Planning and Development Board - Regular Meeting

I'd like to welcome everybody to the Planning and Development Board meeting for September 8th. Will we all rise for the Pledge of Allegiance? Mayor Bober, would you like to lead us? Thank you. Roll call, please.

Christine Corbo.

Present.

Odalis Delgado. Joseph Stadlin.

Here.

Richard Blattner.

Here.

Steven Morales.

Here.

Barbara Palmillo. Massimo Gramanzini.

Here.

Mena Morgan. Bob Glickman. Here.

As we have six attending members, this meeting does have quorum. We call into session. For the record, both Barbara and Odalis have asked for an excused absence, which the board chair has granted. And I believe Mena is available virtually.

At this moment, he has not signed on virtually, chair. But once he does, I will let him in.

Okay, thank you. In advance, and assuming that he does, is the board's prerogative to allow him to participate virtually? Any objections? Okay, when he does show up, we will allow. Thank you very much.

All right. Moving on.

Minutes from the previous meeting. Has everybody had a chance to read? Any comments, questions, additions, or deletions?

Move to approve.

So moved. Is there a second? Second. I'm sorry, who did? Second? Second. OK. Approved and second. All in favor? Aye. Opposed? Seeing none, motion carries. Staff, additions, deletions, or changes to the agenda?

Good evening, board chair. There are no additions, deletions, or withdrawals from the agenda. However, I do want to take this moment just to briefly touch on the board manual as it pertains to procedures. I'm reminding the board chair that it's the chair's responsibility to manage the decorum in the chambers at all time. and with regards to both the board themselves and the audience. Also reminding the chair that there is a time limit on discussion of 30 minutes. So that will inform your discussions as you move through the items. And reminding the chair of their purview as it pertains to community comment and the length of comments when there is more than 10 speakers present. Thank you, chair.

thank you uh and to put that into uh another way cameron's reminding us that while it is standard that all community um and citizen participate usually on a three minute time limit i've been instructed that prior to the gavel dropping there were 74 citizens that have registered to speak um UNDERSTANDING THAT WE WILL HEAR A GOOD MAJORITY OF THE SAME THINGS OVER AND OVER, IF YOU HAVEN'T HEARD THEM ALREADY. AND IS THERE A BOARD PREFERENCE ON SETTING THAT TIME LIMIT FOR TWO MINUTES?

NO. OKAY.

THREE MINUTES IT IS. ALL RIGHT. CONTINUING ON. EXCUSE ME, BOARD CHAIR. YES, SIR.

A QUESTION. I'M A LITTLE CONFUSED BY CAMERON'S COMMENTS. THE 30-MINUTE TIME LIMIT YOU'RE PUTTING ON THE BOARD?

No. No, no, I'll address that. No, citizen comments are typically limited to three minutes when they present and have any kind of comment on any agenda item.

I got that, but he said there was a 30-minute limit for the board. That's a policy.

staff through the chair. That's not a policy staff is imposing. That's a policy within the procedures and the manual of the board operation manuals. So I'm just reminding the board of the procedures that govern this board in terms of the quorum, in terms of discussion, and in terms of how we do business here.

Okay, so I find this rather objectionable that you're bringing it up right now. We've gone through, I've been on the board now a year and a half, two years. We've never brought this up before, and I question why you're bringing it up right now.

Thank you, Commissioner. As a reminder, this manual is available to all board members when they take the... position on this board. So it's understanding that board members have done their due diligence and read through the manual. And it's also just a reminder due to the agenda that we have today to ensure that your discussion is fruitful and you have the full time you need to have that discussion.

I would ask this body to override that right now with a vote, because I don't think we should be limited to any board discussion on any item for 30 minutes.

Bob, I hear your objections. I don't think it's appropriate that we have a vote on that. We'll see how the conversation goes and judge it from there. But I have no intention of stifling any communication or conversation, questions, or comments from either the citizens at large or the board members tonight. Bob, you will be heard. Thank you. With that, see the attorney.

Good evening, board members. My name is .

I am the board's counsel. And Mr.

Chair, before the board takes up matters on today's agenda, and in light of at least three items on today's agenda being considered quasi-judicial, I'd like to read the city's quasi-judicial procedures matters onto the record. So certain matters before this board must be treated as quasi-judicial, meaning the board acts like a judge or jury applying existing rules to a specific set of facts. In that role, the board's decision must be supported by competent, substantial evidence that is presented at the hearing. Public sentiment alone is not competent, substantial evidence. Now, the city of Hollywood permits the parties and the public to waive the quasi-judicial formalities. And the waiver requires the agreement of all staff, the applicant, any party intervener, and any member of the public present who wishes to be heard on this particular item. Now, if the quasi-judicial formalities are not waived, the chair will preside over the proceeding. As board attorney, I will rule on evidentiary and procedural objections and advise the board on applicable law and necessary findings. The hearing will be informal but conducted with decorum. Now, under Florida law, ex parte communications are permitted as long as they're disclosed on the record before final action. Ex parte communications include the substance of any verbal communication and the identity of the person or entity involved. It includes any written communications received, which must be placed on the record, including emails, and any individual site visits, investigations, or expert opinions that the board member might have requested. And before every quasi-judicial item is taken up, I will usually ask the board members to disclose any expected communications that may have transpired.

Thank you. Staff? Well, first up on the agenda is file number 25DP26. Staff, do you waive quasi-judicial? Staff waives. Applicant? Come forward, state your name for the record, and whether you waive quasi-judicial. Good afternoon.

Joseph Kaler, Kaler Architecture. I waive.

Thank you.

Staff presentation.

Good evening, board members and members of the public. My name is Adrian Montoya. I am one of the city planners here at the City of Hollywood, and I will be presenting tonight's first item. Steph, can you hit the screen, please?

One second.

Thank you. I got it. So the file before you tonight is 25-DP-26. The location is 2455 Polk Street. The applicant is Joseph B. Kaler on behalf of Mike Kaplan. And the request is for a design and site plan for a 30-unit multifamily development in the MC-1 zoning district within our regional activity center. So the property is located in central Hollywood near City Hall, which is not too far from where we are tonight. On this screen on the left-hand side is an aerial of the subject property, and currently it is a vacant lot. The site has a land use designation of regional activity center. It is within the MC-1 zoning district, and it is approximately half an acre. Here are some of the surrounding properties. As you can see, it is adjacent to other multifamily developments, including two condominiums and then a duplex. So with regards to the development itself, the applicant is proposing a floor area of approximately 29,700 square feet and a floor area ratio of 1.49. The development will include 30 units, 42 parking spaces. The building itself will be a height of 45 feet. And the site will provide approximately 44% of open space. So the proposed development is compliant with all applicable zoning and land development regulations within its zoning district. With regards to the design, the applicant is proposing stucco with white, gray, and brown finishes, porcelain tiling along the wall on the ground floor, and an earthy brown slat to screen the ground floor parking. Here are some renderings of the proposed finished design. And in conclusion, staff find that the proposed request is consistent with the zoning and land development regulations and the comprehensive plan. And staff is recommending approval of the design. And staff is also recommending approval of the site plan if the design is granted. Thank you for your time. And I am available if you have any questions. Any questions for staff?

I have just one. Are they asking for any variances?

There are no variances.

Thank you.

Dick.

Just for clarification, this building is under 30,000 square feet. And it's here because?

It's a legacy project. So it actually went through the Technical Advisory Committee. There was a period of inactivity between August 2025 and around May 2026 of this year. But it had essentially completed the TAC process, which is why it's being brought to the Planning and Development Board, whereas

Akin project at the same scope would not be required to come before you any other projects below 30,000 that would be coming to us that are stuck in that

I believe this is the last one.

Just for clarification, I'll help Adrian out here. Legacy projects, projects that did not meet the threshold before we changed over to DRC, still come before the board. And there are a couple of them still working their way through the system. There was an internal deadline that some projects are still working through. And anything after the August 14th date that had not received the FTAC meeting at that time then goes through the new system. So we do have a couple more still working their way out.

The other question I had is something I brought up before. It doesn't require any comment from you yet. But this is a project located at 2455 Polk Street. And it's only, whatever it is, 45, whatever the number of units is, I've forgotten. But we just approved about a month ago A six-story office building and a seven-story parking garage at 2900 Polk. We're cramming a tremendous amount of parking of traffic problems at 28th and Hollywood Boulevard. I've brought this up for years now, and I don't need to have a big discussion now, but I would like to have a discussion at some point in the near future, if it's a subcommittee meeting or whatever, about what are we doing dealing with traffic at 28th and Hollywood Boulevard with all the projects in this particular neighborhood that we have approved. It's already a nightmare. It's just going to be worse. So I'd like to ask staff if we could have a meeting, subcommittee meeting or whatever, and see if we can address what needs to be done with FDOT and the city to address a problem that's going to be with us for a long time. And we have five or six or seven, eight years to address it before these projects get built.

Staff notes or requests. Any other questions for staff?

Seeing none, thank you much.

All right, thank you.

Applicant Kaler, please come forward and be heard.

Good evening, Mr. Chair, Vice Chair, and members of the Planning and Development Board. For the record, my name is Joseph Kaler, Kaler Architecture. Our firm is located at 2417 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, Florida. I would like to thank our clients. I mean, without them, I wouldn't be here today. That's Ivan Hernandez, Uri Kaplan, and Michael Kaplan. Without them, we wouldn't be here today. They put a lot of time and effort and coming to the office a lot just to get to the place we're in today. Let me go over very quickly, because I know you have a very long agenda today. Basically, it's at 2455 Polk Street. It's got half an acre of land, 20,500. And it is in the RAC, the Recreational Activity Center. And it's MC-1. Our client really wanted to build 30 units. Out of the 30 units, 15 are two bedrooms. The two bedrooms have 830 to about 920 square feet. And the other half, the other 15, are one bedrooms. And they have 680 to 715 square feet. So basically, there's three floors of units. It's a four-story building. First floor is covered parking. Second, third, and fourth, each floor has 10 units, giving a total of 30. And they have 44% open space. parking that's required. We met all of the setbacks, the height, just everything. And we provided not only for the accessible spaces, but for guest parking. Like I said, everything is as of right. What I wanted to mention is that we've incorporated a lot of really good landscaping, pedestrian-oriented building frontage, as you saw in the renderings. And we've screened the cars so that as people walk by, they don't see the cars parked underneath the building. The setbacks, the building articulation, the landscape buffers that we provided, and the site design standards really appropriately makes this building really great. And you look at it, it's simply elegant, understated elegance, really. And again, all zoning and design features are in total compliance of all of the zoning regulations. And we do not need any variances, no special exceptions. It's really as of right.

So thank you.

If there's any questions, I'll be here to answer any of them.

Any questions for the applicant? Bob?

I have a question. So Mr. Kalder? Sure. You certainly know how to bring people out to see your projects here, as everybody turned out for that. The porcelain tile that you're putting down on the ground level, are you putting it around the entire ground level or just fronting the building?

Okay, repeat that again. I'm sorry.

The porcelain tile that was mentioned that you're putting on the ground level, are you putting it just in the front of the building?

I'm putting it in the front, and I think part of it turns the corner. We did want to accentuate, which we felt was very, very important, the main entry point of the building, and that's why you see the ramping, the steps. the special treatment around it. We think it's very important so that people know where to enter and exit a building. Thank you.

Any other further questions for the applicant? Seeing none, thank you very much. Bring the conversation up to the dais. Any comments, questions? Seeing none, I'll entertain a motion.

Motion to approve.

Second. Moved and second. All in favor? This is for design. Go ahead. Just make sure you're speaking into the mic for clarity. Thank you. OK. And this is a motion to approve design as presented, correct? Yes. All right. Moved and second. All in favor? Aye. Opposed? Seeing none, motion carries. Moving on to site plan.

Motion to approve site plan.

With the seven conditions?

Yes.

I second. OK. Moved and second. All in favor? Aye. Opposed? Seeing none, motion carries. Congratulations.

Thank you so much. And I'd like to thank, really, city staff. They were really wonderful through this whole process. Thank you again.

Thank you. OK. Moving on to file number 25, DVP 91A. First question, are there any comment cards on this?

No comment cards on this.

OK. Staff, do you wave? Staff waves. Applicant.

Hi, good evening. Liz Summerstein, GreedSoon Martyr, and we wave.

Thank you much. Staff presentation.

Good evening, board, members of the public, city staff. My name is Umar Javid. I'm a planner three with the city's planning division. Before you is 2200 Jackson Street. The file number is 25-DPV-91. The project is located at 2200 Jackson Street as well as 400 South Dixie Highway. The applicant is known as Bridge Asset Management LLC, and they are requesting a design and site plan for a 394-unit multifamily residential development. as well as a variance to reduce the 15-foot setback to a 2-foot, 10-inch setback associated with the city right-of-way dedication. In terms of the location, the subject property is located on the southeast corner of the city. Displayed here is the subject property. As you can see, there is a total of three parcels that are before you today. With respect to the subject properties, it is contained in an area that is specifically commercial warehouse uses as well as residential uses. The two sites before you today are at 400 South Dixie Highway, so that's an existing commercial warehouse use, as well as at 2200 Jackson Street to the west parcel. To the north, we have a property at 21 21-2131 Jackson Street. This is a multifamily residential use. And to the south, we have a residential use as well at 2117 Anton Terrace. With respect to the land use and zoning map, the land use is designated as a regional activity center. The existing zoning consists of two zones. It's a split zone. We have DH2 as well as DH3. And the site area is approximately 3.07 acres across the various parcels before you. I wanted to also touch on a previous rezoning request. This is just ahead of the design and site plan. This is not in consideration for tonight. This is a previous request that was approved by the Planning and Development Board or City Commission earlier this year. Just to provide you some context, this site contains somewhat of an irregular split zoning condition between DH2 and DH3. As you can see on the left side, the zoning boundary essentially jogged through the development site based on historical parcel configurations. However, earlier this year, the applicant did seek to rezone approximately 0.59 acres. That would be that middle component that you can see. And they rezoned it from DH2 to DH3. The purpose was to create a more logical zoning configuration on the site and to facilitate a more cohesive redevelopment of the assembled property. And just again, this was recommended for approval by the Planning and Development Board on March 10th of this year, and it was ultimately adopted by City Commission in May of this year as well. With respect to the site plan, I do want to highlight that there's obviously a lot going on over here. So with respect to the height, they are proposing a total of eight stories or 90 feet on the east side. It transitions to a more lower intensity scale on the west side of the property. They're proposing four stories or 40 feet approximately. With respect to the maximum four area ratio that we'll be seeing across the site will be a maximum of 3.39 FAR. or a total of 282,000 square feet in that space. With respect to open space requirements, they are exceeding those requirements. They're proposing 42% within the boundaries that fall within DH2 and about 32% in the boundaries that fall within the DH3 zoning district. For the unit count, the applicant is proposing a total of 394 units. Those consist of one and two bedroom units. And I do want to also highlight that they are proposing a total of 50% of those units as moderate income affordable. That works out to approximately 197 units in total. With respect to parking, they are exceeding the minimum requirements. The requirement here is 492. They are proposing a total of 506 spaces. This is going to be mainly contained in a parking garage that will be accessed from Jackson Street. They also are meeting their bike parking requirements, loading space requirements, and they are meeting their setback requirements, with the exception of the corner setbacks that they are seeking a variance for. And I'll go into more detail on the next slide. In accordance with 5.3 of the city zoning and land development regulations, they are requesting a variance for the required setback. So they're requesting a total of 2 feet 10 inches. That's from the corner core dedication. And the requirement here is 15 feet. This is to accommodate a city and county request. The city is requesting a 5-foot right-of-way dedication along Jackson Street. And the county, Broward County, is requesting 4 feet dedication along South Dixie Highway. With respect to the criteria, city staff do find that the applicant does meet all the criteria A through D, including D, which is that the need for the requested variance is not economically based or self-imposed, and that being because the city and county are requesting the dedication. With respect to the design, the applicant has worked very closely with city staff, urban design staff, to achieve a commendable design. They've conducted various public outreach meetings and fulfilled those requirements. They're proposing a number of different architectural elements and features on this site to meet the regional activity center urban design guidelines. They're proposing corner architectural features. A number of different angles will have various signages that are lit. They are proposing a potential mural. Along the front of the facade and they're also proposing enhanced landscaping which also exceeds all the open space and landscape requirements wraparound balconies and various facade articulations across the various perspectives These are the submitted elevations that the applicant is submitted To the top is the north elevation to the middle. We have the south elevation and at the bottom We have the east and west elevations that were submitted. I With respect to the summary of findings, city staff find that the proposed variance request is consistent with the city's zoning and land development regulations, as well as the city's comprehensive plan. With respect to the design and site plan component, city staff do find that this request is consistent with the criteria in the city's zoning and land development regulations and our comp plan. In terms of recommendations, city staff do recommend approval of the subject variance file. And for the design, city staff are recommending approval if the variance is granted by the board. And with respect to the site plan, city staff are also recommending approval if variance and design are granted. This is subject to conditions outlined in the staff report or on the screen. These are a few conditions that the applicant will be held for at the time of building permit submission and certificate of occupancy. Thank you.

FIRST QUESTION, WITHOUT THE CORD DEDICATION, WOULD THIS APPLICANT SEEK OR NEED A VARIANCE? SORRY, YOU'RE ASKING WHAT TYPE OF WITHOUT THE CORD DEDICATION, WOULD THIS PROJECT NEED THE VARIANCE?

WITHOUT THE VARIANCE, SORRY, WITHOUT THE DEDICATION, THEY WOULD NOT BE REQUIRING ANY SORT OF VARIANCE. IT WOULD BE FULLY COMPLIANT WITH THE ZONING AND LAND DEVELOPMENT REGULATIONS.

ANY QUESTIONS FOR STAFF?

Yes, thank you. So this project is in the RAC, right? They're requesting a variance, right? Several months ago, I think it was in June of this year, Commissioner Hernandez appeared before the planning board on an item, and he suggested at that time that there was supposed to be no variances in the RAC. I have asked our board attorney about this previously. I'm wondering if there is a response or an answer about having variances in the RAC.

I'm not sure who that would be directed to.

Yes. I believe I did not have that information at that point, and I still do not, as I believe this is information that the staff is in possession of, not the board attorney.

So how do we ultimately find out if they can have variances in the RAC or not?

So just to interject here, so when it comes to the Regional Activity Center, there are certain parameters that at the time of inception was outlined that they would not be variance eligible. And then those are specifically laid out. As it pertains to setbacks, in this case the corner cord and other variances that come before this board, when there is no prohibition against said variances and without specific policy direction prohibiting it, it is free for the board to decide. Now understanding there were comments made that at a certain time there was a certain intention, but without it being codified and made into law, staff only goes off of what's in the zoning and land development regulations. And where it does not anticipate or desire variance, the code says no variances shall be considered or permitted. This is not one of those instances.

It's up to our purview.

I'm not asking about this particular one generally. I'm asking about it overall.

Well, actually, Bob, with tonight's agenda, can we just keep it focused to this item? We can have that conversation later?

Sure.

Thank you. Any comments for staff? Any questions for staff? Dick.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. You've stated in this that there is a waiver that does not require public art. I understand that waiver is being recommended because they are dedicating a certain significant number of units for moderate income. That really doesn't fly with me when we know there are ways of using public art as a part of the building itself. It could be public art. I'm not in favor of that. So I'll go on the record as saying that they should be required, especially a building of this magnitude, they should be provided public art. In the court, if nothing else, there's an opportunity for a fountain or a statue that would qualify for public art. Also, the mix of one and two bedroom apartments, does that apply to the moderate income housing or all housing, all apartments in the building, all one and twos? All one and twos?

Through the chair, thank you for your question. I will defer that question to the applicant. They can provide a more clear answer in terms of the breakdown.

So when they speak, they can answer that question?

That's correct, yeah.

OK. Let me see here. All right, I'll ask the applicant when they come up for a couple of questions.

Thank you. Thank you.

Commission, through the chair, just an added context. As it pertains to public art on this particular property, this item went before city commission to request a waiver for the public art in lieu of affordable housing being provided. It is important to note that even with that waiver, there is a minimum requirement of $5,000 contribution to the public art fund. So while the decision was made by city commission already, they will be still providing the $5,000 contribution.

I don't understand how that could happen before it comes to us. That sounds like a backdoor deal.

So to help Cam answer this question, Commissioner Blattner, so this actually came through commission through our community development department, who is requesting city funds or direction from city commission to allocate funds through the SHIP program. So while this isn't on- Nan, my apologies.

I have to interrupt. I just wanted to state for the record that Mena has joined virtually.

Thank you. Thank you, Stephanie. And that was also a good reminder for me to speak more directly into the mic. But while procedurally this was kind of odd in terms of its approval through commission, it did go before commission through community development for that allocation of dollars. So that decision was made at that time. Again, procedurally, not necessarily correct. But you may remember some time ago, we did make an amendment to the Art in Public Places Ordinance allowing for specific waivers specific to affordable housing. And that was just the pathway that .

Any other questions for staff?

Through the chair, if I may also add, we have also incorporated one condition. I'm going to see if I can, yeah, there we go. So in one of these conditions here, should city commission not grant the waiver for public art, we do have a condition here that will hold the applicant responsible for fulfilling the public art requirements in accordance with section 3.22J of the regulations of our zoning code.

Which condition is that?

Condition number six, under at the time of building permit submission.

Thank you. Any questions for staff? Run quickly. Applicant. Good evening.

Good evening. I'll go in reverse order. I know there's a lot of people here. But just on the public art, so the city commission did approve the waiver. But you'll see in the renderings, there is a mural that you're seeing on the bottom image. That's the North View from Jackson Street. So the developer still has intentions to provide public art in the form of a mural or something like that that we're working through. The formal public art requirements were waived as part of the affordable housing, but there will be public art as part of this project. And just for purposes of the condition, the resolution number for the record is 2026-259. That's the one that approved the public art waiver. Are you able to pull up our presentation? I'm just going to run through it really quickly because I know there's other items on the agenda that everybody is here for. While we're, oh, here we go, great. So staff did a very comprehensive presentation, so I am going to go through this relatively quickly. The property is 400 South Dixie Highway, so it is immediately west of Dixie and south of Jackson Street. The one thing that I want to point out is with the zoning. Again, we came before this board and commissioned for the rezoning. And the reason, just to refresh everybody's recollection, is that there are supplemental design regulations within the city's code that would have prevented a cohesive development of this site. So what the code provides is that within DH3, when you are within 200 feet of any property that is zoned DH2, you have to taper down your height. And so DH3 allows for a building to be up to 10 stories in height. But when you're within 200 feet of DH2, you have to bring that down to five stories, which I just want to point out, it wasn't mentioned, our building is actually, it's below both of those height requirements. So we're eight stories adjacent to Dixie. And we taper down to about five stories right in the center. And then we go all the way down to four stories as you move all the way west. So I just wanted to point out why we were talking about The rezoning. The other thing to mention, again, is half of this, it's 394 units. 50% of them are going to be affordable. Of those 50%, 25% is going to be AMI up to 100. And then the balance is up to 120. So they are moderate income, but they're not all going all the way up to 120. We also are going to have a leasing preference program for hometown heroes. So that means veterans, health care workers, city employees, things like that. So I just wanted to point that out, that that's part of our leasing program as well. Again, with the corner cord, I know it was discussed, but I do just want to highlight the small amount of the variance that we're requesting due to the county and the city's request for the corner cord dedication. And it was mentioned that we have dedications along Jackson and Dixie, which is true. We satisfy all of those dedications. We meet the setbacks along all of Jackson and Dixie. It's just really the, you see where the red line kind of doesn't go to a point. It's really a variance for just the very corner of our building. Because when the county has now requested this corner court dedication, what it does is it now shifts our setbacks. And so it basically, sorry, not our setbacks. It changes where our property line is. And it just creates this little segment at the hypotenuse on that triangle with the corner of our building. So it's not that entire area. It's really just the very corner of our building. But we satisfy the setbacks on the rest of the project. The other thing, just to point out, so this project is in the rack. There is no density requirement within the rack. It's limited by how many units you have available in the pool. There are available units to cover the 394 units that we are requesting this evening. But in an effort to minimize this development's impact on the available units for anybody else in the city, we are requesting to utilize County Policy 2.16.3. And what that does is it allows for you to get bonus density when you're developing affordable housing. And so effectively, I can go through the math if you have questions, but effectively, our project will only need to pull 57 units from the pool of units available in the RAC instead of having to pull 394 units. This is the same elevations and renderings that staff had showed you.

The other thing I do want to point out is that we did all of the public hearings

Because our rezoning was traveling separate from the site plan and design, we ended up having four public outreach meetings effectively on this same application because we had to do the rezoning outreach first. And the feedback that we got from the surrounding neighbors was very positive. I just want to point out the only feedback that we got was a request to change the palm landscaping that we had along Dixie Highway. Even though this rendering doesn't completely show it, we did remove the palms that were on Dixie and replaced them with shade trees. And we added live oaks and Simpson Stoppers all along Jackson Street as well. We kept some of the palms just because it adds a little bit of visual interest without fighting for canopy space. But we did make those changes. So I'm here for any questions you all have.

Any questions for the applicant? Yes, Bob.

Hi, good evening. Very nice project. Could you put a dollar figure, though, on the affordable income aspect of it instead of telling us 98 units are up to 100%?

So currently, and I'll tell you that this project, given the timing of everything, I think we're looking for leasing the property sometime in the first quarter of 2028, end of 2027.

Don't hold me to that.

So the numbers I'm giving you are the AMI numbers for today in 2026. They're only going to go up. But currently in Broward County, the median income in Broward County is $102,500. And what that means, because this is a project, is one and two bedroom units. The rents, and I apologize because I'm just looking at the chart, and the font's very small, but the rent is going to range from $2,800 up to, actually, it's a little bit lower. This is just, and for everyone in the audience who, just because I hear laughing. Just make it. That's fine. I just want everyone to understand what I'm saying. So AMI levels are calculated by the state, and they put out a chart every year that calculates what you are required to be leasing these out based off of what the annual median income is. So these aren't numbers that we are creating. These are numbers that are put out by the state. in order to be compliant with fair housing and HUD standards. So currently, the numbers on the chart range from 2,800 up to in the 3,000s, depending on your income level and if you're doing a one or two bedroom and how many people you have in your house. It could actually be a little bit lower, because the chart only gives me the 120 and the 80%. So I was telling you the 120 numbers.

Did I hear, I think staff said, were they giving Hollywood residents a preference? Was that mentioned at all?

We have a hometown heroes. I don't know. I can ask the developer if the residence is included in that, but it is the veterans, the city of Hollywood employees, health care workers, firefighters, police officers, and things like that.

