[00:00:01] GOOD MORNING LADIES AND GENTLEMEN. GOOD MORNING. IT'S ABOUT THAT TIME TO START OUR [CALL TO ORDER] 9:00 A.M.. COMMISSION WORKSHOP. MAY 22ND. WELCOME TO EVERYBODY. CITY CLERK PLEASE CALL THE ROLL. COMMISSIONER BOLTON. HE'S NOT PRESENT YET. COMMISSIONER GALEN. FOR MORNING COMMISSIONER FISHMAN. GOOD MORNING. VICE MAYOR FLACCO GOOD MORNING. MAYOR GOMEZ GOOD MORNING. PLEASE STAND AND JOIN. COMMISSIONER GUILLEN WHO WILL LEAD US IN THE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE TO THE FLAG OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA WHICH STANDS ONE NATION UNDER GOD INDIVISIBLE WITH LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR ALL. GOOD MORNING. GOOD MORNING. MATT. GOOD MORNING LADIES AND [1. PROCLAMATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS:] GENTLEMEN. THIS PROCLAMATION HAS BEEN REQUESTED BY ASSISTANT FIRE MARSHAL TONY TOMMY. THE MARVELOUS AND. THE. COVENANT WE MOVED A LITTLE FASTER THIS MORNING SO SORRY. COME ON IN. COME ON IN. GREAT SHIRT IF YOU WANT TO JOIN US. WELL I. ALL RIGHT. WHO WANTS TO SING BECAUSE IT'S NOT GOING TO BE ME. OH THANK YOU. WELL OVERSIGHT. THEN I SHALL READ IT AND THEY'LL JOIN US SHORTLY. WHEREAS THE NATIONAL FIRE PROTECTION ASSOCIATION'S FIRE SPRINKLER INITIATIVE AND HOME FIRE SPRINKLER COALITION HAVE DESIGNATED THE WEEK OF MAY 19 TO 25 20 19 AS HOME FIRE SPRINKLER WEEK. WET BLANKET. THAT'S UM COLD. SORRY. WHEREAS THE EFFECTS OF HOME FIRES ARE FAR REACHING AND LONG A HOME FIRE CAN BECOME DEADLY IN LESS THAN TWO MINUTES DUE TO TODAY'S CONSTRUCTION MATERIAL IN COMMON SYNTHETIC FURNISHINGS WHICH PRODUCE TOXIC SMOKE AND. MY APOLOGIES. THAT'S MY ALARM JULIE. SO HARSH. MY APOLOGIES I FORGOT JOURNAL. WHEREAS NATIONWIDE THERE ARE APPROXIMATELY THREE HUNDRED SIXTY FOUR THOUSAND THREE HUNDRED FIRES A YEAR IN ONE AND TWO STOREY FAMILY DWELLINGS CAUSING FIVE POINT SEVEN BILLION IN PROPERTY LOSS AND RESULTED IN AN AVERAGE OF TWO THOUSAND SEVEN HUNDRED SEVENTY FIVE FIRE DEATHS. AND WHEREAS HOME SHOULD BE THE PLACE WHERE OUR RESIDENTS FEEL SAFE IN REALITY HOMES WHERE THEY HAVE THE GREATEST RISK OF INJURY OR DEATH FROM FIRE. AND WHEREAS RESEARCH INDICATES THAT THE RISK OF DYING DECREASES ABOUT 82 PERCENT IN A HOME EQUIPPED WITH RESIDENTIAL FIRE SPRINKLERS AND CAN REDUCE PROPERTY LOSS BUT OVER 95 PERCENT. AND WHEREAS BY TAKING PART IN A NATIONAL WEEK OF ACTION LET US RECOGNIZE THAT PROTECTING NEW HOMES WITH FIRE SPRINKLERS WILL MAKE THE FUTURE SAFER FOR RESIDENTS FIRST RESPONDERS AND ENTIRE COMMUNITIES FOR GENERATIONS TO COME. NOW THEREFORE I MICHELLE J. GOMEZ MAYOR OF THE CITY OF TAMARACK. ON BEHALF OF OUR TAMARA. COMMISSION DO HEREBY PROCLAIM THE WEEK OF MAY 19 THROUGH TWENTY FIVE TWENTY NINETEEN AS HOME FIRE SPRINKLER WEEK IN THE CITY OF TAMARACK AND COMMEND THE EXCELLENT TAMARACK FIRE PREVENTION DIVISION AND ITS COMMUNITY PARTNERS INCLUDING THE FIRE SPRINKLER COALITION THE NATIONAL FIRE SPRINKLER ASSOCIATION AND THE FLORIDA FIRE SPRINKLER ASSOCIATION THAT ROUTINELY LEND THEIR INVALUABLE SERVICES AND TRAINING TO OUR INDUSTRY. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. AS I WAS LATE SO I WAS LIKE JUST. FIXING SPRINKLERS YOU KNOW. I ACTUALLY HAVE ONE HERE AND IT'S HARD TO BELIEVE THAT THIS SORT OF THING WILL SAVE YOUR LIFE. SO THIS IS WHAT A FIRE SPRINKLER IS. THIS ONE'S A LITTLE DIRTY SO I APOLOGIZE BUT YOU'LL GET CLEANER ONES IN YOUR HOMES AND THOSE WILL SAVE YOUR LIFE OR YOUR CHILD'S LIFE OR YOUR MOTHER'S LIFE OR SOMEBODIES LIFE. SO IT'S HARD TO BELIEVE AND UNDERSTAND THAT WE'RE SAFER IN THESE BIG COMMERCIAL [00:05:01] BUILDINGS AT TIMES FROM FIRE THAN WE ARE IN OUR OWN HOMES WHERE WE LAY OUR CHILDREN AND OTHERS TO SLEEP. SO THAT'S A THAT'S A SAD THING AND SOMETHING THAT WE'RE TRYING TO PREVENT AND ONE DAY WE'LL REACH IT WITH THE USE AND TECHNOLOGY OF THESE FIRE SPRINKLERS. SO THANK YOU ALL FOR YOUR TIME. THANK YOU. CHIEF SALES AND CHIEF WERE ALL FOR YOUR SUPPORT WITH THIS INITIATIVE SO. AND THANK YOU ALL. APPLAUSE. YOU KNOW WHAT. I MEAN I CAN FEEL IT. I THINK. WE'RE GOING. TO. FIND MORE MARKETS FOR. JUST. THANK YOU. YES. THEY FUMIGATED THE WHOLE BUILDING. YEAH. MADAM CLERK IF YOU WOULD PLEASE NOTE THAT COMMISSIONER BOLTON IS WITH US NOW. AND [a. Commissioner Bolton] JUST IN TIME FOR REPORTS COMMISSIONER BOLTON. GOOD MORNING EVERYONE. IF YOU'D LIKE TO REACH ME PLEASE GO ON FACEBOOK THAT IS FACEBOOK DOT COM FORWARD SLASH COMMISSIONER MARVIN BOLTON. MY CELL PHONE IS ALWAYS ON AN ACTIVE. IT IS 9 5 4 2 7 5 3 8 5 0. THANK YOU SO MUCH. THANK YOU VERY MUCH COMMISSIONER GO. NO REPORT THIS WEEK. ALL RIGHT. YOU BELONG TO COMMISSIONER FISHMAN. JUST VERY QUICKLY [c. Commissioner Fishman] TWO THINGS I WANTED TO CONGRATULATE THE KINGS POINT SPANISH CLUB SPANISH AMERICAN CLUB ON THEIR 15TH ANNIVERSARY. THEY HAD A PARTY ON SUNDAY THAT WAS AS ALWAYS A WONDERFULLY EXCITING. AND THE FOOD WAS GREAT. AND I ALSO WANT TO THANK EVERYONE WHO CAME OUT FOR THE DISTRICT 3 MEETING. THE NEIGHBORHOOD MEETING THAT WE HAD LAST WEEK WE HAD A GREAT TURNOUT. THERE ARE A LOT OF GOOD QUESTIONS ASKED AND STAFF DID A WONDERFUL JOB OF MAKING SURE THAT INFORMATION WAS GOTTEN TO THE RESIDENTS AND QUESTIONS WERE ASKED. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. VICE MAYOR GOOD MORNING THANK YOU. I [d. Vice Mayor Placko] WOULD JUST LIKE TO REMIND EVERYONE THAT NEXT WEDNESDAY THE TWENTY NINTH AT 630 IS THE DISTRICT FOR. MEETING. IT WILL BE AT THE TAMARACK COMMUNITY CENTER. I HOPE EVERYONE WILL JOIN US. THANK YOU. WOW THIS WAS QUICK. I'LL BE THE LONGEST ONE HAD THE [e. Mayor Gomez] PLEASURE OF REPRESENTING OUR CITY AND OUR COLLEAGUE. MY COLLEAGUES WERE THERE AS WELL AT MILLENNIUM NATIONAL HONOR SOCIETY. IT WAS THE FIRST INDUCTION INTO THE NATIONAL HONOR SOCIETY FOR OUR NEW COLLEGIATE ACADEMY MILLENNIUM 6TH THROUGH 12TH. AND IT WAS AN ABSOLUTE HONOR TO SEE FORTY FIVE OF OUR TENTH GRADERS BE INDUCTED INTO THIS WONDERFUL ORGANIZATION REGARDING LEADERSHIP SCHOLARSHIP HONOR AND CHARACTER. WE ALSO HAD THE PLEASURE OF CELEBRATING BUDDHA'S BIRTHDAY WITH OUR BUDDHIST FAMILY AT OUR TEMPLE. I WANT TO THANK LORI FOR UNDERWEIGHT FOR JOINING ME AND PRESENTING TO UNITED REALTY GROUP WHERE WE WERE TALKING TO REALTORS IN THE COMMUNITY TO LET THEM KNOW THE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT THAT IS GOING ON. SOME OF THE CHANGES IN OUR RULES AND OUR ORDINANCES AND LETTING THEM KNOW WHAT WE HAVE IN OUR BEAUTIFUL CITY. SO WHEN THEY ARE SELLING PROPERTY TO NEW BUYERS THEY KNOW WHAT THEY WILL BE SEEING IN THE FUTURE. I HAD THE PRIVILEGE OF ATTENDING THE MAYOR BOGAN HAS A MAYORS COUNCIL WHERE. ABOUT 20 OF OUR OTHER MAYORS AROUND THE CITY ATTENDED WHERE WE DISCUSS VARIOUS THINGS LIKE HURRICANE PREPAREDNESS. A SCREEN READER FOR PEOPLE WHO ARE IN NEED OF READING THE PDX OFF OF CITY WEBSITES FOR THE SEEING IMPAIRED. WE HAD DISCUSSIONS REGARDING. ATTRACTING TOURISTS TO OUR COUNTY AS WELL. THANK YOU TO OUR WONDERFUL. PARKS AND REC FOR PUTTING ON THE GROOVE ON THE GRASS. THERE WAS A LOT OF FUN. I HAVEN'T BEEN ABLE TO GET TO SOME CONCERTS OVER THE PAST CONCERT SERIES THIS YEAR AND I WAS HAPPY TO BE ABLE TO GO TO THAT ONE AND THANK YOU TO OUR PUBLIC WORKS AS WELL FOR ALL THAT YOU DO TO MAKE SURE THAT OUR FIELDS ARE WRAPPED UP NICE AND TIGHT AND READY FOR PLAYING BALL ON THE NEXT DAY. BLESS YOU. WE HAVE A WONDERFUL NEW ORGANIZATION IN OUR CITY. IT'S CALLED THE [00:10:05] BRIDGES FOR THE DEAF AND HARD OF HEARING AND THEY OPENED UP THEIR OWN LITTLE COMMUNITY CENTER RIGHT NOW THAT IS IN THE CONNECT PROPERTY SHOPS AND IT WAS AN ABSOLUTE PRIVILEGE TO BE THERE AND I WILL JUST SAY NICE TO MEET YOU. LEARN A FEW OTHER LITTLE THINGS IN SIGN LANGUAGE. ON THAT DAY WE ALL ATTENDED THE ARAB LEAGUE OF CITIES GALA AND I HAD THE PRIVILEGE OF GOING TO OUR CHALLENGER BASEBALL AND IT IS A WONDERFUL SIGHT TO SEE PEOPLE OF. EVERY CALIBER EVERY PHYSICAL ABILITY BEING ABLE TO ENJOY THE SPORT OF BASEBALL. SO THANK YOU FOR LISTENING TO MY REPORT AND WE WILL NOW MOVE OVER TO OUR CITY MANAGERS OUR CITY ATTORNEY'S REPORT. I HAVE NOTHING THIS MORNING. MAYOR. ALL RIGHT. CITY MANAGER THANK YOU MADAM MAYOR I HAVE A FEW [4. CITY MANAGER REPORT] THINGS THIS MORNING. COMMISSIONER BOLTON'S DISTRICT 1 NEIGHBORHOOD MEETING WILL BE HOSTED TONIGHT. IT WILL BEGIN AT SIX THIRTY P.M. AT THE MAINLAND'S 1 AND 2 CLUBHOUSE. WE ENCOURAGE MEMBERS OF THE COMMUNITY TO JOIN OUR ELECTED OFFICIALS AND CITY STAFF FOR A DISCUSSION ON CURRENT PROJECTS AND THEIR IMPACT ON THE COMMUNITY. COME GET YOUR QUESTIONS ANSWERED AND SHARE INSIGHT INTO WHAT THE FUTURE HOLDS FOR THE CITY FOR YOUR LIFE. OUR NEIGHBORHOOD DISTRICT MEETING SEASON WILL BE COMING TO A CLOSE NEXT WEDNESDAY MAY 20 9TH WHEN WE WILL HOST COMMISSIONER PLAQUE GOES DISTRICT 4 MEETING THAT WILL ALSO BE AT 630 THAT WILL BE AT THE TAMARACK COMMUNITY CENTER. AND AGAIN MEMBERS OF THE COMMUNITY ARE ENCOURAGED TO JOIN OUR ELECTED OFFICIALS AND STAFF AS WE DISCUSS WHAT'S HAPPENING IN DISTRICT FOR THE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENTS HOUSING DIVISION WILL OPEN THE ANNUAL NEIGHBORHOOD PARTNERSHIP PROGRAM FOR H.R. WAYS AND CONDOMINIUM ASSOCIATIONS SEEKING FUNDS TO IMPROVE AND ENHANCE QUALIFIED COMMON AREAS WITHIN THEIR COMMUNITIES. THE PROGRAM WILL OPEN AT 8:00 A.M. ON JUNE 17 2019 IT'LL CLOSE AT 4:00 P.M. ON JUNE 28 2019 THE HOUSING DIVISION WILL HOST A HOW TO SUBMIT A COMPLETE PROPOSAL WORKSHOP ON JUNE 10TH 2019 AT 4:00 PM AT THE COMMUNITY CENTER TO PROVIDE GUIDANCE ON SUBMITTING A COMPLETE AND SUCCESSFUL APPLICATION. APPLICATIONS WILL BE AVAILABLE IN THE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT AND ON THE CITY'S WEB SITE BEGINNING JUNE 17TH 2019. PARKS AND RECREATION WOULD LIKE EVERYONE TO JOIN US ON MEMORIAL DAY AS WE PAY TRIBUTE TO THOSE WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES TO PROTECT OUR FREEDOM. THIS EVENT WILL BE HELD ON MONDAY MAY 20 SEVENTH AT TEN THIRTY A.M. AT THE VETERANS MEMORIAL PARK. THERE WILL BE SPECIAL GUEST SPEAKERS LIGHT REFRESHMENTS MUSIC PERFORMED BY THE JP TERRE VELA HIGH SCHOOL BAND AND WHAT MEMORIAL DAY MEANS TO ME AS SAY WINNERS. OUR MOVIE IN THE PARK WAS RESCHEDULED THE MOVIE IN THE PARK FEATURING RALPH BREAKS THE INTERNET IS RESCHEDULED FOR FRIDAY MAY 30 FIRST AT THE TAMARACK SPORTS COMPLEX PRE MOVIE ACTIVITIES INCLUDING FACE PAINTING GAMES BOUNCE HOUSE AND FOOD TRUCKS FROM ONSITE FOOD VENDORS. THE BEGINS AT SEVEN THIRTY PM AND THE MOVIE STARTS AT 8 P.M.. PLEASE REMEMBER TO BRING BLANKETS AND LAWN CHAIRS. CELEBRATE DAD BY SPENDING TIME FISHING IN THE UPCOMING FATHER'S DAY FAMILY FISHING TOURNAMENT. PRICE INCLUDES A GIFT FOR DAD AND LUNCH PARTICIPANTS BRING THEIR OWN FISHING EQUIPMENT AND PRACTICE CATCH AND RELEASE. THIS EVENT IS SCHEDULED ON SATURDAY JUNE 15TH FROM 9 A.M. TO NOON AT KAPPA ELA PARK. THE COST IS FIVE DOLLARS PER PERSON AND WE ASK THAT YOU PRE REGISTER BY JUNE 12TH. CITY OF TAMARACK HOSTED THE BI ANNUAL HOUSEHOLD HAZARDOUS WASTE AND ELECTRONIC WASTE DROP OFF EVENT ON SATURDAY MAY 4TH 2019. THE EVENT WAS OPEN TO ALL TAMARACK RESIDENTS. IN ADDITION TO RESIDENTS FROM COCONUT CREEK CORAL SPRINGS FORT LAUDERDALE LAUDERDALE LAKES NORTH LAUDERDALE LAUDERDALE BY THE SEA AND POMPANO BEACH TAMARACK HOSTS THIS EVENT ON THE FIRST SATURDAY OF MAY AND DECEMBER AND THE PARTNER CITIES HOST APPROXIMATELY 12 OTHER EVENTS THROUGHOUT THE YEAR. WE HAD TWO HUNDRED AND NINETY FIVE TOTAL ATTENDEES AT THE HOUSEHOLD HAZARDOUS WASTE AND E DROP OFF EVENT AND IT LOOKS LIKE OUR RESIDENTS HAD ABOUT TWO THIRDS OF THE HOUSEHOLD HAZARDOUS WASTE AND WASTE THAT WAS DROPPED OFF. IF YOU'RE INTERESTED IN THE PARTICIPATION THAT'S ALL I HAVE THIS MORNING AND COMMISSION THANK YOU. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. WE WILL NOW MOVE ON TO [5. PUBLIC PARTICIPATION] PUBLIC PARTICIPATION. FOR ANYBODY WHO WISHES TO SPEAK ON AN ITEM THAT IS NOT ON THE AGENDA. IF YOUR NAME IS NOT LISTED AND YOU WISH TO COME UP AFTERWARDS YOU'RE MORE THAN WELCOME TO DO SO. AND IF YOU WISH TO SPEAK TO AN ITEM THAT'S ON THE AGENDA WE'LL ASK YOU TO SPEAK AT THAT TIME. JEFFREY SHAPIRO GOOD MORNING HOW ARE YOU. [00:15:01] MY NAME AND I JUST FOR THE RECORD PLEASE GOOD MORNING TO EVERYONE HERE. MY NAME IS JEFFREY SHAPIRO 61 0 4 ORCHARD TREE LANE TAMARACK FLORIDA IT'S THE WOODLANDS COMMUNITY I JUST HAVE A COUPLE OF THINGS JUST HOLD YOUR QUESTIONS UNTIL AFTER I FINISH BECAUSE I HAVE ONLY THREE MINUTES. OK MAKE IT QUICK. FIRST THING IS I'M NOTICING A USE OF MULTI FAMILY HOUSING AND WITHIN THE WOODLANDS COMMUNITY AND THE ESTATE HOME NEW DESIGNATIONS. AND IT SEEMS EVEN MORE NEW BUYERS ARE BUYING UNDER ONE FAMILY NAME BUT YOU'RE HAVING SEVERAL FAMILIES MOVE INTO THE HOMES. AND I THINK THERE SHOULD BE SOME SORT OF ORDINANCE OR SOMETHING THAT LIMITS HOW MANY ADULTS WITH VEHICLES CAN BE AT A HOME. FOR EXAMPLE THERE'S ONE HOME ON MY STREET ONLY HAS ROOM TECHNICALLY ROOM FOR PARKING FOR VEHICLES TWO AND A GARAGE TWO IN THE DRIVEWAY THAT'S IT. AND WHAT'S HAPPENING EVERY NIGHT IS THAT WE HAVE A TOTAL OF SIX VEHICLES ONE LEFT IN THE STREET ALL NIGHT LONG ONE ON THE ONE ON A GRASS AREA. OKAY. AND THEN THE OTHER TWO ON THE DRIVEWAY AND THE OTHER TWO IN THE GARAGE AND THEY'RE ALL ADULTS. THEY ALL LEAVE THE HOUSE IN THE MORNING AND THEY ALL COME BACK IN THE EVENING. SO THEY'RE WORKING. I HAVE NO I HAVE NOTHING AGAINST PEOPLE HAVING TO EARN A LIVING. OKAY. BUT HARD. STREETS WERE NOT DESIGNED FOR THAT COMMUNITY WAS NOT DESIGNED FOR THAT. AND THEN I HAVE ANOTHER NEW RESIDENT THAT ALSO JUST MOVED IN NOT EVEN A WEEK AGO. SAME SITUATION YOU HAVE PURCHASED UNDER ONE NAME. OK BUT THEY HAVE THEIR CHILDREN AND THE GRANDCHILDREN AND THE GRANDCHILDREN ARE ALSO ADULTS. SO I DON'T KNOW HOW MANY PEOPLE ARE ALLOWED TO BE LIVING. HOW MANY ADULTS IN A THREE BEDROOM THREE BATH HOUSE OR THREE BEDROOM TWO BATH HOUSE WITHIN CITY LIMITS NEXT. SO IT DOES CREATE PARKING ISSUES. ONE OTHER THING I WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT WAS I KNOW IT'S A CITY OF TAMARACK GOING THROUGH THE COMMUNITY NOW AND CHECKING ALL THE SEWERS. NOW I KNOW THE SEWERS WERE JUST RE LINED BY A SUBCONTRACTOR AND THEY'RE SCOPING ALL THE SEWERS AND I'M WONDERING WHY THEY'RE SCOPING THEM TO INSPECT THE WORK THAT WAS DONE BY THE OTHER CONTRACTOR OR TO SEE IF IT CAN HOLD MORE VOLUME OF WASTE. THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME. THANK YOU JEFFREY. ACTUALLY WHEN IT COMES TO THE CODE ISSUES I'M GOING TO GIVE YOU THE PERSON TO SPEAK TO AND WE DO HAVE AN ORDINANCE WHEN IT COMES TO OCCUPANCY AND YOU KNOW HOW THE PARKING SITUATION IS AND WE'LL GET BACK TO YOU ON YOUR OTHER QUESTION. THANK YOU. OH. OKAY. THANK YOU. AND RONALD J. WASSERMAN. GOOD MORNING TAMARACK. RONALD J WASSERMAN 8 5 7 7 J DRIVE MUTAMBARA. 3 3 3 2 1. I LIVE IN THE COMMUNITY OF SHANGRI-LA. WITH MEMORIAL DAY COMING UP I HOPE EVERYONE CAN COME TO OUR VETERANS PARK TO PAY RESPECTS. BIG SHOUT OUT TO VINCENT I HOPE YOU'RE WATCHING VINNIE. WE LOVE YOU. BIG A U.S. MARINE CORPS. YOUR MOM LOVES YOU RECENTLY I WAS WATCHING TV GENTLEMAN NAME ADMIRAL MCRAVEN WAS SPEAKING. WHAT A MAN. I KNOW HOW TO MAKE MY BED TWO MORE THINGS. I LOOK FORWARD TO SEEING EVERYONE AT THE DISTRICT 4 MEETING. THANK YOU FOR HAVING THAT AND I HOPE SOME OTHER FOLKS WHO ARE NOT IN DISTRICT 4 CAN COME AND SEE SOME OF THE SITUATIONS THAT ARE GOING ON IN THE DISTRICT FOR ONE MORE THING I SAID TO OUR MAYOR PRECEDING ME THAT I WOULD NOT SPEAK ABOUT ISSUES PERTAINING TO OUR COMMUNITY OUT LOUD AND BEFORE THE COMMISSION. I'M NOT DOING THAT ANYMORE. BUT I NEED HELP. SO LOOKING AT ALL OF YOU I'VE BEEN I'VE PROBABLY BEEN SPEAKING WITH YOU FOR THREE YEARS NOW AND WE'VE BEEN FIGHTING AGAINST THE FORCES OF SOME BIG COMPANIES. I'M A COMMUNICATIONS MAJOR. DON'T MAKE ME GO TO [00:20:08] THAT ROUTE. PLEASE TAMARACK HELP ME. I'VE ASKED YOU MANY TIMES AND IF YOU CAN HELP ME WE NEED TO KNOW WHY MY COMMUNITY NEEDS TO KNOW WHY. THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME THANK YOU. I KNOW WE HAVE. IF YOU WOULD PLEASE NAME NOT JUST FOR THE RECORD. IF YOU'RE GOOD TO SEE YOU. HI MY NAME IS JODIE SIERRA AND I LIVE AT WOODLANDS. MA'AM CAN YOU PLEASE GET CLOSER TO THE MICROPHONE I CAN COULDN'T HEAR YOU OK. HI. HOW ARE YOU. CAN YOU HEAR ME ALL RIGHT. YEAH OKAY. MY NAME IS JODIE SIERRA. I LIVE AT THE WOODLANDS AND CALL. I'M HERE FOR THE 13TH FLOOR TO MAKE A REQUEST OR A STATEMENT ABOUT THAT. I FEEL THAT AFTER HAVING GONE TO THE MEETINGS I THINK IT'S A WONDERFUL IDEA. IT'S STAYING IN COMPLETE. I FORGOT WHAT WORD I'M USING NOW BUT THEY'RE GONNA STAY IN THE SAME TYPE OF SITUATION AND LOOKS OF THE WOODLANDS WHICH HAS BEEN THE MOST BEAUTIFUL AREA AND NOW THAT IT'S A LITTLE SAD WE WANT TO BRING IT BACK TO ITS GLORY BECAUSE IT IS JUST ONE OF THE MOST BEAUTIFUL PLACES IN WOODLAND. I MEAN AND TAMARACK AND EVEN AROUND IT'S UNIQUE AND THEY'RE ONLY GONNA PUT X AMOUNT OF HOMES AND I THINK IT'S GONNA BE AN A PLUS FOR TAMARACK AND THEY'RE MAKING THE HOMES VERY SIMILAR TO THE WAY THE HOMES HAVE ALREADY BEEN BUILT BACK IN 1969 AND 1970. IT'S SORT OF HISTORICAL THERE. SO I WANT TO MAINTAIN THE INTEGRITY AND THE WONDERFUL NESS OF LIVING THERE AND BUYING INTO WOODLANDS AND FIXING IT UP AND MAKE IT INTO 2019. SO I JUST HOPE WE CAN PASS THAT BECAUSE I THINK WE HAVE PLENTY OF THINGS WE WANT TO JUST MAKE TAMARACK A PLACE WHERE PEOPLE THAT ARE UPPER MIDDLE CLASS WITHOUT BEING WHATEVER. TO HAVE PEOPLE THAT WANT TO LIVE THERE AND WANT TO LIVE IN CANBERRA BECAUSE I THINK TAMARACK IS A WONDERFUL PLACE. I LIVED A PLANTATION FOR 30 YEARS AND I'M VERY HAPPY TO BE IN TAMARACK RIGHT NOW. SO AND WE HAVE A WONDERFUL MAYOR AND WONDERFUL PEOPLE AND IN THE FRONT. SO I'M HAPPY AND THAT'S ALL I WANT TO SAY THANK YOU. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. IS THERE ANYBODY ELSE WHO WISHES TO SPEAK ON AN ITEM THAT IS NOT ON THE AGENDA SAYING NONE THAT WE'RE GOING TO CLOSE PUBLIC PARTICIPATION. WE'LL NOW MOVE TO OUR CONSENT AGENDA CITY MANAGER WAS THERE [6. CONSENT AGENDA] ARE THERE ANY ADDITIONS OR DELETIONS. NOT THIS MORNING MADAM CHAIR MAY HAVE A MOTION ON THE SECOND TO MOVE THE CONSENSUS ON SO MOVED. SIR I WANT TO PULL AN ITEM. WHICH I AM WOULD YOU LIKE TO POST ITEM C YOU HAVE A COUPLE QUESTIONS. I'M SORRY. ITEM C T R 1 3 2 3 8. ITEM C THANK YOU VERY MUCH. CAN I HAVE IT MODIFIED OR AMENDED MOTION TO MOVE THE CONSENT AGENDA WITHOUT ITEM C C OUR 1 3 2 3 8 SO MOVED US OUT AGAIN AS AMENDED. PLEASE CALL THE ROLL. COMMISSIONER GALEN. YES THANKS. MAY I GO. YES COMMISSIONER FISHERMAN. YES COMMISSIONER BOLTON. YES. MAYOR GOMEZ. YES. CONSENT PASSED WITH THE EXCEPTION OF ITEM SIX C TR 1 3 2 3 8. THANK YOU [c. TR13238 - FY 2019 Heavy Equipment Purchase (Stormwater Loader) A Resolution of the City Commission of the City of Tamarac, Florida, authorizing the purchase of a replacement Stormwater construction loader utilizing competitive procurement methods and current agreements available for cooperative purchase at the time of purchase, including, but not limited to, the agreement awarded by the Florida Sheriff’s Association; authorizing the appropriate City Officials to select, approve and award the purchase of a replacement Stormwater construction loader utilizing current agreements available for cooperative purchase at the time of purchase in the best interest of the City; authorizing an expenditure in an amount not to exceed $245,366.20 from the appropriate accounts; providing for conflicts; providing for severability; and providing for an effective date. ] COMMISSIONER. WE HAVE SOME QUESTION MAYBE CITY MANAGER CAN ANSWER THIS. SHOULD THE COMPANY ON MONDAY. WHAT'S GONNA HAPPEN WITH THE EXISTING THE EXISTING LOADER THAT WE HAVE NOW. SO EXISTING EQUIPMENT THAT WE REPLACE IS TYPICALLY AUCTIONED OFF. OK. SO THANK YOU CAN I GET A IN A SECOND TO MOVE OR MOVE. OK SECOND SECOND VICE MAYOR. THANK YOU. YES YES COMMISSIONER FISHMAN. YES MR. BOLTON YES YES. TEMPORARY RESOLUTION ONE PASSED. THANK YOU. SEE WE HAVE NO REGULAR AGENDA ITEMS. ORDINANCES ON FIRST READING. PUBLIC HEARINGS SEPARATELY. SO WE'RE MOVING ON TO OUR [a. TO2399 Local Business Preference Ordinance An Ordinance of the City Commission of the City of Tamarac, Florida, amending Chapter 6 of the City’s Code of Ordinances, entitled “Finance and Taxation”, specifically amending Article V, entitled “Tamarac Procurement Code”, by creating Section 6-146.1, to be entitled “Local Business Preference”; providing for codification; providing for conflicts; providing for severability; providing for an effective date. ] AUDIENCES FOR SECOND READING. I NEED A MOTION A SECOND TO PLEASE PUT THIS ON THE SLOW MOVE. SECOND CITY ATTORNEY WILL YOU PLEASE READ THE TITLE INTO THE RECORD. IF I MAY MADAM MAYOR. TEMPORARY ORDINANCE NUMBER 2 3 9 9 IS AN ORDINANCE TO THE CITY [00:25:04] COMMISSIONER OF THE CITY OF TAMARACK FLORIDA. AMENDING CHAPTER 6 OF THE CITY'S CODE OF ORDINANCES ENTITLED FINANCE AND TAXATION SPECIFICALLY AMENDING ARTICLE 5 ENTITLED TEMPORARY PROCUREMENT CODE BY CREATING SECTION SIX DASH ONE FOR SIX POINT ONE TO BE ENTITLED LOCAL BUSINESS PREFERENCE PROVIDING FOR CODIFICATION PROVIDING CONFLICTS PROVIDING FOR SEVERABILITY AND PROVIDING FOR AN EFFECTIVE DATE. