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GOOD MORNING, I'M SUSAN CHAMPER AND THIS IS ON ZOOM TO OUR JUNE 9TH, 2026 HISTORIC PRESERVATION BOARD MEETING.
[CITY ATTORNEY UPDATES]
BEFORE WE GET STARTED, I'M GOING TO TURN IT OVER TO OUR CITY ATTORNEY TO LET EVERYONE KNOW HOW THEY CAN PARTICIPATE IN THIS MEETING.TODAY'S MEETING OF THE HISTORIC PRESERVATION BOARD IS BEING CONDUCTED IN A HYBRID FORMAT.
WITH THE QUORUM OF THE BOARD PHYSICALLY PRESENT IN THE COMMISSION CHAMBERS AT MIAMI BEACH CITY HALL AND APPLICANTS, STAFF, AND MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC APPEARING EITHER IN PERSON OR VIRTUALLY VIA ZOOM, THOSE WISHING TO PARTICIPATE IN TODAY'S MEETING VIA ZOOM MAY DIAL 888-475-4499, WHICH IS THE TOLL-FREE NUMBER, AND ENTER THE WEBINAR ID, WHICH AGAIN IS 817-4834-7488.
INDIVIDUALS WISHING TO SPEAK ON AN ITEM MUST CLICK THE RAISE HAND ICON IF USING ZOOM OR DIAL STAR 9 IF PARTICIPATING BY PHONE.
[SWEARING IN OF PUBLIC]
BEFORE I SWEAR ON THOSE WHO ARE TESTIFYING, 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, INCLUDING AS AN ARCHITECT, ATTORNEY, OR REPRESENTATIVE OF AN APPLICANT OR AN OBJECTOR, YOU NEED TO REGISTER AS A LOBBYIST WITH THE CITY CLERK'S OFFICE BEFORE SPEAKING WITH THE BOARD.
YOU DO NOT HAVE TO REGISTER IF YOU ARE SPEAKING ONLY ON BEHALF OF YOURSELF.
YOU ARE TESTIFYING AS AN EXPERT WITNESS, PROVIDING ONLY SCIENTIFIC, TECHNICAL, OR OTHER SPECIALIZED INFORMATION, OR YOU ARE APPEARING AS A REPRESENTATIVE OF A NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION WITHOUT COMPENSATION TO EXPRESS SUPPORT FOR 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 ARE COMMUNICATING.
THESE RULES APPLY WHETHER YOU ARE APPEARING IN FAVOR OF OR AGAINST AN ITEM, OR ENCOURAGING OR ARGUING AGAINST ITS PASSAGE, DEFEAT, MODIFICATION, OR CONTINUANCE.
I WILL NOW SWEAR ON EVERYONE WHO IS PHYSICALLY PRESENT IN THE COMMISSION CHAMBERS AND INTENDS TO TESTIFY.
VIRTUAL SPEAKERS WILL NEED TO BE SWORN IN ONE BY ONE BEFORE ADDRESSING THE BOARD.
SO IF YOU WILL BE TESTIFYING, PLEASE RAISE YOUR RIGHT HAND.
DO YOU SWEAR THAT THE TESTIMONY YOU WILL BE GIVING IN THIS PROCEEDING IS THE TRUTH, THE WHOLE TRUTH, AND NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH? THANK YOU.
OKAY, SO JUST A QUICK RECAP ON HOW WE'RE GOING TO RUN THE MEETING.
SO FOR EACH APPLICATION, THE STAFF WILL PRESENT THE ITEM AND DESCRIBE THE STAFF RECOMMENDATIONS.
THE BOARD WILL BE PERMITTED TO ASK QUESTIONS OF THE STAFF.
THEN WE'LL ASK THE APPLICANT TO MAKE THEIR PRESENTATION.
THE BOARD WILL PRESENT QUESTIONS FOR THE APPLICANT.
IF THE APPLICANT WOULD BE SO KIND AS TO HOLD THE QUESTIONS AND ANSWER THEM ALL IN ONE RATHER THAN A BACK AND FORTH, IT MAKES THINGS RUN A LITTLE BIT MORE SMOOTHLY.
AND THEN WE'LL DO BOARD DISCLOSURES, PUBLIC HEARING, AND THEN BOARD COMMENTARY AND TAKE OUR VOTE.
[APPROVAL OF MINUTES]
SO WITH THAT, I BELIEVE WE HAVE SOME MINUTES TO APPROVE.BEFORE WE DO THAT, I JUST WANT TO LET THE PUBLIC KNOW THAT WE HAVE SIX MEMBERS PRESENT TODAY.
MR. HOLLINGWORTH WILL NOT BE PRESENT.
WE DO NEED TO HAVE FIVE MEMBERS TO VOTE IN FAVOR OF ANY APPLICATION THAT INCLUDES A VARIANCE OR A C OF A THAT INCLUDES DEMOLITION.
SO WITH THAT, WE DO HAVE TWO AFTER-ACTIONS TO GO THROUGH IN TERMS OF THE MINUTES.
THE FIRST IS THE APRIL 14TH AFTER-ACTION, WHICH I PASSED OUT THIS MORNING.
AND THE NEXT ITEM IS THE MAY MINUTES, MAY 12TH.
[2. HPB25-0683, 1680 COLLINS AVENUE AND 1671 JAMES AVENUE – SAN JUAN HOTEL.]
WE GO TO THE FIRST ITEM ON OUR AGENDA, WHICH IS HPB 25-0683 FOR 1680 COLLINS AVENUE.THIS APPLICATION WAS LAST BEFORE YOU IN APRIL.
ALTHOUGH THE BOARD DID NOT REVIEW THE APPLICATION, THE APPLICANT REQUESTED A CONTINUANCE.
THEY WERE FURTHER DEVELOPING THE PLANS AND VARIANCES.
INITIALLY, THEY DID HAVE A VARIANCE OR TWO.
FOR THE ROOFTOP, THEY SINCE REVISED THE PLANS, THERE'S NO LONGER ANY VARIANCE ASSOCIATED WITH THIS APPLICATION.
THIS IS AN INTERESTING PROJECT.
IT INCLUDES A RESTORATION OF THE PORTION OF THE BUILDING ALONG COLLINS AVENUE.
THE APPLICANT IS PROPOSING TO DEMOLISH THE MIDSECTION IN TERMS OF THE INTERIOR.
THEY'RE KEEPING UP THE SIDEWALLS, THE NORTH AND SOUTH SIDEWALLS, DEMOLISHING THE INTERIOR AND DOING A TWO-STORY ROOFTOP ADDITION ON TOP OF THAT PORTION.
THE WESTERN PORTION ALONG JAMES AVENUE WILL BE DEMOLISHED, ABOUT 35 FEET.
THAT'S WHERE THE BRAND NEW CONSTRUCTION OF FIVE STORIES IS PROPOSED ALONG JAMES AVENUE.
CURRENTLY, THE JAMES AVENUE FACADE HAS A PARKING LOT AND AN UNADORNED, BASICALLY A BACK ALLEY ELEVATION FACING JAMES AVENUE.
THE APPLICANT IS FULLY DEVELOPING THAT WITH NEW CONSTRUCTION, WHICH WE BELIEVE IS GOING TO BE VERY BENEFICIAL TO THE NEIGHBORHOOD.
WE'RE VERY SUPPORTIVE OF THE APPLICATION.
WE BELIEVE THE NEW CONSTRUCTION FITS IN WELL WITH THE HISTORIC BUILDING THAT'S BEEN RENOVATED, THAT WILL BE RENOVATED.
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THIS APPLICATION ALSO INCLUDES A WAIVER OF THE FOUR REQUIRED OFF-STREET LOADING SPACES.THIS IS IMPORTANT BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, WITH THE REMOVAL OF THAT NON-CONFORMING I-SORT OF PARKING LOT ALONG JAMES AVENUE, THAT'S THE REASON WHY THE APPLICANT'S REQUESTING THE WAIVER OF THE PARKING REQUIRED FOR LOADING.
WE'RE FULLY SUPPORTIVE OF THAT WAIVER, WHICH HAS ALSO BEEN SUPPORTED BY THE PARKING DEPARTMENT.
DOES THE BOARD HAVE ANY QUESTIONS FOR ME? NO, I DON'T THINK SO.
FOR THE RECORD, MY NAME IS CARTER MCDOWELL WITH THE BILLS AND SUNDBERG.
YOU'RE HERE REPRESENTING THE APPLICANT.
WE'RE EXCITED TO BRING THIS PROJECT TO YOU.
AS YOU HEARD, WE HAVE STRONG STAFF RECOMMENDATIONS.
ALAN SCHULMAN IS OUR ARCHITECT, AND WE HAVE OUR LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT HERE ALSO.
WE LOOK FORWARD TO DISCUSSING THE PROJECT WITH YOU.
I'D LIKE TO INTRODUCE THE OWNER FOR JUST A MOMENT TO SAY A COUPLE WORDS TO YOU, NAWAZ GHULANI.
AND THIS YEAR MARKS THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE SAN JUAN HOTEL BEING UNDER MY FAMILY'S STEWARDSHIP.
AND WE'RE REALLY PROUD OF THAT.
AND WE ALSO FIND A LOT OF RESEMBLANCE BETWEEN MY FAMILY'S JOURNEY AND THE CITY OF MIAMI BEACH.
EVERYTHING FROM DIVERSITY TO RESILIENCE TO THE BELIEF THAT THE PRESERVATION OF CHARACTER IS WHAT MAKES OUR COMMUNITY SO UNIQUE AND SUCCESSFUL.
I BELIEVE THE SHULMAN TEAM HAVE CAPTURED ALL OF THAT IN THIS PROJECT, AND WE REALLY HOPE TO HAVE YOUR SUPPORT.
AS I MENTIONED, WE ARE IN FULL SUPPORT OF THE STAFF RECOMMENDATION.
WE HAVE ONE PROPOSED SMALL AMENDMENT TO CONDITION 1B, BUT ALAN WILL ADDRESS THAT AS PART OF THE PRESENTATION OF THE ARCHITECTURE.
AND AS YOU CAN SEE, WE'VE GOT SOME RENDERINGS TO ADDRESS WITH YOU.
WITHOUT FURTHER ADO, LET ME INTRODUCE ALAN SCHULMAN, WHO YOU ALL KNOW, TO WALK YOU THROUGH THE PROJECT.
ALAN SCHULMAN WITH OFFICES AT 7300 BISCAYNE BOULEVARD.
AND I'M REALLY EXCITED TO BE HERE PRESENTING THE SAN JUAN HOTEL.
IT'S A PROJECT I'VE BEEN WATCHING FOR MANY YEARS.
IT'S IN A REALLY IMPORTANT LOCATION ON COLLINS AVENUE AND ALSO ON JAMES, SPANNING THROUGH THE BLOCK.
IF WE CAN GO TO THE PRESENTATION.
PROBABLY ARE FAMILIAR, BUT IT IS IN THAT FIRST BLOCK NORTH OF LINCOLN ROAD, YOU KNOW, FACING BUILDINGS LIKE THE SAGAMORE, WITH WHICH IT IS CO- SHARES THE SAME YEAR OF CONSTRUCTION.
AND I THINK WE HAVE A REAL OPPORTUNITY HERE TO DO SOMETHING THAT BOTH BRINGS BACK THE HISTORIC INTEGRITY OF THE COLLINS AVENUE FACADE, BUT ALSO ADDS ANOTHER NEW LAYER TO THE BACK OF THE BUILDING.
AND JUST TO FAMILIARIZE YOU AGAIN WITH THE CURRENT CONDITIONS, THIS IS THE FACADE, THE HENRY HOHHAUSER-DESIGNED FACADE, 1948 ON COLLINS AVENUE.
ONE THING THAT WE WILL BE FIXING IS THAT ON THE LEFT-HAND SIDE THERE, YOU CAN SEE THAT THE EXTENSION OF THE LOBBY HAS BEEN LOWERED TO THE GROUND MANY, LIKE A FEW DECADES AGO, TO CREATE A LIQUOR STORE.
WE PROPOSE TO BRING BACK THE ORIGINAL LOBBY, THE ORIGINAL TERRACE THAT GOES IN FRONT OF IT, AND TO IMPROVE THE FRONT OF THE BUILDING, BUT OVERALL TO IMPROVE AND TO PRESERVE THAT COLLINS AVENUE FACADE.
ON THE BACK, IT IS REALLY A BACK OF A BUILDING.
IT DOESN'T REALLY HAVE ANY DETAIL, AND IN FRONT OF IT IS PARKING.
SO THAT JUST BACKS OUT ONTO JAMES AVENUE.
AND GOING BACK TO COLLINS FOR A MOMENT, AS WE APPROACH THE BUILDING, THERE IS A BEAUTIFUL ENTRANCE AND WE ARE GOING TO BE IMPROVING THAT WITH THE EXTENSION OF THE TERRACE ALONG COLLINS AVENUE AND ALSO MAKING IT HANDICAPPED ACCESSIBLE.
AND THE LOBBY IS, DOES NOT LOOK LIKE A HISTORIC LOBBY RIGHT NOW, BUT IT HAS ALL THE PIECES.
AND WITH THE ADDITION THAT WE ARE BRINGING BACK, WE HOPE TO RESTORE THE INTEGRITY OF THAT IMPORTANT PIECE, TOO.
SO HERE'S JUST TO KIND OF GIVE YOU THE OVERALL LAY
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OF THE LAND.HERE'S THE COLLINS AVENUE FACADE.
HERE YOU CAN SEE THE MAIN ELEMENTS OF THE BUILDING PRESERVED.
JUST TO POINT OUT A FEW DETAILS ON THE SOUTH SIDE, MEANING ON THE LEFT OF THE MAIN ENTRANCE, YOU CAN SEE WHERE WE ARE.
BRINGING THAT WING OF THE BUILDING BACK UP TO THE LOBBY LEVEL, WE ARE RESTORING IT.
WE ARE RESTORING THE FACADE AROUND IT.
WE ARE RESTORING THE TERRACE IN FRONT OF IT, INCLUDING THE STONE FRONTING OF THAT TERRACE.
AND WE'RE RESTORING THE ORIGINAL LOCATION OF THE SIGN, THE SAN JUAN SIGN.
IT WAS MOVED TO THE CENTER WHEN THE LIQUOR STORE WAS INSTALLED.
SO WE'LL BE MOVING IT BACK TO ITS LOCATION.
AND I CAN TALK MORE ABOUT THE FRONT.
AREA WHEN WE TALK ABOUT THE SITE PLAN, BUT THIS IS THE OVERALL STRATEGY OF THE BUILDING.
SO YOU CAN SEE ON THE RIGHT HAND OR THE BOTTOM RIGHT, THE COLLINS AVENUE FRONTAGE AND THE LIKE DRIVEWAY, WHICH IS BEING REPURPOSED AS A KIND OF A PLAZA IN FRONT.
YOU SEE THE ORIGINAL BUILDING GOING BACK.
THEN YOU SEE THE NEW BUILDING COMING FROM JAMES AVENUE.
AND PLUGGING IN TO THE SIDE, TO THE NORTH SIDE OF THAT HISTORIC BUILDING.
AND THEN BETWEEN THE TWO IS A VERY IMPORTANT ELEMENT, IT'S A COURTYARD.
THAT COURTYARD SERVES MANY PURPOSES.
IT'S AN AMENITY FOR THE BUILDING.
IT ALLOWS US TO MAKE A GREAT ENTRANCE AND A RESILIENT BUILDING, BECAUSE IT ALLOWS US TO RAISE THE LOBBY, WHICH IS MOVING TO JAMES AVENUE, THE MAIN HOTEL LOBBY.
IT ALLOWS US TO MAKE THAT AT THE, SORRY, AT THE BASE FLOOD ELEVATION.
THIS IS THE JAMES AVENUE FACADE.
WE ARE IN A CD3 DISTRICT, AND WE HAVE A HEIGHT LIMIT OF 55 FEET.
WE ARE JUST TO THE NORTH OF...
THAT BIG OPEN PARKING LOT THAT OCCUPIES THAT BLOCK AND THERE HAVE BEEN PROJECTS PROPOSED FOR THAT PARKING LOT AND WE HAVE MASKED OUT ONE OF THE PROJECTS THAT I BELIEVE WAS APPROVED I'M NOT SURE IF IT HAD HPB APPROVAL BUT ANYWAY IT WAS IT WAS IT'S BEEN PRESENTED HERE SO THAT BUILDING WOULD EVEN BE TALLER AND CLOSER TO THE STREET THAN OUR BUILDING WE HAVE ALTHOUGH WE HAVE ZERO FRONT SETBACK AND ZERO SIDE SETBACKS BY CODE BY ZONING WE HAVE SET THE BUILDING BACK FIVE FEET ON COLLINS AVENUE, ON JAMES AVENUE, AND FIVE FEET ON OUR NORTH SIDE, THE SIDE THAT WE SHARE WITH GAIL.
OH, AND I SHOULD MENTION, A VERY IMPORTANT PART OF THIS FACADE IS THAT IT PLAYS WITH THE LANGUAGE OF THE SAN JUAN COLLINS AVENUE FACADE.
THAT ZIGZAGGING MOTIF THAT YOU SEE.
IT USES IT IN A COMPLETELY DIFFERENT WAY, BUT THAT ZIGZAGGING MOTIF IN THE CENTRAL PANEL OF THE FACADE HAS BEEN USED AS OUR KIND OF CANVAS IN WHICH WE'VE THEN DONE SORT OF A DIFFERENT ARRANGEMENT OF WINDOWS AND EVERYTHING.
SO IT'S BASICALLY REINTERPRETING THAT LANGUAGE AND BRINGING THAT INTO THE 21ST CENTURY.
THIS IS A SECTION THROUGH THE BUILDING, AND HERE YOU CAN SEE HOW WE'RE USING THE COURTYARD TO APPROACH.
THE LOBBY, IN AN ELEGANT WAY, THERE'S A VERY SLIGHT RAMP UP TO THE COURTYARD, AND THEN STAIRS AND A RAMP THAT TAKE YOU FROM THE COURTYARD INTO THE LOBBY.
BUT OF COURSE, FROM JAMES AVENUE, THE LOBBY OPENS DIRECTLY TO THE STREET IN A VERY GENEROUS WAY THROUGH GLASS AND A TERRACE.
SO YOU'LL SEE THAT IN A MOMENT.
IT'S FOUR FLOORS ON TOP OF THAT LOBBY FLOOR.
AND THEN WE HAVE A ROOFTOP POOL OVER THAT.
AND HERE YOU CAN ALSO SEE THE INTERSECTION WITH THE THREE-STORY VOLUME OF THE HISTORIC BUILDING.
THIS IS THE, THIS IS A LITTLE MORE SKETCHY, BUT IT'S THE APPROACH FROM JAMES AVENUE.
SO YOU CAN SEE THAT THERE'S A CANOPY FEATURE THAT BRINGS YOU, IT'S LIKE ON THAT PROMENADE FROM JAMES AVENUE INTO THE COURTYARD.
AND HERE YOU CAN SEE THE LOBBY.
WE HAVE SOME PUBLIC OPEN AMENITY SPACES THAT ARE JUST TO ONE SIDE OF THE LOBBY THERE'S LANDSCAPING ALSO THERE TOO AND AS YOU'RE COMING UP THAT RAMP YOU'RE ENTERING THE LOBBY OF THE LOT YOU'RE ENTERING THE PATIO YOU HAVE THE LOBBY TO THE LEFT YOU HAVE THE CANOPY ABOVE YOU AND AS YOU COME INTO THE COURTYARD YOU ARE IN A SHADED VERY HUMANE SPACE THE LANGUAGE OF THE BUILDING WRAPS AROUND, SO YOU HAVE THAT ZIGZAG FACADE ON THE BUILDING THAT FACES JAMES AVENUE.
AND THEN WHAT WE'VE DONE IS WE'VE RECREATED A GLASS BLOCK
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FACADE, OR LET'S SAY WE'VE REINTERPRETED A GLASS BLOCK FACADE THAT WAS PART OF THE ORIGINAL SAN JUAN THAT'S NO LONGER THERE.AND SO WE'VE USED THAT AS THE LANGUAGE OF THE SOUTH FACADE OF THE NEW BUILDING.
SO HERE YOU SEE THE APPROACH FROM THE PATIO INTO THE LOBBY.
A SECTION, THE BUILDING IS 53 FEET AND 55 ALLOWED, SO WE'RE A COUPLE FEET LESS THAN REQUIRED.
HERE YOU CAN SEE HOW THE LOBBY IS RAISED TO THE BASE FLOOD ELEVATION PLUS ONE.
HERE YOU SEE THE RELATIONSHIP OF THE HISTORIC BUILDING AND THE NEW BUILDING COMING TOGETHER.
WE HAVE ABOUT NINE FOOT NINE INCH FLOOR TO FLOOR LEVELS ON THAT ON THAT WING.
HERE, AS WE'RE CUTTING NORTH SOUTH THROUGH THE NORTH WING OF THE BUILDING, YOU CAN SEE HOW THE WE HAVE TWO STORIES ON TOP OF THREE STORIES LOOKING INTO THE COURTYARD.
THAT IS WHAT YOU IF YOU WERE TO CUT THROUGH THE.
WHERE THE NEW BUILDING GOES OVER THE EXISTING BUILDING AND MORE SECTIONS.
IN THE FRONT OF THE BUILDING THERE IS AN EXISTING ROOFTOP PENTHOUSE.
THAT IS ACTUALLY WHERE MR. GALANI GREW UP.
AND WE ARE GOING TO BE REUSING THAT, CHANGING IT.
WE'RE SHRINKING IT IN SIZE SO THAT IT FITS PERFECTLY BEHIND THE PARAPET, THE TALL PARAPET ON THE FRONT.
BUT WE'RE RAISING THE CEILING A BIT IN THERE.
THIS IS A DEMOLITION PLAN OF THE GROUND FLOOR THAT SHOWS HOW WE ARE KEEPING A FEW, THE NORTH AND SOUTH WALLS GOING BACK TO MAINTAIN THAT INTEGRITY OF THE ORIGINAL VOLUME OF THE BUILDING WHILE DEMOLISHING SOME OF THE ROOMS BEHIND THAT AND THEN RECONSTRUCTING THEM.
THIS IS THE EXISTING LOBBY CONDITION.
SO HERE YOU SEE THE LIQUOR STORE ON THE BOTTOM, AND YOU SEE THE LOBBY ON THE TOP.
AND HERE IS THE RESTORED CONDITION WHERE THAT SPACE HAS BEEN REINTEGRATED INTO THE LOBBY AT THE SAME LEVEL.
THAT LOBBY, EVERYTHING WOULD BE RESTORED, BUT IT WOULD BE AVAILABLE AS AN F&B SPACE.
HERE YOU CAN ALSO SEE HOW WE ARE RECONSTRUCTING THE FRONT TERRACE.
AND HERE YOU CAN ALSO SEE THAT THE FRONT OF THE BUILDING HAS BEEN RECONFIGURED SO THAT IT'S MORE LIKE A PLAZA IN FRONT OF THE HOTEL INSTEAD OF A, LET'S SAY, A DRIVE-THRU.
IT STILL CAN PERFORM THE FUNCTION OF A DRIVE-THRU, BUT IT WOULD HAVE A DIFFERENT LOOK.
WE'VE DONE A LOT OF WORK TO RESTORE THE MAIN ELEMENTS OF THE LOBBY.
I COULD ANSWER QUESTIONS ABOUT THAT IF YOU HAVE THEM.
AND THEN AS WE GO THROUGH THE BUILDING...
YOU CAN SEE HOW THE UNITS ARE ORGANIZED.
WE HAVE SMALLER UNITS IN THE HISTORIC PORTION OF THE BUILDING.
WE HAVE LARGER UNITS IN THE NEW PORTION OF THE BUILDING, WHICH IS IDENTIFIED WITH THE SOLID YELLOW COLOR.
AS WE GO UP, YOU CAN SEE THAT THE BUILDING, THE WING THAT GOES OVER THE EXISTING BUILDING SHRINKS BACK SO THAT THE EXISTING BUILDING IS PROUD.
THAT YOU CAN SEE HOW THE ROOFTOP PENTHOUSE ON THE EAST SIDE MR. SCHULMAN YEAH HOW MUCH MORE TIME DO YOU NEED SORRY HOW MUCH MORE TIME OH MAYBE ONE MINUTE I'LL GO VERY QUICKLY THANK YOU YEAH WELL WE CAN TALK ABOUT ALL THIS THIS IS THE ROOF DECK HERE WHICH HAS A POOL AND AND THEN A LOWER KIND OF SEATING AREA TOWARDS THE EAST LOOKING EAST AND JUST I MEAN I CAN ADDRESS THESE MATERIALS IN DISCUSSION IF YOU LIKE.
I WON'T TAKE THE TIME TO DO IT NOW, BUT WE'RE BASICALLY REUSING ALL THE EXISTING MATERIALS, BUT USING THEM IN THE NEW BUILDING IN A NEW WAY.
AND WE HAVE ONE LOADING SPACE AND A COUPLE PARKING SPACES, PARALLEL PARKING ON THE JAMES AVENUE SIDE, AND WE'VE PROPOSED SOME SIGNAGE FOR THE BUILDING.
WE WANTED TO PUT THAT OUT IN FRONT RIGHT NOW JUST IN CASE THERE WERE ANY.
QUESTIONS WITH WHAT WE'RE DOING, INCLUDING THE RECONSTRUCTION OF A POLE SIGN THAT HAD BEEN LOST.
AND WITH THAT, I THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME.
I WOULD ONLY SAY IT'S IMPORTANT THAT WE HAVE THE INITIAL FILING INCLUDED TWO VARIANCES.
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WE'VE ELIMINATED THOSE VARIANCES.MICHAEL MENTIONED IT IN PASSING.
WE MEET OR EXCEED ALL OF THE REQUIRED SETBACKS, AND WE'RE HERE TO ANSWER QUESTIONS.
SORRY, JUST QUICK QUESTION FOR STAFF ONE MORE TIME.
SO WHAT ARE WE BEING ASKED TO DO? A CERTIFICATE OF APPROPRIATENESS? IS THAT WHAT THIS IS? CORRECT, FOR THE DEMOLITION, BECAUSE IT DOESN'T INCLUDE THE DEMOLITION OF...
LARGE PART OF THE BUILDING DOES REQUIRE FIVE VOTES FOR THE DEMOLITION AND NEW CONSTRUCTION.