Well, if you could ask the developer, I mean, if we could, give Hollywood residents a preference, that would be great. It is being built in Hollywood.

If you just excuse me for one moment, I'll be right back. Just one quick correction, and only because I can't see without my glasses on. The rent for the one bedroom is $2,300, not $2,800. We're able to offer the leasing preference to Hollywood residents as well. To the extent it complies with fair housing, we'll incorporate that.

Thank you.

Quick question. Good evening, Liz. How are the units allocated throughout the building, affordable housing?

It's, there is no set, it's, there's no set. It'll be, you know, if the tenant complies, then they'll get all the, I guess, let me just say, all of the units are the same.

So it's a function of if your rent qualifies, you'll get that rent amount.

And then if you leave the building, it could be occupied as a market rate unit as long as we keep the levels within the building overall.

Okay, great. Thanks. Any other questions for the applicant? Dick?

Ground, ground floor. retail or some other use.

No retail. And we made a point to try to activate the space as much as possible from a pedestrian standpoint. So we added extensive glazing on the ground floor. So we tried to orient all of our tenant amenities, all the area in white there. Those are the tenant amenities. So we have a lobby lounge area, a spin room, a yoga studio, a gym, a work share space. And that's all up against Dixie with the windows.

Thank you.

Any other questions for Liz? Seeing none, thank you much.

Thank you.

Bring conversation back up here. Any comments, questions?

Next project, I'd like to make a motion to approve.

I second. For the variance? OK. Sorry, speak into the microphone, please. For the variance.

For the variance.

So moved for the variance. Second. Second for the variance. All in favor? Aye. Opposed? Seeing none, motion carries. Second, we'll discuss design. Any comments, questions?

The comment, I don't know where we can put this in, but can we put in somewhere here that it's for Hollywood residents will get a preference if they qualify? I don't know which. How do we insert that?

Hi, I can answer that question. I am doubtful whether the board has the authority to attach it as a condition to the motion, but it is something that can travel with the board's comments in your motion. And I believe the proper instrument would be the development agreement or a restrictive covenant that the applicant in the city would have to enter.

So would that be a motion of the site design, the design or the site plan?

I'll believe with your site plan.

As part of the conditions? I agree. Okay. Thank you much. So now considering just the design. Any consideration?

I'd like to make a motion for 25 DPV 91A for the design. Okay. So moved. Is there a second?

Second. Moved and second. All in favor?

Aye.

Opposed? Opposed. Understood. Design is approved. Now moving on to site plan. Bob, you had an additional condition?

The additional condition is to give Hollywood residents a preference if they qualify.

All right, a matter of preference here. Are you moving to approve with the additional condition? Yes. Okay, so moved with the additional condition. Is there a second?

I would like to, I'm sorry, I would like to suggest amending that motion slightly to the extent allowable by law.

OK. Bob, do you consider that as a friendly amendment? Absolutely. OK.

Thank you.

Thank you. All right. Moved and seconded with the additional condition.

All in favor?

Aye. Aye. I don't think there was a second, was there?

I'll second. OK. It's second. Moved and seconded. All in favor? Aye. Opposed? Seeing none, motion carries. Site plan project is approved. Congratulations. Moving on. Okay. File number 26TZ18.

Chair, I have some housekeeping items I would like to put on record before the item is presented and heard.

Please.

All right, as a reminder, all of the three items that will be heard before you are considered legislative. They are not quasi-judicial. That means that the board will sit tonight as the city's local planning agency. So what does that mean? That means that no witnesses will be sworn. The competent substantial evidence standard does not apply in this particular case. And ex parte communication rules for quasi-judicial hearings do not apply to these items either. The board's task will be to review the text amendment establishing the Hollywood Beach overlay district and the two companion resolutions, and to make a recommendation to the city commission on the relationship to the adopted comprehensive plan. All written public comment that has been received in connection to these items, including petitions and their attachments and emails, has been or will be made part of the record before this board. Now, in light of the written correspondence received, I would like to issue two corrections for the record. Some correspondence to the board suggested that members will face personal liability depending on how they vote tonight. That is not an accurate statement of the law. The statute that was cited in the correspondence, which is section 768.28, is actually an immunity statute. It explicitly protects public officers, such as yourselves, acting within the scope of their duties. A member who votes on a notice item in either direction, yes or no, based on a record before the board is protected. So if that's something that has been weighing on your mind, Release it. Now second, because much of the written correspondence to the board that the board received asks for a continuance, I need to advise you on two points of legal context on that option. So this item was initially noticed and referred to the board on July 27, 2026. UNDER SECTION 163-.3194 SUBSECTION 2 OF THE FLORIDA STATUTES, THE BOARD'S RECOMMENDATION IS DUE WITHIN A REASONABLE TIME AND NO LATER THAN TWO MONTHS AFTER THE REFERRAL, WHICH IN THIS CASE FALLS ON OR ABOUT SEPTEMBER 27, 2026. So this item will proceed to the city commission in either event since they have the final decision. But the deadline of September 27th governs whether this board's recommendation will accompany it. If no recommendation is made within the two month period up to September 27th, the commission may act on the adoption of this overlay without the board's recommendation. And unless you have any questions, I would also like to have board member Gramazzini speak on the record about a disclosure that he has to make.

So before we take up this item, I want to note for the record that I own property within the area addressed by the proposed overlay, as do several thousand other property owners. I have consulted with the board's counsel, who has advised that because any effect of this measure falls on a large class of Similarly situated owners, it does not inure to my special private gain or loss under the voting conflict statute. Accordingly, I am not required to abstain and I will be participating in voting on this item.

Fully noted. Thank you very much.

Thank you. You may proceed, Chair.

Okay. On that note, it's also the Chair's prerogative that while there have been many emails, I'd like to also, I think the entire board has been, received emails, and we'd like to note that that we've been contacted by our fellow citizens on several different occasions. As for the request for removing or postponing, I agree with council that sunshine is the best way. This is the time for the city to make its presentation, for the citizens to hear that and to speak in either fashion, whether for or against. Tonight's the night and delaying kicking the can is not progress. Progress is painful, but at the end it is beneficial. Staff, please present.

Can I add one other thing?

No. Oh, I'm sorry. Go ahead.

As you mentioned, we've been contacted by many different people via email, but I have also spoken to members of the city planning as well as the mayor on this just to educate myself on this. So I just wanted that on the record as well.

Excuse me, Chair. Bob. So I live in the beach overlay project also. I have not consulted with the board attorney. But based on what I just heard, I guess I'm OK with that as well. I'm not sure.

I would say yes.

I would also say for everybody that has sent an email to the board or to myself, I have forwarded each and every one of those emails to the city staff, including the city manager, et cetera. So just so everybody knows, even though we couldn't answer your emails, they were forwarded on to the staff to make part of the record. Thank you.

Cameron. Good evening, board chair, board members, members of the public, and city staff. I want to thank you all for coming out today. Before I start this presentation, I just want to put it on record that this item 26TZ18 and 26F70C and 26F70A will be presented together in your hearing. Before I begin, my name is Cameron Palmer. I'm the Assistant Director of Development Services and Chief Planner. I support Andrea Winget, the Director of Development Services. The Special Project Manager who's worked on this project, Anand Balram, is present. And we have Nicole Moyo, Principal Planner of Urban Design and Long Range Planning, in addition to all the city staff who've also supported to bring this together.

Hi, Cam. Sorry to interject. Board Chair, I think we will need a response to Cam's request to hear all three items together, and then you will need to read all three titles just for the record.

Duly noted. Duly noted. Does the board have an objection to reading all three at once? All consideration. This also means that public comment will also appear all at once. No objections? OK, so we are now reading file number 26TZ. Way to go, Canadian. 18. 26F70C and 26F70A as a singular item for consideration. Voted three times separately, but those three items are being presented as ones.

All right. Board Chair, I've been told it's better for you to read the titles into the record. I know they're lengthy, but thank you.

Actually, procedure. Secretary, would you like to read those titles? Which part? Number three, the requests and ordinance of the city commission. All right.

All right.

File number 26 TZ 18 an ordinance of the city commission of the city of Hollywood Florida amending article four of the zoning and land development regulations to establish section four point two six the Hollywood Beach overlay district including part one overlay zoning regulation and optical bonus program and part two Hollywood Beach overlay urban design guidelines adopting the official Hollywood Beach overlay regulating plan map establishing the Hollywood Beach public benefit and resilience trust fund. amending section 4.6 C 4.6 D and 4.22 E to address rooftop amenities and amending the city's official zoning map to incorporate the Hollywood Beach overlay district into the official zoning map providing for fundings of fact codification conflicts errors and service availability and an effective date. File number 26F7DC, a resolution of the City Commission of the City of Hollywood, Florida establishing an initial inventory of 23,000 hotel rooms for the tourism incentive density entitlement, TIDE, program within the Hollywood Beach Overlay District, providing for future discretionary allocation to eligible properties within the Hollywood Beach Overlay District, subject to all applicable requirements and procedures of the Hollywood and Land Development Code, providing for conflict serviceability and effective date.

Board member, I can read it into the record if you want me to. Where are you going to put you to work this evening? I don't want you to have to read all this. File number 26-F-70A, a recommendation to the City Commission of the City of Hollywood, Florida, allocating 500 flexibility units from the city's unified flexibility zone to the Hollywood Beach Overlay District, as identified on the official Hollywood Beach Overlay Regulating Plan Map, providing for the discretionary allocation to eligible properties subject to the requirements and procedures of the Zoning and Land Development Code, providing for conflict, severability, and an effective date.

Thank you. Thank you so much for doing that task. Before I begin, I want to thank you all for attending today. Board, we have a very large presentation that's before us today with a lot of content in it. I'm going to go through it at a steady pace to ensure that we get through it. Just want to remind you all that you all were appointed to this position with specific specialities, professions. I encourage you to lean into those when you provide your comments. Staff is willing and able to take notes. And we trust that your feedback will make this project that much better. Having said that, let's jump in. The record was read. The title was read into the record, so I won't do that again. But the applicant is the City of Hollywood and the properties that are affected by this overlay, a portion of which are citywide and a portion lies on the east of the Intercoastal Waterway. I'd like to start a little bit of background for the board in terms of how we got here. The discussion of heights on the beach is not a new one. It's been one that's with the city for quite some time, dating back as far as 2004 with the first beach height study, then moving through the CRA master plan in 2007, the beach heights workshop in 2019, and most recently, the presentation city commission received regarding the findings or the preliminary findings of the beach feasibility study. In previous renditions of this analysis and the study, a higher height of 150 feet were proposed with tapering strategies downwards the broad walk. The concept of height is not new on Hollywood Beach, and staff's endeavor was to review the research done to date, review the findings of the study, and move forward with a recommendation. But one additional element has entered the scene since we started this study way back when, and that is to changing legislative context, one that's changing almost by month, particularly as it pertains to Live Local and Senate Bill 180. These are both preemptions that the state have placed on municipalities that govern how and what planning looks like and what development looks like in our cities. It's really important to note that Live Local changes the baseline of development by preempting certain requirements, certain tools that city uses to safeguard its planning framework. So the overlay is an attempt, or a strategy rather, to respond deliberately and intentionally to that threat, and not doing so reactively on a site-by-site basis. It's a proactive path, but most importantly, it's collaborative and it brings discussions back within the city's realm to influence and incentivize the type of development that we want to see in the city. And furthermore, attaching public benefit to that development and that incentive structure. So regarding the feasibility study, which is one of the items that's attached to this backup, there were several key findings in the study, primarily that the beach is made up of different character areas, which is not a secret. We understand how the beach feels and operates in different segments of the beach. But also that there were case studies brought forward in the study that showed other municipalities that were able to leverage what we call a public contribution portion of their pro forma as pertains to additional development rights. Of course, items such as resiliency and FEMA considerations came up in the study, but also primarily that design is a big implication in terms of how buildings look and feel on the beach and what determines value. The report went into many, many scenarios, but there were three that were produced, baseline, medium, and medium-high. And each of these scenarios had proposals for what story or what height can be accommodated in these redevelopment feasible scenarios. And the study was intended to evaluate the feasibility and the underlying ability to accommodate height, which it did. And staff's job was to take those findings and to work with that, in addition to community feedback, to determine a recommendation. And that's exactly what took place. The city then endeavored on doing public engagement events through charrettes, stakeholder meetings, meeting with associations, both one-on-one and in a virtual format through a survey. And through the engagement process, we heard a lot of things about the beach, a lot of things about heights on the beach, a lot of things about challenges and opportunities on the beach. And some of those themes were very resounding, and staff definitely took note of them. The preservation of the scale and form of the beach came up quite often in our feedback. Open space, the need for open space, accessible open space, the need for resiliency and flood protection measures throughout the beach, but also the need for transit and mobility and parking on the beach were all issues identified through our public engagement and our stakeholder one-on-ones. So working with the findings of our public engagement, the findings of the study, staff brought these all together in what we call the guiding principles for this effort. And these guiding principles are on your screen. They're a collection of principles that guided not only the creation of the zoning text, but the creation of the urban design guidelines that accompanies this text and is part of today's recommendation. These founding principles include things such as neighborhood scale and Broadwalk protection, which were very important, that came out of the engagement. Also, highlighting design destination and architectural heritage, the importance of design on the beach, avoiding a monolith and structures that are not pleasing or not activating to the public realm were also brought up. And the idea of quality growth needing to be paramount for the beach was identified. And these principles led staff as we prepared the recommendations. So where are we today in the grand process of things? Step one on the screen was when city commission directed staff to provide an informational presentation, which we did in March of 2026. We received direction then to prepare a midterm solution. And by midterm, in this case, that means a five-year interim solution to unlocking a potential on the beach through the development of an overlay and urban design guidelines. But the third step being the full development of a beach master plan. And that's a long-term plan that is the next step of this process. As a reminder, what's before you today is an interim solution for the beach neighborhood. So let's dive into part one of the document, which is the overlay itself. Before I get into all the nitty gritty, let's talk about what is an overlay. An overlay is an additional layer of regulation that sits on a geographic area. So on the little nifty graphic I have on the screen, you can look on the left side. You're going to see three layers of geographies, the first being the existing form today. The properties and parcel lines, that's at the bottom. You move up a level, you have the existing zone. We're going to call this the base zoning or the underlying zoning, which is the zoning code that exists today with your parking metrics, your heights, your density, et cetera. One level above that is what we're proposing is the Hollywood Beach Overlay District. You may see it shortened to HBOD, H-P-O-D. And that is the bonus and voluntary program that is being proposed as a mechanism to unlock value and public benefit within the beach. It's really important to understand that the program, not only is it voluntary, it's an interim strategy, as I said before. So it's intended to unlock potential where potential exists and to exchange public benefit where that exists. It's not intended to be a one size fits all. So let's talk about some things in the overlay. We talk about what an overlay is. Let's talk about what it is not. An overlay does not approve any particular projects in of itself. The overlay does not replace the base zoning or the base zoning requirements. The overlay does not automatically grant bonuses or reductions. the overlay does not reduce public participation because the existing DRC process the two public outreach meetings the meeting before this planning development board and the ultimate meeting before the City Commission all remains baked in to the city's review process and the overlay will follow suit within that pattern So let's discuss the bonus framework. What makes up the overlay and how does it really work? On the screen, you're going to see four pillars of the program. And these are the mechanisms by way a bonus thing can be achieved. Now, it's really important to note that for whatever pillar that's being pursued, there is requirements that need to be provided for each request. And that's really important because those requirements is what really brings home the design element of this exercise. The first requirement is compliance with urban design guidelines. That is part two of this document that was attached to the agenda backup. And these guidelines direct how a space feels, operates, and interfaces with the pedestrian, with the driver, with the hotel visitor. The second one is compliance with the block requirements, block sizing requirements, transitioning, shadow mitigation requirements, step-back standards, et cetera. And these also live in the design guidelines. And these shape how a building interacts with other buildings, with the public realm, with property lines, et cetera. The third is the compliance with LEED silver standards being a requirement to participate in the bonus, which is, again, intended to further support our resiliency efforts. And then last, but really importantly, is it's a city discretionary approval. I said earlier that it's a voluntary program. But beyond being voluntary, it is discretionary, which means every request comes before the Planning and Development Board for recommendation and onward to city commission for final approval. And therein lies the discretionary nature because At those intervals, there is a requirement to clear criteria both for the Planning and Development Board and for the City Commission. Criteria, just like we have for a variance or just like we have for a special exception, requires that the requests be justified. Now, as I walk through the bonus pillars with you all, I want to just point out that each bonus has an exchange for public benefit. And that exchange comes directly from what we heard on that previous slide about the emerging themes of challenges that are faced on the beach. Staff was endeavored with connecting those challenges with the bonus structure. And how do we create a formula that results in public benefit for bonus? There are situations or scenarios where an applicant may request multiple bonuses and have to provide multiple exchanges and must meet the requirements for all bonuses for each request. Each request is separate onto itself and has to clear the criteria, and one bonus does not automatically qualify you for another. Let's start with the height bonus as number one. To receive the height bonus in eligible areas of the beach, the items in the first box, which are just a repeat of what I went over, urban design guidelines, massing requirements, block eligibility, lead silver, must be met. But in addition to the general requirements, an additional requirement of a financial contribution to the resiliency fund must be made for any area over what the base zoning would allow. This financial contribution goes into the fund and is then used to support resiliency efforts. How does height work? We're going to spend a little bit of a moment on height so we can fully dive into it. The beach is divided into different precinct areas. Precincts are just geographic groupings along the beach. The plan anticipates six precincts. Within each precinct, we dial down into character areas, which is the map on the bottom. Character areas is how height is going to be implemented in the beach, how urban design guidelines are applied, and how both different heights for different zones or different character areas interact with one with another. So block assembly. Block assembly is a really important portion of the height bonus. It's really important to understand that not every property in Hollywood Beach will qualify for the optional height entitlement, because height will be determined on the block eligibility. How big is the parcel that's requesting the bonus, and can it successfully and and appropriately accommodate that height from a design standpoint. Precincts two, three, and five, which are the central portions of the beach, present the greatest need to coordinate redevelopment because of their parcel patterns and development style. So the block intentional is intended to create a situation that avoids misuse. How does the block eligibility work? In order to be eligible to receive the height bonus of the character areas, and the character areas were as previously on the previous slide, the applicant would have to have ownership of the entire block, one third of the block, that's as you see on the screen, to access the bonus. So let's use an example. an applicant on the A1A corridor who owns one parcel on the block. And the block is defined as A1A to Surf Road. If they own one parcel along A1A that does not meet one third of the entire block, then they're not eligible to receive the A1A height bonus. Because the thought process is that with only one parcel, there's not enough lot space to create a meaningful design. Now, the intent is to encourage or to have that third of the block be occupied to then unlock the ability to apply for the height bonus. Similar rules apply for the transition block, which you see in the middle is two separate blocks, north and south. Again, to access the transition height bonus, ownership of the entire third or half of the third in this case for transition block must be achieved in order to access the height bonus. And lastly, the surf block remains the same concept. The one third of the block has to be under the same ownership to access the height bonus. Again, creating a more structured approach to height, one that's manageable and one that will allow for staff through the revision of a tertiary plan, which is another plan that the applicant will have to provide showing how their site develops with the bonus and doesn't negatively affect the neighboring sites and how the block functions even with the bonus applied. These are really important elements to understanding appropriate places for height. And again, understanding that not all blocks will be suitable for this program, but those who do meet the block requirements can participate. So what bonuses are being proposed as it pertains to the height? What the numbers on the screen depict are the height bonuses that are exclusive of the base zone. So what specific bonus is being proposed in this tax amendment? You'll notice areas such as North Beach Village and Historic Broadwalk have the wording not applicable. This is because there is no bonus being provided for height in those areas. You'll notice that Intercoastal and Surf Road have a bonus of up to 10 feet. That is an incremental bonus of approximately one floor being proposed for those specific character areas. And again, character areas, when you think of that map I just showed with all the little mini blocks, we'll come back to it a little bit later as well. In the transition zone, a bonus of up to 50 feet is being proposed. And the A1A in select areas, again, emphasis on select areas, up to 135 feet bonus is being proposed, again, once the eligibility of the block structure has been met and once all the other requirements of the bonus has been met in addition to the financial contribution to the resiliency fund. The intent of this approach was intentional. Incremental and intentional height change, not wide sweeping blanket heights across the beach. Being sensitive to the character areas of the broad walk, the intercoastal, North Beach Village, was all paramount to this process in understanding where height goes in an appropriate manner. Let's move to the second pillar of the program, the TIDE program. I'm going to read out the full name once, and then we'll continue to refer to it as TIDE. Tourism Incentive Density Entitlement Program, TIDE for short. And what this is essentially is a hotel room bonus program. Currently within the zoning code, there is limits to how many hotel rooms per acre can be had on any particular site. This program creates an incentive structure for hotel room bonusing that permits for additional rooms above what the base zone permits once there's participation in the program, meaning everything in box number one has to be met in addition to box number two, which requires the provision of privately owned public space, for short, POPs. And that's an intentional space that's designed for pedestrian and public use, maintained and owned by the private entity. Now, it's important to really understand that POPs are not leftover landscape pieces. They're not setback pieces that you can't otherwise build in, or they're not just benches. POPs are intentionally designed and have guidelines included in this tax amendment on how they should look, feel, and operate within the public realm of the beach, adding for that open space function that is desperately needed. On the map, on the top of the screen, you'll see where the TIDE program can be used. In precincts two, three, five, and portions of Precinct 6. The third pillar of the program is the Transfer Development Rights, also known as TDRs. I know we have lots of acronyms tonight. TDRs are the ability to transfer residential density from one site, that's a sending site, for the purpose of preserving or protecting a lower form, to a receiving site that can handle the capacity of the received density. Both sites, as part of this program, have to enter into the bonus structure, meaning both sites have to be site plan reviewed, participate in the urban design guidelines, the massing and shadow mitigations, but also lead silvers in status. It's also important to note that the receiving site has to have the capacity to receive the density that's being transferred. Also really important to know that this program is only available through the bonus program, the bonus district, meaning that transfer development rights cannot be brokered outside the city. They come through the city so that we ensure that we're getting the bonus and the incentive is properly calibrated to the request that's being made. The city is also responsible for inventory, logging, and tracking these rights that are transferred site to site. On the screen, you'll see the map where transferring of development rights are permitted with the shading and the hatch. Really important to note that Precinct 1 south of Balboa Street is only a sending area. That area cannot receive density. It can only send density to other areas in order to protect the existing form. The little graphic on the bottom left shows how TDRs work. Unused rights on one property can be transferred to another property and implemented there, keeping the property A in the graphic at a certain scale that's more appropriate or deemed appropriate. The last pillar of the program is the flex unit allocation. This is a tool that's not new to the city. It exists in our comprehensive plan already. This is a chance that the city has to incentivize the program by providing a bonus out of it. In terms of flex units, this adds residential density to properties in the beach that are designated general business. Properties that otherwise wouldn't have the ability to accommodate residential uses, through this program and through new redevelopment, this bonus can be applied for with the provision of everything in the box number one, which we've talked about before. But in addition to that, 10% of the required parking spaces for any development requesting flex units will have to provide publicly accessible parking. And this is parking that will be available to the public to offset the need for public parking on the beach. And flex units have a limited application in the northern portion of Precinct 3, as described on the hatch in the map on the top of the screen. So bringing it all together, the document that's attached to today's item is rather large. And I'll just go over the chapters with you so that we have an orientation of where we are in the entire scope of things. Chapters 1 and 2 speak about the overlay district, its voluntary nature, and defines when bonus progress can be pursued. Chapter 2 is the map series. All the maps you saw on my screen, they exist in an actual map series that will become codified. And those delineate where exactly bonuses can be applied. Chapter number three is extremely important. This is the urban design piece of the project. And this speaks about how the spaces will interface one with another, what are the requirements for POPs, for parking structures, et cetera. Chapter four and five are the optional bonus entitlements. So how is this program voluntary? The HITE, TIDE, FLEX, and TDR programs, in addition to the landmark bonus thing that may be applicable on certain sites that are the entire block. In addition to that, chapter five speaks to the public benefit. How do we calibrate the publicly accessible parking, the publicly accessible space, the contribution to the resiliency fund? That's all of the workings of the public benefit exchanges of the bonus. And chapter number six is the... The timeframe, the interim strategy of five years, and the criteria by which the City Commission and the Planning and Development Board will use to evaluate each bonus request as they come in the future. Really important to note, this program is a voluntary and optional framework that does not replace existing development rights and existing zoning code provisions. it creates an eligibility format by which, through meeting the eligibility requirements, bonuses are earned, they're not automatic, and they're not as of right. Let's take a moment to discuss a special policy area. Special policy areas are areas on the beach that we've identified needs an additional lens of research and attention, one of which is the Hollywood Beach Resort in Precinct 4, which would, like today, still go through a design and review process, but would also go before the Historic Preservation Board prior to any decisions being made. What does that look like today? So we all know that the Hollywood Beach Hotel is in a state of disappear. pardon me, is in a state of despair, and it's in a cycle of deterioration, one that's marred with financial issues, with site constraints, and FEMA noncompliance. This is a property that does not belong to the city, and the property surrounding it also does not belong to the city. What is in the city's control is simply the framework that the property sits under, the zoning and the land use. And our goal for this precinct, precinct number four, is to bring this site from fragmentation to cooperation, to a shared vision, one where we have coordinated investment, we have a stronger balance of land uses, and one where the importance of the site being a landmark site is respected and honored. Through this precinct, there is a whole list of guidelines that are specifically applicable to this precinct, the Hollywood Beach Resort. And there is a pathway for development that's been outlined. There are two main pathways, the unified pathway and the non-unified pathway. The unified pathway is one where the plan contemplates the owners of the precinct floor coming together to create a shared master plan. And in that master plan, they'll be provided the ability to request height from city commission at 340 feet and above with the correct studies and mitigation measures with the provision of on-site publicly accessible spaces. and elevated urban design. If a unified master plan is not pursued and it's a single approach, then the bonus applies to the Hollywood controlling site, which is the hotel building itself, providing up to 340 feet maximum height bonus for that area with, obviously, the provisions of all the requirements of the bonus. But they're not eligible for the TIDE program or flex unit applications or transfer development rights. Now I'm going to take a moment. We're going to take a breather, step away from zoning. And I'm going to bring up Nicole, who's going to talk to you about urban design, but not just urban design. How does that impact the bonuses that we're bringing forward?

