Planning & Zoning - Regular Meeting

Wait a minute. And here we go. Good evening. Welcome to the city of Halia planning zoning board meeting for Wednesday, October 29th, 2025. Please rise for the invocation and the pledge of allegiance. Mr. will do the honors tonight. Amen.

Amen. 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. [clears throat] Um, go ahead. Go ahead and do the uh the preparations and then before we start

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here. Mr. Mason here. Mr. here. Mr. Oua here. Mr. Morales here. Mrs. Enriquez here. We have a quorum. Stop here. Administration of all to all applicants and anyone who will be speaking before the board on any item. Anyone and everyone that's going to speak in front of the board, please stand or raise your right hand so we can swear you in. Do we have anybody on Zoom? Okay. Do you swear or affirm to tell the truth before his board?

Thank you. You may be seated. Let the record show the answers on the affirmative. Summary minutes or a copy of the auto files 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 scheduled meeting of Tuesday, November 18th, 2025. Okay. At this time, I'm going to ask the board uh for their indulgence. Uh see if we can um if it's okay with the rest of the board, we can move item number five to the top. Um and then we can go to the land use amendment we have a it's okay with you all. Yes. Okay. Thank you. Go ahead and read it again.

Item number five. Reszoning properties from R11 family district and C2 Liberal Weel Commercial District to Pete Parking District. Properties are located at 612 East 27th Street and Folio number 04-3108-001-2700. Hia zones R11 family district and su liberal retail commercial district applicant Javier Elvas square on behalf of MPT of HIA exchange LLC. Evening Javas.

Good evening Jav Vasquez Gunster Yokley Law Firm 600 Bickl Avenue. Thank you. This application consists of two properties located on the southern corner of East 6th Avenue and East 27th Street identified with volume numbers 04-318-001-2710 parcel 1 and 04-3108-001-2700 parcel 2. According to Miami Day County Property Appraisals Office, the properties were plotted according to page and book number 34-26 in 1932. According to Miami Day County records, the current size of the parcels is approximately 343 acres or 19,142 ft. Towards the south of the parcel, there is an existing 12t alley that is physically that physically separates the parcels from the existing northern hospital Halia hospital parking lot. The existing land use of both parcels is low density residential and the zoning for parcel one is R1 one family district and parcel 2 is C2 liberal retail commercial district. Parcel one has a conforming land use and zoning whereas parcel 2 does not. Adjacent properties to the north and east have a low density residential land use uh with R1 family zoning district zoning. To the west there is a medium density residential land use and an R33 multif family district zoning. And to the south there is major institution land use with a C2 liberal retail commercial district zoning. If this application gets approved, both parcels will have a consistent land use designation and zoning classification since P parking district zoning is permitted within the lowdensity residential land use. This application is requesting approval for the reszoning of both parcels. Parcel one is requesting to be resoneed from R1 one family district to P parking district and parcel two is requesting to be reszoneed from C2 liberal retail

commercial district to P park parking district. The city zoning parking district requires paving, drainage, lighting and landscaping with a proper vehicular access and circulation which the applicant has provided plans satisfying this requirement. The site plan requirements which are pending is two ADA compliant parking spaces and a six foot CVS wall on the east side of the property for the similar uses. These improvements are to be provided at site plan and concurrency process. As stated in the applicant's letter of intent, the proposed parking lot will serve the Hyalia hospital parking needs since the hospital will be demolishing the existing parking garage in the near future. According to section um number 98-1616, commercial parking lots are prohibited. Therefore, the use of the parking lot is exclusively for the use of the Helia hospital. This requirement is to be materialized by the applicant submitted a unity of title and declaration of use according to section 98-1618. Since this application is seeking no variances and the site plan submitted qualify for the requirements listed in the code, a site finds that the application is in compliance with the code intent and regulations. A staff recommends approval um for the reszoning uh with the above mentioned site plan uh modifications.

Thank you Abby. Thank you Mr. Chair and board members. Thank you so much for taking me out of order. My apology and my thanks to the others on the agenda. I have another board meeting, community council 14 down south at 6:30. I'm going to try and get there on time. So very very very appreciative of this gesture. Um I represent MPT of Halia Stewart, the owners of Halia Hospital. And as you know, Halia Hospital under is undergoing a lot of changes. The parking garage all the way on the eastern side of that complex is being demolished. new. Yeah. It's only a few years. No, no, no. That thing's been around for a long time.

That's that was built in in the 80s. I was like, was it really? I was I was a little kid when they were building it. And I would go down the ramp on roller skates and and Anyway, I'm sorry. I didn't

No problem. So, the two lots in question are located at the southeast corner of uh south of E6th Street and 27 I'm sorry, E6th Avenue and 27th Street. Um, Halia Hospital is wanting to reszone these to PE as uh the staff report indicated. This will be specifically in the meantime. For now, it's going to be for patients, staff, and visitors. Once the garage is built, it'll be specifically for staff. The parking uh the parking lot will not be available for the the public at large. That's prohibited by law. And we will be pro providing a declaration of restrictions uh in that regard. Uh we're not aware of any opposition for this. This is something that's very helpful for the situation at Highly Hospital. We have a staff recommendation of approval and uh with that I will close and respectfully request that you too forward a recommendation of approval to the city council.

Thank you. Well, I guess time flies I anyway comments or questions? Yeah. Chair. Yeah.

Uh what's the plan with the old parking lot? You going to knock it down? What what are they building there? There's going to be a new uh parking structure built there and it's going to be a much nicer structure. There are tremendous challenges. I was in a meeting stuff that goes beyond me because there was a lot of building uh related issues, but there are components of the existing structure that they have to preserve because there's a lot of electricity running through there. All the uh the panels run through there and obviously you have to keep the hospital operating, right? So, there's a lot of things that have to be put in place uh to make sure that while the demo happens, certain issues are in place to make sure that there's safety. Um, but it's a tremendous project and it's going to be another uh parking garage.

So, you're going to have two parking garages. You're going to build a new one on this one or is this just going to be a temporary parking area? This is going to be a parking area that will remain a parking area for good. And for now, it'll be for uh patients, users, and and family. And once the new parking garage is built, this will remain a parking area just for staff. It's just going to be paved over this uh to the chair. Just for clarification, this is a permanent parking lot. This is not going to be a temporary. So, it's permanent. It has drainage is presented with drainage, lighting, landscaping according to all the code requirements. So, it's it's permanent, but it's not going to be a building. It's just going to be a

lot. So, it's going to be something like Leon's uh right next to it. And if I had to guess for now, accesses from 27th Street. There's a there's a 12oot alley and if I had to guess that's eventually going to be vacated. We're in the process of having those conversations and if and when that's vacated access will be from Halia Hospital and there will not be any cars coming in and out on 2017. Okay. Any more comments or questions? Anyone in the audience? All right. Close the part of hearing. What's the pleasure of the audience? Motion to approve. Second with conditions. With conditions. So we had a motion by Mr. Allesia. Second by Mr. Morales. Mr. Mason. Yes. Mr. Yes. Mr. Enriquez. Yes. Mr. Morales. Yes. Mr. Yoa. Yes. Mr. Perez. Yes.

Item has been approved with conditions. Thank you so much and thank you once again for Hey, be careful. Don't get a ticket on our behalf. Okay. So, we will go back to the Okay, let's get back to the line. LU1 small scale map amendment from residential office to medium density residential properties located at 258 East 49th Street High are all residential office district applicant William Wley Squire on behalf of Titt's Holdings LLC. Name and address please.

Yes, Mr. Chairman. Uh for the record, my name is Bill Riley. office is located at 16343 Southwest 256th Street, way down south. Um here on behalf of the applicant, we have a PowerPoint presentation uh prepared for you. Um I don't know if we can pull that up. Yeah, she's going to let let her read it into the record first and then we'll they get their Yes, sir. their presentation together.

The property in this application is located on the south side of East 49th Street between East 2nd Avenue and East Third Avenue. The lot is approximately 6,878 square ft or 15 ac uh 0.15 acres. The site is improved with a 1,124 ft² single family residence built in 1950 that was uh later converted in 1990 into an office building when it was resoneed from R1 one family district to R O residential office district under city of Halia ordinance number uh 1990-46. City record shows that the property has been operating as a dental office since 19 um since 2020. The property is designated as a residential office in the city's future land use map. The land uses to the north consist of residential office and commercial designations. To the east, the land uses a residential office and recreation open space. To the south, the land use includes low density residential and major institutions. To the west, the land use consists of residential office and commercial. The residential office land use designation and zoning classification were originally intended to serve as a buffer between hightra corridors and lowdensity residential neighborhoods by permitting a smallcale professional offices within existing homes. However, over time, professional corporations consolidated independent practices and many of these uh residential office properties continue to operate professional um offices with limitations on the number of occupational license or business um tax receipts but not on staff size or clientele. This has led to the overcrowd medical office frequently observed today along with the increased number of requests for additional occupational license. The existing development pattern patterns along East 49 Street uh corridor is mostly one-story houses built in the 1940s and 1950s converted

into medical office or small strip centers uh which have been which have experienced limited re limited reinvestment. Most um redevelopment has occurred only on assembled properties with commercial land use designation due to the restrictive nature of the residential office classification. The corridor has seen minimal modernization over recent decades. The applicant is before the city requesting a land use amendment from residential office to medium density residential. Accompanied by um this application is to is an application to resone the property from RO residential office districts to R33 multif family district. The applicant also seeks to expand the neighborhood business district MBD overlay with the intent to of redeveloping the site into a three-story multif family building consisting of six residential units. The proposal has been submitted to the Miami Day County Public School concurrency system and is currently under review. The site is served by pump station number 04-062 which is an okay status. During a staff review of the records, it was noted that a mutual reciprocal access agreement was recorded with Miami Day County Clerk of Courts on June 3 on June 4th, 2003. This agreement established a joint use ingress and agress u for vehicular access between the rear parking areas um of the properties located at 250 East 49th Street and 258 East 49th Street, the subject property. The agreement runs with the land and must be released prior to proceeding with the proposed redevelopment. Given that the residential office land use designation is becoming obsolete, the proposed amendment to medium density residential will continue to serve as an appropriate buffer while promoting a more efficient use of the land and supporting the city efforts to address housing needs. A stat finds that the proposed land use amendment from residential office to medium density residential is consistent

with the city comprehensive plan and zoning objectives and um and the request supports infield redevelopment promotes compatib compatible land use transitions and encouraged reinvestment along east 49 street corridor. Therefore, staff recommends approval with um of the land use amendment. Thank you.

