Regular City Commission Meeting - Regular Meeting

Alright. Welcome everyone. Welcome to City Hall here in the city of Hollywood. Today is 05/06/2026. We are here for a regular city commission meeting, but where there's always interesting information and items on the agenda. So it's never regular in the regular sense of that word, no pun intended. We start each meeting of course with a moment of silence followed by the pledge of allegiance. And before we rise for the pledge, I do want to extend a moment of privilege to commissioner Quintana who would like us to know about a special person who the community lost most recently. Commissioner Quintana.

Thank you, mayor. Thank you, everyone. Actually, there's two people that I would like for us to take a moment to remember today. Today, we remember Barbara Ann Scanlon Loftman. She was the mother of our very own Lori Loftman, who has worked closely with many of you here at the City of Hollywood.

Barbara was a Hollywood resident for fifty years. She was well known to many in Hollywood, both for her significant presence as part of the Nativity Catholic Church Parish, and for the many high school students that she tutored in math from her Hollywood home. Barbara's legacy of love, faith and compassion will live on in all who knew her. So we will remember Barbara, and we honor her memory. A second person that we all so remember is Alton Gandhi.

He was better known as Red. Red would have had his 50 birthday on May 30. He was born in Brooklyn, New York, but many people knew him from his nearly thirty years working at Best Appliance of Broward. It was a used appliance store formerly located at 5720 Johnson Street. This business was one of the founding members of the Johnson Street Business District.

Red did much of his the hard labor as the small business owners in this area put on their first, second, and third party on the j. Best Appliance of Broward was owned by Irwin Alterman. But through most of the years that we worked together to form and grow the Johnson Street Business District, I always thought Red owned that business. He was an employee that traded treated that business like it was his own. I remember seeing a newspaper clipping hanging on the wall in the shop.

It was titled Honesty Rings True. The article included a picture of red, and the story told about how Mary Anne Churchill and her sister Vera Vichaglio nearly lost a family treasure valued at $30,000. There were three diamond and two semi precious rings left behind in the refrigerator that they had hauled away. The rings were family heirlooms, one piece had three diamonds from both her grandmother's engagement ring and her mother's wedding band. Mary Anne said she kept them in a tiny eye dropper box next to her insulin in the butter bin.

As Red cleaned the refrigerator out to get it ready for resale, he found the rings covered in butter. It took the honesty of a person like to get Mary Anne's family heirlooms back to her. Mary Anne wrote the word honesty on a $1,000 reward check that she gave to Red, and he shared the money with seven employees, a truck driver, a repairman, and some technicians. Red was not wealthy financially, but he was rich in character, integrity, and in his huge generous heart. And today, we honor the memory of our dear friend, Red. Thank you everybody.

Thank you commissioner Quintana for that wonderful tribute about Red and also about Lori's mom, long time resident of our city. Well, let's think of them as we rise for the moment

of silence followed by the pledge.

I pledge allegiance to the flag of The United

States Of America and to

the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Thank you so much. Another important moment we take at our commission meetings is always to recognize veterans, active service personnel and their families. So if you are a veteran of the U. S. Armed Forces, an active service member or relative thereof, please rise. We'd like to recognize you. Thank you so much. Activate the mics for roll call clerk. Go ahead.

Commissioner Quintana.

Here.

Commissioner Shuham. Here. Commissioner Hernandez.

Here.

Vice mayor Kalari?

Here.

Commissioner Gruber?

Here.

Commissioner Biederman? Here. Mayor Levy?

Here. Thank you so much. Today's consent agenda includes items five through 16. These are items that don't usually require individual discussion. However, if there is a speaker card on any item or a request from Adeis to remove an item for later discussion, we're happy to do so. Pat, are there any speaker cards on five through 16?

Yes, item 12.

Alright, we'll hear that one later on. Let's go ahead then to the dais. Second. We have a motion from Vice Mayor Coleri and a second from Commissioner Biederman to approve the balance of the consent agenda items five through 16 subtracting item 12. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Any opposed? Hearing none those items carry unanimously. Let's go ahead then to our 1PM presentations proclamations and awards. Beginning with item 17, city manager.

This is a presentation by Anthony Roberts, assistant director of human resources about the Diamond Service Award nominees and the award recipients. And of course, this being employee recognition week and public service recognition week, Very fitting week to of course recognize our diamond nominees and winners. Anthony, welcome.

Thank you. Good afternoon, Good afternoon, mayor, vice mayor, commissioner, city manager and members of city leadership. As many of you are aware, last week during our employee years of service and Diamond Awards breakfast, we had the privilege of recognizing employees and teams whose dedication, innovation and commitment truly represent the very best of public service within the city of Hollywood. Today, and especially during Public Service Recognition Week, we wanted to take an additional opportunity to formally acknowledge those outstanding individuals and team before the commission and the community. The Diamond Awards represent more than performance.

They reflect professionalism, collaboration, leadership, and deep commitment to serving residents and supporting one another. The nominees and recipients are nominated by peers and leadership and ultimately chosen by the city manager for the award. First, the team Diamond. This award is presented annually by the city manager to recognize a group whose collaboration, dedication, and exceptional service have made a meaningful impact on the city of Hollywood through a specific project or initiative. It honors teams that go above and beyond delivering outstanding results, exemplifying innovation, commitment and a shared spirit of public service.

Through this award, we celebrate not only the success of the project, but also the teamwork and collective effort that helped move the city of Hollywood forward. The twenty twenty six Team Diamond Service Award nominees were the Centennial Team and the Hollywood Police East Neighborhood Team Leaders. The Individual Diamond Service Award. This award, the Employee Diamond Service Award recognizes employees who demonstrate outstanding performance, initiative, resilience, productivity, and service that advances the city's mission. Nominations may come from employees or the public.

The nominations are reviewed by selection committee, and the city manager makes the final selection. It is the most prestigious honor an employee can receive from their peers. The twenty twenty six Diamond Service Award nominees were Major Thea Basler, Daniela Beam, Irish Gardner, Alex Iglesias, Jeffrey Lucas, James McGinnis, Jacques Pierre Louis, Phyllis Shaw, Tyler Weaver, and Sandra White, and Jeric Zeron. I would now like to invite the City Manager Ray Lindstory to present the awards of the Centennial Team and the individual Team Diamond.

All right. This brings back reflection of that Centennial year.

All right. We're going to start with our Team Diamond Award and the Team Diamond Award goes to our Centennial Team.

All right.

And there is their photo from the recent public service recognition week and awards breakfast. So it was a very large team representing a lot of different apartments. But let me just read a little bit from the actual nomination. The centennial team came together to create a very special centennial year full of coordinated events and activities that all led to an amazing two night event at the Arts Park and a special candy cane parade and concert to close out the year. From the dedicated website, event promotion, programming, and marketing materials to the discovery of a time capsule and nonstop celebrations each weekend from the January, the team worked together to ensure the city's centennial year was one for the record books.

The celebration touched so many departments in the city. Special thanks to procurement, public works, public utilities, fire, Hollywood Police Department, development services, budget, finance, code, Parking, the Office of the City Manager, the Office of the Mayor and Commissioners, and of course, our Parks and Recreation team and our team. They all came together to ensure a once in one hundred year celebration. So I'd like to invite I don't know if all of them would be able to fit up here right now, but I certainly would like to invite Rick Engel, our director of Parks, Recreation, and Cultural Arts, and Joanne Hussey to come forward, our Office of Communications, Marketing, and Economic Development.

Celebrate good times, come on. Someone had to do it, right? A lot of festivities during that year.

Congratulations to both of you.

Mayor, vice mayor, commissioners, city manager, city attorney, assistant city managers. On behalf of the Parks and Recreation and Cultural Arts team, I just wanna thank everyone that helped us throughout the year. It was a true team effort. The picture only shows a handful of the people that were involved in every event. It took every department, many, many, many people, and we're just happy to accept the award for everyone in the city that made that happen.

So thank you. Thank you, Rick. Thank you so much.

I just wanted to personally thank all the residents too that came out to help us celebrate. It was a huge, huge crowd throughout the entire year and I hope it meant as much to them as it did to us. Thank you.

Yeah. Joanne, just on behalf of the city commission, just thanks to the team, the Diamond winners and just everyone who helped. This was a community wide effort as you mentioned. The whole Hollywood team, your departments and of course the residents and the business community, we all really celebrated and came together and I think that was the story of the Centennial year is really that sense of community that it created, that was brought up through those series of events and really helped to to tell Hollywood's story and kind of bring it back to even Joe Young's time of celebrating and and live music in the public spaces of the city. And so I think we did it in style and in the way they did it from the nineteen twenties and now on to the twenty twenties. So thank you all so much. Thank you Centennial team. Congratulations.

Can we take a photo with the whole Centennial team if you come on up

and we'll take that Centennial team photo. Let's do it.

As long as you can get everybody in there.

Yeah. I think it'll be easier. Okay. We're gonna have to squeeze tight. Might have to sort it out. I know.

Might have to

do like a short squat. Yeah. Alright. Let's see. I can get to that's good. I can get everybody here. Yes. Okay. Alright. Ready, everyone? Okay. One two and three. Thank you.

And as you know, one of the other big honors that we like to give out each year during Public Service Recognition Week is our Diamond employee. This year's Diamond Service Award is going to Daniela Beam in our Department of Public Utilities.

Keep it going, everybody.

I'm going to read just a couple of little clips from Daniella got not one, but two nominations for this award. And so I want to read just a little bit about what some of

her

coworkers had to say about her. Dani consistently demonstrates a level of professionalism and initiative that exceeds expectations. She is always willing to lend a helping hand, regardless of whether the task falls within her formal job description or not. Her proactive approach and positive attitude contributes significantly to the success of our team and overall operation of the department. What truly sets her apart is her genuine commitment to supporting others.

She steps in without hesitation when assistance is needed, ensuring projects move forward efficiently and effectively. Her collaborative spirit fosters a strong team environment and reflects the core values of service, accountability, and excellence that the city strives for. Also, the second nomination, her support extends far beyond processing requests. Daniella actively guides team members through every step of the procurement process, from initial planning and vendor coordination to documentation and our final approvals. She fosters strong working relationships with staff at all levels, earning their trust through her reliability, attention to detail, and commitment to maintaining smooth operations.

Her dedication not only streamlines procurement workflows, but also strengthens the overall effectiveness of the department she serves. Congratulations, Danny. Danny,

it's the highest honor we have. So I know it means that you've probably been such a superstar as your nominations explained and as the city manager did. So thank you so much, please.

Thank you. Mayor, vice mayor, commissioners, assistant city managers, attorney and city manager, and everyone here. Thank you for this great honor. It truly means a lot. I wanna thank the people that nominated me for recognizing my hard work and dedication to the city, as well as my parents and my husband for hearing my complaining and my stresses about agenda deadlines and approvals.

Are they here today?

They are. Okay. And a shout out to procurement manager, Jean Joynville. He has been my mentor and he has helped me through this whole process in learning and trying to do what's best for public utilities. The TPU team, they genuinely care for the residents and getting everything done for the city and as well as my upper management director Vin Morello, my direct manager Cassandra Myers and Phyllis Shaw. They give me, they trust in me, they let me step out of my box of responsibilities to help with things and just let me take things to be able to help everyone. So thank you very much.

Thank so much. I will tell you public utilities is a huge focus area for us and of course as we know will be in the very short years ahead and requires us to be. So it's great knowing that we have a diamond award winner at the heart of public utilities because we're going to have a great focus on facilitating what the department needs in the short years ahead. So thank you.

Thank you.

Please come on up parents, husband. I tell you, it's like you know how people mention for those who serve in the military that their families of course contribute a lot by excusing their family member to go serve the country and I know some of that obviously goes as well to those who serve here in the city. So thank you to everyone's family for allowing us to spend time here serving the city of Hollywood. Next is a proclamation recognizing public service recognition week. I think that is certainly befitting.

That's May. Let's recognize commissioner Gruber who will present the proclamation. Anthony Roberts, please come on up on behalf of human resources to accept the proclamation or not Anthony Roberts.

Anthony Roberts.

Unless you had a name change we just don't know about. Let's go ahead, commissioner Gruber.

Thank you. Proclamation by the city of Hollywood, Florida in recognition of public service recognition week, May 2026. Whereas nationally re celebrated, the May since 1985, public service recognition week honors the people who work to serve all communities at the federal, state, county, and city levels. And whereas Public Service Recognition Week provides an opportunity to recognize and promote the important contributions of public servants and honor the diverse men and women who meet the needs of The United States through work at all levels of government and and as members of the uniformed service. And whereas the effectiveness and efficiency of government depends in large measure on public employees who provide on a daily basis a broad range of services required and expected by the public.

And whereas, City of Hollywood employees represent numerous occupations and trades, possess a broad array of skills and expertise, and put these to use with efficiency, integrity, and integrity. And whereas many City of Hollywood employees, including our police officers and firefighters, risk their safety and in some cases their lives in service to the people of Hollywood. And whereas to continually deliver quality services, the city of Hollywood has committed to an organizational culture of customer service excellence provided by diversely skilled employees through steadfast dedication, great contributions are being made in areas such as public safety, recreational activities, neighborhood revitalization, and the delivery of water and sewer services. And whereas the city of Hollywood recognizes the contributions made by its employees and volunteers at all levels of city government and has set aside a special time to honor and thank these dedicated individuals who perform such vital roles. Now, therefore, Josh Levy, mayor of the City of Hollywood, Florida and the Hollywood City Commission do hereby proclaim May 2026 as Public Service Recognition Week in the city of Hollywood, Florida.

