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5, 4, 3, 2, 1.GOOD MORNING EVERYBODY, AND WELCOME TO THE FRIDAY, MARCH 7TH ZONING BOARD OF ADJUSTMENT MEETING.
I HOPE EVERYBODY'S DOING WELL AND, UH, ENJOYED THIS BEAUTIFUL WEATHER THAT WE HAD IN SOUTH FLORIDA THIS MORNING.
IT WAS NICE WAKING UP TO 50 DEGREE WEATHER.
UH, THAT'S WHY WE LIVE IN SOUTH FLORIDA, SO ALL IS GOOD.
UM, WE'VE GOT TWO ITEMS ON THE AGENDA TODAY.
UM, WE, WE DO HAVE A FULL BOARD, UM, BUT WE HAVE ONE MEMBER THAT IS COMING LATE.
WE'RE NOT SURE WHAT TIME THAT IS.
UM, I DO WANNA, THOUGH, TAKE AN OPPORTUNITY TO WAIT TO WELCOME A NEW MEMBER, SARAH MELLI.
SARAH, WELCOME SO MUCH TO THE ZONING BOARD OF ADJUSTMENT.
WE LOOK FORWARD TO YOUR PARTICIPATION.
UM, LET'S GO AHEAD AND FORMALLY TAKE
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ATTENDANCE.I'LL GO AHEAD AND TURN IT OVER TO MR. MADDEN.
CAN YOU TAKE ATTENDANCE FOR THE RECORD, PLEASE? A ABSOLUTELY.
MS. SILVERMAN HERE AND MR. SILVERS IS CURRENTLY ABSENT, BUT WE DO EXPECT HIM TO COME IN LATER IN THE MEETING.
SO IF HE COMES IN BEFORE, UM, THE VOTE, YOU KNOW, WE WILL INCLUDE HIM IN THE VOTE 'CAUSE HE DID GET THE PACKAGE AND SHOULD HAVE HAD AN OPPORTUNITY TO REVIEW IT, UM, IN REFERENCE TO THE FIRST ITEM THAT WE'RE, THAT WE'LL BE CALLING UP.
UM, WITH THAT BEING SAID, I'M GONNA GO AHEAD AND TURN IT OVER TO THE CITY
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ATTORNEY.MADAM CITY ATTORNEY, CAN YOU GO AHEAD AND GIVE US ANY UPDATES AND SWEAR IN THE PUBLIC THAT'S IN THE CHAMBERS, PLEASE? UH, YES, SIR.
TODAY'S MEETING OF THE BOARD OF ADJUSTMENT HAS BEEN SCHEDULED IN A HYBRID FORMAT WITH A QUORUM OF THE BOARD PHYSICALLY PRESENT IN THE COMMISSION CHAMBERS AT THE MIAMI BEACH CITY HALL, AN APPLICANT'S STAFF AND MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC APPEARING EITHER IN PERSON OR VIRTUALLY VIA THE ZOOM PLATFORM WEBINAR.
IN ORDER TO PARTICIPATE IN TODAY'S MEETING, THOSE WISHING TO PARTICIPATE VIA THE ZOOM PLATFORM WEBINAR MAY DIAL 8 8 8 8 5 3 5 2 5 7, WHICH IS A TOLL FREE NUMBER.
AND ENTER THE WEBINAR ID, WHICH IS 8 2 8 6 9 6 1 5 3 0 9, OR LOG INTO THE ZOOM APP AND ENTER THE WEBINAR ID, WHICH AGAIN IS 8 2 8 6 9 6 1 5 3 0 9.
NOW, UM, ANY INDIVIDUAL WISHING TO SPEAK ON AN ITEM, UH, AND THERE ARE ON ZOOM, MUST CLICK THE ERASE HAND ICON IF THEY'RE USING ZOOM APP OR DIAL STAR NINE STAR NINE IF THEY'RE PARTICIPATING BY PHONE.
AND, UM, BEFORE I SWEAR IN ALL THOSE WHO INTEND TO TESTIFY TODAY, I'M GOING TO READ INTO THE RECORD THE CITY'S NOTICE REGARDING LOBBYIST REGISTRATION.
IF YOU ARE APPEARING ON BEHALF OF A BUSINESS, A CORPORATION, OR ANOTHER PERSON, YOU NEED TO REGISTER AS A LOBBYIST WITH THE CITY CLERK'S OFFICE.
IF YOU HAVEN'T REGISTERED YET, YOU SHOULD REGISTER BEFORE YOU SPEAK TO THE BOARD.
YOU DO NOT HAVE TO REGISTER AS A LOBBYIST IN THREE LIMITED CIRCUMSTANCES.
ONE, IF YOU'RE SPEAKING ONLY ON BEHALF OF YOURSELF AND NOT ANY OTHER PARTY.
TWO, IF YOU'RE TESTIFYING AS AN EXPERT WITNESS IN PROVIDING ONLY SCIENTIFIC, TECHNICAL, OR OTHER SPECIALIZED INFORMATION OR TESTIMONY IN THIS PUBLIC HEARING.
OR THREE, IF YOU'RE APPEARING AS A REPRESENTATIVE OF A NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION WITHOUT ANY COMPENSATION OR REIMBURSEMENT FOR YOUR APPEARANCE TO EXPRESS SUPPORT OF OR OPPOSITION TO ANY ITEM.
EXPERT WITNESSES AND REPRESENTATIVES OF NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATIONS SHALL PRIOR TO APPEARING DISCLOSE IN WRITING TO THE CITY CLERK, THEIR NAME, ADDRESS, AND THE PRINCIPAL ON WHOSE BEHALF THEY'RE COMMUNICATING.
IF YOU'RE AN ARCHITECT, ATTORNEY, OR EMPLOYEE REPRESENTING AN APPLICANT OR AN OBJECTOR, YOU MUST REGISTER AS A LOBBYIST.
NOW THOSE RULES APPLY WHETHER YOU'RE APPEARING IN FAVOR OF OR AGAINST THE ITEM OR WHETHER YOU'RE ENCOURAGING OR ARGUING AGAINST THIS PASSAGE, DEFEAT, MODIFICATION, OR CONTINUANCE.
NOW I'M GOING TO SWEAR EVERYONE WHO IS PRESENT PHYSICALLY, ANY CHAMBERS, AND, UM, IF WE WILL HAVE ANYONE TESTIFYING ON ZOOM, THEY'LL HAVE TO BE SWOLLEN SEPARATELY.
PLEASE STAND AND RAISE YOUR RIGHT HAND.
DO YOU SWEAR OR AFFIRM THAT, THAT THE TESTIMONY YOU'LL BE GIVING THIS PROCEEDING IS THE TRUTH, THE WHOLE TRUTH, AND NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH? I DO.
THANK, THANK YOU MADAM STATE ATTORNEY.
UM, DO WE HAVE ANY DISCUSSION ITEMS MR. MADDEN?
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WE DO NOT.IN YOUR PACKAGE THAT WAS SENT TO
[1. After Action Report – January 8, 2025 ]
YOU, YOU HAD THE, UH, MINUTES FROM OUR JANUARY 8TH MEETING.AS A REMINDER, WE DID NOT HAVE A MEETING IN FEBRUARY.
HOPEFULLY YOU HAD AN OPPORTUNITY TO REVIEW THOSE MINUTES.
UH, I'LL ASK IF THERE'S NO CHANGES OR CORRECTIONS, I'LL ASK FOR A MOTION TO APPROVE THOSE MINUTES.
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FOR A CONTINUANCE.IT'S Z ZBA 24 DASH OH 1 61 6 0 5 LINCOLN ROAD UNIT 8 0 0 RF.
MR. MADDEN, THE, UH, THIS IS, UM, AN APPEAL OF A PLANNING DIRECTOR'S DETERMINATION AND THE, UM, THE APPELLANTS HAVE REQUESTED THAT THE ITEM BE CONTINUED TO THE MAY 2ND MEETING.
UM, NO REASON WAS PROVIDED, BUT THEY, I, THEY'RE, THEY'RE, THEY'RE STILL WORKING ON, ON THE APPEAL AND, AND THEY HAVE SOME INTERNAL ISSUES THAT THEY'RE WORKING OUT.
I BELIEVE WE DO NEED A MOTION AND WE DO NEED A MOTION, MR. OKAY.
SO WE WOULD ENTERTAIN A MOTION TO
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APPROVE THE CONTINUANCE AS, AS DESCRIBED BY MR. MADDEN.MOTION BY MOTION BY MR. DAVIS.
ALRIGHT, MS. MELLI, YOUR FIRST MOTION.
MOVING ON TO OUR FIRST OF TWO APPLICATIONS.
[3. ZBA24-0170 4521 Pine Tree Drive]
WE HAVE ZBA TWO FOUR DASH OH 1 7 45 21 PINE TREE DRIVE, MR. MADDEN.UM, ALRIGHT, I'LL ASK ALEJANDRO TO READ THE TITLE, PLEASE.
THIS APPLICATION IS REQUESTING A VARIANCE TO INCREASE THE MAXIMUM LEVEL HEIGHT TO REDUCE THE SATURN INTERIOR SIDE SETBACK, AND TO REDUCE THE SUM OF THE SIDE SETBACKS IN ORDER TO ALLOW THE, FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW TWO STORY HOME.
SO THIS, UH, THIS IS A PROPOSED, UH, NEW HOME.
IT IS IN THE RS TWO ZONING DISTRICT.
IT HAS A LOT THAT'S 58,703 SQUARE FEET, OR 1.34 ACRES.
UM, IT HAS A LOT WIDTH OF 150 FEET, AND IT'S A VERY LONG LOT.
UM, THEY'RE PROPOSING A HOME THAT HAS A UNIT SIZE OF 36.3%, SO IT'S BELOW THE MAXIMUM UNIT SIZE, WHICH IS ALLOWED, WHICH IS 50%.
UM, THE, THE PLANS WERE SUBMITTED.
THE HOME IS CALLED VIA, IT'S A WATERFRONT LOT ON, UH, ON PINE TREE DRIVE.
UM, IT, IT FRONTS THE, UH, INDIAN CREEK WATERWAY.
THE, UM, THE PROPOSED HOME IS REQUESTING THREE VARIANCES.
THE FIRST VARIANCE IS FOR, UM, AN ADDITIONAL TWO FEET IN HEIGHT.
THE CITY CHARTER ALLOWS FOR THE BOARD OF ADJUSTMENT TO APPROVE UP TO THREE FEET IN ADDITIONAL HEIGHT.
SO THEY'RE NOT REQUESTING THE MAXIMUM THAT COULD BE APPROVED BY A VARIANCE.
UH, THE REASON FOR THE VARIANCE IS THEY'RE PROPOSING AN INTERESTING, UM, ARCHITECTURAL STYLE THAT HAS, UM, UM, TWO, UH, TWO PERPENDICULAR BUILT, TWO PERPENDICULAR, ESSENTIALLY STRUCTURES.
UM, THE FIRST FLOOR IS PERPENDICULAR TO THE STREET.
THE SECOND FLOOR IS PARALLEL TO THE STREET.
BECAUSE OF THIS, THEY NEED TWO SLABS.
UM, THE, THE ROOF SLAB OF THE FIRST FLOOR AND THEN A FLOOR SLAB OF THE SECOND FLOOR, THEY'RE IN ALMOST INDEPENDENT SLABS, WHICH CREATES, UM, ADDITIONAL NEED FOR HEIGHT.
SO THEY'RE CREATE, THEY'RE REQUESTING THE VARIANCE SO THAT THEY CAN HAVE APPROPRIATE FLOOR TO CEILING HEIGHTS AND ALLOW THIS INTERESTING ARCHITECTURAL STYLE.
IT ALLOWS THE SECOND FLOOR TO BE SET BACK SIGNIFICANTLY, SO IT DOES NOT IMPACT THE STREET.
UM, THE, TO THE SOUTH, THERE'S A PUBLIC PARK, SO THERE'S NO IMPACT TO THE, TO THE PROPERTY, TO THE SOUTH AND TO THE NORTH.
THERE'S A NEW HOME UNDER CONSTRUCTION, UM, WHICH IS, WHICH IS BEING BUILT AT A HIGHER ELEVATION.
SO THEY SHOULDN'T HAVE ANY ISSUES IF, UH, THEY COULD PROPOSE TO BUILD A HOME THAT'S HIGHER.
THEY'RE NOT TAKING ADVANTAGE OF.
THE FULL FREE BOARD REQUIRE, UH, PROVISIONS THAT WE HAVE.
THEY'RE ONLY USING A FREE BOARD OF TWO FEET.
THEY COULD GO UP TO FIVE FEET WITHOUT PENALIZING THEIR MAXIMUM HEIGHT.
SO THEY ARE NOT, THEY ARE NOT BUILDING THE, THE HIGHEST HOME THAT THEY COULD BUILD EVEN WITH THIS HEIGHT VARIANCE.
UM, THE SECOND TWO VARIANCES ARE RELATED.
THEY'RE RELATED TO AN ACCESSORY STRUCTURE THAT'S BEING PROPOSED, AND THEY ARE FOR THE, UH, SIDE INTERIOR SETBACK AND THE SUM OF THE SIDE YARD SETBACKS, THEY'RE ONLY FOR THIS ACCESSORY STRUCTURE.
THE MAIN HOME COMPLIES WITH ALL OF THE SETBACKS.
UM, THE ACCESSORY STRUCTURE, UM, IF IT WERE WITHIN THE REAR YARD, IT WOULD COMPLY WITH THE SETBACKS PERFECTLY, BUT THE, THE, THE REAR YARD IS ONLY FROM 50 FEET FROM THE REAR PROPERTY LINE.
SO THIS ACCESSORY STRUCTURE IS GONNA ENCROACH INTO WHAT WE CALL THE MAIN BUILDING AREA BEYOND THE 50 FOOT SETBACK.
SO IT'S SUBJECT TO THE SETBACK REQUIREMENTS FOR THE MAIN HOME.
IT'S A LITTLE, LITTLE, LITTLE TOUGH TO DESCRIBE THAT.
IF SO, IF IT WERE, IF IT WERE WITHIN THE WATER AND THE 50 FOOT SETBACK LINE, IT WOULD BE OKAY.
BUT BECAUSE THEY'RE GOING BEYOND THAT A LITTLE BIT, THEY NEED A VARIANCE, UM, IN ORDER TO BUILD THAT STRUCTURE WHERE IT'S LOCATED.
UM, SO THE FIRST VARIANCE IS FOR THE SIDE INTERIOR SETBACK.
IT WOULD BE REQUIRED TO HAVE 15 FEET.
UM, THEY'RE PROPOSING THAT IT FOLLOW THE SIDE INTERIOR SETBACK THAT WOULD BE PERMITTED FOR AN ACCESSORY STRUCTURE WITHIN THE REAR YARD AT 7.5 FEET.
UM, THIS IS ADJACENT TO A PUBLIC PARK, SO IT DOESN'T IMPACT ANY NEIGHBORS.
UM, AND SO STAFF IS, IS NOT OPPOSED TO THIS.
UM, IF, IF THE, IF THE CODE DID NOT HAVE THE LIMIT THAT A REAR YARD HAD, UM, WOULD ONLY GOES UP TO 50 FEET, THEY WOULD BE ABLE TO BUILD THIS STRUCTURE WITHOUT A PROBLEM.
UM, SO THAT'S, THAT DOES PRESENT A PRACTICAL DIFFICULTY TO THEM.
THE SECOND ONE IS FOR THE SUM OF THE SIDE YARDS.
IT'S FOR THAT SAME ACCESSORY STRUCTURE, UH, BECAUSE THEY'RE SO CLOSE TO THAT PROPERTY LINE, THE SUM OF THE SIDE YARDS, UM, IS NOT MET.
SO THEY'RE REQUESTING, UM, A VARIANCE TO BE ALLOWED TO BUILD AT, UH, SOME OF THE SIDE YARDS AT 32 FEET AS OPPOSED TO 37.5 FEET.
AND AGAIN, THIS IS ONLY FOR THE ACCESSORY STRUCTURE, WHICH WILL HAVE A GUEST HOUSE ON THE GROUND FLOOR AND, UH, AND AN OPEN, UH, TERRACE ON THE SECOND FLOOR.
SO WITH THAT, UH, STAFF RECOMMENDS APPROVAL OF THE APPLICATION SUBJECT TO THE CONDITIONS IN THE ATTACHED DRAFT ORDER.
UM, AND I'LL TURN IT OVER TO THE APPLICANT.
UM, BEFORE WE DO THAT, ARE THERE ANY DISCLOSURES? OKAY.
UM, MS. BALTA, ARE YOU GONNA BE PRESENTING? YES,
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SIR.I CAN, WE SET THE CLOCK FOR 10 MINUTES, PLEASE.
AND BEFORE WE GET STARTED, I JUST WANTED TO SAY TO CONGRATULATIONS.
WE'RE SO HAPPY TO HAVE YOU HERE, MR. ELLI.
UH, HOPEFULLY TODAY WILL BE A FUN ONE, WHICH IS SOME BEAUTIFUL SINGLE FAMILY HOMES.
UH, SO GOOD MORNING, EMILY BALTER, ARDELL, EZ AR, AND TAP OFFICES AT 200 SOUTH BISCAYNE BOULEVARD.
I'M HERE TODAY ON BEHALF OF THE OWNER OF 54 21 PINE TREE DRIVE.