Uh thank you. Um, and as everybody can note, uh, staff has done a fabulous job on this application as they always do. And I wanted to thank them for all the work that they've done on on our application and and I'm proud to be able toh stand before you this evening and uh indicate that we've earned their recommendation of approval. Um, so the property, as was indicated, was built in 1950. is about ready to uh celebrate its 75th anniversary of the home that was built there. My client purchased a property in 2006. Um as staff indicated, it compli comprises a little bit less than 7,000 square ft. And if you go to the next slide, you can see on the survey we provide a NAS built survey. Um, it currently has the medical office building which originally was built as a single family home and was converted to commercial use as staff indicated throughout the years. It currently has seven parking spaces that accommodate that medical office use buting the 80oot rightway of 49th Street. It's completely paved. there is no pvious area that currently exists on that property um which contributes that heat island effect that we have all been experiencing. If you go to the next slide, you can see a a picture of the actual property as it currently exists today with a medical frontage uh sign and one of the parking spaces that gets utilized uh when uh when clientele visits the property. And you can also see the 80oot rideway and the development trend that's occurred over the past 75 years along 49th Street which has become obsolete and overcrowded as staff has mentioned. If you go to the next slide

on the right hand side of the pictorial uh exhibit um you see the proposed development and the proposed development as staff indicated is three stories. It is six units uh in its entirety. Um it has balconies that face um uh 49th Street. It has art and public places with the uh decorative mural that we're proposing that should um help to increase the beautifification of the area. Um the next slide, this shows the ground floor site plan and shows how we are going to include pvious area um a lot of pvious area which should soften um the aesthetic quality of the neighborhood but also help out with all the environmental conditions that go along with um having no landscaping whatsoever. Um if you go to the next slide, the next slide provides a um typical layout of each of the units and it you can see it's um it's intended for either a single person uh young professional or somebody who's starting out in life u maybe a a small family. And if we go to the next slide, you'll see how it is a low-rise um development proposal. And that lowrise um has been done in in addition to uh the other benefits associated with the application, the transition um between the 80oot rightway and the additional development uh to our to our south. The next slide just shows that we are providing um standard parking spaces. We're not asking for any type of of relief on types of parking. We're going

to have more parking on site than what it currently exists. And the final slide, the final slide just goes into our request in order to facilitate this development pro proposal. Um some of those are going to come up later uh in the evening. Um, but we're asking for approximately seven uh requests. Um, and I'll walk through each of those later on um as as appropriate. But for the land use component um we started off again with residential in that area over the years as converted at times the medical office industry was needed was necessary for that community. Um, but as we all know, there's a residential housing crisis uh that we're all experiencing and with the prices of rental rates and to add additional six units to this property, I think would um spur future development um would be beneficial. Um and and uh again, I just want to thank staff for for their hard work and their analysis with this project. And I'm available to answer any questions. I do have a couple of questions if you don't mind.

Yes, sir. [clears throat] Um, is this the an accurate rendering of what you're proposing to have? Should this be or whenever you start construction? The answer is yes. Um, although the mural is something that's going to be subject to staff's determination and the artist interpretation, but generally the answer is yes. Yeah. No, it's it's appealing. Okay. Uh, question number two is obviously you're going to have parking in the bottom. Yes, sir. Covered parking. Uh, is the bottom floor going to be all parking or is there going to be any any um living units in there?

No living units. There will be a lobby um and the mechanical equipment and everything else will be the parking. Okay. And these will be rental units. Yes, sir. Okay. Okay. That's those are my questions. Any anyone else? The chair? Yes. Um, I had the same question he has. Is this is this an actual image of what we're going to see? Because this landscaping looks pretty lush compared to what we're seeing right now. It's like barren. Yeah. There there is zero landscaping. This is very very nicely landscaped. Thank you. According to the picture,

the answer is yes. We have to comply with uh your city requirements for landscaping uh which has been beefed up over the years. Um and and yeah, we we've hired a landscape architect and this is an accurate representation of of what it would look like

um through the chair. And in addition to that, even though this is just the land use and in the zoning um application, we're going to hear more in, you know, detail. um um for the last few months um if an application requires a reduction um of previous area or landscaping, we are asking all these applications to mitigate for the landscaping. If the code requires that you have for example 10 trees on site and you only can meet seven, you will have to mitigate. What that means is our landscaping architect and our um parks recreation uh department will tell you this is the location that we want those three extra trees and that is where you will have to plant it. Okay.

So we are mitigating the loss if there don't have the proper um um area where to plant it on site. My next question uh yes sir will this have an elevator? Um yeah it will have an elevator. Yes sir. It's going to have handicap accessible right through the chair. Um is the future of this area going to look like this? It's just such a different structure compared to everything else that's there.

Um for the trends that I have seen, the type of applications that we have seen, um even the commercial areas is changing to these type of things, lowrise development, whether it is residential or commercial. Um it is basically that that that trend that we see it along 49th Street in certain areas except for the notes where you have a more intense you know commercial area towards um the Palmetto or other um intersections. Okay. Thank you.

Yeah. If you notice that for the most part that whole area there on 49 street it's all old single family homes that have been converted to residential offices. And uh to me, I think they've they've lived their useful life, right? Uh well, I mean, they're still useful, but this I I like this. I I wouldn't mind seeing a few more of those popping up. I think you're going to see one very shortly this evening. Right. Anyone else? Anyone in the audience have a comment or questions? All right. Closes the public hearing with the pleasure of the board. Motion to approve. Second that motion.

So we had a motion for Mrs. Enriquez. Second by Mr. Allesius. Mr. Mason. Yes. Mrs. Enriquez. Yes. Mr. Perez. Yes. Mr. Morales. Yes. Mr. Rioa. Yes. Mr. Yes. Item has been approved. Thank you very much. Oh, you two small scale map amendment from residential office to medium density residential properties located at 267 East 49th Street. Highly assones are all residential office district. Applicant William W. Bill Riley is squire on behalf of Kako Enterprises, Inc. You got to got to do the the honors again. For the record, Bill Riley with offices located at 16343 Southwest 256th Street, Homestead, Florida.

Thank you.

The property in on this application is located on the north side of East 49th Street at the midblock between East 2nd Avenue and East 4th Avenue. The lot was platted in 1953 according to ordinance number 759 for a lot size of 60 ft wide and 146 ft deep. Therefore, the lot was developed as a single family home in 1954 according to Miami Day County records and in 1986 according to ordinance number 86-104. A reszoning was approved from R1 one family district to R4 residential office allowing for the use to be amend amended in accordance to the changes along the 49 street. Our city uh records also reflect that the property has been operating as a residential office since 1996 with a medical office. Surrounding the property, the following land uses are presented. Lowdensity residential to the north, residential office to the east, west, and south. This application proposes amending the land use designation from residential office to medium density residential. The current residential office category was originally intended to buffer the lowdensity residential neighbors from major roadways and more intense commercial uses. The proposed medium density residential category serves as a similar transitional function but allows for an increased residential density and building height. As previously noted on one of the primary reasons for establishing the residential office land use category was to address increased vehicular circulation along 49th Street. According to the Florida Department of Transportation FDOT, this segment of 49th Street carries approximately 44,500 vehicles per day based on the average annual daily traffic count. This equates to an average of roughly 30 vehicles per minute, assuming an even distribution throughout the day. Since the residential office land use designation is becoming obsolete, the proposed amendment to medium density residential will continue to serve the buffering

function while allowing for a more appropriate and efficient use of the land. The proposal for this application is for a low-rise residential project with 10 units. The proposal has been submitted to the Miami Day County um school um public school concurrency system and awaiting analysis. This area is served by pump station number 04-062 and is an okay status and final capacity and impact will be processed during site plan. In addition, the project is required to go over concurrency review for parks, police, and infrastructure services and pay all impact fees at site plan. According to the above analysis, the lot is compatible with receiving a medium density residential designation. Staff recommends approval for the land use amendment.

Thank you, Mr. Riley. Um, we had a little little question here cuz I Were you sworn in when you came in? So, um, I was not sworn in. Um, but I am an attorney, so I'm an officer of the court, so I'm under oath, but I'm happy to be sworn in as well. It's painless. Yes, sir. Go ahead. Do you swear or to tell a truth for his board? I do. There you go. See, thank you. No pain, no gains. [laughter] Thank you.

So, Mr. Chairman, a moment ago, I told you you're going to see another one uh just in a moment. This is it. Um, so if we go to the PowerPoint presentation, this is directly across the street. Um, it's actually the same end users, different client only because it's a different special purpose entity that owns the property, but the same um same individuals that own it. They purchased this one earlier in 1998. Um, and it is also approaching its 75th year of anniversary uh of construction. It's a little bit larger at almost 9,000 square ft. Um, and if you go to the next slide, um, you'll see the asbuilt survey. Um, this one has a little bit of pvious area. Um, in the front there is a patch of grass. And when I say patch, it's it's probably less area than than in front of the bar here. Um, we are going to uh improve that by uh a significant amount. It currently has nine surface parking spaces. We're going to have more. It ab butts the same um 80 foot rightway and it also contributes to the same heat island effects. And if you go to the next slide very quickly, I'll try to uh brush this through this. This is a picture of the existing medical office that's there. Um and you'll see there's a little bit there's a little storage structure in the rear. Um, but parking is in the front and in the back and you'll see the Patrick grass in the front there, but everything else is asphalt. If we go to the next slide, this provides a um our site plan um that shows the pvious area but also shows the footprint of the building. How again this one will be covered parking just like the previous application. Um we will have um the parking uh in

addition to the lobby area that I mentioned that was similar to the previous application. Uh the next slide. Um this shows you the elevation uh which is very similar to our previous application. Um same style. This one is proposed to have 10 residential units because the lot is a little bit larger and can accommodate the additional uh units. Go to the next slide. It's it's the same elevation with the height and the massing uh that we presented a moment ago and it'll provide the same type of development trend that we were discussing as well as the um as well as the uh transition with regard to uses. Next slide. This will show this this slide just shows our typical floor plan layout with a typical residential same type of uh clientele is the people that we are intending to serve. Um it will also be rental because we're having the 10 units. Later on in the in in the day I'll be discussing the unit sizes. Next slide. Just also wants to make sure that the board understands um that we have we're we're complying with the city's requirements on parking dimensions, parking stall, sty, and we're not asking for any relief associated with that. And the final slide, the final slide uh goes through each of our requests. Um and it's very very similar to the previous application. There's about eight requests on this one. And later on the day, I'll go through those in more detail. I thank you for your time and I'm available to answer any questions.

