Climate Resilience Committee - Regular Meeting

Okay. Welcome everyone to the City of Miami Climate Resilience Committee meeting for December 15th, 2025. Welcome. All right, let's start with item one. We have a roll call. I'll start from my right with our newest member.

Allison Weinstock.

Jenny Lee Molina. Sarai Perez.

Wayne Pathman. Aaron DiMaio.

Barbara Busno.

Silvio Frank Pupo-Casco.

Avra Jean.

Thank you.

Miriam Flores.

Sorry, Alyssa Farina, Assistant Chief Resilience Officer and Assistant Director of the Office of Resilience and Sustainability.

Johan Solomon, Office of the City Attorney.

Thank you so much. And this is not even listed on the agenda yet, hot off the press, our newest member. Allison, would you like to introduce yourself, however you choose a little bit about yourself?

Yeah, thank you so much. I'm an environmental engineer, and I focus my work on infrastructure and risk and resiliency. So I do sustainability consulting and environmental risk consulting.

Excellent. Well, it's great to have you. And now we have a full attendance. All seats are now full, which is the first time in many years that we've had this. So this is great. All right. So moving to item two, we have public comment. If anyone from the public here would like to make a public comment, please do so now. Or if not, if we have any public comments submitted.

We have one online. I can go ahead and read that.

Thank you.

And it's from Alexander Alex. He says, the City of Miami has done a great job throughout the neighborhood. There is enough commissioners on the job and no need for additional seats.

Not sure if that's an agenda item.

No, it's not. The individual, let me just move on. He thanks everyone for the cleanup in the neighborhoods. Everything has gone well. Taxes are paid. In-field houses are being well kept. Library remodeled well. Public works are removing bulky waste after hurricane season. Great job to the heroes who work here. It's being noticed. Hope to see tourists in our city government again. Welcoming 2026. All right.

Thank you so much. All right. So item three is approval. of the minutes from the october 20th meeting and then also from the november 10th workshop which turned into a workshop because lack of quorum last month do i have a motion to approve one or both of those items motion motion from silvio in a second second Second. All in favor? Aye. Any abstain or no votes? All right. Unanimous approval for both items. All right. Item four is a presentation. Transit station neighborhood development. Are you ready? Yeah? Fantastic. All right. Welcome.

