Planning & Zoning - Regular Meeting

long as they're not contagious. Okay. Okay. Good evening, Mr. Chairman. It's 602 and you have a quorum.

Good evening. As a matter of fact, we do have a quorum. Our last member just walked in. So, let me put my glasses on so I can see him. Come on, you can do it. Okay, we're ready. Light, camera, action. Good evening. Welcome to the city of Halia Planning Zoning board meeting for Wednesday. October 15th. It's been a long month. Uh, everyone, please rise for the invocation, the pledge of allegiance. Lord, we thank you for this opportunity that you've granted us here tonight. We ask that you please watch over us, guide us through these items in front of us, help us make the right decisions for all those involved. Amen. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. May be seated. Meeting guidelines. The following guidelines apply to today's planning and zoning board meeting. Any person whether participating via the web platform, telephonic conferencing or physical presence of city hall interested in making comments or posing questions on any item on the agenda may do so during the meeting. Members of the public may hear the meeting live or telephonic conferencing using any telephone or cellular phone service. A smart device or computer are not necessary to participate in the meeting if you join by phone. All persons participating the web platform will be muted during the meeting until called upon to be heard.

Participation through Zoom requires a computer or smart mobile device with a microphone and web camera. The participant may elect to participate in the meeting using audio only or appear through both audio and video. The video function of all participants appearing through video will be turned off or to called upon to be heard. All lobbyists must register with the planning and zoning board prior to item being heard. A maximum of four speakers in favor and four speakers in opposition will be allowed to address the planning and zoning board on any item. Each speaker's comments will be limited to three minutes. Item one, roll call. Mr. Perez, here. Mr. Mason. Mr. Ellesius is absent. Mr. Yoa here. Mr. Morales here.

Mrs. Enriquez is absent. We have a quorum. Yeah, I believe there Mr. Glacia said that he was uh they were going on a trip today or something this week. So, I don't know if you were able to get a hold of him in the morning. He's not here, but we have a quorum. Okay. Yeah, she did. Yeah, I know. She She always calls me around 8:00 in the morning. Wakes me up. Don't we have a quorum? Item number two, approval of planning and zoning board summary agenda of September 24th, 24th, 2025th. Uh, as of submitted, we need a motion. Motion to approve.

We need a second. So, we had a motion by Mio, a second by Mr. Mason. Let the record show that Mrs. Enriquez is in here. So, she's in the house. Mr. Morales. Uh, yes. Sorry, Mr. Yes. Mrs. Enriquez. Yes. Mr. Perez. Yes. Mr. Mason. Item has been approved. Administration of oath to all applicants and anyone who will be speaking before the board on any item. Do we have anyone in Zoom? No. All right. Everyone please stand. Raise your right hand so we can swear you in.

Do you swear or affirm the truth before this board? Thank you. Let the record show the answer was on the affirmity. You okay, Jav? You got that that painful face. Oh,

a written decision and resolution will be prepared and presented for review to the city council. The city council is authorized to affirm affirm with conditions or override the decisions by resolution. After the resolution is adopted, contact the member of the city clerk's office to obtain a copy of the final decision and resolution. Upon your receipt of the final decision and resolution, contact the building department to obtain your required building permit. summary minutes or a copy of the audio file of the proceedings before the planning and zoning board shall be prepared and submitted to the city council before its hearing. The planning and zoning board recommendations for the following public hearing request will be heard by the city council at a schedule meeting of Tuesday, October 28th, 2025. Item number three, reszoning property from R1, one family district to R33 multiple family district. variance permit to allow 20 units 100% with a total area of less than 700 square feet where 700 square feet is the minimum required and only 25% of residential units may have a minimum area of 500 ft. Allow interior southside setback of 0 feet where 15 ft are required. Allow rear setback of 0 feet where 15 ft are required. Allow two parking spaces fronting East 46th Street to back out into the rightway where backout parking is not allowed. is only allowed in lowdensity residential properties. An allowed 22.2% pvious area with 30% pvious area is the minimum required for the construction of a mixeduse fourstory development consisting of 20 residential units and approximately 5,818 square ft of commercial space including a daycare facility with a maximum capacity of 112 children and nine employees. Properties located at 4595 East 4th Avenue within area two of the neighborhood business district overlay. Hay Alias owns R1 one family district. Applicant Caesar Mestrequ Squire on behalf of JRS 4595 LC.

Thank you Caesar. Good afternoon. Caesar Master with offices at 8105 Northwest 155th Street, Miami Lakes, Florida.

So you got this address back, huh? The property in this application is located on the southeastern intersection of East 4th Avenue and East 46th Street within the area 2 of the neighborhood business district NBD overlay. According to the provided survey, the subject property is approximately 13,627 ft or 31 acres and is improved with a 1,474 ft single family home built in 1948. The properties to the north have zoning classifications of RO residential office and R2 one and two residential district. To the south, east and west is R1 one family district. To the east R1 one family are one-story single family homes separated from the subject property by a 12 foot wide open alley. The adjacent properties to the south are all are one one single family districts and one-story single family homes. This property received a land use amendment approval according to ordinance number 2025-050 which amended its land use from low density residential to medium density residential. As part of the application, the applicant proposed a mixeduse six-story building with 21 residential units and a daycare at the ground level. Council then requested that the height of the building be lowered. Therefore, this reszoning and variance application proposes a mixeduse fourstory building with 20 residential units and a commercial ground level of 5,546 square ft which will encompass a commercial office and a daycare accommodating a maximum of 112 children and nine employees. Since the property is located within one of the MBD districts areas, no special use permit is required. However, the project shall comply with the density and height incentive points. The project is proposing to utilize three points for the redevelopment of a corner uh site

within the MBD district, one point for the gym and the amenity areas proposed on the second and third floor of the building for the exclusive use of its residents, and one point for improving green areas including a sculptured and benches at the front elevation facing East 4th Avenue. In addition, at East 4th Avenue includes a pedestrian entry lobby towards the corner with an elevator and staircases servicing each residential floor. The East 4th Avenue elevation is set back to provide for greenery and storefront details that is required by the MBD regulations. towards the north elevation or East 46th Street. The applicant is proposing a circular driveway to serve as the drop off and pickup of children's attending the daycare and also uh provides for two parking spaces with access only to East 46 uh street and backing out into the street. Therefore, a variance for this type of vehicular access is requested affecting but this is affecting only those two parking spaces. The reszoneing to R33 multif family district is the minimum request to make the property compatible with the already granted land use amendment. And since the property is located with the NBD, the proposal is compatible with this proposed zoning and overlay regulations. However, the project is proposing all residential units to be onebedroom at less than 700 square ft and at least all residential units will have balconies. At the third floor, there are four residential units facing east 4th Avenue. At the fourth floor, there are 16 residential units. Four facing East 4th Avenue, six units facing East 46th Street, and six residential units facing north. The southacing units are all recessed into the building with balconies approximately 6 ft away from the south property line. The main vehicular access to the building is through East 4th Avenue where there is an in-n-out vehicular