Thank you, sir. Obviously, it should go without saying that the existing buildings would on both properties will be demolished and then built from the ground up. Yes, sir. Good. I again it's I like the design. As far as the murals is concerned, I'm okay with it. I don't know about the board, but I'm sure that you and your client and and and staff will come up with with a happy medium somewhere. I'm I'm okay with it. Your your staff will make sure we do a good job. I'm confident. Let me warn you, there's a there's an issue with orange and yellow colors. Uh oh. Okay, good to know. [laughter] There's

I thought you were going to say orange and blue for the Florida Gators. Sure. [laughter] Anyway, comments or questions? All right. Anyone in the audience? All right. Was the pleasure of the board? Motion to approve. Second. Okay. We had a motion by Mrs. Enriquez. Second by Mr. Morales. Mr. Yes. Mr. Mason. Yes. Mr. Roya. Yes. Mrs. Enriquez. Yes. Mr. Perez? Yes. Mr. Morales? Yes. Item has been approved. Thank you again. I like the trend. Thank you.

Item number one. Um wait a minute. This closes the land use part of the meeting. We will now migrate on to um planning and zoning. Item number one approval of planning and zoning board summing agenda of October 15, 2025 as submitted. Motion to approve. Second that motion. So we had a motion by Mrs. Zikas. Second by Mr. Allesia. Mr. Mason. Yes. Mr. Allesius. Yes. Mr. Morales. Yes. Mr. Yes. Mr. Enriquez. Yes. Mr. Perez. Yes. Item has been approved.

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 provide the decisions by resolution. After the resolution is adopted, contact a 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 copy of the audio file the proceedings before the planning and zoning board shall be prepared and submitted to the city council before his hearing. A planning and zoning board recommendations for the following public hearing request will be heard by the city council at a schedule meeting of Tuesday, December 9th, 2025. Item number two, final decision to allow rear setback of 8.5 ft where 20 ft are required for a proposed aluminum terrace properties located at 6120 East 4th Avenue. As our 111 family district applicant Gonzalez and George Vigeredo Ala

Gonzalez Vigeredo are they there? Okay. Um what is the uh so should we should we table this or this item is it's um recommended as approved with conditions and since the applicant is not here. Yeah they they have conditions. Yeah let's the conditions. Yeah. So let's let's go ahead and let's go ahead and uh you want to just read the address for the record and then we can read um suggest the table.

Sure. So the address is 6120 East 4th Avenue. Okay. And table it or postpone it. You table it if it means that you But tableabling the item means you'll bring it back sometime during the meeting. Sometime in the 19th or No, no, today. Tabling the item, you bring it back today. Postponing it, you postpone it to a different meeting. Um, will Can we say it in Spanish? Do we expect them here tonight or

Okay, let's let's let's do this. Can we postpone it until the end of the meeting and then come back to it and if they're not here, we can table it. You either you either table or postpone t you can't postpone till the end of the meeting. You can table to the end of the meeting or you postpone to another date certain. We'll motion to table to the end of the meeting. Second that motion. So I have a motion by Mr. Rio. Second by Mr. Allesius. Mr. Morales. Yes. Mr. Perez. Yes. Mr. Rioa. Yes. Mr. Mason. Mrs. Enriquez. Yes. Mr. Allesios. Yes. Item has been tabled.

So just if if they don't show up, you still need to call the item back to take action on the item. to take action and put right and then even if it means tableing till the next meeting or postponing till the next meeting.

Okay. So item number three, final decision to allow rear setback of 17 ft where 20 feet are required and to allow an interior east side setback of 5.34 feet where 6 feet are required for proposed addition properties located at 90 west 64th Street Halewan one family district applicant Salvador Sastre Margarita Sastre and Lud Sastra they're here name and address, please. Uh, my name is Margarita Sastray and the address is 90 West 64th Street. Thank you.

The property in this application is located on the south side of West 64th Street between Palm Avenue and West 2nd Avenue. The lot is approximately 6,300 ft or 0.14 acres. The site is improved with a 1,694 square foot single family home originally built in 1953. According to Miami Day County property appraisal records, the property is designated as low density residential on the city's uh future land use map. The zoning classification is R1 one family district which is consistent therewith. The applicant is before the city requesting approval of a proposed 985 square feet addition that provides a rear setback of 17 feet where 20 feet are required and an interior east side setback of 5.34 ft where six feet are required. The proposed addition includes two bedrooms, two bathrooms, a corridor, a living room and a laundry room. Based on the submitted floor plans, one of the proposed bedroom contain a stud that encroaches into the east side setback resulting in one of the setback adjustment requested under this application. A review of the city's microfilm records indicates that the regional residence was constructed as a twobedroom one-bedroom home. Subse subsequently a building permit was issued under permit number 1981-2194 for the addition of a TV room and a study room at the rear of the property. In 2022, the two the TV room and a study room were converted into one bedroom and and bathroom under permit number 2022-6025. The site meets and exceed the minimum peruse area requirements of 30% approximately 1,990 square ft. Given that the required rear setback is 20 feet and the required side setback is six feet and the proposed addition provides a rear setback of 17 feet and an east side setback of 5.34 ft, a staff finds that the reduced rear and side setback dimensions do not negatively impact the adjacent properties. The structure is not built up to the property line and remains

compatible with the surrounding neighborhood. Additionally, the property continues to exa exceed the minimum required previous area. Staff recommends approval of the request subject to the following condition that the property owner must provide a signed and notorized declaration of use confirming that the property shall be used exclusively as a single family home residence. No additions or improvement shall alter the property's uses as a single family dwelling and only one kitchen shall be maintained on the premises consistent with the R1 zoning regulations. Staff recommends approval with that condition.

Thank you. Any comments or questions? Do you understand the recommendations and that they're and the conditions they're putting forth? Yeah. You agree with them? Yeah. One kitchen. Yeah. No additions. We're all family. One family. One family. Three. Three siblings and a niece. My niece. Yeah. Good deal. Comments or questions from the board? Anyone in the audience? Right. What's the pleasure of the board? Motion to approve with condition. Second with conditions. So we had a motion by Mrs. Zara, second by Mr. Morales. Mr. Yes. Mrs. Enriquez. Yes. Mr. Allesius.

Yes. Mr. Mason. Yes. Mr. Perez. Yes. Mr. Morales. Yes. Item has been approved with condition. Thank you so much. You know your last name reminds me of my uncle. Oh, really? Because he was a Sastri. Sastri. Not because because of his last name, but because of his Oh, Taylor. Taylor. There you go. Good night.

The planning and zoning board recommendations for the following public hearing request will be heard by the city council at the schedule meeting of Tuesday, November 18th, 2025. Item number four, amendments to city of Halia ordinance number 2023-124 to permit a five-story multifamily development with 52 residential units instead of an eightstory multif family development with 48 residential units. Repealing variances to allow 17% of the units with an area of 692 ft where 850 ft is the minimum required and only 10% of the units may have an area of 600 ft. and wave the building mass and building frontage development standards. Varian's permit to allow 48 multif family units 92% with an area of less than 700 square feet where 700 square feet is the minimum required and only 25% of the residential units may have a minimum area of 500 ft² to allow 12% per area where 30% is the minimum required to allow partial waiver of minimum landscape requirements through landscape mitigation as per section 98-2235 and to allow the mitigation of six parking spaces as per section 98-15 15797 properties located at 1116 Palm A Helia Son2 Liberal Retail Commercial District within the neighborhood business district overlay MVD. Applicant 116 Property Holdings OZ LLC.

Name and address, please. Good evening board members. Thank you for having us. Jose Kuo, 850 Northwest 42nd Avenue, sweet 310 Miami, Florida 33126 on behalf of 116 Property Holdings. Thank you, sir. Uh, chair, board, thank. Oh, I'm sorry.

The property in this application is located at the northwest intersection of Palm Avenue between West 11th Street and West 12th Street. The parcel consists of approximately 32,400 square ft or 74 acres. The site was previously improved with a car sale lot, a two-story commercial residential building, and a mechanic shop. All constructed between 1925 and 1966. However, in 2023, the property was demolished under perent number BLDC-010823-2024, leaving the land vacant. The property is designated as a commercial on the city city's future land use map and is currently zone C2 liberal retail commercial district and is also within the extended Halia downtown urban center district overlay. The surrounding land uses and and zoning includes low and medium density residential zone R2 and R3 to the north, medium density residential and commercial zone R3, R31 and C2 to the east, medium density residential and central business district zone C2, R3, R31 and CR to the south and medium density residential zone R3 to the west. The property was granted a special use permit under city ordinance number 2023-1251 124, I'm sorry, adopted on December 12, 2023, approving the expansion of the neighborhood business district overlay. The ordinance also approved variances allowing for smaller side residential units that were permitted by the overlay. Additional variances were granted to way building mass and building frontage development standards. Consequently, the approved for development consisted of an 8story mixeduse building, including 9,700 ft of ground floor, commercial space, and 48 residential units containing eight one-bedroom units and 42bedroom units. The proposal also complied with the parking requirements at the time of

approval. The neighborhood business district MBD regulations were amended pursuant to ordinance number 2025-004 adopted on January 28, 2025. The amendments directly affecting this request include revisions to the minimum residential unit size standard, the percentage of units permitted to contain less than the required minimum square footage, and modifications to the office street parking requirements. In addition, a waiver of the building mass and building frontage development standard is not longer required under the amended regulations. The applicant is before the city requesting a modification to the approved ordinance to permit the development of a fivetory multif family building with 52 residential units. Therefore, decreasing the height and increasing the density of the project. In place of the previously approved 80story and 48 multif family buildings. As part of this request, the applicant seeks to repeal the previously granted variances that allowed 17% of the units to have an area of 692 square feet where a minimum of 850 ft is required and permitted up to 10% of the units with an area of 600 square ft as well as the waiver of building mass and building frontage development standards. The amended proposal now requires approvals of new variances to allow the 48 um multif family units, 92% with an area of less than 700 square ft² where 700 square ft is the minimum requirement and to permit up to 25% of the residential units with a minimum area of 500 square ft. Additional variances are requesting to allow a 12% previous area where 30% is the minimum required to allow a partial waiver of land minimum landscaping um requirements uh through the landscaping mitigation of per section 98-2235 and to mitigate six parking spaces in accordance with section 98-15797 of the city code ordinances.

