROM MIAMI BEACH RESIDENTS.

JUST BECAUSE WE DON'T WANT THE DINGHIES, WHY NOT ALLOW MIAMI BEACH RESIDENTS TO CONTINUE TO USE THE RENT FOR PICKUP? I SPOKE WITH THE POLICE OFFICERS THERE AND THEY DON'T CARE.

I UNDERSTAND.

TRYING TO CONTROL THE SAILBOAT WITH THE DINGHY CROWD, BUT NOW THE ORDINANCE PUNISHES LOCALS.

THERE MUST BE SOME MIDDLE GROUND.

WHAT SAY YOU, AND THEN, UM, A SECOND HOMEOWNER FROM MID BEACH WHO HAS A BOAT ALSO REACHED OUT TO ME VERY UPSET ABOUT THIS.

SO THERE'S SOME UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES HERE.

WE CAN JUST SAY NO PICKUPS EVER.

BUT I THINK THAT IF YOU LIVE HERE, UM, OBVIOUSLY HE HAS A REASON WHY HE DID NOT EXACTLY SPECIFY IT, BUT HE'S BEEN ABLE TO DO THIS ENTIRE LIFE.

SO ALL OF A SUDDEN HE'S TAKEN AWAY THIS.

I DON'T THINK, WHY DON'T YOU JUST PUT IT THAT THEY CAN DROP OFF OR PICK UP FOR 15 MINUTES? I MEAN, I, YOU KNOW, I DON'T THINK THAT THIS IS INTENDED TO BE ABUSED IN ANY WAY.

UM, I THINK THAT THIS IS LITERALLY FOR RESIDENTS WHO'VE ALWAYS HAD, WHO'VE ALWAYS BEEN ABLE TO PICK PEOPLE UP SO WELL, WHAT WE JUST PASSED ON.

CONSENT IS GONNA ALLOW THEM TO DO THAT.

WHAT HAPPENED? UH, WELL, THE, THE WHAT YOU PASSED ON CONSENT ALLOWS 'EM TO DOCK FOR UP TO TWO HOURS IF YOU GOT A, I SUPPOSE YES, IF YOU GOT A DOCKAGE AGREEMENT, UH, YOU COULD, UH, PICK UP AND DROP OFF ALSO, UH, HOWEVER, THERE WOULD NEED TO BE A REWRITE BECAUSE I BELIEVE THAT WE SAID THAT YOU COULDN'T USE THE, UH, THE DOCKAGE SPACE TO PICK UP AND DROP OFF.

SO THERE WOULD BE SOME TWEAKING.

BUT YES, IF YOU, IF YOU GOT A DOCKET AGREEMENT AND PAID $200 A YEAR FOR IT, YOU COULD PICK UP AND DROP OFF, UH, AT THE DOCK.

SO I GOT, WHICH WAS ALREADY PASSED A SECOND TAX THAT'S ALREADY PASSED.

HI, COMMISSIONER.

I LIVE ON SUNSET ISLAND.

I JUST ARRIVED AT THE MARINA AND I FOUND OUT WE CAN'T EVEN PICK UP A A WE CAN'T EVEN PICK UP OUR FRIENDS ON OUR BOAT.

SORRY.

IT'S UNBELIEVABLE.

WHEN A CITY DOESN'T WORK FOR RESIDENTS.

AGAIN, SORRY TO BOTHER YOU, THIS IS FROM RADO.

PAOLI.

SO WE HAVE A LOT OF IT.

IT'S, IT'S, IT'S BEEN COVERED NOW THAT, NOW THAT, WELL, THEY'RE GONNA HAVE TO OBVIOUSLY APPLY.

THEY'RE GONNA HAVE TO SHOW INSURANCE.

UH, THEY'RE NOT GONNA HAVE TO PAY.

AND THEN I'LL CONTACT PEOPLE WHO ARE COMPLAINING UNTIL THEM THAT THEY NEED TO FILL OUT THE DOCUMENTATION.

THEY'RE JUST GONNA, IT'S TWO.

IT'S, IT'S A $200 A YEAR, UH, FEE.

AND THAT'S JUST FOR ADMINISTRATIVE.

BUT AGAIN, YOU KNOW, WE WANNA MAKE SURE MOST IMPORTANTLY, THAT THESE BOATS THAT ARE TYING UP ARE INSURED.

BECAUSE IF THERE'S AN ACCIDENT, UH, ON US OR THEM OR PEOPLE, WE WANNA MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE COVERED.

AND I THINK, I MEAN THAT'S, THAT'S, THAT'S GOOD.

THAT'S GOOD GOVERNANCE.

SO, UM, WHY SHOULD I THINK THAT, UM, THIS FEE SHOULD BE WAIVED IF YOU HAVE YOUR BOAT DOCKED ON MIAMI BEACH AND YOU JUST WANNA PULL UP AND PICK SOMEONE UP? I DON'T UNDERSTAND WHY ALL OF A SUDDEN THEY HAVE TO FILL OUT A CONTRACT AND, UM, AND PAY THAT FEE.

I THINK THAT IF YOU CAN SHOW THAT YOU LIVE ON MIAMI BEACH, THAT YOU HAVE YOUR BOAT DOCKED ON MIAMI BEACH, THAT YOU SHOULD NOT HAVE TO PAY $200 TO PICK SOMEBODY UP.

UM, WHEN YOU'VE HAD THAT RATE YOUR ENTIRE LIFE, WELL, YOU, WE PASS IT ON CONSENT.

YOU, YOU DIDN'T PULL IT RIGHT.

SO, I MEAN, IF YOU WANNA, WELL, BECAUSE I'M CHANGING THIS LANGUAGE HERE IF YOU WANNA, I MEAN, IF YOU'RE, IF YOU'RE LOOKING FOR JUST MAKING IT FREE, I GUESS I DON'T, I DON'T KNOW.

I MEAN, LET ME THINK ABOUT IT.

BUT, YOU KNOW, , I WE'RE, WE'RE COVERING 99% OF THE CONCERNS WERE PEOPLE WHO ARE RESIDENTS OF MIAMI BEACH THAT HAVE A BOAT THAT'S EITHER DOCKED IN A MARINA OR THEIR HOUSE TO BE ABLE TO EITHER DO PICKUP AND DROP OFF OR LEAVE THEIR BOAT FOR TWO HOURS TO GO TO THE, TO GO SHOPPING IN SUNSET HARBOR.

SO SINCE WE'RE HEARING THEM RIGHT NOW, WILL YOU MAKE IT FREE? AND THEN I'LL CONTACT BOTH OF THESE PEOPLE AND SAY THAT THEY'RE NOT GONNA CHARGE HUNDRED I FINE FINANCE TO COME HERE AND, AND DETERMINE LIKE, YOU KNOW WHAT THAT WHAT THAT PRO I DON'T WANT US TO BE, UM, I DON'T WANT THE CITY TO LOSE MONEY, BUT I MEAN, I'M, I'M OKAY.

I DON'T CARE.

IT'S JUST 200 BUCKS FOR, FOR THE YEAR.

UM, BUT I DON'T WANNA MAKE A DECISION ON THE FLY.

WELL, I CAN SAY TO SOMEONE, I MEAN, IT'S VERY SIMPLE.

I CAN SAY TO SOMEONE, YOU HAVE TO GO FILL OUT SOME PAPERWORK.

IT'S SOME SIMPLE PAPERWORK.

BUT NOW THAT I TELL PEOPLE, OKAY, YOU'RE JUST PULLING UP TO A MARINA, YOU HAVE TO FILL OUT PAPERWORK AND PAY A $200 FEE.

IT'S KIND OF OBNOXIOUS.

SO, I MEAN, I UNDERSTAND WHY YOU'RE CREATING THE $200 FEE, BUT I MEAN, UM, ROB, WHY DID WE DRAFT THEM DIFFERENTLY? CAN, SINCE WE'RE HEARING THEM BOTH, WHY DON'T WE JUST WAIVE THE FEE IF YOU HAVE THE PROOF AND THEN I'LL, I DON'T NEED TO CHANGE MINE

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MAY I SUGGEST RESPECTFULLY THAT WE OPEN AND CONTINUE THIS AND FINE TUNE IT SO THAT IT'S EITHER ONE THAT COVERS BOTH EVENTUALITIES OR IT GETS NUANCED.

BUT I REALLY HATE THIS HORSE TRADING ON THE DAYS.

YEAH, I MEAN LIKE, CAN WE, CAN WE CONTINUE THIS NEXT MONTH SO YOU HAVE TIME TO FIGURE OUT HOW TO MAKE THIS, DO WHAT YOU WANT IT TO DO IN THE BEST POSSIBLE WAY INSTEAD OF TRYING TO CATCH ALL THE VENT ALLIES HERE? I DON'T THINK IT'S THAT COMPLICATED.

I MEAN, I SAID EVERYTHING I NEED TO SAY, WHAT MORE WOULD I NEED TO SAY? I WOULD LIKE TO WAIVE THE $200 FEE.

THAT IS WHAT I'M ASKING.

I DON'T THINK IT'S HORSE TRADING AND IF IT'S NO, THEN I GUESS IT'S NO.

AND I WILL GO BACK AND EXPLAIN TO THEM THAT THEY CAN NO LONGER HAVE THIS RAY.

THAT'S FINE.

CAN WE GET, IS THERE FINANCE UP HERE IS WHAT, WHAT IS THE MINIMUM WHERE WE ARE NOT LOSING ANY MONEY ON THIS? UH, JUST TO MAKE SURE, BECAUSE AT THE END OF THE DAY, IF WE'RE LOSING MONEY, TAXPAYERS ARE LOSING MONEY.

THANK YOU COMMISSIONER JASON GREEN.

CFOI DON'T THINK I HAVE ENOUGH INFORMATION TO REALLY PRESENT A, A GOOD ANSWER ON THAT.

MY UNDERSTANDING IS THIS WOULD BE A NEW PROGRAM WITH A NEW LICENSE AGREEMENT.

SO WE DON'T REALLY HAVE ANY HISTORICAL DATA TO SAY THE AMOUNT OF REVENUE THAT THE CITY WOULD LOSE OUT.

BUT YOU ARE CORRECT IF ANY KIND OF DOCUMENTATION OR PAPERWORK DOES GENERATE A COST TO THE CITY.

SO HOW ABOUT WE JUST MAKE IT FREE FOR THE FIRST YEAR AND THEN WE WILL, WE WILL WE'LL RECONSIDER IT AFTER A YEAR.

EXACTLY.

WHAT ARE YOU MAKING FREE FOR THE FIRST YEAR? PICKING UP AND DROPPING OFF? WELL, WE PASSED ON CONSENT.

LET'S, OH, LET'S MAKE IT FREE FOR THE FIRST YEAR.

THE WHOLE DOCKAGE AGREEMENT.

FREE FOR THE FIRST YEAR.

BUT HAVE TO FILL THE FORM.

HUH? BUT HAVE TO FILL THE FORM.

THEY HAVE, THEY HAVE TO APPLY.

I WANNA BE CLEAR, YOU GUYS ARE VERY CONFUSING WITH THIS.

I GUESS YOU WOULD BE ASKING FOR A MOTION FOR RECONSIDERATION OF THAT'S RIGHT.

OF THE, UH, MOTION.

THE, THAT WAS UN AND SINCE YOU ALL VOTED FOR IT, ANY OF YOU CAN MAKE THAT MOTION AND THEN IF THERE'S A SECOND YOU CAN REFORM THE CONTRACT.

CAN I ASK ONE QUESTION? SORRY.

GO FOR IT.

UM, OKAY.

SO IS THERE SOME SORT OF BOAT REGISTRATION? LIKE IF I HAVE A BOAT IN MIAMI BEACH, DO I HAVE TO REGISTER WITH THE CITY OR DOES THE CITY NOT HAVE ANY BOATING REGISTRATION? 'CAUSE HOW DO WE ALLOW EVERYBODY WHO HAS A BOAT IN THE CITY OF MIAMI BEACH SO THAT THEY KNOW THAT THEY HAVE TO FILL OUT THIS FORM IN ORDER TO PICK SOMEBODY UP AT SUNSET HARBOR? UH, MY UNDERSTANDING IS THERE'S STATE REGISTRATION FOR BOATS.

UH, UNLESS YOU ENGAGE IN OUR DOCKET AGREEMENT, WE DON'T HAVE AN INDEPENDENT, UH, UH, RE REGISTRATION SYSTEM.

SO THEN IF MY ONLY RE MY REQUEST WOULD BE OKAY THAT IT'S FREE, WHICH YOU AGREED TO MOTION TO MAKE IT FREE FOR THE FIRST YEAR.

AND THE SECOND, MY SECOND MOTION WOULD BE, UH, TO DO SOME OUTREACH TO EVERY, UM, VOTER REGISTRATION IN MIAMI BH.

SEND THEM AN EMAIL IF POSSIBLE AND LET THEM WITH THE FORMS SO THAT THEY CAN FILL OUT THE FORMS AND THEY WON'T GET UPSET WHEN THEY PULL UP TO A DO SOMEPLACE TO PICK SOMEONE UP AND WE JUST SAY, THIS IS JUST A FORMALITY, FILL OUT THE FORM AND, UM, YOU CAN CONTINUE TO PICK PEOPLE UP IF YOU SO CHOOSE E SURE.

WE, WE ARE DOING ONSITE EDUCATION THERE THROUGH THE PARK RANGERS POLICE AND CODE.

SO, YOU KNOW, AS THEY COME UP AND WE'RE, WE'RE STAFF THERE, YOU KNOW, WE EDUCATE PEOPLE ON WHAT THE ORDINANCES ARE AND WE PLAN ON EDUCATING THEM ABOUT THE STOPPAGE PERMIT.

SO THAT'S ONE THING WE'RE DOING AS THEY COME UP THAT, THAT'S GREAT.

SO THANK YOU.

THANK YOU JOHN.

SO THEN, WAS THAT A SECOND WHEN YOU SAID, OKAY.

UM, SO WE'D HAVE TO RECONSIDER THE CONSENT AGENDA.

WE NEED SOMEBODY TO MAKE A MOTION TO RECONSIDER C SEVEN AF, WHICH THE DOCKET AGREEMENT SECOND AND THEN AMEND IT SO THAT THE FIRST YEAR IS GRATIS.

AND I DON'T THINK YOU NEED TO AMEND ANYTHING FURTHER.

EXCEPT FOR THAT INCLUDED IN THAT WE WOULD LIKE TO JUST DO SOME VOTER OUTREACH SO THAT OUR RESIDENTS KNOW ABOUT OUR NEW RULES, ESPECIALLY OUR RESIDENTS WHO HAVE CURRENTLY OWN BOATS ON MAMIE BEACH AND HAVE THEM REGISTERED HERE, WHICH IS, I THINK IS THE SPIRIT OF YOUR ITEM, IS TO REGULATE THOSE VOTERS WHO DO NOT HAVE BOATS DOCK ON MIAMI BEACH LEGALLY.

IS THIS, IS THIS A PUBLIC HEARING? IT IS NOT A PUBLIC HEARING.

OH, THEN FINE.

GO ON MY INPUT.

UH, THIS IS VERY CONFUSING.

AS TANYA SAID, IT SHOULD BE ONE THING.

YOU'RE GONNA NEED AN APP TO ACTUALLY KNOW THAT THE PERSON IS COMING THERE WHO'S GONNA LOOK AT, DOES HE HAVE ALL THAT? NO, HE'S NOT THAT HE, HE PAID DID HE FILL OUT THE FORM? OR, OR YOU DO IT WITH THE COUNTY AND THEN THEY DO SOMETHING IN THEIR REGISTRATION THAT WHEN THEY SHOW IT, IT SHOWS THAT IT IS.

SO YOU HAVE TO THINK ABOUT THAT.

I MEAN, EITHER THERE'S AN APP BECAUSE THERE'S A LOT OF PEOPLE THAT COME UP THERE THAT ARE GONNA SAY, OH, I HAVE IT, AND THEY DROP PEOPLE OFF AND PICK IT UP.

WELL, OUR, OUR PARK RANGERS WILL

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KNOW WHO HAS ENGAGED.

THEY, THEY KNOW THE DOCKAGE AGREEMENT.

IT'S REALLY ONLY COMMERCIAL BLOOD.

REALLY.

I WOULDN'T BE SURPRISED IF THERE'S NO MORE THAN A DOZEN PEOPLE THAT REALLY WANNA TAKE ADVANTAGE OF IT.

SMALL GROUP OF PEOPLE, BUT WE JUST WANT THEM TO KNOW.

WANNA MAKE SURE.

SO I HAVE THE, THE MOTION TO RECONSIDER HAS BEEN DONE BY ACCLIMATION.

I NOW NEED A MOTION TO AMEND C SEVEN AF WITH THE FREE FOR ONE YEAR AND TO DO OUTREACH.

THE OUTREACH DOESN'T, DOESN'T HAVE TO HAPPEN BEFORE THE PROGRAM GETS IMPLEMENTED.

RIGHT? THE PROGRAM GETS IMPLEMENTED AND THEN OUTREACH IS HAPPENS IN TANDEM.

WHAT CAN I ALSO GET CLARITY ON? IS THE OUTREACH WHAT DIRECTOR REBAR DESCRIBED AT THE DOCK? OR YOU MEAN SOME OTHER KIND OF OUTREACH? 'CAUSE I'M NOT SURE THAT THE ADMINISTRATION WOULD KNOW HOW TO DO THAT.

I WOULD LIKE, UM, THE ADMINISTRATION TO LOOK AT WHICH VOTES ARE REGISTERED WITH THE STATE WHO ARE CURRENTLY DOCKED IN MIAMI BEACH AND THOSE PEOPLE TO EITHER RECEIVE A LETTER OR AN EMAIL INFORMING THEM THAT THEY NOW HAVE TO FILL OUT A FORM IN ORDER TO PICK UP PEOPLE, UM, AT THE BERRY KATOON.

MR. MANAGER, IS THAT SOMETHING THAT IS DOABLE? UH, I'VE NEVER USED THE STATE BOAT REGISTRATION DATABASE.

I'M ASSUMING THAT WE HAVE ACCESS TO IT AS LONG AS WE HAVE ACCESS TO IT, THEN YES.

COMMISSIONER EZ GONZALEZ.

SOMEONE WANNA SECOND? I'LL SECOND IT.

I HEARD COMMISSIONER SCHWARZ AS A SECOND, BUT I FAILED TO HEAR WHO MADE THE MOTION.

SO ALL IN FAVOR OF AMENDING C SEVEN AF.

PLEASE SAY AYE.

C SEVEN AF IS AMENDED.

SEVEN ZERO CALL R NINE AI.

AND JUST FOR THE RECORD, R FIVE Y IS BEING WITHDRAWN, CORRECT? YES.

MAYOR, WHAT WAS IT?

[R9 AI DISCUSS/TAKE ACTION – UPDATE ON UTILIZATION OF DRONES TO ASSIST WITH POLICE ENFORCEMENT, 911 EMERGENCY CALLS AND TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT.]

R NINE AI.

R NINE AI IS DISCUSS, TAKE ACTION.

UPDATE ON UTILIZATION OF DRONES FOR POLICE ENFORCEMENT.

CHIEF WELCOME.

THANK YOU MS. MERRICK.

UH, COMMISSION.

SO, UM, I HAVE A COUPLE QUESTIONS.

WE'LL START OFF.

I, I HAD BROUGHT AN ITEM A COUPLE OF YEARS AGO BEFORE, GIMME ONE SECOND.

I WAS MAYOR BEFORE YOU WERE CHIEF AND I THINK WE HAVE A GOOD PROGRESS UPDATE.

UM, I HAD BROUGHT AN ITEM ABOUT, 'CAUSE THE WAY DRONES USED TO OPERATE IN THE CITY IS, UM, THEY WOULD BE IN THE POLICE CAR AND THEN WHEN THE POLICE VEHICLE ARRIVED AT THE SCENE, THE DRONE WOULD, THE DRONE WOULD BE DEPLOYED.

UH, WHAT I HAD PROPOSED AT THE TIME WAS PUTTING IT ON BUILDINGS AND HAVE SOMEONE WHO CAN NAVIGATE IT.

SO THEREFORE YOU CAN GET, WELL, PROBABLY WAY FASTER THAN A POLICE CAR.

EVEN OUR RESPONSE TIME IS OUTSTANDING.

GET THERE EVEN BEFORE THE, UH, VEHICLES ARRIVED.

UM, TELL US WHERE WE'RE AT AND, AND HOW WE'RE PROCEEDING.

HAPPY TO.

I'LL TEE IT UP AND THEN, UH, PROBABLY HAVE, UM, ASSISTANT CHIEF DAN MCG ANSWER SPECIFIC QUESTIONS FOR YOU.

FOR THE RECORD, WAYNE JONES, POLICE CHIEF, UH, MR. AMERICA CAN TELL YOU, TWO YEARS AGO, I THINK YOU WERE AHEAD OF YOUR TIME, TO BE QUITE HONEST WITH YOU.

UM, THE TECHNOLOGY HADN'T QUITE CAUGHT UP THEN.

NOW IT HAS.

I'M HAPPY TO REPORT, UH, THE POLICE DEPARTMENT, YOUR MIAMI BASED POLICE DEPARTMENT, UH, JUST A FEW WEEKS AGO, WAS NAMED ONE OF FIVE AGENCIES NATIONALLY TO PARTICIPATE IN A PILOT PROGRAM CALLED DRONE AS A FIRST RESPONDER PROGRAM.

AND WHAT THAT REALLY MEANS IN SIMPLE TERMS IS WE'LL HAVE PODS PLACED ON ROOFTOPS THROUGHOUT THE CITY.

THE FIRST OF THOSE PODS HAVE BEEN, UM, ALREADY PLACED ON THE POLICE DEPARTMENT.

AND AS WE SPEAK, WE'RE ACTUALLY DOING TESTING WHERE IF A CALL FOR SERVICE GO OUT, WE CALL A PRIORITY CALLS FOR SERVICE.

THAT DRONE IS DEPLOYED, IT'S PILOTED FROM OUR ARCTIC REAL TIME INFORMATION CENTER.

AND WHOLE IDEAS ARE DRONE IN MANY CASES WILL GET, GET TO THE, TO THE SCENE OF WHERE THE CALL IS PRIOR TO THE FIRST LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICER EVER ARRIVING.

VIDEO SOUND IS PIPED DIRECTLY INTO THE ARCTIC GIVING, UM, BETTER AND HANDS SITUATIONAL AWARENESS TO POLICE OFFICERS RESPONDING TO THAT SCENE.

SOMETHING I'M SUPER, SUPER EXCITED ABOUT AND, AND I APPRECIATE ALL THE SUPPORT YOU'VE GIVEN TO THIS AND I, I APPRECIATE YOUR, YOUR VISION 'CAUSE YOU HAD IT EVEN BEFORE WE DID.

I APPRECIATE THAT.

HOW MANY, HOW MANY SITES WILL THERE BE A DRONE ON? A DRONE ON A, ON A BUILDING? OFF THE TOP OF MY HEAD, SIR, I THINK IT'S SEVEN SITES THROUGHOUT THE CITY.

UH, THE PHRASE OF WHICH AGAIN IS THE POLICE DEPARTMENT.

UH, AND THAT SITE IS GONNA COVER THE ENTIRE, UH, SOUTH BEACH, IF YOU WILL, AREA ONE, UM, JUST IN THE POLICE DEPARTMENT ALONE.

AND HOW, UM, HOW LONG IS THE PILOT, UH, FOR, YOU SAID IT'S A PILOT PROGRAM? YES, WE'RE DEALING WITH IN CONJUNCTION WITH SKYDIO.

UM, THEY'RE A DRONE MANUFACTURING, THAT'S A EURO PILOT PROGRAM.

AND IS IT PRIORITY CALLS? YOU USED THE WORD PRIORITY CALLS? YEAH.

I MEAN, UM, YOU KNOW, AT THIS POINT, BECAUSE YOU KNOW, WE'VE GOT ONE RIGHT NOW THAT'S BEEN, UH, DEPLOYED.

IT WILL BE DEPLOYED.

UM, WE WON'T USE IT FOR EVERY CALL FOR SERVICE, BUT TYPICALLY STARTING WITH A PRIORITY, CALLS OF SERVICE WITH THE IDEA OVER TIME, EXPANDING IT TO ALL CALLS OF

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SERVICE.

SO TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT MITIGATION.

SEPARATELY, AND YOU AND I HAD DISCUSSED THIS, UH, OFFLINE, THE, THERE ARE MUNICIPALITIES OUTSIDE OF FLORIDA, ADMITTEDLY, THAT UTILIZE DRONES, UM, IN THE PUBLIC SPACE MM-HMM .

BUT TO, UM, BASICALLY SEE IF THERE'S ANY SUSPICIOUS ACTIVITY.

I'M ALSO PICTURING POTENTIALLY USING IT AS TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT BECAUSE AGAIN, OFTENTIMES WE HAVE TRAFFIC ISSUES AND ALTHOUGH WE HAVE THE REAL TIME TRAFFIC INTELLIGENCE CENTER EMBEDDED WITHIN FDOT, UH, STILL THAT'S THE SORT OF A, A, A VIEW FROM THE STREET AS OPPOSED TO AN AERIAL VIEW, WHICH CAN COVER A LOT OF GROUND AND POTENTIALLY SEE, UH, BOTTLENECKS AND, AND, AND ISSUES.

SOME, FOR EXAMPLE, IF A, IF A TRUCK IS BLOCKING THE, UH, ITS TRAFFIC LANE, TELL, TELL ME ABOUT THE POTENTIAL USAGE OF DRONES.

UH, NOT TO RESPOND TO A CALL, BUT TO DO SURVEILLANCE AND, AND POTENTIALLY TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT.

WE HAVE BEEN USING DRONES IN RECENT PAST, PARTICULARLY DURING THE HIGH IMPACT, UH, PERIODS.

WE USED IT DURING ART BASEL, UM, FOR, FOR EXAMPLE, UM, WE USED IT RECENTLY JUST A FEW WEEKS AGO.

AND WHOLE IDEA IS TO GIVE, AGAIN, BETTER SITUATIONAL AWARENESS FOR THOSE FOLKS ASSIGNED TO THOSE TRAFFIC POSTS TO DEAL WITH TRAFFIC MITIGATION.

AND SPECIFICALLY, I KNOW AGAIN, I'VE ACTUALLY SEEN IT FIRSTHAND WHERE DRONES ARE USED TO, UM, LOOK OUT FOR SUSPICIOUS ACTIVITY.

IS THAT POTENTIALLY FEASIBLE IN THE STATE OF FLORIDA? YEAH, YOU KNOW, I I, I THINK RIGHT NOW, AND, AND MAYBE DANNY CAN CHIME ON THIS, I THINK RIGHT NOW WE'RE SORT OF PREEMPTED BY THE STATE TO JUST DO IT FOR JUST BASIC SURVEILLANCE PER SE.

WE HAVE TO ASSIGN IT TO A CALLS FOR SERVICE OR A MISSION, IF YOU WILL, UM, WHEN WE DO THE CHLORIDE DRONES.

IS THERE ANYTHING YOU NEED FROM US, UH, JUST TO CONTINUE SUPPORT, UH, VERY EXCITED, THE DIRECTION THE POLICE DEPARTMENT IS HEADING IN.

I REALLY THINK THIS IS REALLY WHAT POLICING WILL LOOK LIKE IN THE NEAR, NEAR FUTURE IN TERMS OF USING DRONES.

YOU HAVE MY FULL SUPPORT.

UH, COMMISSIONER ROSE GONZALEZ.

HI, CHIEF.

HI.

MAD, I HAVE NO PROBLEM WITH THIS FOR 9 1 1 EMERGENCY CALLS OR TRAFFIC INCIDENCES OR SOME SUSPICIOUS ACTIVITY, BUT HOW DO WE PROTECT OUR PRIVACY? LIKE HOW, WHAT IF SOMEBODY CALLS AND SAYS, I SUSPECT, YOU KNOW, SUSPICIOUS ACTIVITY AT, I DON'T KNOW, MAYOR MINOR'S HOUSE, RIGHT? , AND THEN THE DRONE GOES, LIKE HOW DO WE PROTECT AGAINST THAT? YEAH, THAT'S, THAT'S A FANTASTIC QUESTION AND THAT'S PRECISELY WHY IT'S LIMITED RIGHT NOW, RESTRICTED TO THESE PARTY CALLS FOR SERVICE OR IN SOME CASES AS WE'VE DONE IN THE PAST, UH, TRAFFIC CONGESTION ALONG THE MAJOR CORRIDORS.

AH, HH I'M NOT SURE WHICH ONE THAT IS.

SO IT'S GONNA BE TRAFFIC CONGESTION AND EMERGENCY SITUATIONS ONLY.

ACTUALLY, I WAS GONNA CALL THIS ITEM A LITTLE LATER, BUT SINCE YOU'RE HERE I'LL, I'LL, IF YOU DON'T MIND, I'LL CALL IT NOW.

UM, R NINE.

[R9 AH DISCUSS/TAKE ACTION – POTENTIAL ACQUISITION OF AXON’S FUSUS PUBLIC SAFETY ECOSYSTEM TO PROVIDE A FULLY-INTEGRATED REAL-TIME CRIME CENTER SOLUTION.]

R NINE AH, IS TIC.

ACTION ACQUISITION OF AXON FOOT FO FOSS PUBLIC SAFETY PROGRAM.

EXCUSE.

UM, SO MS. MS. AMIRA, UH, THANK YOU AGAIN FOR QUOTING THIS ITEM.

YOU KNOW, WE ARE QUITE FRANKLY, AND I'M VERY, VERY PROUD OF THIS, WE'RE LEADING IN A WAY IN MANY INSTANCES WHEN IT COMES TO TECHNOLOGY IN THE SOUTH FLORIDA REGION.

THE DRONE PROGRAM JUST MENTIONED YOU, WE ARE THE ABSOLUTELY FIRST IN THE COUNTY TO, UM, USE DRONES AS THE FIRST SUPPORT PROGRAM.

UH, FUSES, AS YOU KNOW, IS A SOFTWARE WE LIKE TO USE IN OUR, UM, ARCTIC REAL TIME INTELLIGENCE CENTER.

AGAIN, AND WHOLE IDEA IS TO USE THIS, THIS, THIS PROCESS TO BE ABLE TO INGEST VIDEO, UH, NOT ONLY FROM THE MANY CAMERAS WE HAVE THROUGHOUT THE CITY, BUT ALSO FROM PRIVATE ENTITIES AS WELL.

AND I HAVE, UH, CAPTAIN GOVERNOR BROWNFIELD FROM OUR TECH SUPPORT UNIT TO ANSWER ANY SPECIFIC QUESTIONS YOU MAY HAVE ABOUT IT.

OKAY, GREAT.

WELL, I GUESS MY, MY SPECIFIC QUESTION IS, UM, AND FOR EXAMPLE, IF, IF SOMEONE WANTED, I'M NOT JUST TALKING ABOUT ME.

IF THE CHIEF ACTUALLY WANTED A VIEW AT ANY GIVEN MOMENT WHERE EVERY VEHICLE IS LOCATED, MY UNDERSTANDING IS THAT IS, UNLESS THERE'S SOMETHING, UH, THAT IS NOT AS SIMPLE AS YOU MIGHT THINK, BUT YOU USING THE, UM, FUSS PROGRAM, AND I'VE ACTUALLY, AGAIN, I'VE SEEN THIS FIRSTHAND.

IN ANOTHER MUNICIPALITY, YOU COULD LITERALLY SEE WHERE EVERY POLICE CAR IS IN THE ENTIRE CITY AT LITERALLY LOOKING AT A TV SCREEN.

OUR CCTV AND OTHER, YOU KNOW, POSSIBLE PRIVATE ENTITIES TO, TO PLACE CAMERAS, WE'LL BE ABLE TO, YOU KNOW, GET THE PROGRAM AND THEN UTILIZE SOME OF THOSE OTHER FEATURES AS FAR AS SEEING WHERE CARS ARE, UH, PROXIMITY DISPATCHING AND THINGS LIKE THAT.

SO GOOD AFTERNOON, UH, MR. MAYOR, UH, CITY MANAGER AND THE REST OF THE COMMISSION.

UM, SO YEAH, THE FUSS PLATFORM, UM, WE ARE AWARE OF IT, BUT WHAT YOU'RE DESCRIBING IS ANOTHER FEATURE.

UM, BUT NOW THAT IT'S UNDER THE EXXON UMBRELLA, WE THINK THAT, YOU KNOW, WE'LL BE ABLE TO INCORPORATE THAT PLATFORM TO, UH, YOU KNOW, HIGHLIGHT SOME OF THE THINGS YOU JUST MENTIONED.

CURRENTLY, RIGHT NOW WE'RE IN THE PROCESS OF, YOU KNOW, WE HAVE TO GET A QUOTE TO SEE WHAT IT LOOKED LIKE, BECAUSE PREVIOUSLY, UM, IT WAS JUST PREMATURE TO US HAVING THE ARCTIC.

SO NOW THAT WE HAVE THE ARCTIC AND WE'RE ABLE TO, UH, UTILIZE

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BUT THAT'S STILL UNDER, UM, UNDER REVIEW RIGHT NOW.

'CAUSE WE DON'T HAVE, WE DON'T HAVE FUSS.

SO IT'S, IT'S A FEATURE.

BUT DO, DO WE HAVE A, AN ESTIMATE ON EXPENSE? KNOW WHAT TIME? DO WE HAVE AN ESTIMATE ON EXPENSE? NO, SIR.

WE HAVE TO REACH OUT TO THEM AND GET A DIRECT QUOTE.

UM, LIKE I SAID BEFORE, IT WAS A DISCUSSION, BUT IT'S MY UNDERSTANDING THAT, UH, NOW THAT WE HAVE THE ARCTIC, THAT WE WOULD, YOU KNOW, DISCUSS THAT WITH THEM.

BUT CAN YOU EXPLAIN, SO JUST, UH, MAKE SURE IT'S CLEAR THAT THERE, THE DISTINCTION WHEN YOU'RE SAYING ARCTIC, WHAT ARE YOU REFERRING TO? OH, I'M SORRY.

THE REAL TIME INFORMATION CRIME CENTER.

SO NOW THAT WE HAVE THAT ENTITY WITHIN THE POLICE DEPARTMENT, WE ARE ABLE TO UTILIZE FUSS, UH, UNDER THE AXON UMBRELLA TO, IT'S, IT'S A, IT'S SOFTWARE, CORRECT.

TO GIVE US THE ABILITY TO UTILIZE DIFFERENT FUNCTIONALITIES RIGHT.

OF THAT SOFTWARE.

AND I KNOW YOU'RE LOOKING TO INCORPORATE CHIEF, YOU WANT TO SAY SOMETHING? YEAH.

UM, MR. MAY, I JUST WANTED TO, TO SORT OF POINT OUT THAT WHAT WE USE AS TRACKS ARE A VL TO TELL US WHERE OUR CARS ARE AT ANY GIVEN TIME.

AS YOU KNOW, WE'VE SPOKEN ABOUT THIS.

IT IS, IS AN IMPERFECT, IT IS AN IMPERFECT SYSTEM.

THE WHOLE IDEA IS TO, ONCE WE DO, UM, SECURE A PROCURE THESIS TO USE THAT, UM, SOFTWARE TO SORT OF INGEST, UH, MORE ACCURATE INFORMATION AND THEN GIVE THAT REAL TIME, UM, INFORMATION YOU'RE LOOKING FOR WHERE OUR CARS ARE.

I MEAN, WHAT I'D LIKE TO DO FROM THIS, THE BODY ON, I THINK YOU'RE, IT SOUNDS LIKE YOU'RE HEADING IN THAT DIRECTION ANYWAY, BUT IF WE COULD GIVE SOME GUIDANCE AND, UH, JUST ON A RESOLUTION THAT WE WANT YOU TO PROCEED WITH THAT.

AND IF YOU NEED TO COME BACK TO US WITH ANY, WITH ANY QUOTES SURE.

FOR, UH, FOR BUDGETING, YOU'LL LET US KNOW.

HAPPY TO.

FORGOT YOU'RE SECONDING MAYOR.

RICK, I CAN'T MOVE IT CORRECT.

MOVE IT.

OH, THANK YOU.

SO THIS IS TO GIVE DIRECTION AND RESOLUTION, CORRECT.

AFTER THE FACT RESO, IS THAT WHAT YOU'RE LOOKING FOR? YES.

TO PROCEED SPECIFICALLY WITH FUSS FOR THE, UH, BASICALLY INCORPORATING THE A VL DATA FOR SO WE CAN BE BASICALLY VIEWED IN REAL TIME.

LET'S CALL R TWO MR TWO A, CORRECT.

R TWO A IS M, M AS IN MICHAEL.

THERE'S NO R TWO M, SO YOU'RE LOOKING OKAY.

C TWO, SORRY, SORRY.

[C2 M REQUEST APPROVAL TO ISSUE RFP 2025-128-ND FOR CONSTRUCTION, MANAGEMENT, AND OPERATION OF PADEL FACILITY ON SURFACE PARKING LOT. (OFFICE OF THE CITY MANAGER)]

C TWO M.

C TWO M IS ISSUE RFP 20 25 20 18 ND CONSTRUCTION OF PODELL FACILITY ON SURFACE PARKING LOT.

IT WAS SEPARATED BY COMMISSIONER ROSE GONZALEZ AND COMMISSIONER, UH, MAGAZINE.

HONOR CAN KICK IT OFF.

OF MIAMI GAVE PREMIUM WATERFRONT SPACE TO, UH, A PADDLE OPERATOR.

THANK YOU ALL.

UM, SOMETHING WE TALKED ABOUT LAST MEETING I, I'M INCREDIBLY EXCITED ABOUT, AND LEMME TAKE A STEP BACK FOR WHY I HAVE THIS PROPOSED.

IT IS TO FOSTER A SENSE OF COMMUNITY BACK TO LINCOLN ROAD TO CREATE A SENSE OF VIBRANCY AND ENERGY BACK TO LINCOLN ROAD.

I THINK ALL OF US LAMENT, UH, VIEWING THE CONDITIONS OF LINCOLN ROAD, WHICH IS CERTAINLY IMPROVING, UH, BUT CERTAINLY NOT UP TO WHAT IT WAS IN ITS HEYDAY.

AND WE, WHEN WE LOOK AT THE OTHER AREAS THAT SEEMINGLY HAVE SURPASSED US, UH, IN NEIGHBORING AREAS, THEY HAVE THAT COOL FACTOR.

THEY HAVE THAT COMMUNITY FEEL, THEY HAVE THAT VIBRANCY, THEY HAVE ACTIVATION.

SO THIS IS WHAT THAT'S ABOUT, IS PROVIDING AN ACTIVATION ON LINCOLN ROAD THAT IS GOING TO BE PUBLICLY OPEN AND ACCESSIBLE AND WELCOMING TO ALL WALKS OF OUR COMMUNITY, FROM SENIOR CITIZENS TO CHILDREN'S CAMPS, TO WOMEN'S CLINICS AND ACADEMIES.

I'M FULLY CONFIDENT THAT THIS WILL BRING BACK EVERY SINGLE SEGMENT OF OUR COMMUNITY TO LINCOLN ROAD.

E-COMMERCE HAS REALLY CHANGED RETAIL, RIGHT? SO NO LONGER DO OUR RESIDENTS HAVE A NEED TO COME TO LINCOLN ROAD TO GO TO H AND M OR THE CHEESECAKE FACTORY.

IT'S SOMETHING, AN ISSUE THAT MALLS, COMMERCIAL CORRIDORS ACROSS THE COUNTRY ARE GRAPPLING WITH.

AND ONE OF THE PRIMARY WAYS THAT THEY'RE CHANGING THAT IS BRINGING EXPERIENCE-BASED TYPES OF ACTIVATION TO THEIR COMMERCIAL CORRIDORS.

YOU SEE IT WITH MALLS, WHETHER THEY HAVE INDOOR SKIING, ROCK CLIMBING OVER IN THE DESIGN DISTRICT, THEY JUST HAD PADDLE.

SAN FRANCISCO HAS DONE A SIMILAR RFP ON ONE OF THEIR LOTS.

UH, THAT WAS SURFACE PARKING TO CONVERT THAT INTO A PADDLE FACILITY.

UH, THE CITY

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AND THE TYPE OF COMMUNITY AND ACTIVATION AND COOL FACTOR THAT THAT HAS BROUGHT IS WHAT CAUGHT MY EYE AND REALLY, REALLY HAD ME EXCITED ABOUT WHAT WE COULD PROVIDE ON LINCOLN ROAD.

NOW, I HAVE HEARD THE FEEDBACK FROM MY COLLEAGUES AND FROM OUR COMMUNITY, THE PEOPLE THAT, UM, HAVE REACHED OUT WITH, UH, POINTS OF OPPOSITION, LOUD AND CLEAR, LOUD AND CLEAR.

AND THIS IS A VERY DIFFERENT PROPOSAL THAN IT ORIGINATED, UH, JUST A MONTH AGO.

SO A MONTH AGO WHEN WE PUSHED THIS, UM, TO THIS STAGE IN THE PROCESS, IT WAS CONTEMPLATED USING LOT P 27.

AND FOR THOSE THAT, UH, DON'T HAVE THE SURFACE PARKING LOT MAP, UH, ON THE BACK OF THEIR HAND, UM, THAT IS THE LARGE LOT ACROSS FROM MACY'S WITH 151 PARKING SPACES.

WHILE I THINK WE HAVE ADEQUATE PARKING, AND I'LL GO THROUGH THAT, I HEARD LOUD AND CLEAR THAT MAYBE THAT WOULD'VE BEEN TOO BIG OF A REACH, TOO MUCH THAT WE'RE GIVING UP.

OKAY, SO I HAVE AMENDED THIS, UH, COMMISSIONER, UH, FERNANDEZ W HAD ENOUGH, UH, FORESIGHT TO SIT THERE AND SAY, PERHAPS WE INCLUDE LOT P 26 IN THIS PROPOSAL.

AT FIRST I THOUGHT THAT WOULD'VE BEEN TOO SMALL.

UM, BUT LOOKING AT THE DIFFERENT OPERATIONS IN NEIGHBORING CITIES, NOT ONLY DO I THINK THAT'S A MORE SUITABLE LOT, BUT WE COULD DO THAT WHILE STILL MAINTAINING A LARGE AMOUNT OF PARKING THAT ACTUALLY FRONTS THE RETAIL BUSINESSES ON THAT LOT.

SO ON THIS LOT, AND PJ IF YOU CAN PULL UP MY SLIDES, I HAVE THIS DEPICTED.

LET'S, UH, LET'S GO TO SLIDE THREE IF WE CAN.

ON THE RIGHT SIDE IS ALL OF THE SURFACE PAR CITY OWNED SURFACE PARKING LOTS THAT WE HAVE JUST WITHIN QUITE LITERALLY HALF A BLOCK OF THE PROPOSAL.

ON THE LEFT SIDE IS LOT P 26.

THIS IS THE ONE BEHIND THE NIKE STORE, THE APPLE STORE AND CAPITAL ONE CAFE.

UH, CORRECT ME IF I'M WRONG, BUT I BELIEVE IT HAS ABOUT 101 SPOTS.

AND IF WE TOOK THE SPOT THAT IS JUST CIRCLED IN RED, WE WOULD BE ABLE TO PROVIDE, UH, CIRCULAR ACCESS, INGRESS AND EGRESS REMAINS.

AND THE VIEW CORRIDORS THAT REMAINED FOR THE ALLEYWAY, FRONTING THE RETAIL CAFES, YOU WOULD HAVE TWO ROWS OF PARKING EQUATING TO ABOUT 45 SPACES TO REMAIN IN FRONT OF THAT RETAIL CENTER.

AND THE ONLY THING THAT WE WOULD BE GIVING UP IS ABOUT 50 PARKING SPOTS WHERE THE PADDLE FACILITY WOULD GO.

UH, THAT IS THE PARTS CIRCLED IN RED.

SO VERSUS WHERE WE WERE AT THE BEGINNING OF THIS PROCESS, GIVING UP 151 SPACES OF THE ENTIRE LOT, ALL THE WAY TO THE RIGHT, THIS IS JUST A FRACTION OF THAT.

AND I'M GONNA GO THROUGH THE NEXT SLIDE 'CAUSE I HAVE A COMPREHENSIVE PARKING SOLUTION FOR THIS ENTIRE AREA.

AT THE END OF THIS, THAT IMMEDIATE VICINITY WILL ACTUALLY GAIN BACK SURFACE PARKING LOTS VERSUS WHERE WE ARE RIGHT NOW.

HOW ARE WE GONNA DO THAT ON P 27 AT ANY GIVEN TIME? THERE'S BETWEEN 15 AND 30 CODE COMPLIANCE VEHICLES ON P 27.

THESE ARE THE SURFACE PARKING LOTS THAT WE TALK ARE JUST THE LIFEBLOOD OF OUR CITY THAT ARE NEEDED FOR, UH, THE RETAIL VIBRANCY AND, AND, UH, UH, EASY ACCESS.

WELL, THAT'S TAKEN UP BY ABOUT 15 TO 30 CODE COMPLIANCE OFFICERS.

I'VE SPOKEN TO HERNAN, THE HEAD OF OUR CODE COMPLIANCE DEPARTMENT, AND HE'D BE HAPPY TO, UH, ENSURE THAT THOSE VEHICLES ARE NOW PARKED JUST A HALF BLOCK AWAY IN OUR MUNICIPAL GARAGE ON 17TH STREET THAT HAS OVER 1400 SPACES AND INCREDIBLE AMOUNTS OF OCCUPANCY AND UTILIZATION.

ADDITIONALLY, IN THAT SA VERY SAME GARAGE, OVER 50 SANITATION VEHICLES ARE PARKED ON OUR FIRST FLOOR RIGHT AT THE ENTRY AND EXIT POINT THAT IS CLOSEST TO LINCOLN ROAD, RIGHT? THE ENTIRE SOUTHERN PORTION OF THE FIRST, UH, THE 17TH STREET PARKING GARAGE ON THE FIRST GROUND FLOOR WHERE YOU HAVE EASY IN, EASY OUT RIGHT INGRESS EGRESS, RIGHT AT THAT POINT, YOU DON'T HAVE TO GO UP ANY TYPE OF ELEVATION.

RIGHT NOW IT'S TAKEN OVER BY THE SANITATION DEPARTMENT, SPOKEN WITH OUR PUBLIC WORKS DIRECTOR WHO WOULD BE HAPPY TO ENSURE THAT WHEN WE'RE LOOKING FOR A LONGER TERM SOLUTION, THAT THOSE SANITATION VEHICLES COULD BE MOVED TO A SPOT ON AN UPWARDS FLOOR AROUND THE THIRD FLOOR.

SO RESIDENTS AND VISITORS, THE LINCOLN ROAD WOULD HAVE THAT PRIME PARKING ON THE FIRST FLOOR.

IN TERMS OF THE TOTAL PARKING IN THAT AREA, ABOUT THE 55 TO 60 SPOTS THAT WOULD ESSENTIALLY BE REPLACED BY THE PADDLE FACILITY REPRESENTS JUST 1%, 1% OF TOTAL MUNICIPAL PARKING.

NOT IN OUR CITY, BUT JUST IN THE IMMEDIATE LINCOLN ROAD VICINITY, RIGHT? WE HAVE, I BELIEVE, 12 TO 13 SURFACE PARKING

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LOTS FRONTING OR ADJACENT TO LINCOLN ROAD.

AND WE HAVE TWO MUNICIPAL GARAGES.

ONE THE 17TH STREET GARAGE WITH 1400 SPACES, WHICH IS ABOUT 50% UTILIZED.

AND THEN THE NEW WORLD SYMPHONY GARAGE JUST HALF A BLOCK AWAY WITH 500 SPACES WITH UNDER 25% UTILIZATION, RIGHT? SO WE HAVE SUCH AN ABUNDANCE OF PARKING IN THIS AREA.

YES, PULLING UP TO THAT LOT IS CONVENIENT, BUT I'M, I'M CONFIDENT THAT WITH THE SPACES THAT WE SAVE BY FREEING UP THE CODE COMPLIANCE SPOTS ON P 27 AND FREEING UP THAT GROUND FLOOR PARKING ON THE 17TH STREET GARAGE, WE WILL HAVE A NEGLIGIBLE, IF ANY LOSS OF SURFACE PARKING ADDITIONALLY AS PART OF A COMPREHENSIVE SOLUTION.

I THINK AT THE END OF THE DAY, OUR PARKING WILL GET MUCH EASIER ON LINCOLN ROAD.

IT DOES NOT MAKE ANY SENSE.

AND THIS IS IN LINE WITH, UH, SOME OF THE VISION THAT MY COLLEAGUE COMMISSIONER ROSE GONZALEZ HAD FOR OTHER AREAS OF THE CITY WHERE WE COULD ACTUALLY HAVE A COMPREHENSIVE VALET PARKING SERVICE FOR ALL OF LINCOLN ROAD, SIMILAR TO THE THINGS THAT SHE SUGGESTED THAT THE DE DESIGN DISTRICT HAS, FOR INSTANCE, AND EXAMPLE OF HOW WE COULD DO THIS, BUT CERTAINLY NOT TIED TO IT.

THE OWNER OF 1691 MICHIGAN AVENUE HAS 700 PARKING SPOTS.

IT'S 50 FEET AWAY FROM THIS LOT, AND HE HAS ABOUT A 20% UTILIZATION.

WE WOULD BE ABLE TO SET UP A VALET STAND AND STRIKE A DEAL WITH HIM WHERE YOU WOULD BE ABLE TO COME IN TO ANY STREET IN LINCOLN ROAD, ANY OF THE MAIN CORRIDORS TO A VALET TABLE.

YOU WOULDN'T HAVE TO BE GOING TO A SPECIFIC RESTAURANT AND VALET FOR SOMEWHERE IN THE RANGE OF FIVE TO $10, RIGHT? THAT'S JUST TWO HOURS OF PARKING.

IF WE WEREN'T ABLE TO STRIKE AN ADEQUATE DEAL THERE, THEN WE COULD PASS A RESOLUTION THAT WE COULD PROVIDE THAT PARKING IN THE NEW WORLD SYMPHONY OR 17TH STREET GARAGE.

SO FOR OUR RESIDENTS THAT ARE WORRIED THAT LOSING 50 PARKING SPACES ARE SOMEHOW GOING TO IMPACT THEIR LIFE OR THE RETAIL, WE HAVE ALTERNATIVE SOLUTIONS THAT WILL ACTUALLY FACILITATE BETTER ACCESS AND ACCESSIBILITY FOR LINCOLN ROAD.

PJ, IF WE COULD JUST GO, UH, BACK TO SLIDE ONE AND TWO, JUST TO RUN THROUGH A FEW THINGS AS PART OF THE RFP.

YES, A PRIVATE OPERATOR WILL OPERATE THIS VERY SIMILAR TO ANY OTHER FACILITY.

UH, I BELIEVE WE EVEN MAY HAVE A, A SIMILAR ARRANGEMENT WITH THE, UH, TENNIS ACADEMY, ALTHOUGH DON'T QUOTE ME ON THAT.

BUT THIS WILL BE A PUBLIC ASSET THAT IS ACCESSIBLE TO EVERY SINGLE PERSON IN OUR COMMUNITY, AND IT WILL BE AMENITY FOR RESIDENTS.

MAYBE IT WAS AMISS OF ME TO NOT REALIZE EVERYBODY HAD SEEN THESE SAME KIND OF COMMUNITIES THAT WERE BEING, UH, FOSTERED THROUGH THE USE OF PADDLE IN OTHER AREAS.

BUT THAT'S THE VISION, THE COMMUNITY VISION THAT I WANT TO BRING A LIFEBLOOD AND ENERGY TO LINCOLN ROAD.

OKAY? SO WHILE A PRIVATE OPERATOR WILL OPERATE THE FACILITY, A MEMBERSHIP ABSOLUTELY WILL NOT BE REQUIRED.

AND IT'S MY SUGGESTION IN THE RFP THAT IS PART OF A COMMUNITY BENEFIT, THAT PROVIDING TIMES FOR AFFORDABLE RATES FOR MIAMI BEACH RESIDENTS ARE GOING TO BE A CRITICAL PORTION OF HOW THEY RESPOND WITH THE RFP PROCESS.

THIS IS LOOKING TO DEMOCRATIZE THE USE OF PADDLE, RIGHT? THIS ISN'T FOR RICH PEOPLE.

RICH PEOPLE ALREADY HAVE A PLACE TO PLAY.

THERE'S THE FACILITY THAT ALREADY OPERATES IN MIAMI BEACH, OKAY? IT COSTS UPWARDS OF 400.

IT STARTS AT $400 A MONTH IN $50 COURT FEES TO GET MY DAUGHTER A CLINIC THERE IS $50 PER HOUR, OKAY? FOR A 7-YEAR-OLD TO LEARN.

THIS WILL BROADEN THE ACCESS TO THE WORLD'S FASTEST GROWING SPORT, ONE THAT WE HAVE AS ONE OF OUR FLAGSHIP EVENTS AT OUR CONVENTION CENTER COMING IN MARCH.

ALSO, THE FACILITY WILL PROVIDE ACCESSIBILITY TO THE PUBLIC.

IT'LL HAVE ACTIVATIONS, WHETHER THEY BE CHILDREN'S SUMMER CAMPS, WHETHER THEY BE EVENTS FOR SENIORS, WOMEN WHO ARE 60% OF PIEL PLAYERS WILL BE ABLE TO HAVE TOURNAMENTS THERE.

I SEE THAT THESE ACTIVATIONS ARE WHAT, UM, REALLY ACTIVATES AREAS IN THE DESIGN DISTRICT.

WYNWOOD, UH, IT REALLY CREATES A VIBE AND ENERGY.

AND PJ JUST ONE MORE SLIDE IF WE COULD GO.

THIS SHOWS ALL OF THE SURFACE PARKING THAT WE HAVE.

IF YOU LOOK TO THE LEFT, EVERY BLUE MONIKER RIGHT THERE ARE SURFACE PARKING LOTS JUST ADJACENT TO LINCOLN ROAD.

REMEMBER, THIS IS NOT CITYWIDE AND THIS IS JUST WHAT THE CITY OWNS, JUST WHAT THE CITY OWNS.

THERE'S AT LEAST HALF A DOZEN OTHER PRIVATELY OWNED SURFACE PARKING LOTS AND ALSO PRIVATELY, UH, UH, PARKING GARAGES.

UM, I DON'T KNOW IF WE COULD, UH, GO THROUGH TWO MINUTES MORE, MR. MAYOR, MADAM VICE MAYOR, I HAVE SOME VIDEOS WHEN WE TALK ABOUT HOW, UH, THE LACK OF PARKING TJ UH, PJ IF YOU COULD JUST TEE UP THE, THE TWO VIDEOS.

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UM, I PROMISE THEY WOULD'VE BEEN MUCH MORE, UH, ENTERTAINING AND FUN, UH, WITH THE MUSIC THAT, UH, THAT I HAD KIND OF TEED UP.

BUT TJ, UH, PJ HAD SOME COPYRIGHT CONCERNS.

I TOOK THIS YESTERDAY.

YESTERDAY.

THESE ARE THE GARAGES ON ALTON ROAD AND LINCOLN ROAD.

THEY ARE EMPTY.

THESE ARE THOUSANDS OF PARKING SPOTS.

THOUSANDS.

OKAY? WE HAD A DISCUSSION EARLIER TO DISCUSS BUYING ANOTHER PARKING GARAGE.

THIS IS WHAT WE HAVE ADJACENT TO LINCOLN ROAD, RIGHT? SO THIS IS AN OPTION, AND WE'RE NOT TAKING AWAY SURFACE PARKING AS AN OPTION.

LIKE I SAID, WE'RE TALKING ABOUT 50 SPACES.

THERE ARE OVER 600 SURFACE PARKING SPACES ADJACENT TO LINCOLN ROAD.