driveway access to a garage that is provided. The garage, it is a twolever parking garage with 19 parking spaces on the second floor and 17 parking spaces on the third floor. As mentioned above, there is a circular driveway for drop off and pickup for the daycare and two parking spaces provided at the ground level facing East 46th Street. and therefore the parking requirements are fully met by providing 38 parking spaces. These proposal designs designed and use align with the intent of the MBD regulations. However, the setback variances are harsh to the existing neighboring properties especially to the properties to the south since there will be no area to provide for a landscaping buffer or any other softening treatment to the south elevation. No major hardships has been provided to staff to evaluate the proposed conditions. The remaining variances have a lesser impact on the neighboring properties since internal improvements to the project have been introduced to address them such as the proper water uh storm water engineering system and a proper landscaping and irrigation system to provide for proper green areas and water absor absorption rates. After evaluation of the project, the following conditions are stipulated. Mitigate the southside elevation with proper lighting diffusing elements to reduce the glare from the vehicular ramp into the neighboring properties. Provided improve structural finishes to reduce the noise from the vehicular ramps into the neighboring properties. submit such elements at the time of site plant and enter into a declaration of restrictions to develop the property according to the NBDS schedule for the permitting and construction schedule and that all incentive points are to be provided at the time of site plan andor construction then and develop the property according to the plans prepared by BNA engineering service signed and sealed by Roberto Vero dated August 29, 2025 and provide a traffic analysis at the time of site plan addressing the traffic circulation

and parking conditions for the residential and commercial uses. If any traffic improvements are recommended, the applicant agrees to satisfy such improvements at the time of construction and the exterior colors are to be administratively approved at the site plan at the discretion of the director. Staff recommends approval with uh for the uh resoning and variances with conditions. Thank you, Mr. Mayor.

Thank you. I have a small presentation. Hey, as uh the chair noted, this is 4595 East 4th Avenue, which was with you before you on the uh land use uh change portion of this. Now, we're back. that's been approved by you recommended approval and uh the council has approved it. So now we're here on the resoning from R1 to R33 which is the minimal request to be compatible with the land use that it now has. Next slide. Property is located on the souththeast corner of East 4th Avenue and 47th Street. You see it there. The next slide. The land use as I told you before has already been changed from low density to medium density residential uh by ordinance 20250. Next slide. This is showing you uh the area 2 NBD district which it is with located within. Next slide. Showing you some of the properties that are in close proximity on East 4th Avenue and 40 48th 47th. This is the Hilia High uh parking garage on the left side. Uh bank located directly south of the property on East 4th Avenue on the same side of East 4th Avenue. Uh originally this proposal was for a six-story building. Uh the council um suggested that we uh lower it. Um we worked with staff. It was lowered to four floors. Um, and the next slide shows you uh a rendering of what it's going to look like. Next slide.

Here's another rendering of the building showing you the four stories. Last slide. In total, it's a proposed mixeduse four-story building with 20 one-bedroom units, each unit with a balcony. The ground floor is proposed to have commercial 5,546 ft which will be used for the offices for the apartments and a uh daycare with a maximum of 112 children. We are in full compliance with the parking uh required and there's no variance uh requested for that other than the two spaces that are going to back out um from the property. So, based on staff's recommendation of approval, we respectfully ask for you to uh suggest approval to the council and we'd be happy to answer any questions you may have.

Thank you, Mr. Misty. One quick question. Um, in the far future, do you know if there's any plans to have like like the bottom floor is going to be like commercial retail type of thing or the bottom floor here? Yes. Proposed for daycare. For daycare. the the owner that's developing it has several daycarees, several schools in Hyia, right? So, this is going to be another one. Okay. So, there's not going to be like cafeterias and that's not what's on the plans now. That's not the idea now. If he sells it to somebody else in the future, I don't know. Yeah. Oh, there he is. Alexis, he's here. Okay. He's the owner. Okay. Thank you. Do questions from the board to the chair? Yes.

Is there any access to the daycare through the lobby? No, it has a separate entrance through the back and that's why we have the par the we worked with staff to come up with a circular driveway so the people can come in and out. Okay, thank you. Anyone else? Anyone in the audience will chair? Yes, sir.

U is there is there any particular reason why he I understand he has other daycarees, but why doesn't he use the first floor for something else? I don't like the idea of a daycare in the apartment building that mixed use. I just don't feel that it's safe for a school district. I feel that, you know, if you're a school or a daycare, it should be a part residential or any other type of area. That's my opinion. I don't like the the plan anyway from the beginning. I hate tearing down these houses that I think are are beautiful and putting these monstrosities up there, especially a monstrosity of four stories high. Originally was going to be six stories high and now you're going to put a daycare on the first floor which I think is awful awful idea. I I don't like the idea at all. I think it's not something that should be a mixeduse with a daycare in an apartment building. I think uh they should see other plans. I really don't think I I I I would not approve this on my own.

Understood. I I don't maybe if he came with another solution, but right now I I can't see this on my side happening. Understood. And I guess part of part of what the council has done is uh made new ordinances regarding the schools and they don't want schools and shopping centers. But as far as daycarees, I think that they as a right are allowed within residential district.

I understand that it's a daycare, but I I still see it as a school. Whether it's a daycare or you want to call it a school, whatever, it's still a place where children are supposed to be there. I don't see them I I I don't like the idea of children living or or going to school because they're going to school anyways. It's a daycare, whatever. They're going to an educational uh location and it's in an apartment building. It's not fair to the children, I think, and it's just I feel it's just a money grab in my opinion. Okay. Anyone else? All right. Anyone in the audience would like to chime in? Closes the part of public hearing. Was the pleasure of the board?

Motion to deny. We have a motion to deny by Moro. Do we have a second? Okay, we have a motion to deny. Do we have a second? Going twice. Okay, so the motion fails of closure of the council. Oh, no. So, you have no action. Need action. Motion fails. Motion to approve with conditions. We have a motion by We have a motion to approve with conditions by Mrs. Enriquez. Second by Mr. Mason. Mr. Morales. Yes. Mr. Perez. Yes. Sir, no. Mrs. Enriquez, yes. Mr. Mason, yes.

Item has been approved with conditions. Thank you. Item number four, variance permit to allow the construction of a single family home on a substandard lot having a total area of approximately 5,440.8 ft where 7,500 ft is the minimum required. Allowed a lot width of 40 ft where 75 ft is the minimum required and to allow a front setback of 20.17 ft where 30 ft is required. Property is located at 759 East 32nd Street R1 one family district. Applicant Javier Elbasquez Aquire on behalf of Bar Holdings LLC.

Javier, that's how you say it. Say it. That's what she said. Javier, that's how you say it. Name and address, please. Good evening. Jav Vasquez, law offices at 600 Bickl Avenue together with my associate Janelli Perez. Okay, great.