The amended proposal front Palm Avenue and according to the submitted plans include a 553.87 foot lobby, a 1,244 square ft fitness centers, and a 2008 822 ft club room. The ground level also features a package room, mail room, bike room, trash room, management and leasing offices, two stairwells, two elevators, and a rentable restorage room. In addition, uh the site plan depicts three bike racks along Palm Avenue. Um floors through uh floors two through five consists entirely of one-bedroom, oneb units, each with a balcony. Parking is provided at the surface of the rear of the building screen from Palm Avenue with a total of 52 parking spaces including three ADA compliant spaces. The site plan further depicts a covered terrace located on the northeast side of the property. The applicant is requesting a unit size variance in response to the high demand for housing. Um, in an email sent on October 27, 2025, the applicant stated that 100% of the units will be designated as a workforce housing offered at 140% of the area median income AMI. The requested variances are expected to have a minimal impact in the surrounding properties as the building complies with all the required setback dimensions. And to address the reduction in previous area, the project will incorporate an on-site drainage system. In addition, because the property is located within the extended Halia Downtown Urban Center, the applicant may provide a onetime monetary contribution of $5,000 per parking space not provided on site as permitted by code. These funds may then be allocated by the city towards offsite parking improvements within the ad hoc area. As previously noted, the project is requesting a modification to the approved ordinance, which was originally granted under the format MBD incentive point regulations. Under the revised MBD regulations, the applicant is now proposing the following incentive points uh to achieve compliance. The parking located in the rear um block from the

street view allows them for one point. Implement um implementation of transportation and multimoto improvements two points. Public open space such as terraces zero uh.5 points and permanent artwork displayed at the street level 0.5 points. The total number of incentive for points is sufficient to meet the proposed higher and density requirements under the new MBD regulations. And to address the transportation and multimodal improvement incentive points, the applicant has been coordinated with the city street departments and the Miami day department of transportation and public works the GPW to obtain approval for the proposed crosswalks at Palm Avenue and 11th Street as well as a midblock crossing um across Palm Avenue. These improvements aim to enhance pedestrian safety and provide a safe condition connection between the proposed fivetory building and the existing shopping centers to the east. Additionally, while the applicant has proposed artwork as part of the point calculation, the submitted plans do not depict such improvement. Accordingly, the site plan must be revised to include the proposed improvements in order the applicant to receive such incentive points. Therefore, based on the applicant's request, the staff recommends the following condition. enter into a declaration of restriction to develop the site according to plans digitally signed by Robert K. Moriceet AIA dated September 9, 2025 with revisions made as stated above and that the applicant submits a one-time parking mitigation of $30,000 for six parking spaces at the time of site plan and concurrency process and that the applicant submits a one-time landscaping mitigation payment, the amount in which will be calculated during the site plan and concurrency review process. and that the applicant obtained approval for the proposed north south crosswalk at Palm Avenue and 11th Street and continue the process the approval process for the midblock crossing um across Palm Avenue from the street department and DT DTBW and that the 100% of the units are designated as

work for housing offer and 140% of the area medium income AMI and show the proposed artwork on the site plan and rendering in order to receive the instant points um with the following Staff recommends approval with the conditions. Have a drink. Can you translate that to Spanish, please? Um, do you have a copy of the conditions or Yes, Mr. Chair, we do. Okay. Because I Wow. Thank you. You have the floor.

Um, through the chair, board members, uh, thank you. Thank you again for having us and to staff for for the comprehensive review and recommendation of this project. Uh as you may recall about a month ago we were before you right where this board uh voted unanimously to approve the application. The reason we are here again this evening is as a result of a scrivener's error on the part of our team our architect that had uh had misrepresented the impervious area. And so, as uh the director noted, this is a 52-unit workforce housing project along in the downtown uh of Halia, the core uh just down the street from here. It's a along a transit way uh bus stop in front of the property. It's being designed as such and providing those multimodal improvements that were mentioned by the director and her team. And and really uh the request is to allow for a lesser impervious area, specifically 12%. Um it it bears uh to note that in addition to the impervious area being provided on site, we are meeting the landscape requirements uh that the city has put forth along uh Palm Avenue in having canopy trees uh line lining the sidewalk and as a result we feel that that um it's a major improvement over what's there today and will add uh much needed workforce and and and affordable housing to the residents of Halia and thank you again for your consideration this evening.

Thank you. comments or questions through the chair. Yeah. Um, as a matter of confirmation, um, Mr. Quto, how are you related to the applicant? Uh, to the applicant uh to the to the property owner? To the property owner. We are the um um owner's rep and uh development support team for the owner, Mr. Herrera of 116 uh property holdings. Have you registered as a lobbyist for this application? Um uh no, we have not. Not for this specific application. Not this for this as specific. Okay. No, but we are affiliated with ownership. So as a result, it was our understanding director that there's not a requirement to register uh to register as a result. Um

as a as principal and and and partner have the lobby. We don't have complete the complete application for when you have a discount of the But Jose, you're not an owner of 1116 Property Holdings LLC. Uh, not currently. Not on Sunbis. Not no not currently. Yeah, you would have you definitely have to register as a lobbyist.

Okay. May the um may the item be heard without uh without comment or or speaking in that it's coming back for consideration. You you just can't agree to the conditions. That's that's the issue. Um understood. Yeah. Yeah. And there's handful of them. Yeah. Yeah. No. And there is uh confirmation from ownership of course in writing that that uh those conditions is um he is is anybody here is Ivan Herrera. Is anybody here? We can bring them in uh telephonically or on Zoom if if necessary.

Are are you do you have any um ownership in first loyal OZ fund? Uh, no. Well, somebody I mean they need to agree to the conditions. Okay. Either Ivan Herrera, Lewis Castro or Ana Herrera. Okay. Could that be done? Or somebody who owns First Loyal Oz Fund. Could that be done, Mr. Attorney? Uh, if if this item were to be tabled uh if the board and the chair were to agree. Um, yeah. Yeah. I don't mind if they appear um on Zoom. Okay, perfect. We need to see we need to see them to swear them in. Absolutely. Okay. Thank you very much. Sure. And you'll you'll need to register before council if you

and this was only because our land just for the record if I may uh our land use council was out of town traveling. He'll be back for first reading for Oh, so I think I actually think Caesar did register for that. He did in fact register. Yes. And he was here uh in representation last meeting. Yeah. Okay. If you can get somebody on table and then we can move on. Absolutely. And if staff could just help in providing that Zoom link um if possible, we'll get ownership. Thank you. Thank you again chair and board. So if we can get a motion table table so we had a motion. One second. Let me look for the item. Motion to table by Mr. Second by Mr. Yes. Mr. Perez.

Yes. Mr. Mason. Mr. Allesius. Yes. Mrs. Enriquez. Yes. Mr. Rioa. Yes. Mr. Morales. Yes. Item has been tabled. Okay. So, okay. So, item number five has already been heard. Item number six.

Yes. Okay. Both. Both. Both.

Both. Okay. Both. The item that was in front of us is going to be table for later on tonight. Okay. Um, so we're just going to put it aside and then we'll get back to it. Okay. Uhhuh. Okay. Okay.

Okay. Basically, just uh he was just wanting to know, you know, say a few things about the item. So, told him that it's on it's on hold and he'll come back. So, okay. Item number six, reszoning property from RO residential office district to R33 multiple family district. Special use permit to allow the expansion of the neighborhood business district overlay in relation to a proposed multifamily development including six residential units. Varian's permit to allow residential use only where mixed use is required to allow a front setback of 6.5 feet where 10 feet build to line required for the balconies fronting East 49th Street to allow 10.57% perus area where 30% is the minimum required to allow partial waiver of minimum landscape requirements through uh landscape mitigation as per section 98-2235 and to allow nine parking spaces where 10 parking spaces are required. Properties located at 258 East 49th Street, H Highio RO residential office district. Applicant William W. Riley Square on behalf of Titty's Holding LLC.

Once again, Mr. Riley. Good evening, Mr. For the records. Bill O'Reilly with offices located at 16343 Southwest 256th Street, Homestead, Florida.

Thank you, sir. The property in this application is located on the south side of East 49th Street between East 2nd Avenue and East 3rd Avenue. The lot is approximately 6,878 square ft or 0.15 acres. The site is improved with a 1,124 square foot single family residence built in 1950 that was later converted in 199 1990 into an office building when it was resoneed from R1 one family district to R residential office district under city of Halia ordinance number 1990-46. City record shows that the property has been operating as a dental office since 2020. The property is designated as a residential office on the city's future land use map and is currently zone RO which is consistent therein the surrounding land use and zoning includes residential office and commercial zone RO R1 and B1 highly restricted commercial to the north residential office and recreation open space zone RO and R1 uh to the east low density residential and major institution zone R1 to the south residential office and commercial zone R O B1 and P parking district to the west. The applicant is before the city requesting to resone the property from RO to R33 multif family districts. A companion land use amendment application has been submitted to change the land use designation from residential office to medium density residential ensuring consistency between land use and zoning. The intent of the proposed amendment and resoning is to support a special use permit SUP for the expansion of the neighborhood business district MBD overlay in connection with a proposed multif family development consisting of six residential units. The applicant is also al also requesting a variance parking to allow residential use only where mixed use is required to allow a front setback of 6.5 ft where 10ft built a line is required for balconies fronting East 49th Street to

allow 10.57% of previous area where 30% is the minimum required to allow a partial waiver of minimum landscaping requirements through landscaping mitigation and to allow night parking spaces where 10 are required according to the submitted plan. The proposed project consists of threestory multif family building where a ground floor is this is designed for parking providing a total of nine parking spaces including one ADA compliance space. This level is also a this level also includes a trash room lobby with pedestrian access from 49 street and from the interior parking areas, a mail room and a designated bicycle storage area at the rear of the property. The second floor proposes three residential units, two with two bedrooms and two bathrooms and one with one bedroom and one bathroom. The third floor mirrors the second floor layout with two twobedrooms, two bathrooms and one one-bedroom, oneb unit for a total of six residential units across the building. The requested varants are anticipated to have a minimal impact on surrounding properties. The proposed building complies with all the required setback dimensions with the exemptions of the balcony's front and east 49 street which encroach into the front setback. Staff does not find the encroachments as negatively impacting uh the properties surrounding as the balcony faces a major roadway rather than neighboring properties. To mitigate the reduction in purpose area, the project will include an on-site drainage system. Based on the submitted plans, the proposal meets the parking requirements per residential units. However, one additional space is required for gas parking. A staff supports the variance request as the site provides sufficient on-site parking for residents and the minor deficiency is not expected to adversely affect the traffic circulation or neighboring properties. Additionally, the site location is within an established urban area with convenient pedestrian access to commerce and educational facilities and it facilitates connection to public transportation and nearby services which