UH, WITH ME, WE HAVE OUR ARCHITECT OF RECORD, ANDRES HOLLOMAN.
UH, WE ALSO HAVE ON ZOOM, OUR LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT CAROLINA MONTERO FROM CLAD.
UH, WE HAVE THE OWNERS' REPRESENTATIVES, CAMON AND ALAN CORRIN, AND OF COURSE WITH ME MICHAEL LARKIN.
WE COULD PULL UP OUR PRESENTATION.
THE PROPERTY'S LOCATED EAST OF PINE TREE DRIVE, IT ABUTS PINE TREE PARK, UM, PINE TREE PARK, AND, UH, FRONTS THE COLLINS CANAL.
THE APPLICANT'S GOAL WITH THIS PROJECT IS TO CONSTRUCT A BEAUTIFUL, MODERN SINGLE FAMILY HOME THAT'S SENSITIVE TO PINE TREE DRIVE, UM, AS WELL AS THE PAR THE PARK PROVIDES BEAUTIFUL VIEWS OF THE CANAL.
UH, WE'RE HERE TODAY BECAUSE THE LITERAL INTERPRETATION OF THE LAND DEVELOPMENT REGULATIONS WOULD WORK IN UNNECESSARY AND UNDUE HARDSHIP ON THE APPLICANT.
ADDITIONALLY, COMPLYING WITH THE CODE STRICTLY WOULD LEAD TO A, A LESS, UM, FUNCTIONAL AND LESS BEAUTIFUL DESIGN.
STARTING WITH OUR SITE PLAN, UH, WE WANTED TO SHOW YOU THE JUDICIOUS SETBACKS THAT ARE PROPOSED, UM, THE PARALLEL AND PERPENDICULAR ARTICULATION THAT, UM, ROGELIO MENTIONED, AS WELL AS, UM, THE, WE'RE NOT MAXING OUT LOCK COVERAGE OR UNIT SIZE.
WITH THIS HOUSE, WE ARE SEEKING THREE VARIANCES.
THE OTHER TWO RELATE TO THE, THE LOCATION OF THE ACCESSORY STRUCTURE IN THE, IN THE NORTH, IN THE SOUTHEAST CORNER OF THE PROPERTY.
UH, WE'RE SEEKING TWO FEET OF ADDITIONAL HEIGHT, UM, AND THEN REDUCED SETBACKS FOR THE STRUCTURE.
STARTING WITH THE HEIGHT, WE WANTED TO PROVIDE YOU WITH A SNIPPET OF OUR VARIANCE DIAGRAMS RATHER THAN
HOPEFULLY IT MAKES IT MORE CLEAR.
SO YOU CAN SEE HOW MINIMAL, UM, THIS HEIGHT REALLY IS AND HOW MUCH OF THESE CONCRETE SLABS TAKE UP THAT, UM, THAT TWO FEET OF HEIGHT THAT WE'RE SEEKING.
UM, THESE ARE, WE BELIEVE MINOR ENCROACHMENTS.
UM, WE ALSO WANTED TO POINT OUT HOW FAR SET BACK THIS TWO STORY PORTION OF THE PROPERTY IS.
THIS IS WHERE THE, THE 30 FOOT, UM, FIRST FLOOR SETBACK IS.
AND THEN HERE YOU CAN SEE WHERE THE TWO STORY PORTION ACTUALLY BEGINS.
UM, THESE ARE, UH, THE SIDE YARD SECTIONS JUST TO FURTHER HIGHLIGHT THE CONFIGURATION OF THE FIRST FLOOR AND SECOND FLOOR AND THE MINIMAL, UH, ENCROACHMENT INTO THE HEIGHT THAT WE'RE SEEKING.
UH, WE ALSO WANTED TO NOTE THAT THERE'S NO, ON THE MAIN HOME, THERE'S NO ROOFTOP PROJECTIONS PROPOSED.
SO WE'RE NOT SEEKING TWO FEET PLUS AN ELEVATOR BULKHEAD PLUS A PARAPET FOR A RAILING.
THERE'S, THERE'S NO ACTIVITY ON THE ROOF.
THE PRACTICAL DI DIFFICULTIES IN THIS CASE RELATE SPECIFICALLY TO THE FACT THAT THIS IS A, A LOT WITH MULTIPLE FRONTAGES THAT HAVE TO BE CONSIDERED WHEN LAYING OUT THE HOME, AS WELL AS THE IRREGULAR SHAPE OF THE LOT.
UM, THE REAR, I'LL SHOW YOU THE REAR SETBACK, UM, IS NOT, UH, A STRAIGHT LINE.
UH, ADDITIONALLY, THE LITERAL INTERPRETATION OF THE CODE THAT ROGELIO MENTIONED, IF YOU, YOU'RE PERMITTED 28 FEET OF HEIGHT PLUS FIVE FEET OF FREEBOARD, THAT WOULD RESULT IN A HOME THAT'S 33 FEET IN HEIGHT AS OF RIGHT.
AND WE WOULDN'T BE SEEKING THIS REQUEST TODAY WE'RE PROPOSING IS A HOME THAT'S 30 FEET IN HEIGHT PLUS THE TWO FEET OF FREEBOARD.
AND IT RESULTS IN A HOME THAT IS 32 FEET IN HEIGHT AND THAT NEEDS A VARIANCE.
SO IT'S THAT NUANCE IN THE CODE, UM, THAT RESULTS US ASKING THE VARIANCE.
BUT IT IS IMPORTANT TO THE DESIGN AND THAT'S WHY WE CAME BEFORE YOU TODAY.
UM, AND THEN ALSO THE PRACTICAL DIFFICULTY WITH THE WAY THAT THIS IS PROPOSED TO BE CONSTRUCTED WITH THE THICKER CONCRETE SLABS, UM, RESULTS IN A FUNCTIONAL, PRACTICAL DIFFICULTY FOR THE DESIGN OF THE HOME.
MOVING ON TO THE ACCESSORY STRUCTURE IN THE REAR YARD, AS I NOTED, UH, THIS IS NOT A PERFECTLY SQUARE PERPENDICULAR LOT.
UM, MOVING THIS ACCESSORY STRUCTURE INTO THE NORTH SETBACK WOULD CRAM IT, IT MAKES MORE SENSE LAYOUT WISE, AS YOU CAN SEE TO PULL IT INTO THE SOUTH.
THERE'S ALSO NO SOUTH NEIGHBOR.
UM, SO THERE'S A, A MINIMAL IMPACT.
UH, ALSO WE WANTED TO KNOW THE, THE STRUCTURE
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IS ALMOST AT THE SEVEN AND A HALF FEET, WHICH WOULD BE PERMITTED.WHAT'S ENCROACHING IS A STAIRCASE TO GO ONTO THE ROOF TERRACE OF THE ACCESSORY STRUCTURE.
AS I NOTED, BECAUSE WE'RE SEEKING THE HEIGHT VARIANCE FOR THE MAIN HOME IN ORDER TO ENJOY VIEWS OF THE CANAL, THEY'RE PROPOSING THE ADDITIONAL OUTDOOR LIVING SPACE ON THE ONE STORY ACCESSORY STRUCTURE, UH, THIS HAS A, A MINIMAL IMPACT.
UM, IT'S A VERY SMALL AREA, 700 SQUARE FEET, UM, AND IT IS PULLED INTO THE, THE MAIN BUILDING AREA RATHER THAN IN THE REAR YARD.
SO THE REAR YARD DOES NOT HAVE THAT ROOF TERRACE.
IT'S A VERY MINIMAL AREA WITHIN THE MAIN BUILDING SITE.
AND HERE, UH, UH, SECTION OF THE ACCESSORY STRUCTURE WHERE YOU CAN SEE THE STAIRCASE IS WHAT'S ENCROACHING.
WE ADDED THE LANDSCAPE PLAN TO YOUR PRESENTATION TODAY IN ORDER TO SHOW HOW DENSELY LANDSCAPED THE, THE PROJECT WILL BE, UM, AND HOW THOUGHTFULLY LANDSCAPED THE PROJECT WILL BE, WILL BE, AND THE POINTING TO THE ACCESSORY STRUCTURE IN THE SOUTH SIDE SETBACK.
UH, WE'RE PROPOSING A DENSE CRAB WOOD HEDGE.
THIS IS SMALLER LEAVES CLOSE TOGETHER, SO THAT'LL HELP MINIMIZE THE IMPACT OF THIS.
AND IT'S THE FULL DEPTH OF THE SETBACK.
UM, AND THEN THE OTHER SETBACKS ALSO HAVE DENSITY LANDSCAPES.
BUT I WANTED TO POINT OUT THE, THE CRAB CRAB WOOD HEDGE FOR YOU ALL.
THE PRACTICAL DIFFICULTY RELATES SPECIFICALLY TO THE ACCESSORY STRUCTURES LOCATION AND THE FACT THAT IT IS A ONE STORY WITH A ROOFTOP.
UM, THE CODE DOESN'T NECESSARILY SPEAK TO ACCESSORY STRUCTURES THAT ARE ACCESSORY STRUCTURES, THAT THEY HAVE REGULATIONS FOR ACCESSORY STRUCTURES THAT ARE TWO STORIES AND ACCESSORY STRUCTURES THAT ARE ONE STORY, NOT NECESSARILY A ONE STORY WITH A ROOFTOP, WHICH IS WHAT WE'RE PROPOSING.
UM, ALSO IF THIS ENTIRE ACCESSORY STRUCTURE WAS CRAMMED INTO THE REAR YARD, IT WOULD BE PERMITTED, UH, WITHOUT THAT ROOFTOP.
UH, JUST TO NOTE SOME ADDITIONAL JUSTIFICATIONS FOR OUR REQUESTS.
THIS IS A SUBSTANTIALLY OVERSIZED LOT.
UH, MOST LOTS IN THE RSS TWO MEET THE MINIMUM REQUIREMENT OF 18,000.
WE BELIEVE THAT THE ADDITIONAL LOT AREA PROVIDES RELIEF, UH, SO THAT THERE'S NOT AS MUCH IMPACT ON THE ABUTTING NEIGHBORS IN PINE TREE DRIVE.
ALSO, WE'VE EXCEEDED THE MINIMUM REQUIRED SETBACKS FOR THE MAIN HOME.
OUR PROPOSED FRONT SETBACK FOR THE, FOR THE SECOND LEVEL IS PROPOSED AT 98 FEET WHEN 40 FEET IS REQUIRED.
UM, AND, AND SAME WITH THE OTHER SETBACKS.
WE'RE EXCEEDING SIDE SETBACKS FOR EXCEEDING THE REAR SETBACK.
UH, WE ARE ALSO NOT MAXIMIZING THE SIZE OF THE HOME, ALTHOUGH THIS IS AN OVERSIZED LOT AND WE COULD PUT A MUCH LARGER HOUSE.
WE'RE BELOW ON LOT COVERAGE BELOW ON UNIT SIZE CONSIDERABLY.
UH, THERE'S NO ROOFTOP ACCESS TO THE MAIN HOME.
WE'RE NOT, WE'RE SEEKING THE TWO FEET.
UH, THERE'S NO ABUTTING SOUTH NEIGHBOR AND THE LOCATION OF THE ACCESSORY STRUCTURE KEEPS IT OPEN, UM, AND PRESERVES THE WATER VIEWS.
WE ALSO DID EXTENSIVE NEIGHBOR OUTREACH.
WE REACHED OUT TO THE NEIGHBORS THAT WOULD BE MOST IMPACTED BY THIS PROJECT.
AND MY COLLEAGUE, UH, ROBERT, PASSED OUT OUR LETTERS OF SUPPORT FOR THE NEIGHBORS OF THE NORTH, THE NEIGHBOR AND THE NEIGHBOR ACROSS THE STREET.
AND THAT CONCLUDES OUR PRESENTATION.
WE RESPECTFULLY RESERVE TIME FOR REBUTTAL.
IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS, OUR TEAM IS HERE IN PERSON AND ON ZOOM.
THANK, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THAT PRESENTATION.
UM, I'M GONNA GO AHEAD AND OPEN UP THE PUBLIC COMMENT.
UM, MR. MAD, DO I HAVE ANYBODY ON ZOOM? I SEE NO HANDS RAISED ON ZOOM.
NO ONE HERE IN THE, IN THE CHAMBERS.
WITH THAT BEING SAID, I'LL GO AHEAD AND CLOSE THE PUBLIC COMMENT AND I'LL OPEN UP THE QUESTIONS FROM, FROM MY BOARD THROUGH THE CHAIR.
ANY QUESTIONS? OKAY, MR. LER, IS IT POSSIBLE TO GONNA SLIDE BACK UP? OF COURSE, THE ONE ABOUT, UH, THE FREEBOARD 32 VERSUS 33 INCHES OR WHATEVER IT WAS, OF COURSE 20.
SORRY IF I DID MATH OUT LOUD
IT'S, YOU COULD BUILD AS OF RIGHT.
I'LL LET YOU ASK YOUR QUESTION BEFORE I ARE, ARE WE, IS, ARE WE TRADING OFF, ARE WE TRADING OFF THREE FEET OF FREEBOARD HERE IN ORDER TO ACCOMMODATE THIS SLAB? SO WE, WE COULD BUILD TO THE MAX FREEBOARD, BUT THAT WOULD JUST RESULT IN A HIGHER HOME.
SO THAT WOULD BE, AND I'LL, I'LL LET ANDRES DO THE, THE DIFFERENCE, BUT WE COULD DO 30 PLUS FIVE FEET AND THAT WOULD BE A 35 FOOT HOME AND WE WOULD STILL BE BEFORE YOU SEEKING A TWO FOOT VARIANCE.
BUT THAT THE SIDE WILL RAISE CONSIDERABLY TOO.
SO IT WILL LOOK LIKE THE HOUSE IS ON STILLS.
SO WE FEEL THAT THIS COMPROMISE WILL GIVE US A VERY NICE LOOKING HOUSE THAT IT DOESN'T EXCEED THE MAXIMUM HEIGHT THAT WILL BE ALLOWED IS, IS THERE A MINIMUM FREE
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BOARD REQUIREMENT? ONE, THE, THE CODE REQUIRES ONE FOOT.UM, HOWEVER, THE BUILDING DEPARTMENT IS CURRENTLY ENFORCING TWO FEET, UH, DUE TO A NEW REGULATION.
I BELIEVE THAT'S COMING FROM FEMA.
AND FREEBOARD IS TO HELP MITIGATE FLOODING ISSUES? CORRECT? IT'S, IT'S, UM, AN ALLOWANCE ABOVE THE BASE FLOOD ELEVATION THAT'S INTENDED TO, UM, MITIGATE AGAINST WAVE ACTION.
SO IF WE EVER HAD A STORM SURGE, THE BASE FLOOD ELEVATION IS INTENDED TO ADDRESS THE STORM SURGE.
THE FREEBOARD IS INTENDED TO ADDRESS ANY WAVES THAT HAPPEN ON TOP OF THE, OF THE, UH, STORM SURGE.
AND THIS PROPERTY IS ON THE WATER? IT IS ON THE, UH, INDIAN CREEK WATERWAY.
UM, I SAID COLLINS AND THEN I WAS JUST WONDERING ALSO ABOUT, UM, THE ACCESSORY STRUCTURE.
ARE TWO OF THE THREE VARIANCES RELATED TO THAT STRUCTURE? CORRECT.
AND THOSE ARE RELATED TO SETBACKS? CORRECT.
AND WHICH ARE ANY OF THOSE SETBACKS FROM THE WATER, THE VARIANCES? NO, WE COMPLY WITH THE REAR SETBACK.
THEY'RE BOTH IN REGARD TO THE SIDE, TO THE SIDE, THE SIDE, THE SOUTH SIDE.
AND IF YOU PUSHED IT O UH, FURTHER NORTH, THEN DO YOU RUN INTO ISSUES WITH THE CELL SETBACK? UH, THE, THE EAST SETBACK, THE REAR SETBACK.
THE SETBACK? WELL, IT IS, IT IS AN ANGLED REAR.
SO IT WOULD BE, WE WOULD HAVE TO MOVE IT NOT ONLY NORTH RIGHT, BUT ALSO WEST.
SO, SO BECAUSE OF THE ANGLE, YOU WOULD HAVE AN ISSUE IF YOU MOVED IT FURTHER NORTH? CORRECT.
I WOULD JUST ADD, IN MY OPINION, I THINK THERE IS A NEIGHBOR TO THE SOUTH.
I THINK IT'S THE PARK, RIGHT? YES.
AND THAT'S A NEIGHBOR IN A WAY.
UH, OTHER QUESTIONS? HEY, UH, I'VE GOT ONE.
CAN YOU PUT BACK UP THE SLIDE, UH, THAT HAD THE NEIGHBORS AND THE LETTERS OF SUPPORT.
I THINK YOU HAD A RED STAR NEXT TO THE LETTERS OF SUPPORT.
SO QUESTION THE NEIGHBOR DIRECTLY ACROSS, JUST TO THE SOUTH, UH, ACROSS THE STREET ON THE WEST SIDE.
UM, WHY IS THERE NOT A LETTER OF SUPPORT FROM THEM? IT WOULD SEEM LIKE THEY ARE THE ONES THAT REALLY WILL BE IMPACTED TOO.
'CAUSE IT'D BE DI DIRECTLY ACROSS THE STREET FROM THEM.
DID YOU, WERE THEY APPROACHED AND OR WHY DO WE NOT HAVE LETTERS OF SUPPORT FROM THEM? YES.