Good afternoon or evening, everybody. Give me just a second. I'm pulling up the PowerPoint presentation. So good evening, everybody. I'm Savannah Steiner, Assistant Director of Planning. And I am presenting tonight on our transit station neighborhood districts and our transit-oriented development legislation that we passed earlier this year and is currently becoming effective with the state. So just a little bit of an overview of the presentation. So we'll go over kind of what is a transit-oriented development, our changes that we included in our 2023 comprehensive plan update, the new definition of what a transit-oriented development node designation, land use designation is, our update to Miami 21, and our implementation strategy. So exactly what is a transit-oriented development? Transit-oriented development are those areas within a close proximity to a fixed rail station They're typically considered a half mile within a half mile of a fixed rail station. They support compact, walkable, mixed-use development. They create a lot of transportation choices, so taking that stigma or the stigmatization away from different types of transportation takes that away as well. It really promotes equitable access to everybody. So what exactly does that look like? This is an example in West Palm Beach at the Brightline Station. So there you can see there's a mix of uses, residential offices, there's transit supportive zoning, transit connections with passenger amenities, including bike infrastructure. There's commercial uses, so it might be an employment hub as well. There's pedestrian paths, so people can walk to and from the transit station. And then typically there's some type of green space or open space park enhancement as well. Here's another one, these exist throughout the country. Here's another one in North Hollywood Station in Los Angeles. Again, you're gonna see the same types of things, of mixed safe uses, pedestrian paths, bike infrastructure, and then some type of open space as well, all supporting a fixed rail station. In 2023, we updated our comprehensive plan. And at that time, we actually kind of expanded what we defined as a transit-oriented development. They are those that are within a half mile radius. However, one of the things that we wanted to do was to support a new concept that was coming out of C40, which was called 15-Minute Cities. Probably the city that's most implemented 15-city concepts is Paris. They did it before the Olympics. And that is really to expand that. transit and those transit options up to a mile. So it's, you know, where can you get from your place of employment to or your home and what you can do, everything should be in a mile. So you should be able to live, work, play, everything kind of in that mile. And if you can't do it in a mile, you should be able to, in 15, I'm sorry, in 15 minutes, then you should be able to connect to something that can get you there. So within another 15 minutes. So kind of playing on that 15 minute city concept, we incorporated that language into our comprehensive plan so that as we began to implement our comprehensive plan, we could continue to expand that. Also, moving that up to a mile also helps us fix one of those things that I like to call, it's that, we call it, we see it a lot in transit, it's called the first mile, last mile issue. So, it's how do I, you know, I get to my train station, but my house is a mile away, how do I get there? Am I walking there? Am I still driving a car? Am I taking a trolley? So looking at making sure that we're connecting people to that transit up to a mile, and it allows me to be able to solve for some of those infrastructure issues as well. Sorry, that kind of went into what a 15 minute city is here. You can see these are some of the graphics that have been designed over the past few years. It's really kind of a five-minute walk, 15-minute walk, what's a five-minute bike ride, and then even what's a five-minute electric vehicle. And then that gets expanded to what is a 15-minute bike ride as well. first and last mile problem. So again, just trying to make sure that we connect our homes to our fixed rail station, to our places of employment, and that we're solving and making sure that we have all types of transit and then connecting them together. So why are we doing this now? Well, we've actually kind of been working on this since the late 1970s. That is actually when the county's RTZ program was established. And then in the late 80s, we have the tri-rail service, Butcher Real Service began in the mid 80s. And then since about the mid 2000s, we've been working with the county and entering into different types of agreements and MOUs to expand transit in Miami. And then also the county has been working on expanding their RTZ areas or their rapid transit zones. So we expanded them in 2021 to include bus routes, that includes a mile as well. And then we've also had some preemption items from the state, like Live Local, which is really talking about affordable housing. And then we also have some new little, we have new stations that are being planned, including our new station in the Little River area. So exactly what is a TOD node designation? So what we've done is we looked at different cities across the nation, including Minneapolis, Atlanta, and Tampa. We looked at our existing densities that were already allowed within the comprehensive plan. And then we also looked at some of our surrounding residential density increase areas that existed within the Miami Comprehensive Plan. We looked at the Miami-Dade Rapid Transit Zone densities as well. They allow a minimum of 125 units per dwelling unit up to 500 dwelling units per acre. And so those were the things that we took into consideration. when really looking at determining what our density surrounding our fixed rail stations should be. And really we want that high density to make sure that people can be independent of automobiles and more dependent on different forms of transportation, but also making sure that they can support those employment hubs and then the residences and retail that surrounds that. So that allowed us to come to this scale of nodes. We have scales one through four. So our least dense node is TOD node one, and that is 150 dwelling units per acre. So that is currently the max amount of density that you can get And our comprehensive plan without, of course, being in the central business district or without being in a residential density increase area. So this does allow for some additional uses. And then it also allows for some additional FLR, which is our Florida lot ratio. So it does have a little bit extra on top of that 150 that you already see in Miami 21 or that you already see in our comp plan. But then it allows us to go all the way up to 500 units per acre. And that is our base density that is allowed by the comprehensive plan in this node. So node four is our highest intensity with the FLR and then of course with the density. Currently we have none of these in the city of Miami. So we just introduced this language to the comprehensive plan that then kind of allows us as planners to go back out and study and say, hey, where should this type of density be? We then looked at, of course, all of our fixed rail stations and the fixed rail stations that are currently being planned by the TPO. We've mapped all of those and included a half mile radius as well as a mile radius. And so that is also part of our comprehensive plan update. So in order to be considered or in order to receive the land use designation for the transit oriented node or the TOD node, you would have to be within a mile of one of these locations. And that's the dark, that's the dark, bold boundary. So what exactly does that mean in terms of what you can build? So our comp plan just allows us to manage our growth and then we actually manage that growth through our land use regulations. So we created a program called the Transit station neighborhood districts. We have two districts. We have a general district and then an enhanced district. So for our general district, it's processed by exception. It is available to anything that has a land use designation of TOD node one through four. Properties have to already have an underlining base zoning of T4, T5, T6, and D1. So it is not all properties that are are zoned T3 are not eligible for this program. Abutting neighborhood conservation district properties and neighborhood conservation district properties are not eligible. And then historic properties that are individually designated or contributing within a district may be approved by exception by city commission. So then we do have a large amount of public benefits that are required to then be able to access the development rights that are being given through this program. And for our general program, that includes pedestrian and mobility enhanced connections. And then you have to incorporate the affordable housing. So it's 10% affordable housing and the breakdown of 3% at 60% and below. 5% can be at 100% and below, and then 2% can be at 120% below. So really trying to make sure that we have different types of housing and income types. So what do you get for providing all those public benefits? You get your density intensity as per your TOD node. So that's anywhere from 150 units per acre to 500 units per acre. You get all of the uses allowed under T612-0. You can build to T612-0 standards if you're within a half a mile of the transit station. And then you can build to T680 standards within a mile of the transit station. You can of course use any of our additional bonuses on top of this that are already allowed in Miami 21. So that includes increasing, that includes things like using TDRs from historic properties. It also includes, or from other affordable housing projects. It also includes incorporating a deeper affordable housing or more affordable housing. And then it allows you to access the Miami 21 parking reductions for TODs by right. So instead of having to go through an additional exception process for those parking reductions to city commission, they're now allowed by right within this program and with the proffering of those public benefits. The enhanced is really meant to create a master planned transit oriented development. So you have to have a minimum of three acres of land to apply to be part of this program. We have included definitions of what has to be included in that master plan. So the criteria and the application, the application criteria are very high for this. Again, you have to be zone T4, T5, T6, and D1. T3 properties do not qualify. You have to have the land use designation, node of one through four. This is an exception, is also by exception approved by PSAB. And then at the same, the abutting properties in the NCD and the NCD properties are not eligible. And then historic properties require a little bit more scrutiny and public hearing and go to city commission. This program does require a large amount of public benefits, including you have to build the train station. So if there's a train station that already exists, then you have to make a sizable improvement to that existing station. Again, this is a master planned area of a minimum of three acres. We ask that you provide the pedestrian and mobility connection enhancements. There is an affordable housing component. You have to provide enhanced landscaping. There's a public park and open space requirement. You have to include mobile amenities. That could include something like a freebie. You also have to include workforce development or some type of small business support. This could include micro retail. And then you have a selection of one other enhancement that you have to provide. So that could be a payment into one of our trust funds, including an inclusion of a green building or green infrastructure. You could do a brown fill redevelopment or the donation of a civic space or type. So that's like a med bay or a fire station or a police station. So considering you're giving us all of those public benefits, what do you get for that? You get the density and intensity as per your TOD notes, so that's anywhere from 150 units per acre to 500 units per acre. Your density and intensity may be transferred within your master plan area, not to exceed what is allowed by our comp plan. Our comp plan currently allows for 100% 100% or doubling of your base density if you're in anything duplex, residential, and above. So that's everything from T3 up can double their density currently in our comp plan by 100%. You get the uses allowed in T6-24-0. There are some of these that are typically allowed by warrant and exception, and so those are allowed by right. You can build to T6-024 standards with some modifications. And then again, you get a reduced parking as well. So exactly how does this process work? First, your fixed rail station is approved by the TPO. Second, and so it has to go in their long range plan or be somewhere in their plan and approved and put into that plan. Step two is your approved station is then added to our TOD map and our Miami comprehensive plan. This requires a minimum of our state expedited review process. And it also requires a PSAB and at least two city commission hearings. Step three, you have to apply for a comprehensive plan amendment to amend your future land use on our future land use map. At this time, the city of Miami is the only person that's able to apply for your future land use map amendment. without a rezone application. So really at this point, the city is the only person that can apply for this designation. Step four, public hearing for the comprehensive plan amendment, and so that's a PSAB, and then two additional city commission hearings. After all of that is completed, then you can apply for your transit station neighborhood district. You work with us on meeting your program requirements, and then it does require approval by PSAB. So it is a fairly lengthy process with lots of public hearings in order to go from no train station to a transit station neighborhood district. I mean, you're looking at probably, you're looking at one, two, three, about 10 public hearings, not to mention the community outreach that you would be required to do. So our implementation strategy is that we've started with Little River. We have a housing project there that will be replacing the existing affordable housing two for one. As part of that project, they have to deliver a train station within three years of completing the first building or transferring people from the public housing project into the new housing located across the street. And so they are building a new train station as part of that project. From there, we have some of our other districts that it could be implemented in. We have begun looking at one other node currently, and we're hoping to be able to bring that forward in the spring. And then, of course, we have our existing metro rail stations. Most of those already have 1,000 units per acre. However, we have actually had more people reach out to us about being part of this program, even though they don't really need the zoning or the density because it's kind of already there, they'd rather do this than RTZ. So we have actually had some people reach out to us as opposed to going the RTZ route coming into this program instead. So again, this is the Little River TOD. So you can see the star, what's existing, and then the star is where we anticipate the approximate location of the new route of the new train station. For this area, we are proposing TOD node two, so that is 250 units per acre, and then you can see the dash line is where we go beyond a half mile from the fixed rail station, and that transitions down to node one, So again, keeping with Miami 21's policies, that as we get into, we should be maintaining that neighborhood characteristic and that neighborhood context. So as you get further away from the train station, we are transitioning down in both height and density, and that is done through the TOD node, by moving to that TOD node one. We anticipate always having some type of transition at that marker within all of our TODs. Of course, it will depend on what the TOD is designated. So if it's a four, you might see only a transition down to a two. For this area, we determined that the TOD node two was appropriate and the TOD node one as the transition was the most appropriate. And this would match something similar in the RTC program. So thank you. If you have any questions, I'm happy to answer them.