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. ANY DISCUSSION ON THIS MATTER. YES. KEITH IS AT THE PODIUM. SO IF THAT'S YOUR PURCHASING CONTRACTS MANAGER THANK YOU VERY MUCH. AND SO LAST WEEK I ASKED FOR THIS TO BE AMENDED TO CHANGE THE POINT SYSTEM AND INCREASE IT FROM TWO AND A HALF TO FIVE FOR LOCAL AND THEN FIVE TO TEN FOR BROWARD COUNTY SMALL BUSINESS CERTIFICATION AND I BELIEVE OUR PROCUREMENT DIRECTOR OBJECTED TO THAT. I JUST WANT TO GET FURTHER CLARIFICATION AS TO WHY. COULD YOU REPEAT THE QUESTION. YES. SO AT THE LAST COMMISSION MEETING YOU DIDN'T YOU EXPRESSED THAT YOU DIDN'T FEEL IT WAS A GOOD IDEA TO INCREASE THEIR POINTS GIVEN AN INCREASING RATE FROM TWO AND A HALF TO FIVE FOR LOCAL BUSINESS AND FIVE TO 10. I'M SORRY TO HAVE THE TOTAL PERCENTAGE BE 10 PERCENT 5 PERCENT FOR LOCAL TURMERIC PREFERENCE AND 5 PERCENT FOR BEING A CERTIFIED COUNTY BUSINESS ENTERPRISE. AND YOU MENTIONED SOMETHING ABOUT MIGHT HAVE AN IMPACT ON PRICE. SO I WANT YOU TO FURTHER EXPLAIN WHY YOU HAVE AN ISSUE WITH THAT. OH OKAY. CERTAINLY THE CONCERN I'VE ALWAYS HAD ON WHAT WE CALL I CALL IT THE STACKING PREFERENCE IS THAT ONCE YOU ACTUALLY INCREASE THE NUMBER OF. POINTS THAT ARE GIVEN FOR ANY AREA IT DOESN'T MATTER WHETHER IT'S FOR A PREFERENCE OR FIRST SCHEDULE OR ANYTHING ELSE SOMETHING HAS TO BE ADJUSTED SOMEWHERE ELSEWHERE IN THE BID PROCESS. IN TERMS OF THE SCORING AND SO YOU MAY YOU'RE GOING TO TAKE AWAY POINTS THAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN GIVEN TO PRICE OR MIGHT HAVE BEEN GIVEN TO SCHEDULE OR MIGHT HAVE BEEN GIVEN NO QUALIFICATIONS. WHENEVER YOU ADD ANY TYPE OF A PREFERENCE 2 A.M. TO A 2 A SOLICITATION AND THEN THAT WAS BASICALLY MY CONCERN IS THAT YOU WOULD HAVE TO REALIGN THE ENTIRE EVALUATION CRITERIA. SO I DON'T GET TO REALIGN THE ENTIRE CRITERIA SO THAT THOSE PEOPLE WHO QUALIFY FOR EITHER OF THOSE ITEMS THEY WOULD BE THEY WOULD BE ABLE TO GAIN UP TO ONE HUNDRED AND FIVE POINTS OR TWO HUNDRED AND TEN POINTS. SO YOU DON'T HAVE TO CHANGE THE SCORING RANGE FOR ANY OF THE EXISTING CRITERIA. IT CAN'T. IT CAN BE DONE THAT WAY BUT STILL THAT BECOMES A DIFFERENT PERCENTAGE NO MATTER WHAT YOU DO BECAUSE EVEN IF IT'S ONE HUNDRED AND FIVE POINTS YOU'RE STILL HAVING TO LOOK AT THE ACTUAL FULL PERCENTAGE FOR EACH ITEM SO THAT THE PRICE PERCENTAGE AND EVERYTHING WE'LL HAVE IT WILL IMPACT THE PERCENTAGE OF THE ACTUAL. AMOUNT OF THE OTHER CRITERIA REGARDLESS OF EXCUSE ME REGARDLESS OF WHAT WHAT YOU'RE. WHAT YOU'RE DOING. AND HONESTLY I I I SUPPORT THE ORDINANCE IN THE CURRENT FORM THAT IT'S IN RIGHT NOW. SO I HAVE NO PROBLEM WITH IT RIGHT NOW AND WE'RE FINE WITH IT. I AGREE THAT WHAT WAS DISCUSSED AT THE FIRST READING WAS CERTAINLY APPROPRIATE AND I'M IN FULL SUPPORT OF THAT. AND. SO SO WHAT DO YOU ANTICIPATE WILL BE THE IMPACT IF THE CURRENT READING REMAINS AS IT IS. WHAT DO YOU FORESEE THE INCREASE IN OUR USE OF OUR CONTRACTING OPPORTUNITIES WHERE LOCAL TAMARACK AND BROWARD COUNTY BUSINESSES BECAUSE I DON'T THINK HAS AN ATF IN IT. I DON'T THINK IT'LL BE EFFECTIVE. WHICH IS WHY I'M ASKING FOR HIGHER POINTS. WELL A LOT OF IT MATTERS. AGAIN THE FIRST ONE OF THE PURPOSES OF THE PREFERENCE IS TO NOT ONLY ENCOURAGE TAMARACK VENDORS BUT I THINK WE ARE TRYING TO USE THAT IN COORDINATION WITH OUR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT EFFORTS TO TRY TO GET VENDORS TO MOVE HERE. AND SO WE'RE NOT ONLY GOING TO BE SEEING PERHAPS IF THOSE VENDORS RESPOND WE THEY HAVE OBVIOUSLY THIS OPPORTUNITY FOR TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THE PREFERENCE BUT THAT ALSO GIVES US A GREATER OPPORTUNITY TO HAVE OTHER REVENUES BROUGHT INTO THE CITY BECAUSE OF BUSINESSES MOVING TO TAMARACK. AND SO THERE'S SOME IMPACTS THAT ARE SOME SOFT IMPACTS THAT MAY NOT BE SEEN IN THE PROCUREMENT SIDE THAT MIGHT BE SEEN ON OTHER REVENUE IN THE CITY. ANOTHER CONCERN I HAVE TO IF YOU GO IF YOU HAVE A WAY WITH THE WAY THIS ORDINANCE IS STRUCTURED THE VENDOR THAT THE TAMARACK VENDOR ARE THE BROWARD CBE HAS TO BRING THEIR PRICE DOWN TO ABOUT 1 PERCENT LESS [00:30:07] THAN THE OTHER BIDDER. IF WE RAISE IF WE RAISE THAT TO PAY 10 PERCENT THEN THERE'S. A FURTHER. A LONGER ROAD TO HOE FOR THAT VENDOR BECAUSE NOW THEY ARE NOT A FAIR NEAR THE 10 PERCENT THEY NOT ONLY HAVE TO GO DOWN 5 PERCENT THEY HAVE TO GO DOWN THEY HAVE TO REDUCE THE BID BY 11 PERCENT TO BE ABLE TO GET THE BUSINESS AND THAT'S GOING TO I SEE THAT AS HAVING A NEGATIVE IMPACT ON. POSSIBLE PROFITS THAT THE VENDOR MAY SEE FROM THEIR GIVING FROM THEIR ENDEAVOR TO DEAL WITH THE CITY. SO I THINK IF WE IF WE IF WE INCREASE THAT THE WAY THE AUDIENCE IS STRUCTURED THAT VENDOR IS GOING TO HAVE TO DROP THEIR PRICE A LOT FURTHER THAN THEY WOULD HAVE TO WITH THE CURRENT STRUCTURE THAT WE'VE BUILT INTO THIS ORDINANCE AT THIS POINT. RIGHT. BUT THAT'S ALSO SUBJECT TO NEGOTIATION RIGHT. WE CAN WE CAN HAVE A DISCUSSION ONCE THE FINAL TOP THREE OR TOP TWO ARE SELECTED AND THEN HAVE A DISCUSSION THEY CAN DETERMINE WHETHER OR NOT MAKING THAT CHANGE IS REALISTIC AND THEN EITHER YOU AS A PROCUREMENT DIRECTOR OR WE AS A COMMISSION CAN BEST DETERMINE OR NEGOTIATE WITH THE BEST PRICE SHOULD BE THAT CORRECT. WELL WE PLAN TO ADHERE TO THE ORDINANCE AND WE PLAN TO UPHOLD THE ORDINANCE AND IF IT IF YOU'RE SAYING THAT WE WOULD HAVE SOME LATITUDE ON THE FINAL PRICE OUR LATITUDE IS ONLY DICTATED TO WHAT THE ORDINANCE ALLOWS US TO DO. IT ALLOWS US TO DISCUSS WITH ANY PARTICULAR VENDOR SO IF IF YOU'RE I DON'T KNOW IF YOU'RE SAYING THAT BUT IF YOU'RE SAYING THAT WELL WE DON'T HAVE TO TAKE WE CAN LET THEM HAVE A HIGHER PRICE. WE CAN'T DO THAT BUT I'M NOT SURE. MAYBE IF YOU CAN CLARIFY A LITTLE BIT MORE ON WHAT I WAS SAYING. ACTUALLY IF I MAY WE HAVE OUR ATTORNEY QUINN. I'D LIKE TO MAKE A COMMENT. WE JUST WANT TO TOUCH ON ONE OF THE ISSUES THAT YOU JUST BROUGHT UP AND I THINK QUINTIN NEEDS TO ADDRESS THE ISSUE OF NEGOTIATING PRICE WITH A BED. SO WITH RESPECT TO GOOD MORNING FOR THE RECORD QUINN MORGAN ASSISTANT CITY ATTORNEY THE TWO PROCESSES THAT WE HAVE RELATING TO THE LOCAL BUSINESS PREFERENCE ONE IS THE PRICE BID FOR LACK OF A BETTER WORD WHERE THERE IS NO NEGOTIATION. EITHER THEY MEET THE 1 PERCENT. BEAT BEAT THE LOW BID BY 1 PERCENT IF THEY QUALIFY AS A LOCAL VENDOR OR THEY DON'T. AND THEN THERE IS A REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS WHEREIN THERE IS SOME SORT OF NEGOTIATION FOR THE THE HIGHEST RANKED VENDOR AND THAT'S WHAT I'M REFERRING TO. OK. SO THERE IS SOME SOME LEVEL OF NEGOTIATION IN THAT PROCESS BY THE NATURE OF THE PROCESS BUT WHEN THE BIDS ARE SUBMITTED AND I THINK WHAT WHAT THE WHAT WAS WHAT MR.. LACKS WAS TRYING TO SAY WAS THAT WHEN SOMEONE PRESENTS THEIR BID WITH CERTAIN PRICES THEY THEY FIRM UP THOSE PRICES PRIOR TO THEIR BIDDING. SO IF WE INCREASE THE NUMBERS BUT BY. WHATEVER THE PERCENTAGE MAY BE THAT MAY IMPACT THE LEVEL OF SERVICE THAT THEY ARE ABLE TO PROVIDE. NOT NECESSARILY LOOKING AT IT FROM A PROFIT MARGIN STANDPOINT BUT FROM A LEVEL OF SERVICE WHETHER THEY'RE ABLE TO MEET THE LEVEL OF SERVICE THAT THE OTHER VENDORS MAY MAY HAVE. SO I THINK THAT'S THE POINT OF VIEW FROM THE STAFF. LIKE YOU SAID THERE YOU'RE ABLE TO MAKE THE CHANGES IF THE COMMISSION IS WISHING TO DO THAT BUT THAT'S ONE OF THE CONCERNS I THINK THE STAFF MAY HAVE. CANCELED OR EXPRESSED THAT WELL ON MY BEHALF AS WELL. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. SO. GOING TO. PAGE 5 OF THE ORDINANCE WHERE WE DISCUSS EXCEPTIONS THERE ARE NINE EXCEPTIONS LISTED INCLUDING UTILIZATION OF A STATE CONTRACT STATE OF FEDERAL LAW A SINGLE SOURCE PURCHASES HOW MANY IF YOU LOOK AT OUR EXISTING CONTRACTORS WHICH I THINK YOU SAID IS ABOUT 400 HOW MANY WILL BE EXCLUDED FROM THIS ORDINANCE BASED ON ALL OF THESE EXCEPTIONS. WELL I WOULD I WOULD HAVE TO GO THROUGH AND MAKE A DETERMINATION BASED ON SOME PAST AWARDS OBVIOUSLY BUT WE WOULD PROBABLY SEE THAT LARGE LARGEST PERCENTAGE OF. OUR TRANSACTIONS ARE WOULD BE COVERED BY THE ORDINANCE AND VERY FEW ARE FEES. FOR INSTANCE WHERE THIS WOULD NOT HAVE AN IMPACT. THE ONLY THE ONLY FEES THAT WE MIGHT HAVE A SITUATION WITH WOULD BE FOR USING FEDERAL FUNDS OR FOR DOING SOMETHING FOR THE CO-OPERATIVE. AND ON THE [00:35:05] CO-OPERATIVE SIDE WE HANDLE ABOUT THREE OUR FEES ON BEHALF OF OUR BIDS OR OUR FEES ON THE COOPERATIVE. THAT WOULD ONLY AFFECT IN THAT CASE MOST LIKELY ONLY ABOUT THREE MAYBE MAYBE FOUR OF THOSE AND IN THE SCHEME OF THINGS THAT'S A PRETTY SMALL NUMBER OF OUR OF OUR TOTAL CONTRACTS. HOW MANY ARE PIGGYBACK CONTRACTS. THAT'S A GOOD QUESTION. I WOULD SAY WE'RE WE PROBABLY HAVE NO WAY TO VALIDATE BUT I WOULD SAY PROBABLY ABOUT 30 PERCENT 30 PERCENT BECAUSE BECAUSE OF THE CO-OPERATIVE WELL YOU IF YOU LOOK AT THE IF YOU LOOK AT A PIGGYBACK STRICTLY AS PURCHASING SOMETHING FROM ANOTHER VENDOR'S CONTRACT THAT'S ONE DEFINITION BUT IF YOU'RE LOOKING AT THE CO-OPERATIVE AS A WHOLE AS PART OF THIS PROCESS AS WELL AS A PIGGY BACK THEN I THINK WE'RE GETTING INTO THAT PARTICULAR NUMBER ABOUT 30 35 PERCENT. AND WHEN YOU PIGGY BACK TO YOU OR DOES THE CITY FOLLOW THE EXACT TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF THE PIGGYBACK CONTRACT WE OFTEN AFTER DEPENDING ON WHAT THOSE TERMS AND CONDITIONS ARE WE HAVE MADE MORE WE HAVE REQUIRED VENDORS TO ADHERE TO MORE STRICT CONDITIONS THAN THE PIGGY BANK PROVIDES. BUT WE HAVE NOT ALLOWED THEM TO. RELAX THE REQUIREMENTS OF THE ORIGINAL BACK. NORMALLY ONLY WE ONLY BECOME MORE RESTRICTIVE NOT LESS RESTRICTIVE BECAUSE WE MAY ADD OUR OWN INSURANCE REQUIREMENTS OUR OWN INDEMNIFICATION OUR OWN SCRUTINIZED COMPANY'S REQUIREMENTS AND THINGS OF THAT NATURE THAT WE HAVE THAT THE ORIGINAL PIGGY BANK MAY NOT HAVE INCLUDED SO. SO BASED ON THE CURRENT ON HOW THE ORDINANCE IS WRITTEN FOR THE CITY ATTORNEY QUINN HOW HOW MANY POINTS WILL A VENDOR GET IF FOR COMPETITIVE SEALED BIDS IF THEY'RE CERTIFIED WITH THE COUNTY 2.5 AND LOCAL TIME. OK. SO THE TOTAL POTENTIAL PERCENTAGE IS SEVEN AND A HALF IF YOU STACK IS CORRECT. OK. IF IT'S STACKED RIGHT. SO ALL I'M ASKING IS FOR. FOR. MY FELLOW COMMISSIONERS IS THAT WE AMEND THAT TWO AND A HALF TO FIVE FOR COMPETITIVE SEALED BIDS NOT NOT THE LOW COST OR BEST PRICE BIDS DO YOU GUYS UNDERSTAND MY REQUEST. ANY DISCUSSION. I HAVE NOBODY LEFT. SO AT THIS TIME. SO. SO MY MOTION IS TO ACCEPT THE ORDINANCE WITH THE CAVEAT OF INCREASING THE PERCENTAGE FOR BEING CERTIFIED AS A SMALL BUSINESS FOR COMPETITIVE SEALED BIDS FROM TWO AND A HALF TO 5 PERCENT. SECOND SO THAT THE TOTAL IS 10 PERCENT. SO NOW THAT THERE WOULD BE A DISCUSSION ON GARLAND'S MOTION. COMMISSIONER GARLAND'S MOTION I HAVE. NOBODY LEFT TO SAY ANYTHING. I WILL JUST CONFIRM MY UNDERSTANDING OF WHAT WAS SAID HERE TODAY INCREASING THE AMOUNT OF POINTS COULD DILUTE THE POINT CRITERIA AND THAT WOULD MAKE THE POINT SYSTEM FOR EXPERIENCE PRICE AND LEVEL OF SERVICE HAVE AN OPPOSITE POSSIBILITY OF BEING LESS THAN THE CURRENT LEVEL OF SERVICE. THE WAY THE THE NEW ORDINANCE IS CREATED IS THAT CORRECT. WHILE. I THINK THAT'S A CORRECT REPRESENTATION OF THE CONCERN WHEN YOU WHEN YOU ADD IN ADDITIONAL BENEFITS FOR THE PREFERENCE IN ADDITION TO WHAT'S BEEN PROPOSED THE LEVEL OF SERVICE MAY BE IMPACTED AND THAT'S YOU KNOW. WE DON'T KNOW THAT FOR A FACT BUT THAT'S THAT'S THE CONCERN. THE OTHER CONCERN I HEARD IS THAT BECAUSE BIDS HAVE TO BE ADJUSTED PRIOR. IF WE NOW MAKE IT A 10 POINT INCREASE THEN THEY HAVE TO DROP THEIR PRICE PERCENTAGE HAS TO NOW BE 11 PERCENT WHICH COULD BE SOMETHING THAT WOULD WIND UP EXCLUDING EXCLUDING POTENTIAL PREFERENCES THAT WE'RE TRYING TO ASSESS HERE. THAT WOULD BE ONLY FOR INVITATIONS FOR BID FOR THE PRICING. ASPECT. IT WOULD NOT NECESSARILY APPLY TO REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL BUT IT WOULD DEFINITELY IT COULD DEFINITELY IMPACT AN INVITATION FOR BID. THANK YOU COMMISSIONER GALEN. MY I'M NOT JUST CLARIFYING. NO I DON'T NEED YOUR CLARIFICATION BUT I'M CLARIFYING FOR THE AUDIENCE BUT DOES NOT HAVE THE DIRECTOR. COMMISSIONER GALEN YOU'RE NOT OUR FLORAL SO THE OTHER QUESTIONS THAT I HAVE. OUR NUMBERS ARE [00:40:06] THEY IN LINE WITH OTHER. CITIES THAT HAVE LOCAL PREFERENCES. I BELIEVE THEY ARE FAIRLY CLOSE. I KNOW THAT THIS PARTICULAR THESE PARTICULAR NUMBERS ARE USED IN TWO OR THREE CITIES PEMBROKE PINES AND HOLLYWOOD OFF THE TOP OF MY HEAD. WHAT WHAT WHAT COMMISSIONER YELLEN IS REQUESTING IS NOT TOTALLY OUTSIDE THE BOUNDS OF OTHER MUNICIPALITIES BUT THERE ARE MANY DISPARITIES LIKE PEMBROKE PINES FOR EXAMPLE THAT ARE IN LINE WITH WHAT WE'RE PROPOSING. SO. SO OURS IS NOT OUT OF LINE OF THE WAY WE CURRENTLY HAVE IT. NO NO. THANK YOU. AND YOU HAVE CLARIFIED SOMETHING THE COMMISSION DOESN'T MAKE DECISIONS. WE ARE NOT INVOLVED IN THE PROCUREMENT PROCESS. CORRECT OTHER THAN TO APPROVE THE FINAL PURCHASES OF COURSE IN OUR RECOMMENDATION TO STAFF. THAT'S WHY I JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT'S CLEAR RACIAL SIDE. NO WE ARE NOT INVOLVED IN THE NEGOTIATIONS OR THE OPERATIONAL SIDE OF IT. WE ONLY. YOU HAVE NOT BEEN INVOLVED IN THE OPERATIONAL SIDE AT ALL. OKAY GREAT. THANK YOU COMMISSIONER GALEN. YOU ARE WELCOME TO SPEAK ON. ACTUALLY IT IS YOUR LIFE AND JUST KEEPING IN MIND WE DON'T HAVE TO AGREE. AND JUST BECAUSE YOU WANT TO SPEAK AGAIN AND THAT'S FINE. I HAVE MY MIND. EVERYBODY HERE HAS YOUR OWN MIND. AND WE ARE ABLE TO EXPRESS OUR OWN OPINIONS. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. JUST WHY I STOPPED AND YOU MADE THE THAT YOU'RE YOU'RE NOW RECOGNIZED THANK YOU VERY MUCH. SO FOR OUR PROCUREMENT DIRECTOR. HOW MANY OTHER CITIES DID YOU LOOK AT IN TERMS OF TO SEE WHETHER OR NOT OUR REQUEST IS IN LINE WITH OTHER CITIES THERE ARE 17 CITIES THAT HAVE A SMALL LOCAL BUSINESS PREFERENCE PROGRAM. DID YOU LOOK AT EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEM AND COMPARE THEM ON A SPREADSHEET AND LOOK AT THEM BETWEEN THE ATTORNEY AND OURSELVES. WE WE LOOKED AT ALL THE CITY. YES. IS IT DOCUMENTED. DO YOU HAVE A SPREADSHEET OR SOMETHING THAT YOU CAN SHARE WITH US. WITH ME TO SAMPLE WITH ME HAVE YOU EVER BACK IN MY OFFICE. OK. BUT I HAVE SOME INFORMATION BACK THERE. YES. AND THEN JUST TO CLARIFY YOU KNOW WHILE WE ARE NOT IN THE NEGOTIATION PROCESS WE DO HAVE FINAL SAY SO WE CAN EITHER ACCEPT STAFF RECOMMENDATION OR REJECT THAT RECOMMENDATION OR MAKE OUR OWN RECOMMENDATION. AND THEN JUST TO CLARIFY AGAIN. AFTER HAVING THIS BRIEF DISCUSSION WITH OUR PROCUREMENT DIRECTOR I AMENDED MY REQUEST SO THAT IT DOES NOT IMPACT PRICE AND THEN MY REQUESTS ONLY ONLY IMPACTS ARE FEES COMPETITIVE SEALED BIDS. SO IT'S NOT GONNA HAVE AN IMPACT ON THE PRICE FOR THE OTHER TYPE OF BID. ALSO I HAD A DISCUSSION WITH THE PROCUREMENT DEPARTMENT OF ANOTHER CITY AND THEY DID HAVE A LOCAL PREFERENCE WHICH WAS AT TWO AND A HALF PERCENT AND MADE NO IMPACT. SO THEY INCREASED IT TO 5 PERCENT WHICH IS WHY I'M ASKING THAT WE INCREASE OUR SOME TWO AND A HALF TO 5 PERCENT FOR THE BUYER RECOUNTING CERTIFICATION. SO I MEAN EMOTIONALLY SECONDED AND I WILL GET TO IT WHEN YOU'RE DONE SPEAKING. THANK YOU. WE HAVE TWO MOTIONS ON THE FLOOR. WE'LL GO WITH A SECOND MOTION FIRST. AT THIS TIME IT IS THE MOTION TO HAVE THE LOCAL ORDINANCE AMENDED. A YES VOTE IS AMENDED AND YOUR VOTE IS TO NOT OBVIOUSLY CITY MAN CITY CLERK PLEASE CALL THE COMMISSION FISHMAN. NO NO I'M I'M NOT CLEAR ON WHAT WE'RE DOING IN THE SECOND MOTION FOR US WHICH IS YOUR MOTION TO AMEND IT FROM TWO AND A HALF TO 5 PERCENT FOR BROWARD COUNTY CERTIFICATION CORRECT. OKAY. SO YOU'RE UP TO THE COMMISSION. YES COMMISSIONER FLACCO. NOW. COMMISSIONER BOLTON. YES. MAYOR GOMEZ. NO MOTIONS IN MOTION FAILED CALLING THE FIRST MOTION TO QUIT THE ORDINANCE AS IS PLEASE CALL THE ROLL. COMMISSIONER BOLTON YES THANKS. MAY MAYOR PLEASE GO. YES COMMISSIONER GALEN. NO COMMISSIONER FISHMAN. YES. MAYOR GOMEZ. YES. TEMPORARY ORDINANCE TWENTY THREE NINETY NINE PASSED ON SECOND. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. WE ARE NOW MOVING TO OUR QUASI JUDICIAL HEARINGS AND I WILL ASK OUR CITY [a. TO2392: Eliathah Seventh Day Adventist Church - Rezoning An Ordinance of the City Commission of the City of Tamarac, Florida, amending the Official Zoning Map of the City of Tamarac referenced in Section 10-2.1(b) of Chapter 10 of the City of Tamarac Code of Ordinances to reflect the Rezoning of certain real estate property described as a portion of Tract 13 of Fort Lauderdale Truck Farms Subdivision 3, as recorded in Plat Book 4, Pages 31 of the public records of Broward County, Florida, together with Parcel “B” Piccadilly Cafeteria, as recorded in Plat Book 115, Page 37 of the public records of Broward County, Florida more legally described in Exhibit “A”, from the current NC (Neighborhood Commercial) to MU-N (Mixed Use Neighborhood) Zoning classification, for the subject property located at 7550 North University Drive, in order to provide consistency with the land development regulations in accordance with the intent of the Comprehensive Plan of the City of Tamarac; (Case No. 1-Z-19); providing for amendment to the official Zoning Map to reflect such change; providing for conflicts; providing for severability; and providing for an effective date. Commission District(s): District 4] ATTORNEY TO PROVIDE THE RULES OF THE ROAD. HOWEVER I'M GOING TO INTERJECT THAT LADIES AND GENTLEMEN AS I MENTIONED THERE ARE CERTAIN THINGS THAT WE HAVE OPINIONS ON. WE DON'T ALWAYS AGREE THERE BE COMMENTS THAT MIGHT BE MADE FROM THE AUDIENCE. I ASK THAT WE DO NOT BOO. WE DO NOT CLAP. WE DO NOT DO ANYTHING OTHER THAN ACKNOWLEDGE THAT THE PERSON IS SPEAKING AND HAS EVERY RIGHT TO SPEAK AND WE KEEP THIS ORDERLY. SO LADIES AND GENTLEMEN WE WILL NOW MOVE ON TO OUR QUASI JUDICIAL ATTORNEY IF I MAY. MADAM MAYOR ITEMS A ELEVEN A B C D E F AND G. ON YOUR AGENDA [00:45:08] ARE QUASI JUDICIAL ITEMS. THESE ARE ITEMS THAT ARE. SUBJECT TO SPECIFIC RULES AND THOSE RULES GENERALLY PROVIDE FOR FAIRNESS AND DUE PROCESS AND THIS PROCESS IS TO PROVIDE AN EQUITABLE AND FAIR AND EFFICIENT MANNER FOR YOU TO HEAR THE MATTERS COMING BEFORE YOU. THESE ITEMS ARE SUCH THAT YOU ARE REQUIRED TO HEAR EVIDENCE AND YOU WILL IN YOUR PROCESS FIRST HEAR FROM YOUR STAFF AND WHAT THEIR REVIEW OF THIS MATTER IS AND WHAT THEIR RECOMMENDATIONS ARE. YOU WILL ALSO HEAR FROM THE APPLICANT WHO HAS SUBMITTED THE REQUEST BEFORE YOU. FOLLOWING THAT YOU WILL HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY FOR THE PUBLIC AND OTHER AFFECTED PARTIES TO PRESENT TO YOU AFFECTED PARTIES OR THOSE WHO ARE INDIVIDUALS WHO OWN PROPERTY OR RESIDE WITHIN 400 FEET OF THE PROPERTY THAT IS BEING THE SUBJECT OF WHAT THIS QUASI JUDICIAL MATTER IS. AND PART OF THIS PROCESS IS THAT PEOPLE WILL PRESENT EVIDENCE TO YOU AND THAT EVIDENCE WILL BE SUBJECT TO BEING THE INDIVIDUALS PRESENTING THAT EVIDENCE WILL BE SWORN IN WHETHER THEY ARE MEMBERS OF YOUR STAFF THE APPLICANT THE PUBLIC AND THE CLERK WILL SWEAR THEM IN WHICH MEANS THAT THE TESTIMONY THAT THEY'RE GOING TO PRESENT TO YOU THE EVIDENCE THAT THEY'RE GOING TO PRESENT TO YOU IS GOING TO BE UNDER OATH ONCE THEY PROVIDE THAT EVIDENCE TO YOU YOU'RE GOING TO CLOSE THE PUBLIC HEARING AND THE COMMISSION WILL HAVE THEIR DISCUSSION AND DELIBERATIONS PART OF THAT DELIBERATION WILL REQUIRE THAT THE COMMISSION CONSIDER THE EVIDENCE PRESENTED TO IT. IT IS NOT A MATTER OF OPINION IS CONSIDERED TO BE EVIDENCE BECAUSE YOUR DECISIONS AND YOUR DELIBERATIONS NEED TO RESULT IN CONCLUSIONS THAT ARE BASED UPON THE COMPETENT AND SUBSTANTIAL EVIDENCE PRESENTED TO YOU AND THAT ARE SUPPORTED BY THE EVIDENCE THAT THAT'S IN THE RECORD. YOUR DECISIONS CAN'T BE ARBITRARY. THEY CAN'T BE CAPRICIOUS AND THEY MUST MEET THAT BURDEN OF PROOF OF COMPETENT AND SUBSTANTIAL EVIDENCE WHICH MEANS THAT PEOPLE WHO COME UP AND MAKE STATEMENTS THAT ARE VAGUE OR UNCERTAIN OR RELEVANT OR ARE JUST A MATTER OF THEIR OPINION WITHOUT ACTUAL EVIDENCE SUPPORTING THE INFORMATION THAT'S PRESENTED ARE NOT THE BASIS UPON WHICH YOU CAN BASE YOUR CONCLUSIONS AND YOUR RESULTS. THERE IS A NEED FOR ALL PARTIES BEFORE WE PROCEED TO BE SWORN BY THE CLERK. SO I WOULD ASK AS WE GET TO EACH ITEM. MADAM MAYOR IF YOU WOULD ASK ALL PERSONS OF STAFF THE APPLICANT AND THE PUBLIC WHO WISH TO SPEAK ON THE ITEM TO BE SCORNED BY THE CLERK AND AS WE GET TO EACH OF THE ITEMS SOME OF THE I'LL PROVIDE THE COMMISSION WITH ADDITIONAL INFORMATION. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. WILL YOU PLEASE READ A NUMBER 11 8 2 0 2 3 9 2 INTO THE RECORD. YES MADAM MAYOR IF I MAY I JUST NEED TO REORGANIZE SOME THINGS ON MY DESK HERE. TEMPORARY ORDINANCE NUMBER 2 3 9 2 IS AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COMMISSIONER OF THE CITY OF TAMARACK FLORIDA. AMENDING THE OFFICIAL ZONING MAP OF THE CITY OF TAMARACK REFERENCED IN SECTION 10 DASH TO POINT ONE B OF CHAPTER 10 OF THE CITY TAMARACK CODE OF ORDINANCES TO REFLECT THE REZONING OF CERTAIN REAL ESTATE PROPERTY DESCRIBED AS A PORTION OF TRACT 13 OF FORT LAUDERDALE TRUCK FARM SUBDIVISION 3 IS RECORDED IN PLOT BOOK 4 PAGES 31 OF THE PUBLIC RECORDS OF BROWARD COUNTY FLORIDA TOGETHER WITH PARCEL B PICCADILLY CAFETERIA AS RECORDED IN BLACK BOOK 1 1 5. PAGE 37 OF THE PUBLIC RECORDS OF BROWARD COUNTY FLORIDA MORE LEGALLY DESCRIBED IN EXHIBIT A FROM THE CURRENT N SEE OTHERWISE KNOWN AS NEIGHBORHOOD COMMERCIAL 2 M U N MIXED USE NEIGHBORHOOD ZONING CLASSIFICATION FOR THE SUBJECT PROPERTY LOCATED AT 7 5 5 0 NORTH UNIVERSITY DRIVE IN ORDER TO PROVIDE CONSISTENCY WITH THE LAND DEVELOPMENT REGULATIONS IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE INTENT OF THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN OF THE CITY OF TAMARACK. THIS IS CASE NUMBER ONE DASH Z DASH 19 AND PROVIDING FOR AMENDMENT TO THE OFFICIAL ZONING MAP TO REFLECT SUCH CHANGE PROVIDING FOR CONFLICTS PROVIDING FOR SEVERABILITY AND PROVIDING FOR AN EFFECTIVE DATE. THANK YOU FOR ALL PARTIES HERE ON THE ALLIED THE SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH REZONING THOSE WHO WISH TO SPEAK. PLEASE STAND AND BE SWORN IN CITY CLERK. DO YOU SWEAR OR AFFIRM THAT THE TESTIMONY THAT YOU'RE ABOUT TO PROVIDE SHALL BE THE TRUTH AND NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. CITY DO WE HAVE ANY ADDITIONAL PRESENTATION FROM THE LAST LIKE TO CALL THE QUESTION. A MOTION IN A SECOND. THAT'S TRUE. THANK YOU. COMMISSIONER BOLTON CALL THE QUESTION PLEASE. SO MOVED. WE NEED A MOTION WE NEED [00:50:08] A MOTION IS FOR WHITE TO APPROVE A MOTION TO MOVE THIS ITEM MONTH OLD SO MOVE TO MOVE SECOND THE MOTION. I THINK THAT'S FINE. WE GOT A MOTION AND A SECOND SOMEHOW. COME MORNING. GOOD MORNING. MAXINE CALLOWAY DIRECTOR OF COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT STAFF DOES NOT HAVE A FORMAL PRESENTATION. WE ARE RESUBMIT IT INTO EVIDENCE AND WE PUBLISH IN OUR PRESENTATION AS WELL AS THE EVIDENCE THAT WAS PROVIDED AT THE APRIL 24TH 2019 CITY COMMISSION MEETING. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. DO YOU HAVE A PRESENTATION OR WE'RE PUTTING THE SAME INTO EVIDENCE. OKAY THANK YOU VERY MUCH. IS THERE ANYBODY HERE WHO WISHES TO SPEAK ON THE MATTER FROM THE PUBLIC. THIS IS OUR PUBLIC HEARING. CONSIDER IT OPEN SAYING THAT THERE IS NONE. PLEASE CONSIDER IT CLOSED. I WILL THEN MOVE TO OUR COMMISSION FOR ANY DISCLOSURES BEFORE WE GO TO ANY DISCUSSION ON THE MATTER HAS WILL GO DOWN LIKE MR. FISHMAN MEETING TO DISCLOSE. COMMISSIONER. GO ON. NOTHING. I. SWEAR. NOTHING SINCE LAST TIME COMMISSIONER BOLTON NOTHING TO THIS LAW SINCE THE LAST MEETING. SAME. ALL RIGHT. AT THIS TIME I SEE VICE MAYOR. BLANCO'S LIGHT IS LIT. PLEASE PROCEED. JUST VERY QUICKLY AND EASILY. THIS IS THEIR PROPERTY IT HAS BEEN FOR MANY MANY YEARS. IT'S THE RIGHT THING TO DO. EASILY QUICKLY. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. SEEING THAT THERE'S NO OTHER DISCUSSION PLEASE CALL. COMMISSION OFFICIALS. YES COMMISSIONER GILLEN YES. MAYOR FLACCO. YES COMMISSIONER BOLTON. YES THEY ARE. GOMEZ. YES. TEMPORARY ORDINANCE NINETY TWO PASSED ON SECOND. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. GOOD TO SEE YOU. ALL RIGHT. WE WILL NOW MOVE TO ITEM ELEVEN B. AND. [b. TO2393 - Bailey Square - Small Scale Land Use Plan Amendment An Ordinance of the City Commission of the City of Tamarac, Florida, adopting a Small Scale Local Land Use Plan Amendment to the City of Tamarac’s Comprehensive Plan Future Land Use Map in accordance with Chapter 163, specifically Section 163.3187 of the Florida State Statutes, for an area of approximately 5.39 acres in size, located on the southeast corner of Rock Island Road and Bailey Road, addressed as 6150 Rock Island Road, more specifically described as all of parcels “B”, “C”, and “D” of the Lakes of Carriage Hills II, according to the plat thereof, recorded in Plat Book 123, page 7, of the Public Records of Broward County, Florida. Said lands situate, lying, and being in Broward County, Florida, and fully described in the legal description attached hereto as Exhibit “A”, to change the Future Land Use Designation from “Commercial” to “Medium-High Residential” in order to allocate one hundred and twenty (120) Flexibility Units and 6.64 gross Commercial-to-Residential Flex Acres to facilitate the development of a residential apartment use and provide consistency with the Land Development Code in accordance with the intent of the Comprehensive Plan of the City of Tamarac; (Case No. 2-LUA-19) authorizing transmittal of The Small Scale Land Use Map Amendment to the Department of Economic Opportunity and the Broward County Planning Council for recertification of the City Of Tamarac Future Land Use Map; providing for amendment to the land use plan to reflect such change; providing for conflicts; providing for severability; and providing for an effective date. Commission District(s): District 1] ELEVEN C WHICH I'D LIKE TO HAVE IT READ IN TOGETHER WE'LL HAVE IT HEARD TOGETHER BUT WE WILL VOTE ON THE MATTER SEPARATELY SO IT WILL TAKE TWO MOTIONS SEPARATELY SO CITY ATTORNEY WILL YOU PLEASE READ INTO 0 2 3 9 3 BAILEY SQUARE SMALL SCALE LAND USE PLAN AMENDMENT AND C 2 0 2 3 9 4 BAILEY SQUARE REZONING AND FLEXIBILITY UNITS INTO THE RECORD IF I MAY MADAM MAYOR TEMPORARY ORDINANCE NUMBER 2 3 9 3 IS AN ORDINANCE TO THE CITY COMMISSIONER THE CITY OF TAMARACK FLORIDA ADOPTING A SMALL SCALE LAND USE PLANNING AMENDMENT TO THE CITY OF TAMARA EX COMPREHENSIVE PLAN FUTURE LAND USE MAP IN ACCORDANCE WITH CHAPTER 163 SPECIFICALLY SECTION 1 6 3 POINT 3 1 8 7 OF THE FLORIDA STATE STATUTES FOR AN AREA OF APPROXIMATELY 5 POINT 3 9 ACRES IN SIZE LOCATED ON THE SOUTHEAST CORNER OF ROCK ISLAND ROAD AND BAILEY ROAD ADDRESSED AS 6 1 5 0 WALK ISLAND ROAD MORE SPECIFICALLY DESCRIBED AS ALL OF PARCELS B AND B C AND D OF THE LAKES OF KARA CHOSE TO ACCORDING TO THE PLAN THEREOF RECORDED IN PLOT BOOK ONE TWO THREE PAGE SEVEN OF THE PUBLIC RECORDS OF BROWARD COUNTY FLORIDA SAID LAND SITUATE LYING AND BEING IN BROWARD COUNTY FLORIDA AND FULLY DESCRIBED IN THE LEGAL DESCRIPTION ATTACHED HERE TO IS EXHIBIT A. TO CHANGE THE FUTURE LAND USE DESIGNATION FROM COMMERCIAL TO MEDIUM HIGH RESIDENTIAL IN ORDER TO ALLOCATE 120 FLEXIBILITY UNITS AND SIX POINT SIX FOR GROSS COMMERCIAL TO RESIDENTIAL FLEX ACRES TO FACILITATE THE DEVELOPMENT OF A RESIDENTIAL APARTMENT USE AND PROVIDE CONSISTENCY WITH LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE INTENT OF THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN OF THE CITY OF TAMARACK. THIS IS CASE NUMBER TWO DASH L U A DASH 19 AUTHORIZING TRANSMITTAL OF THE SMALL SCALE LAND USE MAP AMENDMENT TO THE DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY AND THE BROWARD COUNTY PLANNING COUNCIL FOR RECERTIFICATION OF THE CITY OF TAMPA FUTURE LAND USE MAP PROVIDING FOR AMENDMENT TO THE LAND USE PLAN TO REFLECT SUCH CHANGE PROVIDING FOR CONFLICTS PROVIDING FOR SEVERABILITY AND PROVIDING FOR AN EFFECTIVE DATE AND ITEM ELEVEN B I'M SORRY ELEVEN C IS TEMPORARY ORDINANCE NUMBER 2 3 9 4 AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF TAMARACK FLORIDA. AMENDING THE OFFICIAL ZONING MAP OF THE CITY OF TAMARACK REFERENCED IN SECTION TEN DASH TWO POINT ONE B OF CHAPTER 10 OF THE CITY OF TAMARACK COURT OF ORDINANCES TO REFLECT THE REZONING OF CERTAIN REAL ESTATE PROPERTY DESCRIBED AS ALL OF PARCELS B C AND D OF THE LAKES OF CARRIAGE HILLS TO ACCORDING TO THE PLAN THEREOF RECORDED IN PLOT BOOK 1 2 3 PAGE 7 OF THE PUBLIC RECORD OF BROWARD COUNTY FLORIDA SAID LAND SCITUATE LYING AND BEING IN BROWARD COUNTY FLORIDA AND FULLY DESCRIBED IN THE LEGAL DESCRIPTION ATTACHED YEAR TO AS EXHIBIT A FROM THE CURRENT NC OTHERWISE KNOWN AS NEIGHBORHOOD COMMERCIAL ZONING CLASSIFICATION TO OUR THREE MULTIFAMILY RESIDENTIAL ZONING CLASSIFICATION FOR THE SUBJECT PROPERTY LOCATED AT 6 1 5 0 WALK ISLAND ROAD IN ORDER TO ALLOCATE 120 FLEXIBILITY UNITS AND SIX POINT SIX FOR GROSS COMMERCIAL TO RESIDENTIAL FLEX ACRES TO FACILITATE THE DEVELOPMENT OF RESIDENTIAL APARTMENT USE [00:55:05] AND PROVIDE CONSISTENCY WITH THE LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE INTENT OF THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN OF THE CITY OF TAMARACK. CASE NUMBER FOUR DASH Z DASH 19 PROVIDING FOR A MEMBER TO THE OFFICIALS OWNING RAPTOR REFLECT SUCH CHANGE PROVIDING FOR CONFLICTS PROVIDING FOR SEVERABILITY AND PROVIDING FOR AN EFFECTIVE DATE AND I BELIEVE THAT THIS IS SECOND READING FOR BOTH OF THESE ITEMS AND SO THE TESTIMONY AND EVIDENCE PRESENTED AT THE LAST MEETING WOULD BE REPUBLISHED FOR THIS PURPOSE BUT TO THE EXTENT THAT THERE IS ANY FURTHER TESTIMONY TO BE GIVEN I WOULD ASK THE PERSON SPEAKING TO BE SWORN IN. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. IS THERE ANYBODY WHO WISHES TO SPEAK ON THIS MATTER OR MIGHT HAVE TO SPEAK ON THIS MATTER. PLEASE STAND AND BE SWORN IN BY THE CLERK. DO YOU SWEAR OR AFFIRM THAT THE TESTIMONY THAT YOU'RE ABOUT TO PROVIDE SHALL BE THE TRUTH AND NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. I NOW NEED A MOTION AND A SECOND TO GET ELEVEN B 2 0 2 3 9 3 ONTO THE RECORD SO MOVED. AND AT THE SAME TIME I'D LIKE TO ALSO DO HAVE A MOTION A SECOND FOR ELEVEN CTO 2 3 9 4. I HAVE THAT ON SEPTEMBER 2ND. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. AT THIS TIME DOES THE CITY WISH TO ADD ANYTHING NOTHING MORE TO ADD AS MENTIONED BY THE CITY ATTORNEY WHERE REPUBLISHING THE EVIDENCE AND TESTIMONY GIVEN AT THE APRIL 24TH 2019 MEETING. THINGS. THANK YOU. APPLICANT GOOD MORNING. DOING DICKERSON ON BEHALF OF THE APPLICANT ATTORNEY WITH THE LAW FIRM THE NAME MYSTICAL BACKMAN OFFICES AT 14 SD 4TH STREET IN BOCA RATON FLORIDA. I TOO BELIEVE THAT THE RECORD AT FIRST READING IS SUFFICIENT. I JUST WANTED TO ADD AS I PROMISED YOU WE ARE CONTINUING OUR COMMUNITY OUTREACH EFFORTS AND WE HAVE BEEN WORKING WITH THE ASSOCIATION THAT'S ON THE WEST SIDE OF THE PROPERTY THE GATE CONDO ASSOCIATION. I'M HAPPY TO REPORT THAT WE DID ENTER INTO A SUPPORT AGREEMENT WITH THEM AND I WOULD LIKE TO PUT THAT ONTO THE ON THE RECORD WITH THE CITY CLERK. SO AS PROMISED WE WILL CONTINUE THOSE OUTREACH EFFORTS AND WITH THAT. I'M HAPPY TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS THAT YOU MAY HAVE AND I WOULD LIKE TO APPROACH THE CLUB. THANK YOU. PLEASE SUBMIT TO THE CLERK. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. AT THIS TIME I WILL NOW OPEN IT UP FOR A PUBLIC HEARING IS THERE ANYBODY IN THE AUDIENCE THAT WISHES TO SPEAK ON THIS MATTER SAYING THERE IS NOBODY HERE WISHING TO SPEAK ON THIS MATTER A PUBLIC HEARING IS NOW CLOSED. I WILL NOW ASK OUR COMMISSION FOR DISCLOSURES. I WILL GO DOWN THIS LINE. COMMISSIONER BOLTON I BELIEVE I HAD A CONVERSATION WITH DWAYNE DICKERSON AFTER THE LAST MEETING MARRIED. NOTHING SINCE LAST TIME EFFICIENT. OH SORRY COMMISSIONER I MEAN VICE MAYOR. I DID NOT HEAR WHAT YOU SAID. NOTHING SINCE LAST TIME. OK. THANK YOU. A PHONE CALL WITH THE WEINBERGER SAID I THINK YESTERDAY. NOTHING TO DISCLOSE. I TOO ALSO HAD A CONVERSATION WITH THE APPLICANT'S ATTORNEY DWAYNE DICKERSON. ALL RIGHT. I. SEE THAT COMMISSION BUT I WOULD LIKE I SPEAK. GOOD MORNING. OK. SO THIS PIECE PROPERTY IS LOCATED IN NY MY DISTRICT. THE LAND HAS REMAINED VACANT FOR A WHILE AND I UNDERSTAND THAT WE WANT TO BEAUTIFY THE ROCK ISLAND CORRIDOR. BUT HAVING SPOKEN TO THE RESIDENTS ESPECIALLY AT LAKES OF CARRIAGE HILLS AND THE GATE AND SURROUNDING COMMUNITIES THEY DO NOT FEEL THAT THE DEVELOPMENT IS RIGHT FOR THE AREA. THEY BELIEVE THAT. THE RESIDENTS THAT ARE LIVING IN THIS PROPERTY THIS NEW PROPERTY BAILEY SQUARE WOULD YIELD MORE TRAFFIC INTO THEIR COMMUNITY AND IT WOULD POSE SOME SECURITY CONCERNS. I UNDERSTAND THAT THE THE LAWYER DOING THAT IS REPRESENTING THE CLIENT HAS MADE SEVERAL ATTEMPTS TO REACH SOME NEGOTIATIONS WITH THE H A WAYS THERE AND HE HAS WORKED EXTREMELY HARD IN MAKING SURE THAT THE HL IS UNDERSTAND THAT THE DEVELOPMENT WOULD NOT POSE AN ISSUE AND IF THERE WERE HE HAS TRIED TO MINIMIZE THOSE AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE THROUGH HIS NEGOTIATIONS WITH THE H WAY SO THAT I WANT TO PUBLICLY THANK THE ATTORNEY FOR NOT JUST MAKING SURE THAT HE GOT WENT OUT ONCE BUT HE WENT OUT SEVERAL TIMES AND HAD SEVERAL CONVERSATIONS WITH THE LEADERSHIP THERE IN THE COMMUNITY THE LEADERSHIP THE H AWAY PRESIDENTS AND BOARD [01:00:04] ARE ELECTED TO BE THE VOICE OF THE COMMUNITY. AND SO THERE THEY HAVE SPOKEN. HOWEVER AS I KNOCK ON DOORS AND RECEIVE PHONE CALLS FROM SEVERAL RESIDENTS THEY'RE STILL ADAMANT THAT. THE DEVELOPMENT DOES NOT HAPPEN. AND SO MY VOTE TODAY WOULD BE REFLECTIVE OF THE RESIDENTS I ALWAYS CHOOSE TO VOTE WITH THE RESIDENTS ALTHOUGH I THANK THE H AWAY PRESIDENTS FOR MAKING SURE THAT IF THIS DEVELOPMENT GOES THROUGH THEN THERE ARE SOME. NEGOTIATIONS ALREADY IN PLACE TO MAKE SURE THAT THERE THAT THE NEW DEVELOPMENT DOES NOT POSE SEVERAL ISSUES TO THEIR THEIR COMMUNITY. I BEGAN BY SAYING THAT WE WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT THE ROCK ISLAND CORRIDOR IS ALWAYS UP ALWAYS LOOKING WELL AND IS BEAUTIFIED AND THAT'S STUFF. BUT WE SHOULD NEVER COMPROMISE BEAUTIFICATION FOR QUALITY OF LIFE. WHEN OUR RESIDENTS QUALITY OF LIFE IS AT RISK WE MUST CHOOSE TO VOTE WITH THE RESIDENTS. THE RESIDENTS ARE THE ONES THAT ELECTED US TO THE CITY COMMISSION AS THEIR VOICE AND THEY HAVE ASKED ME NOT TO VOTE YES ON THIS PROJECT. THEY WILL HOWEVER SEE A SHIFT IN GEARS IF THIS DEVELOPMENT SHOULD GO THROUGH. I WOULD LIKE TO WORK WITH THE DEVELOPER TO MAKE SURE THAT THE. DEVELOPMENT IS DEVELOPED IN A WAY THAT IT MINIMIZES ANY IMPACT TO THE QUALITY OF LIFE FOR THE RESIDENTS. SO AGAIN THANK YOU MR. DICKERSON FOR YOUR HARD WORK ON THIS. I REALLY THINK THAT YOU REMAINED NEUTRAL EVEN THOUGH YOU WERE WORKING FOR THE CLIENT AND YOU UNDERSTOOD MY WOES AND UNDERSTOOD THE VOICE OF THE PEOPLE. BUT. AS I SAID YOU KNOW THE RESIDENTS HAVE ASKED SEVERAL TIMES. YOU KNOW IN IN SEVERAL MEETINGS INCLUDING ONE THAT I ATTENDED WITH THE MAYOR THEY WERE VERY ADAMANT THAT THEY DON'T WANT THE DEVELOPMENT. AND SO I HAVE TO RESPECT THEIR WISHES. SO I'M INCLINED TO VOTE NO ON THIS. BUT. EVEN THOUGH I'M INCLINED TO VOTE NO. I WOULD ASK MY COLLEAGUES TO MAKE THEIR OWN DECISION. THANK YOU SO MUCH. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. SEEING THAT THERE ARE NO OTHER LIGHTS LIT FOR COMMENTS PLEASE FOLLOW. WE'RE GOING TO BE VOTING ON THIS ONE WHICH WILL BE 2 0 2 3 9 BELLS SQUARE A SMALL SCALE AND LAND USE PLAN AMENDMENT. VICE MAYOR FLACCO YES. OF FISHERMAN. YES. COMMISSIONER GALEN. NO. COMMISSIONER BOLTON. NO. MAYOR GOMEZ. YES. TEMPORARY ORDINANCE TWENTY THREE NINETY THREE PASSED ON SECOND. MOVING ALONG TO 2 0 2 3 9 4 [c. TO2394 - Bailey Square - Rezoning and Flexibilty Units An Ordinance of the City Commission of the City of Tamarac, Florida, amending the Official Zoning Map of the City of Tamarac referenced in Section 10-2.1(b) of Chapter 10 of the City of Tamarac Code of Ordinances to reflect the rezoning of certain real estate property described as all of parcels “B”, “C”, and “D” of the Lakes of Carriage Hills II, according to the plat thereof, recorded in Plat Book 123, page 7, of the Public Records of Broward County, Florida,. Said lands situate, lying, and being in Broward County, Florida, and fully described in the legal description attached hereto as Exhibit “A”, from the current NC (Neighborhood Commercial) zoning classification to R-3 (Multi-Family Residential) zoning classification, for the subject property located at 6150 Rock Island Road, in order to allocate one hundred and twenty (120) Flexibility Units and 6.64 gross Commercial-To-Residential Flex Acres to facilitate the development of a residential apartment use and provide consistency with the Land Development Code in accordance with the intent of the Comprehensive Plan of the City of Tamarac; (Case No. 4-Z-19); providing for amendment to the official zoning map to reflect such change; providing for conflicts; providing for severability; and providing for an effective date. Commission District(s): District 1] BARELY SQUARE REZONING AND FLEXIBILITY UNITS PLEASE CALL THE ROLL. COMMISSIONER BOLDEN. NO VICE MAYOR PLAXO. YES COMMISSIONER FISHMAN. YES COMMISSIONER GALEN. NO. MAYOR GOMEZ. YES. TEMPORARY ORDER TWENTY THREE NINETY FOUR PASSED ON SECOND. LADIES AND GENTLEMEN IT IS CURRENTLY 10 0 5. WE'RE GOING TO TAKE A 10 MINUTE BREAK. WE WILL BE BACK HERE AT 10 0 6. PLEASE BE BACK HERE 10 16 PROMPTLY WE WILL START WITH THE FIRST THREE PEOPLE HERE. THANK YOU. ALL RIGHT IT IS 10 17 WE ARE BACK ON THE RECORD. ANYBODY WANT TO TURN THE HEAT ON. IT'S COLD. ALL RIGHT THERE'S TWO OF US THAT ARE FROZEN. CITY ATTORNEY. WILL YOU PLEASE READ 11 D T.O. 2 4 0 0. EAST AND WEST APARTMENTS SMALL SCALE LOCAL LAND USE AMENDMENT INTO THE RECORD ALONG WITH 11 E T 0 2 4 0 1 IN WEST APARTMENTS REZONING AND FLEXIBILITY UNITS AND ACRES WE WILL HANDLE THIS AS WE HANDLED THE LAST ONE IF I MAY MADAM MAYOR. ITEM 11 D. TEMPORARY ORDINANCE NUMBER 2 4 0 0 IS AN ORDINANCE TO THE CITY [01:05:03] COMMISSIONER OF THE CITY OF TAMARACK FLORIDA. ADOPTING A SMALL SCALE LAND USE PLAN AMENDMENT TO THE CITY OF TAMARA COMPREHENSIVE PLAN FUTURE LAND USE MAP IN ACCORDANCE WITH CHAPTER 163 SPECIFICALLY SECTION 1 6 3 POINT 3 1 8 7 OF THE FLORIDA STATE STATUTES FOR AN AREA OF APPROXIMATELY SIX POINT TWO FOUR NET ACRES IN SIZE. LOCATED ON THE NORTHEAST CORNER OF NORTH PINE ISLAND ROAD AND WEST MCNAB ROAD ADDRESSED AS 8 5 1 8 5 0 1 W MCNAB ROAD. MORE SPECIFICALLY DESCRIBED AS ALL THAT LAND SHOWN AS PARCEL A AND PARCEL B ON THE PLOT OF COLONY W SHOPPING PLAZA AS RECORDED IN PLOT BOOK EIGHTY FOUR PAGE 25 OF THE PUBLIC RECORDS OF BROWARD COUNTY FLORIDA AND FULLY DESCRIBED IN THE LEGAL DESCRIPTION ATTACHED HERE TO IS EXHIBIT A. TO CHANGE THE FUTURE LAND USE DESIGNATION FROM COMMERCIAL TO MEDIUM HIGH RESIDENTIAL IN ORDER TO ALLOCATE TWO HUNDRED AND TWELVE FLEXIBILITY UNITS AN EIGHT POINT SEVENTY FOUR GROSS COMMERCIAL TO RESIDENTIAL FLEX ACRES TO FACILITATE THE DEVELOPMENT OF A RESIDENTIAL APARTMENT USE AND PROVIDE CONSISTENCY WITH LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE INTENT OF THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN OF THE CITY OF TAMARACK. THIS IS CASE NUMBER THREE DASH L U A DASH 18 AUTHORIZING TRANSMITTAL OF SMALL SCALE LAND USE MAP AMENDMENT TO THE DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY AND TO THE BROWARD COUNTY PLANNING COUNCIL FOR RECERTIFICATION OF THE CITY TAMARACK FUTURE LAND USE MAP PROVIDING FOR AN AMENDMENT TO THE LAND USE PLAN TO REFLECT SUCH CHANGE PROVIDING FOR CONFLICTS PROVIDING FOR SEVERABILITY PROVIDING FOR AN EFFECTIVE DATE. AND ITEM ELEVEN. E IS TEMPORARY ORDINANCE NUMBER 2 4 0 1 AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COMMISSIONER OF THE CITY TAMARACK FLORIDA AMENDING THE OFFICIAL ZONING MAP OF THE CITY OF TAMARACK REFERENCED IN SECTION 10 DASH TWO POINT ONE BE OF CHAPTER 10 OF THE CITY OF TAMARA CODE OF ORDINANCES TO REFLECT THE REZONING OF CERTAIN REAL ESTATE PROPERTY DESCRIBED AS ALL OF THAT LAND SHOWN AS PARCEL A AND PARCEL BE ON THE PLOT OF COLONY WEST SHOPPING PLAZA AS RECORDED IN PLOT BOOK 84 PAGE 25 OF THE PUBLIC WORKER TO BREVARD COUNTY FLORIDA AND FULLY DESCRIBED IN THE LEGAL DESCRIPTION ATTACHED HERE TO IS EXHIBIT A FROM THE CURRENT SMU DASH AND MIXED USE NEIGHBORHOOD ZONING CLASSIFICATION TO OUR THREE MULTI-FAMILY RESIDENTIAL ZONING CLASSIFICATION FOR THE SUBJECT PROPERTY LOCATED AT 8 5 0 1 W MCNAB ROAD IN ORDER TO ALLOCATE 212 FLEXIBILITY UNITS AN EIGHT POINT SEVENTY FOUR GROSS COMMERCIAL TO RESIDENTIAL FLEX ACRES TO FACILITATE THE DEVELOPMENT OF A RESIDENTIAL APARTMENT USE AND PROVIDE CONSISTENCY WITH THE LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE INTENT OF THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN OF THE CITY OF TAMARACK WHICH IS CASE NUMBER TEN DASH THE DASH 18 PROVIDING FOR AMENDMENT TO THE OFFICIAL ZONING MAP TO REFLECT SUCH CHANGE PROVIDING FOR CONFLICTS PROVIDING FOR SEVERABILITY AND PROVIDING FOR AN EFFECTIVE DATE. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. AT THIS TIME ANYBODY WHO IS GOING TO GIVE TESTIMONY OR WISH TO SPEAK ON THIS MATTER WILL YOU PLEASE STAND TO BE SWORN IN. DO YOU SWEAR OR AFFIRM THAT THE TESTIMONY THAT YOU ARE ABOUT TO PROVIDE SHALL BE THE TRUTH AND NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH. THANK YOU VERY MUCH I NEED A MOTION AND A SECOND TO GET TO 0 2 4 0 0 ON THE RECORD. SO MOVED SO I CAN THANK YOU AND I NEED A MOTION AND A SECOND 4 2 0 2 4 0 1. SO MOVED. SECOND THANK YOU VERY MUCH. I AM GOING TO. WE'RE GOING TO GO TO OUR CITY STAFF FOR YOUR PRESENTATION PLEASE. AND THIS IS THE FIRST READING ON THIS MATTER. YES IT IS. FIRST READ IN ON BOTH ITEMS MADAM MAYOR MAXINE CALLAWAY DIRECTOR OF COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT FOR THE RECORD AS MENTIONED BY THE CITY ATTORNEY. I WILL DO A PRESENTATION ON ALL THE ITEMS. THIS IS THE SMALL SCALE LAND USE PLAN AMENDMENT AS WELL AS A REZONING AND THE ALLOCATION OF FLEX UNITS AND ACRES FOR THE PROJECT. THIS IS A LOCATION OF THE PROJECT. IT'S ON THE NORTHEAST CORNER OF PINE ISLAND ROAD AND MATT NAB IT'S CURRENTLY KNOWN AS A THREE STOREY OFFICE BUILDING THAT ALSO HAS THE SHOPS OF TAMARACK SHOPPING CENTER RIGHT NEXT TO THAT BUILDING. THE PROPERTY IS SIX POINT TWO FOR NET ACRES IN SIZE IT'S EIGHT POINT SEVEN FOR GROSS ACRES THIS PROJECT OR THIS PROPERTY HAS BEEN RIPE FOR REDEVELOPMENT FOR QUITE SOME TIME IN FACT IT IS FEATURED IN OUR 2004 REDEVELOPMENT PLAN AS ONE OF THE FOCUS AREA AND SO STAFF HAS TARGETED THIS AS AN OPPORTUNITY FOR REDEVELOPMENT SO MUCH SO THAT WE DID A BUS TOUR AND THE APPLICANT THAT IS HERE BEFORE YOU TODAY IS REALLY A RESULT OF THAT BUS STORE. SO WE'RE VERY HAPPY TO HAVE THIS PROJECT BEFORE YOU TODAY. IT'S BEEN SOMETHING THAT THE COMMUNITY HAS WANTED TO SEE FOR QUITE SOME TIME AND IT'S BEEN A LONG STANDING DISCUSSION IN TERMS OF REDEVELOPMENT FOR THIS AREA. JUST SOME BACKGROUND ON THE PROPERTY ITSELF. IT WAS PADDED IN 1974 AT THE TIME AS A COLONY W SHOPPING PLAZA AND IT WAS PADDED AND SUBDIVIDED INTO TWO PARCELS PARCEL A WHICH IS ON THE WEST SIDE AND PARTS OF B WHICH IS ON THE EAST SIDE. SO THIS IS A PARCEL A WHICH WHICH HOUSES A THREE STORY OFFICE BUILDING. IT WAS BUILT IN NINETEEN SEVENTY NINE AS A CORAL GABLES [01:10:03] FEDERAL BANK. IT CURRENTLY IS OCCUPIED IT HAS SOME OFFICES OF V-J CORPORATE INVESTMENTS AND THE NATIONWIDE MOVE MANAGEMENT AS WELL AS CARGO CUBE TRUCK LEASING AS IT CURRENTLY OCCUPYING THAT OFFICE. THIS IS PASSERBY WHICH IS ON THE EAST SIDE OF THE PROPERTY IT IS THE WEST SHOPPING PLAZA WHICH WAS CONSTRUCTED IN 1974. IT IS PRIMARILY VACANT WITH THE EXCEPTION I THINK A BARBER IS IN IN THE SHOPPING PLAZA AS WELL AS A FEW CHURCHES THAT ARE IN THE PLAZA. IT ALSO WAS A FORMER SITE OF THE TAMARA BRANCH LIBRARY WHICH WE KNOW WAS DEMOLISHED A COUPLE OF YEARS AGO SO THE APPLICATION IS TO CHANGE A LAND USE DESIGNATION FROM COMMERCIAL TO MEDIUM HIGH RESIDENTIAL TO FACILITATE THE DEVELOPMENT OR THE USE OF MULTIFAMILY PROJECTS. THE CITY'S CURRENT FUTURE AND USE IS COMMERCIAL. THE COUNTY'S FUTURE LAND USE DESIGNATION IS ALSO COMMERCIAL. IN ADDITION TO THE SMALL SCALE LAND USE PLAN AMENDMENT IS AN APPLICATION FOR THE ALLOCATION OF FLEX UNITS AND FLEX ACRES AND THIS IS PRIMARILY DONE TO FACILITATE OR BE IN COMPLIANCE WITH THE COUNTY LAND USE PLAN. IN DOING THAT WE AVOID A COUNTY LAND USE PLANNING PROCESS. AND SO THE ALLOCATION OF TWO HUNDRED AND TWELVE FLEX UNITS HAS BEEN ACTS FOR AS WELL AS EIGHT POINT SEVEN GROSS ACRES. WHAT YOU SEE HERE IS OUR FLEX OUR FLEX POOL MAP I'M SORRY THAT SHOWS ALL THE FACTS. ACRES AND UNITS THAT THE CITY CURRENTLY HAS AND WE HAVE IDENTIFIED WHAT HAS BEEN ALLOCATED TODAY. SO WE STARTED OFF WITH EIGHT HUNDRED AND FIFTY NINE FLEX UNITS THAT WE HAVE IN OUR POOL WHICH IS A CITY WIDE AND YOU CAN SEE THAT WE HAVE ALLOCATED TO ROCK ISLAND SELF-STORAGE BAILEY SQUARE AND NOW TO EAST AND WEST WAS ASKING FOR TWO HUNDRED AND TWELVE UNITS WHICH WILL REDUCE OUR POOL TO FIFTEEN HUNDRED AND TWENTY SEVEN UNITS. AND THE SAME WITH THE COMMERCIAL TO RESIDENTIAL ACRES WHAT IS BEING ASKED FOR IS EIGHT POINT SEVEN FOUR WHICH WILL REDUCE OUR OVERALL FIFTY SEVEN POINT TO NINE TO FORTY ONE POINT NINE ONE ACRES REMAIN AND FOR ALLOCATION OR FOR FUTURE ALLOCATION THIS SMALL SCALE LAND USE AMENDMENT IS LESS THAN 10 ACRES WHICH MEANS IT DOES NOT NEED TO BE TRANSMITTED TO REVIEW AGENCIES AND IT DOES NOT TAKE A LONG PERIOD OF TIME IT IS ADOPTED ON A LOCAL LEVEL CERTIFICATION OF ROAD MAP IS REQUIRED TO THE APPLICANT WILL BE PROCESSED IN THAT IF IN FACT THIS APPLICATION IS APPROVED IN ADDITION TO THAT A MAJOR STIPEND APPLICATION AND ANY VARIANCES THAT ARE IDENTIFIED WITH GO THROUGH THE REGULAR PROCESS BETWEEN BEFORE THE PLANNING BOARD IN ADDITION TO THE SMALL SCALE LAND USE AMENDMENT AND THE FLEX ALLOCATION THE APPLICANT IS ALSO ASKING TO REASON THE PROPERTY FROM THE CURRENT DESIGNATION OF MIXED USE NEIGHBORHOOD TO OUR THREE WHICH IS OUR MULTI-FAMILY DESIGNATION TO FACILITATE THE USE OF THE MULTI-FAMILY BUILDING AND THEY'LL BE CONSTRUCTED AND THIS MAP JUST SHOWS YOU THE ZONING DESIGNATION THAT SURROUNDS THE PROPERTY AND SHOWING YOU AS WELL THAT THE PROPOSED DESIGNATION OF OUR IS CONSISTENT WITH THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT PRIMARILY WHAT'S NORTH OF THE SUBJECT PROPERTY WHICH IS A JASMINE ATWOOD MIND AND ON THE GREENS AT WHAT MIGHT MULTI-FAMILY TOWN ON DEVELOPMENT WHICH IS ZONE COMPATIBLE WITH WHAT'S BEING PROPOSED WITH RESPECT TO THE REVIEW STANDARD STAFF APPLIED THREE SEPARATE SETS OF REVIEW STANDARDS FOR THE THREE APPLICATIONS THAT IS OUTLINE AND ANALYZE IN YOUR STAFF MEMO AND YOUR BACKUP. THE FIRST ONE IS FOR THE SMALL SCALE LAND USE AMENDMENT THAT HAS FIVE REVIEW STANDARDS THAT THE APPLICANT MET THE ANALYSIS OF THOSE STANDARDS ARE IN YOUR MEMO AND IN YOUR BACKUP THE CODE ALSO PROVIDES FOR FOR REVIEW STANDARDS OR CRITERIA FOR YOUR FLEX UNIT ALLOCATION ALL OF WHICH THE APPLICANT HAS ALSO MET AND A TOTAL OF NINE STANDARDS AND CRITERIA FOR YOUR REZONING APPLICATION WHICH ANALYSIS STAFF HAS PROVIDED IN YOUR MEMO AND IN YOUR BACKUP AND THE APPLICANT HAS MET THOSE AS WELL AT THE MAY 1ST PLANNING BOARD MEET INDEPENDENT BOARD MEMBERS VOTED 2 AT 4 0 2 FORWARD A FAVORABLE RECOMMENDATION ON BOTH THE SMALL SCALE LAND USE AMENDMENT AND THE REZONING WITH ONE CONDITION THAT THE APPLICANT WILL PROCESS A RECERTIFICATION OF THE CITY'S MAP THROUGH THE COUNTY'S PROCESS OF COURSE THE NEXT STEP FOR THIS APPLICATION IS COMPLETION OF THE DRC PROCESS AND THEN BEFORE THE PLANNING BOARD WITH VARIANCES AND A MAJOR REVISED SITE PLAN THAT CONCLUDES MY PRESENTATION EACH APPLICANT MAYOR VICE MAYOR OR MEMBERS OF THE COMMISSION MY NAME IS BILL LEI STROM LEVIN SEVENTY SEVEN SE THIRD AVENUE FORT LAUDERDALE FLORIDA I'M EXCITED TO BE HERE IN THE CITY OF TAMARACK TO TALK ABOUT THE REDEVELOPMENT OF ONE OF YOUR AGING SHOPPING CENTERS. THIS STORY STARTS WITH A BUS RIDE THAT THE CITY DID PUT TOGETHER TO KIND OF SHOW OFF THE CITY AND THEN ACT ECONOMICALLY. KIND OF TALK ABOUT WELL [01:15:04] WHERE WHERE'S TAMARACK GOING IN THE FUTURE. AND I THINK YOU SEE THE FUTURE STARTING TODAY. EDEN WEST HAS PICKED UP THE SITE. THERE WERE TWO CONTRACTS THAT WE HAD TO SIGN ONE WITH THE PROPERTY OWNER FOR THE OFFICE BUILDING AND ONE WITH THE PROPERTY OWNER FOR THE SHOPPING CENTER. AND WE'RE NOW HERE TODAY WITH A DESIGN FOR A 212 UNIT RENTAL PROJECT THAT WILL HAVE 96 UNITS THAT ARE 1 BEDROOMS OR STUDIOS 86 THAT ARE TWO BEDROOMS AND 30 THAT ARE THREE BEDROOMS. THE RENTAL RANGE J. I'M GOING TO ASK YOU TO HELP ME ONE MORE TIME. FOURTEEN HUNDRED TO TWENTY FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS FOR THE UNITS I SHOULD KNOW THAT BY NOW HAVING DONE THAT FIVE [d. TO2400 - Eden West Apartments - Small Scale Local Land Use Amendment An ordinance of the City Commission of the City Of Tamarac, Florida, adopting a Small Scale Local Land Use Plan Amendment to the City Of Tamarac’s Comprehensive Plan Future Land Use Map in accordance with Chapter 163, specifically Section 163.3187 of the Florida State Statutes, for an area of approximately 6.24 net acres in size, located on the Northeast corner of North Pine Island Road and West McNab Road, addressed as 8501 West McNab Road, more specifically described as all of that land shown as Parcel “A” and Parcel “B” on the plat of Colony West Shopping Plaza as recorded in Plat Book 84 page 25 of the public records of broward county, florida, , and fully described in the legal description attached hereto as Exhibit “A”, to change the future land use designation from “Commercial” to “Medium-High Residential” in order to allocate two hundred and twelve (212) flexibility units and 8.74 gross commercial-to-residential flex acres to facilitate the development of a residential apartment use and provide consistency with the land development code in accordance with the intent of the Comprehensive Plan of the City Of Tamarac; (case no. 3-LUA-18) authorizing transmittal of the Small Scale Land Use Map Amendment to the Department Of Economic Opportunity and the broward County Planning Council for recertification of the City Of Tamarac Future Land Use Map; providing for amendment to the land use plan to reflect such change; providing for conflicts; providing for severability; and providing for an effective date. Commission District(s): District 4] TIMES YESTERDAY. VERY QUICKLY THE DESIGN IS VERY CONTEMPORARY SET THIS UP. JUST RENDERING RENDERING WITH THE SIDE. THAT'S WHAT THIS. THIS SITE IS TWO BUILDINGS. THERE ARE FOUR STORIES HIGH TO GIVE YOU A LITTLE BIT OF COMPARISON. THE EXISTING OFFICE BUILDING IS A LITTLE OVER 44 FEET NOW WHICH IS ON THE CORNER OF MCNABB AND PINE ISLAND. OUR BUILDING AT ITS TALLEST POINT WILL BE 52 EIGHT 52 AND EIGHT INCHES AND THAT'S AT THE POINT WHERE THE ARCHITECTURAL FEATURES THAT YOU SEE AT THE CORNERS RISES UP SO APPROXIMATELY THE HEIGHT OF YOUR PERHAPS YOUR DIET PLUS A FOOT WOULD BE THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN WHAT THE RESIDENTS SEE TODAY WITH THE OFFICE BUILDING AND WHAT THEY WOULD SEE WITH OUR BUILDINGS. AS YOU CAN SEE ON THE SITE WE PLACED ONE BUILDING FACING THE MCNAB SO THAT THE POOL FACILITY IS FACING MCNABB. THE OTHER BUILDING IS FACING THE RESIDENTS TO THE REAR. WE HAVE CREATED A LINEAR WALKING PATH ALONG NORTHWEST 17TH THAT NORTHWEST 17TH WILL BE CHANGING ITS CONFIGURATION FROM FOUR LANES TO TWO LANES AND THAT PATH WILL BE OPEN TO THE PUBLIC ALTHOUGH WE WILL BE THE ONES BOTH BUILDING IT AND MAINTAINING IT. I'M HAPPY TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS AS I SAID WE'RE EXCITED TO BE HERE. WE HAVE TO GO TO THE PLANNING COMMISSION NEXT FOR A SITE PLAN REVIEW. WE'VE BEEN THROUGH THAT PROCESS FOR TWO HEARINGS SO FAR WITH YOUR STAFF AND AGAIN I'D LIKE TO THANK THE STAFF NOT ONLY FOR THE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT TOUR BUT YOU KNOW I GET THE OPPORTUNITY TO PRACTICE THROUGHOUT BROWARD COUNTY IN DIFFERENT CITIES AND TO SEE THE BOTH THE QUALITY OF WHO YOU HAVE IN YOUR PLANNING DEPARTMENT AND YOUR CITY MANAGER'S LEVEL BUT ALSO THE WAY THEY PROCESS THE APPLICATIONS HAS PROBABLY BEEN THE FASTEST I'VE EVER GONE THROUGH. I KNOW MY CLIENTS SAY IT'S STILL NOT FAST ENOUGH BUT I DO WANT TO TELL YOU THAT BY BEING ABLE TO USE THOSE FLEXIBILITY UNITS IT'S A GREAT OPPORTUNITY TO DO A START LIKE THIS. WHAT I'VE FOUND WITH THESE RESIDENTIAL PROJECTS AS I'VE DEVELOPED THEM YOU'LL SEE A BUNCH OF THE ONES THAT I'VE DEVELOPED UP UNIVERSITY DRIVE AND PINE ISLAND IS THE COMMERCIAL AREAS AND THE OFFICE AREAS AROUND IT ACTUALLY REINVIGORATE THEMSELVES BECAUSE WHAT YOU NEED FOR REDEVELOPMENT ARE THE PEOPLE THAT ARE GONNA BUY THE SERVICES ARE GONNA BUY THE PRODUCTS AND I BELIEVE YOU'LL SEE A NICE SPUR OF DEVELOPMENT IN THIS CORRIDOR PARTICULARLY WITH THE WAL-MART CENTER THAT NEEDS TO GET REDEVELOPED. WE HAVE COMMERCIAL UP AND DOWN MCNABB THAT I THINK THIS PROJECT WILL BE A NICE ADDITION TO THE CORRIDOR BOTH FROM A VISUAL STANDPOINT BUT MORE IMPORTANTLY FROM AN ECONOMIC STANDPOINT. AND WITH THAT I'M HAPPY TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS YOU MAY HAVE. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. BEFORE MOVING TO THE COMMISSION I'M GONNA OPEN THIS UP FOR A PUBLIC HEARING IS THERE ANYBODY IN THE PUBLIC WHO WISHES TO MAKE ANY COMMENTS OR HAVE ANY QUESTIONS SEEN THAT THERE'S IS NO I'M CLOSING PUBLIC COMMENTS AND HEARING AND I WILL MOVE TO DISCLOSURES COMMISSIONER GALEN DO YOU HAVE ANY DISCLOSURES. I MET WITH THE APPLICANT AND THE ATTORNEYS SLASH LOBBYISTS YESTERDAY. THANK YOU VERY MUCH VICE MAYOR. YES I MET WITH THE APPLICANT AN ATTORNEY YESTERDAY. COMMISSIONER BOLTON MET WITH THE ATTORNEY AND. A DEVELOPER YESTERDAY. THANK YOU MR. PRESIDENT. I ALSO MET WITH THE APPLICANT AN ATTORNEY YESTERDAY. AND MY DISCLOSURE IS THE SAME. I MET WITH THE APPLICANT AND THE ATTORNEY YESTERDAY BEFORE MOVING ON TO THE COMMISSION DISCUSSION AND I'M GOING TO JUST REMIND EVERYBODY THAT THIS IS WE ARE HERE ON A QUASI JUDICIAL FOR SMALL SCALE LAND USE LOCAL LAND USE AMENDMENT AND FOR ZONING WE ARE NOT HERE FOR SITE PLAN WHILE SO PLAN QUESTIONS MAY BE ASKED AND I SAY NOT TO ASK HIM BUT JUST KEEPING IN MIND WHAT WE'RE ACTUALLY VOTING UPON TODAY IS SPECIFICALLY LIMITED TO LOCAL LAND USE AMENDMENT AND FOR ZONING. WITH THAT I WILL [01:20:04] NOW GO TO OUR VICE MAYOR. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. GOOD MORNING TO YOU. FIRST OF ALL BLESS YOU. THANK YOU FOR ACTUALLY GOING OUT AND MEASURING THE EXISTING BUILDING. IT DOES HELP. IT'S VERY DIFFICULT TO IMAGINE. HI. WHAT I THINK IS EXTREMELY LARGE SOMETIMES IS NOT SO I'VE GOTTEN TO COUNTING FLOORS SO I APPRECIATE YOU ALL GOING OUT OF YOUR WAY TO DO THAT. LET ME START WITH A FEW BASICS. YOU'VE ALREADY TOLD US HOW MANY STUDIOS ONE BEDROOMS AND BASICALLY WHAT THE PRICE RANGE WILL BE. WILL YOU TELL ME HOW THE APPLICANTS WILL BE SCREENED. YES WE TYPICALLY IN THIS INDUSTRY BUT ALSO SPECIFICALLY OUR CLIENT WE LOOK AT A CRIMINAL BACKGROUND CHECK AS WELL AS A FINANCIAL CHECK AS WELL AS A CREDIT CHECK. SO IN THE FINANCIAL CHECK WE WILL BE LOOKING FOR INCOME THAT IS ROUGHLY THREE TIMES THE RENT PER MONTH THAT EQUATES TO PROBABLY A SALARY RANGE STARTING WITH THE STUDIOS OR ONE BEDROOMS OF 60 70 THOUSAND MINIMUM PER YEAR GOING UP TO OVER ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND PER YEAR FOR EITHER A SINGLE OR FOR A THREE BEDROOM BUT WITH ONE OR TWO OCCUPANTS WOULD BE OVER A HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS. AND DO I ASSUME IT'S THE SAME AS MOST AREAS FIRST LESS THAN A MONTH SECURITY ARE ALWAYS WELCOME AND NO SHORT TERM RENTALS EITHER. OH GOOD. OK. DO YOU ALSO NOT ALLOW 12 PEOPLE IN A TWO BEDROOM APARTMENT. NO WE'VE WE'RE VERY SPECIFIC ABOUT THAT BOTH REGARD WITH REGARD TO THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE AND THE NUMBER OF CARS. SO THAT'S EXCELLENT. YOU HAVE AN ONSITE MANAGER. YES WE HAVE AN ONSITE MANAGEMENT TEAM. THE PROPERTY IS CARRIED 24 HOURS A DAY FOR SECURITY AND IT'S OK IT HAS GATES ALTHOUGH YOU CAN'T GET IN AND OUT WITHOUT THE GATE WERE YOU TO NOT TO GET IN BECAUSE WHOEVER YOU'RE VISITING IS IS NOT THERE. COULD YOU EXPLAIN TO ME YOUR GATED ENTRANCE YOUR RESIDENTS WILL BE ABLE TO COME IN OFF MCNAB WITH THEIR CLICKER KEY FOB OR THEY WILL WILL THEY ALSO BE ABLE TO ENTER AND EXIT EITHER MCNABB OR 78. YES. THE RESIDENTS ONLY WILL BE ABLE TO USE THE 17TH ENTRANCE THE ONLY ENTRANCE FOR VISITORS AND VENDORS IF YOU ARE GETTING AN AMAZON PRIME DELIVERY OR A FEDEX WOULD BE THROUGH THE MCNABB ROAD ENTRANCE YOU WOULD COME IN. THERE IS A CIRCULAR ENTRANCE YOU WOULD COME IN. YOU WOULD USE A CALL BOX IF YOU WERE A VISITOR YOU WOULD HAVE EITHER A KEY FOB OR A CLICKER IF YOU ARE A RESIDENT. AND AT THAT POINT YOU WOULD ABLE TO BE ABLE TO GO TO EITHER BUILDING WITHOUT GOING THROUGH THE CENTER OF THE PROPERTY OR GO THROUGH THE CENTER OF THE PROPERTY AND THEN THERE'S GATES TO GET IN AT THE REAR AS WELL. OK I WANTED TO BE VERY CLEAR ABOUT THAT. SO THIS WAY WE DO HAVE PEOPLE GOING IN BOTH MCNABB AND 17TH RATHER THAN ALL THE TRAFFIC TRAFFIC BEING POURED ONTO 70. THAT'S CORRECT. AND FOR THE RESIDENTS I'M SURE THAT THEY WILL KNOW THAT THEY HAVE THE THE ACCESS ON 17TH WE USE THAT WHEN THEY CAN. I WILL TELL YOU I HAVE GONE OUT THERE SEVERAL TIMES BECAUSE TRAFFIC IS ALWAYS AN ISSUE AND I'VE PARKED AND SAT THERE AT DIFFERENT TIMES OF THE DAY TO SEE EXACTLY WHAT THE TRAFFIC WAS ON 17TH AND IT REALLY WAS VIRTUALLY NOTHING. SO I'M I'M HOPING THIS WON'T BE AN ISSUE THAT WE'LL GET TO THAT IN A MINUTE. I KNOW EARLY ON I ASKED YOU ABOUT RETAIL SPACE ALONG WITH THE RESIDENTIAL. WE DID. WE DID A MARKET STUDY TO TAKE A LOOK AT THE RETAIL BOTH. WHAT DO WHAT YOU HAVE AVAILABLE YOUR INVENTORY TODAY AS WELL AS THE FUTURE DEMAND AND WITH THE AMOUNT OF RETAIL THAT YOU ALREADY HAVE AVAILABLE IN THE AREA BOTH TO THE EAST OF US AND TO THE WEST OF US AS WELL AS THE GENERAL ONE AND THREE MILE AREA. THE STUDY SHOWED THAT THE RETAIL WOULD NOT BE SUCCESSFUL WITHIN OUR PROJECT. WHAT WE DO BELIEVE HOWEVER IS THAT THE PROJECTS LIKE THIS I'VE DONE A NUMBER OF THEM ONE AT UNIVERSITY AND 595 THAT YOU'VE SEEN WITHIN TWO YEARS THE SHOPPING CENTER NEXT TO IT IMMEDIATELY FILLED UP AND WAS COMPLETELY REDEVELOPED. THAT'S WHERE THE VIGNETTE SHOWS IS AND IMMEDIATELY NORTH OF THAT THE NEXT SHOPPING CENTER LUCKY'S MOVED IN BECAUSE AGAIN THE DEMOGRAPHIC ALLOWED THE NUMBER OF SHOPPERS THAT YOU HAVE AVAILABLE TO GO TO THOSE FACILITIES. OK. THE TRAFFIC STUDY THAT YOU ALL DID ALTHOUGH AS I TOLD YOU I HAVE BEEN OUT THERE AND KIND OF GAUGED THAT THE TRAFFIC STUDY THE WAY IT WAS [01:25:03] PROPOSED REALLY WAS NOT CURRENT BECAUSE YOU STILL INCLUDED WHAT IF THE LIBRARY WERE STILL THERE. AND WHAT IF THERE WAS A VITAL SHOPPING CENTER THERE. SO FROM THAT ASPECT IT REALLY WAS NOT AN ACCURATE TRAFFIC STUDY IN MY MIND. WELL WE DO A NUMBER OF TRAFFIC STUDIES FOR THESE PROJECTS. THE TRAFFIC STUDY WE DO FOR LAND USE BECAUSE IT'S A LOOK FORWARD. YES WE LOOK AT THE WHAT THE USES TODAY VERSUS WHAT THE USES TOMORROW REGARDLESS OF WHAT IS ACTUALLY THERE. YOU DID CHALLENGE ME YESTERDAY WITH WELL WHAT ABOUT I CALL IT ABSOLUTE TRAFFIC WHICH IS WELL TODAY YOU ONLY HAVE FOUR PEOPLE IN THE SHOPPING CENTER. NOW WE ALL KNOW THAT THAT'S NOT OUR GOAL. I DID TALK TO MY TRAFFIC ENGINEER AND WE DID WE DID SUPPLY FOR THE SITE PLAN THAT TYPE OF TRAFFIC INFORMATION. OBVIOUSLY THE TRAFFIC FOR OUR PROJECT WILL SHOW AN INCREASE COMPARED TO ZERO. BUT AS I INDICATED BEFORE IF YOU WERE TO PUT A OFFICE BUILDING OR A RETAIL CENTER WHERE IT IS TODAY ARE WE ALL EXPECTED TO BE VIBRANT. THE TRAFFIC WOULD PROBABLY BE THREE OR FOUR TIMES HIGHER THAN WHAT YOU'LL SEE FROM THE RESIDENTIAL DEVELOPMENT. AND TYPICALLY IF IT'S A PARTICULAR IT'S AN OFFICE THE HIGHEST GENERATOR OFF OF PEAK HOUR TRIPS RIGHT THERE IN THAT FOUR TO SIX O'CLOCK RANGE IS USUALLY THE OFFICE USE. SO I THINK YOU'LL ACTUALLY SEE NO REAL CHANGE IN THE P.M. HOUR BECAUSE WE'LL BE GETTING RID OF THE OFFICE BUILDING THAT'S THERE TODAY. NOW DURING THE DAY AND ON WEEKENDS. YES THERE'LL BE MORE ACTIVITY THAN WHERE THE OFFICE BUILDING WOULD BE. WELL THAT'S WHY IT'S A GOOD THING THERE ARE TWO EXITS THAT WILL DEFINITELY HELP. CAN YOU EXPLAIN TO ME YOUR PUBLIC EDUCATION. I. I'M NOT SURE HOW YOU CAME UP WITH THESE NUMBERS THE PROJECTIONS OF HOW MANY STUDENTS WILL BE ADDED TO THE CURRENT SCHOOL SYSTEM. WELL THE SCHOOL SYSTEM ACTUALLY SETS THAT THOSE RATES FOR US BASED ON THEIR. THEY DO STUDENT GENERATION STUDIES EVERY FEW YEARS. WE'VE HAD DISCUSSIONS WITH THE SCHOOL BOARD OVER THE YEARS REGARDING THE NUMBERS AND THEY'LL GO BACK AND STUDY IT AGAIN. TYPICALLY THESE TYPE OF APARTMENTS ARE USUALLY EITHER THOSE OF US WHO ARE MOVING OUT OF OUR SINGLE HOME OR BEFORE WE GO TO OUR SINGLE FAMILY HOME BECAUSE WE NOW HAVE KIDS. SO TYPICALLY THE 1 AND 2 BEDROOMS DON'T GENERATE A LOT OF CHILDREN IN THESE IN THE APARTMENTS IN THE FOUR STORIES. AND THEY SAY THEY STUDY IT A LOT BECAUSE I CHALLENGE IT A LOT. I GET THAT QUESTION FROM COMMISSIONERS THROUGHOUT THE THROUGHOUT THE COUNTY. RIGHT NOW OUR SCHOOLS ARE SHOWING SUCH A REDUCTION IN OVERALL NOT ATTENDANCE BUT JUST NUMBER OF NUMBER OF CHILDREN. I THINK AT LEAST IN THE NEAR FUTURE WE'RE CERTAINLY GOING TO BE UNDER ENROLLED FOR SOME TIME. IT WAS INTERESTING TO ME TO SEE THAT THE SCHOOLS WERE ALL UNDER ENROLLED BUT YET WE'RE PROJECTING OUT OF 212 APARTMENTS THERE WILL ONLY BE EIGHT CHILDREN ATTENDING THESE SCHOOLS. THAT WAS THAT'S WHY I WAS WONDERING HOW YOU CAME UPON THAT THIS SCHOOL BOARD PROVIDES THE THE FORMULA FOR US. WE WILL ASSUME THEY KNOW THEIR BUSINESS. WHAT ABOUT MEETINGS WITH THE COMMUNITIES. WELL WHAT I WHEN I COMPLIMENTED YOUR PROCESS ONE OF THE THINGS YOUR PROCESS REQUIRES US TO DO IS TO HAVE AN OUTREACH MEETING WITH THE WITH THE NEIGHBORHOODS WE SET THAT JUST BEFORE CHRISTMAS WE HAD APPROXIMATELY EIGHT RESIDENTS SHOW. I WOULD SAY ALL LEFT HAVE HAPPY OR UNDERSTANDING THE PROJECT. WE HAD NO REAL OBJECTIONS TO THAT. AND THEN THE PLANNING COMMISSION AS I INDICATED WE HAD ONE GENTLEMAN WHO HAD JUST MADE A CONCERN THAT THERE WERE SO MANY OTHER APARTMENTS IN THE IN THE AREA FROM THEIR OLDER PRODUCT WASN'T OPPOSED TO THE NEW PROJECT OTHER THAN JUST THAT THERE WERE APARTMENTS. DID YOU SEE THE ARTICLE THE FRONT PAGE OF TODAY'S SET. NO I DID NOT. THERE A SHORTAGE OF APARTMENTS APPARENTLY. SO THAT WAS INTERESTING TO ME. I DID IN FACT MEET WITH THE THREE NEIGHBORHOODS JUST TO HEAR FIRSTHAND WHAT THEY HAD TO SAY BECAUSE OBVIOUSLY THEY DID NOT ATTEND THE MEETINGS IF ONLY SIX OR EIGHT PEOPLE WERE THERE AND INITIALLY THERE WAS A LITTLE PUSHBACK BUT WHEN THEY TOOK A STEP BACK AND REALIZED LOOK WHAT'S THERE NOW. I THINK IT CHANGED THEIR MIND A LITTLE LITTLE CONCERNED ABOUT TRAFFIC OF COURSE. BUT I THINK AS I SAY AGAIN WITH THE TWO EXITS THAT WILL HELP YOU GLOSSED OVER VERY QUICKLY THE WALKING PATH. COULD YOU PLEASE TALK A LITTLE BIT MORE ABOUT THAT. WELL WHAT WHAT WE HAD WHAT WE HAD [01:30:03] CHOSEN TO DO WITH THE STAFF SO ACTUALLY ENCOURAGEMENT AND KIND OF POINTING TO US IS BY REDUCING THE RIGHT OF WAY FROM FOUR LANES TO TWO. THERE IS AN OPPORTUNITY TO PROVIDE A PASSIVE WALKING PATH ALL ALONG NORTHWEST SEVENTIETH I AM CERTAIN THAT THE CITY STAFF IS INTENDING TO CONTINUE THAT PATH FURTHER TO THE EAST AS ADDITIONAL PROPERTIES COME IN FOR REDEVELOPMENT. IT WILL BE A WALKING PATH PROBABLY WITH MAYBE A BENCHES. IT HAS TREMENDOUS AMOUNT OF LANDSCAPING IN IT. THERE IS A CITY UTILITY PIPE THAT RUNS KIND OF DOWN THE MIDDLE SO YOU'LL SEE A STRIP WITHIN IT. BUT IT'S REALLY INTENDED NOT ONLY FOR OUR RESIDENTS BUT IT WILL BE OPEN FOR OTHERS AS WELL. THAT WAS RECEIVED VERY WELL BY THE RESIDENTS. EXCELLENT. SO THAT'S WHY I WANTED YOU TO EXPAND ON IT A LITTLE BIT. WHEN WILL THAT ACTUALLY BE BUILT. WILL IT BE BUILT WHEN ALL THE APARTMENTS ARE COMPLETE. OR WILL IT START. AS WE GO ALONG IT WILL START AS WE GO ALONG. IT'LL BE PART OF PART OF OUR CONSTRUCTION PROCESS AND WE WOULD ANTICIPATE THAT IT WOULD BE COMPLETED AT THE SAME TIME. THE PROJECT IS COMPLETED AND YOU SEE ITALY LINK LANDSCAPING DOES GO IN A LITTLE BIT TOWARD THE END. MOSTLY SO THE CONSTRUCTION DOESN'T DAMAGE THE LANDSCAPE MATERIALS. CAN YOU GIVE ME SOME PROPOSED DATES. WELL WE ANTICIPATE A COMPLETION DATE TWO YEARS FROM TODAY. I WOULD ANTICIPATE THAT I'LL GET THROUGH YOUR APPROVAL PROCESS AS WELL AS THE COUNTY SOMETIME IN AUGUST OR SEPTEMBER. WE USUALLY I USUALLY FIGURE ABOUT 90 DAYS IN THE BUILDING PERMIT PROCESS ALTHOUGH WE ARE PLANNING ON TRIGGERING THE PREPARATION OF OUR PLANS AHEAD OF TIME SO THAT WE CAN BE READY TO GO WHEN WE GET THE FINAL APPROVAL AS OPPOSED TO PUTTING THOSE PLANS TOGETHER GENERALLY TAKES 30 TO 45 DAYS MINIMUM FOR MY CONSULTANTS. SO I WOULD SAY THE START DATE FIRST OF THE YEAR FIRST OF THE YEAR THAT YOU WOULD ACTUALLY SEE DIRT MOVING. WE'RE GOING TO DO A LOT OF PREP WORK AT THE SITE. ONCE WE TAKE OVER THE SITE WE ALSO HAVE TO TAKE A LOOK AT KEEPING THAT SITE SAFE. IT IS. AND I WOULD JUST SAY A BAD STATE AND BE GOOD NEIGHBORS. YES I'M GOOD FOR NOW. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. THANK YOU VICE MAYOR. COMMISSIONER BOLTON GOOD MORNING. PLEASE REMIND ME OF THE AMOUNT OF UNITS. TWO HUNDRED AND TWELVE. AND PLEASE REMIND ME HOW MANY STUDIOS ONE BEDROOM TWO BEDROOMS THREE BEDROOMS NINETY SIX FOR ONE BEDROOM AND STUDIOS EIGHTY SIX TWO BEDROOMS AND THIRTY THREE BEDROOMS WHEN YOU SAY ONE BEDROOM STUDIOS. IS IT JUST A LOFT OR IS IT JUST OPEN OR NOT. OR DOES IT HAVE. THERE ARE ONE BEDROOMS THEY'LL HAVE A BEDROOM. OK. BECAUSE IN MY MIND STUDIOS AND BEDROOMS ARE KIND OF DIFFERENT. WELL THAT'S WHY I WAS. I WAS GETTING THE INFORMATION FROM MY ARCHITECT. SO THERE ARE NO STUDENTS JUST ONE BEDROOMS. YES IT'S A ONE BEDROOM TWO BEDROOMS THREE BEDROOMS. OK. HOW MANY PEOPLE ARE REQUIRED. OR WOULD YOU ALLOW IN THE ONE BEDROOM. I'M GOING TO CALL JAKE JACOBSON WHO'S THE DEVELOPER OF THE PROJECT. GOOD MORNING JAY JACOBSON. CEO OF EDEN MULTIFAMILY 28 0 1 SW THIRTY FIRST AVENUE MIAMI THERE ARE OCCUPANCY LOAD REQUIREMENTS IN WITHIN THE COUNTY ITSELF. BASICALLY SETS OCCUPANCY LOADS. WE TYPICALLY RESTRICT IN ONE BEDROOMS TO TWO PEOPLE IN SPECIAL CASES YOU'RE ALLOWED TO PUT THREE BUT WILL ONLY DO IT IF IT'S TWO FOLKS AND A BABY. BUT WE RESTRICT ONE BEDROOMS TO TWO PEOPLE TWO BEDROOMS TO FOUR AND THREE BEDROOMS A MAXIMUM OF FIVE. SO TWO BEDROOMS YOU RESTRICT TO FOUR AND THREE BEDROOMS YOU RESTRICT TO FIVE. CORRECT. AND RARELY DO WE HIT THOSE UPPER AND OCCUPANCY LOADS. IT'S USUALLY SUBSTANTIALLY LOWER. OK. SO YOU'LL HAVE 96 ONE BEDROOMS 86 TWO BEDROOMS AND YOU'LL HAVE THIRTY THREE BEDROOMS. CORRECT. NOW IF MY MATH IS CORRECT IF YOU WERE TO ALLOW THE MAXIMUM PEOPLE THERE TO PEOPLE IN A [01:35:05] ONE BEDROOM FOUR PEOPLE IN FOUR BED AND A FOUR PEOPLE IN A TWO BEDROOM AND FIVE PEOPLE IN A THREE BEDROOM YOU'D HAVE A MAXIMUM OF SIX HUNDRED AND EIGHTY SIX PEOPLE. QUESTION FROM HIS. HOW MANY PARKING SPACES. ARE AVAILABLE AT THIS COMMISSION OR LET ME GET YOU THAT NUMBER SINCE THIS IS NOT A SITE PLAN APPLICATION. WE DON'T HAVE THAT INFORMATION BUT I CAN GET IT SHORTLY. OK. IT'S THREE HUNDRED AND TWENTY SIX THREE HUNDRED TWENTY SIX SO IF YOU WERE TO ALLOW SIX HUNDRED AND EIGHTY SIX PEOPLE. AT THE BUILDING YOU ONLY HAVE THREE HUNDRED AND TWENTY SIX PARKING SPACES. WHERE DO YOU PLAN TO PUT THREE HUNDRED AND SIXTY PEOPLE. WHERE DO THEY PARK. WELL THAT'S ASSUMING THAT EVERYONE THAT RENTS AN APARTMENT EVERY. WELL WE HAVE WE HAVE TO ASSUME THE MAXIMUM. WELL LET ME EXPLAIN HOW HOW THE INDUSTRY ACTUALLY WORKS. I DON'T NEED A LESSON ON HOW THE INDUSTRY WORKS. I JUST NEED I JUST NEED A FAIR ANSWER. WOULD YOU PLAN TO PUT THREE HUNDRED AND TWENTY SIX POINT THREE HUNDRED TWENTY SIX PEOPLE WHERE WOULD YOU PLAN TO PUT THEM WHETHER WE'RE PROVIDING THREE HUNDRED AND TWENTY SIX PARKING SPACES ON SITE YOU'RE PROVIDING 30 JUNE 26 PARKING SPACES. IF YOU WERE TO PUT THE MAXIMUM SIX HUNDRED AND EIGHTY SIX PEOPLE WHERE DO YOU PLAN TO PUT THREE HUNDRED AND SIXTY PEOPLE ON THE STREET AT THE TOP OF THE ROOF UNDERNEATH THE PARKING GARAGE SOMEWHERE. THAT IS AN ASSUMPTION THAT IS NOT BASED IN REALITY. WE'RE PROVIDING THE CODE REQUIRED PARKING SPACES. AND TYPICALLY WHAT HAPPENS ON PROJECTS LIKE THIS IS YOU PLAN FOR ONE PARKING SPACE PER BEDROOM WHICH OVER THE. THREE HUNDRED SEVENTY FIVE THOUSAND APARTMENT UNITS IN BROWARD COUNTY SEEMS TO MEET THE PARKING REQUIREMENTS OF PROJECTS SIMILAR TO THIS. MR. DEVELOPER I'M NOT TRYING TO BE COMBATIVE WITH YOU. I ACTUALLY LIKE YOU AND I LIKE THE PROJECT ON WHERE IT IS. BUT WE MUST BE FAIR. MUST BE WE MUST ASK VISIONARY QUESTIONS AND I THINK THE PROBLEM THAT BROWARD COUNTY OR TAMARACK IN GENERAL HAS IS THAT WE DIDN'T PLAN FOR OUR OUR KIDS THAT WENT TO COLLEGE AND NOT BEING ABLE TO HAVE A JOB AFTER THEY TAKE SO MANY STUDENT LOANS TO COME BACK AND LIVE WITH THEIR PARENTS. NOW WE HAVE A PROBLEM WITH PARKING ALL OVER IN. BROWARD COUNTY NOT JUST TAMARACK. SO PEOPLE ARE PARKING ON THE STREETS AND THEY'RE STACKING THEIR CARS AND THERE'S NOWHERE FOR FIRE TO PASS AND THAT'S THE STUFF. AND IF CITY COMMISSIONERS BACK THEN ASKED QUESTIONS LIKE THIS BACK THEN WE WOULDN'T HAVE THIS ISSUE. SO MY CONCERN IS WHERE YOU'RE GOING TO PUT THREE HUNDRED AND SIXTY PEOPLE. IF YOU PLAN TO MAXIMIZE THE AMOUNT OF PEOPLE LIVING IN THE UNITS BECAUSE PEOPLE ARE NOT LIVING ALONE THESE DAYS AND YOUR PRICE POINT STREAMS THAT PEOPLE ARE NOT GOING TO BE LIVING ALONE. SOMEBODY IS GOING TO HAVE A ROOMMATE AND THREE BEDROOMS SCREAM FAMILY AND THE FAMILIES ARE HUSBAND WIFE OR HUSBAND AND HUSBAND WIFE AND WIFE ONE OR TWO KIDS AND PROBABLY A GRANDMOTHER OR PROBABLY A MOTHER IN THE CASE OF LA MER AND A DOG AND A CAT. SO. SO WE HAVE TO BE HONEST WITH OURSELVES WE CAN'T JUST. LONG GONE ARE THE DAYS WHEN WE FOCUS ON OK. THE CODE SAYS THIS AND THE CODE SAYS THAT AND I'M DOING THE REQUIREMENT WE HAVE TO NOW THINK ABOUT OUR RESIDENTS AND THINK ABOUT HOW. PEOPLE ARE GOING TO LIVE QUALITY OF LIFE. SO I'LL LET THAT QUESTION SINK IN FOR NOW. THOSE WERE LISTENING. WHERE WILL WE PUT THREE HUNDRED AND SIXTY PEOPLE ON MCNAB ROAD BUSY MCNAB ROAD THAT PROBABLY WILL HAVE MORE DEVELOPMENT. NOW THAT YOUR DEVELOPMENT GOES IN AND ACTIVATES ALL AREA BECAUSE THAT'S WHAT WE WANT ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND ACTIVATING THE AREA AND [01:40:01] MORE RESIDENTS AND THAT'S THE STUFF TO SUPPORT THE DIFFERENT BUSINESSES IN THE AREA. SO NOW WHEN WE HAVE SIX HUNDRED AND EIGHTY SIX PEOPLE ALL OF A SUDDEN WE HAVE. YOU KNOW WAL-MART WANTING TO DO THIS AND TARGET WANTING TO DO THIS AND IT'S GOING TO ACTIVATE THE AREAS SO MUCH THAT NOW YOUR TRAFFIC STUDY THAT SO NO TRAFFIC ALL OF A SUDDEN BAM JUST LIKE COMMERCIAL BOULEVARD IMPASSIBLE SO I'M NOT ONE OF THOSE COMMISSIONERS WHO WHO VOTE ON WHAT THE TRAFFIC STUDY IS AND HOW WHAT THE CODE SAYS I LOOK FAR BEYOND THAT AND I STATE WHAT PROBLEMS WILL BE. AND THIS WILL BE A PROBLEM REMIND ME OF YOUR PRICE POINT FOURTEEN HUNDRED TWENTY FIVE HUNDRED FOURTEEN HUNDRED TO TWENTY FIVE HUNDRED. SO YOU'RE GOING TO LOOK FOR THREE TIMES THE AMOUNT OF RENT TWENTY FIVE HUNDRED AT THE MAX TIMES THREE TIMES TWELVE PERSON LIVING THERE HAS TO MAKE NINETEEN THOUSAND DOLLARS SO THIS BY AND FAR HAS NO NO ESSENCE OF AFFORDABLE HOUSING. THIS IS LUXURY. WOULD YOU AGREE. NO I WOULDN'T. OKAY. SO I WOULD STATE IT AS MORE AFFORDABLE IS NINETY THOUSAND DOLLARS. WELL I THINK YOUR YOUR MATH IS OFF A LITTLE BIT. OK. PLEASE SOMEONE CORRECT ME I HAVE SOMEWHERE RENTING OF FOURTEEN HUNDRED AND FIFTEEN HUNDRED DOLLAR A MONTH APARTMENT NEEDS TO VERIFY SIXTY TO SIXTY FIVE THOUSAND. IF SOMEONE IS RUNNING AT TWENTY FIVE HUNDRED DOLLAR A MONTH UNIT THEN YES THEY HAVE TO VERIFY APARTMENT INCOME LEASE INCOME OF ABOUT ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND BUT THAT TAKES INTO CONSIDERATION THE ROOMMATE SITUATION THAT YOU SPOKE OF. YOU DO AGREE WITH THE ROOMMATE SITUATION. AND AND I THINK WELL THIS MAY NOT BE THE PROPER FORUM TO HAVE THIS DEBATE. I WOULD LOVE TO SIT DOWN WITH YOU FOR A COUPLE HOURS AND AND DISCUSS HOW YOU KNOW THE CURRENT APARTMENT INDUSTRY OPERATES AND THE NEED FOR APARTMENTS OF THIS TYPE ALL OVER BROWARD COUNTY. YOU WOULD BE SURPRISED ABOUT THE INCOME LEVELS OF THE PEOPLE THAT MOVE INTO APARTMENTS LIKE THIS THINKING AND YOU EVEN SURPRISED THE KINDS OF JOBS THEY HAVE TO BE ABLE TO ALLOW THEM TO AFFORD THESE TYPES OF APARTMENTS. NOT EVERYONE IS MAKING FIFTY THOUSAND DOLLARS OR BELOW EVEN THOUGH THAT'S ABOUT THAT'S EVEN LESS THAN THE MEDIAN INCOME IN BROWARD COUNTY RIGHT NOW. MEDIAN INCOME IS FIFTY SIX THOUSAND DOLLARS A YEAR. I MEAN YOU HAVE TO LOOK AT THE MEDIAN INCOME IN THE CITY OF TAMARACK. AND IT'S NOWHERE NEAR A NINETY THOUSAND DOLLARS. AND SO I'M JUST TRYING TO LET YOU KNOW THAT YOU CAN'T HAVE YOUR CAKE AND EAT IT TOO. CAN ASK FOR FIFTY TO NINETY THOUSAND DOLLARS AND SAY OH WE'RE GOING TO HAVE THE MINIMUM AMOUNT OF PEOPLE OR WE'RE GOING TO ASK FOR FIFTY TO NINETY THOUSAND DOLLARS BUT WE CAN HAVE ROOMMATES AND THEN HAVE SIX HUNDRED AND EIGHTY SIX PEOPLE. WE DON'T LIVE THREE HUNDRED AND TWENTY SIX PARKING SPACES. SO THAT'S THE ISSUE. AND AT THE APPROPRIATE TIME I HOPE THAT YOU HAVE SOME SORT OF SOLUTION. HOW MANY PEOPLE ATTENDED THE COMMUNITY MEETING MEETING THAT YOU THAT YOU HAD I BELIEVE WAS 8 6 8 