OUR, OUR OWNERS MET OWNERS REPRESENTATIVES WENT TO BOTH OF THOSE HOUSES.
UM, IF THEY WERE ABLE TO MEET WITH THEM, THEY MET WITH THEM AND SPOKE WITH THEM IF THEY WERE NOT HOME AT THE TIME.
UM, THEY LEFT THEM WITH LETTERS.
THEY ALSO RECEIVED, UM, MAILED NOTICE OF THIS APPLICATION.
I THINK IT'S NOT A MATTER OF LACK OF SUPPORT.
THEY RECEIVED PLENTY OF NOTICE.
WELL, I MEAN, I, I'LL POINT OUT TO YOU.
I MEAN, THERE IS, IF, YOU KNOW, OBVIOUSLY YOU GOT THE BIG TREES IN BETWEEN.
SO THE DIRECT IMPACT IS OBVIOUSLY TO, TO THE NORTH.
AND YOU'VE GOT THE PARK ON THE SOUTH.
BUT I I, WE ALWAYS WONDER, 'CAUSE TYPICALLY WHEN WE HAVE SOMETHING LIKE THIS, THEY COVER THEIR BASES AND THEY GET LOT OF SUPPORT FROM EVERYBODY IN THE SURROUNDING AREA.
SO TO ME, WHEN YOU SHOWED THAT SLIDE, THAT'S WHY IT KIND OF RAISED THE FLAG TO ME THAT, UM, YOU KNOW, SOMETIMES YOU CAN GET 'EM ALL.
SOMETIMES YOU CAN, BUT, UM, BUT THEY WON'T BE IMPACTED AS MUCH AS THE NEIGHBOR TO THE NORTH.
AND THAT HOUSE IS UNDER CONSTRUCTION.
I DID GO TO THE PROPERTY YESTERDAY, YOU KNOW, SO BETWEEN THE TWO HOUSES, UM, IT'S GONNA BE NICE AND, AND IT'S A BEAUTIFUL HOUSE.
SO, UM, I I, I DON'T SEE ANY ISSUES SUPPORTING.
SO ANY OTHER QUESTIONS? I BOARD'S QUIET JUST TO MR. AG.
CAN WE SPLIT THE VOTE? 'CAUSE I HAVE SPLIT VOTES ON THE VARIANCES.
CAN WE DO VARIANCE BY VARIANCE? UM, I'M NOT SURE.
PROCEDURALLY, UH, MR. BADDEN, CAN WE TAKE 'EM ONE AT A TIME? YOU CAN, YOU CAN MAKE A MOTION TO APPROVE VARIANCE.
YEAH, I, I DID WANNA POINT OUT BY THE WAY, IN, IN YOUR PACKAGE, UM, WHEN MR. MADDEN WAS DISCUSSING THE VARIANCES, HE WASN'T, HE DIDN'T DO THEM IN ORDER.
THAT'S IN YOUR PACKAGE, JUST SO YOU KNOW.
SO IF WE'RE GONNA DO THAT, I HAVE NO PROBLEM WITH THAT.
BUT, YOU KNOW, I'LL GO AHEAD AND DIRECT IT AND I'LL TAKE THEM ONE AT A TIME.
UM, 1, 2, 3 FROM YOUR PACKAGES.
WE'LL ACCOMMODATE YOU AND DO THAT, MS. N THANK YOU SO MUCH.
OKAY, SO LAST CHANCE FOR QUESTIONS.
OKAY, SO WITH THAT BEING SAID, UH, ARE THERE ANY, LET'S TAKE VARIANCE.
LET'S THE NUMBER ONE VARIANCE, UM, IN YOUR PACKAGE.
UH, AGAIN, I I'M NOT GONNA READ THE WHOLE VARIANCE.
UM, THIS ONE IS THE, UM, WE CAN CALL IT THE HEIGHT VARIANCE.
UH, ANY MOTIONS TO MOVE TO INCLUDE THE HEIGHT VARIANCE? OKAY, WE HAVE A MOTION BY MR. DAVIS ON VARIANCE NUMBER ONE.
UM, BUT IT DOES, THAT DOES PASS.
I GUESS WE CAN CALL THIS THE FIRST OF THE ACCESSORY STRUCTURE ENCROACHMENT VARIANCE.
DO I HAVE ANY MOTIONS TO MOVE THAT AND APPROVE THAT?
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I'LL MOVE IT.OPPOSED? OKAY, THAT PASSES UNANIMOUSLY.
LET'S GO ON TO VARIANCE NUMBER THREE.
AGAIN, ACCESSORY STRUCTURE ENCROACHMENT.
ANY MOTIONS TO APPROVE VARIANCE? NUMBER THREE, MOVE TO APPROVE VARIANCE NUMBER THREE.
MY AGENDA IS, GIMME ONE SECOND.
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SECOND AND FINAL NEW APPLICATION'S GONNA BE ZBA 24 DASH OH 1 71 8 2 14 STAR ISLAND DRIVE.ALRIGHT, I'LL ASK ALEJANDRO TO READ THE TITLE PLEASE.
THIS APPLICATION HAS BEEN FILED, UH, REQUESTING VARIANCES TO ELIMINATE THE LOT AGGREGATION REQUIREMENTS TO COMBINE THE FOUR CO CONTINUOUS LOTS TO REDUCE THE SUM OF THE SITE SETBACKS TO INCREASE THE ALLOWABLE HEIGHT, INCREASE THE HEIGHT OF ALLOWABLE HEIGHT, ENCROACHMENTS FOR MECHANICAL EQUIPMENT, SKYLIGHTS, AND CHIMNEY, INCREASE THE MAXIMUM PERMITTED WIDTH OF THE DRIVEWAYS, AND TO MAINTAIN THE CURRENT MAXIMUM ALLOWABLE YARD ELEVATIONS IN ORDER TO ALLOW FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW TWO STORY HOME.
OKAY, SO THIS IS, UM, A, AN AGGREGATION OF LOTS ON STAR ISLAND THERE.
IN THE RS ONE ZONING DISTRICT, THE AGGREGATION OF LOTS RESULTS IN 280,000 SQUARE FEET OR 6.43 ACRES, UH, AND A LOT WIDTH OF 700 FEET.
UM, THE, UH, THE APPLICANT, UH, IS PROPOSING A NEW HOME THAT HAS TWO ACCESSORY STRUCTURES.
UM, THE ACCESSORY STRUCTURES ARE ON THE SOUTH SIDE OF THE LOT.
THE APPLICANT IS PROPOSING EIGHT VARIANCES, AND I'LL GO THROUGH THEM.
UM, AND, AND HERE I'LL, I'LL, I'VE GIVEN EACH VARIANCE BECAUSE THERE ARE SO MANY IN NAMES SO THAT WE CAN REFER TO THEM, UH, BY A COMMON NAME.
UM, SO VARIANCE NUMBER ONE IS, UH, FOR THE ELIMINATION OF THE LOT AGGREGATION REQUIREMENTS.
IN ORDER TO COMBINE FOUR CONTINUOUS LOTS, THE CODE ALLOWS YOU TO AGGREGATE A MAXIMUM OF THREE LOTS.
UM, UM, TWO OF THEM YOU CAN DEVELOP ON AND ONE HAS TO REMAIN OPEN, OR THE EQUIVALENT OF ONE HAS TO REMAIN AS OPEN SPACE PER THE CODE REQUIREMENTS.
THE APPLICANT IS PROPOSING, UM, A VARIANCE OF THAT SECTION TO ALLOW THEM TO AGGREGATE FOUR LOTS.
UM, THE, THE, UH, THIS IS CONSISTENT WITH THE CHARACTER OF STAR ISLAND.
STAR ISLAND IS KNOWN FOR, FOR LARGEST STATE LOTS.
UM, AND THERE IS AN AGGREGATION TO THE NORTH OF THIS SITE THAT IS, UM, AN, AN AN AGGREGATION OF EVEN MORE LOTS THAN THIS.
UM, SO IT IS COMPATIBLE WITH THE CONTEXT.
AND THIS DOES, THIS LIMIT DOES PRESENT A PRACTICAL DIFFICULTY FOR THE APPLICANT, UM, GIVEN THAT STAR ISLAND IS KNOWN FOR, FOR PARTICULARLY LARGE LOTS.
UH, THE SECOND VARIANCE IS KNOWN AS THE SUM OF THE SIDES VARIANCES.
UM, THIS IS RELATED TO, AGAIN, ACCESSORY STRUCTURES SIMILAR TO THE LAST VARIANCE.
THE MAIN HOME, IF IN IT IN AND OF ITSELF WOULD COMPLY WITH THE SUM OF THE SIDE YARD SETBACKS.
BUT IF YOU, IF YOU ADD IN THE ACCESSORY STRUCTURES, WHICH ARE ON THE SOUTH OF THE PROPERTY, UM, THAT CAUSES THEM TO NOT, UM, COMPLY WITH THE SUM OF THE SIDE YARD SETBACKS.
UM, THE NEXT VARIANCE IS A HEIGHT VARIANCE.
THE APPLICANT IS REQUESTING AN ADDITIONAL THREE FEET IN HEIGHT FOR THE MAIN STRUCTURE.
AGAIN, SIMILAR TO THE LAST APPLICATION, THEY'RE ONLY USING A FREE BOARD OF TWO.
UM, AND SO THEY ARE REQUESTING THE ADDITIONAL HEIGHT, UM, IN ORDER TO ACCOMMODATE APPROPRIATE FLOOR TO CEILING HEIGHTS AND ACCOMMODATE, UM, THE, THE SIGNIFICANT MECHANICAL AND ROOF EQUIPMENT AND INSULATION THAT THEY'RE, THAT THEY'RE REQUIRED TO PROVIDE.
THERE ARE SIGNIFICANT NEEDS FOR, FOR MECHANICAL EQUIPMENT ON THE ROOFTOP, UM, AND OTHER EQUIPMENT ON THE ROOFTOP.
UM, THAT, THAT, UH, DOES PRESENT A, A HARDSHIP TO THE APPLICANT THAT THAT HEIGHT LIMIT DOES PRESENT A HARDSHIP TO THE APPLICANT.
THEY'RE STILL NOT TAKING ADVANTAGE OF THE FULL THREE FEET OF FREEBOARD.
SO ESSENTIALLY, UM, THE HEIGHT OF THE HOME IS WHAT YOU COULD BUILD AS OF RIGHT, UM, FOR A, FOR A SINGLE FAMILY HOME.
UM, THE NEXT, UH, NEXT VARIANCE IS HEIGHT EXCEPTION VARIANCE NUMBER ONE.
THIS IS FOR MECHANICAL EQUIPMENT RANGING FROM SEVEN TO EIGHT FEET ABOVE THE POINT AT WHICH THEY EMERGED FROM THE ROOF, WHERE THE CODE PERMITS YOU TO HAVE FIVE FEET, AGAIN, SIMILAR TO WHAT I JUST DESCRIBED, THEY HAVE SIGNIFICANT MECHANICAL EQUIPMENT THAT, THAT NEEDS MORE HEIGHT THAN WHAT YOU WOULD HAVE ON A TYPICAL HOME.
UM, THE NEXT VARIANCE IS, UH, HEIGHT EXCEPTION VARIANCE NUMBER TWO, THIS IS FOR SKYLIGHTS.
BECAUSE OF THE MECHANICAL EQUIPMENT AND THE SCREENING REQUIRED FOR THE MECHANICAL EQUIPMENT, THE SKYLIGHTS NEED TO BE A LITTLE BIT HIGHER SO THAT THEY DON'T HAVE VIEWS OF
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THE MECHANICAL EQUIPMENT.UM, SO THAT'S WHY THEY'RE REQUESTING A VARIANCE TO ALLOW THOSE SKYLIGHTS TO, TO, UM, TO BE UP TO SEVEN FEET IN HEIGHT AS OPPOSED TO THE FIVE FEET, WHICH THE CODE PROVIDES FOR, UH, VARIANCE.
THE, THE SIXTH VARIANCE, WE CALL IT HEIGHT EXCEPTION VARIANCE NUMBER THREE IS FOR THE CHIMNEY.
UH, THE CODE PROVIDES A, A LIMIT OF FIVE FEET FOR A HEIGHT EXCEPTION FOR A CHIMNEY, THEY'RE REQUESTING EIGHT FEET.
THAT IS SO THAT THE CHIMNEY CAN GO ABOVE THE LEVEL OF THE, OF THE SCREENING OF THE ROOF.
UM, UM, SO STAFF IS SUPPORTIVE OF THAT VARIANCE.
UM, THE NEXT VARIANCE, UH, VARIANCE NUMBER SEVEN, WE'RE GONNA CALL IT THE DRIVEWAY VARIANCE.
IT'S TO ALLOW FOR A DRIVEWAY WITH A, WITH A WIDTH OF 25 FEET WHERE THE CODE HAS A MAXIMUM ALLOWANCE OF 18 FEET.
THIS IS A PRACTICAL DIFFICULTY GIVEN THE SCALE OF THE HOME.
UM, IT, IT DOES, THE ARCHITECTURAL STYLE DOES MERIT HAVING LARGER DRIVEWAYS AS THE MAIN ENTRANCE.
THE PROPERTY OVERALL HAS FOUR DRIVEWAYS.
THE TWO DRIVEWAYS ON THE EDGE, UH, ON THE NORTH AND THE SOUTH EDGE OF THE PROPERTY DO COMPLY WITH THAT 18 FOOT LIMIT.
UM, THE LOT AS A WHOLE DOES NOT EXCEED THE ALLOWANCE FOR DRIVEWAYS.
IT, IT COMPLIES WITH ALL THE OTHER REQUIREMENTS THAT WE HAVE FOR DRIVEWAYS.
SO THIS IS JUST TO ALLOW 'EM TO BE A LITTLE BIT WIDER, UM, THROUGH THE FRONT SETBACK AREA.
THE, THE LAST VARIANCE IS THE MINIMUM YARD ELEVATION VARIANCE.
THIS IS A, A PREEMPTIVE VARIANCE.
UM, WE WERE DISCUSSING THE BASE FLOOD ELEVATION.
FEMA IS EXPECTED TO ACTUALLY LOWER THE BASE FLOOD ELEVATION ON SEVERAL OF THE, UH, ISLANDS IN BISCAYNE BAY.
THEY'RE EXPECTED TO RAISE IT THROUGHOUT MOST OF THE MAIN PART OF MIAMI BEACH, BUT ON, ON THE ISLANDS OF, OF BISCAYNE BAY.
FOR WHATEVER REASON, FEMA IS EXPECTING TO LOWER IT.
I GUESS THEY'RE IN THEIR MODELING.
THE STORM SURGES ARE NOT IMPACTING THOSE ISLANDS AS MUCH AS THEY HAD PREVIOUSLY FORECASTED.
SO IF FEMA LOWERS THE BASE FLOOD ELEVATION, THAT WOULD LOWER THE MAXIMUM YARD ELEVATION THAT THEY WOULD BE ALLOWED TO BUILD AT.
UM, AND THAT WOULD, THAT WOULD PRESENT A, A HARDSHIP TO THEM IF THEY HAD TO LOWER THEIR, THEIR, UM, THEIR MAXIMUM ELEVATION, UM, BASED ON, BASED ON THAT CODE REQUIREMENT.
SO THIS IS A PREEMPTIVE VARIANCE IN THE EVENT THAT FEMA LOWERS THE BASED FLOOD ELEVATION FOR THIS PROPERTY, THAT THEY WOULD BE ALLOWED TO KEEP THEIR YARD AT THE SAME ELEVATION THAT YOU CAN BUILD AT TODAY.
SO IT'S A, IT, IT'S, IT'S A INTERESTING VARIANCE.
IT'S AN INTERESTING ISSUE THAT WE'RE GONNA FACE ON SOME OF THESE BARRIER ISLANDS.
I'M NOT SURE WHY FEMA IS, IS, IS DOING THIS.
I'M SURE THEY'RE MODELING HAS SHOWN SOMETHING THAT, THAT, THAT WE'RE NOT AWARE OF.
BUT, UM, BUT THAT'S, THAT'S WHAT WE EXPECT WITH OUR, WITH OUR, UH, DRAFT MAPS.
UM, SO THOSE ARE, THOSE ARE THE VARIANCES.
STAFF IS SUPPORTIVE OF THE VARIANCES.
UM, THE APPLICANT'S GONNA BE PROVIDING A, A, A, A VERY, UH, VERY GOOD PRESENTATION THAT YOU'LL SEE, YOU'LL SEE MORE DETAIL AS TO WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT.
UM, AND STAFF RECOMMENDS THAT THE VARIANCES BE APPROVED SUBJECT TO THE CONDITIONS IN THE DRAFT ORDER.
THANK, THANK YOU SO MUCH MR. MADDEN.
UM, ARE THERE ANY DISCLOSURES ON THE DAS? OKAY, UM, NORMALLY WE SET A 10 MINUTE TIME LIMIT WITH THE NUMBER OF VARIANCES, UM, AND THE EXTENT OF THIS PROJECT.
I, I'M WILLING AS CHAIR TO, TO STRETCH THAT OUT.
UM, IF IT WORKS FOR YOU, MR. AMSTER, MR. LARKIN, 15 MINUTES TO START AND IF YOU NEED MORE, WE'LL, WE'LL TAKE IT FROM THAT.
SO I'M GONNA GO AHEAD AND HAND IT OVER TO YOU GENTLEMEN.