Good evening, board members. So as you heard, my name is Nicole Moyo. I am the principal planner for urban design. As we've gone through this process, we've heard a lot from the public how important design is on the beach. And as we did that, we recognized how important it is to build a vision. So all those who partake in the overlay, bonus overlay, will need to be in compliance with our urban design guidelines. So what does building a vision for this? This means we have a holistic approach to how we address each and every project. Right now, we deal with projects on a case-by-case basis. But we want something that supersedes staff and creates standards, base standards across the board. This helps us have a cohesive community identity We heard a lot in the community engagement about how special and unique the beach is. So through the urban design guidelines, we look for opportunities to reinforce that. How do we improve the quality of the public realm? How do we promote walkability, safety, and accessibility? How does design support sustainability and improve responsiveness to climate change and then how do we provide clear expectations for higher quality design and we do that through a shared vision so what does this shared vision include this includes as a high level thinking about what urban design is it speaks to your built form so your built form are your buildings how they look on the street how people interact with them, how they look across the skyline, and what is the architectural articulation on that. Open space. We heard a lot from the community about there being not enough open space on the beach. We're not talking about the actual beach sand. We're talking about other recreational spaces where people can sit and take their dogs or take their children to play. as alternative options. So the design guidelines then look for opportunities through development applications where we can further enhance that. And then your circulation speaks to how you access the beach, either as a pedestrian, as a car, as cyclist. And the design guidelines even think about how a bird might even live on the beach. As abstract as that may sound, as somebody who lives in a condo building and has unfortunately found birds on my balcony that haven't survived, design guidelines can help mitigate this. And there's lots of cities that use design guidelines to really help save the ecosystem in that way. So you've heard a lot about height today, and I'm going to break this down as it pertains to design guidelines. What zoning does is it gives you the base. It's the text that helps guide what the expectations are. What the guidelines then do is take that to the next level of what the expectation of that design of the site is. So, if we look at the graph here on the right-hand side, you'll see what we have described as the character areas. So, that first area you're looking at is the Historic District. Every project that is in the Historic District will still need to come before the Historic Preservation Board, and there is no change to height over there. I've also highlighted the FEMA base flood line. All projects will need to be in compliance with FEMA regulations. So what the guidelines do is you can see the graph is basically the base. What the guidelines then do is imagine what that base can look and feel like. So all of the images that I'm going to be showing are really for illustrative purposes so that you can start to imagine what the guidelines that we've incorporated into the overlay start to produce when it comes to design. So as we gradually step up, we are looking at six stories in the character area called Surf Road. So what we want to do here is to reinforce the boutique-like hotels that we've heard so much about, but really control what the design then outcomes are. So in the example that I'm showing over there, you actually have your parking garage that is well screened. And then there is good architectural articulation on the ground floor. It's well masked. It creates a very unique sense of place on the ground floor. We heard a lot about how much people love the art decor or the coastal modern architecture. So that has been embedded into our guidelines and is part of an expectation. As we move into our transition zone, you can see we start to move further and further away from the beach here. What is the expectation of the buildings in the transition zone? So you see there is a red line over there. That red line that is going across the graph is what we call the podium. The podium area is really where we're focusing on the public realm. So that means you have a continuous experience from the historic broadwalk all the way to A1A and even across to the intercoastal, and you'll see as I go, so that it always feels like there isn't a great change in height. You can see that even when height is applied, there is a setback and a step back. required for each project. In the illustration that you see over there, you also see that we have great requirements for balcony articulation. We heard a lot from the public that they don't want to see monolithic structures. They don't want to see repetitive design. So we've really asked in the design guidelines that it is reinforced in the building through articulation of the balconies. As we get to A1A, A1A is really the corridor that welcomes people to the beach. That is the spine that connects us throughout the south of Florida. We heard a lot about signage being a requirement. We heard about wayfinding, and we also heard about ground floor activation. How do we get people to actually stay on our beach? So the opportunities that we have to do so are really through the podium level that exists over there. And then when we go across back to the intercoastal, we're allowing for a mixed use there. So what does that look like? That looks like a lower rise architectural articulation with great canopies, allow for more walkability and more shading. So I'm going to use this again for illustrative purposes. One of the design guidelines pertains to the historic broad walk. This is the only broad walk along a beach that exists in the whole of south of Florida. So we really have a very unique beach. And so we really need to think about what opportunities there are to further enhance them. So on the top right image, you see a building built today. Again, this is for illustrative purposes. And it's as of right. It's a continuous wall with, you can see, paint on it. What our design guidelines would then ask for as a potential on the bottom right-hand corner is for that wall to be activated. either through public art, through landscaping, or through different elements that can really activate the broad walk as we're walking around it. The power of public art is not to be underestimated. I don't know if any of you have been to the Miami Design District lately. There is a pink wall that says, I'm not in love, I'm in Miami. fully booked all the time because people just want to take photos there. So there's just other opportunities for us to really activate the broad walk and other areas of the beach through building articulation or art. So I just want to wrap this up again. At the beginning of this, I spoke about the circulation. I spoke about built form. And I spoke about open space. And the design guidelines really look at what the greater potential is of incentivizing developments to give us a more walkable, safe, lush, and environmentally friendly beach.

Thank you, Nicole.

On the screen, board members, is the criteria pursuant to the code section 5.3 as it pertains to tax amendments. And this is what you're going to be reviewing to make your decision today. Oh, wrong direction. And as it pertains to, I'll come back to that slide. We have two companion items, item four and item five, which is establishing the inventory of 2,300 tied hotel rooms. And item five, allocating 500 flexibility units to the Hollywood Beach Overlay District. Now, as companion items, their job is to support the main item. As a bit of explanation, we spoke about the bonus pillars, the TIDE program and the FLEX program. Those pillars are established through the zoning text that we are going to be discussing today. The companion items is placing units or rooms into those programs that could then be used through the bonus program. As it pertains to the hotel rooms, staff is recommending the initial allocation of 2,300 hotel rooms in the program to be used within the mapped areas that we discussed earlier. As it pertains to flex units, staff is recommending the ALLOCATION OF 500 UNITS FOR ALLOCATION WITHIN THE PRECINCT AREA 3, WHICH IS THE FLEX-ELIGIBLE AREA. IT'S REALLY IMPORTANT TO NOTE THAT THE PROGRAM CEILING OR CAPACITY DOES NOT MEAN ENTITLEMENT. BECAUSE THERE ARE UNITS THAT EXIST DOES NOT MEAN THERE ARE UNITS THAT HAVE TO BE USED. THESE ARE PROVIDING THE REQUIREMENTS SO THE BONUSES CAN FUNCTION AT THE DISCRETION OF CITY COMMISSION. And each one of those come with their associated conditions as it pertains to the TIDE allocation and the flex units. Before wrapping up, I'm just going to take it back to my final closing statement. This item is a large item with a zoning text element. and a design text element. I'd really strongly urge you not to underestimate the power of design guidelines. Each one of these images on the screen are not just a pretty picture. They represent how zoning can be implemented through guidelines. And a lot of what we heard through our engagement was the fear of the canyon effect, the monolithic buildings, the blank facades, the poor public open space, the afterthought in these designs. And for a long time, For a long time in the development process, development has driven the process. In this case, in this scenario, staff is proposing a bonus structure that's voluntary. It's optional. So it does not replace the underlying zoning. It is only applicable if the bonus requirements can be met. And one of the key requirements is compliance with those design guidelines. So they're more than just pretty pictures. They're the fruition. They're coming to life of the zoning tax. Previously, I described a comprehensive plan tax amendment, which you all heard, is like the bones. The zoning is the muscle that provides force for that frame. But the guidelines is the skin. It's the outermost appearance. It's how you interact, what you touch, what you feel, what you see, what the beach is. Today's request before you is more than zoning. It's more than guidelines. It's the combination of both to create a program that's voluntary, optional, and in the public's benefit. Thank you. Therein is the last presentation.

Thank you much. Any questions for staff? Bob.

I have a bunch of questions for staff. First of all, I'd like to say that at the last meeting, I was going to give a presentation, and it seemed to be OK that I was going to do it. At this meeting, I've been informed by the board attorney that I can no longer give that presentation. So I'm a little bummed out about that. But let's go on. I will give you verbally my presentation. If you look at, I think it's attachment C, the feasibility study that the city is using that is driving this whole entire process, they're using $900 per square foot as a basis for development, which is driving the height of the buildings. But unfortunately, the city staff or whoever presented that $900 per square foot is incorrect in their analysis, in my opinion. If you look at several... New projects that are coming online here in the city, Icon Beach Residences, Eterna Beach, and the Hollywood Moon, or whatever they're called now, all three of those have an average listing price square foot of $1,200. That drastically changes the analysis that has been performed for us. In the staff analysis for a six-story building with 45 residential units using the average sale price of $900, the average sale price would be $1,620,000. The land acquisition costs, total development costs, estimated development costs, and the total costs come up to $75,750,000. And the entrepreneurial profit is minus $2,850,000, or minus 5%. However, if you take the same six-story building with 45 units, selling it at the same price of $1,620,000, $1,620,000, and you're getting $1,200 per square foot, you have a net sales value of $97,200,000 versus $72,900,000. In other words, I'll just get to the bottom line. Instead of having a negative $2,850,000 deficit, you would then have a positive $21,450,000 Profit instead of having a five percent negative return on your investment You would now have a thirty five percent thirty five point three percent return on your profit The price per square foot is driving what they're doing however I disagree with what they're doing if you look at new pricing that's coming out now for new developments that this City Commission That we all live in have approved All you have to do is go on the MLS, and you can see all this information for yourself. It is not made up. It is real. So the height, and it's true whether you want to put a 10-story building or a 15-story building or a 20-story building, the price per square foot is driving it. That's the problem that we're having. If they redid their analysis and they used the correct numbers, we may not have to have all this building height. There would be no need for it. Everybody would get what they wanted to get out of it. This seems to be developer driven.

Let me remind everybody here, just please participate, but don't delay things. Bob, continue.

So I did not share this with staff, and I had intended to bring it here. No offense to staff. I'm sure they've been overwhelmed with everything. I've sent them several emails asking several questions, asking many questions, to be truthful about it. And I have not always got a response to my emails or a timely response. a full-throated response, the kind of response that you would need to ask more questions. So it's a little distressing to me that I have to bring this up tonight. I was hoping to put this on the screen for everybody to see in black and white. It makes it a lot more easier to understand and to understand. And I would have asked staff to go back and reevaluate their numbers, because their numbers is what's driving the height. And that's all it is. If these numbers are accurate and it's taken off the MLS, it's taken what the developers want to do, it's taken what developers are getting for the properties that they're selling now, not older properties, not properties from two years ago or three years ago or five years ago, I don't know where they came up with their number. We spoke on a conference call. Zoom, WebEx, whatever it was, and I asked for that information. I did not get that information, how they came up with their numbers. So it's a little concerning. The one thing I do not hear here tonight is I don't hear how you are protecting existing property owners. Their tax base, I don't understand. I don't understand how You're not mentioning if they're going to get shadows on the building. In our conference call, I was told that there'd be no shadows on the Broadwalk or the Sandy Beach. It is nowhere to be found in these documents. I would ask you again where it is in these documents, and it's actually nowhere. The tallies for the public surveys. You didn't listen to the people. I have the tallies right here. I'm sorry. I'm going to take up a little bit of time. In your tallies for the public surveys, it shows the Central Beach height strategy is 52.9% in the wrong direction. You don't seem to be addressing that. This is our residents. This is what they wanted. The near-term targeted overlay framework, wrong direction, 47.9%. The Q5 transfer of development rights, wrong direction, 53%. Central Beach Hotel and mixed use strategy, wrong direction, 54.7%. Hollywood Beach Hotel, height survey, wrong direction, 63.4%. I don't understand why we're not listening to what the public wants. I just don't get it. I would ask staff if you want to build along A1A. A1A has the lowest level roadway, I believe, in the county, our stretch of the beach. Have you done any geotechnical surveys? Will the barrier island hold these buildings? This should have been done before we came here today. And just, I'm not going to go on about this, but I got to tell you, I'm going to tell you, I'm a little bit upset to find out today that because of the meeting, the special meeting that they held in July, that there's only two months that we can hear it again. Why wasn't this told to us prior to the meeting in July? We might have put it off. We might have asked for a workshop. You know, I would desperately want a workshop before this goes to the city commission. I have 100 questions here that I'd like to ask you tonight, but there's 100 people here in the room or 75 people that have questions, and I'm certainly not going to take up their time. I know there's other board members up here that have comments that they'd like to make. I don't want to take up their time. But I have to tell you, things change from meeting to meeting, and it's a little bit disturbing. You know, it was disturbing to hear at the beginning of this meeting the board only had 30 minutes to speak. They never brought this up before for as long as I've been on the board and for all the board meetings I've attended in the past. I just don't get it. You know, we need to do stuff for the residents here.

Thank you.

Christine, comments, questions for staff? Stephen.

Board Chair, if there was a couple comments I could provide clarity for.

If you'd like to, please do.

It's important to note that in the statement there were no questions directly asked, but I will provide some clarity to a couple of things that was noted.

Please.

As it pertains to the comment regarding sale versus development, sale costs per square footage, it's important to note that the report outlines the methodology earlier on in the document. When you read through the methodology, it's very clear that the price The sale price per square footage is not the same value as the development cost per square footage. When reviewing sale price per square footage, the development is already feasible, as it is selling. But the development cost per square footage is quite different, as it incorporates other factors, fees, and costs of developing that is not captured in the sale costs. In the methodology, it outlines the reason those numbers are chosen for the study. I made a note here regarding the status of A1A.

It's really important to note that this program is not replacing...

any of the concurrency or technical requirements that live in the city's DRC process, which involves studies for traffic, sewer, wastewater, geotechnical studies, which are done at the building permit stage, all of which are still baked into the process. This optional bonus mechanism is just a tool to unlock value. Those requirements that are safeguards to the city do not disappear and remain bolstered in the city's process. And lastly, there was a comment regarding the meeting procedure. Staff has made a great deal effort to not only engage the community at events where there's charrettes, markers, pens, trace paper, sticky notes, where we do gather a lot of valuable feedback. But there are also opportunities where staff invites the public and the board members alike to call staff to receive additional information if needed. And we're always there to provide support. As it pertains to shadowing, that was the last item. Shadowing and shadowing mitigation are discussed in length, both in the zoning chapters of the document, but also in the urban design guideline chapters of the document. It's extremely important that when readers are reviewing the document, they read the entirety of the zoning and the entirety of the urban design guideline. Because urban design guidelines, section I, speaks specifically to how shadow should be mitigated

the beach staff is open to further questions as you guys proceed down the line I can't express enough how wrong you are about the monetary Bob I'm gonna ask for the citizens of decorum the same thing for you Bob I know where you're going just take a deep breath I have a deep breath here I've asked staff many times when you quote a document to put in where it says it in the land regulations and the zoning regulations, put a link in there where you can find it. If you expect us to be experts and to memorize the code, I don't know how to tell you this, but it's just not going to happen. It can happen. I can read it ad nauseum, and I do. But if you're not going to quote it and tell me where it is so I can understand it, and I think that goes for many of us and the residents out there, we're just not going to get it. But let's talk about a few other things. You know, I'd like to see some modifications of this, okay? And I'd like to see only one sending site per receiving site. I'd like to see a minimum separation between bonus entitlement properties. Require 500 feet of separation between any two properties using an optional bonus entitlement along the same corridor, A1A, Surf Road, or the Broadwalk, district-wide. This is the standard that prevents an unbroken oceanfront wall like Hallandale Beach or Sunny Isles Beach. Three, I would like to see no stacking of bonus entitlements. preferred prohibit combining bonus height tied flexibility units and TDR receiving capacity on a single site. I think that's very important. If bonuses remain combinable, at minimum, extend the Precinct 4 feasibility study and independent third-party review standard, Section E.4.I, to every landmark height bonus request district-wide, Section K, so added height must be proven economically necessary, not just desired. 4, hard no shadow rule for the broadwalk. You can tell me it says it in the code. You should put it in this paperwork. Amend section 1.4, include L.5, and a shadow study needs to be performed so no shadow from a bonus height building or any building may fall on the broadwalk at any time. Not merely minimized, and that's the word that you use in your document, minimized. Staff has already indicated that this intent verbally, but in the ordinance, but not in the ordinance. Put it in the ordinance text. Five, no variances for participating properties. Any property using an optional bonus entitlement under Section 4.26 should be ineligible for a variance of any kind on the same development. I'll give you this paper if it helps you. Six, address level transparency. Require the city to publish street addresses, not folio numbers, which I asked you for, for every property in a MAP TDR sending and receiving area before the item proceeds further and what could be sent to receive for each property. By putting folio numbers on 75 pages, there's no way of looking these properties up. If you downloaded that from the Broward County, you could have done it with their property addresses, so we would have known what could be sent and to where it's sent. It wasn't done. Um... reconcile the cost analysis before adoption. I'll happily share the cost analysis with you. Attachment C uses inconsistent cost basis, approximately 900 to 950 square feet baseline versus approximately 1,800 square foot credited to the 1301 project several years ago, but currently $1,200 for Eterna, for Icon, and Hollywood Moon. A new reevaluation should be carried out using these current 2026, 2027 listing sales numbers from the developers currently, what's today, not what happened two years ago. Reconcile internal consistencies in the report. Attachments A and F list different numbers for precincts. Attachment F's table of contents omits precincts. Send received designations by precinct. Precinct 1, 2, 5, and 6 in particular are stated inconsistently across the attachments. This should be corrected before final adoption, not after. Number nine, require staff to reconcile the proposal with the city's own survey results. City survey data shows majority opposition to the core components of this plan. 47.9% to 63.4% wrong direction by your residents, depending on the question. Staff should be required to explain on the record why the recommendation departs from the city's own public input before the board acts. Listen, I have nothing against what was done here. I just think the way that it was presented, not having a workshop so we could all sit down and ask questions, not just the board, but the residents here as well, I think this is a failure on our city. I don't find fault with the staff. I just think it's a failure on the city, the way things are being done. You're taking things for granted that shouldn't be taken for granted. We all live here also. We have a vested interest in this community. And I think you don't consider that. You don't consider the people that live here sometimes. I'm not saying it to the staff that's sitting here. I'm saying it to the cities citywide. You don't take into consideration for the people that live here what they want and what they need. Everything is not driven by the dollar.

It's a quorum. Staff, would you like to respond? I yield back. Thank you. Christine? Comments? Noted. Thank you.

Questions? Let's make no mistake here.

Speak into the microphone, please.

Let's make no mistake. Joseph Young was a developer. Joseph Young was a developer. His sole purpose was to make money. 100 years ago, he caused destruction of pristine beachfront property to build what, at that time, was a monstrosity of its day. It disturbed the flora and fauna of a beautiful, pristine beach for profit. He encouraged his rich friends from the Northeast and from the central part of the United States to come down so he could sell them property, and he would profit. So profit has always been a guiding force in what's happened in Hollywood. Accepting change is important. It's as important as protecting the past. Hollywood Beach is now suffering the past it's a hundred years old and it needs to be updated some of these proposals that Nicole who has done a beautiful job in presenting earn or merit consideration I would like personally to offer some conditions. The Resilience Trust Fund. I think that money should stay on the beach. I don't think that money should go anywhere, any place else in the city, but to stay on the beach. And that would be to maintain the POPs. The city is often neglecting their own properties. So I don't think we can trust the fact that we're going to have these new developments maintained by the property owner. If the property owner doesn't do it, then the fund will have the monies to maintain the properties. And the city can go back after that property owner to keep replenishing the fund. So we ensure that what's done in the new proposals, the new projects, are maintained in perpetuity. I'm not sure about the blanket height along A1A, the 20 stories. I think that's a little rattling to most of the residents. So maybe other than the landmark properties, you could consider lowering that instead of 20 stories down to 15 stories. Just consider it. and to make sure that it's not all even. Make sure that it's staggered so you don't have that overpowering feeling. The public art for height bonuses, how much of a public art project are you going to give? for two more stories, three more stories. I think you either have to give us a little better explanation on that or just get rid of it. It just makes no sense. And that's all I have at this time.

Was there a question for staff or that?

No, just their proposal, you know, I understand what they said.

It's critique.

Okay, thank you. Thank you. Stephen. All right, I have questions that are a little bit more technical. I'll start with some easy ones. What are the setbacks for the towers after the podium?

I'll let Nicole Moyer, our principal planner for design, respond.

Hi, board members. So from the ground floor plane, all of our setbacks are as of today's zoning code regulations. As you rise up and you get above the 10 stories, we have the setback of the tower, depending on which side of the street it's fronting. So on A1A, we require a larger setback. On our internal streets, we ask for a 15-foot setback. So that's to ensure that we're slimming the building and there isn't that direct experience of the tower from the podium.

But only after 10 stories?

Yes, let me go back to this for you so I can go.

So I guess the second part of that question is that what's going to be your average open view corridor between basically towers?

So what is the distance between the two?

We have a minimum of 50 feet.

And we have worked with architects that work within the city. And as this is still a document that is being refined, they are also looking at this to see if that makes sense for the Florida context.

So one of the things that I would also add to that, in addition to the step backs that Nicole had mentioned, is one of the biggest deviations that we've taken from our existing code is the tower length requirement. So our current tower length requirement within our code yields products like costa. Margaritaville, like Positano, these large shoe boxes that span from property edge to property edge. One thing that we were deliberate in superseding as part of this is reducing that tower length to produce the more slender tower with that framed podium so that we reduce some of the consequences that we know our existing code could yield.

Is that adding some break in that length as well?

Correct. So the tower length would be reduced. There's now tower separation requirements in addition to the step-back requirements as the tower raises from the podium.

How is the city controlling the TDR's transfers? Is it a certain quantity per year? Is it public? Is it private? How is it controlled?

So no transfer of development rights can be approved unless they request that transfer through the city. This ensures that there's no back alley deals being brokered, people promising that residential density could be sold without our approval. And that gives us the benefit of two things, ensuring that the receiving density is appropriate for that site and actually has the capacity to entertain it, but also ensuring that the sending site is not left in a position whereby it's unusable. The only available avenue for, let's call it, unusable property is if our parks and recreation department determines that we can otherwise absolve that sending property of the entirety of its density, and it could be productively used as a park.

Are you guys also controlling the cost of the TDRs?

We're not controlling the cost. We are just controlling the more regulatory aspects of it, how it's recorded, the legal documents required, and the approvals that are then required before that transfer is done.

And no cap per year? No cap per year. In terms of TIDE, this only applies to hotels? Or how does it apply to Airbnbs?

It only applies to hotels. We have had some instances where Airbnbs have organized themselves within the parameters of what is required under our code, where they have a lobby, they have that kind of reception area, but then they still function as a hotel. Under our code, that would still be permissible. And we have not created any provision that would prevent that as part of the TIDE. The whole intent of the TIDE is recognizing a lot of the bigger hotel brands, as we've seen across South Florida, especially within our downtown, are requiring more density above and beyond the 50 hotel rooms per acre that our current code requires. which is not a county requirement. It's somewhat of an arbitrary requirement that we've self-imposed once upon a time. That is one of the major constraints of hotel redevelopment on our beach. And that's one of the reasons why the program, I think, is going to be more advantageous moving forward.

I think I understood something about receiving flex units for public parking in exchange for public parking.

So every single development that is proposed, whether it's hotel or residential on the beach, will be required to provide 10% of the underlying parking rate. Whatever the parking rate is for a hotel, if they were to build that fully absent of any additional bonus at that rate, they would be required to provide an additional 10%, similarly for any residential property. So if they're building a high rise or a mega hotel, whatever the case, 10% public parking needs to be received in order for commission to approve it.

Is that example somewhere else in South Florida? Is that something there?

No, that was more of a direct response to what we've heard a lot through our public engagement is that there is a lack of public parking on the beach, recognizing that the city only has limited opportunity to acquire and construct public parking ourselves as just parking garages and that sort of thing, given the volume of land. This was one of the better opportunities to request it. So one, parking is distributed more equitably across the beach so that there's various access points, various opportunities for public parking. But also, it's responding to development in live time. We know kind of what the hot spots will be in terms of where there might be a destination being created that may warrant additional public parking.

Okay. You guys talked about activation of the boardwalk. That starts within the property or on the boardwalk?

It starts within the property.

Okay, okay, okay. Because the image was kind of on the boardwalk, so I was, like, concerned about that. Okay. Lastly, you guys talked about one-third requirements, right? What if they don't meet that one-third? They're, like, 10 feet shy or 10-something?

There's no variance requirement. We do have a block determination, and that's mostly for irregular parcels. One of the reasons why we made the block assembly or the block requirements a consideration for any of the bonus eligibility is because over time, there's been subdivisions that have maybe not been approved by the city. Our block layouts right now are very irregular from a parcel perspective. So from a growth management perspective, this is our means to correct that, but also a means to limit how this program could otherwise be abused. Because we do recognize that we do want orderly development as opposed to haphazard and sporadic.

And actually, that irregularity is where my question was going. Have you guys done a study of how many blocks, more or less, would meet that one third? Yeah.

But in terms of ownership?

Yeah. I mean, how many are actually applicable, right? Because we have so much irregularity there.

So right now, there are very few properties that have been assembled by a singular landowner. But admittedly, much of the beach that is not obviously owned by a single person, it's either numbered companies or LLCs, those types of things. So it's really hard to determine, is that owned by a singular person, multiple people, that type of thing. But there are very few opportunities where assembly exists currently.

Yeah, that's where I see this is probably going to get amended again because of that irregularity and to meet that one-third and whether if you get close to the one-third, but you can't really apply to it, if there's going to be any variances. I guess that's going to be a lot of gray area.

Well, I do think staff's intention in drafting this was to be strict. As much as we want to encourage development, it's not meant to be everywhere. We do recognize that this is an interim strategy, and we do recognize the longer term beach master plan will hopefully provide additional answers above and beyond. Our goal is not to be too liberal to allow every single outcome, because again, we do recognize that this is just meant to be that interim strategy.

All right, thank you. Thank you. Massimo, questions?

I don't necessarily have a question. I mean, I wanted to talk to the board and make comments. Should I wait till we? Let's wait till after public comments for that, for sure. OK, all right.

Dick?