SO THIS REPRESENTS LESS THAN 10% OF THAT WHICH WILL ACTUALLY BE ADDED BACK WHEN WE MOVE THE CODE COMPLIANCE VEHICLES AND THE SANITATION VEHICLES.

AND WHEN WE TALK ABOUT TOTAL CITY PARKING ADJACENT TO LINCOLN ROAD, IT IS 1% 1% SET.

THIS IS THE 1111 GARAGE.

THERE MIGHT HAVE BEEN 30 CARS THAT WERE PARKED IN THERE.

THIS IS THE GARAGE THAT IS ADJACENT TO THE PARKING LOTS IN QUESTION.

LOOK AT THIS.

OKAY? I THINK THE POINT IS THEY MADE IS IT .

SO COMMISSIONER DOMINGUEZ, THANK YOU AND THANK YOU COMMISSIONER MAGAZINE FOR COMING UP WITH SUCH CREATIVE IDEAS, UM, UH, TO TRY TO ACTIVATE THE AREA.

UM, I HAVE A FEW COMMENTS AND ALSO SOME QUESTIONS.

SO, LINCOLN ROAD HAS REALLY BEEN HIT HARD, BUT IT'S BEEN HIT HARD, I BELIEVE BECAUSE OF A VARIETY OF PROPERTIES ON THE OCEAN FRONT ARE CLOSED FOR RENOVATIONS AND HAVE BEEN FOR SEVERAL YEARS.

SO THE DELANO, THE RALEIGH, THE SETAI, THE SHELL BORN ALL AT ONCE, THERE'S NO TRAFFIC COMING FROM ANY OF THE VISITORS STAYING IN ANY OF THOSE PROPERTIES THERE.

UM, I HAVE A QUESTION.

IF THE GARAGES ARE EMPTY, ARE THEY VIABLE LOCATIONS TO USE FOR PADEL? CAN THEY ROOFTOP BE USED? CAN, UM, SOME OF THE FLOORS OF THE 17TH STREET GARAGE, WHAT I WORRY ABOUT IN TAKING, UH, PART OF P 26 IS THAT ALL OF THE PARKING THAT WILL THEN BE THERE WILL BE FOR THE PADEL PEOPLE.

SO IT'S STILL LIKE LOSING THE ENTIRE LOT, UH, FOR THE PADELL COURT.

AND I'M GLAD THAT YOU SAID THAT IT'S NOT GOING TO BE A MEMBERSHIP AND THAT THERE WILL BE AFFORDABLE RATES, UM, FOR RESIDENTS, BECAUSE I DID ALSO LOOK INTO THE PADELL ON AT SUNSET HARBOR.

AND, UH, THE PRICES ARE VERY HIGH.

SO THAT IS SOMETHING JUST FOR RICH PEOPLE.

AND SO I APPRECIATE THAT THIS WOULD BE FOR EVERYONE.

BUT MY QUESTION TO THE CITY ADMINISTRATION IS RATHER THAN TAKING A SURFACE LOT THAT'S ALWAYS FULL FOR PEOPLE THAT ARE GETTING THEIR HAIR DONE, GOING TO THE DENTIST, THE DOCTOR, WHATEVER THE CASE MAY BE, WHY CAN'T WE USE THE GARAGE FOR PADEL C? COULD I RESPOND? WHAT CAN WE? YEAH.

THANK YOU COMMISSIONER DING DOMINGUEZ FOR, UH, THE ONE, I'M GLAD YOU BROUGHT THAT UP.

I HAD IT ON MY RADAR, UH, TO ENSURE THAT THE PARKING IS NOT TAKEN BY THE, UH, VISITORS, THE PADEL AS PART OF THE RFP.

UM, WE COULD REQUIRE THAT ESSENTIALLY THAT THE OPERATOR THAT'S CHOSEN WOULD HAVE TO CIRCUIT A DEAL WITH EITHER ONE OF OUR MUNICIPAL GARAGES OR WITH THE GARAGE RIGHT THERE.

THAT'S ON, UM, THE VI THE LAST PART OF THE VIDEO THAT ESSENTIALLY SITS TOTALLY EMPTY.

THAT ANY VISITOR WOULD HAVE TO DO A $5 VALET SURFACE, RIGHT? SO THEY PULL RIGHT UP THERE.

THEY WOULDN'T BE ABLE TO PARK ON THE SURFACE PARKING LOT.

SO WE'RE NOT ESSENTIALLY CREATING ACTIVATION THAT'S GONNA DRAW MORE PEOPLE AND THEN TAKE UP THE PARKING THERE.

UH, THEY WOULD BE REQUIRED IF THEY'RE VISITING THE FACILITY TO ESSENTIALLY VALLEY PARK, EITHER OUR MUNICIPAL GARAGE OR THE GARAGE AT 1691 MICHIGAN.

BUT THANK YOU FOR THAT COMMENT.

IT'S SOMETHING I HAD ON MY RADAR AS WELL.

COMMISSIONERS, JOSE GONZALEZ, TRANSPORTATION AND MOBILITY DIRECTOR AND INTERIM PARKING DIRECTOR.

COMMISSIONER.

OH, THE 17TH STREET GARAGE.

SORRY.

SO I'LL ATTEMPT TO ANSWER.

I THINK THAT WE HAVE LOOKED AT THE 17TH STREET GARAGE FOR OTHER ACTIVATIONS IN THE PAST.

UM, AND THE ROOF WAS AVAILABLE.

I'D LIKE TO HAVE OUR PARKING DEPARTMENT COME FORWARD AND TALK ABOUT WHAT THE UTILIZATION IS AT THE 17TH STREET GARAGE AND, AND WHAT, IF ANY, UH, DRAWBACKS THERE MIGHT BE TO, UM, PUTTING SOMETHING ON THE ROOF.

GOOD AFTERNOON, MR. MAYOR.

UM, WE, WE TOOK A LOOK AT, AT SOME OF THE DATA, BOTH FOR LOTS AS WELL AS FOR GARAGES.

FIRST IN TERMS OF UTILIZATION.

UM, WE SEE HIGHER UTILIZATION IN THE PARKING LOTS AROUND THE LINCOLN ROAD AREA THAN WE DO SEE IN THE GARAGES IN THIS

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AREA.

UM, WE, WE, WE DISCUSSED THAT IN TERMS OF VALUE PER SPACE ARE, ARE OUR LOT SPACES BRING IN MORE REVENUE.

THEY'RE MORE VALUABLE TO US, IF YOU WILL, WHEN WE BREAK IT DOWN INTO A, UH, REVENUE PER SPACE.

UH, LEMME CLARIFY MY QUESTION.

CAN THE 17TH STREET GARAGE BE USED FOR PADEL? SO ON THE, ON THE ROOF OF, WE CURRENTLY HAVE ON THE ROOF OF THE CITY HALL GARAGE, WE HAVE, UM, NOT PADEL, THE, THE OTHER, OTHER SPORT.

SO WE, WE'VE EXPLORED THAT AND IT'S, IT, I THINK IT'S WORKED WELL ON THE CITY HALL GARAGE.

THE 17TH STREET GARAGE IS MORE UTILIZED THAN THE, THAN THE, UM, CITY HALL GARAGE.

THE PADELL COURTS, I THINK ARE ALSO STRUCTURALLY HEAVIER.

SO WE WOULD NEED TO LOOK AT, UM, FROM A STRUCTURAL PERSPECTIVE, IT'S ADDITIONAL WEIGHT ON, ON THOSE, UM, YOU KNOW, ON THE BEAMS AND ON THE COLUMNS.

UM, BUT I DON'T KNOW THAT WE HAVE UTILIZATION BY FLOOR.

SO, AND ALSO, I THINK THAT'S YOUR QUESTION.

THE ROOF OF THE 17TH STREET GARAGE, AS WE KNOW, AND IT WAS MENTIONED THAT THERE ARE PRIVATE LOTS.

WHY CAN'T THESE, UM, UH, BUSINESSES THAT ARE INTERESTED IN DOING PADEL ON PUBLIC LAND, WHY CAN'T THEY STRIKE A DEAL WITH ONE OF THE PRIVATE LOTS AND DO IT THERE? IT'S NOT BAD IDEA.

I'M, I'M NOT SURE, COMMISSIONER.

I GUESS THAT THAT IS AN OPTION.

AND IN THAT CASE, THE CITY WOULD NOT BE INVOLVED IN THAT, UH, TRANSACTION.

IT WOULD BE MORE PRIVATE WITH PRIVATE.

BUT THE, THE DIRECTION AS PART OF THIS ITEM IS TO EXPLORE, UH, PARKING LOTS.

JUST BRINGING UP THAT IDEA.

THEIR SURFACE LOT BECAUSE IT IS AN AMENITY, OKAY? IT IS AN AMENITY TO LIVE ON AN ISLAND AND JUST PULL UP AND NOT HAVE TO GO INTO A PARKING GARAGE.

UM, THANK YOU COMMISSIONER DOMINGEZ FOR BRINGING UP SOME GOOD OPTIONS.

I ALSO AGREE WITH THE ROOFTOP OF 17TH STREET GARAGE.

LET ME TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT PIOT 26.

UM, PIOT 26 IS WHERE WE HAVE REALLY THRIVING BUSINESSES LIKE SHAKE SHACK AND WHAT IS THAT BAKERY CALLED? THE ROSETTA ROSETTA BAKERY.

UM, THE APPLE STORE WHERE PEOPLE JUST LIKE DRIVE IN AND OUT.

UH, THE APPLE STORE IS ONE OF OUR MAIN ANCHORS, OKAY? PEOPLE WANT TO GET OUT OF THEIR CAR, GET THEIR IPHONE SERVICED, AND GET BACK IN THEIR CAR.

AND PART OF THE PROBLEM WITH PUTTING THAT PADE FACILITY ON THAT LOT WOULD BE, YOU WOULD HAVE THIS LARGE FENCING WITH PLASTIC AND YOU WOULDN'T BE ABLE TO SEE THE APPLE STORE .

YOU KNOW? SO WE'D BE KIND OF, YOU KNOW, LIKE, I DON'T KNOW, HURTING ONE OF OUR ANCHORS.

ANOTHER REASON IS WE'VE INVEST SO MUCH MONEY IN THE COLONY THEATER AND NIGHTS WHEN I GET INVITED TO THE THEATER, ESPECIALLY WHEN IT'S AN OPENING NIGHT OR, YOU KNOW, I CAN'T FIND PARKING ANYWHERE.

THERE'S NEVER ANY PARKING ON THAT LOT.

SO CAN YOU IMAGINE AFTER INVESTING ALL OF THIS MONEY TO MAKE ONE OF OUR LOCAL THEATER PROGRAMS WORK, WE ARE NOW GOING TO TAKE AWAY THEIR PARKING AND PEOPLE AREN'T GONNA BE ABLE TO GET TO THE THEATER.

UM, JOVIA, WHICH IS CLOSED IS, THERE'S A RESTAURANT THERE THAT'S GOING TO BE REOPENING THAT RESTAURANT WILL NO LONGER HAVE PARKING.

NOW YOU POINTED OUT THAT THOSE OTHER LOTS NEARBY OKAY, ARE EMPTY AND THEY'RE EMPTY 'CAUSE THEY'RE NOT CITY LOTS.

AND BECAUSE THEY'RE EXPENSIVE, WHICH IS WHY THIS MORNING WE PROBABLY SHOULD HAVE PURCHASED THE PELICAN GARAGE.

BUT THAT'S BESIDE THE POINT.

UM, WE, YOU KNOW, IN ORDER FOR US, OKAY, WE DON'T, AGAIN, THE VALET PROGRAM ONLY WORKS IF YOU HAVE THOSE SPOTS.

I WOULD LIKE A, A LIST OF ALL THE BUSINESSES SURROUNDING PLO 26.

I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW ALL OF THE DOCTORS, THE DENTISTS, EVERY SINGLE BUSINESS OWNER.

DON'T YOU THINK THAT THEY HAVE A RIGHT TO KNOW WHAT WE'RE GOING TO DO BEFORE WE EVEN ISSUE THIS RFP? DON'T YOU THINK THOSE BUSINESS OWNERS HAVE A RIGHT TO UNDERSTAND THAT THEIR PARKING IS GOING TO GET TAKEN AWAY? I GUARANTEE YOU THAT THE OWNERS OF SHAKE SHACK ARE GONNA BE VERY UPSET.

APPLE STORE IS GOING TO BE UPSET.

WHY WOULD WE? THIS IS PUTTING A NAIL IN THE COFFIN FOR A THRIVING BLOCK ON LINCOLN ROAD WHEN PILA 27, THE WOMEN AT SEAN DONALDSON WERE, THEY DON'T WANNA GO INTO, UM, PARKING GARAGES BECAUSE RIGHT NOW THEY CAN PULL UP AND THEY CAN GO INSIDE.

PEOPLE LIKE TO PULL UP AND JUST GET A COFFEE AT CORITA.

THEY WANNA GO.

YOU NEED SOMETHING QUICK AT MARSHALLS, YOU PULL RIGHT UP AND YOU GO TO MARSHALLS.

THAT IS THE BEAUTY OF A SURFACE LOT.

I KNOW I'M MYSELF.

I WILL CIRCLE AND CIRCLE TO FIND A SURFACE SPACE BEFORE I GO INTO A LOT.

I USED TO LOVE TO BE ABLE TO GO TO TRADER JOE'S, PULL UP RIGHT OUTSIDE AND RUN IN.

I CAN NO LONGER DO THAT.

NOW.

I HAVE TO GO INTO THE LOT, OKAY? UH, BECAUSE WE'RE BUILDING A PUMP STATION THERE.

HOPEFULLY THERE WILL BE SOME PUBLIC PARKING LEFT OVER WHEN THAT PUMP STATION IS FINISHED.

BUT THESE ARE AMENITIES THAT OUR RESIDENTS WANT.

FURTHERMORE, IN 2022 VIA REFERENDUM VOTE, PEOPLE OF MIAMI BEACH VOTED IN FAVOR OF PRESERVING

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NOW, I AM ALL FOR HELPING YOU FIND A SPOT COMMISSIONER MAGAZINE.

'CAUSE I KNOW HOW IMPORTANT THIS PATEL IS FOR YOU.

AND I WOULD CONSIDER THE 17TH STREET ROOFTOP.

IF, IF YOU THINK THAT THAT WILL BE AN ECONOMIC DRIVER TO BRING PEOPLE HERE, WHY CAN'T THEY GO INTO THE GARAGE? , YOU KNOW, YOU DON'T WANT THEM TO HAVE TO GO INTO, YOU DON'T WANT THE PADE PLAYERS TO DRIVE INTO A GARAGE, BUT IT'S OKAY FOR ALL OF OUR RESIDENTS TO GO INTO A GARAGE.

AND I'M NOT SAYING THAT THAT'S WHAT YOU'RE SAYING, BUT IT IS KIND OF WHAT YOU'RE PROPOSING.

SO I SEE THIS AS HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE VERSUS A FEW HUNDRED.

NOW I KNOW THAT YOU WANT TO DEMOCRATIZE PADELL AND THAT'S WONDERFUL, BUT IF WE ARE REALLY GOING TO DEMOCRATIZE PADELL, THE WAY TO DO THAT IS TO RUN IT THROUGH OUR PARKS AND RECREATION PROGRAM.

THAT'S HOW WE DEMOCRATIZE PATEL.

NOW, AS AN ECONOMIC INCENTIVE AND TO BRING PEOPLE TO LINCOLN ROAD, COULD WE STRIKE SOME SORT OF A BUSINESS AGREEMENT WITH A PRIVATE COMPANY? ABSOLUTELY, BUT NOT AT THE EXPENSE OF PARKING LOTS THAT EVERYBODY IN MIAMI BEACH USES.

I WOULD ASK YOU, PLEASE TAKE P LOT 26 AND 27 OFF THE TABLE.

CONSIDER 17TH STREET AND SPEAK TO THE OWNERS AND ASK THEM IF THEY COULD ACTIVATE IT AT 1111 OR MAYBE THE OTHER GARAGE ADJACENT TO THE A MC THEATER.

I'D ALSO LIKE TO POINT OUT TO ALL OF YOU THAT WE'RE LOSING A TREMENDOUS AMOUNT OF PARKING ON WEST AVENUE, AND WE'VE BEEN TRYING TO STRIKE SOME SORT OF A DEAL, UM, SO THAT WE COULD ACTUALLY LEASE OUT PARKING FOR OUR RESIDENTS.

SO I DON'T WANNA HURT THE COLONY THEATER, I DON'T WANNA HURT THE APPLE STORE OR THE FURNITURE STORE THAT'S THERE, OR SHAKE SHACK OR ANY OF THE MANY OFFICES THAT OPERATE THERE.

AND, UM, FOR THOSE REASONS, UM, I I I'M, I'M A NO ON THIS TODAY.

AND I DO KNOW, AND I I KNOW BECAUSE WE WANT A REFERENDUM ON THIS.

I KNOW THAT OUR, THE RESIDENTS WOULD NOT, WILL NOT LIKE THIS.

AND I, I WOULD LIKE TO BE ACCOMMODATING.

SO I ASK YOU, PLEASE CONSIDER, UM, THE GARAGE ROOFTOP AT 17TH STREET THAT COMMISSIONER DOMINGUEZ PROPOSED, BECAUSE I THINK THAT WOULD BE GREAT THIS 19TH STREET LOT.

IF IT'S ONLY P 17, UM, I WILL SUPPORT THIS IF IT'S FOR THE ROOFTOP OF, OF THE P LOT ON 17TH STREET.

IF IT'S FOR THAT, I WILL, UM, I I WILL SUPPORT IT.

BUT IF IT, IF IT, IF P 26 AND 27 ARE ON THERE, I CAN'T SUPPORT IT.

ANYBODY ELSE? COMMISSIONER SU SUAREZ.

INJECTING NEW LIFE ONTO LINCOLN ROAD.

UM, YOU KNOW, I WAS WALKING LINCOLN ROAD YESTERDAY WITH MY FAMILY, AND IT, IT WAS, IT WAS DEPRESSING.

UM, IT CERTAINLY SEEMED LIKE ALMOST HALF THE STOREFRONTS ARE, ARE SHUTTERED.

UM, AND I REMEMBER COMING TO LINCOLN ROAD AS A KID, AND THAT WOULD'VE NEVER BEEN THE CASE.

UM, I UNDERSTAND THAT WE HAVE SOME OF OUR HOTELS THAT ARE, ARE CLOSED, BUT WE HAVE THOUSANDS AND THOUSANDS OF OTHER HOTELS THAT ARE OPERATING NO PROBLEM.

UM, BUT LOOK, UH, IN, IN MY OPINION, YOU KNOW, THERE'S THREE OF US THAT GOT ELECTED HERE RECENTLY, AND WE GOT ELECTED TO NOT REALLY HAVE THE STATUS QUO.

OKAY? UM, OUR BUSINESSES ARE STRUGGLING.

LINCOLN ROAD IS A HOMELESS HANGOUT, OKAY? UM, WE HAVE PARKING LOTS AND GARAGES THAT ARE, THAT PRETTY MUCH 80% UNDER, UNDER UTILIZED.

YOU KNOW, WE'RE, WE'RE, WE'RE CERTAINLY NOT GIVING IT AWAY FOREVER.

I, I BELIEVE THE RFPS FOR 10 YEARS, 5, 5, 5 YEARS, YOU KNOW, LOOK, I, I, I THINK WE NEED, WE NEED TO TEST SOMETHING DIFFERENT.

IT, THERE'S, THERE'S, UM, BUT WE'RE, WE'RE NOT LOSING ANYTHING.

I THINK IF WE REALLY WANT TO TAKE A BOLD AND LEADERSHIP STEP INTO REALLY RE-ENERGIZING LINCOLN ROAD AS A DESTINATION, NOT JUST FOR SHOPPING, BUT ALSO FOR FITNESS, I, I THINK WE SHOULD TAKE THAT OPPORTUNITY.

I MEAN, YOU KNOW, WE, WE'RE SLOWLY BECOMING THE FITNESS CAPITAL OF THE WORLD.

YOU KNOW, WE JUST HAD GUAP PALOOZA.

WE'RE GONNA BE A BLUE ZONE CITY.

YOU KNOW, I CAN UNDERSTAND PUTTING IT ON THE TOP OF A PARKING GARAGE, BUT THAT DOESN'T HAVE THE SAME EFFECT ON, ON

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AND WHEN YOU'RE DONE WITH YOUR GAME, HEY, I WANNA GO TO THE APPLE STORE.

I WANNA GO TO SHAKE SHACK.

UM, I WANT TO GO TO ALL TO, TO THE OTHER BUSINESSES WHEN I'M DONE.

THERE'S, THERE'S THE, THE LEGENDARY MILKSHAKE BAR THAT WOULD BE RIGHT THERE.

THEY'RE STRUGGLING WITH BUSINESS AND, YOU KNOW, IT, IT, IT'S A SHAME.

AND, AND I'M, I'M REALLY, I I WANNA REALLY COMMEND MY COLLEAGUE, COMMISSIONER MAGAZINE FOR, FOR, FOR THREADING A, A, A FINE NEEDLE HERE.

BECAUSE ORIGINALLY IT STARTED PARKING LOT 27.

THERE WAS A, A HUGE OUTCRY ON IT.

I CERTAINLY HEARD IT.

AND NOW IT'S BEEN NARROWED DOWN TO P 26, WHERE, BY THE WAY, WE ALWAYS HAVE THOSE LIKE PICKLEBALL TOURNAMENTS THERE ON THE WEEKEND.

AND, AND, AND IT'S A SUCCESS.

EVERYONE LOVES GOING THERE.

UM, AND, AND THERE'S BEEN, THERE WAS NO COMPLAINTS ABOUT THE PARKING LOT DURING THAT TIME.

UM, AND AGAIN, THIS IS JUST 50 PARKING SPACES FOR FIVE YEARS.

IF, IF, IF AT THE END OF FIVE YEARS WE DON'T LIKE IT, OKAY? WE, WE KNOW, WE TRIED.

AT LEAST WE'RE TRYING SOMETHING TO REINVIGORATE OUR, OUR, THE BACKBONE OF MIAMI BEACH INSTEAD OF JUST ALWAYS SAYING NO.

I MEAN, IT'S ALWAYS EASY TO SAY NO.

UM, AND, AND, AND IT TAKES REAL COURAGE TO SAY YES.

SO, UH, I'M GONNA BE SUPPORTIVE.

UM, I I'M HOPING THAT THERE'S GONNA BE, UH, A CONSENSUS HERE TO MOVE FORWARD BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, I, I THINK AT LEAST THREE OF US ON HERE HAVE A VISION OF, FOR MIAMI BEACH, WHERE WE'RE, WE'RE GONNA BE A FITNESS DESTINATION.

SO I'LL SPEAK, I COMMEND YOU, UH, COMMISSIONER MAGAZINE FOR BRINGING THIS ITEM.

I SHARE THE CONCERNS OF, OF I THINK THAT YOU'RE RECOGNIZING AS WELL.

I THINK YOU SHARE THE SAME CONCERNS, AND OBVIOUSLY SOME OF OUR COLLEAGUES ARE MENTIONING ABOUT THE PARKING.

BUT I GUESS BIG PICTURE, THE WAY I LOOK AT THIS IS THIS, THIS ITEM WOULD TAKE ANYWHERE BETWEEN THREE AND FIVE VOTES TO GET TO A FINAL PRODUCT.

AM I CORRECT? I MEAN, WE'RE JUST, WE'RE LITERALLY JUST DECIDING NOW.

THE FIRST STEP WAS WE'RE GONNA APPROVE YOU, THE CITY ADMINISTRATION DRAFTING AN RFP.

THE SECOND STEP IS NOW TODAY WHETHER WE CAN ACTUALLY ISSUE THE RFP, THEN THERE'S GONNA BE MULTIPLE VOTES AFTER THAT, WHICH I LIKE.

I LIKE THAT PROCESS BECAUSE WE'RE INCORPORATING AND INVITING THE PRIVATE SECTOR TO GIVE US THEIR IDEAS THAT THEY OBVIOUSLY HAVE EXPERIENCE AND EXPERTISE.

AND ULTIMATELY, IT'S THOUGHT TO US TO, AND I, AND I THINK THIS IS PART OF THE PROCESS.

I LOVE, I ACTUALLY, I REALLY LIKE THIS HEALTHY DISCUSSION TODAY THAT WE'RE, WE'RE, AND I COMMEND YOU FOR AMENDING YOUR ITEM.

AND I, MY GUESS IS IT'S GONNA BE AMENDED EVEN MORE MY MY SUGGESTION AND HOPE THAT IT'S ULTIMATELY YOUR ITEM IS TO INCORPORATE ALL OF THIS.

LET THE PRIVATE SECTOR COME BACK AND SEE WHAT WORKS BEST.

AND ULTIMATELY, IT'LL BE UP TO US TO DECIDE WHETHER THIS MAKES SENSE FOR, AND OUR, AND OUR RESIDENTS WILL TELL US.

WE KIND OF KNEW IT.

I THINK WE ALL KNEW IT AFTER THE VOTE THE LAST TIME.

UM, YOU GET IT OUT THERE.

AND, AND OUR RESIDENTS DID SPEAK PRETTY LOUD AND CLEAR.

MANY DID LIKE IT, BUT THERE WERE CERTAINLY A LOT OF CONCERNS WERE RAISED ABOUT THE PARKING, WHICH YOU ARE RECOGNIZING AND ADDRESSING.

SO I'M SUPPORTIVE, UM, TO, TO, TO MOVE FORWARD, BUT ALSO COGNIZANT THAT PARKING IS AN ISSUE IN OUR CITY, AND WE NEED TO, TO LIMIT IT AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE.

AND YOU CLEARLY, BUT BY THOSE VIDEOS AND THE STATISTICS THAT YOU'VE USED, NEGOTIATING, NEGOTIATING MAY BE THE RIGHT WORD.

IT'S, IT'S WITH STAFF, BUT BASICALLY NEGOTIATING WITH STAFF TO MOVE TO MOVE VEHICLES.

SO YOU'RE, YOU'RE, YOU'RE MOVING IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION.

WANT THIS TO BE FOUR THREE.

AND, AND BEFORE I LOSE COMMISSIONER ROSE GONZALEZ, BUT I, I WOULD ACCEPT HER, UH, IDEA AND INCORPORATION TO SEE IF THE PARKING ROOFTOP ON THE MUNICIPAL GARAGE IS A VIABLE OPTION.

SO IF WE CAN INCLUDE THAT IN THE RFP PROCESS, I WOULD BE AMENDABLE TO THAT.

AND IF IT COMES BACK, I'M NOT SO DOGMATIC AS YOU SH AS I SHOWED, RIGHT? I I'M NOT, HEY, IT HAS TO BE MY WAY OR THE HIGHWAY.

I STARTED OUT WITH ONE THING.

I HEARD FEEDBACK FROM, NOT A VOCAL PEOPLE, BUT ACCOMMODATING, YOU KNOW, JUST THE SMALL FRACTION OF PEOPLE THAT I HEARD BACK FROM AND INCORPORATED THIS INTO A DIFFERENT LOT.

AND ONLY USING A PORTION OF THAT.

AND JUST FOR SOME OF THE PUBLIC OUTREACH THAT I DID, THESE ARE ALL EMAILS THAT WE ALL RECEIVED UP HERE.

THESE ARE HUNDREDS, RIGHT? OVER A HUNDRED EMAILS THAT WE'VE RECEIVED IN SUPPORT OF THIS.

UH, AND I'LL CONTINUE THAT OUTREACH.

SO, UM, IF I COULD HAVE THE TRUST OF MY COLLEAGUES, I'LL CONTINUE WORKING THIS, THIS IS ESSENTIALLY JUST ISSUING, UH, THE INVITATION FOR RFP PROPOSALS.

I ACCEPT YOUR, UH, UH, I IDEA COMMISSIONER ROSE GONZALEZ THAT WE INCLUDE AS PART OF THE RFP PROCESS, THE ROOFTOP OF, UH, THE MUNICIPAL GARAGE ON, UH, THE 17TH STREET.

AND IF THAT COMES BACK AS THE BEST OPTION, I'LL BE SUPPORTIVE OF THAT, RIGHT? I'M NOT SO DOGMATIC THAT IT NEEDS TO BE MY WAY OR THE HIGHWAY.

I'M LOOKING AT THIS AS SOMETHING I WANT TO ACHIEVE, ACHIEVE CONSENSUS, RIGHT? I DON'T

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I WANT US ALL TO SAY, YOU KNOW WHAT? WE ARE SO PROUD OF THE COMMUNITY THAT WE ARE NOW FACILITATING ON LINCOLN ROAD, THAT WE'RE ALL IN UNISON AND PROUD OF THIS.

I DON'T WANT PEOPLE TO SUPPORT THIS BECAUSE IT'S, IT'S MINE.

YOU WANNA BE SUPPORTIVE OF ME.

I WANT YOU TO BE CHAMPIONS AND EXCITED ABOUT THE BREATH OF FRESH AIR THAT THIS COULD BREATHE INTO THE VIBRANT, SAFE LINCOLN ROAD.

AND HOWEVER WE'RE ABLE TO ACHIEVE THAT, I WANNA ACHIEVE CONSENSUS IN DOING SO.

MS. MARK, THANK YOU, UH, COMMISSIONER DOMINGUEZ AND COMMISSIONER FERNANDEZ.

UM, SO IN, IN ADDITION TO THE ROOFTOP THAT I HAD MENTIONED, UH, YOU SAID THAT, UM, YOU'LL CHECK AND SEE IF THE STRUCTURE CAN HANDLE IT ON THE ROOFTOP.

'CAUSE PADEL HAS WEIGHTS.

CAN WE ALSO INCLUDE, UM, OTHER FLOORS OF THE 17TH STREET GARAGE? IF THEY ARE VIABLE OPTIONS? I COULD PROBABLY SAY THAT THEY'RE NOT JUST BECAUSE OF THE HEIGHT THAT'S NEEDED.

AND, AND IF, IF, IF I MAY, THROUGH, UH, THROUGH THE CHAIR, UM, IF YOU HAVE NO OBJECTIONS, I'D ALSO LIKE TO INCLUDE THE PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE GARAGE COMMISSIONER AS PART OF THE RFP.

JUST TO BROADEN, YOU KNOW, IT COULD BE THAT THE 17TH STREET GARAGE WORKS BETTER, BUT IT COULD BE THAT THE PEN GARAGE WORKS BETTER.

I WOULD, I WOULD, YES.

I'M NOT TALKING BACK.

I WANT WHAT'S BEST FOR THE, UH, ENTIRE COMMUNITY COMMISSIONER FERNANDEZ.

THANK YOU, MADAM VICE MAYOR.

THAT HAS A GOOD RING TO IT, UM, ESPECIALLY WHEN YOU ADD BOUGHT TO IT, .

UM, SO I WANT TO THANK MY COLLEAGUE FOR, UH, TAKING THE FEEDBACK, UH, SERIOUSLY.

UH, WE, WHEN WE MET, UH, LAST TIME TO DISCUSS THIS, YOU, YOU HEARD MY, UH, CONCERNS AND YOU WERE OPEN TO INCLUDING P 26.

UM, AND I THINK THAT THAT IS A VERY LOGICAL LOCATION.

I THINK THAT THE LOCATION AT P 27, YOU KNOW, WE'RE HERE FIRST TO, TO, UM, TO, TO SERVE OUR RESIDENTS.

I'VE HEARD SO MANY RESIDENTS SAY THAT THIS PARKING LOT IS IMPORTANT TO THEM, AND IT'S BEEN A HISTORIC CONCERN.

BUT I ALSO DO KNOW THAT THERE'S ANOTHER GROUP OF RESIDENTS WHO WE ALSO REPRESENT AS WELL, THE ONE HEALTH AND WELLNESS ACTIVITIES IN OUR CITY WHO ALSO WANT TO SEE LINCOLN ROAD SUCCEED.

AND SO, AND SO I'M GONNA SUPPORT YOU.

I WOULD, I THINK WE WOULD BE DOING A DISSERVICE TO THIS PROCESS AND TO THE ULTIMATE GOALS HERE.

IF WE KEEP P 27 ON THE TABLE, I THINK IT'S BETTER IF WE ARE ADDING OTHER LOCATIONS, THE ROOFTOP OF THE 17TH STREET GARAGE, THE ROOFTOP OF THE PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE GARAGE, AND IN THIS CASE, UH, I THINK IT'S, WHAT IS IT, 40% OF P 26? UH, 50% OR 50%? I THINK IT'S UNDER 50%.

OF, OF P 26.

I THINK IT'S BETTER TO TAKE OUT P 27, BECAUSE FROM WHAT I READ, I DON'T THINK P 27 IS GONNA HAVE THE SUPPORT, OR LET'S SAY SOMEONE BIDS ON THAT, AND THEN THEY SPEND ALL THIS TIME AND ALL THIS EFFORT RESPONDING TO A CITY SOLICITATION FOR LINCOLN ROAD AND MERIDIAN PARKING LOT.

I DON'T WANT TO GIVE THEM MIXED SIGNALS.

AND, AND OUT OF RESPECT TO YOU, I DON'T WANT YOU TO SPIN YOUR WHEELS ON AN EFFORT, ON A PROJECT THAT YOU'RE TRYING TO DO TO LIFT OUR CITY AND IMPROVE THE, UH, THE, THE ECONOMY OF LINCOLN ROAD AND HAVE MORE POSITIVE ACTIVITY IN OUR CITY AND GO THROUGH ALL OF THAT EFFORT SO THAT WHAT THEN WHAT YOU END UP WITH IS THEY CAN'T SUPPORT IT.

I, I'M, I'M HAPPY FOR THAT.

SO THANK YOU FOR THAT.

I TOOK YOUR FEEDBACK, INCLUDING P 26.

I WENT OUT THERE UP TO 7:00 PM LAST NIGHT AND WALKED IT MYSELF WITH THE TAPE, YOU KNOW, IPHONE MEASURE AND SEE WHAT WOULD WORK.

UM, SO I'M HAPPY TO TAKE P 27 OFF THE TABLE.

WELL, I HAVE A FUNDAMENTALLY DIFFERENT VIEW OF, YOU KNOW, SURFACE PARKING, THE IMPORTANCE, I RESPECT THAT.

THAT'S MY VIEW.

IS, IS GOING AGAINST THE EFFORTS THAT WE'RE ALL TAKING DAY IN AND DAY OUT.

AND IT'S NOT REFLECTIVE OF EVERYBODY'S VIEW.

SO, UH, GIVEN THAT P 27 IS THE MAIN ARTERY RIGHT THERE FOR THAT ENTIRE COMMUNITY, IT'S WHAT ATTRACTED ME TO KIND OF CREATE THAT VIBRANCY.

I UNDERSTAND YOUR FEEDBACK.

I'D BE HAPPY TO TAKE THAT OFF AND LIMIT IT TO P 26, HALF OF THE P 26 THAT I OUTLINED, AND THEN THE SUGGESTIONS OF MY COLLEAGUES, UH, UH, COMMISSIONER ROSE GONZALEZ, SEE IF IT'S VIABLE ON THE 17TH STREET ROOFTOP AND ON THE NEW WORLD SYMPHONY, UH, ROOFTOP AS WELL.

AND, AND, AND, AND IF I MAY, I JUST WANNA SAY, YOU KNOW, I THINK TAKING OFF P 27 OFF THE TABLE, THAT IS SO SIGNIFICANT, I THINK, I THINK THAT SHOULD PROVIDE A RELIEF TO A LOT OF PEOPLE IN OUR COMMUNITY THAT HAVE REACHED OUT WITH CONCERNS ABOUT THAT, BECAUSE THAT'S THE PARKING LOT THAT THEY PARK AT.

UM, YOU KNOW, AND NOW THAT WE HAVE OTHER OPTIONS, AND THE MAJORITY OF THE OPTIONS ARE ROOFTOP GARAGES, AND IT'LL BE GREAT IF WE COULD SPEAK IN UNISON IN THIS, BECAUSE I THINK THAT THERE IS AN EFFORT HERE TO LIFT UP LINCOLN ROAD.

I THINK VOTING AGAINST THIS IS VOTING AGAINST HEALTH AND WELLNESS.

VOTING AGAINST THIS IS AGAINST THE ECONOMY OF LINCOLN ROAD VOTING AGAINST THIS IS AGAINST

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AND THIS IS NOT THE FINAL VOTE.

AND I THINK THE FACT THAT WE'VE AMENDED THIS NOW TO PUT THE MAJORITY OF THE SPACE OF THE OPTIONS TO BE IN GARAGES, I THINK IT SENDS A BIGGER MESSAGE TO THE MARKET WHEN WE SPEAK IN UNISON.

AND I'D ENCOURAGE, UH, MY COLLEAGUES RESPECTFULLY, THAT IF WE'RE GONNA DO THIS, GIVEN THE AMENDMENTS THAT OUR COLLEAGUE HAS BEEN SO, UM, SO KIND TO ACCEPT THAT WE, UH, DO THIS IN UNISON.

WITH PLASTIC AROUND IT, THE, THE AND, AND THE LIGHTS.

THANK YOU, COMMISSIONER ROSA GONZALEZ, SINCE YOU'RE WILLING TO TAKE P 27 OFF THE TABLE, WILL YOU ALSO TAKE P 26 OFF THE TABLE AND THEN WE CAN ADD IN ROOFTOPS ACROSS THE CITY? AND THEN THE FINANCIALS WILL ABSOLUTELY CHANGE IN THIS RFP.

THEY'RE GONNA HAVE TO GO BACK AND FIGURE OUT DIFFERENT FINANCIALS.

THE ROOFTOP PARKING, UH, IT DOES NOT GENERATE A LOT OF REVENUE.

UM, YOU KNOW, PEOPLE WOULD RATHER NOT PARK ON THE ROOFTOP.

UM, BUT, YOU KNOW, LOOK, THE SUN IS GONNA HIT PEOPLE ON A PADELL COURT OR IT'S GONNA HIT THEM ON THE, YOU KNOW, ON THE ROOFTOP.

IF YOU WOULD REMOVE P 26, BECAUSE LIKE COMMISSIONER FERNANDEZ SAID, UM, PEOPLE WHO, UM, PARK AT 27 ALSO PARK AT 26.

AND REMEMBER THAT THAT IS ONE OF THE MOST THRIVING CORRIDORS RIGHT THERE.

JOE MALONE IS DOING WELL.

SHAKE SHACK IS ALWAYS FULL.

ROSETTA IS ALWAYS FULL.

THE COLONY THEATER IS THERE.

OH, THAT'S WHERE PEOPLE GO TO.

THAT'S THE CAFE RIGHT NEXT TO THE COLONY.

I CAN'T BELIEVE, I CAN'T REMEMBER ALFREDO, THAT'S THE PARKING FOR SE ALFREDO.

IT'S ONE OF LIKE THE ONLY, YOU KNOW, AFFORDABLE, HAPPY HOUR HANGOUTS.

SO PEOPLE AREN'T GONNA BE ABLE TO DRIVE UP AND GO TO SE ALFREDO IF YOU, MAYBE IF YOU CHOSE A PARKING LOT ON THE SOUTH SIDE, UM, MAYBE ON THE, ON ONE OF THE SMALLER ONES.

BUT THAT WILL UPSET THOSE, THE, THE PEOPLE WHO LIVE ON THAT SIDE, BECAUSE THAT'S WHERE THEIR GUESTS AND OTHER PEOPLE PARK.

I WOULD SAY, IF YOU, IF YOU WOULD PLEASE TAKE P 26 OFF THE TABLE, UM, THEN I WOULD VOTE FOR, YOU KNOW, WHY DON'T YOU DO CITYWIDE ROOFTOP, FIGURE OUT ALL THE ROOFTOPS YOU CAN, AND PUT ALL THE ADES ON EVERY ROOFTOP WE CAN.

I I WOULD BE TOTALLY SUPPORTIVE OF THAT.

YOU COULD DO PICKLE BALLS, PADEL, ANYTHING.

SO I APPRECIATE THAT, AND I DON'T DISMISS THAT, UH, LIGHTLY PART OF THIS.

I COULD HAVE CHOSEN ANY PLACE.

IN FACT, UH, WHEN I WAS ORIGINALLY COMING UP WITH THE IDEA, I JUST SPOKE ABOUT THE VIABILITY WITH AN OPERATOR.

AND HE GOES, WELL, IF PARKING LOTS ARE ON THE TABLE, AND HE SUGGESTED AN OCEAN FRONT ONE, UH, DOWN ON COLLINS AVENUE.

I SAID, THIS ISN'T ABOUT OPTIMIZING WHAT IS BEST FOR YOU.

THIS IS ABOUT BRINGING THAT ENERGY AND VIBRANCY TO LINCOLN ROAD, RIGHT? SO IT'S NOT JUST ABOUT DEMOCRATIZING PADDLE ME, MYSELF.

I CAN PLAY ANYWHERE, RIGHT? I CAN, I CAN GO OVER TO RESERVE AT THE SEA PLANE.

I CAN PLAY AT SUNSET.

SO THIS ISN'T ABOUT ME, OR LIKE MY NEED TO PLAY PADDLE.

THIS IS ABOUT BRINGING ACTIVATION TO LINCOLN ROAD.

AND THAT'S WHY, UH, PADDLE IS ACTUALLY A SECONDARY BENEFIT OF THIS, RIGHT? THAT'S, THAT'S THE SECONDARY BENEFIT.

THE FIRST IS THAT ACTIVATION AND THE ENERGY THAT IT BRINGS TO THE LINCOLN ROAD.

UM, SO THAT'S WHY I WANT TO, YOU KNOW, KIND OF STICK TO, UM, PUSHING, YOU KNOW, MY COMFORT ZONE WITH, UH, THE, THE TWO ROOFTOPS.

AND I'M HAPPY TO TAKE THAT, THAT MAIN ARTERY OF P 27 OFF THE TABLE.

AND EVEN WITH P 26, WE'RE LEAVING A SIGNIFICANT AMOUNT OF PARKING THERE, RIGHT? WE'RE LEAVING THE FIRST TWO ROWS OF PARKING, WHICH YOU'LL EASILY BE ABLE TO CIRCLE.

AND THOSE ARE THE ONES THAT REALLY SERVE THE BUSINESSES WHERE YOU'RE ABLE TO RUN IN AND RUN OUT.

AND WITH THE PARKING THAT WE'RE FREEING UP BY MOVING THE CODE COMPLIANCE VEHICLES OUT OF P 27, YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE BASICALLY THE SAME AMOUNT OF SPOTS IN THAT IMMEDIATE AREA.

AND THEN WHAT'S NICE ABOUT THIS IS EVERY SINGLE SURFACE PARKING LOT REMAINS A PARKING LOT, RIGHT? IT'S NOT AS IF WE'RE TAKING OVER AN ENTIRE LOT.

THE FIRST ITEM WAS TAKING ALL OF P 27.

THAT, THAT WAS JUST TOO MUCH.

I HEARD THAT FEEDBACK.

AND NOW, EVEN THOUGH P 26 IS SMALLER, IT'S NOT, LET'S TAKE ALL OF THAT.

IT'S, LET'S JUST TAKE THE BARE MINIMUM THAT CAN MAKE THIS OPERATION WORK AND MAXIMIZE PARKING.

AND THAT COULD EVEN BE PART OF THE RFP TERM IS ON THIS P 26 LOT.

ONE OF THE BENEFICI, YOU KNOW, ONE OF THE, UM, MAIN SELLING POINTS IN WINNING THE RFP IS HOW MUCH PARKING THAT YOU'RE ABLE TO ESSENTIALLY PRESERVE.

AND WE HAVE P 25 THAT IS A STONES THROW AWAY.

THAT HAS A HUNDRED SPOTS AS WELL BY VICE MAYOR.

OKAY? UM, REAL QUICK, WELL, IF P 26 IS ON THE TABLE, THEN, UM, I'M NOT SUPPORTIVE OF THIS BECAUSE I'M NOT GOING TO TAKE THE PROBLEM WITH THE PADEL FACILITIES.

'CAUSE I DROVE AROUND AND I LOOKED AT SOME OF THEM.

YOU HAVE KIND OF LIKE A, A CHAIN LINK STYLE FENCE, RIGHT? AND THEN SURROUNDING IT IS LIKE THIS PLASTIC, RIGHT? SO IT'S NOT THE PRETTIEST THING.

EVEN IF IT WAS LIKE SUPER HIGH END, LET'S SAY YOU MADE IT HIGH END FENCE

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THE PROBLEM IS THAT RIGHT NOW, WHEN YOU DRIVE UP, YOU CAN SEE THE APPLE STORE HAS A BIG LOGO THERE.

YOU CAN SEE CAPITAL ONE BANK.

YOU CAN SEE THE BUSINESSES FROM THE BACKEND THAT IS GOING TO BLOCK THOSE BUSINESSES AND PUT THEM INTO LIKE THIS SWEATY, ANY KIND OF LIKE OPEN AIR ENVIRONMENT THAT THEY HAD.

IF YOU PUT IT RIGHT THERE, UM, IS JUST GONNA PUT THEM INTO LIKE A SWEAT BOX RIGHT THERE.

SO, AND, AND, AND, AND I WOULD SAY THAT THAT IS ONE OF THE MOST THRIVING BLOCKS.

WHAT? IT'S ONE OF THE ONLY SIDE STREETS GO TO SHAKE SHACK ANY NIGHT, AND YOU WILL SEE THAT IT IS FULL GO TO ROSETTA BAKERY.

THERE'S CONSTANTLY A CROWD OUTSIDE.

THE COLONY THEATER IS CHUGGING ALONG AND DOING TREMENDOUS, UM, TREMENDOUS BUSINESS.

AND SO MANY OF OUR RESIDENTS GO TO SE ALFREDO.

THEY GO FOR THE HAPPY HOUR.

THEY SPEND A LOT OF TIME THERE, AND I GUARANTEE YOU, THEY APPRECIATE BEING ABLE TO PULL UP, GET OUT OF THEIR CAR AND WALK OVER THERE.

I'M NOT SAYING THAT IF YOU FIND A, A LOT IN A DIFFERENT SPOT, UH, IF YOU REALLY WANT SURFACE, MAYBE ONE OF THE LOTS ON, ON THE SOUTH SIDE, BUT NOT THOSE LOTS ON THE NORTH SIDE.

I MEAN, LISTEN, I, I HAVE A FEELING THAT YOU HAVE THE SUPPORT FOR THIS TO MOVE FORWARD, BUT I'M GOING TO, UM, I I, NOT ONLY AM I GOING TO VOTE NO, BUT I'M GOING TO BE A VOCAL, UM, VOCAL, VERY VOCAL NO ON THIS.

AND THAT DOES NOT MEAN THAT I AM VOTING AGAINST THE ECONOMY, COMMISSIONER FERNANDEZ.

IT DOES NOT MEAN THAT I AM VOTING AGAINST HEALTH AND WELLNESS.

I AM ALL FOR HEALTH AND WELLNESS.

AND THE REASON I'M VOTING NO IS TO PROTECT THAT LITTLE ECONOMIC, UM, SECTION OF, OF LINCOLN ROAD THAT'S BEING THREATENED WITH THIS.

COMMISSIONER SUAREZ, COME ON.

THANK YOU VICE MAYOR.

UM, SO YOU, YOU KNOW, WE, WE MENTIONED SOME OF THE BUSINESS THERE, LIKE SHAKE SHACK.

IT'S LIKE ALFREDO, UM, ROSETTA.

I MEAN, YOU KNOW, AFTER A GAME OR WHILE YOU'RE WAITING FOR YOUR GAME, IT'S THE PERFECT SPOT TO, TO VISIT THOSE BUSINESSES BECAUSE LIKE LITERALLY RIGHT NOW, THINGS ARE DECLINING AND NOTHING HAS CHANGED.

WE HAVEN'T REALLY, THE COMMISSION HASN'T CHANGED ANYTHING IN THE LAST 10 YEARS FOR, FOR, FOR AN INJECTION OF LIFE INTO LINCOLN ROAD.

IT'S JUST BEEN DECLINING.

IT'S, IT'S LIKE A MANAGED DECLINE.

AND HERE'S AN OPPORTUNITY TO REALLY TEST OUT TO SEE IN THE NEXT FIVE YEARS IF THIS IS, IF THIS IS A GREAT WAY TO REINVIGORATE LINCOLN ROAD.

I MEAN, IT'S JUST, I FEEL LIKE I'M IN A BLACK MIRROR EPISODE.

WE HAVE BUSINESSES THAT ARE STRUGGLING AND WE WANNA BRING NEW PEOPLE TO THESE BUSINESSES, BUT WE, WE WANNA SOMEHOW SAY PARKING WHERE PEOPLE AREN'T EVEN COMING IN THE FIRST PLACE.

SO, OR, OR NOT ENOUGH.

LIKE WE, WE HAVE TO TEST SOMETHING.

I MEAN, LET, LET, LET'S, LET'S, LET'S GIVE IT A SHOT.

COMMISSIONER GONZALEZ.

I MEAN, I, I THINK IT, IT'S A, IT'S A WORTHY ATTEMPT.

I MEAN, IF IT WAS FOR ANYTHING ELSE, I, I'D PROBABLY A NO.

BUT AGAIN, THIS IS A, THIS IS AN INITIATIVE THAT THE THREE OF US UP HERE ARE, ARE, ARE VERY FOCUSED ON, UH, FOR, FOR MIAMI BEACH AND WHICH IS REALLY HEALTH, WELLNESS, AND FITNESS.

AND, YOU KNOW, HOW, HOW COOL WOULD IT BE IF WE, IF WE SET THE STAGE FOR THE WORLD ON, ON WHAT A COMMUNITY THAT CAN CHAMPION FITNESS IS IN, IN SOME OF OUR MOST PIVOTAL AREAS.

CAN I, COMMISSIONER ROSA GONZALEZ AND LET'S TRY TO BRING IT IN.

IS IT A LOT TO ASK FOR YOU TO HOLD A PUBLIC MEETING FOR ALL OF THE OFFICES IN 1680 MERIDIAN, ALL OF THE DOCTOR'S OFFICES? I KNOW THERE'S DERMATOLOGISTS THERE, THERE'S DENTISTS THERE.

I REALLY TRULY BELIEVE THAT YOU NEED TO DO SOME OUTREACH AND LET THE BUSINESSES KNOW.

UM, I THINK THERE'S PLENTY OF MEETINGS.

I THINK IT'S INCREDIBLY IMPORTANT.

UM, I DID NOT INTERRUPT YOU, COMMISSIONER SUAREZ AND I COMMEND YOUR INTERVENTIONS AND INNOVATION, AND IT'S WONDERFUL.

WHY THAT SPOT? I MEAN, YOU, THERE'S SO MANY OTHERS UP AND DOWN LINCOLN ROAD.

I LOVE THE ENERGY OF HAVING A MILLENNIAL ON THE DAY.

TWO MILLENNIALS, OKAY.

NO, I DO THREE, THREE MILLENNIALS, THREE MILLENNIALS, AND I LOVE THIS.

AND IF YOU SAID TO ME, GOSH, WE'RE SUCH A GREAT, WE HAVE, YOU KNOW, YOU LIVE OUT ON, ON WEST AVENUE COMMISSIONER MAGAZINE, SO YOU CAN KIND OF WALK OVER THERE AND, UM, COMMISSIONER FARERS, YOU WALK EVERYWHERE OR YOU WHIZ ON WHATEVER IT IS THAT YOU'RE WHIZZING ON.

BUT A LOT OF OUR PEOPLE THAT ARE GOING TO THESE OFFICES DRIVE AND THEY DRIVE BECAUSE, UM, THEY DON'T TAKE MASS TRANSIT AT THIS MOMENT.

UM, I JUST GOT A WHILE.

OUR TROLLEY SYSTEM IS GREAT.

A LOT OF PEOPLE WHO LIVE IN HOMES ACROSS MIAMI BEACH, THIS IS WHERE THEIR OFFICES ARE.

UH, THIS IS WHERE THEY, THIS IS HOW, THIS IS THEIR QUALITY OF LIFE.

AND I MEAN, I DON'T THINK THAT THOSE, I THINK THOSE 50 SPACES ARE, ARE WORTH FIGHTING FOR.

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WHY ARE YOU CHOOSING THAT ONE NEXT, LIKE ADJACENT TO WHERE THE COLONY IS? WELL, I ACTUALLY CHOSE A DIFFERENT ONE AND STORE.

I CHOSE A DIFFERENT ONE.

AND AFTER HEARING YOUR FEEDBACK IN SOME OF MY COLLEAGUES, I FOUND A LESS IMPACTFUL ONE.

AND THEN I PUT FORWARD AN ENTIRE COMPREHENSIVE PARKING ANALYSIS AND PARKING PLAN, RIGHT? SOMETHING THAT COULD HAVE BEEN DONE FOR 10 YEARS.

ANYBODY COULD HAVE WENT TO OUR SURFACE PARKING LOT THAT IS SO IMPORTANT TO THE LIFEBLOOD OF THOSE RETAILERS AND SAW 30 CODE COMPLIANCE VEHICLES PARKED AT ANY TIME AND SAID, WHAT ARE THEY DOING THERE? OR THEY COULD HAVE WALKED TO THE FIRST FLOOR OF THE 17TH STREET PARKING GARAGE FOR THE PAST 10 YEARS AND SAID, IF GROUND FLOOR PARKING IS SO IMPORTANT, WHY IS IT TAKEN UP BY OUR SANITATION? RIGHT? SO WE'RE ACTUALLY NOT GOING TO LOSE ANY SPOTS IN THAT AREA.

WE'RE NOT GOING TO LOSE ANY SPOTS, RIGHT? WHAT'S THE HARM OF, WHAT'S THE HARM OF DOING SOME PUBLIC OUTREACH BETWEEN NOW AND NEXT MONTH BEFORE THE ISSUANCE OF THIS RFP? WE NOTIFY, UH, ALL THE BUSINESSES IN THE SURROUNDING AREA AND YOU COME TOGETHER AND YOU HEAR WHAT THEY HAVE TO SAY BEFORE YOU MOVE FORWARD AND BUILD A PADELL COURT AND NOBODY'S PATIENTS CAN PARK.

LIKE, CAN WE JUST AT LEAST FIND OUT? I DON'T THINK IT'S SO HARD THAT WAY.

WE SAY, YOU KNOW WHAT? WE INCLUDED THE PUBLIC IN THIS.

WE UNDERSTAND THAT YOU WANT, IT'S SO HARD TO OPEN AND HAVE A BUSINESS IN MIAMI BEACH.

IT'S EXPENSIVE TO PAY FOR RENT HERE, BUT PEOPLE LOVE IT BECAUSE A LOT OF THEM LIVE HERE.

UM, AND THEN THEY, YOU KNOW, AND THEY, AND THEY LOVE THE IDEA OF HAVING A BUSINESS HERE TOO.

WHAT IS THE HARM OF DOING SOME PUBLIC OUTREACH? LET'S NOT ISSUE THIS TODAY BETWEEN NOW AND THE NEXT MEETING, HOLD THE PUBLIC MEETING, LET THE BUSINESSES KNOW.

AND GUESS WHAT, IF THAT MEETING GOES WELL, I WILL BE ON BOARD WITH YOU, BUT I WANT EVERYBODY TO KNOW ABOUT IT AND I WANT EVERYBODY TO BE ABLE TO WEIGH IN.

FOR EXAMPLE, WE HAVE PEOPLE WHO WANNA COMMENT TODAY.

THERE'S NO PUBLIC COMMENT ON THIS.

WE'RE NOT ALLOWED TO HAVE PUBLIC COMMENT.

SO I'D BE HAPPY IF, AGAIN, WE'RE NOT FINALIZING ANYTHING.

WE'RE JUST SENDING THIS OUT TO THE RFP MARKET.

I WILL COMMIT TO YOU TO DO EVEN MORE BUSINESS OUTREACH AS PART OF THESE EMAILS THAT WE GOT BACK.

UH, THE OWNER OF MILA, A RESTAURANT RIGHT THERE, UH, IS IN FAVOR.

THE NEW RESTAURANT AURA.