The property in this application is located on the north side of East 32nd Street between East 7th Avenue and East 8th Avenue, Legion Road. The site is approximately 5,440 ft or 12 acres. According to the Miami Day County property appraisals records, the block was originally platted with a 40 foot wide lot in 1946. The subject property um was also developed with a 1,620 foot single family residence under permit number 46-6395. The home span two lots. Lots 20 located immediately to the east and lot 21 which is the subject uh property in this application. At the time of at the time the subject property did not have its own address. The city of Halia public works department assigned the lots under um its current address in June 2025. Records indicate the single family home was demolished in December 2024 under permit number BLDR num-013883-2024 leaving the lot vacant. The lot is designated as a low density residential on the city's future land use map and is zone R11 family district which is consistent therewith. The applicant is before the city requesting a variance permit to allow the construction of a two-story single family home on a substandard lot having a lot width of 40 ft and a total lot area of approximately 5,440 square ft. The applicant is also requesting to allow the front variance of 20.17 ft where 30 ft is required. Building permits BLDR-00006141-2025 for new construction was submitted in July 2025 and during the review staff determined that a variance permit was required to authorize construction on the substandard lot and approved the proposed front setback reduction. Additionally, the applicant has

submitted plans for um site plan and concurrency review under process numbers uh CO N um 105 2025 and SP015 2025. The proposed single family home will be a two-story and it will include four bedrooms, one of uh the first floor and three on the second floor, three bedrooms, a kitchen, dining room, living room, laundry room and loft on the second floor, a garage and a covered patio. The submitted plans demonstrate compliance with the rear side setbacks uh requirements. The project has also provided 3,293 square feet or 60.53% of purpose area exceeding the minimum 30% requirements. City code section number 98-348 permits the development of legally platted lots having no less than 40 ft of width and no less than 5,100 ft. Therefore force that finds that the variance request is minimal and reasonable as the proposals will improve a vacant lot provide a compatible infield development create ownership opportunities and enhance the character of the neighborhood. The department of uh public works has confirmed that the site ser is served by pump station 30-348 which is in okay status. A concurrency management application was submitted by a staff by Miami Day County Public School and following its review, the agency concluded that the proposed project will not result in any negative impact. Based on the applicant's request, the staff recommends approval of the variance permit subject to the following condition. enter into a declaration of restriction to de to develop the site as a single family residence in substantial accordance with the plans prepared by Miguel de Diego architect PA digitally signed on September 11, 2025 and proceed with the site plan and concurrency review process subject to the hearing approval. Staff recommends approval with conditions.

Thank you Jav.

Thank you Mr. Chairman and board members. Good evening. My name is Javi Vasquez with our law offices are at 600 Brickl Avenue. As I mentioned earlier, I'm here with Janelli Perez. She's an associate with our office and she's um learning a lot about zoning and and doing a great job along the way. We represent Bar Holdings LLC. Uh items, it's very important. I'm going to just point out that items four and five on this agenda are almost identical. As a matter of fact, they are identical except that they are neighboring lots. One is uh one is at 759 East 32nd Street and the other one's 765 immediately next door. The request as you heard um your director mention is for a variance permit to allow the construction uh of a two-story single family home on a substandard lot. Um and then we're also requesting uh setback variance to allow 20.17 ft where 30 ft are required. There's a history here on the property. These two lots that are before you tonight, items items four and five is uh in 19 in the 1940s, there was a single home that straddled the lot line between these two lots that was uh demolished in 2024. And as you heard Claudia say when they came forward to put a house on each lot which aligns with the lot sizes in the area. They were told great we'll support it but you need to go get a a variance permit for u what you what you're proposing to do. That's what we're here for tonight. Staff is recommending approval of this application and number five. I'm saying all this because I'm going to incorporate what I'm saying now by reference when we do number five just to not have to repeat everything all over. But there is a recommendation of approval for both applications uh subject to the condition that a covenant be submitted tying the approval of the application to the plans that we submitted. We're doing that for four,

we're doing that for five and we're in the process of preparing a declaration of restrictions or covenant. Uh together with an opinion of title for staff to review by the time we come to council. Staff, like I said, is recommending approval. There's no opposition that we know of and we hope that you two will forward a recommendation of approval to the city council for their approval. Thank you so much. Thank you. Uh, one quick question. Um, if I understand you correctly, these two items, this one and the one coming up, they're going to be single family homes. Yes, sir. Not single flexes or 10tory high jobs.

Single family homes. The only reason we have to come uh to the public hearing process is because technically they are substandard lots uh platted lots that have been around forever. Yeah. Well, you know, single family homes, that's absolutely that that that carries a lot of weight. We're not disguising that in any way, shape, or form. Okay. Thank you. Comments or questions? I want to thank you for bringing single family homes. Yeah. So, yeah. I I I I wish you could bring more. That's that's weak spots.

I I start seeing these buildings and these monstrosities taking over. It's just it's just too much. I really think that we need on sub like even if they're sub smaller lots, people need homes. People need to have ownership. town houses. I'm even in favor of some type of condominium. It's two, three bedrooms, but these one little bedroom units that they keep constantly building. I just feel it's a money grab and it's it's heartbreaking. Let me see this. So, thank you. Thank you, Mr. You through the chair. Um, are these for sale or this belongs to these belong to somebody already? The our clients um haven't decided what they're going to do yet. I would assume that they're probably going to sell them because this is not your typical rental that you keep.

Okay. And it's two homes, right? New home. The next application is for 765 next and it's identical to this. Identical. There's no pain. How many home is it in total? Two. Two. Sorry. Two lots. Two lots. There's two lots. One one home on each. But the only the only thing before you right now is item number four, which is one lot, one home. You know, you just reminded me of a famous movie. My cousin Vinnie goes, "I identical." Anyway, any comments or questions? You're aging yourself when you say that. Uh anyone anyone in the audience? It was the pleasure of the board. Motion to approve. Second. So we had conditions. Yes.

We had a motion from Mrs. Enriquez. Second from Mr. Morales. Mr. Mason. Yes. Mr. Aa. Yes. Mrs. Enriquez. Yes. Mr. Perez. Yes. Mr. Morales. Yes. Item has been approved with conditions.

Thank you. Item number five, variance for it to allow the construction of a single family home on a substandard lot having a total area of approximately 5,440.8 ft where 7,500 ft is the minimum required. Allow a lot width of 40 ft or 75 ft is the minimum required and to allow a front setback of 20.17 ft where 30 ft is required. Properties located at 765 East 32nd Street. Helio Sonar one one family District. Applicant Javier El Basqueus Esquire expire on behalf of Bar Holdings LLC. Go ahead.

The property in this application is located on the north side of East 32nd Street between East 7th Avenue and East 8th Avenue Legend Road. And as you mentioned, this is adjacent to the previous application. The site is approximately 5,440 um square feet or2 acres according to the Miami Day County Property Appraisals record. The block was originally platted with a 40 foot wide lots and in 1946 the subject property was developed with a 1,620 ft single family residence under permit number 1946-6395. The home span two parcels. Lot 21 located immediately to the west and lot 20 which is the subject property in this application. Records indicates the single family home was demolished in December 2024 under permit number VLDR 013883-2024 leaving the lot vacant. The site is designated low density residential on the city's future land use map and is zone R1 one family district which is consider consistent therewith. The applicant is before the city requesting a variance permit to allow the construction of a two-story single family home on a substandard lot having a lot width of 40 feet and a total lot area of approximately 5,440 ft. The applicant is also requesting to allow a front setback of 20.17 ft where 30 ft um is required. Building permits BLDR-005643-2025 for new construction was submitted in June 2025. During the review, staff determined that a variance permit was required to authorize construction on the substandard launch and approved the proposed front setback reduction. Additionally, the project is pending a submission of a site plan and concurrency review process. The proposed single family home will be at two stories and it will include four bedrooms, one on the first floor and three on the second floor. three