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Random thoughts. How many of you have been to the YMCA in the last month, year? When you walk out toward the pool, on the left-hand side, there's what's called a builder's wall, just a big frame. Inside that frame are brass plaques. There are 210 of them. I counted them today. These plaques represent people who made contributions to build the YMCA. or companies that contribute to build the YMCA. With one or two exceptions, and Bears Furniture comes to mind, every one of those companies and individuals is gone. Gone. 60 years ago, and they're gone. We need to be looking at how to replace the energy that they brought to the community that resulted in not only the YMCA being built, but the hospital. We're missing, we've lost the population that built the city, and we're what's left. And there's nothing wrong with us, but we didn't buy those lots from Joseph Young. How do we grow in the city if we don't change the way we look at what it is that will attract people to come here, both to live on a permanent basis and to visit, since the broad walk, the beach, is what drives our industry today? Yes, there are lots of apartment buildings going up downtown, and we approve some almost every meeting. They'll fill up eventually, and hopefully they'll create A new downtown. But I think we've got to get over this attitude that I got mine, and I don't want anybody to have anything bigger, better, or different than mine. I'll tell you, what I'm looking at in front of me now, those pictures, that's what I want to see on the Broadwalk. That's the kind of development I want to see on the Broadwalk. That's the kind of development that'll make people say, holy cow. Let's go there. Or I'd like to live in an environment like that. I know that most people in this room would not vote for what we're being asked to vote for today, because you're kind of comfortable with what you got. But I'm going to tell you, it's not good enough. Not good enough. We have to do more. We have to take advantage of the opportunity. Memorial Hospital is spending $570 million on Memorial Regional, tax-free. They don't pay any taxes. Who's paying for the $570 million? Me. You. But that's the biggest industry we have here outside of tourism. And if we're going to attract people to come to the beach, to live here, or rent a room here, or come here on vacation, Those are the buildings that I want to see on the beach.

Board Chair, I just want to remind you that board member Mina Morgan is online, just in case.

Thank you. Mina, do you have a question for staff?

No, no questions for me. Thank you.

Thank you. OK.

On a procedural point, what is the precedence of something of this significance being presented as interim versus just waiting for the master plan?

So one of the biggest reasons why this is being presented as interim is because of the two pieces of legislation that Cameron mentioned early in his presentation. Live Local presents an administratively approval, an administrative pathway for a lot of developments that help them circumvent a lot of the design requirements and public benefits that we would otherwise be receiving through this. If that did not exist, of course, we have the ability to amend our underlying zoning. But the other big piece is SB 180. SB 180, for those that do not know, is an emergency management act with a lot of sneaky amendments related to municipal ability to enact changes to their existing comprehensive plan and their existing zoning. It effectively traps them in time, pending a cycle of hurricanes not occurring, which in Florida we know are about to happen every year. So we're essentially trapped. Unless we do something like this, which is an optional and voluntary pathway that provides more incentive to a developer to pursue outside of the administrative approval pathway that they would otherwise have, according to the state. The benefit of this is we're able to get public parking. We're able to get funds to improve our infrastructure from a resiliency perspective. We're able to get publicly accessible open space. We're able to get better design. What this produces is not the Costas. It is not the Margaritavilles. It is not that style of development that the state would otherwise demand.

So we're in a arbitrary race against time to get this done before a developer comes and stakes a banner under Live Local and builds what they want?

I wouldn't call it arbitrary. But yes, I would say it is advantageous for us to provide an alternative. outcome where we as a city have control over what the future of the beach looks like as opposed to a developer telling us what that is over and over again with our only ability to push back is an administrative approval or an escalation where we may not have one or a legal basis to argue it.

From what I've heard, there is a fine line and a balance between responsible planning, which this asks for, and preserving what's existing. And I'm going to use the elephant, which is the Hollywood Beach Resort. So a question which has been asked of me, what is the historical status of the Hollywood Beach Resort? And is it protected?

So the Hollywood Beach Resort currently, under our zoning code, as well as state and federal registrar, has no historic designation. It is currently just a property that we very colloquially refer to as the historic Hollywood Beach Resort because, of course, it does have significance. However, state statute had changed many years ago with respect to historic properties not being designated within the high hazard area or the FEMA zones adjacent to beaches, which effectively restricted local municipalities' abilities from requiring designation of such properties. So even if we wanted to, the city could not force the hand of the developer to designate the property unless it was voluntary. So currently, the property does not have any historical designation, and the city has no ability to push for it.

There is precedence, possibly, using the Great Southern Hotel, where a developer developed that entire block. That building was deemed structurally unsafe, yet they put it back in very much the same aesthetic.

Yes.

What are our options of protecting something like that on the beach?

So we currently have within our Precinct 4 regulations a pathway whereby additional height can be accessed by the developer if they do either protect and rehabilitate the existing structure based off of historical documentation, So staff's goal through that is we're not just protecting what is there currently. We are rehabilitating the same ornateness of its original opening date that includes all of the fenestration, articulation, et cetera. If there were an instance where the building was deemed structurally unsound, we also recognize the Great Southern. While it was not the preferred option of a reconstruction in its likeness, we do recognize that there is no historic designation on this currently, and that is a pathway contemplated within the existing text or the proposed text.

So based on the current text, let's talk about what I think a lot of citizens would feel a nightmare scenario. developer assembles the entire block of section 4 yep they can go 350 feet 35 floors up 34 34 and how many units could that potentially

I couldn't do the math for you off the top of my head, but they have on the hotel property itself they have vested residential units of just under 400 and potentially they could build a hotel property yielding 350 hotel units per acre. Okay. Thank you. One of the things I do want to caveat, though, is just because they can does not mean that they will be approved to do so because concurrency is, of course, a thing. The infrastructure needs to be able to sustain that density. So while that represents a ceiling, it doesn't necessarily represent an entitlement.

Okay. All right. Any other questions, follow-up questions from the dais?

Bob. I have just one. You mentioned the TDRs before, and you said the city is not setting the price. But is that correct?

That is correct. The city does not control markets.

In other cities, though, they do control the market, and they do set the price.

Not in any of the jurisdictional scans or any of the municipalities that we've seen in Broward.

OK, so we're going to limit it to Broward. Irregardless.

I do want to clarify, TDRs is only available to us because Broward County allows it to be. It is a strategic growth management tool that is afforded to us through Broward County's land use plan. If Broward County did not allow us to do it, we would not be able to do it. And that is one of the important reasons why we look to our municipal peers within Broward County when we establish such policies.

So do you have the ability when somebody is requesting a TDR transfer to look at the price that they're getting and approve that transfer, or is it sort of automatic?

It would not be within our... We wouldn't want to as a regulating body We would just want to make sure that the transfer to and from areas are you know? Supporting a respectful transfer for lack of a better term the price or the exchange or how that is Determined as a real estate transaction is not within the interest of staff So there's no protection for the sending property to just gut whatever they want to send That would be up to them, the same way that if you're selling your house, you would be able to determine what your asking price is.

OK, thank you.

OK, thank you.

At this point, we will open for public comment.

Because there are so many speakers, I'm affording everybody the opportunity to speak. I do ask that, one, do not feel the need to filibuster for all three minutes. If you hear somebody that has spoken of your same topic, please just acknowledge and move on. Please have decorum for your fellow citizens that may not have the same opinion of yours. And I call up now the first 10 speakers, I believe. From what I've been told, as you've come in and registered, you received a ticket with a number on it.

Board Chair. Oh, fantastic.

At this point, because it's been a long meeting and people have been sitting very patiently, I'd like to have just a five-minute break for a recess, for a bathroom, for whatever. So when we come back, we'll be open for public comments. Thank you. Beck's attendees, since they are far less than those in the room. First up, Maureen Villaverde.

Hi, can you hear me?

We can. Please proceed. You have three minutes.

Okay. Thank you, Mr. Gluckman, for being a voice of reason and advocating for safety and protection of our existing structures on the barrier islands. Articles in the Palm Beach Post in 2026 reveal a condo suffered soil erosion and foundation issues due to high-rise construction next door. The developer is being sued and the work was halted with the judge stating, quote, I am not having a surfside scenario going down here, end quote. In fact, the developers and contractors of the high-rise development next door to the surfside were named in a 2021 lawsuit. The complaint alleged that heavy excavation, pile driving, and construction from the neighboring high rise destabilized the aging Champlain Towers by generating severe vibrations and altering groundwater drainage, contributing to the 2021 catastrophe. A Miami Herald 2025 article reports sinking towers in sunny isles and the, quote, extreme challenges of construction on sand, sand-dominated barrier islands where stable strata can be hard to find, end quote. The ever deeper foundations now have some extending to 20 stories foundations. However, according to the article, quote, the most recent reports question whether drilling deeper, even to the limit of current construction methods, is enough, end quote. While the projected beach overlay calls for staggered development, this would not be the case around the summit towers. a 45-year-old condo much like Champaign Towers. It would be sandwiched between potential major construction by 901 on its north and 1301 on its south. Due to mandatory elevations, groundwater drainage stands to be diverted to the older lower-lying summit towers. Excavation and pile driving potentially up to 20 feet on either side of the summit towers could ensue. These are all scenarios ripe for disaster. Safety, not economics, should be the primary concern here. All pertinent data reports and studies from environmental, geological, engineering, and traffic should be secured and be independent of the city, the developers, and the construction firms, and not provided solely by the invested parties experts who so dearly want this project. It's imperative to determine that this proposal will not affect the residents' welfare and safety before voting. Please exercise due diligence before you would vote to move this program forward. Thank you for your time.

Thank you. Julie Greenfield. And for the record, please state your full name and address for the record. Julie Greenfield. Webex.

Hi. Thank you. Yes. Julie Greenfield. I'm at 4226 North Ocean Drive and Hollywood North Beach. And, you know, that's one of the big important things here, because if anyone has been in and around this area, particularly over the last few years, we see quite a bit of development here in Hollywood North Beach. There are new homes being built. One is within just a few steps of my own home. They are all being built within the current height restrictions. This is a great thing, and we have development here in North Beach. Right just to the south of me, we have Eterna. I do know that that project did have a variance. Seems to be a reasonable variance. It's not a 20, 30, even a 15-story building, and it's being developed, and I continue to watch it every single day. This is something that the residents have come to and have spoken out about. And it's not just about there was some comments from the board about needing to grow, needing to change. We can't keep things as the same. I don't know that everyone that is going to speak is asking for everything to stay the same. That's not what we're looking for. We're looking for smart, sustainable development, the same development that we are already seeing. The other thing that I want to talk about is the Hollywood Moon Project. I, along with probably many of the people that are there in that room, went to the outreach meetings. We spoke up. And what happened? The developer came back with us and they came back. to a reasonable design and development. Of course, I understand that's been put on hold because of the other projects and things like this beach overlay. That is really sad because here we have very concrete examples of the development that are going along In Hollywood Beach, from North Beach, continuing south, that is happening. So I'm not quite sure where the thought process that we have to go to exponential height compared to what we have today is appropriate and is necessary for our beach. I've said this pretty much every single time that I've spoken out against this. I first came back to Florida. I am a native Floridian. I had moved out of state, came back. I rented in Hollandale Beach as an empty nester, lived on the beach. I thought it was great. I lived on the 44th floor. And what did I find? I hated it. It was fun for a year. I felt like I was on vacation. But I'll tell you what, the noise, the traffic, everything was horrendous. covid hit i kept walking the beach walking the beach walking the beach and fell in love with the low height did my research invested my family's hard-earned money in my home and where we are today and that is why because i knew that we had the height restrictions in place i implore you to not pass this the way that this is written over to the city commission thank you thank you

Please reserve applause and comments till the end. Dara Hill. Dara, are you with us? Dara, last call.

If I could just say she was leaving her office and trying to come in on phone.

Okay.

Dara seems to be connected, but unfortunately she's not unmuting herself.

Then we'll just skip over her and come back to her towards the end. Jackie Muzzamil? Sorry.

Jackie Muzzamil. That's okay. That's fine. As long as you call on me, I don't mind. It's 5120 North Hills Drive. And my comment is a lot more emotional, to be honest with you. We've lived all over the United States in every kind of climate and the way it looked. And when we moved to the Florida area, we moved to Hollywood because it had such a nice small town feel, even though it wasn't. It's a big city, but it felt like family. We really just didn't want to live in a concrete canyon, and we don't want to see our beach be like that either. Now, I realize that the art is fantastic, and Nicole, you did a wonderful job, slowly speaking, so we could all understand you. That's all well and good, and I like that we're talking about levels. But honestly, I just feel like if you guys pass this, that there are going to be exception after exception after exception from our city council. And I just think that it's going to alter our beach in a way that we can never get it back. So to be honest with you, I also implore you to vote against this. Thank you.

Thank you. And because I see Larry right behind you, Larry, you're next. Larry, unmute.

Here we go. Okay. So I just wanted to say that everybody's talk or a lot of people have talked about the specifics, the height requirements and all the items like that. The challenge that I see is similar to what Jackie just said. You know, we need to have less exceptions or less doors open. The plans, the architecture, you know, the renderings, the thoughts, you know, they're great. But the minute you start trading off, we lose it. And the almighty dollar will take its place. I feel like if we're doing anything, if there's going to be any type of exceptions or anything that's going to be allowed, it needs to be a public referendum. You know, it doesn't need to be just the city council. We need the people in the city to speak about it. And we have two Hollywoods. We have the downtown beach area, which is our tourism dollars. But this is a huge city now, and that's not our mainstay any longer. We need to keep it, and it's, you know, I hate to call it free dollars, but we don't invest a lot, you know, for the tax and the money those people provide us. So that's good news. But, again, use common sense, you know, follow the guidelines, you know, the shadows, the strength of the buildings, the population density. But if there's any type of exception, any type of deviations, It's got to go to a public referendum. It can't just be the city council because you don't have a wide enough spectrum there. And I believe that's it for now for me. Thank you.

Thank you, Larry. Brenda Lee Chalifour, WebEx.

Trying to unmute.

We got you. Go ahead.

Can you hear me?

Yes, we can.

Fantastic. Greetings, everyone. I'm going to be more like a Bob Glickman here. Thank you, sir. Thank you for reading the backup. I haven't been through all the backup, but I'll tell you, one thing that it reminded me of is the manner in which the FAA does its reports. It's not based on reality. For example, in the responses you receive from residents, The thing that came in the lowest, with only seven people wanting it or seven interests, was more hotel rooms. Look at page 41 of that backup. It was the lowest thing that people wanted. Seven. How do we go from seven to somehow miraculously the city of Hollywood can produce 2,300 rooms? Where are they coming from? Where is this hot of hotel rooms? Nobody, but nobody should be increasing density, intensity. I don't care if you call it a stepping or a wedding cake. setbacks or whatever you call them without answering one simple question commissioner Blattner I look to you for the answer what is the carrying capacity of our barrier islands we can no longer do it piecemeal like we have been doing it What is the total capacity? How many toilets can flush? Where's your effluent going to go? Where's the stormwater going to go? What about, I guess we'll have gondola services since we'll be flooded out. Come on. We got to know our capacity before we can add on. Then, hey, have at it. I love it. I think it's great. I'm with Christine Corbo on some of these things are fantastic. But we have not done the base homework to understand what you can have. Think of a glass of water. If you keep pouring into it, what's going to happen? It's going to overflow. You need to know the capacity of that cup. Just a sidebar, something that really just irked the heck out of me at that one report. The Stranahan River is in Fort Lauderdale. But this report is referring to the Stranahan River. It's called an intercoastal waterway. So I question an awful lot of stuff that's in this report. Seriously, the Stranahan River. On top of that.

All right. Thank you very much.

Oh, I have so much more for you. But you combined three items into one, and you also didn't provide due process to the homeowners that are mostly impacted.

All right. Thank you very much. Dara Hill, I saw that you rejoined us.

Okay. You can hear me?

We can. You have three minutes. Please state your address.

Thank you. Thank you very much. And thank you. And thank you for coming back to me. Thank you for the board's comments about workshopping and appropriate citations in the presentation. Sorry. Dara Hill, 1221 Azalea Crescent, Hollywood, Florida. I grew up in Hollywood. I was gone for several decades, came back as a caregiver. My parents, we were on Jefferson Street. We've always been in the lakes. To go through these notes and to navigate hundreds and hundreds of pages and try and figure this out without workshopping it, without having a discussion, is such a disservice for all of us. And besides all of us who live in the area, also for all the people who love Hollywood Beach and come from all over the county and all over South Florida because Hollywood Beach area is so special. The beach overlay district is about overdevelopment, and the language is all about exceptions and mitigation. And to me, that's a really big red flag. Also, using the word bonus again and again doesn't make it a bonus. Saying all of this is voluntary in terms of how it's affecting the statutes and the rules and how this affects us, doesn't do anything to address the elephants in the room of climate change, of sinking barrier islands, and rising sea levels. And for anyone who remembers the flooding in April of 2023, that's not a fluke. We know it's going to become more often. As much as we worry about hurricanes, it's the day in and day out. And then what happens when we do have severe weather events? Everyone else has already raised a lot of good points about sewage, about capacity. Hollywood Beach cannot sustain thousands more hotel rooms. And honestly, why do we want it to? Also, talking about a resiliency fund, a resiliency fund can only address problems once they've occurred. It can't prevent them. And the last thing I want to say is we should be voting on this. There should be a lot more discussion and input from all of us before we even get to that point. Thank you.

Thank you. Are there any other WebEx attendees that need to speak? I don't have any cards. Yeah. OK. I have a letter card. Thank you much. All right. Now moving to attendees in our presence. First up, former Mayor Mar Galante. Yes, you're first. And I'm sorry to inform you, Madam Mayor, you still have three minutes.

I'm not charged for me. Thank you very much. I am here because I do believe Hollywood is unique. And I hope that in my 20 years as mayor, which, by the way, was 20% of the entire life of our city, I tried to be true to making Hollywood stay unique. We took the ugly little asphalt strip, and we turned it into a beautiful broad walk. We did emphasize allowing the Diplomat Hotel. I let it fester and people were furious. But I knew it needed to come back as a hotel, because I knew that it was integral to our future, our present at the time and our future. But I am here very much against this overlay district. Tall. Somebody said that these tall hotels were welcoming to the beach. Excuse me? Welcoming to the beach? I have traveled all over the world, as have many of you. Any time I went to a place, I went to a place because it was unique. It was quaint. It was charming. I never went to a place to go to a beach because it had hotel after hotel after hotel. I would be staying in after hotel. Hollywood. Hollywood... draws people. And yes, we need to draw lots more middle class vacationers, upper middle class vacationers, adventurers who would like to go to some of the places nearby that are beautiful. And I want to warn people that if this becomes the way that we do business, some of you in areas that are maybe not as expensive property as Waterfront, maybe they'll decide in a park to put a data center near where you live. And I am standing here for the people. I'm standing here for the future of Hollywood. Don't make us a Sunny Isles. Don't make us a place that'll be just another what? What can we call it? Just a... Right. Whatever you want to say, envision it in your eyes. You're not going to be seeing, Dick, you're not going to be seeing all those pretty little made for TV kind of things. You're not going to be seeing people that go to a hotel And the people who go to the beach, like all of these people here, do want different things. But almost nobody that I know wants a concrete jungle who ever said that. So that's what I'm here to tell you. I'm going to suggest that. You put your efforts on perhaps we need hotels, having them very spaced, having certain kinds of incentives to be able to do that. 34 stories, forget it. That's ridiculous. That doesn't fit into Hollywood Beach. It never did and it never will. And thank you. Thank you for calling on me so early, because this is very meaningful to me and to my future. Grandchildren, well, have grandchildren. Future great-grandchildren, right? Anyway, thank you for letting me speak quickly.

Thank you, Madam Mayor. Former Mayor Boeber.

Good evening, board members. My name is Peter Bober. I grew up in Hollywood. I was a kid who went to Hollywood Hills Elementary School, played ball at Rotary Park, played on Hollywood Beach, and had the honor to serve as the mayor. I want to take my three minutes and condense it down to seven words. This is not ready for a vote. I watched as new board members were just sworn in just a few weeks ago. At that same meeting, the city attorney gave the board a primer on basic operations. And now for this meeting, this board was given 1,004 pages of dense planning, development, zoning materials for today's six agenda items. For a meeting that starts at 5 PM, this agenda is ridiculous. It's ridiculous for you, it's ridiculous for the staff, and for the ladies and gentlemen sitting behind me. Are residents supposed to bring sleeping bags to government meetings? I don't believe this board could possibly have had sufficient time to properly evaluate this zoning overlay district with six distinct precincts, which each sub area could probably merit its very own meeting. This is local government. That means that after this meeting is over and you see your friends and your neighbors at Publix, at First Watch, downtown, the beach, at your houses of worship, you need to be able to look those people in the eye and be able to tell them three things. One, I was adequately prepared for that meeting. Two, this is what I did and why. And this is how it's in the public interest. And if you can't do that, then don't do this. This proposal would allow building heights that have never been permitted before. Buildings go up in two years. They come down almost never. We need to modernize and beautify the beach, not destroy its unique historic character through a rushed process. At the end of the day, you're not just a board member. Whether you like it or not, you're a caretaker. We've got something really special, and it's been passed down to all of us. And now we're here at this meeting on a Tuesday. And our job is to improve the beach, not hastily squander it. The fate of the beach is at stake in tonight's votes, and I'm not in love with this process. I do not support this item as proposed, and you shouldn't either. The process matters. Thank you.

Thank you.

Barbara Miller. Barbara Miller. You're speaking, Barbara. Come forward and be heard.

I have no great expectations of what I want to say. I see my friends up here and my friends behind. And we all, the people I know, we all love Hollywood. And we all love it because it's unique. I live in Florence, Italy half the year. And if they had decided at some time to have overlays and exceptions and all the things we're talking about, we wouldn't have Florence. They said, people, this is history and this is character. And I want to maintain the character of our city. What everybody would, I think, agree to, and I hope you all will, is that you don't make a decision tonight, that we have another opportunity for public input and for a better explanation of what all of this means. It's over my head. It was much too much for me to read. But I would please ask you, let's take this and continue this.

I'm sorry.

And continue this and not pass it tonight. Thank you.

Thank you. Cat Uden? Is Cat in the room? OK, we'll give her a second to come in. Kim Ottoboni. There's Kat.

OK.

Welcome, Kat.

Just agenda item three, right?

Yes, please.

Okay, I'm sorry. I thought it was a later number. Thank you so much for serving our city, and Bob, thank you. I met with staff for an hour about this program, and I'm concerned that during this five-year temporary program, even though staff says that a future city commission could roll back the program, any projects that are approved before the rollback would have the right to be built no matter what. I feel the same way that most residents feel about 20 stories. 20 stories is too tall. especially for Central Beach. Staff told me that 20 stories would only be along A1A, which would be the urban corridor. I'm not sure why staff is using the word urban in a beach master plan. Urban is used to describe a city. We should keep the city in the city and the beach at the beach. Let's not bring the city to the beach. If someone does prefer an urban-looking beach, they can always go to Sunny Isles. There's something for everyone. There's no way that a 20-story building will never block light or sunsets. We've been told that public benefits in exchange for greater height would be decided by a future city commission. I can't imagine a public benefit that would remain on the beach that would make residents feel better about a 20-story urban corridor all along A1A. While most residents like art, that's not a good reason for a 20-story building. We have a lot of public spaces on the barrier island, the broadwalk, the beach, 1301. The POPs is not needed if we have so many public spaces. That's only if we don't have public spaces. Just preserve our public space, and then you don't have to give us a POPs. Many residents feel that if any additional floors are given, they should not be given to a condo tower, only to a hotel. Maybe it sounds like that's what you're doing. But we don't need any more empty condo towers on the barrier island. We need tourism to support the local businesses. We can't guarantee what's going to happen in the state legislature in future years, so we should not be too heavy-handed when it comes to height, because a decision made this year could come back to haunt us in Tallahassee in 2027. The city spent time and money fighting the Live Local lawsuit at McKinley Street when a developer wanted to build a 17-story project, and the city won. Developers can't build to the heights of special exceptions, so it doesn't make sense to then turn around and give the developer 20 stories when city staff has told me that they don't expect a law to be passed that allows live local projects to be matched to special exceptions. Perhaps this developer invested in buying out all these blocks, assuming or possibly being told that the city of Hollywood would soon fold. Sometimes developers make poor decisions, and sometimes they don't make as much money as they had hoped, and that's not really our problem. We should not be encouraging investors to buy out our barrier island, run their properties into the ground, and then tell the city that the only way they can fix them up is to destroy our barrier island with 20 stories. Residents got Hollywood Moon down from 26 to six stories, and it was going to be a beautiful project. And now, because of this agenda item, residents are hearing that they may go higher again. So please do the right thing and stand up for our beach. And I agree with deferring this until we've had a proper chance to look at it, due process. That's what the residents deserve. Thank you.

Thank you. Kim Ottaviani. Diana Pittarelli. Kathy DeBona. Actually, let Diana come first and hold on. Hold on one second. Diana?

Thank you, board members. Yes, I live on Hollywood Beach. Mr. Blattner, I live in one of those small buildings that I guess you don't seem to like anymore. But my husband and I bought this in 2000. I will tell you, because I'm a small building right there on the ocean, right on the broadwalk, that we're only 19 units, that I have put, my husband and I have put literally, I'm not exaggerating, about $250,000 of our own money between the 40-year work needed to be done, the 50-year work that needed to be done, and the roof that had to be redone. I mean, this is a lot of money that we have spent Why? So a big building can go up? No. This is our home. We have been here 25 years. We love our home. We take pride in our home. If there was something today, I called Commissioner Shuham, told her there's a pipe on the thing that could possibly be a hindrance to somebody coming to park along the beach. She immediately sent someone over to cut that pipe So nobody would trip and fall. There would be no lawsuit. I love the beach. I am one of those residents. There's lots of you out here that live in small buildings. We don't want to see high buildings. Do you think I couldn't have gone to Sunny Isles to buy something? Of course I could have. But I stayed in Hollywood because it was quaint. I like that expression, Mara. Quaint, and that is what people want. That's why people come here. I'm a realtor property manager. I tell you, I have people that renew and renew. Why? Because we're small. They love the quaintness of just, you know, they come downstairs, they walk out, they see their neighbors. You go into these high-rise buildings, you don't even know who's in there anymore. And we have done successful, really successful, beautiful buildings on our beach. See? Seaside Village, I know that he left now, John, but that was a fabulous project in the North Beach area that fit right into everything else. And we, Eterna, somebody mentioned Eterna. Yes, that's right across from a small building that I manage, Chateau de Mer. Eterna is fabulous. It works. Hyde works. There's a lot of good developments that have gone in that look... as part of the community. And don't stand out, and don't destroy the quaintness and the beauty of our small beach. I also want to tell you, I don't know how many of you have driven these small streets. I live on Bamburen. There's parking on either side. If somebody is coming west and I'm going east, One of us has to stop because the streets are not large. And this is 90% of your streets. If you only go to De Diplomat or you only go to Johnson Street, you may not realize that. But all these streets, and none of them have lights. There's no lights on those streets. And they're very small. So I'm telling you, you put up a big building, it is a problem. So please cancel this overlay thing. Let's do spot zoning. When something comes up, let's look at it and evaluate it. I thank you.

Thank you, Madam Chair. Kathy DeBone, yes. I would like her to take a breath.