THANK YOU MR. CHAIRMAN, BOARD MEMBER STAFF MICHAEL LARKIN, SOUTH BISCAY BOULEVARD HERE REPRESENTING THE APPLICANT, WHICH AS YOU ALL MAY HAVE HEARD IS KEN GRIFFIN.
I'M JOINED BY KAY CARTER FROM KEN GRIFFIN'S TEAM.
WE ALSO HAVE AN AMAZING DESIGN TEAM FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION TODAY, WE HAVE JOSEPH DURAN OF JOSEPH DURAN ARCHITECTURE, OUR LOCAL ARCHITECT WHO I WORK WITH OVER 20 YEARS.
JENNIFER MCCONNEY GSO FROM STUDIO MCG AND CRAIG GREENBERG AND CRAIG GREENBERG ARCHITECTURE.
OUR LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE TEAM IS EQUALLY AS FANTASTIC.
WE HAVE WIRTZ INTERNATIONAL LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTS FROM BELGIUM, AND OUR OWN LOCAL LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT, CHRIS CALLIE, MY PARTNER MATT AMSTER AND COLLEAGUE ROB ALVAREZ, OUR ASSISTING ME TODAY.
AND WE HAVE ANOTHER MEMBER OF THE TEAM, THE MODEL PLUS THE VIRTUAL REALITY GOGGLES THAT ARE FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION AND USE THROUGHOUT THE PRESENTATION.
WHEN YOU WOULD LIKE TO HAVE A VR LOOK AT THIS, I THINK IT'S WONDERFUL THAT KEN GRIFFIN HAS CHOSEN MIAMI BEACH AS HIS HOME IS THIS FOREVER HOME.
THIS IS HIS FAMILY HOME AND HE'S SO EXCITED TO BE HERE.
HE'S COMMITTED TO THIS COMMUNITY, BUT HE COULD NOT BE HERE TODAY.
BUT CASON CARTER IS HERE TO OFFER A FEW BRIEF REMARKS ABOUT KEN, HIS PAST AND WHERE HE WANTS TO GO IN THE FUTURE.
SO WITH THAT, I'D TURN OVER TO CASON, HAVE HIM GO THROUGH SOME SLIDES, AND IF YOU COULD PLEASE PULL UP THE PRESENTATION.
AND ALSO, CASEON ARRIVED A LITTLE LATE.
DO YOU SWEAR OR AFFIRM THAT THE TESTIMONY THAT YOU'LL BE GIVING IN THIS PROCEEDING IS THE TRUTH, THE WHOLE TRUTH, AND NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH? I DO.
UM, I'M A FORMER CITY COUNSELOR.
MY WIFE HAS SERVED ON A PLANNING COMMISSION, SO APPRECIATE YOUR SERVICE AND, AND YOUR
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TIME.I'M HERE ON BEHALF OF KEN GRIFFIN TODAY.
HE SPENT HIS FORMATIVE YEARS IN BOCA RATON AND, UH, ATTENDED PUBLIC HIGH SCHOOL THERE.
HE RELOCATED TO MIAMI IN 2022, AND HE IS VERY PROUD TO BE, UH, A PART OF THIS COMMUNITY.
AND, UH, AND HE'S DEEPLY COMMITTED TO THE COMMUNITY.
HE'S THE FOUNDER AND CEO OF CITADEL, UH, WHICH IS ONE OF THE MORE SUCCESSFUL HEDGE FUNDS IN THE WORLD.
AND ALSO THE FOUNDER AND NON-EXECUTIVE CHAIRMAN OF CITADEL SECURITIES, A GLOBAL MARKET MAKER AND ONE OF THE WORLD'S LARGEST LIQUIDITY PROVIDERS.
HE'S ALSO A PASSIONATE PHILANTHROPIST, UM, E EVEN, UH, TO DATE, HE'S GIVEN OVER $2 BILLION TO CAUSES INCLUDING, UH, EDUCATION, UH, DRIVING OPPORTUNITY FOR OTHERS, UM, SCIENCE AND MEDICINE, AND A DEEP COMMITMENT TO THE COMMUNITIES THAT HE CARES ABOUT, INCLUDING SPECIFICALLY THIS REGION OF SOUTH FLORIDA.
UH, WE'RE CURRENTLY BUILDING, UH, HEADQUARTERS FOR CITADEL AND CITADEL SECURITIES IN BRICKELL, UM, WHICH WILL BE, UH, AN OVER BILLION DOLLAR BUILDING, UM, INCLUDING A HOTEL AND LOTS OF AMENITIES, UM, FOR THE LOCAL COMMUNITY.
UM, IN FLORIDA, HE JUMPED RIGHT IN.
IN TERMS OF HIS COMMITMENT TO COMMUNITY.
UH, HE'S FUNDED INITIATIVES SUCH AS, UH, THE, UH, SYLVESTER COMPREHENSIVE CANCER CENTER, UM, A NEUROSCIENCE INSTITUTE AT BAPTIST HEALTH, UH, A SURGICAL TOWER AT NICHOLAS CHILDREN'S.
AND, UH, MANY EDUCATION INITIATIVES AS WELL, INCLUDING A SCHOLARSHIP FUND AT MIAMI DADE COLLEGE FOR OVER 8,000 STUDENTS.
AND HE'S BEEN VERY ACTIVE IN MIAMI SCHOOLS AND WILL CONTINUE TO BE IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS AND CHARTER SCHOOLS AND IN, UH, PRIVATE SCHOOLS.
UH, HE BELIEVES THAT EACH CHILD SHOULD HAVE AN ACCESS TO A HIGH QUALITY EDUCATION, AND THAT WILL BE A BIG FOCUS OF HIS FOR YEARS TO COME.
UM, HE'LL ALSO SUPPORT CULTURAL INSTITUTIONS AROUND THE COMMUNITY AND OTHER COMMUNITY INITIATIVES SUCH AS THE UNDERLYING, THE PEREZ ART MUSEUM, THE FROST MUSEUM, AND, UH, REGIONAL TECH INITIATIVES FOR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT.
SO, NEEDLESS TO SAY, HE'S QUITE COMMITTED TO THE REGION.
HE'S VERY PROUD TO BE HERE, AND THIS, AGAIN, IS AN APPLICATION FOR HIS PERSONAL FAMILY HOME.
SO I'LL LET THE DISCUSSION CENTER ON THAT.
UH, AGAIN, MATT AMSTER, UH, ALSO WITH THE FIRM OF BURKE, HOWARD DEL FERNANDEZ.
LARKIN AND TAPS OFFICES AT 200 SOUTH BISCAYNE BOULEVARD, UH, IN MIAMI.
UM, I THINK EVERYONE'S AWARE, BUT HERE'S, YOU KNOW, STAR ISLAND.
UM, IT HAS, UH, VERY LARGE, UH, SINGLE FAMILY HOME LOTS, UH, AND IT'S SORT OF AN ENCLAVE ALL TO IT ITSELF.
UH, THE ZONING, YOU KNOW, IS BASICALLY, UH, ENTIRELY THIS, UM, RS ONE FOR THESE LARGER SINGLE FAMILY HOMES.
THIS ZONING IS ACTUALLY QUITE UNIQUE IN THE CITY.
IT'S ONLY LOCATED IN THREE PLACES, OBVIOUSLY, STAR ISLAND BEING ONE, UH, THE EASTERN HALF OF PALM ISLAND, UH, WHICH IS UP AT THE TOP LEFT.
AND THEN ON THE RIGHT YOU CAN SEE THAT THERE'S A SMALL AREA ON PINE TREE DRIVE, INTERESTINGLY ENOUGH, UH, RIGHT IN THE LOCATION WHERE THE APPLICATION BEFORE US WAS HEARD, THAT IS IN RS TWO.
UH, BUT THESE ARE, UM, VERY SMALL SEGREGATED, UH, UNIQUE AREAS.
UM, THIS IS THE PLACE WHERE HOMES CAN BE DISTINCTIVE AND, UH, HAVE INNOVATIVE DESIGNS.
UH, HERE'S NOW THE PROPERTY ITSELF, LOOKING FROM THE WATER, SAME VIEW YOU HAVE OF THE MODEL.
UH, WE HAVE AN ASSEMBLAGE OF FOUR PARCELS, UH, THAT ARE, UM, UH, YOU CAN SEE THE SEPARATION HERE ON THIS, UH, DIAGRAM.
UM, THERE'S A HISTORIC DEVELOPMENT PATTERN WHERE THERE WERE MULTIPLE LOTS, UM, THAT WERE DEVELOPED FOR MANY, MANY YEARS.
AND SO THAT PATTERN IS MIMICKED IN OUR, UH, ASSEMBLAGE.
AND THAT'S WHERE WE HAVE, UH, FOUR LOTS.
UH, I'M GONNA CALL UP CRAIG GREENBERG NOW, UH, TO WALK YOU THROUGH THE DESIGN.
UH, MY NAME IS CRAIG GREENBERG.
UH, MY OFFICE IS LOCATED IN NEW YORK CITY AT TWO 10 11TH AVENUE.
UH, ALTHOUGH I HAVE LIVED IN NEW YORK FOR MORE THAN 30 YEARS, I WAS RAISED IN MIAMI, AND I'M A GRADUATE OF RANSOM GLS AND THEN CORNELL.
UH, I'M KEN'S PERSONAL ARCHITECT FOR HIS AND HIS MOM'S RESIDENCES FOR KEN HERE ON STAR ISLAND AND FOR HIS MOM IN PALM BEACH.
WE, IT'S BEEN ALLUDED TO, WE'VE, UH, WE'VE ASSEMBLED AN AMAZING TEAM OF DESIGNERS AND ENGINEERS FOR THIS PROJECT, UM, STARTING WITH JOSEPH DURAN OF PARIS.
HE'S OUR ARCHITECT AND DESIGNER, AND HE'S DESIGNED AMAZING HOMES THROUGHOUT THE WORLD, INCLUDING IN SOUTH FLORIDA, INCLUDING, UH, SURF CLUB FOUR SEASONS.
UH, KEN ASKED ME TO FOCUS THE TEAM ON THE DESIGN AND ENGINEERING OF THIS PROJECT WITH THE GUIDING, UH, PRINCIPLE THAT THIS IS HIS HOME.
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THIS IS HIS FOREVER HOME.UM, SO HERE, YEAH, LET'S, HERE'S A VISUAL OF THE OVERALL HOUSE.
UM, AND I'M GONNA START BY FOCUSING ON THE ROOF, WHICH I THINK MICHAEL MENTIONED AT THE BEGINNING, UM, WHERE LIO DID RELATIVE TO THE VARIANCES.
UM, THE, THE DICTATE FROM CAN WAS THAT THIS WAS A, WAS TO BE COMPLETELY INTEGRATED HOME, NO SURFACE LEFT BEHIND, UM, INCLUDING THE ROOF, UH, WHICH WE CALLED THE FIFTH FACADE.
SO, UM, BECAUSE OF, BECAUSE OF ALL THE MECHANICAL EQUIPMENT THAT WAS NEEDED, WE, AND THE, THE, THE CONSTRAINTS OF THE SITE, WE, WE ENGINEERED THE ROOF TO HOLD ALL THAT EQUIPMENT AND SKYLIGHTS, BUT TO BE INVISIBLE TO ANYBODY EITHER FROM BELOW OR ABOVE, WHICH WE THOUGHT WAS VERY IMPORTANT AND, AND PRETTY COOL.
UM, SO WE'RE GONNA GET, JENNIFER WILL GET MORE INTO THE DETAILS OF THE ROOF AND HOW THAT HAPPENS, BUT THAT WAS A BIG IMPETUS FOR THE DESIGN.
AND ALSO PART OF THAT, AND PART OF THE INTEGRATION OF THE HORIZONTAL AND THE HEIGHT OF THE BUILDING WAS THAT WE'RE NOT BRINGING, WE'RE WE, WE COULD, BUT WE'RE NOT BRINGING ELEVATORS TO THE, TO THE ROOF, NOR ARE WE, UH, DESIGNING OR CONTEMPLATING ANY ROOFTOP TERRACES.
SO THAT KEEPS EVERYTHING AT THE SAME LEVEL.
UM, NEXT, UH, THIS IS THE MAIN ENTRANCE OF THE HOUSE.
UM, YOU'LL SEE THE UNDERSIDE OF THAT ROOF EDGE, UM, AND THE BALCONY EDGE HAVE A VERY SOFT, UH, FORM.
UM, AND, AND AS WE GO THROUGH THE DESIGN OF THE HOUSE, YOU'LL SEE HOW THAT WRAPS AROUND THE HOUSE AND TIES THE WHOLE THING, UH, TOGETHER HORIZONTALLY AND COMPLETELY CONCEALS WHAT'S GOING ON ABOVE FROM ALL VIEWS, UH, WE WANTED, UH, THE LANDSCAPE DESIGN TO BE INTEGRAL WITH THE ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN, AND HOPEFULLY YOU'LL SEE THAT IN THE A, A PRESENTATION.
A A QUICK NOTE ON THE MATERIALITY, BECAUSE ONE OF THE ITEMS I WANNA RAISE IS HOW MUCH ENGINEERING WENT INTO THIS DESIGN WORK, UM, BEFORE WE GOT HERE, WHICH WE'RE VERY EXCITED TO, TO BE HERE FINALLY.
UH, BUT WE'RE, UH, WORKING WITH ENGINEERS USING A, TO USE A MATERIAL CALLED UHPC, ULTRA HIGH STRENGTH PERFORMANCE CONCRETE, WHICH WOULD BE USED TO MAKE ALL THESE CURVE SHAPES COME IN, IN EIGHT TO 10 FOOT SECTIONS, ASSEMBLED ON SITE, TIED TOGETHER, SEAMED IN PLACE, AND THEN MONOLITHIC, NO JOINTS, NO SEAMS, WHICH IS SOMETHING THAT ALL ARCHITECTS SORT OF DREAM OF.
UM, AND WE THINK WE HAVE A WAY TO ACHIEVE THAT, UH, NEXT, UH, PROCESS.
SO THIS IS A, THIS IS AN UNPRECEDENTED PROCESS I COULD FAIRLY SAY SAFELY SAY THAT WE WENT THROUGH IN THE DESIGN OF THIS.
AND, AND THAT'S WHY THE TEAM MENTIONED THE VR GOGGLES.
SO WE PRINTED OUT THE HOUSE DURING THE DESIGN THREE TIMES AT FULL SCALE, ONE-TO-ONE, UM, UM, AND PLACED IT IN THESE W UH, AIR HANGERS OUTSIDE OF LONDON.
AND, AND SO YOU COULD WALK THE FLOOR PLAN, BUT NOT ONLY WALK THE FLOOR PLAN, BUT WE COMMISSIONED VR TO GO WITH THE FLOOR PLAN.
SO AS YOU WALK, YOU SEE THE HOUSE, YOU LOOK AROUND, UM, AND THAT WAS INSTRUMENTAL BOTH FOR JOSEPH YOU SEE ON THE LEFT AND KEN ON THE LOWER RIGHT, UM, WHO, WHO PUT A LOT OF TIME INTO SAYING, YES, THIS WORKS, IT DOESN'T WORK, IT MEETS THE, THE CRITERIA YOU GAVE US.
AND, AND IT'S NEVER BEEN DONE AT THE SCALE AND CERTAINLY NOT THREE TIMES.
UM, YEAH, YOU COULD GO TO THE NEXT, UM, SITE PLAN.
ANOTHER IMPORTANT CONCEPT OF THE HOUSE WAS, UH, BUILDING IN A PARK.
UM, WE DID NOT WANT TO CROWD THIS HOUSE IN ANY WAY.
WE WANTED IT TO BREATHE, UM, THE SETBACKS OR NO LESS THAN 70 FEET AT ANY POINT, AND IN MOST CASES MORE OVER 125 FEET.
UM, YOU'LL SEE THAT IN THE VIDEO THAT WE SHOW AT THE END OF THE PRESENTATION AND SOME OF THE RENDERINGS.
BUT SPACE FOR THE HOUSE TO BREATHE, BOTH FROM THE INSIDE AND FROM THE OUTSIDE, WAS, WAS VERY IMPORTANT FOR KEN AND FOR THE DESIGN TEAM, UH, THAT THOSE BIG SETBACKS AND THE LANDSCAPE DESIGN ALLOWED THE IMPACT FROM THE STREET TO BE VERY MINIMAL.
THESE ARE VIEWS OF THE FRONT ENTRANCE.
THE HOUSE IS VERY FAR SET BACK.
THE LANDSCAPE WILL BE EXTENSIVE.
SO IT'S ALL ABOUT GLIMPSES THAT YOU GET TO THE HOUSE AND SO THAT IT LOOKS LIKE A, A HOUSE.
UM, THERE'S A FAMILY SIDE AND A AND A MORE PUBLIC SIDE.
YOU SEE THE CONTINUITY OF THE ROOFS THERE.
AND, AND THAT, UM, UHPC MATERIAL THAT I WAS TALKING ABOUT AND THE TIE IN AND NO POSSIBILITY OF SEEING ANY MECHANICAL, BOTH BECAUSE
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OF THE SIGHT LINES AND BECAUSE OF THE SHROUD ON TOP OF THE ROOF, UH, THE WATER SIDE.UM, SIMILARLY OR HEAR MORE STRONGLY THE CONTINUITY OF THE ROOF AND THE BALCONIES, YOU'LL SEE IN THE VIDEO ALSO, THE, THE RHYTHM OF THE BALCONIES ON THE FIRST FLOOR PURPOSEFUL TO, TO, UM, ADD A RHYTHM TO THE LENGTH OF THE FACADE AND TO GIVE ITS SCALE.