THE GLASS BLOCK IS REPLACING AN EXISTING WALL OF THE EXISTING BUILDING? NO, THE GLASS BLOCK IS BEING USED IN A NEW AREA OF THE BUILDING.
SO IT IS THE AREA THAT IS SORT OF SURROUNDING THE COURTYARD.
THAT'S WHY YOU SEE IT IN THE COURTYARD RENDERING THAT I CAN SHOW YOU HERE.
GENERALLY, I THINK THAT'S A REALLY BEAUTIFUL PRESENTATION AND PROJECT.
THE STONE ON THE FRONT LOW WALL, OUT OF CURIOSITY, I THINK ONE OF THE SHEETS SAID IT'S LIKE CRAB STONE OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT.
WHERE DOES THAT COME FROM? I'VE SEEN IT AROUND IN A FEW PLACES.
YOU KNOW, THAT'S A GOOD QUESTION.
CRAB ORCHARD, RIGHT, I THINK IT'S CALLED.
I ALWAYS ASSUMED IT WAS FROM THE NORTHEAST, BUT...
LIKE VERMONT OR SOMETHING, BUT I'M NOT 100% SURE.
IS THAT ON THE EXISTING HOTEL? IT'S ON THE EXISTING HOTEL.
YOU KNOW, YOU SEE IT IN THAT NARROW BAND OF YEARS, LIKE SORT OF MID-50S, 40S TO 50S, BUT THEN IT KIND OF GOES AWAY.
I THINK REALLY GREAT PRESENTATION AND BEAUTIFUL DRAWINGS.
WE WOULD LIKE TO ALSO ADDRESS THE ONE CONDITION.
I APOLOGIZE IF WE DIDN'T DO THAT IN THE PRESENTATION.
THERE WAS A CONDITION ON THE FRONT.
I DON'T KNOW IF THERE'S A TRAVELING MIC, BUT ON THE FRONT FACADE, WE HAD ON THE NEW WING, THE WING THAT WE ARE RECONSTRUCTING OF THE COLLINS AVENUE FACADE FROM WHERE THE LIQUOR STORE IS NOW.
WE HAD PROPOSED CONTINUOUS FOLDING DOORS, LIKE KIND OF A NANOWALL SYSTEM THAT COULD OPEN THAT WHOLE FRONT TO...
KIND OF OPEN IT TO THE STREET A LITTLE BIT MORE.
BUT ONE OF THE CONDITIONS WAS TO REPLACE THAT WITH SWINGING DOORS.
AND WE CAN GO WITH THAT CONDITION, BUT WHAT WE WOULD ASK IS THAT WE USE MULTIPLE SWINGING DOORS INSTEAD OF JUST ONE PAIR OF SWINGING DOORS.
WHY FOR SOUND? IS THAT WHY? THE ISSUE IS THERE'S A BAR COUNTER RIGHT NEXT TO IT.
SO EVEN IF THEY WERE TO CLOSE THOSE DOORS, BAR COUNTER HAS TO CLOSE AT MIDNIGHT BECAUSE WE HAVE TO CONSIDER IT TO BE OPEN AT ANY TIME.
SO IT JUST AVOIDS ENFORCEMENT ISSUES AND AVOIDS THE NOISE FROM SPILLING OUT.
SO MULTIPLE SWING DOORS IS FINE.
ELIZABETH, YOU HAVE QUESTIONS? HI, ALAN.
THANKS SO MUCH FOR THE PRESENTATION.
WOULD YOU MIND GOING OVER AGAIN WHAT PORTION OF THE EXISTING BUILDING IS GOING TO BE DEMOLISHED? ESPECIALLY IT WAS NOT VERY CLEAR.
THERE IS LIKE THE THE ELCHE PART OF THE BUILDING THAT YOU HAVE THE RED WALLS THERE.
SO WOULD YOU MIND GOING OVER THAT AGAIN? YEAH, IF I CAN PULL UP THE PRESENTATION AGAIN.
SO THIS IS A DEMOLITION PLAN OF THE GROUND FLOOR.
SO THERE ARE THREE ZONES THAT WE CAN IDENTIFY.
YOU CAN SEE THEM AT THE TOP WITH THE ARROWS.
THE FRONT ZONE, AND I CAN'T READ THAT NUMBER RIGHT NOW FROM WHERE I'M STANDING, BUT THAT IS ENTIRELY, NOTHING IS BEING TOUCHED IN THERE.
THERE'S GOING TO BE SOME REINFORCEMENTS, PROBABLY GOING INTO SOME OF THE WALLS, BUT THAT'S BASICALLY JUST 100% BEING MAINTAINED.
BEHIND THAT, WHERE THE RED LINES ARE, WE ARE DEMOLISHING THE INTERIOR, BUT WE'RE KEEPING THE EXTERIOR WALLS.
THAT THIRD ZONE THAT IS CLOSEST TO JAMES, WE'RE DEMOLISHING THAT WHOLE PIECE.
SO BASICALLY, AND THEN THE THING I SHOULD PROBABLY POINT OUT IS THAT THE EXTENT OF THOSE SIDEWALLS IS BEING REDUCED A BIT.
LIKE, YOU KNOW, RIGHT NOW THEY RUN ALL THE WAY FROM THE FRONT TO THE BACK.
THEY'RE GOING TO BE THE FIRST TWO ZONES INSTEAD OF THE THIRD ZONE.
SO IT'S GOING TO BE, AND WITHIN THAT WE'RE PUTTING IN NEW FOUNDATIONS.
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BEHIND THOSE FACADES, STRUCTURING THOSE FACADES TO BE RETAINED.SO BASICALLY THE RED WALLS WILL BE TALLER TO ACCOMMODATE ADDITIONAL FLOORS? ON THE NORTH SIDE.
AND THERE ARE LIKE TWO UNITS THAT ARE ON THE LOWER RED WALL THAT ARE NOT RED.
WHAT'S HAPPENING TO THOSE TWO UNITS? THOSE TWO UNITS ARE BEING DEMOLISHED.
AND WHERE THE GLASS BLOCK IS GOING TO GO? THE GLASS BLOCKS SO BY THE WAY, THE REASON THOSE TWO UNITS ARE BEING DEMOLISHED IS THAT WHEN WE'RE BUILDING FROM JAMES, BUT WE WANTED TO MAKE THAT COURTYARD A REASONABLE SIZE, RIGHT? AND TRUST ME, WE WERE TRYING TO SAVE EVERY UNIT.
SO THE GLASS BLOCK, I DON'T KNOW IF THERE'S A POINTER.
THE GLASS BLOCK IS ON THE NORTH SIDE.
IT DOESN'T SHOW UP ON THE SCREEN HERE, BUT IT'S ON THE NORTH SIDE OF THE COURTYARD, SO IT NEEDS TO BE RED.
THE TWO UNITS THAT ARE GOING TO BE DEMOLISHED, WHERE WOULD THEY BE IN THIS PLAN? THEY WOULD BE IN THE COURTYARD.
THEY WOULD BE, IF YOU FOLLOW THE SOUTH WALL OF THE HISTORIC BUILDING, THEY WOULD BE A CONTINUATION OF THAT WALL.
THE TOP THREE IS APPROXIMATELY ARE.
THOSE TWO MORE BAYS BASICALLY WOULD EXTEND TO THE WEST.
YOU MENTIONED RESTORATIVE WORK IN THE ORIGINAL LOBBY.
WE DIDN'T, OR MANY OF US, DID NOT GET THE FULL PACKAGE THIS MONTH.
DO YOU HAVE ANY RENDERINGS, AND CAN YOU EXPLAIN A LITTLE MORE IN DETAIL THE USE? WILL THE ORIGINAL LOBBY? YEAH.
I'M SORRY IF YOU HAVE THE PRESENTATION AGAIN.
SORRY WE PREPARED THESE ELEVATIONS SO FOR A NUMBER OF REASONS WE'RE MOVING THE ACTUAL FUNCTIONAL HOTEL LOBBY TO JAMES AVENUE JUST IN TERMS OF DROP-OFF AND MANAGEMENT AND ELEVATE, YOU KNOW, LIKE HANDICAPPED ACCESSIBILITY AND ALL THAT STUFF JUST BETTER WHAT WE'RE DOING IS WE'RE RESTORING THE SPATIAL ENVELOPE, THE TERRAZZO FLOORS, THE PLASTER SOFFITS AND THE PLASTER LIGHT COVES AND EVERYTHING, THE COLUMNS, THE ORIGINAL OPENINGS LIKE THAT ARCHED OPENING THAT YOU SEE ON THE THIRD ROW DOWN.
THE DESK HAS BEEN REPLACED IN A PREVIOUS RENOVATION.
AND SO WE'RE GOING TO BE RESTORING THAT WITH A NEW DESK THAT'S BETTER INTEGRATED INTO THE HISTORIC CHARACTER.
SO THE ENVELOPE IS GOING TO BE AN ENTIRELY HISTORIC ENVELOPE.
BUT THE IDEA IS, I MEAN, TO BE FRANK, TO BE ABLE TO PURPOSE THAT SPACE ALSO FOR FOOD AND BEVERAGE, BECAUSE I THINK THAT'S A GREAT.
NOW, HOTEL GUESTS CAN ENTER THAT WAY AS WELL, BECAUSE THAT IS A MAIN HOTEL ENTRANCE.
AND I THINK WE COULD, YOU KNOW, THERE'S.
THE BUILDING IS CONNECTED IN FACT I DIDN'T REALLY GET A CHANCE TO TALK ABOUT THAT BUT THE UM SORRY LET ME GO TO THE GROUND FLOOR THERE IS A COURTYARD THAT WRAPS AROUND THE SOUTH SIDE OF THE FROM THE FROM THE NEW COURTYARD SO IF YOU FOLLOW THE AXIS OF THAT RAMP THAT COMES UP FROM JAMES AVENUE INTO THE COURTYARD IF YOU FOLLOW THAT FURTHER THAT BECOMES ADDITIONAL COURTYARD THAT PLUGS INTO THE BACK OF THE LOBBY.
AND THEN AT THE SAME TIME, THE LOBBY IS STILL CONNECTED TO THE CORRIDOR THAT RUNS THROUGH THE BUILDING.
SO YOU HAVE BOTH AN INTERIOR AND EXTERIOR CONNECTION BETWEEN THE NEW AND THE OLD.
WHAT ABOUT ELEVATOR ACCESS IN THE ORIGINAL OR THE SAN JUAN? YEAH.
I IMAGINE THE ORIGINAL HOIST WAY OR HOIST WAYS STILL EXIST.
AND THE PLAN IS TO REUSE THEM, MODERNIZATION, IF THAT HASN'T ALREADY OCCURRED.
THERE'S THAT ONE, WHICH WILL BE RESTORED, AND THEN THE ONE ON THE WEST, WHICH WILL BE A COMPLIANCE ADA ELEVATOR, ET CETERA.
SO THE OLD HOIST WAY IS STILL INTACT, OBVIOUSLY.
IS IT ONE ELEVATOR OR A COUPLE? IT'S ONE ELEVATOR.
AND WE WOULD BE ALSO RETAINING IT ALL THE WAY THROUGH UP TO THE ROOF.
IT HAS ITS OWN PENTHOUSE RIGHT NOW WITH A LITTLE STAIR THAT GOES UP THERE.
AND YOU MENTIONED YOU'RE SHRINKING THE PENTHOUSE.
WAS THAT ORIGINAL TO THE STRUCTURE?
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IT WASN'T ORIGINAL.I DON'T KNOW TO WHAT DEGREE ANY OF IT WAS ORIGINAL, BUT I'M GOING TO ASSUME THAT BECAUSE THE ELEVATOR AND THE STAIR, DEFINITELY WENT TO THE ROOF.
SO I'M GONNA GUESS IT WAS THAT SOLARI, THE THING THAT WAS UP THERE.
YEAH, I'M NOT SURE WHEN IT WAS ADDED, BUT BASICALLY IT STRETCHES FROM THE STAIR ELEVATOR TO THE BACK FACADE.
WHAT WE'RE DOING RIGHT NOW, IT KIND OF BYPASSES THE TALLEST PORTION OF THE FACADE, PARAPET, AND WHAT WE'VE DONE IS WE'VE REDUCED IT TO MATCH THE PARAPET SO THAT IT'S COMPLETELY HIDDEN BEHIND THAT PARAPET.
AND BECAUSE THAT PARAPET IS TALLER, WE'VE ALSO INCREASED THE HEIGHT OF THAT.
SO IT WAS LIKE A SEVEN-FOOT CEILING IN THERE RIGHT NOW.
AND WHAT'S THE INTENDED USE UP THERE? SUITE, HOTEL SUITE, OR TWO SUITES, AS WE'RE SHOWING IT.
ANY POOL OR FOUNTAIN ACCOMMODATION? NO, BOTH OF THOSE UNITS HAVE A SMALL STAIR THAT TAKE YOU UP TO THE ROOF.
SO THEY HAVE A PRIVATE ROOF DECK ON TOP.
BUT BASICALLY, IT'S JUST AN AMENITY FOR THOSE UNITS.
YOU MIGHT SHARE THE POOL DECK.
THERE IS A POOL ON THE NEW BUILDING, A POOL DECK ON THE ROOF OF THE NEW BUILDING.
OBVIOUSLY, THAT'S A LITTLE BIT EASIER TO ACCOMPLISH TO PUT A POOL ON TOP OF A NEW CONSTRUCTION THAN THE HISTORIC CONSTRUCTION.
ONE OTHER PIECE OF THIS PUZZLE, THE REORGANIZATION OF THE HOTEL WITH THE PRIMARY HOTEL DROP-OFF BEING ON THE BACK STREET.
IT'S ACTUALLY HELPFUL TO COLLINS AVENUE.
I THINK WE'VE ALL EXPERIENCED PEOPLE STOPPING ON COLLINS AVENUE AND DOING THINGS THAT REALLY BACKS UP COLLINS AVENUE.
SO THE TRAFFIC STUDY ACTUALLY IS VERY SUPPORTIVE OF THE REORGANIZATION SO THAT MOST OF THAT TRAFFIC GOES ON TO JAMES AND GETS OFF OF COLLINS AVENUE.
IT'S A PRETTY LONG CORRIDOR TO TRAVERSE.
CAN YOU TELL US? HOW ARE YOU GOING TO MINIMIZE THAT IMPACT ON AN ARRIVING GUEST WHO MAY HAVE A COLLINS AVENUE VIEW? IT'S LONG.
WE WORKED ON A PROJECT CALLED THE SOUTH SEAS YEARS AGO THAT PASSED THROUGH THE BOARD, WASN'T BUILT.
BUT I THINK THE CORRIDOR WAS TWICE AS LONG GOING OUT TO THE OCEAN THERE.
YEAH, IT'S LONG, BUT YOU KNOW WHAT? IT'S PART OF THE CHARACTER OF THE BUILDING.
WE DIDN'T WANT TO SPLIT THE HOTEL INTO TWO THINGS.
I GUESS WE COULD HAVE DONE THAT, BUT WE WANTED TO KEEP IT INTEGRATED.
SO THERE WAS NEVER AN ALLEY OR ANYTHING THAT NEEDED...
WERE THEY ALWAYS ATTACHED? YEAH, AS FAR AS WE CAN TELL, THESE LOTS HAVE BEEN THROUGH LOTS.
YOU COULD ALSO CONSIDER A BOWLING ALLEY.
THAT MIGHT INTERFERE WITH GUEST ACCESS.
CAN I JUST TAG ALONG TO THAT COMMENT REAL QUICK? IS THAT MAIN LONG ENTRY, IS THAT WHAT YOU'LL USE FOR LOADING IF YOU DON'T HAVE A LOADING DOCK? ARE YOU GOING TO BE UNLOADING FROM JAMES STREET? YEAH.
BE EXACTLY WHERE IT IS RIGHT NOW, WHICH IS ON THE NORTH SIDE.
SO IN OTHER WORDS, THERE'S GOING TO BE A LOADING SPACE ON JAMES AVENUE.
YOU SEE BIKE RACKS SORT OF ON THE FRONT OF THE BUILDING, BUT AS YOU GO BACK, YOU'LL SEE THAT THAT'S WHERE WE'VE LOCATED SOME OF THE INFRASTRUCTURE, THE FPL VAULTS, ALL THAT STUFF IS IN THERE, AND THERE'S A STAIR THAT GOES DOWN TO A BASEMENT FROM THAT POINT TO SORT OF A SERVICE.
THAT'S WHERE OUR TRASH ROOM IS.
YOU MENTIONED TRASH ROOM? YEAH.
AND WHAT ABOUT OTHER BACK OF HOUSE ACCOMMODATIONS? YEAH.
I MEAN, GIVEN THE SIZE OF THE BUILDING, I THINK WE'VE ACCOMMODATED.
THERE'S SOME STUFF THAT WILL GO IN THE BASEMENT WHERE IT CAN.
WHAT ABOUT DELIVERIES? SO DELIVERIES WILL BE ON THAT NORTH SIDE, AND YEAH.
IT'S NOT LIKE WE HAVE A LOADING DOCK OR ANYTHING LIKE THAT.
IF IT'S SMALL THINGS, IT CAN COME DOWN THE STAIRS.
IF IT'S LARGE STUFF, IT'LL HAVE TO COME IN THROUGH THE LOBBY, THROUGH THE COURTYARD.
IT ACTUALLY SHOWS TWO COLORS OF PAINT.
IS THAT CORRECT? YOU'RE ACTUALLY SEWING SOME DETAIL OF A BUILDING.
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TOO MANY TIMES TODAY PEOPLE JUST WHITEWASH IT AND LOSE THE DETAIL.I LIKE YOUR RENDERING, AND I HOPE YOU ARE REALLY USING TWO COLORS OF PAINT.
BRINGING THE MAIN ENTRANCE BACK TO JAMES AVENUE CAN CAUSE YOU A PROBLEM ULTIMATELY BECAUSE JAMES AVENUE IS GOING TO CLOSE OFF AT LINCOLN.
WHEN THEY TURN TO MAKE THAT A PEDESTRIAN STREET, WHICH I'M PRETTY SURE IS GOING TO HAPPEN.
AND YOU MAY NOT HAVE CONSIDERED THAT WHEN YOU WERE FIRST DOING THIS PLAN, BUT THAT MEANS EVERYBODY'S GOING TO HAVE TO COME IN FROM, WHAT, 18TH DOWN AND LOOP AROUND AND GO BACK OUT.
AND HOW THEY'RE GOING TO TURN AROUND, I DON'T BELIEVE THERE'S GOING TO BE LIKE A ROUNDABOUT.
SO IT'S GOING TO BE INTERESTING, YOU KNOW, TO DO THAT.
AND HOW MANY ROOMS DO YOU HAVE ALTOGETHER? ONE HUNDRED.
AND THE NEW ONES, DIDN'T YOU HAVE TO PAY A PARKING IMPACT FEE OR SOMETHING? AND WITH THE PARKING LOTS GOING AWAY, WHERE ARE THESE CARS GOING TO BE PARKED? WE DON'T HAVE A SPECIFIC LOCATION AS WE STAY HERE TODAY.
OBVIOUSLY, THAT WILL HAVE TO BE WORKED OUT.
AS YOU KNOW, MANY HOTELS ON MIAMI BEACH HAVE VALET OPERATIONS THAT...
AND WE'RE ASSUMING THAT IT WOULD EITHER BE...
ALAN ALWAYS DOES GREAT WORK WITH HISTORIC PRESERVATION, AND I'M PRETTY THRILLED WITH THE PROJECT.
CAN I JUST ADD TO WHAT YOU WERE SAYING, CARTER, THAT WE HAVE KIND OF A HIDDEN ASSET, WHICH IS THAT...
WE'RE NEXT TO A MONSTER PARKING LOT THAT IS PROBABLY AT SOME POINT IN THE FUTURE GOING TO BE REDEVELOPED WITH PARKING.
SO I'M HOPING, I MEAN WE CAN'T COUNT ON THAT OF COURSE, BUT I'M HOPING THAT THAT WILL BE PART OF OUR PARKING SOLUTION.
I WOULD ALSO SAY JAMES IS ACTUALLY A LITTLE BIT WIDER ROADWAY THAN MANY OF THE ROADWAYS IN SOUTH BEACH.
AND SO WHEN THEY GO TO CLOSE THE SOUTH END, THEY'RE GOING TO HAVE TO PROVIDE AT LEAST A T TURNAROUND.
YOU KNOW, FOR VEHICLES TO GET IN AND OUT.
IT'LL BE THE CITY THAT, AS IT ADDRESSES THE CLOSURE, HAS TO ADDRESS HOW THOSE VEHICLES WILL GET IN AND OUT.
AND THE GOOD NEWS IS WE'RE HONESTLY...
JUST HAVE TO STAY ON TOP OF THAT.
AND WE'RE VERY CLOSE TO 17TH, SO IT'S A LITTLE LESS OF A PROBLEM FOR US.
ANY OTHER QUESTIONS FOR THE APPLICANT? YEAH, I HAVE ONE MORE FOLLOW-UP.
SO THE WAIVER IS TO NOT HAVE A LOADING DOCK, IS THAT WHAT YOU'RE ASKING? CORRECT.
AND YOUR STAFF IS SUPPORTIVE OF THAT BECAUSE- THEY HAVE TO HAVE ACTUALLY CARVE OUT SPACE ALONG JAMES AVENUE TO HAVE, JUST FOR A LOADING TRUCK ON SITE.
SO WHAT IS THE WAIVER FOR? TO ALLOW THEM TO DO LOADING, ON STREET LOADING.
ON STREET LOADING, BASICALLY, WITHIN THE LOADING SPACES THAT THE CITY HAS ALLOCATED ALONG THE STREETS.
WE'LL UTILIZE THE ON STREET PARKING SPACES ON OUR FRONTAGE.
AND STAFF IS SUPPORTIVE OF THAT BECAUSE OF THE SIZE OF THE HOTEL? WELL, IT'S THE SIZE.
ALSO, WE DON'T WANT TO HAVE SPACES FOR LOADING ALONG THE STREET FRONT.
THIS PROPERTY IS VERY NARROW IN WIDTH.
THERE'S NO SPACE TO PROVIDE, LIKE, A DRIVE-THROUGH OR A CURB CUT IN A LOADING PARK FOR THE RUN SITE.
IT'S VERY LIMITED, AND IT'S TYPICAL OF OLDER HOTELS NOT TO HAVE ANY SORT OF PARKING OR LOADING SPACES ON SITE.
AND THEY'RE REMOVING THE PARKING ALONG JAMES AVENUE, WHICH WE THINK IS A BENEFICIAL ASPECT.
HASKELL? YEAH, JUST FOR FURTHER CLARIFICATION, PLEASE.
CURRENTLY, HOW MANY UNITS ARE IN THE HOTEL? 75.
AND CURRENTLY, HOW MANY PARKING SPACES ARE IN THE BACK OF THE PROPERTY? THREE OR FOUR.
AND IS THAT WHERE THE DELIVERIES USED TO COME THROUGH? YES.
SO YOU'RE DOING AWAY WITH THAT AREA, AND YOU'RE MOVING THE DELIVERIES UP ONTO THE STREET.
WITH NO PARKING FOR THE ADDITIONAL 27 UNITS OR SO.
GENTLEMEN, WE HAVE ONE MORE QUESTION.
BACK TO THE NANO WALL OR SWINGING DOORS, WHAT'S YOUR PREFERENCE HERE? WELL, OUR PREFERENCE ORIGINALLY WAS THE NANO WALL BECAUSE IT ALLOWS US TO CREATE MORE CONNECTIVITY BETWEEN THE TERRACE AND THE INTERIOR SPACE.
I MEAN, I UNDERSTAND STAFF'S CONCERN ABOUT IT, BUT THAT'S, YOU KNOW, FROM A COMMERCIAL POINT OF VIEW, I THINK IT'S PREFERABLE AND IT DOESN'T HAVE, I DON'T THINK IT HAS SUBSTANTIAL IMPACT ON THE HISTORICAL.
CHARACTER OF IT BECAUSE WHEN IT'S CLOSED IT LOOKS EXACTLY LIKE YOU KNOW DOORS DO YOU ANTICIPATE AN AWNING? I DON'T THINK SO, BUT WE HAVEN'T TALKED ABOUT
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THAT I DON'T THINK WE NEED AN AWNING WE HAVE AN EYEBROW THAT CONTINUES TO SAY THERE'S A CONTINUOUS EYEBROW ACROSS THE ENTIRE FRONTAGE.YEAH, THE PORCH IS LARGELY COVERED.
THANK YOU OKAY, SO I THINK WE'RE DONE WITH WORK QUESTIONS IS ANYBODY ON ZOOM? THERE'S NOBODY ON ZOOM WITH THEIR HAND RAISED.
I THINK WE HAVE SOME PUBLIC COMMENT IN THE AUDIENCE HERE.
BEFORE WE HEAR FROM THE FIRST PUBLIC COMMENTER, ARE THERE ANY DISCLOSURES ON THIS APPLICATION? THANK YOU.
ROGER GOLDBLATT, 1750 JAMES AVENUE, RIGHT DOWN THE STREET.
I LEARNED A LONG TIME AGO TO START OFF WITH POSITIVE THINGS.
I THINK WHAT YOU'RE DOING ON COLLINS AVENUE IS GOING TO BE GREAT, BE FANTASTIC.
I'M NOT SORRY TO SEE I LOVE LIQUORS GONE.
HOWEVER, IN DEFENSE OF POOR LITTLE JAMES AVENUE, WE'RE ALWAYS KIND OF LIKE AN AFTERTHOUGHT.
IT'S ONE OF THE, I MOVED THERE AND I THINK A LOT OF OTHER PEOPLE BECAUSE IT'S LIKE KIND OF THE QUAINTEST LITTLE FEAST.
IT'S BASICALLY 30S, 40S BUILDINGS ON THAT BLOCK.
THE JAMES HOTEL IS LIKE SO KITSCHY.
THE CREST HOTEL HAS BEEN AROUND FOR A WHILE.
THE ALBION HOTEL IS INTERESTING.
AND ADMITTEDLY, ON THAT SIDE, IT'S MOSTLY PARKING LOTS.
HOWEVER, I THINK THE PLANS TO MAKE THE COLLINS AVENUE SIDE I SHOW A LOT OF THE ORIGINAL CHARACTERISTICS IS WONDERFUL.
HOWEVER, JAMES AVENUE GETS THIS BIG GLASS BUILDING, WHICH IS SO OUT OF PLACE.
AND WE NOW HAVE ON MY BLOCK BETWEEN 17TH AND 18TH, THE WYNDHAM HOTEL, WHICH DESIGN IS PERFECT.