Alright.

Good afternoon, mayor, vice mayor, commissioners, city manager, leadership, fellow employees, and all present in chambers. My name is Natasha Andrade Brown, human resources administrator, learning engagement and development. On behalf of the city of Hollywood's dedicated workforce, I'm honored to accept this recognition during public service recognition week. Since 1985, communities across the nation have taken this week to shine a light on the people who keep government moving, often quietly, often behind the scenes, but always with purpose. Whether maintaining our parks, responding to emergencies, supporting local businesses, planning for our future, or helping residents navigate daily challenges, our teams show up with professionalism, compassion, and resilience.

Public service is more than a job. It is a commitment to community, it is a belief that our work can make life better for our neighbors and it is the understanding that every role contributes to the well-being and progress of our city. I want to express deep gratitude to all City of Hollywood employees for their dedication, adaptability and unwavering pride in serving this community. Your efforts are seen, they are valued and they make a difference every single day. I would also like to express gratitude to this year's Public Service Recognition Week Committee and ask them to stand and join me at the podium.

Nice shirts by the

way. Thank

you all for your hard work to make our employees feel celebrated this week. And as a final event in our week long celebration, all employees are invited to lunch on the lawn tomorrow here in the parking lot at City Hall where members of the City Commission and City Management will be serving lunch. Thank you for recognizing the people who help keep Hollywood strong. We are proud to continue serving the city with integrity and heart.

Alright. Thank you all. As as you mentioned and as the proclamation did, love to recognize all the work of our city employees and state and federal employees too.

Yes. Thank you

Just both. Oh,

I'm trying.

Alright. Three,

two.

All right, let's get on now with a proclamation recognizing Economic Development Week. I'd like to recognize Commissioner Schuham who will present the proclamation. Receiving the proclamation will be Joanne Hussey, director of the communications marketing economic development department.

Thank you, mayor.

Yes, ma'am.

Economic development week. The week of May 2026 has been designated as economic development week by the International Economic Development Council to celebrate the contributions of economic development and explain the role of the profession in our local community. And whereas the International Economic Development Council is the largest professional organization of its kind dedicated to providing leadership and excellence in economic development through conferences, training, advisory services, research publications, and public policy advocacy. And economic development professionals promote economic well-being and enhance quality of life by creating, retaining, and expanding jobs. Supporting business growth, and providing a stable and sustainable tax base.

And whereas in alignment with the city's core strategic plan priority of economic vitality. The Office of Communications, Marketing, and Economic Development or C Med implements proactive strategies to strengthen the local economy. Support business expansion and recruitment. And foster entrepreneurship and workforce development. And whereas the C Med team advances community focus initiatives and programs including resident reward Wednesdays, Dine Out Hollywood, and the Fast Track Startup Program.

Which attract customers, support local businesses, and drive economic growth. Whereas through strategic collaboration with local partners including the Greater Hollywood Chamber Of Commerce, our c med team remains committed to fostering resilient neighborhoods, sustained economic success, and long term prosperity for the city of Hollywood. And therefore Josh Levy, mayor of the city of Hollywood, Florida, and the Hollywood City Commission hereby proclaim May 2026 as economic development week. Thank

you so much mayor, vice mayor, commissioner, city manager, city attorney for this recognition. We appreciate the time that you take each year to recognize this important date. This special week was created by the International Economic Development Council back in 2016 to help raise awareness for those local programs that create jobs, advance career development, and recognize the work that's being done from teams like CEMED. On behalf of the team, I thank you and I just wanted to introduce Herb Conde Parlata, our Economic Development Manager, who's gonna give you just a really brief highlight on some of the accomplishments that we're proud of this year. And then we're gonna hear from our partner from the greatest Hollywood Chamber of Commerce, Marie Suarez.

Thank you. Welcome,

Herb. All right. Thank you, Joanne. Mayor, Vice Mayor, Commissioners, City Management, Herb Cohen de Parlato, Economic Development Manager with C Med. Again, on behalf of C Med, thank you for this proclamation recognizing Economic Development Week.

This week is all about highlighting what the work that drives investment, supports businesses and strengthens the overall quality of life in our community. Over the past year our team has been actively advancing several key initiatives that are already making a meaningful impact across the community, much like Commissioner Schuham mentioned in the proclamation. But we've taken a major step in streamlining our property improvement programs with your recent approval earlier today. This brings multiple CRA and city initiatives into a unified citywide approach and creates a cleaner, more accessible path for property and business owners to reinvest in their buildings and our commercial quarters. We've also made strong progress in strengthening our commercial districts through targeted retail recruitment and strategies to activate underutilized spaces.

We're bringing new businesses into our corridors and enhancing the overall mix, particularly in our downtown. As part of economic development week, we've launched a series of new initiatives and programs, one of them is which is our downtown business directory. This is located on our city's website, creating a central easy to use platform for residents and visitors to explore all our local businesses, access their information and take action. So they're able to go on this web page and go directly to that business in downtown, order food, go to their website, find out how they can participate in their business. This is increasing by visibility for our businesses downtown and strengthening them in downtown as a destination.

We've also invested in the long term pipeline of our workforce by expanding partnerships with organizations like the Boys and Girls Clubs of Broward County and Junior Achievement of South Florida. Helping connect our youth to work skills training opportunities and early exposure to career pathways in key industries. We have a number of cohorts that are running right now with these two organizations. Just as important, we've stayed directly engaged with our business community through business visitations, small business programming and initiatives like as you had mentioned, Dine Out Hollywood, Resident Reward Wednesdays which we're expanding, Fast Track which we're in our seventh cohort and about to graduate another 20 students the end of this month, And our Small Business Assistance Center which has helped helped over, 180 businesses here in Hollywood. None of this happens without strong partnerships.

I want to thank the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce for their continued collaboration. We are two birds in a song when it comes to economic development. And we have an upcoming economic development forum in partnership with the chamber and Spark Hollywood. And most importantly, I want to recognize our team. Hugo, Richard, Janelle, Vicky and the entire C Med team. Their work from both behind the scenes and out in the community is what keeps all of this moving forward. And thank you to the mayor and commission for your continued support. Your leadership allows us to stay focused on both immediate results and long term impact. We're proud of the progress we've made and we're committed to building on that momentum. And at this time, I'll turn it over to my good friend, Marie Suarez, CEO of the Greater Hollywood Chamber of Commerce. Thank you very much.

Thank you, Herb. Thank you, Joanne. Mayors, vice mayor, commissioners, city manager, city attorneys, assistant city manager, and everybody here today. Thank you for recognizing this important week. I also would like to highlight two of my team member that are here with us today that works behind the scenes, Ujeda Smalls and Evany Chowdhara in the room.

So on behalf of the Greater Hollywood Chamber of Commerce, the greatest Hollywood Chamber of Commerce, And we truly honored to accept this proclamation for Economic Development Week. Our partnership with the city is essential to the success of our business community and we are proud to work together to support growth, innovation and opportunity throughout Hollywood. Economic development is not just business, it's about people, it's about job, it's about building a strong and vibrant community. So thank you for your leadership and to recognize this important role in our business community and in our community. Short and sweet this time.

Thank you all. Please come out for a photo.

We know we know it's everyday work, but we thank you. Really important. Alright. Well, we know our economic development team works around the clock as do the rest of our public servants. And now to cap it off, a very fitting for this week, let's recognize the fifty seventh annual municipal clerk's week, which also is this week.

And I'd like to invite commissioner Biederman to present the proclamation and of course accepting it will be our city clerk Patricia Cerny.

Thank you. Thank you, mayor. In recognition of the fifty seventh annual municipal clerk's week where we have the greatest municipal clerk in the country, whereas the office of municipal clerk, a time honored and vital part of local government exists through the world, and whereas the office of municipal clerk is the oldest among public servants providing the professional link among citizens, the local governing body, and agencies of government at other levels, they also serve as the information center on functions of local government and the community. And whereas this May 2026, Municipal Clerks Week will be celebrating its fifty seventh anniversary. It was initiated in 1969, oh, by the International Institute of Municipal Clerks and endorsed by all of its members throughout The United States, Canada, and 15 other countries.

And whereas in 1984, President Ronald Reagan signed a proclamation that officially declared municipal clerk's week during the first full week in May. In 1984 and nineteen eighty ninety six, President Bill Clinton also signed proclamations confirming municipal clerk's week, and whereas municipal clerks have pledged to be ever mindful of the neutrality of their neutrality and impartiality rendering equal service to all. Municipal clerk continually strive to improve the administration of the affairs of their office to participation in educational programs, seminars, workshops, annual meetings of their county, state, and province, as well as professional organizations. And whereas the city of Hollywood wishes to command Hollywood master municipal clerk, Pat Cerny, and the outstanding staff she supervises. Now therefore, Josh Levy, mayor of the City Of Hollywood, Florida, and the Hollywood City Commission hereby proclaim May 2026 as municipal clerk's week.

Alright.

Thank you, mayor, vice mayor, commissioners, city managers, assistant city managers, and city attorney. Pat Cerny, the city clerk. On behalf of the staff of this city clerk's office and the thousands of municipal clerks throughout The United States, I want to thank you for this generous recognition of municipal clerk's week. As commissioner Biederman mentioned, municipal clerks are the oldest of public servants, and we are celebrating our fifty seventh anniversary of municipal clerk's week. Municipal clerks was initiated in 1969 throughout The United States and Canada, and 15 other countries, recognizing the essential role of municipal clerks play in local government.

The duties of the city clerk's office varies from city to city. Our duties include agendas, minutes, elections, bid opening, legal advertisements and notices, overall board liaison, records retention and destruction, public records request, photo exhibits, mail services, and customer services. I'd like to take this opportunity to thank the staff in the city clerk's office and the records and archives. Would you please stand as I call your name? Sasha Bartley, Evelyn Petit, Valeria Castatellos, Maxine Jones, Edgar Christo, Leila Bayer, Jennifer Hall, Vincent Biker, and Chris Alex.

Alright. These are the employees who make it all possible. It's because of their team effort efforts on a daily basis that our clerk's office provides the best possible service to the citizens and staff. Thank you again.

Alright. Thank you and congratulations. Come on up. Clerk's team, we'd like to take a photo to help recognize municipal clerk's week in Hollywood this week.

Thank

you all. Thank you. Alright. Well that rounds out recognitions for Public Service Recognition Week and all the other opportunities we had now to just recognize. Let's go ahead now with a presentation by Joseph Stodlin. He's the chair of our city's Planning and Development Board and he's here to present the board's annual report. Welcome Mr. Stodlin.

Thank you much.

Good seeing you on the beach on Saturday.

Good to be seen.

Nice to know you're walking around and exercising.

I'm trying to aspire to your level of fit.

Hey, you know, we're all living that Hollywood lifestyle, right?

That's true.

Wellness, wellness lifestyle.

Mister mayor, vice mayor, commissioners, I'm humbled by the invitation to present the following report of the planning and development board which we convened August 2025. As a result of the decisions made by this dais, you have created an economic environment attractive to new constituents, businesses, and developers alike. In short, the city of Hollywood is growing at both a responsible and sustainable levels. Albeit not without its challenges, but none that this dais isn't already positioned to fulfill. First to the hundreds of involved concerned citizens that have taken the time to voice their opinion of the various projects affecting the community.

We acknowledge that progress is temporarily uncomfortable and sometimes inconvenient. But at the end of the development the dust eventually settles and traffic patterns return. What remains are improvements that contribute to healthy and mindful living, improves community standards and increasing property values. Our board members of which there are nine, we have three that will be fulfilling their three year term at the end of this year, Stephen Morales, Terrejem Pharma and Robert Vargas. We have one unfilled vacancy at the moment.

Our mission to sum this up is to promote responsible development. Our purpose is to distill developer plans and community input into cohesive development projects. Our goal is to promote quality sustainable growth and development within the city of Hollywood. Our duties of which there are many, review and consider the developments requiring waivers, variances, special exceptions, design and or site plan pursuant to Article five and six of the zoning and land development regulations. We also serve as the local planning agency for the city responsible for formulating recommendations to the city commission concerning planning zoning and comprehensive planning issues.

Our accomplishments so far of the nine meetings we've had is the board has forwarded recommendations of approval to the city commission for five tax amendments to the zoning and land development regulations, three comprehensive plan land use plan amendments, and one rezoning application and two flexibility unit allocations. Regarding development applications, a total of 27 applications have been approved. As an example of the size, scale and area of our development, you can see that they are in areas of which this dais, this commission has determined our areas of most sustainable growth. Pretty photos. And approvals by the project size, approximately 50% of the development of the approved development applications were in regional activity center.