UM, AND WE THINK THAT IT WORKS REALLY WELL AND SOFTENS THE ARCHITECTURE.
UM, AND THEN A VIEW LOOKING TO THE SOUTH ACROSS THE MAIN POOL AND A VIEW, LOOKING FROM THE 70 FOOT SETBACK TO THE NORTH END OF THE HOUSE, YOU COULD SEE HOW WE'RE, WE'RE AT 70 FEET RIGHT HERE, SO THE HOUSE STILL HAS A FAR WAY TO GO BEFORE YOU SEE IT.
AND, AND THE SAME IDEA ABOUT THE ROOF.
YOU DON'T SEE ANYTHING FROM ANYWHERE ABOVE THE ROOF AT THE FAMILY ENTRANCE.
UM, MATERIALS I TALKED ABOUT UHPC, SO IT COMES IN SECTIONS, IT GETS SEAMED, IT GETS ADJUSTED AND SEAMED IN PLACE.
AND THEN MONOLITH, UH, COATING IN A VERY SOFT PLASTER FINISH.
ALL THE VERTICAL SURFACES ARE TRAVERTINE OR WILL BE TRAVERTINE.
THERE'S SAMPLES OVER THERE FOR YOU TO HAVE A LOOK AT.
UM, I SHOULD TALK ABOUT THE GLASS A LITTLE BIT.
AND, UH, FOR KEN'S MOM'S HOUSE IN PALM BEACH, WE WORKED WITH A GERMAN COMPANY CALLED CA.
THEY OWN A GLASS COMPANY CALLED C DECK.
EVERY WINDOW IS, UH, INDIVIDUALLY TESTED, THE WINDOWS MOVE.
UM, IT'S JUST AN AMAZING ENGINEERING PROCESS.
UH, THE MULIAN ARE AMAZINGLY THIN.
YOU KNOW, IN, IN MIAMI YOU GENERALLY SEE, OR ANYWHERE IN THE SOUTH, SOUTH FAR YOU SEE VERY WIDE S THESE ARE THIN, SOLID STEEL, UM, AND, AND, AND QUIET AND FAST, AND THEN THE SHROUD MATERIAL.
AND WE HAVE SAMPLES OF THAT TO LOOK AT ALSO.
AND NOW I'M GONNA HAVE JENNIFER JOIN US.
UH, I'M WITH STUDIO MCG ARCHITECTURE OFFICES AT 2 3 0, UH, NORTHEAST 97TH STREET IN MIAMI SHORES.
UM, WE'VE PROVIDED SEVERAL DESIGN COMPONENTS, UH, OF THE PROJECT THAT MEET AND BEAT WHAT'S REQUIRED BY CODE IN, IN TERMS OF RESILIENCY AND SUSTAINABILITY.
WE'VE PROVIDED FOUR 50,000 GALLON CISTERNS THAT ARE BURIED BELOW GRADE THAT CAPTURE A TOTAL OF 200,000 GALLONS OF RAINWATER FROM THE LAND AND THE ROOF FOR IRRIGATION.
WE CURRENTLY HAVE PERMITS FOR A 700 FOOT LINEAR SEA WALL THAT WE'RE RAISING FROM FIVE FEET AND GBD TO 7.5 AND GBD.
ALSO, THE MECHANICAL SYSTEMS ARE RAISED UP TO THE ROOF TO PROTECT THE RESIDENTS FROM FLOODWATERS.
WE'VE ALSO PROVIDED 129,000 SQUARE FEET OF PERVIOUS GREEN SPACE ON THE LAND, WHICH MEANS ALMOST HALF OF THE SITE IS PERVIOUS.
THE LAND HAS ALSO BEEN RAISED 5, 3 5 FEET THROUGHOUT THE PROPERTY, WHICH ALLOWS FOR MORE RAINWATER STORAGE AND PROTECTS THE RESIDENTS FROM POTENTIAL FLOOD WATERS.
ALSO, ALL THE MECHANICAL EQUIPMENT.
PUT ANOTHER, PUT ANOTHER 10 MINUTES PLEASE.
ALSO, ALL THE MECHANICAL EQUIPMENT IN THE PROJECT WILL BE COMMISSIONED.
WHAT THAT MEANS IS AN ENGINEER WILL ENSURE THAT ALL THE SYSTEMS AND COMPONENTS ARE INSTALLED, TESTED, OPERATED, AND MAINTAINED IN THE MOST EFFICIENT MANNER, MAN MANNER, WHICH WILL THEREFORE REDUCE ENERGY CONSUMPTION.
AND I'M GONNA TURN IT OVER TO MATT TO DISCUSS THE VARIANCES.
SO I KNOW ROGELIO DID A GREAT JOB OF, UH, EXPLAINING OUR VARIANCES.
I'LL, I'LL ADD TO THAT, UH, IN A AS QUICK A FASHION AS POSSIBLE, UH, WE HAVE A FOUR PARCEL DEVELOPMENT TO ACHIEVE THAT.
UH, IT'S IMPORTANT TO NOTE THAT THE CODE HAS A PREFERENCE FOR NO MORE THAN THREE.
UM, HOWEVER, THERE IS AN INTENT BEHIND THAT CODE.
UH, IT'S TO MAKE SURE THAT, UH, THE PROPER, THE BUILDING ITSELF IS CENTRALLY LOCATED AND IT DOES NOT IMPOSE ON THE NEIGHBORS AND ALLOWS FOR PRIVACY.
AND WE HAVE GENEROUS SETBACKS ALL AROUND, NOT JUST TO THE NORTH AND SOUTH WHERE WE HAVE OUR CLOSEST NEIGHBORS, BUT EVEN AT THE FRONT.
UH, THIS IS ALSO STAR ISLAND HAS THE LARGEST LOTS TO BEGIN WITH.
MANY OF THE DEVELOPMENTS ARE ALSO, UH, EITHER DOUBLE OR MULTIPLE LOTS.
UH, AND IN FACT, UH, THE FROST, UH, RESIDENTS, UH, TO THE NORTH OF US OF A IS OF A SIMILAR SIZE.
UH, TO LOOK AT THIS DIFFERENTLY AT THE TOP IS JUST A, UH, A POSSIBLE ALTERNATIVE.
UH, WE COULD DEVELOP THESE FOUR PARCELS SEPARATELY, YOU KNOW, EACH AT THE MAXIMUM 50% UNIT SIZE.
UH, YOU CAN SEE THAT THERE'S A LOT MORE MASSING, ESPECIALLY TO THE NEIGHBORS, YOU KNOW, AT THE SOUTH AND AT THE NORTH.
WHEREAS OUR PROPOSAL DOWN HERE, THIS IS THAT
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70 FOOT SETBACK, UM, WHERE NO STRUCTURE, UH, IS IMPEDING THE PRIVACY FOR THE NEIGHBORS.AND THEY HAVE THE SAME 70 FOOT SETBACK IN THE NORTH.
UH, AND IN FACT, THOSE TWO ACCESSORY STRUCTURES IN THE NORTH ALSO FURTHER BREAK UP.
YOU KNOW, THE IMPACT OF THIS HOME ON THIS ASSEMBLAGE.
UH, AND PART OF THAT FEEDS INTO OUR NEXT VARIANCE ABOUT THE SUM OF THE SIDES.
UH, THE 70 FEET THAT WE KEEP TALKING ABOUT, WHICH IS THE PURPLE, UM, ON THE BOTH SOUTH AND NORTH SIDES IS THE MINIMUM REQUIRED SIDE SETBACKS.
AND SO WE MEET THAT COMPLETELY.
UH, THE CODE THOUGH ALSO, UM, REQUIRES, UH, A BIT MORE, 5% MORE FOR WHAT'S CALLED THE SUM OF THE SIDES.
UM, THAT ACTUALLY TOOK, THAT WAS A ROLE IN A MINIMUM FASHION ON THE PRIOR APPLICATION FOR THAT ACCESSORY STRUCTURE.
SO HERE THOUGH, UH, PROVIDING THAT EXTRA 5% IS THE AREA SHOWN IN RED, UH, AT THE NORTH SIDE.
THAT WOULD MEAN THAT WE HAVE TO, UM, HAVE A SETBACK OF 105 FEET.
THAT'S NOTABLE THAT A SINGLE LOT ON STAR ISLAND IS A HUNDRED FEET.
SO THAT WOULD BE A SETBACK TO NOT DEVELOP ON A ENTIRE LOT.
AND FOR, UM, COMPARISON PURPOSES, AGAIN, THAT, UH, ALTERNATIVE WHICH WE'RE NOT DOING, UM, IF YOU WERE TO DEVELOP THE FOUR LOTS SEPARATELY, YOU COULD DEVELOP A 20,000 SQUARE FOOT HOME THAT IS EITHER 10 OR MAYBE 15 FEET FROM YOUR PROPERTY OWNER TO THE NORTH.
AND WE HAVE 70 FEET OF, UH, OPEN SPACE BETWEEN.
AND JENNIFER, WHY DON'T YOU CONTINUE? OKAY.
AS CRAIG HAS DESCRIBED, THE RESIDENCE HAS A UNIQUE DESIGN WHERE THE ROOF OR FIFTH FACADE HAS BEEN CAREFULLY DESIGNED AND STUDY TO CONCEAL ALL OF THE ROOFTOP EQUIPMENT WHILE MINIMIZING THE HEIGHT WITH ITS SLOPE SILHOUETTES, THE CODE ALLOWS A RESIDENCE IN A SINGLE FAMILY DISTRICT A HEIGHT OF 28 FEET TO THE TOP OF THE STRUCTURAL ROOF SLAB.
THE CODE ALSO ALLOWS UP TO FIVE ADDITIONAL FEET FOR THE MECHANICAL EQUIPMENT AND 10 ADDITIONAL FEET FOR THE SCREENING OF THAT EQUIPMENT.
WE ARE REQUESTING THREE ADDITIONAL FEET FOR THE OVERALL HEIGHT OF THE RESIDENCE DUE TO THE AMOUNT OF MECHANICAL DUCT WORK THAT WILL BE LOCATED IN THE CEILINGS.
FURTHERMORE, IF WE HAD PLACED THE GROUND FLOOR AT, OF THE RESIDENCE AT THE MAXIMUM DESIGN FLOOD ELEVATION, WHICH IS 15 FEET NGVD INSTEAD OF 12 NGVD AND USE THE 28 FOOT HEIGHT LIMIT ALLOWED BY CODE, WE WOULD BE AT THE EXACT HEIGHT THAT WE ARE CURRENTLY PROPOSING IN THIS VARIANCE, SIMILAR TO WHAT YOU HAD SEEN IN THE PREVIOUS, UM, UH, SUBMISSION.
YOU CAN ALSO SEE IN THE IMAGE AT THE BOTTOM THAT BECAUSE THE ROOF SILHOUETTE IS SLOPED AND WE HAVE PROVIDED EXTENSIVE SETBACKS, THE HOUSE HAS MINIMAL IMPACT FROM THE STREET AND THE NEIGHBORS.
THE IMAGE ON THE TOP LEFT IS A SECTION THROUGH OUR PROJECT, AND THE IMAGE ON THE RIGHT IS A CORRESPONDING SECTION OF THE PROJECT FROM FOUR TO SIX STAR ISLAND THAT WAS PRESENTED TO THE DESIGN REVIEW BOARD LAST YEAR.
YOU CAN SEE IN THESE IMAGES THAT FOUR TO SIX STAR IS RAISED OVER THE MINIMUM DESIGN FILL OF ELEVATION, WHICH IS 17 NGBD.
AND THAT RESIDENCE ALSO HAS AN ACTIVE ROOFTOP AND AN ELEVATOR AND STAIR THAT ACCESS THAT ROOFTOP.
OUR PROJECT IS NOT PROPOSING ANY ACTIVE ROOFTOPS AND THEREFORE NO VERTICAL BULKHEADS ABOVE THE ROOF.
FOR ACCESS, WE WILL SIMPLY HAVE ROOFTOP PATCHES WITHIN THE MECHANICAL AREAS, AGAIN, MINIMIZING THE HEIGHT IMPACTS TO THE NEIGHBORS.
AND WE HAVE ALSO PLACED OUR BUILDING LOWER ON THE SITE AT 12 NGBD.
THE ROOF OF IS OUR FIFTH FACADE IN THE CROWN OF THE HOME.
THE IMAGE SHOWS THE HOUSE WITH AND WITHOUT THE SHROUD DUE TO THE HIGH VISIBILITY OF THE ROOF.
BECAUSE OF DRONE FOOTAGE, CRUISE TRAFFIC AT GOVERNMENT CUT, AND THE HIGH VISIBILITY OF THE MIAMI BEACH SKYLINE, THE ROOF AND ITS EQUIPMENT HAVE TO BE SCREENED WITH THE SAME DETAILED BEAUTY AS THE REST OF THE HOME.
NEXT, UM, WE ARE ALSO REQUESTING A VARIANCE OF THREE FEET IN HEIGHT FOR THE MECHANICAL EQUIPMENT.
ALL OF THE LARGE WINDOWS IN THE RESONANCES HAVE BEEN DESIGNED TO OPEN UP TO THE ELEMENTS TO CREATE AN INDOOR OUTDOOR EXPERIENCE.
WE HAVE LARGE CUSTOM DESIGNED OPERABLE EXTERIOR WINDOW WALLS THAT NOT ONLY OPEN SIDEWAYS, BUT ON THE SECOND FLOOR, TWO OF THE LARGE WINDOWS ACTUALLY MOVE UP INTO THE ROOF WITH A HYDRAULIC MECHANICAL SYSTEM TO ALLOW FOR THIS.
THE ENGINEERING, UH, AND THE EQUIPMENT ARE VERY SOPHISTICATED, AND WITH THIS SOPHISTICATION COMES LARGER EQUIPMENT.
THE CODE IS INFLEXIBLE ON THE HEIGHT, BUT DUE TO THE CREATIVITY AND CAREFULLY DESIGNED ROOF SILHOUETTE AND LOCATING ALL OF THE EQUIPMENT BELOW THE SHROUD, THE IMPACT OF THE HOUSE'S HEIGHT IS MINIMAL AND THE EQUIPMENT IS COMPLETELY SCREENED, WHICH IS THE INTENT OF THE CODE.
NEXT IN THE CODE, A DECORATIVE SCREEN IS ALLOWED TO BE UP TO 10 FEET IN HEIGHT, BUT OUR PROPOSED DECORATIVE SCREEN IS ONLY EIGHT FEET.
THE TOP PHOTO SHOWS HOW THE SILHOUETTE OF THE ROOF SCREENS THE MECHANICAL EQUIPMENT AND MEETS THE INTENT OF THE CODE.
THE INTENT IS FOR THE ROOF NOT TO LOOK LIKE A THIRD FLOOR, AND AT THE SAME TIME
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HIDE THE MECHANICAL EQUIPMENT.AND AS YOU CAN SEE FROM THIS RENDERING ON THE TOP, THIS IS CLEARLY A TWO STORY RESIDENCE AND NO MECHANICAL EQUIPMENT CAN BE SEEN.
THE BOTTOM PHOTO IS A TYPICAL RESIDENCE IN MIAMI BEACH WHERE THE SCREENING HAS BECOME PART OF THE CLADDING, UH, THE, THE CLADDING DESIGN.
BUT UNFORTUNATELY, THE EQUIPMENT PEAKS ABOVE THE SCREENING IN OUR DESIGN.
THE ENGINEERING HAS BEEN THOROUGHLY STUDIED AND THE CURRENT HEIGHT OF THE SHROUD WILL CONCEAL THE EQUIPMENT.
UM, WE HAVE ONE FIREPLACE IN THE RESIDENCE, WHICH IS LOCATED IN THE CENTER OF THE HOME DUE TO THE BUILDING CODE, THE CHIMNEY OF THE FIREPLACE IS REQUIRED TO TERMINATE THREE FEET ABOVE ANY SURROUNDING STRUCTURES.
SO WHAT WE HAVE DONE IS PULL BACK THE SHROUD IN THAT AREA SO THE CHIMNEY CAN TERMINATE AT THE SAME HEIGHT OF THE SHROUD, AND THEREFORE CANNOT BE SEEN FROM THE STREET OR SURROUNDING PROPERTIES.
BUT WE DO NEED TO ASK FOR A THREE FOOT VARIANCE FOR THIS CHIMNEY SO IT CAN TERMINATE THREE FEET ABOVE ANY SURROUNDING EQUIPMENT.
THE CODE ALLOWS FOR IT TO TERMINATE FIVE FEET ABOVE THE ROOF, AND WE NEED EIGHT.
THE FOOTPRINT OF THE CHIMNEY IS THAT SMALL RED DOT THAT MATT'S POINTING OUT RIGHT NOW, UM, IN THE CENTER OF THE ROOF PLAN.
UM, SO THE IMPACT IS REALLY MINIMAL FOR THAT VARIANCE.
UM, ON THE SKYLIGHTS, THE RESIDENCE HAS 12 PROPOSED SKYLIGHTS INTEGRATED INTO THE DESIGN OF THE ROOF.
THREE OF THOSE SKYLIGHTS ARE ABOVE THE STAIRCASES ALONG THE EAST SIDE OF THE HOME.