Thank you so much for the presentation. I do have a question, but I'll start it with kind of a comment and see if you could help kind of tie it together. You mentioned C40, also 15-minute cities. Could you kind of explicitly state how this affects climate resilience from a lens of compact walkable density, parking reductions, inclusion of the bike master plan, which is hopefully upcoming, and building on high ground, et cetera, and also how infrastructurally this will be attained in these neighborhoods? What planning is doing in that lens?

So I think that when people ask me about what are the three biggest things that we should be doing in terms of climate planning, I always have three. I say there are three things. One, stormwater management plan. Work your stormwater management plan, right? Two is urban forestry master plan and plant some trees. We know that trees, not only do they actually help your stormwater management plan, but they also help do things like reduce your urban heat island index, they make walking much more comfortable, and they eat up all that carbon dioxide that is produced by all of our cars. Creating walkable neighborhoods that have choices in terms of transportation is one of the best things that we can all, is probably the thing that I say is number three in the importance of climate planning, and this is what this really does, is so that it begins to create that options for different types of transportation, really focusing on the fixed rail transit station, but also ensuring that we have sidewalks and potentially bike infrastructure to connect you all the way from a mile to that transit station. It then also allows for other types of mobility access, including things like freebies, and then it provides the infrastructure and support for all of those as well. In addition, it also does things like encourage you to plant a higher caliber tree, so in the enhanced program, that is one of the things that you have to do as part of your streetscape is plant a higher caliber tree so that we're getting that shade closer to day one versus having to wait for that tree to mature more. So I think in terms of getting and hitting a lot of those things that we're looking for in climate planning and climate resiliency, this program is designed to do and if it doesn't already exist and you're currently in the infrastructure there, you're having to give it based on the required public benefits for the program.

Excellent. Thank you. And I'll just wrap up my comment with I've been using the public transit here for over 20 years and continually using transit and micromobility. And I think that this is an important step. It's kind of the chicken and egg conundrum. And increasing density around these stations I think is hopefully going to push the bike master plan to be rolled out faster and streetscape master plans to be rolled out faster. And last year, August 2024, Miami-Dade County had the straw vote with I think it was 78% of people saying that there should be expanded metro rail, passenger rail, and metro mover stations. So, you know, there's overwhelming support across the county for this. And I hope that it brings that walkability, which I think it will. So I appreciate the effort. Anyone else have questions or comments?

I would like to say also that 80% of the transit-oriented referendums and ballot measures that were on the ballot in early November across the country passed. So it's not just the city of Miami that, in Miami-Dade County, that sees this as a priority. It's us as a nation that sees this as a priority.

I didn't know that. Thanks for letting us know.

Random fact. Yeah, just a comment from the developer side. I think it's great that planning and zoning is looking at, when you're in a TOD, like the warrant process and things like that, because that can add nine months or 12 months to a project. And it's nice that it could just be administrative approval if you qualify, right? So I think that's a necessary step. So it's one thing about getting it done, but then it's about implementing it. So anything that you guys are doing to speed that up is, I think, really helpful. So I think that's a great addition to the language.