Meaning in short that they are coming to the areas that we feel that this day as feels are the areas to improve. Approximately 38 projects were reviewed in 2025. That shows a strong indication that developers see Hollywood as an economic engine in order to which to invest. Of the city, the city is updating its zoning rules and long term use land use plan. On that side, this board has reviewed and clarified the updating rules on the on the regarding zoning is clarifying the updating rules for public art, updating definitions and standards for carports, creating a clear process reviewing mixed use affordable housing projects under the Live Local Act, simplifying how fence approvals are handed administratively, and introducing new affordable housing density bonus program to allow more units when affordable housing is included.

And regarding the comprehensive plan allowing more residential units in key growth areas. 8,000 units in the rack and 4,379 additional units along State Road 7. Changing the land use designation of a special property, the Diplomat Activity Center to a more intense mixed youth development area. Going to more specificity of those significant projects that we have approved. And on a final note, it's worth recognizing that the board's obligations are made easier and our time more efficient because a cadre of a diligent dedicated development route many members.

On behalf of the board, I'd like to thank them. Thank you very much.

Appreciate the work of the board and thank you for that report well done. And thank you for everyone for their service and the staff that also serves to bring those items forward. Certainly an important component of the city's business. All right, now on to our one fifteen times certain items. We've got a quick ordinance on second reading advertising conforms with state statutes and city codes.

This is item 22, an ordinance of the city of Hollywood amending Article 13 of the city charter entitled limitation on sale lease and purchase of city owned real property by amending the relevant sections subject to approval by the electorate at a referendum to be held on 11/03/2026. I'm gonna go ahead and open the public hearing on the second reading. Are there any speaker cards on '22?

Yes.

Thank you.

Else?

Ann Ralston, come on up.

I didn't get a chance to come on first reading. My question is to make sure if this is the one that the previous city attorney botched. Would any of these projects been stopped by voter approval of that ordinance by having it delayed till 2026 because it seems to me, especially on the upcoming items of '27 and '28, there seems to be a push to add more units. Now, of it's not public land, I get that. But I feel that the voters didn't get a chance to get heard in 2024 as to how we'd like city property to be disposed of or given away or leases forever.

And I just want to make sure that nothing on city property for sure gets pushed through prior to the vote so that the voters can be heard whether it's for or against makes no difference. At least the voters get a chance to say something. Thank you.

Thank you, Anne. Alright. The public hearing is now closed. Commissioner Coleri.

Just for clarification purposes, city attorney, can you please just address the the question is about the what we're putting on the ballot. And as stated that it was not done to our specifications. But we did enact the law even though it wasn't on the ballot. We took it as if it was an overwhelming majority support to solidify the verbiage that should have been on the ballot. And that is what we act on currently.

That is correct, commissioner. At the time when this item was pulled from the ballot due to a lack of clarity surrounding the ballot language, the commission in 2024 chose to voluntarily put the conditions of the language onto themselves through ordinance, and that ordinance is scheduled to sunset with the idea that this would be placed back on the 2026 ballot. So it has always been the intention of the commission to work within the will of the voters.

So it's been something that we've been following even though the voters have not passed it.

Thank you so much. Public hearing is, as I said, closed.

Motion to approve.

We have a motion from vice mayor Coleri, second from commissioner Schuham to approve item 22. All well, let's go ahead and read the ordinance and call the roll call vote.

An ordinance of the city of Hollywood, Florida, amending article 13 of the city charter entitled limitation on sale, lease, or purchase of city owned real property by amending section 13.01 entitled sale of city owned property, section 13 o two entitled lease of city owned real property, and section 13 o three entitled purchase of real property by city subject to approval by the electorate at a referendum to be held on 11/03/2026.

Commissioner Cantana? Yes. Commissioner Shuham? Yes. Commissioner Hernandez?

Yes.

Vice mayor Kalari? Yes. Commissioner Gruber? Yes. Commissioner Biederman?

Yes.

Mayor Levy?

Yes. Alright. Let's show the ordinance passing unanimously on second reading. And now on to we've got a great number of people here looking to join in upcoming resolution here naming the police athletic league facility in the city of Hollywood as detective Jerry Christensen PAL Center. I'd to recognize Chief Devlin and he's got an honor honored guest here with him and he'll tell us all about it.

Good afternoon, Mayor, Vice Mayor.

I'm in trouble here.

Commissioner, City Manager. Many of you in this room know just how important the Police Athletic League is to the Police Department, to the city, but most importantly to our youth. And it is my honor to have the one who started it all back in 1989 standing here with us today, retired detective Jerry Christiansen. Jerry was tasked with keeping the peace among our juveniles back in the community, but instead of solely relying solely on enforcement, Jerry chose connection and community engagement. He began handing out baseball gloves, balls, bats from the trunk of his patrol car offering the kids not just an activity, but an alternative path. From those simple genuine efforts, the PAL program was born.

Yes.

If you take a look at the video we have playing, you'll see we found dozens of articles about the Powell over the years and Jerry's impact on our youth.

They won that Cincinnati.

Today, the Powell provides educational support, summer programs, drug prevention initiatives, and most importantly mentorship. We regularly hear from parents who share the positive changes they have seen in their children, stories of growth, confidence and direction that might not have been possible otherwise. What started as one of one detective's vision has grown into a nationally recognized program. In fact, this week Sergeant Kalish, Officer Agener and Officer Esquellen are attending the National POW Conference in Washington DC. They are getting the chance to meet with members of Congress and also present our model on how we run our POW.

I do not believe Jerry could have ever fully imagined just how big the PAL would become or how much recognition it would receive. Today, the Hollywood Palace serves more than 300 children. And while we may never know the exact number of lives Jerry has impacted, we constantly hear the same words. Because of Jerry or because of the pal? And the truth is Jerry did more than start a program. He gave kids a place to belong. He changed the direction of many lives that may have otherwise gone a very different way. There is no more fitting way to honor Jerry's legacy than by naming the Powell Building, detective Jerry Christiansen Powell Center. Thank you, Jerry.

Thank you, thank you very much. This is a real honor that I never thought would ever happen, but I get a lot of rewards, but this is the ultimate. And it all goes to those kids. And I go to other PAL units and they'd say, do these kids, not my pal, get out, you're not doing that in my pal. I take him aside and said, it's not your pal, it's the kid's pal.

And that's where a lot of people you know, lose lose track. I had a paper to bring here to talk on. And of course we left it at home, my wife and I. We're a team. Working with two things here, so things are getting a little tight. But I I I did bring a little story if you want to hear it. It's something that caught my heart. Man used to One of the guys came in and he used to bring his son. Son was 15. Well, he had two sons, one 15 and one 12.

And he he I I noticed he'd always, you know, helped the older boy. He was interested in boxing. And the younger boy was sitting in the corner and he was kind of sad. And you know, so I went over to him one day and he told me that's why he was was not paying attention. I said, well, would you be my office manager?

And he said, oh, yes. So I put him in a pal shirt, pal hat, set him at my desk, said, now you answer the phone, you say Hollywood pal, and you come and get me, and you're the office manager. Well, his eyes blew up, he was so excited. And every day he came in that day, know, I made him the city manager. And I and I and then one day I left and he goes, Jerry, there's something on your desk for you.

So I didn't pay any attention. I had other things going on. So at the end of the night, found it. And I found this little paper here. It was all wound up in band aids and I just lost track of something.

Rubber bands?

Rubber bands. Thank you very much. And so I unraveled it. Took me a while to unravel the thing. Okay. But Hands are a little jumpy. I got it. There we go. So I opened this up and he had already gone home. This was like we were getting ready to close the pal.

And on this sheet of paper, and there you see it says, you are the best. There it is in his handwriting. But thank you all for this award. I also bring my granddaughters up and see that when it gets up on there. They were in school today, and as usual, I couldn't take them out because they had too many damn absences.

We can relate. Well, you Jerry for being the best. Well, you for being the best and also for challenging us to do our best as well in all that we do. So this is a resolution of the city commission naming the police athletic league facility as detective Jerry Christiansen, Powell Center. I would like to invite vice mayor Coleri to make a motion.

Honored to I am honored to make a motion to approve.

Second. We have a motion from vice mayor Coleri and a second from commissioner Hernandez to name the facility as detective Jerry Christiansen, Pal Center. All those in favor say aye.

Aye.

Any opposed? Hearing none, the item carries unanimously. Chief, we're looking forward to celebrating that naming as soon as that new signage comes in and hopefully there'll be a lot of kids in attendance with us. That'd be great.

Alright. Thank you.

Alright. Thank you Christiansen family and Powell family. I know that the first lady of Powell is here as well to celebrate Jerry. And so thank you all. You all know who what you've done over the decades and the outcomes have been beautiful. And thank you to sergeant Kalish, officer Agenar and others who are taking good care of Pal and all the kids in present day as well. It's only getting better.

Yes.

Alright. Thank you all so much. You're free to go if you'd like to leave the room. We've got some more regular city business to take care of. That was special city business, this is now regular.

We'll give the Christiansen family a minute to exit and celebrate. All right, onto our one thirty time certain item, ordinance of the City Commission City Hollywood amending Chapter 72 of the code of ordinances entitled parking, amending the definitions and regulations concerning commercial vehicles providing for a severability clause repeal provision. This is an ordinance on second reading advertised as a public hearing in conformance to state statutes and city codes. Opening the public hearing, Pat are there any speaker cards on item 24?

No cards.

Public hearing is now closed. I'll accept the motion from the floor.

Motion to approve.

We have a motion from commissioner mayor Coleri, second from commissioner Gruber to approve the ordinance on second reading. All those in favor I'm sorry. City attorney, please read the ordinance, and we'll call the roll call vote.

An ordinance of the city commission of the city of Hollywood, Florida, amending chapter 72, the code of ordinances entitled parking, amending the definitions of and regulations concerning commercial vehicles providing for a severability clause in a repeal of provision.

Commissioner Cantana.

Yes.

Commissioner Schuham. Yes. Commissioner Hernandez.

Yes.

Vice Mayor Kalari.

Yes.

Commissioner Gruber. Yes. Commissioner Biederman.

Yes. Mayor Levy.

Yes. Alright, thank you so much and thank you to Commissioner Biederman for bringing this item some time ago. We'll certainly go to help our small business owners in the city. Alright, on to our 01:45 times certain items. Let's go ahead with item 25.

It's an ordinance on second reading as well, advertising conformance to state statutes and city codes. No changes since the first reading from the Department of Development Services. This of course is the ordinance changing the zoning designation of 0.59 acres of land generally located at 2200 Jackson Street along with unaddressed parcels on Jackson Street as described in the agenda item and exhibit A from Dixie Highway Medium Intensity Multifamily District DH 2 to Dixie Highway High Intensity Mixed Use District DH 3 and of course amending the city's zoning act to reflect the change in the designation. We of course saw and went through the presentation on the first reading. I'm going go ahead and public open the public hearing. Are there any speaker cards on item 25?

No cards.

Motion to

Public hearing is now closed. We have a motion from vice mayor Coleri to Second. Ordinance and a second from commissioner Hernandez to approve the ordinance on second reading. City attorney, please let's read the ordinance and we'll call the roll call vote.

An ordinance of the city of Hollywood, Florida changing the zoning designation of 0.59 acres of land generally located at 2200 Jackson Street along with unaddressed parcels on Jackson Street, folio numbers 5142Dash16Dash01Dash2370 and five one four two dash one six dash zero one dash zero eight five zero as more specifically described in exhibit a from Dixie Highway Medium Intensity Multifamily District D H 2 to Dixie Highway High Intensity Mixed Use District D H 3 and amending the city's zoning map to reflect the change in zoning designation.

Commissioner Quintana? Yes. Commissioner Schuham? Yes. Commissioner Hernandez?

Yes.

Vice mayor Kalari? Yes. Commissioner Gruber? Yes. Commissioner Biederman? Yes. Mayor Levy?

Yes. Alright. Let's show the ordinance passing unanimously on second reading. Thank you, Somerstein for the work you've done on first reading. And we look forward to a successful project here in Hollywood. Thank you so much. All right, item 26 is a resolution of the city commission allocating one flex unit within the Broadwalk Historic District commercial area for the property located at 1402 North Surf Road providing for conditions, providing for an effective date. This is an ordinance resolution. I think it mistakenly says first reading here on the agenda. This is a single reading, right Andrea?

That is correct.

Okay. It is advertised public hearing advertised in conformance to state sections and city codes. Welcome to Department of Development Services. If you like to run through the

Yeah.

Good afternoon, Mayor. Andrew Winger, Director of Development Services. So this is to apply one flexibility unit to 1402 North Surf Road. Everybody knows this property as the Senior Frogs. It is a existing three story building. The Top Floor was originally built as storage, and the owner would like to allow for a residential unit or that space to be converted to a residential space. And so applying this one unit will allow that to take place.

Thank you so much. I'm gonna go ahead and open public hearing. Are there speaker cards? No. She waves. Okay. She waves. Alright. Public hearing is closed. I entertain a motion. Commissioner Gruber. So approve. Second. A second from Vice Mayor Coleri. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Any opposed? Hearing none, the item carries unanimously. And thank you to the Graham and Zini family for their continued investment on the Broadwalk and to the team for making use out of that space that's more beneficial. Alright.

