Planning and Zoning Meeting - Regular Meeting

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Aye. The procedure we'll use tonight. First, we'll identify identification of the agenda item by Mr. Caller, presentation by the applicant or agent, presentation by staff, Then I'll open it to public comment, first in chamber, second on Zoom, and lastly on phone. We'll then close public comment. We'll have board discussion, and then we'll entertain a motion, a discussion, and a second on such motion. And then board's final comments, and lastly, vote.

Mr. City Attorney, can you please read the first item?

May I? Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, one second. I do want to make a disclosure, if you'll allow me. Yes. Okay. I was, back in 2008, chairman of the board of directors of doctors hospital and i was also a member of the baptist hospital foundation i'm sorry you didn't hear me okay i was a the chairman of the board back in 2008 of doctors hospital of directors and also i was one of the treasurers of baptist hospital systems That's in the past and I just want to disclose it in case it comes up as a negative because I have no conflict of interest in this case and I think it's I need to disclose it j

Thank you. Any other comments by the board.

Thank you so much. I'll open up to public comment. Do we have any speakers?

Got it. Yeah, if you want to finish up and then we can have Mr. Bass come up.

Thank you Thanks You need to leave oh Mr. Chairman Hold on one second.

Just let me make sure there's no other public comment. There's no public? No more speakers. So let's close public comment and I guess open up for board discussion.

Mr. Chairman, before we go, we have some comments. Please, let's not rush into it. That's what we're here for, right? Deliberate.

Mr. Bass, will you stand up, please, sir? Mr. Bass, you're a top professional now as you were a top professional 20 years ago when I was a chairman of the Miami-Dade County Planning Board. And Mr. Collier can attest to that. He is definitely impressed with your presentation. Now, you haven't lost the beat. UM should be proud of having you on board. Let's go over some of the details. 100-bed hospital.

Would you explain to the board and the people listening in what a conditional use approval process is, please?

So to be crystal clear, as you just stated, as I understand it, The cap would be at this moment 100 beds or less. Should you want a further increase in the number of beds, you have to go with a conditionally used process, correct? Okay, so that's crystal clear for everybody to understand. The other question that I have for you, and I feel this is a reasonable FAR, you had a .70 FAR in the past on your previous development, correct? And you're requesting a 1.0 FAR, correct?

Correct. Even though you're literally under the RTC district, which will allow you to hire, so that's a very reasonable FAR request in my point of view. Let's go over your park statements. 5.6 acres. We've heard testimony from other people, from the public, saying that They're for it. They're not for it. They want to make it passive and things like that. Now, when you said the following, you say you want to make sure there's a passive park. Is that through a deed restriction?

Well, let me ask you this. The language in that deed restriction, do we know it?

It's not final. I think that deed restriction needs to be a little bit more open to conversations about it. Because, for example, let's say a city decides that that could be an amphitheater area. It might violate that deed restriction. but it still be a benefit to the city. There's a little bit of a conflict there in terms of, I know that it will be a last thing to be conveyed to the city, okay? So you have to go through all these other approvals before that park, 5.6 acres, is deeded to the city, which is a bonus, and I appreciate that. But it may be so restricted that the city may not even b

Thank you, sir. With that said, I'm okay for approving the application.

Thank you, Gonzalo. Shane? Just a few very basic questions. So I understand there's an FAR increase request and a student enrollment increase request, but does UM have any current plans to build based on the FAR increase right now?

And if building is going to happen, it'll have to go through the campus master plan approval process, right?

Yeah, no, no, absolutely. And then, but if there is new... Oh, that's the part I didn't get to.

they're in the transition area and they trigger those thresholds they'd be conditional use approvals and they're not going to happen in the transition area so the campus zoning district regulations as they have been working for the last 10 years are going to continue forward unchanged okay and I think you already answered my last question but there's no plan to increase the enrollment today no okay it's just at some point in the future 30 years okay those are all my questions I appreciate your presentation I think it's a great plan and I would approve it thank you thank you mr. Pardo

Look out, Robert. So... Full disclosure, I wear my University of Miami ring proudly. Same time being a resident of Coral Gables, I'm always concerned with what the impact is of any and all development, especially with single-family residential. I looked at the applications, 156 pages. By the way, Jeff, and because I've known him so long, I think I can call him Jeff. you did a very good job in putting your application together, and in fact, you actually checked off comprehensive plan map amendment large scale.

I think there's a little boo-boo on the staff thing where it said it was a small scale. No, it's a large scale. The reason is because with an FAR 1.0, you're looking at a 15 percent increase of what's there now. So, over the years, and I know you knock down buildings, you add buildings, et cetera. That's fine. And I understand and I like the concept of having the buffering going around. That's great. I thought that there would be, and I didn't understand, if the 1.0 also included the Lee Lincoln Park. parcel yeah I mean just for clarification I'm not through the chair if I may know I made the

you don't i'm gonna thank you i'm gonna keep mine short i'm i'm also a florida panther in the sense of fiu so i'm not a um alumni but i am a canes fan um i couldn't agree more with my my board members i think this sets the university up for for lack of a better word, greatness over the next 30 years. And the park is by far an incredible asset. I myself have used the park many times. I have a little girl, so sometimes we go play soccer, whatever it may be. So I use the park, honestly, almost on a monthly basis. My only question is the neighborhood or the resident meeting. How many residents sho

And it could be off memory. I don't need an official.

because I know one of the residents brought a concern that since it's the summer, a lot of residents are in town, but to my understanding, school is back, and for the most part, I think everyone's back in town. Public school has started, university has started.

That's what I was getting at. Thank you. So yeah, just not to echo the same thoughts as my colleagues, I'm in complete favor of this myself. So thank you. I guess if we have a motion.

I'd like to make a comment before we conclude all the agreements that we're about to approve.

That's all. That Mr. Bass has agreed to meet with the city manager's office in Parks and Recreation to work out the language... Of the deed restriction of that passive park to an amenable is amenable to both parties. So that comes to an agreement. That's the statement. You may you say you're open to that. Correct?

Yes. Okay. ALIGNED WITH THE STATE MANDATE.

Second. All in favor? Aye. Meeting adjourned.