6 2 8. SO I AGREE WITH I DISAGREE WITH THE VICE MAYOR THAT BECAUSE PEOPLE DON'T SHOW UP THEY THEY DON'T CARE HOWEVER HE HOWEVER IT WAS THAT THIS IS A WORKING COMMUNITY. PEOPLE DON'T GO TO MEETINGS BECAUSE THEY ARE WORKING TWO JOBS TO MAKE ENDS MEET. SOMETIMES DRUG MEETINGS ARE IN THE MORNINGS SOMETIMES MEETINGS ARE IN THE EVENING BUT THEY DO E-MAIL. THEY DO WRITE TEXT MESSAGES THEY MAKE PHONE CALLS AND THAT THAT'S THE STUFF. SO JUST BECAUSE 60 PEOPLE SHOWED UP DOES DOES NOT MEAN THAT THEY LOVE THE DEVELOPMENT I'M ASSUMING THAT BECAUSE YOU HAVE FOUR LEVELS YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE ELEVATORS. CORRECT. AND YOU HAVE MENTIONED THAT THE PART THAT THE BUILDING IS SECURE AND YOU HAVE SECURITY GATES. CORRECT. THAT IS SECURITY GATES IN THE FRONT AT BOTH ENTRANCES AND EXITS THE FRONT AND ON 17TH IN THE REAR. CORRECT. SO MY NEXT QUESTION IS HOW DO YOU WHAT DOES THE DOES THE BACK AND THE FRONT HAVE [01:45:04] ADEQUATE SECURITY. IS IT IS IT COMPARABLE. THE BACK IS COMPARABLE TO THE FRONT CORRECT. OK. SO THERE IS A SECURITY GATE AND THERE'S SOME SORT OF WALL ARE FULL. SO TO KEEP PEOPLE OUT OR IS IT YOU'RE JUST GOING TO USE TREES TO NOW THE ENTIRE PROPERTY WILL BE FENCED. OK. THERE ARE THREE ENTRANCES THAT ARE ACCESS CONTROLLED OFF OF MCNAB AND ONE INTO THE INTERIOR OF THE PROPERTY OFF OF 17TH ABOUT IT. WHAT IS THE SQUARE FOOTAGE OF THE ONE BEDROOM TWO BEDROOM AND THREE BEDROOMS ONE BEDROOMS AVERAGE AROUND SIX HUNDRED AND FIFTY GEORGIA RUNS 650 TO 750. TWO BEDROOMS AVERAGE 950 TO ELEVEN HUNDRED THREE BEDROOMS OR ELEVEN FIFTY TO TWELVE FIFTY. THERE ARE VARIOUS UNIT TYPES FOR EACH BEDROOM COUNT SO FOR FOURTEEN HUNDRED DOLLARS I'M PAYING FOR SIX HUNDRED AND FIFTY SQUARE FEET. CORRECT. DOES THAT UPSTAIRS OR DOWNSTAIRS OR IS IS JUST FLAT OR ALL FLAT. BECAUSE REMEMBER MY FIRST OFFICE WAS SOMEWHERE AROUND 300 SQUARE FEET AND I MOVED OUT BECAUSE IT WAS UP TO YOU MAY WANT TO LOOK AT THE PRICE POINT FOR THE FOR THE DEVELOPMENT. MY OPINION IS IT'S A LITTLE BIT TOO HIGH. BUT YOU KNOW YOU'RE THE DEVELOPER AND YOU HAVE THE EXPERIENCE NOT WHAT. PEOPLE HAVE. THAT COMMENT WHICH I COMPLETELY RESPECT IS THE MARKET WILL ALWAYS TELL US THAT WE SET OUR EXPECTATIONS AND THE MARKET THAT COMES TO VISIT US AND THAT LIKES THE LOCATION LIKES THE AREA LIKES THE BUILDING LIKES THE FLOOR PLANS WILL ALWAYS TELL US WHAT THEY WANT TO PAY AND THEY CAN AFFORD TO PAY. WE'RE FLEXIBLE IN ADJUSTING RATE IN ORDER TO HAVE A SUCCESSFUL PROJECT. WE DON'T WANT TO SIT THERE WITH AN EMPTY BUILDING THINKING PEOPLE ARE JUST GOING TO COME BECAUSE WE BUILT IT. SO LIKE ANY ANY ECONOMICS MAJOR CAN TELL YOU THAT THE MARKET IS BASICALLY ALWAYS RIGHT. OH HELP US SET THE PRICE. IN YOUR OPINION WITH A WILL A RENTAL COMMUNITY NEGATIVELY OR POSITIVELY IMPACT HOME VALUES IN CLOSE PROXIMITY TO YOUR NEW DEVELOPMENT. IT WILL. IN MY OPINION IT IS ALMOST NO IMPACT FROM JUST HAVING AN APARTMENT COMMUNITY. WHAT WILL IMPACT POSITIVELY WILL BE THE REDEVELOPMENT OF A SHOPPING CENTER THAT HAS BEEN PRETTY MUCH 98 PERCENT VACANT FOR YEARS THAT HAS NUMEROUS CODE COMPLIANCE VIOLATIONS SET AGAINST IT BY THE CITY THAT IN SOME REGARD IN SOME RESPECT IS FALLING DOWN AROUND THE TENANTS OR THE TWO TENANTS THAT REMAIN IN THE BUILDING SO THAT CAN HAVE NOTHING BUT A POSITIVE IMPACT ON THE ENTIRE NEIGHBORHOOD. IT WILL ALSO HAVE A BLEED OFF EFFECT THAT AGAIN MOST ECONOMISTS AND MARKET PEOPLE WILL TELL YOU THAT WITH NEW PEOPLE MOVING INTO A NEIGHBORHOOD THEY REQUIRE MORE GOODS AND SERVICES THAN ARE THERE TODAY. AND THAT WILL HELP THE FOLKS THAT DO OWN VIABLE OR SOON TO BE VIABLE RETAIL CENTERS COMMERCIAL CENTERS TO IMPROVE THEIR PROPERTIES TO ATTRACT NEW BUSINESSES NEW RETAIL SHOPS NEW RESTAURANTS ETC. JUST BECAUSE OF THE INCREASED BODY COUNT AS PUBLIC SCHOOLS IT. SO THEN YOU WOULD YOU DISAGREE WITH PAUL KRUGMAN WHO IS AN ECONOMIST WITH THE NEW YORK TIMES THAT RENTAL PROPERTIES NEGATIVELY IMPACT HOMES AND THAT ARE IN CLOSE PROXIMITY TO IT COMPLETELY VEHEMENTLY AND WITH MY ENTIRE 35 YEAR CAREER IN THE APARTMENT INDUSTRY. I DISAGREE WITH MOST EVERYTHING PAUL KRUGMAN SAYS ANYWAY. BUT I'VE HAD THE PLEASURE OF SITTING WITH HIM AT A FEDERAL RESERVE BOARD MEETING IN WASHINGTON D.C. ABOUT TWO YEARS AGO AND I SIT ON THE NATIONAL BOARD OF THE NATIONAL MULTIFAMILY HOUSING COUNCIL AND WE MEET WITH CONGRESS TWICE A YEAR THE FEDERAL RESERVE ONCE A YEAR TO DISCUSS HOUSING POLICY. JUST CAME BACK FROM A MEETING IN D.C. WITH SECRETARY CARSON AT HUD AND I WILL TELL YOU THAT MR. KRUGMAN KNOWS NOTHING ABOUT THE RENTAL APARTMENT BUSINESS. ZERO. I WAS SITTING HERE NEXT TO YOU. I WOULD TELL HIM THAT TO HIS FACE ON HIS PROGRAM LISTENING I KNOW [01:50:03] PEOPLE HOPE SCIENCE STILL. I HOPE SO. APARTMENT MINING TAX WELL WELL-DEVELOPED WELL MANAGED AND THAT'S THE KEY. WELL MANAGED APARTMENT COMMUNITIES DO NOTHING BUT ADD TO THE VIBRANCY OF EVERY NEIGHBORHOOD THAT THEY'RE IN. I CAN SHOW YOU STATISTICS THAT ARE DIRECTLY OR ECONOMIC STATISTICS THAT WILL SHOW THE ECONOMIC VALUE OF TWO HUNDRED AND TWELVE UNITS IN TAMARACK TO THE OVERALL METRO AREA AND THE NUMBERS ARE ASTOUNDING ON WHAT THE SPENDING POWER OF THE RESIDENTS ARE NOT ONLY ON A TEMPORARY BASIS FROM CONSTRUCTION BUT ALSO ON AN ONGOING BASIS FROM THE RESIDENTS THAT LIVE THERE. YOU KNOW I MUST LEAVE. YOU'VE TAKEN OVER FROM THE FROM THE ATTORNEY AND HE SHOULD PROBABLY GIVE YOU A 50 PERCENT DISCOUNT. I'VE BEEN ASKING HIM FOR 20 YEARS FOR A ANY KIND OF DISCOUNT. OUR RATE OF 450 DOLLARS THAT WENT TO 25. YEAH I APOLOGIZE BUT I TEND TO GET ON A LITTLE BIT OF IT. NO NO NO PROBLEM. SO THE THE VICE MAYOR HAS ALREADY ASKED OUR FABULOUS QUESTIONS. SOME OF THESE I ALREADY ASKED THE SCREENING PROCESS FOR YOUR TENANTS RIGHT. THIS IS A NINETY THOUSAND DOLLAR SALARY BUILDING SO I'M SURE THAT YOU'LL BE DOING A LOT OF SCREENING AND MAKING SURE THAT THAT RESIDENTS ARE PROPERLY SCREENED. WHAT I WHAT I WHAT I WANT TO COME BACK TO IS FIRST LAST AND SECURITY BECAUSE I CHECKED OUT A COUPLE OF BUILDINGS THAT YOU HAVE DEVELOPED AND I NOTICED THAT I MADE SOME SECRET SHOPPER CALLS AND I NOTICED THAT THEY'RE NOT ASKING FOR FIRST LAST AND SECURITY IS THAT LATER MISSPOKE BECAUSE I WANT TO SHOW OFF ON YOU THAT I ACTUALLY DID MY HOMEWORK. I APPRECIATE THAT MR. LAY SPOKE A LITTLE BIT THEY SAID BASED ON YOUR CREDIT WE MAY NOT ASK YOU FOR FIRST LESS THAN SECURITY. WELL IT'S IT'S EVEN EASIER AND BETTER THAN THAT. WE NEVER ASK FOR FIRST LAST AND SECURITY TOTAL LIKE YOU LIKE MOST PEOPLE ARE USED TO WHICH IS THREE MONTHS WORTH OF RENT AND YOU KNOW EVEN PEOPLE MAKING THE SALARIES WHO YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT DON'T LIKE BEING THAT TYPICALLY WHAT WE DO IS WHEN YOU MOVE IN IF YOU MOVE IN MID-MONTH YOU'RE RESPONSIBLE FOR PAYING UPFRONT THE PRO-RATED RENT UNTIL THE FIRST MONTH WHEN THE LEASE ACTUALLY STARTS BECAUSE WE LIKE TO DO THINGS MONTH TO MONTH BASED ON YOUR CREDIT. WE MAY ASK FOR SOMEWHERE BETWEEN A 500 AND A THOUSAND DOLLAR DEPOSIT. WE NEVER ASKED FOR LAST MONTH'S DEPOSIT. THAT'S BASICALLY HOW THE ENTIRE PROFESSIONAL THIRD PARTY PROFESSIONALLY MANAGED. INDUSTRY WORKS RIGHT NOW. AND I CALLED ALSO ONE OF YOUR BUILDINGS AFTER OURS AND I NOTICED THAT NOBODY ANSWERED IT WENT TO A VOICEMAIL. WILL THIS BE HAPPENING AT THE PROPERTY THAT YOU'RE GOING TO BUILD THE. I DON'T KNOW FOR SURE WHICH BUILDINGS YOU CALLED BUT IF THERE WAS SOMETHING THAT I'VE DEVELOPED IN THE PAST WE PROBABLY NO LONGER OWN THOSE. I'M NOT SURE WHICH ONES YOU CALLED. SO DO DEVELOP AND SELL. SOMETIMES IT DEPENDS ON THE TIME PERIOD IT DEPENDS ON WHAT THE MARKET IS DOING. OUR PROPERTY MANAGEMENT COMPANY WHICH WILL BE MANAGING THIS PARTICULAR PROPERTY WILL HAVE AND THEN THEY'RE SUPPOSED TO HAVE AFTER HOURS LIVE PEOPLE PICKING UP THE PHONE UP TO A REASONABLE TIME 10:00 11:00 P.M. OR SO OFFICES USUALLY CLOSE AT 6 P.M. AND IF YOU DID CALL OUR NEW PROPERTY IN NORTH MIAMI BEACH AND SOMEONE DIDN'T PICK UP AFTER OURS THEY'LL HEAR FOR ME BY NOON TODAY YOU'RE FIRED. NO JUST PICK UP THE PHONE. GOOD. LET'S TALK ABOUT YOUR LINEAR PARK. ON THE BACK OF THE PROPERTY. WILL IT BE OPEN TO THE WIDER COMMUNITY OR JUST YOUR RESIDENT. IT'S ON PUBLIC PROPERTY AND THE YOU KNOW THE WHOLE IDEA OF THAT CAME FROM STAFF. IT WAS GENERATED BY THEM AND WE DISCUSSED WHERE THEY DISCUSSED TAKING THE FOUR LANE RIGHT OF WAY AND SEVENTIETH DOWN TO TWO AND A LANDSCAPING AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE ON BOTH SIDES AND WE OFFERED. THAT'S FINE. WE CAN'T USE THE PROPERTY BECAUSE THERE'S POWERLINES ABOVE AND THERE'S A CITY UTILITY EASEMENT RUNNING THROUGH MOST OF THE PROPERTY. WE OFFERED TO BUILD IT LANDSCAPING AND MAINTAIN IT AT OUR COSTS BUT IT'S PUBLIC RIGHT AWAY. OH YOU MENTIONED SOMEWHERE SOMEWHERE IN JANUARY 1 TO START YOUR PROJECT AND YOUR TIMELINE. HOW MUCH TIME WILL YOU GIVE THE TENANTS THAT ARE INSIDE THE. THE OFFICE BUILDING IN THE PLAZA TO TO MOVE OUT. I UNDERSTAND THAT SOME OF THEM HAVE A MONTH [01:55:04] TO MONTH KIND OF SITUATION GOING ON BUT WILL YOU BE GIVING THEM MORE TIME THAN THAN A MONTH TO SAY HEY WE. TIME RIGHT GAVE US THE GREEN LIGHT. GET OUT IN 30 DAYS OR WILL YOU TELL THEM HEY I'M GOING TO BE STARTING AT X TIME. SO THIS IS THE TIME THAT YOU THE THE CON THERE'S TWO SEPARATE CONTRACTS IN EACH ONE OF THEM HAVE ADDRESSED THAT ISSUES DIFFERENTLY. THE OFFICE BUILDING OWNER HAS TO OUR KNOWLEDGE ALREADY IDENTIFIED ANOTHER OFFICE BUILDING THAT HE IS BUYING WHERE HE'S GOING TO RELOCATE HIS COMPANY TO. HE DOES HAVE I BELIEVE IN THE CONTRACT AFTER WE CLOSE. I THINK HE HAS THREE MONTHS TO REALLY RELOCATE HIS COMPANY BECAUSE IT'S IT MIGHT BE TOO MUCH IT MIGHT BE THREE MONTHS I'M NOT SURE BECAUSE IT'S HE RUNS THREE BUSINESSES HE OWNS THE BUILDING AND HE RUNS ALL THE TENANTS IN THERE ARE HIS COMPANIES. SO HE IS RELOCATING ALL OF THOSE FOLKS THE SHOPPING CENTER. I BELIEVE THE CONTRACT CALLS FOR. BE HONEST WITH YOU. I DON'T KNOW HOW MANY TENANTS ARE IN OCCUPYING THAT SPACE. IT'S KIND OF HARD TO TELL WITH THAT PARTICULAR SELLER. PEOPLE COME AND PEOPLE GO OUT. BUT HE HAS A FIRM THAT EVERYONE IS ON A 30 DAY NOTICE TO VACATE. THE CONTRACT DOES CALL THAT WHEN WE GIVE HIM NOTICE A 30 DAY NOTICE THAT WE'RE GOING TO CLOSE IS WHEN HE NOTIFIES WHOEVER IS REMAINING AS A TENANT THAT THEY DO HAVE TO RELOCATE. WHEN DO YOU THINK YOU'RE GOING TO CLOSE. WELL WE HAVE A CLOSING DATE OF SEPTEMBER 15TH OKAY. SO SAFE TO SAY BY OCTOBER 15TH EVERYONE HAS TO GO. CORRECT. WILL YOU WILL HE ASSURE US THAT. HE WILL NOT LET THEM GO BEFORE OCTOBER 15TH. WELL IF WE CLOSE ON SEPTEMBER 15TH THE WAY WE'RE UNDER CONTRACT TO HOLDING OVER TALKED 15TH WOULD BE FINE BECAUSE IT'LL TAKE US A MONTH AFTER WE CLOSE TO GET OUR ARMS AROUND EVERYTHING. KEEP IN MIND THOUGH THAT I JUST I JUST WANT TO HEAR YOU SAY BECAUSE I I'VE I VISITED THE TENANTS ALL OF THEM AND ALL OF THEM ARE A NERVE THAT THEY'RE NOT GOING TO BE ABLE TO FIND SOMEWHERE QUICKLY. AND THEY FEEL THAT. THIS NEW DEVELOPER NOT NECESSARILY YOU BECAUSE THEY DON'T KNOW YOU BUT THEY'RE THINKING IN THEIR HEAD THE DEVELOPER IS GOING TO COME IN AND THEY'RE GOING TO TELL US TO LEAVE IN 30 DAYS. SO TO GIVE THEM SOME SEMBLANCE OF. PEACE OF MIND CAN YOU. CAN YOU SAYING. I WON'T TELL ANYBODY TO LEAVE BEFORE OCTOBER 15TH. I WON'T BUT I'M NOT IN CONTROL. NO SERIOUSLY. THE OWNER IS IN CONTROL. HE HAS WRITTEN LEASE AGREEMENTS WITH WHOEVER IS OCCUPYING HIS SPACE. HE'S IN CHARGE. SO THAT'S WHAT LEADS TO YOUR WILL ASK ON YOUR ON YOUR SIDE YOUR AGREEING NOT TO LET ANYBODY GO BEFORE OCTOBER 15TH IF SOMEONE REMAINS AFTER SEPTEMBER 15TH WHEN WE CLOSE THEN. YES. YEAH. SO YOU WILL ENCOURAGE THE OWNERS. WE WILL. WE HAVE A DIALOGUE WITH THEM. OK. SO IF IF THIS IF THIS DEVELOPMENT WERE SOMEWHERE ELSE. AND THE THESE PARKING SPACES AMBASSADOR STUFF THIS IDEA ABOUT WHERE WE'RE GOING TO PUT THREE HUNDRED AND SIXTY PEOPLE WOULD COME UP I'D BE SPITTING MORE FIRE BUT SEEING WHERE THIS IS GOING AND SEEING WHAT IS THERE NOW. IF A HOSPITAL IN PINK TELLS US THEY'RE GOING TO GO THERE. I WOULD CLOSE MY EYES AND VOTE YES. SO. SO I THANK YOU FOR FOR BRINGING YOUR DEVELOPMENT TO TAMARACK AND. CHOOSING US. CHOOSING US AS THE PLACE YOU'LL CALL HOME. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. COMMISSIONER BOLTON. COMMISSIONER GONG. GOOD MORNING. I'M PRETTY THRILLED ABOUT THIS PROJECT. I'VE LIVED IN TAMARA. I'M WANT TO SAY SINCE 2007 AND THAT PLAZA HAS LOOKED [02:00:06] PRETTY MUCH THE WAY IT HAS SINCE 2007. AND I THINK IT'S A DUMP. AND LOOKS LIKE A DUMP TO ME. SO IT'S ABOUT TIME I THINK I LIKE THE DESIGN. WE SPOKE YESTERDAY I'VE SEEN SOME OF YOUR OTHER PROJECTS SO I WELCOME THIS PROJECT LIKE. COMMISSIONER BOLTON. I DO HAVE SOME QUESTIONS ABOUT THE PARKING AND NOT JUST IN THAT PARTICULAR DEVELOPMENT BUT I'VE COMPLAINED TO OUR PLANNING DIRECTOR ABOUT THE PARKING IN MY COMMUNITY WHERE I THINK WE HAVE FARMS IN 34 HOMES. SOME HOMES HAVE TWO PARKING SPACES SOME HAVE ONE BUT YOU CAN'T IT'S IMPOSSIBLE TO WALK ON THE SIDEWALK BECAUSE YOU KNOW FLORIDA PRETTY MUCH EVERYBODY HAS A CAR. YOU HAVE TO HAVE A CAR TO GET AROUND AND SO CARS ARE PARKED BEHIND EACH OTHER ON THE STREET EVERYWHERE AND I THINK IT JUST MAKES THE COMMUNITY LOOK BAD. SO HOW MANY HOW MANY SINGLE HOW MANY HOW MANY ONE BEDROOM TWO BEDROOM THREE BEDROOM APARTMENTS ARE THERE WITH 96 ONES 86 TWOS AND 30 THREES AND THIRTY THREES THREES. CAN I GIVE YOU A LITTLE BIT OF INFORMATION ON THAT ON THE PARKING THAT MADE SURE I CALL IT REAL TIME. SO I'VE HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO PROVE THREE HUNDRED TWENTY ONE UNITS AT UNIVERSITY IN FIVE NINETY FIVE. THE PARKING RATIO FOR OUR PROJECT TODAY AND THAT PARKING RATIO FOR THAT PROPERTY ARE EXACTLY THE SAME. THE UNIT MIXES ARE APPROXIMATELY THE SAME ALTHOUGH PROPERTIES SOME A LITTLE BIT MORE ONES WE ACTUALLY ON THAT PROJECT HAVE A BASKETBALL COURT THAT WAS PUT IN BECAUSE OF CONCERNS THAT WE WOULDN'T HAVE ENOUGH PARKING AND THAT WE COULD THEN STRIKE IT OUT IF WE HAD TO. THAT PROJECT HAS BEEN THERE FOR THREE 4 YEARS. WE HAVE NOT HAD A PARKING PROBLEM THERE AT ALL. I THEN MOVE TO THE WHAT'S CALLED THE MIDTOWN 24 WHICH IS APARTMENT PROJECT DIRECTLY BEHIND THE FOUNTAINS MALL ALSO APPROVED WITH THE SAME PARKING RATIO ABOUT ONE POINT SEVEN ONE POINT EIGHT PARKING SPACES AND THAT ONE TOO HAS NOT HAD A PARKING PROBLEM. I THEN HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO DO THE VERANDA PROJECT WHICH IS A CONDOMINIUM PROJECT DIRECTLY BEHIND WHAT'S THE OLD FASHION MALL THAT'S BEEN THERE PROBABLY SEVEN OR EIGHT YEARS. ALSO JUST WITH THE PROBABLY A ONE POINT EIGHT PARKING RATIO AND THAT ALSO HAS BEEN HAS NOT HAD A PARKING PROBLEM AND I VISIT THESE PROPERTIES ALL THE TIME BECAUSE THIS IS A QUESTION THAT IT'S VERY APPROPRIATE TO ASK AND IT COMES UP ALL THE TIME IMMEDIATELY NEXT TO THAT I DID ANOTHER APARTMENT PROJECT FOR REED REGENCY AND THAT PROJECT ALSO WAS TWO HUNDRED AND EIGHTY SEVEN UNITS AND THEN A SECOND BUILDING NEXT TO IT AT TWO HUNDRED UNITS. BOTH OF THOSE WERE PARKED AT ABOUT ONE POINT SIX ONE POINT SEVEN PARKING SPACES. SO TO GIVE YOU JUST KIND OF THE INDUSTRY LOOKS AT THIS ALL THE TIME BECAUSE WE DO AGREE WITH YOU SOME OF THE PARTICULARLY THE TOWNHOUSE PROJECTS AND I CALL TIGHT SINGLE FAMILY PROJECTS IN EVERY CITY ARE STRUGGLING WITH PARKING AND PARTICULARLY BECAUSE THEY TEND TO HAVE A LOT OF GUESTS STOPOVERS THE APARTMENT INDUSTRIES YOU KNOW WE STUDY IT ALL THE TIME EVERYWHERE. BUT I WANT TO GIVE YOU A FEW EXACT INSTANCES I HAVE SOME IN DAVIE SUNRISE AS WELL BUT THOSE ARE THE ONES THAT I CAN JUST YOU'VE PROBABLY DRIVEN BY AT SOME POINT I'M TRYING TO GET THE FIVE NINETY FIVE. CAN YOU JUST SEND US SOME SOME OF THOSE STUDIES FOR THE OTHER DEVELOPMENTS. ABSOLUTELY. OK. SO THAT'S ALL I HAVE I DON'T REALLY HAVE ANY ANY COMPLAINTS OR ISSUES. I THINK THE OTHER COMMISSIONERS EXHAUSTED A LOT OF TIME ON THIS BUT I'M HAPPY TO SEE THAT AREA REDEVELOPED. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. GOING BACK TO VICE MAYOR PARKER. THANK YOU. I'D JUST LIKE TO VERIFY SOMETHING. I ASKED IF HE REQUIRED FIRST LAST AND A MONTH'S SECURITY AND YOU TELL ME YES BUT NOW I THINK I HEARD A DIFFERENT AND CORRECT. AND JAY JAY IS THE ONE WITH THE ANSWER. I MUST HAVE GOTTEN RIPPED OFF BECAUSE MY. I JUST GOT DONE DO IT AT LEAST FOR MY DAUGHTER GOT FIRST CLASS SECURITY SO WE'D BE VERY CLEAR THAT WHAT THE WHAT THE ANSWER IS TO THAT WE DEPENDING ON YOUR CREDIT WE WILL EITHER ASK FOR JUST THE PRO-RATED AMOUNT FROM THE DATE YOU SIGN A LEASE LET'S SAY ON THE 14TH OF A MONTH FROM THE 14TH TO THE FIRST WHEN YOUR LEASE ACTUALLY STARTS BECAUSE WE TAKE EVERYTHING FROM CALENDAR MONTH THE CALENDAR MONTH AND TYPICALLY A FIVE HUNDRED DOLLAR DEPOSIT [02:05:01] THAT'S IF YOU HAVE GOOD CREDIT. IF YOU DON'T HAVE SUCH GOOD CREDIT WE MAY ASK FOR EITHER ONE MONTH AS A SECURITY DEPOSIT OR SOMETHING BETWEEN 500 AND THE MONTH'S SECURITY DEPOSIT. BUT WE NEVER ASK FOR LAST MONTH'S RENT AS A DEPOSIT UPFRONT. OUR LEASES ARE VERY SPECIFIC THAT THE LANDLORD WILL TYPICALLY DO WHEN THEY ASK OR FIRST LAST AND A ONE MONTH SECURITY DEPOSIT IS THEY'RE JUST TRYING TO PROTECT FROM SOMEONE SKIPPING OUT ON A LEASE. OUR LEASES ARE VERY SPECIFIC THAT IF YOU WANT TO BREAK YOUR LEASE THERE'S A LEASE BREAKAGE FEE OR AND UNPAID RENT FEE THAT YOU HAVE TO PAY. AND BECAUSE. OF THE TYPE OF OF THE WAY UP PROFESSIONALLY MANAGED PROPERTY MANAGEMENT COMPANIES MANAGE THESE BUILDINGS AND PROJECTS THAT WE WILL CHASE PEOPLE IF THEY SKIP OUT ON A LEASE AND TRY TO COLLECT FROM THEM. BUT WE DON'T TRY TO BURDEN PEOPLE BEFORE THEY MOVE IN. BUT WHO'S MAKING THAT DECISION. OUR PROPERTY MANAGEMENT COMPANY THROUGH THE OWNER AND I'M THE OWNER. SO. EACH TIME THEY'RE GOING TO CONTACT YOU TO DO SO. THEY'VE GOT THEIR RULE THE PROPERTY MANAGEMENT COMPANY HAS THEIR RULES AND THEY FOLLOW THE RULES ON THE PROPERTY. SOME PROPERTIES AGAIN DEPENDING ON THE TYPE OF PROPERTY LOCATION THE THREE TO ONE INCOME OR RENT TO INCOME RATIO CAN SOMETIMES BE FOUR TO ONE. IN SOME MARKETS IT'S TWO TO ONE. WE TRY TO KEEP IT AVERAGE OVER OUR PORTFOLIO OF THREE TO ONE RATIO. WE DON'T KNOW THE CREDIT CHECKS ARE ALL AUTOMATIC THESE DAYS THE CRIMINAL BACKGROUND CHECKS ARE ALL AUTOMATIC THESE DAYS. PEOPLE FILL OUT AN APPLICATION. WE RUN IT THROUGH THE SYSTEM AND THE SYSTEM KICKS OUT A YES YOU CAN LEASE TO THIS PERSON OR NO. THERE'S AN ISSUE AND THEN THE PROPERTY MANAGER MAKES THE DECISION OF WHAT THAT ISSUE IS AND HOW IT WILL AFFECT THE TENANCY. I'M NOT TRYING TO TELL YOU HOW TO RUN YOUR BUSINESS BUT I DON'T THINK THAT'S A FAIR WAY TO DO THINGS. AND BY THAT I MEAN SOMEONE SOMEWHERE ALONG THE LINE MAY HAVE HAD A CREDIT ISSUE SO THEIR CREDIT SCORE IS NOT AS HIGH AS IT COULD BE OF SOMEONE ELSE. SO I DON'T THINK THEY'RE BEING TREATED EQUALLY. THE WAY SOMEONE ELSE. THERE'S NO TWO ANSWERS THAT WE NEVER JUST LOOK IF THERE IS AN ISSUE. IF THEIR CREDIT HISTORY IS A LITTLE BIT BELOW THE STANDARD THAT WE HAVE SET FOR THE AUTOMATIC APPROVALS THE PROPERTY MANAGER CAN LOOK AT IT THEY CAN MAKE A DETERMINATION OF WHAT THE ISSUE WAS THEY CAN MEET WITH THE THE PROSPECTIVE TENANT AGAIN DISCUSS WHAT THE ISSUE IF IT'S IF IT'S A JOB LOSS SITUATION IN THEIR PAST IF IT'S A DIVORCE SITUATION IF IT'S YOU KNOW MEDICAL ISSUES WHATEVER THAT THEY CAN ALWAYS BREAK THE RULE AND DETERMINE ON THEIR OWN WHETHER THEY'RE COMFORTABLE ACCEPTING THAT PERSON AS AS A TENANT. THE REASON WE HAVE TO SET THE STANDARD IS FAIR HOUSING REGULATIONS. WE HAVE TO TREAT EVERY SINGLE PERSON AND WE DO TREAT EVERY SINGLE PERSON THAT WALKS INTO OUR OFFICE EXACTLY THE SAME THERE OFF POINT. THEY HAVE TO BE TREATED THAT WAY. THEN IF THERE ARE BUT IT'S FEDERAL LAW WE HAVE TO DO IT. IF WE DON'T DO IT THEN WE CAN GET CHARGED WITH VIOLATING THE DISCRIMINATION CLAUSES IN THE FAIR HOUSING ACT. HOWEVER WE HAVE LENIENCY AND IF IT'S AN ISSUE IT'S AS IF IT'S A SEPARATE PERSONAL ISSUE. IF IT'S SOMEONE LIKE I SAID HAD A JOB LOSS IF THEY HAD A DIVORCE SITUATION IF THEY HAD SOME MEDICAL FINANCIAL ISSUE WHATEVER THE ISSUE IS ARE PROPERTY MANAGERS CAN OVERTURN WHAT THE AUTOMATIC SYSTEM PUTS TOGETHER BUT THEY HAVE TO DOCUMENT IT AND THEY HAVE TO DOCUMENT IT VERY CAREFULLY AND VERY CLOSELY. ALL RIGHT. GOING HAVE TO THINK ABOUT THAT ONE A LITTLE BIT. BUT YOU MADE A COMMENT THAT DISTURBS ME. THE PRICE IS WHATEVER THE MARKET DICTATES IF IT'S A SLOW MARKET. IF THERE'S A LOT OF COMPETITION IN THE AREA. IF YOU KNOW IF IF ALL OF A SUDDEN THE MARKET DECIDES THEY WANT TO BUY HOUSES AGAIN VERSUS RENT APARTMENTS YOU KNOW WE TRACK THE NUMBERS OF PEOPLE THAT COME IN ON A WEEKLY BASIS. WE TRACK HOW MANY PEOPLE WE CAN SIGN A LEASE WITH AND WE ADJUST PRICING UP AND DOWN BASED ON AVAILABILITY OF UNITS. WHAT OUR COMPETITION IS CHARGING. IT'S LIKE YOU KNOW WHEN YOU BUY AN AIRLINE TICKET YOU BUY IT ON A TUESDAY IT'S USUALLY CHEAPER THAN IF YOU BUY IT ON A FRIDAY OFF. IF EVERYONE AROUND US IS 100 PERCENT OCCUPIED [02:10:03] YOU CAN USUALLY GET THE RATE THAT YOU WANT. YOU WANT TO GET IF EVERYONE IS AT 50 PERCENT YOU START LOWERING YOUR RATES IN ORDER TO KEEP YOUR BUILDINGS FILLED. YOU DON'T LOWER YOUR. CREDIT STANDARDS OR KERNEL BACKGROUND STANDARDS BUT YOU CAN PLAY WITH THE RATES TWO YEARS. AND WHERE'S YOUR WHERE'S YOUR BREAK EVEN POINT. PARDON. WHERE'S YOUR BREAK EVEN POINT. HOW LOW CAN THEY GO. GOOD QUESTION. NEVER THOUGHT ABOUT IT THAT WAY. TO BE HONEST WITH YOU I DON'T LIKE BREAKING EVEN WHEN YOU GET BACK TO ME ON THAT. THAT'S A CONCERN. SURE THAT'S A GREAT CONCERN TO ME. WELL HE'S GOT A FIGURE AND TWO YOU. ALSO FOR. YEAH WE'RE ALSO PROJECTING 24 MONTHS FROM NOW. SO IF WE DO THE BEST WE CAN. BUT FRANKLY TRUTHFULLY WE WE CAN'T PEG IT EXACTLY TWO YEARS OUT. THAT'S A CONCERN TO ME. I ANTICIPATED FOR YOU WHAT THE VARIANCE MIGHT BE HUNDRED DOLLARS. YEAH. YEAH IT'S ONLY A COUPLE HUNDRED DOLLARS A MONTH IS IS THE DIFFERENTIAL AND WE MIGHT BE HIGHER ALL RIGHT. JUST HEAR ME. THAT'S A CONCERN TO ME. I WAS NOT GOING TO DISCUSS SITE PLAN AT ALL BECAUSE THIS IS NOT THE SITE PLAN BUT BEING AS MY COLLEAGUE HAS OPENED UP THAT DOOR. WHAT ABOUT GUESTS PARKING GUEST PARKING OCCURS ALONG THE DRIVEWAY AND THE FRONT ENTRANCE AND THERE ARE GUEST SPACES INTERSPERSED. HOW MANY GUEST SPACES ARE THERE. THE CODE PROVIDES FOR 10 PERCENT OF GUEST SPACES THROUGHOUT THE PROJECT. THAT MANY SO ROUGHLY 30 GUESTS FACES. 