Item 27 is a 2PM time certain item. Ordinance of the City of Hollywood amending the city's adopted comprehensive plan by amending the text of the future land use element to add 4,379 mid rise and high rise residential units and reduce a million square feet of commercial within the city's transit oriented corridor, TOC State Road 7 Activity Center, providing for transmittal, etcetera etcetera and an effective date. This is an ordinance on first reading advertising conformance to state statutes and city codes by the Department of Development Services. Welcome Andrea. This is an exciting moment for the TOC as we look to recognize I think the dynamic character of State Road 7 and I think some time ago we didn't expect that there would be people living on the 7.

Yeah.

And now we've got a number of projects and it looks like we're opening the door and welcoming additional residential along that transit oriented corridor. It's exciting.

That's correct, mayor. Yes. As you mentioned, we have even branded it. As you mentioned, it's on the 7 over

I'm living on the 7. I'm gonna go grab lunch on the 7. I'll be right back.

Yeah.

Over the years, the city has really strived to transform that corridor. We have seen just in the last couple decades that I have been here, we have seen it gone, seen the area improved with FDOT, with the roadway, the drainage and the city is continuing to bring additional infrastructure out there. And so really what the item before you does for the TOC is it it creates additional residential, it allows for residential, creates additional residential capacity by taking capacity from the existing commercial square footage within there. So as we talk about this, I would really like you to keep in mind what the item before you does. It's really shift sharing between intensities and densities that are already allocated to the area.

One of the analogies that we have been using as we've been speaking to community members that my assistant director was reminding me of is it's really like it's really if you have a car and you have a car and you have a certain size motor in it, that motor either requires fuel or a battery in order for it to run. Every now and then it gets depleted and you have to put in the fuel or you have to charge your battery in order to keep going. You're not changing the motor. You're not changing the car color. You're not making it go faster.

You're just keeping things running as they are. So that's really what this item before you does today for the transit oriented corridor, which is just under a thousand acres. It's about nine eighty acres. It spans both sides of State Road 7. And an activity center, this area was originally the city created this activity center for the TOC in 2005 and we applied it to the State Road 7 corridor in 2010.

And the intent of an activity center is really to encourage mixed use development along our corridors and in compact walkable designs. And so our responsibility as the local government is to monitor the data that the growth that is taking place over time and do our best to project that so that we continue to have growth in these growth corridors that the city has identified. And so what we're here today is we are not talking about the zoning regulations today. We're not talking about increasing height in any buildings. We are not talking about changing setbacks for buildings.

Are not talking about

Uses.

Uses specifically today. What we're really doing is we are rebalancing our account as another way to look at it, our assets. So we're taking, this is our existing capacity that we have out there today. This is what was originally our capacities when we adopted this land use back in 2010. And at the time, if you focus on it for residential, we identified 5,000 just over 5,000 units.

And we also identified single family townhome and garden apartments as part of those 5,000 units. And so what we would like to do today is we would like to reduce our commercial square footage and take some of that square footage and put it into our residential uses to allow for more residential to take place within the corridor. We are also introducing a mid rise category and a high rise category where we're putting some of those residential for filling those buckets of residential with those units that we're reallocating or rebalancing within our intensities out there. Broward County has specific definitions for what garden mid rise, high rise and commercial uses are and specifically when it starts to come into the height of those. And the reason for that is those different types of residential structures have levels of service that are looked at with each of those.

So that's the reason why we're creating these different types of residential buckets out there to be more in align with the County. So, you know, we're doing this today because we've looked at market trends over the years. We're seeing the development pattern out there. We want to make sure we have these more intense or higher residential categories with the mid rise and high rise specifically allocated. We know that the state is also looking and encouraging development to take place within areas of the city.

Everybody has heard of Live Local. We know there's also other affordable housing bonuses that the county has out there as well that's available. So we really want to be able to control as much as we can locally and encourage it in the areas where we see fit. And as I mentioned before, we are not looking at changing the existing zoning districts or the standards today. We are not changing the amount of density that is permitted on each site today.

We're filling the larger bucket. We are not modifying anything and how the development review process is structured. And we're really just trying to control our own fate and make sure that we can contribute to the expected population growth that South Florida, in particular Broward County is anticipating. And so if the Commission were asking you to transmit this today and it will go over to planning council, the county commission, it will go off for other reviews, and it will come back before the city commission for final adoption.

Well, you, Andrea. This is an ordinance, as you said, on first reading. Going go ahead and open the public hearing. Are there any speaker cards on '27? Thank you. Ann Ralston please come on up. And last speaker will be Lynn Smith.

Thank you. If you're adding almost 5,000 units, where's all the traffic going to go? Where is I feel like I'm going to live in sunny aisles no matter if I go down Federal Highway coming up, if I go to 441, which rarely I go to. Driving here today, I paid attention to how many vacancies I saw, whether it be a commercial building, where they want retail space above where it's mixed use. There is a lot of vacancies both in downtown along your side streets with mom and pop, maybe little rentals, whatever.

I don't know who's going to move into these homes. Also, this commission pushes for affordable housing and this is why we need, excuse me, all these, I guess, new developments. But there's no mention in this change if there's going to be affordable. Everything I see so far on US1 seems to be luxury. So I don't know why we have to do that now or change this now.

And does this, if this gets approved, does this stop future commissions from stopping say a project that the voters don't want. That's one of my big concerns. So, and I'll talk more on it on '28.

Thank you. Lynn Smith.

Good afternoon, Mayor Commissioners. I'm here to talk about this issue because this is something that I just heard about. And I want I want to read something in Cameron's one of Cameron's emails that said we understand. Oh, I'm sorry. Excuse me. I've

been This is sick TOC by the way, State Road

I'm sorry.

So this item is State seven

by Oh, the okay. We understand that the RAC related items can raise questions and if staff wants to ensure the civic associations have the opportunity to better understand the proposal and the intent. I just heard about it the day before yesterday. This is a huge thing for my neighborhood. Also the only reason I was even kept apprised was Terry Ketrel let me. No. So none of the civic associations and none of there has been no outreach to the community. And I will make sure that if you guys vote on it today that there will be a lot of outreach. And that you voted on it without really doing and I will let the Broward County know that there was no outreach to the community and there was none. Me, I'm the middle of the city.

I'm where all this is happening and I just found out about it two days ago. And I don't want to, this is not to say anything bad to anybody. But that's not the way this, it's a change in the rack. You can sugarcoat it. You can say whatever you want. But it's a change in the rack. And it's addition to units. I got something from somebody that I talked to yesterday and they said at the very least I feel it would be best to send notification to residents in the areas first. Should they be able to weigh in and say something. Well there's no residents that know anything about this change and you guys can say it's really nothing big and Andrea could say it's nothing big, but it is big.

It's adding units. Any change in the rack should be known to the community. They should have a chance to at least hear what you're planning to do. And for you guys too, you should want to know that you're representing us in the community. And I know each and every one of us, you want us to know about this. So nobody's come to my meeting. We've never had a chance. We have online usually 1,500 to 2,000 people that are watching us online. They're not so good to come to the meetings every month but they like to do that. I'm doing that again, I'm sorry.

All right, so the traffic study I looked at briefly this morning. If any of you can understand it, good luck. And I remember Tracy, I told you about a financial statement. I'm coming to you about the traffic study because it's not comprehend you can't understand what it's saying. I looked at that only. I haven't looked at any of the backups. I didn't have time. I Karen was kind enough to do a special meeting with me last night and that was really the first time I understood what was going on. So there's no community meetings. I think that and here's the biggest thing.

There's not a completed list of projects that are well, you guys I asked for the list and it's not available yet. A list of projects that have been approved, projects that are in the pipeline, projects that are under construction. So you guys have no idea of what's happening.

Thank you, Lynn.

I just have one last

opportunity on on '28 as well.

Finish one sentence.

Go

ahead. I just wanna say, Josh, that I was told that you have projects in in the rack. And I wanna make sure that that that the cap not projects. Sorry about that. You have owners yeah. Properties in the rack, not projects. And if that

is I only own my house, but thank you.

That's not in

the Thank you so much. All I own is my house. Okay. That's in Hollywood.

If there is that issue, we wanna make sure that it's Yeah. Taken care

Don't believe all the rumors.

Alright. Thank

you Alright. Very

I should sing that song. Look at all these rumors, surrounding me every day. Alright. But I'm not getting away because I enjoy what I do here in Hollywood. Let's go ahead now. We thank you that closes public comment. And remember, this is the transit oriented corridor. And keep in mind, you talk about traffic, ladies and gentlemen. Recognize that State Road 7 is a major artery. It's been expanded by the Florida Department of Transportation.

Plenty of capacity for future years. Not only that, it's also a main mass transit route today in Broward County's Broward County Transit's route system and it also is a designated Primo plan expanded mass transit system with regards to bus rapid transit potentially and all of the connectivity of the county plans for it. And so as Andrea explained, both the county and the city's land use plan concentrates future growth of our county, of our city, deliberately and intentionally and in design on where the transit capacity is and the opportunity to live a transit oriented lifestyle. We want people to walk, we want them to use mass transit, and when you situate new apartments along those corridors whether it's State Road 7 or in the vicinity of Federal Highway and Dixie Highway which we'll talk about in a minute, and also is supplemented there by commuter rail intentions and plans for the county and for the region. That's what you call smart growth, it's what you call striving for walkable communities.

And in the case of the TOC, all we're doing here is creating the opportunity for the continued residential development along State Road 7, reducing by a million square feet commercial space which really is a as Andrea explained, just a substitution of one need of the community for housing in exchange for less commercial. But at the same time recognizing that there are ample commercial square footage within the nine eighty or so acres. So we'll have the opportunity to both grow business, small business and have residential where it's most suitable and that's along the main arteries of the city in this case State Road 7. So I have folks here who are chimed in to speak. Let's go with Vice Mayor Caleri or a motion.

One, I I just want clarification. Andrea, if you could. Is it just the housing or is it an option? Like if you have a great commercial project that is going to enhance the area, can they choose to place that commercial or is it mandatory that it's only housing?

Is that mandatory under the zoning code that they have mixed use or does it do we allow for single use?

Yep. What's in zoning? The

request before you is not Cameron Palmer, Assistant Director of Development Services. It's not a situation of either or. The allocation for commercial will remain, we're drawing down on that and adding that to residential, which means if a development came forward in the appropriate zone proposing commercial, they still have right to develop their commercial because there's still capacity in the commercial So square

I just wanted to make sure. Supply and demand, I think it's important. And just for clarification purposes, Lynn, this is not in your back door unless you've moved. This is 441 that we're talking about on the seventh. So you know, it's expansion, it's growth. We have Pinnacle that is there. Excuse me. It's doing amazing. I don't know if it's in the eyes of the beholder or what, but I would like for us to be able to have a breakdown on the rental apartments and what is vacancy and what is not in the in the near future. Because I think there's a lot of misleading information out there as far as what is being rented versus what is not.

The supply and the demand is huge in Broward County. And affordability, which we will continually talk about until I think we're blue in the face, is so important. And this is a perfect opportunity for those areas to address that as well as promoting growth. And that's why we put all this investment into the into the seventh. So I'm in favor. I'd like to make a motion to approve. We

have a motion from vice mayor Coleria and a second from commissioner Quintana to approve the ordinance on first reading. Let's continue any further comment with Commissioner Hernandez. Thank you, Mayor. I think all this does is it gives a choice whether you do commercial or whether you do the residential, which if you're going to intensified residential anywhere, you want it to be on the transit oriented corridor. This is what the residents have been telling us. If you're going to do intensification of residential, do it where it fits. We're trying to do what the residents are asking us to do, to do it in the transit oriented corridor. I'm of this.

Thank you. Commissioner Quintana.

Thank you, Mayor. I just want to say if you haven't been on the seven recently, I would love for you to come out and look. When I first moved into that area twenty five years ago, it was very different than it is today. There's been a lot of improvement that's happened. But I'm continually saying, you know, I understand that on the East Side of the city, there's been a lot of change and a lot of attention that the development community has given to the East Side of our city.

That hasn't happened nearly enough on the West Side of our city. And so, I'm very much in support of this item. And I'm hoping that some of the folks who haven't looked out our way in the past will realize the potential of investing along the 7. There is so much opportunity out there that

really

is missed. I I don't know that people understand the value of the West Side of our city and I hope that they will begin to. Of course, I understand we haven't gone through what the East Side of our city has gone through yet and that there will probably be some challenges. But I'm hoping that, you know, we've learned some of the things that were the rough spots and that as development happens on the West Side, we'll be able to make it a little bit smoother. Definitely in support.

You. You Commissioner. Commissioner Biederman. So just keep in mind we get criticized no matter what we do. I think basically we get criticized because we don't plan for the future and now we're planning for the future. So this is all about the future. Nobody's building 8,000 units tomorrow or next year. It's about over the next twenty years, twenty five years. It's just a matter of laying out that plan. And keep in mind that traffic today is not what traffic is going to be tomorrow.

We're not widening our roads. We're just going to have smarter transportation. You know, by the time this stuff is built, we're to have flying vehicles. I mean, I know it's hard to believe we all watched the Jetsons when we were little, whether it was black and white or color for some of us. But, you know, the future is closer than we think and we need to make sure we're planning for it now and not waiting till it happens and we're just left behind. So, that's why I support this.