Was that in regard to the parking? Which part was that?

Yeah, so right now, if you're in TOD, you still have to get a warrant. That takes you nine months.

And it's like, I think,

planning and zoning should be just empowered. It should just be an administrative approval. So you're sitting there and you're doing a live local project, your TOD, and you're waiting nine months for a warrant. So I'm just, I mean, the live local is the way around it right now, but it shouldn't have to be that way. Yeah.

Yeah. So I think in early 2022, the TOD parking reductions, um, you know, those were by right to warrant. Those were all increased, really, some of them are still by right, but they were all increased from waiver all the way up to exception by city commission. I will say that 100% of those exceptions that have gone to city commission have passed. Yeah, it's just the time.

So, yeah, it's the time that matters. And when you're designing a project and you have to You're doing construction drawings. You need to know that. So anything that speeds up that decision making is really helpful on the execution side. So I think that's a nice change you guys are looking at.

I agree. Yes, please.

I'm a little concerned about, you talked about getting that, once these... developments occur, it won't be, but it'd be a little walk or a bike ride. But I'm concerned about the neighborhood, which is mostly single family and duplexes. I'm looking at, I'm looking at, I'm sorry, I have a problem. I never speak into the microphone appropriately. I don't know if you heard what I said, but I'm concerned about the surrounding existing neighborhood getting to this TOD to take advantage of the transportation and not having to take a car all the way to work or to whatever. Is part of the plan to, you talked about more buses or other kinds of public transportation, is that part of the plan to deal with the surrounding existing neighborhood?

So, really the TOD is meant, I mean, and sometimes you will see TODs at I've seen them before at like bus transfer stations. So surrounding a major bus transfer station and then operating maybe out of like a bus express lane. But usually sometimes you'll see that type of density around that transfer station. Typically we only see TODs around fixed rail stations and then buses would connect into that. So there might be buses that go all over the city or that then go to a transfer station that would help residents get to the fixed rail station.

There may be. It's not part, there's a city, I mean obviously the Miami-Dade Transit is not a city operation. No. I live part of the year in Chicago, and you don't list that as a place you've looked. And I don't know if they're engaging in these TODs, to be honest. But they have people that live there now who don't want to move into a development around the transit thing, already live there, have a tremendous bus system. And I understand that's not part of your bailiwick, but I just wonder if the city has any plans to have city smaller vehicles than buses to deal, I mean, has there been a survey of the people that live in Little River? Will they, how are they going to, How is it going to help them get out of their cars?

So we do anticipate in the Little River, one of the items that you can proffer as part of your public benefits in the enhanced program, which is a program which is over three acres, which the Little River project will be. One of the things that you can proffer as a public benefit is like a freebie or a free electric, or some type of electric connector. And so they are proffering that. And so that is one of those types of infrastructures that are required to be proffered as part of that enhanced programming. So, in some neighborhoods, we will see something smaller like that. In some neighborhoods, we will see it will build naturally into our trolley program. So, it's going to have to be kind of studied on a case-by-case basis. And I am familiar with Chicago. They just passed, they just got rid of all their parking requirements for multifamily if you're within a half mile of a fixed rail station.

It's a different world.

So I have been following along with the progress that Chicago has been doing on their TODs.

Well, I would just, as a person that wouldn't probably live right where the development is, I would hope... that part of the spiel to the developers is this benefit of the trolley to be available to the single family and duplexes around to come into the transportation that's available. Thank you. You're welcome.

Anyone else?

Yeah, Chair, if I may. I have a couple of questions. I was trying to find the reference from slide 11, LU13. Is there any way to get more granularity from LU13? I looked it up. I was able to find a PDF presentation that showed it as a draft. But I don't know if you have any other way to look into granularity and kind of to piggyback off of what Barbara's saying. And for the regional transit zone I'm looking at for the metro station, how much of that is considered a big part of the area, Barbara, that's under one of these stations is T3. But some of those within T3 have already gotten some exception. Maybe go to T4. And that means maybe they would get included in terms of being able to piggyback off some of this right now. So those are like kind of transition areas that are kind of duplexes or zonas duplexes. So if you're in one of these plan locations and you're a T3 and you're able to get a plan T4, then you can...

So you'd have to apply for a rezoning. Right. There is a lot of pressure to protect our T3 neighborhoods within the city of Miami. And so that is one of the reasons for excluding them from the program benefits. They would have to come in and then rezone to the T4 before they would be able to qualify. Of course, at that time, they could, if they were rezoning to the T4, they could pull in a private application for the TOD node. That would be the only, it's really kind of the only way to get the TOD node right now. without having the city do it. And then with the level, there is a map that goes along with LU 5.13. I believe it's actually only, it's not in our maps for the comp plan, but it is available through GIS. We do have one that actually traces where all the, yeah, we do have one.

Could I request that? Yeah. Yeah, GIS there for that. And then a couple of other questions. Thank you, by the way. Great. That really answers my question. Chair, if I may. And so with some of the up zone, I think also a little bit of what Aaron was getting at, kind of twofold in my thinking. One is I found out in some of that area that's being redeveloped, some of the storm drains, they don't connect to the rest of the storm drain system of the rest of the city. So there's actually like a small channel between two or three drains that don't connect to anywhere. How do these plans consider density and overlay sort of underwater, sewer, septic, drain capacity considerations in them?

So typically a building permit, if there's additional infrastructure or concurrency needs that need to be met, we ask developers to do those at that time.

Okay, so you would anticipate, you would just anticipate it, and then if they do, then the developer needs to... Upgrade off-site utilities?

Yeah, if you have to upgrade it off-site or upgrade on-site, then that's what you have to do as part of your development.

