Planning & Zoning - Regular Meeting

Wednesday, August 12, 2026

The Hialeah Planning and Zoning Board approved a small-scale land use amendment, alley closure, and rezoning for a six-story mixed-use development on East Okeechobee Road and Southeast 5th Avenue. The approvals included conditions to address public concerns regarding existing illegal use and future operational impacts.

About this meeting

Government Body
Planning & Zoning
Meeting Type
Planning & Zoning
Location
Hialeah, FL
Meeting Date
August 12, 2026

Published excerpts

Only published remarks appear here. The full transcript is not published.

14 sections (from 16 segments)

29:09 – 29:20•Leonardo Castellanos

Dear Lord, thank you for bringing us together today. Please guide our minds and hearts. Give us wisdom to make good choices and listen to each other and work in peace. In Jesus' name I pray. Amen.

2:17:58•Esmiley Iglesias

There's an impossible way. instead of being a 24-hour access, like to 12 o'clock p.m., you know, at nighttime.

2:18:11 – 2:18:29•Esmiley Iglesias

Like to 12 o'clock at night to... 6 o'clock in the morning. Block that part off. I mean, in consideration with the neighbors. And then, you know, through the whole day. I don't know if it's... If it's possible, I don't think... 12 o'clock at night is...

2:19:23•Esmiley Iglesias

I'm talking about just for the consideration with the whole scenario.

2:23:18 – 2:24:02•Leonardo Castellanos

So through the chair. Yes, sir. Can we pull up? So this whole back and forth with the alley. If you pull it up on Google Earth, everybody's taken all their spaces already. So the only person that hasn't taken their space is that one little section. So everybody's already taken their space. So regardless, it will be blocked from the other side as well. If nobody would have taken their space, then they would have access from it. So it makes no sense just to gain access through one side when everybody else has already taken their space and pushed their fences. It was even said that somebody pushed their roof through and I guess did some illegal building at the end.

2:24:10•Leonardo Castellanos

That's the rest of the block going through, meaning the rest of the alleys close up.

2:24:33•Leonardo Castellanos

I would understand if it was all open room and everybody's kind of fighting for that open space, but everybody's kind of gone at their own pace with it.

2:26:41 – 2:26:52•Leonardo Castellanos

If we're going to go ahead and point out to one side, I mean, let's do it all the way through, not just look at one side of it. You know what I mean?

2:45:31•Leonardo Castellanos

One more thing, just so you guys can kind of... Yeah, we need to move along. With a six-foot building, it's going to block most of the ogichobi noise anyways. Yeah. Think about it.

2:45:47•Leonardo Castellanos

That's a busy road as it is. I mean, at whatever time everybody's getting from Lejeune, you know, so that's going to block a lot of noise.

2:45:59•Leonardo Castellanos

I'd be more worried about that than actually traffic there. Cause what are you going to have U-Hauls? You're got, I mean, it's not going to be, I mean, I mean, again, there's no 18 wheelers.

2:50:31•Esmiley Iglesias

Motion to approve? Second. Second. What conditions? With conditions.

2:50:41•Esmiley Iglesias

You agree, Mr.? Yes, we agree with all the conditions. We do. Okay.

3:19:03•Esmiley Iglesias

We have a... Motion to approve with conditions. Second with conditions. There you go.

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