Thank you Commissioner Biederman. Let's close it out with Commissioner Schuham.

Thank you Mayor. Demeris, my question is for you. I too am support support this. I think that there's confusion that residents may think this has to do with building heights. It doesn't.

I believe that switching from commercial from that bucket to residential actually will improve traffic. But putting all of that aside, the one thing I am struggling with is the failure to have community meetings on this issue. So Andrea or Damaris, my question is if we pass this today it requires a second reading. Is it possible to have thorough community meetings prior to a second reading so that we can ensure that the community has a better understanding of what's happening before the second reading?

We absolutely can do that to try to get out there and explain some of this. This went to the LPA or the local planning board back in May. Following that meeting, we did meet with one of the civic groups. I forget the name of it. We have more recently. Since then we've been refining our application package. We have been putting it in our heads up for the last few weeks. So if anybody had questions, they were welcome to reach out. And then knowing that we were ready to come forward at the April, we did send some emails and phone calls to some of the impacted civic groups, and we were just finally able to connect with them this week. But, yes, if the commission does decide to transmit today, we can commit to reaching back out to them prior to second reading.

So, Damaris my question is if that happens, and let's completely hypothetically, I think that the community once they have a better understanding of the change will be supportive of the change. But if for some reason that doesn't happen, and if for some reason we're all persuaded, oh my gosh this was a terrible idea, what can happen before the second reading? Can we all just change our mind based on the community input that we receive, and that's the end of it? And, or we could have, I mean I'm asking, but I'm I'm saying. We could have an immaterial change to tweak something if that came back to us from these residents meetings, or if it was something that we really learned through the process that we think was so significant and it was material we could just have a future first reading.

Correct? Those are kind of the options?

If you did make any sort of material change, you would need to have a second first reading. If you do not do that, I believe that after this this vote, it would be transmitted?

Yeah. We would be transmitting to the county at that point. So I would I would say that we would not be able to increase any of the thresholds. We may be able to reduce them, but I would encourage you to not have material changes. Because then we would have to go back through the county process again if they would consider it material.

So what would be I feel very strongly that we should reach out to the civic associations and surrounding neighbors in the same way that we do development projects. I think that we can vote on that today and then undertake that. So I just want to have some clarification as to what the process would look like, and maybe the city manager.

And And we're happy to reach out to those civic groups. And I just caution you when you say it in the same way as a development application. There are mailed products that go out to that, and we're talking 10,000 acres here.

And

that is at an extremely high So cost we use our other resources in order to try to capture

Social media.

In getting information.

So, and then before I move on, and I know that a lot of these questions and topics will be identical on item 28. But I do want to explain to the public why there has been a one year delay, between when it went to this item and the next item. When they went to the PND board until today. Can you educate us a little bit about that?

Prioritization of different projects, refining our application with our backup, working with our consultant who put our application together, touching base with the county to make sure we had everything in alignment. One of the main undertaking was for our own existing staff to be able to go through development that has occurred over time and do their best to refine and get our tracking up to speed that we have to submit to the county to know how many units and capacity we have used. Mhmm. The city were looking to do a better job with that, but that was a very large undertaking with the resources that we have. And I would also just like to clarify that the communication that we did have was more with the RAC similar to Lynn's comments when I had said that So

I would just say, you know, we hear all sorts of things in these positions. And one that I have heard is, oh you're rushing to get this through. Well clearly based on what you've just explained this was the opposite of rushing. We've taken a year to get from when it was at our PND board to today. So I just want to provide the public with some assurances that this is completely the opposite of a rush.

But I would like to, what is the best way city manager to have a commitment from staff to reach out to all impacted civic associations with a thorough opportunity? And we could even have one meeting for both items here for the public one night, whatever. But prior to maybe even based on what Andrea said prior to it going to the county, I don't know. But I'd defer to you, but I would like to give the public some assurances that if it should have happened before today and it didn't, it's not too late if we have a first reading today. Because there'll be an opportunity before the second reading.

So Mayor, Vice Mayor, and Commissioners, you know I think it's important to note that that it was obviously noticed on the Planning and Development Board. There had been an item previously before the commission that was a measure to look at this issue temporarily. And now this item is coming forward. So it has been a discussion point because these are really just thresholds. So when the RAC was created twenty five years ago, thresholds were created at that point in time.

And now we are seeing which of those areas needs a little more or adjustment. That is a process that is fully expected and accounted for within the land use planning process at the county. And we're literally following that process with all of the technical studies and everything else that has to look at that. So if you are taking from this bucket and adding to this bucket, are there any additional impacts? And is that balancing out?

And so that's really a lot of what staff has been working on to make sure that we're keeping that balance there. We are happy to do additional outreach. And we can certainly commit to doing that. I think a community meeting we obviously just did some charrettes that I plan to update you on. We can do something very similar to that on the West Side and on the East Side over the next little bit here. And make sure that people are understanding what this really is. This does not change the zoning at all. This is not touching the existing zoning that's there. It is not touching the height that is there. It's not doing any of those things.

All that we're doing is sort of shifting between uses that we see had too much of an allocation initially, and to areas that didn't have enough of an allocation in areas that have for a long time now been designated as areas that are ripe for more intensity and just are the kinds of places where we want because of the transit access, because of the downtown services that we want those things to be there. That's I what that's

would just say, you know, we have all really pushed for more residential on our transit corridors. But if you have an empty bowl and you have nothing to offer on those corridors, you're out of units to offer, then all the talk that we have about building on transit corridors is is pointless. The only way to make that a reality is to shift some of the allocation from commercial to residential, which I I fully support. And and I also just want to make clear, it's it's obvious to us because we talk about this stuff, but by adding units in this way, we're not building units. It's a huge difference.

It's just making them available in the event someone wants to invest in our city and put residential units on our transit corridors like we want them to, they will have that opportunity and won't have to wait for this process for a long time. So I think there's just a lot of confusion as to what this means. No additional height. No additional density on any given site. It's just the availability to place residential in these very very long large corridors. So with the commitment from staff that there will be outreach to all of the impacted civic associations and neighbors have an opportunity and come get the detailed explanations that we have received, I certainly support this.

All right, thank you. I think we do, Pat, have a motion and a second on the floor to approve the item. Any final comments by Commissioner Biederman?

Yes, Mayor. So Commissioner Schuyama, I appreciate your advocation for more public outreach. I think we all appreciate more public outreach. My concern is, and keep in mind this is all fluid. This could be changed in five years or ten years by two meetings. Andrea, I mean that's right. I mean, if five years if we build something on one section of four forty one or one section of Dixie Highway or Federal Highway, a future commission can change it based on new information and and and demand.

Yeah, mean I don't think that I think the commission would more than likely shift between the allocations. They wouldn't be reducing them. They can increase it later again. Could shift between the uses again.

Yes. No, and while you're up there, do we know how many people showed up to the twenty hours of public meetings last week?

We had about 38 people who showed up to both of those meeting combined. It was 38 combined for both. 32 for one and fifty for the other. No, that's 15. Sorry. 32 for one and fifteen for the other. A few people did not sign in.

All right. So, that's pretty good. Know, but for twenty hours

Yes.

Of staff time and how many, I mean there was So, probably more than 50 people and staff I think when we talk about more public meetings.

Like here.

I think it's great. But, we also have to balance the amount of public meetings with the amount of staff time. Consultants that were paying probably $3,400 an hour to be there for 50 people to show up out of a 158,000 people. So, I think the people that want to be involved, know what's going on, come out and tell us how they feel. But to spend that much staff time just to come back to a unanimous vote of the commission because it seems like we're all in a rare unanimous occasion.

Can I respond to you just briefly? I I appreciate and agree with what you're saying. I don't think you need to do east west. I think both of these are so similar. They can be handled in one meeting. Here, it's also not a charrette. It's just a given explanation of what it is we've already done. So, I don't disagree with what you're saying at all, but I think this is very different than what just took place with the Sherettes. So I think we could do this all in one. And it's really just a I think the idea is clearing up some of the misconception that's out there before our second reading. That's all.

And and that's great, and people are watching this on YouTube, and people who watch this to fall asleep at night. But I think that we got to, like, balance the amount of staff time we're putting out just so that 50 people could show up and we can make a decision. And to be honest, I think that the Shrek we had last week has a lot more feelings and Sensitivity? Yeah. I mean, than this does. I mean, this is just shifting from one to the other. The Charette last week has a lot more passion. That's the word I'm over. A more passion behind the changes that are going to be coming before us based on the charrette from last week.

Thank you Commissioner.

This is just an informational thing. You Commissioner.

Final comments by Commissioners Hernandez and Quintana and then we're going to think about Commissioner Hernandez.

Thank you, Mayor. I like the public to know that we have followed every legal requirement when it comes to advertising. This has been ongoing. This is by no mean a secret. We're not changing zoning. We're not changing anything else. If you're asking for extra notification to take place to some of the civic association, my understanding is you guys have already reached out to them doing the process along the State Road 7?

We did we did specifically with the RAC. Did we with State Road 7 as well?

Commissioner Quintana says that right.

We did not. We did not with State Road 7.

Okay.

I don't know how organized they are, but we have been putting it in the heads up.

I don't believe Yes. How many civic Commissioner Quintana?

I'm waiting for my turn.

I'm going ask you, how many civic associations do you have in

So, is what I this is one of my cause I want to say more than the number.

No, no, just that question.

We have the Washington Park Homeowners Association.

Okay.

And at least in my district, that's it.

Okay, so as far as we doing the legal requirement when it comes to this, I don't have a problem having an outreach what's happening because some of the businesses would also like to know what's going on. Exactly. So, don't have an issue when it comes to that. I'm supportive of that. But I would caution us to do stuff like this for one project and not another one.

So I think as long as we do the legal requirement and to reach out to the Civic Association for them to disseminate the information. It's also up to us to disseminate the information of what's happening as well. And there's opportunity for the residents to come back and have their views listened to. And I think that's what this meeting is for. And then we're going to have another meeting like this to inform them of what's going on.

So I don't think that we're trying to hide anything. We're not creating any more of zoning for one or restricting more of the other one. As a matter of fact, what we're giving is the property owners that are existing in the four forty one, the ability to do one or the other. And we're trying to minimize the commercial or the industrial, in this case the industrial impact that we have because we want to create a more friendly transit corridor than what we currently have. So I think that we're trying to follow all the right steps and we're trying to get what we need to do. So I'm good with what's happening and I yield the rest

of my time. Thank you Commissioner Hernandez. Final comments by Commissioner Quintana, the Commissioner representing much of State Road 7 and we will take a roll call vote on the ordinance on first reading.

So, I understand that we followed all of the legal requirements in terms of notification. I would like to suggest that beyond being in compliance, that we really try to get our residents to understand what we're doing so that they will be more likely to support our effort. A lot of times, it's just not understanding that require that creates pushback. And so to I'm not suggesting that we invest twenty hours, but I do believe that it's time well spent to be sure that we've taken every opportunity to educate our residents about how we're making decisions and why. And I think in the future, it makes everyone's job here easier if we do that on the front end.

That said, I think I've said it before and I'll

say it

again. I so much respect that the East Side of our city has so many strong advocates who come out and speak for that part of the city that you have enough people who have flexibility in their work schedule or retired that they can come to a daytime meeting and speak for their area. I don't have that on my side of the city. We don't necessarily hear from people on my side of the city as an organized group. So I would just like to suggest not to to combine the two, because otherwise what will happen is all the vocal folks on the East Side will be heard and there probably won't be anyone from my end of the city coming to city hall.

So I would like to suggest that we do something that's an after work, because they're not going to come during the day, that's an after work thing somewhere on the West Side of the city where, for example, members of the Johnson Street Business District could come. I don't think they were aware that this was happening. I certainly didn't tell them. And so, I'll make sure I go back and do that. And I do think it's time well invested to do it, and I do think it needs to be two separate things.

Alright. Thank you so much. City manager, you've gotten feedback. We're gonna go ahead and take a vote on this ordinance on first reading. It has unanimous support. But I just wanna do mention the caveat. There's no intention to slow down this now more than a year long process. But the commission wants to ensure additional public outreach and well said with regards to a West Side session and a East Side session for the RAC and all for the better, right? Alright. Commissioner Biederman, did you?

What in a compromise be instead of having this five hour day or something, just a 05:00 hearing for the second reading?

Don't think we need to We

can come.

Predict that. I think we can they can host sessions at 7PM during now and the next thirty days and

Okay.

And be fine with it. Let's go ahead and read the ordinance to call the roll call vote.

An ordinance of the city of Hollywood, Florida amending the city's adopted comprehensive plan by amending the text of the future land use element to add 4,379 mid rise and high rise residential units and reduced 1,000,000 square feet of commercial within the city's transit oriented corridor, TOC, State Road 7 Activity Center, providing for transmittal, providing for conflicts, providing for severability, and providing for an effective date.

Commissioner Quintana? Yes. Commissioner Shuham? Yes. Commissioner Hernandez?

Yes.

Vice Mayor Kalari? Yes. Commissioner Gruber? Yes. Commissioner Biederman?

4,379 times yes.

Mayor Levy?