HOWEVER, I'D SAY THREE, FOUR TIMES A DAY, JAMES AVENUE IS BLOCKED UP BECAUSE IT ISN'T AS WIDE AS PEOPLE THINK.
AND THERE'S TRASH TRUCKS THAT ARE BLOCKING.
I FEEL SOMETIMES, I HAVE 21 SECONDS, I'LL TALK FAST, THAT I'M ON A ONE-PERSON CAMPAIGN TO KEEP THE CHARACTER OF A LITTLE ENCLAVE RIGHT OFF LINCOLN ROAD.
AND THERE'S NOTHING ON THE PART OF JAMES THAT REALLY SHOWS OBVIOUS HOMAGE TO JAMES AVENUE, WHICH HAS...
AS NANCY LIEBERMAN SAID WHEN SHE WAS HERE ON THE BOARD, SHE SAID, I LOVE JAMES AVENUE.
IT'S SO PERFECT AND IT'S SO QUAINT.
AND I WANT TO KEEP THE CHARACTER.
MEG LUSTOW, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF THE MIAMI DOME LEAGUE.
WE SUPPORT THE PROPOSED IMPROVEMENTS TO THE SAN JUAN HOTEL.
APPRECIATE THE APPLICANTS' COMMENTS.
COMMITMENT TO RESTORING AND CELEBRATING THE BUILDING'S HISTORIC CHARACTER.
I'M PARTICULARLY PLEASED WITH THE TREATMENT OF THE COLLINS AVENUE FRONTAGE, WHERE THE DESIGN THOUGHTFULLY REINTRODUCES AND EMPHASIZES HISTORIC ARCHITECTURAL ELEMENTS.
THIS APPROACH STRENGTHENS THE BUILDING'S RELATIONSHIP TO THE SURROUNDING HISTORIC DISTRICT AND REINFORCES THE QUALITIES THAT MAKE MIAMI BEACH'S ART DECO AND MID-CENTURY ARCHITECTURE SO DISTINCTIVE.
THE COLLINS AVENUE ELEVATION DEMONSTRATES A CAREFUL BALANCE BETWEEN PRESERVATION AND CONTEMPORARY FUNCTIONALITY AND REPRESENTS A POSITIVE CONTRIBUTION TO THE STREETSCAPE.
MDPL ALSO APPRECIATES THE OVERALL QUALITY OF THE DESIGN AND THE EFFORT TO CREATE A CONTEMPORARY ARCHITECTURAL EXPRESSION ON THE JAMES AVENUE SIDE OF THE PROPERTY.
WHILE WE FIND MANY ASPECTS OF THE DESIGN COMPELLING, WE ENCOURAGE FURTHER CONSIDERATION OF HOW THIS ELEVATION RELATES TO ITS IMMEDIATE CONTEXT.
SPECIFICALLY, THE STARK MODERNISM AND ANGULAR ARCHITECTURAL LANGUAGE PROPOSED ALONG JAMES AVENUE MAY FEEL SOMEWHAT AT ODDS WITH THE SOFTER ARCHITECTURAL CHARACTER OF THE SURROUNDING NEIGHBORHOOD.
WHILE WE SUPPORT A CONTEMPORARY APPROACH, WE WONDER WHETHER THE ANGULAR COLUMNS AND SHARP GEOMETRIC FORMS COULD BE REFINED OR SOFTENED.
TO CREATE A MORE HARMONIOUS TRANSITION BETWEEN THE HISTORIC BUILDING AND THE ADJACENT STREETSCAPE.
IN ADDITION, THE RENDERING SUGGESTS THAT THE PORTIONS OF JAMES AVENUE FRONTAGE SIT ALMOST DIRECTLY ON THE SIDEWALKS, CREATING A MASSING THAT IS OUT OF CONTEXT WITH THE SMALLER-SCALE NEIGHBORS IN THIS PART OF THE BLOCK.
IF FEASIBLE, MDPL ENCOURAGES THE APPLICANT TO EXPLORE OPPORTUNITIES FOR ADDITIONAL SETBACKS, RECESSES, LANDSCAPING, OR OTHER DESIGN STRATEGIES THAT COULD CREATE GREATER BREATHING ROOM ALONG THE STREET EDGE AND ENHANCE THE PEDESTRIAN EXPERIENCE.
MDPL ALSO ENCOURAGES FURTHER REVIEW OF THE PROPOSED SIGNAGE PROGRAM ALONG JAMES AVENUE.
AS CURRENTLY DEPICTED, THE REAR ELEVATION APPEARS TO CONTAIN MULTIPLE HOTEL SIGNS, RESULTING IN A DUPLICATION OF BUILDING IDENTIFICATION.
WHILE WE RECOGNIZE THE NEED FOR VISIBILITY FROM BOTH STREET FRONTAGES, THE PRESENCE OF MULTIPLE SIGNS MAY CREATE UNNECESSARY VISUAL CLUTTER AND DETRACT FROM THE SIMPLICITY OF THE ARCHITECTURAL COMPOSITION.
OVERALL, WE SUPPORT THE PROJECT
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AND COMMEND THE APPLICANTS FOR THE THOUGHTFUL RESTORATION OF THE HISTORIC HOTEL.WE BELIEVE THAT WITH MODEST REFINEMENT TO THE JAMES AVENUE ELEVATION, PROJECT CAN SUCCESSFULLY BALANCE PRESERVATION, CONTEMPORARY DESIGN, AND NEIGHBORHOOD COMPATIBILITY.
IF THERE'S NO ONE ON ZOOM, WE CAN CLOSE PUBLIC COMMENT.
WE HAVE ONE PERSON NOW WITH THEIR HAND RAISED.
IT'S A CALLER ENDING WITH PHONE NUMBER 5600.
HELLO, CAN YOU HEAR ME? HELLO? HELLO.
PLEASE STATE YOUR NAME AND ADDRESS.
MY ADDRESS IS 65 WASHINGTON AVENUE.
DO YOU SWEAR TO TELL THE TRUTH? YES.
THE WHOLE TRUTH AND NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH.
GOOD MORNING, CHAIRPERSON AND BOARD MEMBERS.
MY NAME IS CHRISTINA VEGA, AND I AM THE FOUNDER OF CYBERMONEY LAUNDERING AND REAL ESTATE INVESTIGATIONS CORP.
I'M HERE TODAY TO FORMALLY VOICE A STRICT OBJECTION TO THE SAN JUAN HOTEL PROJECT AT 1680 CORAL CABIN.
WE REVIEWED THE MATERIAL SUBMITTED WITH THE APPLICATION AND DISCOVERED FRAUD AND FORGERY.
THEREFORE, THIS IS VOID AB INITIO UNDER FLORIDA LAW AND FISCAL FOREGROUND FOR VOIDANCE.
FRAUD IS IN THE LEGAL DESCRIPTION OF THIS PROPERTY.
THE APPLICANT'S LEGAL DESCRIPTION DOCUMENT REFERENCES AN ALTON FLAT ENTITY NAMED FISHER'S FIRST SUBDIVISION OF ALTON ROAD, WHEREAS OFFICIAL COUNTY DATA UNDER FLAT BOOK 277 SHOWS ALTON BEACH.
WE HAVE DISCOVERED A FRAUD WITH THE TAX REFUND.
SO THE BOARD IS HEREBY NOTIFIED THAT THESE PUBLIC MUNICIPAL APPLICATION PROCEEDINGS ARE DIRECTLY LINKED TO THE CONTEMPLATED FEDERAL INVESTIGATIONS INVOLVING STRUCTURED TAX EVASION AND ASSET LAUNDERING.
PLEASE TAKE NOTICE THAT THE CYBER MONEY LAUNDERING IN THE REAL ESTATE INVESTIGATION COURT HAS FORMALLY EXECUTED IRS.
CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION REFERRAL VIA FORM 3949-A AGAINST BOTH APPLICANTS TODAY.
IF THERE'S NO OTHER COMMENTS, WE WILL CLOSE.
BUT THE COMMENTS? THE SETBACK ON JAMES IS ACTUALLY A ZERO SETBACK.
WE DID NOT GO TO A ZERO SETBACK.
WE HAVE A FIVE-FOOT SETBACK FOR THE ENTIRE BUILDING, AND OF COURSE ALONG THE STREET EDGE ON THE GROUND LEVEL, WHICH REALLY ADDRESSES THE SIDEWALK, IT'S SET BACK FURTHER.
AND WE CAN PUT IT UP IF YOU'D LIKE TO SEE IT, BUT THERE'S ANOTHER 10 PLUS FOOT SETBACK BECAUSE THERE'S AN OUTDOOR TERRACE ON THE STREET RESPONDING TO THE SIDEWALK IN THAT LOCATION.
SO WE, YOU KNOW, I BELIEVE ALAN REALLY DID ADDRESS THE STREET IN A VERY APPROPRIATE WAY IN THAT LOCATION.
I'M NOT SURE WHAT TO SAY ABOUT THAT LAST THING OTHER THAN IT'S A MYSTERY TO US.
CAN I ADD ONE THING ABOUT THE SCALE? BECAUSE I THINK JAMES AVENUE IS ALSO ONE OF MY FAVORITE STREETS WITH A LOT OF INTERESTING CHARACTERISTIC BUILDINGS.
BUT I DON'T SEE IT AS LIKE A FLAMINGO PARK CONDITION.
IT HAS, YOU KNOW, ON THE SOUTH END, IT HAS THE ALBION AND THAT BUILDING THAT'S RIGHT ON THE CORNER OF LINCOLN ROAD, WHICH IS PROBABLY HIGHER THAN OUR BUILDING.
AND THEN TO THE NORTH ARE A SERIES OF BUILDINGS, SEVEN STORY, 11 STORY, FIVE STORY, SEVEN STORY ON JAMES IN THE 1700 BLOCK, INCLUDING ONE THAT WAS JUST APPROVED, I GUESS, BECAUSE IT LOOKS LIKE IT WAS UNDER CONSTRUCTION RECENTLY.
SO ANYWAY, I JUST I THINK IT HAS AN ECLECTIC IN-BETWEEN CHARACTER.
THAT'S CHARACTERISTIC OF THE FACT THAT IT'S A RESIDENTIAL STREET, BUT IT ALSO HAS COMMERCIAL ALL AROUND IT.
IF I COULD ADD ONE CLARIFICATION OR ONE NOTE REGARDING THE PARKING AND LOADING SPACES.
SO RIGHT NOW THE PROPERTY CONTAINS PARKING SPACES, THREE PARKING SPACES PERPENDICULAR TO THE STREET.
SO THOSE PARKING SPACES PLUS THE ACCESS TO GET INTO THOSE SPACES.
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RIGHT NOW WITH THE PROPOSAL, THE PARKING SPACES WILL BE INFILLED WITH SIDEWALK, AND THEY'RE GOING TO PROVIDE STILL THREE ON-STREET LOADING SPACES.ANY SORT OF PARKING THAT'S LOST BY THAT WILL BE REPLACED BY ON-STREET PARKING, ON-STREET LOADING, BECAUSE IT'S NOT THEIR PROPERTY.
SO OTHER PEOPLE CAN USE THOSE ON-STREET SPACES EXCEPT FOR IF THEY HAVE VALET OPERATIONS.
SO I THINK THAT SHOULD ALLAY SORT OF CONCERNS THAT WERE EXPRESSED REGARDING NOT HAVING ANY LOADING FOR THE SITE.
IT'LL JUST BE LOADING DURING A CERTAIN PORTION OF THE DAY.
RIGHT, IT'LL BE DURING THE LOADING HOURS, AND IT'LL BE, YOU KNOW, PARKING, ICE-FREE PARKING.
AND JUST TO THAT POINT, I BELIEVE WE HAVE LEGISLATION RIGHT NOW THAT THAT LOADING, AT LEAST FREIGHT, I DON'T KNOW IF PASSENGER IS DIFFERENT, BUT IT WOULD BE 7 TO 3 ONLY, 7 A.M.
I DON'T KNOW IF THE CITY ATTORNEY CAN WEIGH IN ON THAT.
THAT WAS ONLY FOR FREIGHT AND COMMERCIAL LOADING.
JUST FOR FREIGHT AND COMMERCIAL.
SO FOR, LIKE, PASSENGER LOADING OR...
HOTEL GUESTS, THEY WOULD HAVE ACCESS? THAT WOULD BE BASED ON WHATEVER TIMES ARE PROVIDED ON THE SIGN.
ONE OF THE ISSUES RAISED BY THE MIAMI BEACH, IT'S RELATING THE NUMBER OF SIGNS ON JAMES STREET.
AND I NOTICED THAT THERE WERE TWO SIGNS, ONE AT THE EDGE OF THE...
NARROW LONG CANOPY AND ONE ON THE SIDE.
I DON'T KNOW IF THE APPLICANT WOULD LIKE TO COMMENT ON THAT.
SURE MAYBE LIKE I DON'T KNOW IF WE HAVE TO PULL IT UP.
MAYBE I'LL JUST PUT A LOOK ON MY PRESENTATION, BUT BASICALLY YEAH, WE WANTED TO HAVE A SIGN THAT WOULD IDENTIFY THE HOTEL ON JAMES AVENUE AND THAT THE PRINCIPAL SIGN IS THE ONE THAT'S ON THE THE KNEE WALL THAT RUNS ALONG THE PLANTER ON JAMES AND THEN WE WERE HOPING, AND IT SEEMED LIKE CODE WOULD ALLOW FOR A SECOND SIGN THAT WOULD BE AT THE TIP OF THE CANOPY.
SO THAT CANOPY COMES OUT TO THE SIDEWALK.
AND IT IS, YEAH, IF YOU CAN, THANK YOU.
AND SO THAT SECOND SIGN WAS JUST ON THE EDGE OF THAT CANOPY.
SAY THAT ONE IS MAYBE NOT AS IMPORTANT AS THE OTHER ONE BUT IT WAS AN OPPORTUNITY I THINK TO INITIATE THAT PROMENADE THROUGH THE BUILDING AND THROUGH THE SITE WITH YOU KNOW UNDERSTANDING WHERE YOU'RE GOING AND SO WE THOUGHT THAT WAS WORTHWHILE BUT YEAH I DON'T THINK THAT'S GOOD IT CANTILEVERS TO THE WESTERN EDGE OF THE SIDEWALK.
YES, IT CANTILEVERS TO THE WESTERN EDGE OF THE SIDEWALK.
YES WHICH IS WHICH IS A CODE THAT'S ALLOWABLE IN THE CODE ALLOWS CANOPIES TO COME OUT TO THE CURB CARTER YOU NEED A MIC.
THE INTENTION IS IF IT'S A SUMMER AFTERNOON OR MANY OTHER TIMES OF YEAR WHEN IT'S POURING RAIN, YOU CAN PULL UP AND GET DROPPED OFF AT THE EDGE OF THE CANOPY AND WALK IN UNDERCOVER.
ONE OF THE THINGS THAT HAS ALWAYS IMPRESSED ME ABOUT MIAMI BEACH BUILDINGS IS THEIR NETWORKS OF SEMI-PUBLIC SPACES AND ELEMENTS THAT INTRODUCE YOU TO THOSE SPACES, YOU KNOW, PORCHES AND THINGS LIKE THAT.
SO THIS WAS AN OPPORTUNITY TO DO SOMETHING.
WHAT I HAVE ON THE SCREEN HERE FOR A MOMENT.
I MEAN, IT WAS AN OPPORTUNITY TO DO A GESTURE THAT KIND OF EXPLAINS THE ENTRANCE INTO THE COURTYARD AND MAKES IT MORE HUMAN BY SCALING IT DOWN AND BRINGING IT OUT TO THE SIDEWALK.
IT DOES EXTEND FURTHER THAN THAT DRAWING BECAUSE THIS IS A SECTION OF THE BUILDING.
IT ACTUALLY EXTENDS FURTHER WEST, IF YOU WILL.
AND YOU SEE THAT SIGN THAT WE WERE...
GOING TO INTEGRATE ON THE EDGE OF THE CANOPY.
I THINK IT'S OVERKILL TO HAVE BOTH OF THOSE.
THEY'RE RIGHT NEXT TO EACH OTHER.
TAKE ONE OR THE OTHER IN MY OPINION.
I THINK WE'RE FINE WITH THE LEMAIRE, THE CANOPY SIGN.
AS YOU LOOK AT THIS DRAWING, IT MAKES SENSE.
AND THE CANOPY, HONESTLY, THE SIGN ON THE TOP OF THE CANOPY IT'S REALLY NOT GOING TO BE TERRIBLY VISIBLE FOR PEOPLE WHO ARE COMING BY CAR OR EVEN ON FOOT.
SO WE'RE FINE WITH REMOVING THAT SIGN.
DO WE HAVE A QUESTION? I WOULD JUST SAY ONE THING.
I'M NOT SURE WHY THERE WAS NO, LIKE, PRINTED PRESENTATION IN OUR PACKAGE.
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I THINK THIS IS WHAT HAPPENED.SO INITIALLY THERE WAS A DIFFERENT ATTORNEY ON THE APPLICATION.
SO THAT ATTORNEY HAD SUBMITTED THE APPLICATION INITIALLY.
THEY REVISED THE PLANS AND DID NOT SUBMIT THE FULL PACKAGE.
THAT WAS THE, THEY SHOULD HAVE CAME IN TO SEE WHAT WE HAD TO SEND OUT, SO I THINK THAT WAS THE DISCREPANCY HERE.
EVERYTHING WAS AVAILABLE ONLINE, BUT I SEE NOW WHAT HAPPENED WITH THE PACKAGES.
IT WAS A MISCOMMUNICATION BETWEEN STAFF AND US, AS IN TERMS OF NUMBERS.
REPLACEMENT SHEETS ASSUMING IT WAS GOING TO GET REPLACED.
JUST TO WRITE EVERYBODY ON THE RECORD, IF ANYBODY SUBMITS AN APPLICATION, THERE'S CHANGES, THEY NEED TO COME IN AND PHYSICALLY LOOK TO SEE WHAT WE HAVE AND CHANGE OUT ANY PLANS TO SEE WHAT WILL BE SENT OUT BECAUSE OTHERWISE WE CAN'T RELY ON WHAT'S SENT OUT.
WE ONLY RELY ON, I ONLY LOOK AT THE DIGITAL VERSION, I NEVER LOOK AT THE PAPER COPIES.
RIGHT, BUT AS WE'VE DISCUSSED BEFORE, THE BOARD HAS EXPRESSED A PREFERENCE TO HAVE THE PAPER COPIES AND WE DO LOOK AT THE PAPER COPIES, SO...
IT IS UP TO THE APPLICANT'S RESPONSIBILITY TO MAKE SURE THAT THEY HAVE THE PLANS.
THAT THEY WANT TO PRESENT TO THE BOARD IN OUR FILES? I MEAN, YEAH, JUST TO SAY IT'S A VERY BEAUTIFUL PRESENTATION.
ALAN DOES A GOOD JOB, SO I CAN FOLLOW YOU.
NOT EVERYBODY I CAN FOLLOW, FLIPPING FORWARD AND BACKWARD, BUT GENERALLY I THINK IT'S A REALLY GREAT PROJECT.
I APPRECIATE ALL THE INVESTMENT IN THE HISTORIC IMAGE AND THE REFERENCES TO POSTCARDS AND THE DETAILS.
I THINK IT'S VERY WELL CONSIDERED.
STAFF EXPRESSED SOME CONCERN WITH THE VERTICAL FIN SYSTEM.
YOU REFER TO IT AS YOU'RE STEALING HOHAUSER'S OR BARRING HOHAUSER'S DESIGN.
I DON'T KNOW, WHAT WOULD YOU CALL THAT? IS THAT A ZIGZAG PATTERN? ZIGZAG.
AND HOHAUSER'S DESIGN IS OF MASONRY ORIGIN, AND HERE I GUESS IT'S...
METALLIC OR VERTICAL? I THINK IT WOULD BE PRECAST CONCRETE.
YEAH, IT WOULD BE SIMILAR MATERIALITY.
AND I THINK HIS IS TOO, ACTUALLY.
I THINK HIS WAS PROBABLY CAST CONCRETE FROM THE 1940S.
AND MDPL EXPRESSED CONCERN OVER THE CONTEXT AND COMPATIBILITY WITH THE NEIGHBORHOOD.
DO YOU CARE TO DISCUSS THAT TO ALLEVIATE ANY CONCERN? TO START WITH, IT'S A PRETTY TYPICAL SITUATION FOR MIAMI BEACH.
I MEAN, THE PROPORTION OF MASONRY TO GLASS IS THE SAME, I THINK.
I MEAN, I MEASURE IT, BUT IT'S GOING TO BE ABOUT THE SAME AS A TYPICAL MIAMI BEACH HOTEL OR APARTMENT BUILDING.
THE GROUND FLOOR BEING GLASS, YEAH, BUT THAT'S MOST.
HOTELS, MOST AND MANY APARTMENT BUILDINGS HAVE THAT AS WELL.
SO I THINK IT'S ACTUALLY, LIKE, JUST IN TERMS OF, LIKE, PROPORTION OF SOLID WALL TO OPEN WALL OR GLASS TO MASONRY OR STUCCO, ET CETERA, I THINK IT'S VERY TYPICAL THAT WAY.
MAYBE THE ANGLES, AND BY THE WAY, I THINK I'VE NOTICED THIS MYSELF ABOUT THE ANGULARITY.
I THINK THE RENDERINGS TEND TO EXAGGERATE IT A BIT.
LIKE I DON'T, IT'S THE SAME, WE USE THE SAME PROPORTIONS AS HOLT HAUSER USED ON COLLINS AVENUE, MEANING THE SAME DEPTH, THE SAME SPACING BETWEEN THE VERTICES.
SO IT'S, YOU KNOW, WHICH LOOKS GREAT ON COLLINS AVENUE.
SO I DON'T THINK IT'S GOING TO LOOK OUT OF PLACE.
WHAT'S THAT? THE RENDERINGS ARE THROWING OUT.
THE RENDERINGS ARE THROWING OUT.
THIS IS ONE OF THE GREAT THINGS ABOUT MIAMI.
BUT YES, I THINK THE RENDERINGS, BECAUSE WE...
BECAUSE YOU'RE SLICING THE ENDS AT AN ANGLE THAT IT LOOKS DEEPER.
SO THE ONLY OTHER DIFFERENCE, REALLY, WHICH IS THAT WHEREAS HOHHAUSER BOUNDED THE ANGULAR THING WITH A FIN ON ALL SIDES, WE HAVE THE FINS ON THE INSIDE OF THE WINDOWS, BUT THAT'S PART OF OUR PLAY WITH THE LANGUAGE.
SO I THINK IT WAS THE RIGHT THING TO DO.
YEAH, I WOULD JUST SAY THAT SOMETIMES IT'S MATTHEW LEWIS FROM LAND.
I THINK IN SOME OF THOSE RENDERINGS, I'M SORRY? MATTHEW LEWIS, 7294 NORTHEAST FIRST COURT, MIAMI.
IN SOME OF THESE RENDERINGS, IT'S SORT OF THE BALANCE BETWEEN SHOWING WHAT THE LANDSCAPE'S GOING TO BE VERSUS THE ARCHITECTURE.
AND I THINK IN THAT ONE RENDERING, IT WASN'T BEING PORTRAYED THAT WE HAVE FOUR STREET TREES.
AT 16 TO 18 FEET, AND THEN WE HAVE THREE PALM TREES AT 20 TO 30 FEET, WHICH THEN GETS YOU TO THE ROOF LINE OF 50 FEET FOR THE BUILDING.
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SO IN ESSENCE, THERE'S, TO ME, THINKING ABOUT TREES AS ARCHITECTURE, THERE'S TWO LAYERS OF LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE IN FRONT OF THAT FACADE OF THE BUILDING, SO IT'S NEVER GOING TO BE, YOU'RE NEVER GOING TO SEE THAT BUILDING AS IT WAS MAYBE PRESENTED IN THE RENDERINGS, BUT, AND I WOULD SAY THAT THAT LANDSCAPE CONTEXT REALLY KIND OF GETS STRETCHED OUT TO MATCH THE REST OF THAT JAMES AVENUE.THE MULLION PATTERN THAT YOU'RE SHOWING ON YOUR END, JAMES AVENUE, YOU KNOW, THE COLLINS AVENUE, IT'S STRIKING THE WAY HOHHAUSER USED THOSE BOXES, HOW THEY'RE PRONOUNCED.
I DON'T QUITE SEE THAT ALONG JAMES AVENUE.
AND I'M JUST WONDERING, IS THAT A MASONRY BOX OR IS THAT AN ANODIZED? BOX.
NO, IT WOULD BE A BOX OF CONCRETE, PRECAST CONCRETE FIN THAT WOULD GO AROUND THE WINDOW, THE GENERAL WINDOW THING.
AND THIS IS, AGAIN IN THE RENDERING, I THINK THE MULLIONS LOOK TOO THIN.
YOU WOULD SEE THE KIND OF ORDINANCE OF MULLIONS.
YOU DON'T SEE THE HORIZONTALITY THAT YOU SEE ALONG COLLINS.
YEAH, I MEAN WHAT THIS DOES, THIS RENDERING, THE ONE YOU HAVE ON THE LEFT THERE ON YOUR LEFT.
IS IT IT PLAYS DOWN THE MULLET THE INTERNAL MULLIONS? IT DIDN'T QUITE CAPTURE THEM IN ITS THICKNESS THAT THEY WOULD THIS IS MIAMI SO WE KNOW THE WINDOWS.
YEAH, THINGS ARE GOING TO BE BIG AND EVERYTHING SO THAT'S I WOULD SAY ONE ONE THING THAT IS PROBABLY NOT SHOWN YEAH, I WOULD JUST ASK YOU TO STUDY IT FURTHER YEAH, AND REMEMBER THIS I THINK WHAT HE'S REALLY REFERRING TO IS THE CORNER.
YEAH MAYBE THAT SHOULD BE SOLID, MORE FRAMING, THE SIDE FROM THE FRONT.
YOU'RE SAYING NOT HAVE THE WINDOW TURN THE CORNER? YEAH.
LIKE YOU'VE GOT RIGHT IN THE CORNERS, HAVE IT SOLID LIKE A COLUMN, LIKE IT ENDS ON BOTH SIDES.
WELL, WE HAVE A WE WANTED BECAUSE OF THE GALE DIRECTLY TO OUR NORTH, WE WANTED THE FACADE TO WRAP.
SO THAT'S WHY WE WRAPPED THE WINDOWS AS WELL.