Is there any consideration for shading on the trees or cooling for the bus shelters that are adjacent to any of those developments going forward?

I don't think that we have seen, I mean, so we don't have anything, we don't have an application for one in yet.

Okay.

But I think that that's one of the things that we could consider through the master planning process is, you know, we anticipate all of the sidewalks having that streetscape and being fully planted. And then, but I think I agree that we could look at shading for bus stops later.

Okay, I'd love to, I mean.

Unless the county, I think that, does the county have their own specific type of shelter they use? That might be a different story.

That's a great question. I think that's something Sarahi was looking into a little bit, and so there is some overlap there, but which kind of leads to my last question in terms of the regional planning board, and I don't know how this fits into the Regional Planning Board or how the Regional Planning Board or the TPO fits into kind of our plans. What that current communication channel looks like in terms of coordinating?

So we, I mean, we don't really coordinate with them. Once a fixed rail station is implemented into their plan, they look for funding sources. They have a chart you can go to. You can see which ones are funded, which ones they're still looking for. But basically what they're saying is, like, yes, this is a good place. It makes sense to have a fixed rail station here. This one, of course, is fully funded through the programming of the, or the redevelopment of the affordable housing community that is there. We do have some others, like in Magic City. I don't think that one is funded at all yet. Right. It really kind of depends. They're saying, yes, this is a good step. It makes sense to put this on here. And then, you know, how do we chase that funding for it if we need to? That's why some of them, including the Little River, you'll actually see on a 50-year plan for the TPO versus, you know, we don't anticipate it being a 50-year plan for the one in Little River. We hopefully anticipate that probably in the next seven years, being realistic. So they put that on their own master plan and then incorporate that. But before I can ever even consider putting it into mine, I don't want to put a station that nobody has identified a need for and are not chasing funding for. So I am very hesitant to put any of those into my comprehensive plan that would allow for a land use designation with increased density, not knowing that there's no plan to get funding or to pursue funding, or that there is a community consensus for a need for that station. And that is what the TPO does for us.

Chair, does it make sense to give a recommendation to incorporate cooling over sidewalks? Maybe it goes along with what you're doing already with trees, but also cooling centers and some of those bus shelters that might want to apply for this. I don't know if that's kind of within our scope to give that recommendation or consideration right now in this process.

So the enhanced has stations getting constructed, but it doesn't define an air-conditioned station. It just defines station. And it defines enhanced shading along routes to stations for enhanced.

Right.

The other one, I'm forgetting the term. Does that one include something? The general, it does not. That one's more... property-based, not planning-based.

Right, that's correct.

And then as far as where this, go ahead.

So for the general, you will have to do what's required for your property, but then you also have to proffer a connection as well. And so that is defined by RPW. It could be a crosswalk. It could be a rapid flashing beacon. It could be increased planting to make that more comfortable. And it's probably going to depend as we build out the infrastructure surrounding the fixed rail stations.

Okay.

but for the enhanced program, that is one of the criteria as part of your application that comes in, that you provide us with a streetscape and a section through that streetscape and then a higher caliber tree so we know exactly how far those trees are planted apart from each other. Hopefully it follows our tree master plan and then our street tree master plan and then also including that caliber enhanced tree as well.

Understood, thank you. So as far as where you are in this process, was done through the LU process a year and a half ago, adopted last year, 2024, or 2023?

No, it was adopted in July 2025. We have been going through expedited state review.

Even before that, the land use, the 2035, that was 2024, the 2035 master plan?

So we, I'm sorry, we, the definition that you see on the screen, we, the existing language that's not underlined, that was updated in 2023 and then officially adopted in 2024. We then updated that language to include the underlined in the map and then all of the TOD nodes. We did that on July 26th of this year.

And then that passed the commission.

In July, and then we have been in coordinated, we've been in expedited state review since July, and we are waiting on the state to make our final amendments effective.

So any recommendation that we have at this point might be for perhaps staff consideration of an enhanced project, which enhanced is like a That's a major hurdle. It's like literally building out an entire station. So if you wanted to make a recommendation of ensuring any bus shelters incorporated, that they be conditioned or a cooling center, perhaps staff would take it into consideration. But from where I understand they're in the process, it's kind of already baked. Is that correct?

That's correct.

So it'd be more of a hope for applicants to do and for staff to look into.

I think, I mean, we're happy to take that recommendation back to our urban design group and to see if they can implement that through the master planning process as those come in.

Seems important because also when you take, when you walk or you take even the MetroMover, when you're on the MetroMover, it's really cold and then the doors open and all the cold air goes out. And when you're walking around downtown in summer, it's very hot. So if we had cooled MetroMover stations or cooled bus centers, I think that would help a lot getting people to get that last... half-mile walk into their destination. Anyone else? All right. Well, if that's all, then thank you so much for your presentation this evening and for all the work you guys did putting into this.

Thank you.

Thank you. All right, so we have no old business. And then moving to item six, we have three different projects this evening for city owned waterfront projects. First one being a lease agreement for the Bayside Marketplace 401 Biscayne Boulevard. Welcome. And just to kind of orient the conversation again, because it's been a little while since we've had one of these, this is in in response to our item two, our mission statement item two of city-owned waterfront properties.