Hello, everybody. I'm Kathy DeBone. I live on the beach. I've been on the beach for a long, long time. I've been a resident over 50 years. I know what I'm talking about. I happen to be the president of the Hollywood Beach Civic Association. I'm the vice president of Hollywood Beach Business Association, proud member of the board of the Hollywood Council of Civic Associations, and I can go on and on. I hear from them all, all the time, the majority over six years plus. are just like the people who have been speaking to you now. Not one that I've heard has been singing the praises of where you guys are talking about going with this overlay project. Obviously, I'm not for any of it. I can talk about number three, number four, number five, and number six right now, because I've got an emergency to get home to. And I appreciate you letting me come and speak to you. I'm against all of it. I don't think it's right. I commend Bobby for every single word that he said. All of the passion that has been exposed today to all of you, this is building. Trust is on trial with our city commission. It's on trial. Dick Blatner, you know exactly what I'm talking about. You've been around for a long time. I sat on a board that I got unpleasantly removed from recently that was adjoint with you. And during that time, I was also on as a plaintiff for a lawsuit. And it's no big surprise to anyone what that lawsuit's all about. And it starts with 1301. 1301 is really deeded to be public land. That's the intent. That's the intent. I'm fighting for that along with the group that is the rest of the plaintiff group. And I'm hoping that you will please, please understand I'm not here to say anything against any one human being, certainly not you, Richard. I know Bonnie too well. But I also want to also commend the staff, because they're only doing what they're told to do. And they've done an outstanding job for the most part. They can't help that what they're told to do differs from what the majority of the people want. But the people are speaking. The referendum should go forward. It always should have been given to the people to vote for. That's something that we still need to continue to fight for. And I do hope that with you saying no to all of this, that's going to send a clear message. I'm going to tell you that I'm saving my next eight seconds just to look at each one of you and hope in your heart of hearts that you know the best thing to do is to say no.

Thank you. And let me remind everybody that you're asked to speak on the item, not to the individuals that are up here. This is without personality. This is just about the topic at hand. With that, next up, Michael Seltzer. Mr. Seltzer, please state your address for the record.

Michael Seltzer, 956 Hollywood Boulevard. I was going to come up here and complain about everything, but I'm going to tell you what the genesis of all this is. First of all, no matter what the intentions are of staff to try and stop Live Local, I don't believe they have any chance at all of ever stopping it. They've tried in Bow Harbor. Now there's a big lawsuit. So what they're trying here and what they're saying, I believe, has no chance. Now there's a property on the beach. It's called the Hollywood Beach Resort. There's a property in the back of it. It's owned by a gentleman called Gary Jaffe. It's a parking garage. It's about four and a half acres. It abuts the Hollywood Beach Resort. Does everybody know here that the Hollywood Beach Resort is getting 34 stories? Gary Jaffe is getting six stories. Tell me in which world that is fair. Now, if Gary Jaffe makes a deal with the Hollywood Beach Resort-related Polycoff and Company, they both get to go 49 stories. Did anybody here sign on for 49 stories? I didn't hear Cameron talk about 49 stories here with all the bonuses and overlays. But poor Gary Jaffe, he doesn't want to make a deal with Related because they aren't offering him anything substantial. You're all getting hoodwinked here. That's the genesis of this whole thing. Now, Chetrit, who owns the hotel, hasn't paid taxes for two years. He's let it deteriorate to the point where it can't even be rebuilt. And for that, we're giving him bonuses. You know he's in the fault of his mortgage? Do you know that every few months, the auction for that mortgage is postponed? It's postponed because they don't have the zoning yet that they want. You know when the next auction is supposed to be? Does anybody here know? Tomorrow at noon. Why tomorrow at noon? Because they're hoping that everybody here passes a law that gives these people 34 stories, so many units, and so on and so forth. It's all public knowledge. You can look up JLL, and you can see the auction tomorrow is scheduled for 12 noon. That's the genesis of this whole project. There's nothing more to think about. You can talk 10 stories, 20 stories. Why don't you think about 49 stories? Did anybody here sign on for 49 stories? I didn't hear Cameron talk once about 49 stories. He went right over the top. Thank you. Thank you.

Barbara Marks. Barbara? Barbara Marks?

Okay.

Actually, I've been reminded that when you signed up, you're actually given numbers. So if your number is 1 through 10, if you want to make your way up and at least close so we can kind of speed this along, number one, Marco Donosco? Marco, number one?

Board chair, if I may, it would be helpful to call out the next five names so they could line up and pair themselves.

Well, they should also have the numbers, too. So if you know you're the first 10, please line up. But Marco, Peter, Paul DeLeo, Rachel Mazur, Shirley Ginter, Lucy, Mikayo, Justin Del Soto, Diana Key. We're still on item three. Well, come up and be heard. Joanne? Yes, Joanne. Just state your address and name for the record, please.

All right, good evening, board members. My name is Joanne Ziegler. I'm a resident in Westlake Village, 1030 Scarlet Oak Street. So I want to say first, just give a compliment to the Planning and Development Board that Hollywood now has the best Halloween block party in South Florida. Woo! You guys do a great job, great decisions on the DJs, so I just want to give you a compliment. But I'm here because I'm a rare form. I'm a person who likes tourists, and I love to go to the beach. They say that locals do not like to go to the beach. I'm a trauma nurse, so when I take off my scrubs from gunshot wounds and motorcycle crashes, all the trauma that I see, I like to go to the sand. I'm here tonight because I'm so irritated because it's affecting me now. When I see these towers, I went to Sunny Isles and I was on the sand. I said, it's so dark here. It's so dark and ugly. I moved to South Florida. I moved to Hollywood Beach from Orlando. because we love the beach. I love the quaintness. I love that it's sunny. It's bright. With the towers and sunny aisles, it was so dark. And I said, I don't like this. I love Hollywood Beach. I brag about where I live. But now when I get to the beach, when you come out of the parking lot, you see all the chairs, the beach umbrellas, the rentals from Margaritaville. It blocks the water. And it's because the hotels can put the beach umbrellas there. With these towers, these hotels, and the overlay that is being planned to build these towers, we're going to get all these chairs and umbrellas where the locals can't even sit. I cannot put my umbrella now when I get to the sand, because they're putting these umbrellas and rentals for the tourists in front of the hotels. It's making me not like the tourists. I pay taxes. My taxes last year were over $11,000. And I cannot sit on the sand where I want to. The shadowing, I'm here because I don't like The shout out, I don't want it on Hollywood Beach. I don't want the developers there preying on us like vultures and looking to see where they can just put up these buildings. It should not be at Hollywood Beach. We should be exempt from that. We have a 2 and 1 half mile stretch of land. Leave us alone. Tell them to go somewhere else. We are unique. We're charming and we're quaint. Tell them to go up the block. Tell them to go to Lauderdale by the sea where they're at. Hollandale. Do not just leave us alone. I didn't know I was even being threatened. When I heard that we were potentially going to get these towers, even on A1A, I don't want to see it. I love the sunshine on the sand. Even when we're on the sand and we're at the building in front of Haagen-Dazs, the shorter buildings even cast a shadow. We move. We have to move. We have to move from Margaritaville. Just no towers. I just get affected because when the hotels are built, now when you have the condos, there's noise ordinances that people that move into the towers, they don't want the bars. I love the bars. I love Nick's. I love it all. I'm getting affected, and I pay the taxes here. And that's why I'm here. I do not want the shadowing, the dark beach, and I do not want people infiltrating my life. That's it. Thank you. Thank you.

Thank you very much. Marco. Marco. Peter Paul DeLeo. Okay, I'm calling by order now. So, yes. I'm assuming you're Rachel. Okay. Welcome.

Hello, my name is Rachel Mazur. I live on Jefferson Street. I'm on the board of the HLCA speaking on behalf of the HLCA and also feel personally that Hollywood Beach rezoning items 3, 4, and 5 are complicated and little understood by residents. Yet significant rezoning of Hollywood Beach could permanently alter the historic character of the beach. As you know, the August 11th meeting where these items were to be heard that would have given concerned residents a chance to learn more and make comments was canceled due to a procedural error by staff. At that point, a new date should have been selected for a separate meeting that would have made up for the August 11th debacle. That was not done. The HLCA urges the board to make a recommendation of continuance with the condition that a time certain date be selected for these three items so the public can learn more. Now, having sat here, I would like to add on a personal note. I think more work needs to be done on this, taking public feedback into account, like the actual real numbers of what the public said that they wanted when we were asked on March 26. As it stands, if you do vote today, I hope you will vote to deny this rezoning. Especially egregious is the plan to add high rises to our central beach, which is special due to its village feel. I'm also concerned about how the TDRs are going to end up being exploited and the massive height being discussed for the Hollywood Beach Resort. If this is about live local, why would it sunset in five years? The design ideas for beautification, I liked them as well on the first floor, could be put into place without changing zoning. I look at Delray Beach as an example. They have managed without adding a bunch of high rises. Their lower rise has helped, not hurt. And as for attracting people, when I do bring visitors to our beach, anytime I have company, I bring them, and I take them to Wynwood and Fort Lauderdale, they always tell me they like Hollywood much better, and it is specifically due to our low-rise village feel on our beach and a little bit in our downtown, too. It's very special, and it's very different, and I hope you will protect it. Thank you.

Thank you, Rachel. Peter called Leo. Okay. Shirley Ginter. Lucy Michio? Justin? Ready. Fantastic.

OK. Thank you. Good evening, everybody. Thank you for your work and your dedication to the city. It's much appreciated. My name's Justin Del Sesto. I'm a Hollywood resident. I moved down from New York and Washington, DC. I've been down in Florida about 20 years. I ended up in Hollywood after living in Miami. And I can tell you that the reason I moved to Hollywood is because of its beach and because of its beautiful beach and low-rise beach. It's interesting that someone mentioned about Venice or Florence, Italy. The Italians understood that you build things in the relationship to the human. And the beach is meant to be for the human. It's not meant to be for a big building. The overlay district presents a lot of problems because it hasn't been properly vetted. Calvin Giordano did a study that the consultant for the city was hired, and Calvin Giordano made a suggestion. The staff has decided that rather than wait for that and wait for the master plan that was required by the city's own consultant, they decided to go forward with this overlay. two years early. So what I'm here asking for is that we do it the right way. The right way is to wait for the master plan. The master plan was specifically suggested by Calvin Giordano. They're the experts in the room, and we should follow the experts. And the experts already said that the beach should be about 10 stories. That's what the experts said. Now, the resort district that, again, they didn't mention is going up to 490 feet. It's 350 feet with another 140-foot bonus. It's insane when I read that. I couldn't believe it. I was like, really? So I'm going to drive over Hollywood Bridge, and it's going to be like Hollandale. I'm going to look at those two great three big towers that were built over there. Now they're going to do a repeat here. That's what we're going for. The reason they film RJ Decker and those kind of things here is because it's quaint. It's human. I walk every day on the beach. I go every morning around 6. I go a lot of times twice a day. As a matter of fact, I see some people here that I recognize from the beach that I have no idea who they are. It is such a blessing. I thank my God every day that I can sit on this beautiful beach. And I'm so grateful that it hasn't been ruined yet. We are stewards here. We are not here forever. Our children, our grandchildren, and they will be left with the same responsibility that you will have, which is a custodian of the future. Do not allow ruining this beach. This beach has been here. It's been protected by the past who lived here. And we have a duty to preserve it for our future. Thank you.

Thank you. Diane Key? Diane Key? Dennis DeMartino? And right after Dennis, if you have tickets number 11 through 20, please come to the back of the building, back to the room. Dennis.

Dennis DiMartino, 1201 South Ocean Drive. I'm watching my numbers tick down, because that means I'm running out of time. You know who's really running out of time is Hollywood Beach. Because these plans and these resolutions and these projects are coming by much quicker than we can adapt. Now, just take this. This came through pretty quick. A couple months ago, they were asking people for input, and now they've got this huge project planned. And what is it? It's a temporary project. It's something that gives the developers everything they asked for. It didn't. It was a long time coming. It wasn't a slow process. It wasn't a fast process, either. It was kind of half-assed. Hollywood Beach is a tourist destination. That's where it makes its money. That's where it makes its charm. When I moved here, my wife and I decided we had a place in Hallandale. We decided we wanted to live on the beach. So we drove from Miami to Lighthouse Point and back. And we kept coming back to this one little town in the middle. They had all these little boutique hotels and pastel-colored beach houses. And we said, this is where we want to be. And that was Hollywood. Now, I've been in Hollywood for 15 years now. And I got to tell you, I worked in a restaurant on the beach, and I saw tourists. And these are tourists that came to Fort Lauderdale, tourists that came to Miami. And what did they decide? They decided they wanted to come to Hollywood in between. They said, we're so glad we found this place. And we see them come back, season after season. I've seen people, I sit there at the restaurant with my dog, and people come up and say, oh, I haven't seen you in a long time. Oh, and they remember my dog's name. Because they come back to Hollywood, because they love being in Hollywood. And this plan you've got here, I mean, to have... buildings along A1A. Like I said, my wife and I drove down A1A, and you can see the ocean. You can see all the little buildings. That's what attracted us here. You've got steps from the boardwalk to the transition to A1A. Have you ever actually been to the beach? It's a 45-second walk. You think it's going to make a difference if the 40 tower is here or here? It's the exact same thing. There's so much that needs to be redone in this plan. Basically, it needs to be tossed, because we've got other things down the line. We've got a lot of things that have to be done. Now, I had so much to say, and I think I got most of it in here, just the fact that it's not a good idea. The development needs to be done. Development needs to be done. We need to have more industry brought into Hollywood. We need to have Hollywood. But the beach has its industry, and that's tourism. And putting up big buildings is not going to help the tourism. Put out the big buildings in the city. Get some projects in the city going. Maybe it's time for Hollywood Beach to secede from the city of Hollywood, because we obviously have totally different thoughts.

Barry Jeff. I'm sorry, Barry Leff.

BARRY LEFFE.

Good evening, everyone. My name is Barry Leff. I'm in relatively good health, and I hope to make it to my car unscathed. Thank you. I'm here representing Council for Phoenix Hotels and Resorts and Phoenix Suites.

I thought I heard hands waving. Sorry.

But they have been operating a hotel down at 313 Hayes Street and 332 Garfield Street for the last 14 years. It's a family-owned place. So they're the owners of nine-lot assemblage on the block between Garfield and Hayes, just to be clear. It's all within Precinct 3, Central Beach Commercial, based upon the maps and how everything's been identified. I want to start by saying clearly my clients do support this overlay. But the city has done some serious work here, that's for sure. And this framework, the character areas, the height, the design standards, the flexibility in the TIDE programs, it's the right way to plan for the beach. It's a tough way to do it. You've heard from everyone here tonight, but someone's got to do that hard work. We think that you're on your way to doing it. My clients would strongly prefer to develop under this ordinance. And we have filed a few, actually, detailed comment letters on September 1 in that spirit. It's in your record tonight. So our comments are offered to strengthen the ordinance, not to oppose it. Just three quick highlights from our letter. First, the eligibility does need to be fixed at the parcel level. I think Mr. Glickman made a good reference to this, actually, and he is right. The record before you describes the flexibility in the tied eligible areas in five different ways from what you've presented, and the maps don't fully agree with the text. So my client's block, Garfield to Hayes, is mapped eligible, but the written descriptions leave some doubt. And the fix is simple, as Mr. Glickman said. Identify the eligible parcels either by addresses or folio numbers, which might be equally as good. We've asked for the development services director for a written determination. That request is in the record as well. Second, the subsection and contribution schedule, the ordinance creates a fee but doesn't state the rate. An unquantifiable cost is an unfinanceable cost. And we feel like that also, as many people have mentioned, should be defined before it's passed to help this be effective. for everyone involved. So adopt the schedule with the ordinance, fix the rate when an application is complete, and vest the applications that are complete before that five-year sunset. And finally, third, the staff report correctly says this overlay is not intended to restrict or impair rights under section 16604151 of the Florida statutes to live local. That sentence should live in the code itself, not just in the staff report. I'll be candid with the board. My clients have rights on the live local, but would rather build under the overlay in the cooperation and the spare with the city. Thank you.

Thank you. Pam Bergo, and after that, Victor Marina. Mark Ross. Sorry, Pam. Sorry.

Hi, Pamela Bergio, 63-year resident of Hollywood Hills. I live off of 54th Avenue. So I live five miles west of the beach. Why am I up here tonight? Because I get the breezes and the winds from the beach. You put 20 stories all along A1A, I'm not going to feel it anymore. Most of my family and friends live east of me. They're not going to feel it either. And the overlay has its pros and its cons. I'm not going to focus on either. I'm just going to speak from the heart that lets you know that there's smart development and there's development. Hollywood Beach does not need to be redeveloped. The mom and pop hotels and the motels are why people, the tourists, come here. And everybody keeps saying, staff included, Hollywood Beach is what brings people to Hollywood. So why are we destroying Hollywood Beach? Let's leave it alone. fix the facade if that's all we're looking for. But to build bigger, taller is going to continue to roll down the hill with the infrastructure. First thing we need to do before any building on the barrier island is let's raise the frickin' road. It's flooding on a regular daily basis. That's just the boardwalk, the broadwalk, and the roads. We're not even capable of fixing what we need to fix, but let's build bigger. No, we need to build smarter. We need to build throughout the city. Why focus on something that's already working? If what we want to do is create more people to come here, let's find other areas to bring them to. Why are we focusing on the beach? There are many areas of our city that can upgrade our overlay. Let's do it. But smart development. We know, I know, everybody knows that building is going to happen. But let's be smart about it. The overlay has its pros and its cons. Let's not go 20 stories. We have restrictions in place for a reason. We have deed restrictions on property in place for a reason. You allow one temporary, which won't exist, because live local will overrule. And we all know that. You put one 20-story tower, and then it goes up from there. Because it's going to happen. It's happening everywhere. It's not just Hollywood. So let's build smarter. Let's think about what we want and what the people are asked of. And we provide the answers, but they're being ignored. We are not being ignored. Let's work together.

Thank you. Victor Marina, right after that, Mark Ross.

Victor Marina, 1400 South Ocean Drive. Mr. Glickman is correct. Developers are definitely driving this. This is not in the resident's best interests. There's no need to facilitate and drive the overdevelopment of the beach. It's maybe a little bit, but not this much. There's too many unknowns in this proposal, and it will eventually be just for rich people's investments, and we'll end up with unoccupied units. So I urge you to vote against this. Thank you. Thank you.

Mark Ross, then Stephanie Burns, Theresa Fortnash after that.

Thank you, Bob. Thank you very much. I have to excuse my actions from the other week, too, when I was here. OK, my name is Mark Ross at 5626 Harding Street. I was born here. My children were raised here. I've been going to Hollywood Beach since I was in, my mom took me there in a baby crib. And the sand used to be pink. It was all shells. It was beautiful. And we used to have, the water was nice and clean. Things have changed there. But anyways, what we have left right now is a community center. That place is the last place we have, has like, we want to talk about old time history or something. It was built in the 70s, early, late 60s. And it's a, it's a, called a tilt wall building. It's all concrete. It's got a T-beam concrete roof on it. And you're worrying about a hurricane coming. That building right now can have three helicopter pads on it, on the roof. Maybe some little more structural beam columns in the inside. That's what I do. I'm an iron worker. And they couldn't get people off that beach. Because there's no other way you're going to get people off that beach. They can't run the fire trucks. They go in the water. They sink. All the good old boys gone. Don't know where they went. But there's no airboats around here anymore. And you're going to have to get people off the beach. Some people are going to stay there. They're not going to leave. I talked to the fire department. They said, we're going to tell them to go. They're not going to go. People in this room I've already talked to, he said, I didn't go. But anyways, we got the community center. It's a beautiful place. They're letting it get run down a bit. But there's nothing wrong with it. And it has the essence of what people get married in the park there. And the kids learn how to swim there. They have lifeguard classes there. The police go there. The firemen go there. There's all kinds of community things going on. And it does not belong to have somebody come in, it would be a mayor or whoever the heck wants to come in, and sell it or give it away to a developer. Then we have a 50-year lease on it that I didn't even know there was a lease coming up. And then it turned to a 90-year lease. And our city manager retired and wrote his own retirement papers. That was good. That was a good show. OK. I'm not going to talk anymore about that. But anyways, we had a letter from Robert Guyason. He's really noted. Everybody here knows him, has to, in this town. And he wrote a letter we read at the last meeting, and saying that this property was given to the people of the city of Hollywood for a community center, and for the parks and recreations, and for them to keep it, not to be given away. It was given to them, a piece of property given to them. And now it's worth, what, near half a billion dollars. Anyways, OK. So that's good enough for that. So we could get people out of here. We could keep the community center as we should. We never gave it away in the first place. And as far as the, we need to go wait for the workshop, have a workshop on November 3, have a referendum, and vote on it, please. We own this place. Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you.

with deference to mr ross which we appreciate your comments uh remind that this is on items three four and five which are the beach overlay but you've mentioned to public comments and we hear you so thank you stephanie

Hi, my name is Stephanie Burns. I live on North South Lake, 737 North South Lake. I know he was talking about 1301, but I think what he was talking about demonstrates three of you up here did mention that this is for developer profits. I mean, really? That's why Hollywood exists? For developers? We pay $30,000 in taxes every year and you're working for developers? Hallandale Beach and Sunny Isles Beach are your shining stars. When was the last time any of you, any of you up here, any of you here, went to dinner in Sunny Isles Beach or went to walk on the beach there? Anyway, you use words, the staff uses words, but I think they mean the opposite of what they say. They use the words resiliency and climate change. Well, 35 buildings in Sunny Isles Beach are sinking at a steady rate. Is that resiliency to repeat that? A geophysicist at University of Miami said almost all the buildings at the coast, they're subsiding. Not just there, in other places as well. Experts called the study a game changer. That raises a host of questions about development on vulnerable barrier islands. A geology professor at the University of Colorado said it's probably a much larger problem than we know. And there's no sign that it's stopping. It's continuing. Their buildings are sinking at the same rate every year. It's not like they're settling. They are sinking. And we all know why. It's limestone that's porous with sand. It's no mystery. I come from California. I was a construction manager there. And one thing, developers there, they would work within the constraints. Here, it seems like developers, oh, they can't have constraints. Good god. It's just ridiculous. So this four HBOD pillars with bonuses, the tools to unlock public benefits, No, it's tools for developers to build higher and denser, obviously. I mean, come on. Why do we have to pay for open space with higher and denser buildings? Why do we have to pay to preserve our history with higher and denser buildings? Why do we have to have a wall of concrete A1A, which is what I will look at. I look at the summit, and there are no lights on in it. This favors mega developments. And then the 59 or 49 stories at the Hollywood Beach Resort. Are you guys insane? I mean, that's just, well, I guess there's the auction tomorrow, so now we know why. Thank you.

Thank you. Theresa Fortnash, Susan Howlett, and afterwards, Austin Reynolds. Teresa, welcome.

Hi, I'm Teresa Fortnash, 2642 Taylor Street. I live in the rack that you were talking about. OK, now we're making a rack out of Hollywood Beach. Now, I'm standing here and they kind of had to beg me to come speak because, and this is important, standing here looking at all of you guys, I can tell you how at least four of you are going to vote. What we say never matters. The surveys that Mr. Glickman mentioned don't matter. We answer. We talk. We beg. We plead. Nothing is being done to benefit the residents. It is being done to benefit whoever comes next. And that's not fair. We live here. I've been here 35 years. I was born in South Broward County. And here I am pleading for you to not Sunny Isles, our beach. Two of the commissioners during the last early voting, when I was working early voting, came up to me and said, do you really think we're going to Sunny Isles your beach? And I said, yes. And now you're doing it. And they were sitting there saying, oh, we would never do that. And here we are. We have a solution looking for a problem. There is no problem with the beach right now that this is going to solve. We talk about this pop stuff, right? Well, I ride my bike. Renaissance has a bike path, or actually a trail, that they're supposed to take care of based on a contract that we made with them, public-private partnership. It was closed for a year and a half until the city threatened to sue them. So I don't think this pop stuff's going to work out for us. We're knee-jerk reacting to Live Local. Why aren't we fighting with other cities who are already fighting to try and get back some of their own autonomy? I mean, it is not fair that Tallahassee is telling us how we can control our growth in our cities. We do not have infrastructure. We are running out of water in Florida. Yeah, right. Atlantic Ocean. It's saltwater. We already have, I think Hallandale has had one well turn already with saltwater intrusion. You keep pulling water out to bring more and more and more people into Hollywood and specifically on the barrier island, we're going to turn more of our wells. And then, I mean, our water bills are already outrageous. Just think what they're going to be when we have to buy water because we can't pull it out of the aquifer because we destroyed it. This is ridiculous. This is insane. This is a barrier island. I'm going to give you a number, 161. That's how many people died in Fort Myers Beach and Estero Island because they could not evacuate. They drowned in their homes. And they are so much smaller than Hollywood. So we're going to kill people with this. This is just the worst plan I've ever seen. Anyway, thank you. Thank you.

Susan Howlett and Austin Reynolds.

Hello. I'm Susan Howlett at 920 Polk Street. I feel like I'm a student here as opposed to a leader. But I got to tell you, we raised our child here. He's 29 now. Mara Giuliani was such a marvelous man when he was growing up. She'd always give him a hug. It was wonderful. And then, of course, Peter Bober's family at this point. And it is a quaint, quaint town that we live in. There is no reason to sell out. And that's what this is all about. It really is. I don't really have a lot of the great details that the rest of these people have, but they have presented wonderful comments, as well as Kat Uden as well, and Carol Shuham. But please don't sell out. That really is the bottom line. And that's what this looks like to just about most of us who live in Hollywood. And we love our city. We really do. Thank you.

Thank you. Austin Reynolds. Austin Reynolds. And those that have the tickets in the 20s, if you'd like to make their way to the chambers and stand in the back, Kathleen Quinlan first up, then Susan Huff, Elaine Kuser after that. Kathleen?

Yeah, I don't know if I have three minutes worth. All I just want to say is faith in government now is at an all-time low. And if you approve this overlay thing and let developers just have a free-for-all over Hollywood Beach and destroy it with their massive buildings, then we won't have any faith in government at all. And I mean, come on. I don't know. I'm nervous, so I'm kind of stuttering. You're doing great. I live on 350 Virginia Street. And I love how local and how low rise my streets are. I love that I can walk down the street and feel the winds. I love that I can go to the beach and then stare at the intercoastal if I want to. I lost all my train of thought. I'm so nervous. I don't know why. Thank you. I just really want to keep our beautiful beach the way it is. And our not-so-grand lady, it could be improved upon, yes, you know, by... like the height limit it is now. It's pretty tall. I mean, you still get shade when you walk that part of that broad walk. You know, we just don't need this overlay with the developers having a free-for-all for our streets. You know, it's just wrong. I don't know. I'm sorry, guys. Thank you.