UH, THE OWNERS OF THE NEW RESTAURANT, UH, FROM DELILAH ARE IN FAVOR, UH, REPRESENTATIVES FROM THE, UM, RITZ CARLTON.

WERE IN FAVOR.

THE NEW OWNERSHIP TEAM OF THE W HOTEL IS FULLY SUPPORTIVE OF THIS.

I WOULD IMAGINE THAT THE NIKE STORE IS THE OWNER AND OPERATOR OF 1691.

THE ENTIRE OFFICE BUILDING ON THE BLOCK THAT THIS IS FOR IS FULLY SUPPORTIVE AND ACTUALLY SAID HE THINKS THIS WILL BE SO GOOD TO EVERY SINGLE ONE OF HIS TENANTS THAT HE'LL HELP SUBSIDIZE OUR PARKING RATES FOR THE FACILITY.

I WILL CONTINUE TO DO THOSE OUTREACH EFFORTS IN A MORE FORMALIZED MANNER, BUT I CAN GUARANTEE YOU THAT I'VE ALREADY TAKEN ON A LOT OF THAT OUTREACH, BUT TO ESSENTIALLY WORK HAND IN HAND WITH YOU, I'M HAPPY TO DO THAT IN A MORE FORMALIZED PROCESS.

THE ADMINISTRATION TO MAKE THE, THE REVISIONS THAT WERE DISCUSSED HERE ON THE DAYS TODAY AND TO BRING IT BACK ON THE 26TH TO GIVE A FINAL GREEN LIGHT.

SO I WOULD LIKE TO, THE REASON I'M SAYING THIS IS BECAUSE YOU ISSUE THIS RFP AND PEOPLE GET ANGRY WITH US, YOU'RE GOING TO ISSUE THIS RFP AND PEOPLE ARE GOING TO TAKE TIME TO FILL OUT ALL OF THE PAPERS AND APPLY AND PUT IN PROPOSALS.

THEY HAVE TO SPEND TIME AND MONEY ON LAWYERS AND, YOU KNOW, AND, AND TO, TO CREATE THESE PROPOSALS.

IT'S COMPREHENSIVE, RIGHT? SUBMITTING AN APPLICATION AND THEN YOU'RE GONNA HOLD THE PUBLIC MEETING AND YOU'RE GONNA SEE WHAT THE OUTRAGE IS AND YOU'RE GONNA GO, OH, WE CAN'T DO IT NOW.

WE'VE WASTED EVERYONE'S TIME BEFORE YOU INITIATE THE PROCESS.

I LOVE THE FACT THAT YOU ARE DOING COMMISSIONER MAGAZINE'S OUTREACH TO CERTAIN BUSINESSES, BUT I WOULD LIKE TO DO GENERAL OUTREACH.

I DON'T KNOW IF YOU CAN PULL EVERY BUSINESS IN THE AREA, ERIC, IF WE HAVE ALL THE BTRS AND THAT ENTIRE SURROUNDING AREA, BRING EVERYBODY IN, HAVE A CONVERSATION.

IF THEY ALL SAY WE WANT PADEL, THEN FINE.

BUT IF NOT, WHY ARE WE GONNA WASTE EVERYBODY'S TIME? I GUESS I'M JUST NOT SURE WHAT EVERY ONE WOULD BE.

I MEAN, THAT'S A SIGNIFICANT AMOUNT OF YESES THAT WE'VE GOTTEN, UH, IN, IN THE EMAIL.

THERE'S ALSO, UH, BUSINESS OWNER AT FOUR 20 LINCOLN ROAD, 4 0 7 LINCOLN ROAD.

UM, THIS IS NO LONGER IMPACTING THE HAIR SALON STUDIO RIGHT THERE.

UH, I I WOULD IMAGINE THAT ROSETTA AND NIKE WOULD BE ABSOLUTELY THRILLED.

IN FACT, IF, UH, I DON'T KNOW, JOHN, IF YOU, YOU COULD COMMENT, BUT NIKE, WHEN WE HAD THAT PICKLEBALL TOURNAMENT SAID IT WAS THEIR HIGHEST GROSSING WEEK END THAT THEY'VE EVER HAD.

THAT'S THE FEEDBACK THAT THEY GAVE TO OUR CITY.

I DON'T KNOW IF YOU'RE IN A POSITION TO ANSWER THAT, JOHN.

IF NOT, DON'T WORRY.

UM, OKAY, THAT'S FINE.

UH, BUT THAT'S THE FEEDBACK THAT THEY GIVE TO OUR EVENTS STAFF.

THAT'S THE TYPE OF ACTIVATION, THE AMOUNT OF PEOPLE THAT WE COULD HAVE ON LINCOLN ROAD EVERY SINGLE DAY AT 8:00 PM YOU'RE GONNA WALK DOWN LINCOLN ROAD AND SEE ENERGY VIBRANCY WHILE WE'RE STILL

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MAINTAINING PARKING.

OKAY, YOU, YOU'VE MADE THE ASK.

IT'S, UH, THE SPONSOR CAN MAKE THE DECISION.

I, I PROMISED COMMISSIONER BOT, COMMISSIONER FERNANDEZ, LET'S, UH, LET'S CALL A VOTE.

AND AGAIN, LET'S JUST, EVERYONE, IT'S BEEN A LONG DISCUSSION.

ANYBODY OUT THERE WATCHING THIS IS GOING TO COME BACK MULTIPLE TIMES TO OUR COMMISSION.

THE ITEM TODAY IS TO GIVE GUIDANCE TO THE PRIVATE SECTOR ON WHAT WE ARE SEEKING.

AND ULTIMATELY THIS WILL COME BACK FOR AT LEAST TWO MORE VOTES.

AT LEAST TWO MORE VOTES.

OKAY? POSS PROB PROBABLY MORE, PROBABLY MORE.

UM, MR. CITY MANAGER, COULD YOU CLARIFY IF WE PROCEED AS RECOMMENDED TODAY, AT WHAT POINT CAN WE DO A, UM, COMPREHENSIVE BUSINESS AND RESIDENT OPEN FORUM ON THIS TOPIC BETWEEN NOW AND WHEN RFPS WOULD COME BACK? WE CAN CERTAINLY SCHEDULE A PUBLIC FORUM AT ANY POINT IN TIME.

THE ONLY THING THAT I WOULD WANT TO GET CLARITY ON IS WHETHER OR NOT YOU WANT US TO DO THAT BEFORE ISSUING THE RFP OR BEFORE AWARDING THE RFP.

BECAUSE ULTIMATELY ONCE THE RFP IS ISSUED, YOU START TO HAVE SOME COMPLICATIONS WITH THE CONE OF SILENCE.

BUT THE RFP HAS NOT ISSUED YET.

IT HASN'T EVEN BEEN DRAFTED YET, HASN'T IT? IS DRAFTED IT.

YOU ACTUALLY HAVE A COMPREHENSIVE RFP, SORRY, I APOLOGIZE IN FRONT OF YOU, BUT, UM, WE HAVE NOT ISSUED IT.

WE WILL OBVIOUSLY HAVE TWEAKS TO MAKE TO IT AS A RESULT OF THE CONVERSATION THAT WE HAD HERE TODAY.

UM, YOU KNOW, DEPENDING ON THE MAGNITUDE OF THOSE TWEAKS, WE PROBABLY HAVE ANOTHER COUPLE WEEKS OF DRAFTING.

I THINK IT'S REASONABLE FOR US TO TRY TO SET UP SOMETHING AT YOUR DISCRETION.

SO IN THE INTEREST OF NOT DELAYING THINGS, BUT TRYING TO GET AS MUCH PUBLIC INPUT AS WE CAN BEFORE THE RFP LEAVES THE BUILDING, CAN WE SCHEDULE SOMETHING, GIVE YOU GUYS THREE WEEKS TO TIGHTEN UP THE RFP, GET SOMETHING ON THE BOOKS IN THE NEXT TWO WEEKS.

SO YOU STILL HAVE A WEEK TO ADJUST IF NECESSARY, INCORPORATE ALL THE, THE COMMENTS.

BUT THIS, I MEAN, THIS IS, YOU'D THINK WE WERE BUILDING A BOMB HERE.

THIS IS LIKE ONE OF THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE CONVERSATIONS WE HAD ON ANYTHING, UM, IN THE SERVICE OF TRYING TO DO SOME GOOD.

AND I THINK THERE HAVE BEEN SOME REALLY GOOD SUGGESTIONS MADE AND ACCEPTED, AND I THINK THAT SHOULD BE REFLECTED.

BUT I, YOU KNOW, IT'S NOT MY PLACE TO SAY THIS, BUT I WOULD LIKE TO CALL THE VOTE AFTER MY COLLEAGUES HAVE SPOKEN, BUT, UM, WELL, I PROMISE COMMISSIONER FERNANDEZ, BUT THEN YES, WE'LL CALL THE VOTE.

I SAID THAT'S WHY I SAID AFTER MY COLLEAGUES HAVE SPOKEN, BUT SO CAN WE WORK WITH A THREE WEEK TIMEFRAME, TWO WEEKS BETWEEN NOW AND TWO WEEKS TO GET A PUBLIC COMMENT INPUT AND THEN A FINAL WEEK TO TWEAK EVERYTHING ONE LAST TIME.

AND THEN THAT WAY WE'RE NOT SLOWING THINGS DOWN.

WE ARE INCORPORATING ALL THE EXCELLENT SUGGESTIONS THAT WE ARE MADE.

AND WE ARE TRYING SOMETHING THAT IS NOT BUILDING A PERMANENT 20 STORY BUILDING.

IT IS NOT SIGNING SOMETHING OVER FOR 99 YEARS, WHICH I WILL CONTINUE TO, TO NOT SUPPORT.

IT IS A FIVE YEAR PROGRAM FOR SOMETHING THAT WILL PROVIDE BENEFIT FOR RESIDENTS AND BUSINESSES ALIKE.

AND IF WE CAN'T TRY THAT, IF WE DON'T HAVE THE COURAGE, OUR OWN CONVICTIONS, TO TRY THAT WHEN WE'VE MADE MULTIPLE ACCOMMODATIONS TO FIND BETTER PARKING OPTIONS SO THAT WE'RE NOT HURTING BUSINESSES OR RESIDENTS TRYING TO RUN A QUICK ERRAND.

I, I DON'T KNOW WHAT WE'RE DOING HERE.

COMMISSIONER, I'M SORRY.

CAN I ASK YOU, OH, COMMISSIONER, IF I COULD ASK JUST A CLARIFYING QUESTION, IF WE WOULD MOVE FORWARD AND VOTE FOR THE RFP GIVEN? IT SAID YOU'LL TAKE A FEW WEEKS TO TIGHTEN UP TERMS AND I'LL SPEARHEAD PUBLIC, INITIATE PUBLIC OUTREACH TO THOSE BUSINESSES.

UH, BETWEEN NOW AND OUR FEBRUARY 25TH MEETING, EVEN IF WE WOULD SIT THERE AND VOTE TO ISSUE AN RFP GIVEN, IT'LL TAKE YOU A FEW WEEKS TO ACTUALLY GET OUT TO THE MARKET.

IF EVERY SINGLE BUSINESS COMES BACK AND GO, YOU KNOW WHAT? WE HATE THIS.

IT'S THE WORST IDEA.

UH, WE, WE LIKE OUR SURFACE PARKING AND NOTHING ELSE.

THEN BEFORE YOU ACTUALLY SEND IT TO THE MARKET, WE COULD COME BACK ON FEBRUARY 25TH AND SAY, YOU KNOW WHAT, WE'RE ACTUALLY GONNA WALK THIS BACK, SO WE'LL PROVE IT TODAY.

AND THAT GIVES YOU AND YOUR TEAM DIRECTION TO ESSENTIALLY PREPARE IT.

BUT, BUT BEFORE IT'S LITERALLY SENT OUT, UH, TO THE MAILBOXES.

WE HAVE THAT FEBRUARY 25TH MEETING AND 2020 SIXTH.

THAT'S 26TH, SORRY.

UM, AND IF WE NEED TO ESSENTIALLY PULL IT BACK BEFORE IT GOES OUT, SOMEBODY COULD MAKE A MOTION TO DO SO AT THAT MEETING.

I, I, I DON'T WANNA SPEAK FOR THE CITY ATTORNEY, BUT I BELIEVE WHETHER OR NOT IT'S BEEN ISSUED, YOU CAN ALWAYS MOVE TO RECONSIDER AND, AND PULL IT BACK.

THAT IS CORRECT.

YOU WOULD HAVE THE OPTION TO CANCEL IT.

UM, BUT WHAT I HEAR COMMISSIONER MAGAZINE SAYING IS THAT HE'S OPEN TO THE IDEA OF AUTHORIZING

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IS THAT CORRECT? WELL, I THINK WE'LL GIVE THE GREEN LIGHT HERE, BUT DO NOT ACTUALLY SEND IT OUT TO MARKET UNTIL THE 27TH.

BECAUSE IF THERE'S ANYBODY AT THE MEETING ON THE 26TH, THEY'VE HEARD FROM THE BUSINESSES AND THEY SAY, YOU KNOW WHAT, YOU KNOW, ESSENTIALLY, WE DON'T WANT TO REGURGITATE THIS CONVERSATION AGAIN ON FEBRUARY 26TH.

BUT IF WE HAVE SUBSTANTIAL PUSHBACK FROM THE BUSINESS COMMUNITY, THE RFP STILL HASN'T BEEN OFFICIALLY SENT OUT.

IT'S BEEN AUTHORIZED BY US, IT'S BEEN PREPARED BY THE ADMINISTRATION, BUT IT WON'T BE SENT OUT UNTIL THE 27TH.

THAT'S EASY TO, TO ACCOMMODATE.

AND THERE WOULD JUST NEED TO, I, I PROMISE COMMISSIONER FERNANDEZ AND COMMISSIONER ROSEN GONZALEZ, AND LET'S CALL THE VOTE, PLEASE.

ABLE TO GET ON A, UH, ON A SURFACE LOT.

AND SO, YOU KNOW, AND I'M JUST GOING TO BE VERY, VERY TRANSPARENT 'CAUSE I LIKE THE DIRECTION IN WHICH THIS CONVERSATION HAS GONE TODAY.

UM, I LIKE, UH, I LIKE HOW THIS, THIS IS EVOLVING OR LIKELY CONTINUE TO EVOLVE THROUGH THE PROCESS.

I LIKE THAT WE'VE GONE AHEAD AND WE'VE REMOVED THE MOST PROMINENT PARKING LOT FROM LINCOLN ROAD OUT OF CONSIDERATION.

AND I LIKE THAT WE ADDED TWO GARAGES.

MY QUESTION IS, HOW DO WE, HOW DO WE, BECAUSE MY PREFERENCE WOULD, WOULD BE FOR THIS TO BE ON ONE, ONE OF THE ROOFTOPS, WHICH BY THE WAY, THE, UM, LIKE THE PICKLEBALL GROUP THAT THEY PLAY ON THE ROOFTOP, IT IS BEAUTIFUL THERE BECAUSE OF THE VIEWS THAT PEOPLE ARE ABLE TO ENJOY FROM THERE.

SO IT REALLY IS A VERY SPECTACULAR EXPERIENCE FROM THE ROOFTOP.

HOW DO WE ENCOURAGE, HOW DO WE MAKE THE NUMBERS WORK SO THAT THERE IS A PREFERENCE OR ENCOURAGE THE PEOPLE TO GO THE ROUTE OF THE GARAGE AS OPPOSED TO THE PARKING LOT? YES.

THROUGH THE CHAIR.

UM, I THINK THAT THE ANSWER TO YOUR QUESTION IS WE WOULD CREATE THREE VERTICALS SIMILAR TO THE WAY WE'VE SUGGESTED.

THERE ARE DIFFERENT OPTIONS IN THE RFP TODAY.

ONE VERTICAL WOULD BE P 26, 1 VERTICAL WOULD BE THE PEN GARAGE, AND A THIRD VERTICAL WOULD BE THE 17TH STREET GARAGE ROOFTOPS ON THE TWO GARAGES.

UM, AND THEN WE WOULD THEN HAVE TO COMPARE EACH OF THOSE PROPOSALS IN THAT SEPARATE VERTICAL.

AND HOW COULD, HOW COULD WE MAKE THE PROPOSALS OR, OR HOW COULD WE MAKE THOSE VERTICALS INCENTIVIZE THE MARKET TOWARDS, TOWARDS THE GARAGES? 'CAUSE THAT'S WHAT I WOULD ULTIMATELY FEEL MORE COMFORTABLE WITH.

AND I'M JUST BEING VERY TRANSPARENT HERE.

UH, I'M ULTIMATELY GOING TO BE MUCH MORE COMFORTABLE WITH DOING THIS ON A, ON, ON A ROOFTOP OF A, OF A GARAGE AT THE END OF, OF THE PROCESS, IN PART BECAUSE I KNOW THAT A LOT OF MISINFORMATION IS GONNA BE PUT OUT THERE.

AND I KNOW I, WE'VE ALREADY, YOU KNOW, WE'VE LIVED THIS ALREADY IN THE PAST AND SO AND SO, AND SO, GIVEN THAT THAT'S THE CASE, IF WE DIRECT HOW DO WE INCENTIVIZE THIS GOING TO THE GARAGE? BECAUSE I DON'T KNOW THAT AT THE END OF THE PROCESS, IF, IF IT'S ONE OF THE LINCOLN LANE LOTS, I DON'T KNOW THAT I'LL BE ABLE TO SUPPORT IT.

I THINK I'LL FEEL, I'LL FEEL VERY COMFORTABLE SUPPORTING, AT THE END OF THE DAY, ONE OF THE ROOFTOP GARAGES.

BUT HOW DO WE INCENTIVIZE THAT? SO I THINK POSSIBLY THERE'S A COUPLE OF DIFFERENT WAYS TO ACCOMPLISH THAT.

ONE IS WE'RE TALKING ABOUT APPROXIMATELY 50% OF P 26, WHICH IS REALLY ONLY ABOUT, UM, 24,000 SQUARE FEET.

UH, YOU MAYBE WANT TO SAY THAT WE'RE WILLING TO CONTEMPLATE A LARGER FOOTPRINT ON THE ROOFTOP OF THE GARAGES, WHICH WOULD THEN INCENTIVIZE SOMEBODY TO LOOK AT THAT ONE BECAUSE THEY COULD POTENTIALLY PUT MORE COURTS THERE.

UH, THE OTHER WAY IS CERTAINLY TO SAY WHAT YOU'RE SAYING RIGHT NOW, WHICH IS YOU WOULD PREFER TO SEE IT ON THE TOP OF THE GARAGES.

I THINK THAT THE PUBLIC WHO IS CONTEMPLATING BIDDING ON SOMETHING LIKE THIS, WE'LL GO BACK AND WATCH THIS MEETING AND HEAR THESE COMMENTS AND WE'LL BE INFLUENCED TO SUBMIT A PACKAGE THAT IS MOST LIKELY TO GET SELECTED.

AND THEN ULTIMATELY, DURING THE SELECTION PROCESS, WE'RE GONNA EVALUATE AND PERCENT WITHIN THOSE VERTICALS.

AND, AND YOU'LL HAVE THAT OPPORTUNITY TO PICK AND CHOOSE.

WELL, YOU KNOW HOW IT WORKS.

THEY'LL ALWAYS TRY TO HIRE PEOPLE WHO WILL THEN TRY TO INFLUENCE PEOPLE IN ONE WAY OR, OR THE OR THE OTHER.

UH, SO, BUT, BUT THE WAY THAT WE INCENTIVIZE IT THROUGH NUMBERS FROM THE GET GO AND THROUGH OFFICIALLY THROUGH THE PROCESS IS YOU'RE SAYING ONE WAY IS BY OFFERING A LARGER FOOTPRINT ON THE ROOFTOP OF THE GARAGE THAN WHAT THEY WOULD BE

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ANOTHER POTENTIAL IS WE WERE TRYING TO OFFSET THE PARKING REVENUE LOSS ON THE ROOFTOP OF THE GARAGE, IS THE PARKING REVENUE LOSS IS GONNA BE SUBSTANTIALLY LESS.

SO MAYBE IT'S A LESS COSTLY ENDEAVOR FOR THE MONTHLY MINIMUMS THAT THEY WOULD HAVE TO PAY.

SO COULD WE, SO COULD WE INCORPORATE THAT A LARGER AND, AND, AND TO THE CHAIR, TO, TO THE SPONSOR OF THE ITEM , UM, YOU KNOW, INCENTIVIZING A LARGER FOOTPRINT ON THE ROOFTOP OF THE GARAGE, YOU KNOW, PERHAPS, YOU KNOW, THE PERCENTAGE OF THE REVENUE IS DIFFERENT OR, YOU KNOW, MAKING THE NUMBERS DIFFERENT.

THE FINANCIAL NUMBERS DIFFERENT BECAUSE THE FISCAL IMPACT TO THE CITY WILL ULTIMATELY BE LESS 'CAUSE OF REVENUES DRAWN FROM THE GARAGE ARE, ARE LESS.

I I THINK ALL OF THOSE ARE WITHIN THE REALM OF POSSIBILITY.

IT'S REALLY A MATTER OF WHAT YOU ALL WOULD LIKE TO SEE.

AND IF COMMISSIONER, IF YOU'RE FINE WITH THAT, IF, IF YOU WANT TO INCORPORATE THAT AS PART OF YOUR ITEM, UM, BECAUSE YOU KNOW, I, YOU KNOW, I DON'T WANT US TO, TO SPIN OUR WHEELS.

I KNOW THE INFORMATION THAT'S GOING TO BE PUT OUT THERE, .

AND WE, AND YOU KNOW, WE HAVE TO ULTIMATELY, WE HAVE TO PROTECT THE PUBLIC'S TRUST.

UNFORTUNATELY.

AND UNFORTUNATELY, I FEAR THAT IN THIS PROCESS, WHICH IS A WELL, WELL-INTENDED PROCESS TO HELP THE ECONOMY OF LINCOLN ROAD, PEOPLE ARE GOING TO LED TO BELIEVE THAT THE PUBLIC'S TRUST HAS BEEN, YOU KNOW, DISREGARDED OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT.

AND THAT'S VERY IMPORTANT.

AND SO, AND SO I WANNA MAKE SURE THAT WE POSITION OURSELVES THAT TO PROTECT THE PUBLIC, BUT ALSO SEND A CLEAR MESSAGE TO THE MARKET AS TO REALLY WHAT IS REALISTIC OUT THERE AND, AND INCENTIVIZE WHAT WILL ULTIMATELY GET TO THE FINISH LINE.

ARE WE READY TO CALL THE VOTE, PLEASE? KRISTEN, YOU'RE KILLING ME.

GO FOR IT.

OKAY, LET'S CALL THE VOTE.

WAIT, I JUST WANNA MAKE SURE THAT THE PUBLIC OUTREACH THAT'S DONE, UM, IS DONE IN PERSON.

I, SOME OF OUR MEETINGS THAT ARE ON ZOOM ARE JUST, I DON'T THINK IT'S ENOUGH OF A, A CONNECTION.

SO I WOULD MAYBE HOLD IT HERE AT CITY HALL, WHICH IS RIGHT OFF OF LINCOLN ROAD.

AND I WOULD LIKE THE PUBLIC, UM, OUTREACH TO BE, UM, IN PERSON SO THAT WE CAN HAVE THE CONVERSATION.

AND ONE MORE THING BEFORE I VOTE ON THIS IS P LOT 26 STILL ON THE TABLE, KNOW WHAT WE'RE VOTING ON'S, DIFFERENT OPTIONS, BUT WE'RE INCENTIVIZING.

BUT IF I'M, WE'RE GONNA BE INCENTIVIZING, CORRECT ME IF I'M WRONG, COMMISSIONER, DO YOU, DO YOU ACCEPT INCENTIVIZING THE LARGER FOOTPRINT ON THE ROOFTOP OF THE GARAGE AND PRESENTING A BETTER FINANCIAL MODEL ON THE ROOFTOP GIVEN THAT THE REVENUES WON'T BE, UH, AS SIGNIFICANT THAT WILL BE LOST? YEAH.

ONE OF THE THING, SORRY.

ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE HAVE IN THIS CURRENT RFP PROPOSAL IS TO ALLOW UP TO FOUR APPLICATIONS BY THE SAME OPERATOR.

RIGHT? SO I THINK THAT THAT ALLOWS US NOT A, YOU KNOW WHAT, PICK YOUR BEST EFFORT.

IT'S SAYING HERE'S WHAT ON THE ROOFTOP COULD LOOK LIKE FROM X, Y, Z PADDLE AND HERE'S WHAT XY, Z PADDLE COULD DO ON P 26.

AND I THINK WE WOULDN'T BE DOING OUR OWN SELVES, UH, JUSTICE IF WE JUST, YOU KNOW, KIND OF CLOSED OFF OPTIONS.

LET'S GET BACK AND ACTUALLY SEE IN FRONT OF US, HERE'S THE PROPOSALS.

I KIND OF HAD THE FLOOR WHEN I GOT, I JUST WANNA ADD THIS ONE THING IN.

I'M NOT GOING TO BE SUPPORTED TODAY BECAUSE P LOT 26 IS STILL ON THE TABLE.

THAT SAID, AFTER WE DO THE PUBLIC OUTREACH AND THIS COMES BACK, I WOULD, I WOULD BE MORE THAN WILLING TO ENTERTAIN A PROGRAMMING OF OUR ROOFTOPS.

'CAUSE THAT TO ME MAKES SENSE.

YOU'RE STILL BRINGING PEOPLE HERE.

WE'RE NOT LOSING THE REVENUE.

UM, YOU KNOW, YOU'RE BRINGING PADELLA TO LINCOLN ROAD AND THAT'S WHAT YOU SAID IS THE MOST IMPORTANT.

CORRECT? YEAH.

EXCELLENT DISCUSSION ALL AROUND.

SO LET'S SEE THE FEASIBILITY OF IT, AND LET'S SEE THE DESIGNS.

IF IT DOESN'T WORK AND P 26 IS THE ONLY OPTION, THEN WE CAN PIVOT ON THE FLY AND SEE IF IT'S HOW WE WANNA MOVE FORWARD.

UH, BUT IF A FANTASTIC PROPOSAL, THE BEST ONE COMES BACK AND IT'S, UH, ONE OF THE ROOFTOPS, THEN I'M GOING TO BE SUPPORTIVE OF THAT.

THANK YOU ALL.

SO I HAVE A MOTION BY COMMISSIONER MAGAZINE AS AMENDED, SECONDED BY.

SO, UH, ALL IN FAVOR OF C TWO M AS AMENDED, PLEASE SAY AYE.

ANYONE OPPOSED? NAY.

SO I HAVE SIX ONE MOTION IS APPROVED.

[R7 B A RESOLUTION OF THE MAYOR AND CITY COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF MIAMI BEACH, FLORIDA, ADOPTING THE SECOND AMENDMENT TO THE GENERAL FUND, ENTERPRISE FUNDS, INTERNAL SERVICE FUNDS, AND SPECIAL REVENUE FUNDS BUDGETS FOR FISCAL YEAR 2025 AS SET FORTH IN THIS RESOLUTION AND IN THE ATTACHED EXHIBIT "A."]

IT'S CALL R SEVEN B AS IN BOY.

R SEVEN B IS ADOPT SECOND AMENDMENT TO FISCAL YEAR 2025 OPERATING BUDGET.

RECOMMENDATION IS TO APPROPRIATE $45,000.

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THIS IS THE SECOND AMENDMENT TO THE OPERATING BUDGET.

IT CONTAINS FOUR ITEMS. IT RECOMMENDS AN INCREASE OF 247,000 TO THE GENERAL FUND BUDGET.

ALL FOUR ITEMS ARE RECOMMENDED TO BE FUNDED WITH GENERAL FUND RESERVES.

THE FIRST ITEM IS A POLICE DEPARTMENT PROFESSIONAL STAFFING AND WORKLOAD ANALYSIS.

AND THIS WAS APPROVED BY THE CITY COMMISSION AT THE DECEMBER, 2024 COMMISSION MEETING IN THE AMOUNT OF $99,000.

THE SECOND ITEM IS A ART DECO PAINTING INCENTIVE GRANT PROGRAM THAT WAS APPROVED BY THE CITY COMMISSION AT THE NOVEMBER, 2024 COMMISSION MEETING.

AND THE RECOMMENDATION, AGAIN IS TO APPROPRIATE $88,000 FOR THIS PROGRAM.

THE THIRD PROGRAM IS A MCKINNEY'S MAGICAL YOUTH MISSION FOUNDATION SCHOLARSHIP THAT WAS APPROVED BY THE CITY COMMISSION AT THE NOVEMBER, 2024 COMMISSION MEETING.

AND THE FINAL PROGRAM IS THE SURF RIDER FOUNDATION ACCREDITATION OF THE MIAMI BEACH BLUE WATER TASK FORCE LAB.

AND THE RECOMMENDATION IS TO APPROPRIATE 15,000.

I'D BE HAVE TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS YOU MIGHT HAVE.

I SECOND HAVE MOTION.

AND SECOND, IT IS A PUBLIC HEARING.

I SEE TWO INDIVIDUALS WITH THEIR HANDS RAISED.

MS. DURHAM, ARE YOU HERE TO TALK ON THE BUDGET AMENDMENT OR I OH, NO.

I WANTED TO TALK ABOUT THE PADEL AND I LOOK FORWARD TO BEING IN PERSON AND HAVING MY FEEDBACK.

AT A PUBLIC FORUM.

UH, VALLENCIA, ARE YOU HERE TO TALK ABOUT THE BUDGET AMENDMENT? IF SO, PLEASE UNMUTE YOURSELF.

SEEING NO ONE ELSE, NO ONE IN THE AUDIENCE.

THE PUBLIC HEARING IS CLOSED ON THIS ITEM.

I HAVE A MOTION AND A SECOND MAY I CALL THE VOTE? MAY I TAKE THE VOTE? CALL THE VOTE.

ALL IN FAVOR OF R SEVEN B, PLEASE SAY AYE.

R SEVEN CR SEVEN C IS ADOPTED.

ANY OPPOSED? ITEM PASSES, SEVEN ZERO

[R7 C A RESOLUTION OF THE MAYOR AND CITY COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF MIAMI BEACH, FLORIDA, ADOPTING THE THIRD AMENDMENT TO THE CAPITAL BUDGET FOR FISCAL YEAR 2025 AS SET FORTH IN ATTACHMENTS A, “PROJECTS”; B, “SOURCE OF FUNDS”; AND C “PROGRAMS."]

THIRD AMENDMENT TO FISCAL YEAR 2025.

CAPITAL BUDGET.

IT IS A PUBLIC HEARING R SEVEN C.

SO THIS ICM RECOMMENDS THE INCREASE OF THE CAPITAL BUDGET BY $3 MILLION AND THE REALIGNMENT OF 9.5 MILLION BETWEEN EXISTING PROJECTS.

SO THE FIRST PROJECT IS A PUMP STATION 28, WHERE THE BIDS HAVE COME IN HIGHER THAN BUDGET.

THE RECOMMENDATION IS TO TRANSFER $9 MILLION FROM THE FDOT ALTON ROAD RELOCATION PROJECT, WHICH DOESN'T NEED FUNDING UNTIL FFY 26.

SO THE RECOMMENDATION IS TO TRANSFER THE FUNDS.

AND THEN DURING THE FFY 26 BUDGET PROCESS, BILL FIND ADDITIONAL DOLLARS TO THE FDOT PROJECT.

THE SECOND ITEM IS A CONVENTION CENTER LINCOLN ROAD CONNECTOR PROJECT.

THE BID HAS COME IN HIGHER THAN BUDGET, AND THE RECOMMENDATION IS TO APPROPRIATE 2.6 MILLION OF WATER AND SEWER AVAILABLE BONDS.

THE THIRD ITEM IS ART IN PUBLIC PLACES PROJECT AT THE BAYSHORE PARK.

THIS IS A NEW PROJECT AND THE RECOMMENDATION IS APPROPRIATE 406,000 FOR THIS PROJECT USING A IPP AVAILABLE FUNDS.

AND THE FINAL PROJECT IS A-A-I-P-P INSTALLATION AT THE FLAMINGO PARK PROJECT.

UH, AT THE FLAMINGO PARK.

THE RECOMMENDATION IS TO APPROPRIATE $11,200 TO THIS EXISTING PROJECT THAT HAS A FUNDING GAP.

I MOVE THE ITEM.

ANY COMMISSIONER EZ? YES.

ANYBODY SECOND? I'LL SECOND.

UH, I HAVE NO ONE ON ZOOM.

I HAVE NO ONE IN THE AUDIENCE REQUESTING TO SPEAK.

UH, OKAY.

IF THERE'S NO FURTHER DISCUSSION, MAY I CALL THE ROLL? YES.

SO ON R SEVEN C, ALL IN FAVOR, PLEASE SAY AYE.

DISTRICT THAT ALL OF THOSE BUILDINGS ARE 1960S, 1950S, AND TO JUST SLAP THE HOROWITZ COLOR PALETTE ON THEM DOES THEM A DISSERVICE.

ANYONE OPPOSED? C COMMISSIONER MAGAZINE AND COMMISSIONER SUAREZ IS HERE.

SO ALL SEVEN ZERO? YES.

UH, VICE MAYOR BOT HAS A MOTION TO RECONSIDER.

I'LL TURN IT OVER TO VICE MAYOR.

UM, AND I, APOLOGIES.

I APOLOGIZE.

I'M, AS EVERYONE CAN TELL, NOT ON MY GAME TODAY.

UM, I MEANT TO PULL C SEVEN AS NOT BECAUSE I DON'T WANT THE BANDSHELL, UM, TO BE ADDED TO BUILDINGS TO BE PAINTED IN VIBRANT COLORS.

BUT THE LEONARD HOROWITZ COLOR PALETTE IS SPECIFIC TO, UM, THE ART DECO CULTURAL DISTRICT.

IT IS SPECIFIC TO ART DECO AND THE MIAMI BEACH BANDSHELL WAS BUILT IN 1961 AND IN FACT, HIS HISTORIC DESIGNATION AS A MIAMI MODERN BUILDING.

AND SO, YES, BY ALL MEANS, LET'S JUDGE IT UP.

CAN WE PLEASE FIND A COLOR PALETTE THAT IS APPROPRIATE WITH THE ART, WITH THE MIAMI MODERN VERNACULAR? THAT IS THAT PART OF THE, THE CITY? IT IS.

IT IS A, A, A BIG, BEAUTIFUL RESORT HOTEL

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CAN I AMEND IT TO WHAT SHE JUST SAID, ? YES, YOU CAN.

SO DO WE NEED TO FORMALLY, UH, HAVE THE MOTION TO RECONSIDER? YES.

SO, YES.

SO MOTION TO RECONSIDER C SEVEN AS MAY WE DO SO BY ACCLIMATION.

SO CAN WE AMEND C SEVEN AS AS REQUESTED WITH A DIFFERENT COLOR PALETTE? AAX A YES.

SX AS IN NO, A A A S AS IN SAME, SORRY.

YEP.

SO IF WE COULD DO THAT ACCLIMATION AS AMENDED ALSO.

C SEVEN, AS IS AMENDED.

CAN, CAN I JUST MENTION ONE THING? THING? WE DO HAVE THE ART AND CULTURE GEO BOND ITEM.

SO WE WERE INTENDING TO MAKE SURE THAT WHATEVER WE DO AT THE BAND SHELL IS NOT GONNA BE SHORT TERM AND GET INHIBITED BY THE GEO BOND ART AND CULTURE CONSTRUCTION ACTIVITIES.

SO JUST LETTING EVERYONE KNOW THAT THAT MAY INFLUENCE THE TIMING.

I MEAN, I, THERE'S NO URGENCY TO REPAINTING THE BANDSHELL.

AND IF WE ALREADY HAVE PLANNED THINGS PLANNED TO UPGRADE THE BANDSHELL, THAT TO ME TAKES PRECEDENCE.

I JUST DON'T WANT THAT WHEN WE DO GET AROUND TO PAINTING IT, THAT ALL OF A SUDDEN IT'S PASTEL BLUES AND YELLOWS THAT DON'T FIT THE VERNACULAR.

HOLLY.

[R5 M AN ORDINANCE OF THE MAYOR AND CITY COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF MIAMI BEACH, FLORIDA, AMENDING CHAPTER 58 OF THE MIAMI BEACH CITY CODE, ENTITLED “HOUSING,” BY AMENDING ARTICLE III, ENTITLED “PROPERTY MAINTENANCE STANDARDS,” BY AMENDING SECTION 58-298 THEREOF TO REQUIRE PROPERTY OWNERS OF COMMERCIAL, HISTORICALLY DESIGNATED BUILDINGS IN ALL OTHER HISTORIC DISTRICTS (AS DEFINED) TO MAINTAIN THE HISTORIC CHARACTER BY PROMPTLY ADDRESSING EXTERIOR MAINTENANCE, UNAPPROVED SIGNAGE OR AWNINGS, AND OTHER VISUAL BLIGHT VIOLATIONS; AND, PROVIDING FOR REPEALER, SEVERABILITY, CODIFICATION AND AN EFFECTIVE DATE.]

LET'S CALL R FIVE.

M AS IN MARY.

MM-HMM .

R FIVE M IS AN ORDINANCE OF THE MAYOR AND CITY COMMISSIONER OF CITY MIAMI BEACH, FLORIDA, AMENDING CHAPTER 58 OF THE MAY V CITY CODE ENTITLED HOUSING BY AMENDING ARTICLE THREE ENTITLED PROPERTY MAINTENANCE STANDARDS BY AMENDING SECTION 58 DASH 2 98 THEREOF, TO REQUIRE PROPERTY OWNERS OF COMMERCIAL, HISTORIC DESIGNATED BUILDINGS AND ALL OTHER HISTORIC DISTRICTS AS DEFINED TO MAINTAIN THE HISTORIC CHARACTER BY PROMPTLY ADDRESSING EXTERIOR MAINTENANCE APPROVED SIGNAGE OR AWNINGS AND OTHER VISUAL BLIGHT VIOLATIONS, AND PROVIDING FOR REPEAL OBSERVABILITY CLARIFICATION AND EFFECTIVE DATE.

IT'S R FIVE M VICE MAYOR BACH CO-SPONSORED BY COMMISSIONER ROSA GONZALEZ.

SO THIS IS, UM, DESIGNED TO HOLD EVERYBODY ACCOUNTABLE.

SO, UM, UM, HISTORIC BUILDINGS IN ALL DISTRICTS.

I THINK INITIALLY IT WAS IN THE ART DECO DISTRICT, AND WE WANNA MAKE SURE THAT, UM, PROPERTY MAINTENANCE MAINTENANCE STANDARDS ARE CONSISTENT AND CO CONSISTENTLY ON UPHELD.

UM, AND I WILL DEFER TO STAFF TO TALK ABOUT THE, THE DETAILS IF NECESSARY.

OTHERWISE, I WILL JUST MOVE IT SECOND.

IT'S CALL THE VOTE.

I SEE NO ONE IN ZOOM.

NO ONE IN THE AUDIENCE.

A COMMISSIONER MAGAZINE ON R FIVE M.

ITEM IS APPROVED SEVEN ZERO SECOND READING, PUBLIC HEARING IS SCHEDULED FOR FEBRUARY 26.

R FIVE M.

SINCE YOU'RE HONOR ROLL VICE MAYOR R FIVE A, B AS IN BOY, R FIVE A B IS AOR TO THE MAYOR OF CITY COMMISSION OF CITY OF MIAMIA BEACH, FLORIDA.

THANK YOU COLLEAGUES.

[R5 AB AN ORDINANCE OF THE MAYOR AND CITY COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF MIAMI BEACH, FLORIDA, AMENDING CHAPTER 6 OF THE CODE OF THE CITY OF MIAMI BEACH, ENTITLED "ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES," ARTICLE I, ENTITLED "IN GENERAL," BY AMENDING SECTION 6-3 THEREOF, ENTITLED "HOURS OF SALE/VIOLATIONS," BY AMENDING SUBSECTION (a)(9) THEREOF, TO UPDATE THE REQUIREMENTS OF THIS SUBSECTION; AND PROVIDING FOR REPEALER, SEVERABILITY, CODIFICATION, AND AN EFFECTIVE DATE.]

AMENDING CHAPTER SIX OF THE CODE OF THE CITY OF MIAMIA BEACH ENTITLED ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES ARE BEVERAGES.

ARTICLE ONE ENTITLED, IN GENERAL, BY AMENDING SEXUAL SIX SLASH THREE THEREOF ENTITLED HOURS OF SALES SLASH VIOLATIONS BY MANY SUBSECTION A NINE THEREOF, TO UPDATE THE REQUIREMENTS OF THIS SUBSECTION, PROVIDING FOR RE REPEAT SEVERABILITY QUALIFICATION AND AN EFFECTIVE DATE.

THIS IS A FIRST READING, PUBLIC HEARING.

HEARING.

IT IS R FIVE A B.

UM, WE ARE JUST TRYING TO, TRYING TO TIGHTEN THINGS UP A LITTLE BIT.

IF I COULD JUST, UM, DRAW ON THE CITY ATTORNEY'S OFFICE TO TALK ABOUT THE DIFFERENCES, THAT WOULD BE GREAT.

SO BASICALLY WE'RE, WE'RE TRYING TO FIND A WAY TO, UM, CLOSE THE LOOPHOLES FOR PEOPLE WHO ARE NOT, UM, FOLLOWING THE LETTER OF THE LAW OR EVEN THE INTENT OF THE LAW, WHICH IS TO GIVE OUR POLICE A HEADS UP WHEN THEY HAVE HIGH IMPACT SPECIAL EVENTS, PERFORMANCES.

UM, SO THE ITEM AS PROPOSED WOULD, UH, SEEK TO CLOSE SOME PERCEIVED LOOPHOLES.

CURRENTLY, THE ORDINANCE REQUIRES NOTICE 96 HOURS PRIOR TO A PERFORMANCE THAT WILL BE MARKETED.

AND THE AMENDMENT WOULD REQUIRE THIS TO OCCUR WHEN THERE IS A SPECIAL APPEARANCE OR A DROP IN OR A POP-UP OR POP IN, UH, REQUIRING, BASICALLY REQUIRING THOSE VENUES TO HAVE THE SAME 96 HOUR NOTICE TO THE POLICE DEPARTMENT.

AND THIS CURRENTLY APPLIES TO VENUES OF MORE THAN, UH, WITH, WITH AN OCCUPANT LOAD OF MORE THAN 350 PERSONS.

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WE'RE GETTING A LOT OF PEOPLE SAYING, OH, WE DIDN'T KNOW, OR, OH, IT HAPPENED LAST MINUTE.

SO, UM, UH, WE ARE TRYING TO CLOSE LOOPHOLES.

I WOULD BE THRILLED TO GO FURTHER THAN THIS.

I RECOGNIZE MY COLLEAGUE MARK'S ITEM, THOSE MARK'S ITEM ITEM INITIALLY.

SORRY, WASN'T THIS MARK SAMUEL'S ITEM? I BELIEVE IT WAS.

SHE'S CLOSING THE LOOPHOLE.

WELL, IN THE SPIRIT OF, UH, OUR LATE COMMISSIONER MARK SAMUEL, I'D LOVE TO CLOSE A COUPLE MORE LOOPHOLES.

UM, YOU KNOW, I THINK, UH, IT'S A GOOD EFFORT, BUT IF WE REALLY WANT TO, IF WE REALLY WANT TO CLOSE THE LOOPHOLE, I THINK WE SHOULD BE LIMITING THIS TO ALL VENUES.

UM, AND, AND SPECIFICALLY TAKING A STEP FURTHER WHERE IF THERE IS GOING TO BE A, AN APPEARANCE OR AN EVENT, UM, WE, WE SHOULD REQUIRE THEM TO GET A SPECIAL EVENTS PERMIT FOR THE SIDEWALK.

SO, FOR EXAMPLE, IF, UM, ONE OF THESE, THE SMALLER NIGHTCLUBS THAT HAVE, UH, AN OCCUPANCY LESS THAN 350, EXCUSE ME, LIKE GALA, NIGHTCLUB, YOU KNOW, IF THEY'RE GONNA HOST MAYBE TRAVIS SCOTT, YOU KNOW, TRAVIS SCOTT CAN FILL UP A HUNDRED THOUSAND PEOPLE IN A, IN A STADIUM.

UM, IF THEY SAY THAT THERE'S GOING TO BE AN EVENT FROM TRAVIS SCOTT AND, AND GALA, THERE COULD BE THOUSANDS, TENS OF THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE THAT SHOW UP AND THEY'RE ON THE SIDEWALK.

UM, SO I THINK, AND GALA'S CLOSED.

TO SEE IF WE CAN'T GET THIS WORKED OUT IN A WAY THAT WORKS.

WELL, WHAT'S THE NEXT, YOU KNOW, GALA, UM, NIGHTCLUB OR SMALL VENUE THAT THAT'S GONNA HAPPEN TO.

SO IF WE REALLY WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT WE, WE COVER ALL OUR BASES, AND I PROVIDED THE CITY ATTORNEY, UM, WITH A FRIENDLY AMENDMENT AND HE COULD READ IT INTO THE RECORD.

UM, SURE.

ACTUALLY I'M GONNA HAVE ROB DO THAT.

AND WHAT WE WOULD PROPOSE IS THAT WE'RE GONNA LOOK AT THIS MORE CLOSELY BETWEEN FIRST AND SECOND READING, BUT WE'RE COMFORTABLE THAT WILL COMMISSIONER SUAREZ IS PROPOSING IS, IS DOABLE AND DEFENSIBLE.

UH, SORRY.

THERE, THERE ARE TWO ADDITIONS TO, UH, THE REQUIREMENT, NOT NOTWITHSTANDING ANY OTHER PROVISION OF THIS CODE, ANY ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE ESTABLISHMENT HAVING A TOTAL MAXIMUM LEGAL OCU OCCUPANT CONTENT LESS THAN 300 FOR 50 PERSONS, SHALL NOT HOST A PROMOTED EVENT OR CONCERT WITHOUT FIRST OBTAINING A SPECIAL EVENT PERMIT OR FOR THE USE OF THE PUBLIC SIDEWALK IN FRONT OF THE ESTABLISHMENT.

AND THEN IT HAS PENALTIES, UH, RANGING FOR VIOLATION UP TO REVOCATION OF, UH, CU BTR OR CO.

UM, WE, UH, WE WOULD WANT TO, WE'RE JUST HEARING ABOUT THIS TODAY, WE WOULD WANT TO MULL OVER, OVER HOW THAT WOULD WORK AND WHAT SUGGESTIONS WE WOULD MAKE.

UH, ONE SUGGESTION WE WOULD MAKE WOULD BE IF WE WERE GOING TO REQUIRE THAT SPECIAL EVENT PERMIT FOR LESS THAN 350 OCCUPANCY LOAD, THAT WE WOULD JUST MAKE IT ACROSS THE BOARD AND MAKE IT FOR ALL OCCUPANCY LOADS.

UM, THE PENALTIES WE MIGHT HAVE TO WORK ON, UH, AND, AND CHECK AND MULL OVER BETWEEN FIRST AND SECOND READING.

BUT WE THINK IN GENERAL, UH, IT IS A GOOD IDEA AND WE JUST NEED TO, UM, BAKE IT A LITTLE BIT.

AND SO IF THE SPONSOR IS INCLINED TO ACCEPT THAT AMENDMENT, WE WOULD ASK THAT, UH, YOU HAVE SECOND READING AT THE MARCH MEETING RATHER THAN THE SECOND FEBRUARY MEETING, SINCE THAT'S ONLY A FEW WEEKS AWAY.

AND THIS IS A SERIOUS, IT'S BASICALLY A REWRITE.

IT WOULDN'T BE, UH, A 96 HOUR NOTICE REQUIREMENT ANYMORE.

IT WOULD BE A REQUIREMENT FOR A SPECIAL EVENT PERMIT.

UM, AND SO THAT'S, THAT'S JUST A TOTALLY DIFFERENT ORDINANCE.

IT, AND IT'S BETTER IN SOME WAYS, AND IT'S, AND IT'S FOR BUSINESSES, IT IS ALSO MORE ONEROUS.

UH, AND SO WE WOULD WANT TO BE VERY CAREFUL IN DRAFTING THAT.

SO I, UM, WAS INCLINED WHEN I STARTED THIS TO, UM, BE MORE RESTRICTIVE.

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UM, IF, DO ANY OF MY COLLEAGUES HAVE ANYTHING TO ADD TO THIS OR SHOULD PERHAPS, UM, BECAUSE I JUST WANNA MAKE SURE THAT I UNDERSTAND WELL WHAT'S BEING PROPOSED AND THAT WE HAVE CLARITY ON, ON THIS.

IT SOUNDS GOOD.

IT SOUNDS LIKE IT'S GOING THE RIGHT DIRECTION FOR PUBLIC SAFETY, ESPECIALLY WITH A LOT OF THESE PERFORMERS THAT WE'VE HAD SINCE IT'S THE MARCH MEETING.

CAN WE HAVE TO STOP BY THE LAND USE MEETING BETWEEN FIRST AND SECOND RATING SO THAT WE CAN HAVE A DISCUSSION AND YEAH.

YOU KNOW, VET VETTED OUT? WELL, WHEN IS LAND USE, I WORRY SOMETHING.

YEAH, I, YEAH, I THINK THAT FEBRUARY 20TH, THAT, THAT WOULD BE 20TH DIFFICULT.

THE REASON WE'RE ASKING FOR THE EXTRA TIME IS TO TRY TO HAVE SOME TIME TO, UH, PUT SOMETHING COMPREHENSIVE TOGETHER.

UM, UM, MAY, MAY TWO WEEKS.

YOU HAVE OVER TWO WEEKS MAY.

NO, I, I'M NOT, YOU KNOW, SPRING BREAK IS RIGHT AROUND THE CORNER.

AND, UM, I UNDERSTAND THE LEGAL TEAM NEEDS TIME, BUT LISTEN, I MEAN, YOU KNOW, WE, WE WANT TO, WE WANT TO, IDEALLY WE'D LIKE TO GET THIS RIGHT BEFORE MARCH.

IS THAT EVEN POSSIBLE? I MEAN, ANYTHING'S POSSIBLE.

UM, WELL LOOK, THIS IS, THIS IS COMMISSIONER BOT'S ITEM OR VICE MAYOR BOT'S ITEM.

THIS IS YOUR BABY.

I'M NOT TRYING TO TAKE IT OVER.

I'M JUST OFFERING A FAIRLY AMENDMENT.

UM, I WANT YOU TO WIN ON THIS.

AND, UM, I'M JUST, I I THINK WITH A LITTLE BIT OF INPUT, IT, IT COULD BE A LOT STRONGER.

UM, YEAH, I, I THINK MY INCLINATION IS WITH ALL DUE RESPECT TO MY COLLEAGUE, GIVEN THAT MARCH IS UPON US, THAT THE ODDS OF MARCH ARE UPON US.

AND I WOULD LIKE TO HAVE THIS BE, UM, READY TO GO AND PUT IN PLACE BY THEN.

UM, YEP.

WHEN IS THE MARCH COMMISSION COMMITTEE? 19TH.

MARCH 19TH.

SO IT DOESN'T EVEN HELP US THAT MUCH.

WELL, COULD I JUST MAKE A SUGGESTION? YES.

IF THE INTENT IS TO HAVE THIS APPLIED FOR THE MARCH MEETING, CAN WE DO SIMILAR TO WHAT WE DID WITH ART BASEL, UH, THE NEXT MEETING, THE FEBRUARY MEETING, SECOND FEBRUARY MEETING OF THE CITY COMMISSION.

CAN WE DO A RESOLUTION IMPOSING THIS, UH, THAT EXPIRES, UH, THIS YEAR WHILE WE WORK ON, WHILE WE FINE TUNE IT, WHILE WE FINE TUNE THE PERMANENT POLICY, WHICH IS KIND OF WHAT WE, HOW WE HANDLED THE, UM, THE, UH, PARTY HOUSE SITUATION DURING OUR BASEL.

YES, WE COULD CONSIDER DOING THAT.

UH, BUT WE'RE JUST, UH, LEARNING ABOUT THIS PROPOSAL AND MULLING IT OVER TODAY.

BUT POTENTIALLY THAT IS ONE THING THAT WE COULD DO.

SO LET, BARRING ANY UNFORESEEN CIRCUMSTANCES, LET'S DO WHAT COMMISSIONER FERNANDEZ SUGGESTED, WHICH IS AT THE SECOND FEBRUARY MEETING, HAVE A DRAFT OF SOMETHING THAT'S A STOP GAP WHILE WE FINALIZE THE LEGISLATION SO THAT OUR POLICE DEPARTMENT HAS ANOTHER TOOL ROOM TOOLKIT.

IF PEOPLE ARE ACTING SILLY AND TRYING TO DO THINGS THAT THEY'RE NOT SUPPOSED TO DO, DOES THAT WORK FOR EVERYBODY? SO WHAT WE'RE PROPOSING IS FOR WHICHEVER MEETING, WHETHER IT BE FEBRUARY OR MARCH, THAT, OOPS, SORRY.

UH, FOR WHICHEVER MEETING THAT INSTEAD OF A, UH, IT'S 96 HOUR NOTICE PERIOD THAT EVERY, CALL IT A BEVERAGE ESTABLISHMENT IN THE CITY OR EVERY, EVERYONE HAVING A PERFORMANCE IN THE CITY WOULD BE REQUIRED TO HAVE A SPECIAL EVENT PERMIT, WHICH IS A, UH, PROCESS.

IT'S, UM, IT'S, IT, IT'S A VERY DIFFERENT PROPOSAL.

SO THAT'S JUST WHAT I'M BEING CLEAR.

I'M TRYING TO MAKE CLEAR THAT'S WHAT WE ARE GOING, YOU'RE TELLING US TO GO FORWARD WITH.

CAN I ACTUALLY ASK LIZETTE TO COME UP AND, AND WEIGH IN ON THIS? BECAUSE WE'RE PUTTING THIS STRICTLY ON HER DEPARTMENT SHOULDERS, SO YOU UNDERSTAND THE GOAL.

WE'RE NOT TRYING TO CREATE AN EVENT WHERE, YOU KNOW, THERE ARE DONUTS AND FLOWERS BEING HANDED OUT.

WE WANT, SO THAT IF SOMEBODY SAYS, WE HAVE SOMEBODY SHOWING UP, UM, WHO'S GONNA BE A BIG DRAW REGARDLESS OF THE SIZE OF THE CROWD, BUT ESPECIALLY IF YOU CANNOT ACCOMMODATE THE CROWD INSIDE OF YOUR VENUE, YOU NEED TO PULL SOME KIND OF PERMIT.

AND MAYBE IT'S AN ABBREVIATED PERMIT FOR, TO GET US THROUGH MARCH UNTIL WE GET THIS ALL SORTED OUT, THAT YOU HAVE A QUEUING PLAN, THAT YOU HAVE A CONTROL PLAN THAT EV EVERYTHING HAS BEEN FILED WITH THE POLICE DEPARTMENT SO THAT WE DON'T HAVE, YOU KNOW, THE HAVES AND THE HAVES NOT HAVE NOTS WHERE, YOU KNOW, SOMEBODY WHO'S 250 PEOPLE BIG SAYS, OH, WE HAD NO IDEA.

THEY JUST CAME UP AND WHO WERE TO SAY NO.

GOOD AFTERNOON, LISA, A, THE DIRECTOR OF TOURISM AND CULTURE.

A PROCESS THAT WE HAVE RIGHT NOW THROUGH THE RIGHT OF WAY PERMIT, WHICH IS SPECIFIC FOR THE BLOCKING OF SIDEWALKS OR STREETS.

UH, VICE BBO.

SO THERE IS A RIGHT OF WAY PERMIT RIGHT NOW THAT GOES THROUGH THE PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT.