Good evening, everyone. Iris Iscara with offices at 333 Southeast 2nd Avenue. I'm joined by Joe Press of Bayside Marketplace. Apologize, I'm a little raspy because I think I'm coming down with a cold. We recently presented to the city what we're considering almost like a cleanup amendment to our lease. As some of you that have been around for a long time, you may recall there was a project. We had a subtenant called Skyrise that was going to build an observation space just beyond the hard rock for those that have visited Bayside. That little arm of our asset. had a proposal to build a tall entertainment venue that had restaurants, had an observation area. It was 1,023 feet, and it had received all its entitlements. As many of you may see, the observation area was not developed, and as a result of the lease, the way that it was written, we came back to the city to present a modification on that particular area. What we've proposed to the city is that we will be building a building that complies with zoning, minimum 50 feet, and an observation area as part of a new development. That was one. So we are no longer building the 1,023-foot tower, which I know many of the neighbors were quite excited about. Second, we are also going to be building, we've also committed to commencing to pay rent on that particular sub-tenant area, because until now rent wasn't necessarily due, so rent will be commencing within two years, within which time we'll probably be coming back before this board with the actual development of what we're going to be presenting, because it would require the new building to come back before the board. In addition to that, the fire department needed space. So the city of Miami has a fire boat crew that's there. They have 1,000 feet now within our space, as well as we're doing some other interim improvements in that area that has to do with landscaping and awning, electrical line, some fire suppression lines, and so forth. So we're doing some interim improvements for the marina facilities in that area. That concludes our lease amendment and presentation.

Thank you. So at this time, the plan is at least 50 feet and something with an observation for the beautiful view there. Would there possibly be any opportunity to, that land is, from what I recall, a peninsula. It's surrounded by a marina and then a small inlet to the marina and then open bay front. And then to the north is the train track that runs to the port and the causeway. moving along the Baywalk in that area, you have to move either through Bayside, which is a nice experience. It's a lot of shops and a lot of people. But if you're jogging, if you're running, you kind of have to move all the way back to Biscayne. It might be nice that there would be some opportunity to connect from that peninsula site, this subject property, across that little opening to the north so that it was a more streamlined movement for people on the Bayfront. And it may actually bring even more people to your subject property as it being part of a pathway instead of an endpoint destination. It's currently outside.

We just can't do that. I mean, there's boats that need to get in and out of there, and the sloping and the ramping, and it's just not possible. Could you introduce yourself?

I'm sorry. So can you please pronounce your name?

Yeah, Andrew Frey, head of real estate for the city of Miami.

Thank you.

I just want to take that off of her because that's not her client's issue. Yeah, so we can't do that.

Now, I can say we have tried to see about doing something through Bayside in that little area that kind of connects to what is the old bridge and so forth like that. We don't have necessarily rights there either, but that could be right now. I think there's like a bridge caretaker. There's like one little person that goes out there that monitors the bridge opening and comes back. I mean, ideally, someday we'd like to do something there as well, because that's an amazing view that currently right now just serves as a bridge caretaker passage.

Yeah, that's the county and FECR, so.

Yeah, no, it's outside our lease premises, so we don't have, but it would be pretty cool.

Yeah, it was certainly a bit of a pie-in-the-sky vision, but understood. Anyone else?

We have a pirate ship that needs to get in and out, so we can't do that. Okay. I mean, it's actually, yeah, so. That's the city's marina, right? That's not her client's marina, so that's our issue.

Well, if there's no other comments at this time, I guess I think it's good that the city will be starting to get rent on a subtenant area and that there will be something on that amazing piece of land for attraction for residents and for guests. So I look forward to seeing what you all come up with and... hopefully it tries to meet some of our checklists that we've provided that you've seen in the past when we see that. So thank you so much for your time this evening.

Thank you very much, everyone. Have a nice evening and happy holidays to all. Thank you.

All right, so item B is lease agreement for Miami Yacht Club 1001 MacArthur Causeway.

Chair?

Yes. So this is Andrew Frey again, head of real estate for the city. You're going to hear two of our non-profit waterfront tenants. These are renewals that went to city commission this last week and the month before. As you guys probably know, the city of Miami has a charter exemption. for water sports-related nonprofits. We have five of them in the city. Because of the charter exemption, we can do direct deals without a competitive process. So we have the U.S. Sailing Center, we have Shake a Leg, we have Coconut Grove Sailing Club, we have Miami Yacht Club, and the Miami Outboard Club on Watson Island. So two of those waterfront nonprofits were up for, their leases were expiring, and there were no more extensions in the leases. So these are new lease negotiations that we had to draft new leases to keep those nonprofits in place. Coconut Grove Sailing Club was already at 10% of gross rent. Miami Yacht Club was at 9% of their gross revenues as a nonprofit. They agreed to come up to 10%, so that's kind of been our new standard. So both tenants are effectively agreed to the same economics. And providing public benefits, which are listed in their leases. Yeah. So that's what you're going to hear, the two nonprofits, two of the five being extended. And both agreed to, I think, 30-year base term with a 10-year extension, so 40 years extension for both of them.

And they've already been administratively approved or commission approved?

Exactly. So they've been fully negotiated and approved at the commission. And actually, we were about to sign them, and the city attorney said, oh, someone at the city turns off. Not this one. Somebody said, oh, you've got to go to CRC. So here we are.

Was the first one approved as well that we heard? The Bayfront? Yeah. So all three have already been heard at commission? Exactly. OK. Were you looking for us to make a motion of any sort, is that needed or assisted in the process?