bathrooms, a kitchen, dining room, living room, laundry room, and a loft on the second uh floor, a garage, and a patio, a covered patio. The submitted site plan demonstrate compliance with the rear and side setback requirements, and the project also provides a 3,293 square ft or 60.53% of previous area exceeding the minimum 30% requirement. City code section number 98-348 permits the development of legally uh plotted lots having no less than 40 feet of width and no less than 5,100 ft of area. Therefore that finds the variance requests minimal and reasonable and the proposed uh the proposal will improve a vacant lot provide for compatible infield development create ownership opportunities and enhance the character of the neighborhood. The Department of Public Works has confirmed that the site is uh served by pump station 30-348, which is in okay status. A concurrency management application was submitted by staff to Miami date county public work public schools following its review. The agency concluded that the proposed project will not result in any negative impact. Based on the applicant request, staff recommend approval of the variance permit subject to the following conditions. enter into a declaration of restrict restrictions to develop the site in substantial accordance with the plans prepared by Miguel de Diego architect PA and digital design on September 11, 2025 and submit two sets of architectural plans to the planning and zoning uh department to initiate the site plan and conferency review subject to hearing approval. Staff recommends approval with conditions.

Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Perez. Once again, Jav Vasquez with Janelli Pres with Gunster, 600 Brickwell Avenue. Application five, as I mentioned, is identical to application number four. So, just for the record, I will incorporate my presentation from number four uh into the record, and it's the same application requesting a a variance permit uh for a substandard standard lot plus a front setback issue. We are doing the same thing with this one as far as submitting a declaration of restrictions with an opinion of title to make sure that whatever is approved is tied to the what we've shown you guys and what we've shown staff. We are having we have a recommendation of approval and we hope you'll do the same on this one. Thank you.

Thank you. Comments or questions? Okay, we got a thumbs up over there. So, my bad. No, we're good. You're bad, Mr. Right up your alley, right? Yeah. Yeah. Good. All right. Anyone in the audience? All right. Pleasure of the board. Motion to approve. Second. Okay. We had a motion by Mr. Ya. Second by Mr. Morales. Mr. Enriquez. Yes. Mr. Mason. Yes. Mr. Perez. Yes. Mr. Morales. Yes. Mr. Rioa. Yes.

Item has been approved with conditions. Item number six, conditional use permit to allow a twostory 2,212 ft addition to an existing an existing assisted living facility ALF and to increase the facility's capacity from 40 beds to 72 beds. Varian permit to allow the expansion of illegal non-conforming use existing at the site since 1990. Allowed a front step back of 20 ft where 25 ft are required. Allow lock coverage of 39.2 20% where 30% is the maximum allowed. Allow 24.96% perus area where 30% is the minimum required. Allow 10 parking spaces where 24 parking spaces are required and to allow all parking spaces fronting west 30th street to back out into the rightway where backout parking is only allowed in lowdensity residential properties. Properties located at 71 West 30th Street High are three multiple family district. applicant Javier Elvas was a squire on behalf of Gala Jax uh Investment Inc.

This property is located on the north side of West 30th Street between Palm Avenue and West 1st Avenue with approximately for 14,700 square ft of area or 34 acres. The property has been improved uh with a two-story building since 1958. According to Miami Day County records, the property has been operating as an assisting living facility LF ALF since 1990 and is currently known as Trinity Garden Home. According to city records, the land use designation is residential medium density and the soning districts R3 multif family uh district which are compatible. This application is requesting a conditional use permit CUP to conform with the current city regulations pertinent to the existing operations of the AALF and a variance to expand the ALF capacity from 40 bedrooms to I'm sorry, sorry, 40 beds to 72 beds. The property has no open code building or fire violation and has an active license from the Florida Agency of Healthcare Administration. According to file number 11 1942726, the expansion of beds will take place on a proposed two new building addition to the east of the property. The addition will be connected to the existing building by a proposed cover recreational area at the center of the buildings acting as a bridge. The proposed cover bridged area will be accessed through an elevator and a staircase. The first floor between the existing and proposed additions will um will provide a new open recreation area for the ALF residents. In addition, the applicant is requesting the following variances. A front variance of 20 ft where 25 ft are required for the addition. A lock coverage of 39.2% where 30% is the maximum permitted. A 24.96% pvious area with um where a 30% minimum is permitted. and four a 10 parking

spaces where 24 parking spaces are required. As mentioned above, the existing building was a 12 unit multif family residential unit um and built in 1990 where the first uh business license for an um I'm sorry with 12 units multif family residential until 1990 where the first uh business license for an ALF were found on record. The parking layout has been in existence in the latest records we have on file with 10 parking spaces and all them backing out into West 30th Street. Staff requested the applicant to provide a parking an analysis to evaluate the impacts of the increase in beds since additional employees will be required to operate the additional beds. The city city staff engineer has reviewed the submitted parking analysis and is providing comments as describing exhibit A which is part of this staff report. The parking comments are to be addressed at the time of site plan or at the time when the parking issue negatively affects um the public right away. The variances relating to the front setback law coverage and previous area and internal modifications to the site and the applicant shall provide a paving and drainage civil plan at the time of site plan to absorb storm water according to city regulations. Um therefore staff recommends approval with the following conditions. enter into a declaration of restrictions for the CUP, limiting the bet to a total of 72 and develop the property according to the plans prepared by DTI, Architects Associates, sign and sealed by Carlos Pisaro, dated September 15, 2025. A parking management strategy plan shall be in place to address any parking issues. Any number of trees required that cannot be installed on site shall be mitigated through the payment to the city at the value assessed by the parks department. that includes material and installation and at no time shall the ALF parking demand negatively impact the public rightway. It is and is prohibited to block the public sidewalk. The property owner and ALF operator shall

ensure that the employees and visitors do not tend park and block any sidewalks and rideways. A parking management strategy shall be in place to address any parking issues. Staff recommends approval for the cup and variances with conditions. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Perez and board members. Once again, Jav Vasquez, law offices at 600 Bickl uh Bickl 600 Bickl. Uh and I'm also here with Danelli Perez on this application. On this one, we have Mr. Carlos Cordoso with U DTI. And I also have with me today Mr. Alexang, who is the part of the ownership group for uh Galagaz Investment Inc., which is the applicant before you today. The property is 71 West 30th Street which is an existing ALF since 1990. I will say that I visited the property. I do a lot of assisted living work and I was thoroughly impressed with the condition sparkling clean and I went on a day when none of the residents and not even the ownership was expecting anybody to visit. U so it was a nice random opportunity to see the operation and I was very very very impressed. So the request before you tonight is for a conditional use as Claudia mentioned uh to conform with the current city regulations as well as a variance to expand the uh assisted living facility from 40 beds to 72 beds. As Claudia mentioned, the expansion of the beds will take place on a proposed two-story building addition to the east side of the property. The addition will be connected uh by a proposed covered recreational area at the center of the buildings uh which is acting as a bridge and the prop the proposed covered bridge area will be act um accessed through an elevator and a staircase and the floor uh first floor between the existing and proposed addition will provide a new open recreation area for the assisted living residents. There are some additional variances and I'm only just going to briefly mention them. Claudia read them in in detail. One has to do with the front variance, another one for lot coverage, a third one for purpose area, and the last one the uh which we've had a lot of conversation with Claudia about with the