UH, AND AGAIN, AS ROB IS STATING, IF WE'RE ABLE TO KIND OF INTERNALLY DISCUSS OF HOW WE CAN WORK THIS OUT FOR MARCH, BECAUSE WE DON'T PERMIT, UH, THE NIGHTCLUBS OR, YOU KNOW, PRIVATE, UM, CLUBS LIKE THAT.

SO THIS IS SOMETHING NEW, BUT THERE IS

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ERIC, WHAT ARE YOUR THOUGHTS? I, I WOULD WANT TO CONTEMPLATE THAT A LITTLE BIT BECAUSE IF WE'RE GONNA BE ISSUING RIGHT OF WAY PERMITS, WE'RE BASICALLY LEGALIZING THE BLOCKING OF SIDEWALKS.

I DON'T THINK THAT'S THE INTENT.

THAT IS NOT THE INTENT.

UM, AND SO LET US TAKE THIS BACK AND REGROUP.

UM, WE'VE HEARD YOU LOUD AND CLEAR THAT YOU WANT TO HAVE SOMETHING THAT CAN BE BROUGHT FORWARD IN THE SECOND MEETING IN FEBRUARY.

UM, LET US WORK ON THAT AND WE'LL REACH OUT.

CHIEF JONES, IF I MAY POP PUT YOU ON THE SPOT, YOU HEAR WHAT WE'RE TRYING TO ACCOMPLISH IN TIME FOR IT TO BE USEFUL FOR YOU FOR THE, THE MONTH THAT DARE NOT BE NAMED.

UM, IS THERE ANYTHING THAT WE'RE NOT THINKING ABOUT, OR DO YOU HAVE IDEAS THAT SHOULD BE PUT INTO THE CONVERSATION AS OUR CH OUR, UM, CRACK TEAM TAKES, UH, A WHACK AT MAKING THIS WORK? YEAH.

WELL THANKS.

GIVING YOU THE OPPORTUNITY TO WEIGH IN.

UM, MA'AM, UH, WE HAVE HAD SOME MATERIAL CONVERSATIONS ABOUT THIS.

UH, ASSISTANT CHIEF DAN MCGALL HAS LED THOSE CONVERSATIONS, SO I'D REALLY LIKE TO DEFER TO HIM AND SEE WHAT HIS THOUGHTS ARE.

YOU MAY BE ABLE TO SHARE THIS WITH YOU.

GOOD AFTERNOON, MADAM VICE MAYOR, UM, CITY MANAGER, COMMISSIONERS ASSISTANT CHIEF, DANIEL ALDO ON BEHALF OF THE POLICE DEPARTMENT.

SO WHAT HAS BEEN PROPOSED HERE IS, IS EXCELLENT AS FAR AS CLOSING THE LOOPHOLES IN THE, UH, IN THE CURRENT, UH, NOTIFICATION PROCESS.

UM, ANYTHING THAT AFFORDS US THE OPPORTUNITY TO HAVE TIME TO PREPARE AND ADJUST ACCORDINGLY FOR PUBLIC SAFETY PURPOSES, TO DEAL WITH LARGE CROWDS THAT MAY SHOW UP FOR SOME OF THESE ARTISTS.

AS, AS COMMISSIONER SUAREZ MENTIONED EARLIER, UM, PUTS US IN THE BEST POSITION POSSIBLE TO BE ABLE TO BE RESPONSIVE AND PREVENT ANY TYPE OF PUBLIC SAFETY ISSUE.

SO EVERYTHING THAT'S BEEN PROPOSED HERE, UM, WILL ASSIST US IN THAT PROCESS.

SO EVERYBODY, SORRY, WHAT I WOULD RECOMMEND IS THAT YOU PASS THE ORDINANCE AS WRITTEN ON FIRST AMENDMENT AND WHILE THERE WILL BE CHANGES TO IT, UH, WE WILL BRING BACK ON SECOND READING, UH, THE ORDINANCE JUST WITH THE AMENDMENTS.

AND SO IT'S NOT A TOTALLY NEW ORDINANCE WE WOULD BE BRINGING BACK, UH, ON SECOND READING WITH THESE AMENDMENTS.

SO IT WOULD JUST GO INTO EFFECT.

AND THAT WOULD BE AT THE SECOND FEBRUARY MEETING TO BE ABLE TO BE USED FOR MARCH? YES.

NO, THAT'S NOT, IN OTHER WORDS, YOU'RE ASKING THAT SECOND READING BE IN FEBRUARY.

FEBRUARY, OKAY.

YEAH, THAT'S NOT, AND I'M SORRY I NORMALLY WOULD GIVE YOU ALL THE TIME IN THE WORLD, BUT TIME IS OKAY.

NOT HER FRIEND AT THIS MOMENT.

I NO, I GET IT.

AND THERE AND THERE IS, AND THAT IS SOMETHING THAT YOU SHOULD THINK ABOUT IN SOME DEGREE.

WE WOULD BE LEGALIZING WHAT HAPPENS ON THE SIDEWALK.

YOU WOULD BE GIVING A, A SPECIAL EVENT PERMIT FOR THE SIDEWALK.

WELL, WE'LL, WE'LL HAVE THOSE INTERNAL CONVERSATIONS ABOUT WHAT THE BEST WAY TO EFFECTUATE ALL OF THIS IS.

AND IF IT'S NOT EXACTLY THAT IDEA, ALTHOUGH, YOU KNOW, SOME VERSION OF THAT, WE'LL FIGURE THAT OUT.

BUT WE DON'T NEED TO HASH THIS OUT HERE.

UM, COLLEAGUES, KRISTEN ROSEN GONZALEZ, COMMISSIONER IS THIS CITYWIDE, FOR EXAMPLE, LIKE LA THEY HAVE AN ASCENT BUSINESS THAT'S DOING VERY WELL.

THEY'RE BRINGING IN ENTERTAINMENT ACTS.

IF YOU PASS THIS, THEY WOULD HAVE TO GET A SPECIAL EVENT PERMIT.

UM, THE FINA CONSTANTLY IS BRINGING PEOPLE IN.

IF YOU PASS THIS, THEY WOULD HAVE TO GET A SPECIAL EVENT PERMIT.

I JUST DON'T, UM, IF THE FINA FORUM IS HAVING A PERFORMER, I MEAN, CAN YOU DISTINGUISH BETWEEN, IS IT, IT'S ONLY FOR, I MEAN, I JUST WONDER WHAT THE REPERCUSSIONS OF DOING THIS IS FOR SMALLER BUSINESSES.

I WOULD RATHER YOU HAVE SOME SORT OF THRESHOLD BETWEEN THE LARGER VENUES THAT MIGHT BE PROBLEMATIC AND THEN SMALLER VENUES THAT WE WANNA PROTECT LIKE LAVAL, WHICH IS HAVING PERFORMANCE PERFORMANCES.

WE'RE, WE'RE OBVIOUSLY NOT TRYING TO DO THAT.

AND THAT THAT'S NOT THE, THAT'S NOT THE INTENDED USE.

THE INTENDED USE IS THE BAD ACTORS WHO, OH, WE DIDN'T KNOW PERSON SO AND SO WAS POPPING IN TO DO A THING.

BUT, UM, SO IS THERE, IN, IN YEARS PAST, HAVE WE DONE THINGS SORT OF SOUTH OF 23RD OR SOUTH OF 41ST, UM, TO TRY TO CORRAL JUST THE FOLKS WHO ARE NOT ACTING THE WAY THEY'RE SUPPOSED TO BE BY LAW? I, YES, YOU CAN, YOU CAN DESIGNATE AN AREA AS LONG AS YOU HAVE A RATIONAL BASIS, UH, FOR THAT AREA.

COMMISSIONER SUAREZ, YOU SOUND LIKE YOU HAD SOME YEAH, YEAH, NO, I, I, I, I UNDERSTAND THAT FE HAS SOME EVENTS, BUT IT WOULD BE A VERY EASY PROCESS FOR THEM TO FOLLOW IF, IF THEY DID GO THROUGH THE PROCESS AND, YOU KNOW, TRUST ME, THEY, THEY CAN HANDLE THAT PROCESS NO PROBLEM.

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YEAH, IT'S JUST A NOTICE.

AGAIN, IT'S JUST NOTICE THE POLICE AND, AND YOU HEAR THE POLICE CHIEF THEMSELVES SAYING THAT THIS WOULD, THAT THIS WOULD TREMENDOUSLY HELP THAT PUBLIC SAFETY.

I MEAN, SO, YOU KNOW, WE DON'T WANT, YOU KNOW, WE DON'T WANT THE SAME ISSUES THAT HAPPENED IN SOUTH BEACH TO THEN ALL OF A SUDDEN HAPPEN IN MID BEACH OR NORTH BEACH.

UM, SO I, I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT.

LET'S TRY TO PUT SOMETHING TOGETHER.

'CAUSE AS YOU'RE SEEING, THERE'S A LOT OF NUANCE TO THIS AND, UH, AND YOU'RE AND THE VICE MAYOR'S, RIGHT, THAT WE DON'T NEED TO DISCUSS IT RIGHT HERE, UH, BUT WE WILL PUT SOME SERIOUS THOUGHT INTO IT.

WE'LL PUT TOGETHER WHAT WE HOPE BEST EFFECTUATES WHAT YOU WANT AND BEST GIVES US OUR BEST CHANCE TO, UH, HAVE SOMETHING LEGAL.

OKAY? SO COMMISSIONER ROSEN GONZALEZ, WE WILL LET US TRY TO MAKE THIS WORK AND WE'LL COME BACK TO SOMETHING IN A COUPLE OF WEEKS.

AGAIN, APOLOGIES AND THANK YOU.

UM, BUT ANYBODY ELSE OR CAN WE CALL THE VOTE? SO, SO, SO THIS WOULD BE SPECIAL APPEARANCES, RIGHT? YES.

THIS, THIS ISN'T THE HOUSE ARTIST.

THIS ISN'T LIKE AT THE, LIKE, I'M NOT SURE, LIKE, LIKE FOR EXAMPLE, THE EXAMPLE OF LA BE, I DON'T KNOW, DO THEY HAVE SPECIAL APPEARANCES OR THEY'RE SCHEDULED, THEY REGULARLY SCHEDULED PERFORMANCES THAT ARE ADVERTISED.

AND SO THEY WOULD HAVE TO GET A SPECIAL EVENT PERMIT UNDER THIS.

IF I MAY JUMP IN.

I DON'T KNOW.

WE ARE, WE'RE DISCUSSING THE POSSIBILITY OF REQUIRING SOME FORM OF PERMIT IN CERTAIN CIRCUMSTANCES IF THERE'S OVERFLOW INTO THE SIDEWALK.

BUT I THINK THAT WE NEED TO REGROUP INTERNALLY TO MAKE SURE THAT WE ARE NOT CREATING A WORSE SITUATION BY DOING THAT IN, IN WHICH CASE I WOULD SUGGEST BE, AND BECAUSE I'M A SUPPORTER OF THE PROMOTER ORDINANCE AND THE REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS, I'M A SUPPORTER OF THAT.

BUT GIVEN THAT EVEN OUR STAFF FEELS THAT, THAT THEY NEED TO REGROUP ON THIS, I WOULD SUGGEST MAYBE IMAGINE WE THE FURTHEST IT WON'T BE HERE FOR MARCH.

UM, I, THAT, THAT'S WHY I'M KIND OF THINKING THAT WE DO, WE CAN BE LESS RESTRICTIVE WHEN THIS COMES IN SECOND READING.

'CAUSE MY CONCERN IS THAT THIS IS GONNA AFFECT A LOT OF SMALL BUSINESSES.

I THINK, I THINK WE'RE GOING TO, I THINK WE'RE GONNA TRY TO GET TO THE BEST POSSIBLE, UM, UM, VERSION OF THIS WITH THE INTENDED CONSEQUENCES WITHOUT OPENING UP A WHOLE CASCADE OF UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES.

AND IF AFTER SPRING BREAK WHEN WE ALL HAVE TIME TO REFLECT ON IT, WE HAVE A BETTER IDEA, MORE NUANCED WAY OF WORKING ON IT, THEN WE CAN ADJUST ACCORDINGLY.

BUT I, IT JUST SEEMS LIKE WE'RE WALKING INTO SPRING BREAK IN SIX WEEKS AND WHY WOULDN'T WE PUT SOMETHING TOGETHER THAT WE KNOW WILL WORK? IT MIGHT NOT WORK IN EVERY CASE, BUT IT'LL WORK MORE EFFECTIVE EFFECTIVELY THAN WE HAVE.

WHAT'S WORKING NOW, INSTEAD OF WAITING A FULL YEAR, LET'S CALL THE VOTE.

I NEED A SECOND.

I SECOND.

SO IT IS A PUBLIC HEARING.

I HAVE ONE PERSON ON ZOOM.

I VALENCIA, ARE YOU HERE TO SPEAK ON R FIVE AB? IF SO, PLEASE UNMUTE YOURSELF.

SO MY, MY QUESTION IS FOR THE CITY ATTORNEY SPECIFICALLY, UH, HE CLAIMS THAT THERE'S SOMETHING ACTIONABLE, BUT IS THERE ANY PRECEDENT WHERE HE COULD SPEAK ON WHERE THIS TYPE OF ACTION HAS, UH, BEEN ENFORCED OR UTILIZED BY THE CITY BEFORE? UH, BASED ON, YOU KNOW, FREE MOVEMENT OF THE PUBLIC AND THE SIDEWALKS BEING A PUBLIC SPACE? UM, THIS SEEMS KIND OF, WELL, WE'RE KIND OF THROWING A BLANKET ON THE, THE FREE ENTERPRISE AS FAR AS THE BUSINESSES AND HOW THEY WANNA ASSOCIATE IF THEY KNEW PRIOR TO, UH, A HIGH LEVEL STAR COMING TO THEIR BUSINESS AND WAS GOING TO BE THERE FOR A WHILE, THAT'S ONE THING.

BUT THERE IS HYPOTHETICALLY A SITUATION WHERE A STAR COULD JUST SHOW UP.

MAYBE THEY GOT A CALL, HEY, PULL UP.

YOU COULD SHOW UP TO THIS VENUE.

AND THAT'S PART OF THE THING.

AND AS FAR AS CONTROLLING THE SIDEWALK, WELL THE SIDEWALK, UH, THAT'S PUBLIC USE.

SO DEMANDING THAT A BUSINESS PUT FORTH, UH, UH, SORT OF A REQUEST TO USE A SIDEWALK, WHICH SIDEWALK IS FREE PUBLIC SPACE.

UM, IT SEEMS THAT, UH, THE LEGAL SYSTEM IN YOUR BEHALF MAY BE OVER OVERSTEPPING THEIR GROUNDS OR MAYBE, UH, SPEAKING ON A SITUATION THAT LEGALLY, UH, THEY HAVE NO GROUND TO BACK THAT UP.

I MEAN, IT SEEMS KIND OF, UH, PREPOSTEROUS TO ME.

ADDRESS PLEASE? THIS IS ANTHONY VALENCIA, WEST AVENUE.

I DIDN'T CATCH YOUR NAME.

CAN YOU TELL ME YOUR NAME AND

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THERE IS NO OTHER PUBLIC SPEAKER ONLINE.

I SEE NO ONE IN THE ROOM.

PUBLIC HEARING IS CALLED.

ARE WE READY TO CALL THE VOTE? IF SO, I HAVE A MOTION AS IS BY COMMISSIONER BOT SECOND TO BY COMMISSIONER SUAREZ.

UM, DO WE STILL WANT THIS, THE, THE REFERRAL BETWEEN FIRST AND SECOND READING TO LAND USE ON FEBRUARY 20TH? NO, I DON'T THINK WE HAVE TIME.

SO AS IS COMMISSIONER ROSEN GONZALEZ.

LET'S CALL R FIVE V AS IN VICTOR.

PUBLIC HEARING IS SCHEDULED FOR FEBRUARY 26.

[R5 V HOUSING IMPACT STATEMENT REQUIREMENT FOR DEVELOPMENT APPLICATIONS – COMPREHENSIVE PLAN AMENDMENT AN ORDINANCE OF THE MAYOR AND CITY COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF MIAMI BEACH, FLORIDA, AMENDING THE CITY OF MIAMI BEACH YEAR 2040 COMPREHENSIVE PLAN, PURSUANT TO THE EXPEDITED STATE REVIEW PROCESS OF SECTION 163.3184(3), FLORIDA STATUTES, BY AMENDING THE HOUSING ELEMENT AT GOAL HE 1, ENTITLED “EQUITABLE COMMUNITY,” OBJECTIVE HE 1.1, ENTITLED “CREATION AND/OR PRESERVATION OF WORKFORCE AND AFFORDABLE HOUSING.” BY CREATING POLICY HE 1.1.13 PERTAINING TO A HOUSING IMPACT STATEMENT; AND PROVIDING FOR CODIFICATION, REPEALER, SEVERABILITY, TRANSMITTAL AND AN EFFECTIVE DATE.]

[R5 W HOUSING IMPACT STATEMENT REQUIREMENT FOR DEVELOPMENT APPLICATIONS - LDR AMENDMENT AN ORDINANCE OF THE MAYOR AND CITY COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF MIAMI BEACH, FLORIDA, AMENDING THE CODE OF THE CITY OF MIAMI BEACH, SUBPART B, ENTITLED “MIAMI BEACH RESILIENCY CODE,” BY AMENDING CHAPTER 1, ENTITLED “GENERAL PROVISIONS,” ARTICLE II, ENTITLED “DEFINITIONS,” SECTION 1.2.2, ENTITLED “USE DEFINITIONS,” AT SUBSECTION 1.2.2.1, ENTITLED “RESIDENTIAL,” BY CREATING A DEFINITION FOR “HOUSING IMPACT STATEMENT”; AND BY AMENDING CHAPTER 2, ENTITLED “ADMINISTRATION AND REVIEW PROCEDURES,” ARTICLE V, ENTITLED “REZONINGS AND DEVELOPMENT APPROVALS,” AT SECTIONS 2.5.2, “CONDITIONAL USE,” AND 2.5.3, “DESIGN REVIEW,” TO AMEND THE PLANNING BOARD AND DESIGN REVIEW BOARD APPLICATION REQUIREMENTS AND REVIEW CRITERIA TO INCLUDE A HOUSING IMPACT STATEMENT; AND BY AMENDING ARTICLE VIII, ENTITLED “VARIANCES,” TO AMEND THE BOARD OF ADJUSTMENT APPLICATION REQUIREMENTS AND REVIEW CRITERIA TO INCLUDE A HOUSING IMPACT STATEMENT; AND BY AMENDING ARTICLE XIII, ENTITLED “HISTORIC PRESERVATION,” AT SECTION 2.13.7, “ISSUANCE OF A CERTIFICATE OF APPROPRIATENESS/CERTIFICATE TO DIG/CERTIFICATE OF APPROPRIATENESS FOR DEMOLITION,” TO AMEND THE HISTORIC PRESERVATION BOARD APPLICATION REQUIREMENTS AND REVIEW CRITERIA TO INCLUDE A HOUSING IMPACT STATEMENT; AND PROVIDING FOR CODIFICATION, REPEALER, SEVERABILITY, AND AN EFFECTIVE DATE.]

AND LET'S CALL R FIVE W TO WE'LL CALL THEM TOGETHER.

SO R FIVE V IS IN ORDINANCE OF THE MAYOR AND CITY COMMISSIONER OF THE CITY OF MIAMI BEACH, FLORIDA.

AMENDING THE CITY OF MIAMI BEACH YEAR 2040.

COMPREHENSIVE PLAN PURSUANT TO THE EXPEDITED STATE REVIEW PROCESS OF SECTION 1 63 0.3184 SUBSECTION THREE, FLORIDA STATUTES BY AMENDING HOUSE ELEMENT GOAL, HE ONE ENTITLED E EQUITABLE COMMUNITY OBJECTIVE, HE 1.1, ENTITLED CREATION AND OR PRESERVATION OF WORKFORCE ON AFFORDABLE HOUSING BY CREATING POLICY HE 1.1 13 PERTAINING TO HOUSING IMPACT STATEMENT AND PROVIDING FOR CODIFICATION, REPEATABILITY, TRANSMITTAL, AND AN EFFECTIVE DATE.

UH, THIS IS ITEM R FIVE V.

IT IS A FIRST READING PUBLIC HEARING.

IT REQUIRES FOUR SEVEN'S VOTE.

R FIVE W THE COMPANION ITEM IS AN ORDINANCE OF THE MAYOR CITY COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF MIAMI BEACH, FLORIDA, AMENDING THE CODE OF THE CITY OF MIAMI BEACH SUB PART B ENTITLED MIAMI BEACH RESILIENCY CODE BY AMENDING CHAPTER ONE ENTITLED GENERAL PROVISIONS ARTICLE TWO ENTITLED DEFINITIONS SECTION 1.21, SECTION 1.2 0.2 ENTITLED USE DEFINITIONS THAT SUBSECTION ONE ENTITLED RESIDENTIAL BY CREATING DEFINITION FOR HOUSING IMPACT STATEMENT AND BY AMENDING CHAPTER TWO, ENTITLED ADMINISTRATION AND REVIEW PROCEDURES.

ARTICLE FIVE ENTITLED REZONINGS AND RE-DEVELOPMENT APPROVALS AT SECTION 2.5 0.2 CONDITIONAL USE ON 2.5 0.3 DESIGN REVIEW TO AMEND THE PLANNING BOARD AND DESIGN REVIEW BOARD APPLICATION REQUIREMENTS AND REVIEW REVIEW CRITERIA TO INCLUDE A HOUSING IMPACT STATEMENT.

AND BY AMENDING ARTICLE EIGHT ENTITLED VARIANCES TO AMEND THE BOARD OF ADJUSTMENT APPLICATION REQUIREMENTS AND REVIEW CRITERIA TO INCLUDE A HOUSING IMPACT STATEMENT BY AMENDING ARTICLE 13 ENTITLED HISTORIC PRESERVATION AT SECTION TWO POINT 13.7, ISSUANCE OF A CERTIFICATE OF APPROPRIATENESS SLASH CERTIFICATE OF, UH, CERTIFICATE TO DIG CERTIFICATE TO APPROPRIATENESS FOR DEMOLITION TO AMEND THE HISTORIC PRESERVATION BOARD APPLICATION REQUIREMENTS AND REVIEW CRITERIA TO INCLUDE A HOUSING IMPACT STATEMENT AND PROVIDING FOR CODIFICATION REPEAL SERVICEABILITY ON AN EFFECTIVE DATE.

THAT WAS ITEM R FIVE W.

IT IS A PUBLIC HEARING AND THAT ITEM REQUIRES FIVE SEVEN'S VOTE.

COMMISSIONER FERNANDEZ CO-SPONSORED BY COMMISSIONER MAGAZINE.

A FULL DISCLOSURE AS TO WHETHER ANY RESIDENCE CURRENTLY OR WITHIN THE PAST YEAR OCCUPIED THE PROPERTY, SPECIFYING HOW MANY OF THOSE WERE AFFORDABLE, INCLUDING SECTION EIGHT OR WORKFORCE HOUSING UNITS.

UH, EARLIER TODAY WE SPOKE ABOUT THE COURTESY NOTICE TO, UH, RESIDENTIAL TENANTS HAVING TO DO WITH, WITH DEVELOPMENTS, UH, THAT ARE GOING BEFORE THE LAND USE SPORTS.

BUT ONCE THESE, UH, THESE APPLICATIONS GET TO THE LAND USE SPORTS, I FEEL INCUMBENT UPON THOSE WHO ARE MAKING THE DECISIONS ON THESE DEVELOPMENTS TO BE AWARE OF THE HOUSING IMPACT THAT THESE APPLICATIONS WILL HAVE ON IN OUR, IN OUR COMMUNITY.

THE DECLINE OF PERMANENT RESIDENCE, UH, HAS A NEGATIVE AND CONSEQUENTIAL IMPACT ON THE QUALITY OF LIFE FOR, UH, FOR THOSE WHO REMAIN.

AND ONE OF THE IMPACTS WE'VE SEEN IS, UM, IS INCREASED TRAFFIC CONGESTION IN PART, EVEN AS EMPLOYEES OF LOCAL ESTABLISHMENTS ARE FORCED, UH, TO LIVE OFF THE CITY.

THIS IS A DIRECT RESULT OF LACK OF AFFORDABLE OR EVEN ATTAINABLE, UH, HOUSING IN IN OUR CITY.

UH, AND THE CONTRIBUTING FACTOR OF THIS TREND HAS BEEN THE CONVERSION OF RESIDENTIAL UNITS TO SHORT-TERM RENTALS OR OTHER TRANSIENT UNITS.

AS COMMISSIONER MAGAZINE MENTIONED EARLIER WITH THE LEGISLATION THAT HE CHAMPIONED EARLIER TODAY, THE LEGISLATION BEFORE US REQUIRES INDIVIDUALS SUBMITTING AN APPLICATION TO THE CITY, TO, TO ANY OF THESE BOARD TO SUBMIT A HOUSING IMPACT STATEMENT.

AND WHAT IS A HOUSING IMPACT STATEMENT? IT'S A DETAILED ANALYSIS OF THE IMPACTS OF THE PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT COMPARING CURRENT HOUSING AVAILABILITY ON THE EFFECTIVE PROPERTY BEFORE THE EXECUTION OF THE DEVELOPMENT WITH THE FUTURE HOUSING AVAILABILITY AFTER THE DEVELOPMENT IS COMPLETED.

SO YOU HAVE TO SHOW THIS IS WHAT'S AVAILABLE TODAY AS IT RELATES TO HOUSING ON THIS PROPERTY, AND THIS IS WHAT'S GONNA BE AVAILABLE IN THE FUTURE ON THIS PROPERTY AS A RESULT OF THE PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT.

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AND I THINK ALSO MORE PERHAPS VERY IMPORTANT AS WELL AS IDENTIFY ANY VOLUNTARY MITIGATION MEASURES OFFERED BY THE DEVELOPER TO ASSIST THOSE AFFECTED RESIDENTS WITH RELOCATION OR IDENTIFYING ALTERNATE HOUSING.

I THINK IT'S ONE OF THE FEW THINGS WE CAN DO TO CREATE AWARENESS TO BE CAUTIOUS ABOUT THE DEC, ABOUT THE IMPORTANCE OF THE DECISIONS THAT ARE BEING MADE REGARDING DEVELOPMENT ON THE LIVES OF THOSE WHO WE ARE ENTRUSTED TO, TO REPRESENT.

I'M VERY PROUD TO BE BRINGING THIS ITEM FORWARD.

I WANT TO THANK THE PLANNING DEPARTMENT AND, UH, AND THE CITY ATTORNEY'S OFFICE FOR WORKING WITH ME ON THIS ITEM.

AND I'M GONNA TURN IT OVER TO OUR PLANNING DIRECTOR, DIRECTOR TOM MOONEY, UH, TO CHIME IN FURTHER ON THIS ITEM.

UH, THANK YOU COMMISSIONER FERNANDEZ.

I THINK YOU EXPLAINED EVERYTHING PERFECTLY AND THE LDRS, UH, CHAPTER ONE'S BEING AMENDED TO CREATE THE ACTUAL DEFINITION FOR OUR HOUSING IMPACT STATEMENT.

AND CHAPTER TWO IS BEING AMENDED, UH, TO CREATE AN EXPRESS REQUIREMENT FOR THE CRITERIA FOR EACH OF THE LAND USE BOARDS.

THE CORRESPONDING, UH, AMENDMENT TO THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN R FIVE V CREATES A POLICY, IT'S A NEW POLICY, UM, SPECIFIC TO A HOUSING IMPACT STATEMENT.

AND SO, UH, THAT'S SOMETHING THAT'S GONNA BE IMPORTANT TO AMEND WITH REGARD TO THE HOUSING ELEMENT OF THE, OF THE, UH, COMPREHENSIVE PLAN.

AND WITH THAT, I THINK IT'S READY TO BE MOVED, UM, FOR APPROVAL.

I LOVE THIS.

I LOVE THAT DISCLOSURE BECAUSE I THINK THAT WHEN A PROJECT GOES BEFORE THE PLANNING BOARD AND THEY SEE THAT THEY'RE GONNA BE DISPLACING, YOU KNOW, 50 SENIORS WHO AREN'T GONNA HAVE ANY PLACE TO GO, THEY MIGHT THINK TWICE BEFORE THEY APPROVE, UH, THAT PROJECT.

SO, UM, WE'D HOPE, BUT AT LEAST YOU ALL HAVE THE DISCLOSURE STATEMENT THERE.

SO, UM, VERY PROUD OF YOU, COMMISSIONER FERNANDEZ.

UM, SEEING TOO MANY PEOPLE DISPLACED, AND THIS IS AT LEAST ONE NOT A DETERRENT PROTECTION, I SUPPOSE, OR AT LEAST A DISCLOSURE THAT WILL ALLOW THE OWNERS TO UNDERSTAND WHAT THEIR IMPACT OF WHAT THEY'RE DOING IS AND ACT AS HOPEFULLY A CONSCIENCE.

AND IF I MAY, MR. MAYOR, JUST TO RESPOND TO THAT, NOT ONLY ARE WE ASKING THEM TO DISCLOSE THE HOUSING IMPACT, BUT ALSO, YOU KNOW, WHETHER THEY'RE DOING ANY VOLUNTARY MITIGATION, UH, MEASURES TO ASSIST THOSE BEING DISPLACED.

UH, WE CAN'T REQUIRE THEM TO, UH, TO OFFER ANY, ANY MITIGATION, BUT WE HOPE AT LEAST BY ASKING THAT WE'RE ABLE TO TOUCH THE CONSCIENCE OF, UH, OF, OF THOSE, UH, OF THOSE WHO, UM, WHO ARE SUBMITTING THIS APPLICATION.

I SEE THE CITY CLERK WAVING AT ME.

CALL ME SOMEONE ELSE.

, THE CITY CLERK WAS NOT WAVING AT ME.

, THANK YOU MR. MAYOR.

YEAH, THIS IS GREAT.

UH, AS I'M SURE TOM OR DEBBIE COULD ATTEST, UH, WHEN I WAS A PRIVATE CITIZEN, THE NUMBER OF TIMES I'D CALL INTO THE HPB AND SAY THIS EXACT PHRASE I'D SAY, I UNDERSTAND THIS IS NOT IN YOUR PURVIEW, BUT, UH, AND IT WOULD OFTEN TALK ABOUT THE PEOPLE THAT ARE POTENTIALLY BEING DISPLACED, UH, WHEN ONE PROJECT IS CONVERTED FROM RESIDENTIAL INTO, UH, A HOTEL OR SHORT TERM RENTALS.

AND WHILE IT MAY STILL NOT BE IN THEIR PURVIEW, BUT MAYBE WE COULD WORK ON FURTHERING LEGISLATION, UH, JUST LIKE YOU SAID, YOU KNOW, YOU, YOU PASS SOMETHING AND THEN YOU ADJUST.

UH, MAYBE AT SOME POINT IN TIME IT COULD BE, UH, PART OF THEIR PURVIEW, BUT AT LEAST NOW WITH THIS, IT'LL BE FRONT AND CENTER IN THEIR MIND.

THAT'S RIGHT.

I MOVE BY ITEM MS. MAYOR, OUTSIDE.

EXCELLENT ITEM, UH, COMMISSIONER FERNANDEZ.

CALL A VOTE IS A PUBLIC HEARING.

I SEE NO ONE IN ZOOM.

I SEE NO ONE IN THE AUDIENCE OF A MOTION BY COMMISSIONER FERNANDEZ FOR BOTH ITEMS. UH, SECONDED BY COMMISSIONER MAGAZINE, UH, ON R FIVE V AND W COMMISSIONER ROSA GONZALEZ.

MINOR.

CONTINUE, TOM TO APRIL 23RD OR, WELL, NO, THAT WOULD BE SECOND READING.

BOTH ITEMS ARE APPROVED.

THE SECOND READING, PUBLIC HEARING IS SCHEDULED FOR APRIL 23RD.

THAT WAS ITEM R FIVE VR FIVE W.

MAYOR, JUST IF I MAKE, THERE'S TWO AMOUNTS TO OPEN AND CONTINUE ITEMS. 'CAUSE THERE WAS SOMEONE FROM THE AUDIENCE AND WE TOLD THEM TO LEAVE.

JUST SO WE MAKE IT OFFICIAL.

UH, WE ARE REQUESTING TO OPEN AND CONTINUE R FIVE T AND R FIVE U.

SO IF WE MAY DO SO BY ACCLIMATION OPENING AND

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THIS IS FIRST READING.

SO FEBRUARY 26TH.

FEBRUARY 26TH.

SO OPEN AND CONTINUE.

R FIVE, T AND U TO FEBRUARY 26TH.

THANK YOU MA'AM.

OF WHICH YEAR? SOUNDS GOOD.

2026.

FEBRUARY 26TH, SIX.

ANY OTHER ANNOUNCEMENTS? NO, UNFORTUNATELY NO.

UH, LET'S, LET'S JUST TRY TO FINISH UP

[C4 C REFERRAL TO THE MARCH 12, 2025, PUBLIC SAFETY AND NEIGHBORHOOD QUALITY OF LIFE COMMITTEE MEETING TO DISCUSS THE RELOCATION OF THE CITY HALL EARLY VOTING SITE AND EXTENSION OF THE EARLY VOTING PERIOD FOR RUN-OFF ELECTIONS.]

THE POLLED ITEMS FROM CONSENT.

UH, C FOUR C.

C FOUR C IS COMMISSIONER FERNANDEZ SEPARATED THE ITEM? IT IS.

OH, JUST READ THE, FOR THE RECORD.

C FOUR C IS A REFERRAL.

THIS IS THE CITY CLERK'S REFERRAL TO THE PLANNING BOARD MEETING OF THREE 12.

RELOCATE CITY HALL, EARLY VOTING SITE, EXPAND EXTENT VOTING OF FOR RUNOFF ELECTION.

THE REASON WHY I PULLED THIS ITEM IS BECAUSE OF THE IMPORTANCE OF IT.

UM, WE, WE ALWAYS WANT TO ENSURE THAT OUR RESIDENTS ARE WELL HEARD DURING, DURING THE ELECTIONS.

AND THIS YEAR THE RUNOFF ELECTIONS WILL OVERLAP WITH ART BASEL.

AND THAT TO ME IS, IS OF COURSE VERY CONCERNING BECAUSE WE ALL KNOW THE TRAFFIC THAT OCCURS IN OUR CITY DURING ART BASEL, JUST MOVING A FEW BLOCKS COULD TAKE AN EXTENSIVE AMOUNT OF TIME.

IN THIS SPECIFIC SITUATION WE'RE HAVING TO CONTEMPLATE THE MOVING OF THE CITY HALL EARLY VOTING SITE.

AND MR. CLERK, CORRECT ME IF I'M WRONG, I WOULD SAY I WOULD, IF MEMORY SERVES ME RIGHT, THE CITY HALL EARLY VOTING SITE IS, I THINK IT'S THE MOST POPULAR EARLY VOTING SITE.

AND AND MY CONCERN IS, YOU KNOW, IF YOU MOVE IT TOO FAR NORTH, PEOPLE WHO ARE TO THE SOUTH MIGHT FEEL DISENFRANCHISED BECAUSE IT IS GONNA TAKE THEM LONGER TOGETHER BECAUSE OF THE TRAFFIC.

IF YOU MOVE IT TOO FAR SOUTH, UH, THE, THE EARLY VOTING SIDE, LET'S SAY ALL THE WAY TO SOMEWHERE ON SIXTH STREET OR BY FLAMINGO PARK, THE PEOPLE IN IN, IN MID BEACH AROUND WHERE I LIVE MIGHT, UH, MIGHT FEEL DISENFRANCHISED GIVEN THE AMOUNT OF TRAFFIC THAT WE HAVE DURING ART BASEL.

AND THE FACT THAT, THAT THIS RUNOFF WILL BE TAKING PLACE DURING ART BASEL TO THE EXTENT THAT WE NEED TO BE MOVING, UH, THE CITY HALL EARLY VOTING SITE, I WOULD LIKE US TO CONTEMPLATE PERHAPS JUST ADDING A THIRD EARLY VOTING SITE IS THAT WAY, YOU KNOW, IF YOU HAVE TO SIT IN TRAFFIC AT LEAST IT'S LESS TRAFFIC.

YOU HAVE TO SIT IN LESS TRAFFIC TO GO AND VOTE.

AND SO THAT'S WHAT I WANTED TO PUT BEFORE US TODAY.

UH, OUR ONLY OTHER OPTION WOULD BE CONTEMPLATING MOVING THE RUNOFF DATE.

BUT I DON'T KNOW THAT THAT, THAT WE CAN EVEN DO THAT.

I DON'T THINK THE, UH, SUPERVISOR OF ELECTIONS FELT IT WOULD BE FAIR.

ALL THE OTHER CITIES HAVE AGREED TO THIS RUNOFF DATE.

UH, SO WE WOULD BE A ONE OFF SITUATION, BUT I WANTED TO DISCUSS THIS WITH ALL OF US TODAY RATHER THAN HEARING IT A COMMITTEE GIVING GIVEN THE IMPORTANCE THAT THIS HAS TO OUR CITY.

OH, THANK YOU.

LET ME ASK A COUPLE OF QUESTIONS AND IF YOU KNOW THE ANSWERS, COMMISSIONER FERNANDEZ, SO THE, THE DECISION I, I GUESS IT WAS MADE BY THE ELECTIONS OFFICE PRIOR TO THE CURRENT, PRIOR TO ALINA TAKING OFFICE THAT TWO WEEKS WAS NOT SUFFICIENT TIME, RIGHT? IS THAT, IS THAT, IS THAT A VISION SHE SHARES? YES.

AND THIS HAS BEEN A HISTORICAL ISSUE.

CHRISTINA WHITE, UH, WHO'S A CONSUMMATE PUBLIC, UH, ADMINISTRATOR HAS HAD THIS CONCERN FOR MANY YEARS AND THEY CAME AND THEY PRESENTED TO OUR CHARTER REVIEW TASK FORCE AS WELL.

I THINK WE EVEN HAD A QUESTION GO TO OUR VOTERS AMENDING OUR CHARTER, UH, AND PRESCRIBING THIS, UH, THIS FIVE WEEK RUNOFF PERIOD.

BUT I WOULD SAY AFTER SPEAKING WITH THE SUPERVISOR OF ELECTIONS LAST WEEK, SHE VERY MUCH SHARES, UH, THAT UM, THAT UM, THAT TWO WEEKS IS NOT ENOUGH.

IN FACT, THEY SHARED WITH ME A STATISTIC, THE AMOUNT OF VOTE BY MAIL BALLOTS THAT ARE NOT COUNTED IN OUR ELECTION BECAUSE THEY WERE SUBMITTED TOO LATE AFTER, AFTER THE, UH, RUNOFF.

ME WAS WITH THE CONSENT OF THE SUPERVISOR OF ELECTIONS.

BECAUSE TWO WEEKS WAS NOT ENOUGH.

UH, SO I SPOKE TO CHRISTINA WHITE ON SATURDAY.

WE SPENT PROBABLY BETWEEN 30 TO 45 MINUTES SPEAKING ON THIS.

THEY ARE NOT, WHO DID YOU SPEAK WITH? CHRISTINA WHITE, WHO IS NOW THE CHIEF OPERATE CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICE OFFICER OF THE ELECTIONS DEPARTMENT.

AND EVERYTHING THAT SHE TOLD

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UH, SO THEY ARE NOT WILLING TO CHANGE THE ELECTION DATE FOR THE REASON THAT COMMISSIONER FERNANDEZ STATED, WHICH IS THEY, A LOT OF BALLOTS ARE REJECTED BECAUSE THEY DON'T GET BACK ON TIME, UH, VOTE BY MAIL BALLOTS.

SO DOES SHE, UH, IT MAKES SENSE.

SHE IS ADAMANT THAT THAT WILL NOT WORK.

WHAT THEY ARE PROPOSING IS, WELL, WHAT THEY HAVE AGREED TO BASED ON COMMISSIONER FERNANDEZ'S REQUEST, AM I SPEAKING TO THEM, IS THAT THEY ARE WILLING TO ADD AN EXTRA SITE IN MID BEACH.

THE ONLY SUITABLE SITE THAT I SEE AT THE MOMENT, BASED ON THE REQUIREMENTS OF THE STATUTE MUST, WOULD BE MUST PARK.

WHAT WE CAN TALK ABOUT IN ADDITIONAL WOULD BE WHAT? MUS PARK, MASS PARK.

WE, BUT WE CAN TALK ABOUT OTHER LOCATIONS THAT MAY FIT THE REQUIREMENT BASED ON MY KNOWLEDGE.

I DON'T THINK THERE'S ANY OTHER, THEY'RE WILLING TO ADD THAT.

SO WHAT WE WOULD HAVE TO DECIDE IS, I'M ASSUMING WE ONLY WANT THAT THIRD SITE DURING THE RUNOFF, NOT DURING THE GENERAL, ALSO BECAUSE IT WON'T BE NECESSARY DURING THE GENERAL.

SO JUST FOR THE, FOR THE RUNOFF, I STILL RECOMMEND THAT YOU MOVE THE CITY HALL SITE TO ANOTHER LOCATION THAT IS IN SOUTH BEACH BECAUSE CITY HALL WILL BE IMPOSSIBLE TO GET INTO.

OUR PARKING LOT THAT WE USE FOR EARLY VOTING IS THE ONE THAT IS USED BY ART BASEL FOR THEIR, UH, VALET PARKING.

SO YEAH, NO, AND THIS ALL SOUNDS GOOD.

I'LL TELL YOU, MY, MY CONCERN IS NO MATTER HOW MANY TIMES YOU PUBLISH THIS, I GUARANTEE YOU THERE'LL BE, YOU ALL KNOW THIS 'CAUSE WE HEAR IT ALL THE TIME, EVERY TIME PEOPLE, OH, I DIDN'T KNOW I WAS SUPPOSED TO, PEOPLE ARE GONNA SHOW UP TO CITY HALL.

SO, AND THEY CAN SAY, IT TOOK ME AN HOUR TO GET HERE, IT TOOK ME AN HOUR TO PARK AND NOW YOU'RE TELLING ME I CAN'T VOTE HERE.

SO I AGREE WITH YOU.

AND BASED ON THAT, MY RECOMMENDATION WOULD BE ALSO TO MOVE THE CITY HALL EARLY VOTING LOCATION TO WHATEVER LOCATION WE DECIDE IN SOUTH BEACH FOR THE GENERAL.

SO YOU DON'T HAVE THAT, HEY, I SHOWED UP TO CITY HALL FOR THE GENERAL, NOW I'M GOING SOMEWHERE ELSE.

SO I WOULD MOVE IT FOR BOTH FOR THIS ELECTION, MEANING THE EARLY VOTING AT CITY HALL, MOVE IT TO ONE OF THE OTHER LOCATIONS IN SOUTH BEACH.

IT WILL NOT BE IMPACTED FOR THE GENERAL, BUT FOR THE RUNOFF.

PEOPLE ALREADY KNOW.

WE WANNA KEEP CONSISTENCY AS FAR AS WHERE PEOPLE VOTE.

I DON'T LOVE THAT IDEA.

I'LL TELL YOU WHY.

BECAUSE YOU'RE JUST HAVE THE SAME PROBLEM ON THE FRONT END.

SO I'M NOT SURE THAT'S GONNA REALLY HELP YOU.

AND, BUT IT IS SUCH A PRIME PLACE FOR PEOPLE TO VOTE.

THEY COME TO CITY HALL.

SO NOW WE'RE TAKING THAT AWAY.

I DON'T, I DON'T KNOW, AND I AGREE WITH YOU, BUT IF WE, IF IT HAPPENS ON THE FRONT END, YOU HAVE 14 DAYS OF EARLY VOTING TO GET IT RIGHT, MEANING YOU SHOW UP TO CITY HALL, IT'S NOT THE LOCATION YOU CAN, YOU HAVE MORE TIME.

WHEN IT'S A RUNOFF, IT'S THREE DAYS.

SO IT MAY BE MORE DIFFICULT FOR THE RUNOFF.

I JUST, WE PREFER CONSISTENCY WHERE THE VOTER KNOWS I GO HERE AND I GO HERE AGAIN IF IT'S A RUNOFF, BUT AGAIN, THAT'S A POLICY DECISION.

I ALSO REQUESTED THAT MAYBE WE CAN EXTEND EARLY VOTING DAYS FOR THE RUNOFF.

THEY SAID ABSOLUTELY NOT ON THAT.

AND WHAT WAS THE REASON YOU PULLED THIS FROM A REFERRAL COMMISSIONER FERNANDEZ? OH, WELL, I, I, I FELT THAT THE DISCUSSION WAS BETTER, HAD SOONER RATHER THAN LATER AMONGST ALL OF US.

UM, YOU KNOW, I I I FEEL THAT THIS IS VERY BIG, A VERY BIG SITUATION.

UM, I THINK PEOPLE KNOW THE CITY HALL LOCATION AND THEY JUST COME HERE.

UH, EVEN I, IT IS FUNNY 'CAUSE I, I'VE SEEN PEOPLE HERE THAT THEY COULDN'T, THE NORTH BEACH LOCATION IS CLOSER TO THEM AND THEY JUST COME HERE, YOU KNOW, IT, IT JUST, IT'S CITY HALL.

PEOPLE KNOW THAT THIS IS AN EARLY VOTING SITE.

UM, AND MOVING IT IS A SIGNIFICANT THING, BUT ESPECIALLY MORE SO WHEN YOU HAVE, I MEAN, YOU KNOW, I DON'T WANT TO USE THIS WORD, BUT THE TRAFFIC DEBACLE THAT WE HAVE DURING OUR BASEL, BECAUSE IT IS WHAT IT IS.

IT'S GRIDLOCK.

THE CITY IS GRIDLOCKED.

AND, UH, AND I THINK IT'S, IT'S SOMETHING THAT, THAT WE NEED TO DISCUSS SOONER RATHER THAN LATER.

AND I THOUGHT IT WOULD BE BETTER FOR US TO DISCUSS IT HERE.

IS THERE, IS THERE A, IS THERE ON, AND I'LL, AND I'LL GET TO YOU ON A SECOND.

UM, IS THERE A DEADLINE FOR WHEN WE HAVE TO MAKE THIS DECISION? JULY.

BUT IN OTHER WORDS, I WANNA GET THE ELECTIONS DEPARTMENT ON BOARD.

WE SHOWED THE ELECTIONS DEPARTMENT THE ALTERNATIVE SITES ON SOUTH BEACH.

THEY HAVEN'T GOTTEN BACK TO US YET.

THEY SAID THAT THEY WOULD GET BACK TO US AROUND MARCH.

I WOULD STILL PREFER THAT THIS BE ALSO REFERRED AND YOU GIVE ME DIRECTIONS TO WORK WITH, UH, WITH THE ELECTIONS DEPARTMENT TO HAVE A MID BEACH LOCATION ALSO.

BUT I CANNOT TELL YOU WHERE IN SOUTH BEACH THEY'RE PROPOSING 'CAUSE THEY HAVEN'T GOTTEN BACK TO ME.

NONE SAID.

SO I DON'T, I DON'T, I DON'T THINK YOU'RE CONTEMPLATED WE'RE GONNA MAKE THE FINAL DECISION TODAY.

WHICH IS GOOD BECAUSE I THOUGHT IT WAS GONNA BE A REFERRAL AND YOU HAVEN'T FINISHED.

I, I MEAN, YOU, I DON'T WANT TO GET INTO EVERY, I HAVE SO MANY QUESTIONS, BUT LIKE, EVEN JUST NOW, WE, WE SORT OF ASSUMED FTA COMPLETE, OH, ART BASEL'S HERE.

WE CAN'T USE THE GROUND FLOOR.

WE USUALLY HAVE, LIKE, I'M NOT WILLING TO ACCEPT THAT AS A FTA COMPLETE.

I MEAN, IF, IF THIS IS VOTING ART BASEL'S EXTREMELY IMPORTANT, BUT THERE'S NOTHING MORE IMPORTANT THAN VOTING.

NOT JUST ON 17TH STREET BY CITY HALL.

BUT TRAFFIC, I, I'M JUST, I GET IT.

I'M JUST GIVING YOU ALL THE ALTERNATIVES.

THERE'S GONNA BE, THERE'S GONNA BE TRAFFIC,

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THERE'S GONNA BE TRAFFIC EVERYWHERE.

SO, UM, I'M SORRY, I I, I'LL RECOGNIZE COMMISSIONER ROSE GONZALEZ THAN LIKE VICE MAYOR, UH, BOT THEN COMMISSIONER DOMINGUEZ FIRST, I AGREE WITH THE MAYOR ON THE FACT THAT, YOU KNOW, WE'RE GONNA HAVE TO CLEAR OUT THE GROUND FLOOR OF THE GARAGE AND MAINTAIN CITY HALL.

I WOULD SAY THAT AS WE WERE PUTTING THESE ITEMS ON AND HAD THE DISCUSSION, EVERYBODY KNEW THAT THIS WAS COMING , THAT THERE WAS GONNA BE A RUNOFF.

WE KNEW THAT IT WAS GOING TO BE DURING OUR PLAZA.

WE TRIED TO FIX THE CHARTER AND IT DIDN'T HAPPEN.

BUT THAT SAID, UM, I WOULD DEFINITELY KEEP IT CITY HALL, EVEN IF IT'S DIFFICULT AND IT IS GONNA BE DIFFICULT FOR PEOPLE TO COME.

AND IT'S HARDER BECAUSE PEOPLE AREN'T GONNA BE ABLE TO GET NORTH OR SOUTH.

THEY'RE GOING TO GET, YOU KNOW, YOU CAN'T GET NORTH ON COLLINS AVENUE IS BLOCKED LIKE CRAZY AND YOU CAN'T GET SOUTH.

I THINK IT'S, I THINK IT'S ALMOST WORTH, WORTH WORSE TO MOVE IT TO SOUTH BEACH.

AND THEN TO HAVE THREE LOCATIONS OF EARLY VOTING IS VERY STRESSFUL TOO BECAUSE, UM, YOU HAVE TO BE AT ALL THREE OF THOSE LOCATIONS.

I KNOW IT'S ONLY THREE DAYS, SO IT'S NOT THE, THE, THE END OF THE WORLD, BUT I'D LIKE TO KEEP IT AS IS RIGHT NOW BECAUSE PEOPLE WILL MAKE THEIR WAY THERE.

A LOT OF PEOPLE WALK OVER, ESPECIALLY FROM FLAMINGO PARK IN THAT AREA TO CITY HALL.

UM, MY RECOMMENDATION IS IF YOU WANT TO KEEP IT AT CITY HALL, IT WOULD BE DIFFICULT, BUT WE COULD DO IT.

BUT ADD THAT THIRD LOCATION, YOU DON'T WANT TO PREVENT THEM.

EVEN IF ONE PERSON GOES TO THE THIRD LOCATION, IT'S WORTH IT.

SO, AT A THIRD LOCATION IN SOUTH BEACH? NO, IT'S NOT AT SOUTH BEACH IN MID BEACH.

AND THE ONLY PLACE THAT I CAN THINK OF RIGHT NOW BASED ON THE STATUTE REQUIREMENTS IS MUST PARK.

MUST PARK.

BUT AT LEAST IT'S SOMEWHERE ELSE YOU CAN GO TO.

DON'T, DON'T SAY NO TO THAT RIGHT NOW.

I'M OKAY WITH THAT.

AND, AND, AND CAN I JUST CHIME IN JUST, AND I'M SORRY.

'CAUSE I, I KNOW I HAVE COLLEAGUES THAT ARE WAITING TO SPEAK.

MY MY CONCERN IS THAT IF WE ONLY KEEP IT AT CITY HALL, SOME VOTERS MIGHT FEEL DISENFRANCHISED 'CAUSE THEY'RE NOT GONNA WANNA SIT IN THE TRAFFIC.

BUT WE'RE ABLE TO DO THREE LOCATIONS.

WE HAVE THE LOCATION IN NORTH BEACH WHERE NORTH BEACH IS NOT AS IMPACTED BY THE TRAFFIC.

UH, DURING, DURING BASEL, WE CAN HAVE A, A LOCATION IN MID BEACH THAT PEOPLE CAN WALK TO OR BIKE TO IN ADDITION TO A LOCATION IN SOUTH BEACH.

UH, WHETHER IT BE THE PAL OR THE SOUTH SHORE COMMUNITY CENTER THAT, AGAIN, PEOPLE IN SOUTH BEACH CAN WALK OR, OR, OR BIKE TO, AND THEY DON'T WANNA SIT IN THE TRAFFIC.

BUT AT LEAST WE'RE GIVING THEM OPTIONS THAT ARE CLOSER TO WHERE THEY LIVE SO THAT THEY HAVE AN EASIER WAY TO GET THERE.

OTHER THAN, UH, OTHER THAN SITTING IN HORRIBLE TRAFFIC.

I THINK WE'RE ALL ON THE SAME PAGE.

'CAUSE WE'RE SAYING THAT WE WANT MORE OPTIONS.

SO I KNOW EVERYBODY LOVES COMING TO CITY HALL BECAUSE THEY REALLY ENJOY RUNNING THROUGH THAT GAUNTLET OF SCREAMING MIMIS TELLING YOU WHO TO VOTE FOR AT, AT THE TOP OF THEIR LUNGS.

UM, I WOULD SUGGEST ONE OF THE THINGS ABOUT HAVING VOTING IN, UM, AT CITY HALL FOR THE REGULAR ELECTION IS THAT WHEN PEOPLE ARE HERE TO VOTE EARLY, YOU CAN TELL THEM, UM, EITHER THERE WON'T BE VOTING AT CITY HALL OR THERE WILL BE AN ADDITIONAL EARLY VOTING LOCATION.

AND WE KNOW THAT THOSE VOTERS AT LEAST WILL BE NOTIFIED WITH A LITTLE PIECE.

WE, YOU KNOW, THAT THERE'S GONNA BE AN ADDITIONAL SITE.

IT MUST BE, IT MUST PARK.

SO, UM, I WOULD CONTEMPLATE THAT IF YOU CAN.

AND, UM, I WOULD ALSO SUGGEST KEEPING, UM, CITY HALL, UH, SEVERAL THINGS HAVE CHANGED WITH PRECINCTS IN THE LAST COUPLE YEARS.

SO ONE OF THE LARGEST PRECINCTS IS 30, AND THAT SUNSET HARBOR AND THE VENETIAN ISLANDS AND A LITTLE BIT OF WEST AVENUE, THEY USED VOTE AT THE BOTANICAL GARDEN, BUT WITH THE EXPANSION OF THE HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL, THERE'S NO PARKING AND NOW THEY CAN'T VOTE THERE.

THEY VOTE AT CITY HALL.

SO IT WOULD BE A HUGE PORTION OF THE ELECTORATE.

UM, AND AS THE MAYOR SAID, NOT BEING AWARE, GETTING CONFUSED, NO MATTER HOW MANY TIMES WE COMMUNICATE.

SO I THINK IT'S CRITICAL TO HAVE SOMETHING.

AND, AND I WANNA MAKE CLEAR THAT THIS IS ONLY FOR EARLY VOTING.

THE GENERAL ELECTION IS THE WEEK AFTER OUR BASEL, THE RUNOFF, SO IT WON'T BE IMPACTED.

SO THOSE PEOPLE WHO VOTE AT CITY HALL WILL VOTE AT CITY HALL.

SO IT'S, THIS IS JUST FOR THE THREE DAYS OF RUNOFF ELECTION.

SO, UM, I WOULD PREFER THAT THIS ALSO BE REFERRED SO WE CAN TALK .

I WAS, I WAS ABOUT TO ASK SINCE YOU PULLED IT, COMMISSIONER FROM, IS THAT YOUR YEAH, JUST FINE.

BUT A GOOD DISCUSSION.

I THINK YOU GOT THE BALL ROLLING.

SO, UH, THANK YOU.

MUCH APPRECIATED.

SO BY ACCLAMATION, C FOUR C IS REFERRED TO THE MARCH 12TH, UH, PUBLIC SAFETY, NEIGHBORHOOD AND QUALITY OF BLOCK COMMITTEE.