I would hope not. I hope we brought you good deals. But even a motion of approval? I don't think that's necessary. Comments, you can make comments. But like I said, I think they're good deals. I think Bayside... It's good to clean that up, but the sky rise, which I think a lot of us thought would never happen in any way, and then it turned out to be true. And the Ferris wheel kind of takes the role of that observation tower, and I think people really like it, the Ferris wheel. It's a little more contextual. Yeah, tourists like it, and it generates a lot of revenue for the city, so that kind of took the place of the observation tower. And I think... they're hoping to do something that's more, you know, lower scale, more feasible, more doable, which will just generate more waterfront activity, which I think is a great thing. You know, the more people love our waterfront, the more people take care of it, and the more people appreciate it, so. I think that's good. In terms of these waterfront nonprofits, they're bringing people to the water. They're offering discount summer camps, sailing lessons, things like that. And each of them is proposing to make some improvements to the facilities over the course of the next 30 years. I think in an ideal world, there would be more improvements involved, but I think that would involve a longer term than what the city manager wanted to look at and also what the financial resources might have been. But at some point, you know, We're gonna need a new Coconut Grove Sailing Center. We're gonna need a new building. I think neither party was really ready to be there, but the important thing was extending them. The important thing was not to lose the valuable public service that is being provided by both of these non-profits. So that was kind of like, let's extend. And if there's a plan that can be worked out in the future for a phased redevelopment or something like that, we could come back. But it wasn't in the cards right now. But like I said, the important thing was extending them, keeping them, and serving the community, making modest improvements, which is great, fantastic too. So that's kind of where this is at.

Thank you for the context. I appreciate it, Andrew.

So just so you know, Chair, of course, this board can make a motion or any discussion, even though it has no bearing or control over city commission. Just want to put that on record.

Yep. It's always a recommendation. But also at this point, when it already went to commission, it's more ceremonial. Yeah. Good evening.

Good evening. Hi, everyone. I'm Melissa Tapinez with Law Offices at 200 South Biscayne Boulevard, Miami. I have the pleasure of representing the Miami Yacht Club. We, as Mr. Frey just mentioned, the City Commission, move forward with our new lease. And I want to make sure that you're all aware that this is, while it's just a new lease, we will be coming back before this board as part of THE DEVELOPMENT PROJECT THAT WE'LL BE SHARING WITH YOU TODAY. SO THIS IS WITHIN CIVIC SPACE ZONING UNDER THE MIAMI 21 ZONING CODE WHICH WILL REQUIRE AN EXCEPTION APPROVED AT THE PLANNING ZONING APPEALS BOARD AS PART OF THAT LEAD UP TO THE PZAB HEARING. I ANTICIPATE THAT WILL BE BEFORE THIS BOARD FOR YOUR RECOMMENDATION ON THOSE PLANS. So I consider this an introduction to the Miami Yacht Club, a pleasure to be before you this evening, and just give you a little idea as to what our vision is for this lease extension, or a new lease actually, because we're finishing up our 100 years here within the City of Miami's Watson Island, and we're hopeful to make it another 100. This lease is for a total of 40 years, and we do have improvements that we're proposing, both those that are required as part of the lease and the more aspirational ones that we're hopeful that we will get to. We do have private financing from a local banking institution to make this a reality. So thank you so much for helping me with our presentation. So this is the current Miami Yacht Club on Watson Islands. You can see that like a lot of what today's Watson Island looks like, it's in need of some TLC, and that is the process that all of Watson Island is going through as part of a special area plan that was recently approved by the Commission as part of the Jungle Island redevelopment. And then us, we're right next door, we abut that SAP land, and it's important for us to ensure that there is connectivity, some insurances between the two projects, and make sure that that FEELING AS TO THE PUBLIC WATERFRONT CONTINUES TO BE ACCESSIBLE AND OPEN TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC. SO THE NEXT AREAL PHOTOGRAPH WILL SHOW WHAT WE ENVISION THAT THIS AREA WILL LOOK LIKE IN THE FUTURE AND I'LL TAKE YOU THROUGH WHAT THE MIAMI YACHT CLUB IS ALL ABOUT TODAY AND TAKE THIS PLAN STEP BY STEP. SO THANK YOU AGAIN. So we've been around for over 100 years. This really is the accidental campus on Biscayne Bay, but it has quite a history to it. Next slide, thank you. Generations of sailors of Miami youth have learned how to swim, have used kayaks, rowing, and of course sailing within our property. We do provide boating and swimming skills to underserved communities. and we have a series of educational and cultural events through the year. Just some nice photographs to go along with that. As you can imagine, the community has grown around Miami Yacht Club over the last 100 years, so as a result, our size and scale must continue to evolve. So today, we're home to the City of Miami Dock Office and Marine Patrol. We teach sailing as well as boat safety to the public year-round with special events. Specifically, while school is out, we love to have our neighborhood children enjoy for the summer break, winter breaks, et cetera. We also provide access and educational content to Miami-Dade County Public Schools through THE SCHOOL YEAR. VERY EXCITINGLY WE HOST THE U.S. OLYMPIC SAILING TRIALS, MULTIPLE REGATAS AND WATER SPORTS AND IN FACT WE HAVE TWO SAILORS HEADING TO THE OLYMPICS. SO VERY EXCITING. SO WE HAVE ABOUT 350 MEMBERS THAT REPRESENT ALL DISTRICTS OF THE CITY OF MIAMI. WE HAVE 250 FEET OF BEACH FRONT. IT'S 1.5 ACRES IN SIZE. Our marine permit has 172 dry slips and 40 wet slips. Currently we only have 115 dry slips and 31 wet slips, so we'll show you what that looks like in the future. We have private or public parking for our sites as well. And we have a restaurant, which is very inexpensive and quite a vibe for us all. So we want to make sure that we provide additional waterfront access to the public. We want to make sure that we continue to be a home base for environmental and cultural groups that utilize the site but don't really have office space or working space available because of its... just the size that we have. And we want to collaborate with blue tech businesses for water access in the future. So those are our goals and we'll take you through our plan. This is how the proposed plan looks from the waterfront along the beach. And then I'll take you new construction by new construction. So this is our immediate plans to create a new mooring office, increase our dry rocks, as well as create a new Marine Patrol building. Next slide. You can see some renderings of what that will look like. We also, this area is very important, the mooring field office, because the Miami Yacht Club, along with the City of Miami partner in the mooring facility at this site. We work with the dock master and the marine patrol for these phases of the project that we have today and we're improving. The next phases are a new facility for youth sailing, an environmental marine lab, as well as U.S. sailing Olympic development offices. We work at a very small space today, and of course we need more space, some photographs, some renderings to go along with those images, and our partners with this project This part of our objectives are the Youth Sailing Foundation, the Overtown Youth Center, as well as Blue Scholars. And we have existing relationships. Now it's about creating the space to make it more collaborative in nature. And of course, very excited about our partners at the U.S. Olympic Trials, the U.S. Sailing Development Program, and of course, our 2024 Summer Olympics. The next phase of the project will be the blue tech workspaces, community event space and the renovated clubhouse. The clubhouse needs some work and really that's what becomes aspirational. How much do we want to create a actual public facility? How much, you know, you have all kinds of Types of event spaces and clubhouses they can be and it really is a matter of the vision and what we want to create So that's really something that we need to work on with our stakeholders because you can imagine lots of opinions Especially as all of Watson Island Develops we want to make sure that we stay true to our historic nature, but at the same time tastefully develop into what is happening or what will be happening along Watson Island and