33 YES SPACES. OK. I'M NOT GOING TO GET INTO A BIG ISSUE WITH SITE PLAN BECAUSE WE HAVE A WAY TO GO BUT PARKING IS GOING TO BE AN ISSUE AND I DON'T KNOW HOW WE GET AROUND IT. I DON'T. I DON'T HAVE AN ANSWER. BUT PARKING IS GOING TO BE AN ISSUE. YOU SAID IT YOU'RE ONE DEVELOPMENT. THERE WAS A BASKETBALL COURT THAT YOU ROPED OFF. I DON'T KNOW WHERE SPACE HERE I DON'T SEE BASKETBALL COURT OBVIOUSLY BUT JUST KEEP IN MIND THAT'S GOING TO BE AN ISSUE. OK. THANK YOU. THANK YOU VICE MAYOR. SEEING IT NOW IS COMMISSIONER BOLTON JUST A FEW MORE BELOW. THESE THIRTY GUEST PARKING SPACES. IS IT INCLUDED IN YOUR THREE HUNDRED AND TWENTY SIX COUNT OR IS IT ADDITIONAL TO THE 326 YOU INCLUDED IN THE COUNT. OKAY. SO THEN MY FUZZY MATH BEFORE IS EVEN WORSE. JUST SO YOU KNOW ARE RESIDENTS ALLOWED TO PARK IN GUEST SPOTS. OR IS THAT STRICTLY FOR THEIR GUESTS. THE SPOTS WILL BE MARKED GUEST. HOWEVER WE DON'T MONITOR IT AND SO RESIDENTS WILL BE OR WILL NOT BE ALLOWED IF THEY'RE ALLOWED TO PARK THEY ARE ALLOWED TO PARK. SO WHEN I HAVE MY FIFTIETH BIRTHDAY PARTY NOT THAT I'M 50 BUT WHEN I HAVE MY FIFTH GIFT BIRTHDAY PARTY AND MY SON IS 24 AND HE'S PARKED IN THE GUEST PARKING SPOT WHERE DO ALL OF HIS FRIENDS PARK. WELL YOU KNOW WHAT. DON'T ANSWER THAT BECAUSE THIS IS NOT THERE'S NOT A PLAN. SO JUST JUST COME BACK PREPARED. I WANT TO MAKE MENTION THAT I TOTALLY FORGOT TO ASK THIS QUESTION. AND AND PAM IF YOU'RE LISTENING NOT PUBLISHED NOT BY ANY MEANS BUT PAM AND DISTRICT FOUR LIVES BEHIND THE DEVELOPMENT I DID SPEAK TO HER AND SHE WAS VERY CONCERNED ABOUT THE HEIGHT OF THE BUILDING. I KNOW THAT YOU MENTIONED AT THE HEIGHT OF THE BUILDING IS GOING TO BE THE SAME HEIGHT OF THE OFFICE BUILDING JUST A LITTLE BIT MAYBE SIX FEET TALLER THAN THE OFFICE BUILDING. AND WHEN I CIRCLED BACK WITH THAT REBUTTAL TO HER HER COMMENT IS THAT THE OFFICE BUILDING IS ON THE FAR WEST. AND SO THEIR HOUSE IS ON THE EAST OF THE OF THAT PROPERTY AND THE PLAZA IS NOT FOUR FEET NOW. SO IT WOULD BE AN OBSTRUCTIONIST TO THEIR VIEW. JUST SO YOU KNOW I JUST I JUST WANTED TO SAY THAT BECAUSE SHE SHE'S LISTENING AND SHE WANTS HER QUESTION TO BE REPRESENTED. SO AND THAT WAS THE ONLY [02:15:04] ISSUE THAT CAME UP AS I WAS KNOCKING ON DOORS. YESTERDAY. I'M VERY FAMILIAR WITH MIDTOWN 24 DO YOU STILL YOU STILL MANAGE OR OWN THAT BUILDING. NO KIDDING. I NEVER HAD ANYTHING LIKE IT. ALL RIGHT. OK. I HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH MIDTOWN. TWENTY FOUR. OK BECAUSE I'M YOUR ATTORNEY MENTIONED. ABOUT PARKING AND AND HOW IT'S FABULOUS OVER THERE. I HAD THE PRIVILEGE OF LIVING AT MIDTOWN 24 AND I HAD THE PRIVILEGE OF PAYING THE RIDICULOUS RENT THAT THEY CHARGED BECAUSE I COULD AFFORD IT. AND THERE WAS PARKING ISSUES. MY EX-WIFE IS IN THERE. IT'S AN AMAZING BUILDING. IT'S AN AMAZING BUILDING. I WAS I WAS UP ON THE PENTHOUSE LEVEL NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE WERE WORKING ON THAT LEVEL. NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE WERE ON OTHER LEVELS AT ALL. AND THERE WERE STILL PARKING PROBLEMS. SO. SO IF YOU COULD I COULD FIND PARKING SPACE BECAUSE I HAD A KEY TO GET INTO THE BUILDING THE PARKING WAS UNDERNEATH THE BUILDING AND THAT SORT OF STUFF AND I COULD ACTUALLY FIND PARKING BUT I'D HAVE TO GO AROUND GO AROUND GO AROUND AND UNTIL I FOUND SOMETHING. BUT IF IF THERE WAS A PARTY AND THE ALIBI ROOM DOWNSTAIRS I'LL KEEP MY MIDTOWN 24 WAS ORIGINALLY DESIGNED AS A THREE PHASE PROPERTY ONLY TWO PHASES WERE BUILT AND A LOT OF THE PARKING WAS OFFLOADED TO PHASE THREE THAT WAS NEVER BUILT. SO. NO MORE DISCOUNT TO THE BUILDINGS ON THEIR OWN. SO FOR MIDTOWN 24 IT IS FULLY SELF PART THE RATIO THAT I INDICATED TO YOU BEFORE. LET ME JUST NOW. THIS IS THE CONVENIENCE FACTOR DISCUSSION SO I HAVE A SHOP. I HAVE A COMMISSIONER WHO CALL ME IN THOSE CITY A PLANTATION BY CHANCE AND SAYS I CAN'T FIND A PARKING SPACE AND I WANT TO GO TO A RESTAURANT AT THE FOUNTAINS DIRECTLY IN FRONT. I SAID WELL WHERE ARE YOU. WHAT'S WHAT. I'M RIGHT IN FRONT OF THE CENTER. SO IF YOU GO RIGHT AROUND THE BACK. THERE'S 40 OR 50 60 SPACES AND SO THE SAME THING GOES WITH A PARKING CONCEPT PARKING GARAGE CONCEPT. SAME THING WITH JS. YOU MAY NOT BE ABLE TO PARK IMMEDIATELY ADJACENT TO YOUR UNIT OR IN YOUR CASE THE 5TH FLOOR OR THE SIXTH FLOOR WHICHEVER FLOOR YOU'RE ON BUT THERE WILL BE SIGNIFICANT PARKING AND I'M SURE IF YOU DROVE THAT PARKING LOT ANYTIME AND I WOULD VOLUNTEER MY TIME TO GO WITH YOU. WELL WE'LL DO THE CIRCLE AT A TIME THAT YOU PICK AND SEE HOW MANY SPACES ARE AVAILABLE. THE CONVENIENCE SIDE YOU'RE CORRECT. THERE ARE OCCASIONS WHERE THE CLOSEST AND PARTICULARLY IN AN APARTMENT PROJECT THE CLOSEST SPACES TO THE APART TO THE ELEVATORS ARE GONNA BE FULL FIRST AND THAT'LL BE THE SAME AT JAY'S PROJECT AS WELL. WOULD YOU AGREE THAT INCOME WILL TRUMP CROOKWELL. IT'S A BETTER. WORD. INCOME WILL BE BETTER THAN CREDIT IF I HAVE ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLAR SALARY AND I HAVE 500 CREDIT NOW BUT PROBABLY GET INTO YOUR BUILDING BECAUSE OF MY SALARY AND A STABLE JOB. OR WOULDN'T YOU AGREE. I'M REDUCING MY PRICING AND. NOT NECESSARILY THE ABILITY. JUST BECAUSE YOU MAKE A SIGNIFICANT SALARY DOESN'T MEAN YOU ARE A CREDIT WORTHY INDIVIDUAL THAT ACTUALLY PAYS THEIR BILLS OR PAYS THEIR BILLS ON TIME. SO THAT IS ALMOST MORE IMPORTANT TO IT THAT IS MORE IMPORTANT TO US THAN THAN THE SALARY LEVEL. WE WANT PEOPLE TO BE OUR TENANTS OUR RESIDENTS THAT. ACTUALLY FULFILL THEIR OBLIGATION PAY THEIR BILLS ON TIME NO MATTER WHAT BILL THAT IS AND THAT'S ALWAYS REFLECTED IN YOUR CREDIT SCORE. THAT'S LESS AS SO VITAL THAT WE'RE ASKED IF SOMEONE HAS EXTENUATING CIRCUMSTANCES. WE ALWAYS TAKE THAT INTO CONSIDERATION. YEAH BUT NOT WOULD GO BACK TO HER POINT THAT SHE HAD SOME CONCERNS ABOUT THE HOW HOW YOU TREAT PEOPLE WITH WITH WITH WITH POOR CREDIT. I MEAN IF IF IF BARBARA FOR GOD'S SAKES IS THE DIRECTOR OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IN THE CITY OF TAMARACK AND SHE MAKES ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY FOUR THOUSAND DOLLARS BUT HAS A 400 CREDIT BECAUSE SHE DIVORCED [02:20:03] HER HUSBAND THAT HAD. A LOT OF BILLS. YOU TAKE THAT INTO CONSIDERATION. OKAY. ALL RIGHT THAT'S IT. COMMISSIONER ELLEN. MY QUESTION IS MORE SO FOR PLANNING DIRECTLY THROUGH THE CHAIR. HOW MANY HOW MANY TOTAL APARTMENTS DO WE HAVE IN TIMBERLAKE. COMMISSIONER KNOWS HOW MANY I THINK AUTOMATION. I CAN GET YOU THAT INFORMATION OKAY. CAN YOU PLEASE REPEAT THE QUESTION. COMMISSIONER GELMAN I WAS ASKING HOW MANY TOTAL APARTMENTS WE HAVE IN THE CITY OF TAMARACK. AND THEN JUST A COMMENT ON THE. FIRST MONTH LAST MONTH RENT VERSUS CREDIT. I'M ACTUALLY IN FAVOR OF GOING BY CREDIT BECAUSE YOU KNOW WE KNOW A LOT PEOPLE DON'T HAVE CASH SAVINGS. AND SO FOR A LOT OF IT WAS VERY DIFFICULT. EVEN PEOPLE WHO MAKE A LOT OF MONEY TO COME UP WITH THREE TIMES THE RENT UPFRONT. SO IF YOU HAVE GREAT CREDIT AND HAVE YOU KNOW A HISTORY OF PAYING YOUR BILLS ON TIME I'M FINE WITH NOT. DEMANDING SO MUCH CASH UPFRONT. THANK YOU. ALL RIGHT. SEEING THAT NOBODY ELSE HAS LEFT. I HAVE A FEW THINGS. AND YES YOU TELL EVERYBODY TENDS TO FORGET THAT ACTUALLY I DO HAVE THE ABILITY TO ASK QUESTIONS SO I WILL USE THEM THIS TIME. SO THANK YOU VERY MUCH. AS FOR THE LAND USE AND ZONING I APPRECIATE WHAT YOU HAVE BROUGHT FORTH. I UNDERSTAND THE HIGH SITUATION AND WHICH GOES TO SAY PLAN BUT SO THANK YOU. AND JUST BECAUSE MY COLLEAGUES TOUCHED ON IT I WILL KEEP IT VERY BRIEF. WE IN OUR DISCUSSIONS YESTERDAY WE TALKED ABOUT PARKING. MY UNDERSTANDING IS THAT YOU WILL ALSO BE CONSIDERING A DETAILED PROGRAM AND SOMETHING TO MAKE SURE THAT ANYBODY WHO LEASES THE LEASES FROM YOU IS QUITE AWARE OF THEIR PARKING RESTRICTIONS. THAT THE PROPERTY HAS SO THERE'LL BE NO EXPECTATIONS OR NO HIDDEN AGENDAS OR PEOPLE FEELING THAT THEY WERE NOT AWARE OF IT WHEN THEY FIRST CAME TO YOUR PROPERTY WITH FIVE CARS FOR A ONE BEDROOM. SO. THIS IS SOMETHING YOU WILL WORK THROUGH NOW ON SITE PLAN. THANK YOU FOR PUTTING THAT ON THE RECORD AS A REQUEST NOT AS ANYTHING MORE ON THE LOVELY. WALKING PATH WHICH IS ACTUALLY UPSIDE DOWN FOR ME RIGHT NOW. WOULD YOU CONSIDER DOGGY STATIONS AGAIN. IT'S JUST A REQUEST THAT I'M THROWING OUT THERE. I APPRECIATE THAT YOU WILL MAKE SURE THAT YOUR BELIEVE YOU'RE GOING TO PUT IT AS A DEED RESTRICTION OR SOME KIND OF NO SUBLETTING NO AIR BEING BS AND MAKING SURE THAT THAT WILL BE CLOSELY MONITORED AND THAT YOUR LEASES ARE NO LESS THAN SEVEN MONTHS. UNDERSTANDING THE PROVISIONS THAT ARE IN THERE TO AFFORD THE ABILITY TO BREAK A LEASE IF NEED BE IN FOR PEOPLE WHO NEED TO UNFORESEEN HAVE TO BREAK THEIR LEASE VERSUS BEING HELD FOR A WHOLE YEAR OR TERM STANDARD LEASES DO NOT ALLOW ANY SUB LEASING WHATSOEVER AND THE AIR BEING THESE ARE THE WORLD FALL UNDER THAT WHEN WE NOTICE THAT A TENANT HAS PUT AN EXTRA BEDROOM OR THEIR APARTMENT FOR VACATION TIME ON AN AIR BEING SHARED HOUSING SITE. WE IMMEDIATELY CONTACT THEM. THEY'VE GOT TO TAKE IT OFF IF THEY DON'T COMPLY. THEN WE EVICT THEM. THANK YOU. AS FAR AS COMMENTS BEING MADE REGARDING FAIR MARKET HOUSING FOR APARTMENTS I'M JUST GOING TO PUT IT OUT THERE. IT'S THE SAME THING WHEN PEOPLE ARE BUYING A HOUSE FOR SELLING A HOUSE. IT'S WHAT THE MARKET ALLOWS. IT'S WHAT YOUR PROPERTY APPRAISED FOR IT'S WHAT THE SELLER BELIEVES THEIR PROPERTIES SHOULD GO FOR AND WHAT A BUYER BELIEVES THAT THEY SHOULD PAY FOR THE AMOUNT OF THEIR PROPERTY. SO AS A FAIR MARKET RENTAL UNIT THAT IS THE WAY THIS TO MY UNDERSTANDING WILL FLOW IS THAT CORRECT YES. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. AND ALSO ON YOUR WAY OF DOING BUSINESS FOR YOU TO HAVE MANAGED YOUR PROPERTIES TO BE ABLE TO DETERMINE IF A PERSON OR PEOPLE ARE ABLE TO PAY YOU ARE FOLLOWING THE STANDARD HUD GUIDELINES AND GUIDELINES SET BY STATUTE AND FEDERAL. POLICIES. SO THANK YOU FOR DOING THAT AND STAYING ON TOP OF IT AND WORKING ON THOSE PROCEDURES. AT THIS POINT IN TIME I HAVE NOTHING ELSE FOR THIS MATTER. AND I WOULD LIKE TO CALL THE QUESTION WE'RE GONNA START WITH C 0 2 4 0 [02:25:05] 0. LAST MAY FLACCO. YES COMMISSIONER BOLTON. YES. COMMISSIONER FISHMAN. YES. GOMEZ. YES COMMISSIONER. GUILLEN WAS NOT HERE TO CAST A VOTE. OK MOVING ALONG 2 2 0 [e. TO2401 - Eden West Apartments - Rezoning and Flexibility Units & Acres An Ordinance of the City Commission of the City Of Tamarac, Florida, amending the Official Zoning Map of the City Of Tamarac referenced in Section 10-2.1(b) of Chapter 10 of the City Of Tamarac Code Of Ordinances to reflect the Rezoning of certain real estate property described as all of that land shown as Parcel “A” and Parcel “B” on the plat of Colony West Shopping Plaza as recorded in Plat Book 84 Page 25 of the Public Records of Broward County, Florida, , and fully described in the legal description attached hereto as Exhibit “A”, from the current MU-N (Mixed-Use Neighborhood) zoning classification to R-3 (Multi-Family Residential) zoning classification, for the subject property located at 8501 West McNab Road, in order to allocate two hundred and twelve (212) Flexibility Units and 8.74 gross Commercial-to-Residential flex acres to facilitate the development of a residential apartment use and provide consistency with the Land Development Code in accordance with the intent of the Comprehensive Plan of the City Of Tamarac; (case no. 10-Z-18); providing for amendment to the Official Zoning Map to reflect such change; providing for conflicts; providing for severability; and providing for an effective date. Commission District(s): District 4] 2 4 0 1 1 BEFORE GOING TO THAT GALLON IS NOW COMING BACK ON THE RECORD HIS VOTE IS A YES. THE RECORD REFLECT. YES. THANK YOU. AND A MAN MOVING NOW TO 2 0 2 4 0 1 LAST MAY GO. YES COMMISSIONER FISHMAN. YES MR. BOLTON. YES. COMMISSIONER GALEN. YES. MAYOR GOMEZ. YES. TEMPORARY ORDINANCE 20 24 0 1 PASSED. APPRECIATE YOUR TIME. THANK YOU. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. LADIES AND GENTLEMEN THE CURRENT TIME IS ELEVEN FORTY. I DO KNOW THAT THERE IS THERE ARE TWO MORE ITEMS ON THE AGENDA HOWEVER I'VE BEEN ASKED TO MAKE SURE WE TAKE A BREAK. SO PLEASE ENJOY LUNCH AND WE WILL SEE YOU BACK HERE AT TWELVE FORTY. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. IT IS TWELVE FORTY SEVEN. WELCOME BACK TO THE COMMISSION MEETING. WE ARE NOW UP TO 11 F TV 0. 2 9 ROCK ISLAND [f. TBO29 - Rock Island Self-Storage - Variance The applicant, Leigh R. Kerr, of Leigh Robinson Kerr & Associates, Inc., the designated agent for the prospective property owner, Rock Island Partners, LLC (the “Applicant”) filed an application with the City of Tamarac (“City”) Department of Community Development seeking approval of the following Variances: Variance Request 1: Section 10-2.3(C), Code of Ordinances; Variance Request 2: Section 10-2.3(C), Code of Ordinances; Variance Request 3: Section 10-4.4(D)(3)(c)(iii), Code of Ordinances; Variance Request 4: Section 10-4.4(D)(4)(c)(ii), Code of Ordinances; Variance Request 5: Section 10-4.7, Code of Ordinances Commission District(s): District 1] SELF-STORAGE VARIANCE AND JOINED TOGETHER WITH G ELEVEN G TR 1 3 2 5 7 ROCK ISLAND STORAGE. MY MAJOR REVISED SITE PLAN. AND IF YOU WORK. AS AN ASSISTANT CITY ATTORNEY PLEASE READ BOTH TITLES INTO THE RECORD. IF I MAY. SORRY ABOUT THAT. DECISION LOW. SO YEAH. OKAY SO TBA. TWENTY NINE ROCK ISLAND SELF-STORAGE IS A VARIANCE. THE APPLICANT LEE CURVE LEE ROBINSON CURRENT ASSOCIATES IS THE DESIGNATED AGENT FOR THE PROPERTY. PROSPECTIVE PROPERTY ON A ROCK ISLAND PARTNERS LLC. THEY FILED AN APPLICATION WITH THE CITY OF TAMARACK DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT SEEKING APPROVAL OF FOLLOWING VARIANCES VARIANCE REQUEST ONE IS SECTION TEN DASH TWO POINT THREE C CODE OF ORDINANCES VARIOUS VARIANCE REQUESTS 2 IS A VARIANCE FROM SECTION 10 DASH TWO POINT THREE C CODE OF ORDINANCES VARIANCE REQUEST THREE SECTION TEN DASH FOUR POINT FOUR D THREE C THREE CODE OF ORDINANCES AND A VARIANCE REQUEST FOR SECTION TEN DASH FOUR POINT FOUR D FOUR C TWO CODE OF ORDINANCES VERY INTER QUEST FIVE IS SECTION TEN DASH FOUR POINT SEVEN OF THE CITY CODE AND ITEM NUMBER G IS TEMPORARY RESOLUTION 1 3 2 7 WHICH IS THE ROCK ISLAND SELF-STORAGE MAJOR REVISED SITE PLAN IT'S A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COMMISSION TO THE CITY TAMARACK FLORIDA GRANTING MAJOR SITE PLAN APPROVAL WITH CONDITIONS FOR ROCK ISLAND SELF-STORAGE TO ALLOW FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF A 1007 542 SQUARE FOOT SELF-STORAGE FACILITY ON THE SUBJECT PROPERTY LOCATED AT 5 6 0 2 NORTH ROCK ISLAND ROAD. CASE NUMBER ONE SEVEN DASH. S P DASH ONE EIGHT. PROVIDING FOR CONFLICTS PROVIDING FOR SEVERABILITY AND PROVIDING FOR AN EFFECTIVE DATE AND IF I MAY MADAM MAYOR THIS IS A LIMITED PUBLIC HEARING ON THESE TWO MATTERS. THERE WAS A PUBLIC HEARING ON THESE MATTERS PREVIOUSLY ON APRIL 24TH AND THERE WAS A MOTION TO RECONSIDER. ON MAY 8TH THE VIDEOS FROM BOTH OF THOSE MEETINGS ARE ON THE CITY'S WEBSITE FOR ANYBODY WHO WISH TO SEE THEM BUT THE REASON THAT WE'RE HERE TODAY SIMPLY WAS BECAUSE OF A MOTION TO RECONSIDER. IN ORDER TO ADDRESS SOME NOTICE ISSUES REFLECTING WITH THE ADVERTISEMENT OF THE ITEMS BEFORE THE CITY COMMISSION ALL OF THE RECORD THAT WAS ENTERED INTO EVIDENCE AT THE PRIOR MEETING WAS FOR THE PRIOR MEETINGS IS REPUBLISHED AND ENTERED INTO THE BACKUP FOR THE PURPOSE OF THIS QUASI JUDICIAL MEETING AND THIS WAS SIMPLY A MATTER OF AN OPPORTUNITY TO AFFORD THOSE WHO WISH TO SPEAK TO THE COMMISSION AS WELL AS ANYTHING THE APPLICANT MIGHT WISH TO PRESENT DAY OK AT THIS TIME THOUGH I NEED TO SWEAR IN ANYBODY OR HAVE SWORN IN ANYBODY WHO WISHES TO SPEAK ON THIS MATTER. SO ALL WHO WISH TO SPEAK PLEASE RISE AND BE SWORN IN. I SWEAR OR AFFIRM THAT THE TESTIMONY THAT YOU'RE ABOUT TO PROVIDE SHALL BE THE TRUTH AND NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH. THANK YOU AND AT THIS TIME I NEED A MOTION A SECOND FOR APPROVAL OF ROCK ON SELF STORAGE VARIANCE. MOTION TO PUT THE MATTER BEFORE THE COMMISSION FOR DISCUSSION. SECOND I WANT TO MAKE IT CLEAR THAT WHAT HAS JUST [02:30:02] OCCURRED IS THAT THIS MATTERS ONLY FOR US BEFORE DISCUSSION. IT IS NOT A MATTER FOR VOTE. I'D LIKE THE SAME FOR TR 1 3 2 5 7 EITHER A MOTION FOR A ROCK ISLAND STORAGE MAJOR VI SITE PLAN AS A MOTION TO APPROVE TO MOVE FORWARD OR IN THE ALTERNATIVE FOR DISCUSSION MOTION TO PUT THE MATTER BEFORE THE COMMISSION FOR DISCUSSION. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. IT IS MY UNDERSTANDING THAT THE CITY DOES NOT HAVE A NEW PRESENTATION THEY ARE MOVING TO HAVE EVERYTHING AS THE ASSISTANT CITY ATTORNEY HAS ALREADY STATED HAS ALREADY BEEN PUBLISHED AND NOTHING TO BE PUBLIC. AND IS THAT RIGHT MADAM MAYOR. BUT JUST FOR THE RECORD I JUST WANTED YOU TO KNOW THAT WE DID REPUBLISH THIS FOR TODAY'S MEETING DATE AS WELL AS NOTICE THE PROPERTY OWNERS WITHIN 400 FEET OF THE SUBJECT PROPERTY. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. APPLICANT DO YOU HAVE ANYTHING YOU WISH TO ADD TODAY'S MEETING. DENNIS MERELY 200 HORSEPOWER BROWARD BOULEVARD FORT LAUDERDALE ON BEHALF OF THE HAVE THE APPLICANT JUST A COUPLE OF QUICK ITEMS. YOU'LL NOTICE THAT THE HEIGHT WAS ADVERTISED STILL AT THE 58 FEET FOUR INCHES. BUT AS WE TOLD YOU AT THE LAST MEETING WE HAVE REDUCED IT TO 48. SO I WANT TO PUT THAT ON THE RECORD. I KNOW THAT THAT WOULD BE IMPORTANT WHEN IT COMES TIME TO VOTE. AND THEN SINCE WE WERE LAST HERE WE HAVE FINISHED EVERYTHING WE NEEDED TO DO AT BROWARD COUNTY ON MAY 7TH THE COUNTY COMMISSION UNANIMOUSLY APPROVED THE PLAN NOT AMENDMENT AND THE NUMBER VEHICULAR ACCESS LINE AMENDMENT THAT'S THE DRIVEWAY. THEY HAD PREVIOUSLY APPROVED THE RESTRICTIVE COVENANT TO ELIMINATE THE FIRE STATION RESTRICTION. SO AS THIS CAR MENTIONED AND MR. GALLOWAY AS WELL EVERYTHING THAT WE PUT IN THE RECORD LAST TIME WOULD BE IN THE RECORD FOR TODAY. OTHER THAN THAT IF THERE'S ANY PUBLIC COMMENT LIKE THE OPPORTUNITY TO RESPOND AS APPROPRIATE. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. AND I DO KNOW THAT JOSE ESPANA IS HERE AND MAY WISH TO SPEAK NAME AND I JUST FOR THE RECORD OR WHATEVER I JUST YOU'RE GOING TO. GOOD AFTERNOON EVERYBODY MY NAME IS HOSS I SPENT ON MY ANALYSIS 57 21 COCOA PALM MEMBERS OF THE COMMISSION CITY STAFF MEMBERS OF THE COMMUNITY ALLOWING THIS SELF STORAGE FACILITY TO BE BUILT CENTRALLY TO OUR RESIDENTIAL DISTRICT. EVEN WHEN THE WISDOM FROM THE PAST HAVE THEM FOR INDUSTRIAL PARKS. FROM MY PERSPECTIVE IS FLEXIBILITY AND EXCESS. STILL YOU KNOW THERE ARE ORDINANCES FOR THIS NEW EMIL IN DISTRICT THAT WAS CREATED TO BRING THIS SELF-STORAGE STORAGE INTO OUR NEIGHBORHOOD THAT PRESCRIBER THAT. THE BUILDING SHALL BE COMPATIBLE IN SCALE AND NEED CHARTER TO THEIR SURROUNDING RESIDENTIAL HALL ALSO THAT IT HAS TO BE COMPACT IN ITS DEVELOPMENT PATTERNS. I'M HAPPY TO HEAR THAT THEY READERS THIS THAT YOU KNOW THE HEIGHT FROM 58 TO 48. BUT THERE'S STILL SOME MORE PROPOSED VIOLATIONS THAT I WOULD LIKE TO MENTION HERE THAT I THAT I REALLY THINK HAVE TO BE CONSIDERED. FOR EXAMPLE MY FAVORITE PART OF THE DEVELOPMENT THE LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE IS THE LANDSCAPING AND 3 PRESERVATION. AND YOU KNOW FOUR BUILDINGS OR FIVE STORIES THAT ARE ADJACENT TO RESIDENTIAL THEY HAVE TO PROVIDE A LANDSCAPE BUFFER OF FIFTY FEET. THEY ARE REQUESTING 20 FEET ABOVE WATER THAT IS 60 PERCENT NARROWER THAN WHAT IS PRESCRIBER. IT INCREASES THE RISK TO THOSE HUMAN BEINGS. THE RISKS TO THEIR HEALTH TO THE SAFETY INTO THEIR PROPERTIES. AND WE'RE TALKING ABOUT REDUCED STONE STONE WATER RUNOFF. WE'RE TALKING ABOUT A REDUCED AIR CIRCULATION SO THAT IT WILL BE LESS COOLING OFF THE SURFACES THAT IT WILL BE LESS OF A REMOVAL OF TOXIC EMISSIONS INCREASED POLLUTION CAUSED BY ARTIFICIAL LIGHT INCREASE POLLUTION CAUSED BY SOUND. AND LET US SAY THAT THE VISUAL POLLUTION FOR THE PEOPLE THAT WILL HAVE THIS BUILDING IN THEIR BACKYARDS. IN ADDITION THE INCREASE GOD FOR APPEAR THE RISK OF AN EVENT OF FIRE BECAUSE THIS NATURAL WHERE A BUFFER IS ALSO THE SETBACK OF THE BUILDING AND NOT LEAST IMPORTANT I ALSO WOULD LIKE TO MENTION THAT YOU KNOW AS BIG BROTHER THAT WE NEED TO BE SURE WE PRESERVE THE WILDLIFE CORRIDORS THAT WE HAVE IN OUR CITY AND ALSO THEIR ECOLOGICAL FUNCTION. WE HAVE TO HELP THEM BE ABLE TO WORK. SO THE CODE IS ANOTHER SUGGESTION. THE CODE IS THERE IN ORDER TO PROTECT THE HEALTH AND SAFETY AND THE ENVIRONMENT AND THE [02:35:05] PROPERTIES AND THE AESTHETIC OF THE CITY AND THE PERMITTING THIS KIND OF VIOLATIONS TO TO BE PERMIT PERMANENT. IT WILL JUST TAKE FLEXIBILITY TO UNDERTAKE WHEN THE GOVERNMENT WANT PROTECT OR ENFORCE THE LAWS THAT PROTECT THE RIGHTS OF THE PEOPLE WE ARE NOT. SO I RESPECTFULLY REQUEST THAT THEY GO BACK AND THEY ALSO WORK IN THE BUFFER TO MAKE IT 50 FEET. THEY ALSO WORK IN THAT PEDESTRIAN SONG. THEY WANT TO DO 14 FEET BECAUSE THEY HAVE TO DO IT 50 PERCENT OF THE HEIGHT. SO WE ARE TALKING ABOUT 24 FEET. AND ALSO THE TRANSPARENCY WILL BE VERY IMPORTANT. YOU KNOW IF THE CODE SAYS THAT THE BUILDING HAS TO HAVE SOME KIND OF TRANSPARENCY IT ISN'T REQUIRED BECAUSE WE NEED TO HAVE SOME COHESIVE VISUAL EXPERIENCE THOSE THAT GO AROUND THE BUILDING. THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR THIS OPPORTUNITY. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. ALWAYS GOOD TO SEE YOU. IS THERE ANYBODY ELSE THINKING COME TO THE PARTY. WERE YOU SWORN IN HER. IF YOU WOULD I NEED TO HAVE YOU SWORN IN PLEASE THE CITY CLERK WILL SWEAR YOU IN. YOU SWEAR OR AFFIRM THAT THE TESTIMONY THAT YOU'RE ABOUT TO PROVIDE SHALL BE THE TRUTH AND NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH. I KNOW THANK YOU. GOOD AFTERNOON. MY NAME IS HERBERT DALY. I LIVE AT 6 0 8 5 NORTH DISABLED FARM BOULEVARD IN TAMARACK. I'M OPPOSED TO THIS OPERATION TO SKIP THIS BUILDING. I WOULD LIKE TO BRING OUT ONE IMPORTANT FACTOR THAT APPARENTLY ASC HAS BEEN OVERLOOKED. THE SIMPLE FACT THAT WHEN THE LAWYERS PUT ON THIS SHOW. WITH THE DRONE THE DRONE WAS STATIONED JUST ABOVE A TREE WHICH WAS WHICH WAS HAD A LOT OF LEAVES ON IT AND IT BLOCKED THE VISION OF TWO BUILDINGS WHICH STOOD BELOW THE TREE. NOW THOSE TWO BUILDINGS HAVE PROBABLY ABOUT A TOTAL OF 24 TO 30 APARTMENTS THAT WILL NEVER SEE SUNLIGHT AGAIN BECAUSE SOME OF THOSE APARTMENTS FACE THE WEST SIDE AND IT'S THE ONLY PLACE THEY GET SUNLIGHT. SOME OF THOSE APARTMENTS FACE THE SOUTH SIDE. THAT'S THE ONLY WAY THEY GET SUNLIGHT. I WOULDN'T WANT TO BUY THOSE APARTMENTS CIVIL FOR ANYBODY THESE DAYS IF THEY HAD A SIT IN THERE. LOOK OUT THEIR WINDOWS OR SIT ON THEIR PATIO AND LOOK AT THE MONSTER OF A BUILDING THAT'S BEEN CREATED THERE. THANK YOU. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. HAS THERE ANYBODY ELSE IN THE AUDIENCE WHO TO SPEAK. SEEING THERE. ARE NO ADDITIONAL COMMENTS FROM THE AUDIENCE FOR THAT PART OF PUBLIC HEARING I WILL NOW TURN IT BACK OVER TO THE APPLICANT. THANK YOU. JUST VERY QUICKLY THE DRONE STUDY THAT WE DID THE DRONE WAS POSITIONED AT THE CENTER OF THE PROPERTY IT WAS NOT HIDDEN BEHIND A TREE OR ANYTHING LIKE THAT. THERE ISN'T A WILDLIFE CORRIDOR ON THIS PROPERTY IT'S GOT UP HUGE FP AN L EASEMENT RUNNING DOWN THE MAJORITY OF IT AND THE REST OF IT'S BEEN CLEARED AND THERE'S REALLY NOTHING THERE. IN TERMS OF STORMWATER AND SAFETY THE STORMWATER HAS REVIEWED BY BROWARD COUNTY THEY HAVE TO ISSUE A PERMIT. WE CANNOT HAVE RUNOFF THAT IS NOT ONLY EXCESSIVE QUANTITY BUT ALSO OF POOR QUALITY. FOR THE SAFETY. IT'S BEEN THROUGH THE DRC YOUR POLICE YOUR FIRE AMONG ALL YOUR OTHER DEPARTMENTS HAVE LOOKED AT IT AND SIGNED OFF. OTHER THAN THAT IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS I'LL BE HAPPY TO ANSWER THEM. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. LADIES AND GENTLEMEN I DO NOT HAVE ANYTHING LEFT HERE BY ANY OF MY COLLEAGUES. I'M PRESUMING THAT. THANK YOU COMMISSIONER BOLTON THANK YOU MADAM MADAM. OH SEE ME BEFORE I NEED TO ASK IF THERE HAS BEEN ANY COMMUNICATION FOR DISCLOSURES PLEASE. SO. COMMISSIONER. ACTUALLY VICE MAYOR OF THE UN MISSION BOLTON. NONSENSE. THE LAST MEETING MR. FISHMAN. THEN SAID THE LAST MEETING. COMMISSIONER GO ON. NO. I SPOKE WITH MR. ADAM JOHARI WHO AFTER A LENGTHY CONVERSATION WITH HIM DID SHARE WITH HIM THAT I WAS GOING TO SPEAK WITH MR. DENIS REALLY AND LET HIM KNOW AND PUT THE TWO OF THEM TOGETHER WHICH I DID DO SO THAT WAS WHAT HAS HAPPENED SINCE THE LAST MEETING. THANK YOU. CORRECTION MADAM MAYOR I DID. I DID SPEAK TO ADAM HARVEY AS WELL AND A COUPLE OF OTHER RESIDENTS. THANK YOU. ANY OTHER CORRECTIONS OR ADDITIONS CHANGES FOR PEOPLE I SPOKE TO THE SAME INDIVIDUAL. FIRST HE EMAILED ME AND THEN I. CALLED THEM THEN THAT'S IT. I HAD AN INFORMAL DISCUSSION WITH DENNIS AT HIS OFFICE. WELL [02:40:06] WE JUST RAN INTO EACH OTHER AND TALK ABOUT THIS. THANK YOU VERY MUCH COMMISSIONER BOLTON. THANK YOU. MR. MEALY. WHAT IS THE NAME OF THE COMPANY THAT YOU USED. TO TAKE THE DRONE PICTURES OR DID YOU DO IT YOURSELF. I DID NOT DO IT. I'LL GET YOU THE NAME IT'S LOOKING IT UP. I WOULDN'T KNOW HOW TO OPERATE ONE OF THOSE THINGS. DRONE A SPHERE. HE'S A CERTIFIED DRONE PILOT. TELL ME THE NAME DRONE SPDR ARE WHEN I D R O N I S H E R E R O N S H S H E R E DRONE A SHEER. WELL I MIGHT HAVE MAYBE IT'S PRONOUNCED DRONE A SPHERE BUT IT'S SPELLED LIKE DRONE IS SHEER AND WHAT'S THE OTHER PART OF THE COMPANY JONAS DOING A SHARE. I'M JUST SAYING MY CLIENT TOLD ME I MIGHT NOT HAVE BEEN PRONOUNCING IT CORRECTLY BUT I DID SPELL IT CORRECTLY. YOU KNOW WHAT. WHAT'S THE NEXT PART OF THE COMPANY'S NAME TRYING TO YOU WHAT. LOOKING IT UP IT DOESN'T SAY. I DON'T KNOW IF IT'S CORE OR ANCHOR LLC OR WHATEVER. HE DOESN'T HAVE THAT ON THIS LIST. IS THIS ONE WORD. DID THEY HAVE ANY LIMITATIONS. WHEN TAKING THE PICTURES SEEING THAT COMMERCIAL BOULEVARD IS THERE NOT NECESSARILY FLY OVER WELL. WELL WHAT HE WAS ABLE TO DO IS POSITION THE DRONE ABOVE THE PROPERTY AND IT PRETTY MUCH STAYS STATIONARY. IT JUST GOES IN A 360 DEGREE CIRCLE SO IT DOESN'T HAVE TO TRAVEL A WIDE DISTANCE TO DO THAT. AND YOU'LL REMEMBER WHEN WE DID THAT DRONE FLIGHT THAT'S WHEN THE BUILDING WAS PLANNED TO BE 64 FEET. AND THE DRONE WAS LEVELLED AT 64 FEET ABOVE GROUND. WE'RE NOW 48 FEET SO 16 FEET LESS THAN WE WERE BEFORE. AND IF YOU REMEMBER THOSE PICTURES THAT WE SHOWED YOU REALLY COULDN'T SEE MUCH EXCEPT WHEN YOU WERE LOOKING SOUTH ACROSS COMMERCIAL BOULEVARD AND THEN WHEN YOU WERE LOOKING WEST WOULD YOU SAY THAT THERE WERE ANY ANYTHING THAT PREVENTED YOU FROM TAKING BETTER DRONE PICTURES OR DO YOU THINK THAT THE ONE THAT ONES THAT YOU PROVIDED WERE SUFFICIENT. I THOUGHT THE ONES WE WERE OF PROVIDED WERE MORE THAN SUFFICIENT BECAUSE PARTICULARLY ONCE WE LOWERED THE HEIGHT OF THE BUILDING YOU WOULD BE ABLE TO SEE EVEN LESS THAN WHAT WE SHOWED ON THE DRONE PICTURES THAT WE HAD. SO WE FELT VERY COMFORTABLE THAT IF WE COULD SHOW WHAT IT WAS AT 64 FEET IT'S GOING TO BE EVEN SIGNIFICANTLY LESS AT 48. SO WE DIDN'T SEE A NEED TO DO IT AGAIN. OK. DO WE HAVE THE THE THE PICTURES THE DRONE PICTURES. THERE WOULD BE IN OUR POWERPOINT. THERE YOU GO. I DON'T KNOW IF THAT'S THE FIRST ONE THERE. I THINK THERE'S FOUR OR FIVE OF THEM OK CLICK THROUGH THEM IF YOU WANT. GO BACK TO THE TO THE NORTH VIEW SO THE YOU'RE SAYING THAT THIS PICTURE IS THE NORTH VIEW OF WOULD BE FACING SOME VISTA. YES FROM OUR SITE LOOKING TO THE NORTH AND YOU SEE KIND OF AT THE I DON'T KNOW ONE O'CLOCK OR TWO O'CLOCK MARK IS KIND OF SEE THE TOP OF A ROOF OF A BUILDING ONCE YOU DROP DOWN 14 FEET FURTHER. I DON'T THINK YOU'D EVEN SEE THE TOP OF THAT ROOF ANYMORE AND AGAIN REMEMBER THE THEORY WAS IF WE CAN'T SEE THEM THEY CAN'T SEE US BECAUSE WE DON'T HAVE WINDOWS THAT PEOPLE CAN LOOK OUT OF. SO WE WERE REALLY HAVING THIS DONE ORIGINALLY TO SEE. CAN YOU SEE THE VERY TOP OF OUR BUILDING. AND WITH 14 FEET LOWER THAN THIS I DON'T THINK YOU'RE GOING TO SEE ANYTHING EVEN FROM THAT ONE LITTLE PIECE WHERE YOU SEE THAT ROOFLINE. DOES SO [02:45:08] YOU'RE SAYING THAT YOU WILL NOT CUT ANY OF THESE TREES. WE WILL NOT WHAT. YOU'RE SAYING THAT YOU WILL NOT CUT DOWN ANY OF THESE TREES OR WILL YOU CUT CUT THE TREES DOWN. WE HAD A TREE DISPOSITION PLAN AS PART OF OUR SITE PLAN. WE HAVE VERY FEW TREES ON THE MAIN PART OF THE PROPERTY WHERE WE'RE BUILDING THE BUILDING. SO I'M NOT GOING TO SAY THERE WON'T BE ANY TREES REMOVED BUT I THINK IT'S VERY MINIMAL AND OF COURSE WE'RE PLANTING A BUNCH OF NEW TREES AS WELL. SO HERE ON THE PROPOSED SITE PLAN YOU ARE SEEING SOME TREES THERE AS A BUFFER TO I'M SORRY. WOULD YOU SAY AGAIN PLEASE ON THE PROPOSED SITE PLAN. PICTURE THAT WE'RE LOOKING AT. THERE ARE SOME TREES BUFFERING SOME VISTA TO TO THE SOUTH OF SOME VISTA TO THE NORTH OF YOUR BUILDING. RIGHT. AND MY CLIENT WAS JUST TALKING ABOUT THAT IF YOU LOOK AT THAT YOU CAN SEE FROM THE TREE CANOPY SO LOOK AT THE NORTHERN PROPERTY LINE AND YOU SEE THAT TREE CANOPY. IT'S OBVIOUS FROM THAT CANOPY THAT THE TRUNKS OF THOSE TREES ARE CLEARLY ON THE SUN VISTA PROPERTY NOT OURS BECAUSE A VERY SMALL PORTION OF THE CANOPY IS ON OUR PROPERTY AND ABOUT 80 TO 90 PERCENT OF IT LOOKS LIKE IT'S ON THEIR PROPERTY. SO WE WOULD NOT BE ABLE TO TOUCH THOSE TREES BECAUSE THEY'RE NOT ON OUR PROPERTY. AND THE SAME THING WHEN YOU LOOK ON THE EAST I THINK EVEN MORE SO YOU SEE THAT IT LOOKS LIKE MAYBE 95 PERCENT OF THE TREE CANOPY IS EAST OF OUR PROPERTY LINE AND THEREFORE THE TRUNKS WOULD BE EAST OF OUR PROPERTY LINE AND WE WOULD NOT BE TOUCHING THOSE TREES EITHER BECAUSE THEY'RE NOT ON OUR PROPERTY. WILL YOU BE FENCING THE FENCING IN THE BUILDING SO THAT THERE IS NO. SO IT PREVENTS PEOPLE FROM COMING ON TO THE PROPERTY OF THE STORAGE FACILITY SO THERE IS A WALL SEPARATING US FROM SUN VISTA ON THE NORTH AND THE EAST. BECAUSE YOUR CODE REQUIRES THAT BETWEEN COMMERCIAL AND RESIDENTIAL USES WE ARE. WE CANNOT FENCE IN THE FPL EASEMENT AND WE DON'T THINK WE NEED TO FENCE ALONG COMMERCIAL BOULEVARD BECAUSE WE'VE PUT IN THE WALL ALL ALONG THE EASTERN WEST PROPERTY LINE. SO WHILE SOMEONE MAY BE ABLE TO COME ONTO OUR PROPERTY THEY WOULDN'T BE ABLE TO GET FROM OUR PROPERTY INTO INTERESTS VISTA BECAUSE OF THE WALL. SO SOME VISTA DOES NOT HAVE A WALL. THEY HAVE A BOARDED FENCE. WELL WE'RE GONNA HAVE A WALL ON OUR SIDE. LET'S SAY THAT THAT WAS WHAT I WAS ASKING. EVEN IF THEY WANT TO. IF THEY WANT TO KEEP THEIR FENCE THERE THEY CAN. IF THEY WANT TO REMOVE IT AND JUST RELY ON OUR WALL. THAT'S OKAY WITH US. SO THERE'S GOING TO BE A WALL AROUND THE PERIMETERS OF YOUR PROPERTY THAT IS ON THE NORTH AND THE EAST SIDE. YOU'RE FINISHED. YES BUT NOT ALONG ROCK ISLAND AND NOT ALONG COMMERCIAL. IF YOU THINK ABOUT THE TYPICAL SHOPPING CENTER NEXT TO A RESIDENTIAL DEVELOPMENT SIMILAR SITUATION YOU HAVE A WALL ALONG THE REAR OF THE SHOPPING CENTER SEPARATING IT FROM THE RESIDENTIAL. SAME THING WE'RE DOING HERE APPROXIMATELY HOW FAR AWAY FROM THE STREET. IS THE BUILDING AS IT IS FACING COMMERCIAL BOULEVARD RELATIVE TO COMMERCIAL BOULEVARD IT CAN. CAN I ASK YOU TO COLLECT THE BLACK AND WHITE SITE PLAN. I BELIEVE THE DIMENSIONS ARE SO MUCH OKAY. KEEP GOING. I THINK WE'LL GET THERE. WE'RE LOOKING IT UP RIGHT NOW. I DON'T. WE DON'T SEEM TO HAVE A SLIDE. THE CHOSEN SO WE'LL GIVE YOU THE DIMENSIONS FROM ROCK ISLAND AND THE ONE FROM COMMERCIAL COMMISSION. WHILE HE'S LOOKING IT UP DID YOU HAVE OTHER QUESTIONS I WANT TO KEEP ON. WE'RE GOING TO TAKE YOUR TIME. OK. THANK YOU. 15 FEET FROM THE COMMERCIAL BOULEVARD NORTH AND RIGHT AWAY [02:50:26] LINE. KEEP IN MIND THAT'S NOT THE PAVEMENT. THAT'S JUST THE EDGE OF THE RIGHT AWAY AND ABOUT A HUNDRED AND TWENTY FIVE FEET FROM THE RIGHT OF WAY LINE OF ROCK ISLAND SAID A WOMAN 10 15 FEET FROM THE NORTHERN RIGHT OF WAY LINE OF COMMERCIAL BOULEVARD. AND AS I SAID KEEP IN MIND THAT DOESN'T MEAN 15 FEET FROM THE ROAD IT'S FROM THE EDGE OF THE RIGHT OF WAY AND A HUNDRED AND TWENTY FIVE FEET APPROXIMATELY FROM THE EAST RIGHT OF WAY LINE OF ROCK ISLAND. HOW FAR IS THE RIGHT AWAY. ON COMMERCIAL BOULEVARD FROM THE ROAD YOU MEAN THE EDGE OF THE ROAD TO THE EDGE OF THE RIGHT AWAY. I'M NOT SURE WE'LL KNOW ABOUT SO IT'S ABOUT 20 TO 25 FEET FROM THE EDGE OF PAVEMENT. 40 FEET NO. FIFTEEN PLUS PLUS 25 OR SO. NO NO. OKAY I'LL TAKE 10 OR SO I'LL TAKE 10 TIMES BETTER. NOW KEEP IN MIND THAT'S TWENTY FIVE FEET FROM THE EDGE OF THE STREET TO YOUR BUILDING. THAT'S ABOUT RIGHT. FROM THE DOOR AT THE BACK OF THIS THIS TO TO HEAR HOW MANY FEET DO YOU THINK IT IS. OH JEEZ I DON'T KNOW. I'M LOOKING AROUND NOBODY ELSE IS RAISED THEIR HAND SO I'M NOT SURE ANYBODY ELSE KNOWS. AND I WAS GOING TO SEE IF ANYBODY HAD A TAPE MEASURE. BUT WHAT DO YOU THINK MISS CALLAWAY. THE MEASUREMENT FROM WHERE. COULD YOU REPEAT CAN YOU PLEASE REPEAT THE QUESTION. HOW FAR DO YOU THINK THE DOOR. OUR DOOR IS TO WHERE I'M SITTING. OH IT'S MORE THAN THAT. THE. SAME. FROM THE DOOR. HE WAS. WELL OVER. 30. WELL OVER IT. CAN I INTERJECT SOMETHING. OH PLEASE LET ME FINISH. HOW FAR DO YOU THINK FROM THE DOOR. TO WHERE YOUR ASSOCIATE IS IS SITTING. HE'S MEASURING IT NOW. I DON'T KNOW WHAT SIZE SHOE HE WEARS THOUGH. I JUST WANTED TO POINT OUT THAT THE THE SETBACK ALONG COMMERCIAL BOULEVARD MEETS THE CODE THAT IS NOT ONE WHERE WE'RE ASKING FOR A VARIANCE IN LONG ARE THE DAYS WHEN WE TALK ABOUT CODE MR. MILLER WE'RE TALKING ABOUT QUALITY OF LIFE. I TALK ABOUT I DIDN'T ASK BECAUSE IT'S A LEGAL LETTER. LET ME LET ME FINISH MY LET ME FINISH. I WAS IN THE MIDDLE OF SAYING SOMETHING AND I WAS I WAS I WAS IN THE MIDDLE OF ASKING A QUESTION BUT WHEN YOU BROUGHT SOMETHING ELSE UP. OKAY THAT THAT'S ABOUT HERE. MADAM MAYOR WE HAVE SOMEBODY WHO IS PUTTING INFORMATION INTO THE RECORD THAT HASN'T BEEN SWORN IN. JEFFREY. PLEASE IF YOU ARE A CITY CLERK DO YOU SWEAR OR AFFIRM THAT THE TESTIMONY THAT YOU ARE ABOUT TO PROVIDE SHALL BE THE TRUTH AND NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH. AND SIR I NEED YOU TO COME TO THE MICROPHONE AND STATE YOUR NAME FOR THE RECORD. AND JUST ALSO YOUR TESTIMONY IS BEING GIVEN FOR THE TRUTH OF THE MATTER. PLEASE MAKE SURE THAT YOU SHARE YOUR APPROXIMATE FOOT SIZE AND ESTABLISH THAT LAYS IT OUT. I'M SORRY. THIS IS A QUASI JUDICIAL. I'M NOT TRYING TO BE FUNNY ON THIS ONE. WE'RE TRYING TO ESTABLISH. OK. YOU'RE FOX METAL AND SO MY SHOES IS APPROXIMATELY 11 FEET. I MEAN ELEVEN INCH WOW JEFFREY. ALL RIGHT ADDRESS IS 61 0 4 OR 2. TERRY LANE TAMARACK FLORIDA AND I'M SORRY INTERRUPTED. BUT ANYWAY I COULD TRY AND BE A BIT HELPFUL. THE FISH THAT YOU HAVE NOW IF YOU WOULD. YOU TOOK APPROXIMATELY HOW MANY STEPS FROM THE BACK OF THE ROOM AT THE DOOR TO WHERE YOU WERE STANDING WHICH IS APPROXIMATELY THE 1 2 3 FOURTH ROW FROM THE END 22 STEPS. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. YOU'RE WELCOME. ALL RIGHT. COMMISSIONER BOLTON [02:55:03] YOU WERE ASKING QUESTIONS. THANK YOU MY AWARE. THANK YOU JEFFREY. I'D LIKE TO CALL CAPTAIN NEIL GLASSMAN. CAPTAIN GLASSMAN IF YOU HAVE NOT BEEN SWORN IN PLEASE WHEN YOU COME DOWN PLEASE BE SWORN IN BY THE CITY CLERK. DO YOU SWEAR OR AFFIRM THAT THE TESTIMONY THAT YOU'RE ABOUT TO PROVIDE SHOULD BE THE TRUTH AND NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH. THANK YOU. NEIL GLASSMAN CAPTAIN VSO TAMARACK DISTRICT THANK YOU MS CALLAWAY CAN YOU PLEASE STAND BESIDE CAPTAIN NEIL GLASSMAN. HOW. HIGH THE SHOES ARE TODAY. MISS GALLOWAY DO YOU RECALL US. DISCUSSING AND VOTING ON A DAY CARE THAT IS IN THE SUNSHINE PLAZA PLAZA ALL WAS ABOUT ALWAYS PROPOSED TO GO INTO THE SUNSHINE PLAZA. YES I DO. DO YOU RECALL WHEN THE COMMISSION HAD SOME CONCERNS ABOUT THAT AREA AND HOW IT IS PRONE FOR ACCIDENTS I RECALL THE DISCUSSION. YES. CAPTAIN GLASSMAN IN YOUR EXPERIENCE AS AH CAPTAIN TELL US ABOUT THE ACCIDENTS IN THAT AREA. WHAT WOULD YOU LIKE ME TO TELL YOU. HOW MANY ACCIDENTS DO YOU THINK THAT THERE ARE A LOT OF ACCIDENTS. I CAN'T GIVE YOU A NUMBER. THAT'S AN INTERSECTION WE DO HAVE A GREAT MANY ACCIDENTS ACT THOUGH. YES. DO YOU THINK THAT IT'S MORE ACCIDENTS THAT HAPPEN THERE THAN OVER HERE AT CITY HALL IN FRONT OF THE POLICE STATION. YES I THINK IT'S MORE ACCIDENTS. THAT HAPPENS AT SIX TO FOURTH IN COMMERCIAL I COULD NOT TELL YOU THE NUMBER BUT I WOULD HAVE TO SAY IF YOU ASKED MY OPINION YES EAST OF 6 FOURTH AND COMMERCIAL IS ANOTHER STORAGE FACILITY. THEY DON'T HAVE ACCIDENTS. THEY THEY DO BUT NOT AS MANY AS COMMERCIAL AND. ROCK ISLAND. WELL YOU'RE ASKING ME TO. THERE'S TWO DIFFERENT THINGS THAT'S A ONE OF OUR MAJOR INTERSECTIONS. THE OTHER STORAGE FACILITY IS NOT A WHAT I WOULD CONSIDER A MAJOR INTERSECTION IN THE CITY. SO YOU WOULD AGREE THAT COMMERCIAL AND ROCK ISLAND IS A MAJOR INTERSECTION CERTAINLY COMPARED TO SIXTY FOURTH WHERE THE WHERE YOU'D MENTIONED OTHER STORAGE FACILITY IS YES. AT THIS MAJOR INTERSECTION THAT YOU HAVE SO ELOQUENTLY. STATED. DO YOU THINK THAT THERE COULD BE TERRIBLE ACCIDENTS. CARS COMING AT A HIGH SPEED RUNS INTO A BUILDING THAT IS ONLY 25 FEET. FROM THE SIDE OF THE ROAD OR YOU'RE REALLY ASKING ME TO SPECULATE UP HERE. I'M NOT AN EXPERT ON THINGS THAT MAY OCCUR OR MAY NOT OCCUR BUT OF COURSE ANYTHING'S POSSIBLE. I MEAN EUROPE YOU'VE BEEN A POLICE OFFICER FOR MANY YEARS YOU'VE ASCENDED TO THE OFFICE OF OUR CAPTAIN. I'M SURE AN EXPERT IN. THESE KINDS OF MATTERS. WELL DO YOU BELIEVE. NO I MEAN NO THAT'S NOT AN EXPERT THAT'S NOT YOU'RE ASKING ME TO GIVE AN EXPERT OPINION. YOU'RE ASKING ME HAVE I SEEN ACCIDENTS LIKE THAT THERE. I CANNOT GIVE YOU AN EXPERT OPINION OF SOMETHING THAT MAY OR MAY NOT OCCUR. IF YOU'RE ASKING ME HAVE I SEEN SITUATIONS IN THE PAST WHERE CARS LEFT THE ROADWAY AND HAD BUILDINGS I WOULD SAY YES AND YOU'VE SEEN X YOU'VE SEEN CARS LEAVE THE ROADWAY AND PLUNGE ON TO THE OPEN LOT CURRENTLY THERE. I DO NOT REMEMBER ANY ACCIDENTS OF THAT SORT. NOT TO SAY THAT DIDN'T HAPPEN. I JUST DO NOT REMEMBER ANY THAT DID OCCUR. AS YOU JUST DESCRIBED NO IF YOU CAN REMAIN WHERE YOU ARE. CAN I HAVE MISS CALLAWAY AGAIN PLEASE SCULLING. A GENTLEMAN. HAS BEEN IN CONTACT WITH YOUR OFFICE AND HE SAYS THAT AND THIS IS MISS. MISS BROWN AND MR. VIDAL WHO ARE TAMARACK RESIDENTS SELLING COCONUTS AND CANE SUGAR CANE ON THE EMPTY LOT. THEY CALLED AND THEY VISITED YOUR OFFICE. AND [03:00:05] THEY'VE ALSO SPOKEN TO BE ON BASE THAT THAT OUR OFFICE YOUR OFFICE VSO SAYS THAT THEY ARE NOT ABLE TO BE ON THE PROPERTY SELLING COCONUTS AND SUGAR CANE NOT ONLY BECAUSE IT'S ILLEGAL BUT ACCIDENTS HAPPEN FREQUENTLY IN THAT AREA AND THEY ARE AT RISK. DO YOU REMEMBER HAVING THAT CONVERSATION WITH MR. VIDAL AND MISS BROWN. NOT PERSONALLY COMMISSIONER BUT I CAN TELL YOU THAT THE OUTDOOR SALE OF COCONUTS AND AND SUGAR CANE ON PRIVATE PROPERTY IS ILLEGAL SO MY CODE ENFORCEMENT OFFICER MIGHT HAVE BEEN OUT AND ISSUED A VIOLATION BUT I DON'T BELIEVE WE COMMENTED ON TRAFFIC OR SAFETY ISSUES. WOULD MR. ZIPCAR RECALL ANY CONVERSATION. PLEASE. FRANK WERE YOU SWORN IN. CITY CLERK WILL YOU PLEASE SWEAR IN FRANK SLUGGER YOU SWEAR OR AFFIRM THAT THE TESTIMONY YOU ARE ABOUT TO PROVIDE SHALL BE THE TRUTH AND NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH. I DO. FOR THE RECORD FRANK ZUCKER ASSISTANT DIRECTOR TO ME DEVELOPMENT NO I DO NOT RECALL LIKE A CONVERSATION MOSCOW BLOWING. HOW LONG HAVE YOU BEEN IN YOUR POSITION WITH THE CITY. OVER FIVE YEARS IT WAS FIVE YEARS IN JANUARY. IN YOUR FIVE YEARS OF BEING WITH THE CITY HOW MANY BUILDINGS DO YOU SEE ALONG THE COMMERCIAL CORRIDOR THAT IS 25 FEET FROM THE EDGE OF THE ROADWAY. HOW MANY HAVE YOU APPROVED. HOW MANY HAVE YOU SEEN. THE FIRE STATION IS ONE OF THEM THAT WAS INSTALLED IN FACT LESS THAN 25 FEET. AND JUST FOR THE RECORD A VARIANCE IS NOT BEING REQUESTED FROM THE SET BACK FROM COMMERCIAL. THE VARIANCE THAT'S BEEN REQUESTED IS SET BACK FROM THE NORTH SIDE AND THE EAST SIDE OF THE BUILDING BUT NOT FROM THE COMMERCIAL BOULEVARD SIDE IF YOU'VE GONE AHEAD OF ME. BECAUSE ONE OF MY REQUESTS WOULD THAT WOULD BE THAT WE SHOULD. BE REQUESTING A VARIANCE FOR A SETBACK FROM COMMERCIAL BOULEVARD ONE IS NOT NEEDED. ONE. ONE IS DEFINITELY NEEDED IN THE FIRE STATION I LOOKED AT THAT PROPERTY THE THE FIRE STATION HAS FENCING. AND I ASKED MR. MEALY WHERE HIS FENCING IS. HE SAYS THERE THERE'S GOING TO BE NONE. ON ROCK ISLAND. NON-COMMERCIAL THE FIRE STATION IS FENCED IN WHICH GIVES A BARRIER FOR ACCIDENTS SO NOT THE PORTION THAT FUNDS UNCOMMERCIAL EXACTLY. THIS THIS STORAGE FACILITY WILL NOT HAVE FENCING ON COMMERCIAL BOULEVARD. NOW I WAS JUST CORRECTING THE PORTION OF THE FIRE STATION THAT FRONTS ON COMMERCIAL BOULEVARD IS A BIG PORTION OF IT IS NOT FENCED IN YES IT IS. NO NO. WE HAVE A PICTURE OF IT. DID MY EYES FOOL ME WHEN I WENT THERE. WHERE YOU HAVE THE PUBLIC ARE THE LANDSCAPING THAT PORTION WHERE THE BUILDING COMES UP. ALMOST TO THE SIDEWALK IS NOT FENCED IN I THINK THE ELEVATION IS DIFFERENT WOULD YOU WOULD YOU SAY. THE ELEVATION OF THE BUILDING. THE OF OF THE SIDE OF THE STREET IT GOES UP JUST AESTHETICALLY IT WOULD JUST IT WOULD JUST NOT LOOK RIGHT. SO WE DIDN'T REQUIRE FENCING SO THE PORTION OF THE BUILDING THAT HAS THE PUBLIC ART WHERE YOU HAVE THE LANDSCAPING THAT PORTION OF THE BUILDING IS NOT FENCED IN SO SO BACK TO 25 FEET FROM THE FROM THE ROADWAY ROLLING DO YOU THINK THAT IT'S SAFE TO HAVE A BUILDING 25 FEET FROM THE EDGE OF COMMERCIAL BOULEVARD. GIVEN THE SPEED OF HOW TRAFFIC COMMISSIONER WE REVIEW FROM A TECHNICAL STANDPOINT BASED ON THE CODE OF ORDINANCE AND I CAN TELL YOU FOR THAT PORTION OF THE PROPERTY THERE IS NO VARIANCE THAT WAS REQUIRED. THE APPLICANT IS NOT SEEKING TO VARY THE SECTION OF THE CODE WHERE THAT IS CONCERNED SOMETHING. MR. CAPTAIN GLASSMAN WHAT IS THE SPEED LIMIT AT ROCK ISLAND ROAD AND COMMERCIAL BOULEVARD. FORTY FIVE A CAR GOING 45 MILES PER HOUR. HOW QUICKLY WOULD IT GET FROM [03:05:14] THAT DOOR. TO WHERE JEFFREY SITTING ONE SECOND TO SAY CAN I. YOU KNOW I'D BE GUESSING I DON'T HAVE THE MATHEMATICAL CALCULATIONS IT WOULD BE VERY VERY QUICKLY HOW DESTRUCTIVE WOULD BE. WOULD IT BE GOING FOUR TO FIVE SECOND FOUR TO FIVE MILES PER HOUR. TO JEFFREY I WOULD PROBABLY KILL HIM. THEY'D PROBABLY KILL HIM. I'M SORRY JEFFREY. BRING BACK THE PICTURE OF DISCIPLINE. LOOK AT THE BUILDING LOOK WHERE COMMERCIAL BOULEVARD IS SOMEBODY STANDING AT THE SIDE OF THAT BUILDING CAR GOING 45 MILES PER HOUR LAUNCHING OFF OF COMMERCIAL BOULEVARD ONTO THAT PROPERTY YOU JUST TESTIFIED THAT THAT PERSON WOULD PROBABLY BE DEAD. WELL ANY VEHICLE STRIKING A PERSON AT 45 MILES PER HOUR ANYWHERE. INCLUDING THE PERSON WOULD PROBABLY SUFFER CATASTROPHIC INJURIES MORE THAN LIKELY FATAL ONES. YES INCLUDING THIS SITE WOULD BE DEAD. RIGHT. ARE YOU ASKING ME IF A CAR JUMPED THE CURB AND WENT UP AND WENT INTO THE SITE ITSELF IS IT. IS THAT THE QUESTION FOR CAR. KIM CAME OFF OF COMMERCIAL BOULEVARD WHERE YOU SEE THESE MAKESHIFT CARS. AND WENT ON TO THE PROPERTY SOMEBODY WAS STANDING THERE THAT PROBABLY BE DEAD. THAT'S WHAT YOU SAID. I MEAN HE YES. IF A CAR STRUCK ANYBODY ANYWHERE ALONG THE SIDEWALK OR IN A PARKING LOT NO MATTER WHERE IT IS IN THE STREET AT FORTY FIVE MILES BRAUER YES THAT PERSON MORE THAN LIKELY IS GOING TO END UP WITH FATAL INJURIES INCLUDING ON THIS PROPERTY. RIGHT. YOU SAID ANYWHERE INCLUDING ON THIS PROPERTY I WOULD IMAGINE IF A VEHICLE STRIKES SOMEBODY 45 MILES PER HOUR THAT PERSON IS LIKE I SAID IS GOING TO SUFFER CATASTROPHIC INJURIES MORE THAN LIKELY FATAL ONES. YES. MY SON WALKS ALONG THAT ROADWAY I JOG ALONG THAT ROADWAY SENIOR CITIZENS ARE ACROSS THE STREET FROM THAT ROADWAY AND YOU EXPECT US YOU EXPECT US TO PASS. THIS NOT POLITICS. WE WERE ELECTED TO SERVE THE CITY. AND. THE RESIDENTS HAVE MADE IT CLEAR THAT THEY DO NOT WANT THIS DEVELOPMENT. ARE WE ACCEPTING MONEY. FOR THE PRICE OF THE BUILDING WE'VE JUST GONE TOO FAR. WITH THE HEIGHT OF THIS BUILDING TAKING AWAY THE [03:10:01] VIEWS OF THOSE RESIDENTS AT SUN VISTA. IT'S IT'S HEARTBREAKING. HEARTBREAKING TOO. IF I WERE LIVING IN THAT COMMUNITY AND SEE A STORAGE FACILITY ON THE CORNER OF MY HOUSE THAT'S INSANE. FOUR FEET OF A BUILDING THE ONLY OF ITS KIND IN THE MIDDLE OF A MAJOR INTERSECTION UNBELIEVABLE. IF WE PASS THIS I'LL NEVER FORGET THIS DAY. MADAM MAYOR IF IT PLEASES A COMMISSION I. WOULD ASK FOR A LIMITED PUBLIC HEARING TO BE OPENED. I SEE THAT THE PRESIDENT OF SOME VISTA HAS WALKED IN AND I WANT TO GIVE HIM THE ABILITY TO SPEAK. ARE YOU DONE WITH YOUR COMMENTS RIGHT NOW. COMMISSIONER BOLTON. YES. BEFORE WE GO TO MR. TARRY WHICH I KNOW YOU WANTED TO BE HEARD EARLIER I AM GOING ASK MY COLLEAGUES AS IS ANYTHING THAT THEY WISH TO SAY AT THIS TIME. NO. OKAY. FOR A LIMITED PURPOSE OF PUBLIC HEARING. MR. DA DO YOU WISH TO COME FORWARD AS YOU DO WHEN YOU PLEASE COME HERE I'M GONNA ASK YOU TO JUST STAND. NO NO PLEASE COME. BUT BEFORE YOU SPEAK I'M GOING TO ASK YOU TO BE SWORN IN BECAUSE THIS IS TESTIMONY ON THE RECORD. AND THEN AFTER YOU ARE SWORN IN PLEASE NAME ADDRESS THAT YOU'RE COMFORTABLE PROVIDING FOR THE RECORD THE NAME WAS THE NAME THE. FOR THE RECORD. THIS IS ALL YOU NEED TO BE SWORN IN JUST AS I. SWEAR OR AFFIRM THAT THE TESTIMONY THAT YOU ARE ABOUT TO PROVIDE SHALL BE THE TRUTH AND NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH. YES YOUR NAME AND ADDRESS FOR THE RECORD IF YOU'RE NOT COMFORTABLE PROVIDING YOUR EYE JUST PLEASE GIVE US A GENERAL VICINITY OF WHERE YOU ARE LOCATED. MY NAME IS ADAM HARVEY. I. LIVE. OUTSIDE OF TOWN RIGHT. BUT I I OBVIOUSLY OWN PROPERTY IN TOWN RIGHT. QUITE A BIT AND AVATAR. IS WHERE. THANK YOU. SO THE REASON I'M HERE TODAY. THANK YOU ALL FOR HAVING ME. EXCUSE MY TARDINESS. I KNOW I SKYPE. SO THE PURPOSE OF ME BEING HERE TODAY TO CONVEY THE OPPOSITION OF THE COMMUNITIES AND VESTED GUARDIANS WHICH IS MOST DIRECTLY AFFECTED BY THIS SITE. WE. WHAT IS BEING PROPOSED AS A TALLER BUILDING THAN ANY OF OURS. IT IS A BUILDING THAT WILL OBSTRUCT THE VIEWS EVEN IF EVEN WITH FOLIAGE WILL OBSTRUCT THE VIEWS OF A GOOD PORTION OF THE COMMUNITY AND WILL SIGNIFICANTLY REDUCE OR DIMINISH OUR PROPERTY VALUES AND OUR QUITE ENJOYMENT OF THE FACILITY OF OUR FACILITY OF OUR HOMES AND OUR COMMUNITIES. VISTA I'VE HEARD FROM QUITE A FEW PEOPLE AND SOME OF US SAY THAT THEY ARE ALL OPPOSED. EVERYBODY I'VE SPOKEN TO I HAVE HEARD EVAN I HAVE NOT HEARD ONE PERSON COMPANY SAY HEY I LIKE THIS PROJECT. LET'S LET HIM DO IT. LET'S LET'S SUPPORT IT. NOBODY WANTS IT THERE AT ALL. IT WILL AFFECT OUR OUR POCKETBOOKS IT WILL AFFECT OUR OUR BANK ACCOUNTS OR AFFECT OUR PROPERTY VALUES. IT WILL AFFECT OUR DESIRABILITY OF THE COMMUNITY. THE PROJECT ITSELF IS NOT APPROPRIATE IN THE MIDDLE OF A RESIDENTIAL NEIGHBORHOOD. SELF-STORAGE DOESN'T BELONG THERE. WHY WAS IT ZONED FOR THAT PURPOSE TO BEGIN WITH AND WHY VARIANCES MAY OR SEVERAL VARIANCES ARE BEING REQUESTED. AND ON TOP OF THAT TO HAVE IT. ALSO WORD I'M LOOKING FORWARD TO HAVE IT. I CAN'T THINK OF THE RIGHT WORD RIGHT NOW BUT IT'S A MUCH LARGER FACILITY. I WOULD SAY CURRENTLY THAT THE OTHER UNITS IT'S INVESTED. NOBODY WANTS IT. NOBODY SAW AT ALL. ALSO NEIGHBORING COMMUNITIES. NOBODY'S HAPPY ABOUT IT. SO WE HAVE. I HAVE I DIDN'T REALIZE THAT THE MEETING WAS TAKING PLACE RIGHT THE SECOND I THOUGHT IT WAS TONIGHT. EXCUSE ME EXCUSE MY IGNORANCE ON THAT BUT I WAS PLANNING ON COMING OVER WITH. A PILE OF SIGNED OBJECTIONS BY UNIT OWNERS THAT. I'D BE HAPPY TO GO AND PICK THEM UP RIGHT NOW AND BRING THEM BACK IF YOU'D LIKE. BUT I DON'T HAVE THEM RIGHT THIS SECOND BECAUSE I HAD TO RUSH STRAIGHT OVER IT FROM MY OFFICE. NOBODY'S HAPPY ABOUT THIS AND WE REALLY DON'T WANT TO SEE [03:15:05] THIS PROJECT. BOTH OBVIOUSLY THEY HAVE A RIGHT TO BUILD THAT AT THIS POINT BUT NOT IN A MANNER THAT THEY'RE HOPING TO DEAL WITH THESE VARIANCES. IT WOULD REALLY HURT US IT REALLY WOULD AND IT'S NOT SOMETHING WE WOULD ENJOY HAVING IN OUR BACKYARD. I GUESS I'LL HAVE TO SAY THANK YOU VERY MUCH AT THIS TIME. MR. MEALY YOU WISH YOU HAVE ANY DO YOU HAVE ANY COMMENTS TO PUT ON RECORD. YES VERY BRIEFLY. FIRST I WANTED TO FINISH WHAT I WAS SAYING EARLIER ALTHOUGH MISS CALLAWAY DID SAY IT PURSUANT TO YOUR CODE AND YOUR CODE PROMOTES BUILDING BUILDINGS CLOSER TO THE STREET AS MANY CODES DO THAT ARE TRYING TO CAPTURE AN URBAN ENVIRONMENT. WE DO NOT HAVE A VARIANCE OF ANY KIND FROM OUR SETBACK FROM ROCK ISLAND OR FROM COMMERCIAL BOULEVARD. SECONDLY MS. CLARK TOLD YOU AT THE BEGINNING WHAT SUBSTANTIAL COMPETENT EVIDENCE MEANS AND IT DOES NOT MEAN OPINIONS UNSUPPORTED BY FACTS. AND I THINK THAT'S WHAT WE JUST HEARD. SO I'D LIKE TO SUBMIT A COUPLE OF THINGS FOR THE RECORD. FIRST WE DID AN ANALYSIS OF THE SALES PRICES OF THE COMMUNITIES NEAR SAFEGUARD BOTH BEFORE IT WAS BUILT AND AFTER IT WAS BUILT AND THE COMMUNITY THAT'S CLOSEST TO IT AND THE COMMUNITY THAT'S FARTHER AWAY FROM IT. BOTH OF WHICH ARE THE EXACT SAME KINDS OF HOMES. THE PRICES REMAINED STABLE AND REMAINED EVEN WHETHER THEY WERE CLOSE TO SAFEGUARD OR FAR AWAY FROM SAFEGUARD. SO I THINK THE COMMENT ABOUT DECLINING PROPERTY VALUES IS THAT THE GENTLEMAN MADE IS NOT SUPPORTED BY FACT THAT IS SPECULATION. OTHER THAN THAT IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS WE HAVE AN ANSWER. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. THANK YOU. COMMISSIONER BOLTON DO YOU HAVE ANYTHING NEW TO ADD AT THIS TIME. MR. WILLIAM. YOU CAN GIVE THE CLERK WHAT I WAS REFERRING TO CAN CHOOSE FOR US HOW OUR COMMUNITIES BUILD WE'RE NOT TRYING TO BE AN URBAN COMMUNITY WITH BUILDINGS CLOSE TO THE STREET. THAT'S JUST NOT HOW OUR COMMUNITY WAS BUILT. AND IT'S NOT. I DON'T BELIEVE THAT'S HOW WE INTENDED TO BE NEED TO MAKE ONE THING CLEAR GOING FORWARD. THE VARIANCE HEIGHT OF THE BUILDING. THAT'S WHAT WE'RE GOING TO DENY. THAT'S WHAT IS BEFORE US. AND THE THE THE THE GENTLEMAN FROM SOME THIS TOP RIGHTFULLY SAID THAT THE BUILDING IS WAY TOO TALL. VARIANCE IS WHAT WE'RE ON AND THE BUILDING JUST DOESN'T MATCH THE AREA. YOU ARE NOT ENTITLED TO BUILD A BUILDING. WE DON'T HAVE TO APPROVE IT WE CAN SIMPLY DENY BASED ON VARIANCE GEARED TO THE HIGHEST BUILDING IN THE AREA. MAY NOT I'VE GONE TO LAW SCHOOL YET. BUT I UNDERSTAND MY JOB AS A COMMISSIONER SO ANECDOTAL OR NOT SUBSTANTIAL EVIDENCE. ALL THAT GOES THROUGH THE WINDOW. WE'RE TALKING ABOUT VARIANCE AND YOUR BUILDING IS JUST TOO HIGH. YOU'D BE THE HIGHEST IN THE AREA. IT WOULD COVER EVERYTHING IN ITS VIEW AND IT JUST DOES NOT MATCH THE CITY FOR OUR LIFE. PERIOD I SWEAR. THANK YOU. CAN YOU TELL ME HOW HIGH THE WALL IS THAT YOU'RE PUTTING UP ON EASTERN NORTHERN 6 FEET. OK. AND THE WALL THAT THE COMPLEX CURRENTLY HAS IS HOW HIGH. MINERS SAY THEY HAVE A FENCE. I DON'T KNOW. I DON'T KNOW HOW HIGH IT IS. OKAY. ALL RIGHT LOOK THIS HAS BEEN A DIFFICULT ISSUE NOW. WE'RE TALKING ABOUT A SAFETY ISSUE WHICH ALWAYS CATCHES MY EAR. WELL I WOULD ASK YOU. TO IF YOU REALLY THINK THERE'S A SAFETY ISSUE [03:20:01] PLEASE ASK THE CAPTAIN TO COME BACK UP BECAUSE THE DEVELOPMENT REVIEW COMMITTEE INCLUDES A REPRESENTATIVE FROM THE SHERIFF'S OFFICE AND THEY SIGNED OFF ON THE PLAN. SO THEY OBVIOUSLY DIDN'T THINK IT WAS UNSAFE. I'M NOT CHALLENGING AND I DON'T NEED TO ASK CAPTAIN GLASSMAN. I GET IT. OK. I UNDERSTAND THERE IS NO WAY FOR HIM TO CONFIRM THERE IS THERE ISN'T. WHATEVER. OK. SO LET'S JUST TAKE A STEP BACK BUT IF WE GO ACROSS THE STREET AND WE LOOK AT THE NORTH SIDE OF COMMERCIAL BOULEVARD WEST OF ROCK ISLAND ROAD YOU HAVE A WHOLE ROW OF SINGLE FAMILY HOMES AS CLOSE TO THE STREET AS WE ARE. SOMEONE COULD HOP THE CURB AND RUN THROUGH THEIR FENCE AND HIT THEIR HOUSE. I DON'T THINK IT'S EVER HAPPENED IF IT DID SOMEONE WOULD HAVE SAID SOMETHING ABOUT IT. I GET IT. I UNDERSTAND. MY ONLY POINT IS IF THIS CAN HELP THE ISSUE BY PUTTING A FENCE UP ALONG THE AIR CAN WE PUT A FENCE UP YES. THANK YOU THANK YOU SEEING THAT THERE ARE NO OTHER COMMENTS AND QUESTIONS AT THIS POINT IN TIME WE'VE ALREADY HAD OUR MOTION AND SECOND FOR DISCUSSION I NOW NEED A MOTION AND A SECOND TO FOR APPROVAL OF TV 0 2 9 ROCK ISLAND SELF-STORAGE VARIANCE PLEASE. AND THEN I WILL ASK FOR THE SAME FOR TIER 1 3 2 5 7 ROCK ISLAND SELF-STORAGE YOUR MOTION THAT YOU PREVIOUSLY HAD WAS TO PUT IT ON THE TABLE FOR DISCUSSION. SO WHAT YOU NEED IS A MOTION TO APPROVE OR DENY YOU CAN'T VOTE ON ANYTHING IT LOOKS LIKE. THAT'S WHY I'M ASKING FOR IS FOR A MOTION AND I'M ASKING FOR BOTH ALONG FROM SUPER TIME BOTH THEM TOGETHER. TWO MOTIONS SEPARATE VOTING OF COURSE TO GET THIS ON FOR APPROVAL OF TV SHOW 2 9 ROCK ISLAND SELF-STORAGE VARIANCE AND THEN TR 1 3 2 5 7 ROCK ISLAND SELF-STORAGE MAJOR REVISED AND I WANT TO MAKE MENTION OF THE FACT THAT THE CORRECTION OF THE VARIANCE AS RIGHT INTO THE RECORD WOULD BE TO 48 FEET NOT TO THE REQUESTED FIFTY EIGHT FEET FOUR INCHES THAT WAS WHAT THE ORIGINAL VARIANCE WAS THE THE REVISED VARIANCES FOR 48 FEET SO THAT'S AS WE UNDERSTAND IT BUT DO YOU NEED OR WOULD YOU LIKE FOR THE CLEAN RECORD. TO READ THE TITLE BACK IN THE TITLE THAT I READ DIDN'T SPECIFY EXACTLY WHAT THE IT DOES NOT IT I DID NOT IT'S JUST I'M LETTING YOU KNOW THAT THERE HAS BEEN A REVISION SINCE THE LAST HEARING SO LET THE RECORD REFLECT. THAT THE VARIANCE BEING REQUESTED IS FOR FORTY EIGHT FEET IT IS NOT WHAT IT WAS ORIGINALLY WHEN WAS A FIFTY EIGHT FEET IT WAS IT WAS PREVIOUSLY FIFTY EIGHT FEET FOUR INCHES BUT IT'S BEEN REVISED ALLOWED VOTED UPON IT WENT DOWN TO 48 FEET AND MAKING SURE THAT EVERYBODY UNDERSTANDS WHAT THEY'RE VOTING FOR IS FOR THE VARIANCE AT THE 48 FEET SO FOR CLEAR FOR THAT ONE I NEED A MOTION AND A SECOND FOR THE APPROVAL TO MOVE THIS FORWARD MOTION TO OPPOSE SECOND. QUESTION CALL THE QUESTION COMMISSIONER FISHMAN IF YOU WOULD BECAUSE I SAY LOOKS ON FACES A MOTION TO OPPOSE MEANS YOU'RE NOT FOR IT SO YOU VOTE YES IF YOU ARE TO OPPOSE THIS PROJECT NO IF YOU'RE NOT IS THE OPPOSITE WHAT WE TYPICALLY DO CORRECT. SAY THAT AGAIN IF YOU VOTE YES TO THE MOTION TO OPPOSE YOUR OPPOSING THE PROJECT IF YOU VOTE NO THEN YOU'RE VOTING FOR THE PROJECT THIS IS IN THE ALTERNATIVE OF WHICH OUR MOTIONS ARE USUALLY STATED IT'S. AN ALTERNATIVE IT'S A NEGATIVE VERSUS A POSITIVE. ARE WE CLEAR. NO WE'RE GOOD. OK. PLEASE PLEASE CALL THE COMMISSIONER FISHMAN NOW COMMISSIONER BOLTON YES. VICE MAYOR FLACCO NO. COMMISSIONER GALEN YES. MAYOR GOMEZ NO. SO. TO PUT THIS ON THE FLIP SIDE BACK AROUND. THE MOTION FOR A TV SHOW TO 9 ROCK ISLAND SELF-STORAGE VARIANCE HAS PASSED. I NOW KNOW AN EMOTIONAL SECOND FOR ROCK ISLAND SELF-STORAGE MAJOR OF SITE PLAN TIER 1 3 2 5 7 4. MADAM MAYOR YOU ACTUALLY HAVE TO HAVE A MOTION THE MOTION TO OPPOSE FAILED. YOU NEED TO HAVE A MOTION THAT ACTUALLY APPROVES THE REQUEST. IT DOESN'T JUST PASS BY THE MOTION ITSELF FAILING. TOO BAD SO SAD AND UNDERSTANDABLE. START ALL OVER AGAIN. NOW CAN I GET A MOTION TO APPROVE THIS MOTION TO APPROVE. THANK YOU. I NEED A SECOND AND A SECOND. SO SORRY I'M JUST TRYING HERE. AND NOW THE SECOND COMMERCIAL FISHERMAN. THANK YOU. [03:25:01] THANK YOU. SO IF YOU WOULD PLEASE CALL THE ROSE COMMISSIONER BOLTON. NO VICE MAYOR PLAXO. YES COMMISSIONER FISHMAN YES. COMMISSIONER GALEN. NO THEY ARE GOMEZ. YES. NOW. TB 0 2 9 ROCK ISLAND SELF-STORAGE VARIANCE HAS PASSED. I NOW [g. TR13257 - Rock Island Self Storage - Major Revised Site Plan A resolution of the City Commission of the City of Tamarac, Florida, granting Major Site Plan approval (with conditions) for Rock Island Self-Storage, to allow for the construction of a 107,542-square foot self-storage facility, on the subject property located at 5602 N. Rock Island Road (Case No. 17-SP-18); providing for conflicts; providing for severability; and providing for an effective date. Commission District(s): District 1] NEED A MOTION AND A SECOND ON TIER 1 3 TO 5 7 ROCK ISLAND SELF-STORAGE MAJOR REVISED SITE PLAN MOTION TO OPPOSE COMMISSIONER BOLTON AS A MOTION TO OPPOSE SEEING A SECOND IT FAILS FOR LACK OF A SECOND I NEED A MOTION TO APPROVE SO MOVED. THANK YOU. I NEED A SECOND SECOND. THANK YOU. PLEASE CALL THE ROLL. COMMISSIONER GALEN. LOOK IT UP. WHAT ARE WE DOING NOW. OH NO IT'S NOT. NO NO. I'M SORRY. NO NO. COMMISSIONER BOLTON. NO COMMISSIONER FISHMAN. YES. NICE NAME FLACCO. YES THEY ARE. GOMEZ. YES. TEMPORARY RESOLUTION 1 3 2 5 7 PASSED. JUST TO BE CLEAR THE CLIENT HAS AGREED TO PUT A FENCE ON COMMERCIAL BOULEVARD. YES THAT WAS ALREADY WHAT WAS VOTED ON AND LADIES AND GENTLEMEN THE CURRENT TIME IS ONE FORTY SEVEN. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. WE DO HAVE OTHER BUSINESS THERE. NOT THAT I SEE THAT WAS PROVIDED TO [12. OTHER] ME. NOTHING THAT HAD BEEN ASKED FOR. DID YOU PUT ON THE RECORD. WELL THE BUSINESS I SAW WE DISCUSSED AT THE WORKSHOP ON MONDAY WAS ME PUTTING ON THE RECORD GIVING THE CITY THE CITY ATTORNEY'S OFFICE DIRECTION ON DRAFTING A MOTION TO. PUT A BAN ON PLASTIC BAGS STRAWS AND STYROFOAM AND THEN SIMULTANEOUSLY DIRECTING CITY MARRIAGE AND HAVE STAFF CONDUCT RESEARCH ON WHAT OTHER CITIES HAVE DONE. SO USUALLY YOU CONDUCT THAT IN THE I THOUGHT YOU WERE DOING THAT CLOSER TO THE CONCEPT BUT UNDERSTOOD AND ACTUALLY I DON'T RECALL IT AS BEING FOR EMOTION FOR THE AUDIENCE I BELIEVE WE WANTED TO HAVE A DISCUSSION ON IT FOR BEFORE THERE WAS GONNA BE AN AUDIENCE JAFFA. SO YES PLEASE HAVE A WORKED. WE ARE OUT OF CONSENSUS THROUGH CONSENSUS. WE WANTED A WORKSHOP ON THAT ITEM. WE DISCUSSED IT AT THE WORKSHOP. SO. I'M ASKING FOR THE CITY ATTORNEYS TO DRAFT AN ORDINANCE WHILE SIMULTANEOUSLY THE CITY MANAGER CAN HAVE STAFF CONDUCT THE RESEARCH. SO WE HAVE THE ORDINANCE COME BACK THE RESEARCH COME BACK AND THEN WE CAN VOTE ON THE ORDINANCE. CITY MANAGER WHAT IS THE MOST RESPONSIBLE WAY OF AND USE OF TIME ON THIS METHODOLOGY. SO WHAT COMMISSIONER GUILLEN JUST SAID WAS WHAT I UNDERSTOOD AT THE WORKSHOP AND WE WERE WE WERE INTENDING TO PROCEED WITH THAT. OK. WHAT WHETHER YOU WANT TO FORMALIZE IT TODAY OR NOT IS UP TO YOU. BUT THAT'S THAT'S THE ROAD THAT WE WERE GOING DOWN. I'M NOT GOING TO SPEAK FOR FOR. BUT I THINK THAT'S WHAT WE WERE DO. I AGREE. THAT WAS THAT THE MY UNDERSTANDING AS WELL. WE WERE GOING TO WORK WITH THE STAFF AND SIMULTANEOUSLY WORKING ON THIS. OK. IF SO MOVED BY THE COMMISSION TOO. IF I WROTE CALLED DID YOU WANT A MOTION AND A SECOND DID YOU WANTED THIS VOTED ON VERSUS JUST GENERAL CONSENSUS DO YOU NEED A MOTION ON THIS VERSUS GENERAL CONSENSUS WHAT PROCEDURE DO YOU NEED FOR US TO HAVE THIS OFFICIALLY MOVE FORWARD. WELL YOU CAN'T TAKE ACTION AT A WORKSHOP. SO IF YOU'RE GONNA TAKE ACTION YOU CAN DO IT HERE TODAY. CORRECT. BUT CAN I JUST DO IT BY CONSENSUS OR DO YOU NEED A MOTION FOR MOVING THIS FORWARD. MAYOR I JUST TO CLARIFY I I'VE I FELT LIKE AND YOU KNOW CONSISTENT WITH WHAT WE'VE DONE IN THE PAST I THOUGHT WE WERE MOVING FOR CHRIST ON THE CONSENSUS IN THE WORKSHOP. I THINK THAT THIS ASSISTANT CITY ATTORNEY HOROWITZ MADE A REFERENCE WHICH I THINK YOU'RE REFERRING TO COMMISSIONER GALLAGHER WHICH IS WHY I THINK THAT THE COMMISSIONER IS BRINGING IT UP SO WE DON'T TYPICALLY DO THAT. BUT IF YOU WISH TO PLEASE DO IT. TYPICALLY WE HAVE DONE CONSENSUS AND WE'VE ASKED YOU TO GO AHEAD GO FORTH AND DO IT WITHOUT HAVING TO WORRY ABOUT PUTTING THE FENCE AND THIS ON THE DAIS HERE. AND IT'S MY UNDERSTANDING THEY WERE ALREADY MOVING FORWARD TO DO WHAT IS BEST FOR HOWEVER JUST TO MAKE EVERYTHING CLEAN TODAY. WOULD YOU LIKE TO HEAR THAT THAT'S MY MOTION I WANT TO MAKE A MOTION TO UH. YOU'RE NOT GOING TO. YOU DON'T WANT TO. YOU ARE MAKING THE MOTION CORRECT. MAKE THE MOTION THE MOTION TO DIRECT THE CITY ATTORNEY TO DRAFT LANGUAGE BANNING PLASTIC STRAWS STYROFOAM AND PLASTIC BAGS WHILE SIMULTANEOUSLY STAFF WILL CONDUCT RESEARCH ON THE COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS OF GOING FORWARD WITH THAT WITH THAT ORDINANCE. MR. [03:30:03] FISHMAN HAS SECONDED CITY CLERK WHEN YOU ARE READY. PLEASE CALL THERE ON JUST TO BE CLEAR. WE'RE GIVING DIRECTION TO THE CITY ATTORNEY'S OFFICE TO DRAFT A POLICY BUT WE'RE NOT VOTING ON THE POLICY. OBVIOUSLY WE JUST WANT TO SEE THE SYMBOL WHAT IT WOULDN'T BE A POLICY IT WOULD BE AN ORDINANCE BUT IT WILL OVER A PAIR OF IMPORT ITEMS. WE JUST WANT TO SEE. WHAT IS IN THE SOUP BE FRESH CHICKEN CRAP. LADIES AND GENTLEMEN WHEN THE PRESENTATION COMES BACK TO US ON OUR NEXT WORKSHOP. LIKE WITH EVERYTHING WE DO WE WILL DISCUSS IT. WE WILL REVIEW IT. IF THE ORDINANCE NEEDS TO BE CHANGED IT'LL BE AMENDED OR IF THE AUDIENCE WILL BE VOTED UPON AS IS IT WILL GO FORWARD ORDERLY NOT GOING FORWARD BECAUSE WE DON'T AGREE WITH IT. SO WE'LL SEE WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU'RE READY. JUST A POINT OF CLARIFICATION AND IT MAY NOT BE THE NEXT WORKSHOP YOU'RE NOT ASKING FOR THE NEXT WORKSHOP. WE UNDERSTAND THAT GOOD THINGS SOMETIMES TAKE A LITTLE TIME FOR US TO BE PROPERLY DONE. OK. SO PLEASE JUST I WAS SITTING ON OUR RADAR. WE'D LIKE TO SEE IT RUSSIA. THANK YOU. WE WANTED TO GET RIGHT GET IT RIGHT. DO IT RIGHT THE FIRST TIME ENOUGH TO WORRY ABOUT BRINGING YOU BACK TO SECOND. SO WE'RE READY FOR THE CALLING OF THE QUESTION COMMISSIONER. ONE MORE ITEM. SO CAN WE HAVE THE OCEAN FLOOR. WE THINK ON THIS SIDE. CALL THE POLICE COMMISSIONER FISHMAN. YES COMMISSIONER GALEN. YES. NICE. MAY I GO. YES COMMISSIONER BOLTON. YES. MAYOR GOMEZ. YES. MOTION CARRIED. COMMISSIONER. GO ON WHAT IS YOUR SECOND WISH OF THE NIGHT. I DON'T KNOW IF THIS IS THE MOTION. I KNOW WE CAN'T USE THE WORKSHOP TO MAKE A FORMAL REQUEST. I WANT TO MAKE A FORMAL REQUEST THAT WE REVISE THE CURRENT ORDINANCE SO THAT WHEN THERE IS A VARIANCE REQUESTED INSTEAD OF LIMITING THE NOTIFICATION TO 400 FEET WE EXPAND THAT TO 1000 FEET. THAT'S THE CURRENT POLICY IN CORAL SPRINGS MIRAMAR. OTHER CITIES. WE'RE FOLLOWING THE MINIMUM NOTIFICATION PER NATIONAL STANDARDS AND I WOULD LIKE TO SEE THAT INCREASED. IN ANOTHER MOTION WE'LL BE FOR THE PARKING AS WELL. BUT I'LL SEPARATE THAT SO THAT'S MY MOTION. SO MOVED. ITEM FOR DISCUSSION. OKAY. AT THIS TIME YOU'RE IN MY OPINION ASKING FOR AN ITEM THAT WILL REQUIRE SOME RESEARCH TO BE DONE. AND I DON'T THINK THAT AT THIS TIME OUR STAFF IS PRESENTLY PREPARED TO HANDLE THAT. SO IS THIS ANOTHER REQUEST FOR A WORKSHOP ITEM FOR DISCUSSION ON THIS MATTER. I DON'T THINK WE CAN DISCUSS IT AT A MEETING SO HAVE THE ORDINANCE DRAFTED AND WE CAN DISCUSS IT AND VOTE YES OR NO ON IT. I MENTIONED THAT DURING THE STRATEGIC PLANNING MEETING I DISCUSSED IT WITH MAXINE. OUR PLANNING DIRECTOR I WHEN I FIRST HAD MY ORIENTATION MEETING WITH HER WE VOTED ON A FEW ITEMS SO FAR WHERE NOTIFICATION WAS GIVEN TO RESIDENTS WITHIN FOUR OF FEET. GOT VERY LITTLE PARTICIPATION. SO ALL OF THE COMMUNITY WILL BE IMPACTED DON'T BELIEVE FIND OUT ABOUT THINGS IN A TIMELY MANNER. AND SO I THINK IF WE EXPAND THAT RADIUS THEY MAY NOT BE TWO THOUSAND FEET. SO I'M ASKING IT TO BE DRAFTED TO A THOUSAND FEET. WE MAY AGREE TO DROP IT TO INCREASE FROM 400 TO 500 AFFORD IT TO SIX OR 700 700 BUT I'D LIKE TO SEE THE ORDINANCE DRAFTED. WE CAN DISCUSS IT EITHER AT A WORKSHOP OR HERE AND THEN VOTE ON IT AND WE CAN AMEND THE VOTE TO WHATEVER WE CAN ALL AGREE TO. I THINK A WORKSHOP SETTING WOULD BE REQUIRED AS THERE ARE VARIOUS VARIANCES FOR WHICH ARE USED. THERE IS ICE I SEE. JUST A SECOND. PATIENCE IS A VIRTUE. I PRESS MY BUTTON. I SEE I SEE. BUT BELIEVE IT OR NOT YOU'VE GOT THE VICE MAYOR FIRST. AND YOU KNOW WHAT. EVERY ONCE IN A WHILE I GUESS I'M GONNA DECIDE TO TALK BEFORE EVERYBODY I SAID JUST GIVE ME A THANK YOU. YOUR BACK WAS TURNED TO ME. I PRESSED MY BUTTON BUT THEN YOU TURNED AROUND AND LOOKED AT ME. I DID THE RIGHT THING AND PRESSING MY WAY. YEAH I SEE. OH YES IT AWAY. THAT WAS THE AGGRESSION. NO AGGRESSION. I'M JUST ASKING FOR A MOMENT FOR THEM TO PRESS MY BUTTON. CHILL MEANS MY GOODNESS. WE'VE HAD A BREAK WE'VE HAD LUNCH. I JUST WANT PROPER PROCEDURE ON THIS SUB. THAT'S ALL I WANT PEOPLE SO FOR THIS MATTER FOR DISCUSSION. IS IT SOLELY LIMITED TO WHETHER OR NOT WE BELIEVE IT SHOULD BE GOING FORWARD FOR SOMETHING FOR REVIEW AND PRESENTED TO US AT A WORKSHOP IN AN AUDIENCE VERSUS OUR DISCUSSION AND OUR FEELINGS ON A TOPIC THAT IS MY UNDERSTANDING OF WHAT THE MOTION IS AT THE T AT THIS TIME. WE'RE NOT DISCUSSING THE TOPIC ITSELF AND WHETHER WE FIND IT'S GOOD OR BAD DISCUSSING IT TO BRING IT FORWARD. SO SO RIGHT NOW THE WAY THE ORDINANCE IS DRAFTED NOW I UNDERSTAND THAT THAT'S NOT MY QUESTION. I'M TRYING TO UNDERSTAND YOUR QUESTION AND JUST ASK ME [03:35:01] TO CLARIFY. I'M HAPPY TO DO IT. I'M NOT REALLY CLEAR. SO I THINK YOU'RE I THINK YOU'RE ASKING FOR A WORKSHOP. IF THE ORDINANCE IS DRAFTED IT'S GONNA BE ON A WORKSHOP FOR US TO DISCUSS BEFORE IT GOES TO MY QUESTION. OK SO WHAT'S YOUR QUESTION. MY TRYING TO MAKE SURE I'M ON THE SAME PAGE WITH YOU. THE DISCUSSION NOW TO BE HAD IS JUST WHETHER OR NOT WE WANT TO HAVE IT AT A FUTURE DATE FOR REVIEW AND DISCUSSION. NOT THE DISCUSSION OF THE MERITS OF THE ITEM AT THIS TIME. NO I'M NOT. A DISCUSSION MERITS. THANK YOU. THAT'S ALL I WANT. THAT'S ALL I WANT. ALL RIGHT. VICE MAYOR. OH FIRST OF ALL I COMPLETELY AGREE. WE DO NEED TO DISCUSS THAT AND TO TAKE IT A STEP FURTHER. I WOULD LIKE TO REQUEST A WORKSHOP ITEM TO DISCUSS HEIGHT VARIANCES. IF WE'RE GOING TO CONTINUE TO COME IN WITH THESE BUILDINGS THAT ARE OVER 40 FEET THEN MAYBE WE NEED TO CHANGE THAT DISCUSSION PURPOSES THAT WORKS. THERE'S CURRENTLY A MOTION ON THE FLOOR TO DISCUSS THAT MOTION AND VOTE ON IT BEFORE WE GO ON. I AGREE WITH HIS MOTION SO WE'RE NOT VOTING RIGHT NOW. LET'S FINISH THIS UP AND WE'LL GO TO THE NEXT ONE. ALL RIGHT. COMMISSIONER BOLTON DO YOU HAVE ANY COMMENTS ABOUT WHETHER OR NOT YOU BELIEVE THAT THIS SHOULD GO ONTO A WORKSHOP. I THINK THE WAY THAT COMMISSIONER GUILLEN HAS PUT FORWARD THIS MOTION IS VERY EFFICIENT AND IT IS FULL TIME THAT WE DO THINGS LIKE THAT. I THINK THAT WHEN WE GO TO WORKSHOPS AND THEN DISCUSS IT AND THEN ASK FOR DIRECTION TO GET A ORDINANCE AND THEN COME BACK TO DISCUSS THAT ORDINANCE I THINK THAT'S WASTING TIME AND WE WASTED LIKE NINE HOURS OF RADIO ON MONDAY. AND SO I THINK THE WAY THAT HE HAS DONE THIS IS HE IS A VERY RENAISSANCE WAY LACK OF BETTER TERM. I THINK THAT I WILL DO THINGS LIKE THIS IN THE FUTURE SO THAT THE ATTORNEYS KNOW EXACTLY WHAT WE WANT THEM TO BE DRAFTED AND THEN WE CAN DISCUSS THAT AT THE WORKSHOP. WE AGREE WITH IT OR IF WE NEED TO MAKE ANY CHANGES AND THAT SORT OF STUFF AT THAT TIME WE CAN DO THAT AS FULL TIME WE STOP WASTING EACH OTHER'S TIMES. I DEFINITELY SUPPORT HIS MOTION AND JUST TO CLARIFY. NO NO NO. AS CITY MANAGER LET LET I THINK JULIE IS DEBATING WHETHER OR NOT SHE WANTS TO SAY SOMETHING AND WE WILL DO CLARIFY. NO NOT YOU JULIE SORRY. THE OTHER JULIE. MR. FISHMAN WE SHOULD GO ON YET A CLARIFICATION. YOU THROUGH THE CHAIR. CITY MANAGER MICHAEL. SO WHEN WHEN WHEN YOU PUT ITEMS ON THE AGENDA YOU ALSO PUT IT FOR US TO DISCUSS AT THE WORKSHOP IS THAT CORRECT. TYPICALLY YES. OK SO SO. OK. OK YOU UNDERSTAND WHAT I'M ASKING FOR. I GOT THAT ALGA I REALLY DID THINK MY COMMENTS ON THE MATTER ARE AS FOLLOWS. YES ANYTHING THAT WE NORMALLY HAVE A LOT OF. TEETH INTO THAT WE NEED TO PULL APART AND DISCUSS IS ON A WORKSHOP. PERSONALLY MAYBE THIS COMES FROM MY LAWYER BACKGROUND. I DO NOT KNOW IF IT IS THE MOST EFFICIENT USE OF TIME OF OUR LAWYERS TO HAVE THEM DRAFT ITEMS. THAT WE HAVE NOT YET COHESIVELY DECIDED A MANNER IN WHICH THEY NEED TO GO FORWARD. SIMPLE ITEMS. I CAN UNDERSTAND IT DOESN'T TAKE MUCH FOR A REWRITE. YOU JUST KIND OF OPEN THEM UP AND LEAVE CERTAIN THINGS BLANK. HOWEVER A MORE CONVOLUTED ITEMS AND ORDINANCES AND LEGISLATION I DO NOT BELIEVE THAT IT IS THE MOST EFFECTIVE USE OF OUR ATTORNEYS TIME. THAT IS MY OPINION ON A GENERAL MATTER CAN WE CALL THE QUESTION ON. THIS ONE PLEASE. CITY CLERK WHEN YOU'RE ALREADY. VICE MAYOR BLACK OH YES COMMISSIONER FISHMAN YES COMMISSIONER GALEN. YES. MAYOR GOMEZ. YES. MOTION PASSED IS MY UNDERSTANDING FROM OUR CONVERSATION THAT WE HAVE TWO MORE MOTIONS ON THE TABLE UNLESS WE WANT TO PUT THEM TOGETHER OKAY. YOU DO YOUR BARKING AND SHE'LL DO HER HEIGHT VARIANCES. GO AHEAD. YEAH. SO. DO THE CHAIR CITY MANAGER YOU CAN REMIND ME THE WAY THE CURRENT ORDINANCE IS DRAFTED WHEN SOMEONE'S BUILDING A NEW DEVELOPMENT. THERE'S ONE CAR PER BEDROOM OR PER ADULT. HOW HOW THAT DRAFT IT VARIES. SO I'M GONNA HAVE TO DEFER TO MS CALLAWAY BECAUSE I SPECIFICALLY DON'T KNOW EXACTLY WHAT THE CODE SAYS IS SHE LEFT SHE STEPPED THE WAY THE NPL MEANING. OH OK. I'M GONNA CALL THE CRIME SCENE SO AS TO THE ATTORNEY HAS IT. DO YOU HAVE THE ORDINANCE. I HAVE THE CODE IN FRONT OF ME. I'LL TRY AND SEE IF I CAN PULL IT. I DON'T KNOW IF THAT INFORMATION HAS BEEN PUT IN HERE YET BUT WE CAN. ALL RIGHT. SO I'LL THINK IT WAS ONE POINTS ONE POINT FIND ROOM. YEAH I THINK THAT'S WHAT I REMEMBER THEM SAYING EARLIER. SO I WANT TO INCREASE THAT TO TWO IF MY UNDERSTANDING FROM VARIOUS. DEVELOPMENTS IT CAN RANGE FROM ONE POINT FIVE TO ONE POINT EIGHT SEVEN OR ONE POINT NINE DEPENDING ON THE DEVELOPMENT DEVELOPMENT BEING PROPOSED. SO IN SOME RESPECTS IF I CAN GIVE A FRIENDLY AMENDMENT TO WHAT [03:40:06] YOU'RE TRYING TO DO YOUR HONOR YOU ARE ASKING FOR US TO TAKE A LOOK AT THE PARKING REQUIREMENTS THAT ARE CURRENTLY FOR. ARE YOU LOOKING FOR COMMERCIAL ONLY OR ARE YOU LOOKING FOR RESIDENTIAL ONLY OR A GENERAL OVERVIEW OF IT RESIDENTIAL. AND I SPOKE TO THE PLANNING DIRECTOR AGAIN ABOUT THIS MAXINE CALLAWAY. AND AGAIN THAT'S BASED ON NATIONAL STANDARDS. THE ONE POINT FIVE AND I THINK NATIONAL STANDARDS ARE GREAT FOR A BENCHMARK BUT BECAUSE OUR COMMUNITY IS DIFFERENT IN SOUTH FLORIDA WHERE EVERYONE DRIVES AND HAS A CAR. I'M WITH YOU. I'M. I WANT TO I WANT TO MOVE THAT FROM ONE PLANE FIVE TO TWO. OK. BASICALLY JUST NARROWING HIS COMMISSIONER GALAN'S MOTION RIGHT NOW IS FOR A MOTION AND A SECOND FOR THERE TO BE A DISCUSSION AT A FUTURE WORKSHOP NOTICE AND AN AUDIENCE NOTE IT HAS TO BE DISCUSSED. NO IT'S GOING TO BE DISCUSSED AT THE WORKSHOP. MICHAEL PUTS IT ON BUT I WANT WHAT THE AUDIENCE DRAFTED. SO HE'S AUTOMATICALLY GOING TO PUT IT ON THE WAY. OK. JUST SEE JOE. WELL IT'S ALL GOOD FOR US THIS GUY SAID A WORKSHOP A NEW OR AN ORDINANCE REVISING OUR PARKING FOR RESIDENTIAL. NEW NEW RESIDENTIAL BUILDING. THE REQUEST HAS BEEN SPECIFIC FROM THE ONE POINT FIVE WHICH MIGHT BE ONE POINT EIGHTY SEVEN AND SOME OTHER PARTS OF THE CODE TO TWO. ALL RIGHT. SO IT'S TWO SPACES FOR A UNIT FOR BECK FOR UNITS WITH TWO BEDROOMS AND THREE BEDROOMS. IT'S ONE PARKING SPACE FOR UNITS WITH ONE BEDROOM OR OR INEFFICIENCY. HOW ABOUT WE MAKE IT A LITTLE SIMPLER THAN IF YOU DON'T MIND CAN WE HAVE A WORKSHOP ON PARKING AND AT THAT TIME WE CAN SIMPLY DO SOME REVISIONS THEN IF NEED BE. I'M FINE WITH THAT. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. DO WE NEED TO HAVE A MOTION A SECOND OR CAN WE JUST ASSESS WANTS TO GO FORWARD NO. NO MOTION. THANK YOU. I WILL. SO. SO JUST TO BE CLEAR AT EITHER AT THE NEXT OR I'LL HAVE TO SPEAK WITH MISS CALLAWAY BUT EITHER AT THE NEXT WORKSHOP OR AT A SUBSEQUENT WORKSHOP WE WILL WILL SCHEDULED DISCUSSION ITEMS FOR PARKING FOR BUILDING HEIGHT AND ANY OTHER PRIOR DEVELOPMENT CODE ISSUES THAT YOU TELL ME ABOUT BETWEEN NOW AND THEN. HOW'S THAT. THAT'S YEAH. SO IF YOU THINK OF SOMETHING BETWEEN THE NEXT TWO WEEKS LET'S GIVE YOU SOME. YEAH. WELL WELL WITHIN THE NEXT WEEK WE'LL BE PREPARED TO GIVE YOU ANY KIND OF WISHES WE HAVE AND THEN TO PLEASE SHOW WHAT THE PARKING REQUIREMENTS ARE FOR OTHER. YEAH. YEAH. OK. WE'LL BE READY TO GO WITH A PRESENTATION ABOUT THE CODE AND HOW IT WAS DERIVED AND HOW IT COMPARES. ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU. ALL RIGHT. ARE WE CERTAIN THAT THERE'S NOTHING FURTHER. WELL CONSIDERING HE'S ON HIS MARK GET SET I HAVE NOBODY LEFT. SO WHAT AM I MISSING. WELL YOUR PREVIOUSLY INDICATED YOU WANTED BUT I DON'T KNOW IF WE'RE GOING TO BRING IT UP FOR DISCUSSION OR AT A LATER WORKSHOP. WHAT WAS THE VARIANCE THAT WAS BEING ROLLED INTO WHAT WE'RE GOING TO DISCUSS WITHIN THE NEXT TWO WEEKS THE COMMISSION WILL BRING FORWARD TO MAXINE CALLAWAY SEE SEEING THE CITY MANAGER ANY KIND OF ISSUES THAT WE HAVE THAT WE HAVE SEEN IN DEVELOPMENT FOR US TO THEN HAVE ON A FUTURE WORKSHOP NOT TOO FAR IN THE FUTURE NOT TOO CLOSE IN THE FUTURE. SO IT COULD BE REVIEWED AND DISCUSSED. SOUND GOOD. ALL RIGHT. LADIES AND GENTLEMEN THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR YOUR TIME AND PATIENTS WE'LL SEE YOU ALL THE DISTRICT 1 MEANING THE NIGHT IT IS CURRENTLY 2 OR 5. ENJOY THE WEEKEND. HAVE A GREAT DAY. * This transcript was compiled from uncorrected Closed Captioning.