Yes. Let's show the ordinance passing unanimously on first reading and we know it'll come back to us after it goes through the broader process.

Mayor, there's commission on the community which is gonna be taking place in Quintana's neck of the woods. When is That may be a good time to Well,

think Commissioner Quintana might want to highlight this and share that. We'll look forward to having a session when and if whenever the team you know does it. They always do a class one job of of public meetings so I'm fully confident. Alright. Well

that was

a little curve ball that honestly didn't deserve enough to take the celebration of the success and the outlook of State Road 7 away from the area of focus. But certainly we're happy to have the public outreach. Even though I would suggest that the year that we had over the past year both in the RAC and TOC did provide ample process, more than a year's process and now people are surprised. Let's go ahead with an ordinance item 28 amending the city adopted comp plan by amending the tax of the future land use element to add 8,000 mid rise and high rise residential units and reduce 200,000 square feet of office use within the city's regional activity center, the RAC, as provided for the agenda item. This is an ordinance on first reading, advertised in conformance with state statutes and city codes as a public hearing.

I'll just note the on the dais we have the supplemental information, corrected information that includes the Calvin Giordano report on the dais. So I'll go ahead and invite Andrea to talk RAC with us.

Good afternoon Mayor, Vice Mayor, City Commissioners. Andrea Winget, Director of Development Services. Similar to the last application that the Commission just considered, just a different geographic area of the city, we're here today to also look at reallocating some of the densities and intensities within the Regional Activity Center. Just like the prior application, this application does not increase height, does not modify setbacks, and does not modify any of the existing development standards. It shifts development capacities between the uses which are already there today.

Kind of rebalancing our investment account for a lack of better term. The the regional activity center is about 1,400 acres and it was originally created in around in the nineteen nineties. And the RAC was identified as one of the city's primary growth centers and following that in around 2005, the city expanded the regional activity center to have a larger growth center within our downtown and eastern area and added additional capacity at that time. Again, an activity center is designed to be high intense mixed use development and is create and is when created identifies different densities and intensities for the entire geographic area that we work with the county to establish. At the time when the rack was expanded, what is on the screen before you are the densities and intensities that were adopted at that time.

The request before you today is not to add 25,000 units to the regional activity center. There is already a baseline of densities and intensities that are approved for that geographical area and that breakdown into different quantities that you could see on the screen. Essentially what we're looking to do here today is to take office square footage, approximately 200,000 square feet of office and convert that into residential. And that residential is

How

much?

No. Oh, to convert that into eight eight thousand residential units. Sorry, thought he was telling me 1,000. I said no, that's not it. That's not a thousand.

And is to take 200,000 square feet of office and convert that into 8,000 residential units. You could see when we had originally established the regional activity center, we had single family townhomes, garden apartments and high rise were our different units. So what we've done here is we've created an additional sub bucket of mid rise that we're filling with a thousand units and we're topping up our high rise and bringing that up from the existing 3,000 to 10,000 units. Again, just similar to the last presentation, we're looking at the different mid rise, high rise and the typologies as we fill our residential buckets. And again, we are not changing the zoning districts.

We are not changing the height, the intensities, and densities that are site specific today. That is not the question before you. We are adding additional capacity to what the city already has in order to be able to absorb future population growth and be able to have a balance of not only affordable housing, but also market rate housing as well as the market will dictate in the future.

Thank you, Andrea. Actually, know, as you're discussing the RAC, I'm reminded that when we welcomed the the Federal Transit Authority's chief officer from Washington DC and the county had brought him in. What the county chose to highlight as far as what the county would highlight anywhere in the county when the FTA chairman was here. I was to bring him to Downtown Hollywood to University Station to highlight what we're pursuing as a county and as a regional a region here in South Florida to get federal investment into commuter rail here in and through the rack. And one of the main focus areas of the gentleman as he was here was to understand what the economic development opportunity was if he were to support and rank high the South Florida South Broward Commuter Rail.

And that was the main inquiry that he and his team had. And we're really fortunate that in Downtown Hollywood we're already showing and demonstrating that public investment and things like transit, whether it's Federal Highway and specifically I'm excited about commuter rail as you know along Dixie Highway is is what the national interest is and the state interest and the regional interest and the county interest and the city interest is just as Commissioner Hernandez mentioned is where we are intentionally looking to position new residential growth specifically so people can walk to mass transit and encourage a vibrant community to grow. And so this update to the RAC mix and the increase in residential units is in order to facilitate what we are saying that we are demonstrating that we've already begun and what we plan on continuing to do, is to focus and place additional growth where we know it's most compatible and most appropriate, which is along in this case the future commuter rail and in vicinity of the rack. And so I'm excited that we are updating this plan as Commissioner Beeterman said for the decades ahead. Remind everyone that our city grows at a total rate of less than 1% per year historically and projected as well into the future.

And you can go ahead and take a look at the University of Florida BEBR report that tracks population trends and forecasts throughout the state. Hollywood is a slow growing community when compared to the other growth areas of the state, but we nonetheless are excited about the reinvestment in our city and want to see that it's done in the spirit and in the direction that our county and ourselves have designated, which is again focused on these commercial corridors. And so this is obviously an intended an intended direction and one that celebrates and builds on the success that we've had in the RAC to date attracting investment in Downtown Hollywood, creating that vibrant community that we are creating. The commissioner Kalari's point, Vice Mayor, we are seeing a very fluid absorption of the units in and around downtown. Some are at a quick 100% if you're attainable or affordable and workforce.

And the other ones that are market rate are incentivizing a very quick absorption into their units and the owners tell me that they're satisfied with the rate of absorption in and around Downtown Hollywood. And as we know we can also celebrate following the opening of our Hollywood Beach Golf Club, that's now a new attraction and another welcome attribute of the beautiful lifestyle that Downtown Hollywood and The Rack offers is we have condominium projects as well like One Hollywood and like Gaia residences that are very exciting and they're in presale now and have sales galleries and we hope and support that the market is there for those projects to be built and contribute to this new downtown life that we are creating both in our public investments and proudly supporting through private investment. It's really been great to see the downtown master plan at the heart of The Rack be brought to life over the past ten years and we'll continue to do that. And the challenge was the city if you're going to succeed, you have to be persistent and do it. And we have been persistent.

We have pushed the market along. We've created already what we have and it's only flourishing and it's going be growing from there. And so really proud I think of what the City of Hollywood has been able to accomplish in the previous I'll call it development cycle. And this just prepares us for development cycles ahead as the market comes comes and is ready to ready to build. And so excited about this item. Let's go to Vice Mayor. I'll also go ahead and open the public hearing. Are there any speaker cards on '28? And Ralston followed by Lynn Smith, then Michael Seltzer.

Thank you. On April, that's probably where affordable houses needed the most and it is mass transit. US1 is going to block the lakes in. All of you have said, oh, it's no zoning changes, no height changes, no nothing changes. But you know what happens?

They change when you decide to do a variance to change that stuff. Look at the beach, when I came here forty three years ago, you could go to the beach, it was gorgeous. You had small highs races, electric eclectic shops, you had good restaurants. Now, you can't find a place to park unless you pay a whole bunch of money and I'm a resident, the two garages and you're paying good $20 if you want to spend the evening down there. I don't trust that this is not going to affect future commissions because I don't trust what you tell me.

It's going to be Sunny Isles. I think Cameron on one of these land use changes must have said we're not doing Sunny Isles five times. Andrea just got done saying we're not doing three to five times between all of them saying you're not going to change this stuff. The schools are closing. That means there's less kids. There's less people apparently at least moving in with kids. I don't know if you go don't please don't shake your head at me. You know, you guys so disrespect the public regardless of whether you like whether I have something to say or not, At least respect the fact that I have the right to say it. Jeez.

Thank you.

No, you're not.

Thank you.

Please don't ever correct me.

Commissioner Gruber, go ahead.

Just just to reply to that, I just nodded like this because it's not true that people aren't moving here and that's it.

So Okay.

Fine. We don't need to go back and forth. Schools are not closing

in Hollywood.

I apologize if I offended you. Schools

are not closing in Hollywood. We're actually adding schools in Hollywood and we're proud to do so. We love kids in Hollywood. Some people might not love them. Let's go ahead. Lynn Smith.

Okay. I apologize for getting these two mixed up. Thank you, Tracy.

Whoever wants to open a school in Hollywood, you're welcome to open a school. Go ahead, Lynn.

Okay. I

I all of them.

Okay. Okay. Thank you, Josh. Yeah. I am excited about helping you, Adelma on April, because I think that we really need this, and I'm excited about that. And we will be willing as a civic association to help you, and I think that Carol having the one meeting or Peter, both of you came up with some really good ideas. I have a better idea. We have a water bill that goes out to our residents every month. And if you're having these important meetings, why not put them on your water bill? It's, it doesn't cost anymore. Maybe they could just figure it out. But people don't, I mean we, we reach, you know, of people, but not like you guys do. So the, the, these are important meetings. These are racked, these are neighborhood activity meetings. And so people's lives are going to be changed.

So we need and and Commissioner Biederman, I understand that it's, you don't think that it's important. But we who live here, especially you know, in the downtown area, we're happy to have information. And when I don't get it, I get very scared that something's gonna happen that that my can't give out to my community. And then they say to me, you know, a year later or two late, why didn't you tell us? So maybe using the water bill as a notification may be a good idea.

The other thing I'm concerned about is with all these projects, we must make sure that the police department and the fire department, even though they look at one project at a time, see an overall list. They have to plan for this. I know the hospital's crowded now and we're going to get more and more residents coming in. So we have to make sure that they're prepared. And the most important thing this list, and Cameron talked about it yesterday, he said that he's pretty much sure that the list that has all of the approved projects, projects in the pipeline, projects under construction.

You guys need to have that information. I had somebody audit the stuff a couple of, maybe about a year and a half or two years probably now. And he's been keeping it up. Nothing matched what the city had. And we went meeting after meeting where these projects were approved and put it on a list. So US commissioners should wanna know that your numbers are correct before you submit it to Broward County because they're gonna wanna know. And I'm gonna do an audit sale. We're gonna take our numbers from where we were and we're gonna move it up and we're and then I have another audit that somebody else gave me. We want it to all be the same list. We don't want different lists coming to the commission.

And I think the water bill, the police, notifying the police and fire department and the hospital of what's coming at them. And Josh, think you will agree that that's a really good idea so that we have all these facilities ready to go. And I thank you very much. I'm sorry about the mess up, but I didn't even realize that there was a four forty one activity center. But I'm excited about that and happy to help with whatever we can do.

Thank you. Mister Seltzer, final speaker. Sifo Seltzer, good Seltzer. I love Seltzer. Go ahead.

I mean seltzer. My address? 956 Hollywood Boulevard. I want to apologize for that lady. I don't know who the hell she is. I don't know her name, but it's an embarrassment. I've dealt with those people in my forty five years in the restaurant businesses, and it's not fun. So my apologies on her behalf.

Thank you.

And I think you're all doing an admirable job, and that State Road 7, let's be polite and say it needs help. In some sections, it's almost an embarrassment. And as far as the other corridor, I won't be alive when all those units are built. Maybe some of you will, I for sure won't be here. And it's only in the future. And to all those naysayers, no one's building anything unless someone gives them the money to build it in the equity. So if there's no demand, there's no money, and with no money, nothing gets built. Thank you.

Thank you. Alright. That concludes public comment. Again, a future looking plan for the future of the RAC. I'll go ahead and call on members of the body as they were chimed in, and I'll await a motion. Let's go ahead to Vice Mayor Calhary.

So first, you know it's very disappointing when you have individuals who are just never satisfied and can sling what they want but cannot receive it. We have been elected, I cannot say it over and over again, to be the voice of the public. If I were to sit in a group of individuals in District 3, and I turn, and I'm using a a discussion that was made with one of my residents who I respect highly, and it really resonated with me. If I turn to the left and I say to an individual at a restaurant, let's say Capone's, and I say, do you know about the rack? They're gonna look at me like I'm talking a third language.

If I turn to somebody to the left, said, do you know about 13 o one? They're gonna look at me like I'm talking a foreign language. Why? Perfect example is commissioner Quintana. People are working to stay above, to keep a roof over their head, to support their children. They have more priorities to be able to go to schools, parks, and entertainment with their families. Golfing if you don't have a family. Other entertainment that we as a city provide these services. We have heard for the last fourteen years that I've sat up here how downtown is not thriving. We come up with one direction, it doesn't work.

We come up with another. That's what planning for the future is all about. We are planning not for today, not for tomorrow, and as this gentleman eloquently just said, we are planning for something that we probably will not be able to reap the fruits of our labor. But that's what planning is. The downtown has vacancies.

It's had vacancies and it will continue to have vacancies until people move in and utilize the area. And that's starting to happen, but it's still going to take a long time before it has come to fruition. And development is what creates that. Build it, they will come. Well, that's happening. Some people don't like it. They want the sleepy town, but on the same side, they wanna turn around and yell at us that things aren't getting done and that everything is closed. It's no action, so forth. And we have to go to Fort Lauderdale because our downtown doesn't work here. Well, we're trying to fix the problem, but it doesn't happen overnight.