AND BECAUSE THEY ARE ABOVE THE STAIRCASES, THE VIEWS THROUGH THESE SKYLIGHTS ARE IMPACTED BY THE ADJACENT MECHANICAL EQUIPMENT.
WE ARE ASKING FOR THREE ADDITIONAL FEET FOR THESE THREE SKYLIGHTS HIGHLIGHTED IN RED.
SO WHEN ONE TRAVELS UP THE STAIR, THE STAIRCASE, THEY ARE NOT ABLE TO SEE THE EQUIPMENT THROUGH THE SKYLIGHTS.
AGAIN, THESE SKYLIGHTS ARE COMPLETELY BELOW THE ROOF SHROUD, SO THEY KNOCK THEY CANNOT BE SEEN FROM THE NEIGHBORS OF THE STREET.
AND THEIR DESIGN HAS BEEN FULLY INTEGRATED INTO THE FIFTH FACADE.
AND I'LL HAND IT OVER TO MATT TO DISCUSS THE LAST TWO VARIANCES.
SO THIS, UH, AGAIN, WE HAVE FAR FOUR PARCELS, UH, WHICH AT LEAST MINIMALLY WOULD HAVE ONE DRIVEWAY EACH.
SO, UH, WE ARE ONLY PROPOSING FOUR DRIVEWAYS.
UM, THE TWO ON THE NORTH ENDS ARE COMPLIANT IN WIDTH, UH, AND THE TWO AT THE CENTER.
UM, AGAIN, THESE ARE OUR MAIN ENTRANCES, BOTH FOR, UH, THE FAMILY AND FOR GUESTS.
UH, AND WE, THEY, THE WIDTH THAT HELPS TO, UH, IDENTIFY THEM TO PROVIDE A SENSE OF ARRIVAL, UH, AS WELL AS CAN ACCOMMODATE, UH, LARGER VEHICLES SHOULD THAT BE NEEDED.
AND THEN, UH, OUR FINAL VARIANCE, UM, I THINK ROGELIO DID A GOOD JOB OF EXPLAINING HOW FEMA, UH, IS PROPOSING TO REDUCE THE BASE FLOOD ELEVATION, WHICH IS A MEASURE OF HOW HIGH YOUR REQUIRED YARDS, EVERYTHING IN THE FRONT, THE REAR, AND THE SIDES WITHIN THE REQUIRED SETBACK AREAS, UH, WOULD HAVE TO BE REDUCED, SHOULD FEMA'S UH, UH, PROPOSED PLAN BE ADOPTED.
UH, THE DIFFERENTIAL IS ABOUT TWO AND A HALF FEET.
THAT IS, UH, SIGNIFICANT BOTH IN, UH, TRANSITIONS TO THE HOUSE ITSELF, THE REST OF THE YARDS THAT ARE NEXT TO ALL OF THIS, AS WELL AS TO OUR OWN STORMWATER RETENTION, YOU KNOW, RAISING UP THE, UH, THE GROUND LEVEL IS ACTUALLY A PART OF THIS STORMWATER, UH, DESIGN, UH, FOR THIS PROJECT.
SO THIS IS A PROSPECTIVE VARIANCE THAT SHOULD THAT BE ADOPTED, WE WANT TO MAINTAIN, UH, THE MAXIMUM OF 10 FEET THAT, UH, THE CODE ALLOWS FOR TODAY.
WE'VE, UH, DONE EXTENSIVE NEIGHBOR OUTREACH.
UM, IT'S A VERY IMPORTANT TO KEN.
HE'S GONNA BE A MEMBER OF THIS COMMUNITY WITH HIS FAMILY LIVING HERE.
AND SO WE'VE REACHED OUT TO MORE THAN JUST THE PEOPLE LISTED ON HERE.
UM, BUT WE ARE HAPPY TO REPORT THAT WE HAVE, UH, NINE LETTERS OF SUPPORT.
UH, YOU HAD A PACKET HANDED OUT TO YOU, WHICH HAS ALL OF THOSE INDIVIDUAL LETTERS.
UM, BUT VERY NOTABLY, WE HAVE OUR NEIGHBORS, UH, TO THE SOUTH AND TO THE NORTH.
UH, AND WE EVEN, UH, DID, EVEN THOUGH THERE'S A, A QUITE WIDE MEDIAN, UH, LINEAR PARK IN THE MIDDLE OF THE ISLAND, WE DID ALSO GO, UH, TO THE EAST SIDE.
UM, ALL TOLD, UM, IT'S ROUGHLY ABOUT HALF OF THE ISLAND IS SUPPORT OF, OF OUR, UH, REQUEST.
AND AGAIN, WE, WE NOT, HAVEN'T HEARD OF ANY OBJECTION AT ALL RIGHT NOW.
I, UM, I WANT TO FIVE MINUTES.
WELL, WE HAVE, UH, WE'RE ALMOST DONE.
WE DO HAVE, UH, TWO VIDEOS THAT WERE MENTIONED BY CRAIG THAT I WANNA, UM, OKAY.
YOU WANT FIVE OR 10? MR. AMSTER TO, TO WRAP UP TO 10 WOULD BE MORE THAN WE NEED.
WE CAN AVOID GIVE YOU MORE THAN ENOUGH TIME.
LET'S DO 10 MINUTES AGAIN, PLEASE.
IT'S AN IMPORTANT PROJECT, SO I'M HAPPY TO GRANT THE REQUEST.
SO, UH, THROUGH THE 3D MODELING AND THROUGH THE DESIGN, WE DEVELOPED THIS 3D MODELING, WHICH
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IS VERY ACCURATE BASIS OF THE VR, BUT HERE YOU HAVE THE APPROACH FROM THE WATER, YOU SEE THE, THE ROOFS THAT I WAS TALKING ABOUT, AND THE RHYTHM OF THE HOUSE AS IT GOES NORTH TO SOUTH.THE CURVES, UM, TIE EVERYTHING TOGETHER.
THE COMPOSITION THAT JOSEPH CAME UP WITH, WE THINK IS JUST, YOU KNOW, VERY BEAUTIFUL.
THE POOL AT THE END, A DINING POOL AT THE END.
UM, BUT AGAIN, VERY FAR FROM THE NEIGHBOR, THAT'S THE VIEW DOWN GREEN ROOFS.
EVERY ROOF THAT HAS LANDSCAPE IS PLANTED ROOF, I SHOULD SAY.
UM, THAT WAS THE POSITION WE WERE LOOKING AT BEFORE OF THE PRIVATE POOL.
UM, OUR, OUR MAGIC SHROUD ROOF, WHICH I THINK SUCCEEDS AS A FIFTH FACADE.
UH, THE STREET, STREET VIEWS, UH, WHICH I GAVE YOU SOME STILLS OF ONE SECOND WHILE I GET TO THE OTHER ONE.
AND THEN INTO, AND, AND UP TO THE FRONT DOOR.
THIS IS THE, THE MAIN, THE ENTRANCE TO THE HOUSE COME INTO A DOUBLE HEIGHT SPACE.
UM, THESE WINDOWS, UH, DISAPPEAR INTO THE WALLS.
UH, JUST A TOUCH OF A TASTE OF THE INTERIOR ARCHITECTURE, CLEARSTONE STAIR, THE SKYLIGHTS THAT JENNIFER WAS TALKING ABOUT.
UM, YOU'LL SEE HOW THE SKYLIGHTS COME OUT OF THE ROOF.
AND THOSE CIRCLES WE'RE PROUD OF THE ROOF.
YOU CAN TELL FROM THE RENDERING
AND THE HOUSE IS AT 12 AS JENNIFER MATTED, AND IT SLOPES DOWN, UM, TO 10 NEW SEA WALL.
NOW I'M GONNA GO BACK TO OUR PRESENTATION JUST TO MAKE SOME CONCLUDING.
SO THANK YOU FOR, UH, HAVING US HERE TODAY FOR WHAT I, I KNOW IS A LITTLE LONGER THAN A USUAL, BUT THIS IS A PROJECT THAT, AS CRAIG HAD MENTIONED, HAS BEEN YEARS IN THE MAKING, UM, VERY THOROUGHLY DESIGNED.
UM, WE SPENT MANY, UH, HOURS GOING THROUGH THE CODE AND DOING OUR BEST WITH THIS, UH, DESIGN PROPOSAL TO MAKE SURE THAT WE DIDN'T HAVE TO COME HERE.
THIS IS A PROJECT THOUGH, THAT, UM, HAS A LOT OF CREATIVE AND INNOVATIVE DESIGN.
AND WHERE ESSENTIALLY MUCH OF THIS COMES OUT AND IS HERE BEFORE YOU, IS, UH, OUR WAY OF UTILIZING THAT INNOVATIVE DESIGN ON AN AREA OF THE CITY THAT ALLOWS FOR SUCH EXPANSIVE, UH, AND INNOVATIVE HOMES, UH, TO STILL MEET THE INTENT OF THE CODE.
THAT BASICALLY OUR PRACTICAL DIFFICULTY FOR MUCH OF THIS COMES INTO PLAY.
THAT THE CODE IS GUIDING, UM, YOU KNOW, DESIGNERS TO DESIGN IN A CERTAIN WAY.
FOR EXAMPLE, ALL THE MECHANICAL EQUIPMENT, THE CODE ENCOURAGES YOU NOT TO HAVE IT ON THE, ON THE GROUND LEVEL IN THE SIDE YARDS, UH, BEING AN IMPACT AND AN IMPOSING TO YOUR NEIGHBORS PUTTING IT ON THE ROOF INSTEAD.
WELL, WHY WOULD YOU PUT IT ON THE ROOF? UH, IN ADDITION TO THAT, YOU WOULD WANNA MAKE SURE THAT IT'S SCREENED.
WELL, THE SCREENING, AS YOU SAW IN ONE EXAMPLE, UH, FROM ANOTHER HOME, UM, CAN ACTUALLY BE, UH, THIS JUTTING AND VERY VISIBLE, UH, ASPECT.
SO HERE, ALTHOUGH IT NEEDS A LITTLE MORE HEIGHT TO ALLOW FOR IT, UM, WE HAVE A VERY SLEEK, UH, AND HIDDEN, YOU KNOW, ROOFTOP INCLUDING THAT IT'S NOT ACTIVE AT ALL.
SO THAT ACTUALLY, UM, HAS BEEN WORKED IN.
UM, IT IS, UH, ALSO ONE OF THE MORE FULLY DESIGNED HOMES FROM A, NOT JUST MECHANICAL, BUT STRUCTURAL STANDPOINT TO ALLOW FOR ALL OF THIS TO BE BUILT.
UM, IT'S, UH, IT'S BEEN A GREAT UNDERTAKING.
AND, UH, WHILE AGAIN, WE ARE HERE, WE DO FEEL THAT WE MEET ALL THOSE PRACTICAL DIFFICULTIES.
WE AGREE WITH STAFF'S CONDITIONS, UM, AND WE ARE ALL HERE TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS.
WE RESPECTFULLY OR REQUEST APPROVAL OF OUR VARIANCE REQUESTS.
AND, UH, I WOULD LIKE TO, UH, JUST END WITH AN, UH, AN INVITATION TO COME DOWN TO TAKE A CLOSER LOOK AT THE MODEL.
AND WE DO HAVE THE ACTUAL, YOU KNOW, PROGRAM.
YOU CAN VIRTUALLY SEE THE HOME IF YOU WANT TO PUT ON THE GOGGLES.
YOU CAN'T, WE DON'T NEED TO WALK AROUND.
YOU BASICALLY STAND IN A, IN A LITTLE CIRCLE.
UM, BUT IF INDULGING YOUR, UH, CHAIR.
SO WE APPRECIATE, SO, YOU KNOW, I, AND I APPRECIATE THAT GREAT PRESENTATION.
I'LL, I'LL ASK THE BOARD IF YOU FEEL IT'S RELEVANT THAT YOU LIKE TO GET OFF THE DAIS AND GO LOOK AT THE MODEL AND, AND USE THE 3D GLASSES.
I WOULD, I WOULD GO AHEAD AND, UM, I, I WOULD TAKE A SHORT BREAK THAT DOESN'T NEED TO BE ON, ON VIDEO, ON THE RECORD, UNLESS I'M WRONG.
UM, MADAME CITY ATTORNEY, UH, IF I WANTED TO GO AHEAD AND TAKE A BREAK AND ALLOW THE BOARD TO STEP OFF THE DAIS AND TAKE ADVANTAGE OF WHAT'S BEING OFFERED BY, UH, YES, THE APPLICANT, I CAN DO THAT.
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TO, TO TAKE A 10 MINUTE BREAK AND WALK DOWN AND, SURE.SO WITH THAT, WE'RE GONNA GO AHEAD AND TAKE ABOUT A 10 MINUTE BREAK.
UM, THOSE WATCHING, UM, IN THE PUBLIC, I HOPE YOU UNDERSTAND IT'S A VERY IMPORTANT PROJECT FOR THE CITY OF MIAMI BEACH AND MR. GRIFFIN.
AND, UM, WE'LL TAKE A 10 MINUTE BREAK AND WE'LL BE BACK TO YOU SOON.
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90, 95% OUTSIDE A LINE OUTSIDE.EXCUSE I, CHRIS, JIM, HOW ARE YOU DOING? NICE TO SEE YOU.
I HAVEN'T SEEN EACH OTHER FOREVER.
WAS YESTERDAY START? WE SHOULD START.
I WAS COMING DOWN TO THIS HOUSE.
I ALWAYS HATE LIKE SAYING, HEY, HAD A REALLY GOOD RIGHT.
AND THAT GUY ESPECIALLY, IT SEEMED VERY LIKE HE COULD BE HERE BEST FRIEND OR COULD BE.
KEN'S ON, KEN'S ON THE WOLF CUP.
YOU KNOW, ANYBODY THAT WANTS A 40 FOOT RIFLE.
WE ON THE BOARD TOGETHER IN BE HARBOR.
OKAY, WE'RE GONNA GO AHEAD, UM, AND, AND START, UH, PUBLIC.
UM, WE JUST, I JUST THOUGHT IT WAS EXTREMELY IMPORTANT WITH THIS PROJECT THAT, THAT WE GET A CLOSEUP VIEW AND MAKE SURE WE MAKE THE RIGHT DECISIONS.
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PATIENCE IN ALLOWING US TO DO THAT.UH, WITH THAT BEING SAID, I'M GONNA GO AHEAD AND OPEN IT UP FIRST TO PUBLIC COMMENT.
UH, DO WE HAVE ANYBODY ON ZOOM, MR. METIN? ANYBODY ON ZOOM? IF YOU'D LIKE TO SPEAK, RAISE YOUR HAND.
UH, ANYONE IN THE CHAMBERS FOR QUESTIONS? PUBLIC COMMENT? UM, YES.
COULD YOU PLEASE COME OUT TO THE PODIUM? STATE YOUR NAME PLEASE.
UM, I'M HERE REPRESENTING THE MILLER FAMILY.
THEY ARE THE NEIGHBOR TO THE SOUTH.
THEY HAVE BEEN IN RESIDENCE OF STAR ISLAND FOR OVER 45 YEARS.
UH, KEN'S TEAM WAS SO GRACIOUS TO PRESENT TO US AT THE MILLER'S HOME, AND, UH, THEY ARE IN MORE VERY SUPPORTIVE OF THE PROJECT.
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR COMING IN.
UH, ANY, ANY OTHER ADDITIONAL PUBLIC COMMENT? WITH THAT BEING SAID, I'M GONNA GO AHEAD AND CLOSE THE PUBLIC COMMENT.
I'M GONNA OPEN IT UP TO OUR BOARD FOR QUESTIONS THROUGH THE CHAIR.
I'LL RECOGNIZE ANYONE THAT HAS QUESTIONS AND I'M SURE WE HAVE A FEW.
MS. SILVERMAN, UM, TURN YOUR MIC ON THE, ON THE RIGHT.
UM, I JUST, I HAVE NO CONTEXT AS TO WHY A DRIVEWAY WOULD BE MAXIMUM OF 18 FEET.
LIKE DO I NEED SOME CONTEXT TO WHY IT'S WRITTEN THAT WAY IN THE ZONE ON, ON YOUR, ON YOUR STANDARD LOT? UM, THAT'S, THAT'S PROBABLY AN APPROPRIATE, THAT'S AN APPROPRIATE NUMBER.
UH, BUT WHAT WE'RE TRYING TO LIMIT IS, UH, A FEW THINGS.
FIRST, VEHICULAR CON, UH, CONFLICT.
SO TYPICALLY YOU HAVE SIDEWALKS, SO YOU WANNA HAVE, UM, DRIVEWAYS BE AS NARROW AS POSSIBLE TO MINIMIZE CONFLICTS WITH PEDESTRIANS AND THE SIDEWALKS.
UM, AND SO WE ALSO HAVE A MAX, A MINIMUM SPACING REQUIREMENT BETWEEN DRIVEWAYS IN ORDER TO, TO IMPROVE PEDESTRIAN SAFETY, UM, MINIMIZE, UH, PAVED AREAS.
WE WANNA MINIMIZE PAVED AREAS AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE TO HAVE AS MUCH OPEN SPACE AS WE POSSIBLY CAN.
UM, SO THOSE ARE, THOSE ARE THE TWO PRIMARY THINGS THAT WE'RE TRYING TO ACHIEVE THERE, UH, WITH THOSE REQUIREMENTS.