AND THERE WOULD BE A BIG, WHICH YOU CAN SEE THERE, THERE WOULD BE A STRUCTURAL MULLION AT THE POINT.
IS THAT WHAT YOU'RE REFERRING TO? SO THERE WOULD BE A STRUCTURAL MULLION THAT WOULD BE THERE.
BUT WE CAN STUDY THOSE PROPORTIONS.
THE EXISTING FRONT HAS WRAPAROUND CORNER WINDOWS.
I STILL WANT IT TO LOOK LIKE CORBIN.
WHAT IS THE HEIGHT DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE EXISTING BUILDING AND THE PROPOSED BUILDING ON THE WEST SIDE? THE PROPOSED BUILDING IS AT 53.
WHAT IS THE HEIGHT DIFFERENCE? 52, SORRY.
WHAT IS THE HEIGHT DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE EXISTING AND THE PROPOSED? THAT WAS IN OUR, I THINK THE EXISTING IS LIKE 42 WITH THE ROOFTOP PENTHOUSE THAT'S THERE.
I'M LOOKING AT A PHOTO ON PAGE 13 OF 15 OF OUR PACKAGE.
WE DON'T HAVE ALL THE PLANS THAT YOU SHOWED SO FORGET WE CAN'T WE DO HAVE ANALYZE IT AS WELL BUT I'M NOT HEARING THAT PHOTOGRAPH THE BUILDING IS SET BACK WHAT ABOUT 25 FEET FROM THE SIDEWALK RIGHT NOW RIGHT NOW YES, AND HOW OKAY SO AGAIN MY QUESTION IS WHAT IS THE HEIGHT DIFFERENCE? YEAH, I MEAN THE PROPOSED AND THE EXISTING AS I LOOK AT IT FROM THIS ELEVATION.
LET'S SEE IF I CAN ZOOM IN HERE.
YOU'LL SEE THAT THE FRONT IS AT 43 FEET AND THE REAR IS AT 52. HE'S ASKING THOUGH WHAT'S THE HEIGHT OF THE REAR? 62.
THE HEIGHT, THE DIFFERENCE, THE DELTA.
WHAT'S THE DELTA WE'RE LOOKING AT HERE? IT'S BASICALLY TWO STORIES.
SO ABOUT 20 FEET YOU'RE ADDING.
SO YOU'RE ADDING 20 FEET, AND YOU'RE PUSHING THE BUILDING WESTWARD, RIGHT? YES.
ESSENTIALLY, YOU'RE CREATING THIS WALL THAT'S 20 FEET TALLER THAN THE EXISTING, AND YOU'RE BRINGING IT OUT WESTWARD ANOTHER 25 FEET.
FROM THE ROOF OF THE PENTHOUSE.
TO THE ROOF DECK OF THE REAR BUILDING.
IT'S FROM 43 OR 52 NGVD TO 53 OR 62 NGVD, 10 FEET.
BUT WHAT YOU'RE SAYING IS THAT
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ON JAMES AVENUE.YOU'RE SAYING WHAT'S THE DIFFERENCE ON JAMES AVENUE BETWEEN THOSE TWO? I'M LOOKING AT THIS PHOTOGRAPH.
AND I'M ASKING YOU, WHAT IS THE DELTA? WHERE ARE WE GOING FROM? IT'S TWO STORIES.
EXISTING ROOF, THE PROPOSED ROOF.
AND TO ME, IT LOOKS LIKE YOU'RE ADDING ANOTHER 20 FEET.
YEAH, IT'S PROBABLY 18, BUT CLOSE ENOUGH.
BUT BY THE WAY, I THINK THIS IS THE ZONING, AND THIS IS WHAT'S GOING TO BE DONE TO THE SOUTH OF US AS WELL.
SO I THINK IT'S ABOUT FITTING INTO THE EMERGING PATTERN THAT'S GOING TO BE THERE GOING SOUTH FOR US.
I THINK EVERYBODY WOULD LIKE TO SEE THE GROUND-LEVEL PARKING LOTS ALONG JAMES TO OUR SOUTH.
AS ELLEN HAS SAID, THERE HAVE BEEN A COUPLE PROJECTS APPROVED THAT DIDN'T GO FORWARD, BUT I THINK EVERYBODY AGREES THAT THAT'S NOT A VERY PEDESTRIAN-FRIENDLY PART OF THE BLOCK, AND WE'RE ALL HOPING THAT SOMETHING DOES GET REDEVELOPED THERE THAT ADDRESSES THE SIDEWALK, ADDRESSES THE PEDESTRIAN EXPERIENCE, AS OPPOSED TO WALKING ALONG A GROUND-LEVEL PARKING LOT THAT'S MARCHING.
AND I PERSONALLY APPRECIATE YOU DIDN'T ASK FOR ANY VARIANCES.
WE WORKED HARD NOT TO, TO BE HONEST.
DO WE HAVE ANY FURTHER BOARD COMMENTARY? GO AHEAD.
I'LL MAKE A MOTION TO APPROVE THIS PROJECT AS PER STAFF CONDITIONS.
AS MODIFIED WITH THE FOLDING STOREFRONT ALONG COLLINS AVENUE? YEAH.
IS THAT OKAY? YOU PREFER THE NANO? AS LONG AS IT'S MULTIPLE DOORS, WE'RE FINE WITH THAT.
I THINK THAT WAS TWO DIFFERENT THINGS.
CAN WE CLARIFY THAT? BECAUSE YOU ASKED WHETHER THEY PREFER THE NANO WALL.
THEY WERE SAYING HE SAID MULTIPLE DOORS, SO LET'S BE CLEAR ON WHAT WE'RE APPROVING, IF YOU DON'T MIND.
WE PREFER THE NANO WALL, BUT WE CAN WORK WITH MULTIPLE DOORS.
SO IF THE BOARD APPROVES THE NANO WALL, THE BAR HAS TO CLOSE AT MIDNIGHT.
REGARDLESS OF WHETHER IT'S OPEN OR CLOSED, THE BAR HAS TO CLOSE AT MIDNIGHT.
OKAY, WE GOT THAT OUT OF THE WAY.
ALL RIGHT, SO THE SWINGING DOORS AND THE...
YEAH, THE MULTIPLE SWINGING DOORS.
DO YOU WANT TO ADD THIS? TO THE REAR? AND THE SINGLE SIGN TO THE REAR ELEVATION.
IS THERE ANYTHING I LEFT OUT? ALL RIGHT, THAT WOULD BE MY MOTION.
I THINK WE'LL USE THE LOWER ONE.
NO, SO THIS ONLY REQUIRES ONE VOTE.
THE WAIVER CAN BE INCLUDED FOR THE LOADING SPACES.
SO WE NEED ONE VOTE ON THE C OF A, WHICH INCLUDES THE DEMOLITION, WHICH INCLUDES THE WAIVER, AND THE MODIFICATIONS NOTED BY MITCH.
OKAY, SO THE FIRST MOTION IS...
I MADE THE MOTION, RAY SECONDED IT.
I THINK MR. BRESLIN SECONDED IT.
ALL IN FAVOR OF THE MOTION? AYE.
ANY OPPOSED? IF NO OPPOSED, THEN MOTION PASSES.
I'M SIX TO ZERO, CONGRATULATIONS.
AND THEN GISELLE'S GOING TO PRESENT THE NEXT APPLICATION ON THE AGENDA.
OUR NEXT APPLICATION IS NOLI, 719-737.
WE'LL GIVE A COUPLE MINUTES TO CLEAN THE ROOM.
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YEAH, WE'LL GIVE THEM A FEW MINUTES TO GET SET UP.WHILE THE APPLICANT'S GETTING SET UP, A QUICK ORDER OF BUSINESS.
IF WE CAN, IF WE CAN KEEP OUR QUESTIONS TO THE FIRST PART, SO WE HAVE QUESTIONS TO STAFF AND THEN QUESTIONS TO THE APPLICANT, SO THAT WE DON'T RUN THE RISK OF NEEDING TO REOPEN PUBLIC HEARING IF WE OPEN UP OTHER ISSUES.
SO TRY TO GET ALL YOUR QUESTIONS OUT DURING THE QUESTION SECTION RATHER THAN IN THE COMMENTARY SECTION.
[3. HPB26-0686, 719–737 LINCOLN ROAD - NOLI.]
IS THE APPLICANT READY? YES.GISELLE'S GOING TO INTRODUCE THE APPLICATION FIRST.
THE NEXT ITEM IN THE AGENDA IS HEB 26.
0686 719 736 LINCOLN ROAD AN APPLICATION HAS BEEN FILED REQUESTING A CERTIFICATE APPROPRIATENESS FOR THE PARTIAL DEMOLITION RENOVATION AND ALTERATIONS TO EXISTING COMMERCIAL BUILDINGS INCLUDING NEW RETAIL STOREFRONT FRONTAGE MODIFICATIONS TO THE GROUND FLOOR FACADES TO INCREASE TRANSPARENCY UPDATED ARCHITECTURAL TREATMENT SITE MODIFICATIONS ALONG THE LINCOLN ROAD FRONTAGE INTRODUCTION OF A COVERED PEDESTRIAN ARCADE AND TRANSFORMATION TO THE NORTH LINCOLN FRONTAGE INTO AN ACTIVATED PEDESTRIAN PLAZA ENVIRONMENT.
A LITTLE BIT OF BACKGROUND ON THIS PROJECT.
THE PROPOSED VIA IS DESIGNED AS A COVERED PEDESTRIAN WALKWAY OF APPROXIMATELY 1,500 LINEAR FEET OF NEW ACTIVATED RETAIL FRONTAGE.
THE GOAL IS TO STRENGTHEN THE CONNECTIVITY AND ENCOURAGE PEDESTRIAN FLOW BETWEEN LINCOLN ROAD AND NORTH LINCOLN LANE.
ALONG NORTH LINCOLN LANE, THE VIA EXPANDS INTO A SMALL PLAZA AREA.
THIS SPACE ACCOMMODATES OUTDOOR SEATING AND A POTENTIAL OUTDOOR CAFE.
THE PROJECT ALSO INCLUDES IMPROVEMENTS TO THE SECOND FLOOR MEZZANINE AS AN ELEVATED GATHERING SPACE THAT OVERLOOKS THE PEDESTRIAN LANE.
THE APPLICATION IS THE FIRST COMPONENT OF THE LARGER NOLI PROJECT.
THE SECOND COMPONENT IS A SUBJECT TO DESIGN REVIEW APPLICATION FOR THE IMPROVEMENTS AT NORTH 723 NORTH LINCOLN LANE.
THE THIRD INVOLVES THE NEGOTIATIONS WITH THE CITY ON THE PUBLIC REALM AND INFRASTRUCTURE UPGRADES TO NORTH LINCOLN LANE.
IT'S AUTHORIZED BY THE CITY COMMISSION ON DECEMBER 17, 2025.
THE SITE OCCUPIES A MID-BLOCK SECTION FRONTAGE ON LINCOLN LANE AND NORTH LINCOLN LANE AROUND MERIDIAN COURT AND MERIDIAN AVENUE. THE EXISTING SITE CONTAINS A ONE-STORY COMMERCIAL BUILDING WITH A MEZZANINE AREA.
THE RETAIL OCCUPIES THE LINCOLN ROAD SIDE AND ALONG THE NORTH LINCOLN LANE AND FUNCTIONS PRIMARILY AS A SERVICE ALLEY USED FOR PARKING AND LOADING.
THE BUILDING ITSELF WAS CONSTRUCTED IN 1924 BY ARCHITECT AUGUST GEYER.
IT IS CLASSIFIED AS A CONTRIBUTING STRUCTURE WITHIN FLAMINGO PARK AS WELL AS ENOUGH IN THE NATIONAL REGISTER AND ARCHITECTURAL DISTRICT THE BUILDING IS HISTORICALLY DESIGNATED HOWEVER IT IS IMPORTANT TO NOTE THAT THE ORIGINAL 1924 DESIGN HAS BEEN SIGNIFICANTLY ALTERED OVER TIME LATER MODIFICATIONS HAVE BEEN ACCUMULATED BUT THEY DO NOT FORM A COHERENT OR INTACT ARCHITECTURAL PERIOD TURNING TO THE LINCOLN ROAD FACADE THE APPLICANT IS PROPOSING A COMPREHENSIVE RENOVATION THE DESIGN INCORPORATES A CHARRED STONE TOWEL, PORCELAIN CLADDING, LARGE FORMAT GLAZING WITH A LIGHT BRONZE BRAKE METAL FRAMING, GRANITE CLAD CURBS, AND INTEGRATED LED LIGHTING.
THEY'RE ALSO CONSIDERING TWO AWNING OPTIONS.
OPTION A IS MORE OF A FABRIC AWNING SUPPORTED BY THE TUBULAR METAL ARMATURES, AND THEN OPTION B IS THE STEEL EYEBROW CANOPY THAT YOU CAN SEE IN THE ROD DRAIN.
REGARDING THE PEDESTRIAN ARCADE, IT IS INTERIOR TO THE BUILDING ENVELOPE AND DOES NOT ALTER THE FOOTPRINT, HEIGHT, OR SETBACKS.
STAFF FINDS THAT THE VIA CONCEPT IS CONSISTENT WITH THE ADAPTIVE REUSE OF THE BUILDING AND RECOMMENDS THAT THE BOARD CAREFULLY EVALUATES THE PORTAL ENTRY DESIGN FOR THE CAPABILITY OF THE CONTRIBUTING FACADE.
ALONG THE NORTH LINCOLN LANE, IT IS CONDITIONED AS AN ACTIVATED PLAZA ENVIRONMENT AND FEATURES NEW GLAZING, LANDSCAPE, AND HARDSCAPE.
AS WELL AS THE OUTDOOR SEATING AREA.
THIS TRANSFORMATION IS STRONGLY SUPPORTED BY STAFF, ESPECIALLY RECOMMENDING THE NATIVE LANDSCAPING THAT IS SHOWN IN THE DRAWINGS.
NEW ELEMENTS INTRODUCED AT THE UPPER LEVEL INCLUDE THE PARAPET EXTENSION AND THE SECOND-FLOOR ROOFTOP TERRACE.
STAFF RECOMMENDS THAT THE BOARD EVALUATES THE SCALE AND CHARACTER OF THE NEW ROOFTOP ELEMENTS THAT ARE APPROPRIATE RELATIVE TO THE CONTRIBUTING STRUCTURE.
THAT WE ARE WE FEEL THAT THE MODIFICATIONS ARE CONSISTING WITH THE INVOLVING PEDESTRIAN CHARACTER OF THE LINCOLN ROAD CORRIDOR AND SO AND IS SUPPORTIVE OF THE INTRODUCTION OF THE NEW PUBLIC PEDESTRIAN CONNECTION BETWEEN LINCOLN ROAD AND LINCOLN LANE FOR THESE REASONS STAFF RECOMMENDS APPROVAL APPLICATION CONDITIONS THAT ARE SET FORTH IN THE STAFF REPORT AND FINAL ORDER THANK YOU VERY MUCH ANY QUESTIONS FOR STAFF FROM THE BOARD ALL RIGHT
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MICHAEL GREAT.THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR, BOARD OF STAFF, MICHAEL LARKIN, 200 SOUTH BISKAYNE BOULEVARD, HERE TODAY REPRESENTING THE APPLICANT, WITH ME IS MICHAEL COMRIS, THE APPLICANT, JACKIE TOUZE AND CARLOS TOUZE AND THEIR SON, CARLOS TOUZE, TO CONTINUE THE TRADITION.
JOSE GOMEZ FROM BALENTINE ARCHITECTS.
SO WE'RE HERE TODAY JUST LIKE AS ELLE DESCRIBED.
WE ARE PROPOSING SOME IMPROVEMENTS TO THE LINCOLN ROAD BUILDINGS.
WE'RE PROPOSING A VIA THAT WILL START AT LINCOLN ROAD AND EXTEND NORTHWARD TO LINCOLN LANE NORTH.
AS YOU ALL KNOW BY NOW LINCOLN LANE NORTH AT THIS PARTICULAR LOCATION IS NOT SO PRETTY.
SO WE'RE GOING TO BE VASTLY IMPROVING IT WITH A PEDESTRIAN PLAZA AND YOU ALL INTERESTINGLY SPLIT YOUR JURISDICTION BETWEEN YOU ALL AND THE DRB WHERE YOU HAVE JURISDICTION UP UNTIL THE CENTER LINE OF LINCOLN LANE NORTH.
WHERE THE DRB JURISDICTION TAKES OVER IN THE NORTHERN HALF OF LINCOLN LANE NORTH.
IT'S AN INTERESTING CIRCUMSTANCE THAT DOESN'T TAKE PLACE THAT OFTEN.
LAST MONTH I WENT OVER SOME OF THE HIGHLIGHTS OF LINCOLN ROAD, STARTED ON THE WEST AND WENT ALL THE WAY TO THE EAST.
I'M NOT GOING TO DO THAT, BUT I DID OVERLOOK ONE SIGNIFICANT HIGHLIGHT, WHICH IS A GREEK YOGURT RESTAURANT CALLED MIKA.
I SEE PEOPLE STANDING THERE ON LINCOLN ROAD.
I THOUGHT, IS THIS A NEW NIGHTCLUB OPENING UP ON LINCOLN ROAD? NO, IT'S JUST A GREEK YOGURT PLACE, AND IT'S TREMENDOUSLY SUCCESSFUL.
ROBERT RIVANI PURCHASED THAT BUILDING AND IS NOW REPOPULATING IT WITH DIFFERENT TENANTS.
SO THAT'S ONE MORE MARQUEE TENANT THAT'S GOING TO BE JOINING US ON LINCOLN ROAD.
AND WITH REGARD TO WHERE LINCOLN ROAD IS NOW, IS LINCOLN ROAD AT A CROSSROADS? I WOULD SAY NO, IT'S NOT AT A CROSSROADS BECAUSE I THINK A DECISION HAS ALREADY BEEN MADE TO GO FORWARD.
I WOULD BORROW THE PHRASE THAT MALCOLM GLADWELL HAS POPULARIZED IN THE LAST FEW YEARS CALLED THE TIPPING POINT.
AS YOU ALL KNOW, HE'S A FAMOUS AUTHOR NOWADAYS.
AND ONE OF HIS BEST BOOKS IS CALLED THE TIPPING POINT.
AND THE DEFINITION I WILL BORROW FROM HIM SAYS, THAT MAGIC MOMENT WHEN AN IDEA, TREND, OR SOCIAL BEHAVIOR CROSSES A THRESHOLD, TIPS AND SPREADS LIKE WILDFIRE.
I THINK WE'RE AT THAT POINT IN LINCOLN ROAD.
I THINK THIS PARTICULAR PROJECT IS GOING TO CHANGE LINCOLN ROAD DRAMATICALLY AND SHOW HOW IT CAN BE LEASED IN THE FUTURE AND REMOVE ALL THOSE TERRIBLE EMPTY STOREFRONTS.
SO WITH THAT, I'D LIKE TO TURN IT OVER TO MICHAEL COMRAS.
HE'S GOING TO EXPLAIN TO YOU A VISION THAT HE'S HAD FOR A LONG, LONG TIME.
NOW IT'S FINALLY COMING TO FRUITION.
MY NAME IS MICHAEL COMRAS WITH OFFICES AT 1261 20TH STREET.
I'M A LONGTIME MIAMI BEACH RESIDENT, AND I'VE HAD THE PLEASURE OF WORKING THROUGH THE HISTORIC DISTRICT FOR OVER 30 YEARS NOW, FIRST STARTING ON COLLINS AVENUE AND WORKING TO CONVERT SOME OF THOSE.
ALL THE RESIDENTIAL BUILDINGS TO RETAIL PROPERTIES AND REALLY WHAT I'VE LEARNED OVER THE LAST 30 YEARS IS REALLY THE IDEA OF MERGING CONTEMPORARY RETAILING INTO HISTORIC PRESERVATION AND I THINK THAT IS AN EVOLVING WORK THAT YOU KNOW CHANGES OVER TIME RETAILERS CHANGE THE STYLE OF RETAILING CHANGES AND THE STYLE OF THE BUILDINGS MUST CHANGE TO ADAPT TO THE NEW FORM OF RETAILING SO TODAY AS I COME IN FRONT OF YOU WE'RE WORKING ON WHAT I THINK IS A REALLY EXCITING PROJECT FOR MIAMI BEACH AND FOR LINCOLN ROAD.
LET ME PULL UP THE PRESENTATION.
SO MANY OF YOU KNOW THIS AREA VERY WELL.
WE ARE RIGHT AT THE HEART OF LINCOLN ROAD.
THE BUILDINGS IDENTIFIED IN BLUE ARE THE BUILDINGS THAT ARE PART OF WHAT WILL BECOME NOHLE OR WHAT HAS BECOME NOHLE.
THE BUILDINGS ON THE NORTH SIDE OF LINCOLN ROAD COME TOGETHER AND REALLY WHAT WE END UP WITH IS ABOUT 150,000 SQUARE FEET RIGHT THERE AT THE HEART OF LINCOLN ROAD WITH OVER 1,700 LINEAR FEET OF FRONTAGE.
TWO NOVEL CONCEPTS THAT WE'RE INTRODUCING IS THE VIA CONCEPT AND THE STREET-OFF-THE-STREET CONCEPT.
THE VIA CONCEPT REALLY DOES SOMETHING WHICH HAS NOT REALLY ARRIVED ON LINCOLN ROAD YET, BUT IS SEEN IN VERY POPULAR AREAS.
YOU SEE THEM OFTEN IN PALM BEACH.
THE VIA REALLY PROVIDES AN AREA OF RESPITE WHERE AS PEOPLE ARE WALKING DOWN LINCOLN ROAD, AS YOU KNOW, THERE'S NOT VERY MUCH SHADE.
REALLY HAVE THE TREE OF CHOICES, PALM TREES ALONG LINCOLN ROAD.
SO AS YOU WOULD ACTUALLY APPROACH THE VIA, YOU WOULD ACTUALLY SEE A SHADED ENVIRONMENT, WHICH ACTUALLY PROVIDES FOR A SENSE OF DISCOVERY AND TRANSFERRING PEOPLE TO AND FROM LINCOLN ROAD AND FROM LINCOLN LANE TO LINCOLN ROAD.
THE IDEA IS REALLY TO CREATE A STREET OFF THE STREET.
WHERE PEOPLE CAN GATHER AND PROVIDE AN ALTERNATIVE TO LINCOLN ROAD.
THE WHOLE NOTION OF WHAT'S HAPPENED WITH LINCOLN ROAD OVER THE LAST SEVERAL YEARS IS THAT IT IS A ONE-STREET, SINGLE-PURPOSE DISTRICT PRIMARILY.
AND WHAT I'VE BEEN PREACHING OVER THE LAST 20 YEARS IS REALLY THE EXPANSION OF LINCOLN ROAD TO THE NORTH UP TO 17TH STREET TO CREATE,
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RATHER THAN A ONE-STREET DISTRICT, BUT MORE OF A TRUE DISTRICT.YOU KNOW, AS ONE STREET GETS TO BE SO POPULAR, IF THERE ARE NOT SIDE STREETS FOR THE AREA TO CONTINUE TO GROW, NOTHING ELSE.
...HAPPENS EXCEPT THE BOTTOM FALLS OUT, AND I THINK WE SAW THAT HERE OVER THE LAST SEVERAL YEARS.
HERE YOU CAN SEE HOW THE VIA TAKES YOU FROM LINCOLN ROAD BACK TO LINCOLN LANE AND VICE VERSA FROM LINCOLN ROAD, FROM LINCOLN LANE, RATHER, THE PARKING GARAGE, AND THE NEW CONVENTION CENTER HOTEL, THE CONVENTION CENTER CITY SERVICES, CITY HALL, ETC., EVERYTHING FROM THE NORTH COMING TO THE SOUTH AND VICE VERSA.
THE STREET OFF THE STREET REALLY PROVIDES A NEW ALTERNATIVE TO THE STOREFRONTS ON LINCOLN ROAD.
AND NOLI REALLY PRESENTS AN OPPORTUNITY OF PROVIDING RIGHT-SIZED SPACES FOR TODAY'S CONTEMPORARY RETAILERS.
AS MANY OF YOU KNOW, ALONG LINCOLN ROAD, WE PROBABLY HAVE ABOUT 40 DIFFERENT PROPERTY OWNERS, OVER A MILLION SQUARE FEET, 10 BLOCKS, AND GENERALLY OWN 50 FEET AT A TIME.
SO BY OWNING 50 FEET AT A TIME, IT MAKES IT VERY CHALLENGING FOR LANDLORDS TO COME TOGETHER AND REALLY CREATE A COHESIVE AND A CURATED MERCHANDISE MIX.
BY HAVING THIS SIZE PROPERTY, WE'RE ABLE TO BRING IT ALL TOGETHER.
WHEN YOU SEE HERE ON THE SCREEN, YOU CAN SEE THE TYPICAL DYNAMICS OF LINCOLN ROAD, WHERE WE HAVE LOTS OF ABOUT 150 FOOT DEEP OR 100 FOOT DEEP.
AND GENERALLY, WHEN THE 150 FOOT LOTS ARE BUILT FULL, YOU CAN SEE THE OLD TAVERNA RESTAURANT SPACE OVER ON THE RIGHT, WHICH IS 25 FOOT WIDE BY 145 FOOT DEEP.
AND THEN THOSE TWO LITTLE BOUTIQUES NEXT DOOR THAT ARE 17 FOOT WIDE AND 100 FOOT DEEP.
NOT IDEAL FOR RETAILING TODAY.
RETAILERS ARE ALL ABOUT STOREFRONTS, THEY'RE NOT ABOUT THE DEPTH.
AND WHEN YOU SEE THE CREATION OF THE VIA, IT'S LITERALLY JUST THE REMOVAL OF THE STOREFRONT, OF ONE OF THOSE STOREFRONTS, AND THE BACK WALL.
AND YOU CAN SORT OF SEE HOW MAGICALLY IT TAKES THE SPACE AND TRANSFORMS IT INTO A MUCH MORE HABITABLE AREA WITH SMALLER BOUTIQUE SPACES.
700 SQUARE FOOT SPACES THAT JUST CANNOT BE FOUND ON LINCOLN ROAD.
TODAY THIS IS WHAT THE FACADE LOOKS LIKE.
TOMORROW WE WANT TO TAKE IT MORE INTO THIS KIND OF A DIRECTION AND JACKIE AND JOSE WILL BE ABLE TO DESCRIBE ALL OF THAT.