help of our uh traffic consultant having to do with parking. And on that note, um staff has requested, Claudia has requested um that we provide a parking analysis to evaluate the impacts of the increased number of beds. uh since uh additional employees will be required to operate the assisted living facility and the city traffic engineer the city's traffic engineer has reviewed the parking analysis that we submitted and um we are in agreement not only with all the conditions but there's a particular condition having to do with parking that at no time shall the assisted living facility uh parking demand uh negatively impact the public right away. Uh it is prohibited to block block the public sidewalk and uh the owner uh and ALF operator shall ensure that the employees and visitors uh do not tandem park and block any sidewalks in the right away and a parking management strategy plan will be in place to address the parking issues. A lot of these things we have to address between now and the time of permitting and uh co we are continuing to work closely with the city on this. We're as with the other applications, we will be submitting a declaration of restrictions tying the approval of this application um to the plans that were submitted and um as as a close we no objectors on this application which is very important and uh we have a recommendation of approval subject to the conditions. My client has agreed to all the conditions. So as with staff we hope that you will also recommendation uh forward a recommendation of approval to the city council. Thank you. Okay. So, you currently have how many beds?

40. 40. And you're proposing to go up to 72. 72. Okay. With the addition of a of a two-story building. We're not going up. We're going laterally. Okay. Um, one simple question and then I'll turn it over to the rest of the board. Um, do you have or are there any plans for uh emergency generator backup generators?

Name and address. Good evening. My name is Alejandro Leman. Uh, my address is 15849 Southwest 141 Terrace. And the uh the question that you that you asked if we do have a backup a little bit the question that you asked if we have a backup and yes we do in the uh case that we do need to upgrade it that's also in there too we will upgrade it if that's the case. Okay. Yeah, that's that's important because if if you do, you know, there are some certain requirements for ALFs and those kinds of uh facilities where uh backup generators. It's that's since since co I think it was or

the hurricane. Yeah. But you you have a very strong case right there in case it needs to be upgraded since obviously you're going to be adding more beds more and I think you're spot on. Aka will require it at the time of construction. So this is something that you know it's going to be part of the review process and it necessary they will have to upgrade in that regard. Oh okay. All right. Well, I just I know you have it in there, but you know, I like to bring it home. All right. Any more comments, questions to the chair? Yes, sir.

It It concerns me a little bit the the allowance that you want for the parking. You want 10 when 24 is needed. I I've seen some nursing homes. I I I service him. I work for a company that services nursing homes, hospitals, restaurants. I've gone to nursing homes, my mom's nursing home, La Pama. Sometimes I go, there's no parking. Halia housing, Halia nursing home here down the street. Same thing with parking. And and I see it affect the neighborhood. That's my only concern. I'm sure you're going to do a great facility with, you know, with your generator and everything,

but I think that the variance is big difference. The end of 24

the um if I could the like I said I do a lot of skilled nursing uh and assisted living work. I've come to this before this council for Las Palmas and um the common issue with all of them is a the residents do not drive. So, it's a part it's an employee issue, right? And we do recognize that we're gonna we are going to have more employees and these traffic these planning studies that we're doing with with staff, the majority of it is going to center around the fact that employees will have to potentially park off site and there will be a process where the the owner will provide transportation whether it be by Uber or whether but we're in the process of identifying sites. These are people that own more than one facility. So, the fact that they have other facilities facilitates that kind of of an arrangement and we've done it before with with very recent applications that came before the council.

Well, it's not so much the employee parking also because yeah, I understand that you're going to need parking for the employees, but the family members of the patients that are there, we go visit them and you go there and there's no parking. And and I've seen this situation happen numerous times because I' I've lived it. And this is the only concern that I have. It's I think that the variance is is quite large. You know, I I could I could see maybe five or or something, but this is more than half more than double. You're asking a variance where you need 24 you get to go to 10. If you could have given me at least 12 or 14, Jav, I would go, okay, you know,

like I said, we can we can dedicate the parking to the guests and what the what we're doing by way of the parking analysis and the study that's being prepared, which has to be in place. I I know you can say you could do this and and dedicate the parking to the guests, but it's not going to happen. I I I don't see I see the employees parking there, people parking in the streets, people parking sideways. It happens in highly nursing home. people parking on the side of the the road blocking cars that are backing out. It's ridiculous. And I I I live through it in La Pam as I go there and I have to park on the side of the fence. It's crazy.

I hear you. I hope you'll support the application. I understand. But the need is there and it's something that like I said, we're working very closely with staff uh to make sure that the parking situation is properly uh taken care of

through the chair. So u Mr. to you. I hear you and I understand because we have seen other locations with the problems that you just mentioned. Um, fortunately right now nowadays we have Google that it can tell us you know almost everything and you can backtrack since 2011 for that property and and you don't see the impact of parking compared in this property compared to other um ALF that we have seen on site. So that is why at least in staff I feel confident recommending for approval for that parking because you have seen through the years that um I don't want to sound negative but I don't know how many times you know the the the residents are visited but it doesn't seem that it's at least as it sits today as it sits the property today there's not negative impacts that you can see it and you can see through time if you go through back today you you don't see any any um you know blocking sidewalks or anything and that is what we want to make sure that with any potential parking um negative parking issues that they are addressed um even before that happens so we don't have those issues.

Okay. Okay. Any more comments or questions? Anyone in the audience? All right. Was the pleasure of the board? Motion to approve with conditions. Second. So we had a motion by Mrs. second by Mr. Morales. Mr. Um, you're going to look into it, right? Say that again. You're going to work on it, right? Yes, sir. I need your vote. Let's go. Yes. All right. Mrs. Enerica. Yes. Mr. Mason. Yes. Mr. Perez. Yes. Thank you, Mr. I I know your concerns and I'm not I'm not, you know, I take you very seriously. No. Thank you.

Thank you guys. Have a great night. I'm I'm sure you're going to work on it. Thank you so much. Thank you.

Item has been approved with conditions. Item number seven, ordinance of the mayor and the city council of the city of Halia, Florida, amending ordinance number 2025-010 attached as exhibit 8 which amended chapter 98 entitled zoning article 6 supplementary district regulations division 3 buildings and structures creating a new section 98-1681 specifically including industrial zones as permitted district for mobile food dispensing vehicles. also known as food trucks in section 98-1681D of the high aliyah code of ordinances repeating all ordinances or parts of ornissance in conflict here with providing for penalt penal penalties for violations here of providing for severability clause providing for inclusion in the code and providing for effective date

and through the chair uh this is a simple ordinance that cleans up a prior ordinance Um that was um um there was a error written in the uh original ordinance for the food trucks. One of the attorneys erroneously omitted um a specific zone. It was me. Um so uh this ordinance includes industrial zones um which is now a permitted usage for the food trucks. So there's really no change here. it just uh expands the territory that food trucks are allowed to um operate in. So before council, I have to bring this before you. It's a simple amendment and I would appreciate a uh vote of approval. Thank you. You know, there's a lot of respect there when you admit that [Laughter] any comments or questions.