BUT IN, IN THIS CASE, WE HAVE THE, THE HOME HAS A SIGNIFICANT AMOUNT OF OPEN SPACE.
QUESTIONS FROM THE BOARD PRESENTATION? WAS THAT GOOD OR ARE WE STILL IN AWE
IS A PRE PREEMPTIVE VARIANCE A THING, DOES THAT EXIST? UM, I CAN'T SAY THAT I'VE SEEN ONE BEFORE, BUT THERE'S NOTHING IN THE CODE THAT PROHIBITS YOU FROM, FROM, FROM DOING THAT.
SO YOU'VE NEVER SEEN ONE BEFORE, SO WE'D BE LIKE MAKING IT UP.
THIS WOULD BE LIKE A NEW THING WE'D BE DOING.
IT WOULD, IT WOULD ESSENTIALLY BE A, A NEW PRECEDENT.
AND A PREEMPTIVE VARIANCE WOULD BE A VARIANCE FROM SOMETHING THAT DOESN'T CURRENTLY EXIST.
SO IT'S, IT'S SOMETHING THAT, THIS IS A REGULATION THAT'S BASED ON A REGULATION CREATED BY ANOTHER AGENCY.
IT'S A REGULATION OUTSIDE OF THE CITY OF MIAMI BEACH'S CONTROL.
UM, SO IT'S NOT SOMETHING, SO WE WOULDN'T DO IT FOR OUR OWN REGULATIONS.
OUR OWN REGULATIONS ARE IN OUR HANDS.
OUR CITY COMMISSION VOTES ON THEM.
THIS IS SOMETHING THE CITY COMMISSION DOES NOT APPROVE, DOES NOT VOTE ON, UM, IT'S SET BY FEMA.
UM, SO, SO THAT'S THE REASON WHY WE FELT IT WAS JUSTIFIABLE.
UM, THEY HAVE RELEASED, UM, THE DRAFT MAPS AND THEY ARE EXPECTED TO TAKE EFFECT THIS YEAR.
THEY HAVE SAID THAT THEY WILL TAKE EFFECT THIS YEAR.
UM, SO WE KNOW IT'S COMING, UM, BUT IT HASN'T TAKEN EFFECT YET.
SO IT, IT DIDN'T SEEM TO US TO MAKE SENSE TO MAKE THE APPLICANT COME BACK.
IN THE EVENT THAT FEMA CHANGES THAT NUMBER LATER THIS YEAR.
IF, IF, UM, SO IF IT WAS BUILT WITHOUT THE PREEMPTIVE VARIANCE, IT WOULD BE ON THAT PARTICULAR ISSUE, IT WOULD BE TO CODE ON THAT? CURRENTLY? CURRENTLY, YES.
AND IF THEY BUILT IT TO CODE NOW WITHOUT THE PREEMPTIVE VARIANCE AND THEN THE CHANGE HAPPENED, WOULD THEY HAVE TO COME BACK OR IS THAT LEGAL NONCONFORMING AT THAT POINT? IF THEY, IF IT CHANGES BEFORE THEY HAVE THEIR FULL BUILDING PERMIT, UM, THEY WOULD HAVE TO COME BACK AND THEY COULD ASK FOR VARIANCE AND WE COULD GIVE IT TO THEM.
I'M SNAG ALL, UM, THIS IS FOUR PARCELS PUT TOGETHER, IS THAT CORRECT? CORRECT.
AND THE FOUR PUT TOGETHER, WHAT DO WE CALL THAT? THE, THE LOT, WHAT WOULD BE THE TERM FOR THE FOUR TOGETHER? WHAT DO I CALL THAT? THE ASSEMBLAGE OR CODE ASSEMBLAGE? THERE'S LOT AGGREGATION.
THIS IS, UM, THERE'S A HOUSE ON IT NOW, BUT THAT'LL BE TAKEN DOWN, RIGHT? CORRECT.
AND ONCE THAT'S TAKEN DOWN, THIS IS THE LOT AGGREGATION, THE LAND WILL BE A BLANK CANVAS.
IS THAT CORRECT? IN ESSENCE, YES.
AND IS THERE ANYTHING ABOUT THE LOT AGGREGATION, UH, THAT MAKES IT AN IRREGULAR LOT? IRREGULAR? IRREGULAR? THE, I WOULD SAY THE SHAPE OF IT IS A, IS IS FAIRLY REGULAR.
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WHAT IS IRREGULAR IS THE SIZE.WE, WE GENERALLY DO NOT SEE LOTS OF THIS SCALE.
SO THEN I WOULD JUST SAY THAT I THINK, UM, I THINK THERE'S, YOU KNOW, GIVEN THAT IT'S A, A REGULAR LOT BLANK CANVAS, UM, FROM WHAT I CAN TELL FROM THE PRESENTATION, UH, MR. GRIFFIN HAS ASSEMBLED A IMPRESSIVE TEAM OF ATTORNEYS AND ARCHITECTS AND EVERYONE ELSE, VERY SKILLED, UM, IMPRESSIVE PEOPLE IN THEIR PROFESSIONS.
AND I TRUST THAT WITH A BLANK CANVAS.
UM, THIS CAN BE BUILT WITHOUT THE NEED FOR GOING OUTSIDE THE CODES.
UH, ANY OTHER QUESTIONS FROM THE BOARD? OKAY, SO IF WE HAVE NO OTHER QUESTIONS, UM, I THINK ON THIS ONE I'M GONNA FOLLOW A LEAD THAT, THAT WE HAD ON THE FIRST ONE BECAUSE THERE ARE EIGHT VARIANCES AND THEY'RE ALL VERY DIFFERENT.
I THINK WE SHOULD TAKE 'EM UP ONE AT A TIME.
UM, SO IF YOU ALL AGREE WITH YOU ALL AGREE WITH THAT, I DON'T THINK WE NEED TO VOTE.
I THINK IT'S MY PREROGATIVE THAT I CAN, I CAN DO THAT WITHOUT A VOTE.
UM, SO LET'S, UH, GO AHEAD AND MAKE SURE YOU HAVE THEM IN FRONT OF YOU PLEASE.
AND I'M JUST GONNA RECITE THEM, YOU KNOW, AS YOU HAVE THEM ON YOUR PACKAGE.
AND, UM, THEY ARE, UM, THEY WERE NAMED BY MR. MADDEN.
SO I WILL TAKE VARIANCE NUMBER ONE CALLED THE LOT AGGREGATION VARIANCE AND SEE IF THERE'S ANY MOTIONS TO APPROVE VARIANCE.
ONE MOVE TO APPROVE VARIANCE ONE THE LOT AGRI AGGRAVATION VARIANCE.
DO I HEAR A SECOND? SECOND? UH, WELL, I, I DID SEE, OKAY.
I, I DID, I DID SEE JIM RAISING HIS HAND.
SO WE WILL, WE WILL GIVE, WE WILL GIVE, WE'LL GIVE YOU THAT ONE.
LET'S GO TO VARIANCE NUMBER TWO, WHICH IS THE SUM WAS THE, WAS THE VOTE ON THAT ONE? UNANIMOUS? I APOLOGIZE.
WERE, YOU KNOW, MS. NAGGER? OH, OKAY.
THANK YOU FOR CATCHING THAT MR. MADDEN.
UH, IT DOES STILL, DOES STILL PASS.
VARIANCE NUMBER TWO CALLED THE SUM OF SIDES VARIANCE.
ARE THERE ANY MOTIONS ON THE FLOOR? MOTION TO APPROVE.
I HAD, I HAD A SENIOR
OPPOSITION VARIANCE NUMBER TWO PASSES VARIANCE NUMBER THREE CALLED THE HEIGHT VARIANCE.
ANY MOTIONS TO APPROVE VARIANCE? NUMBER THREE, MOVE TO APPROVE.
THAT VARIANCE PASSES VARIANCE NUMBER FOUR, HEIGHT EXCEPTION VARIANCE NUMBER ONE.
ANY MOTIONS TO APPROVE? MOTION TO APPROVE HEIGHT EXCEPTION VARIANCE.
OPPOSED? OKAY, WE HAVE ONE NAY.
THAT VARIANCE PASSES VARIANCE NUMBER FIVE, THE EXCEPTION VARIANCE NUMBER TWO.
DO I HEAR A MOTION TO APPROVE? MOVE TO APPROVE HIGH EXCEPTION VARIANCE TWO.
DO I HEAR A SECOND? SECOND? WHAT'S THAT MS. MELLI? IS THAT OKAY? MS. M SECOND BY MS. MELLI.
WE HAVE ONE NAY BY MR. LER, THAT VARIANCE PASSES VARIANCE NUMBER SIX, KNOWN AS THE HEIGHT EXCEPTION VARIANCE NUMBER THREE.
DO I HEAR ANY MOTIONS TO APPROVE? OKAY.
WE HAVE ONE DAY, MR. NAGGER, THAT VARIANCE PASSES.
NUMBER SEVEN, NOTE AS THE DRIVEWAY VARIANCE.
DO I HEAR ANY MOTIONS TO APPROVE? MOVE TO APPROVE THE DRIVEWAY.
DO I HEAR A SECOND? SECOND BY MR. SILVERS.
OPPOSED? THAT PASSES UNANIMOUSLY.
THE MAXIMUM MAXIMUM YARD ELEVATION VARIANCE.
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I'M OKAY.DO I HEAR A SECOND? SECOND BY MR. SILVERS.
SO THAT VARIANCE DOES PASS, CORRECT? WAIT, NO, YOU NEED FIVE SEVENS.
OKAY, SO NUMBER EIGHT, UH, DOES NOT, DOES NOT PASS.
I JUST WANNA, I JUST WANNA MAKE SURE, UM, MR. BADDEN, WE HAVE, WE HAVE FOUR EYES AND THREE NAYS, AND WE REQUIRE FIVE EYES TO PROVE A VARIANCE.
OKAY? IS THERE ANY ANY REASON FOR, DID YOU WANT YEAH, I MEAN, I'LL OPEN UP FOR SOME DISCUSSION WHILE YOU'RE THERE, MR. STER? YEAH, IT WOULD BE HELPFUL TO GET SOME COLOR ON WHY WE WOULD NOT BE ABLE TO MOVE FORWARD WITH THAT VARIANCE AT THIS TIME.
I CAN COMMENT ON MY VOTE IF YOU WANT.
IS THAT, DO WE DO THAT? GO AHEAD, MS. YEAH, ABSOLUTELY.
YEAH, THERE'S, UM, FROM THE ANSWERS TO MY QUESTION, THERE'S NO PRECEDENT FOR IT.
AND, UH, I DON'T KNOW IF WE'VE BEEN PROVIDED SUFFICIENT GROUNDS TO SET NEW PRECEDENT WITH A PREEMPTIVE, WHICH WHAT I'VE BEEN TOLD DOESN'T, HAS NEVER EXISTED BEFORE.
HE'S WELCOME TO COME BACK AND GET IT WHEN HE NEEDS IT.
UH, I'M NOT SURE WHAT THE OTHER OPTIONS ARE.
IT IS WHAT IT IS UNLESS THERE'S A MOTION TO RECONSIDER FROM THE PREVAILING SIDE.
AND THE PREVAILING SIDE WOULD BE THE NAYS.
THROUGH THE CHAIR OR WE YES, YES.
I JUST WANTED TO EXPLAIN THAT VARIANCE A LITTLE BIT MORE.
SO CURRENTLY WE'RE ALLOWED TO HAVE OUR SIDE YARDS AT, AT ELEVATION OF 10.
IF WE WERE TO HAVE THE FLOOD ZONE LOWERED, WHICH IS WHAT'S GONNA HAPPEN SOMETIME THIS YEAR, OUR YARDS WOULD HAVE TO GO DOWN, WHICH IS LESS RESILIENT.
UM, WHICH THE, THE, UM, THE, THE SIDE YARDS WOULD THEN BE ABLE, UH, NOT BE ABLE TO RETAIN AS MUCH WATER.
SO THAT'S WHY WE WERE COMING FORWARD WITH A PREEMPTIVE VARIANCE.
UM, WE MAY BE ABLE TO GET OUR PERMIT IN IN TIME BEFORE, UM, UH, THIS WOULD, UH, GO INTO EFFECT, BUT THERE'S NO, UM, WE DON'T KNOW IF THIS WOULD GO INTO EFFECT THE, THE SECOND WE, WE, UM, APPLY FOR A PERMIT OR IF WE RECEIVE A PERMIT.
SO, UM, WE'RE GONNA BE KIND OF IN A LIMBO PATTERN, AND THAT MIGHT HOLD UP OUR PERMIT.
IF WE HAVE TO WAIT 45 DAYS TO THREE MONTHS TO GO, THEN GO IN FOR VARIANCE, WE WOULDN'T BE ABLE TO PULL OUR BUILDING PERMIT.
SO, UM, I MEAN, I THINK IT'S, IT'S GOOD FOR EVERYBODY FOR US TO BE ABLE TO BUILD UP A LITTLE BIT HIGHER ON THE SIDE YARDS.
I JUST WANNA MAKE SURE EVERYBODY UNDERSTANDS, YOU KNOW, WHAT THAT MEANS.
UH, I'LL, I'LL OPEN UP TO BOARD FOR DISCUSSION.
THE SILVERMAN, I THINK YOU HAVE SOMETHING.
DO YOU HAVE ANY, YOU HAVE NO CONTEXT AS TO WHY FEMA WOULD BE LOWERING THE BASE ELEVATION FOR THIS? I MEAN, JUST GIVEN EVERYTHING THAT'S GOING ON IN THE WORLD, IT SEEMS WEIRD TO ME.
I I, I, THEY, THEY'RE DOING, THEY DO MODELING USING LIDAR RADAR TECHNOLOGY TO, TO GET DIFFERENT ELEVATIONS.
AND, AND FROM WHAT I'VE HEARD, I I DON'T HAVE SPECIFIC, UH, SOURCES, IS THAT THEY BELIEVE THAT THE BAY IN THIS AREA IS SHALLOWER AND THEREFORE THERE'S NOT THE SAME OPPORTUNITY FOR THE STORM SURGES IN THIS PORTION OF THE BAY THAN WAS PREVIOUSLY THOUGHT.
UM, THAT, THAT'S, THAT'S THE BEST I CAN, I CAN SAY.
I'M NOT SURE WHY ELSE IN MOST OF THE CITY THEY'RE RAISING THE NUMBER, UM, BY MAYBE HALF A FOOT, MAYBE HALF A FOOT TO A FOOT IN MUCH OF THE CITY.
UM, I'M NOT SURE WHY THIS AREA IS, IS DROPPING AND, AND DROPPING SO SIGNIFICANTLY, MR. CHAIR.
I DON'T, I DON'T KNOW KNOW IF IT'S JUST ANECDOTAL, BUT, YOU KNOW, MANY OF THE SEA WALLS HAVE BEEN RAISED OVER THE TIME THAT SINCE THE PRIOR MODELING, THE, THE LAST, UH, FEMA MAPS ARE 2009, QUITE, UH, QUITE OLD DATA.
SO I BELIEVE THAT WHILE THAT'S A GREAT THING, AND IN FACT THE SEA, WE TALKED ABOUT THIS IN OUR RESILIENCY, THE SEA LEVEL.
THE SEA WALL WILL BE RAISED HERE BY A COUPLE OF FEET, BUT THAT DOESN'T MEAN THAT, UH, YOU KNOW, WE ARE NOT, WE DON'T WANT TO JUST THROW AWAY RESILIENCY AS A, A CITY EFFORT.
THE CITY'S BEEN RAISING STREETS, AS YOU ALL ARE AWARE.
UH, I'M SURE THAT THIS, THESE STREETS WILL BE RAISED HERE ON STAR ISLAND AT SOME POINT.
AND THAT'S ALL A FACTOR FROM THE CITY'S PLANNING.
UH, WHICH, YOU KNOW, THIS IS GONNA UNDERCUT WHAT THE CITY'S BEEN PUTTING IN FOR MANY YEARS TO RAISE AND BE MORE RESILIENT.
SO WE'RE JUST TRYING TO CAPTURE THAT.
WE'RE HERE BEFORE YOU FOR THESE VARIANCES.
IF WE HAD TO COME BACK, OUR, OUR CONSTRUCTION TIMEFRAME WOULD BE WE PUT IN FOR BUILDING PERMIT, YOU KNOW, IN, UH, THE
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MIDDLE OF THIS YEAR AND, AND GET THAT PERMIT ISSUED BY THE END OF THE YEAR.AS YOU'VE HEARD, FEMA'S UH, MAPS MAY ACTUALLY BE ADOPTED BEFORE THEN IF WE DON'T HAVE OUR BUILDING PERMIT, WHERE YOU'RE GONNA, UH, AN ADDITIONAL HARDSHIP OF NEEDING TO COME BACK BEFORE YOU WHEN WE ARE ALREADY HERE TODAY.
UH, AND THE HEIGHT ALSO, JUST TO, MORE TO JENNIFER'S POINT, IF THOSE ENTIRE, WHICH ARE VERY SIGNIFICANT, 70 FEET, YOU KNOW, SIDE SETBACKS, UH, AND, UH, FRONT AND REAR SETBACKS HAVE TO BE MUCH LOWER.
THE TRANSITIONS ON THIS, UH, THE HOME WILL STILL BE AND HAS TO BE WHERE IT IS, RIGHT? UH, THE BASE FLOOD ELEVATION, UM, WHILE IT IS, SO THERE'S TWO THINGS HAPPENING.