[C7 N A RESOLUTION OF THE MAYOR AND CITY COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF MIAMI BEACH, FLORIDA, CREATING THE 2025 AD HOC HALL OF FAME SELECTION COMMITTEE (THE “COMMITTEE”), TO CONSIST OF NINE-MEMBERS APPOINTED BY THE CITY COMMISSION, FOR THE SELECTION OF THE 2025 INDUCTEE TO THE MIAMI BEACH HALL OF FAME.]

C SEVEN N AS IN NANCY.

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C SEVEN N IS AUTHORIZED CREATION OF HALL OF FAME SELECTION COMMITTEE FOR 2025.

IT WAS SEPARATED BY COMMISSIONER DOMINGUEZ.

UH, THE REASON I PULLED THAT IS THAT DURING MY BRIEFING IN SPEAKING WITH THE CITY ADMINISTRATION, UH, THEY MENTIONED THAT IT IS A LOT OF WORK, UH, TO DO THIS PARTICULAR COMMITTEE.

AND WITH THIS BEING AN ELECTION YEAR, GIVING THEM EXTRA STRAIN, IF WE COULD DEFER THE HALL OF FAME TO 2026 INSTEAD OF 2025.

I LOVE YOUR PROPOSAL.

SECOND YEAR I VICE MAYOR BACH.

I COMPLETELY AGREE WITH YOU, AND NOT JUST BECAUSE IT'S AN ELECTION YEAR AND HAVING EXTRA WORK, BUT BECAUSE HAVING IT BE IN ANY ELECTION YEAR MAKES IT A POLITICAL PROCESS.

AND I THINK THAT IS NOT THE INTENT.

SO I WOULD, UM, SUGGEST THAT WE ROLL THIS OVER TO THE NEXT EVEN YEAR AND CONTINUE IT THAT WAY IN PERPETUITY.

SO CAN OR EVEN YEAR, THE NEXT EVEN YEAR.

'CAUSE 2025, THERE'S ELECTION 26, THERE'S, OH, I NO ELECTION.

THERE'S NO ELECTION.

2026.

THE LAST, THE LAST C SEVEN A G GIMME ONE SEC.

SO CAN WE TECHNICALLY WITHDRAW THE ITEM AND YOU BRING IT BACK LIZETTE IN 2026.

OKAY, SO ITEM C SEVEN N IS WITHDRAWN.

WE GOOD? WE'RE GOOD.

[C7 AG A RESOLUTION OF THE MAYOR AND CITY COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF MIAMI BEACH, FLORIDA, ACCEPTING THE RECOMMENDATION OF THE FINANCE AND ECONOMIC RESILIENCY COMMITTEE AT ITS DECEMBER 20, 2024 MEETING TO DIRECT THE CITY ADMINISTRATION TO IMPLEMENT A POLICY THAT WOULD ALLOW EMPLOYEES OF THE CITY WHO ARE PRESCRIBED MEDICAL MARIJUANA BY A PROPERLY LICENSED MEDICAL PROFESSIONAL TO BE PERMITTED TO USE PROPERLY PRESCRIBED MEDICATION DURING NONWORKING HOURS AND SUFFICIENTLY IN ADVANCE OF ANY SCHEDULED WORK SHIFT, BUT THAT WOULD ALSO MAKE APPROPRIATE EXCEPTIONS WHERE REQUIRED TO MAINTAIN A DRUGFREE WORKPLACE, COMPLY WITH STATE AND FEDERAL LAWS REGULATING SOME LICENSED STAFF (SUCH AS, FOR EXAMPLE, HOLDERS OF CDL DRIVER’S LICENSES), AND TO PROVIDE APPROPRIATE LIMITED ACCOMMODATIONS FOR EMPLOYEES IN SAFETY-SENSITIVE POSITIONS (WHICH MAY CONSIST OF LIGHT-DUTY, A CHANGE OF DUTIES, AND/OR LEAVE).]

C SEVEN AG WAS, UH, MEDICAL MARIJUANA USE BY EMPLOYEES.

IT WAS SEPARATED BY THE MAYOR.

SO I'LL BE BRIEF.

I, MY UNDERSTANDING IS THAT WE DO PROVIDE, OUR CITY DOES, AND WE HAVE, UH, MARLA AND, AND, AND MARK HERE.

YOU CAN, WE DO PROVIDE SOME ACCOMMODATIONS FOR, UH, MEDICAL MARIJUANA CLEARANCE.

THE REASON WHY I PULLED IT, I HAVE, I HAVE SOME CONCERNS ABOUT, UM, SENSITIVE POSITIONS AND THE SAFETIES TO MAKE SURE THEY'RE, THEY'RE THEN THIS, UH, THIS WOULD NOT IMPACT THEM.

AND MY UNDERSTANDING IS AT LEAST THE, THE LATEST TECHNOLOGY THAT TESTS CAN BE INCONCLUSIVE ON USAGE VERSUS IMPAIRMENT.

AND I HAVE CONCERNS, UH, WHETHER, IF WE'RE TESTING, WHETHER WE REALLY KNOW, UH, A CLEAR ANSWER.

SO THAT, THAT'S WHY I PULLED IT.

UM, SO THIS IS MY ITEM.

UM, I DON'T KNOW IF YOU SAW THE RE RECENT, UM, COURT DECISION THAT IF YOU TEST ANY EMPLOYEE, ANY EMPLOYEE, IT COULD BE POLICE, IT COULD BE NT, AND THEY COME OUT POSITIVE, UM, BUT THEY WEREN'T DOING IT ON THE JOB AND THEY HAVE A CARD AND A PRESCRIPTION.

THERE'S ABSOLUTELY NOTHING THAT WE COULD DO ANYWAY, AS LONG AS, OKAY, THE STATE OF FLORIDA RECOGNIZES MEDICAL MARIJUANA, LIKE MEDICINE, LIKE ANYTHING ELSE THAT YOU WOULD TAKE.

BUT MAYBE THEY CHOOSE TO HAVE MEDICAL MAR.

SO IT WILL NOT AFFECT OUR, UM, DRUG FREE WORKPLACE STATUS BECAUSE IT IS CONSIDERED MEDICINE BY THE STATE OF FLORIDA.

UM, THE JUDICIAL SYSTEM HAS ALREADY OPINED THAT WE CANNOT, WE HAVE NO RECOURSE IF EVEN IF SOMEBODY WHO WAS OPERATING HEAVY MACHINERY TESTED POSITIVE AND HE SHOWED HIS CARD AND HE, AND HE DID NOT HAVE ANY PROBLEM AT WORK, IT IS MEDICINE.

SO THERE IS NOTHING THAT WE COULD DO.

I DON'T KNOW IF YOU SAW THAT DECISION WITH THE ENT.

UM, I HAD THE ARTICLE AND I DON'T KNOW WHERE IT IS, BUT IT WAS A VERY RECENT LEGAL DECISION.

SO THIS IS REALLY JUST TO CLEAN UP.

ALSO.

I THINK THAT IT'S, FIRST OF ALL, I MEAN MIAMI BEACH A PINE, I THINK LIKE ALMOST 80% ON MIRACLE MEDICAL MARIJUANA, BUT THAT'S NOT WHAT THIS IS ABOUT.

IT'S JUST ABOUT IMPLEMENTING THE STATE OF FLORIDA LAW, UM, ALLOWING ANYBODY WHO HAS A PRESCRIPTION TO USE, UM, MEDICAL MARIJUANA, UM, IF THEY SO CHOOSE, UM, IN THE CITY OF MIAMI BEACH, AS LONG AS THEY ARE NOT USING IT ON THE JOB, EVERYBODY HAS TO PERFORM THEIR JOB.

THERE IS A PERFORMANCE STANDARD.

CAN ANYONE FROM THE ADMINISTRATION OPINE ON THE RECENT COURT DECISION? I BELIEVE IT WAS THAT NICK OR WHERE'S ROB? 'CAUSE HE SAW IT.

ROB.

I WAS JUST LOOKING FOR HIM.

WHERE ARE YOU? I NEED HIM.

I HAD AN, I HAD THE ARTICLE IN FRONT OF ME THAT I WAS ACTUALLY GOING TO READ.

SO IT WON'T MATTER WHAT WE DO ANYWAY, BUT, UM, THIS IS ACTUALLY THE RIGHT THING TO DO.

UM, THERE ARE MANY PEOPLE WHO MIGHT SUFFER FROM ANXIETY OR INSOMNIA AND TURN TOWARD SOMETHING WORSE.

LIKE, UM, THAT COULD BE LEGAL LIKE AN A LEGAL TYPE OF OPIOID OR A XANAX,

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ROB, COULD YOU, UH, TELL US ABOUT THE RECENT LEGAL DECISION REGARDING MEDICAL MARIJUANA AND THE ENT? UH, SURE.

THERE IS TTA RECENT, WELL, FIRST OF ALL, I SHOULD SAY THERE'S A DEARTH OF CASE LAW ON THIS.

SO ANY CASE LAW THAT COMES OUT ON THIS SUBJECT AT ALL IS NOTEWORTHY.

HOWEVER, THIS IS JUST A TRIAL COURT DECISION OUT OF HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY.

SO IT'S NOT, DOESN'T CARRY PRESIDENTIAL WEIGHT, BUT BEING ONE OF THE FIRST DECISIONS, IT IS SOMETHING THAT EVERYBODY IS PAYING CLOSE ATTENTION TO.

AND IN THAT CASE, A UH, A PARAMEDIC, UH, SUED THE CITY BECAUSE THE CITY WOULD NOT GIVE HIM AN ACCOMMODATION TO ALLOW HIM, UH, TO DO MEDICAL MARIJUANA.

AND THE TRIAL COURT FOUND THAT THE CI UH, UH, THE COUNTY VIOLATED, UH, THE LAW BY NOT MAKING THAT ACCOMMODATION FOR HIM.

THAT THEY HAD TO ALLOW HIM, UH, AN ACCOMMODATION WHICH COULD, UH, PRESUMABLY INCLUDE MEDICAL MARIJUANA.

UM, THAT THAT CASE, LIKE I SAID, IT'S A TRIAL COURT DECISION.

IT'S, UH, WE DON'T KNOW YET IF IT'S BEEN APPEALED OR, OR WHAT AN APPELLATE COURT WOULD DO WITH IT, UH, BUT THE, IT BEING ONE OF THE FIRST DECISIONS REALLY IN THE COUNTRY, BUT CERTAINLY IN FLORIDA ON THE ISSUE OF MEDICAL MARIJUANA, UH, IT IT IS SIGNIFICANT.

UM, JUST SO THAT, YOU KNOW, EMPLOYEE WHO WORKED FOR HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY AND AS AN EMT EMERGENCY MEDICAL TECHNICIAN TESTED POSITIVE FOR MARIJUANA FOLLOWING A RANDOM DUCK DRUG TEST IN ACCORDANCE WITH AN APPLICABLE COLLECTIVE BARGAINING AGREEMENT.

THE EMPLOYEE PRESENTED HIS EMPLOYER AND TESTING DR WITH VAL VA VALID MEDICAL MARIJUANA CARD.

THE COUNTY NEVERTHELESS PLACED THE EMPLOYEE ON ADMINISTRATIVE LEAVE.

IT ADMITTED IN COURT PROCEEDINGS.

HOWEVER, THAT THERE HAD BEEN NO ALLEGATIONS THAT THE EMPLOYEE USED MARIJUANA DURING WORK HOURS.

THE EMPLOYEE SUED THE COUNTY ALLEGING A FAILURE TO ACCOMMODATE IN VIOLATION OF THE FCRA AS A WRONGFUL TERMINATION, AND HE WON.

SO, I MEAN, THAT'S THE LAW OF LAND NOW.

WELL, I THINK ROB JUST SAID IT'S NOT THE LAW OF LAND, BUT IT IS AS OF RIGHT NOW, IT, IT, IT, IT, IT IS, IT GOVERNS THAT CASE.

IT GOVERNS ALL DECISIONS.

UH, IT IS, IT'S, IT'S A, IT'S A SIGNIFICANT DECISION BEING THE FIRST ONE, HOWEVER, IT DOESN'T CARRY PRESIDENTIAL WEIGHT.

THE WHAT MIGHT, UH, BE A RULE AGAINST THEIR USE OF, UH, MARIJUANA IN OUR BARGAINING PROCEDURES.

IT SAYS HERE, THERE WAS NO FACTUAL DISPUTE AS TO WHETHER THE EMPLOYEE MET THE DEFINITION OF A QUALIFIED PATIENT.

HE SUFFERS FROM AN ANXIETY PTSD INSOMNIA.

UM, SO THERE, THERE ARE A LOT OF PEOPLE ACROSS, UM, YEAH, ACROSS SOUTH FLORIDA, I THINK IN AMERICA IN GENERAL, THAT ARE SUFFERING FROM ANXIETY AND PTSD AND INSOMNIA AND THESE ISSUES.

AND THAT IS ILLEGAL MEDICATION.

ALL THIS, ALL THIS IS SAYING, IT IS NOT AFFECTING OUR GRANT STATUS.

IT'S NOT AFFECTING OUR, UM, DRUG, UH, DRUG FREE WORKPLACE STATUS.

ALL IT IS, IS SAYING THAT THE CITY OF MIAMI BEACH RECOGNIZES MEDICAL MARIJUANA AS A MEDICINE.

AND THAT IS THE ENLIGHTENED AND, AND PROG, I'M AFRAID TO EVEN USE THE WORD PROGRESS.

IT'S PROGRESS WITHOUT BEING PROGRESSIVE THING TO DO.

UM, IT'S THE COMPASSIONATE, UH, THING TO DO.

THE REASON THAT I STARTED THIS LEGISLATION IN THE FIRST PLACE, BECAUSE ONE OF OUR EMPLOYEES, UM, WHO HAVE IN IN, IN THE CWA UNIT CAME TO ME AND SAID, I HAVE CANCER.

I CANNOT USE MEDICAL MARIJUANA.

EVEN THOUGH WE HAD AN ACCOMMODATION, THERE WAS SOME SOMEWHAT OF A STIGMATIZATION THAT GOES ALONG WITH BEING THE ONE PERSON THAT HAS AN ACCOMMODATION.

AND ALL I'M ASKING THIS BODY IS TO DO IS RESPECT THE LAW OF THE LAND IN THE STATE OF FLORIDA, WHICH IS RECOGNIZING MEDICAL MARIJUANA AS ANY OTHER MEDICINE.

MARLA, HOW DOES THIS RESOLUTION, UH, DIFFER FROM THE CURRENT ACCOMMODATIONS THAT WE PROVIDE FOR MEDICAL MARIJUANA CLEARANCE? SO THE RESOLUTION IN FRONT OF YOU, UM, ENCOURAGES, SORRY, MARLOW.

P'S OUR HR DIRECTOR FOR THE RECORD, UH, THE, THE RESOLUTION IN FRONT OF YOU ENCOURAGES THE, AND, AND REQUIRES THE CITY TO PROVIDE APPROPRIATE ACCOMMODATION.

SO DEPENDING ON IF THE EMPLOYEE WOULD BE A SAFETY, SAFETY SENSITIVE EMPLOYEE OR NOT, UM, ACCOMMODATIONS CAN LOOK DIFFERENT FOR DIFFERENT EMPLOYEES WITH VARYING MEDICAL CONDITIONS.

SO AN ACCOMMODATION MIGHT BE, UM, A CHANGE OF HOURS, A CHANGE OF SCHEDULE, UH, MODIF, SLIGHT MODIFICATION OF DUTIES, AS LONG AS IT WASN'T ESSENTIAL CORE FUNCTIONS.

ACCOMMODATIONS MIGHT BE, UH, IF IT IS A SAFETY SENSITIVE PERSON WHO CANNOT, UM, EXECUTE THE ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS OF THEIR JOB, MIGHT BE ASSIGNMENT TO A DIFFERENT JOB.

UH, ACCOMMODATIONS CAN LOOK LIKE MANY, MANY THINGS.

IT DOESN'T MEAN THAT A PERSON SITS IN THEIR SAME JOB AND DOES EXACTLY THE SAME THING WHEN THEIR MEDICAL CONDITION MIGHT NECESSITATE A CHANGE.

DO WE, DO WE PROVIDE SOME OF THESE ACCOMMODATIONS CURRENTLY? SO WE DO PROVIDE ACCOMMODATIONS FOR ALL KINDS OF MEDICAL CONDITIONS.

I HAVE ONLY HAD TWO EMPLOYEES EVER HAVE A MEDICAL MARIJUANA CARD AND REQUEST AN ACCOMMODATION IN LIEU OF, UH,

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AND IN BOTH OF THOSE CASES, THE ACCOMMODATIONS, UH, HAVE BEEN CONSIDERED AND ARE BEING, UH, FIGURED OUT.

AND WHAT, WHAT WOULD THIS LEGISLATION DO? I, I GUESS JUST IF MAYBE IT'S, I'M NOT TRYING TO SUCCINCTLY, I GUESS, WHAT, WHAT IS THE, WHAT DOES THIS LEGISLATION DO OR DIFFER FROM HOW WE CURRENTLY HANDLE THE ACCOMMODATIONS? YEAH, YOU USED THE WORD ENCOURAGED BEFORE.

I'M JUST TRYING TO FIGURE OUT, I I THINK IT WOULD BE A REQUIREMENT THAT WE WOULD ACCOMMODATE WHERE POSSIBLE WITH MEDICAL MARIJUANA.

BUT, BUT WE'RE DOING THAT NOW.

DIRECTOR AND THE UNION AND THE EMPLOYEE HAVE A DESIRE TO, UM, MAKE SURE THAT THE EMPLOYEE CONTINUES EMPLOYMENT BECAUSE THEY'RE A GOOD EMPLOYEE.

I THINK THAT THIS CODIFIES WHAT HR AND WHAT THE CITY IS DOING RIGHT NOW, IT'S SOMETHING THAT THE COMMISSION HAS NEVER SAID THAT YOU APPROVE OF WHAT WE'RE DOING RIGHT NOW AND, AND WHAT EVERYBODY DOES.

THE STATE OF FLORIDA, MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, THE, THE, THIS KIND OF PROCESS IS WHAT MOST GOVERNMENTS ARE ENGAGING IN.

NOW, WE PREVIOUSLY HAD A POLICY, ALTHOUGH IT DIDN'T COME DIRECTLY FROM THE COMMISSION, THAT MEDICAL MARIJUANA WAS NOT ALLOWED.

AND THAT THAT WAS NOT AN ACCOMMODATION THAT WE WERE GOING TO GIVE.

WE HAVE TO LET PEOPLE GO, UH, FOR TESTING POSITIVE, EVEN THOUGH THEY HAD A MEDICAL MARIJUANA CARD AMONG, AMONG OTHER REASONS.

BUT, AND WE GOT SUED AND WE, UH, HAD TO SETTLE THAT CASE BECAUSE, BUT WE STARTED FROM THE PREMISE THAT, THAT THAT MEDICAL MARIJUANA WAS SOMETHING THAT WAS NOT ALLOWED IN THE CITY OF MIAMI BEACH.

THIS SORT OF CHANGES THE, THE OFFICIAL, UH, COMMISSION ENDORSED, UH, UH, UH, FRAMEWORK, THE PARADIGM THAT THE CITY LOOKS AT MEDICAL MARIJUANA THROUGH FROM THE PREVIOUS, UH, POSITION, THAT IT SIMPLY IS NOT SOMETHING THAT WE ALLOW TO, SOMETHING THAT WE WILL LOOK AT UNDER APPROPRIATE CONDITIONS AND, UH, AND WHERE IT CAN BE DONE IN A WAY THAT DOESN'T AFFECT SAFETY OR OUR GRANTS OR OUR INSURANCE OR ANYTHING ELSE THAT WE WOULD CONSIDER IT, WHICH IS WHAT WE AND OTHERS ARE DOING NOW TO THE CHAIR.

COULD THIS LEGISLATION HAVE AN IMPACT IF WE GOT SUED, FOR EXAMPLE, IF WE DEC IF WE DENIED FOR WHATEVER REASON? NO, I THINK THIS LEGISLATION SAYS THAT WE WILL CONSIDER AN ACCOMMODATION FOR, UH, ANYONE WHO REQUESTS IT.

AND FOR THOSE WHO IT CAN'T BE ACCOMMODATED, WE WILL OFFER OTHER ACCOMMODATIONS.

I THINK THAT IF ANYTHING, IT HELPS US, UH, IF WE WERE TO GET SUED.

UM, SO IT IS, IT REALLY IS.

IT'S NOT A SUBSTANTIVE CHANGE OF WHAT WE DO BECAUSE IT'S WHAT WE'RE DOING RIGHT NOW.

IT'S JUST THE COMMISSION ENDORSING WHAT WE DO.

COMMISSIONER ROSA GONZALEZ, IF IT WERE UP TO ME, I WOULD REMOVE IT FROM THE TESTING.

BECAUSE NO MATTER WHAT HAPPENS, IF SOMEBODY DID TEST POSITIVE, UM, ANY COURT, OR BASED ON THE ONE DECISION THAT WE HAVE, IT IS LAW IN THE STATE OF FLORIDA, FLORIDA THAT YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO A PRESCRIPTION.

BUT HERE'S WHAT YOU'RE, IF WE STOP TESTING, FOR EXAMPLE, LET'S SAY THAT YOU'RE GOING THROUGH TREMENDOUS ANXIETY MAY OR MINOR OR STRESS, RIGHT? YOU'RE HAVING A BAD MOMENT RIGHT NOW, THE WAY THAT THE POLICY WORKS IS I HAVE TO GO TO MY BOSS AND SAY, HEY, I'M REALLY SUFFERING BADLY FROM INSOMNIA.

NOBODY WANTS TO HAVE TO DO THAT.

IF YOU'RE PERFORMING AND YOU'RE DOING YOUR JOB WELL, YOU'RE SUPERVISOR KNOWS THAT, RIGHT? RIGHT.

WE DON'T, I DON'T THINK THAT PEOPLE SHOULD HAVE TO DISCLOSE THIS BECAUSE THEY DON'T HAVE TO DISCLOSE TAKING A XANAX OR IN SOME CASE, LIKE A SERIOUS OPIOID OR SOME OTHER, UM, MIND OR ENHANCING, YOU KNOW, SOME CALMING DRUG OR SOME SORT OF, BUT, BUT, BUT YOU DO FOR, FOR THE MARIJUANA.

SO I WOULD LIKE FOR EMPLOYEE MORALE, FOR PEOPLE TO JUST FEEL SAFE THAT THEY DON'T, AND I WOULD, I WOULD LIKE AS, I MEAN, THIS JUST SAYS THAT WE'RE GONNA RECOGNIZE IT AS MEDICINE.

I DON'T EVEN THINK WE SHOULD TEST FOR IT, BUT THAT'S JUST UP TO ME.

AND IF WE DO RECOGNIZE IT AS MEDICINE, WILL WE CONTINUE TO TEST FOR IT, MARLA? SO, TO THE CHAIR, THROUGH THE CHAIR, UH, WE DO HAVE, UH, BARGAINING AGREEMENTS WHERE THERE ARE LISTS OF SCHEDULED DRUGS THAT WE DO TEST FOR.

AND SOME OF THEM ARE SCHEDULED DRUGS THAT ARE CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES, AND SOME OF THEM ARE ILLEGAL DRUGS.

SO UNLESS WE WERE TO CHANGE THE BARGAINING AGREEMENTS, WE WOULD BE TESTING FOR ALL OF THE DRUGS THAT ARE LISTED IN THE BARGAINING AGREEMENTS.

MOST PEOPLE WHO TEST FOR MARIJUANA AND TEST POSITIVE, AND THEY, UM, GOOD EMPLOYEES AND THE, THE, THE

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WE DO A LAST CHANCE AGREEMENT.

EVERYONE HITS, RESET, UNDERSTANDS THERE'S A DRUG FREE WORKPLACE.

WE HELP THE EMPLOYEE IF THEY HAVE A SUBSTANCE ABUSE PROBLEM.

AND WE CONTINUE FROM THAT POINT.

MOST PEOPLE WHO DO A LAST CHANCE AGREEMENT BECAUSE THEY HAVE, UH, A DRUG OR AN ALCOHOL PROBLEM THAT HAS BEEN IDENTIFIED THROUGH SOME METHOD, WHETHER IT'S THROUGH THEY HAVE SAID THEY HAVE A PROBLEM OR WHETHER IT'S THROUGH TESTING, WE MOST PEOPLE COME OFF OF THEIR LAST CHANCE AGREEMENT WITH NO PROBLEM.

CAN, I'M JUST GONNA, SO WITH THIS POLICY IN PLACE, SHOULD AN EMPLOYEE OF THE CITY OF MIAMI BEACH TEST POSITIVE FOR MARIJUANA AND THEY HAVE A CARD AND IT AND, AND A PRESCRIPTION, THERE WILL BE NO LAST CHANCE.

THERE WILL BE NO DISCUSSIONS.

WE ARE GOING TO, AND, AND THEY KEEP THEIR PRIVACY, RIGHT? THIS IS NOT GOING TO BE PUBLIC INFORMATION.

A AS, AS THE POLICY IS WRITTEN RIGHT NOW MM-HMM .

UM, THE EMPLOYEE, IT'S NOT, IF YOU HAVE A MEDICAL MARIJUANA CARD, YOU'RE, YOU'RE FREE TO TEST POSITIVE.

YOU WOULD HAVE TO GET AN ACCOMMODATION.

SO IT'S NOT ANONYMOUS.

YOU, YOU HAVE TO GET AN A.

BUT WHAT I'M PROPOSING IS WHAT IS, WHAT IS BE WHAT WAS BEFORE, UM, THE POLICY AS IT'S WRITTEN RIGHT NOW MM-HMM .

WOULD REQUIRE SOMEONE TO COME TO HR AND GET AN ACCOMMODATION, AND WE WOULD BE ABLE TO DETERMINE WHETHER THAT EMPLOYEE COULD STAY IN THEIR CURRENT POSITION.

WE AT CURRENTLY WOULD NOT ALLOW SOMEONE THAT'S OPERATING HEAVY EQUIPMENT.

THERE'S A LOT OF POSITIONS THAT WE WOULD NOT ALLOW SOMEONE TO MAINTAIN, UH, CONTINUE TO DO THEIR, THEIR CURRENT JOB AND BE USING MARIJUANA.

BECAUSE THE BIG PROBLEM RIGHT NOW IS THE TESTING.

SO SOMEONE THAT HAS MARIJUANA IN THEIR SYSTEM, IT STAYS IN YOUR SYSTEM CAN STAY IN YOUR SYSTEM TO UP TO 30 DAYS.

SO I CAN'T TELL IF SOMEONE TESTS POSITIVE WHETHER THEY SMOKED POT, THEY TOOK A GUMMY, THEY THEY TOOK SOME TYPE OF MARIJUANA 15 MINUTES AGO OR 15 DAYS AGO.

CAN'T TELL.

SO FOR THAT REASON, WE HAVE NO WAY OF TELLING WHEN WE DO TEST SOMEONE, EVEN IF IT'S IN THE MIDDLE OF THE DAY, WHETHER THEY'RE UNDER THE INFLUENCE OR NOT, IT'S NOT LIKE ALCOHOL WHERE YOU BLOW INTO A BREATHALYZER.

AND I CAN TELL THAT YOU ARE IMPAIRED.

THERE'S NO WAY OF TELLING THAT.

WE'RE TOLD THAT IN THE VERY NEAR FUTURE, THERE'S GONNA BE A SWAB TEST THAT WILL NARROW THAT WINDOW WAY DOWN.

IT'S NOT GONNA BE AS A, AS AS NARROW AS A ALCOHOL BREATHALYZER TEST, BUT THEY'RE, IT'S GONNA BE MUCH NARROWER.

BUT RIGHT NOW IT'S 30 DAYS.

SO THAT'S THE PROBLEM WE HAVE.

WHEN SOMEONE TESTS POSITIVE, WE HAVE NO WAY OF TELLING WHETHER THEY'RE IMPAIRED OR NOT.

SO, YEAH, THE, YOU'RE KIND OF EXPRESSING MY CONCERN.

I MEAN, WE'LL, WE'LL VOTE AS A BODY TO SEE WHAT WE WANT TO DO.

I'M I'M NOT, I'M NOT THERE.

PART OF IT IS ALSO, IT'S, IT'S A SLIPPERY SLOPE AS I THINK COMMISSIONER IS SAYING.

SHE EVEN PREFERS NO TESTING.

I'M NOT, I'M NOT, I'M THAT SAME PAGE.

I ALSO LOOK AT IT FROM WHERE WE ARE AS A CITY, RIGHT? WE HAD LEGISLATION THAT, I BELIEVE IT WAS COMMISSIONER FERNANDEZ WHO BROUGHT FORWARD THAT I WAS A, I THINK I CO-SPONSORED ABOUT MOVING JUST NOT EMPLOYEES, BUT CITYWIDE THAT IT'S NOT A CIVIL CITATION ANYMORE.

UH, MARIJUANA, RIGHT.

IT'S NOW, UH, IT'S A CRIMINAL.

WE CRIMINALIZED IT.

SO I, I JUST THINK THIS IS PERSONALLY, I JUST THINK IT'S THE WRONG DIRECTION FOR OUR CITY TO GO IN.

SO, UH, THAT'S WHY I PULLED IT AND THAT'S WHY I'LL BE A NO VOTE TODAY.

AND WE'RE READY TO FOLLOW WHATEVER DIRECTION THIS COMMISSION WANTS TO GO.

I'M JUST TELLING YOU THAT'S KIND OF THE WAY THE POLICY IS DRAFTED CURRENTLY.

UH, MARLA, AM I CORRECT THAT IT, THAT IT'S CURRENTLY, YOU WOULD STILL HAVE TO COME TO HR TO GET A, AN ACCOMMODATION? CORRECT.

AND WE ACCOMMODATE IN EVERY CASE THAT WE CAN POSSIBLY ACCOMMODATE, EVEN IF IT MEANS HAVING THEM DO A DIFFERENT FUNCTION.

WE JUST DON'T WANNA PUT SOMEONE IN A POSITION WHERE THEY'RE DOING A LIFE, A SAFETY SENSITIVE POSITION AND COULD POSSIBLY BE UNDER THE INFLUENCE, JUST CALL THE VOTE.

COMMISSIONER, WHAT IS THE VOTE? THE VOTE IS TO ADOPT THIS POLICY TO ALLOW FOR ANYBODY WHO HAS A PRESCRIPTION.

OKAY? SO IF YOU HAVE CANCER AND YOU WORK IN THE CITY OF MIAMI BEACH, YOU'RE NOT GONNA BE STIGMATIZED.

YOU CAN COME AND DISCLOSE THAT YOU HAVE THIS PRESCRIPTION.

SO WHEN YOU TEST POSITIVE, NOTHING BAD HAPPENS TO YOU AND YOU DON'T GET PUT ON THE SCARY, WHAT WAS THAT? DON'T LAST CHANCE AGREEMENT.

LAST CHANCE, YEAH.

WHATEVER THAT IS.

THE LAST CHANCE LIST OR LAST CHANCE? WHAT AGREEMENT? THE LAST CHANCE AGREEMENT.

AND I THINK THAT'S FAIR.

THAT'S WHY I STARTED THIS POLICY IN THE FIRST PLACE.

'CAUSE WE HAD AN EMPLOYEE WITH CANCER, AND I THINK THE COMPASSIONATE THING TO DO IS IF YOU HAVE AN ILLNESS AND YOU NEED MEDICAL MARIJUANA, THAT THE CITY OF MIAMI BEACH IS GOING TO ACCOMMODATE YOU AND NOT PUT YOU ON A, IN A LAST CHANCE AGREEMENT.

AND THAT FOLLOWS STATE POLICY.

UM, HOPEFULLY I THINK SOON AT SOME POINT.

UH, NATIONAL POLICY, YOU KNOW, AND, AND, AND I, AND PEOPLE WHO ARE GOING TO GET THE CARD ALREADY KNOW THAT THERE'S GOING TO BE A PUBLIC RECORD OF THEM GETTING THAT PRESCRIPTION CARD.

YOU CAN PRO THAT'S, I DON'T KNOW IF IT'S PUBLIC RECORD.

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'CAUSE IT'S, I DUNNO.

WELL, I MEAN, WELL, YOU WOULD HAVE TO DISCLOSE IT.

DISCLOSE IT TO MARLA, BUT SHE WILL BE SMILING AND KIND AND SAY, OKAY, THERE IS NO LAST CHANCE AGREEMENT.

YOU CAN, UH, TAKE YOUR MEDICINE AS NEEDED.

SO THIS IS VICE MAYOR.

I CAN, THIS IS HOW WE HEARD IT IN FERC.

WHEREAS ESSENTIALLY YOU DO HAVE TO GO TO HR FOR THE ACCOMMODATION.

IT'S NOT A JUST BLANKET WAIVER.

THAT IS CORRECT.

AND IS THERE ANY CARVE OUT FOR SAFETY SENSITIVE POSITIONS? SO THE RESOLUTION ENDS WITH PROVIDE APPROPRIATE LIMITED ACCOMMODATIONS FOR EMPLOYEES IN SAFETY SENSITIVE POSITIONS, PARENTHESIS, WHICH MAY CONSIST OF LIGHT DUTY, A CHANGE OF DUTIES AND OR LEAVE.

AND SO IT'S AN ACKNOWLEDGEMENT IN THE RESOLUTION THAT SAFETY SENSITIVE MAY NOT LOOK LIKE EVERYONE ELSE.

SO WE'RE NOT GONNA HAVE A ONE SIZE FITS ALL APPROACH.

WE CAN'T.

WHAT'S, SO WE HAVE A MOTION BY COMMISSIONER ROSEN GONZALEZ, BUT NO SECOND YET.

IS ANYBODY GOING TO SECOND MY MOTION FOR COMPASSIONATE USE OF MARIJUANA? AS LONG AS YOU DISCLOSE IT AS A MEDICINE MEDICAL MARIJUANA.

THAT'S VERY COMPASSIONATE AND KIND OF YOU.

SO I HAVE NO OTHER DISCUSSION.

ALL ALL IN FAVOR, PLEASE SAY AYE.

FROM COMMISSIONER SUAREZ.

ANY OPPOSED? A A NO, I A NO AS WELL.

SO NO.

FROM MAYOR MINOR? NO.

FROM COMMISSIONER FERNANDEZ AND NO.

ITEM PASSES.

[R9 A BOARD AND COMMITTEE APPOINTMENTS.]

[R9 B BOARD AND COMMITTEE APPOINTMENTS – CITY COMMISSION / AT-LARGE APPOINTMENTS.]

LET'S CALL, UH, R NINE A AND R NINE B BOARD COMMITTEE APPOINTMENTS? YES, SIR.

SO KAYLA IS HERE.

YEP.

SO EVERYONE ON THE DAY HAS A YELLOW, YELLOW SHEET AND THEY HAVE THEIR, THEIR PAD ON TOP OF IT.

MAYOR, THERE'S, I NEED DIRECT MAYOR.

UH, WE HAVE ONLY TWO CONTESTED RACES.

WOULD YOU LIKE TO DO THOSE FIRST OR WOULD YOU PREFER DOING, CAN WE JUST DO BY ACCLIMATION ALL OF THEM THAT ARE NOT CONTESTED? WE COULD DO THAT.

SO LET'S DO THAT.

AND, AND FOR ALL THOSE, IT'S BASICALLY ONE SEAT, ONE OPENING.

WE COULD DO THAT.

SO THE TWO THAT ARE, THAT ARE CONTESTED, IF YOU FIRST GO TO PAGE THREE OF YOUR YELLOW SHEET, IT IS THE DESIGN REVIEW BOARD.

THERE IS ONE SEAT THAT IS FOR AN ARCHITECT REGISTERED IN THE UNITED STATES, OR A PROFESSIONAL PRACTICING IN THE FIELD OF ARCHITECTURE OR A ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN.

IT IS CATEGORY ONE.

THERE IS ONE VACANT SEAT.

THERE ARE TWO NOMINEES.

THE FIRST NOMINEE IS CHARLES BENSON, WHO IS NOMINATED BY COMMISSIONER SUAREZ.

AND THE SECOND NOMINEE IS ADAM BERG, WHO IS NOMINATED BY VICE MAYOR BOT.

SO YOU WOULD HAVE TO SELECT EITHER MR. BENSON OR MR. MESH BERG AND, AND VOTE ON YOUR PATENT.

I'LL ANNOUNCE IT.

I GOT THEM.

NEXT CONTESTED RACE IS ON PAGE NINE OF YOUR, OF YOUR, UH, YELLOW SHEET IS FOR THE PLANNING BOARD.

SO THIS, THIS ITEM REQUIRES A SIMPLE MAJORITY.

I'M JUST GONNA READ THEM IN THE ORDER THAT I HAVE 'EM HERE.

COMMISSIONER SUAREZ IS VOTING FOR MR. BENSON.

COMMISSIONER FERNANDEZ, MR. BENSON, COMMISSIONER BOT, VICE MAYOR BOT MR. MESH, COMMISSIONER CHRISTIAN ROSEN GONZALEZ, MR. BENSON, COMMISSIONER DOMINGUEZ, AND MR. MESH BERG COMMISSIONER MAGAZINE.

MR. BENSON AND COMM MAYOR BY MINOR, MR. BENSON.

SO MR. BENSON, HAVING THE MAJORITY FIVE TO TWO IS APPOINTED TO SET POSITION.

THANK YOU EVERYONE.

OUR

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IT IS, IT IS CATEGORY ONE, ONE SEAT IS AVAILABLE.

IT'S ARCHITECT REGISTERED IN THE STATE OF FLORIDA, OR A MEMBER OF THE FACULTY OF A SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE IN THE STATE WITH PRACTICAL OR ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE IN THE FIELD OF DESIGN PLANNING, HISTORIC PRESERVATION OR HIS HISTORY OF ARCHITECTURE OR LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT REGISTERED IN THE STATE OF FLORIDA WHO ARE PROFESSIONAL PRACTICING IN THE FIELD OF ARCHITECTURAL OR URBAN DESIGN.

THE FIRST CANDIDATE IS MATTHEW GULOFF, REQUESTED, UH, NOMINATED BY VICE MAYOR BOT, THE SECOND, UH, INDIVIDUAL.

THE SECOND NOMINEE IS KEITH MARKS, UH, NOMINATED BY COMMISSIONER MAGAZINE.

SO WE HAVE MR. GO, MR. MARKS, THIS IS A SIMPLE MAJORITY, SO PLEASE VOTE FOR ONE, MR. ATTORNEY IF I MAY, THROUGH THE VICE MAYOR.

UM, SO WE HAVE TWO CANDIDATES, AND I HAD REQUESTED OF ONE OF THE CANDIDATES TO OBTAIN AN OPINION FROM THE MIAMI-DADE COUNTY COMMISSION ON ETHICS AND PUBLIC TRUST HAVING TO DO ON ANY POTENTIAL OR TO DETERMINE WHETHER ANY POTENTIAL CONFLICTS OF INTEREST EXIST OR NOT EXIST.

HAVE WE RECEIVED OR HAS THE, UH, INDIVIDUAL RECEIVED A RESPONSE FROM THE COMMISSION ON ETHICS? WELL, WE, WE ACTUALLY HAD SOME CONCERNS REGARDING SECTION ONE, 12.3 13 SEVEN OF THE FLORIDA STATUTES.

SO WE SUBMITTED A REQUEST FOR AN ETHICS OPINION, UH, AT THE END OF LAST WEEK TO THE FLORIDA COMMISSION ON ETHICS.

AND SO I, HAVE WE RECEIVED AN OPINION OR A RESPONSE TO THAT? WE HAVE NOT YET.

AND BY WHEN DO WE ANTICIPATE A RESPONSE? UM, I DON'T, I DON'T KNOW EXACTLY.

I IMAGINE THERE'LL BE A COUPLE OF WEEKS.

OKAY, MR. MAYOR, I WOULD LIKE TO SUGGEST THAT WE DEFER DISAPPOINTMENT UNTIL WE GET THE OPINION BACK FROM THE COMMISSION ON ETHICS.

UH, BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, A LOT OF THIS, YOU KNOW, HAS TO DO WITH ETHICS.

A LOT OF THIS HAS TO DO WITH QUESTIONS OF WHETHER SOMEONE HAS A CONFLICT OF INTEREST OR NOT.

AND, UH, AND I WANNA MAKE SURE THAT WE GET THE PROPER GUIDANCE, UH, BEFORE WE MAKE AN IMPORTANT VOTE, SUCH AS THIS ONE.

THIS IS BY FAR OUR MOST IMPORTANT BOARD.

AND SO WE WOULD LIKE TO PROPOSE DEFERRING IT BEFORE I COME TO COMMIT.

DO, DO WE HAVE A, DO WE HAVE A SENSE AS TO WHEN THAT OPINION IS GONNA COME IN? I'M SORRY IF YOU SAID, I'M SORRY.

UM, I WOULD, I WOULD ASK NICK IF HE HAS ANY BETTER IDEA.

I THINK A COUPLE OF WEEKS AT A MINIMUM.

AND MR. MAYOR, I DON'T KNOW, BUT I CAN, I CAN ASK THEM, UH, APPROXIMATELY HOW LONG, HOW LONG IT WOULD TAKE THEM.

I'D HATE TO GO A PERSON SHORT.

AND, AND, AND THEN THE QUESTION IS WHETHER IT EVEN IMPACTS THE VOTE.

WELL, COMMISSIONER, AND IF I COULD, UNDER THE CODE, UH, EXISTING BOARD MEMBERS WHOSE TERMS ENDED AT THE END OF 2024 CAN CONTINUE TO SERVE FOR 60 DAYS, UH, OR UNTIL A SUCCESSOR IS APPOINTED.

SO, UM, MARCH 1ST? MARCH 1ST IS PROBABLY, IS MARCH 1ST.

I THINK, UM, THE GENTLEMAN THAT, UH, MR. FERNANDEZ OR COMMISSIONER FERNANDEZ IS POINTING TO IS, UH, MATTHEW GOOV.

UM, I THINK JUST READING THE ROOM, UH, I'D LIKE TO SEE WHERE THE VOTES GO FIRST.

UM, BECAUSE THE OTHER CANDIDATE, KEITH MARKS, HAS NO CONFLICTS OF INTEREST.

SO, UM, LET'S SEE IF KEITH HAS VOTES.

IF NOT, THEN I GUESS WE CAN WAIT FOR THE OPINION MOTION.

MR. MAYOR, I FEEL, I FEEL LIKE I'M LEFT OUT OF ALL THIS.

EXISTS, IT'S GONNA DETERMINE MY VOTE VERY CLEARLY.

DOESN'T MY MOTION TO DEFER GO FIRST AT PRECEDENCE? WELL, WE'LL TURN TO RICK FOR THAT.

THE MOTION TO DEFER THE ITEM WOULD HAVE PRIORITY, CORRECT? YOU MADE A MOTION.

YES, I MADE A MOTION.

WAS THERE A SECOND? C CAN I JUST, I MEAN, COMMISSIONER MAGAZINE, I DON'T KNOW WHAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT HERE.

I, I FEEL LIKE , I, I AM THE ONE OUTING THE DARK THAT DOES ANYBODY WANNA I THINK EVERYONE'S TRYING TO BE VERY SENSITIVE.

NOT, I FEEL LIKE I'M OUT OF THE LOOP HERE.

I'LL TELL YOU, I'LL TELL YOU WHAT'S IN MY MIND.

I THINK I, I THINK THAT, THAT SOME CONCERNS THAT ARE WORTH CONSIDERING HAVE BEEN RAISED, UH, ABOUT, ABOUT AN AN INDIVIDUAL THAT SERVES ON THE PLANNING BOARD.

AND I THINK IT, I THINK WE SHOULD GET, UH, CLARITY AS TO WHETHER A CONFLICT OF INTEREST EXISTS OR NOT.

THE CONFLICT OF INTEREST ARISES BECAUSE THE INDIVIDUAL, UH, WORKS AT THE MIAMI DESIGN PRESERVATION LEAGUE.

THAT'S WHERE THE QUESTION ARISES FROM.

AND SO, AND, AND SO I JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE BEFORE WE VOTE THAT WE KNOW WHETHER OR NOT A CONFLICT OF INTEREST EXISTS.

IF, IF A CONFLICT OF INTEREST

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IF A CONFLICT OF INTEREST DOES NOT EXIST, IT'S, IT'S DIFFERENT.

UM, BECAUSE I DON'T, WHAT I DON'T WANT TO CREATE IS A PERCEPTION THAT SOMEONE IS ULTIMATELY, LET'S SAY, REMOVED FROM THE PLANNING BOARD BECAUSE THEY'VE BEEN A DISSENTING VOTE OR BECAUSE THEY'VE, THEY'VE ADVOCATED FOR THINGS THAT, YOU KNOW, THAT ADVOCATED FOR RESIDENT POSITIONS THAT OTHERS PERHAPS MIGHT NOT WILLING TO, TO, TO, TO ADVOCATE FOR.

MY VOTE IS, IS GONNA BE HEAVILY BASED ON THE, ON THAT OPINION.

AND THAT'S WHERE I DON'T THINK WE LOSE ANYTHING, UH, BY GIVING THIS A FEW WEEKS, UM, TO, TO ALLOW THE, UH, COMMISSION ON ETHICS TO RENDER THEIR OPINION SO THAT WE HAVE THE RIGHT INFORMATION BEFORE US TO RENDER THIS VOTE.

WELL, UM, I GUESS DOES, WHAT DO YOU WANNA SECOND THAT? WHAT ARE WE SECOND TO? THE DEFERRAL.

THE DEFERRAL.

I'LL SECOND THE DEFER.

AND RICK, THAT TAKES PRECEDENCE.

NOW YOU NEED TO VOTE ON THE DEFERRAL.

LET'S DO IT.

LET'S, ALL IN FAVOR OF DEFERRING THIS ITEM TO THE FEBRUARY 26TH MEETING.

IS THAT CORRECT? WE MIGHT HAVE TO, YOU MIGHT HAVE TO ROLL.

CALL THIS TO, I'M SORRY.

YOU MIGHT HAVE TO ROLL CALL.

ROLL CALL.

I ROLL.

CALL IT.

BUT IT'S FEBRUARY 26TH.

ASSUMING THAT'S WHEN WE GET, WELL, WE DON'T KNOW IF WE'RE GONNA HAVE AN ETHICS OPINION.

BUT IN OTHER WORDS, NOT BEFORE.

I'LL PUT IT ON FEBRUARY 26TH.

WE CAN DECIDE AT THAT POINT.

SO, UH, I'M GONNA DO A ROLL CALL ON THIS ITEM IF, IF, IF ALLOWED.

COMMISSIONER DOMINGUEZ? NO.

COMMISSIONER BACH? YES.

COMMISSIONER ROSEN GONZALEZ? YES.

COMMISSIONER MAGAZINE? NO.

COMMISSIONER SUAREZ? NO.

UM, KEITH, CONGRATULATIONS.

MOTION TO DEFER FAILS.

SO IF THAT'S THE CASE, THEN YOU HAVE IN FRONT OF YOU THE PADS.

IF YOU COULD, UH, WRITE DOWN WHO YOU'RE VOTING FOR.

IT IS A SIMPLE MAJORITY, SO I'M GONNA READ 'EM AS I HAVE 'EM IN MY HAND, IN MY HAND.

COMMISSIONER SUAREZ VOTES FOR MR. MARKS COMMISSIONER, BOT FOR MR. UF.

COMMISSIONER DOMINGUEZ FOR MR. MARKS MAYOR MINOR FOR MR. MARKS COMMISSIONER MAGAZINE.

MR. MARKS COMMISSIONER ROSEN GONZALEZ FOR MR. OV AND COMMISSIONER FERNANDEZ FOR MR. MARKS.

SO MR. MARKS HAVING THE MAJORITY OF THE VOTES IS APPOINTED.

OKAY, TAKE A MOMENT, MR. WE HAVE NO OTHER APPOINTMENTS AS WE HAVE DONE THE REST BY ACCLIMATION COMMISSIONER MAGAZINE.

UM, I KNOW IT SERVE AS LITTLE CONSTELLATION.

UH, MATT, I APPLAUD YOU FOR YOUR ADVOCACY, YOUR ENGAGEMENT IN THE CITY.

I THINK THE WORLD OF YOU AS A PERSON.

NOTHING PERSONAL HERE.

UM, I THINK THE WORLD OF YOU AS A FATHER WHO I SEE EVERY MORNING TAKING YOUR DAUGHTERS, UH, TO THE SAME SCHOOL AS MY DAUGHTER, AS A FAMILY PERSON, AND I'LL DO ANYTHING I CAN TO FIND OTHER WAYS TO GET YOU INVOLVED IN THE CITY.

UM, BUT I APPLAUD YOU FOR THE WORK THAT YOU'VE DONE, THE TIME COMMITMENT, AND, UH, WHETHER I AGREE WITH YOUR DECISIONS, NOT AGREE, UM, I KNOW YOU WANT A BETTER MIAMI BEACH AND THAT JUST OOZES OUT OF YOU.

SO THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE, .

YEAH, IT'S, IT'S, UH, IT'S, IT'S INTERESTING WHEN WE HAVE THESE VOLUNTEER POSITIONS AND PEOPLE GIVE UP ON THEIR OWN TIME, AND THEN YOU HAVE A SITUATION LIKE THIS THAT ALMOST BECAME PROBABLY NOT IN A PUBLIC SETTING, BUT TO US AS ELECTEDS WHO HAVE TO VOTE.

IT WAS LIKE A MINI ELECTION HAPPENING IN OUR CITY.

I WAS LOOKING FOR, I WAS WAITING FOR THE YARD SIGNS TO START POPPING UP, UH, ALL OVER THE PLACE.

BUT, UM, BUT IT, BUT IT SHOWS YOU, UH, THE IMPORTANCE OF THESE COMMITTEES THAT PEOPLE, NOT JUST THE INDIVIDUALS, MATT AND, AND KEITH, WHO WAS, UH, JUST LETTING CONGRATULATIONS, UH, KEITH AND EVERYONE, ALL THE, ALL THE INDIVIDUALS WHO WERE, WE DIDN'T MENTION THEIR NAMES, BUT BY ACCLAMATION.

BUT IT SHOWS YOU THE IMPORTANCE OF THESE COMMITTEES AND THE PLANNING BOARDS AND YOUR INPUT THAT SUCH ATTENTION WAS PAID BY NEIGHBORHOODS AND REACHING OUT TO US AND ADVOCATING THEIR POSITIONS, AND ALSO THE PEOPLE WHO VOLUNTEER THEIR TIME, WHICH IS TREMENDOUS THAT YOU DO THAT.

MR. RAM.

MAYOR, I WOULD LIKE TO VICE MAYOR BOT AND THEN COMMISSIONER FERNANDEZ.

ME TOO.

WHETHER OR NOT YOUR POINT IS CARRIED.

I KNOW YOU WILL SERVE HONORABLE HONORABLY.

I KNOW YOU HAVE THE BEST INTEREST AT THE CITY AT HEART, AND THAT'S NEVER BEEN A DOUBT.

I WILL CONGRATULATE YOU, MATTHEW, BECAUSE I LIKE HAVING SOMEBODY WHO STIRS THE POT IN ANY GROUP DISCUSSION.

I THINK IT MAKES FOR BETTER DECISION MAKING,

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UM, BUT FOR RAISING THE ISSUES THEY WOULD NOT GET ADDRESSED, WHETHER IT'S YOU ON THE PLANNING BOARD, WHETHER IT'S ME HERE SOMETIMES, OR COMMISSIONER ROSEN GONZALEZ OR ANY ONE OF US, WE ALL TAKE OUR TURNS AND I, I APPLAUD YOU FOR THAT.

AND I HOPE THAT EVEN THOUGH YOU'RE NOT STILL ON THE PLANNING BOARD IN AN OFFICIAL CAPACITY, YOU WON'T EVER STOP DOING THAT.

AND THEN COMMISSIONER DOMINGUEZ.

AND THANK YOU, MR. MAYOR.

AND I JUST WANNA HIGHLIGHT THE FACT THAT I TREMENDOUSLY ADMIRE THE DISSENTING VOICE, UH, THAT, UH, THAT MATTHEW HAS, UH, HAS FREQUENTLY RAISED, UH, THE PLANNING BOARD, UH, AND HIS FOCUS ON, UH, ON TRANSPORTATION ISSUES.

UM, GIVEN THE QUESTION THAT HAD ARISEN ABOUT ETHICS AND, AND CONFLICTS OF, OF INTEREST, FOR ME, IT WAS VERY IMPORTANT TO HAVE AN OPINION BEFORE VOTING FOR, UM, FOR MATTHEW.

UM, AND THAT'S WHY I REALLY WANTED TO DEFER THIS VOTE UNTIL WE HAD AN OPINION, UH, SO THAT, SO THAT I COULD MAKE A DECISION KNOWING, OKAY, IF I VOTE FOR EITHER ONE OF THEM, NO CONFLICT EXES OR ONE HAS A CONFLICT AND THE OTHER ONE DOESN'T HAVE A CONFLICT, BUT IN ABSENCE OF THAT, I NEED TO SIDE, UH, SIDE WITH, UM, WITH THE PUBLIC'S TRUST AND, UH, AND WHY I VERY MUCH VALUE THE CONTRIBUTIONS THAT MATTHEW HAS MADE AS A STRONG DISSENTING VOICE ON THE PLANNING BOARD.

I ALSO RECOGNIZE THE GREAT WORK THAT, UH, KEITH CAN DO REPRESENTING OUR COMMUNITY AS WELL.

UH, SO I THANK YOU BOTH FOR THE WORK THAT YOU GUYS DO.

I TOO WANTED TO ACKNOWLEDGE, UH, MATTHEW ALTOFF.

UH, YOU'VE GIVEN, UH, SO MUCH OF YOUR TIME TO OUR CITY FOR ADVOCACY.

YOU CARE.

AND IT'S NOT JUST ABOUT THE BIKES AND PEDESTRIAN, BUT EVERY LITTLE NOOK IN OUR CITY.

I KNOW THAT YOU CAREFULLY GAVE GOOD VOTES ON THE PLANNING BOARD AND YOU VOTED YOUR CONSCIENCE.

AND, UM, WE HAD CONVERSATIONS OFFLINE THAT THIS WAS REALLY COMPLICATED.

THIS ONE REALLY TOOK A TURN.

BUT I HOPE YOU STAY INVOLVED BECAUSE WE NEED VOICES LIKE YOU.

AND THANK YOU FOR ALL OF YOUR CONTRIBUTIONS.

OKAY, SO WE'RE DONE WITH THE APPOINTMENTS.

YES, MA'AM.

WHERE'S MAYOR? WHAT ARE WE CALLING NEXT? YES.

WE HAVE, UH, R FIVE A AND I KNOW THEN WE'RE GONNA CALL THE TRAFFIC, UH, MERIDIAN TRAFFIC ITEM FOUR SEVEN R SEVEN D.

WE WILL BE AFTER THAT, BUT R FIVE A LET'S WE, THAT WAS OPEN AND CONTINUED FROM THIS MORNING, CORRECT? MAYOR? SO R FIVE A, WE STARTED IT AT 10:13 AM WE'RE CONTINUING IT NOW.

I DON'T NEED TO READ THE TITLE, BUT JUST FOR THE RECORD, IT IS A PUBLIC HEARING.

THE ITEM REQUIRES FIVE SEVENS VOTE IS R FIVE A.

WITH A FULL TEAM, TWO LAWYERS, TWO REPRESENTATIVES FROM THE DESIGN FIRM AND ONE ARCHITECT AND EFFORT THAT COST NEARLY $5,000, WE WERE INFORMED THAT ONLY 3D RB MEMBERS WERE PRESENT FAILING TO FORM A QUORUM.

UM, BEFORE I BEGIN, I, I'D LOVE TO READ THIS EMAIL THAT I GOT INTO THE RECORD.

I BELIEVE EVERYONE RECEIVED THIS EMAIL AS WELL.