Susan Huff, Elaine Kuser. And a reminder to state your address, too. Yes.

My name is Sue Huff. I live at 1231 Pierce Street. I'm sorry about my voice, but that's what it's doing tonight. Anyhow, I moved here 25 years ago, and I had some interest in this area because of its quietness and its neighborhoodness. I left New York City, where I had been for 33 years, And everyone looked at me and told me what kind of an idiot I was for going to Florida, because it's so hot. What's the summer going to be like? And I started laughing. And I said, I have to be perfectly honest. We have open corridors. We have lots of vegetation. We have plenty of airflow. We have the Atlantic Ocean that brings the air inland. And it does go into Hollywood Hills. And it is a wonderful environment. You live in a pizza oven up here. You have glass. You have steel. You have granite. You have asphalt. You have cement. You walk into New York City in the middle of the summer, you could pass out. I had company in 1986 for the tall ships. My one friend was there, wanted to go into the city on July the third, fourth, excuse me, fifth. I said, no. I said, it's too hot. She and her then fiancee, oh no, we're from Florida. We can do this. We got out of the car. And as God is my witness, she passed out one block later because of the heat, the radiant heat. We are looking at creating another god-awful city like the one right down the street from us. With all of these buildings, I got stuck in a building because the elevator crashed because there was a shift in the building. I was there for three hours waiting for them to get another elevator up and running that we could leave. It's not sustainable. We're on a barrier island. We are one block wide, we are drowning in water, we don't have the infrastructure, and you want to propose and pass something that is so unfinished, it's not going to work. I had a building inspector, or excuse me, a crow come up in front of my church. And they're putting up a new light post. And I said, why are you doing that? They just put those in two or three years ago. He goes, no, these are aluminum. I said, yeah. He said, somebody figured out that you could get killed if you hit a cement post. but not an aluminum post. We don't think things through. This is a tragedy. Mayor Boeber said it correctly. This is an unfinished work. Please vote no.

DAVID BADER GINSBURG ALAIN COOSER, DALE MILLER, DIANE GORDON.

Good evening, Elaine Kuser, 1924 Pierce Street in the Rack, been a Hollywood resident since 1960. I have three questions. When, who, and why was the seed started for this overlay, and who initiated it? And how long has it been under development? I'm going to address, you can answer that whenever you want. The one-third rule. Don't think that this will cause bidding wars for parcels of land that people are going to be trying to buy out each other and cause a bidding war and it'll just create... People will try to buy up like they're doing now. And it'll change the whole scope into Hollywood. So it'll all be high rise buildings. And how wide is A1A going to have to become to accommodate all of this building? I'm glad RJ Decker comes to film because I got about four weeks of work on it, and they come here because of the quaintness. I have a long history in Hollywood, and I played paddle ball on the beach in the 60s, and I would urge you to think about this. We don't have to rush this through, and I don't know why we are. Thank you. Thank you. Dale Miller, then Diana Gordon.

Hello. Dale Miller, 316 Minnesota. One thing that I've come to realize that if you want to make change. Oh, can you hear me?

Can you guys hear me?

Yes.

To make a change, sometimes you need to find a bigger issue, a bigger picture that encompasses the change. And I want to make sure that you guys are aware of Florida Statute 379-2431. It is the Marine Turtle Protection Act, which is, as you know, the turtle's nest on the beach. Quoting the act, a person, firm, corporation that illegally takes, distributes, manipulates, destroys, transfers, sells, molests, or harasses the marine turtle species or hatchling, or its eggs or nest, is subject to a third degree felon. The buildings so tall that it shadows the whole beach for half a day manipulates how the turtles turn out. They need warmer sand to produce female turtles. Colder sand only produces male turtles. So by building taller buildings, you are not in compliance with this Florida statute. So please write that down. Second note I want to make sure everybody is aware of, that because these buildings are on the beach, the beach is considered your construction site. The turtles nest in that construction site. From my understanding is that you can't do construction during the nesting season unless you have special permits to remove the whole nesting site elsewhere. That's all along the coast. And with this new Florida statute, you run into certain considerations. So you either need to have a special permit from the state remove the turtle nesting or not do construction during the nesting season, which only gives you four months out of the year for construction. So let's make sure we do the right thing, protect our locals. Thank you. Thank you.

Diana Gordon, Lawrence, Merrill, Babette Cozar, Siobhan McLaughlin. Shelley DeMarco. Okay. Diane Gordon. Yeah. Lawrence Merle.

Good evening, board staff. Siobhan McLaughlin, 1409 Rodman Street. I'm not here so much to talk about the merits of the overlay plan, though I do find it questionable. I don't think it's been explained adequately. But I'd like to just ask you all to consider the process. The aborted meeting on the 11th was really sad. Then we asked you not to discuss this tonight after a federal holiday. at such a late hour. 11 o'clock was one of the times suggested. The whole process has really been somewhat disrespectful of the residents. And I think you should take that into account. Watch some of the staff up here talking while people are talking. It's disrespectful. But I also want to ask you to consider why so many people are opposed to this. You heard the statistics. This was not a popular. from the response, all the outreach that the city did. You have people here coming tonight. Why do we oppose this? Are the residents stupid? Are we ill-informed, uninformed, that we're just naysayers? We are not. We are people who are concerned about this, and you represent our last best hope to say this process, this plan needs to be addressed more completely and with much more input from the city residents. The commission is going to be turned over in 55 days, I think. I wrote 58 in my email. So why are we rushing through a plan that has supposedly taken 10 years to come up with? I think that we deserve better, not just from the staff. And we wonder who is benefiting when you hear the profit motive, developers. The residents, I am appalled that somebody is paying $30,000 in taxes and has to sort of beg for park and open spaces and the beach and all the things that we love about Hollywood. I don't go to the beach, so it isn't like I have some vested interest for my own personal benefit. But I appreciate that other people do. And I think you should listen to them and to their concerns, because the people do not want this. We did not want 1301. And personally, we did not want some residential or some commercial intrusion into the lakes. The staff needs to, at some point, consider what the residents want, not just what developers or the commission want. And thank you for your time and your service.

Thank you. Lawrence Merle? Babette Kozar? No. All right. If you have tickets in the 30s, please come into the chambers and line up towards the back. James Caulfield? And you are? Are you speaking on item number three? OK. Come forward and be heard. Apologies.

Good evening. My name is Donna Green. I live at 526 North Rainbow Drive in Hollywood Hills, and I've lived there for 35 years. I'm a Florida native. I used to live in an area near Sunny Isles and saw that change from a beautiful, quaint little village to what it is now, which is a concrete canyon. I am not a beach resident, but I care deeply about the beach. Most of the people I know moved to Hollywood for the unique character. And you could be in a suburban neighborhood and drive to the beach in 20 minutes and feel like you took a vacation to a quaint beachside town. I'm a realist, and I know that things will change. But I also know that quaint is actually very marketable, especially as we're losing areas and we're losing quaint all over Florida. So we can use that as our selling point, which we always have. Beach improvement does not have to mean overdevelopment. This proposal gives many extra bonuses to developers to take advantage of these high-rise exemptions. We have master plans that are getting shelved. Lawyers and developers will go to town with this proposal and find every loophole and bonus to take advantage of. The podium plan that was described is not really fooling us. We know that this jams a large number of people onto the beach in a very small area with already overwhelmed infrastructure. Public art doesn't fix that. My father from Texas would say that's like putting lipstick on a pig. The people like me who are speaking want improvements to allow all residents to enjoy what we have, not to keep it for ourselves, not to keep it for a few. This plan shuts people out. It rewards developers and people with money. Hollywood Beach has always been the people's beach. That's the whole reason we love it. It's not Sunny Isles. It's not South Beach or Fort Lauderdale. Mom and pop, local residents, tourists, they all get together and they enjoy the beach as it was meant to be in its native state. That's why we love it. That's why we want to save it. I just want to mention that public schools are being closed, and those are hurricane shelters. So we're adding a ton more people to the beach, but we're losing shelters. That math doesn't work. Hollywood Memorial is overwhelmed in the emergency room. Where are people going to go for health care if they need emergency care? We have so many issues that have not been addressed. Thank you.

Thank you. James Carfields, Marsha Orwick, Lester Bernice. Good evening, James.

Hi there.

Good evening, Jonas.

How are you?

Thank you, sir, for speaking up for the little guy. There's a lot of little guys here, a lot of little people. I'm a lifer here, born in Memorial Hospital. I've been here my entire life. I like it just the way it is. But of course, things have to progress and things have to change. If you remember Sunny Isles, which I'm sure some people remember Sunny Isles, it was a lot like Hollywood, once upon a time. It's not like that anymore. Joseph Young would be rolling in his grave, my personal opinion, if he could see what's going on here now in this city. I'm not impressed with the presentation that these people put on here that work for the city, that are paid by the taxpayers to try to convince us that this is good for the overall beach and for the city. I heard one person say, say that they were for this. And money. The residents, listen to the people, the people that live here. Not these developers. Look, me personally, I'm not impressed with some metal sculpture in front of a concrete tower. If people like that and they think that's great, I'll come over and help you move down to Miami if that's where you want to go. I'm serious. I'll come over on Saturday, and I'll help you move. I'll help you load your truck. I'll pay for the gas if you love it that much. Yeah, right? I mean, look, I've been to several of these meetings, okay? And I agree with some of the other things that I've heard people say, okay? I've watched the mayor sit up and laugh at people like me, okay? And other people speaking against, okay? We've been called the slanted left, okay? Or, you know, the anti-agenda, okay? You know... Is there anything wrong with wanting to preserve where you live? I mean, I like my single rise, low rise, regular residential street that I can drive down. It's starting to look like a freak show, man. I mean, this whole city. I mean, it looks like a circus. I mean, there's just stuff. I mean, I never thought Young Circle, OK? I mean. I'm just like dumbfounded. I get in the car, and I'm like, wow. I'm like, what the hell is going on here, man? Have these people lost their minds? This is insane. And most of them are dark. At night, when you drive by, they're all dark. I'm against this. The beach is fine just the way it is, and it's survived for how many decades without high-rise buildings and condos? And what are we going to do, jam people in here? It's wrong. Thank you. Thank you.

Marshall Ulrich. Lester Bernice. Marsha? Lester? Stephanie Sabato? Karen Kermis? Sherry Wells? Anybody else with the 30s? David Wells? OK, just making sure. David?

Thank you. My name is David Wells. I appreciate the opportunity to speak. I'm at 1325 Taylor Street. I've been there for 30 years. I'm not against change. I'm for change. I don't want new things. I want quality things that I like. New is not good. I appreciate your honesty. If you want to build something, we've got massive problems on A1A. Those are going to... Quadruple, tenfold. Imagine a flooded street at North Beach there, and then a bunch of trucks coming, right? Because if you've been there at high tide, you know that it's flooded. So there's only one lane you go through, or you ruin your car, right? Because you can't get your car through there. So he's got these big problems. We're not Hallandale with a six-lane superhighway going from the beach. We're Hollywood. We've got little tiny streets. And it's really crowded downtown. We've built a bunch of structures that aren't full. You need to add quality to Hollywood and bring people in. And then you can mess with the beach when we have big problems. But you're fixing a problem that does not exist. And it's a money issue. Somebody wants money. Somebody's getting paid money. This is going to go to 49 stories, obviously. How deep are the pilings? How deep are the pilings for a 49-story building? And when you dig a hole at the beach, I'm pretty sure water comes out. So where does the water go? Do the water pipes get pushed across the street into the intercoastal and we're going to pump all this clean water into the intercoastal and then kill the fish? I mean, it's the huge problems here, right? And what's the other problem? OK, so we need revenue. Hollywood needs revenue. So when we do this project and the beach is basically shut down for like years, Who wants to come to Hollywood, to the beach? Where do families go? Families go to the beach, right? So you've got people from all over the freaking counties come to Hollywood Beach. Fourth of July, holidays, Labor Day, who comes? Everybody comes to the beach. Families come to the beach, OK? You take away the beach, put a couple high-rises up there for a bunch of rich people, or who knows the people. High-rise people are really friendly people, right? Because we want to live in high-rise and destroy our beautiful Hollywood. I mean, it's ridiculous. It really is ridiculous. And if you can sit there, and if this is true, I've heard enough evidence, I want to vote. I demand a vote. Because if this whole thing goes down like we've heard, a lot of people heard information, so you better have your facts straight. So you better get it right. That's all I'm saying.

Thank you for your time.

Thank you. Elaine? Elaine Vitz? What's your name? For item three? Come forward and be heard.

My name is Marie Schultz, and I live at 1358 Polk Street. And we moved to Hollywood when I was three months old. So I'll be 60 next month, so it's been a while.

Speaking to the microphone, please.

I thought, pull it down, because I'm short. Okay, there we go. Is that better?

Yes.

Okay, so Hollywood is a beautiful place. I walk the beach every morning, and I just think, God, I live in this place.

It's amazing. It's beautiful.

And that's why the tourists come. And like everyone's been saying, it's a quaint place. It's unique. It's not like anywhere else. And we can improve without building high rises. We can make it prettier, maybe in some places, that it needs it. But we don't have to build places that take away our beach. hurt the turtles, and keep people away that want to come for what it is already. I would just say, let's have a workshop. Let's put it to a referendum. Let's do due diligence and find the answers to these questions that have been asked this evening. And that's all I have to say. Have a good evening. Thank you.

Thank you. Elaine Betts, Annie Castaneda? That's me. OK.

Hi. My name is Annie Castaneda, 1830 Radius Drive. I live at the Radius in the high rise. I don't really know what I'm going to say to you. So yeah, I live downtown in a high rise, where the high rises should be, downtown, not on the beach. I've traveled and lived in a lot of different places in the United States. Most recently, I spent the last four years in a very small town in Italy. And there was some lady earlier that says that, anyway, she lives there for half the year. And she said something like, could you imagine if Florence put an overlay? And that made me giggle because it's true. If we don't hold onto things that make us special now, there won't be anything after you guys are gone to make anything special for my daughter. I moved here a year ago for the second time. This is the second time I've lived here. And we could go anywhere we wanted in the United States. We were coming back from Italy. And I chose this place. I specifically chose Hollywood because this is the only place that ever felt like home. Even though I wasn't born and raised here, it always just felt like this place that was mine, like I was supposed to be here. And it makes me nervous what you guys are gonna do with it. Gosh, sorry, I'm getting a little emotional. This community, this beach, there's nothing else like it, and every single one of you know it. And I realize that Joseph Young was a developer, and we need to build, and you're ready for it. But here's the thing. I get it, and I'm with you, but we don't need skyscrapers. We don't need skyscrapers. We don't need 49-story hotel buildings. OK. Anyways, a lot of people have already said all that. You know, parking, sewers, toilets, water, climate change. God, I was just going to say one more really cool thing, and now I forgot. I'm with you. I think we do need things in Hollywood Beach. I think things need to be redone, revamped, reenergized. There needs to be a new life put into Hollywood Beach. But we can do that without taking away the small town feel that makes people like me choose. I made a choice to come back here. Just don't do this. Don't do this. I know you're going to. But don't do this. Ciao.

Thank you. Jason Alvarez. Andrea Timmerman. And please speak to the subject, to the item, not to the individuals. It's not about personality. It's about what's best.

I'll try my best. My name is Jason Alvarez. And I'm actually a resident of the city of Fort Lauderdale. And I've come all the way out here to express my concerns with the development plan that has been presented. I'd like to first address the fact that, yes, Joseph Young was a profit-driven developer. Joseph Young, driven by the power of the almighty dollar, rode the great Florida land boom to its ruinous conclusion and then lost everything with the onset of the Great Depression. Take that as you will. I've come today to speak about the Hollywood Beach Hotel. The hotel stands today as the sole survivor of this first great era in Hollywood's early history. Monumental and monstrous, yes. Its ocean liner-like design harmonized with the sea and land. It is not an unattractive building. It has been mired, encumbered by condo towers, highways, and parking lots. Without this structure, there would be no Hollywood as we know it today. It attracted guests from all over the world, just like the development plan that was presented today is promising. It would be a disservice to this community and to our county to deface or raise this historic gem, no different than the purposeful destruction of sacred antiquities during the fall of an empire. I keep hearing that it can't be done, that it can't be saved. I am of the attitude that it can be done, and it will be saved. I am aware of the challenges that this property faces. Yes, it is run down, and shabby, and musty, and maybe even haunted just a little bit. But wouldn't we all be if we were 100 years old and neglected? I ask that you work to preserve the historic character of this beach, to preserve and expand the dunes, and to worry less about trying to make it like South Beach or Wynwood and simply to embrace Hollywood. What has been proposed here tonight, the destruction of our cultural and historical resources, we call this progress. Who benefits from this overlay, the community or land profiteers? Amend the overlay and save the Hollywood Beach Hotel. Thank you.

Thank you. Andrew Timmerman. And for those with tickets in the 40s, please make your way to the chamber. Welcome, Andrea.

Good evening. My name is Andrea Timmerman. I live in 1050 Pinnock Street. I want to be clear with you guys. I know it's not addressing you personally. I'm not against development. I'm in support of investment, modernization, improving Hollywood Beach. What I'm opposing is the proposed overlay, and in particular, the height bonus that could fundamentally change the scale and character of our beach. Hollywood Beach has something increasingly rare in South Beach, which is the beachfront, the human scale, open sky, sunlight, broad walk, and a unique character. This morning, every morning, I ride my bike on the lakes, and I can see the sunrise. And I took a picture this morning because it was so beautiful. And I would hate to see that disappear. I understand that the overlay doesn't automatically give every property additional height, but today that additional height is not available. However, this overlay creates a mechanism for it to become available, and this is a significant policy change. Once taller and denser buildings are approved and constructed, we cannot undo their effect on our skyline, sunlight, traffic, and the character of our beach. Hollywood Beach should continue to improve. Other properties can be renovated. Buildings can become safer and more resilient. Businesses can thrive. These new investments should be welcome, but redevelopment does not have to mean building higher. In fact, preserving Hollywood Beach is an investment on its own. As everybody has mentioned, there are so many places around us with a high building, and we have two miles that doesn't have this concrete wall, and just investing on it and keeping it for the future is an investment on its own. So the question for me should be, Do you want the great height and density that, I'm sorry, I'm also emotional with this. This is like, take everybody's heart, I think. But the question is, do the Hollywood residents want a taller and denser Hollywood beach? And I am a resident, and I do not, and I can hear everybody, and all my neighbors, and all my friends, and they all agree with me. So I think, as everybody has mentioned before, that this should be taken into consideration. I would urge that for tonight we vote no, or at least postpone, and then think of the process, think of other ways to bring this to the public, and then maybe a referendum. Thank you very much.

Thank you. Sherry Calabrese, Brittany Livano, Sierra Mono. And apologies for butchering every one of those names.

Hi, I'm Sherry Calabrese. I live at 1223 Buchanan Street. And my husband and I have lived there for over 50 years. And I've been here many times standing right here to fight for other things, like the golf course. The Hollywood Beach golf course was supposed to be developed in the 70s. And our neighborhood got together and fought. And we saved that golf course. Otherwise, we would have had condos there. I've been here to fight for schools, and now we have newer schools in our neighborhood. We didn't have them, and we weren't going to get them unless the community came together. And what was really good about that was when I looked at the people that were listening to all of us speak, and you got a great turnout. I have to say this one issue, staff, I'm talking to you, you got the people riled up to show how much they care. It's really important. that everybody see how important this is. This is where the city leaders, the city committees that you have committed to serve on, the staff people who are doing what you're told, but you need to really learn what the heart of this community is. You need to listen. Otherwise, we lose trust. We don't support the city. And that's what you don't want to happen right now. Everyone has spoken so eloquently. There's so many things that they've mentioned. And it's all true. I don't want to see a canyon on the beach. That's what I loved about Hollywood. That's why we drove our motorcycle up from Miami before we were married and just said, we are going to move to Hollywood. We're going to get married and live in Hollywood. We're still in the same house. That being said, I really hope you will realize that this is not the time to say yes. to this type of plan because you have a lot of questions before you. And by saying yes, you're saying you believe this is a good plan. There's too many reasons for you to question that. One of those things I'm going to touch on, try to do it real quick. When we went to one of the community meetings and we met the staff and we asked questions, My question wasn't read out loud to the group. So I went up afterwards and I spoke with the staff. And I said, what's the plan? What is the surveys and the studies that you've done about the sewers, the drainage, the flooding, the roads? All of the problems we're experiencing all over Hollywood because we've been constructing without planning ahead. I was told that hasn't been done. that that's not part of this job. That comes after they go in for permitting, which means you've already approved the overlay plan. I hope that isn't what you want. We have had enough non-planning going on with all the building in Hollywood. Maybe this is the time to stop and say, we need to plan for this better. Please vote no.

Brittany, Sierra, Isabelle.

Hi. Good evening, board. Thank you for your time this evening and for the opportunity to speak. My name is Brittany Laviano. I live at 4816 Jackson Street. My family has been frequenting Hollywood Beach since the late 70s. I was born at Memorial Regional Hospital over 40 years ago. I have two young children, and my entire family frequent Hollywood Beach. I want to clearly state my opposition to the proposed Hollywood Beach Overlay District as drafted. If this project moves forward with its current proposed dimensions, the shadows these buildings will cast on the beach for centuries to come will long outlive the shadows cast on our reputation for how we responded to such requests. We will be forgotten, but the beach skyline will forever be changed for the worse. Just because we have the right to do it doesn't mean it's right to do it. While I understand the intent is to modernize zoning and support redevelopment, the technical implications of the height allowances, bonus programs, and density tools in this ordinance pose significant risk to the physical environment, public safety, and the long-term character of Hollywood Beach. The overlay district introduces optional bonus programs that allow developers to exceed base height, FAR, and density limits. These bonus mechanisms create a pathway for significantly taller and bulkier structures than the underlying zoning anticipates. First, the proposed height framework and bonus mechanisms will materially alter solar access along the beachfront. Taller structures cast longer shadows, particularly during a peak morning and late afternoon periods when the sun angle is low. This is not a cosmetic concern. It directly affects thermal comfort, sand moisture levels, and vegetation stability in dune areas. Shadow studies for coastal zones consistently show that even modest height increases can extend shadow lengths by 200% to 300%, depending on season. Hollywood Beach's narrow shoreline makes it especially vulnerable to these effects. Our county's own website states, beaches with vegetated dunes are more resilient and perform better during storms than beaches without dunes. So many people have spent time and money to restore the dunes along our coastline, so why would we want to undo all this amazing effort? Second, increased height and density have measurable impacts on coastal watershed performance. Larger building footprints and increased impervious area increase stormwater runoff velocity and volume. In a coastal high hazard area, this can exacerbate nuisance flooding, overwhelm existing drainage infrastructure, and accelerate erosion. The Overlays Resiliency Fund is a positive concept, but it does not mitigate the physical consequences of allowing significantly taller, bulkier structures. Third, the overlay district does not sufficiently address hurricane evacuation capacity. Hollywood Beach already faces constrained evacuation routes with A1A and the bridges serving as the only outlets. This project proposes substantial vertical density without demonstrating that evacuation capacity exists. FEMA and Florida's Department of Emergency Management both require clearance time analysis for major population increases within evacuation zones. I urge you to vote no against this. Thank you. Thank you.

Sierra, Isabelle, Janine.

Good evening. My name is Sierra Mano, 901 South Surf Road. First, I'd like to thank the board, city staff, and everyone who has put time into planning for the future of Hollywood. Tonight, I'm speaking in opposition of the overlay. I understand that Hollywood Beach will continue to grow and evolve, and I'm not against responsible development. I do, however, believe that growth should respect what makes this place worth investing in to begin with. My first concern is that this is a short-term five-year overlay, while the broader Hollywood Beach Master Plan is still not complete. Five years may be temporary, but development approved during that time could permanently reshape the beach forever. On a barrier island with real constraints, transportation, infrastructure, resiliency, all of those factors, why are we making decisions of this magnitude before that planning process is finished? I'm also concerned about relying on the new design guidelines to protect the character of the beach. We are already seeing highly modern projects being approved that I don't believe fit the historic character. The design guidelines may help, but they can never make larger buildings fit the historic scale of the beach. But most importantly, I'm deeply concerned about the Hollywood Beach Hotel. For decades, this historic property was fragmented, altered, and allowed to deteriorate. Now the condominium regime has been terminated and the building sits vacant. We may never have an opportunity like this again to put the property back together, restore the historic hotel, and return it to its original use for the public to enjoy. I understand that tonight is a decision between restoration or demolition and that their private property owners have certain rights. But why are we already assuming that greater development is the answer? I strongly support the restoration of the Hollywood Beach Hotel without additional height. Before we create major redevelopment incentives for this historic site, I'm wondering, why aren't we first exploring every available tool, tax incentive, grant, or financing option that could support its rehabilitation? Simply, why isn't restoration the starting point? So Hollywood Beach has something increasingly rare, historic scale, character, genuine sense of place. And once we lose that, we'll never get it back. So I respectfully ask you not to recommend approval of this overlay as currently proposed. Let's finish planning for the future of our beach and make preservation the starting point, not an afterthought. Thank you.

Thank you. Isabel, Janine, Virginia? None? Andre?

Hello, my name is Andres Bonanno. I live in 830 Tyler Street. I wanted to just address very quick. Oh, in the mic? Still further? OK. So I just wanted to respond to what I heard a little bit earlier from several of you. And it's the concern about development and the future of Hollywood. And you seem to be a little bit pessimistic about it. Well, I'll tell you that I'm the perfect example of why I love Hollywood the way it is. And I understand there can be some changes in the future. But we began to look at places where to retire. And basically, my wife and I looked at several places down in Miami and then started going northward. And when we came to Hollywood Beach, we fell in love. And we made the decision right there to move into this area. Now, I had a whole bunch of list of comments that I was going to make, but they've all been said. But in this process, as I was sitting in the back of this room listening to what was going on, I do kind of acknowledge that we live in a representative government. And I know that you have a big responsibility in front of you. I'm a scientist. And what I do is I put a hypothesis and I test it and I look at the results. And from there, I can change that hypothesis, make a new one, tweak it. What I see here is a big hypothesis And what I've heard today from the data that's coming back, from the analysis that's coming back, it's extremely worrisome. I would almost say to the point it's a null hypothesis. It sounds to me like this plan still needs a lot of help and needs a lot of tweaking. I'm not sure that it's going to work for all the reasons that you've heard today. But I think what's most important is to remember that you are representing us, the community. And if there is an interest for this change, where are all those people? I haven't seen except one person come up here and support this. So I ask again, if you're a representative of government and you're supposed to be representing us and the residents of this city, wouldn't you be concerned that you're not hearing from the other side? All you're hearing is a lot of good arguments. And it's almost a little bit insulting if they are not taken into consideration, because you're almost assuming that the people are not smart enough to figure out that there is a flaw here and that it needs to be considered. So what I'm asking you today, in behalf of myself, in behalf of my friends, my family, and so many that spoke here today, is to, Put down the volume. You may have had an opinion before. It's time to kind of rethink the hypothesis a minute. Ask questions. Tweak it. And find out, is this a really good plan? Or if it can wait, and we can think about it later, take a vote later. But this is not ready for prime time. Thank you. Thank you.