TODAY WE HAVE THE BEAUTIFUL ALLEY AND THIS IS OUR GATEWAY TO LINCOLN ROAD FROM THE CONVENTION CENTER TODAY AND FROM THE 1500 CAR PARKING GARAGE RIGHT THERE.
WE STAND OUT HERE OFTEN AND WE SEE PEOPLE WALKING OUT OF THAT PARKING GARAGE LOOKING FOR LINCOLN ROAD AND THIS IS WHAT THEY GET TO SEE.
WE WOULD HOPE THAT THIS GETS TRANSFORMED INTO SOMETHING MORE ALONG THE LINES OF THIS.
THIS PROJECT IS ROOTED IN HISTORIC PRESERVATION AND ADAPTIVE REUSE, TWO VERY IMPORTANT CONCEPTS FOR US, AND JACKIE WILL GET INTO ALL OF THAT.
BUT I'M REALLY EXCITED ABOUT BRINGING THIS PROJECT TOGETHER.
WE WOULD HOPE TO HAVE THIS PORTION OF THE PROJECT, THE LINCOLN ROAD PORTION, COMPLETED BY THE END OF THE YEAR, BEGINNING OF NEXT, AND THE BALANCE OF LINCOLN LANE AND THE NORTH SIDE OF LINCOLN LANE BY THE MIDDLE.
OF 27 FOR A GRAND OPENING, REALLY THE END OF 27.
SO WITH THAT, I'LL TURN THIS OVER TO JACKIE.
JACQUELINE GONZALEZ-TOUZE, 1501 SOUTHWEST 8TH STREET, MIAMI, FLORIDA.
IT'S SUCH A PLEASURE TO BE WITH YOU TODAY AND AN HONOR, REALLY, TO BE A PART OF THIS PROJECT THAT HAS BEEN SO LONG IN THE MAKING, TRULY A ONE-OF-A-KIND OPPORTUNITY FOR ANY ARCHITECT.
I'M GOING TO DO THIS BECAUSE IT'S QUITE A PLEASURE.
QUITE DENSE, THE PACKAGE, SO I'M JUST GOING TO TELL YOU HOW WE'RE GOING TO TAKE IT.
I'M GOING TO REVERSE THE ORDER AND START WITH NOLI DISTRICT, WHICH AS YOU'VE BEEN TOLD, IS GOING TO BE REVIEWED BY THE DRB AS WELL.
AND THEN I'M GOING TO TAKE YOU THROUGH VIA NOLI AND THEN FINALLY I'D LIKE TO END WITH LINCOLN ROAD BECAUSE I ACTUALLY WANT TO TALK MORE ABOUT THE MATERIALITY AND SPEND SOME TIME THERE, WHICH I IMAGINE WOULD BE MORE OF INTEREST TO THIS BOARD.
SO IF IT'S OKAY WITH YOU, THAT'S HOW WE'RE GOING TO TAKE IT.
I ALSO WANT TO SAY THAT THIS PROJECT IS, AS MICHAEL MENTIONED, AND A...
TUESDAY STUDIOS, THE DESIGN ARCHITECT, MY PARTNER CARLOS PRIUS-TUZAY IS HERE, AND IT IS ALSO, WE'RE WORKING IN PARTNERSHIP WITH JOSE GOMEZ AND RICARDO ON THE TEAM.
IT IS A MASSIVE UNDERTAKING TO TAKE A SERVICE ALLEY, WHICH IS VERY COMPLEX, AND I CAN SPEND TIME WITH THIS, BUT I WON'T BECAUSE I WANT TO JUMP INTO THE DESIGN, BUT IF YOU DO HAVE QUESTIONS ABOUT HOW WE'RE TRANSFORMING BASICALLY A SPACE FOR CARS AND SERVICE INTO A PEOPLE-ORIENTED I DID.
SHADY OASIS, DID YOU WANT TO? I WAS GOING TO LET YOU FINISH YOUR SENTENCE, BUT BEFORE YOU DIVE INTO YOUR PRESENTATION, HOW MUCH LONGER WOULD YOU NEED? BECAUSE THE TIME WAS ABOUT TO EXPIRE.
OH, I'M GOING TO NEED SOME TIME.
BUT WE'LL GO AHEAD AND SET IT FOR THAT.
I STOLE ALL HER TIME TALKING, SO I FEEL BAD.
I'M NOT REPEATING WHAT MICHAEL ALREADY INTRODUCED THE PLANTS.
I'M GOING TO JUST KIND OF GIVE YOU THE ABBREVIATED.
BUT I JUST WANT TO MENTION THE ENORMOUS LIFT THAT IT IS.
ALL THE UTILITIES HAD TO BE MOVED OUT OF THE WAY.
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IF YOU KNOW FPNL, YOU KNOW WHAT A LIFT THAT IS.THE SERVICE AND THE TRASH HAVE BEEN INBOARDED INTO THE, YOU'LL SEE THAT THERE'S CORRIDORS THAT TAKE YOU TO TRASH ROOMS, AND ALL OF THAT IS GOING TO GET PICKED UP IN THE 723 BUILDING, WHICH HAS A LARGER FACILITY FOR TRASH.
SO IN THE EVENINGS, AFTER THE RESTAURANTS AND THE OTHER PLACES SHUT DOWN, THAT WILL BE PORTED OVER TO THERE.
YOU CAN ALSO SEE WE HAVE TWO DROP-OFF AREAS, THE TURNAROUND AREA.
TO THE RIGHT AND ON MERIDIAN WE HAVE SO I HAVE ANOTHER DROP-OFF AREA BECAUSE REALLY WHAT THIS IS IS TAKING AN ALLEY AND MAKING IT AN ADAPTIVE REUSE INTO A PUBLIC PEDESTRIAN WALKING AREA AND SHOPPING DISTRICT.
WE WERE WHEN WE WERE BROUGHT INTO THE PROJECT ONE OF THE THINGS I SHOULD SAY IS THAT I'VE BEEN ON LINCOLN ROAD SINCE I WAS THREE YEARS OLD SO I WAS REALLY APPRECIATIVE THAT MICHAEL WANTED THIS TO BE A PLACE BY LOCALS FOR LOCALS AND WE HAVE MINE I'M I'M NOT BORN HERE, BUT IT'S AS CLOSE TO, YOU KNOW.
WHEN I WAS THREE, I USED TO FEED THE PIGEON ON LINCOLN ROAD.
SO I HAVE A DEEP LOVE AND SO DOES CARLOS FOR LINCOLN ROAD.
WHEN WE STARTED OUR PRACTICE, WE'VE DONE A LOT OF WORK ON LINCOLN ROAD.
AND I'M VERY APPRECIATIVE OF THE OPPORTUNITY TO HELP SHAPE THIS OTHER LAYER.
BUT WE UNDERSTAND THAT LINCOLN ROAD IS A BRAND, AND IT'S IMPORTANT TO RESPECT AND HONOR THAT TRADITION WITHOUT DUPLICATING WHAT IT ALREADY IS.
AND SO WE WANT TO DIFFERENTIATE NOLI, BUT ALSO RELATE TO IT.
SO YOU CAN THINK OF IT AS SORT OF THE INDEPENDENT YOUNGER SISTER OF LINCOLN ROAD.
IT HAS THE SAME DNA, BUT IT DEFINITELY HAS ITS OWN IDENTITY.
AND PART OF THE REASON THAT WE REALLY LOVE THIS PROJECT, YOU KNOW, CLIMATE CHANGE IS REAL.
THERE'S MORE MONTHS OF THE YEAR THAT IT'S ALMOST UNBEARABLE TO WALK ON LINCOLN ROAD.
THE SHADE CANOPY IS NOT WHAT WE WOULD ALL WISH.
AND ONE OF THE THINGS THAT NOLI DOES REALLY, I THINK, SUCCESSFULLY IS IT BRINGS MATURE VEGETATION BECAUSE POUND FOR POUND IN TERMS OF SHADE, BRINGING DOWN THE TEMPERATURE AND HOLDING WATER, THERE'S NOTHING BETTER THAT WE CAN DO THAN ADD TREES.
YOU IT MIGHT BE ODD TO SEE AN ARCHITECT TALK SO MUCH ABOUT TREES, BUT REALLY, NOLI FOR ME IS ABOUT ADDING SHADE, ADDING PLACES FOR PEOPLE TO GATHER THAT ARE NOT NECESSARILY RELATED TO COMMERCE, THIRD SPACES THAT WE'VE TALKED ABOUT.
THAT'S ANOTHER WAY THAT THIS IS FOR LOCALS.
IF YOU'RE ON YOUR WAY TO THE GYM, IF YOU'RE LEAVING MERIDIAN AVENUE THAT'S HAVING ALL THESE IMPROVEMENTS, YOU PARK YOUR BIKE AND YOU GET ON, YOU WALK THROUGH A SHADY URBAN OASIS.
SO A LOT OF IT WAS ABOUT CREATING TEXTURES.
RECOGNIZING, YOU KNOW, FOR EXAMPLE, THE PIANO, BLACK AND WHITE LAPIDUS GESTURE, BUT BRINGING THE SCALE DOWN.
STAYING WITH KIND OF A BLACK AND WHITE AND GRAY PALETTE, BUT BRINGING IN THE WARMTH OF WOOD.
IT'S NOT TRYING TO BE FANCY AND IT'S NOT TRYING TO BE MORE LUXURIOUS THAN LINCOLN ROAD.
IT UNDERSTANDS IT'S AN ADAPTIVE REUSE OF AN ALLEY, BUT IT STILL CAN BE VERY BEAUTIFUL, VERY HUMANE.
AND HOPEFULLY THE DETAILS AND THE SCALE THAT START TO BRING YOU INTO WHAT WE ALL KIND OF LOVE ABOUT EUROPEAN CITIES THAT HAVE, OR WORTH AVENUE, WHEN YOU FIND YOURSELF THROUGH A LITTLE ALLEYWAY, AND AS MICHAEL WAS SAYING, DISCOVER THESE LITTLE MOMENTS THAT ARE DIFFERENT, AGAIN, IN SCALE, AND OFFER OPPORTUNITIES FOR SMALLER EMERGING RETAILERS TO HAVE A FOOTPRINT IN STORIED LINCOLN ROAD.
SO THAT POSSIBILITY OF THOSE MICRO-RETAILERS.
AND WHAT WE LOVE ABOUT LINCOLN ROAD, WE TRY TO BRING KIND OF THOSE GERMS, THOSE DNA INTO THERE.
FOR EXAMPLE, THE TERRAZZO INLAYS AT THE STOREFRONTS, TAKING A PATTERN OF BRICKS AS THE MAIN GESTURE, BUT THEN HAVING INLAYS WHERE PEOPLE WILL SIT TO KIND OF MARK THAT.
AND AGAIN, THE BLACK AND WHITE TERRAZZO.
IN NOLI, IT'S MORE THE STOREFRONTS ARE DARKER.
ON LINCOLN ROAD, WE'RE GOING LIGHTER AND MORE OF A CHAMPAGNE PLATINUM FINISH FOR THE STOREFRONTS, AND I HAVE ALL THE MATERIALS THERE, AND I'LL SHOW YOU AT THE END.
BUT THERE IS A DISTINCTION BETWEEN THE TWO.
AND WE'RE ALSO BRINGING IN MICRO-RETAILERS TO SORT OF POPULATE.
IT'S DEFINITELY STOREFRONTS, AND IT'S THE ABILITY TO HAVE SMALLER LITTLE EMERGING FOOTPRINTS, BOUTIQUES THAT ARE TEENY, BUT, YOU KNOW, CAFES, ALL DIFFERENT KINDS OF F&B, BUT POPULATED FOR HUMANS, AND THE CAR IS REALLY ABSENT FROM THE SPACE NOW.
THE LIGHTING AND EVERYTHING ABOUT IT HOPEFULLY WOULD MAKE IT A PLACE THAT CAN TRANSFORM AT NIGHT TO A VERY KIND OF CONVIVIAL ENVIRONMENT.
A LOT OF YOUNG PEOPLE WOULD WANT TO COME HERE AND HANG OUT, YOUNG, OLD, EVERYBODY.
AND WE HAVE THE BUILDING THAT YOU SEE WHERE THE NOLI SIGN IS, IS THE EATERY BUILDING THAT WE HAVE TRANSFORMED BY JUST SIMPLY ADDING TRELLIS COLUMNS AND VEGETATION ON THE EDGES.
WE'RE REALLY NOT ABOUT BUILDING NEW.
AND ONE OF THE WAYS WE ADAPTIVELY REUSE IS BY GREENING THE FACADES.
THERE YOU CAN SEE THE OUTDOOR CAFES, AND ON THE BUILDINGS OF THE ALLEY, THIS IS BEFORE ON THE TOP AND AFTER.
WE ARE CREATING THIS VIA NOLI, WHICH IS MY NEXT CHAPTER IN THIS, BUT YOU CAN SEE THE DIFFERENCE.
WE REMOVE THE TRASH, WE REMOVE ALL THE TRANSFORMERS, WE INBOARD ALL OF THAT, AND ESSENTIALLY ADD A LITTLE MORE GLAZING.
COMRES HAS REMOVED SOME OF THE MEZZANINES ON THE BUILDINGS TO THE RIGHT AND LEFT, AND WE'VE CREATED A MEZZANINE IN THE VIA,
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WHICH I'LL GET TO.BUT IT'S REALLY NOT, IT'S KEEPING THE PALETTE LIGHT, KEEPING IT VERY MUCH MIAMI BEACH INSPIRED COLORS.
AND THERE'S A FIN ON THE BUILDING THAT WE'RE CELEBRATING AND WE'RE BRINGING IN, YOU KNOW, WHERE WE HAVE TO, WE LOUVER, BUT IT'S MOSTLY A STUCCO.
AND METAL VERY SPARINGLY, BUT IT'S GOING TO BE MORE OF THAT KIND OF SOLID MATERIAL.
AND THEN YOU CAN SEE WHAT THE ENTRY FROM MERIDIAN LOOKS LIKE.
THAT WAS A RESTAURANT THAT WE PROPOSED FOR THE ROOF.
THAT'S NOT PART OF THIS APPLICATION, BUT JUST TO SHOW YOU DIFFERENT WAYS WE'RE THINKING ABOUT ACTIVATING NOT ONLY THE PEDESTRIAN REALM, BUT THE ROOF, WHICH WE DID AT MILA QUITE SUCCESSFULLY WHEN WE RESTORED THE 800 BUILDING.
SO I THINK MORE AND MORE PEOPLE ARE DISCOVERING THE BEAUTY OF HAVING INDOOR-OUTDOOR RESTAURANTS AS WELL.
AND THEN WHEN WE GET TO THE VIA, WHICH IS, AS MICHAEL MENTIONED, A REALLY INTERESTING WAY OF BRINGING THOSE MICROS TO THE LINCOLN ROAD AND CONNECTIVE TISSUE.
WITH A HOTEL GETTING BUILT, A LOT OF PEOPLE ARE WANDERING FROM AND ARE FILTERING FROM THAT PARKING GARAGE NOT KNOWING WHERE THEY'RE GOING.
SO THIS IS ANOTHER WAY OF ACCESSING LINCOLN ROAD AND HAVING A DIFFERENT EXPERIENCE AS THEY GET THERE AS OPPOSED TO, YOU KNOW, FACING A SERVICE LANE, WHICH IS WHAT THEY'RE PRESENTLY.
THE VIA CAME ABOUT TO OFFER THOSE SMALLER SPACES.
IT GOES FROM 120 TO 260 SQUARE FOOT OF RETAIL.
AND AS WE LOOKED AT THE ORIGINAL BUILDING, THE GEIGER BUILDING, IT WAS BUILT IN 1924.
AND MOST OF THE FABRIC OR ALL OF THE FABRIC THAT WE CAN SEE OF THE EXISTING BUILDING OF THE BEAUX-ARTS, IT LOOKS LIKE A SORT OF A BEAUX-ARTS PERIOD BUILDING, IS NOT THERE.
BUT ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE DISCOVERED IN LOOKING AT IT, IF YOU NOTICE WHERE THE RED SQUARE IS, THERE APPEARS TO BE A BIG VERTICAL BAY AT ONE POINT THAT WAS THERE.
THERE ALSO WAS AN ATTEMPT TO BREAK THE CORNICE LINE AND HAVE A LITTLE BIT OF A VARIATION SO IT WASN'T THIS RELENTLESS HORIZONTAL THAT WE SEE PRESENTLY.
AND THERE ALSO WAS, IT APPEARS TO US, IF YOU LOOK AT THE PROPORTION OF THE BULKHEAD, IT LOOKS MUCH TALLER THAN WHAT WAS THERE PRESENTLY.
AND WHAT WE THINK, AND WE HAVE...
RECORDS THAT SHOW THAT THE BUILDING WAS RENOVATED IN 1941 TO 1946, WHICH IS WARTIME.
AND WHAT HAPPENED AT WARTIME IS THAT THEY LOWERED THE STOREFRONTS, AND THEY BUILT MEZZANINES FOR STORAGE, ETC.
SO WE'RE LOOKING AT A BUILDING THAT HAS BEEN STREAMLINED IN A WAY BECAUSE IT'S MORE HORIZONTAL, BUT ALSO LOWERED.
AND THE STOREFRONT WAS REALLY MADE INTO ONE LONG HORIZONTAL.
THAT'S THE ONLY PHOTO THAT I HAVE OF THIS BUILDING, SO THIS IS ALL WE HAVE TO GO FROM.
AND IT'S NOT THAT WE'RE TRYING TO RECREATE THAT BUILDING BECAUSE WE DON'T HAVE THE DOCUMENTATION, BUT I JUST WANTED TO SHOW YOU THAT WE HAVE LOOKED AT WHAT WAS THERE PREVIOUSLY AND TRYING TO UNDERSTAND WHAT'S POSSIBLE.
AND THEN IN LOOKING AT THE IDEA OF A VIA, ONE OF THE THINGS WE LOVE ABOUT THIS ONE, IF IT'S COVERED BECAUSE IN OUR CLIMATE IT RAINS, IT'S GOING TO HAVE FANS, IT'S GOING TO HAVE VENTILATION.
AND ONE OF THE THINGS WE LOVE ABOUT THE EUROPEAN MODEL IS THAT THIS BEAUTIFUL FLOOR, AND WE TOLD MICHAEL EARLY ON, YOU KNOW, WE REALLY SHOULD BRING IN A TERRAZZO FLOOR AND DO IT LIKE A SIGNATURE INSTAGRAMMABLE MOMENT OF LIKE A REALLY BEAUTIFUL, ICONIC, BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, THE YOUNG PEOPLE, I THINK THEY WANT TO HAVE DISCOVERY.
AND THE IDEA IS THAT YOU'RE WALKING ON LINCOLN ROAD, AND THEN ALL OF A SUDDEN YOU SEE A PEAK OF A LITTLE SOMETHING, THAT LITTLE SPEAKEASY THAT WE PUT ON LINCOLN ROAD.
AND THEN YOU FIND THIS BEAUTIFUL FLOOR AND THESE LITTLE MICRO RETAILERS.
SO THAT WAS THE IDEA BEHIND IT.
AND THAT CONNECTED TO THE ALLEY FROM LINCOLN ROAD.
THE OTHER THING THAT'S SUPER COOL ABOUT THIS IS THAT THERE'S DADE COUNTY PINE CEILINGS.
SO WE'RE KEEPING THAT CEILING AND WE'RE EXPOSING IT.
SO WHEN YOU'RE WALKING IN THE VIA, IT'S ALMOST LIKE YOU'RE UNCOVERING THE LAYERS OF HISTORY.
YOU GET TO SEE HOW THESE BUILDINGS WERE PUT TOGETHER.
THERE'S A LOWER PART ALREADY AND A HIGHER PART.
AND WHAT WE DID WHEN WE WERE LOOKING AT IT IS, AGAIN, WE REALLY LOVE THE IDEA OF A PEEK-A-BOO LITTLE BAR OR RESTAURANT.
SO WE THOUGHT, HOW FUN WOULD IT BE TO PUT A LITTLE BAR? LOOKING OVER THE VIA SO YOU GET TO EXPERIENCE THAT SECTION BECAUSE IT IS LOWER IN THE FRONT AND THEN IT GETS TO BE DOUBLE HEIGHT AT THE REAR SO YOU CAN SEE WHAT WE DID FROM THE RESTAURANT TO THE LEFT THERE'S LIKE A LITTLE CONNECTOR TISSUE THAT TAKES YOU TO A LITTLE BAR WITH A TERRACE WE PUSH THE BAR BACK SO THAT THE FRONTAGE EXCUSE ME SO THAT THE FRONTAGE IS NOT UM AT THE SAME LINE AS THE LINCOLN ROAD FACADE AND WHAT'S IN FRONT OF IT IS A TERRACE AND WE'LL SHOW YOU IN SECTION YOU CAN SEE THE ROOF AND THAT BROWN IS A RETRACTABLE COVER FOR THAT TERRACE.
THAT'S THE EXISTING CONDITION ON THE TOP AND THE BOTTOM IS PROPOSED.
THE EXISTING PARAPET IS AT 21.6.
WHAT WE'RE GOING UP TO IS 25.6, SO IT'S A FOUR-FOOT DIFFERENCE AT THE VERY FRONT OF THE BUILDING.
AND THEN WE GO A LITTLE HIGHER TO 29 MAXIMUM.
WHICH IS STILL SHORTER THAN THE BUILDING ADJACENT, BUT WHAT WE WANTED TO DO IS TRY TO CREATE AN OCCUPIABLE SPACE.
AND THAT'S WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE A LITTLE BIT MORE RENDERED SO YOU
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CAN SEE.MAYBE FIVE MORE MINUTES? JUST REALLY, REALLY QUICK.
VEGETATION HERE MADE SENSE TO US TO SORT OF ANNOUNCE THAT THERE'S A SHADIER DISTRICT BEYOND, AND ALSO JUST TO MAKE IT, YOU KNOW, WE LOVE WORTH AVENUE AND HOW IT HAS, YOU KNOW, THE GROWING PLANTS AS PART OF THE FACADE.
AND WE DID BORROW FROM, A LITTLE BIT FROM SOME OF OUR FAVORITE DECO BUILDINGS AND MIAMI BEACH BUILDINGS, HOW THE IDEA OF A PORTAL IN STONE CAN BE INCORPORATED INTO AN OTHERWISE, YOU KNOW, DIFFERENT FACADE.
AND THE STONE IS SORT OF CELEBRATING THAT ARRIVAL, THAT MARKER THAT THERE'S AN ENTRY PORTAL.
AND HERE'S A VIEW OF WHAT THAT LOOKS LIKE.
I'M JUST GOING TO GO QUICKLY BECAUSE WE'RE RUNNING OUT OF TIME.
AND YOU CAN SEE WE'RE INTRODUCING A SKYLIGHT ON THE OTHER SIDE TO BATHE IT WITH DAYLIGHT SO WE CAN HAVE PLANTING ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE LITTLE STREET EASY.
SO THIS IS THE CURRENT FACADE CONDITION.
7 FOOT 6 OF GLASS, AND THE BULKHEAD IS LOWER THAN THE ROOFS.
ALL OF THE CEILINGS OF THE FIRST COUPLE OF BAYS ARE ALL AT 12 FOOT 6, BUT THE GLASS STOPS AT 9 FOOT AND FOR TODAY'S RETAIL DIRT, THAT'S AN ISSUE.
THE LAST BAY WAS INTERESTING BECAUSE IT HAD A 20 FOOT CEILING.
FOR SOME REASON, THAT BAY HAD A WOOD JOIST OR MUCH HIGHER.
SO WE FOUND THAT TO BE KIND OF INTERESTING.
AND AS WE LOOK AT, YOU KNOW, REALLY THE BRIEF IS BRINGING...
THE REALLY GREAT RETAILERS TO LINCOLN ROAD AND REALLY HELP USHER THE NEXT GREAT ERA OF LINCOLN ROAD.
THERE'S NO ONE THAT KNOWS THIS BETTER THAN OUR CLIENT.
AND WE WERE JUST LOOKING AT HOW PEOPLE ARE DESIGNING THESE DATA, AND INFORMED BY MICHAEL, OF COURSE, NOTICE THAT THERE'S A LOT MORE GLASS.
BUT WE WENT TO RODEO DRIVE, WE WENT TO DIFFERENT PLACES THAT STILL HAVE LEGACY HERITAGE BUILDINGS, BUT YOU'RE STARTING TO SEE THAT YOU CAN DO IT ELEGANTLY IF YOU USE THE RIGHT MATERIALS, THE RIGHT COMBINATION OF PROPORTIONS.
AND ACROSS THE WAY THERE ARE THESE LITTLE GEMS THAT WE LOVE, THE DECO PERIOD.
AND IN THE DECO PERIOD IT WAS ABOUT MORE GLASS, AND WE HAVE A LOT OF EXAMPLES ON LINCOLN ROAD YOU CAN SEE, WHERE THE NEW WALL IS ACTUALLY VERY SMALL, IT'S MORE OF A BASE TO ALLOW FOR THE VARIATION OF THE SIDEWALK.
AND YOU'RE GETTING THESE REALLY BEAUTIFUL, LARGER GLASS.
SO IT'S NOT ATYPICAL, WE KNOW THAT IT VARIES DEPENDING ON THE BUILDING, BUT WE DO SEE PRECEDENT FOR BOTH CONDITIONS, AND WE THOUGHT, FOR OURS WE WERE, YOU KNOW, HERE'S ANOTHER ONE.
SO OUR PROPOSAL IS TO DROP THE NEW WALL TO SIX INCHES AND TO RAISE THE GLASS TO 12.6 FROM 9.6, TO LEAVE THE CORNICE CONTINUOUS, AND THEN ONLY TO BREAK IT AND TO REPLACE, ON THIS FACADE PROPOSAL, REPLACE THE TOP OF THE FLUTING WITH TRAVERTINE AND AN ENTRY PORTAL, AND YOU CAN SEE WHAT THAT LOOKS LIKE.
SO WHAT HAPPENS IS THAT THE LAST BAY WHERE WE HAVE THE 20-FOOT CEILING, THAT'S WHERE WE ALLOW, BECAUSE REALLY ONE OF THE MAIN THINGS IS TO HAVE IDENTITY.
EVERYBODY WANTS TO KIND OF BE ABLE TO EXPRESS THEIR OWN BRAND.
AND WHEN YOU HAVE THIS RELENTLESS HORIZONTAL, IT'S KIND OF ANATHEMA TO THESE RETAILERS.