UM, AND IT REALLY CRYSTALLIZES THE ISSUE, UH, THAT I'M TRYING TO ADDRESS.

THIS CAME FROM THE RESIDENT WHO SPOKE EARLIER, YANNICK ICHI.

DEAR COMMISSIONERS AND MAYOR, I HOPE THIS MESSAGE FINDS YOU WELL.

MY NAME IS YANNICK ICHI AND MY FAMILY AND I HAVE BEEN A PROUD MIAMI BEACH RESIDENTS FOR NEARLY 15 YEARS.

ALL FIVE OF MY CHILDREN WERE BORN HERE, AND WE CHERISH THE COMMUNITY WE CALL HOME.

I'M CURRENTLY BUILDING A HOUSE ON 1265 NORTH BISCAYNE ROAD DUE TO RISING WATER LEVELS AND THE HIGH COST OF LAND.

I ENLISTED THE SERVICES OF A WORLD RENOWNED ARCHITECT, DESIGNER, MR. ARTHUR SCHARF, YO, TO CREATE A HOME WITH AN UNDERSTORY.

THIS ELEMENT OF THE DESIGN NECESSITATED NE NECESSITATED A DESIGN REVIEW ABOARD APPROVAL.

WE FIRST PRESENTED OUR PROJECT AT THE DRB OCTOBER MEETING.

OUT OF THE SEVEN BOARD MEMBERS, ONLY FOUR WERE PRESENT, REQUIRING A UNANIMOUS APPROVAL.

THE VOTES SEEMED TO BE LEANING TWO IN FAVOR, ONE UNCERTAIN, AND ONE OPPOSED, LEADING TO A REJECTION.

IT IS POSSIBLE THAT WITH A FULL PANEL OF SEVEN MEMBERS, WE MIGHT HAVE RECEIVED A MAJORITY OF VOTES TO PASS.

WE ATTEMPTED TO REAPPLY FOR THE NOVEMBER MEETING, BUT THE SUBMISSION DEADLINE FELL JUST FIVE DAYS AFTER THE OCTOBER MEETING, MAKING IT IMPOSSIBLE FOR US TO REVISE THE PLANS IN SUCH SHORT NOTICE.

OUR ARCHITECT HAD A CONFLICT FOR THE DECEMBER MEETING, SO WE APPLIED FOR THE JANUARY MEETING, WHICH TOOK PLACE THIS MORNING.

UPON ARRIVING AT 9:00 AM

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CONSEQUENTLY, OUR HEARING WAS POSTPONED TO FEBRUARY.

ON TOP OF THESE DIRECT COSTS, EACH MONTH OF DELAY RESULTS IN SUBSTANTIAL CARING COSTS TOTALING ROUGHLY $30,000 WHEN FACTORING IN INTEREST RATES, REAL ESTATE TAXES AND INSURANCE, I WOULD LIKE TO ACKNOWLEDGE AND THANK THE 3D RB MEMBERS WHO WERE IN ATTENDANCE.

THEY GRACIOUSLY ALLOWED TO PRESENT INFORMALLY AND PROVIDE CONSTRUCTIVE, CONSTRUCTIVE FEEDBACK.

THEIR COMMENTS INDICATED SUPPORT FOR OUR REVISED PLANS, SUGGESTING THAT IF ALL SEVEN MEMBERS HAD BEEN PRESENT, WE LIKELY WOULD'VE BEEN SECURED AND APPROVAL.

WHILE I RECOGNIZE AND APPRECIATE THAT DRB MEMBERS ARE VOLUNTEERS DEDICATING THEIR TIME TO SERVE OUR CITY, IT IS EXTREMELY FRUSTRATING AND FINANCIALLY BURDENSOME TO ONLY DISCOVER THE MEETING WOULD NOT PROCEED ONCE WE WERE ALREADY THERE.

THIS SITUATION IS ALSO UNFAIR TO THE MEMBERS WHO DO SHOW UP AS THEY EFFECTIVELY SPEND THEIR TIME WITHOUT BEING ABLE TO TAKE OFFICIAL ACTION OR REACH A FORMAL CONCLUSION.

MOREOVER, THE REPEATED ISSUE OF NOT HAVING ALL SEVEN MEMBERS AND ATTENDANCE COMPOUNDS THE PROBLEM BY SOMETIMES REQUIRING A UNANIMOUS APPROVAL.

I RESPECTFULLY REQUEST THAT YOU CONSIDER WAYS TO IMPROVE THE DRB PROCESS TO ENSURE CONSISTENT ATTENDANCE, CLEAR COMMUNICATION, AND FAIR OPPORTUNITIES FOR RESIDENTS AND BUSINESS OWNERS.

SO, UM, WITH THAT, I WANT TO BRING UP MY SLIDESHOW, UH, PJ IF YOU CAN, OF COURSE PUT IT UP.

SO, UH, DESIGN REVIEW OF UNDERST STORIES.

UH, NEXT SLIDE PLEASE.

SO, I WENT AROUND TOWN AND I LOOKED AT A LOT OF THE HOUSES THAT DIDN'T HAVE TO GO TO THE DESIGN REVIEW BOARD.

AND AS A RIGHT YOU CAN BUILD, UM, ON A BERM.

UH, LIKE WE, LIKE I MENTIONED ON THE FIRST READING IN ORDER, IF YOU WERE TO BUILD A HOUSE ON A BERM, WHICH IS BASICALLY LIKE A MOUND OF DIRT, YOU DON'T HAVE TO GO TO THE DDRB.

AND AS YOU CAN SEE IN THIS PHOTO THAT THERE'S, I THINK, A TWO TO FOUR FOOT E ELEVATION DIFFERENCE.

AND SO WHEN IT RAINS, IT'S GONNA FLOOD THE FRONT PUBLIC SWALE AND IT'S GONNA FLOOD THE HISTORIC, UH, PROPERTY ON THE RIGHT.

AND NEXT SLIDE, JUST A COUPLE MORE THAT REALLY SHOW THE DIFFERENCE IN ELEVATION BETWEEN THESE HOMES.

AND, AND, AND BY THE WAY, THE HOMES THAT YOU KNOW ARE, ARE, ARE, ARE HISTORIC, UH, TO A, TO A LARGE EXTENT, THEY'RE BEING THREATENED BY THESE HOMES ON THE, UH, THAT ARE BUILT ON ON A BERM.

NEXT SLIDE.

UH, OKAY.

AND NEXT SLIDE PLEASE.

HERE'S A VIDEO OF A NEIGHBOR THAT SENT ME FROM A RETAINING WALL OF A HOUSE THAT WAS BUILT ON A BERM WHERE WHEN IT RAINS, IT LITERALLY FLOODS INTO THEIR, UH, INTO THEIR PROPERTY, AND EVERYTHING WAS DONE TO CODE.

NEXT SLIDE.

OKAY, SO WE, WE, YOU KNOW, COMMISSIONER ROSA GONZALEZ ASKED FOR A SURVEY.

UH, WE SENT A SURVEY.

THERE WERE ABOUT, I THINK 50 PEOPLE, 16 RESPONDED, UH, WHICH I THINK COMES OUT TO LIKE 33%, WHICH FOR ALL INTENTS AND PURPOSES IS ACTUALLY A GOOD NUMBER FOR A RESPONSE RATE, CONSIDERING MOST OF OUR RESPONSES ARE LIKE LESS THAN 10%, UM, ON SOME OF THESE SURVEYS.

UM, BUT, UH, LIKE I MENTIONED ON ON YANNICK, UH, PROLONGED DELAYS, HIGH FINANCIAL COST BURDEN ON PARTICIPANTS, UNFAIR APPROVAL PROCESS.

UH, AND WE REALLY NEED TO IMPROVE THE BUILDING PERMIT PROCESS.

ONE OF THE THINGS THAT, THAT EVERYONE HERE KNOWS, I I DON'T NEED TO BEAT A DEAD HORSE, IS THAT WE HAVE A BUILDING PROCESS, PERMIT PROCESS THAT'S VERY CUMBERSOME.

AND ONE OF THE ISSUES THAT CERTAINLY GETS IN THE WAY OF AN UNDERSTORY IS HAVING TO NOT ONLY GET APPROVAL FOR THIS, BUT NOW HAVE TO FIGHT FOR, FOR, FOR THE, FOR THE BOARD TO HAVE QUORUM.

UM, AND, AND BY THE WAY, THE ONLY REASON I FOUND OUT ABOUT YANNICK WAS BECAUSE I JUST HAPPENED TO BE AT CITY HALL AND I WAS WALKING OUTSIDE, UH, AND I SAW A GROUP OF PEOPLE OUT THERE AND, AND I ASKED 'EM LIKE, HEY, YOU KNOW WHAT, WHAT'S GOING ON? AND, UM, AND THEY SAID, YEAH, THE, WE COULDN'T MAKE QUO THE DRB AND I'M AND I, I, I, THE FIRST THING I SAID WAS UNDERST STORIES.

AND, AND HE SAID, YEAH.

UM, AND, AND I WALKED INTO THE CHAMBERS AND, AND LO AND BEHOLD, THERE WERE ONLY THREE MEMBERS THERE.

SO, NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE.

SO WHEN WE HAVE THIS SYSTEM IN PLACE, WE REALLY RESTRICT, UH, THE BEST RESILIENT

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DESIGNS.

SO IT BLOCKS RESILIENT DESIGN, ADOPT, ADOPTION.

UM, YOU KNOW, THE UNDERSTORY IS BY FAR, AND OUR PLANNING DIRECTOR CAN, CAN ATTEST TO THIS, THE SUPERIOR HOME FOR, UH, MIAMI BEACH, A BARRIER ISLAND.

UM, IT'S VERY SUBJECTIVE TO A BOARD.

UM, WHEN YOU BUILD A HOME ON, UH, A BERM, YOU DON'T HAVE TO GO THROUGH THE SAME SUBJECTIVE, UH, REVIEW PROCESS.

OKAY? UM, AND MORE IMPORTANTLY, IT REALLY UNDERMINES THE CITY'S SUSTAINABILITY GOALS.

YOU KNOW, LIKE I SAID BEFORE, AT THE FIRST MEETING, WE HAD TWO 100 YEAR STORMS BACK TO BACK, AND I WAS PULLING OUT TARPON ON ALTON ROAD WITH MY SON AND PUTTING THEM BACK IN THE BAY.

AND, YOU KNOW, PLENTY OF HOMEOWNERS HAVE TOLD ME THAT IT NEVER REALLY FLOODED THIS BAD UNTIL THE HOUSE NEXT DOOR WAS BUILT.

AND NOW I FLOOD EVERY TIME THERE WAS A RAIN EVENT.

SO, NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE.

UH, LIKE I MENTIONED BEFORE, THERE'S A SIGNIFICANT BURDEN ON, ON, ON HOMEOWNERS THAT WANT TO GO THROUGH THIS PROCESS TO, TO SEEK A, A MORE RESILIENT HOME.

UH, THERE'S CARING COSTS, THERE'S INSURANCE, THERE'S ARCHITECTURAL FEES, UH, ATTORNEY FEES.

UM, AND, AND NOT ONLY THAT, BUT IT, THERE'S, THERE'S AN ELEMENT OF UNCERTAINTY, UH, AND THAT REALLY DISCOURAGES THIS, UH, THE DESIGN OF, OF FRANKLY, A MUCH BETTER HOME TO BE BUILT ON MIAMI BEACH FOR GENERATIONS TO COME.

NEXT SLIDE.

I DOT SEE WALL.

SO HOLD ON.

IF YOU COULD PAUSE THIS.

I, I WANT, I WANNA TEE THIS UP.

UH, ONE OF THE HOMEOWNERS SENT THIS TO ME ANONYMOUSLY.

UM, AND, AND, AND I, I WANT EVERYONE TO, TO REALLY HEAR THE, THE TONE OF VOICE IN THIS AND THE CON, THEY, THEY DIDN'T TELL YOU THEIR NAME? UH, THEY DID, UH, OH, YEAH.

YOU KNOW WHO IT'S, YES.

UM, BUT TO PUT IN THE CONTEXT, UH, WHAT YOU'RE GONNA HEAR IS THAT THIS PERSON IS, IS GOING THROUGH CONSTRUCTION, AND THE PERSON ON THE PHONE IS BASICALLY SAYING THAT, UM, IF YOU DON'T HAVE THIS THING MOVED BECAUSE OF MY VIEW, OR WE'RE AFRAID THAT YOU MIGHT HIT MY DOCK, I'M GONNA COME IN TO YOUR HEARING AT THE DRB AND OPPOSE YOUR PROJECT.

AND THIS IS, THIS JUST HIGHLIGHTS A WEAPONIZATION OF, OF THIS DRB PROCESS.

SO IF YOU CAN PLAY IT NOW, PJ, I'M DOING A SEA WALL.

OUR ENCROACHING ON MY PROPERTY, THEY'RE WAY TOO NEAR TO MY DOCK THERE.

WITHIN MY REPAIRING RIGHTS, I'M WANT THAT BARGE MOVED.

IF THERE'S ANY DAMAGE TO MY SEA WALL OR ANY DAMAGE TO I DOCK, YOU BETTER BELIEVE I WILL SHOW UP AT THAT MEETING AND I WILL OBJECT TO YOUR VARIANCE.

SO J AGAIN, JUST TO JUST, JUST PUT IT INTO CONTEXT, THIS WAS ABOUT A SEA WALL THAT'S BEING BUILT, WHICH IS EVERYONE NEEDS A NEW SEAWALL.

UH, AND THIS NEIGHBOR IS BASICALLY SAYING, IF YOU DON'T MOVE THIS BARGE, I'M GONNA COME AND SHOW UP TO YOUR MEETING, TO, TO STIFLE YOU ON, ON SOMETHING COMPLETELY DIFFERENT, WHICH IS THE UNDERST STORIES.

AND I'M SURE THIS HAPPENS ALL THE TIME.

UH, BUT HERE WE ACTUALLY HAVE A VOICE RECORDING OF IT.

NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE.

SO, LIKE I SAID, WE HAD, UH, A SURVEY AND WHAT WAS INTERESTING ABOUT THIS IS, YOU KNOW, DID YOU, THE QUESTION IS, WAS THIS PROCESS JUSTIFIED? DID IT HELP MAKE A BETTER HOME OR A BETTER DESIGN? OBVIOUSLY THE MAJORITY SAID NO, AND THEN FIVE REALLY SAID THEY'RE NOT SURE, AND THEN ONLY ONE PERSON SAID YES.

AND I THINK THAT'S PRETTY, I, I, I THINK THAT'S IMPORTANT TO NOTE, UM, THAT THIS PROCESS DIDN'T REALLY HELP.

UH, AND SO I'M REALLY GLAD THAT COMMISSIONER GONZALEZ ASKED FOR THIS SURVEY BECAUSE IT WAS, IT WAS VERY ENLIGHTENING TO SEE WHAT THE RESULTS WERE.

GO NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE.

VERSUS BUILDING ON AN ELEVATED BERM.

SO, UH, PAUSE IT REAL QUICK.

WELL, I, I, UM, I MADE, I DIDN'T MAKE, BUT I, I HIRED A DESIGNER TO MAKE THIS VIDEO.

TODAY WE'LL EXPLORE TWO.

UH, YEAH, SO I, I, I HELPED WITH THE SCRIPT.

THIS GIVES A, A REALLY GOOD REPRESENTATION FOR THOSE WHO ARE WATCHING ON, ON WHAT HAPPENS WHEN, UH, IT FLOODS.

SO IF YOU COULD PLAY IT NOW.

PJ, PLEASE WELCOME TO MIAMI BEACH, WHERE THE BEAUTY OF COASTAL LIVING MEETS THE CHALLENGES OF NATURE.

TODAY WE'LL EXPLORE TWO INNOVATIVE HOME CONSTRUCTION METHODS DESIGNED FOR BARRIER ISLANDS BUILDING ON STILTS

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LET'S DIVE INTO THE DETAILS.

BARRIER ISLANDS ARE UNIQUE ENVIRONMENTS, BUT THEY'RE ALSO AT HIGH RISK FOR HURRICANES, STORM SURGES AND FLOODING.

CHOOSING THE RIGHT CONSTRUCTION METHOD IS CRUCIAL FOR RESILIENCE AND SUSTAINABILITY.

BUILDING ON A BERM INVOLVES ELEVATING THE HOME ON A MANMADE HILL.

THIS METHOD PROVIDES PROTECTION FROM FLOODING WHILE CREATING A STABLE FOUNDATION.

HOWEVER, BERM CONSTRUCTION HAS ITS DRAWBACKS.

BERMS CAUSE SIGNIFICANT ALTERATION OF THE NATURAL LANDSCAPE.

IT HAS HIGH COSTS ASSOCIATED WITH ENGINEERING AND MAINTAINING THE BERM.

MOST IMPORTANTLY, BERMS HAVE POTENTIAL TO DISRUPT LOCAL WATER DRAINAGE PATTERNS LEADING TO FLOODING AND ADJACENT AREAS.

ON THE OTHER HAND, HOMES BUILT ON STILTS ARE ELEVATED TO ALLOW FLOOD WATERS TO PASS UNDERNEATH, REDUCING THE RISK OF WATER DAMAGE.

THIS METHOD MINIMIZES GROUND DISTURBANCE, HELPING PRESERVE THE NATURAL FLOW OF WATER AND MAINTAINING THE LOCAL ECOSYSTEM.

THE UNDERSTORY CAN BE DESIGNED TO SERVE AS STORAGE, PARKING, OR RECREATION SPACE WITH SUSTAINABLE FEATURES LIKE SOLAR PANELS AND RAINWATER HARVESTING STILL, HOMES CAN SIGNIFICANTLY REDUCE THEIR ENVIRONMENTAL FOOTPRINT.

BY CHOOSING SUSTAINABLE CONSTRUCTION METHODS, WE PROTECT NOT ONLY OUR HOMES, BUT ALSO THE DELICATE ECOSYSTEMS OF BARRIER ISLANDS.

THANKS, PJ.

YOU CAN GO ON THE NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE.

HOW MUCH MORE I KNOW.

UM, I MEAN, WE CAN LOOK AT IT.

I THINK, LOOK, LOOK, I THINK YOU MADE THE POINT, AND I, I'LL HAVE TOM MOONEY, PJ, YOU COULD, YOU CAN, UM, YOU CAN PUT SLIDE.

NO, I SEE YOU PUT A LOT OF IT FOR THEM.

I'M NOT SURE, BUT I, BUT IT'S ALSO IMPORTANT FOR THE COMMUNITY TO UNDERSTAND, UH, YOU KNOW, WHAT, WHAT WE'RE DOING HERE.

AND I THINK HAVING THIS VISUAL REALLY GIVES A GOOD REPRESENTATION OF THAT.

UM, AND SO, TOM, IF YOU CAN GO OVER SOME OF THE, UH, FINER NUANCES AND SOME OF THE, UH, CONCESSIONS WE MADE, UH, AS FAR AS HEIGHT, UM, THAT'D BE GREAT.

AND I, I MAY WANT TO PLUG IN A FEW MORE HOLES.

BUT, UM, THE THING TO KEEP IN MIND WITH THE RS ONE AND RS TWO DISTRICTS AND LARGER RS THREE LOTS IS THAT THESE ARE VERY, VERY BIG ESTATE LOTS THAT CAN ACCOMMODATE A MUCH LARGER HOME WITHOUT HAVING THE SAME CONTEXT ISSUES.

UM, PJ IF YOU COULD PUT UP THE SLIDES THAT I HAD SENT YOU LAST WEEK.

UM, THESE ARE, I'M GONNA SHOW THE COMMISSION THREE SLIDES THAT WERE INCLUDED IN YOUR AGENDA PACKAGE.

SO THESE ARE PART OF WHAT WAS INCLUDED, UH, WITH THE COMMISSION MEMORANDUM.

THE FIRST SLIDE BASICALLY SHOWS WHAT YOU CAN DO AS OF RIGHT UNDER THE CURRENT CODE.

AND THESE ARE WHAT WE CALL CONVENTIONAL HOMES, UH, ON A BERM.

AND THESE DO NOT REQUIRE DESIGN REVIEW WATER APPROVAL IN THE RS ONE AND RS TWO DISTRICT.

YOU CAN CURRENTLY GO UP TO A MAXIMUM HEIGHT OF 28 FEET AS MEASURED FROM, UH, BASE FLOOD ELEVATION PLUS MAXIMUM FREEBOARD.

AND THAT PRETTY MUCH SHOWS WHAT THE MAXIMUM HEIGHT WOULD BE.

AND THEN IN THE RS THREE AND RS FOUR DISTRICTS, YOU CAN GO UP TO 24 FEET.

UM, AGAIN, MEASURED FROM, UH, BASE FLOOD ELEVATION PLUS MAXIMUM FREEBOARD, AS WELL AS THE, THE MAXIMUM YARD ELEVATION THAT THAT IS PERMITTED.

AND THE REASON I THINK THESE ARE IMPORTANT IS BECAUSE WHAT THEY SHOW IS THAT WITH A BERM HOME, YOU CAN GET SLIGHTLY MORE FLOOR TO CEILING SPACE THAN IF YOU DID A SIMILAR HEIGHT ON AN UNDERSTORY HOME.

AND PJ, IF YOU CAN GO TO THE NEXT SLIDE.

SO THIS IS WHAT THE UNDERSTORY HOMES WOULD LOOK LIKE IN COMPARISON.

RIGHT NOW, IF YOU WERE TO LIMIT AN UNDERSTORY HOME TO 24 FEET IN THE RS THREE AND RS FOUR DISTRICTS, IT WOULD LIMIT SIGNIFICANTLY THE AMOUNT OF, UH, FLOOR, FLOOR TO CEILING SPACE YOU COULD HAVE ON THE UPPER FLOORS WITH A NINE FOOT UNDERSTORY.

UM, IT DOESN'T GIVE YOU A LOT OF ROOM TO DESIGN, NOT JUST A LIVABLE, LIVABLE INTERIOR SPACE.

BUT MORE IMPORTANTLY, WHAT THIS DOESN'T SHOW IS IT DOESN'T SHOW ANY REQUIREMENTS FOR PLUMBING, FOR HVAC, FOR ELECTRICAL.

AND IT ALSO ASSUMES THAT YOU'RE GONNA BE DOING A CONCRETE SLAB.

SOME PEOPLE MIGHT PROPOSE A TRUS SYSTEM, WHICH WOULD POTENTIALLY FURTHER REDUCE THE AMOUNT OF INTERIOR FLOOR TO FLOOR SPACE.

THE 28 FOOT OPTION SHOWS WHAT IS BEING PROPOSED UNDER THE CODE, WHICH PROVIDES MORE ROOM TO BE ABLE TO ACCOMMODATE THE LIVING SPACE THAT WOULD BE NEEDED ON THE, ON THE HABITABLE FLOORS.

AND THEN IF YOU CAN GO TO THE LAST ONE, PJ, WHAT THIS SHOWS IS THE COMPARISON OF WHAT YOU COULD DO IN AN RS ONE AND RS TWO DISTRICT.

AND WE ALSO INCLUDED RS THREE LOTS THAT ARE OVER 18,000 SQUARE FEET BECAUSE THOSE ARE MORE AKIN TO RS ONE AND RSS TWO LOTS.

AGAIN, WITH A 28 FOOT HEIGHT, YOU DO GET A LITTLE BIT MORE ROOM FOR FLOOR TO CEILING SPACE.

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AND SO BY GOING TO 31 FEET AS PROPOSED, YOU ARE ALLOWING FOR, UH, MORE LATITUDE WITH REGARD TO THE, UM, HABITABLE FLOORS AND PJ, YOU CAN TAKE THESE OFF.

UM, WITH REGARD TO THE UPDATED ORDINANCE, AS THE, AS THE BOARD IS AWARE, THIS ORDINANCE WAS APPROVED AT FIRST READING ON NOVEMBER 20TH.

THE, UM, ORDINANCE THAT WAS APPROVED AT FIRST READING INCLUDED TWO MINOR TWEAKS.

ONE WAS TO INCLUDE PROPERTY OWNER INFORMATION IN THE REQUIRED POSTING FOR ANY UNDERSTORY HOMES THAT WERE GONNA BE APPROVED ADMINISTRATIVELY.

AND IT ALSO INCLUDED A REVISION TO ALLOW FOR DRB APPROVAL, UH, FOR ADDITIONAL HEIGHT, UH, IN RS FOUR AND RS THREE DISTRICTS IN CASE THEY WANTED TO GO ABOVE 28 FEET.

THE CITY COMMISSION ALSO, UM, REQUESTED THAT A SURVEY BE CONDUCTED AND, AND THE RESULTS ARE SUMMARIZED, UH, IN THE COMMISSION MEMORANDUM, AND THEY WERE ALLUDED TO AS, AS PART OF THE PREVIOUS POWERPOINT PRESENTATION.

AND THE, UM, COMMISSION ALSO REFERRED THE ITEM TO THE LAND USE AND SUSTAINABILITY COMMITTEE FOR ADDITIONAL DISCUSSION PRIOR TO SECOND READING, THE COMMITTEE DISCUSSED THE ITEM AT THEIR DECEMBER 17TH MEETING, AND ALTHOUGH THE VOTE WAS A TIE, THEY DID RECOMMEND THAT THERE, UM, BE A MINIMUM HEIGHT IN THE UNDERSTORY AREA.

IN OTHER WORDS, THEY WANTED AN ADDITIONAL THREE FEET TO BE SPECIFIC TO THE UNDERSTORY AREA.

IN ORDER TO ADDRESS THAT COMMENT.

UM, THE SPONSOR HAS PROPOSED THE FOLLOWING ADDITIONAL CHANGES TO THE ORDINANCE, ONE THAT A NINE FOOT MINIMUM HEIGHT REQUIREMENT BE REQUIRED FOR THE UNDERSTORY AREA IN RESPONSE TO THE LAND USE COMMITTEE'S RECOMMENDATION THAT AN ADDITIONAL THREE FEET OF HEIGHT BE AVAILABLE FOR THE UNDERSTORY THAT UNDERSTORY HOMES WITH A SLOPE ROOF, REGARDLESS OF BUILDING HEIGHT, UM, BE REQUIRED TO GO TO THE DESIGN REVIEW BOARD, OR THE HISTORIC PRESERVATION BOARD IS APPLICABLE.

NUMBER THREE, THAT A HEIGHT EXCEPTION OF UP TO 12 INCHES FOR ROOFTOP INSULATION THAT IS NEEDED FOR DRAINAGE ON FLAT ROOFS, UM, BE PERMITTED.

NUMBER FOUR, THAT THE, UH, DESIGN REVIEW OR HPB REVIEW OF ADDITIONAL, UH, BUILDING HEIGHT ABOVE THE LIMIT SET FORTH IN THE REGULATIONS WOULD BE REQUIRED.

UM, THIS WOULD TAKE AWAY THE NEED TO GET A VARIANCE AND WOULD ENSURE THAT ANY REQUESTED INCREASES IN HEIGHT, REGARDLESS OF WHETHER IT'S AN RS ONE, RS TWO, RS THREE, OR RSS FOUR LOT WOULD REQUIRE DESIGN REVIEW BOARD APPROVAL.

UM, AND SO WITH THAT, UM, WE ARE RECOMMENDING, UH, ADOPTION OF THE ORDINANCE WITH THOSE CHANGES WHICH HAVE BEEN INCORPORATED INTO THE ORDINANCE FOR SECOND READING.

THE LAST MINOR CHANGE THAT I WANTED TO MENTION IS THAT, UM, WE'RE RECOMMENDING THAT THE APPLICABILITY SECTION, THE DATE OF THE APPLICABILITY SECTION, BE MOVED FROM OCTOBER 29TH TO DECEMBER 10TH, 2024.

UM, AND TOM, YOU MENTIONED ONE THING THAT'S VERY IMPORTANT, I I WANT EVERYONE TO BE AWARE OF.

IF, IF YOU HAVE A PITCHED ROOF CORRECT.

WOULD, AND FOR RS ONE AND R OR OR RS ONE AND RS TWO, WHAT IS THE MAXIMUM HEIGHT FOR A PITCHED ROOF CURRENTLY? UM, THAT WOULD BE 31 FEET, CORRECT.

31 FEET.

AND SO WITH THIS S IT, IT WOULDN'T EXCEED 31 FEET, I MEAN, OR IT WOULD BE 31 FEET WOULD BE THE W WOULD BE THE, THE, RIGHT.

SO IN RS ONE AND RS TWO, THERE IS NO INCREASE IN HEIGHT AS A RIGHT? CORRECT.

UM, SAME THING FOR RS THREE AND RS FOUR.

SO RIGHT NOW, IF YOU WANTED TO BUILD A HOME ON A BERM WITH A PITCHED ROOF AND, AND YOU WANTED TO HAVE AN UNDERSTORY, YOU'RE NOT GONNA EXCEED THAT HOUSE THAT HAS A PITCHED ROOF WITH THE HIGHEST FEE.

SO THERE IS REALLY NO CHANGE IN THE MAXIMUM HEIGHT.

THAT'S AS OF A RIGHT.

AND I THINK THAT'S IMPORTANT TO, TO REALLY TO, TO REALLY NOTE THAT.

UM, YEAH.

AND THAT'S, AND, AND CAN, CAN YOU ALSO JUST FOR THE PUBLIC, I, I KNOW THIS, THIS MIGHT BE REGURGITATING FOR, FOR A LOT OF US UP HERE.

CAN YOU GO OVER THE PROCESS THAT AND, AND, AND, AND JUST DELVE A LITTLE BIT INTO HOW, WHAT, WHAT ARE THE STANDARDS THAT, THAT THE PLANNING DEPARTMENT HAS SET FORTH FOR THIS? IT'S NOT JUST A CHECK IN A BOX.

IT IT, IT GOES THROUGH A VERY RE RIGOROUS REVIEW PROCESS.

REVIEWED ADMINISTRATIVELY THAT DOESN'T REQUIRE DRB APPROVAL.

WE HAVE TWO SETS OF STANDARDS THAT WOULD BE APPLICABLE TO UNDER STORY HOMES.

ONE WOULD BE THE, UH, CRITERIA, UH, IN CHAPTER SEVEN UNDER THE SINGLE FAMILY DEVELOPMENT REGULATIONS THAT ARE APPLIED TO ANY HOME THAT IS PROPOSED TO BE, UH,

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AND THIS CRITERIA LOOKS AT THINGS SUCH AS NEIGHBORHOOD CONTEXT, THE ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN OF THE HOME, HOW IT FITS WITHIN ITS SETTINGS.

THEN THERE'S A SECOND SET OF CRITERIA THAT IS SPECIFIC TO UNDERSTORY HOMES, AND THIS IS TO ENSURE THAT UNDERSTORY HOMES, UM, DON'T LOOK LIKE A HOME ON STILTS, BUT RATHER A HOME THAT WAS PROPERLY DESIGNED TO FIT WITHIN THE SCALE AND CONTEXT OF ITS IMMEDIATE AREA.

AND THERE'S A NUMBER OF CRITERIA THAT MUST BE MET WITH REGARD TO THE UNDERSTORY.

THINGS LIKE, UH, SOFFITS, THINGS LIKE, UM, THE MATERIALS THAT ARE USED IN THE UNDERSTORY AREA, UM, INCREASED OPEN SPACE.

AND SO ALL THESE THINGS WOULD HAVE TO BE LOOKED AT VERY CAREFULLY TO ENSURE THAT THEY'RE MET.

AND ALSO, JUST TO GIVE A LITTLE BACKSTORY, WHEN WHEN THE DRB WAS FIRST CREATED, IT WAS EXPLICIT TO NOT COVER SINGLE FAMILY HOMES.

IS THAT CORRECT? AND IF YOU CAN GO OVER WHERE, HOW DID WE END UP WHERE WE ARE TODAY? SURE.

THE, WHEN THE DRB WAS, WAS, UM, UM, WHEN, WHEN THE DRB WAS CREATED IN THE LATE 1980S.

UM, AND FULL DISCLOSURE, I WASN'T WITH THE CITY IN THE LATE EIGHTIES.

UM, THE, UM, A SINGLE FAMILY HOMES WERE EXPRESSLY EXEMPT FROM DRB REVIEW BECAUSE THE DESIGN REVIEW BOARD WAS SET UP TO REVIEW MULTI-FAMILY AND COMMERCIAL PROJECTS.

AND IT STAYED THAT WAY UNTIL THE EARLY TWO THOUSANDS WHEN THE COMMISSION AT THE TIME WANTED TO BEGIN TO INCENTIVIZE THE RETENTION OF PRE 1942 HOMES.

AND IN ORDER TO DO THAT, THE, UH, CITY COMMISSION, IT WAS, UH, AROUND 2001, CREATED A SINGLE FAMILY RESIDENTIAL REVIEW PANEL THAT CONSISTED OF THREE, UH, MEMBERS.

ONE WAS AN ARCHITECT, TWO WERE CITIZENS AT LARGE, AND THEY MET IN A MUCH MORE CASUAL MANNER THAN THE MORE FORMAL PROCESS OF OUR LAND USE BOARDS.

AND THAT SINGLE FAMILY RESIDENTIAL REVIEW PANEL WAS CREATED TO REVIEW NEW CONSTRUCTION THAT WAS ASSOCIATED WITH A PROPOSAL TO DEMOLISH A PRE 42 ARCHITECTURALLY SIGNIFICANT HOME.

THERE WAS NO PROHIBITION ON THE DEMOLITION OF THE PRE 42 HOME, JUST A REQUIREMENT THAT THIS PANEL REVIEW THE REPLACEMENT CONSTRUCTION AND AS A BACKUP, BECAUSE THE SINGLE FAMILY RESIDENTIAL REVIEW PANEL WAS STRUGGLING TO MAKE QUORUM MONTH AFTER MONTH, THE CITY COMMISSION THEN AMENDED THE CODE TO ALLOW THE DRB TO BE THE BACKUP IF THE SINGLE FAMILY RESIDENTIAL REVIEW PANEL COULD NOT ACHIEVE QUORUM.

AND THEN AFTER ABOUT A YEAR, WHAT WE FOUND IS THAT PEOPLE SAID, I JUST WOULD RATHER GO TO THE DRB BECAUSE THIS PANEL, UM, CAN NEVER SEEM TO HAVE A QUORUM, AND I HAVE NO IDEA WHEN I CAN HAVE MY NEW HOME REVIEW.

AND THEN THAT'S HOW THE DESIGN REVIEW BOARD KIND OF FELL INTO REVIEWING SINGLE FAMILY HOMES.

BUT THEY ESSENTIALLY HAD TO USE THE SAME PROCESS THAT WAS USED FOR COMMERCIAL AND MULTIFAMILY PROJECTS.

ANYBODY ELSE WANNA BE HEARD? YES.

ARE SOLID AND SUSTAINABLE.

UH, THANK YOU MAYOR AND THANK YOU COMMISSIONER SUAREZ.

UM, I KNOW THAT THE DRB PROCESS AND MANY PROCESSES WITH THE CITY IN GENERAL CAN BE QUITE PAINFUL, UH, WHICH IS WHAT HAS LED US, UH, TO THIS.

BUT I STILL FEEL THAT THE DRB REVIEW AND APPROVAL IS A NECESSARY STEP.

UM, I DID A DEEP DIVE ON, UH, MOUND HOMES AND UNDERST STORIES.

A BERM CAN ACTUALLY BE ON EITHER AN UNDERSTORY HOME OR A MOUND, UH, HOME.

AND, UH, WITH THE UNDERST STORIES, IT'S SO MUCH MORE IMPOSING, UH, STRUCTURE THAT HAVING THE NEIGHBORHOODS NOTIFIED AND INPUT IS QUITE CLEAR.

UM, THE COMMISSIONER READ AN EMAIL, AND WHEN I GOT THAT SAME EMAIL, I DID A DIVE INTO THAT, AND SO I'LL READ THE ANSWER I RECEIVED.

THE DESIGN THIS PERSON PROPOSED WAS NOT AT ALL COMPATIBLE WITH THE NEIGHBORHOOD.

THE HOME AS DESIGNED WOULD'VE BEEN IMPOSING AND OVERBEARING, NOT TO MENTION AESTHETICALLY UNPLEASING.

THAT IS WHY THE PROJECT HAD TO COME BACK ANOTHER TIME.

UM, SO HAVING THE INPUT OF THE DRBI THINK IS STILL VERY IMPORTANT.

ALSO, THE MOUND HOMES ARE EQUALLY RESILIENT AS THE UNDERSTORY HOME.

I SPOKE TO THE CITY ADMINISTRATION AND CIVIL ENGINEERS, AND THEY BOTH GAVE THE HOMES THAT ARE MOUND HOMES A VOTE OF CONFIDENCE.

AND THE MAJORITY OF THE NEW BUILDS THAT ARE BEING BUILT THAT WAY, UM,

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AND THE VIDEO THAT WAS SHOWN COULD HAVE BEEN A ONE OFF.

MAYBE THAT BERM WAS BUILT INCORRECTLY.

IT COULD HAVE BEEN A PROBLEM, UM, AS AN ASIDE, BUT THAT'S NOT THE NORM, UH, IS STILL A SUSTAINABLE SOLUTION.

OR WE WOULDN'T HAVE IT IN OUR LDR CODES.

BUT A MOUND HOME IS A LOT LESS IMPOSING THAN AN UNDERSTORY.

I AGREE WITH WHAT, UM, FRED CARLTON SAID EARLIER, THOUGH, MAYBE THE CHARACTERIZATIONS OF WHO'S ON THE DRB, THE DEFINITIONS, UM, NEEDS TO BE LOOKED AT BY THE COMMISSION IN THE FUTURE SO THAT WE'RE GETTING, UM, MORE ARCHITECTS, DESIGNERS, AND PEOPLE WITH THAT TYPE OF KNOWLEDGE.

SO THAT'S SOMETHING THAT WE CAN REVIEW, BUT I STILL THINK THE DRB REVIEW IS IMPORTANT.

MR. MAYOR? MR. MAYOR, IS THERE A PUBLIC HEARING? YEAH.

PUBLIC HEARING? UH, YEP.

UH, PLEASE COME UP, MR. MAYOR, IF, IF I, I JUST WANNA MAKE SURE ON THE RECORD THAT TOM IS A HOME WITH AN UNDERSTORY SIGNIFICANTLY MORE, UM, BETTER THAN A HOUSE ON A BERM.

IN, IN OUR EXPERIENCE AND IN OUR OPINION, YES.

ON A BARRIER ISLAND, UH, THE TYPOLOGY USING AN UNDERSTORY IS FAR SUPERIOR TO, TO A BERM HOME, PARTICULARLY IN THE LONG TERM.

AND WHY IS THAT? BECAUSE WHAT IT ALLOWS THE HOME TO DO IS BE SUBSTANTIALLY ELEVATED ABOVE NOT JUST CURRENT MINIMUM FLOOD ELEVATION PLUS FREEBOARD, BUT IT PROVIDES A LAYER OF PROTECTION AGAINST CATASTROPHIC STORM SURGE THAT IS FAR SU FAR SUPERIOR TO A BERM HOME, AND ALLOWS THAT PROTECTION TO BE DONE IN A MORE NATURAL WAY.

WOULD YOU SAY THAT WE'RE ALTERING FLOODPLAIN ELEVATIONS BY HAVING HOMES BUILT ON A BERM? YES.

UH, PARTICULARLY WHEN YOU HAVE MULTIPLE HOMES OVER TIME BUILT ON A BERM, WHICH COULD IN EFFECT, WHICH IN EFFECT COULD AFFECT OUR INSURANCE RATES FOR FLOODING, POTENTIALLY.

UNDERSTOOD.

SO THE PLANNING DIRECTOR, YOU ARE ON THE RECORD SAYING THAT A HOME BUILT ON AN UNDERSTORY OR STILTS IS SUPERIOR TO A HOME, BUILT ON A BERM.

UM, BEFORE WE START, I HAVEN'T BEEN SWORN IN.

DO I NEED TO BE SWORN IN? NO, SIR.

THIS IS A TRUST.

WHAT, THIS IS A LEGISLATIVE MATTER WHAT I PROMISE TO TELL THE WHOLE TRUTH.

YOU DON'T NEED TO BE SWORN IN THE TRUTH.

IT PROVIDES FOR TRANSPARENCY.

BUT THANK YOU FOR THAT.

UH, I'M PETER LURIA.

I LIVE ON THE SUNSET ISLANDS.

FIRST, LET ME THANK MAYOR MINOR FOR MOVING THIS ITEM TO 5:00 PM SO THAT RESIDENTS LIKE MYSELF COULD ATTEND.

I'M HERE TO REQUEST YOU VOTE AGAINST THIS PROPOSED ORDINANCE.

I RECOGNIZE IT'S A DELICATE BALANCING ACT FOR YOU BETWEEN RESILIENCY, PRESERVATION, CLIMATE CHANGE, SEA LEVEL RISE, THE ENVIRONMENT, AND REASONABLE DEVELOPMENT.

BUT I THINK YOU NEED TO BE MORE CONCERNED ABOUT THE QUALITY OF LIFE OF OUR RESIDENTS AND LISTEN MORE TO US THAN TO THE DEVELOPERS.

NEIGHBORS SHOULD HAVE INPUT ON WHAT GETS BUILT NEXT TO THEM AND IN THEIR NEIGHBORHOODS.

DON'T TAKE IT AWAY FROM THE DESIGN REVIEW BOARD, OTHERWISE THEY WON'T.

THE DRB REVIEWS THE REVIEWS, DESIGN DETAILS, INCLUDING MATERIALS, CONTEXT, COMPATIBILITY, LANDSCAPING, INCLUDING TREE PROTECTION AND RETENTION, CONSTRUCTION SITE PLANS, AND LEAD CERTIFICATION.

THIS ORDINANCE WOULD FUNDAMENTALLY WEAKEN THE PUBLIC PROCESS FOR THE REVIEW OF NEW CONSTRUCTION, SINGLE FAMILY HOMES THAT CONTAIN AN UNDERSTORY IN MIAMI BEACH.

IT CONTAINS A SUBSTANTIAL HEIGHT INCREASE TO NEW FAMILY HOMES FROM FOUR TO SEVEN FEET, MORE THAN CURRENTLY ALLOWED WITHOUT DRB REVIEW.

THIS ORDINANCE HAS ONLY BEEN EXPOSED TO A VERY LIMITED NUMBER OF RESIDENTS AT THE PLANNING BOARD AND THE LAND USE COMMITTEE.

THE PLANNING BOARD PASSED A FAVORABLE RECOMMENDATION BY THE SLIMMEST MAJORITY, FOUR TO THREE, WHILE THE LAND USE COMMITTEE CONSISTING OF FOUR COMMISSIONERS, INCLUDING COMMISSIONER SUAREZ, ITS SPONSOR, GAVE IT AN UNFAVORABLE RECOMMENDATION.

MIAMI BEACH UNITED WAS SO DIVIDED, I DON'T MEAN TO BE A POET, THAT THEY COULDN'T AGREE ON A RECOMMENDATION THIS SHOULD BE OF CO A CAUSE OF CONCERN TO THIS COMMISSION.

PARTICIPANTS DISCUSSED IN THREE FORUMS THAT WOULD NORMALLY EXPECT TO BE SUPPORTIVE, AND YET IT DIDN'T GET THAT SUPPORT.

AND REGRETTABLY, THERE HAVE BEEN NO MEETINGS TO EDUCATE AND ENGAGE RESIDENTS.

IN CONCLUSION, THE DRB SERVES AN IMPORTANT PURPOSE.

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THOSE HOMES THAT GO BEFORE IT FOR REVIEW ARE MORE COMPATIBLE WITH THE NEIGHBORHOOD AND BETTER DESIGN THAN THOSE THAT DON'T.

MOST IMPORTANTLY, THIS ORDINANCE DOESN'T HAVE THE SUPPORT IT SHOULD.

THEREFORE, I URGE YOU TO VOTE AGAINST IT.

HI, MAYOR AND COMMISSION.

DANIEL ERALDO WITH MIAMI DESIGN PRESERVATION LEAGUE.

I ALSO GOT MY START IN ADVOCACY, UH, GOING TO DESIGN REVIEW BOARD MEETINGS.

AND I, I KNOW EVEN THE COMMISSIONER SPONSOR HAD A SIMILAR THING WITH PUBLIC HEARINGS.

IT'S SO IMPORTANT IN THIS CITY.

WHAT SETS US APART IS IT INPUT OF THE COMMUNITY, THE RESIDENTS RIGHT TO KNOW.

MR. MAYOR, I THINK YOU ARE ON THE COMMISSION LAST TIME WHEN THIS CAME BEFORE A COUPLE YEARS AGO.

AND AGAIN, UM, SOME FOLKS ARE TRYING TO REMOVE THE NEIGHBORHOOD REVIEW.

AND THANK GOODNESS THE COMMISSION KEPT IT IN PLACE.

WE HOPE YOU WILL, UH, CONSIDER THIS BECAUSE IT'S SO IMPORTANT FOR THE PEOPLE THAT LIVE IN SINGLE FAMILY NEIGHBORHOODS.

THEY'RE ALSO LIVING THE AMERICAN DREAM, JUST LIKE THE ONES THAT JUST BOUGHT THE PROPERTIES NEXT DOOR, OR THE DEVELOPERS FLIPPING THE HOMES LEFT AND RIGHT.

WE ALL HAVE TO LIVE IN THE COMMUNITY.

AND IF YOU'VE WATCHED SOME OF THE DRB HEARINGS, YOU WILL SEE IT'S AN OPPORTUNITY FOR THE PUBLIC TO BE HEARD.

THAT'S ALL.

IT'S MEANT TO BE A NEIGHBOR.

SOMETIMES THESE HOMES NEXT TO THEM COULD BE UNDER CONSTRUCTION FOR LITERALLY 10 YEARS.

SO I WOULD HOPE THAT WE COULD GET ENOUGH SUPPORT TO VOTE THIS PARTICULAR ITEM DOWN, BUT WITH THE RECOGNITION THAT WE ALL NEED TO SIT AT THE TABLE WITH DEVELOPERS, WITH RESIDENTS, MAKE THIS PROCESS A LOT MORE STREAMLINED.

'CAUSE WE ALL AGREE IT COULD BE BETTER, BUT DON'T THROW IT OUT.

IF THIS PASSES.

I BELIEVE IT WOULD PROBABLY BE THE BIGGEST SILENCING OF RESIDENTS AT, AND I'VE BEEN HERE ABOUT 14 YEARS COMING TO THIS DAY, JUST LIKE BARBARA CAPMAN WAS IN THE 1970S.

YOU COULD LOOK AT THE VIDEOS, ALTHOUGH THE, THE CARPET WAS, UH, RED VELVET AT THE TIME.

SO THE OFFICE, UH, LOOKS A LOT BETTER.

BUT I WILL TELL YOU THAT THIS IS SOMETHING THE RESIDENTS, UH, WILL BE WEAKENED BY, NOT STRENGTHENED BY.

AND SO I REALLY HOPE YOU COULD TAKE THIS, UH, SERIOUSLY.

ROBERT BROWN, 1 3 0 0 1 SOUTHWEST 77TH AVENUE.

'CAUSE EVERY MEETING THERE ARE NEW SLIDES AND INFORMATION THAT WE CAN'T FACT CHECK.

ALL I COULD SAY IS, IS ABOUT RESIDENTS RIGHTS.

I'M A RESIDENT MIAMI BEACH.

YOU'VE HEARD FROM ME BEFORE, SO I WON'T GO INTO REHASH ANYTHING I'VE SAID BEFORE.

BUT JUST IN TERMS OF KIND OF MAYBE RESPONDING A LITTLE BIT TO KIND OF DANIEL'S PERSPECTIVE HERE.

UM, I THINK THERE, THERE LIKELY ARE SOME NEIGHBORS AND RESIDENTS THAT CAN COME TO A DRB MEETING WITH SOME CONSTRUCTIVE CRITICISM.

HOWEVER, A LOT OF THESE PEOPLE ARE WORKING AND HAVE JOBS AND ARE DOING, THEY'RE DOING WHAT THEY NEED TO DO TO MAKE A LIVING.

AND THEN THERE ARE A LOT OF PEOPLE THAT WILL COME TO THESE MEETINGS WITH AN AX TO GRIND.

AND THAT'S THEIR WHOLE PURPOSE FOR BEING THERE.

AND THAT WAS MY EXPERIENCE.

LIKE I, I TOLD YOU LAST TIME THAT MY NEIGHBOR CAME AND LITERALLY HELD ME, HIJACK HIJACKED ME, LIKE MY, FOR, FOR YEARS.

AND IT TURNED OUT THAT THIS NEIGHBOR HAD STOLEN A SLIVER OF MY PROPERTY.

SO HOW CAN WE HAVE A PROCESS HERE THAT ALLOWS FOR THIS TO HAPPEN? IT IS JUST COMPLETELY UNFAIR.

I KNOW SOME PEOPLE SAID THAT THEY SPENT HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS.

I THINK I'M PROBABLY APPROACHING THE MILLION DOLLAR MARK, IF NOT MORE, IN REDESIGN AND HOLDOVERS AND ARCHITECTURAL FEES AND CONSTRUCTION FEES AND CARRY COSTS.

AND THE PRICE OF CONSTRUCTION GOING UP ON ME OVER THIS PERIOD OF 2019 WAS MY FIRST DRB MEETING.

AND SO I'M JUST HERE TO SAY THAT THIS PROCESS NEEDS TO BE FIXED.

THE DRB HAS A, HAS A PLACE.

BUT LISTEN, THIS, YOU JUST CAN'T DO THIS TO RESIDENTS.

YOU JUST CAN'T.

I DON'T HAVE THAT MUCH TIME TO KEEP GOING THROUGH THIS AGAIN AND AGAIN FOR MY OWN REASONS, BUT IT'S JUST SIMPLY NOT FAIR.

SO I RESPECT YOUR POSITION, BUT I, I DISAGREE.

ALRIGHT, SO THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

I APPRECIATE IT.

ROBERT.

I THINK IT'S A FACT THAT AS THE WATER RISES, BUILDINGS ARE GET A LITTLE TALLER, ESPECIALLY ONE IN TWO STORY BUILDINGS.

THERE'S NO AVOIDING THAT.

THE LADY THAT, UM, COMMISSIONER SUAREZ PLAYED THE RECORDING OF THAT IS ACTUALLY THE PERSON WHO YOU GUYS ARE ALWAYS PROTECTING.

AND THEY SHOULD HAVE THE RIGHT TO SAY THAT.

AND THEY CAN'T HOLD ANYBODY HOSTAGE.

THEY MAY BE ABLE TO CONVINCE

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SOMEBODY THAT THEY'RE HOLDING THEM HOSTAGE, BUT THE BOARD OVERRULES THAT.

THE BOARD IGNORES THAT.

THEY SEE, THEY SEE WHEN SOMEBODY HAS AN AGENDA OUTSIDE.

AND THAT'S WHY THEY'RE THERE FOR, TO CONTROL NOT ONLY THE DEVELOPERS, BUT THOSE WHO WOULD STAND IN THEIR WAY WITHOUT GOOD REASON REGARDING THE OVERFLOW.

AND IN MARCH, DURHAM IS HAVING A HIGHER LEVEL REVIEW OF ALL WATER RETENTION ON ALL PROPERTIES.

AND IT'S, PEOPLE HAVE TO DO MAJOR ENGINEERING EVEN ON SINGLE FAMILY HOUSES.

SO THAT PROBLEM, WHICH I THOUGHT WAS LONG VANISHED BECAUSE IT'S BEEN, I'M AN ARCHITECT.

UH, IT'S BEEN 10 YEARS SINCE I'VE BEEN ALLOWED TO LET ANYTHING MOVE OFF THE PROPERTY I WAS WORKING ON.

BUT THE REVIEW IS ABOUT TO GET MUCH MORE INTENSE, UM, REGARDING THE DIFFICULTY OF THE DRB.

UH, THERE'S FEW AND THERE'S NO ELEMENT OF THE BUILDING PROCESS THAT A DEVELOPER WOULD THINK ADDS VALUE.

IT'S JUST ONE OF THE THINGS YOU HAVE TO DO TO PROTECT OTHERS THAT ARE AFFECTED.

OUR NEXT PUBLIC SPEAKER IS PAULA.

PAULA, UNMUTE YOURSELF.

PLEASE STATE YOUR NAME, ADDRESS, AND YOU HAVE TWO MINUTES.

HI, MY NAME IS PAULA ALLEN.

UM, 3 45 OCEAN DRIVE.

I'VE BEEN LISTENING TO THIS AND I ALWAYS, AND IT'S THE SAME, SAME STORY LIKE EVERY TIME FOR THE LAST, YOU KNOW, 15 YEARS, WHATEVER, I'VE BEEN LISTENING.

WHEN PEOPLE BUY A PIECE OF PROPERTY OR A BUILDING, THEY BUY IT KNOWING EXACTLY WHAT THE CODES, REGULATIONS, LIMITS ARE.

BUT EVERY SINGLE TIME THEY ASK FOR MORE, MORE AND MORE AND MORE.

SO WE'RE GONNA GO FROM 28 31, THEN THE NEXT PEOPLE BUY IT ONE AND SAY, WELL, I WANT MORE.

AND WHERE DOES IT END? BECAUSE IT'S BEEN GOING FOR DECADES THIS WAY.

SO MY ALWAYS IS, BEFORE I BUY SOMETHING, I KNOW MY LIMITS.

AND THEN IF I'M GONNA HIRE EXPENSIVE ARCHITECTS AND THEM, THEY SHOULD ALSO KNOW THE LIMITS.

THEY SHOULD DESIGN SOMETHING WITHIN THE LIMITS.

TO ME THAT'S VERY LOGICAL.

I'M NOT ALL ABOUT LET ME GO BUY SOMETHING AND THEN FORCE WHAT I WANT ONTO THE REST OF THE WORLD.

SO THERE YOU GO.

THAT'S WHAT I GOTTA SAY ABOUT IT.

AND I SEE IT SO MUCH IN THE CITY OF MIAMI BEACH, AND IT'S JUST OUTRIGHT RIDICULOUS.

I DON'T KNOW ANY OF THE PARTIES INVOLVED, BUT YOU KNOW WHAT, LIKE IF I HAD A HOUSE AND THEN THE NEIGHBOR COMES, HE WANTS UP EIGHT, EIGHT FEET MORE THAN ME, THEN THE NEXT PERSON COMES, THEY WANT MORE EIGHT FEET OVER EVERYBODY ELSE, THEN BEFORE, YOU KNOW, WE GOT, YOU KNOW, 12 STORY TALL HOUSES IN NEIGHBORHOODS.

SO THAT'S THAT.

SO WE EITHER HAVE RULES FOR A REASON OR WE DON'T.

IS THERE ANYONE ELSE HERE IN THE AUDIENCE WHO WISHES TO SPEAK? PLEASE APPROACH THE PODIUM.

HI, I AM SARAH ICK, AND I'M ACTUALLY SPEAKING JUST AS A, UM, A, A CITIZEN OF MIAMI BEACH.

BUT, UM, ONE OF THE THINGS THAT'S, AND I, I REALLY FULLY AGREE WITH YOU THAT WE DO NEED TO START REALLY TAKING SEA LEVEL RISE SERIOUSLY.

AND I THINK THAT MAYBE THE UNDER STORIES ARE AN IMPORTANT FACTOR IN TERMS OF OUR ARCHITECTURE, BUT IT'S REALLY IMPORTANT THAT THEY, UH, PASS A DESIGN REVIEW BECAUSE THAT'S STREET LEVEL ARCHITECTURE, THAT'S STREET LEVEL CONSTRUCTION.

AND TO LOOK INTO SOMEBODY'S OPEN GARAGE OR CARPORT, BASICALLY IS WHAT IT IS.

AND WHEN YOU'RE WALKING IN THE STREET, AND IT'S NOT VERY ATTRACTIVE, IT'S NOT SOMETHING THAT I THINK THE PEOPLE IN THE COMMUNITY REALLY WANNA DO.