further reduce parking demand. As noted in the land use amendment application, a staff review of city and county records revealed that a mutual a mutual um reciprocal access agreement was recorded within Miami Day County Clerks of Courts on June 4, 2023. This agreement established a joint use ingress and agress for vehicular access between the rear parking areas of the property located at 250 East 49 Street and 258 East 49 Street and the subject property. The agreement runs with Atlanta and must be released prior to proceeding with the proposed redevelopment. Finally, the existing sidewalk along 49th Street will need to be reconstructed to remove the existing curb cut and driveway access during the site plan and concurrency review process. The applicant is proposing the following incentive points in order to achieve the MBD density and high incentive points compliance. a permanent artwork display at that level point 0.5 points and improve entrance and lobby areas of at least 500 square feet uh 0.5 and provide onetime monetary contribution to the friends of high allian of no less than $20,000 one point the total number of incentive points too is sufficient to meet the proposed highintensity requirements under the MBD regulations based on the applicant request staff recommends approval for with the following condition enter into a declaration of restriction to develop vel the site according to plans digitally signed and um and by Eduardo Perez AR dated September 18, 2025 and that the applicant submits a onetime monetary contribution to the friends of the higher line of $20,000 at the time of site plan and concurrency and that the applicant submits a one-time landscape landscape mitigation payment on the amount which will be calculated during the site plan and concurrency review process and that the mutual reciprocal access agreement that was recorded with Miami date county cler courts in June 4, 2023 be released prior to the proceeding with the proposed redevelopment and that the existing

sidewalk along East 49 Street be reconstructed to remove the existing curb cut and driveway access during the site plan and concurrency review process. Staff recommends approval with the conditions.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Uh and I echo your comments. uh staff um is amazing how much they go through with all those uh all those recommendations, but they do a phenomenal job and I again I thank them for all the hard work they've done on this application. Um I won't go through the whole presentation because you've seen it and I don't want to be redundant. I'm just going to go through the requests very quickly. Um so one of the requests we have a few non-use variances and one of the requests is to eliminate commercial. So generally with the requested overlay that we're proposing for this pro project um you generally have to have commercial but on this site and with the online craze uh with Amazon and everything else commercial is difficult to um to u to make a meaningful contribution to the community. it's difficult to lease. Um it creates additional parking and transient uses um and in and out with vehicular traffic. Um we don't really want any of those complications associated with this project. Um so we've asked to eliminate the requirement to have commercial. Um secondarily, uh generally you're supposed to have a 10-ft setback uh between the frontage uh property line and your balcony. We're asking you for a relief of 3 and 1/2 ft um to have um a little bit bigger balconies um uh more meaningful balconies but also accommodate the footprint we need for the entire project. Um we're asking for one parking variance uh one uh space parking variance. Um we have we're proposing six units with nine parking spaces. We are on a very tight uh lot. uh it is a small lot so it's a feat to uh try to accommodate all of the uh requirements and make all the requirements work with

a a feasible project. Um, luckily enough with uh your staff analysis um the dimminimous nature of that parking variance, they uh were able to support that request and again we thank them for working with us on that and previously we were talking about the pvious area and right now we have zero on the property. Uh we're proposing to have 11%. But in addition to which is a variance which is not compliant with your code. Um, but in addition to that, we're going to participate in the mitigation program that staff mentioned uh a moment ago earlier on in the hearing. Um, we've read the conditions. We understand the conditions. Uh, we have registered uh as lobbyists. Um, I do represent the property owner and I can uh confirm to you we have no objection to the conditions and we accept them all. And with that, I'll answer any questions you may have.

There's a few conditions. Yes sir. Okay. There are all right comments or questions. I I have I have a question that's more to to you. The the the condition of having commercial space on the bottom floor. Is that something that is always being put on to people? They they have to put that commercial space.

Um that is basically a code requirement. Um if the applicant requests um to expand the MBD basically to be regulated under the MBD um district um the code requires to have a either an active um ground floor or a commercial area. It allows it requires for mixuse. In this case they are requesting not to have commercial um in the ground floor and which staff in this case because of the size of the building and the location of the building. We agree with that request. Anyone else? Anyone in the audience have common questions? Okay. It was the pleasure of the board.

Motion to approve. Second conditions. What conditions? So, we had a motion by Mr. Second by Mr. Morales. Mr. Mason. Mr. Perez. Yes. Mr. Roya. Yes. Mr. Morales. Yes. Mrs. Zero. Yes. Mr. Allesios. Yes. Item has been approved with conditions. Thank you all. Thank you. Item number seven. Sure. I see somebody on. Are you ready to go back? Okay. So, if we can remove uh item number four. Item number four. Motion to remove from table.

Second. Okay. So, we had a motion by Mr. Yo, second by Mrs. Enriquez. Mr. Mason. Mr. Yes. Mrs. Enriquez. Yes. Mr. Morales. Yes. Mr. A. Yes. Mr. Perez. Yes. Item has been removed from table. Um, so, uh, Ana will need to turn her camera on cuz Florida law requires that we see her. You said at least we'll give her the oath. Yes. Yes, I'm here. Yes, there you are. Good evening, ma'am. Um, good evening. Can you raise your right hand, please? Yes. Okay. Raise your right hand. Do you swear or affirm to tell the truth before his board? Yes, I swear.

Okay. So, Claudia, if you just want to read uh reread the um not the whole thing, the conditions. Got it. into the record so that she can agree to the conditions on the record. Since you are a representative of coowner, if you will, uh she's one of the managers of 1116 Property Holdings OLC.

Okay. So related to the property located at 1116 Palm Avenue, um a staff is recommending the following conditions. Enter into a declaration of restrictions to developing to develop the site according to plans digitally signed by Robert K. Marie said AIA dated September 9, 2025 with revisions made as stated um in the staff report [snorts] and that the applicant submits a one-time parking mitigation amount of $30,000 for six parking spaces at the site plant at the time of site plan and concurrency process and that the applicant submits a one-time landscape mitigation payment. the amount when which will be calculated during the site plan and concurrency review process that the applicant obtain approval for the proposed north south crosswalk at Palm Avenue and 11th Street and continue the approval process for the midblock crossing across Palm Avenue from the street department and DT DTBW and that 100% of the units are to be designated as work for housing offer at 140% of the area uh median income AMI and that show the proposed artwork on the site plan and rendering in order to receive the inserting points. Staff recommends approval with those conditions.

Yes. Okay. So, she profers she profers to the conditions. Um she accepts the conditions for the record. Um so, if you have any questions or you want to open up the um public hearing, yeah, we do have a gentleman that wants to speak on um suggestion would be make sure that you have a copy of the conditions. They're lengthy so that way that she can go over them and understand them also. Thank you, Mr. Chair. We we do and we have and and yes, ownership is cognizant of the conditions. Okay. Now, do we have any comments or questions on this item?

No. Okay. There is a gentleman on the on the audience that would like to uh name and address, please. Exactus. His name is Jesus Enrique. Uhhuh.

Bonet. Okay. [laughter] I'm sorry. He's the name of the property. I'm so [laughter] sorry.

He's never cross the street. Yeah. Initially the project was eight floors and now it's five floors. Okay. Um before the project was 50 48 residential units and now they're requesting 52 residential units. So the floors went down from 8 to 5

but now more units are being included. So that means that the units are a lot smaller. He's looking at it in the way of that he can compare the prices to his home price

for every project that um we do in the city. He's been living in the city for 28 years and he's always been and he's always been okay with all the the government and all the projects have to have three beneficiaries, the government, the developers and the residents. If those three are okay, he's okay with the project. And that was the first topic. Now it was the second. His unit 25 west.

He's right next to the to the land to the property. When they started demolishing two minutes.

Okay. When they started demolishing the dealership, the his apartment started having um issues. all this association and um in the window the the the maintenance people

the maintenance people came and fixed it fix the f the filtration but when the maintenance people came they told them that the structure was damaged and there was a filtration They still haven't done much for the new project and some trucks are parked there

and there's a lot of noise when the coming says that the other type of equipment there when they move around his unit vibrates.

He opens his window so that the air can run from west to east and the vibration continues.

The structure was fixed and there's no water anymore. But when the excavations begin, it's five floors and it's going to get worse. Yeah. Um the the the trucks, the heavy equipment Mhm.

are going to be there for the construction. They're not going to stay there.

Okay. Um can is there any way to mitigate the vibrations and the um he'll say Okay. No, no, no. Okay. Okay. [laughter] Um through through the chair. Okay. Okay.

As a matter of clarification also, chair, I just want to mention because I think the gentleman mentioned a fivetory, you know, garage and a fivetory building. So, Okay. Okay. get in contact with them, exchange numbers, have Okay, thank you.

Not from back there, but you can come up here.

Were you sworn in? Okay. Okay. Do you swear or to tell the truth for this board? Okay. Okay. Her name is Anna Parong and she lives uh at 25 West 11th Street.

11 Street neighbors. she wants to add is that she's hearing that they're only going to have one parking per unit.

And as you all know, in every unit can be two people. What she wants to say is that the parking is not going to be enough for all the tenants and she wants to know if more parking could be added. for parking, especially if they're rentals.

She just wants you to consider that. Thank you. See what you can do.

Thank you. Anyone else? Okay. Close closing. Uh Jose, would you like to u say thank you through the chair again, members? Um I expressed to the resident our commitment and also the requirement to ensure dust control, vibration monitoring and uh be good neighbors uh with with everyone in that area throughout the construction period now and in the future. Uh the application as you all are cognizant of and and staff as well as through their recommendation uh was more intense. It's been reduced in the way of of uh uh um Florida area ratio, lot coverage, height, and a number of other factors that we think is much more compatible with the area. And then this is of course the downtown. And so as a result, we think that this project meets the intent of of the land use code, the zoning code, and and meets your approval. Thank you again for your consideration. I say, you don't have to. Okay. This is my suggestion as a token of goodwill and good faith. Um, keep in contact with the neighbors. Absolutely. Uh, you know, let them know what's going on. Uh,

you you know, touch base with them because at the end of the day, they are going to whether we like to admit it or not, they're going to be affected by the construction. Keep the peace. Okay. Hey, Seah, you know, just Absolutely. Absolutely. Sure. Do the chair neighborly. and I grew up a few blocks away. I'm a highly a product. So, yes, understood. Um, to the resident's point, how are you going to miticate parking if there are two people?