Someone said about the hospitals are crowded. Well, here's a news flash. That's starting to change. Thanks be to God. We have walk in centers throughout everywhere. They're popping up everywhere. Let And me tell you, are taking the burdens off of the emergent needed care. So they're not as busy as they were a year ago. And I can attest to it because I work there. I think this is important because this will help meet our objective, which is create some synergy that will help promote livability and functionality. So I am a 100% in favor of this and I would like to support this, make a motion to approve.

Alright. We have motion to approve the ordinance on first reading. Second by commissioner Biederman. Let's go to commissioner Schuham on the motion.

Thank you mayor. I too support this. Again, this is not about building 8,000 more units. It's to be replenishing the availability for the next generations in years and decades ahead to have these units. So, but Andrea I have a lot of what I want to talk about is really just clearing up some misconceptions in questions that I've received about this.

So I'll try to make it quick. So I think two meetings ago when we voted on the property at Shenandoah. You know, obviously that was a four story property in the rack. And the term that we used that night is that that project was as of right. So there was no variance.

That property owner based on the boundaries of the rack and the zoning of the rack had the right to build that building. Correct. And obviously as we talked about that night it was difficult. Nothing that we're talking about today as you mentioned is zoning, or height, or density per acre or anything about that. And it's not changing those elements that exist in the rack.

We're just, I love the expression that you used, rebalancing our investment account. I think that's a great analogy. But, as many of our residents who are living right up against these as of right projects in the RAC have brought forward to us, you know they're not not happy. You know, just when when we voted on the RAC regardless of you know, what the votes were back then. They didn't maybe envision what it would look like to have a property backing up to their property.

So what I would like to just have you briefly talk about it is my understanding that separate and apart from this, I'm going to say yes today. I know that we are working on design standards and things like that. So without getting too legalese, we can't, once we change zoning to allow a 20 story building, or allow 50 units per acre, something like that. When a person buys that property, they buy it because they know they can go to that height or go to that density. And a city becomes bound by it too, or we end up in litigation.

That is the law in Florida, and I'm assuming elsewhere too. So when we talk about the rack and things that have concerned residents that are you know bumping up against that, We can't reverse what we've done with respect to height and density without encountering this litigation. That's my understanding generally. Is that your understanding?

Yes.

But what we can do now that we see, and I think it was Commissioner Quintana talked about we've experienced some of these bumps in the road and hopefully out on the seven we can avoid them. But we're also trying to mitigate some of them in the rack as well by looking at some of these design standards. And I just want you to kind of touch on some of the opportunities and things that your staff is looking at as far as, you know, setbacks or green space or things like that. That could be part of these design discussions that don't impact a property owner's value per se with respect to height or density. But now that we are opening the door for more residential on a transit corridor, which we all want, could soften some of the boundaries to the neighboring communities.

Neighboring homeowners. Can you touch on that?

So what the design guidelines won't do is they will not modify the buildable area on the lots. But to your point, commissioner, what they will do is look at different attributes that perhaps can be asked for as part of the projects that come in. What does it look like? How are their openings configured, the windows, the balconies? Is there undulation or movement in the building vertically and horizontally? How is the landscape placed and how is that in relationship to their property lines?

And for example, like we talked about at that last project, providing some privacy to the adjacent homeowner. That was of course, you know, a school in that case. But things like that that the staff can weigh in on when these projects come to you. Just even the orientation of the building can

be The

orientation, can be looked at.

Okay. So that was one issue. Not a discussion for today, but I just want to allow residents to understand that it is a discussion. Recognize that there issues and there are things that staff is working on to try to improve them in the RAC but also proactively in the TOC. Correct.

The other thing that I think you hear a lot about with respect to today's item, which it is not for today. It is the readiness of our infrastructure to accept 8,000 units, for example on the rack. So again, I will repeat, we're not building 8,000 units tomorrow. This city has approved a over billion dollar storm water master plan. We are working on waste water plans, water plans, everything.

This is all happening together. So I I under it's my understanding that for the county to approve a project for example, we have to demonstrate or the developer has to demonstrate that the existing infrastructure can handle that project. Correct?

That's correct. There's it's actually at two parts that that infrastructure gets looked at. It gets looked at as part of the land use plan amendment as it relates to our comprehensive plan and at a broader level now. And then when the site specific projects come back in, then we start to look at those smaller technical details to make sure that we meet our concurrency standards.

So I guess I just want to, and when we do these public meetings I think this is something really important for people to understand. That just because this pot of residential units is existing, it doesn't mean they can be built until the developer or the city can demonstrate that our infrastructure can handle it. And I think it's just really important for people to understand these distinctions from what it is that we're talking about today. So thank you for that. Let's see.

We had we started and this I should have raised this on the seven two, but talk about it here. We started when these plans were put into place with thousands of units. What was the the rack? How many residential units are we

Don't quote me, I believe it was around 15,000 give or take at the time, maybe 16.

Okay, so we're adding 8,000 because we're running short.

Correct.

Right? So how many years did it take?

I would just like to put a caveat on that. When we say that initial number of approximately 15,000, that number always included the base. So it didn't give us 15,000 units in 2005. We had 10,000 units existing Already there. Already there. So we only And got five it's been twenty years, I mean this is 2005.

That's my point.

2026 right now.

That's where the less than 1% a year comes in.

Yeah. That's the slow growth that the mayor's talking about. That's my point of time.

And so we've seen a lot of growth more recently, which is why it was we need to get this done and we need to add additional residential to it. Because for twenty years we have not requested additional capacity.

Fantastic. That was exactly my question. People I think again just need to understand it's not like 8,000 is gonna be gone in three years. Took Correct. Five it took twenty years to get through the 5,000 that we have. This is a it's a it's a long process. Mhmm. So again, I I support this. I think it's critical for the city to be ready and welcoming to build residential on our busiest transit corridors. As the mayor said, that's where there actually is transportation for people to get to work.

But I also believe the burden is on us to do our best to ensure that the quality of life of the surrounding neighbors is protected to the best of our ability. And I think that's it. Let me just do a quick run through here. The only other, I mentioned this earlier which is I think shifting the balance from commercial to residential. I'm not a traffic expert, but it seems like it would improve things during the busiest time of the day because people aren't coming and going to the commercial business all day long.

So by reducing that, I think it would have a positive impact on traffic over the next ten or twenty years. That's just my simplistic view of this. And the other thing, you know, in talking about building heights, we have a lot of discussion about mandating a certain number of parking spaces per car and things like that. And you know, to commissioner Biederman's point, we have no idea what the future holds as far as transportation. There is a huge shift that we're all living through right now about you know a huge reduction in personal personal vehicle ownership.

So we don't really know. But what I would say is if you don't have this mandatory requirement on the 1st Floor for mixed use, that that would provide some additional parking options and things like that. So it's not for today necessarily, but we've talked about this a lot. There's so much excess 1st Floor commercial space, that maybe as these residential units are built over time we can you know work with that requirement a little bit. So I fully support this with the understanding that our residents will have an opportunity to learn more about it, ask questions before a second reading.

And I just want to thank you and your staff. I know it's been a year of working to get this where it needs to be today. So thank you.

Thank you.

All right. Thank you. Let's go to Commissioners Grubber, Quintana and Hernandez. Commissioner Grubber.

Yep. I just want to kind of just because we've talked a lot about it that I just want to dumb it down a little bit for myself. So Andrew, if you don't mind coming up for it. As far as changes to what was done years ago, the landscape and the skyline is going to look exactly the same. The difference is twenty years later, we have determined because we have an affordable housing crisis and a lack of availability in housing.

I have we up here have to live in facts. People can say no one's coming here. No one's moving here. But we know the Broward Planning Council estimates at 600,000 people move here in the next twenty five years. And if we don't build 240,000 units of housing in Broward County, our economy will implode like San Francisco. We have to have a workforce. So because there's less demand for commercial and office, we figured out a way to pull out 1,200,000 square feet between the two districts and then replace and and give that density so to say to residential. I don't know why it took us three hours to talk about it. It sounds simple to me. And so I support this.

So as far as what's planned, the same thing is coming there. There's just gonna be a little less commercial and office because there's no demand for it and we have a demand for housing. So I fully support it. I'm not sure we've been speaking about for three hours, but let's go forward. Thank you.

All right. Commissioner Quintana. So,

we've done a lot of mixing of the two items in our discussion and I just wanted to make sure that I go on record as saying, you know, that it may be really difficult to imagine right now the way that State Road 7 looks. And again, it's much better than it was twenty years ago. But, I do agree with that idea that there are parts of State Road 7 that are almost an embarrassment. I definitely can see that myself. So, it may be difficult to imagine today that anyone would wanna see, wanna live there if they have a choice, but I very much wanna warn against the idea that poor people should live on State Road 7, and everybody else should have to live on the East Side of the city.

I really am a big supporter of mixed income housing everywhere. And so I just wanna make sure that everybody hears that and that we hold on to the idea that it doesn't have to remain what it is today. Thank you.

Alright. Thank you, Commissioner Quintana. We certainly agree with you. Commissioner Hernandez, near and

Go dear to your ahead. Someone that actually grew up on the West Side and went to Apollo MacArthur High School, thank you for highlighting the equality among the city or Hollywood residents because sometimes some individuals feel that they're better than others. Quite frankly, that is not the case. I'm going to expand a little bit on the long term view of the downtown. Some of the businesses in downtown have said that some of the residents on the East Side do not frequent the downtown.

They're not the patrons of the downtown. Yet they go somewhere else to do it. And we have created and bend over backwards to make sure that we have the circuit, which is a shuttle to be able to bring them to the beach, bring them to the downtown. That has generated some more business to the downtown. But here's a long term view of the downtown as, at least as I see it, and as the commission has said that they would want to see it.

We have intensified the units in the downtown around over 3,000 units. The long term goal of the downtown is to be able to have a walkable downtown where it could actually close to so that it would be a pedestrian traffic only. And on the weekends, we can have events and the residents that live in the downtown can actually frequent the downtown and enjoy their downtown. Not only them, but the people around them, we bring in parking in order for them to be able to come and enjoy the downtown. The downtown as well as the beach is for every resident of the city, Hollywood and our visitors.

Let's not forget the beach is our economic engine. So we need to be able to move people from the beach to the downtown. And some of the development that we're talking about based on bonuses, which is not here, but it's what we're looking to intensify. The density of the beach is not necessarily for permanent residents, but for people to be able to come and enjoy our beach, being one of the top 10 beaches in The United States. So every criticism that we have because we're trying to move the city forward, is because maybe they're not looking at the long term view that we're looking at.

And I'm not looking at it through rosy glasses because I know that in order to make an omelet you got to break some eggs. And nobody likes a development that is going to be four stories next to their house. Not one. I lived in one years ago that actually had three stories, and that was allowed for twenty some thirty years. So when people complain about the Regional Activity Center allowing for four stories, Here's the news, before the regional activity center allowed the four stories in a residential, there was allowed three stories in the same residential neighborhood.

So and if you have a two story house, you can go up to 35 feet. So your neighbor can actually has plenty of view of your backyard by right. So some of the complaints that we get is because people don't want to see this in their backyard. And I understand that. But we're starting to live in a metropolis. And these are the things that happen when you live in a metropolis. And I get it. I'm fully supportive of this. I'm also supportive of staff taking a look at the design and taking a look at the landscaping whenever we do have some of these tall buildings and not necessarily asking them to provide something that they themselves would not want to see from their neighbor. In other words, let's be good neighbors.

So when you have a story, a three story, a four story building, whether it's a residential building or commercial building, let's be cognizant of the fact that you're going to be peeking into somebody else's backyard. And if you can soften that view with some landscaping or the proper size trees, let's ask him to do that. And this is what I'm asking the staff to look into in order for us to be supportive of this and grow in conjunction with what existing residents have. Because it's hard, the change is hard to accept. When you have residents that are used to be in a single family setting and everybody's one story, and they walk in and they know their neighbors.

Now a couple of houses down the street, there's a three story or four story building with another 20 people that they're not going to know. With another 20 trips on a daily basis that they don't like because it's something that they're not used to. You have to be able to understand that. And you have to be able to give them their due credence. And I think that change is inevitable. That's the one thing that's constant in life. But we have to see how we do it. And I think our staff is very good at approaching those things. I think some of our residents, their expectation of what can and cannot be done with property rights conflict. Because it's okay when it's their property, but it's not okay when the neighbors do it. And we have to be able to be equal. That's all.

Thank you.

Thank you. And with that city attorney, let's read the ordinance for item 28 and read the roll call vote. Take the roll call vote.

An ordinance of the city of Hollywood, Florida amending the city's adopted comprehensive plan by amending the text of the future land use element to add 8,000 mid rise and high rise residential units and reduce 200,000 square feet of office uses within the city's regional activity center, providing for transmittal, providing for conflicts, providing for severability, and providing for an effective date.

Commissioner Quintana? Yes. Commissioner Shuham? Yes. Commissioner Hernandez? Yes. Vice mayor Clary?

Yes.

Commissioner Gruber? Yes. Commissioner Biederman?

Yes. Mayor Levy?