All right. It was a pleasure of the board. Motion to approve. Second. So we had a motion from Mr. Za, second by Mr. Mr. Morales. Mr. Perez. Yes. Mr. Mason. Yes. Mrs. Enriquez. Yes. Mr. Yua. Yes. Mr. Morales. Yes. Item has been approved.

Yeah. Item number eight, ordinance of the mayor in the city council of the city of Halia, Florida, amending chapter 98 entitled zoning article 5, zoning district regulations division 26 to transit oriented development district and in particularly uh amending section 98-1561 entitled factory town entertainment subd district pilot program of the court of ordinances of the city of Halia repeating all ordinances or parts of ordinances in conflict here with providing penalties for violations hereof, providing for inclusion in code, providing for severability, providing for an effective date. Um, thank you. Again, this is um u an ordinance that we are revamping. So, I want to say about 5 years ago maybe, we we came up with the factory town ordinance, right? Um, and this this ordinance pretty much created factory town. uh factory town in the city has become um very successful. It brings uh people from all over the world um to the city uh to enjoy events throughout the year. Um when we developed this ordinance uh approximately 5 years ago, the ordinance, if you read the original ordinance makes mention of pilot programs. It makes mention of um certain timelines that are are required. Um well, five years has passed and we've realized the success that Factory Town is and the um uh economic stimulus that it brings the city and we are looking to um clean the ordinance up so we can get rid of the pilot program, right, and make it a more permanent program. Um, so what we've done is we've revamped the ordinance that allows uh for Factory Town to now um expand and um be able to operate in a more uh permanent way. Um

so that's what this ordinance does and it it just really cleans up the the old ordinance that makes mention of a you know less permanent situation. Um, are there any plans to increase the uh uh the perimeters of the factory town or or is this so we in the ordinance there there is an area um that that delegates where um this ordinance is take place. That hasn't changed. Um I know that we are going to sit down uh with Felix and Ava. they're going to bring us a a revised site plan um eventually to Claudia and that's going to be one of the decision decisions we have to make um whether or not that we expand the um the perimeters uh of the location or not. I'm not sure, you know, if if you'd like to ask Abra um what her decision is. I I really don't know.

Yeah. Could you just say your name and address for the record, please?

Yeah. Ara Jane, 720 Northeast 69th Street, Miami 33138. Unfortunately, not Halia. I'm adopted, I guess, at this point, right, Chair? Yeah. So, we've sat down with Claudia. It's this it's the original site plan except for like like the um city attorney said, it was a temporary a pilot program. So, all we're doing is making it a permanent site plan. Um the stages are the same and everything, but what we're trying to do is put in permanent infrastructure like water and sewer, permanent bathroom banks, get ready for um FnB so we can add grease traps and all these things. So we're just we're just taking the original footprint, even the original stage locations, and just making it a permanent site plan, locking it in, qualifying the parking, and everything else. So nothing's nothing's really changed. What we did was proof of concept so that they knew what was working, right? Making sure where everything was supposed to be, identifying where to put our bathrooms and and our restaurants and things like that. So, um I mean Claudius, the before and after you guys would it would look the same except for that we need to go forward and go to Durm and go to the building department. We're ready to submit uh a full master permit for the whole site. to include full infrastructure which is a huge investment. Um we're you know um Live Nation is committing a lot of money to making this a permanent uh location which would include also expanding the program so that it's not just festivals. There's an indoor facility for live music that we can have more community cultural events, weddings, corporate events, things like that. So that's what's so making this permanent allows that flexibility so that they can commit

to some of these other um less impact uses but important uses for you know lifestyle and and really for the community as a whole.

Okay. Yeah. And that's that's all fine. Just you know my question was just like is there any future plans of expanding you know grow is there room for growth if you will? Well, um, we've we've we've taken over the full site. So, they've taken over the full site and a lot of it is to your point like there's there's, you know, the command center and there's back office and there's liquor storage and there's a lot of things. So, that when they set up these events, which I'm sure you guys have seen, you know, it's the lighting, it's the stage. So, so, you know, we're they're using every inch of the properties. Um but in terms of the programming it's the same

right so that so that the the boundary will not change from from the original ordinance I think you know the footprint right the footprint increases within the original boundary but the original boundary will remain in the ordinance that you're um voting on today that you voted on 5 years ago. We we did buy one neighboring parcel which we use for which we're using now for um really like for staging for the command center and all that just a neighboring parcel which we were allowed to do. It's a unity of title. So we did buy one adjacent property but there's no the stages aren't there. The stages we needed that for a back back a house let's just call it and and um things like that. Thank you.

Comments or questions through the chair? Yes. So, I've wanted the opportunity to speak to you guys for years. That's part of the reason why I'm on this board to begin with.

Factory Town is a nuisance for my community, for my neighborhood, for neighboring uh cities as well. Miami Springs, Brownsville. I'm sure you've heard the complaints. The noise is awful every time there's an event. Um, unfortunately, there's not much that we can do. Um, Factory Town really hasn't done anything to mitigate the sound. We still get a lot of noise. Um, and we as residents can't do much. We can call, we can complain, but we're told you guys have a permit. There's nothing that can be done. Um, I don't feel comfortable approving this because I haven't seen any good faith from Factory Town to help mitigate the noise for the residents. I am all for um you know bringing in the youth. We're on a world stage right now. Haley is on a positive world stage because of factory town. So I do recognize that. I recognize the revenue it brings to the city. However, it's had such a big negative impact on the neighborhood. So what is factory town going to do to you know mitigate the noise uh earn my trust and earn the trust of all the neighboring cities as well? So, okay, I don't know who we is, but I'm happy to answer that question. So, we put a protocol in place a long time ago. So, we have police on site when there's a complaint. Police from Factory Town and from Miami Springs will go to the location where there's a complaint within 15 minutes. While they're there, they take decibel readings. They call in. The system is so sophisticated, and I'll let James speak to that. We can adjust the speakers. They spend $2 million on shows. This is

not build a bigger box, make it louder. Their directional speakers is very sophisticated. I'll let him speak to that. But, um, within 15 minutes, it can be corrected. So when that happens, and I've been on the call, I've been on the call with the city of Hyia and the Miami Springs Police. You know what happened on the call? Miami Springs police said, "You know what? It didn't exceed the decibel readings." So I think you should talk to the city of Haley Police and you can talk to the head of the Miami Miami Springs Police Department. These guys are community guys. We're here. They're here for the long haul. There's there's they want to address those problems. And so I can tell you that every time there's been a call-in, there's a hotline. They're super responsive. They have sensors all over. More more is being done than you see. And so I suggest you talk to the the police because they're there on site. And I suggest you talk to the Miami Springs Police Department because if it doesn't exceed the decibel reading, then there's, you know, we don't we don't the truth is is we don't know. So what we said to Miami Springs was even if we don't exceed the decibel readings, let us know. These guys can just tilt a speaker like that. Like everything is so automated. So one of the reasons why we need a permanent site plan is because every time they set up the speakers are a little different, the stage is a little different. So when we put up permanent stages, what will happen is is the system will be set up permanently. So that when you won't hear anything. I mean in other words, they'll mitigate it, which they've done. Like at every show, maybe the first night they complained and within two nights we fixed it or whatever. Once they have

permanent stages, it actually gets better because the the speakers don't move around. The stages don't move around. So, I mean, James, I'll let you speak to the the walkthrough today. We had an acoustic engineer there today based on the site plan and the technology, you guys, is incredible. And the the goal is to not even have to have a phone call. But I will tell you, protocols been in place from day one. So if a complaint didn't come in, it maybe didn't meet the decibel levels and we've told all police departments, everybody, you still let us know. So I'll let James speak to the the systems and the mitigation plan for that.