Uh, member Enriquez, uh, our strategy and and and, uh, objective here is they're all one-bedroom apartments. Uh today under MBD, the code calls for one space per per unit. And we're frankly going to be looking to lease to uh the elderly and and younger tenants that are single occupants and individuals that are going to be using that unit for the purposes of getting around. It is a transit corridor. We are abinguing a bus stop. Uh we are actually today we had a meeting with fire on this project and um um uh Rick uh and the fire marshall mentioned that some of their staff might have an interest in living nearby especially younger cadetses and and and staff members and so given that you could walk to to city hall and and walk to work we envision more of that downtown urban context for this project that's really our vision for it.

Okay. If you can also relate that to the I was just going to say those are important points that they need to Yes. you know, they need to know, they need to feel because it's going to clear a lot of doubt in their minds. Thank you. Okay. Thank you. Yes, sir. You can also make a a point and get her number and get in contact with her. Absolutely. Uh we have Mr. Bon. We'll get the the madam's number. Thank you. And count on our commitment uh board members that we will do the right thing. Thank you, sir. Thank you. Anyone else? Okay. Um, that being said, was the pleasure of the board. Motion to approve. Second that motion with the conditions. With the conditions.

Okay. So, we had a motion by Mr. Morales. Second by Mr. Mr. Mason. Yes. Mr. Perez. Yes. Mr. Rioa. Yes. Mr. Morales. Yes. Mrs. Enriquez. Yes. Mr. Yes. Item has been approved with conditions.

Thank you. Okay. Communication is key between both parties. Communicate. talk, have a dialogue. He has a a plan. He has a solution for the parking uh concerns that the young lady had. Um sit down, have a cafeito, you know, talk about it and you see that you you'll be okay. But please communicate. Don't you know your neighbors, okay? Thank you. Item number seven, reszoning property from RO residential office district to R33 multiple family district. Special use permit to allow the expansion of the neighborhood business district overlay in relation to a proposed multifamily development including 10 residential units. Variance permit to allow residential use only where mixed use is required. Allow four multif family units 40% with an area less than 700 square feet where 700 square feet is the minimum required and only 25% of the residential units may have a minimum area of 500 ft to allow a front setback of 6.5 ft or 10 ft build line are required for the balconies fronting East 49th Street to allow 10.56% purious area where 30% is the minimum required to allow partial waiver of minimum landscape requirements through landscape mitigation as per section 98- -2235 and to allow 12 parking spaces where 15

parking spaces are required. Properties located at 267 East 49th Street Hyund are all residential office district applicant William W. Riley Square on behalf of Kako Enterprises Inc. Here we go again. Do the honors please. Good evening, Mr. Chairman. Uh for the record, Bill Riley with offices located at 16343 Southwest 256th Street, Homestead, Florida. Mr. Riley, we do apologize for cutting your items and, you know, chopping them up and, you know, inserting other people in front of you and stuff. Oh, sir. Um, I appreciate it. That's the nature of the beast. Yes, sir. Thank you.

The property on its application is located on the north side of East 49th Street at the mid block between East 2nd Avenue and East 4th Avenue. The lot was platted in 1953 according to ordinance number 759 for a lot size of 60 ft wide and 146 ft deep. Therefore, the lot the lot was developed as a single family home in 1954 according to Miami Day County Records. And in 1986, according to ordinance number 86-104, a reasonzoning was approved from R1 one family district to RO residential office allowing for the use to be amended in accordance to the changes along the 49th Street. Our city uh records also reflect that the property has been operating as a residential office since 19 1996 as a with a medical office and surrounding the property. The following land uses are presented are present. Low density residential to the north residential office to the east, south and west. And this application is the companion item to the previously review land use amendment request. This application proposes to resone the property from RO residential office to R33 multif family and is requesting a special use permit to expand the neighborhood business district MBD to permit a three-story multif family building with 10 residential units. The proposed structure is to have a small lobby with an elevator and trash room at ground level. Vehicular access is through a double access driveway to a cover parking area of 12 parking spaces and a back and a bike storage towards the rear. The second and third level have a lobby and a common corridor providing access to five residential units at each level. And the majority of the units have balconies facing south and east. The reszoning and the special use permit to expand the MBD are requirements that are needed for the redevelopment of the site as a multif family site. The variants are mainly affecting the project since the balcony is projected into 49 street and the reduction of the

previous area shall be treated with a property engineer drainage system. The parking variance is requesting three parking spaces less than the co- requirements but the project will have sufficient parking for at least one parking space per unit as mentioned in previous applications of a simil as of a similar nature. The site location is within the established urban area with convenient pedestrian access to commerce and educational facilities and need facilitates connection to public transportation and nearby services which further reduce parking demand. The requested various areated to have a minimal impact on surrounding properties. There is a series of site improvements and coordination that will need to be in place during the sip and concurrency process. As for example, there is a share vehicular access with the property to the west. However, no agreement has been found on record, but there is a street light pole within the frontage that might have to be relocated to clear the proposed vehicular driveway. In addition, the project is proposing the following uh density incentive points to reach the requested density. A permanent artwork displayed at a street level for 0.5 points. Improve entrances and lobby areas of at least 500 square ft area um 0.5 points. provide a onetime monetary contribution to the friends of the higher line for not less than $20,000, one point, and a low-rise development with balconies at parking surface, one point. The total the total number of incentive points, three, is sufficient to meet the proposed density requirements under the MBD regulations. All these incentives are to be provided at site plan and concurrency process. Based on the applicant request, staff recommends approval with the following conditions. enter into a declaration of restriction to develop the site according to plans digitally signed by um Eduardo Edgardo Perez R AR dated September 18, 2025 and that the applicant submits a onetime monetary contributions to the friends of the higher line of 20,000 at the time of site plan and concurrency process and that the applicant submits a one-time landscape mitigation payment the amount

in of which will be calculated during the site plan and concurrency review process and that any share vehicular access agreement or easements ments are resolved prior site plan and concurrency and that the existing sidewalk along east 49 street be reconstructed uh to remove the existing curb cut and driveway access during the site plan and concurrency review process. Staff recommends approval for the reszoning and SUP and variances with conditions.

Thank you. Um you know thank you for bringing up the the point of the share driveway. Um, I know for a fact that there are several, especially up and down 49 Street, there's several of these properties, uh, uh, uh, RORO's and whatnot. Case in point. Yes, sir. That, you know, they're adjacent to each other and they do share the, uh, the one driveway for both properties. Yes, sir. I'm glad you brought that up and I I'll be happy to, uh, entertain the your your plans for Yeah. Uh let me start with with answering that question. Yeah.

So we are if if you drive down 49th uh street, you'll see there's a there's a lot of curb cuts and those curb cuts uh create vehicular uh conflicts all the time. Uh these two applications are going to eliminate uh curb cuts, make less curb cuts on the street because both of the projects currently have two. So, um when we go ahead and we we examine, uh the property to provide the either a new curb cut or using one of the existing curb cuts. At the same time, we're going to accommodate whatever that shared parking agreement says. Um now, if there's not a shared parking agreement, but one of our neighbors needs to have access, uh they're entitled to have access through through the law. you know, as a prescriptive easement because that's the way it's been and used throughout the throughout the past decades. Um, so to answer your question, um, it's going to have to be something that's going to take consideration during the construction plans. Um, if anybody's landlocked, they need to have access. We'll have to provide that access. Um, that's something we'll have to examine as we go through the construction uh, document process. Again, I'm not 100% sure of what the the uh details and the conditions are as far as that particular access.

Yes, sir. But I do know for a fact that along that corridor that same scenario repeats itself several times and you said you said a key word. If that other property is landlocked, you know, we need to have to Yeah. We need to work with existing or or come up with a with a solution.

Yes, sir. Mr. in in an effort not to be redundant um as is true with the location uh the size of the property uh and the proposed development program uh the con the requests that we made in this application are almost if not entirely identical to the previous application. So I won't go through them. Um but I will say that we have read them. We have understood them. Uh we accept them. uh we agree to each of the conditions and I'm going be happy to answer any questions you guys uh may have, the board may have. No, I I tell you, you know, the risk of repeating myself, I I like the design. I like colors, you know,

not going to go there. I hear you. But uh no, the design is I like it. It's it's a good uh it's very becoming and I'm sure Miss Enriquez is uh the same. I can see there in her face right there. It's it's it's the future. Thank you very much. We've worked hard on it. So, appreciate it. Any comments or questions? Anyone in the audience? Okay. Is a public hearing was a pleasure to the board? Motion to approve. Second conditions with condition. Second with conditions. So, we had a motion by Mr. Morales, second by Mrs. Enriquez. Mr. Allesia. Yes. Mr. Mason. Yes. Mrs. Enriquez. Yes. Mr. Rioa. Yes. Mr. Perez. Yes, Mr. Morales. Yes. Item has been approved with conditions.

Thank you all very much and happy Halloween. Thank you. Have a good night. Bye. Sorry again. Sorry for uh chopping you up so many times, but hey, at least you got through favorably.

Hey, item number eight, variance permit to allow three on-site parking spaces and two on street parking spaces where 11 parking spaces are required. allow 7.7% purious area where 10% is the minimum pious area required and to allow the mitigation of one tree as provided by section 98-2235. Property is located at 223 West 27th Street M1 Industrial District applicant Michael Carbiosa on behalf of Orlando Carbiosa. Thank you. Name and address please. Michael Carbioza 875 West 30th Street Alberta. I know you were showing you you've been Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Thank you. Are you going to speak to or

That's my That's Orlando Cora, my father. Are you Are you going to represent him or Yeah. Yeah. Okay.

No. Oh, okay. Thank you. This property is located on the north side of West 27th Street between West 2nd Avenue and West Third Avenue. The property is approximately 6,450 ft of area and is currently developed as a warehouse with approximately 3,560 ft of area divided into two bays. The current line use is industrial and the Sony is M1 industrial district which is consistent. Our city records reflect that the property was developed as a warehouse and obtained an approved site plan in 1985. In addition to the structure, the site plan reflected three parking spaces and a landscaping buffer. This application is requesting a parking variance due to the change of views of one of the vase identified as unit 223 with approximately 1,780 square ft of area. The property has also removed the landscaping and open space requirements reflected on the site plan approved in 1985. The applicant is proposing a dance studio in such unit. Therefore, the parking requirements are greater than the parking requirements for a warehouse. Therefore, instead of the two parking spaces required, the dance studio requires nine parking spaces. To reduce the parking impact for of the proposed um use, the applicant has provided a shared parking agreement letter with industrial adjacent property at 221 West 27th Street. The applicant proposes to use the neighboring parking area during his business hour, which are from 5:00 p. a.m. to 8:00 p.m. in contrast to the parking hours for the industrial uses which is uh which are from 6:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. In addition, the adjacent routeway has been improved with parallel parking areas allowing for the permissible parking credit included

in the code according to section 98-2192A which provides a 20% parking credit for on a street parking in this case allowing for two parking space credit. Therefore, the proposed dining studio is requesting to provide approximately 60% of their parking requirements on site. However, the applicant has brought forward a detailed share parking agreement which could potentially provide for the missing parking spaces during the dance studio hours of operation. The applicant um shall profit a declaration of restriction to formalize the share parking agreement and mitigate the landscaping of one tree on site. A staff provides the following condition. entering into a declaration of restriction to restrict the operations of the dance studio to only bay number 223 West 27th Street and to provide for the share parking agreement conditions with property located at 221 West 27th Street and to provide a tree on site according to the approved 1985 site plan or provide a mitigation fee for one tree. A staff recommends approval with conditions.