THERE'S SEVERAL APARTMENT BUILDINGS THAT WERE BUILT BACK IN THE, I WOULD SAY PROBABLY IN THE SEVENTIES IN MIAMI BEACH, WHERE THEY HAVE THIS GROUND LEVEL PARKING, AND THEN THE APARTMENT BUILDING STARTS ABOVE IT, UM, OVER, UH, YOU KNOW, WHERE YOU START FINISHING CAUSEWAY.

AND THEY REALLY ARE HIDEOUS WHEN YOU WALK PAST 'EM BECAUSE YOU'RE LOOKING AT ALL OF THE PIPES AND ALL OF THE, YOU KNOW, ALL OF THE, UH, UNDERBELLY OF THE APARTMENT BUILDING AND IT'S AT STREET LEVEL.

SO DESIGN IS REALLY IMPORTANT.

AND THE OTHER THING IS THAT, UH, WE WERE TALKING ABOUT WHEN THE DRB REALLY STARTED KICKING INTO ACTION IN TERMS OF SINGLE FAMILY HOMES.

AND I KEPT WONDERING, WHY IS IT THERE'S SO MANY GOD AWFUL HOUSES ON, UH, HIBISCUS ISLAND AND ALSO ON PALM ISLAND, UH, THAT REPLACED, YOU KNOW, SOME REALLY BEAUTIFUL HISTORIC HOMES BACK IN THE 1990S.

AND NOW I KNOW WHY, BECAUSE THEY DIDN'T HAVE TO PASS THE DESIGN REVIEW BOARD.

AND I MEAN, THERE ARE PEOPLE IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD THAT THEY JUST GO, I CAN'T BELIEVE I HAVE TO LIVE NEXT DOOR TO THIS THING AT SUCH A MONSTROSITY.

SO WE NEED TO REALLY REVIEW OUR ARCHITECTURE IN MIAMI BEACH AND NOT THROW IT OUT WITH THE, UH, BATH WATER AS THEY SAY, THE BABY WITH THE BATH WATER.

WE DO NEED TO FIX OUR DRB.

I MEAN, I TOTALLY AGREE WITH YOU, DAVID, THAT TO HAVE THREE PEOPLE SHOW UP AND THEN HAVE TO POSTPONE ANOTHER MONTH AND ANOTHER MONTH, WE'VE GOT TO FIX THAT.

YOU KNOW, WE'VE GOT, ALTHOUGH A COMMISSIONERS SITTING HERE RIGHT NOW AND WE'VE GOT A FULL, YOU KNOW, A QUORUM, WHY IS IT THAT THE DRB IS CONSISTENTLY LETTING PEOPLE DOWN? YOU KNOW, WHEN THEY COME IN FOR THEIR REVIEWS, WE'VE GOT TO FIX THAT.

SO THAT'S BASICALLY WHAT I HAVE TO SAY.

LET'S KEEP IN MIND OUR, OUR NEIGHBORHOOD AND OUR RESIDENTS, BUT ALS AND HOW BEAUTIFUL THE DESIGNS CAN BE, ESPECIALLY, YOU KNOW, WHAT THE DRB DOES FOR US.

THEY'RE, THEY'RE THERE FOR A REASON, BUT LET'S FIX THEM.

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MY NAME IS GLEN BOYER.

UM, I THINK THERE IS ACTUALLY AN INCENTIVE IN PLACE, AND THE INCENTIVE FROM WHAT I'M HEARING TODAY, IS TO BUILD A LESS VIABLE PRODUCT BECAUSE YOU DO NOT HAVE TO GO THROUGH THE PROCESS.

THE, THE CITY HAS CODIFIED HOW TO PROCEED WITH A BERM HOME AND HOW TO PROCEED WITH A, WITH AN UNDERSTORY HOME.

AND IT IS INCENTIVIZING PEOPLE TO BUILD THE, THE BERM HOMES AT THE EXCLUSION OF WELL-DESIGNED UNDERSTORY HOMES, BECAUSE THE PROCESS IS AS DIFFICULT AS WE'VE HEARD.

I THINK THAT HOMES THAT I'VE HEARD CONVERSATIONS ABOUT OR, OR, UH, PRESENTATIONS BEING, UH, SPOKEN ABOUT HAVING TO REVIEW MATERIALS AND LANDSCAPE AND ALL THOSE THINGS, IS THAT, WOULD THAT NOT ALSO BE TRUE FOR, FOR THE BERM HOMES? UM, AND THEN TO MY, I GUESS THE LAST POINT IS LOOKING AT THESE DIAGRAMS THAT, THAT TOM WORKED UP, I MEAN, WE'RE REALLY TALKING ABOUT VERY DI MINIMIS NUMBERS AT THIS POINT.

I, I MENTIONED THIS MORNING THAT THE NEW CODE REQUIREMENT FOR HOMES WAS ELEVATED ANOTHER FOOT AS OF JANUARY 1ST, THAT THE, UH, FINISHED FLOOR ELEVATION OF THE GROUND FLOOR IS 10 FEET UP FROM NINE FEET.

SO THEY'RE, THEY'RE NOW AGAIN, A FOOT CLOSER TOGETHER.

AND I WOULD JUST RECOMMEND THAT, UH, YOU LISTEN TO THE PLANNING STAFF AND TO TOM AND, AND, AND REALLY HEED THEIR RECOMMENDATIONS AS I THINK THEY HAVE ALWAYS, UM, SERVED THE CITY TREMENDOUSLY.

WELL, THANK YOU.

HI, I AM JEANETTE DORFMAN, AND I THINK MOST OF YOU GOT EMAILS FROM ME TODAY.

I, UH, LIVE IN HISTORIC NAUTILUS NEIGHBORHOOD.

AND, UM, LUCKY FOR ME, I, YOU KNOW, THE DRB HAS ADDED, UM, PROTECTIVE MEASURES AND KEPT MY NEIGHBORHOOD MOSTLY INTACT.

UM, SO I HAVE, UM, HAD A FAVORABLE EXPERIENCE WITH THE DRB.

UM, MY HEART GOES OUT TO PEOPLE THAT I, I MEAN, I HEAR THE HORROR STORIES ABOUT PEOPLE NOT SHOWING UP TO THE DRB MEETINGS AND HAVING TO GO THROUGH ALL THIS, YOU KNOW, HORRIBLE PROCESS.

AND I UNDERSTAND, AND I AGREE THAT THERE NEEDS TO BE SOME REVISIONS MADE.

UM, BUT I DON'T, I AGREE WITH, UH, SARAH'S POINT THAT LET'S NOT DO AWAY WITH THE DR.

B'S PROTECTION OF SINGLE FAMILY HOMES, AND IN HER WORDS, NOT THROW AWAY THE BABY WITH THE BATH WATER.

UM, SO I DON'T SUPPORT THIS MEASURE TO DO AWAY WITH THE DRB REVIEW OF SINGLE FAMILY HOMES.

AND I DO SUPPORT REVISIONS FOR THE DRB.

AND THAT'S IT.

I MADE IT UNDER ALMOST A MINUTE.

OUR NEXT SPEAKER IS YANNICK CHE, DO YOU HAVE TWO MINUTES AND PLEASE STATE YOUR NAME.

HELLO, MY NAME IS YANNICK ALREADY SPOKE.

I AM, UH, RESIDENT OF MIAMI BEACH.

I LIVE IN EASTERN POINT.

HE ALREADY SPOKE.

YANNICK DID YOU SPOKE EARLIER THIS MORNING, CORRECT? YES, I DID.

YES, I DID.

LET ME GO TO THE NEXT ONE.

THE COMMISSIONER READ WHAT EMAIL? OH, IT'S, IT'S THE COMMISSIONER'S CALL.

NO, I, YEAH, NO, I APPRECIATE YOU CALLING BACK IN, BUT IT'S THE SAME ITEM.

SO WE'RE, WE'RE STICKING TO EVERYONE WHO'S COMMENTED.

I MEAN, WE GOT IT.

WE, WE, WE REMEMBER FROM THIS MORNING.

NEXT, PLEASE.

HI FRED CARLTON, 1800 DY AVENUE, FRED.

COME ON.

COME ON, FRED.

I'LL GIVE YOU ONE MINUTE.

TAKE OFF THE LOOK.

LOOK, WE DON'T DELIVER THE MAIL BY HORSE AND BUGGY ANYMORE.

WE HAVE TO CHA WE HAVE CONSTANT CHANGE IN THIS CITY.

AND UNFORTUNATELY, SEA LEVEL RISE IS IMPORTANT TO CONTINUE TO GO TO A BOARD THAT DOESN'T SHOW UP, THAT COSTS THOUSANDS AND THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS TO GO BEFORE.

AND TO DANIEL'S POINT OF VIEW TO HAVE A, A MEETING, I DON'T, I DON'T KNOW HOW, HOW THIS WORKS WITH HIM BECAUSE WHAT ARE YOU GONNA HAVE HUNDREDS OF HUNDREDS OF HOMEOWNERS MEETING WITH, WITH ACTIVISTS WHO WANT TO HAVE A SAY IN, YOU KNOW, WHAT THEY'RE DOING? I JUST THINK THIS IS REALLY UNATTAINABLE.

WE HAVE A LOT OF RULES AND REGULATIONS IN PLACE FOR THE, THAT THE PLANNING BOARD HAS TO GO BY.

AND TO BE HONEST WITH YOU, IT'S, IT'S JUST SUCH A BURDEN ON THE RESIDENTS TO, TO HAVE TO GO BEFORE THIS BOARD FOR SOMETHING LIKE THIS PLAYING BOARD IS MORE THAN, MORE THAN, UH, CAPABLE OF HANDLING THIS.

AND WE REALLY, WE REALLY NEED TO MOVE ON.

ESTABLISHED IN THE LATE EIGHTIES.

I THINK THAT'S THE, IS THAT THE END OF PUBLIC COMMENT? NO, COME ON UP.

YOU GOT TO SPEAK TWICE NOW.

I'M KIDDING.

, I'LL TAKE ADVANTAGE OF IT.

FOR THE RECORD, MY NAME IS IRA GILLER.

I'M A MIAMI BEACH ARCHITECT.

MY RESIDENCE IS AT 45 35 NORTH MERIDIAN.

AND I WAS HERE BEFORE TOM, AND I CAN ATTEST TO THE ORIGINAL DESIGN REVIEW BOARD BECAUSE THE IDEA STARTED IN MY OFFICE WITH MY FATHER NORMAN GILLER.

AND THAT'S HOW IT GOT

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AND IT CAME ABOUT BECAUSE WE WENT THROUGH A PERIOD OF BUILDING IN THE LATE SIXTIES AND THE SEVENTIES.

WE STARTED TO GET SOME PRETTY UGLY BUILDINGS.

SARAH MENTIONED THE EXAMPLES OF THE APARTMENT BUILDINGS WITH THE OPEN UNDERSTORY.

UM, WE WERE GETTING BASIC BOXES.

UH, DEVELOPERS WERE NOT APPLYING ANY DESIGN, UM, ANY DESIGN IN THEIR EFFORTS.

IT WAS JUST BUILD, BUILD, BUILD.

WE'RE, WE'RE NOW IN ANOTHER ERA WHERE WE'RE GETTING A REPLACEMENT OF OUR HOUSING STOCK.

AND OUR HOUSING STOCK IS ON THE CUSP OF A NEW ERA.

WE'RE FACING THE REALITY THAT IN THE NEXT 20, 25 YEARS, A GOOD PART OF THE HOUSING STOCK IN MIAMI BEACH IS GONNA BE REPLACED BECAUSE OF CLIMATE CHANGE, BECAUSE OF RISING TIDES AND THE NEED TO ELEVATE THE, THE STRUCTURES.

THE QUESTION BEFORE YOU TODAY REALLY IS DO WE WANNA DO IT ON AN AD HOC BASIS OR DO WE WANNA DO IT ON A PLANNED BASIS? THE DESIGN REVIEW BOARD WAS CREATED TO BE THAT DEVICE THAT BROUGHT ABOUT, UH, RECOGNITION OF THE NEED FOR DESIGN.

MIAMI BEACH IN THE SEVENTIES DID NOT HAVE A WORLD CLASS REPUTATION FOR ARCHITECTURE.

BUT THINK ABOUT THE LAST 50 YEARS OF WHERE WE'VE GONE DURING THE PERIOD OF, OF DESIGN REVIEW THAT HAS HELPED BRING ABOUT WHAT WE'VE GOT.

WE'RE LOOKING AT HOUSES TODAY THAT NEED A LOT MORE CREATIVITY.

THAT CREATIVITY'S GONNA COME ABOUT BY GOING THROUGH THE DESIGN REVIEW PROCESS.

AND THAT'S WHAT I URGE YOU TO STICK WITH TODAY AND REJECT THE PROPOSAL.

I WOULD ALSO SAY AS TO FIXING THE DESIGN REVIEW BOARD, THE ORIGINAL DESIGN REVIEW BOARD HAD TWO ARCHITECTS, TWO ENGINEERS, LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT, THE CORE, THE MAJORITY WERE PROFESSIONALS.

AND THAT'S WHAT'S NEEDED TO GET BACK ON THE, ON THE LAND USE BOARDS.

THAT'S WHAT'S MISSING.

AND THAT WILL MAKE THIS PROCESS GO A LOT SMOOTHER.

I URGE YOU TO DO THAT AS WELL.

EVERY SINGLE UNDERSTORY HOME THAT EXIST IN MIAMI BEACH TODAY WAS REVIEWED BY THE DRB.

ANY OTHER, IS THERE ANYONE ELSE, UH, ON ZOOM? NO.

ANYBODY ELSE IN PERSON WANNA SPEAK? TEXTED, OR, ALL RIGHT.

YOU GOT TO, UH, WELL, THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

GOOD TO SEE ALL OF YOU AGAIN.

UM, AND PLEASE, I OF COURSE HAVE BEEN THINKING A LOT, OH, SORRY.

SARAH GIL NELSON.

UM, I AM A RESIDENT, A BUSINESS OWNER, A MOM.

I'M THIRD GENERATION RAISING GENERATION NUMBER FOUR.

I'M ALSO THE CHAIR OF THE DRB AND I HAVE, UH, WITNESSED HUNDREDS OF DIFFERENT PROJECTS BEFORE THE DRB DURING MY TENURE THERE.

UM, I'VE BEEN TO ABOUT 46 DIFFERENT MEETINGS.

SO I'VE BEEN THINKING A LOT ABOUT THIS PROCESS AND, UM, WHAT THIS ORDINANCE MEANS AND DOESN'T MEAN.

AND I'VE REALLY DISTILLED IT DOWN TO, AND ALSO WHAT A LOT OF THE PEOPLE ARE SAYING, OF COURSE, I TAKE, YOU KNOW, EVERYTHING, ALL THE COMMENTS, UM, VERY SERIOUSLY AS I'M SUCH AN ACTIVE PART IN THIS PROCESS.

SO AT ITS CORE, THIS ORDINANCE IS ABOUT THE QUALITY OF LIFE AND THE QUALITY OF OUR LIVES HERE ON MIAMI BEACH.

THE POINT OF THE PERMITTING PROCESS, BOTH THE DESIGN REVIEW HPB PROCESS, AS WELL AS THE PERMITTING PROCESS AND BUILDING IN GENERAL, IS TO CREATE RESILIENT, SAFE, LIVABLE STRUCTURES THAT MAINTAIN THE BELOVED CHARACTER OF OUR NEIGHBORHOODS.

AT THE LAND USE COMMITTEE, UH, MEETING THEY ATTENDED LAST, OR I GUESS YEAH, LAST MONTH THERE WERE QUITE A FEW RESIDENTS WHO GOT UP AND SPOKE ABOUT HOW IMPORTANT IT IS TO MAINTAIN THE CHARACTER OF THEIR NEIGHBORHOOD.

I TOO AM A SINGLE FAMILY HOMEOWNER, AND THIS IS ONE OF THE REASONS WHY I DECIDED TO VOLUNTEER WITH THE DRB.

NOW, IN ORDER TO REALLY UNDERSTAND THE CHARACTER OF A NEIGHBORHOOD, YOU HAVE TO UNDERSTAND THE CONTEXT.

YOU HAVE TO UNDERSTAND COMPATIBILITY, YOU HAVE TO UNDERSTAND HOW PEOPLE ARE LIVING.

IT'S INTERESTING THAT, UM, THE PLANNING DIRECTOR MENTIONED THIS DISCUSSION OF CONTEXT BECAUSE I REMEMBER VERY CLEARLY DURING THE LAND USE MEETING THAT WE HAD WHEN HE WAS ASKED, DOES THE CRITERIA THAT STAFF LOOK AT, DOES IT TAKE CONTEXT INTO ACCOUNT? AND HE SAID, UNEQUIVOCALLY NO.

THAT THEY DO NOT LOOK AT CONTEXT ELEVATIONS, THAT THEY ARE FOCUSED SINGULARLY ON WHAT IS ON THE PROPERTY.

THEY'RE NOT TAKING INTO ACCOUNT ISSUES OF THE NEIGHBORS WITH PRIVACY, QUALITY OF LIFE, THE IMPACT THAT THIS NEW PROJECT IS GOING TO HAVE ON, UM, PROPERTY VALUES ON ANY OF THOSE THINGS.

AND HOW COULD THEY, BECAUSE THEY'RE NOT IN AN OPEN FORUM, THEY'RE, THEY DON'T HAVE RESIDENTS JUST SORT OF DROPPING BY TO AIR THEIR GRIEVANCES AND AIR THEIR CONCERNS.

AS A MEMBER OF THE DRB, BEFORE I ATTEND A MEETINGS, I GO INTO THE NEIGHBORHOODS AND I LOOK AT THESE BUILDINGS AND I LOOK AT THE PLANS AND I SEE HOW THE CONTEXT IS GOING TO AFFECT THESE PROPERTIES.

THAT'S NOT SOMETHING THAT WE SHOULD BE ASKING OUR STAFF TO DO.

AND YET IT IS THIS CONTEXT WHICH REALLY MAKES THE DIFFERENCE.

AGAIN, ONE OF THE BIG COMPLAINTS THAT WE'VE BEEN GETTING ABOUT THE BERM HOMES IS THAT THEY FLOW IN THE, THEY DON'T KEEP THE WATER ON SITE AND THEY FLOW INTO THE PROPERTIES OF THE ADJACENT NEIGHBORS.

WELL, THAT'S BECAUSE CONTEXT HASN'T BEEN TAKEN INTO ACCOUNT LIKE THE DRB, YOU NEVER GET THOSE COMMENTS, YOU NEVER GET THE CRITICISMS ABOUT THE UNDERSTORY HOMES.

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YOU COULD ATTRIBUTE THE SUCCESS TO THAT, TO THAT PART OF THE PROCESS.

SO THE LAND USE BOARD CONTRIBUTE SOMETHING VERY, VERY IMPORTANT TO THE PROCESS IT'S WORTH WAITING FOR.

AND IN TERMS OF THE RESIDENT, THE OTHER REALLY IMPORTANT THING ABOUT THE DRB, THE OTHER UNIQUE THING IS THAT IT DOES CREATE A PUBLIC FORUM.

WHERE CAN I HAVE SOME EXTRA TIME CONSIDERING? YES.

UM, WE HAVE, WE ARE THERE TO HEAR THE RATIONAL CONCERNS OF THE RESIDENTS.

AND THE OVERWHELMING MAJORITY OF THE RESIDENTS WHO COME IN AND AIR THEIR CONCERNS ARE VERY, VERY NORMAL CONCERNS THAT THEY HAVE LOOKED AT THE PLANS AND THEY'VE LOOKED AT THEIR HOME AND SAID, I DON'T WANT THIS MAN'S BEDROOM WINDOW LOOKING OVER THE POOL WHERE MY CHILDREN PLAY.

THEY ALL, I DON'T WANT THE LIGHT COMING IN.

THIS IS A VERY IMPORTANT PART OF THE PROCESS THAT IS NOT REPLICATED.

THE DRB ALSO GIVES AN OPPORTUNITY TO APPLICANTS WHO MIGHT NOT AGREE WITH WHAT STAFF SAYS THE OPPORTUNITY TO APPEAL.

AND THERE HAVE BEEN MANY, MANY OCCASIONS WHERE APPLICANTS, WHERE THE DRB HAS DISAGREED WITH STAFF RECOMMENDATIONS, SAVING APPLICANTS LOTS OF MONEY, UM, ON THEIR RENOVATIONS.

THE DRB ENSURES TRANSPARENCY AND COMPATIBILITY AND IN TERMS OF EFFICIENCY, WHICH I KNOW IS A BIG ARGUMENT THAT'S BEING MADE, THAT IT SLOWS DOWN THE PROCESS.

AND I HAVE HAD MANY CONVERSATIONS WITH A NUMBER OF DIFFERENT MEMBERS OF THE PLANNING STAFF ALREADY.

THEY'VE BEGUN LOOKING INTO WAYS TO STREAMLINE THE PERMITTING PROCESS AS A WHOLE.

REMEMBER THE DRB IS JUST ONE SMALL PART OF THE PERMITTING PROCESS.

UM, IN FACT, THERE IS A, UH, AN EMPLOYEE IN THE BUILDING DEPARTMENT WHOSE JOB IS SLOWLY TO, UH, ASSESS THE EFFICIENCY OF THE PERMITTING PROCESS.

SO ALREADY WE HAVE IN PLACE ALTERNATIVE MEANS OF CREATING EFFICIENCIES WITHIN THIS PROCESS.

THEY'RE AMAZED TO MAKE, TO PROMOTE RESILIENCY AND MAKE THE PERMITTING PROCESS MORE EFFICIENT, THAT DO NOT ELIMINATE GOVERNMENT TRANSPARENCY AND THE PUBLIC GOOD.

I LOOKED INTO THIS AND THERE ARE ABOUT 5,000 SINGLE FAMILY HOMES IN THE CITY OF MIAMI BEACH.

NOW, MY QUESTION TWO IS, CAN WE HAVE 20 MORE SECONDS? YES.

MY QUESTION TWO IS, WHY HASN'T THERE BEEN MORE OUTREACH? WHY DID THE SURVEY ONLY GET FILLED OUT BY 16 PEOPLE, TWO OF WHOM WERE PROPERTY OWNERS? WHY HASN'T THERE BEEN A PUBLIC MEETING LIKE THERE IS FOR THE TRAFFIC COMING ON 41ST STREET OR THE 72ND STREET COMMUNITY CENTER, OR THE PINE TREE DRIVE ROUNDABOUT? WHY HAS THERE NOT BEEN ENOUGH NOTICE? WHY HAVE WE NOT GOTTEN MORE RESIDENTS INVOLVED IN THIS ISSUE THAT IS GONNA AFFECT THEM SO DRAMATICALLY? EVEN THE ITEM IS LISTED IN A WAY THAT IS ALL LEGALESE, THAT IT'S VERY HARD TO TELL WHAT THIS IS REALLY ABOUT.

I'M VERY, VERY CONCERNED THAT THIS ENTIRE PROCESS WAS NOT AS TRANSPARENT FOR SOMEONE WHO HAS VERY ACTIVELY ARDENTLY RALLIED FOR TRANSPARENCY.

IT'S A BIT SHOCKING TO ME THAT THERE'S NOT ENOUGH OPPORTUNITIES FOR RESIDENTS TO BE SURVEYED AS WELL.

SO BECAUSE OF THE IMPORTANT CONTRIBUTION THAT THE DRB GIVES IN TERMS OF TRANSPARENCY AND THE PUBLIC GOOD, I URGE YOU TO VOTE NO ON THIS ISSUE.

SO VICE MAYOR BACH, THANK YOU.

UM, I AM REALLY DISTRESSED TO HEAR THAT WE DIDN'T MEET QUORUM A COUPLE OF TIMES WITH THE DRB.

I THINK THAT'S FRANKLY UNCONSCIONABLE AND I THINK THAT NEEDS TO BE ADDRESSED POST-HASTE.

UM, I ALSO THINK THAT THERE SHOULD, YOU KNOW, YESTERDAY WE SHOULD START LOOKING AT HOW DO WE MANAGE OUR FEE STRUCTURE SO THAT IF YOU ARE A REGULAR JOE BUILDING OR RENOVATING A HOME, IT'S ONE FEE STRUCTURE.

AND IF YOU'RE A PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPER BUYING FOR $20 MILLION IN FLIPPING FROM MULTIPLES OF THAT, IT'S A DIFFERENT FREE STRUCTURE BECAUSE THE WORKLOAD IS VERY DIFFERENT.

BUT HERE'S THE, THOSE ARE JUST REACTIONS TO THINGS I'VE HEARD TODAY.

HERE'S, HERE'S MY FUNDAMENTAL CONCERN, AND IT'S TWOFOLD.

ONE IS, I WILL ALWAYS BE IN FAVOR OF GIVING RESIDENTS THE RIGHT TO MAKE THEIR VOICES HEARD.

THAT'S, UH, THAT'S FOUNDATIONAL TO MIAMI BEACH UNITED.

THAT'S WHY I JOINED MIAMI BEACH UNITED.

IT'S WHAT I REPRESENT.

IT'S WHAT I REPRESENT AS AN ELECTED OFFICIAL.

THERE IS NEVER A BAD TIME TO HEAR FROM RESIDENTS.

NOW, THERE ARE DEFINITELY GONNA BE CASES WITH PEOPLE WHO ARE JERKS, WHO HAVE UNFOUND CLAIMS, WHO ARE SAYING ABSOLUTE NONSENSE.

AND IT IS INCUMBENT ON THE BOARD AND THE STAFF OF THAT LAND USE BOARD TO MANAGE THAT PROCESS.

YOU CAN'T COME UP HERE AND SAY WHATEVER YOU WANT, THAT IS JUST NOT OKAY.

THAT BEING SAID, THE CRUX OF THE MATTER TO ME IS, IS THIS, WE NEED TO FIND A WAY TO ENCOURAGE PEOPLE TO FIND MORE RESILIENT, TO BUILD MORE RESILIENT HOMES MORE EASILY WITHOUT JUMPING THROUGH HOOPS.

WE DO IT WITH THE BERM

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HOUSES.

I'M NOT SOLD THAT BERM HOUSES ARE AS GREAT AS, UM, UNDERSTORY HOMES.

UNDERST STORIES ARE DEFINITELY, IN MY VIEW FROM MY LIMITED KNOWLEDGE ON THE MATTER BETTER.

SO IF THAT IS OUR GOAL, IF WE ARE REALLY TRYING TO INCENTIVIZE PEOPLE BUILDING UNDERSTORY HOMES WITH A SMALL, UM, LEVEL OF HARASSMENT AND OVERSIGHT, IF YOU WILL, WHY ARE WE NOT MAKING THEM EQUITABLE TO THE BERM HOUSES? BECAUSE THAT WAY, IF YOU'RE REALLY SAYING, I AM DOING THIS FOR THE RESILIENCY, THEN BE MY GUEST.

YOU, WE HAVE VERY CLEAR CODES.

YOU FOLLOW THE CODES, YOU PROCEED.

IF YOU ARE BUILDING SOMETHING BECAUSE YOU WANNA GET A THIRD OR FOURTH LEVEL, YOU WANNA HAVE AN UNDER, UH, AN UNDERSTORY THAT IS BASICALLY OUTDOOR LIVING SPACE TO THE, THE TUNE OF 10 FEET.

THAT IS SOMETHING THAT GOES TO TO TO DRB.

WE NEED TO MAKE SURE THAT IF WE WANT TO INCENTIVIZE UNDERSTORY BUILDINGS WITH REASONABLE RESILIENCY GOALS, RESILIENCY GOALS, NOT MORE SPACE UNDER AIR, NOT MORE SPACE FOR FOUR CARS, NOT MORE SPACE FOR, YOU KNOW, HAVING AN OUTDOOR KITCHEN UNDERNEATH, YOU KNOW, THE BUILDING FOR TRUE RESILIENCE.

LET'S MAKE IT AS EASY AS POSSIBLE AND NOT REQUIRE DRB WITHIN A VERY PRESCRIBED SET OF, OF PARAMETERS.

ANYTHING MORE THAT YOU WANNA HAVE, WE'RE HAPPY, HAVE THE CONVERSATION, COME TALK TO US.

SO IF, IF YOU WILL, TO THE, TO THE SPONSOR, IF YOU WILL ACCEPT THAT, I WOULD BE WILLING TO, TO AGREE WITH IT.

OTHERWISE, I'M A HARD NO.

UH, I'M, I'M WHAT EXACTLY ARE YOU REQUESTING TO HAVE THE LIMITATIONS FOR BERM HOUSES AND UNDERSTORY HOUSES BE THE SAME? SO THEY CAN BOTH GO WITHOUT NEEDING TO GO TO DRB? NO.

WAIT, WHAT? YEAH.

CAN I ASK A QUESTION? WELL, WHAT WOULD THAT DO? SO THAT FOR THE PEOPLE WHO ARE CLAIMING THEY'RE TRYING TO BUILD AN UNDERSTORY HOME FOR RESILIENCE PURPOSE, BUT THEY'RE ACTUALLY GETTING 10 FEET OF UNDERSTORY AND 12 FEET OF THIS AND 10 FEET ABOVE THAT, THEY'RE GETTING A SIGNIFICANT AMOUNT OF HEIGHT.

IF THEY WANT TO JUST, UM, BUILD AN UNDERSTORY HOME, WHICH PROVIDES AT LEAST AS MUCH, IF NOT MORE RESILIENCE THAN A BURN HOUSE, BECAUSE YOU'VE GOT, UM, THE WATER FLOWS THROUGH.

IT'S NOT RUNNING DOWN.

IT'S, IT'S DONE DIFFERENTLY.

YOU DON'T NEED AS MUCH HEIGHT YOU CAN GO THROUGH WITHOUT DRB APPROVAL.

NOW, IF YOU WANNA BUILD AN UNDERSTORY HOME WITH 10 FEET UNDERSTORY AND 14 FEET WITH 12 FEET INTERIOR, THEN YOU NEED TO GO TO DRB.

BUT IF YOU'RE, IF YOU WANT TRULY TO BUILD AN UNDERSTORY HOME FOR RESILIENCE PURPOSES ALONE, HAVE AT IT VICE MAYOR.

UM, WE MISSED THE LAST, THE FIRST DRB MEETING OF THE YEAR WAS MISSED.

AND IN FACT, THE CHAIR COULDN'T EVEN COME TO THE FIRST DRB MEETING OF THE YEAR.

AND THAT'S WHERE I MET YANNICK.

SO AND SO, LIKE PLEASE, LIKE WE, WE, WE'VE CONSISTENTLY HAD QUORUM ISSUES ON THIS PROCESS AND, YOU KNOW, SHORT OF, OF OF, OF, UH, OF FORCING OR OR HANDCUFFING DRB MEMBERS TO THE DEUS TO BE THERE.

THIS IS GOING TO BE A, A, A PROCESS WHERE HUMAN ERROR UNFORTUNATELY HAPPENS.

AND SO IF, IF WE HAVE CONTINUED QUORUM ISSUES, ARE WE, DO WE REALLY WANNA STIFLE LIKE SINGLE FAMILY HOME DEVELOPMENT ON THE BEACH? I MEAN TIMES DID THAT HAPPEN? JUST SO WE CAN GET A CLEAR AND DIDN'T THE PLANNING DEPARTMENT CHANGE THE DATE? AND THAT'S WITHOUT ASKING AVAILABILITY OF THE MEMBERS.

LET'S BE FAIR HERE.

I WATCH EVERY SINGLE LAND USE MEETING.

THE, THE, THE DATE WAS ACTUALLY CHANGED LAST SUMMER.

I BELIEVE IT WAS JULY, AUGUST, JULY, AUGUST.

WE'RE EXPLORING THE IDEA OF CORRECT.

AND WE CONFIRMED IT WITH, I BELIEVE TWO OF THE MEMBERS.

AND THE REASON THAT WE CHANGED THAT WAS TO ACCOMMODATE, UH, THE PLANNING BOARD REVIEW OF PROJECTS TO MAKE THAT MORE EFFICIENT.

BECAUSE THERE'S FOUR LAND USE.

OKAY, WE DON'T HAVE TO GO THROUGH THIS, BUT HOW MANY TIMES DID IT HAPPEN? HOW MANY TIMES DID I WELL, THERE'S NO QUORUM AT LAST, LAST YEAR I THINK WE HAD THREE YEARS.

THREE TIMES.

AND, AND THERE'S ALSO BEEN TIMES, THREE TIMES IN THE, IN THE LAST HOW MANY YEAR.

AND THERE'S ALSO BEEN TIMES WHERE THERE WEREN'T ADEQUATE NUMBERS OF MEMBERS.

SO, AND, AND THAT'S WHERE I'M HAVING, SORRY.

NO, PLEASE.

I ALMOST FEEL LIKE I'M HAVING A HARD TIME BIFURCATING THE TWO, RIGHT? I, I DON'T WANT THIS WHATEVER HAPPENED IN THE PAST YEAR WITH THE DRB TO CLOUD MY JUDGMENT FOR THIS PROCESS GOING FORWARD.

BUT

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AND EVEN THE THREE THAT DIDN'T HAVE QUORUM, THERE WERE TWO OR THREE OTHERS I, I BELIEVE SPECIFICALLY OVER THE SUMMER WHERE THEY MIGHT'VE ONLY HAD FOUR MEMBERS.

AND EVEN WHEN THEY HAD QUORUM, THEY WERE CANCEL, YOU KNOW, ENDING THE MEETING EARLY.

AND I'M NOT TRYING TO, YOU KNOW, CAST BLAME OR THINGS LIKE THAT, BUT I'M HAVING A HARD TIME SEPARATING, OKAY, LET'S NOT THROW THE BABY OUT WITH THE BATH WATER JUST 'CAUSE THERE WAS SOME PROCESSES THERE.

BUT IT'S, IT'S VERY DIFFICULT FOR ME TO SIT HERE AND I SEE ALL THOSE PROJECTS, PEOPLE CARRYING SINGLE FAMILY HOMES THAT THEY'RE TRYING TO BUILD FOR THEIR FAMILIES.

UH, BE SO DELAYED.

I GUESS, CAN I JUST KEEP RAMBLING ON PLEASE? FOR, FOR MYSELF.

OKAY, .

UM, I THINK I LOOK AT THIS AND THERE'S COMPELLING ARGUMENTS MADE ON EACH SIDE.

MR. LURIA, I, I REMEMBER I WAS CAMPAIGNING, I I SAT NEAR DEN WHEN WE FIRST MET, AND I JUST TOOK YOU IN THIS WORLD OF WEALTH OF KNOWLEDGE THAT I, I REMEMBER TOO THIS DAY.

I DON'T EVEN KNOW IF YOU REMEMBER, BUT, UH, YOU KNOW, I, UH, I I I CHERISHED EVERY MOMENT OF THAT BECAUSE YOU WERE JUST A WEALTH OF KNOWLEDGE.

AND I ALIGN WITH YOU WHERE IT'S, THIS ISN'T EASY.

THERE'S ANOTHER ISSUE WITH THE, WITH THE, I THINK YOU'RE MISSING ONE PERSON THAT HASN'T, AND IT'S A COMMISSION THAT PICKS, YOU KNOW, THAT HAS A POINT DIVERSITY, YES, THAT'S CAUSING A PROBLEM ALSO.

BUT THEN ALSO JUST FUNDAMENTALLY, MAYBE I'M OVERSIMPLIFYING THINGS, BUT I'M SAYING IF WE WANT TO BE A RESILIENT CITY, WE SHOULD BE PROVIDING INCENTIVES TO BUILD THE MOST RESILIENT CITY POSSIBLE.

UM, I HAVE ON MY PHONE, I DON'T KNOW IF I COULD SHARE IT OR EVEN IF PEOPLE WOULD WANNA SEE, UH, IT WAS JUNE 13TH I WAS HANDING OUT IF WE CAN YEAH, I, I'LL JUST SHOW REAL QUICK.

UM, PJ IF YOU COULD, UH, I WAS HANDING OUT SANDBAGS AFTER A RAIN STORMING COLLINS PARK.

AND THIS LADY CAME UP IN TEARS AND SAID, PLEASE DELIVER, YOU KNOW, HAVE SANDBAGS, UH, HELP ME LOAD INTO MY CAR.

AND SHE WAS SO DISTRESSED.

I ACTUALLY TOOK HER IN MY GOLF CART WITH AS MANY SANDBAGS AS WE COULD, OVERDO OUR HOME ON ALTON ROAD AND HER ENTIRE HOME, HER ENTIRE BACKYARD WAS JUST COMPLETELY FLOODED.

AND SHE SAID BOTH OF HER NEIGHBORS BUILD UP ON BERMS AND I DON'T KNOW, PJ, WERE WE ABLE TO ROLL THIS? YEAH, RIGHT HERE.

I'LL GIVE YOU LINE HERE AND THEN YOU CAN, AND IN THE NEXT VIDEO I PROMISED HER, I GO, I WILL PUT YOU IN FRONT WITH THE PLANNING DEPARTMENT AND SEE WHAT THE HECK HAPPENED.

AND ESSENTIALLY THEY WERE ABLE TO BUILD THEIR HOMES UP ON BERMS WITHOUT THIS PROCESS AND THIS PROCESS ACTUALLY IN SANITIZED THEM TO DO SO.

AND THIS IS WHAT RESULTED IN HER HOME, RIGHT? SHE'S LIVED THERE FOR 20 YEARS AND THE TWO HOMES ON EACH SIDE OF HER BUILD UP ON BERMS AND CAUSED HER HOME THE FLOOD WORST THAN I'VE EVER SEEN.

HER LIFE WAS DESTROYED, HER LIFE WAS DEVASTATED.

SO I'M SITTING HERE SAYING, ANY BEHAVIOR IS GOING TO BE A RESULT OF THE INCENTIVES THAT IS PROVIDED.

SO WE SHOULD BE INCENTIVIZING PEOPLE TO BUILD AS RESILIENT HOMES AS POSSIBLE THAT NOT ONLY AFFECT THE RESILIENCY OF THEIR HOMES, BUT AS WE SEE IN THIS AFFECT THE RESILIENCY OF THEIR NEIGHBORS AS WELL.

RIGHT? SHE HAD NO SAY IN THEM BUILDING UP ON A BERM, BUT SHE WAS CERTAINLY IMPACTED BY IT.

SO AGAIN, MAYBE I'M BEING VERY ELEMENTARY IN THIS THINKING, BUT I'M SITTING HERE SAYING, WELL, WE NEED TO ESTABLISH A PROCESS THAT PROVIDES INCENTIVES TO GO FORWARD WITH THE BEST PROJECT POSSIBLE, THE MOST RESILIENT PROJECT POSSIBLE.

AND RIGHT NOW, I THINK THOSE INCENTIVES ARE PERVERSE WHERE, AND IT'S CLEAR WHEN WE SHOWED THE DATA LAST MEETING ABOUT THE PEOPLE THAT ARE GOING FORWARD WITH THE BERMS BECAUSE THEY DON'T HAVE TO GO THROUGH THE DRB PROCESS.

AND I THINK OUR INCENTIVES AND THE BEHAVIOR THAT WE'RE ESSENTIALLY PUSHING FORWARD IS MISALIGNED VICE MAYOR BI MEAN, THAT IS PRECISELY WHY I AM SUGGESTING THAT WE OFFER THE SAME INCENTIVES TO THOSE WHO WANNA DO UNDERSTORY HOMES AT THE SAME HEIGHT CONSTRAINTS AS AS BERM HOMES.

BECAUSE THEN THEY CAN GO RIGHT THROUGH.

THEY DON'T HAVE TO, THEY DON'T HAVE TO GO TO DRB, THEY DON'T HAVE TO DO ANYTHING.

THEY JUST HAVE TO DO WHATEVER NORMAL PLANNING AND PERMITTING PROCESS IS.

NOW, IF YOU WANNA DO SOMETHING AND MAKE A FANCIER HOME, UM, AND YOU HAVE DESIRES BEYOND JUST THE RESILIENCE FACTOR, WHICH IS FINE, THERE'S NO REASON TO NOT DO THAT, THAT'S FINE.

BUT YOU HAVE TO THEN GO THROUGH THE, THE, UM, DRB PROCESS.

AND BY THE WAY, IF YOU DO IT FOR A $5 MILLION HOUSE, THE FEES WOULD BE DIFFERENT FROM SAY, A $25 MILLION HOUSE.

RIGHT? SO IT, THEY'RE NOT CURRENTLY, BUT WE COULD MAKE THAT HAPPEN.

SO WE COULD, WE COULD MAKE THIS WORK BETTER THAN IT WORKS NOW.

BUT IF ANYBODY'S CLAIMING THAT THEY CAN'T GET AN UNDERSTORY HOME BECAUSE, UM, YOU HAVE TO GO THROUGH DRB, LET'S GIVE THEM THE OPPORTUNITY TO GO THROUGH AS IF THEY WERE AN, A BERM HOME WITH THE SAME

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CONFIGURATION AND THE SAME NUMBERS SO THEY CAN BUILD A RESILIENT HOME.

NO QUESTIONS ASKED.

IF THIS PASSES AND THAT AMENDMENT IS NOT INCLUDED, UM, I'D BE HAPPY TO EXPLORE THAT WITH YOU IN THE FUTURE.

UH, I'D BE HARD TO COMMIT TO THAT NOW 'CAUSE I'M STILL TRYING TO RECTIFY HOW THAT WOULD WORK IN MY HEAD.

UM, BUT VICE MAYOR, IF THIS PASSES, BE HAPPY TO KIND OF EXPLORE WHAT THAT WOULD LOOK LIKE.

UM, LIKEWISE, NOT THAT I HAVE IT , THE ABILITY TO COMMIT 'CAUSE I'M NOT THE SPONSOR.

BUT, UH, I'D BE HAPPY TO EXPLORE THAT, UH, THAT METHODOLOGY.

ANYBODY WANNA SPEAK? COMMISSIONER FERNANDEZ? COMMISSIONER ROSA GONZALEZ.

UM, LOOK, THAT'SS, SOMETHING WORTH EXPLORING.

I THINK WE CAN BIFURCATE THE ISSUE.

UH, WE CAN PASS THIS TODAY AND I'M, I'M CERTAINLY OPEN TO EXPLORING WHAT YOU REFERRED TO THE LAND USE COMMITTEE.

I SIT ON THE LAND USE COMMITTEE WITH YOU, COMMISSIONER BOTT AND I, I'D BE VERY OPEN TO A ROBUST AND RIGOROUS DEBATE ON THE SUBJECT.

I'M GONNA JUST GO LOOK DOWN HERE.

I WOULD LIKE TO HEAR FROM YOU, MR. MAYOR, HOW DO YOU FEEL ABOUT THIS? I WAS GONNA ASK YOU THE SAME QUESTION.

, , B PAPER, SCISSORS.

ACTUALLY, I HAD A QUESTION FOR WE'RE TO KEEP TURNING IT.

UM, , I ORIGINALLY HAD A LOT OF CONCERNS ABOUT THIS IDEA.

THIS IS ONE OF THOSE WHERE I'M KIND OF LIKE, I HEAR SOMEBODY SPEAK, I'M LIKE, OH YEAH, THAT'S RIGHT.

AND THEN I HEAR THE OTHER PERSON'S PICK, OH, THE OTHER SIDE.

OH, THAT'S RIGHT.

UM, THE, THE CONCERN, THE CONCERN I HAVE IS THE PROCESS.

AND WHAT, WHAT'S WHAT'S HAPPENED HERE IS I LIKE THE FACT THAT WE HAVE THE DRB PROCESS, BUT I THINK EVERYONE'S ADMITTING EVEN THE, EVEN THE EVEN, UH, THE CHAIR OF THE DRB, THAT IT NEEDS TO BE TWEAKED.

AND THE PROBLEM IS, AND MAYBE WE'RE PARTLY AT FAULT FOR ALLOWING IT TO GET TO THIS POINT, BUT WHEN, WHEN IT HIT, IT HITS A ROAD, UH, A POINT WHERE IT GOT TO THE EXTREME, THEN YOU'RE GONNA HAVE LEGISLATION THAT FORCES OUR HAND LIKE COMMISSIONER SUAREZ HAS PROPOSED AND THERE'S SOME GOOD REASONS FOR IT AS WELL.

UM, I AM, I'M, I'M PERSUADED BY YOU ARE TAKING A DEFINITE POSITION ON THIS, TOM, ACTUALLY, THAT'S WHAT I WANTED TO ASK ERIC, WHAT YOUR POSITION IS AS WELL.

I WANNA MAKE SURE YOU'RE ALIGNED.

YOU KNOW, THIS IS A POLICY CALL, BUT YOU HAVE, YOU'RE PRETTY UNEQUIVOCAL, TOM, AND YOU'RE ON, ON YOUR THOUGHTS ON THIS.

AND OBVIOUSLY WE WORK CLOSELY AND I VALUE YOUR JUDGMENT.

SO I SIGNED THE MEMO.

THE MEMO IS IN FAVOR OF THE ITEM.

THE PURPOSE BEHIND US BEING IN FAVOR OF THE ITEM IS TO TRY TO INCENTIVIZE PEOPLE TO MOVE FORWARD WITH SOME OF THESE NEW RESILIENT CONCEPTS.

IT'S NOT THE BERM.

HOMES ARE BAD, WE'RE NOT DEMONIZING BERM HOMES.

THEY HAVE THEIR BENEFITS, THEY HAVE THEIR DRAWBACKS.

JUST LIKE THESE UNDERSTORY HOMES HAVE THEIR BENEFITS HAVE THEIR DRAWBACKS, BUT WE NEED TO MOVE THE CITY OF MIAMI BEACH FORWARD AND WE NEED TO FIND WAYS TO INCENTIVIZE PEOPLE TO DO THAT.

COMMISSIONER ROSE GONZALEZ .

THAT'S WHY WE RECOMMEND IT IN FAVOR, YOUR TURN.

WELL, I'D LIKE TO HEAR FROM COMMISSIONER FERNANDEZ TOO.

I WOULD, I'D LIKE TO HEAR WHAT EVERYBODY HAS TO SAY.

I DECIDING OFFICER.

I KNOW.

WELL, BUT YOU DON'T WANNA SPEAK I SPOKEN LOT OR WE CAN JUST CALL THE VOTE.

CALL IT.

I NEED A MOTION.

RIGHT, RIGHT.

WHICH ROSA GONZALEZ, HOW MANY VOTES DOES THIS NEED? FIVE VOTES.

FIVE VOTES.

FIVE.

SO I'M APT TO SUPPORT WHAT TANYA SAID, WHICH IS LIKE, IF YOU WANT THE UNDERSTORY, YOU GET THE UNDERSTORY, BUT IF YOU WANT ADDITIONAL WHATEVER.

WHAT, WHAT ARE WE TALKING ABOUT IN TERMS OF HEIGHT? THREE FEET POSITION, TOM, IT'S ACTUALLY TWO FEET NOW, RIGHT? BECAUSE THEY'VE, THEY'VE RECENTLY INCREASED THE ELEVATION BY ONE FOOT.

WELL, THE, THE, THE HEIGHT THAT'S USED FOR BASE FLOOD ELEVATION, UH, AS GLEN HAD MENTIONED, IS LIKELY GOING TO BE INCREASING.

OUR CURRENT REQUIREMENT FOR MINIMUM BASE FLOOD ELEVATION PLUS FREEBOARD IS BFE PLUS ONE.

BUT IN A BERM HOME, MOST PEOPLE ARE GOING WELL ABOVE THAT.

AND SO IN TERMS OF THE ACTUAL HEIGHT, THE ACTUAL HEIGHT IS SET BY THE DRB WHEN UNDERSTORY HOMES ARE SUBMITTED.

SO THE DRB COULD POTENTIALLY APPROVE UP TO 31 FEET IN AN RS THREE OR RS FOUR DISTRICT.

WHAT WE'RE RECOMMENDING IS THAT THE HEIGHT BE LIMITED TO 28 FEET IN RS THREE AND RS FOUR AND RS ONE AND RS TWO, THEY BE PERMITTED TO DO UP TO 31.

SO AS OF RIGHT NOW, THE BERM HOME IS GONNA BE TREATED

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LIKE AN UNDERSTORY.

NO, THE BERM HOME WILL BE TREATED JUST LIKE IT IS NOW.

AND THAT LIMIT, AND THAT'S HOW MANY FEET THAT HIDE LIMIT IS 24 FEET MEASURED FROM BASE FLOOD ELEVATION PLUS MAXIMUM FREE BOARD IN THE RS THREE AND RS FOUR DISTRICTS.

AND, UH, 28 FEET IN THE RS ONE AND RS TWO DISTRICTS.

WHY IS A BERM HOME 24 FEET AND AN UNDERSTORY HOME? 31 28.

AND BECAUSE THE REASON FOR THAT IS BECAUSE UNDERSTORY HOMES ARE ALSO MEASURED FROM BASE FLOOD ELEVATION PLUS MAXIMUM FREEBOARD, AND THAT MAXIMUM FREEBOARD IS GOING TO BE LOWER THAN, UM, THE FIRST FLOOR OF THE HOME.

AND SO THEY LOSE FLOOR TO CEILING SPACE.

AND THE LOWER YOU MAKE THE UNDERSTORY AREA, WHILE YOU COULD INCREASE POTENTIALLY THE FLOOR TO CEILING SPACE ABOVE, YOU'RE GOING TO MAKE THAT UNDERSTORY SPACE, UH, A LESS RESILIENT MOVING FORWARD.

BY HAVING A NINE FOOT UNDERSTORY SPACE, YOU'RE ALLOWING FOR THAT MINIMUM YARD ELEVATION TO POTENTIALLY RAISE OVER TIME.

SHOULD THE STREET ELEVATION RAISE? IF I COULD ADD JUST ONE PIECE OF INFORMATION TO WHAT TOM JUST SAID, BECAUSE I THINK IT HELPS TO CHARACTERIZE IT, THE MOST RESILIENT HOME IS GONNA BE THE HOME WITH THE HIGHEST FINISHED FLOOR ELEVATION.

AND SO THE UNDERSTORY HOME UTILIZES THAT SPACE UNDERNEATH FOR PARKING.

BUT IN ORDER TO GET THE PARKING UNDERNEATH, YOU TYPICALLY HAVE TO PUSH IT UP ABOVE WHAT WE WOULD NORMALLY ALLOW FOR THE MEASUREMENT OF THE START OF THAT FIRST FINISHED FLOOR.

AND SO YOU WOULD NORMALLY GET BASE FLOOD PLUS ONE TO FIVE FEET, IF WE PUT A NUMBER ON IT.

BASE FLOOD IS 10 PLUS FIVE 15 FEET.

IT'S THE HIGHEST YOU CAN GO WITHOUT, ITS STARTING TO EAT INTO YOUR OVERALL HEIGHT CALCULATION BY SAYING THAT YOU CAN HAVE A NINE FOOT FREEBOARD, A NINE FOOT UNDERSTORY.

THAT'S BASICALLY SAYING THAT YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT INSTEAD OF HAVING 15 FEET, YOU'RE NOW GOING TO 18 FEET BEFORE YOU START MEASURING, IT'S STILL THE SAME HEIGHT CALCULATION OF THE BUILDING.

YOU'RE JUST STARTING TO MEASURE IT AT A HIGHER ELEVATION, WHICH IS WHAT MAKES IT MORE RESILIENT, IF THAT MAKES ANY SENSE.

THANK COMMISSIONER MAGAZINE.

WHERE I'M AT WITH THE, I GUESS, FRIENDLY AMENDMENT BEING OFFERED.

I KNOW MY EYES AND I LOOKED OUT INTO THE AUDIENCE.

I SEE A LOT OF PEOPLE, YOU PUT IT VERY ELOQUENTLY, YOU PUT IT VERY ELOQUENTLY USING WORDS THAT SIX MONTHS AGO I DIDN'T KNOW EXISTED.

BUT EVERYBODY'S EYES ARE SITTING THERE LOOKING LIKE, OH, OKAY.

COMPLICATED STUFF.

RIGHT? UM, I'D BE UNCOMFORTABLE DOING SOMETHING ON THE FLY RIGHT WITH THIS.

UH, BUT I'D ALSO BE COMMITTED TO, IF THERE IS AN AMENDMENT TO EXPLORE THAT, THAT WE DO.

SO, UH, KIND OF IN A MORE ROBUST AND WHOLESOME FASHION.

THAT'S JUST WHERE I'M AT.

UM, APART FROM SINGLE FAMILY HOMES, WHAT PROPERTIES, WHAT PROJECTS? I I DON'T REALLY WATCH THE DRB HEARINGS.

I HAVE TO BE HONEST, SARAH, I WISH I DID MORE OFTEN AND I WISH I HAD TIME.

I'VE BEEN THERE FOR SINGLE FAMILY HOMES BEFORE.

BUT ARE OTHER PROJECTS COMING BEFORE THE DRB? WHAT ARE WHAT ARE THE, THE AGENDAS COMPRISED OF WHAT MOSTLY IT'S PROBABLY COMPRISED, I WOULD SAY MOSTLY OF COMMERCIAL AND MULTIFAMILY, WHICH WAS THE ORIGINAL INTENT OF THE DRB, AND THAT'S WHAT THEIR MAIN OBJECTIVE IS.

SO WITHIN ALL OF OUR COMMERCIAL AND MULTIFAMILY DISTRICTS, ANY NEW CONSTRUCTION OR SUBSTANTIAL ADDITIONS TO A PROPERTY INCLUDING PUBLIC PROPERTY, UH, ARE REQUIRED TO GET APPROVAL FROM THE DESIGN REVIEW BOARD.

IF THERE IS SOME DISCREPANCY, WE GET A LIST EACH MONTH AND THE COMMISSION VOTES ON IT.

SO FOR EXAMPLE, A BURN HOME WAS BUILT NEXT DOOR TO MINE, RIGHT? I NO LONGER HAVE WIFI ACCESS.

I MEAN, I, IT DIDN'T GO BEFORE THE DRB, IT WAS HORRIFIC, BUT IT WAS ALLOWED.

AND AT FIRST I LIKE, I MEAN, WHEN I SEE THE SCALE OF THE HOMES, IT MAKES ME FEEL SICK BECAUSE I SEE THE SCALE OF MY HOUSE COMPARED TO THE HOUSE BUILT NEXT DOOR.

AND IT KIND OF RUINED, IT RUINED MY PROPERTY TO SOME EXTENT NOW.

SO IT BOTHERS ME THAT THE BERM DOESN'T HAVE TO GO IN FRONT OF DRB, BUT THAT, YOU KNOW, THE, THE, THE UNDERSTORY DOES.

SO THAT TO ME DOESN'T MAKE ANY SENSE.

BUT THAT SAID, AT THE SAME TIME, I DO WANT RESIDENTS TO HAVE SOME SORT OF VEHICLE SO THAT IF THERE IS SOME COMPLAINT OR THERE IS SOME DISCREPANCY OR SOMETHING, THEY CAN ALSO HAVE THE RIGHT TO A PUBLIC HEARING.

SO THERE HAS TO BE SOME SORT OF HYBRID WHERE THE UNDERSTORY IN THE BURNS, OKAY, THEY CAN HAVE ADMINISTRATIVE REVIEW, BUT IF THERE'S SOME SORT OF COM, MAYBE EVERY, MAYBE WHATEVER'S APPROVED ADMINISTRATIVELY,

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THAT WAY PEOPLE GET A PUBLIC HEARING.

I WOULD SAY THAT, THAT HOW MANY OF THESE APPLICATIONS ARE YOU GETTING PER MONTH NOW? WE HAVE ABOUT THREE.

WE HAVE, WE HAVE THREE PENDING.

SO THREE.

SO IF THERE IS, SO I WOULD SAY THAT WE CAN MOVE FORWARD WITH THIS AND THE AMENDMENT HAS TO BE THAT EACH MONTH WE GET A LIST OF THE APPLICATIONS.

AND IF A RESIDENT IS HAVING A SERIOUS ISSUE WITH WHAT'S GOING TO BE BUILT NEXT TO THEM, THEY CAN, UM, THEY GET A PUBLIC HEARING.