Hi. Uh my name is James Olgate. As you can probably tell, I'm not from around here. I live in Las Vegas. I'm uh from the UK originally. Um could we have your address, please? Uh yeah, 10824 A8 Cliffs, Las Vegas, Nevada 89135. Long flight.

Yes. Um thank you for giving me the opportunity. I think you know to address your comments ultimately every single event I've only been with the company now for just over a year since being involved in the company. We're trying to make it a more robust solution for everything that we're trying to create at Factory Town. As Ara said, we're here for the long haul. We're attempting to invest a significant amount of of capital into the venue to ultimately mitigate all of these issues that had in the past. We can't afford to do that unless we have a more permanent build. So, we have an acoustic consultant every single event that we run. I've been there today with our sound operator, engineer, supplier designing the systems. We work with a a supplier and a manufacturer called L acoustics. They're a French manufacturer, one of the biggest speaker manufacturers in the world. They have built a proprietary measuring software. Um it's called Sound Vision, and they actually take the DWGs, which are the the CAD files that that designers use. They model the software through the software. They select the speakers, the uh the height of the speakers, the trims, the angles. As Abra was mentioning, what you're able to do is digitally steer sound nowadays to be able to mitigate the risks. So, if there is a complaint that is warranted, that is over a decibel level. We're able to say sorry first and foremost, but also the off-site sound engineer and the acoustic consultant that we're employing is able to take those. They take the readings. They can also take the the actual uh frequency um the kilohertz or um megahertz that sound frequencies are measured in and they can actually tell you which stage is playing that frequency and remove that out of the the

wave files. So, we are we're willing to invest a significant amount of capital to be able to do this. Unfortunately, when you're constantly renting this equipment, you can use different suppliers, you get different boxes, you can't get the actual fixture that you're you're wanting. What this will enable us to do is to be able to purchase this equipment, install it once, and then tweak it perfectly so we're not getting these sound issues offsite. That's Yeah. Yeah. I think that's hopefully answers your question.

Assuming that we pass this ordinance, will this be set up for like that the Hocus Pocus, whatever it's called, coming up or or not? Yes. And I've already signed the contract with the acoustic consultant who will be here for Hocus Pocus all three nights. So, we're not complacent in this. We're here for the long haul. It makes absolutely no point in us doing this to, you know, me have to come here every time and apologize or take these phone calls. We don't want to take the phone calls. We want to operate the business. We want to operate the venue and create, you know, continue to create. It's become worldrenowned. Um, you know, people are talking about this in IBA this summer. Oh yeah, have you heard about Factory Town? Unbelievable.

Now it's being seen as as that sort of destination event and that's what we want to continue to do. We just can't continue to do it when we haven't got a permanent license and a permanent way of operating the business on a on a daily or or monthly or weekly basis.

Another question I have, maybe it's not a question for you, but um is there a limit to the amount of people that could be at this at this venue? I mean, I've seen the pictures, it is crowded. Um so, how is the is there a limit? How's the city handling that? So that's a fire safety issue and so I will tell you we work very closely with the fire. We care more about life safety. I mean we have liabilities for that. So um you know us as landlord and of course them as operator. So it the city's very diligent about that. Our most rigorous um our most rigorous inspection before we we can have an event is with is with fire. So, our site plan has gone to fire already and they've reviewed it's a they do their own calculations and egress and so forth. And have you been to an event?

No. Okay. So, I think if you went to an event, it wouldn't feel as crowded as you think. Remember, when people post pictures, they're going to show the place full and busy. It's well, first of all, it's joyful. And second of all, there's a lot of room. There's space for restaurants. There's picnic tables. There's places where people sit down. There's the zen garden. There's like this. It's not that crowded. So, fire is doing is very diligent about reviewing the plans, about doing the walkthroughs, about we their presence is on site. Paramedics are on site. Everybody's there. I mean, you haven't I mean, I know you've you're saying you've heard about sound issues.

Well, not heard experienced. you've experienced it, but there's been no other issues. I agree. I haven't heard anything negative. I haven't heard any uh anything bad happening there. Yeah. So, you brought up the crowded thing, but nobody No, I'm just I'm just curious if there is a limit or anything. Not for anything bad. I just wanted to know cuz I've seen so much. I don't know. Fire fire that's a fire safety issue. And um and they are super diligent about it. And don't get me wrong, I don't disagree with Factory Town. I want you guys to thrive. I want it to grow. It's great for our city. It really is. I just want to make sure that I could live in peace

during the nights that you guys have your events. I know it's not every night. It's you have your certain dates, but this is going to help solve some of that problem. By the way, I live here, so I don't want I mean, I live in Miami. my like I don't want to hear you know when Miami Springs has a problem the residents are calling me personally so trust me you know I live here and my toddlers don't sleep when factory town get on that's why I'm saying I I you should you should share the address so that I have okay so well um with the police department or with I have

okay so we'll we'll follow up and we'll ask but that's something where this is going to help solve that problem. And as far as the attendance goes and all that, trust me, your fire department is is is super diligent. I believe that. Yeah, they they do a good job. Actually, working with both um with fire and police has been the service providers here have been outstanding to work with. So, we really appreciate the cooperation um we've had with the city of Halia. Thank you. And I appreciate you guys explaining and giving me a little bit of peace of mind. I can't say fully, but a little bit of peace of mind. You're doing something about it.

Hopefully hopefully we're going to You'll say you'll come back one day and go, "You guys did it." You know, so hopefully um please prove me wrong. Yes. And we should follow up on that. Okay. Thank you.

Thank you. Coming from a not to toot my own horn, but coming from a highly technical background, um I do see your point I see your point of um asking for more of a permanent u setting. You're 100% right. If you have a permanent stage, a permanent location, you set your gear, your equipment in certain places, certain angles, certain heights, what have you. Um, like you said, you know, you're talking about frequencies, you know, you can cancel the frequencies out and it's it's I mean, you you're you're in my you're in my playground right now. All right. I do agree that it will help um the mitigation of noise. Are you ever not going to have uh issues? No, you will. But at least you will be able to address them quicker than you know, like you say, you have to set it up every time for different events and whatnot. this time you have them set up permanently and it's a lot more manageable. I I'm with you on that.

Thank you. Yeah. Uh to the chair. Yes sir. Um there another way you can mitigate the noise. I I've seen a lot of outdoor venues here. Is is this going to always be an outdoor venue or is there a plan to maybe

Well, right now the you know for the festival is but there's now going to be a 15,000 square foot um indoor venue there. We we haven't changed the site plan of the original mattress factory. It stayed exactly the same. And the mattress factory had one good building in the back that was they was built like in the 1980s is a two-story warehouse. It's about 15,000 square feet and that'll be the permanent indoor venue. So, you know, and then they'll they'll they'll do the outdoor venues. They're I I can't speak for Live Nation. I think if it's successful there, you know, they may want to more than anything for weather. You know, there's an argument to enclose more for weather, but um right now there will be an indoor 15,000t venue and then you know the four or five festival.