Um I have a question about the tree. Um I did some research and I also called the ADA um association. They said that they have a minimum of 11 ft but Florida um applies a 12T stricter for ADA for the stall the 12T. Um, but my request is if ADA has a minimum of 11, if we can if I can put 11 ft instead of the 12, I don't have to put the the tree just for um I can just have another parking space in the area if that is possible.

Um, my understanding is that ADA parking requirement sizes are federally established. So this board does not have authority to reduce the size of that parking space.

The parking space is never going to be used. I'm a dance studio that I tell the parents to drop off the kids and leave because my office is in the front area and to protect the privacy of, you know, the information of parents. I also leave my money there. I tell the parents, leave the kids and and pick them up later. Um the ADA I've never I've been there for, you know, eight years. Never had an ADA student, never had an ADA parent. The ADA parking, to be honest, is never going to be used. All I'm asking for is to reduce it from 12 to 11. That's all I'm asking for. So that we don't have to put a tree cuz he's the owner of the property. I'm putting a burden upon my own father. And once I leave, I don't plan on staying there forever. You know, I'm in school to be a nurse. Uh once I become a nurse, I am going to leave. and to plant a tree. He's going to rent it to another industrial area. I'm turning it into commercial because I have to. And I've been doing this for years and I've spent $30,000 over the years and I'm not even planning on staying there forever and my dad is going to put it back to industrial. So all I'm asking for is I don't have the money to put the tree and my father also doesn't want the tree.

Um through the chair that is why we gave you the option you don't have to put the tree. You have to mitigate for the cost of the tree. That is one option that we gave you. So you don't have to put it on the property. Okay? So you can mitigate it. Um but in relation to the ADA, um as I mentioned before, this board does not have the authority to to reduce it or or to wave it. Okay. Let me can I tell my Do you do you understand what she just said? Yeah. Um there's a fee that I must pay in order for me not to put the tree, right? How much would it be? it we'll we'll we'll give you a number, but it's so it's it's kind of like it's it's not a penalty,

if you will. It's like, okay, in your case, you don't want the tree or you don't have room for the tree or the conditions aren't right for the landscape for the tree. Okay. The city and the board can approve conditions or uh give and take if you will. Okay. No trees. However, we would like you to donate or buy a tree or or contribute a certain amount of money to the fund for another property. Okay. City property, not a private property. Do do you understand? I understand. No. Yeah. Okay. So,

through the chair. Yes, sir. Um, this gentleman's part of the community. I don't know if you guys know this. He's been here before for another situation a while ago, and he brings his dancers to our Christmas celebration, which is a wonderful thing that he does and he teaches a lot of young children the dance. I've been to the studio myself. They don't have they don't need that much parking because that area is pretty much empty by the time he starts his classes. So, he doesn't really need that much parking. but what he does for the community just for the dance that he brings to our events and the city events. It's a wonderful thing that he does with the young girls and young boys. It's it's it's beautiful. I really hope that we could help him out and do whatever we can. I'm a very small dance studio.

Well, as far as like Claudia said, as far as the dimensions of the ADA parking, yeah, we it's there's nothing we can do. That's but there is that other option where the tree is concerned which I agree and you know that would be something between the two of you. You guys can sit down and talk and come up with a Yeah, I agree. Cuz like I said like once I leave he's going to rent it to industrial. I'm only making I'm spending all this money. Every penny that I make in this dance studio, the little that I make I still live with my parents. I can't afford cuz every money that I make goes back towards the city, architects, everything. So,

hey, that's how business thrives. I know. I know. And you know, I mean, I decided to go back to school because this did stress me out at a point where like, you know, I was mentally not here and everything that was happening was stressing me. So, I decided to go back to school. But since I operate from 5:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m., school is in the morning. So this job is, you know, good for me and I don't want to close so suddenly. Something that I love cuz I could still maybe own the dancer and be a nurse at the same time. That's my goal. I don't know.

Okay. So Claudia, in your professional opinion, what would you suggest? Obviously, he's he doesn't have room for the tree or or what? The tree is an issue. Obviously, the parking space is an issue, but that's beyond our control. What would your suggestion be as far as the mitigation and stuff like that? For the mitigation, um the best option will be that if we can coordinate um we will try to find an area close to the warehouse um where there is parallel street. Maybe we have an island and we can improve it with a street tree at the location. So you will bear just the cost of buying that tree and the city will install it. Okay.

And again it's for it's for city properties, not private property. No. Okay. No city property. Um, I just have one final request. Um, my studio has been closed since, uh, June 21st. I did receive a cease and deceased letter. Um, I've been complying as best as I could, but my architect is an FIU professor. She teaches an FIU. Then she moved from um, her condo, then she went to Japan for a month. So, I'm like always calling and like, "Can you please hurry up? They gave us 180 days. Please hurry up." She took longer. She took 6 months longer and that's not my fault. Then I have to hire um an EMP also coordinate with him. Then the permanent expediter. So I'm trying to comply as best as I can. Now I have to pay for the tree. I also have to pay for ramps. I have to do ADA ramps. I have to do the parking um lines. I have to add a water fountain, a service sink. Is there any way I can maybe give me an extension until the end of this year so I can make money that this the extension that you're referring is for the code enforcement case that you have?

Yeah, we don't have authority over that. Okay. I was told somebody told me that I could speak here for you could but we Yeah, we you know there not a lot a lot we can do for you because that's our jurisdiction. Okay. But okay. So motion to approve. Second. Second that motion. Okay. We have We have a motion. We have a motion by Mr. Yo, second by Mr. and Mr. Mason. Mr. Perez. Mr. Perez. Oh, I'm sorry. Yes. Mr. Yes. Mr. Mason. Yes. Mr. Morales. Yes.

Mrs. Enriquez. Yes, Mr. Raya. Yes. Item has been approved with conditions. Thank you. Uh get in contact with her. Yes. And you know, maybe not tonight obviously, but you know, tomorrow or or she'll Okay. And we can work it out. Okay. Thank you. No, just one question. Since he does work with the community and everything, is there any way that we could help him out? I'll give him more time. I'll give him more time. He has my number. He can call me and I'll give him more time. Okay. Great. Great. Yeah, because it'd be great since he does help the city and does participate in city events. We can work on the timeline. You can we can give him an extension.

Don't worry, just we'll give you more time. Thank you. Thank you, Alex. Item number nine, variance for to allow a building height of 49 ft or 40 is the maximum height allowed a front setback of 4 feet where 20 feet are required. allow 24 parking spaces where 29 parking spaces are required and to allow one loading parking space where three loading parking spaces are required. Properties are located at 4148 East 8th Avenue, 780 East 42nd Street and 790 East 42nd Street. Halia Son C2 Liberal Retail Commercial District. Applicant Felix Partardo, architect on behalf of Storeall 27 East 8th a Halia LLC. Were you sworn in? I don't

No, I was just going to remind you, Mr. Mr. Chairman, I was not sworn in. Okay. So, do you swear or affirm to tell the truth before this board? I do. Thank you, sir. Name and address. My name is Felix Partardo. I'm an architect. I'm the architect for this project. My address, office address is 2100 Salto Street, Coral Gables, Florida. Thank you, sir.

Thank you. This application encompasses the properties identified as 4148 East 8th Avenue, 790 East 42nd Street and 780 East 42nd Street. All these properties are are adjacent to each other. Therefore, this application is assembling all these three properties in addition to the vacated alleyway in accordance to ordinance number 2025-053. In some all properties are approximately 43,379 square feet or 0.99 acres of area. These properties are also are are located on the west side of the street and their boundaries are East 42nd Street to the north, East 41st Street to the south and East Ath um Avenue to the east. The land use of the properties is commercial and the zoning is C2 uh liberal retail commercial district. Therefore, consistent. The properties have been improved since 1949 with a commercial building and an added parking area since 1976. According to city records, Mueller Animal Hospital operated at this location since 1989. However, the property has been partially vacated for over a year and the most uh recent building permit obtained was a demolish demolish for it was for demolition under BLDC-003609-2025. The building where the animal hospital operated is still intact and will need to be demolished prior redevelopment. There is a series of code enforcement cases for failure to maintain the property, trash litter and overgrown grass which will have to be all cured before redeveloping the properties. This application is proposing to assemble all properties including the vacated alley and as mentioned before to redevelop it as a four-story self storage building with a total um of 114,840 ft with 24 parking spaces and one

loading parking area. Therefore, this application includes the following variances requesting to permit the building to be 49 ft of height where 40 ft is the maximum allowed and with a reduction front setback on East 8th Avenue of 4T where 20 ft are required and allow 24 parking spaces where 29 are required and allow one loading parking space where three loading parking spaces are required. staff has been working diligently with the applicant since it approached the city with the proposed redevelopment plans. Since all the properties had been sown commercial since 1986, according to city records and ordinance number 86-63, their rights within the property already in place because this application does not include any type of reasoning request. Therefore, the front setback reduction toward East 8th Avenue is positively evaluated because it allows the building to be placed as far as subway as possible from the western neighborhood, which are all single family homes, creating a deeper buffer that varies between 15 ft to 67 ft. Regarding the height, the code permits an increase of four story and 50 ft when the project faces a frontage road. But, East 8th Avenue, uh, Leun Road is not listed as a frontage road. However, the area along Legun Road uh from the north of East 43 Street and East 39 Place is heavily commercial and since the building is proposed to be closer to Legun Road, the increase of 9 ft from the existing allowance is permissible. In addition, the elevation design has been treated to reflect if the building is only threetory high. The external elevation treatment alleviates the height increase as well. The applicant is also seeking a parking variance regarding regular parking spaces and loading parking spaces. The applicant's letter of intent states that the operation of this kind of business, a selftore building, typically operates within a lower parking ratio than any other commercial operations. The

applicant also states that no businesses are allowed to be conducted from the building. The regular parking reduction is um um it's an 18% reduction which can be considered a minor parking reduction since it might not create a ma a major parking def deficit within the project. In addition, the project is proposing to improve the existing swell area with two parking spaces. These parking spaces could further alleviate potential parking issues and also serve the surrounding community since these will be set as public parking spaces. The project is redeveloping within an area um that is um in transition and also is proposing to assemble the redeveloped property um that has been neglected for some time according to existing code cases on the properties. A staff recommends the following conditions and finds the variances are well adjusted to the area. Develop the property according to the plan submitted and prepared by Felix Partardo and associates dated and signed October 24, 2025. and provide a unity of title to include all properties including the vacated alley and update the western 6ft height metal picket fence to a 6ft height solid masonry wall and provide a lush western landscaping edge at all times. Staff recommends approval with conditions.