IF SOMEBODY REQUESTS A PUBLIC HEARING, WE HAVE A PLATFORM AND THAT'S IT.

AS OF RIGHT UNDER STORIES DON'T HAVE TO GO.

SO WHAT I WOULD SAY, BECAUSE THEN IF THERE'S NONSENSE AND SHENANIGANS GOING ON HERE, OBVIOUSLY THIS BOARD IS HAVING NONE OF THOSE NONSENSE AND SHENANIGANS.

SO I THINK THE WAY THAT WE FIND THE ABSOLUTE RIGHT COMPROMISE IS THAT THIS JUST CAME TO ME RIGHT NOW, IS THAT, THAT BOTH, NEITHER HOME, NEITHER ONE HAS TO GO TO DRB FOR APPROVAL BECAUSE THAT IS WHAT IS FAIR AND ENCOURAGES RESILIENCY.

BUT IF ANY NEIGHBOR, UM, IN THE PROCESS HAS SOME ISSUE WITH A HOME THAT WAS APPROVED, UM, ADMINISTRATIVELY, THE THE PEOPLE NEXT DOOR ARE GONNA GET SOME SORT OF A NOTICE.

THE PROPOSAL INCLUDES A POSTING OF THE PROPERTY, UM, THAT WOULD INCLUDE INFORMATION FOR THE PROPERTY OWNER, UM, AND, UM, THE ARCHITECTURAL TEAM.

SO THERE'S AN INFORMATIONAL POSTING, BUT IT DOESN'T CARRY WITH IT ANY TYPE OF APPELLATE RIGHTS.

OKAY? SO, AND THAT'S WHAT, THAT'S WHAT NEEDS TO BE ABLE TO HAPPEN AS PART OF THIS PROCESS IS THAT YOU WON'T HAVE TO GO TO DRB, BUT THERE HAS TO BE A, A PUBLIC HEARING IF THERE IS SOME SORT OF APPEAL, NOTICE, AN APPEAL.

I THINK THAT'S FAIR, MR. MAYOR.

THAT WAY EVERYBODY'S HAPPY IF YOU'RE BUILDING THE HOME.

I MEAN, WE HAVE TO BE ABLE, WE HAVE TO FIND SOME SORT OF A COMPROMISE.

I AGREE WITH BOTH SIDES.

I'M TRYING, EVERYBODY'S SHAKING THEIR HEAD NO, WHICH KIND OF MEANS IT'S A GOOD COMPROMISE.

YOU SEE WHAT I MEAN? NO, MR. 'CAUSE THAT WAY A RESIDENTS GET A FAIR APPEAL AND YOU KNOW, RIGHT NOW YOU CAN BUILD WHATEVER BERM HOME YOU WANT.

AND I HAVE TO SAY, I WISH I HAD AN UNDERSTORY BUILT NEXT TO ME BECAUSE THAT WAY I WOULDN'T HAVE THIS 15, IT MUST BE AT LEAST 15 FEET HIGHER SOLID MOUND NEXT TO MY HOME THAT I CAN'T GET WIFI ON.

I CAN'T, YOU KNOW, THERE'S NO BREEZE THAT GOES THROUGH IT.

AT LEAST IF IT WERE AN UNDERSTORY, I WOULD HAVE SOME SORT OF A, SOME SORT OF AIRWAY.

I, I'M JUST TRYING, I'M, I, I CAN ONLY SPEAK TO MY, MY, MY EXPERIENCE.

UM, AND I COULD BE INCORRECT.

MAYBE IF I HAD AN UNDERSTORY, I STILL WOULDN'T HAVE WIFI MR. MAYOR.

ANYWAY.

UM, THE POINT IS I WANT PEOPLE TO HAVE A PUBLIC HEARING.

I THINK WHAT'S FAIR IS FAIR AND EVERYTHING SHOULD BE TREATED EQUALLY.

AND HOW CAN WE JUST GET THE HEARING VICE MAYOR BOT, THEN COMMISSIONER SUAREZ, AND LET'S TRY TO WRAP IT UP.

MANY VOTES.

AND THEN COMMISSIONER FERNANDEZ WANTS, WELL, HOW MANY VOTES DOES THIS NEED? FIVE.

FIVE.

WITH ALL DUE RESPECT, I, I LOVE THE IDEA OF TRYING TO FIND A COMPROMISE BECAUSE THAT'S WHAT MAKES THINGS BETTER.

BUT I THINK THE VERY LAST GROUP OF PEOPLE QUALIFIED IN THIS ENTIRE CITY TO MAKE DECISIONS ON PRIVATE HOMES IS US SITTING HERE.

OH, FOR US.

I, I THINK IT'S, I THINK IT'S REALLY DANGEROUS FROM A POLITICS PRECEDENT.

IT'S AN ELECTION YEAR.

UM, PEOPLE WILL TRY EVERYTHING TO, TO CURRY FAVOR.

NOT YOU GUYS RUNNING FOR OFFICE, BUT PEOPLE WILL TRY TO GET IN FRONT OF YOU AND, YOU KNOW, NOT YOU SPECIFICALLY, BUT IT, IT JUST, I JUST THINK IT SETS IT UP FOR A DISASTER.

AND I KNOW THAT, I MEAN, ANYONE WHO'S EVER BEEN IN MY OFFICE WILL KNOW THAT MY SINGULAR TASTES ARE NOT TO EVERYBODY'S TASTES.

SO I .

AX TO GRIND OR THEY WANT A SETTLEMENT, OKAY? UH, THEN YOU ARE CREATING A PROCESS, UNFORTUNATELY THAT IS, UH, BURDENSOME TO TO, TO A, A RESILIENT HOME.

SO I, I JUST, I, I LOVE THE IDEA OF TRYING TO MAKE SURE PEOPLE GET A FAIR SHAKE AND A FAIR HEARING.

I JUST THINK THAT'S, HAVING PEOPLE COME TO THE COMMISSION FOR THAT IS THE ABSOLUTE WRONG PLACE TO GO.

UH, VICE MAYOR BUD, YOU GO.

ARE YOU GOING TO STILL VOTE? KEVIN? THANK YOU.

UH, THANK YOU, MR. MAYOR.

LOOK, I, I, AGAIN, YOU KNOW, THE, THE BIGGEST ISSUE, AND THE REASON I'M HERE, BY THE WAY, IS BECAUSE I KNOCKED ON DIVA'S DOOR.

OKAY? THIS ISN'T DEVELOPER FUNDED.

OKAY? .

I FUNDED MY OWN CAMPAIGN.

I DON'T, I I DON'T OWE ANYONE ANY FAVORS.

I'M NOT DOING THIS FOR A CONTRIBUTION, OKAY? I'M DOING THIS BECAUSE IT'S THE RIGHT THING TO DO FOR OUR FUTURE, OKAY? UH, YOU KNOW, COMMISSIONER GONZALEZ, LOOK, WHEN, UNFORTUNATELY WHEN YOU SET UP A PROCESS WHERE YOU CAN JUST HAVE A NEIGHBOR HOLD YOU UP BECAUSE THEY DON'T LIKE YOU, OR THEY HAVE AN

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AND SO, AGAIN, THE, THE PROBLEM IS THE HUMAN ERROR ALSO WITH, WITH THE, THE, THE QUO AND, AND, AND THE DRB PROCESS.

IT'S A, IT'S A HUMAN, IT'S UNFORTUNATELY A HUMAN ERROR WHEN IT GOES TO THE PLANNING BOARD OR NOT PLANNING BOARD, BUT THROUGH THE PLANNING DEPARTMENT, YOU, YOU MAKE SURE YOU'RE, YOU'RE CONSISTENT WITH THE DESIGN.

YOU'RE NOT BUILDING CINDERELLA'S CASTLE OR A CAKE IN A NEIGHBORHOOD.

IF THAT WAS THE CASE, THEN YOU'D HAVE TO GO TO THE DRP RIGHT NOW, RIGHT NOW WE HAVE HOMES BEING BUILT ON BERMS. NO ONE'S COMPLAINING ABOUT 'EM.

AND THEY WORK JUST FINE.

PEOPLE WANNA LIVE HERE.

THEY WANT TO INVEST IN MIAMI BEACH.

THEY WANNA BRING THEIR FAMILIES HERE BECAUSE THAT, THAT'S, THIS IS A GREAT PLACE TO LIVE.

THE MOMENT YOU START PUTTING THESE BARRIERS OF SUBJECTIVE REVIEWS IN FRONT OF, IN FRONT OF PEOPLE WHERE, YOU KNOW, WHO, WHO KNOWS IF SOMEONE ON, ON THE DRB IS FRIENDS WITH THAT NEIGHBOR THAT JUST DOESN'T LIKE THAT PERSON, YOU KNOW, I, I DON'T WANT TO HAVE A SITUATION WHERE, WHERE THAT HAPPENS.

AND, YOU KNOW, I KNOW DIVA IS THE MOST EXTREME EXAMPLE WHERE HE'S BEEN HELD UP FOR FIVE YEARS AND ALMOST A MILLION DOLLARS.

IT'S CLEAR.

I MEAN, I, I DON'T KNOW IF, DID YOU HEAR THAT VIDEO WHERE, WHERE THAT WOMAN SAID BASICALLY, IF YOU DON'T DO THIS, I'M GONNA SHOW UP TO YOUR MEETING AND, AND, AND, UH, REJECT WHAT YOU WANT TO DO, EVEN THOUGH IT HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH WHAT HE'S DOING.

YOU KNOW, THAT'S, THAT'S, THAT'S INSANE.

AND, AND LOOK, UH, I'M NOT GONNA BE OPEN TO ANY FRIENDLY AMENDMENTS ON THIS.

I, I'VE, WE'VE, WE'VE DISCUSSED THIS AD NAUSEUM, I KNOW WE, WE'VE TALKED, THERE'S MENTION OF LIKE, THERE'S NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATIONS.

HALF, HALF THE PLANNING BOARD IS, IS THE HEAD OF THEIR NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION, , OKAY? THIS IS, WE'VE HAD A SPECIAL LAND USE MEETING ON, ON THIS SUBJECT.

AND SO, UH, THERE, THERE'S BEEN PLENTY OF RIGOROUS DEBATE ON THIS.

SO LOOK, UH, LET'S JUST SEE WHERE THE VOTES FALL AND, AND WE'LL MOVE ON.

HEY, I JUST WANNA REMIND YOU TOO, THAT MY NAME IS ROSEN GONZALEZ AND YOU KEEP CHANGING IT.

I'M GONNA CALL YOU COMMISSIONER DAVID, COMMISSIONER WHATEVER I WANT.

ROSEN GONZALEZ.

I KNOW IT'S AN ODD NAME, BUT IT'S MINE.

I OWN IT.

IT'S BEEN THERE MY WHOLE LIFE.

I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO TELL YOU, .

SO ADDRESS ME BY MY NAME, PLEASE.

AND BY THE WAY, I, I, I ADMIRE THE FACT THAT YOU ARE OUT THERE KNOCKING ON DOORS.

THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT I DID.

I THINK AS YOU KNOCKED ON DOORS, PEOPLE TOLD YOU RIGHT AWAY I KNOCKED ON DOORS TOO.

I DO, I DO AGREE THAT THERE, IT'S ODD THAT THERE'S A DISCREPANCY, UM, BETWEEN THE WAY THE HOMES ARE HANDLED.

THAT SAID, I AM 100% IN FAVOR OF MAIN IF, IF THIS PASSES TODAY, THIS DRBI AM IN FAVOR.

I DO NOT THINK THAT THE DRB NEEDS TO BE FURTHER ATTACKED BECAUSE IT'S SOME, IT IS A PROTECTION THAT WE HAVE AS MIAMI BEACH.

AND I'M AFRAID THAT GIVEN THE FACT THAT YOU, UM, HAD A DEROGATORY, UM, ACRONYM AND NAME THAT WAS REALLY UNNECESSARY FOR THE DRB, THAT THIS PUBLIC HEARING PROCESS IN THE FUTURE MIGHT BE SOMEHOW COMPROMISED.

SO THAT'S ALL I WOULD LIKE TO SAY.

I DON'T THINK THAT, I DO THINK THAT THE DRB IS ESSENTIAL TO THE CITY OF MIAMI BEACH, AND I DON'T, I DON'T THINK, AND I DON'T THINK THAT IT'S, WHAT DID YOU CALL IT? WHAT DID YOU CALL THE DRB COMMISSIONER? DAVID .

WELL, COMMISSIONER ROSE GONZALEZ, UH, DELAY, RESTRICT AND BURDEN.

WHAT? DELAY? RESTRICT AND PARDON? BURDEN.

AND BURDEN.

ALWAYS CAME BACK AND YOU GAVE WELL THOUGHT OUT AND REASONED, UH, RESPONSES WITHIN THE CODE.

SO I DON'T WANT IT IS THAT OUR DESIGN REVIEW BOARD, I'M VERY PROUD OF IT.

THAT SAID, I DON'T THINK THERE SHOULD BE A DISCREPANCY BETWEEN A BERM AND A UNDERSTORY.

UM, YEAH.

AND I THINK WE SHOULD RECOGNIZE THE, THE, UH, THE SYSTEM HAS SET IN PLACE.

AND, AND I, I CERTAINLY APPRECIATE THE EFFORTS.

I KNOW SARAH, I'LL, I'LL, YOU'RE HERE FROM THE DRB AND THE CHAIR, SO I'LL, I'LL GIVE YOU A SHOUT OUT.

I KNOW YOU, YOU AND I'VE HAD OTHER CONVERSATIONS WITH YOU, MOSTLY NOT EVEN ABOUT THIS.

YOU PUT YOUR HEART AND SOUL INTO THIS.

SO, UM, I CERTAINLY WANT TO COMMEND OUR RESIDENTS WHO, WHO DO THIS OF THEIR OWN TIME TO MAKE OUR CITY, UH, BETTER.

TOM, LEMME, YOU AND I HAVE DEALT WITH A COUPLE OF BUILDINGS.

UH, THEY'RE HOUSES, LIKE I REFER TO THEM AS BUILDINGS BECAUSE NEIGHBORS COMPLAINED HOW HIGH THEY WERE.

AND THEY DO TO THE NAKED EYE.

THEY DO LOOK EXTREMELY HIGH.

UM, BUT YOU

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WHY, UM, IT'S ALLOWED, 'CAUSE RESIDENTS SAID THIS CAN'T BE ALLOWED.

THE NO.

THOSE PROCESS WENT THROUGH DRB, CORRECT? CORRECT.

WHAT WOULD, DO YOU THINK IN ANY WAY THIS PROCESS, IF THIS PASSES TODAY, WOULD CHANGE THAT? UM, I THINK THAT IT WILL MAKE IT BETTER FOR THE RESIDENTS, BUT IT'S NOT GONNA RESULT IN HIGHER HOMES.

THE REASON THAT YOU'RE SEEING HIGHER HOMES IS BECAUSE OLDER HOMES THAT WERE BUILT, MOST OF OUR OLDER HOMES WERE BUILT IN THE TWENTIES, THIRTIES, FORTIES THROUGHOUT THE 1950S.

A LOT OF THOSE ARE SLAB ON GRADE.

SOME OF 'EM MIGHT BE ELEVATED TWO TO THREE FEET, BUT FOR BETTER OR FOR WORSE, THEY'RE ALL WELL BELOW CURRENT BASE FLOOD ELEVATION.

AND CERTAINLY WELL BELOW WHAT WE ARE TRYING TO ESTABLISH AS THE NEXT LEVEL FOR RESILIENCY.

AND SO ANY NEW HOME IS GOING TO BE TALLER THAN A NEIGHBORING HOME THAT WAS, THAT WAS BUILT AT A MUCH LOWER ELEVATION.

UM, THE OTHER THING THAT'S IMPORTANT TO POINT OUT, AND WE'VE TALKED ABOUT THIS, IS THAT OFTENTIMES NEIGHBORS ARE REACTING TO RAW CONSTRUCTION WHEN THE PREVIOUS HOME IS DEMOLISHED.

AND THEY BEGIN TO BUILD THE CONCRETE STRUCTURE ONCE A HOME IS COMPLETED AND THE STUCCO IS PUT ON AND THE FINISHES ARE PUT ON AND THE LANDSCAPING IS INSTALLED.

AND I THINK MOST IMPORTANTLY, THE LANDSCAPING MATURES.

THE HOMES, EVEN AT THE MUCH HIGHER ELEVATIONS BEGIN TO BLEND IN AND FORM A BETTER CONTEXTUAL RELATIONSHIP.

AND SO I THINK THAT YOU'LL CONTINUE TO SEE THAT.

AND OUR STAFF WILL CERTAINLY, AS WE DO NOW IN DDRB, PRE-APPLICATION MEETINGS, GO THROUGH A VERY EXTENSIVE DISCUSSION WITH THE PROJECT ARCHITECT, UM, REGARDING THE CRITERIA ON THE CODE.

UH, IT'S JUST SOMETHING WE'LL BE DOING ADMINISTRATIVELY AND NOT BRINGING TO A BOARD.

SHOULD WE CALL A VOTE COMM MOTION? BUT I, I DON'T HAVE A SECOND YET.

UH, COMMISSIONER DOMINGUEZ ASKED TO SPEAK.

JUST ONE LAST THING.

SO WITH, UM, WHAT I WORRY ABOUT HERE IS WHAT COMMISSIONER ROSEN GONZALEZ WAS SAYING EARLIER THAT OKAY, NEIGHBORS WILL BE NOTIFIED AND THEN WHAT? THERE IS NO HEARING, THAT'S THE BIGGEST FLAW AND THAT'S CONCERNING.

I NEED A SECOND.

SECOND FOR WHAT? THE MOTION CALL THE VOTE.

WHICH IS THE MOTION? THE MOTION TO APPROVE THE ORDINANCE.

I HAVE MOTION BY COMMISSIONER SUAREZ.

I DON'T HAVE A SECOND AT THIS TIME.

I'LL SECOND MAY I CALL THE VOTE? IT'S CALL THE ROLL VICE MAYOR BOT.

COMMISSIONER DOMINGUEZ? NO.

MOTION PASSES.

R FIVE A.

LET'S GO TO

[R7 D A RESOLUTION OF THE MAYOR AND CITY COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF MIAMI BEACH, FLORIDA, ACCEPTING, FOLLOWING A PUBLIC HEARING, THE RECOMMENDATION OF THE PUBLIC SAFETY AND NEIGHBORHOOD QUALITY OF LIFE COMMITTEE, AT ITS DECEMBER 13, 2024 MEETING, AND DIRECTING THE ADMINISTRATION TO PROCEED WITH THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE TRAFFIC CALMING MEASURES ON MERIDIAN AVENUE BETWEEN 42ND AND 47TH STREET, INCLUDING IDENTIFYING THE APPROPRIATE AREAS WHERE THESE MEASURES WILL BE IMPLEMENTED, SUBJECT TO A FUNDING APPROPRIATION IN THE FISCAL YEAR 2026 BUDGET PROCESS.]

R SEVEN.

R SEVEN D IS A PUBLIC HEARING.

PROCEED WITH TRAFFIC.

CALL ME MEASURES ON MERIDIAN AVENUE 42ND STREET TO 47TH STREET.

R SEVEN D.

WE HAVE A MOTION AND A SECOND.

LET'S CALL THE ROLL.

I'M SORRY, I DIDN'T HEAR THE SECOND.

WHO CALLED THE SECOND? DAVID SUAREZ.

MERIDIAN, BUT HAVE ACTUALLY WORSENED THE TRAFFIC ON MERIDIAN BY EFFECTIVELY FUNNELING NAUTILUS TRAFFIC TO MERIDIAN TO AVOID THE TRAFFIC CALMING MEASURES THAT ARE ELSEWHERE IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD.

GIMME ONE SEC TO SEE IF I FIND ANYONE.

THERE'S NO ONE IN, I'M SORRY, I GOT KNOCKED OUT.

GIMME ONE SEC.

I HAVE ONE PERSON, UH, THAT IS ON ZOOM REQUESTING TO SPEAK.

UH, JOHN, JOSH EK, ARE YOU HERE TO SPEAK ON R SEVEN D? YES, I AM.

OKAY, GO AHEAD SIR.

UH, UH, MAYOR AND COMMISSIONERS, MY NAME IS JOSH EK.

I'M A HOMEOWNER ON MERIDIAN AVENUE 4 4 5 4 NORTH MERIDIAN AVENUE.

LIVED IN NAUTILUS FOR ABOUT 10 YEARS.

DURING THOSE 10 YEARS, THE TRAFFIC PROBLEMS ON MERIDIAN HAVE GOTTEN WORSE AND WORSE AND THREATENED THE SAFETY OF THE FAMILIES ON MERIDIAN AND THE STUDENTS AT NAUTILUS MIDDLE SCHOOL.

AS YOU SEE FROM THE CITY MANAGER'S MEMO, A TRAFFIC STUDY WAS DONE THAT FOUND THAT SPEEDING IS OCCURRING ON MERIDIAN AND HIGHLIGHTING THE NEED FOR TRAFFIC CALMING MEASURES IN CONNECTION WITH THE 2022, UH, GENERAL OBLIGATION BOND PROJECT.

TRAFFIC CALMING WAS DONE OUR VIRTUALLY ALL OTHER STREETS IN NAUTILUS, BUT NOT ON MERIDIAN.

THE TRAFFIC CALMING ON MERIDIAN WAS BLOCKED BY A SMALL GROUP OF RESIDENTS WHO DID NOT WANT THE TRAFFIC COMIC MEASURES TO ABUT THEIR PROPERTY.

THE 2022 TRAFFIC CALMING MEASURES WORKED EVERYWHERE ELSE IN

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DUE TO COUNTY REGULATIONS, THE CITY HAS EFFECTIVELY LET A SMALL GROUP OF HOMEOWNERS THREATEN THE LIFE SAFETY OF RESIDENTS OF MERIDIAN AND THEIR CHILDREN BY PREVENTING THE INSTALLATION OF TRAFFIC AND CALMING MEASURES.

THIS MAYOR AND COMMISSION HAVE CHAMPIONED THE SAFETY OF MIAMI BEACH RESIDENTS AND FOUND WORKAROUNDS WHERE NECESSARY TO PRIORITIZE RESIDENT SAFETY.

YET EVERY DAY, A SMALL GROUP OF HOMEOWNERS HAVE MADE IT UNSAFE FOR THE RESIDENTS OF MERIDIAN TO BACK OUT OF THEIR DRIVEWAYS, RIDE THEIR BIKES, OR WALK THEIR DOGS BEYOND THE RESIDENTS OF MERIDIAN.

THIS STREET IS TRAVERSED DAILY BY MIDDLE SCHOOL STUDENTS AT NAUTILUS WHO WALK TO AND FROM SCHOOL.

I ENCOURAGE YOU TO ADOPT THE RECOMMEND RECOMMENDATION OF THE PUBLIC SAFETY AND NEIGHBORHOOD QUALITY OF LIFE COMMITTEE IN FAVOR OF TRAFFIC CALMING ON MERIDIAN, AND IF NECESSARY, PETITION THE COUNTY TO OVERRIDE THE OBJECTIONS OF THESE SMALL GROUP OF HOMEOWNERS.

COMMISSIONER FERNANDEZ MOVED IT.

THERE IS NO OTHER PERSON REQUESTING TO SPEAK.

PUBLIC HEARING IS CLOSED.

I HAVE A MOTION AND A SECOND.

OH WAIT.

OH, SORRY, SORRY, SORRY.

I DIDN'T HEAR IT.

SO, UM, I ACTUALLY LIVE IN THE STRETCH OF MERIDIAN.

UM, THIS, AS DIFFICULT AS IT WAS TO LISTEN TO THE COMPLAINTS ABOUT THE DRB, UM, THAT THIS IS EVEN MORE, UM, I DON'T, I DON'T KNOW THE WORD, BUT, UM, CLOSE TO HOME, NOT EVEN LITERALLY.

UM, NO, I, UM, I HAVE TO SAY THAT AWKWARD.

I THINK AWKWARD IS THE RIGHT WORD.

UM, I JUST FOUND OUT ABOUT THIS MEASURE RECENTLY.

I LIVE ON THIS STRETCH.

IN FACT, THAT WAS MY NEIGHBOR.

UM, AND I RESPECTFULLY DISAGREE AS DO A LOT OF, UH, NEIGHBORS THAT I KNOW ON THE STREET.

UM, IT'S VERY AWKWARD 'CAUSE I'M ONE OF THE PEOPLE THAT HE WAS JUST CRITICIZING .

UM, SO I WOULD JUST LIKE TO SAY, OOPS, .

UM, UM, I WOULD JUST LIKE TO SAY THAT MAYBE THIS ISSUE SHOULD BE DISCUSSED A LITTLE BIT FURTHER AND TO GIVE US TIME TO LOOK THAT OVER BECAUSE MERIDIAN AVENUE IS NOT A VERY HEAVILY TRAFFICKED STREET.

AND THE THINGS THAT ARE BEING PROPOSED, UM, THERE WAS AN INDICATION THAT THERE WAS SPEEDING SOUTH OF 44TH COURT, AND YET THEY'RE PROPOSING TWO SPEED HUMPS THAT ARE NORTH OF 44TH COURT, WHICH I'M A LITTLE BIT CONFUSED ABOUT.

SO THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

AND JUST FOR THE RECORD, STATE YOUR NAME AGAIN.

OH, SORRY.

SARAH GIL NELSON, 4,500 NORTH MERIDIAN AVENUE.

WE HAVE, UH, SPEAKER MICHAEL BURN, UH, I'M SORRY, BERNSTEIN.

MICHAEL BERNSTEIN.

UM, A HOMEOWNER LIVING ON 47TH STREET JUST EAST OF ALTON ROAD IN THE NAUTILUS NEIGHBORHOOD.

I WAS INTIMATELY INVOLVED WITH THE ORIGINAL COMPLETE STREET PLAN THAT WAS PUT IN AND IMPLEMENTED AND FUNDED BY THE CITY AND THE NAUTILUS NEIGHBORHOOD THAT INCLUDED NUMEROUS SPEED TABLES AND A COUPLE OF ROUNDABOUTS, AND ALSO THE GREEN, UH, THE GREEN, UH, BIKE PATHS, WHICH NARROW STREETS AND LOWERING THE SPEED LIMIT FROM 30 TO 25.

UM, I WOULD HAVE TO SAY, GIVEN THAT I HAVE A SPEED TABLE RIGHT IN FRONT OF MY HOUSE, THAT, UH, THESE TRAFFIC CALMING MEASURES HAVE WORKED PHENOMENALLY WELL.

AND, UM, AND AS, AS MR. EK HAD POINTED OUT EARLIER, UM, MERIDIAN AVENUE WAS SUPPOSED TO GET SPEED TABLES AS WELL.

BUT GIVEN THE RULES AND THE WAY THIS CAN BE UNILATERALLY SHOT DOWN, BASICALLY IF A SPEED TABLE, UH, IF THE SPEED TABLE IS WITHIN YOUR PROPERTY LINE IN THE STREET, IF YOU UNDERSTAND WHAT I'M SAYING, YOU HAVE THE ABILITY, ANY ONE RESIDENT HAS THE ABILITY TO SAY, NO, THANK YOU.

UM, I THINK THAT IS NOT A REAL APPROPRIATE WAY TO GO ABOUT DOING THIS BECAUSE THIS IS A LIFE SAFETY ISSUE, WHICH APPARENTLY, AS MR. SEK SAID, THAT THE STUDIES HAVE SHOWN THAT THERE IS SPEEDING GOING DOWN THAT STREET.

UM, I PERSONALLY HAD TRIED TO ADVOCATE FOR THIS PROBABLY EIGHT YEARS AGO AFTER SPEAKING TO ONE OF THE HOMEOWNERS ON MERIDIAN AVENUE AND THEM TELLING ME THERE'S NOT A SPEEDING PROBLEM.

I ACTUALLY TURNED AROUND AND SAID, THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

STARTED TO WALK AWAY, GOT OUT TO THE STREET, TWO CARS WENT BY SIDE BY SIDE, GOING AT LEAST 50 MILES AN HOUR, DRAGGING DOWN THE STREET.

SO I'M LIKE, OKAY, I GUESS THERE'S NO SPEEDING PROBLEM ON MERIDIAN, BUT I MEAN, LOOK, IT'S, I I RESPECT, UH, YOU KNOW, SARAH'S, SARAH'S OPINION.

UM, AND I CERTAINLY RESPECT JOSH'S OPINION.

I, I PERSONALLY BELIEVE THAT THERE, THERE NEEDS TO BE SOME TRAFFIC CALMING MEASURES PUT IN ON MERIDIAN.

I SEE THE CARS GOING.

I I WALKED MY DOG THERE SATURDAY JUST TO AGAIN SEE IT AGAIN.

AND THERE WERE MULTIPLE CARS GOING WELL OVER 30 MILES AN HOUR, DOWN MERIDIAN UP MERIDIAN.

SO THAT'S ALL I GOT.

I FULLY SUPPORT TRAFFIC CALMING MEASURES.

NO ONE ELSE IN THE AUDIENCE.

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NO ONE IN ZOOM.

CALL THE VOTE.

ALL IN FAVOR OF R SEVEN D PLEASE SIGNAL BY SAYING AYE.

ANY OPPOSED? AND COMMISSIONER SU SUAREZ IS HERE.

A MATTER OF, BUT LET'S CALL 'EM C FOUR A.

SO SEVEN ZERO, THE ITEM IS APPROVED.

THERE WERE, UM, SO IN THE INTEREST OF TIME, LET'S, THERE WAS SOME CONSENT AGENDA ITEMS. THEY WERE ADDENDUMS. SO, UM, WE CALL THEM AFTER FIVE, UNLESS THEY'RE, I THINK THEY'RE PROBABLY NOT CONTROVERSIAL, IT'S JUST

[C4 AW REFERRAL TO LAND USE AND SUSTAINABILITY COMMITTEE – CONSIDER AMENDMENTS TO NOTICE REQUIREMENTS IN THE LAND DEVELOPMENT REGULATIONS TO FACILITATE RESCHEDULING OF LAND USE BOARD MEETINGS IN THE EVENT THAT A MEETING IS CANCELED DUE TO A LACK OF QUORUM; AND DISCUSS AMENDMENTS TO LAND USE BOARD MEMBER ATTENDANCE REQUIREMENTS.]

C FOUR A W IS IMPROVED.

CLEANLINESS AT 17TH STREET PARKING GARAGE REQUESTED BY COMMISSIONER MAGAZINE IS THE SPONSOR OF C SEVEN A.

I THINK IT WAS SUAREZ, UH, C SEVEN A IS, I'M SORRY, MAYOR C SEVEN A IS SPONSORED BY COMMISSIONER MAGAZINE.

C FOUR A OH, C FOUR.

SO C FOUR AW IS A REFERRAL TO LAND USE, LAND USE BOARD NOTICE AND ATTENDANCE REQUIREMENTS.

JUST FOR THE RECORD, THESE ITEMS WERE NOT PULLED BUT THEY WERE IN THE AMENDED IN THE CORRECT, NOT PULLED.

THEY WERE ADDENDUM.

SO THEY'RE CALLED, I, I CALL 'EM AFTER FIVE.

I'LL SECOND THE ITEMS. OKAY.

WE DO THIS BY ACCLIMATION, SO, SO YES, WE, WELL, LET'S, IT'S REFERRED BY ACCLIMATION.

THAT'S FINE.

[C4 AX REFERRAL TO THE FINANCE AND ECONOMIC RESILIENCY COMMITTEE - DISCUSSION REGARDING EXPANDING KIDS' PARKS AND RECREATION OFFERINGS TO INCLUDE SUNDAY CLASSES.]

OKAY, LET'S GO DOWN THE LIST.

C FOUR AX.

C FOUR AX REFERRAL TO LAND USE, EXPAND PARKS AND RECREATION TO INCLUDE SUNDAY CLASSES REQUESTED BY COMMISSIONER BOND.

UM, SO THIS IS AN ITEM TO EXPAND OUR, UM, AMAZING PARKS AND REC FACILITY OFFERINGS TO KIDS WHO CAN'T OTHERWISE TAKE ADVANTAGE OF CLASSES ON SATURDAYS BECAUSE OF UM, RELIGIOUS OBLIGATIONS.

SO IT'S NOT EVERY SINGLE PROGRAM THAT WE OFFER, BUT IT'S THE FOUR MOST POPULAR ONES.

AND I'D LIKE TO REFER THIS TO LAND USE.

YOU MOVED IT.

I MOVED IT.

SECOND I'D BY COMMISSIONER FERNANDEZ.

ALL IN FAVOR? AYE.

THE ITEM IS REFERRED SEVEN ZERO.

I SEE.

[C4 AY REFERRAL TO THE FINANCE AND ECONOMIC RESILIENCY COMMITTEE - DISCUSS POSSIBLE INTERLOCAL AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE CITY OF MIAMI BEACH AND NORTH BAY VILLAGE FOR EXTENDING MIAMI BEACH TROLLEY ROUTE.]

CC FOUR A YC FOUR A Y IS A REFERRAL TO FINANCE ECONOMIC RESILIENCY COMMITTEE.

INTERLOCAL AGREEMENT WITH NORTH BAY VILLAGE EXTENDING MIAMI BEACH TROLLEY ROUTE.

IT IS COMMISSIONER SUAREZ ITEM.

I SECOND HIS ITEM AND I'D LIKE TO JOIN AS A CO-SPONSOR 'CAUSE I'VE BEEN WORKING ON THIS WITH THE MAYOR AS WELL.

I'D LIKE TO GET ON THAT TRAIN AS WELL.

AND I'LL GO ON THAT TROLLEY TOO.

SO BOT MAGAZINE.

OH, IT'S GETTING LATE.

AND FERNANDEZ, UH, THIS IS ITEM C, UH, C FOUR A Y.

C FOUR A ZC FOUR A Z IS A REFERRAL TO, UH, PUBLIC SAFETY NEIGHBORHOOD QUALITY OF LIFE COMMITTEE NAMED THE, THE POWELL BUILDING AND HONOR OF, UH, OFFICER MARTINU.

[C4 AZ REFERRAL TO THE PUBLIC SAFETY AND NEIGHBORHOOD QUALITY OF LIFE COMMITTEE TO DISCUSS NAMING THE MIAMI BEACH POLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE BUILDING IN HONOR OF ARTHUR WALTER MARTINEAU.]

I MOVE IT I A MOTION AND A SECOND, UH, ON THE REFERRAL AND C FOUR, UH, A Z.

ITEM IS APPROVED.

SEVEN ZERO.

THE ITEM IS REFERRED C FOUR A Z.

A LITTLE BIT DIFFERENT ITEM, NOT A REFERRAL.

C SEVEN A YC SEVEN A Y, UH, APPROVED JONATHAN HALL SETTLEMENT.

I'LL MOVE THE ITEM.

I SECOND.

HOLD ON FOR A SECOND.

SO, COMMISSIONER FERNANDEZ, SECONDED BY COMMISSIONER DOMINGUEZ, C SEVEN A Y ALL IN FAVOR, PLEASE SAY AYE.

JUST, IT'S CALLED R FIVE AA.

APPROVED SEVEN ZERO C SEVEN A Y.

WHICH ONES? NO, I GUESS WE DIDN'T.

IT'S

[R5 AA AN ORDINANCE OF THE MAYOR AND CITY COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF MIAMI BEACH, FLORIDA, AMENDING CHAPTER 62 OF THE CODE OF THE CITY OF MIAMI BEACH, ENTITLED, “HUMAN RELATIONS,” BY AMENDING ARTICLE II, ENTITLED “DISCRIMINATION,” BY AMENDING SECTION 62-35 THEREOF, ENTITLED “MEMBERSHIP,” TO AMEND THE HUMAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE MEMBER TERM LIMITS; AND PROVIDING FOR REPEALER, SEVERABILITY, CODIFICATION, AND AN EFFECTIVE DATE.]

I WISH WE HAD THAT POSITIVE REACTION ON EVERY ITEM I CALL R FIVE.

AA IS THE NORTH MAYOR OF CITY COMMISSIONER OF THE CITY OF MIAMI BEACH, FLORIDA.

MANY CHAPTER 62 OF THE CODE OF CITY MIAMI BEACH HUMAN RELATIONS BY AMENDING ARTICLE TWO ENTITLED, DISCRIMINATION BY AMENDING SECTION 62 35 THEREOF ENTITLED MEMBERSHIP TO AMEND THE HUMAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE MEMBER TERM LIMITS AND PROVIDING FOR REPEAL OR SUB CODIFICATION AND EFFECTIVELY COMMISSIONER FERNANDEZ.

AS YOU KNOW, SOMETIMES IT'S HARD TO GET GOOD QUALIFIED AND CARING INDIVIDUALS TO SERVE ON THESE COMMITTEES.

AND IN THIS CASE IS TO BE ABLE TO EXTEND THE, UH, TERM LIMIT BY TWO YEARS FOR AN INDIVIDUAL THAT HAS DEMONSTRATED TO MAKE POSITIVE CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE COMMITTEE.

SO WITH THAT, I MOVE MONEY.

ITEM SECOND.

IT'S CALL THE VOTE.

ZOOM AND NO ONE IN THE AUDIENCE.

I SEE NO ONE ON

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UH, MOTION BY COMMISSIONER FERNANDEZ.

SECONDED BY, UH, COMMISSIONER DOMINGUEZ.

VICE MAYOR B.

ALEX? YES.

LOOKING FOR A QUICK ITEM.

PUBLIC HEARING IS SCHEDULED FOR FEBRUARY 26.

THAT WAS ITEM R FIVE DOUBLE A LONG.

[R5 AC CANOPY PARK - COMPREHENSIVE PLAN FLUM AMENDMENT AN ORDINANCE OF THE MAYOR AND CITY COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF MIAMI BEACH, FLORIDA, AMENDING THE FUTURE LAND USE MAP OF THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN BY CHANGING THE FUTURE LAND USE CATEGORY PURSUANT TO SECTION 2.4.1 OF THE LAND DEVELOPMENT REGULATIONS, AND PURSUANT TO FLORIDA STATUTES, SECTIONS 163.3181 AND SECTION 163.3187, BY CHANGING THE FUTURE LAND USE DESIGNATION FOR A PARCEL OF LAND LOCATED AT 701 WEST AVENUE, AND WHICH IS COMPRISED OF LESS THAN 10 ACRES, FROM THE CURRENT DESIGNATION OF CD-2, “COMMERCIAL, MEDIUM INTENSITY”, TO THE FUTURE LAND USE CATEGORY OF ROS, “RECREATION AND OPEN SPACE;” PROVIDING FOR INCLUSION IN THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN; TRANSMITTAL; REPEALER; SEVERABILITY; AND AN EFFECTIVE DATE.]

R FIVE AC NAD.

IT'S THE SAME NAD COMMISSIONER BOT WILL, ONE SECOND PLEASE.

SO YOU WANT ME TO READ BOTH OF 'EM? SURE.

R FIVE AC IS IN ORDINANCE OF THE MAYOR OF CITY, COMMISSIONER OF THE CITY OF MIAMI BEACH, FLORIDA.

AMENDING THE FUTURE LAND USE MAP OF THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN BY CHANGING THE FUTURE LAND USE CATEGORY PURSUANT TO SECTION 2.41, UH, OF THE LAND DEVELOPMENT REGULATIONS AND PURSUANT TO FLORIDA STATUTE SECTION 1 63 0.3181 AND SECTION 1 63 0.3187 BY CHANGING THE FUTURE LAND USE DESIGNATION FOR A PARCEL OF LAND LOCATED AT 7 0 1 WEST AVENUE AND, AND WHICH IS COMPRISED OF LESS THAN 10 ACRES FROM THE CURRENT DESIGNATION OF CD TWO COMMERCIAL MEDIUM INTENSITY TO FUTURE LAND USE CATEGORY OF R OS RECREATION AND OPEN SPACE PROVIDING FOR INCLUSION IN THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN TRANSMITTAL REPEL OF ABILITY ON AN EFFECTIVE DATE.

THIS IS ITEM R FIVE AC.

IT IS THE SECOND READ, I'M SORRY, IT IS THE SECOND READING, PUBLIC

[R5 AD CANOPY PARK - ZONING DISTRICT CHANGE AN ORDINANCE OF THE MAYOR AND CITY COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF MIAMI BEACH, FLORIDA, AMENDING THE OFFICIAL ZONING DISTRICT MAP, REFERENCED IN SECTION 7.2.1.2, ENTITLED “DISTRICT MAP,” OF THE MIAMI BEACH RESILIENCY CODE, PURSUANT TO SECTION 2.5.1, ENTITLED “CHANGE TO ZONING DISTRICT BOUNDARIES (REZONING),” BY CHANGING THE ZONING DISTRICT CLASSIFICATION FOR A PARCEL OF LAND LOCATED AT 701 WEST AVENUE, AND WHICH IS COMPRISED OF LESS THAN 10 ACRES, FROM THE CURRENT ZONING CLASSIFICATION OF CD-2, “COMMERCIAL, MEDIUM INTENSITY,” TO GU, “GOVERNMENT USE;” PROVIDING FOR CODIFICATION, REPEALER, SEVERABILITY AND AN EFFECTIVE DATE.]

HEARING.

UH, AND R FIVE AD IS AN ORDINANCE OF THE MAYOR OF CITY COMMISSIONER OF CITY OF MIAMI BEACH, FLORIDA AMENDING THE OF OFFICIAL ZONING DISTRICT MAP REFERENCE IN SECTION 7.2 0.2 ENTITLED DISTRICT MAP OF THE MIAMI BEACH RESILIENCY CODE PURSUANT TO SECTION 2.51 ENTITLED CHANGE TO ZONING DISTRICT BOUNDARIES REZONING BY CHANGING THE ZONING DISTRICT CLASSIFICATION FOR A PARCEL OF LAND LOCATED AT 7 0 1 WEST AVENUE AND WHICH IS COMPRISED OF LESS THAN 10 ACRES FROM THE CURRENT ZONING CLASSIFICATION, UH, OF CD TWO COMMERCIAL MEDIUM INTENSITY TO GU GOVERNMENT USE, PROVIDING FOR CODIFICATION RE REPEATABILITY AND AN EFFECTIVE DATE.

COMMISSIONER DOMINGUEZ SECOND DATE.

THIS ITEM REQUIRES FIVE SEVENS.

THE PRIOR ITEM REQUIRES FOUR SEVENS.

I MOVE BOTH ITEMS. I'LL SECOND BOTH ITEMS. CALL THE VOTE.

SO COMMISSIONER BOT MOVED IT.

I SEE NO ONE ON ZOOM.

I SEE NO ONE IN THE AUDIENCE.

COMMISSIONER FERNANDEZ ON BOTH, BOTH ITEMS. YES.

COMMISSIONER ROSA GONZALEZ? YES.

MAYOR MINOR? YES.

BOTH ITEMS ARE APPROVED.

SO R FIVE AC AND R FIVE A DR APPROVED.

I'M GONNA CALL ONE LAST ITEM.

I, I UNDERSTAND THAT THEY'VE BEEN WAITING LITERALLY ALL DAY.

DIDN'T KNOW.

[R2 A A RESOLUTION OF THE MAYOR AND CITY COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF MIAMI BEACH, FLORIDA, ACCEPTING THE RECOMMENDATION OF THE FINANCE AND ECONOMIC RESILIENCY COMMITTEE (FERC), PURSUANT TO REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS (RFP) NO. 2024-274-DF, FOR SPEED DETECTION CAMERA SYSTEM FOR SCHOOL ZONES, REJECTING THE RECOMMENDATION OF THE CITY MANAGER, AND DIRECTING THE ADMINISTRATION TO REJECT ALL BIDS AND ISSUE A NEW SOLICITATION FOR SPEED DETECTION CAMERA SYSTEM FOR SCHOOL ZONES. (POLICE)]

SORRY ABOUT THAT.

UH, R TWO A.

R TWO A IS AWARD RFP 20 24 2 74 DASH DF SPEED DETECTION CAMERA SYSTEMS FOR SCHOOL ZONES.

MR. MAYOR, I'M GONNA MOVE THE, UH, COMMITTEE'S, UH, RECOMMENDATIONS.

THIS WAS DISCUSSED AT FERC AND I'M JUST GONNA MOVE APPROVAL OF THE RECOMMENDATION.

I'M GONNA, ERIC, WHAT'S SAY I, I JUST WANNA MAKE SURE THAT WE SAY ON THE RECORD THAT THE ADMINISTRATION IS STILL SUPPORTIVE OF THE RECOMMENDATION.

WE THINK IT WAS A CLEAR, A CLEAN PROCUREMENT.

I, I I'VE I'VE READ THE MEMO.

COULD YOU JUST TELL ME WHY WE SHOULD START OVER? SURE.

UM, I BELIEVE, UH, THERE WERE, HOW MANY RESPONDENTS WERE THERE? I BELIEVE THERE WERE FOUR RESPONDENTS.

THERE WAS NINE.

NINE RESPONDENTS.

UM, AND ULTIMATELY, YOU KNOW, I THINK THAT THERE'S MULTIPLE VENDORS IN THIS GROUP THAT ARE CAPABLE OF DELIVERING THE SERVICE.

AND, BUT THERE WERE ISSUES.

ONE WAS FOUND NON-RESPONSIVE, I THINK.

UH, AND THERE WERE COMPLAINTS.

UH, THERE WAS TWO PROTESTS, BUT NO ONE WAS DEEMED NON-RESPONSIVE.

TWO PROTESTS.

THERE WERE TWO PROTESTS AND THEN THERE WERE A FEW OTHER ISSUES.

WHAT WEREN'T THERE, THERE WAS NO ONE DEEMED NON-RESPONSIVE.

UM, MY ISSUE WAS WITH THE, WITH THE AMOUNT OF FEEDBACK THAT WE GOT ON THIS, ON THIS PROCUREMENT, THE AMOUNT OF CONCERNS THAT WE GOT AND THE AMOUNT OF PROTESTS THAT WE GOT, THAT, YOU KNOW, THAT WAS WHAT WAS CONCERNING ABOUT IT.

UH, AND THAT'S WHY WE DISCUSSED IT A COMMITTEE AND THE COMMITTEE AGREED THAT IT MIGHT BE BETTER TO START THE PROCESS AGAIN GIVEN THE AMOUNT OF PROTESTS THAT, UH, THAT WE'VE RECEIVED ON THIS ITEM.

HOW MANY PROTESTS? I BELIEVE TWO.

I DON'T KNOW THAT, ERIC, I'LL TURN TO YOUR PROFESSIONAL JUDGMENT.

THAT DOESN'T SEEM LIKE AN OUTLIER TO GET TWO.

WE GET PROTESTS ALL THE TIME ON OUR PROCUREMENTS.

TWO IS MORE THAN WE NORMALLY GET.

YEAH, WE NORMALLY GET ONE PROTEST FROM WHOEVER CAME IN RIGHT BEHIND THE NUMBER ONE.

UM, BUT I DO THINK THAT THERE'S A LOT OF INTEREST AROUND THIS ONE, AS YOU CAN SEE FROM NINE PROPOSERS.

[09:25:02]

I DON'T HAVE ANY ISSUE IF THE COMMISSION WANTS TO SELECT A DIFFERENT VENDOR, YOU'RE NOT BOUND TO MY RECOMMENDATION.

I JUST THINK IT'S A CLEAN, IT'S A CLEAN PROCESS.

UH, SO YOU DON'T HAVE ANY CONCERNS WITH, WITH SENDING IT BACK AND REDOING THE, THE PROCUREMENT.

IF, IF THAT'S THE WILL OF THE BODY, WE'LL GO BACK AND REDO IT.

I JUST DIDN'T WANT THERE TO BE ANY, ANY CONCERN THAT THERE WAS ANYTHING WRONG WITH THE PROCESS THAT WAS DONE.

NO, I APPRECIATE THAT.

AND I GUESS WE'LL HAVE TO KEEP AN EYE OUT.

'CAUSE I GUESS I WOULDN'T WANT TO OPEN THIS UP AND SAY, OOH, IF WE HAVE TWO PROTESTS, WE'LL HAVE A, A BRAND NEW, WE'LL HAVE A BRAND NEW, UH, PROCUREMENT EVERY TIME.

BUT SINCE THIS DOES SEEM TO BE AN OUTLIER, THEN UM, I'M OKAY WITH IT.

TAKE THE VOTE.

SO I HAVE A MOTION AND A SECOND.

MAYOR ON ITEM R FIVE D IN ORDER TO, TO, UH, WE NEED A WAIVER OF THE ZONE ZONING CYCLE.

ITEM R TWO A PASSES.

HAVING HEARD NO ONE SAY NO.

MAYOR, I HAVE ONE HOUSEKEEPING ISSUE.

NO, YOU'RE NO.

SO COMMISSIONER SUAREZ IS A NO.

IS ARE THERE ANY OTHER NOS? SO ITEM IS SIX ONE

[R5 D SHADE AND PALM TREE REQUIREMENTS - CHAPTER 4 LDR AN ORDINANCE OF THE MAYOR AND CITY COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF MIAMI BEACH, FLORIDA, AMENDING CHAPTER 4 OF THE MIAMI BEACH RESILIENCY CODE, ENTITLED "LANDSCAPE REQUIREMENTS," BY AMENDING ARTICLE II, ENTITLED "REQUIREMENTS," BY AMENDING SECTION 4.2.3, ENTITLED “MINIMUM STANDARDS” BY ALLOWING PALMS TO COUNT TOWARD MINIMUM STREET TREE REQUIREMENTS; AND, PROVIDING FOR REPEALER, SEVERABILITY, CODIFICATION, AND AN EFFECTIVE DATE.]

IF WE DON'T GET TO IT TODAY TO FEBRUARY 26TH.

IN OTHER WORDS, ALLOW ME TO BRING THIS ITEM BACK FEBRUARY 26TH IF IT'S NOT REACHED VERSUS APRIL.

ANYBODY HAVE AN ISSUE IF WE JUST CALL IT, WHAT IS IT? THE PALM TREES, RIGHT? R FIVE D.

WE CAN EITHER VOTE AND WAIVE IT OR JUST VOTE ON IT.

IT PASSED SEVEN ZERO LAST TIME.

I GOT, IT'S A, IT'S AN ORDINANCE.

I HAVE TO READ IT.

IT'S AN ORDINANCE OF THE MAYOR, CITY COMMISSIONER OF THE CITY, MIAMI BEACH, FLORIDA.

THIS IS AGAIN R FIVE D AMENDING CHAPTER FOUR, THAT MIAMI BE BEACH RESILIENCE CODE ENTITLED LANDSCAPE REQUIREMENTS BY AMENDING ARTICLE TWO ENTITLED REQUIREMENTS BY AMENDING SECTION 4.2 0.3 ENTITLED MINIMUM SANDERS BY ALLOWING PALMS TO COUNT TOWARDS MINIMUM STREET TREE REQUIREMENTS AND PROVIDING FOR REPEATER, ACCEPTABILITY, CODIFICATION, AND AN EFFECTIVE DATE.

IT IS A SECOND READING, PUBLIC HEARING.

UH, COMMISSIONER DOMINGUEZ MOTION.

I SEE NO ONE ON ZOOM.

I SEE NO ONE IN THE AUDIENCE.

AND I HEARD A MOTION.

I, UH, COMMISSIONER SWEAR AS SECONDS IF NO DISCUSSION.

THAT WAS ITEM R FIVE D.

R FIVE C ALSO? I COULD DO R FIVE C NEXT.

IS THAT

[R5 C AN ORDINANCE OF THE MAYOR AND CITY COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF MIAMI BEACH, FLORIDA, AMENDING CHAPTER 46 OF THE CODE OF THE CITY OF MIAMI BEACH, ENTITLED "ENVIRONMENT," BY AMENDING ARTICLE II, ENTITLED "CARE AND MAINTENANCE OF TREES AND PLANTS," BY AMENDING DIVISION 2, "TREE PRESERVATION AND PROTECTION"; BY AMENDING SECTION 46-58, ENTITLED "TREE REMOVAL REQUIREMENTS, EXEMPTIONS AND PROHIBITED SPECIES," TO PROVIDE THAT AN EXISTING PALM TREE MAY BE REPLACED WITH A NEW PALM TREE AT THE SAME LOCATION WITH NO ADDITIONAL MITIGATION REQUIREMENT; AND PROVIDING FOR REPEALER, SEVERABILITY, CODIFICATION, AND AN EFFECTIVE DATE.]

YEAH, IT'S A COMPANION ITEM SO HAVE TO THEY GOT IT.

THEY HAVE TO GO TOGETHER.

R FIVE C IS NORTH TO THE MAYOR OF CITY COMMISSION OF CITY OF MIAMI BEACH, FLORIDA AND CHAPTER 46 OF THE CODE OF THE CITY OF MIAMI BEACH ENTITLED ENVIRONMENT BY AMENDING ARTICLE TWO ENTITLED CARE MAINTENANCE OF TREES AND PLANTS BY AMENDING DIVISION TWO TREE PRESERVATION AND PROTECTION BY MANY SECTION 46 S 58 ENTITLED TREE REMOVAL REQUIREMENTS, EXEMPTIONS AND PROHIBITED SPECIES TO PROVIDE THAT AN EXISTING PALM TREE MAY BE REPLACED WITH A NEW PALM TREE AT THE SAME LOCATION WITH NO ADDITIONAL MITIGATION REQUIREMENT AND PROVIDING FOR RE REPEATER, SERVICEABILITY, CODIFICATION AND EFFECTIVE DATE.

THIS IS ITEM MARK FIVE C TO SECOND READING, PUBLIC HEARING.

UH, NO ONE IN ZOOM.

NO ONE IN THE AUDIENCE MOVED BY COMMISSIONER SUAREZ.

OH.

UH, MOTION TO SECOND COMMISSIONER MAGAZINE.

VICE MAYOR BOB? YES.

I JUST HAD ONE QUESTION BEFORE I EVEN GOT TO VOTE ON IT.

WHAT WAS THE DIFFERENCE? I MEAN, PALM TREE FOR PALM TREE.

BUT THE OTHER, BUT THIS, BUT THE OTHER ONE WAS ABOUT CANOPY, LIKE TAKING AWAY A PALM TREE.

LIKE CAN YOU, I MEAN, CAN YOU JUST TELL ME THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE TWO JUST BEFORE I VOTE, JUST SO THAT I UNDERSTAND.

'CAUSE I HAD SEVERAL EMAILS ABOUT TREE CANOPIES AND I DO BELIEVE IN TREE CANOPIES.

WELCOME AMY.

SORRY EVERYBODY.

WE'RE SO CLOSE, RIGHT? THAT'S OKAY.

COMMISSIONER AMY KNOWLES, CHIEF RESILIENCE OFFICER.

GOOD EVENING.

SO THIS IS A COMPANION ITEM TO THE OTHER ONE THAT WAS JUST PASSED, WHICH WAS R FIVE D.

UM, THIS ONE SPECIFICALLY IS AMENDING CHAPTER 46, WHICH REQUIRES WHEN TREES ARE REMOVED THAT WE'RE PLANTING BACK CANOPY TREES AND THAT'S INTENDED TO GROW OUR CANOPY OVER TIME.

WE CERTAINLY ALLOW PALM TREES NOW.

WE'VE ACTUALLY SEEN 8,000 PALM TREES PLANTED SINCE, UH, 2017.

SO WE ARE SEEING THEM, BUT THEY'RE NOT ALLOWED FOR MITIGATION, WHICH MEANS IF

[09:30:01]

YOU TAKE DOWN A TREE, UH, WE WANT YOU TO PLANT BACK CANOPY.

UM, SO THIS WOULD ALLOW PALMS TO BE PLANTED AS MITIGATION.

THEN I'M GONNA VOTE NO ON THIS TWO.

BUT JUST TO BE CLEAR, IT'S TWO PALMS FOR A CURRENT PALM.

CORRECT? UM, THIS ITEM IS FOR CHAPTER 46, WHICH, AH, GOT IT.

IS, GOT IT.

MAYOR MINOR? YES.