SO WE'RE TRYING TO RESPECT AND NOT LIFT THE LINE OF THE BLOCK AND RESPECT THAT 21-FOOT-6 CORNISH LINE, BUT STILL WITHIN THAT, RECOGNIZE THAT THAT BAY ORIGINALLY WAS A TALLER CEILING, AND THEN THE VIA NOLI IS THE OTHER INTERRUPTION.
KEPT THE CADENCE OF THE COLUMNS, KEPT THE HEIGHT OF THE CORNICE, AND WE DID RAISE THE GLASS TO GET THE GLASS CLOSER TO WHAT THE ORIGINAL CEILING WAS.
AND THAT'S WHAT THAT LOOKS LIKE.
AS MENTIONED, WE WANTED TO GIVE VARIETY OF TWO OPTIONS, AWNING OR TRELLIS, DEPENDING ON THE RETAILER.
SOME RESTAURANTS MIGHT WANT TO HAVE A TRELLIS AND PLANT VINES ON IT, WHICH WOULD BE BEAUTIFUL, AND SOME MIGHT WANT TO HAVE AN AWNING.
STILL, I THINK ALLOWING FOR IT AND THINKING ABOUT HOW TO DO IT ELEGANTLY IS A NICE FEATURE.
IT'S LIKE MANY OTHER BUILDINGS IN THIS DISTRICT.
AND YOU CAN SEE WHAT THAT KIND OF THE PRECEDENTS THAT WE WERE LOOKING AT FOR THAT.
THE LAST THING I WOULD LIKE TO SAY IS THAT IN THE PROCESS OF DOING, WE NOW HAVE A GC INVOLVED AND WE DID DO THE RESTORATION OF 800 LINCOLN.
SO WE ASKED THEM TO SCRAPE THE BUILDING TO SEE WHAT WAS BEHIND THE FLUTING THAT WAS THERE NOW TO SEE IF IT WAS IN FACT, BECAUSE IT LOOKED KIND OF TERRIBLE IN THE BEGINNING.
CHIPPING PAINT AND NOT LOOKING GREAT.
SO WE DO HAVE ANOTHER OPTION INSTEAD OF THE TRAVERTINE FOR THE FLUTING, WHICH IS REALLY WHAT WAS INSPIRED BY THE ORIGINAL.
AND I HAVE THE PACKETS OF MINE SPREAD TO PASS THEM OUT.
THIS IS THE ORIGINAL CONDITION.
WHEN WE LOOKED AT IT, IT LOOKED KIND OF LIKE IT WASN'T IN TREMENDOUSLY GOOD SHAPE, BUT UPON CLOSER INSPECTION, AND WE'VE GOT...
IS REALLY TO KEEP THAT CORNICE
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AND NOT TEAR IT DOWN AND KEEP A PORTION OF THE FLUTING THAT WE CAN KEEP EXCEPT FOR THE LOWER RED BAND TO KEEP MORE SO BASICALLY THE OTHER OPTION IS TO PRESERVE MORE OF THE EXISTING FACADE IT'S THE SAME IDEA WITH THE SAME HIGHER FACADE ON THE ON THE RIGHT AND THE PORTAL AND THE TRAVERGINE BUT IN THIS IN THIS OPTION IT WOULD BE MORE PRESERVATION WE WOULD KEEP MORE OF THE ORIGINAL FABRIC AND THAT'S SOMETHING THAT YOU KNOW IT CAME UP BECAUSE WE WERE REALLY DOING MORE FORENSICS ABOUT IT YOU AND WE THOUGHT THE CORNISH LINE LOOKED PRETTY GOOD AND WAS IN GOOD SHAPE, SO WE WANTED TO BRING THAT FOR GUIDANCE FROM THIS BOARD TO SEE HOW YOU GUYS FELT ABOUT IT.THE PINK SHOWS THE ADDITIONAL PRESERVATION WE WOULD BE ABLE TO MAINTAIN OF THE ORIGINAL FACADE.
SO ALL OF THAT MATERIAL, RATHER THAN BEING DEMOLISHED, WOULD BE KEPT, AND EVERYTHING ELSE WOULD STAY THE SAME.
AND THAT'S WHAT IT WOULD LOOK LIKE.
I'D LIKE TO RESERVE SOME TIME FOR REBUTTAL.
WE'RE HERE FOR YOUR QUESTIONS.
DO WE HAVE ANY BOARD QUESTIONS? THERE'S A LOT OF INFORMATION, I KNOW.
I'M TRYING TO GO THROUGH IT, BUT...
I WOULD LIKE TO START BY COMMENDING MR. COMORES FOR TAKING THIS INITIATIVE.
INTEGRATING, YOU KNOW, NORTH LINCOLN LANE WITH LINCOLN ROAD IS, I THINK, A GREAT IDEA THAT WE EXPLORED OVER 30 SOME ODD YEARS AGO WITH THEN CITY MANAGER ROGER CARLTON.
AND WE RAN INTO HURDLES BECAUSE THERE ARE MULTIPLE LAND PROPERTY OWNERS AND WE COULDN'T GET CONSENSUS.
REST IN PEACE JOE COMMERCE WAS INVOLVED IN SOME OF THOSE DISCUSSIONS.
BEING THE OWNER OF MULTIPLE PROPERTIES AT THIS TIME GIVES YOU THE OPPORTUNITY TO DO SOMETHING EXTRAORDINARY LIKE THIS AND I REALLY THINK THAT IT'S A POSITIVE PROJECT FOR THE CITY ESPECIALLY WHEN ONE SITS AT THE EATERY ON THE NORTH SIDE OF LINCOLN LANE AND LOOKS SOUTHWARD AND SEES ALL THOSE GARBAGE TRUCKS.
CONTAINERS AND SO FORTH SO I THINK YOU DEFINE LINCOLN LANE INTEGRATING IT WITH THAT PLAZA AND CONNECTING IT TO LINK THE ROAD WORKING ON THE YOU KNOW MINIMIZING FOOTPRINT OF ALL THE UNITS GIVING THEM MORE EXPOSURE ETHICS IS A GREAT IDEA AND I COMMEND YOU FOR COMING UP WITH THIS PLAN AND THANK YOU YOUR TEAM AS WELL NEXT QUESTION SURE AN IMPRESSIVE PROJECT IT SEEMS LIKE ONE ITEM OF CONTENTION IS THE KNEE WALL ALONG LINCOLN.
STAFF WANTS SOMETHING A LITTLE UNIFORM AND HIGHER, AND YOU WANT MORE LATITUDE TO DEVIATE FROM THAT, WHETHER IT BE A LOWER KNEE WALL AND HIGHER GLASS.
JUST ON A PERSONAL NOTE, I HAVE NO ISSUE WHATSOEVER.
AND JUST SOME QUESTIONS REGARDING IS THAT LINCOLN LANE NORTH.
SO YOU GET OUT OF THE MUNICIPAL GARAGE AND YOU HAVE THE ALLEYWAY.
WHAT'S GOING ON TO THE EAST OF YOUR PROJECT? WILL CARS STILL BE ABLE TO TRAVERSE? YES, THANK YOU.
THAT LINCOLN LANE WOULD CONTINUE TO THE EAST AND FOLLOW ALL THE WAY OVER TO WASHINGTON AVENUE, AND THAT WOULD REMAIN ACTIVE.
REALLY, THE WHOLE NOTION OF CREATING LINCOLN LANE AS A STREET OFF THE STREET IS THE INTRODUCTION OF STOREFRONTS ALONG THE WHOLE SOUTH SIDE OF LINCOLN LANE NORTH, REALLY CREATING SECOND STOREFRONTS.
IN MY MIND, GOING FORWARD, WE SHOULD ALWAYS BE LOOKING AT LINCOLN LANE AS SECOND STOREFRONTS AS OPPOSED TO BACKS OF BUILDINGS.
AND I'M HOPEFUL THAT THIS WILL TRANSLATE DOWN ALONG THE REST OF LINCOLN LANE TO THE EAST AND TO THE WEST.
I KNOW THAT THE RABBI HAS A LOCATION JUST TO THE EAST OF ME, AND I WOULD ONLY HOPE THAT EVERYTHING THAT WE'RE DOING WILL BE USED FOR INSPIRATION FOR OTHER PEOPLE DOWN ALONG THAT WAY.
I AGREE WITH YOU, BUT AN ISSUE THAT I IMAGINE IS...
THOSE, THE SETBACKS JUST CONTINUOUSLY CHANGE.
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THE SYNAGOGUE JUTS FURTHER NORTH, AND I KNOW THERE WAS THE THELMA'S HOUSE.HOW DO YOU MAKE THAT UNIFORM? OR MAYBE PART OF THE CHARM MIGHT BE LEAVING IT AND JUST RECREATING A NEW FACADE ALONG EACH ELEMENT.
I DON'T REALLY BELIEVE IT NEEDS TO BE UNIFORM.
I THINK IT NEEDS TO BE COHESIVE, BUT NOT NECESSARILY UNIFORM.
AND IF YOU LOOK AT THE BACK OF OUR PROJECT, OR THE SECOND FRONT, IF YOU WILL, WE'RE NOT EXPANDING OUT AND FILLING IN THAT PLAZA THAT'S THERE.
WE'RE ACTUALLY CREATING THOSE SETBACKS AS A NEW PLACE, A NEW THIRD SPACE, WHERE PEOPLE CAN GATHER AND CONGREGATE.
SO I THINK UTILIZING THE EXISTING ARCHITECTURE, THE SETBACKS, THE HEIGHTS, THE LIFTS, ALL THAT, BECOMES PART OF THE FABRIC OF THE DISTRICT.
AND I THINK ALL THAT WE CAN DO IS LOOK TO ENHANCE IT AND MAKE IT BETTER.
I DON'T THINK WE WANT TO CHANGE IT AND MAKE IT THIS UNIFORM CORRIDOR.
AND BACK TO WHERE THE CURRENT STREET WILL END.
THAT WILL BE DELINEATED WITH A CURB AND A SIDEWALK.
MAYBE I DIDN'T QUITE CAPTURE HOW THAT'S GOING TO BE TREATED WITH YOUR RENDERINGS.
YEAH, WE WOULD CREATE BOLLARDS.
WE'D NEED TO PROVIDE FOR LIFE SAFETY AND FIRE ACCESS AND SO ON.
SO WE WOULD HAVE BOLLARDS THAT ARE REMOVABLE, AND IT WOULD BE WITH PAVING PATTERNS.
WE WOULD CREATE SORT OF A CIRCULAR TYPE OF ARRANGEMENT OVER TOWARDS THE EAST END SO THAT AS A DROP-OFF WOULD WANT TO OCCUR, IT CAN, AND CARS CAN CONTINUE TO PASS BY.
SO BOTH ENDS WOULD HAVE BOLLARDS ON IT, WHICH WOULD BE REMOVABLE.
AND THE TREATMENT, WERE THOSE PAVERS IN YOUR RENDERING? I'LL LET JACKIE SPEAK TO THE FINISHES.
WE'RE GOING TO GO WITH A BRICK PAVER IN A HERRINGBONE PATTERN, THINNER THAN THAT.
THAT'S THE ONLY BRICK I COULD FIND, SORRY.
BUT IT'S A THINNER BRICK, HERRINGBONE PATTERN WITH INLAYS, MARKING, AGAIN, SEATING AREAS OR SPECIAL MOMENTS AROUND TREES OR THINGS LIKE THAT.
I CAN SHOW THE PIPELINE IF YOU GUYS WOULD LIKE IT.
THE IDEA IS TO REALLY ELEVATE IT.
RIGHT NOW, LINCOLN ROAD HAS A LOT OF PAINTED SURFACES.
WE WANT TO DO AN ACTUAL MATERIAL LIKE A BRICK.
IT'S A HUMBLE MATERIAL, BUT IN A LIGHT GRAY, IT COULD GO VERY NICELY WITH THE BLACK AND WHITE TERRAZZO AND THE VEGETATION.
DO YOU WANT TO TAKE THE REMOTE, JACK? I CAN.
YOU CAN SEE THE LINES COMING THROUGH THE CIRCULAR AREA WHERE THE TRUCKS DROP BY.
WE DIDN'T BRING THE FULL PRESENTATION OF NOLI JUST FOR TIME, BUT WE ARE PRESENTING ALL OF THIS WITH A DRB IN THREE DAYS OR SO.
AND THAT'S THE INTENTION IS TO CREATE.
KIND OF CRAZY PRESENTATION TO GIVE IT'S A BIT DISORIENTING BECAUSE IT'S IT'S ALMOST LIKE YOU'RE PRESENTING DETAILS FOR AN ENTIRE CITY SO IT'S A BIT HEAD-SPINNING TO SEE BUT OVERALL I THINK IT'S GREAT BUT I'LL RESERVE MY COMMENTS FOR THE END A FEW QUESTIONS SO WHO OWNS THE STREETS THE CITY STILL ON THE STREET CITY DOES BUT YOU WILL MAINTAIN IT OR OPERATE THROUGH A MAINTENANCE AND IMPROVEMENT AGREEMENT THAT WE'RE NEGOTIATING WITH THE CITY ADMINISTRATION RIGHT NOW OKAY, AND CAN YOU SHOW ME, MICHAEL, LIKE ON THE MAP WHERE THE DRB LINE IS? WE ONLY CONSIDER SOUTH.
IT'S THE CENTER OF THE CENTER.
IS THE LINE ON THE DRAWING ACCURATE? AND ALL THOSE, I MEAN, SO ALL THE TRASH, ALL THE, IT'S GOING TO GO NORTH OF THE.
WHAT ABOUT THE CURIOSITY? WE HAVE A PRESENTATION BACK UP? GO AHEAD, MICHAEL.
VERY IMPORTANT TO ME WAS BURYING ALL OF THE...
AND AS YOU CAN SEE, I GUESS WE DON'T HAVE A POINTER, BUT THERE'S TWO SERVICE CORRIDORS, ONE ON THE EAST SIDE.
RIGHT TODAY, WE HAVE FOUR TRANSFORMERS OUT THERE AND ABOUT FIVE OR SIX DUMPSTERS OUT IN THE PROMENADE, OR WHAT WILL BE THE PROMENADE.
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ALL THE DUMPSTERS WILL GO INTO THE SIDE.THERE'S TRASH ROOMS PROVIDED FOR FOR EACH TENANT, AND THEN A LARGE TRASH ROOM OVER ON THE WEST SIDE.
AND BASICALLY THE IDEA IS TO...
STAFF THAT SO THAT IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT WE CAN REMOVE ALL THE TRASH, BRING IT OVER TO THE 723 LOADING ZONE WHERE WE'LL HAVE A COMPACTOR.
AND THEN THAT SAME LABORER IS ABLE TO BRING THOSE BINS BACK TO THEIR RESTING SPOT.
SO TO ME IT WAS VERY IMPORTANT NOT TO HAVE A SITUATION WHERE WE WERE LEAVING TRASH BINS OUT IN THE CIRCULAR AREA.
AT 6 O'CLOCK THE GARBAGE TRUCKS COME IN, THEY DUMP ALL THE STUFF AND HALF OF IT GETS OUT ONTO THE STREET.
SO THE WHOLE IDEA OF DOING IT IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT, BRINGING THE DUMPSTERS TO THE TRASH COMPACT, AND BRINGING THEM BACK ALLOWS US TO KEEP EVERYTHING NICE AND TIDY, AND THAT'S SUPER IMPORTANT TO ME.
WE'VE BEEN WORKING, LITERALLY BEEN WORKING WITH FP&L FOR OVER A YEAR NOW TO CONSOLIDATE THE FOUR OR FIVE TRANSFORMERS INTO ONE TRANSFORMER IN MORE CONTEMPORARY POWER, AND THAT'S ALL BEING RELOCATED OVER INTO THE EAST SIDE OF BUILDING YOU CAN SEE THERE'S A LITTLE FPNO VAULT AREA SO EVERYTHING TO ME IS HIDDEN AND TIDY AGAIN THIS IS ANOTHER STREET FRONT AS OPPOSED TO A BACK OF A BUILDING YEAH I MEAN I LOVE IT I'M JUST INTERESTED HOW YOU EXECUTE IT I MEAN IT'S GREAT AND THESE ARE EACH INDIVIDUAL ARE THESE ALL SEPARATE FOLIOS THE ADDRESSES UH THERE IS ONE FOLIO FOR THIS PROPERTY.
THERE IS A THE CORNER BUILDING WHICH IS NOT PART OF THE APPLICATION THERE IS A COVENANT BETWEEN THE TWO PROPERTIES SO THAT THEY CAN SHARE AREAS THAT WAS PUT IN PLACE SEVERAL YEARS AGO INTERESTING AND THEN JUST ONE LAST QUESTION FOR STAFF I SUPPOSE SO REALLY, IT'S THE DEMO OF THE VIA THAT WE'RE CONSIDERING THE DEMO AS WELL AS THE CHANGES OF THE DESIGN FOR THE FRONT ALONG LINCOLN ROAD AND LINCOLN LANE NORTH YEAH, SO AS IT RELATES TO THE RETAIL SPACE IS REALLY LITERALLY JUST THE REMOVAL OF THE STOREFRONT AND THE REMOVAL OF THE BACK WALL.
AND THE VIA STARTS AT 15 FEET, AND AS JACKIE SAID, IT RISES UP TO 20 FEET.
SO IT ACTUALLY IS CONSTANTLY PROVIDING THAT SENSE OF DISCOVERY.
YOU KNOW, WHAT WAS INTERESTING AS WE WENT THROUGH, YOU KNOW, WITH THE CONTRACTOR, WE STARTED LOOKING AT THESE FACADES.
WE WERE ABLE TO REALLY DIG DEEPER INTO THE EXISTING FACADE.
AND, YOU KNOW, IN A NOD TOWARDS THE PRESERVATION, WE CAME UP WITH A SLIGHTLY DIFFERENT OR MODIFIED PROPOSAL TO REALLY ACCEPT MORE PRESERVATION.
SO WE SORT OF LIKE WHERE WE'RE GOING WITH THAT.
IT REALLY KEEPS AND MAINTAINS A LOT OF THAT FACADE, WHICH WAS OTHERWISE BEING RECONFIGURED AND MODIFIED WITH TRAVERTINE.
AND CAN YOU GO TO PAGE 2.11? I DON'T KNOW THAT I HAVE THE WHOLE DECK JUST BE FOR PRIVATE SORRY.
WHICH ONE? BOTH IT? THAT'S THIS.
YEAH, SO THAT'S THE DADE COUNTY PINE YOU'RE EXPOSING ON THE UNDERSIDE OF THAT.
I DIDN'T SEE, ACTUALLY I DIDN'T REALIZE THAT THE VIA WAS COVERED.
I THOUGHT IT WAS GOING TO BE ON THERE.
YEAH, AND WE LOVE THE IDEA THAT YOU'RE KIND OF UNCOVERING THE HISTORY A LITTLE BIT.
JUST SO ONE MOMENT YOU GET TO SEE.
THIS FRONT END WE'RE GOING TO REDO IT BECAUSE WHEN WE BUILD THE ROOF THE STRUCTURE OF THAT'S GOING TO BE NEW BUT THE BACK IS GOING TO BE EXPOSED.
COULD YOU MAYBE SHOW THE LIKE THE MOST CLEAR LIKE BEFORE AND AFTER WHAT IS HAPPENING WITH THE STOREFRONTS? ACTUALLY I'VE SEEN THE BEFORE BUT SO THIS IS BEFORE BEFORE OKAY AND YOU CAN SEE THE BULKHEAD IS QUITE LOW AND AND WHAT I IF YOU JUST HAVE IT IN YOUR MIND FOR A SECOND AND WE LOOK AT THE HISTORIC PHOTO THAT WE HAVE, YOU CAN SEE THAT THE PROPORTION TO OUR WHEEL RELATED, IT LOOKED LIKE THERE WAS AT ONE POINT LESS BULKHEAD.
IT'S VERY TELLING, AGAIN, THAT ALL OF THOSE IMPROVEMENTS HAPPENED FROM 41 TO 46.
THIS WAS WARTIME ERA SHORTAGES.
PEOPLE WERE LOWERING THEIR STOREFRONT, NOT NECESSARILY FOR A DESIGN STANDPOINT.
IT'S A HARD THING, AND WE UNDERSTAND HOW FAR BACK IN TIME DO YOU GO.
AND SO WE'RE TRYING TO FIND THAT BALANCE FOR THIS PROJECT.
THAT'S WHY WE BROUGHT THIS PRESERVATION OPTION TO YOU.
WE ACTUALLY ARE GOOD WITH THAT.
THAT CORNICE WE THINK IS KIND OF, IT'S NICE AND IT'S IN GOOD SHAPE.
AND WE DID RESTORE THE 800 BUILDING.
WE DID THE SAME KIND OF FORENSICS THERE.
AND THE CONTRACTOR WANTED TO GET RID OF THE PANELS.
AND WE TOLD HIM, NO, LET'S ACTUALLY, LET'S TRY TO SEE IF WE CAN KEEP THEM.
WE DON'T LIKE TO DO THAT UNLESS WE'RE CERTAIN.
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IN GOOD SHAPE.AND I TOLD MICHAEL WE COULD DO IT IN STONE, BUT IT'S NEVER GOING TO BE, YOU KNOW, PRECISELY THE SAME THING.
WE'RE HAPPY WITH OUR ORIGINAL DESIGN, OBVIOUSLY, BUT WE THOUGHT WE'D BRING THAT OPTION.
AND THE CORNICE, WE WERE TAKING PICTURES AND DOING THIS TESTING AND SO ON, AND JACKIE SENT ME A PICTURE OF THE CORNICE.
I'M LIKE, THAT CORNICE IS REALLY BEAUTIFUL.
LET'S SEE IF WE CAN ACTUALLY SAVE THAT CORNICE.
AND AS WE KEPT GOING FURTHER AND FURTHER, WE WERE LIKE, YOU KNOW WHAT? WE CAN REALLY KEEP MOST OF THIS AND JUST MODIFY THE LOWER PORTION OF IT AND RESTORE IT.
YOU KNOW, IT WASN'T, WE DIDN'T HAVE A CHANCE TO GIVE IT TO MICHAEL BECAUSE IT WAS REALLY JUST IN THE LAST WEEK WE HAD THAT OPTION.
IT WAS MORE PRESERVATION, NOT LESS, SO WE FELT LIKE WE WERE OKAY.
CAN WE SHOW THE, I DON'T THINK YOU HAVE A RENDERING OF IT, BUT I THINK YOU HAVE A DRAWING.
I DO HAVE THE RENDERING OF IT.
OF THE PROPOSED PRESERVATION OPTION? YEAH, WE DID RENDER IT.
SORRY, THERE'S A LOT OF SLIDES.
OKAY, SO THAT WAS KIND OF THE PATTERN, AND THEN THIS IS THE RENDERING.
SO IT KEEPS THE I BELIEVE WE HAVE THE SO YOU CAN SEE THE PROPORTIONS ARE WE'VE LOST THE LITTLE PACKAGE I SENT YOU.
WE LOSE THE BOTTOM HORIZONTAL, SO WE'LL HAVE TO REPLACE THAT, BUT WE THINK WE CAN DO IT BECAUSE IT'S PRECAST CEMENT, AND WE'VE BEEN SUCCESSFUL IN DOING RESTORATIONS FOR PANT COAST BUILDINGS, ET CETERA, IN PRECAST CEMENT, SO WE THINK WE CAN MATCH IT.
AND THAT KEEPS EVERYTHING ABOVE THE HORIZONTAL BAND ORIGINAL, EXCEPT FOR THE VIANOLI LITTLE INTERVENTION THAT WE'RE DOING THERE AND RAISING THE CEILING OF THE LAST BAY, WHICH, AGAIN, THAT CEILING, FOR SOME REASON, HAD A 20-FOOT HIGH CEILING, WHICH IT WOULD BE REALLY FOR A GREAT RETAILER, WOULD BE SOMETHING VERY ATTRACTIVE FOR THEM, SO WE WANTED TO KEEP IT.
SO THERE'S A REMIND ME ONE MORE TIME ABOUT THE NEW WALL.
IT'S LIKE A SIX-INCH CURVE? WE HAVE 12.
YOU KNOW, JUST TO TOUCH ON THAT FOR A MOMENT, THE KNEE WALLS ARE VERY OVER TIME.
AS TO RETAILING IN THE WAY THAT I SAID, YOU KNOW, FOR US, WE LIKE NOT TO HAVE NO KNEE WALL BECAUSE TO HAVE A SMALLER KNEE WALL COULD ADJUST FOR GREAT CHANGES AS WELL AS PROVIDE FOR SUSTAINABILITY.
BUT ALSO, YOU KNOW, WHEN A RETAILER IS SHOWING A MANNEQUIN.
PERSON DRESSED IN THE CLOTHING IN THE STORE, THEY'D LIKE THEM TO STAND AT THE SAME ELEVATION AND BE ABLE TO LOOK AT THEM IN THE EYES.
IT'S VERY MUCH MORE CONTEMPORARY THAN THE OLD DAYS WHEN THEY HAD THE ELEVATED PLATFORMS, AND YOU'RE SITTING THERE LOOKING AT THE PERSON'S LEGS, BECAUSE EVERYBODY'S UP HERE.
SO, YOU KNOW, THIS IS JUST A CONTEMPORARY WAY OF DEALING WITH THESE RETAIL ELEMENTS.
FIRST OFF, I WANT TO THANK YOU FOR THE OPPORTUNITY OF WALKING THE PROPERTY WITH YOU.
THE ONLY THING THAT I'VE BEEN THINKING ABOUT ALL OF THIS TIME, YOU ARE BASICALLY STRIPPING EVERYTHING BACK AND REBUILDING.
WHY DIDN'T YOU TAKE INTO CONSIDERATION SEA LEVEL RISE? IT HAS BEEN A TOPIC OF DISCUSSION AND SOMETHING THAT WE NEED TO WORK WITH.
LINCOLN ROAD HAS A BUILT ELEVATION THAT WE HAVE TO MATCH.
IT'S VERY HARD FOR US TO TAKE THAT ELEVATION.
YOU KNOW, RAISE THE WHOLE GROUND FLOOR.
AND THEN WE HAVE TO MEET IN THE REAR, BUT MAYBE JACKIE CAN SPEAK TO THAT.
YEAH, I JUST WANT TO SAY THEY'RE INVESTING IN A SUBSTANTIAL AMOUNT OF IMPROVING THE DRAINAGE OF LINCOLN LANE, SO THAT'S GOOD.
AND IN OUR OPINION, THE BEST THING WE COULD DO IS ADD MORE TREES, ADD MORE SHADE.