Yes. Alright. Let's show the ordinance passing unanimously on first reading. Thank you, staff. Alright. Let's go ahead to item 29. In order to the city of Hollywood, amending ordinance numbers o two seventeen, twenty seventeen thirteen and twenty twenty o six, which created the Emerald Hills Safety Enhancement District amending section 13, the sunset provision to extend the date on which the district shall automatically sunset unless again extended. Amending section six, financing of the district to increase the annual non ad valorem assessment maximum per property per year providing for an effective date. This is an ordinance on first reading. Welcome Ms. Pat Cerny.

Thank you. This ordinance before you is is to change and update the Emerald Hills Safety Enhancement District. The board of the Safety Enhancement has asked the city commission to make the following changes. They want to change the amount from that they charge their residents $250 to $500, and they want to extend the sunsetting of the board for ten years that would make it up to 08/30/2037. They have solicit their residents to get their by a vote to get their buy in into these changes.

And I have David Rubin here from the board to answer any questions for you.

All right. Welcome, Mr. Rubin. Good

afternoon.

I'm David Rubin. As Pat mentioned, I'm the chair of the Emerald Hill Safety Enhancement District. And we worked with our residents to create a safe environment for the district. And unfortunately, we've had the same amount of funding first since the inception of 2017. And our expenses have doubled since then.

So and that's the expense of providing the police officers to patrol the district, off duty police officers. We've we're also asking for an extension of the sunset provision which would have ended next year for another ten years. And I'd be glad to answer any questions that you might have.

Thank you. Hi, David. I just want to let my colleagues know I worked with the board extensively and their outreach is to be commended. I think what 25%, 30% of the residents answered the poll on this and were overwhelmingly in favor of the increase and the extension of the sunset. The two fifty to 500, is that coming immediately or is that scaled over a few years?

No, that is we don't have an exact plan of how we're going to space it out. Mhmm. Our intention is not to do it year one. We just want to provide for ten years from now. As the nine

years service goes up. Exactly.

So we plan on making some modest adjustment in the first year based on the board meetings.

Okay. With that I'll motion to approve. Second.

All right, have a motion from Commissioner Gruber and a second from Commissioner Schuham to approve the ordinance on first reading. Let's go ahead to Commissioners Hernandez and Biederman. Commissioner Hernandez.

Thank you, Mayor. One of the things that I would ask is as part of the motion, if we could add the word incrementally to that because right now it just says it between two fifty and five hundred. If you do it incrementally was based on your needs. That's something that to the maker of the motion it'd be okay first. If it's okay with David, only because you're saying he's

feedback. Yeah, problem that we have is if tomorrow the police department came back and the off duty rate went to from $45 to $90 I don't know how we can make that adjustment. You know, we'd have to increase the rate in order to provide the service. So we're just we're trying to really I mean, I don't have a problem with incrementally as long as it's not prescribed.

I'm sorry. Go

ahead. To your point, the way the question was done on the poll, I don't have it in front of I believe it was just to say an increase to 500. Don't even think Correct. It

Okay. Think it's approved

to go to 500 now. Yes. Okay, that's what I thought. So, but you're going to try to do it incrementally.

Exactly. We're trying not to make this burdensome.

Right. I just wanted to know, thank you for asking that question, because that was going be my next question. As to how did you ask the increases would take place? If you say from two fifty to 500?

Yes, we do.

And by

the way, just be prepared because some of these individuals that probably didn't think it was important to answer the survey or do these things, they will come back to you and says, I didn't vote for this. Just so that you

We've already had that and we've invited the community in because we, when we opened the votes, we opened the ballots in front of everybody. We read them in front of the people. We didn't want to make we wanted to be totally transparent. Commissioner Ruger was there as well and we were trying to and we actually made it so that we had a meeting in between the ballots being sent out and the ballots needing to be returned so that people could ask questions.

Yeah, and I was there and people turned up for that task.

I can tell you that Pat is very thankful that you guys are the one who did this because in the original one, we asked the city clerk to do it and maintain the records to we wanted to make sure that we would be okay with the results. So thank you for doing that and I certainly supportive of your needs because this is you guys willing to tax yourself for the security that you want. And I'm okay with that.

Thank you. Commissioner Biederman. So just out of curiosity, what was the, you you said 30% return to ballot, but what was the break down? Was it unanimous of all 30%?

No, no. It was 24% return, 24% return ballots. We had 80% asking to extend the Term. The sunset. And I think it was almost 68 saying that we support an increase to $500

Okay, so. Chief, I don't know, I'm still not sold on this whole thing. And I'm not quite sure what the justification is to going ten years out. When we originally did like three years at a time or five years at a time, and now we want to just go out ten years.

Some of it has to do with putting things in place. So we're signing contracts, let's say for flock safety, where we're doing multi year contracts and how can I do a multi year contract to get a discount where I don't know if we're going to be in business, you know?

And Flock Safety is the license plate reader?

Yes, the license plate readers.

That's a good point.

So, yeah, but you're not bonding anything. Know, so I'm is Flock's a lease as opposed to an outright purchase?

That's correct. Cause you pay for the actual devices and then you pay for the service to for them to communicate that to the police department when a bad actor comes into the the zone.

Alright. So chief, can you explain the difference between their flock LPRs and our flock LPRs or our whatever company we're using? I'm not sold on this whole ten year commitment because we don't we don't commit to ten years in the city.

Maybe chief you could also just speak to the general integration and the success that you've had with operating with the Emerald Hills Safety Enhancement District and if you support the request.

Sure. Good afternoon, Jeff Devlin, Chief of Police. So the first question, the main difference between their cameras and ours is the only is the information sharing. So they just, they don't get the information that we get. So we'll get all the registered information of the vehicle and he wants or warrants of the registered owner. That sort of information is protected by law. They won't receive that. We receive that. And the second question you had was sorry.

No, I'm just curious the difference between their contract and ours. That they need ten years commitment for it. Do we sign a ten year commitment for our LPR? We just buy them, right?

We do not. Typically our agreements are three years in length. And that is just because it gives us room as the technology advances we'll be able to procure that new technology instead of being locked into a ten year camera.

Okay. So I'm not sold on a whole ten year thing.

Sorry. Thank you. All right, let's Khajif, while you're up here, you could just speak to the relationship with the enhancement district. Tell us if it's working well, if you are happy to see it continue, if you would like to see it dissolved, speak your piece.

It's a great relationship. Any time we can partner with the citizens and the community is great. This technology is obviously great. Enhances not only the safety in their neighborhood, but safety throughout the city. Because as stated, we are alerted to any traffic that goes through that area and picks up on one of their cameras. So it's a great partnership and we'd like to see it continue.

Yeah, I'd love to, I'm happy to see, I remember when we first looked at the district, we thought that technology could be used by this enhancement district. And as the years have gone by technology has been enhanced and LPRs are available. And I know that that in the general vicinity of the entire city has really helped to be a force multiplier for our police department, really help apprehend people who are wanted for a violation of law. And as you said, Chief, this is a supplemental and even goes above and beyond and really serves to be well coordinated with our investments we're making through the new police headquarters and the fusion center there that I understand is very impressive. So all of this fits right in into the direction that we're leveraging technology for public safety.

Mayor, real quick. Sorry, chief. So there was an email from a resident that was sent to me about something else. But the question to was of the email was about the privacy of the data collected by FLAC. So you mentioned that certain information is only shared with the police department. Does FLAC collect data that they are able to sell for marketing purposes of people or information that they're collecting on the street of traffic patterns and behaviors?

I don't believe so Commissioner. I'll look into that and get you an answer. But I don't believe so. They're governed by very strict laws on what they can collect, sell and distribute. Okay.

Thank you. Thank you Commissioner Kalari. All right, Commissioner Gruber to close.

Yeah, just one last question for David. The poll question for the extension, did it say to extend it for ten years?

It did.

So I just would love to get us to be unanimous on The 80% of the residents voted to extend it for ten years. 80% of the people Who responded. Replied which was which was 500% more than our GO bond that we passed at four and a half percent resident term. Sorry.

Are there any speaker cards on item 30? I think you got Commissioner Beetleman on that one. I'm sorry item 29.

No cards.

Okay. Alright. Public hearing is now closed. Let's go ahead to read the ordinance and call the roll call vote on '29.

An ordinance of the city of Hollywood, Florida amending amending ordinance numbers o twenty seventeen dash 13 and o dash twenty twenty dash o six, which created the Emerald Hills Safety Enhancement District, amending section 13 sunset provision to extend the date on which the district shall automatically sunset unless again extended, amending section six financing of the district to increase the annual non ad valorem assessment maximum per property per year and providing for an effective date.

Commissioner Encantano? Yes. Commissioner Shuham? Yes. Commissioner Hernandez?

Yes.

Vice Mayor Kaleri? Yes. Commissioner Gruber?

Yes.

Commissioner Biederman?

Yes.

I'm sorry?

Yes. Mayor Levy?

Yes. Alright, let's show the ordinance passing on first reading unanimously. Thank you so much David and everyone. Thanks, David. Alright.

Let's go ahead to item 30. Before we open the item, I do want to pass the gavel to Vice Mayor Caleri. Pursuant to floor relevant Florida statutes, I'm abstaining from voting on this item because the applicant purchased adjacent property from my family creating a conflict requiring my abstention. I will file the required form eight b with the city clerk. Thank you.

Okay. Unfamiliar territory here. So we're going to take up item number 30, an ordinance of the city of Hollywood of the city commission of the city of Hollywood, Florida vacating a portion of the platted Fletcher Street lying within the plat of the third amendment plat of portion of Hollywood Pines, plat book 19, page three, And more specifically described in exhibit A. Attached tier two and incorporated herein providing a severability cause and repeal our provision and an effective date. This is the first reading. Do we have any public speaking cards?

Do

we have a presentation? You want the presentation first? Okay. We'll have the presentation first. Thank you,

It's your pleasure, Vice Mayor, if you would like a presentation or not. This is a vacation of Fletcher Street from State Road 7 to 61st Avenue. The property owner owns property on both sides of the street. And so they're requesting a vacation. And there is a small dedication that they will be doing as part of their waterline read up.

So I think we would like to see the presentation for anyone.

Okay. Thank

you. The splash pad. There's speaker correct, but she's going to show the presentation first.

So while we pull up the presentation, so this is for the Hollywood Kia Fletcher Street vacation. This is first reading of an ordinance. And it is on the Northwest corner of Pembroke Road and State Road 7. The property owner owns the parcel there, and they also own the parcel on the north side of Fletcher Street. And they are requesting to vacate Fletcher Street from State Road 7 to 61st Avenue, which is the highlighted in green on the screen before you today.

And you could see on the top right of the screen a small blue area, and they will be doing a small dedication there. And as we go to the next slide, Arlene, if you can help me for a minute please. And this is just a closer look at the vacation. And on the next slide we recommend approval. Thank you.

Thank you. Okay we have speaker cards. Wills or Atkinson?

Good afternoon.

Good afternoon.

Before I get onto this matter, let me congratulate the commission for its four thoughts. You know, I've been working in the city for what almost fifty years. Been accused of having foresight. So therefore bringing up projects before you all, like the Presidential Center, before it's time. And in that situation, you all had a lot of foresight and you saw how well it ended up.

More recently, Margaritaville. And after that, the project that is still coming out of the ground at the diplomat. This is one that I've been on. I filed it in 2020. At in 2020, all of the property you just saw was owned by the Levy family.

The difference was that the lot to the north still had a few houses on it, but they didn't face Flagler Street. They faced, I mean, Fletcher Street, they faced Flagler Street. All of those houses have been acquired also. So it's part of this application with the exception of the two houses on the Northwest Corner Of 61st and Northeast Corner Of 61st and Flagler Street. Because this vacation started with a vision of the Levy family, and before that I represented the original builder of what ended up to be a Dakiya facility.

So I've been through the right away battles when they took land, etcetera, and recognize that that was a very old dealership. Fortunately, the Morgan group came along and they entered into a contract with the Levy family and they acquired all the property. But in the process, because this vacation process had started and so much work had been put into it. A condition of that contract was that Joe Levy continue to use my services as long as both still concerned it was in agreement to finalize this vacation. The original concept was that, and if you're not aware of it, there's a main water line running down from west to east controlled by the county.

And my original proposal was you vacate the street, so that we can combine the properties and be able to get the type of structure that we're now talking about today. And we would give back an easement over that waterline to the city, that you always had access to it. We seem to be making progress on that until about two years ago, three years ago, whatever it was. And the county got into it and their philosophy is they have to own the property wherever they're having a water line or sewer line or whatever else. Ultimately, we hired the engineering company of Springs out of Tampa, which does a lot of this type of work throughout our county.

And we have rerouted that waterline at 61st. So it travels north for one block, east on Flagler and then comes back to its origin at 441 In Fletcher Street. That satisfied the county, seemed to be make the city happy. But I think what made the city planning department, and I don't speak for them, they can speak for themselves, Particularly happy with Scam. Sorry about that.

Basically, when Morgan came along, they were prepared to make a strong commitment, which the previous dealership didn't want to redo their complete facility. And they have now coming, they're getting ready to come before you I think in a month assuming that this is passed today for a site plan that shows a brand new dealership on the North Lot, which will allow when it's completed to tear down everything on the South South Lot, South Lot being at Pembroke And