Margot, Andrea, Henry? OK.

Nice to meet you. My name is Andrea Noemi Bradak, 147 Sheridan Street. I would like to read something, and thank you for all of your time. We are here to build a community, not to create separation. By taking the beach away from us as Hollywood residents, we would also lose part of the soul of our community, especially during this difficult time when many people are struggling financially. Going to the beach is still something available to all of us. Why not bring our community together? We could create special events and organize beach cleanups, working together as one. We understand that the developers want to build high-rise buildings, but these buildings would take away our view and negatively affect the natural environment and wildlife. This is our time. We need to wake up. We need to embrace our voices and do something about it, just as we are doing right now. Hopefully, God is with us. We must do the right thing. Money and high-rise buildings are not everything. We are here to leave a legacy. We are here to protect nature. We are here to protect our beach for ourselves and for future generations. And this is not the first time this sum proposal has been brought before our community. It is time to resolve this matter once and for all by putting permanent legal protection in place so that the same threat cannot be brought back again in the future. Let us protect our beach, our community, and future generations with clear and lasting decisions. And one more thing. You are all here because the people are worried on you, because we are trusted in you, and you have a duty to fulfill. You took an oath, and you have responsibility to protect us and to protect Hollywood, our hometown. Together we are strong and united, and we will not let this happen. This beach is ours, belongs to us. You have one choice. Stand with us and protect our right. Thank you.

MARTY KAPLAN- Margo, Henry, Armando, Sandra Bookman. Henry?

Armando.

Henry Haft.

I live in the South Lake, Adams and 16th. This report was very impressive. I read it, Cameron. I told you I was going to read it. It was tough, but I got through the whole thing. And what I found was actually something that Mr. Glickman touched on. Where I looked was the dollars. And it seems to me that this report What I didn't see was that they would try at $900 and see what height you would need. They didn't try at $1,000 and see what height you would need. $1,100, see what height you would need. $1,200, see what height you would need. A lot of that analysis gives you a better picture of what the real development opportunity is here. it almost seems like this was a conclusion that was established. And it just seems that. I'm sure they didn't write it this way. But it seems like it was a conclusion that was established, and then a report crafted to support that conclusion. And that's not the way it should be. Now, I will also agree that something should be done to improve the beach, to get some kind of development there. in line with the community expectations. Some of these recommendations are unnecessarily excessive. I'm not A1A. I mean, 20-story building on the east, skyscrapers on the east side. On the west side, you'd have six-story buildings. I mean, Taverna Opa, gone. La Tub, gone. Tiki Tiki, gone. It's all going to just go up to six stories on that side. And then the developers are going to flock to A1A, because that's where the money is. And they're just going to go up. And then I know the design guidelines would be there for this is how we would like this stuff to look. The first building that gets in there and goes up and hits that 20 story mark, everybody else can now say, at least this is my understanding of Live Local, aha. 20-story building, live local, I can build whatever the hell I want. 20 stories, that's it. I don't know that this is really going to stop it. That said, if we can. Maybe go back and take another look at this and see if there's another way to craft a development plan that's a little bit more modest. You might have a lot more community support. I mean, think about it. There were 200 people here today. There's still 150 people. There's people still outside. You know where the community is on this. I hope you stand with it. I recommend a disapproval.

Thank you. Armando, Margie Robbins, Sandra Buchman, and for those that have tickets in the 50s. OK. Paul Farren. Come forward and be heard. Remind to let us know your address as well.

PAUL FARREN. Hello, Commission, Board. This project, actually, if you listened to the presentation which opened up and explained what Live Local is, this does not even qualify. If you look at number five on Live Local, it said it had to be public benefit. This is a public liability. It is not a benefit at all. If you've listened to these 50 people that have just spoken, you can tell that every one of them considers it a liability. You've got A1A on the beach is at below flood grade. You've got massive king tide flooding and pumps that can't even handle it with the current density. And you want to try to increase the density two times? That's not very smart. And literally, it is not a public benefit. So it does not qualify. Thank you. Thank you.

Dana Cavalli, Moscow. William Knickenmacher. Carlos. Yeah, still on three. And I've been reminded this is still item number three for the evening. Well, three, four, five.

Good evening, board. I am William Knickerbocker. I am the president of the Summit Towers Condominium Association. And I'm kind of concerned about this beach feasibility study. Feasibility, to me, means that there's something either feasible or not feasible. And as a development and planning organization, you should be looking at what that entails. I looked into the guiding principles, and the one thing I found that was missing is safety. There's no architectural involvement in here. We're not talking about how deep the pilings have to go. We're not talking about how the vibrations are going to affect other buildings. We're not talking about how it's going to affect flooding. I know I, for one, am sitting in a condo where you're putting two buildings, one on each side of me here. And I'm going to be the low point now. And flooding is going to affect a building that's been there for almost 45 years. Traffic and evacuation. For every unit that you add to Hollywood Beach, you're going to add at least one more automobile. Okay? There's not that much public transportation on Hollywood Beach. And so people are going to drive their cars, and they're going to have parking. And a lot of families are going to have two cars. And when the first big storm comes and A1A is flooded, how are you going to get everybody off the beach between the time you go from a hurricane warning until the time you have to shut down the bridges? These are the kinds of things that you ought to have studies for already if you're going to put a plan together that says, this is how we're going to move forward. And if you don't have them, you're not doing due diligence. And if you don't do diligence, then you're not listening to the people. Thank you.

Thank you. Carlos?

Carlos Marquin, 1201 South Ocean Drive. I am the vice president also of the Homeowners Association at the summit. The one thing that I've noticed, the first thing that I check when they were talking to us about the redoing of the streets with the pavers, the first thing that I spoke was with the engineer. The first question that I ask is, what is your flood criteria? THE ANSWER WAS, THERE IS NO FLOOD CRITERIA. IT'S GOING TO IMPROVE SOMETHING, BUT WE CAN'T GUARANTEE THAT IT'S NOT GOING TO FLOOD. NOW, KNOWING HOW THE SYSTEM HAS BEEN DESIGNED NOW, WE KNOW VERY WELL THAT A1A IS A STATE HIGHWAY, AND WE CANNOT MESS WITH IT. WE CAN'T MODIFY IT. WE CAN'T RAISE IT. on that very island is designed now to go straight to A1A. So all the water is designed to come down to A1A. The underwater pipes that they put in to discharge the rain and the heavy water is designed to drain to the canal or the intercoastal. Guess what? When the intercoastal water gets high enough, the flappers close so the salt water doesn't come back into the city. So now all the rain that comes down and everything that comes down is going to stay there because it has nowhere to go until the flappers are able to open and the water table drops. Now, what's going to happen in evacuation? We know that the bridges have to be locked down at a certain time because boats also have to go through the bridges when there's evacuation or whatever. A1A will be flooded. We know what happened in Halladome Beach Boulevard when it floods. Cars stall, they break down, and you can't move for hours sometimes. What's going to happen to get out in an emergency case when all the streets are flooded and cars can't move because they stall, they break down? The Summit Towers, I understand that the builder, in order to do the mitigation or whatever, donated or something, the land was next door as a park. Now they want to put a high riser there. That means that the building that donated land for water and retention and whatever and a public park area and a parking lot and a beach area, Now it's going to have a big hard riser on one side, another hard riser perhaps on the other side, and we'll be sunken in the middle at the lowest point in the A1A. Thank you very much. Thank you.

Mosca? Mosca?

I could stand here and repeat what everybody said, but I won't. I want to thank you. I ask you, I oppose this. I think you've heard more than enough reasons why this is a foolish idea. Also consider the fact that when Joseph Young was the developer. There weren't 29 million people living in Florida or three or four million people living in Broward County at the time either. We are ignoring climate change. We are ignoring appropriate building codes, all so we can enrich the related company. I've had enough of them, personally. I've had more than enough of them. Over the last years, I have lost, as many people have, faith in my government. I ask you to restore that faith for me and do the right thing here and postpone this at the very minimum. so that the public can, so that the residents who pay the taxes, which, by the way, you're also overlooking the fact that you may not even have property taxes anymore to work with in this city. While we're busy talking about building million dollar high rises on a beach that no one's going to live in, do you go down A1A South and look at all these obnoxious empty buildings? It's nauseating. There's people that are homeless, but we're going to build million dollar buildings that no one's going to live in? What kind of society are we? What kind of a society are we? Please, vote this down. Thank you.

Dana Gallup, David Saltz, Carrie Sisselman? Nope. OK. Keely Del Toro. Linda.

Hi. Good evening. My name is Keely, and I'm a Hollywood resident, 2001 Hollywood Boulevard. Sorry. I would like to start by saying thank you, Bob, for speaking up for us earlier today. I think that was great, and you're the only one that did it. I'm speaking out today against the proposed overlay district. Hollywood Beach has a character and a scale that distinguishes it from the wall of high-rise development we see in other parts of South Florida. Increasing development potential and creating incentives for additional heightened density may benefit developers, but it's residents who live with the consequences. That is more traffic, greater infrastructure demands, more construction, and increased pressure on an already vulnerable coastal area. I don't know why we're talking about this. They know, you know, we all know that the environmental impact of this proposed idea is going to be catastrophic to the area. I already can't walk my dog after a rainstorm. Has anyone else tried to retrain their dog to pee in ankle-high water? It's kind of impossible. While I appreciate the effort put into the presentation today, It lacks empathy, sympathy, and community rapport. I don't think these people deal with the problems that we deal with here. The few in favor for many years have treated this city like a short sale, allowing buildings to dilapidate, establishments to go out of business, all so they could make backdoor deals with developers. I think it's time for that to come to an end, and I think it's time for you guys to actually work for us. Thank you.

David Saltz. Carrie Sussleman, Linda Martrano.

Thank you, everyone, for all the time and work that you've done. Speak to the mic.

Thank you, everyone, for all the time and work that you've put into this. I'm opposed to this. I'm opposed to all the other ones.

Name and address, please.

I live at 322 Buchanan Street. Crystal Tower. I am squished between Margaritaville and Costa Hollywood, so I already have that experience. I feel that we want quality, not quantity. Everyone that's spoken, except the one gentleman, are all on the same page. I think that it's time for the city to listen to the citizens. And the infrastructure that we have right now is insufficient. I live there. I see the flooding. I see the problems. The beach is deteriorated with the streets that were done over in the beginning are deteriorated. And they're still putting in new ones at the other end of the beach. So until we can fix all these other problems, I don't see why we should be thinking about tall buildings, which will cause more problems. And as far as the 1301 building, I say give it a vote. Thank you.

Thank you. David Saltz, Carrie Sisselman. All right. Anybody in the 60s, please come to the chamber and line. Sylvie Meyer, Paul 52. What's your name?

Jeff Bodell.

OK. Come forward. Be heard.

Thank you.

I have all this. Jeff Bodell. I'm at the summit also with a bunch of other great people here. 1201 South Ocean Drive. I came here prepared, all this nice write-up and so on, but everything was said already. It is more of a personal story, 25th anniversary of the World Trade Center coming up. And I was there. And I was part of the cleanup. I did suffer some trauma about fire engines. And about a year ago, here at the end, I'm from Brooklyn, New York. I love it here. I went to Bel Air. Craig Adams has a little inn on the beach. And that's where I started my journey here to Hollywood Beach. I love it here. Been here about two years now. I'm involved in the DUNE program. Thank you, Lee Gottlieb, for the Dunes and working with the Audubon Society. I'm also involved with Homeless and Broward County Outreach Center. Edgewater had a fire about a year ago. I was right there outside. I began to panic. My visions of destruction came to mind. And it was terrible. A1A was crowded. It was flooded. We had king's tide. Police couldn't get through. Fire engines couldn't get through. A woman died in the building as a result of smoke because, again, the density. The whole A1A, it was talked about. My colleague Carlos spoke about the A1A and the streets, how it's off and everything is going into the water. We just don't have it here. We don't have it ready yet. It's not ready yet. Maybe in some time it will be. but it's not ready now. Please, I'm opposed to this. Please don't let it happen. Thank you.

Thank you. Sylvie Meyer, Paul de Bono, Rachel Schoenfeld.

Hello, and thank you all for your time, the staff, the board, and most of all the residents who are sitting here so patiently waiting to speak. They really rock, and they really care.

Your name and the address?

Oh, Sylvia Meyer, as you said, 1520 Rodman Street. Sorry for forgetting that. You know, I... I went to print out the agenda, and I saw that it was 1,020 pages, and my brain just exploded. How could I do that during lunch and make comments? What I, first thing I thought, and I wrote down, is we need workshops. This is unfair to the residents. We haven't gotten all our information. And a couple of words, little phrases I highlighted were optional bonus, discretionary allocation, future discretionary allocation. It all seems really unfair. like it's going in the wrong direction. I heard the word progress. But with progress, it's not always a good thing. You have Potential new harms. You have costs that you are not thinking about. You have systematic risks. Progress is not always good. Overdevelopment versus smart development. That's not what I'm seeing here. Mr. Glickman, thank you for it's notable that you're in Carol Shuham's seat because she does her homework and she looks at the numbers. And I really appreciate your comments. I heard comments about how this is being proactive instead of being reactive in times to come. And all it seems like is it's been done in collusion with the developers. I don't see anything that the residents want in this. We all want sand and ocean. We want to smell the beach when we go there. It just is not at all what's happening out there. And everybody's asking why it's being rushed, because in November 3, the commission might lose their supermajority. That's the reason I think we're having this meeting, that it's not being postponed. And that's the truth of the matter. Thank you.

Paul DeBona, Rachel Schoenfeld, Adam Roberts.

Hello, I'm Rachel Schoenfield, 5119 Roosevelt Street, Hollywood Hills. I enjoy enjoying the beach, even though I'm in Hollywood Hills. And I speak not just for myself, but my family who had to leave, and probably 100 other people who left because they couldn't hang in for this marathon process that's just completely unreasonable. It's 1022, and you're only in the first item that we're talking about. I want to mention that the public concern is keeping the unique quality of the only broadwalk, as was mentioned, but that's not by camouflaging tall glass buildings with setbacks. Setbacks aren't magic. They don't hide the height or the shadows. This bonus for parcels just means incentivizing developers to gobble up, or I've learned this word, assemble unique small properties to build tall buildings. That's who benefits. And then we've already heard about variances to variances for that. It's voluntary for the developers, but not for the constituents who have no choice about the developers taking our beach away. am struck by using the acronym TIDE, which is a very unfortunate catchphrase for environmental disaster. Joseph Young, we've heard about. He learned in 1926 that development has to consider the perils of our coastal environment. The first speaker covered back when the subsidence issue. I was left papers by somebody who couldn't stay to speak that also refers to the recommendation for a moratorium on tall, thin buildings right now. This transfer of development rights sure sounds a lot like what happened with the summit in 1301, and we see that that's no longer respected. So how long will it be respected this time? And we hear that this is an interim plan. If you allow the height now, it's just not temporary. As far as the historic Hollywood Hotel, it sure has a resemblance to the Biltmore and to the Breakers. And can you imagine Coral Gables and West Palm if they had just torn those down in favor of another glass tower? We really should try to figure out a way to save it. I've heard the same story with the Great Southern that was let to be in that condition. I wore this shirt for a reason. Instead of public surveys that aren't being listened to, let's do a real public survey. It's called a vote. We should have a referendum on this overlay plan and also on 1301 if I can't stay till 2 in the morning to discuss it. Thank you.

Paul Dabona, Adam Roberti, Elizabeth Farmer, Michelle Carroll.

How is that for 61?

You would think. Your name?

Patty .

OK, that's what this says.

1337 Meadows Boulevard. I'm going to make this short. I think the misuse, this is what my concern, the misuse of Live Local, because when you say Live Local is to help out some affordable housing, well, nobody that I know that has kids, young kids, can afford $3,000, $3,500. So we're selling this to millionaires, not to... what we said. Please, don't use it wrong. So I'm going to make this really short. A picture is worth a thousand words, right? A lot of people here, like 20%, have mentioned sunny isles. Don't sunny isles are beaches? Can I show you this? Can I come up?

Visually describe it, quite honestly.

Please come back to the mic.

Sunny Isles, all the buildings, and look at all the shadow. It should be called Shadow Island, not Sunny Island. So if anybody wants to see it.

Patty, are you yielding your time?

I'm done.

I'm done. OK, thank you. Adam Roberti, Elizabeth Farmer, Michelle Carroll, whoever. Just state your name and your address for the record, please.

Hi, my name is Elizabeth Farmer. I live at 1440 Sheridan Street, so I'm on the other side of the intercoastal. I'm across the street from Walmart, and I'm right on Sheridan Street, and we get the ocean breeze, believe it or not. We really do. I've been down here since 1985. I've lived all over Broward County, and Hollywood is always the beach I'd come to. I've lived in Lauderhill, I've lived in Weston. I'd always come all the way to Hollywood because it has a boardwalk. You have parking spaces. It's just a quaint city to come to. All my friends from North Carolina and Virginia, they come down twice a year. They go right to the boardwalk, and that's where they get their hotels. That is where they stay. I've been with the airlines for 36 years. I go Fort Lauderdale, New York. Passengers all the time ask me, What do I do in South Florida? And I said, you've got to go to Hollywood Beach. And let me tell you why. It's because it's not overdeveloped. You don't have huge buildings. You can actually get parking spots. And they look at me like, well, what's the difference? I said, the rest of the city, you just have huge buildings. Who wants to go to a city that has huge buildings? I have been to, I was counting, I've been to 86 countries so far. I'm very fortunate on vacation. And when we pick out a place to go, we do not go where there are huge buildings. What's the point? You might as well just stay here. But anyway, South Florida, Hollywood, it's just unique. And we're just asking you, you can update it. You can do some nice things. But don't put these huge, tall buildings on our boardwalk. Anyway, thank you.

Thank you, Elizabeth.

Adam Roberti, Michelle Carroll.

Okay. Marcy Podesto? Gloria Medelia? Oh.

also known as Marty Podesta. I live at 46th and Pierce Street. And I'm here to just echo what everyone else has said. This is not a well thought out plan. But as I'm sitting here and I'm listening to everybody and I'm thinking, A lot of people are saying it's not well thought out. It needs to be fleshed out. There's the kernel of something. But this is typical of Hollywood. I have lived here since 1960. And downtown is like, ooh, brick pavers. Let's do that. Ooh, medians with trees in the middle. Let's do that. 10 years later, ooh, we need more parking. Let's rip out the medians and take down the trees. And oh, the pavers need to be redone. Hollywood seems to be unable to focus on a cohesive vision for the future. They just are unable to do this. This beach is a treasure. Every single person up here has said the reason why, because there is a distinct lack of tall buildings. It has charm. It has a quaintness. And that does not come with tall buildings. You have an opportunity, and this has been said also, you have an opportunity to begin to put the brakes on so that a vision can be held or created. Or if this is a vision, then fleshed out and made more cohesive. Something that is not going to, in five years, we're going to go, what were we thinking? And none of the safety issues have been addressed. If you have the opportunity, if there's any chance at all that you can say, please, let's Stop this then please do that because the public has spoken and the only person who has stood up here in favor of this was a lawyer representing potential The property owners for future potential development that's the only one in unless you know you're getting calls from all the people who want it and we don't get to hear their side of the bill of the story and So please, this is our opportunity to keep what we have, perhaps improve on it, but not to totally destroy what has brought most of these people to this beach. Thank you.

Thank you. Gloria. Gloria Medellina. Anybody else in the 60s that I have not called? Moving on. Those in the 70s that have tickets in the 70s, please come to the chambers. And Danny Golf, Laura Golf, Kathy Friedman. Good evening. Your name and address for the record, please.

Hi, my name is Kathy Friedman and I live in Hollywood Hills off of 54th and Thomas Street. I'd rather not give out my physical address publicly. Anyways, I live here with my husband and he often tells me stories of the times he used to visit his grandparents here. They would often visit Hollywood Beach and of course go see all the historic hotels and all the charm. When we were deciding where to move, we were both living in Texas at the time, but when we were deciding where to move, he thought of all those times that he got to visit our cute, quaint little beach. And he suggested that to me, and we looked into the area, and I just fell in love. So I'm with a lot of these people here saying that I would not be here if it was not for the way the beach exists right now. We fell in love with the way of life here, the pace, the beautiful people, and just the very uniqueness of Hollywood as a whole. It's got such a character, such charm, And the architecture, you can't beat that. You can't buy that these days. I've not ever been happier in a place. And I've lived in Texas my whole life, but I've not ever been happier than moving to Hollywood, Florida. It has instilled in me a sense of civic action. The reason I started coming to these meetings is because I fell in love with this city. If we allow development on the beach to exceed the current height capacities, we could see a very drastic change in our way of life. We will no longer have our sunny beaches. We will no longer have our quaint, cute, historic hotels. They will be replaced by these big towers, leaving little access for the residents of the surrounding towns, and Hollywood especially. They offer the promises of community space or bonuses, but nobody seems to know what that means. And I'm sorry, I would much rather have 1301 remain a community center than it be replaced with an art installation. I would much rather have that space be utilized by the public. I am sorry if I'm rambling a little bit, because I am nervous. This is my first time doing this. But I feel passionately that we should save our beach, and that you should vote in opposition to this, and that we should save the grand lady. Because these things are pieces of Hollywood that make it what it is, and that make it why we love this place so much. and why we have such a passion to dedicate ourselves to this community and to bring all of our skill sets and all of our energy and efforts in order to revitalize this city. It should be based on what the residents want, and they don't want this.

Thank you. Danny and Laura Golf? Danny Golf? Okay. I assume is Lori Golfs also? Phillip Carey? Philippe? Lenora Mickey, right behind.

Pardon me? No, please. Good evening. My name is Philippe Carrier. I'm a resident of 1201 South Ocean Drive. My wife and I have been residents of Hollywood for the last 25 years. We are currently living on Hollywood Beach for the last seven years. We are totally opposed to this Hollywood, overly new design. Hollywood Beach residents have continually demonstrated tonight that they do not want additional high-rises in their district. I am begging the six of you here tonight to reconsider this overall proposal. Let's look at Hollywood 10 years, 20 years, 30 years from now, and let's keep it the way it is. Thank you. Thank you.

Lenore, Mickey, Issa, Swat. Okay.

I want to thank all of you, first of all, for being so polite. I've been before the city commission, and it's been a nightmare. So thank you so much. I don't know. So many things have been said today. I don't know what I could add to that. But I know some of you already started out with your minds made up. But I know you're all Hollywood residents, right? And sometimes you have to look at what everybody else wants in your neighborhood, right? And I just don't see how you could in good conscience ignore the pleading that you've heard here. I don't live on the beach, but I moved here. I'm a native Floridian. I grew up in Hialeah. And even in Hialeah, when I was a kid, I could stand in my front yard and I could smell the ocean breeze. I live in Hollywood now. I'm only a few miles from the beach. I can't smell. I can't smell any ocean breeze because of all the buildings. I love it here. I mean, I feel no place have I ever felt more at home than I have in Hollywood. I've lived a lot of places. I had a really good job with Intel, and I had a good amount of money. And I could have lived anywhere in the world I wanted, and I chose Hollywood. I'm pleading with you, as everybody else has here, to listen to what your residents want. We've got a lame duck city commission. They're trying to push this through. There's seven people running for city commission. I believe only one of them hasn't come out and said that they're against this overdevelopment. Give us a chance to get our new people that represent us. That's what we're asking for. We just want people that we're paying their big salaries now. And we pay tons of taxes. And it would be really nice if we had representation. The only person that came out here that was for this is being paid. Maybe he's not even for it. That was his job to come out here.

Right?

Statistically, you guys are all Hollywood people. So I'm kind of surprised that there's a number of you that are against this. I mean, just statistically, it would seem you've got like 99.9% or 100% people here that are against this. But somehow we have some people that aren't. I don't understand it. But anyway, I'm just asking you, this really should have been a referendum. I mean, really. This kind of thing. Right. I mean, we should vote on it. And we're only getting a chance to get a new city commission so that we can have representation. Give us that. Vote no on this thing. Let us get in the new commissioners. And hopefully, they won't become turncoats like the others have. And we can get somebody.

Thank you much. Thank you. My time's up?

OK. Lenora. Thank you.

Stephen Boscara. Boussaka? Sorry about that.

Good evening, everybody. Steven Boussaka. I'm born and raised here in Hollywood. First off, just want to say thank you to Bob. Bob's going to have a big head by the end of this meeting with all the shout outs. He's not going to be able to fit through that door over there. I want to actually echo what The lady over there had said about this being a little bit more of a pleasant experience speaking in front of you guys as opposed to the commission, which is a very sad thing to honestly admit. I've been before the commission before. I've seen residents laughed at, eyes rolled. So for what it's worth, thank you all very much for not doing that to us, no matter how you feel. I want to start off by saying, like I said, born and raised here in Hollywood. And it was funny because I went to Little Flower Catholic School. I was in the same class with the same 30 people for about eight years, give or take. And one of the themes growing up there that all the kids used to talk about is how much everybody couldn't wait to get out of Hollywood, myself included. I have to admit that. And it was funny that there came a time where I left. About a year and a half, I went to Margate and realized how much I missed this area, and I came back. And one of the biggest reasons that I decided to come back was that beach. You know, on Sunday, there was a west wind. I took my paddleboard out. And well, right before my paddleboard sprung a leak, in which I had to then paddle back to shore in a dramatic fashion, I took a look at our beach from a different view. And it reminded me of what's so special about it. There wasn't all those high buildings there. And then you look to the south. We've heard all the talk about sunny isles this whole night. You look to the south. And all you just see is a row of skyscrapers. And it's really not very pretty. I have many friends that live out of state. And when they come here to visit me, I can't wait to take them down to the beach. I can't wait to take them to the boardwalk. And all of them cannot believe what an amazing vibe that that beach has. Many of them have not even heard of it. In fact, typically, when I would go out of town for work, I wouldn't even tell people Hollywood, Florida. I would just say Fort Lauderdale, because a lot of folks from out of state have never heard of Hollywood. Um, you know, but that's one of the things I just, the beach is what makes this city what it is. You know, I mean, I could come up here and echo everything that everybody said. Um, but the fact of the matter is this really should be put to the vote. You know, I remember actually two years ago at early voting, one of the commissioners actually said to me that he quote unquote spoke to thousands of members in his district who said that they would be angry if they did not approve the skyscrapers on the beach. Well, if thousands of people would be that angry if it didn't happen, then those thousands of people, I'm sure, would be more than happy to come out and vote for it if it was put to a vote as it should be. So I'm asking you guys tonight, please say no to this. Thank you.