THE TREES ABSORB WATER, AND THEY HOLD IT, AND THEY RELEASE IT SLOWLY.
SO IN UNISON, WHEN YOU HAVE A GROUP OF THEM, IT CAN DO SOME REAL GOOD.
PLANTING AND VEGETATION, YOU KNOW, THE HEIGHT OF LINCOLN ROAD IS SET, BUT, YOU KNOW, BUT THE STOREFRONTS BEING HIGHER ACTUALLY HELP US BECAUSE WITH THE STOREFRONTS BEING LOWER, YOU REALLY HAVE NO PLACE TO GO.
YOU KNOW, IN THE FUTURE, IF THAT NEEDS TO LIFT, YOU KNOW, WE CANNOT HAVE A STOREFRONT THAT'S 7'6 AND RISING.
SO A HIGHER STOREFRONT IS THINKING ABOUT THAT IN THE FUTURE IF WE NEED TO RAISE THAT, YOU KNOW, THAT SLAB.
WE HAVE A LITTLE BIT OF A BUFFER TO WORK WITH.
SO, IN FACT, IT IS SOMETHING WE THINK ABOUT.
JUST WHEN YOU WERE SPENDING ALL THAT MONEY, I'M THINKING, GEE.
WELL, WE CAN'T BUILD FOR TOMORROW AND HAVE THINGS AT THE WRONG HEIGHT, BUT WE CAN THINK ABOUT WHAT IT'S GOING TO BE, AND DEFINITELY IT'S GOING HIGHER.
ANY OTHER QUESTIONS? SO JUST JUST JUST OCCURRED TO ME NOW SO IF THE IDEA WOULD BE MAYBE IN THE FUTURE RAISING THE FLOOR IF NEEDED THEN HAVING A NEW WALL MAY BE HELPFUL FOR THE FUTURE SO I DON'T HAVE A MINUTE THAT I'M A PREFERENCE OVER THE HIGHER THE LOWER NEW WALL BUT IF YOU'RE TRYING TO INCLUDE SOME RESILIENCE INTO THE DEPENDENT SPACE THAT COULD BE ONE NEEDS TO GO SO IT WOULD BE A REBUILD ANYWAY SO I JUST HAVE ONE QUESTION.
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WHAT'S THE WIDTH AND THE LENGTH? OFTEN VIA NOLI IT'S 17 FOOT WIDE BY A HUNDRED FOOT DEEP EXACTLY LIKE THAT LONG SKINNY RETAIL SPACE THAT WE BECAUSE I DIDN'T FIND EXACTLY RIGHT THROUGH THAT SPACE.THANKS ANY OTHER QUESTIONS FOR THE APPLICANT, OKAY? GO AHEAD MITCH THE ORIGINAL WHAT WAS IN 1925 AUGUST GEIGER STRUCTURE? MICHAEL, I KNOW YOU'VE DONE EXTRAORDINARY PRESERVATION WORK WHERE YOU'VE TAKEN WHAT WAS NON-EXISTENT OTHER THAN IN PHOTOGRAPHIC DOCUMENTATION AND RETURNED IT.
HAVE YOU CONSIDERED THAT IN THIS CASE? YOU KNOW, WE CONSIDER ALL ASPECTS OF IT.
THAT BUILDING WAS SO SEVERELY MODIFIED AND WAS NOT...
NOT A GREAT EXAMPLE OF WHAT WE WERE LOOKING TO ACHIEVE AS AN ALTERNATIVE OR AS OPPOSED TO THE BUILDING AT 744 LINCOLN ROAD, WHICH WAS A RUSSELL PANKOW'S BUILDING BUILT IN 1935.
THERE WE WERE ABLE TO FIND SOME GREAT DOCUMENTATION AND ACTUALLY RESTORE A LOT OF THOSE DETAILS.
WE ARE ACTUALLY GOING TO BE DOING THAT TO ANOTHER BUILDING AT 801 LINCOLN ROAD, WHICH WILL BE, YOU KNOW, OVER THE NEXT SEVERAL MONTHS BECOMING TO HPB FOR.
FOR REVIEW, BUT THE, YOU KNOW, TO ME, THAT JUST, IT JUST WASN'T THERE WITH THAT BUILDING, AND THE EXISTING STRUCTURE WASN'T THERE FOR THAT.
YEAH, BUT WE DID LOOK AT THE PROPORTIONS, AND THAT MOMENT THAT WE FOUND, AND SO THERE'S NOT, THAT GRAINY PHOTOGRAPH WAS THIS BIG, AND WE BLEW IT UP FOR YOU, BUT THAT'S REALLY ALL WE HAVE.
I ALSO DIDN'T NOTE IN YOUR HISTORIC RESOURCES REPORT A BUILDING AUGUST GEIGER DID.
WAS THE OLD CARL FISHER OFFICE BUILDING, WHICH WE ALL REMEMBER.
THE PAINSTAKING EFFORT OF MARK SOJKA AND CONNORS.
ACTUALLY, THE RENOVATION IN THE 40S, ALSO GEIGER DID THIS.
SO IF WE WANT TO KNOW WHAT GEIGER WOULD HAVE DONE, HE KIND OF DID IT.
DO WE HAVE ANY FURTHER QUESTIONS FOR THE APPLICANT? OKAY, BOARD DISCLOSURES.
OKAY, SO I TOOK A TOUR WITH RSI VISIT WITH THE APPLICANT.
DO WE HAVE ANYBODY ON ZOOM? I KNOW WE'VE GOT SOME PEOPLE IN THE AUDIENCE.
THERE'S NOBODY ONLINE WITH THEIR HAND RAISED ON ZOOM.
OKAY, SO IF YOU'RE ON ZOOM, RAISE YOUR HAND.
AND ELIZABETH'S JUST CONFIRMING THAT THAT WAS A DISCLOSURE? YES, I MENTIONED THAT I WAS INVITED TO .
MEG LUSTOW, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF THE MIAMI DESIGN PRESERVATION LEAGUE.
WE STRONGLY SUPPORT THE PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT AT 719-37 LINCOLN ROAD.
THIS PROJECT REPRESENTS A THOUGHTFUL AND SOPHISTICATED ADDITION TO LINCOLN ROAD, DEMONSTRATING A CLEAR COMMITMENT TO HIGH-QUALITY DESIGN, PLACE MAKING, AND THE CONTINUED EVOLUTION OF ONE OF MIAMI BEACH'S MOST IMPORTANT CIVIC AND COMMERCIAL CORRIDORS.
WE COMMEND THE DESIGN TEAM FOR ITS ATTENTION TO ARCHITECTURAL DETAIL AND THE MATERIALITY, AS WELL AS ITS CAREFUL CONSIDERATION OF THE PEDESTRIAN EXPERIENCE.
THE PROJECT SUCCESSFULLY BALANCES CONTEMPORARY DESIGN WITH SENSITIVITY TO ITS SURROUNDINGS, CREATING BUILDINGS THAT FEEL BOTH DISTINCTIVE AND APPROPRIATELY INTEGRATED INTO THE CHARACTER OF LINCOLN ROAD.
PARTICULARLY NOTEWORTHY ARE THREE ELEMENTS OF THE PROPOSAL.
THE COURTYARD SPACE ON LINCOLN LANE, THE BREEZEWAY, NOW THE VIA, AND THE LANDSCAPING PLAN.
THE COURTYARD WILL ACTIVATE AND BEAUTIFY A SPACE ON A STREET THAT HAS LARGELY BEEN TREATED AS AN ALLEY, BRINGING LIFE AND VITALITY TO AN UNDERUSED PUBLIC THOROUGHFARE.
THE BREEZEWAY IS AN ENTICING VISUAL AND PRACTICAL ELEMENT THAT WILL DRAW PEDESTRIANS THROUGH THE BUILDING TO THE COURTYARD AND OFFER ACCESS TO ADDITIONAL SHOPS ON THE INTERIOR.
THE PROJECT'S LANDSCAPE STRATEGY INCORPORATES ABUNDANT GREENERY AND THOUGHTFULLY DESIGNED OUTDOOR SPACES THAT ENHANCE THE PUBLIC REALM, SOFTEN THE BUILDING'S PRESENCE, AND CONTRIBUTE TO THE WALKABILITY AND VIBRANCY THAT HAVE LONG DEFINED LINCOLN ROAD.
THE LANDSCAPING IS NOT REALLY DECORATIVE, BUT SERVES AS AN INTEGRAL COMPONENT OF THE OVERALL DESIGN VISION.
THE PROJECT DEMONSTRATES AN UNDERSTANDING THAT GREAT URBAN PLACES ARE CREATED THROUGH THE COMBINATION OF ARCHITECTURE, STREETSCAPE, AND PUBLIC EXPERIENCE.
BY INVESTING IN THESE ELEMENTS, THE PROPOSAL ELEVATES THE QUALITY OF THE CORRIDOR WHILE REINFORCING LINCOLN ROAD'S ROLE AS ONE OF MIAMI BEACH'S PREMIER PEDESTRIAN DESTINATIONS.
MDPL APPRECIATES THE APPLICANT'S VISION AND ATTENTION TO TTL AND BELIEVES THIS PROPOSAL WILL MAKE A
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POSITIVE CONTRIBUTION TO LINCOLN ROAD AND THE BROADER MIAMI BEACH COMMUNITY.GOOD MORNING BOARD, GOOD MORNING STAFF.
ANNABEL YOPIS, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR FOR THE LINCOLN ROAD BUSINESS IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT.
TO SAY THAT THE BOARD IS BEHIND THIS IS AN UNDERSTATEMENT.
I THINK MICHAEL, WHEN HE REFERRED TO THAT QUOTE, COULD HIT IT ON THE MARK.
LINCOLN ROAD IS AT ITS TIPPING POINT, AND THIS DEVELOPMENT REALLY TAKES US OVER TO THE POSITIVE SIDE, TO THE NEXT EVOLUTION OF LINCOLN ROAD.
IT IS SUCH A THOUGHTFUL AND CURATED DEVELOPMENT.
TO CONSIDER NOT JUST THE HISTORIC SIDE, BUT ALSO THE COMMERCIAL SIDE AND ALSO THE LOCAL SIDE.
THE FACT THAT HE'S REALLY THINKING ABOUT BRINGING MORE LOCAL MOM-AND-POP UNIQUE RETAIL IS REALLY WHAT DEFINED LINCOLN ROAD FOR SO MANY YEARS, AND I THINK THIS IS REALLY GOING TO ADD THAT LAYER TO IT.
ALSO, MAKING THE STOREFRONTS BRIGHTER AND THE GLASS BIGGER, IT REALLY, REALLY ENHANCES THE CONSUMER EXPERIENCE.
I KNOW SOMETIMES YOU'RE WALKING ON LINCOLN ROAD AND THE STORES ARE OPEN, BUT YOU HAVE NO IDEA.
THIS WILL ADD A BRIGHTNESS TO IT AND MORE ENGAGEMENT WITH THAT BUSINESS ASPECT.
WE LOVE THE VIA COMPONENT OF CONNECTING LINCOLN ROAD WITH LINCOLN LANE NORTH.
YOU KNOW, THEY'RE BUILDING THE PADEL COURT ON THE GARAGE.
THIS IS GOING TO ADD ANOTHER LAYER OF THAT ENHANCEMENT TO THAT SERVICE AND AMENITY THAT LINCOLN ROAD DISTRICT IS GETTING.
AND THEN OF COURSE THE PATIO AREA THAT THEY'RE DOING WITH ALL THE LUSH TREES AND ALL THAT, IT REALLY WILL CREATE A PLACE WHERE THE LOCALS CAN COME AND REALLY JUST HANG OUT AND ENJOY LINCOLN ROAD AT A WHOLE NOTHER LEVEL.
SO WE ARE HAPPY TO BE SUPPORTING THIS PROJECT AND WE CAN'T WAIT FOR IT TO BE DONE.
DO WE HAVE ANYBODY ELSE IN CHAMBERS? WE HAVE A CALLER ONLINE NOW AS WELL.
CALLER, THE PHONE NUMBER ENDS IN 5600.
DO YOU SWEAR TO TELL THE TRUTH, THE WHOLE TRUTH, AND NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH? YES.
PLEASE STATE YOUR NAME AND ADDRESS.
I'M THE FOUNDER OF CYBER MONEY LAUNDERING AND REAL ESTATE INVESTIGATION CORPS.
I AM HERE TO FORMALLY OBJECT THE APPLICATION BECAUSE IT IS VOID OF INITIAL DUE TO FRAUD.
OUR FORENSIC AUDIT SHOWS MULTIPLE INSTANCES OF FRAUD AND FORGERY.
BASED ON MIAMI BEACH CITY CODE SECTION 11A-32 APPLICATION REQUIREMENTS, ONLY THE FEE SYMBOL OWNER HAS THE LEGAL STANDING TO FILE A LAND APPLICATION.
PARTEL 0232340070490 IS OWNED BY MAC MAC.
719 LRLLC AS IT IS SHOWN ON THE MIAMI-DADE COUNTY PROPERTY APPRAISER PORTAL.
HOWEVER, THE APPLICATION DOCUMENTS INCLUDING THE CITY'S MEMORANDUM SHOWS COMPLETELY DIFFERENT ENTITIES.
AND ANOTHER ONE IS MACH 723, LLC.
WE FORMALLY CHALLENGE THE LETTER OF SUPPORT FROM LYONS DEVELOPMENT.
PUBLIC RECORDS CONFIRM THAT THE NEIGHBOR WRITING THIS SUPPORT LETTER IS LIKELY THE BENEFICIAL OWNER OF THE APPLICANT'S SELF.
IF MICHAEL SIMPKINS FROM LYONS DEVELOPMENT SIGNED THE LETTER OF SUPPORT FOR THIS PROJECT WHILE LEGALLY HOLDING AN INTEREST IN THE NEIGHBORING 720 LINCOLN ROAD, IT PROVES THE SUPPORT IS COMING FROM THE INSIDE OF A TRANSACTION, NOT FROM THE NEUTRAL NEIGHBOR.
CYBER MONEY LAUNDERING IN THE REAL ESTATE INVESTIGATION COURT HAS FORMALLY EXECUTED AN IRS CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION REFERRAL VIA FORM 3949 DUE TO SYSTEMIC PROPERTY TAX REFUND MONEY LAUNDERING, WHICH SOLD US IN THE AMOUNT OF $1.5 MILLION.
WE ALSO WANT TO CONFIRM IF THE DEVELOPMENT ENTITY IS GOING TO PURSUE TAX CREDITS FOR FEDERAL HISTORIC PRESERVATION.
APPLICANT? ARE WE, IS THERE ANYONE ELSE ON ZOOM? NO.
DOES THE APPLICANT HAVE ANY REBUTTAL? TO THE LAST CALLER? INTERESTING WAY TO MARKET HERSELF, BUT NO.
WE HAVE NO REBUTTAL FOR THAT SILLINESS.
BUT THERE ARE TWO CONDITIONS THAT WE'D LIKE TO MODIFY IN PART OF A MOTION TO APPROVE.
THE FIRST WOULD BE TO MODIFY THE CONDITION ASKING FOR 12 INCHES.
WE'D LIKE TO REDUCE THAT TO SIX INCHES.
AND THEN AS JACKIE AND MICHAEL HAVE DESCRIBED, WHAT I WOULD REFER TO AS
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EXHIBIT A THAT WAS PASSED OUT TO YOU ALL, IT'S THE REVISED ELEVATION THAT SHOWS A GREATER RETENTION OF THE CONTRIBUTING BUILDING FACADE ON LINCOLN ROAD.SO THE ORDER COULD REFERENCE THAT.
THOSE TWO CHANGES WOULD BE A BIG HELP, MADAM CHAIR.
SO THE 6-INCH, THEY WOULD PREFER A 6-INCH NEW WALL VERSUS 12, AND THEN THEY WANT TO USE THE RETENTION OF THE FRONT FACADE AS OPPOSED TO, OR CLARITY, I GUESS, FROM THE BOARD.
SO THE PLAN PAGES THAT WERE PASSED OUT.
WHICH ONE? COLLECTIVELY, THEY'RE CALLED EXHIBIT A.
AND THEY COLLECTIVELY SHOW A GREATER RETENTION.
OF THE CONTRIBUTING BUILDING FACADE SO IF WE'RE LOOKING AT THE TWO BOARDS IN FRONT OF US THANK YOU RIGHT AND THEN THE ONE ON THE RIGHT WOULD HAVE BEEN THE ORIGINAL PERFECT THAT'S WHAT I I JUST WANTED TO MAKE SURE THANK YOU THANK YOU YOU WANT TO DO THIS NOT THIS CORRECT THAT'S MORE RECORDING.
ON THE LEFT, THEY WANT TO DO THE MORE RESTORATIVE NATURE.
THEY WANT TO RESTORE MORE TO WHAT WAS ORIGINAL VERSUS MAKE A MODIFICATION.
YEAH, THIS IS THE MODIFICATIONS.
AND THE PINK, YOU SAID, IS THE...
OKAY, SO THIS IS THE PRESERVATION OPTION ON OUR LEFT AND ON THE...
SO THAT CLOSES OUR PUBLIC HEARING.
SO IF WE HAVE BOARD COMMENTARY, I'LL START WITH RAY.
DO YOU HAVE ANY ADDITIONAL COMMENTARY? HASKELL? MITCH? NICK? I MEAN, I...
YOU SAID YOU WERE GOING TO SAVE YOUR COMMENTARIES.
I MEAN IT'S BEEN SAID BY MANY PEOPLE I THINK THIS WILL BE LIKE AN AMAZING PROJECT FOR THE NEIGHBORHOOD I APPLAUD YOUR EFFORTS AND AND THE INITIATIVE I WILL JUST SAY THAT WE YOU KNOW WE I THINK LAST MONTH WE HAD AN APPLICATION WE WERE JUST FOCUSING ON THE KNEE WALL AND IT'S EASY TO KIND OF LOSE SIGHT OF THE NEW WALL AND COMPLEXITY OF THIS OVERALL DEVELOPMENT SO I DON'T YOU KNOW IT'S HARD TO SEE HOW A NEW WALL AFFECTS ME A MATTER OF INCHES AND I DON'T KNOW HOW STRONGLY STAFF FEELS ABOUT THAT.
I THINK IT JUST OFFERS MORE OF A SUNNY DAY FLOODING PROTECTION BECAUSE WE'VE SEEN MORE AND MORE OF THAT SO HAVING A LITTLE BIT HIGHER NEW WALL, WE HAVE MORE PROTECTION FOR THE INTERIOR OF THE STORE BUT I DO UNDERSTAND THAT THESE ARE VERY VERY VALUABLE PROPERTIES AND THAT YOU KNOW WHEN NEEDED THE SLAB WILL BE REMOVED AND THE ELEVATION RAISED SO I DON'T OBJECT TO WHAT THEY'RE PROPOSING IT JUST MAY PROVIDE SOME MORE PROTECTION IN THE SHORT TERM IF THAT NEW WALL IS A LITTLE BIT HIGHER BUT I ALSO UNDERSTAND AND THANK YOU, MICHAEL, FOR GIVING ME THIS INFORMATION ON THE...
IF SOMEBODY'S STANDING LOOKING AT THE MANNEQUIN HAVING THE SAME LEVEL, I CAN UNDERSTAND THE IMPORTANCE OF THAT AS WELL.
AND PRESUMABLY THEY WOULD HAVE TO DEPLOY FLOOD PANELS OR SOMETHING FOR THAT.
THE PROBLEM WITH THAT IS NOBODY CAN I'VE NEVER SEEN FLOOD PANELS DEPLOYED ON AN ACTUAL FLOODING EVENT BECAUSE TYPICALLY THE FLOODING HAPPENS OUTSIDE OF A HURRICANE VERSUS WHEN A HURRICANE IS HERE.
ELIZABETH, DO YOU HAVE ANY COMMENTARY? NO, I DON'T HAVE ANYTHING.
I JUST THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THE PRESENTATION.
I APPRECIATE THE EFFORT IN RESTORING THAT PART OF LINCOLN ROAD BEING A RESIDENCE OF MIAMI BEACH FOR 30 YEARS OR SO.
I REALLY APPRECIATE THE COMEBACK OF THE STREET AND THE ACTIVITY THAT USED TO BE THERE AND GOT LOST THROUGH TIME.
SO, YOU KNOW, MY COMMENTARY WILL ECHO.
DO YOU HAVE COMMENTS, FINCH? OKAY, SO MY COMMENTARY, JUST TO WRAP IT UP, WILL ECHO A LOT OF WHAT HAS ALREADY BEEN SAID HERE.
YOU KNOW, THE COMBINATION OF THE PRESERVATION WITH THE ADAPTIVE REUSE IN THIS SPACE AND TRYING TO REVITALIZE THIS COMMERCIAL DISTRICT THAT, YOU KNOW, ADMITTEDLY NEEDS SOME OF THAT REVITALIZATION.
AND, YOU KNOW, I OFTENTIMES WILL TAKE OUR APPLICANTS UP ON MEETING WITH THEM, BUT UNDERSTANDING A LITTLE BIT MORE ON THE COMMERCIAL ASPECT OF IT AND UNDERSTANDING.
THESE SMALLER STOREFRONTS AND THE NEED FOR THAT AS OPPOSED TO 13 FOOT WIDE OR 17 FOOT WIDE AND 150 DEEP, YOU KNOW, THAT'S SOMETHING THAT I DON'T THINK THE AVERAGE EVERYDAY CITIZEN THINKS ABOUT WHEN THEY'RE WALKING DOWN LINCOLN ROAD.
THEY DON'T THINK ABOUT THE AMOUNT OF SPACE THAT A RETAILER HAS TO FILL IN ORDER TO RENT ONE OF THESE SPACES THAT EXIST AS THEY ARE NOW.
AND, YOU KNOW, I'M ADMITTEDLY A SUCKER FOR TREES.
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THERE'S A VERY GOOD REASON FOR THAT.THE TREES THAT LINE MERIDIAN AVENUE THAT ARE NOW GOING TO BE BROUGHT YOU KNOW WITH THE RENOVATIONS THAT THE CITY IS DOING AT MERIDIAN AND LINCOLN AND HOW THAT'S GOING TO TIE INTO WHAT I SEE AS A VERY AMBITIOUS PROJECT THAT YOU'VE UNDERTAKEN HERE, I THINK WILL BE A BOON FOR THE CITY.
AND I LIKE THE IDEA OF BRINGING THE RESIDENTS BACK TO LINCOLN ROAD.
I'M THERE SOMEWHAT REGULARLY, BUT ADMITTEDLY, OUR RESIDENTS ARE DRAWN ELSEWHERE AND CREATING SOMETHING LIKE THIS FOR OUR RESIDENTS TO COME TO, I THINK, IS A...
DESERVES THE ACCOLADES THAT I THINK YOU'RE GOING TO SEE FROM US AND THE SUPPORT THAT THIS BOARD, I THINK, IS READY TO OFFER.
SO WITH THAT, I'LL ENTERTAIN A MOTION IF ANYBODY HAS ONE.
I'LL MAKE A MOTION TO APPROVE, INCORPORATING OUR COMMENTS FOR THE SIX-INCH KNEE WALL AS PER THE APPLICANT'S DESIRE.
AND THE PRESERVATION OPTION AS PRESENTED ON THE BOARD.
WE HAVE A FIRST AND TWO SECONDS.
ANY OPPOSED? MOTION PASSES 6-0.
MICHAEL, COMRADES, I ANTICIPATE YOU'RE REARING TO GET GOING.
BREAKING GROUND AND COMPLETION.
NO, WE'RE READY TO GO HOPING THAT THE LINCOLN ROAD PORTION WILL BE DONE BY END OF THE YEAR FIRST QUARTER OF NEXT YEAR WOW SO THIS IS NOW PROJECT.
[4. RAILING DESIGN GUIDELINES FOR NON-CONTRIBUTING BUILDINGS, AS RECOMMENDED BY THE HISTORIC PRESERVATION BOARD ORDINANCE ADVISORY REVIEW COMMITTEE.]
THE NEXT ITEM ON OUR AGENDA IS OUR LAST ITEM, THE DISCUSSION ITEM, WHICH IS THE RAILING DESIGN GUIDELINES FOR NON-CONTRIBUTING HISTORIC BUILDINGS.AND OUR NEXT PLANNING DIRECTOR, DEBORAH TACKETT, IS GOING TO PRESENT THIS ITEM.
THANK YOU FOR THE INTRODUCTION.
IT'S SO GREAT TO BE IN FRONT OF THE HISTORIC PRESERVATION BOARD AGAIN.
THE REASON WHY I'M HERE IS BECAUSE, AND I THINK SOME OF YOU MAY REMEMBER, IN 2024, THE MAYOR AND THE CITY COMMISSION ESTABLISHED WHAT WAS THE HISTORIC PRESERVATION ORDINANCE REVIEW AD HOC COMMITTEE.
THIS WAS A COMMITTEE THAT WAS ESTABLISHED TO REVIEW THE EXISTING HISTORIC PRESERVATION ORDINANCE AND MAKE RECOMMENDATIONS IN TERMS OF IMPROVING THE REVIEW PROCESS AND STREAMLINING SOME OF THE SECTIONS OF THE ORDINANCE THAT HADN'T REALLY BEEN COMPREHENSIVELY LOOKED AT SINCE IT WAS INITIALLY CREATED IN THE 1980S.
WITH THAT, THE FINAL REPORT OF THE AD HOC COMMITTEE WAS PRESENTED TO THIS BOARD IN 2025.
IT WAS ALSO PRESENTED TO THE MAYOR AND CITY COMMISSION.
WHAT CAME OUT OF THAT WERE SEVERAL ORDINANCE AMENDMENTS.
COULD YOU GUYS KEEP IT DOWN, PLEASE? WERE SEVERAL DIFFERENT ORDINANCES.
ONE PORTION OF THOSE ORDINANCE MODIFICATIONS THAT WERE ADOPTED BED.
WAS ADMINISTRATIVE REVIEW IN TERMS OF EXPANDING SOME OF THE THINGS THAT STAFF COULD REVIEW AND IMPROVE ADMINISTRATIVELY.
DURING THE DISCUSSION WITH THE COMMITTEE, AS WELL AS THE DISCUSSIONS WITH THIS BOARD AND THE MAYOR AND CITY COMMISSION, WAS RAILINGS, RIGHT? RAILINGS HAVE BEEN A HOT TOPIC IN THE HISTORIC DISTRICTS FOR QUITE SOME TIME, FOR AT LEAST AS LONG AS I'VE BEEN HERE.