So when you're indoors it wouldn't be as noisy. It wouldn't not at all. Exactly. Or maybe if you have the outdoor venue, you could I don't know if you're planning on building like some amphitheater kind thing like you do in some places like

listen I I think a lot of it depends on you know how things evolve but they have put up additional containers around to to block where sound is. They're positioning the stages according to some of the feedback that was already given from other than from some of the other neighborhoods. they took some of that previous experience or you know complaints and in setting up the stages have sort of tried to address that um have put up additional barriers and things like that. So semi-encclosed I would say but is there is it an amphitheater? know in there is an indoor facility. Um but the plans for an amphitheater. This is more of a you know an outdoor indoor it'll be indooroutdoor. The plan is for more food and beverage, a little more arts and culture. You know they'll have I think they're going to have a one week a yoga week because they have a yoga seminar coming and I think there's going to be some corporate events. Um but uh the people are coming there right now because it's outside. you guys being there at night and watching the sunset and it's just a really it's a beautiful thing. So, for those of you who haven't been there, we you know, I'm sure everybody would love to have you

been there a couple times. Yeah, been I've been there with you. It's it's beautiful. You walk in there, you're like, "Where?" Like half walls or Yeah. Um an amphitheater. You have to be be careful with an amphitheater because basically it's an echoing chamber. An amphitheater depending on how is this the volume that loud. That's depending on how is designed. It's like it's like a dish. They they built one behind Ball and Chain that's way smaller because to prevent the noise to go to the back, the people in the back. So, it it's helped a lot in Ball and Chain and and I remember that we approved a parking lot in this area and supposedly they were going to put sound sound deadening material on the walls. Yes.

I don't know if that has anything to do with you. The parking lot. No, no, we're not the parking lot. We're we're we're the we're still the matches factory. Okay. There's a parking lot that's being is it across the street from them or Yes, it is across the street from Yeah. So, there's a park. It's not right adjacent to it, but probably a block. So, you recommended to for them to put some kind of batting so that doesn't echo out. So I think that might help if I'm not

So there we've got acoustical engineers that are committed to this permanent setup to providing permanent solutions and yeah there are some materials that you can put on scaffolding and things like that and it's one reason why they put the containers up some you know in that sense but again to your point but then it bounces off and where does it go right? So, we're going to let I mean, I'm going to let the sound experts figure it out. And I think the um spending the money on the on the sound system and the cancelling and system is really take advantage of the technology because it it's it exists. It's just nobody ever really wants to spend the money.

I I think it's it'll be a difficult task uh on a temporary event byevent basis. It would be easier and more manageable if you had a um a permanent u structure if you will or a permanent Yeah. set up. Right. Thank you. Through the chair. Yes. Are they still building um it was a few years back. Um there was like apartments and that they were going to build by that Home Depot that's around there. Is that still happening? It's um it's in the process. They got approvals um but it hasn't taken over yet. Okay. Because that's going to be very close, much closer to Factory Town, you know.

No, that's not yet. I have a very good relationship with them. They will be there at Hocus Pocus. They're actually very excited that Factory Town is there. So, um some people I mean again that's pretty far away. It's on the other side of the train station. Um, so I I don't think um it's interesting because it sounds interesting, right? It's just it's interesting. Like I pull up there and I don't hear anything and yet they can hear things in my So you just it's a it's a science and um and I can tell you they're spending the money on the science. The human ear is an interesting an interesting issue.

I'm sure too. Okay. Thank you. All right. Can we um do we have a motion?

Motion to approve. We have a motion to approve. Second. Okay. So, we had a motion by Mr. Mason, second by Mr. Morales. Sup? Yes. Mr. Rioa? Yeah. Morales? Yes. Mrs. Enriquez? Yes, Mr. Mason. Yes. Item has been approved. Thank you. Keep We'll be talking. Prove me wrong. Keep your keep your frequencies. I'll have lawn chairs for you outside my house and during Hocus Pocus. I'll give you beers and everything.

All right. Bye. Item number nine, ordinance of the mayor and the city council of the city of Halia, Florida, amending chapter 98 entitled zoning, article 6, supplementary district regulations, division 11, landscaping of the code of ordinances of the city of Halia, repeating all ornissance or parts of ornissance in conflict here with providing penalties for violation hereof, providing for inclusion in code, providing for severability, providing for an effective date through the chair, Um back in approximately um May 2024, the city received a um an ordinance from Miami date county relating to imperous areas. So basically the areas that they are, you know, fully um ready to absorb any rainwater, right? So the county incorporated several um changes, several um um regulations to be um to be dealt with this kind of areas. Typically you'll review um projects that they have a reduction in impro in previous areas. Um they don't have enough you know green areas. So there there are several aspects that the county is incorporated that has already incorporated and um the county gave us a timeline basically um cities not only the city of Halyia but cities that had an opportunity um to address their codes um to improved um the regulations to basically mirror the least level of regulations that the county has to address these issues. So we submitted a letter back in December 2024 saying that the city of Halia will worked until December 2025 in addressing all the conditions that the county is proposing. So we went over and review our existing regulations. We looked at it and we found in um coordination with the building department and with the street departments um that the best place for these regulations to take place it was in our landscaping section. So within

our landscaping section, basically you have a series of modifications uh relating to how are we going to be reviewing these permits moving forward, especially to existing um um single family home duplexes that they're basically the most affected. And by introducing those regulations, we um we will avoid basically Miami date county coming into the review of those permits because that will impose um you know longer you know review periods uh for this kind of uh redevelopments so we can have our own um you know review process and as I said this has been developed in tandem with the building department and with the street department. So we ask that you look at it. Basically what we're doing is establishing regulations on how we're going to be reviewing any concrete slabs, any patios, any terraces that they are going to be decreasing the amount of pvious areas quote unquote the green areas within these private properties. Um so basically that is the ordinance and if you have any questions more than glad to answer them.

Okay. Do we need to take an action with this or you need a vote? We just need a recommendation so we can put it to the council. So we would request a positive recommendation. Okay. So motion to approve. Second. We had a motion by Mr. Rioa. Second by Mrs. Enrique. Mr. Mason. Yes. Mr. Perez. Yes. Mr. Rioa. Yes. Mr. Morales. Yes. Mr. Enriquez. Yes. Item has been approved. Thank you. Miscellaneous item not requiring advertising. Item number 10, old business. Okay. No old business. Item number 11, new business.

New business. Uh, real quickly, um, you can go ahead. Um, I just want to reiterate the the dates. We have uh another meeting on the 29th. October 29th. Then the following will be November 19th. 19th and then December 10th. December 10th or December 17th? It's December 10th. I think you sent out the 17th, right? But then I spoke to Alex and then there is a council meeting on the 9th. So we'll be having it on the 10th.

Okay. That's why that's why my my question because I know there was a conflict. So that will be on the 10th, not on the 17th. Correct. And that will be the last meeting of the year. Okay. Are we on same page? Any comments? Any questions? Any new business? And All right, you all have a good one. Thank you.