THE SIDE YARDS ARE GONNA BE NEGATIVELY AFFECTED, BUT THE FIRST FLOOR OF THE HOME, BASED ON THE CODE, UH, IN THE CITY'S CODE, WOULD NOT BE AFFECTED.
SO WHEN FEMA'S BASE FLOOD ELEVATION GOES DOWN, OUR HOME WILL STILL HAVE TO BE AT 12 FEET, UH, NGVD WHEN THE YARDS WILL THEN HAVE TO BE DECREASED TO ABOUT, UH, SEVEN AND A HALF FEET.
AND SO THAT IS, UH, A FOUR AND A HALF FOOT DIFFERENCE, UH, OVER, YOU KNOW, UH, SIGNIFICANT PORTIONS OF THIS PROPERTY WILL CREATE TERRACING IN BI AND ALSO, AS JENNIFER WAS SAYING, AFFECT OUR STORMWATER RETENTION.
SO BECAUSE THE HOUSE HAS TO BE AT THE SAME HEIGHT AND THE CODE TODAY ALLOWS FOR MORE APPROPRIATE TRANSITION, WHICH ALSO HELPS THE RESILIENCY AND SUSTAINABILITY OF THIS PROJECT, HAVING MORE FILL FEEDS INTO OUR OWN STORMWATER DRAINAGE, UH, THAT'S, THESE ARE NUMEROUS HARDSHIPS THAT ARE, ARE, ARE IN EFFECT TODAY.
WE KNOW THAT THEY'RE, IN FACT, THEY WOULD'VE, THERE'S BEEN SOME, UM, THEY'VE, THEY'RE OBVIOUSLY, UH, CONTENTIOUS FOR LOTS OF REASONS.
UH, BUT THIS TIES INTO THE CITIES AS WELL AS THE REST OF THE COUNTY'S FLOOD INSURANCE PROGRAM.
UM, SO THEY'VE BEEN DELAYED IN BEING ADOPTED, BUT THE WRITING ON THE WALL AS IT IS, UH, APPEARS TO BE THAT THIS IS GONNA GO INTO EFFECT AND NEGATIVELY AFFECT US.
SO THAT'S ALL WE'RE ASKING IS THAT YOU TAKE INTO ACCOUNT THAT THE CITY'S CODE SHOULD PREVAIL BECAUSE IT IS THE MORE RESILIENT IN THIS CASE.
UH, AND WE WOULD HOPE THAT YOU MAY RECONSIDER THE VARIANCE AND, UH, ALLOW US TO PROCEED, UH, AS PLANNED.
DO YOU HAVE SOMETHING? 'CAUSE I HAD A COMMON QUESTION, BUT I'LL GO AHEAD, DEFER TO YOU.
UM, YES, MR. CHAIRMAN, JUST ONE MORE COMMENT IN THAT, YOU KNOW, THE CODE HAS AN EXCELLENT VESTING MECHANISM WHEN IT COMES TO, THERE'S PENDING LEGISLATION.
IF YOU GET AN APPROVAL HERE, YOU'RE VESTED.
BUT THAT DOESN'T PROTECT YOU AGAINST FEMA REGULATIONS, WHICH ARE A PART MORE OF THE PERMITTING PROCESS.
BUT IF YOU ALL PROVE THIS VARIANCE TODAY, WE'RE VESTED, WE CAN GO FORWARD WITHOUT HAVING TO DELAY IN THE FUTURE.
TO COME BACK TO YOU ALL, WHAT JENNIFER WAS SAYING WAS ACCURATE.
YOU KNOW, HAVING THE YARDS WHERE WE WANT THEM TO BE IS ACTUALLY BETTER FOR OUR NEIGHBORS.
YOU KNOW, WE ALREADY ARE A MODEL RESILIENCY AND WE'RE ASKING TO NOT GO DOWN FROM THAT MODEL, BUT GIVE YOU ALL OUR, OUR BEST, YOU KNOW, BEST MODEL OF RESILIENCY HERE.
UM, THIS IS REALLY MAYBE FOR STAFF, MR. MADDEN.
UM, I JUST WANNA MAKE SURE THAT I UNDERSTAND THE WAY, THE WAY I PICTURE IT IN STAFF IS RECOMMENDING APPROVAL OF ALL THE VARIANCES.
UM, OBVIOUSLY MR. GRIFFIN IS MAKING A SIGNIFICANT INVESTMENT, UM, IN THE CITY OF MIAMI BEACH AND THEY'RE TRYING TO BE PROACTIVE VERSUS REACTIVE.
THAT'S, THAT'S KIND OF HOW I READ IT AND THAT'S WHY I DON'T HAVE A PROBLEM WITH IT.
BUT, UM, WITH, I WANT TO PIGGYBACK ON MR. NAGLE'S QUESTION, UM, ON HAVE WE EVER DONE SOMETHING ON THIS PREEM, YOU KNOW, PRE DONE A PREEMPTIVE, A VARIANCE NOT, YEAH.
AND YOU SAID NO AT THIS BOARD, BUT I KNOW YOU'VE, YOU'VE SERVED ON OTHER CITY BOARDS AT ALL.
HAS, HAS, HAVE WE HAD THIS IN ANY OF THE OTHER BOARDS OR ANY OTHER VARIANCES THAT HAVE BEEN ISSUED THIS TYPE OF SCENARIO? OR THAT THIS IS JUST, THIS IS A ONE TIME, I THINK THIS IS A ONE TIME, THIS IS REALLY THE ONLY REGULATION FOR ZONING PURPOSES THAT WE RELY ON THAT COMES FROM ANOTHER AGENCY, UH, WHICH IS, IS THE BASE FLOOD ELEVATION.
UM, ALL OF THE OTHER REGULATIONS OF VARIANCES THAT WE DEAL WITH ARE THE CITY'S OWN REGULATION, SETBACKS, HEIGHTS, UH, OUR OTHER ARCHITECTURAL STANDARDS.
THOSE ARE THE CITY'S REGULATIONS WE HAVE CONTROL OVER THOSE.
BASE FLOOD ELEVATION IS REALLY THE ONLY NUMBER THAT WE TAKE THE NUMBER FROM ANOTHER AGENCY, UM, TO GUIDE US.
AND SO I, I CAN'T THINK OF ANY OTHER SITUATION IN THE OTHER BOARDS THAT I'VE SERVED ON THAT WE'VE DONE A SO, SO WHAT IS THE, YOU KNOW, AS A BANKER WE ALWAYS LOOK AT WHAT'S THE DOWNSIDE? IF I MAKE A LOAN, WE DON'T GET PAID BACK.
WHAT IS THE DOWNSIDE OF US APPROVING THIS VARIANCE FROM A CITY STANDPOINT, FROM THEIR NEIGHBORS? IS THERE ANY DOWNSIDE BY US APPROVING THIS PREEMPTIVE VARIANCE? DO YOU SEE ANYTHING? I CAN'T THINK OF ANY.
UM, IT'S, IT'S NOT, I DON'T THINK IT'S A NEGATIVE PRECEDENT BECAUSE IT INCREASES THE RESILIENCY OF THE HOME.
UM, AND WE HAVE, PART OF THE CRITERIA THAT WE USE IS THE RESILIENCY CRITERIA.
UM, THAT'S PART OF THE CRITERIA THAT THIS BOARD CAN TAKE INTO ACCOUNT IS THE RESILIENCY CRITERIA.
AND SO WE'RE ALWAYS LOOKING AT WAYS TO MAKE PROJECTS MORE RESILIENT.
UM, AND SO I, I THINK THIS COMPLIES WITH THAT, WITH THAT RESILIENCY CRITERIA.
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UM, I CAN'T THINK OF US EVER RECOMMENDING A SIMILAR TYPE OF VARIANCE IN ANY OTHER SITUATION EXCEPT FOR IN THESE ISLANDS WHERE THE BASE FLOOD ELEVATION IS, IS DROPPING.UH, BECAUSE, UM, ALL OF, FOR ALL OTHER REGULATIONS, LET'S SAY THERE'S A, THERE'S A REGULATION IN PRO THAT, UH, IS GONNA BE CONSIDERED BY THE PLANNING BOARD NEXT MONTH.
IF THE, IF THE BOARD OF ADJUSTMENT APPROVES THE VARIANCE TODAY, THAT'S IT.
THEY'RE LOCKED IN, THE CODE IS SET FOR THEM.
THEY DON'T HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT FUTURE CITY REGULATIONS IMPACTING THEM.
THE CO THE CITY CODE PROVISIONS PROVIDE THAT.
THEY ARE GRANDFATHERED IN THE SECOND THE VOTE, UH, THE BOARD APPROVES, UM, A DEVELOPMENT ORDER.
IN THIS CASE IT'S A REGULATION THAT'S OUTSIDE OF THE CITY'S CONTROL.
SO, SO THEN THEIR O THEIR ONLY OPTION.
CAN YOU EXPLAIN, I JUST WANNA MAKE SURE THE BOARD UNDERSTANDS WHAT THIS DID NOT PASS.
WHAT WOULD THEIR PROCESS BE? I MEAN, WE SAID THEY HAVE TO COME BACK.
THEY WOULD'VE TO COME BACK BEFORE OUR BOARD.
UM, SO OKAY, SO ADDITIONAL COSTS, ADDITIONAL TIME.
WILL THAT IMPACT THEIR ABILITY ONCE THEY GET THEIR PARKING PERMIT PERMIT TO, TO START DOING WHAT THEY NEED TO BE DOING? UM, IF, IF, SO LET'S SAY THEY COULD POTENTIALLY GET A BUILDING PERMIT WITH A YARD ELEVATION AT A LOWER HEIGHT.
UM, THEY COULD START WORK ON IT AND THEN REQUEST A MODIFICATION AND COME BACK TO THE BOARD AND THEN MODIFY THEIR BUILDING PERMIT PLANS AT A LATER DATE WOULD BE AN OPTION FOR THEM.
BUT THAT, THAT WOULD, THAT WOULD, THAT WOULD CREATE, THAT WOULD AFFECT THEIR ENGINEERING AND, AND CREATE A LOT OF COSTS FOR THEM.
I'M NOT TRYING TO MAKE IT DIFFICULT FOR THE, FOR THE APPLICANT.
'CAUSE IT CERTAINLY, IT'S AN AMAZING PROJECT.
I REALLY, BUT I, MY, MY OBJECTION IS ALL ON PROCEDURAL GROUNDS HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THE MERITS OF WHAT IS.
I BELIEVE THAT THE RESILIENCY OF WHAT IS, WHAT HAS BEEN PROPOSED IS BETTER THAN WHAT COULD BE IF, IF THAT'S, BUT I'M NOT, I'M NOT A FLOOD GUY
BUT I'M TRYING TO FOLLOW THE LAW THAT'S IN FRONT OF US AS TO, AND TO MAKE A DECISION ABOUT SOMETHING THAT, UH, UNDER EXISTING LAW.
SO CAN YOU TELL ME WHAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN WITH, UH, THE PERMIT PROCESS FOR THEM? I MEAN, WHAT WOULD BE THE LIKELY PER, UH, PERMIT TIME? I'M JUST TRYING TO UNDERSTAND THIS BECAUSE IF IT DOES CREATE UNNECESSARY HARDSHIP, I'D BE WILLING TO MAKE A MOTION TO RECONSIDER MM-HMM
SO, SO OUR CODE PROVIDES THAT YOUR MAXIMUM YARD ELEVATION IS THE BASE FLOOD ELEVATION.
AND THAT'S WHAT THEY'RE, THEY ARE LOOKING TO GO TO THE MAXIMUM ELEVATION THAT THEY POSSIBLY CAN BUILD FOR THEIR YARDS, WHICH IS THE BASE FLOOD ELEVATION.
UM, THE, IF FEMA, LET'S SAY NEXT MONTH, FEMA REDUCES THE BASE FLOOD ELEVATION TO SEVEN AND A HALF.
THEY HAVE THEIR PERMITS IN PROGRESS.
THAT NUMBER, UM, THEY, THEY DON'T HAVE THEIR BUILDING PERMIT ISSUED.
THEY NOW HAVE TO REDUCE THEIR, UM, THEIR YARDS IN THE SETBACK AREAS FOR THE PURPOSES OF PERMITTING TO SEVEN AND A HALF FEET.
AND IT'S YOUR VIEW THAT THAT'S LIKELY TO HAPPEN BEFORE THE PERMIT WILL BE ISSUED, FROM WHAT I UNDERSTAND? YES.
AND AND YOU BELIEVE IT WOULD CREATE AN UNNECESSARY HARDSHIP FOR YOU.
I, I WOULD MOVE TO RECONSIDER.
UM, WE HAVE A MOTION TO BE CONSIDERED.
WE HAVE MORE DISCUSSION MR. MAGNER, BEFORE WE DO THAT.
UM, BY THE WAY, I LOVE, UM, UH, I, I HAVE A RAIN BARREL MYSELF.
IT'S NOT A RETEN IT'S NOT FOR RETENTION TANKS, BUT I HAVE A RAIN BARREL.
UM, IF, IF WE WERE HOLDING THIS, WHEN IS THIS EXPECTED TO CHANGE THIS LAW? 'CAUSE I, SOMEONE SAID THIS YEAR, BUT LIKE WHEN? THIS YEAR IT'S ALREADY MARCH.
BUT IT'S SOMETIME THIS YEAR THEY SAID.
AND, AND IF WE WERE HOLDING THIS MEETING, THIS APPLICATION, LIKE IF IT WASN'T TODAY, BUT IT WAS IN A FEW MONTHS FROM NOW AND THE LAW HAD ALREADY CHANGED, THEY'D JUST BE ASKING THIS AS A VARIANCE AND NOT A PREEMPTIVE VARIANCE, RIGHT? CORRECT.
SO, SO, UM, MS. MAD, WE HAVE A MOTION TO RECONSIDER.
WE NEED TO, DO WE NEED TO OPEN UP FOR A FULL BOARD VOTE OR DO WE NEED A, WE WOULD NEED A SECOND.
AND THEN YOU WOULD NEED A MOTION TO RECONSIDER TO PASS.
AND THEN YOU CAN TAKE ANOTHER MOTION.
SECOND HAS TO BE FOR ONE OF THE NAYS THOUGH, CORRECT? NO, NO.
UH, YES, IT CAN BE FROM ANYONE.
SO WE HAVE A MOTION BY MR. DAVIS TO RECONSIDER THE VOTE ON VARIANCE NUMBER EIGHT.
DO WE HAVE A SECOND? I'LL SECOND.
WE GOT A SECOND BY MS. SILVERMAN.
OKAY, WE'RE GONNA GO AHEAD AND REOPEN.
WE'RE GONNA REOPEN THE VOTE FOR VARIANCE NUMBER EIGHT.
UM, CAN I ASK MR. MADDEN THAT YOU DO A, A ROLL CALL THIS TIME PLEASE? ABSOLUTELY.
DO WE HAVE A, A MOTION AND A SECOND TO APPROVE THE VARIANCE? WE HAVE A MOTION BY MR DID WE DO THAT? WE HAD A MOTION TO RE MOTION.
OH, SO NOW I NEED YOU TO MOTION, OKAY.
YEAH, WE NEED A NEW MY VOTE ON THAT.
I'M GONNA RECONSIDER, I APOLOGIZE.
SO THE RECONSIDER IS UNANIMOUS.
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IT UP FOR ANY MOTIONS TO APPROVE VARIANCE NUMBER EIGHT.DO WE HAVE A MOTION TO APPROVE VARIANCE EIGHT AS PRESENTED? THAT IS THE MAXIMUM YARD ELEVATION VARIANCE.
YOU SAID YOU'RE GONNA DO ROLL CALL.
SEE, THAT'S WHY, THAT'S WHY YOU HAVE A VICE CHAIR.
YOU'RE, ANY, YOUR P MR MAD TAKE A ROLL CALL PLEASE.
WE HAVE A MOTION BY MR. MELLI, SECOND BY MR. DAVIS FOR VARIANCE NUMBER EIGHT.
SO WE HAVE, UH, FIVE TO TWO, THE MOTION PASSES.
CONGRATULATIONS YOU ALL VERY MUCH AND YOU KNOW, WE REALLY APPRECIATE MR. GRIFFIN PICKING MIAMI BEACH AS HIS HOME AND THE INVESTMENT AND EVERYTHING THAT HE DOES.
WE'RE LOOKING FORWARD TO SEEING THE FINISHED PRODUCT.
THANK YOU FOR YOUR PRESENTATION.
UM, WE HAVE NO APPEALS, MR. MADDEN, UH, OTHER BUSINESS.
THERE'S NO, THERE ARE NO, AND WE ARE GONNA HAVE YOU WANT, WE HAVE A COUPLE APPEALS THEY'RE GONNA, UM, RIGHT NOW ON THE AGENDA, WE HAVE THREE APPEALS FOR THE MAY 2ND AGENDA.
UM, WE DO EXPECT THAT ONE OF THEM WILL LIKELY BE SETTLED BEFOREHAND, BUT, BUT WE HAVE TO PLAN ON IT BEING THERE FOR THE MAY 2ND MEETING.
UM, ANY OTHER GOOD WELFARE OR BUSINESS BOARD? OKAY.
THANK YOU FOR YOUR PARTICIPATION AND HAVE A GREAT DAY AND A GREAT WEEKEND.