SO PRIMARILY BECAUSE MOST THE VAST MAJORITY OF ALL RAILINGS, WHETHER THEY'RE HISTORIC OR NOT, IF YOU INSTALLED YOUR RAILINGS PRIOR TO, SAY, 1985, THEY'RE LIKELY NOT GOING TO MEET THE CURRENT FIRE, LIFE SAFETY, AND BUILDING CODE REQUIREMENTS.
THAT IS PRIMARILY, THERE'S TWO THINGS THAT WE SEE TIME AND TIME AGAIN THAT THESE RAILINGS DON'T MEET, WHICH IS THE REQUIRED 42-INCH HEIGHT, AS WELL AS THE MAXIMUM OF THE 4-INCH REJECTION.
SO THE MAXIMUM SPACING IN SUCH RAILINGS CANNOT EXCEED THE FOUR INCHES.
SO WE'RE SEEING MORE AND MORE.
ONE OF THE MORE RECENT CONCERNS OF, I KNOW, THIS HISTORIC PRESERVATION BOARD HAS BEEN INVOLVED IN THESE DISCUSSIONS, THE AD HOC COMMITTEE AND STAFF, QUITE FRANKLY, IS THE UPDATED BUILDING CERTIFICATION PROCESS,
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WHICH IS NOW QUITE ROBUST AND IS CAUSING SOME OF OUR OLDER CONDOMINIUMS A LOT OF STRESS IN TERMS OF FINANCIAL STRESS ON THESE ISSUES THAT COME UP DURING THE BUILDING RECERTIFICATION.SO IT'S A 40-YEAR RECERTIFICATION, AND THEN EVERY 10 YEARS, THE BUILDING IS REQUIRED TO BE RECERTIFIED AGAIN.
ONE OF THE BIGGEST HARDSHIPS THAT WE'VE SEEN, ESPECIALLY FOR THESE NON-CONTRIBUTING BUILDINGS, THIS ITEM IS ONLY FOR NON-CONTRIBUTING BUILDINGS, IS THE RAILINGS IN TERMS OF, YOU KNOW, YOU'LL SEE A LOT OF BETWEEN 1965 AND SAY 1980, A LOT OF THESE, YOU KNOW, VERY HEAVY CONCRETE RAILINGS, BECAUSE THAT WAS THE STYLE OF THE DAY, ARE ACTUALLY CAUSING NOT ONLY THE RAILINGS THEMSELVES TO FAIL, BUT ALSO THE SLABS THAT A LOT OF THESE RAILINGS ARE ATTACHED TO FAIL.
IF WE COULD PULL UP THE ACTUAL GUIDELINES, AND I WANT TO THANK, I'M GOING TO GO RIGHT INTO THE GUIDELINES NOW, BUT I WANT TO THANK GISELLE AND MICHAEL FOR ALL OF THE WORK THAT THEY, WHILE I'M PRESENTING IT, I'M PRESENTING IT BECAUSE I, YOU KNOW, STARTED FROM THE BEGINNING OF THIS AD HOC ORDINANCE REVIEW COMMITTEE, BUT MICHAEL AND GISELLE REALLY DID A BEAUTIFUL JOB PUTTING THESE DESIGN GUIDELINES TOGETHER.
SO THIS IS ONLY FOR CONTRIBUTING BUILDINGS, AND I THINK, LET'S SEE IF I CAN FIGURE THIS OUT.
SO THE STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM, WHICH IS WHAT I WAS SPEAKING OF BEFORE, IS THE BUILDING RECERTIFICATIONS THAT WE'VE SEEN.
WE'VE SEEN A NON-CONTRIBUTING BUILDING REQUIRING, YOU KNOW, IF THEY'RE NOT GOING TO ALL OF THE PHOTOGRAPHS DIDN'T SHOW UP.
BUT IF YOU LOOK AT PAGE FIVE IN YOUR PACKAGE, YOU CAN SEE A LOT OF THESE ARE TYPICAL OF WHAT WE HAVE EXISTING.
BUT THEY'RE ALSO IF YOU LOOK AT THE NEXT PAGE, THINGS THAT HAVE COME BEFORE THIS HISTORIC PRESERVATION BOARD THAT THE BOARD HAS APPROVED.
SO THE BOARD HAS APPROVED ON PAGE SIX, YOU'LL SEE A PROJECT THAT WAS APPROVED BY THE BOARD.
AND ON PAGE SEVEN, YOU SEE TWO PROJECTS THAT WAS ACTUALLY REVIEWED AND APPROVED BY THIS BOARD.
THESE ARE ALL NON-CONTRIBUTING BUILDINGS.
AND THEY CAME TO THE PLANNING DEPARTMENT, YOU KNOW, VERY DISTRESSED.
THESE ARE PRIMARILY ATTAINABLE AND OR AFFORDABLE.
WORKFORCE HOUSING, A LOT OF THESE BUILDINGS DO CONTAIN A SIGNIFICANT ELDERLY POPULATION, PEOPLE WHO HAVE OWNED THESE CONDO UNITS REALLY SINCE THE 70S AND 80S, IN MY EXPERIENCE.
AND THEY ARE REALLY SUFFERING IN TERMS OF WHAT WE CAN APPROVE ADMINISTRATIVELY.
SO REGARDLESS OF A CONTRIBUTING OR NON-CONTRIBUTING STATUS, STAFF HAS PREVIOUSLY HAD THE SAME RULE, RIGHT? REGARDLESS IF IT WAS BUILT IN 1980, YOU WOULD NEED TO REPLICATE THE PREVIOUSLY, YOU KNOW, ORIGINAL DESIGNED RAILINGS, WHICH THAT, YOU KNOW, IS A SAFE FAIL AND A SAFEGUARD FOR CONTRIBUTING BUILDINGS THAT WE WANT TO SEE THEIR CHARACTER TO THE GREATEST EXTENT POSSIBLE PRESERVED.
BUT FOR NON-CONTRIBUTING BUILDINGS, IT WAS REALLY JUST CAUSING A SIGNIFICANT HARDSHIP, NOT ONLY WITH THE PROPERTY OWNERS, BUT, YOU KNOW, WITH...
THE BUILDING DEPARTMENT TRYING TO RECERTIFY THESE BUILDINGS.
WHAT WE SAW WITH SOME OF THEM, BECAUSE SOME OF THE BUILDINGS DID END UP GOING THROUGH TRYING TO REPLICATE, IS THAT WOULD RESULT IN ACTUALLY THESE SLABS THAT THE RAILINGS ARE ATTACHED TO HAVING TO BE RIPPED OFF OR SIGNIFICANTLY CUT BACK SO THAT IT WOULD REDUCE THE AREA OF THEIR BALCONIES.
AND IT WAS KIND OF A SNOWBALL EFFECT ON A LOT OF BUILDINGS.
PROPERTY OWNERS AND MOVING FORWARD, YOU KNOW, WE SUPPORT THE AD HOC COMMITTEE'S RECOMMENDATION TO ALLOW STAFF TO REALLY APPROVE FOR NON-CONTRIBUTING BUILDINGS ONLY VARIOUS ALTERNATIVE TYPES OF RAILINGS THAT DON'T NECESSARILY MATCH THE EXISTING DESIGN OF THE RAILING.
AND WE CERTAINLY, IF THEY HAVE A COOL EXISTING RAILING DESIGN, WE WOULD CERTAINLY USE THE CRITERIA AND USE THESE GUIDELINES TO ENCOURAGE THAT.
BUT WE COULD ALSO APPROVE ALTERNATE TYPE OF RAILINGS.
ANOTHER INTERESTING FACT IS THAT A LOT OF WHEN THESE BUILDINGS WERE BUILT, A LOT OF THESE MASONRY RAILINGS, I'M TRYING TO SEE IF WE HAVE ANY MORE PHOTOGRAPHS.
I THINK YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE TO REFER TO YOUR PACKAGE.
AND IF ANYONE'S WATCHING ONLINE, YOU CAN REFER TO THE ATTACHMENT ON THE AGENDA.
BUT A LOT OF THESE MASONRY RAILINGS WERE OFF-THE-SHELF RAILINGS.
THEY WERE NOT CUSTOM RAILINGS.
IT WAS JUST KIND OF, OKAY, YOU PICKED WHAT YOU WANTED OUT OF A CATALOG, WHICH IS HOW WE SEE VERTICAL PICKETS AND HORIZONTAL PICKETS AND CABLE RAILINGS TODAY.
THEY'RE STANDARD RAILINGS THAT YOU CAN BUY.
UNFORTUNATELY, THE MASONRY RAILINGS ARE NO LONGER STANDARD RAILINGS THAT YOU CAN BUY OFF-THE-SHELF.
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THEY WOULD ALL HAVE TO BE VERY CUSTOM.CUSTOM-MADE AND IT IS CAUSING NOT ONLY STRESS FOR FOR THE RESIDENTS OF THE BUILDING BUT ALSO FOR STAFF IN THIS BOARD, THEY DO HAVE TO UNNECESSARILY REVIEW A LOT OF THESE RELATIVELY MINOR CHANGES TO NON-CONTRIBUTING BUILDINGS.
SO WITH THAT, WE ARE ASKING THE BOARD TO ISSUE A FAVORABLE RECOMMENDATION TO THE MAYOR AND CITY COMMISSION.
ULTIMATELY IT'S THE DUTY OF THE MAYOR AND CITY COMMISSION TO ADOPT THE DESIGN GUIDELINES.
BUT WE WOULD LIKE A FAVORABLE RECOMMENDATION FROM THIS BOARD, AND I'M CERTAIN THAT THE CITY COMMISSION WOULD ALSO LIKE TO HEAR YOUR COMMENTS.
NICK, DID YOU HAVE A COMMENT? I WOULD DISCLOSE I'M A RAILING BUFF.
SO, OKAY, SO IN A NUTSHELL, SO THIS IS FOR ADMINISTRATIVE REVIEW OF RAILING REPLACEMENTS.
WOULD THAT BE LIKE A STANDALONE SUB-PERMIT? IT WOULD BE A PERMIT PART OF THEIR CONCRETE RESTORATION OR PART OF THEIR BALCONY REPLACEMENTS.
WE REVIEW IT, LIKE RIGHT NOW, WE REVIEW IT AS PART OF THAT CFA EITHER ADMINISTRATIVELY OR AT THE BOARD LEVEL.
IN THIS CASE, THIS ALLOWS US AT STAFF LEVEL TO APPROVE THIS REPLACEMENT THAT DOESN'T MATCH THE ORIGINAL RAILING DESIGN.
NOW, OF COURSE, IF THE BUILDING IS CONTRIBUTING, WE WISH THEY'LL MAKE SURE THAT THEY MORE CLOSELY MATCH THE ORIGINAL RAILINGS, BUT IT COULD BE DIFFERENT MATERIALS AND LIGHTER WEIGHT.
MY UNDERSTANDING IS THIS ADMINISTRATIVE APPROVAL IS STRICTLY FOR NON-CONTRIBUTING, CORRECT? CORRECT, YES.
AND THEN IF CONTRIBUTING, THEN MOST LIKELY THEY WOULD END UP HERE.
WELL, IF SOMEBODY WANTED TO MATCH THE ORIGINAL RAILINGS WITH DIFFERENT MATERIALS, THAT COULD BE DONE ADMINISTRATIVELY.
IF THEY WANT TO CHANGE THE DESIGN, THEY WOULD HAVE TO COME BACK HERE FOR CONTRIBUTING BUILDINGS.
OR IF THEY HAVE TO CHANGE THE DESIGN AND DON'T WANT, I MEAN, SOMETIMES YOU HAVE TO, RIGHT? RIGHT.
OUR CURRENT GUIDELINES FOR CONTRIBUTING BUILDINGS ALLOW...
SOME ADMINISTRATIVE REVIEW OF MINOR MODIFICATIONS TO MEET THAT 32 INCH AND THE 4 INCH REJECTION.
SO WE ARE, I MEAN, IF SOMEONE HAS AN EXISTING RAILING THAT STRUCTURALLY IS FINE, BUT THEY DON'T MEET THAT 4 INCH REJECTION OR THE HEIGHT, SOMETIMES, AND THIS IS, I MEAN, THIS IS THE BEST CASE SCENARIO, THOSE EXISTING RAILINGS CAN JUST BE MODIFIED TO MEET THOSE REQUIREMENTS BY EITHER PUTTING A TOP RAIL ABOVE.
THE 36 INCHES BECAUSE THEY'RE USUALLY AT 36 INCHES OR PUTTING INTERMEDIATE UM YOU KNOW PIECES AND TO TO MEET THAT FOUR INCH REQUIREMENT GO AHEAD I HAVE A QUESTION WHY ON SECTION 4.3 ON PAGE 8 IT SAYS DESIGN SHALL NOT DIRECTLY REPLICATE OR CLOSELY IMITATE RAILING DETAILS OF A CONTRIBUTING BUILDING WHY IS THAT THAT WAS SORRY THAT WAS UM LET ME SEE WITHIN THE SAME HISTORIC DISTRICT THAT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE CROSSED OUT.
WE MEANT TO REPLACE THAT WITH WHAT'S INDICATED ON THE NEXT PAGE, WHICH IS TALKING MORE ABOUT MATERIALS, NOT USING LOW-QUALITY MATERIALS.
SO THAT WAS LIKE AN EARLIER DRAFT.
I DIDN'T STRIKE UP FROM THAT POSITION, BUT I WAS STRICKEN OUT FROM THE PROHIBITED ELEMENT.
SO I'LL CORRECT THAT FOR THE TIME.
THE THIRD BULLET OF 4.3 SHOULD BE STRICKEN? CORRECT.
AND I WAS GOING TO ASK, I MEAN, STAFF, WOULD YOU EVER REJECT? RAILING DESIGN BASED ON AESTHETICS AS LONG AS IT MET THESE TYPOLOGIES LIKE WOULD THERE I THINK IF THERE WAS A CONFLICTING LET'S SAY HAD MULTIPLE IF THEY'RE LEAVING SOME PORTIONS AND NOT OTHERS IF THERE WAS A THE NEW RAILING CONFLICTED WELL IT WAS THERE THAT WOULD BE A REASON FOR US TO REQUIRE DIFFERENT RAILING DESIGN BUT I THINK GENERALLY THESE THIS THE VARIETY WILL FIT ANY SORT OF BUILDING WITHIN THIS ERA IT'S CLASSIFIED AS NOT CONTRIBUTING WE LEFT IT MORE OPEN JUST IN CASE I HAVE SEEN CASES WHERE YOU HAVE A MIXTURE OF OF CONCRETE.
RAILINGS IN THE BUILDING AND HAVING MORE MORE YOU KNOW ADDING TO THAT COULD BE A PROBLEM SO OKAY YEAH I THINK THIS SEEMS SMART AND VERY LOGICAL YEAH AND I DON'T KNOW IF YOU'LL REMEMBER I KNOW 1150 ENDED UP COMING BEFORE US WHEN WE WERE IN THE CONVENTION CENTER DID THAT HAVE TO DO WITH THE RAILINGS WAS THAT THE REASON THIS HAPPENED LIKE SOME THEY WERE DOING SOMETHING THAT WAS ALL ADMINISTRATIVELY APPROVED AND THEN THEY ENDED UP HAVING TO COME TO US FOR SOMETHING YEAH, THAT WAS...
I DON'T THINK NECESSARILY THAT WAS WHAT TIPPED US IN TERMS OF THE RECOMMENDATION THAT WE'D BE ABLE TO HAVE EXPANDED ADMINISTRATIVE AUTHORITY.
FROM MY EXPERIENCE, IT'S REALLY BUILDING RECERTIFICATIONS.
THAT'S WHAT, WHEN WE STARTED SEEING MORE AND MORE OF THESE PRIMARILY, AGAIN, LATE 60S, 1970S BUILDINGS THAT WERE JUST NOT PASSING PRIMARILY BECAUSE OF THAT WEIGHT AND THE SLABS.
AND I GUESS TO ME, THE REASON I BRING, I JUST REMEMBER THE BUILDING AND I
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KNOW PEOPLE LIVE ON IT AND I TOLD NICK, THEY'RE NOW A CLIENT OF MINE BECAUSE MY TENNIS INSTRUCTOR LIVES THERE, BUT NEITHER HERE NOR THERE.THAT THEY WEREN'T EXPECTING TO COME BEFORE US AND THEN THEY WERE KIND OF MIDWAY THROUGH THINGS AND ENDED UP HAVING TO COME BEFORE THE HISTORIC PRESERVATION BOARD AND I THINK THE RAILINGS HAD SOMETHING TO DO WITH IT UM THEY'RE COMING BEFORE US AND I REMEMBER THINKING THAT THAT'S A LOT THAT'S A HEAVY LIFT FOR A NON-CONTRIBUTING BUILDING TO HAVE TO COME IN KIND OF LATE IN THE STAGE OR LIKE LATE IN THE GAME WHEN YOU'RE TRYING TO YEAH AND WHAT WE'VE SEEN TOO UM AND YOU KNOW KNOW MAYBE THIS THIS TYPE OF THING CANNOT BE AVOIDED.
WHAT WE'VE SEEN IS YOU HAVE A GENERAL CONTRACTOR ON SITE, AND THAT GENERAL CONTRACTOR IS TRYING TO CHIP AWAY AND FIX THE SPALLING OF THESE BALCONY SLABS AND THE RAILINGS.
AND OVERNIGHT, IT SEEMS, YOU KNOW, THEY'RE JUST RIPPING THINGS OFF THE BUILDING.
THEY'RE RIPPING A WHOLE SIDE OF RAILINGS OFF THE BUILDING, THINKING, WELL, THEY WERE, YOU KNOW, THE CONCRETE WAS FAILING AND WE HAD TO REPLACE IT ANYWAYS.
AND WE DID SEE A COUPLE OF THOSE CONDOMINIUMS, AGAIN, NON-CONTRIBUTING BUILDINGS, YOU KNOW, HAVE TO BASICALLY PUT THEIR ENTIRE RECERTIFICATION ON HOLD BECAUSE THEY HAD TO GO THROUGH THIS BOARD REVIEW CYCLE INSTEAD OF JUST BEING ABLE TO BE REVIEWED ADMINISTRATIVELY.
YEAH, I REMEMBER THERE WAS ONE OLDER BUILDING THAT THEY HAD TAKEN OFF THE CEMENT RAILING AND THE CONTRACTOR ALREADY ORDERED ALL THE METAL RAILINGS AND THE HOMEOWNERS WERE HERE SAYING LIKE, WHAT CAN WE DO? AND WE ALLOWED IT.
I'M SURE A LOT OF THIS HAS HAPPENED BECAUSE OF THAT.
BUT WHAT I ALSO WANT TO KNOW, SO YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT NON-CONTRIBUTING.
WHAT ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTING BUILDINGS? SO THE CONTRIBUTING BUILDINGS, WE DID, AS PART OF THE AD HOC ORDINANCE, WE DID IN THE COMMISSION, THIS BOARD REVIEWED AND THE COMMISSION ADOPTED AN AMENDMENT THAT BASICALLY ALLOWS STAFF TO REVIEW REPLACEMENT OF CONTRIBUTING RAILINGS FOR A CONTRIBUTING.
STRUCTURE AS LONG AS THEY CLOSELY RESEMBLE THE ORIGINAL HISTORIC DESIGN.
SO WHAT DOES THAT MEAN? THAT MEANS IF YOU, BECAUSE WE DO HAVE MIMO BUILDINGS, RIGHT, THAT DO HAVE SOME OF THESE BREEZE BLOCK, BEAUTIFUL BREEZE BLOCK RAILINGS THAT ARE CONTRIBUTING.
BASICALLY, THAT WOULD ALLOW US TO APPROVE A VERY SIMILAR DESIGN, BUT PERHAPS WITH A DIFFERENT MATERIAL.
MAYBE THERE YOU KNOW IT'S AN ALUMINUM SYSTEM THAT REPLICATES THE SAME PATTERN THAT'S EXISTING.
SO WE CURRENTLY HAVE THE AUTHORITY TO HAVE MINOR MODIFICATIONS TO RAILINGS OF CONTRIBUTING BUILDINGS, BUT IT WOULDN'T GO AS FAR AS THIS CURRENT SET OF GUIDELINES DOES, WHICH WOULD ALLOW, YOU KNOW, COMPLETELY DIFFERENT DESIGNED RAILINGS.
BECAUSE A LOT OF THESE RAILINGS ON OUR HISTORIC BUILDINGS ARE CHARACTER-DEFINING FEATURES.
AND I THINK, YOU KNOW, WHILE STAFF IS PERFECTLY CAPABLE OF MAKING SURE THAT THE CHARACTER IS RETAINED, I THINK IT DOESN'T MAKE MUCH SENSE BECAUSE WE WOULD BE SENDING THOSE TO THE BOARD ANYWAYS.
WE WOULD SAY, NO, YOU'RE RIPPING OFF THESE BEAUTIFUL DECORATIVE RAILINGS AND YOU'RE JUST PUTTING VERTICAL PICKETS.
WE WOULDN'T BE ABLE TO DO THAT ADMINISTRATIVELY BECAUSE OF OUR CERTIFICATE OF APPROPRIATENESS REVIEW CRITERIA.
QUICK COMMENT ON PAGE THREE ON THE LAST TWO IMAGES THAT SHOWS THE METAL PICKET. IT SHOWS LIKE A VERTICAL ONE AND THEN SHOWS A HORIZONTAL NEXT TO IT. SO I KNOW THAT SEVERAL MUNICIPALITIES DO NOT ALLOW HORIZONTAL RAILINGS BECAUSE KIDS CAN CLIMB AS IF IT WERE A STAIR AND FALL FROM THERE TO THE OTHER SIDE. SO I JUST WOULD BE A LITTLE BIT CAREFUL SUGGESTING THAT THAT COULD BE USED. OKAY, VERY GOOD. DO WE HAVE THAT RESTRICTION IN THE BEACH, DO WE? NO, WE DON'T. I MEAN, I'VE SEEN LOTS OF NEW RAILINGS THAT ARE HORIZONTAL. NO, I KNOW BECAUSE I HAVE ENCOUNTERED THIS PROBLEM IN THE PAST, AND I THINK IT'S A REAL PROBLEM, RIGHT? YEAH, I'VE SEEN CASES WHERE, I KNOW, BACK BEFORE I WORKED FOR THE CITY, I WORKED FOR AN ARCHITECTURE FIRM, AND THINGS YOU CAN DO BY HAVING, LIKE, AT THE BASE, LIKE, AN ANGLED, LIKE, LOW WALL OR CURB. AND THEN EVEN ANGLING THOSE HORIZONTAL RAILINGS INWARD OR OUTWARD SO IT'S NOT EASILY CLIMBABLE.
LITTLE THINGS LIKE THAT. NO, I MEAN, OF COURSE, THERE IS A WASTE OF WATER, BUT I JUST WANT TO BRING IT UP BECAUSE THE LAST THING YOU WANT NOW IS KIDNEYS FALLING FROM BALCONIES, RIGHT? I WOULDN'T STRIKE HORIZONTAL.
MAYBE WE'LL HAVE A PROVISION REGARDING EXTRA REVIEW FOR SAFETY OR SOMETHING REGARDING THAT IN OUR RECOMMENDATION TO ALLOW HORIZONTAL RAILINGS.
DO WE HAVE ANY FURTHER COMMENTARY? DO YOU WANT
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TO TAKE PUBLIC COMMENT ON IT? ANY PUBLIC COMMENTARY? WE HAVE NO PUBLIC COMMENTARY FROM...THERE'S NOBODY ON LINE WITH THEIR HAND RAISED. OKAY.
SO, IS LOOKING FOR A MOTION FROM... A RECOMMENDATION TO THE COMMISSION. WE ARE PLANNING ON BRINGING THIS TO THE JULY COMMISSION. OKAY.
WOULD ANYBODY LIKE TO... I WOULD MAKE A MOTION TO MOVE IT. I'M SORRY, DEBRA. ONE MORE QUESTION. SO, THE LITTLE DRAWINGS THAT WE HAVE ON PAGE... THREE, THEY ARE SUGGESTED OPTIONS FOR BUILDING OWNERS. IT'S LIKE THEY CAN COME WITH THE MANUAL OF OPTIONS.
YEAH, I MEAN, THESE ARE SOMEWHAT DIAGRAMMATIC. THEY'RE NOT EXACTLY HOW THEY WOULD BE.
I THINK THAT IS ONE THING THAT MICHAEL AND I TALKED ABOUT, IS MAYBE GETTING A LITTLE BIT MORE DETAILED, ONE OR TWO DRAWINGS THAT ARE MORE TECHNICAL, WHICH I THINK WE CAN DO FOR THE COMMISSION. I THINK THAT WOULD BE VERY HELPFUL, ESPECIALLY FOR...
FOR BUILDINGS THAT THE OWNERS, THEY ARE NOT WORKED FOR, THAT THEY DON'T HAVE A LOT OF RESERVES, AND SO THEY CAN COME MORE PREPARED AND THEY HAVE A HIGHER CONTRACTOR TO REPLACE AND THEN THEY HAVE ALREADY SOMETHING PRE-EXISTING OR A SAMPLE TO SHOW. TYPICAL DETAIL. RIGHT, TO AVOID PROBLEMS IN THE FUTURE OF BEING...
YEAH, I AGREE. I THINK THAT WOULD BE MUCH MORE HELPFUL FOR BUILDING OWNERS. MAYBE WE CAN TAKE A LOOK AT SOME PERMITS AND GET SOME TYPICAL DETAILS.
INCLUDE THAT AS WELL. YOU'RE ALSO MISSING THE EXISTING TYPES. I MEAN ALL THAT LIKE THAT KIND OF MEMO. YEAH THERE'S ALL SORTS OF EXISTING RAILINGS. I MEAN BUT SOME OF THE MORE UNIQUE ONES ARE ONES THAT ARE TYPICALLY GOING TO BE ON CONTRIBUTING BUILDINGS AND WE DON'T WANT TO SEE REPLACED WITH ALTERNATIVE DESIGNS. SO THIS WOULD YEAH THIS WAS WE COULDN'T BE EXHAUSTIVE IN TERMS OF OUR TYPES IT'S SORT OF JUST LIKE THESE ARE TYPICAL RAILINGS THAT WE HAVE IN THE DISTRICT.
ALL IN FAVOR? AYE. WAS THAT A QUESTION OR AN AYE? THAT CONCLUDES OUR AGENDA FOR TODAY. THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
ALL RIGHT. WE ARE ADJOURNED.
* This transcript was compiled from uncorrected Closed Captioning.