Thank you. This is that Molina's uh across from across from Molina. Actually, that used to be Molina's property. Oh, is that right? I did not know that.

Yeah. Okay, go ahead. I'm sorry. So, if if we could go to the uh site plan, please. I'd like to walk you through. That's the floor plan right there. Thank you. So, north is up. There's a degree of difficulty for this particular property. and I was before uh your board uh for the alley vacating. So therefore once I was granted the the alley vacating, we were able to then unify the two sites and then provide the ingress and egress vehicular ingress and egress on the south side opposite the restaurant across the street. Why is that important? Well, to the north of us, we are facing we are up against a fire station, which the last thing you will ever want to do is have the mixture of ingress and eress conflicting with emergency vehicles in a life-threatening situation. The second thing is Leune Road, as we all know, is a level F corridor. That is graded by the FDOT. It is the heaviest traffic that they can rate. So because of that the north south is extremely important. Any type of ingress and eress there including the lobby or the alley that was there uh is a huge mistake. So the reason that we designed this this way is to provide the parking on the south side double loaded to be able to provide everything there including trash pickup and also any truck that is larger but normally we don't have that type of

uh vehicle that comes to our property. Our property is a self-encclosed, fully airond conditioned uh security monitored facility that on the outside will not look like the typical prototypical self-s storage building. That being said, the buildings that have already been demolished and when we eventually tear down the last remaining uh building were almost right on top of the sidewalk on Lun Road. So, by pushing our building and staff u has done a remarkable job in working with us by pushing our building toward the east against Ljun Road against the sidewalk. It provides the ability to then give us more space to buffer from the west side where the single family residential is. There's a very big difference between uh the Molina's restaurant to the south is that our use is only second to a mausoleum. We have very little traffic. We have very little parking. Based on my experience of working on these type of buildings for the last 15 years or so all over the state of Florida, the neighbors that abut our property love it. It's clean, organized, quiet, and it doesn't provide a parking nuisance. You already heard that this evening from for another project. It's always a concern. Because of that, we are very compatible of providing a

buffer from the noise from Ljun Road and its traffic to the neighbors to the west of us. So by doing this, we've asked for a little more height. Based on our structural systems, we only have 10 foot 8 in or sorry 10 foot 10 inches from floor to floor. So it's very easy on this fourstory building to hide a story when you look at the uh elevation. Can we go to the rendering please? The 3D rendering. right there. This is on the This is on the souththeast corner of the property. So you your access point is there to the left. We go to the next one, please. This is on the northeast corner. The fire station would be to the right if you go in through that street. If you notice, we provided canopies. It does have orange, but it's very little orange. [laughter] And we're providing also uh our our normally our signs. We will do them in orange, but in this case, um I talked to public storage and and they they are with us.

I have no issues with orange. Okay. That's not me. I'll let them know.

Okay. Okay. But if you could see, it's very very subtle. And the whole point is that it's subtle. So when you look at this building, most people will look at it and say this is a three-story building. So it is I know what I did so most people don't know but the scale is correct based on the very large avenue of the road. And can we go to the next one please? There you go. this one.

Yes. So, so what we've done is we provided landscaping even on the June road. We provided the canopies to give a human scale on the June road from a from a sidewalk standpoint. We've provided glass which is transparent at the ground level and and it is um glass but you can't see through it up above. So by providing the glass that you could see through at the ground level gives you the opportunity then when you're walking by as a pedestrian you tend to look over there looking for merchandise looking for anything anything else you know like another use. So what we're trying to do here is provide a massing that we have also broken down in many directions and we've made it interesting and we made it look more like an office building than a self-s storage facility right in front of everyone on Lun Road. and the office entrance on the other side is right on the corner and our hours of operation will be restricted. But the variances that we have asked for is that first from a parking standpoint your code requires 1 to 4,000 square ft for one parking space. Almost the entire JUAS in the state of Florida require one per 10,000 square ft. So we are really when we provide the one in 10,000 we never ever come close to having that amount of people at one time in that facility because of the nature of the

use of the facility. You have something. It's in a box. You take it in your your car, your minivan, your pickup truck. You go there, haul it up with the with one of the carts, put it away or pick something up and you're gone and you probably won't be back for quite some time. That's why the 1 to 10,000 which is recognized by most um zoning codes for most JUAs in the state that requirement of 1 to 10,000 I can guarantee you is way above what is really needed. But on top of that, we've been able to provide more parking than that because we're very close to the 1 to 4,000. We're just off by a certain percentage. The height, as you could see, four stories. The building looks like three. And the overall height, it was four or five feet because you have to go to the top of the parapit and that's how we measure it. And then the loading, your code requires three loading spaces for these big trucks. We never have those big trucks come in. We don't have deliveries for, you know, boxes. We don't have deliveries for merchandise like that. And no one is allowed to run a business out of a self-s storage building that's on their uh their contract with us. And I think that covers all the variances. And um I'll I'll tell you before you make your motion to approve or deny um the city of Hy Aliyah starting with the planning department has been fantastic. I've been doing this for almost five decades.

That's a long time. I have worked in just about every square inch of the state of Florida and it's been a real pleasure working with your planning director staff all your staff and you could see the comprehension of their analysis is succinct to the point very fair they ask for things you're seeing the result and I think it's a great thing I wanted to bring it to the board's attention that you are very fortunate to have uh very good staff. Thank you. You're welcome.

Thank you. Um your parking is going to be on 44th Street to the west of [snorts] Lun. Yes. And we have provided the greatest distance there between us and the neighbors right to the west. And as far as that's also going to be the access point to the to the storage building itself from that parking lot. Yes. And on top of that, I I failed to mention that we are providing a 6 foot high concrete masonry fence on the property line with that neighbor to the west.

Okay. But you also have uh office entrance, if you will, on the corner of uh the the corner. Yes. And let me explain the function of this. Normally we only have one employee, possibly two, but normally it's one employee. And at the office, normally it's someone that already has a contract. They have a question, extend their lease, you know, it's it's a light paperwork thing, but that person is there really to monitor and keep the place organized and clean and well and and working. the lobby, you have to go in with a security code, right,

to to go in and then take the elevator or go straight into the the the first floor or go to the the different floors in the facility. So although it's it's there, we have them separate from each other, the office is on the corner, provided that good planning process because we've got the sidewalk right there. And also when people come in, if they're not used to doing business there, they're going for the first time, they could go park and then walk right into the office and get the information that they That was that was going to be my next question. The parking lot is for the entire property, the entire building. Yes.

Be it um bringing in your stuff, taking out your stuff. Yes. and or doing whatever business you need to do at the office. Uh uh questions, a contract, a rental or what have you. And then they'll park in the parking lot and just walk on the sidewalk to the to the office. Or do they a first timer for instance walk to the front office because you don't have access to the to the side? Well, we we have a small sign that identifies office. The other one identifies lobby. So lobby is where the elevator is. This is where you bring in your when you already have access to 100%. Okay.

Completely secured. Yeah. And and also uh please remember uh Mr. Chairman that we limit the hours of operation. So there's not going to be any type of conflict with with the residents next door. Okay. The next question, which I I don't know, my eyes are not what they used to be. Um, this is going to be an enclosed self storage 100%. No, no, no drive up boats or RVs or trucks or what have you. Right. There there's another uh self- storage company that for years they rent trucks, U-Haul.

Uh, we we never have rented trucks. Uh we do have some properties that are the older properties that have, you know, boats or something like that because of the location uh and and they're walled in. This will not have any of that. This on the outside looks exactly like the rendering. Looks like an office building. Okay. All right. Any comments or questions? Anyone in the audience have comment questions? All right. Move the pleasure of the board. Motion to approve with conditions. Second motion with conditions. Okay. We had a motion by Mrs. Enriquez. Second by Mr. Mr. Morales. Yes.

Mr. Perez. Yes. Mr. Mason. Mr. Rua. Yes. Mrs. Enriquez. Yes. Mr. Yes. Item been approved with conditions. Thank you very much. Have a nice evening. Molina has gone self storage. There you go. Thank you for the Mr. Part. Appreciate the comments. Well, I I meant it. Yeah. Thank you, Molina. And the uh the the little animal hospital that used to be there, Mueller. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Very nice. Relocated. Thank you. Okay. We have uh miscellaneous items not requiring advertising. Wait a minute. We have Oh, that's right. We have an item on the

You can just You can just read the item into the record and make a motion to postpone the item. Okay.

So, item number two. Let me go back. Item number two, final decision to allow rear setback of 8.5 ft where 20 feet are required for a proposed aluminum terrace. Properties located at 6120 East 4th Avenue, Helia R1 family district. Applicant Joel Gonzalez and George Figedo Alea. Okay, since we gave this um applicant an opportunity to u to come up, you know, to show up late or what have you and they never did. Uh this item was table. Um should we just keep it tabled for a different date or

No, you have to make a motion to postpone postpone for a specific date. Specific date. Okay. To the next meeting. So we can do that to the next postpone until November 19th, 2025. Okay. Okay. So that's it. So motion was Mr. Second Mrs. Enriquez. Now motion to postpone. Yes. To the next postpone until November 19, 2025 meeting. It's a legal term, you know, table postpone. Getting there. Uh six one way, half a dozen the other, you know. So same difference I guess motion to Mr. Perez. Yes. Mr. Mason. Yes.

Mr. Yes. Mrs. Enriquez. Yes. Mr. Rioa. Yes. Morales. Yes. Item has been postponed until November 19th, 2025 meeting. Thank.

Let's go back to misadian miscellaneous items not requiring advertising. Item number 10, old business. Okay, no old business. Item number 11, new business. Happy Halloween. Halloween everybody. Be safe. Thank you so much. Happy. And um if that's it, we don't nothing else. No candy, then uh [laughter]