Thank you. Lenora Mickey, Adam Sugarman, Lori Goldstein, Adam. I'm sorry, Adam.

Good evening. My name's Adam Ortheimer Sugarman. I live at 5110 Madison Street. So I live pretty far west. I'm a financial educator, and I'm a business owner. Several years ago, the voters passed the GO bond. Included in that was funding for the construction of a seawall. In the meantime, 44% of Hollywood's homes still rely on a septic tank system. Is this a seawall designed to handle the new residents and visitors? When are we going to balance the needs of both the West and East parts of Hollywood? Beyond the numbers, there's a human aspect. I recently traveled to Quebec, and I met people who have visited Hollywood, and they love it. And I asked them why they love it. They like the small hotels. They love the vibe. They love the open space. They feel at home on the beach. They feel human here. It's their beach as much as it is mine. The Hollywood beach is unique, and we need to recognize its value. And as a business owner, I know we need growth. But we have a responsibility to have it grow in a controlled manner. The beach needs to be for everyone. So you've heard a lot of arguments this evening. A few questions I would like to have answered. if that's possible, is how much growth can the barrier island sustain? Can it support? Can people evacuate in emergency the beach safely? If the city can't demonstrate that additional population can be safely evacuated, why should additional density be authorized? Can A1A and the local street network handle the growth? Does the water, sewer, and stormwater infrastructure have sufficient capacity What happens during flooding and sea level rise? What is the geotechnical capacity of the barrier island? Has the city commissioned an independent assessment of cumulative high rise development on the barrier island? What happens to beach access? And finally, will low rise buildings be profitable for the developers and builders? Will they be built with the highest quality so they don't have to worry about failing a 30-year assessment or certification? Please listen to us. A lot of people here, just about everyone has been against this. We need to keep our beach a special place. And we do need growth, but we need it done responsibly. Thank you.

LORI GOLDSTEIN, Stuart Shapiro.

Good evening. My name is Lori Goldstein. I live at 1318 Van Buren Street and have been here for over 30 years. The beach is what makes this place special and a lot more care and a lot more thought and a lot more due diligence and a lot more input from the community and a lot more really strong thinking and looking at the big picture needs to be done before anything of even half the magnitude that you're talking about gets done to the beach. This is huge, what is being proposed. And it will change our city forever. And I honestly don't understand how, I mean, We all have better things to do tonight, including you. None of us wants to be here, but we're all here. And that's because we all are just tired of being railroaded and run over by people with lots of money, developers, somebody somehow is just running this show. And the people of this city have had it. And that's why we're here. And that's why we're going to stay here. And that's why we're going to be back. And we are all tired. And we all want to go home and go to bed. And I don't know how after hearing I don't know how many people tonight speak from the heart about how much importance this is and how this thing is being rushed and how we're trying to do it before the lame duck people are gone. And how you can, in good faith, vote to do this thing after hearing from people who live in your community, who care, who are out here when they would much rather be home in bed or taking care of their children or doing anything else, how in good faith you can just ignore what is being told to you tonight. And I don't think you can. I don't think that you can in good faith and honestly do your job and vote for what's being presented. You have to listen to the people. You have to have more input. You cannot just vote. You cannot just pretend none of this happened tonight, because we're all here. And we all know what's going on. And we're all just really tired of having to come out here to preserve our incredible beach. And every other town that's ruining their beach makes ours even more important and better. And it has to be done with a lot of thought and a lot of input and definitely not rushed. Thank you.

Thank you. Stuart Shapiro. Anybody else with a 70s card or a 70s ticket? Please. State your name and address for the record. And for the record, there's 97 people that have signed up to speak.

My name is Lenora Mickey. I live at 1035 Weeping Willow Way. I do not live on the beach, but I feel the beach is for everyone. But forget about that. The fact that you would propose putting all these buildings and adding to the beach area before taking care of the infrastructure and the flooding and all the things that everybody has mentioned already, I am not going to go over and repeat it again, but I just feel like that's totally irresponsible. And you're just going to ruin, really, the area will be totally ruined. And I also do not trust that the people who are in charge really know how to do a business deal. Because I look at 1301, for example. That is the worst deal for the people and the residents I can't believe it. I can't believe that they would actually bend over backwards for related. I mean, they're laughing going to the bank, whatever. And if I hear one more time how we're getting a community center that we're paying $20 million for, and I feel bad that we don't have any other contractors. It's not being asked. Have other builders see if we can get a better deal. We're going with their deal, $20 million. I don't know. I just feel like it's not planned well. In the real estate business, when you're a landlady, it's location, location, location. It doesn't matter what you're building. It could be the most dilapidated thing, whatever. But location, location, location. You have the control. They should be begging you. We're begging these related people to come. built for us. And what are we getting out of it? And I laugh because I don't know if somebody made the comment that Young was a developer and he wanted to make money. Yes, he did. And he built that hotel. And we're giving a 99-year lease. And that building down there, it's not even 100 years old, and it is dilapidated and falling or whatever. What are we leaving for the future? I mean, I feel bad for the kids, for the grandchildren, for whatever. I came to Hollywood. I should have been born here. That's what I always told my husband. But it took me 70 years to get here. And I love it. And whatever you do, I'm still going to stay. But I just feel like for these people who live on the beach, do a better job for them. Clear up and take care of the problems, the flooding, whatever, the water. I know you're laughing, but I can't help myself. And it's just... I'm not giving any facts because you've heard them all, and I hope you'll do the right thing. Thank you so much.

Yes. Dr. Coding? And after that, Michael Sloan? OK. Name and address for the record.

Wilhelmina Codum, 1011 Hollywood Boulevard. I've been in my home for over 35 years, 1940s vintage home. I deal with the flooding all the time, as we all know in Hollywood. And I love the beach. I can walk to the beach two blocks over the bridge, come back. And the flooding is so bad now that in my grate in front of my home, the water bottles from the beach are in my sewer. And if we don't start dealing with what's happening with the beach and the erosion and the environment and put up big, high buildings, we're not going to have anything left. The evacuation is almost impossible. Remember that big storm we had about three or four years ago? My Rottweiler chow and I were standing on my boulders in my front garden. As an outboard motor skiff came down the sidewalk. And father and son were waving to me as while we were standing on the sidewalk. If we don't save our beach, the gem that we have, the downtown that we have, it's going to be gone forever. Most of my friends from North Miami Beach, Aventura, everywhere else, consider Hollywood Beach and downtown Hollywood their hometown. Because what do they have? High rises, no beach, nowhere to walk, nowhere to sit, except to look at big old buildings and canyons. We have a precious gem. We throw it away. We'll never get it back. And all of you are responsible and need to think deeply about what we're doing to Hollywood, because once it's gone, it's gone. Interesting story about the Hollywood Beach Hotel. I don't know how many of you have gone to the Historical Society meetings. That was built in 90 days. First concrete building in the 1920s, Mr. Young built it. 1926 hurricane, that was where everyone evacuated to and survived because that building stood. And everything else and all the cabanas and everything else was gone. The only way to get to the beach was a barge from Johnson Street. And everyone evacuated to Hollywood Beach into that concrete building. The fact that nobody has taken the time or the care to preserve a building of that historical value, like the Breakers, like the Biltmore, is just amazing to me. That we have no sense of history in Hollywood, and that no one cares enough to preserve our beach, preserve our environment, to preserve our turtles, to preserve the Hollywood Beach Hotel, and keep the history of this city alive. I'm from the Netherlands. I was born. I have family that comes. My name is Wilhelmina, Dutch enough. And when they come, they go, wow. We go all over Europe. We go to beaches all over. But Hollywood Beach has a special feeling that we haven't seen anywhere else. So I hope and pray that all of you think deeply. Mr. Glickman, your comments were just amazing. Thank you.

Thank you. Michael Slonin, Lynn Smith, Mikey Crespo. And as the evening lingers on, please do not feel obligated to take up all three minutes. Michael Slonin, Lynn Smith, Mikey Crespo, Sharon Comlin.

Who is it?

OK. Please state your name and address. And anybody else with the 80s ticket, please come to the chambers and stand.

Wow. I'm tired. I don't know about you guys. I'm not sure how you guys are going to be able to sit through this and vote yes. I just can't imagine either not continuing it or voting down no when you listen to these citizens. They're bright. They're intelligent. They know facts. I'd like to just present a few facts. And by the way, my name is Steve Welsh. I live at 2443 Fillmore Street in Hollywood. I wish you could maybe put the picture up there of the pretty picture that you had of the Three, the two hotel or the two buildings, that one. I just wanted to point that out. Commissioner Blattner mentioned how lovely that is. Right now, our beach has a 65-foot limit in most of the central beach area. If you count the floors, that's why I think Commissioner Blattner likes it so much. On the right, that happens to be six stories. How perfect. And the one on the left, it shows two stories. So two to six stories, it's beautiful. It really is. And I appreciate that you like that, Commissioner Blattner. But there's another... 140 feet above that that you're not seeing. So I think that's important to note. I'd like to just bring in a few different items here. I'd like to correct the staff on the immunity. Your immunity does not vanish. If you make a wanton and willful decision without proper backup this evening, You are, in fact, no longer able to claim innocence and ignorance. You know that your materials are absent a great deal of information, tons of information. You asked questions at previous meetings. You have still not gotten answers. We haven't heard those answers. So that's just one comment I'd like to make. My horoscope said to stay calm. I also think that they're misinforming you on the two-month window. Under Florida statute 163.3174, the commission cannot legally adopt density reallocations of this magnitude without a formal completed review and recommendations from this body. So that clock that's ticking that they're using to weaponize against you, you should ignore that clock and listen to what's not. Look at what's not in your folders. Thank you. I gave a lot of time. Thank you.

Anna Baumer, Marie Schultz, Sadiqa Glusman.

I always forget to do this. Lynn Smith, 1939 Adams Street. I'm also president of the Downtown Parkside Rural Poinsettia Civic Association, but today I'm speaking for myself. I'm going to read a few parts of the email that I sent to all of you. It was meant in true passion because we're all community-oriented people. Obviously, what you're doing and sitting through this tonight, which Commissioner Blattner, I was going to bring him a blanket and a pillow, but he's there. I need one for myself. So I'm just going to read a part of what the email was, I'm sorry, that I sent to you yesterday. I think it was yesterday. I do not know a lot of you, and I am familiar with a few members. What I do know about each and every one of you is that you love the city of Hollywood as much as I do. Donating your time by serving on one of the most important and difficult committees shows me how much you care. I, too, know how much it feels as I was on the Go Bond Committee for years. Also, a ceremonial committee, as the Commission in this instance as well, had the last say to any changes under the Go Bond rules and regulations. When we were appointed to that committee, each of us promised the community to have their backs. As overseers of the community's votes, there were times that when we were not so popular with the commissioners. All of this taking hours and hours of time, overseeing expenditures of well over $200 million. Although it is my belief that whatever your vote and decisions will be on each one of these issues, the Commission will do as they wish, as your vote is simply a recommendation and, again, ceremonial, not a final decision. To the community, as fellow citizens, you are one of us, and I hope each and every one of you is aware of how our community feels about a lot of these issues you will be voting on tonight. THERE HAVE BEEN MANY MEETINGS ON CHANGES TO OUR BEACH AND DOWNTOWN RACK, WHICH IS MY NEIGHBORHOOD. DEVELOPMENT AND COMMUNITY HAS SHOWN UP IN LARGE NUMBERS, BUT NEVER AS MUCH AS IT WAS TONIGHT. THIS IS PROBABLY THE LARGEST MEETING THAT HAS BEEN HAPPENING IN THE CITY SINCE THE CHANGE OF THE STREETS. AND I GUARANTEE YOU THAT AT THE NEXT MEETING WHEN THE COMMISSION DOES PUT IT ON THE AGENDA, We have maybe 250 tonight. And we hope to have 500 or more for the next one. Everybody is not in favor of this. You guys are pushing it down our throat. And you all, each one of you, are your community members. You're us. You've got to have some feelings. And all you have to do is stand up and say, I am an overseer from the community. And you've been listening for hours. So if you can really say yes to this, You have to remember, we will remember who votes and who doesn't. That's all.

Thank you. Anna Bomer, Mary Schultz. Anna.

Hello. My name is Sharon Camden. I live in the 2800 block of Adams Street. I've lived in Hollywood for over 30 years, raised my family here, and I love Hollywood, just like all of you do. I had some words to say, but I don't think I could have anything else to add that my neighbors haven't beautifully expressed. So I just have a couple of things. Hollywood Beach does not need to compete with Miami Beach, Fort Lauderdale, or Sunny Isles to be successful. Our low-rise character is an asset, not a problem that needs to be fixed. I ask you to reject the proposed changes and preserve the existing protections that have made Hollywood Beach special for generations. Please protect the character, views, sunlight, accessibility, and quality of life at the beach. I don't think I really need to say any more, so I'm not going to stand up here for three minutes. But I would like to say that this does deserve a vote. And I think we as residents have that right. So please take that into consideration. Thank you.

Thank you.

Anna Bomer.

Welcome, Anna.

Greetings, beautiful people. I am Sadiqa Glusman. Good evening, commissioners. My husband and I have an edible landscaping business. As someone who worked with the land and ecosystem, nature has taught me one thing, many things, but one thing very simply, that the land is an extension of ourselves and that healthy systems regenerate. They are not just sustainable, and they most certainly do not just consume. So when I hear 2,800 units or something, I have many questions. How many existing units are sitting empty right now, consuming energy and precious resources, while we are being told that building more is progress? The overlay may provide jobs or whatever. And I was paying attention. But what kind of jobs? I'm not against service work, because every honest job has dignity. But are we creating opportunities and jobs that allow people to actually participate in the prosperity that's being created, or are we simply creating more people who have to serve the prosperity of others? People shouldn't only be able to serve prosperity. They should be able to participate in it. And then when I hear design comes from compliance, I have to ask compliance with what? Compliance with the minimum standards required to get projects approved? or compliance with true wellness, with the well-being of the people and the planet, compliance, something that can be legal and still not be good. So just think my ancestors. Further, when we're putting more concrete, glass, hard surfaces into an already blazing environment, a.k.a. intense solar radiation, We need to think about the beyond building codes. We need to think about heat, reflected lights, shade, trees, water, and the actual experience of the human beings living in that environment. Where is the consideration for the cumulative heat and UV exposure created by landscapes with pretty art dominated by reflective heat retaining surfaces? We need design that promotes regeneration, not simply sustainability, because anything that's sustainable can become unsustainable. Regeneration asks this. How do we leave this place and people healthier than we found it? Commissioners, I'm not asking you to stop development. I'm asking you to redefine what good development means. So don't just ask, what can we build? What can we extract from it? Be well. Be loved.

Thank you much. Michael Slonin. Mikey Crespo. Mary Schultz. Marie Schultz. Ann Boehmer. Dennis DiMartino. OK. Moving into the 90s. Anybody with a ticket in the 90s, please. Arianna Gasperoni. Please come. Come forward and be heard. Please state your name and address for the record.

My name is Chelsea Krebs, 1548 Southeast 12th Court in Fort Lauderdale. There was some confusion about whether this was a 58 or an 85. So thanks, you guys. I'm a lifelong resident of Fort Lauderdale, and I always say, what good is living in South Florida if you can't enjoy the beach and the water? I'm here to oppose the construction of residences at Azalea Terrace and 1301 South Ocean Drive. I'm not from Hollywood. I'm from Fort Lauderdale, where we have fewer and fewer beautiful spaces like this one. It seems like they're all getting bought and privatized. You have this one, which I understand is already designated as a public space that cannot be developed. And all you have to do is uphold that. I'm sure a lot of you are under a lot of pressure to build this condo. I just hope that you listen to your residents and your constituents who live here and who you're supposed to represent instead of the developers. And since I still have a minute here, I'm really irritated that the hotel guy left already because we're all here because of him. We listened to his three minutes. He should have to listen to ours. Thank you.

Anybody else that had a ticket for the 80s speaking on item number three? Seeing none, moving on to the 90s. Arianna Gasperoni? Jacques Bomer? Andres Buano? David Raskin? David.

Good evening. It's getting late. Thank you for being up there. My name is David Raskin. I live at 4919 McKinley Street. And while I may be a candidate for city commission, I'm a resident of Hollywood First. I want to start by making something very clear. This is not an anti-development speech. I want Hollywood to grow. I think we all want Hollywood to grow. I want investment in our city. I want great hotels, thriving businesses, and a beach that remains one of the greatest economic engines we have. But there is a difference between growth without limits and responsible, balanced growth. What's being considered here isn't a single building or a single development, as you know. It's a totally new framework that will shape Hollywood Beach and the Berry Island for generations to come, including thousands of additional hotel rooms, hundreds of additional residential units, and new development incentives. Once we open that door, we need to understand what comes through it. What does this mean for traffic? You've heard the questions all night. Sewer capacity, drainage, parking, public safety, resident access to the beach. And what does the total impact look like? Not one project at a time, but when all this new development is considered together. Those aren't anti-development questions. They're responsible development questions. And there's another issue that we should not ignore, timing. We're less than two months away from an election that will change the makeup of our city commission. These aren't potholes that need to be filled tomorrow. These are generational land use decisions. So why rush them now? Hollywood Beach isn't going anywhere, and we all know developers are not going anywhere either. So I respectfully ask this board to not rush this forward. Please slow down. Listen to your fellow residents. As Mr. Glickman so appropriately noted, the survey numbers don't lie. The people of Hollywood overwhelmingly feel that this plan is not the right direction. The sentiment and opinions of residents matter. In local government, this should be the primary lens through which you make your recommendations. And when this many residents show up, wait for hours, spend their evenings away from their children, That shows you how much concern they have for this, and that should carry real weight in your decisions. So give us a due process that we deserve, demand answers about infrastructure and the total impact of what's being proposed, and allow the commission that Hollywood voters choose in November to have a meaningful vote in decisions that could shape our beach and our city for the next generation. And I'll just leave you with one last thought, 20 seconds. Growth should make Hollywood better for the people who already live here, not just make more room for development. Thank you.

Thank you. Thank you. Pamela Bergio. Come forward and be heard. Have you not already spoke?

Which item is this?

It's still number three.

Oh, I already spoke on first.

Yes. And that concludes the public comments of items number three, four, and five. I WANT TO EXPRESS MY GRATITUDE FOR EVERYBODY THAT HAS SPENT THE TIME TO COME AND SPEAK AND SPECIFICALLY FOR THOSE THAT ACTUALLY CAME TO PARTICIPATE AND HAVE NOT SPOKEN OR JUST HERE TO GET THE EDUCATION AND TO UNDERSTAND WHAT THEIR CITY IS DOING. SO WITH THAT, STAFF, DO YOU WANT TO RESPOND TO ANY OF THE COMMENTS, QUESTIONS OR CONCERNS?

So I want to apologize. I think, like everyone else, staff at the podium here are a little bit tired. But I do want to note that I have taken diligent notes throughout all of the feedback that we've received. 15 pages, in fact, 5,085. words. And through whatever happens here at the board, I do also want to acknowledge that as part of the report, we do have a condition that tries to address as much feedback as possible before this goes to first reading. One of the things that I do want to speak upon and that is coming up kind of resoundingly through a lot of this is the infrastructure capacity. infrastructure capacity. So staff did work with our public utilities team and our consultants that have been retained through the various master plans as part of the utilities efforts for water and wastewater. Within our water network, and I'm going to look to Alicia to confirm the generalities of the numbers with respect to each one of the utilities, According to the analysis, we have the availability of 17,000 units, I believe, within our wastewater network and 3,000 or so units within our water network available on the beach. With that, we use the lowest common denominator and assumed as of right development. And that's where the 2,300 units really come from as part of what we are permitting on the beach over this five-year period. One of the essential things that we need to also recognize as we look at our existing network as it pertains to existing capacity on the beach is how we find funds to pay for additional infrastructure, whether that is retrofit or otherwise. We can demonstrate currently that we do have available capacity, but how does additional capacity or retrofits to an aging network become addressed? And that's really where the resiliency fund comes through. I know, Christine, you mentioned in your comments earlier that you had wanted the resiliency fund to pay for POPs and things of that nature. In our minds, that resiliency fund comes into play to improve a lot of the circumstances that we currently have underfunded or not funded at all, whether that is elevation of some of the roads, enhancements of some of the dunes, projects that we already have ongoing, of course. But how do we enhance and improve those projects moving forward? Recognizing from a planning perspective, we have a responsibility to think 30 years out. And that's not just from a population forecast perspective. That's also from a capital improvement perspective, whether that's green infrastructure or hard infrastructure, soft infrastructure, whatever the case may be. So that resiliency fund really tackles a lot of issues. The other thing I want to address is the adoption of this ordinance does not approve any individual project. And I think that is really imperative. All this establishes is the framework, the opportunity for the prospect of. The development review process and Florida statutes currency requirements require detailed analysis at every stage of the process. So we're able to demonstrate to a certain degree there is, of course, capacity. But even from a capacity perspective, the capacity needs to be available at the time the development application is submitted, reviewed. And that would be the case for each individual project that comes through. There needs to be a demonstration to each and every subject matter expert. And to a degree, some of the external agencies that have jurisdiction jurisdictional responsibility of certain aspects of the barrier island F dot as an example for a 1a to demonstrate the appropriateness of development so there are safeguards built into the existing process that are then supplemented by of course what is proposed the other thing that I do want to mention as part of this And I don't know why it's fleeting in my head right now.

Because it's 11 o'clock.

It is 11 o'clock. I think the other thing that I do want to stress is this does not set a benchmark for Live Local. I think I heard that a couple of times. Live Local currently is not benchmarkable for three specific provisions. That is variance, that is special exception, and that is bonus. And that's why staff are very deliberate to choose a bonus. And I think the other piece that I really want to emphasize is the fear is not just about height with respect to live local. It's about process and it's about outcome. A six-story building can be just as terrible as a 20-story building if there are no design considerations that are taken. I mean, it's absolutely true. If our underlying code yields a poor design outcome as we've seen across the beach today, whether it's Costa, whether it's Margaritaville, whatever slab building that you see that occupies the entirety of a block, you can expect something far worse, because those were all outcomes that staff had to fight and negotiate for and then present to the board as the more preferred outcome than what was originally proposed. And that's always the fear. We have, as a planning department, for many years not updated our codes. And now the state is saying, freeze everything. So we have the option to choose what is and what was almost in perpetuity, because the state legislature that has been voted for is removing the ability for municipalities to choose their own fate and future. over something that we do have the ability to because it is an overlay. It's more voluntary. It's more optional. It may not be preferred, and this is the one thing that I've learned in my career in planning. Our job is not to make everybody happy. It's impossible because nobody gets exactly what they want, but we do have to balance everything that we hear. Of course, the survey is another thing that I think is worthy of touching upon. Of course, the residents are one stakeholder group that we have to consult as our duty to consult within professional practice. But we also have to consult the politicians. We also have to consult the developers. We also have to consult the businesses. We definitely have. The quorum, please. But nevertheless, I think off the top of my head, those are some of the more resounding points that I think are worthy of addressing. I don't know that there's opportunity for other questions looking at the board attorneys, but happy to try to answer whatever else if there is still room for questions.

No. And the public comment's been closed. Dick?

Yes, I just want to say...

Please, the time for public comment is done. Sir, you're going to be asked to leave if you don't. Thank you. Dick.

Yeah, I just wanted to say, Anand, you are one of the smartest people I know. And we are really glad to have you here. I speak for myself, but I know I'm not totally alone. Based on what you've heard tonight, if we said to you, if you came back in 30 days, would your presentation, your recommendations be any different than they are tonight?

I think we have, and I started with this, I think one of the most deliberate things that we did in the preparation of the overlay and the report was creating that first condition, that whatever we heard and whatever we believed made sense, we would try to accommodate within the proposal as revisions to what we have proposed prior to first reading. So while the ear of tiredness is looming over me because my bedtime hits 9 PM, I would imagine, yes, we would definitely change some things.

I feel really good about asking the question because I think there was a lot to be learned here tonight. One of the things that we've heard is that people don't feel that they've been heard before tonight. And we certainly heard how many of them tonight?

97. 97 people tonight.

passionate people. In fact, I didn't know there was so much love in Hollywood, as we've heard tonight. But I think there's something to be learned here. And I want to be careful not to throw the baby out with the bathwater. If there's merit to what was presented tonight by members of this board, as well as the public who spoke, then it is crazy, it seems to me, to say to the commission, we're killing this thing. If there's an opportunity to make it better, and it takes a little longer to do it, I'd rather do it than throw it out. So I'm asking you if you think it's worth doing, and how long it would take you to do it, and what might be a general outline of what that process would be.

Through the chair and board member, this is Cameron speaking. Thank you for your comment. I think that decision is your duty tonight. And staff really implores you, if you've heard things today that resonate with you, you could direct staff to make a recommendation to carry that onward. You could direct staff to make amendments to the text. That is what tonight's process is about. Asking staff whether we believe this item should go or not is not the question you need to be asking. I think you need to be asking one another and discussing among each other which items resonated with you, where do you think it could be better, what can we do different, and recommend that so that your city commission could then make the appropriate decisions. Bob.

OK, thank you. A couple of questions for staff. Can you tell me what other Florida beach towns are using TDRs for building in their beach area?

Off the top of my head, Fort Lauderdale uses transfer of development rights. Their specific transfer of development rights is related to historic properties. They transfer from historic properties or what they believe to be historic properties or what could be historic properties and transfer that development elsewhere to enable higher and more intense development. But not on the beach.

I believe it's also able on the beach. I don't believe that. But anyway. In the feasibility study, it is written that height alone is not the policy goal. Massings, transitions, streets, parks, and public realm determine the outcome. My question is, please advise how you are doing this and cite examples for each that are being accomplished. And how will this enhance our quality of life in our beach neighborhoods?

Nicole Moyo here speaking. Great question. We have addressed all of those, the line items that you mentioned, through the urban design guidelines, as well as in the setback height, shadow, massing, and view corridor standard section of the overlay text code.

I don't see that that really answers the question. Because I don't see how it enhances our quality of life at all. And if you can put that up on the screen so we can see what you're talking about, that would be great.

What are you referring, what are you requesting on the screen, board member?

Your feasibility study.

The feasibility study that's including the backup is what you're looking for on the screen?