Next slide.

And of course our partners with those environmental organizations are the Seaworthy Collective as well as Climate Ready Tech Hub. And so we have a lot of community engagement. Our 350 families are very active in the community. We strive on being innovative and adaptable and enjoy our strategic partnerships. Next slide, and I think we're coming to an end. And these are just introductions to our Commodore, as well as our Vice Commodore, our leadership at the Miami Yacht Club, in case you have any questions. So thank you.

Thank you. Appreciate the presentation with graphics and explanation. It was really clear. And I agree, I think it's important that this space offers additional community benefits, especially with the new park with the SAP next door. that hopefully there'll be more residents coming and enjoying this area. So it's great to see that there's going to be additional space for those different sustainability initiatives that you mentioned and also for people to have boats and engage, you know, go out on the water. Overall, it seems like a well-scaled plan and it did seem a little low to the ground given that location is, Is that the height per BFE, or are those renderings already shown?

The renderings were prepared by Architectonica. They're working on our plans, and so I'm sure there's some creative license, but I can tell you it will definitely comply with code.

Excellent. Well, I think it's very interesting, and I don't have any other questions at this time. I have one question.

Your relationship with the mooring field is what?

We partner with the city of Miami on the actual mooring field.

Do you administer the mooring field?

Yes, along with the city of Miami.

And is there a limit on the, I happen to live very close, and I see how many, it's growing and growing. How many boats are in that mooring field now?

My understanding is that they have moors for 100 boats. I'm not sure if that's changed. I don't know if Andrew has a more recent number, but my understanding is about 100. Okay.

Thank you very much. You're welcome.

Yeah, I have, Chair, a couple comments here. Also, on the previous presentation, I didn't have a chance to request the public benefit language. If we are able to make that request to whatever was negotiated with some of the parties to understand what is that public benefit language, kind of... Let's bring that up after this presentation. And for... I'm very interested in the blue tech component, also some of the plans with Marine Patrol, the expansion of Marine Patrol, and if you have any info on best practices in terms of pump-out stations, derelict vessels, or any data related to that with the mooring situation. A lot of folks have moved from that area. They've moved to Key Biscayne, and there seems to be some overlap between FWC, City of Miami, and the county. especially when it comes to the threat of derelict vessels and just folks that are not pumping out correctly. Do you have any insights on that?

My understanding is that the mooring field here doesn't have the issues of the derelict vessels. That's typically outside of the marine operating permit mooring field itself that usually occurs. And that occurs, this is all in the city of Miami, but I think what you're referring to is between Watson Island and as it becomes Miami Beach, there is a throng of land that is kind of unincorporated. And that's where you have... the propensity for the derelict vessels because the governments are arguing about jurisdiction as an example. So that's what takes longer and including, of course, jurisdiction and payment of actually moving the derelict vessels which become quite expensive. And that's an issue throughout the county and everywhere else. Regarding the public benefits, I think that that's really important. You should note that Mr. Frey requires that as a separate exhibit to the actual lease, and that's included in our documentation as well. So the partnerships that we have today, we are preserving them, maintaining them, expanding upon that, and that is part of our lease. Exhibit B, I remember.

And could you share a little bit on the blue tech? I mean, is that part of the public benefit? Because I know the resilience tech hub does have a sort of coastal resilience element to it, but we still really haven't been able to figure out an innovation sandbox area for blue tech companies like Seaworthy's, you know, to be able to actually deploy in the field, whether it's, you know, robotics or gathering other data or being able to do water quality testing.

Right, so as you likely know, FIU's Biscayne Bay campus is where there is that kind of environment for blue tech, but not large enough. And so this is something that we're trying to keep in the city of Miami specifically, and that's the idea to create that space. So today, we have a lot of the blue tech using our facility for meetings and things of that nature, but not necessarily having their own meeting space.

permanently or office space so that's what we're trying to develop here with the additional square footage that's the goal and that's the kind of aspiration would you be able to deploy like or collaborate with Durham at all in terms of like being able to pilot blue innovation in and around that area so that a conversation that's come up

That issue has not come up. Where it comes up is obviously the Yacht Club. We have members who are part of the Blue Tech movement, and those members basically act as the liaisons between their organizations and ours. But it's not something that the Miami Yacht Club, for example, is going to become the patent holders, right? That would be lovely, but I don't think that's not the idea here. It's about having a community space in which to collaborate. So it's about space, office space, and in addition to the meeting spaces that they have now, as well as utilizing the site for their pilot programs or their studies. It's just a safe place on the bay that people can get in and out of pretty quickly, and that's part of the attraction of the Miami Yacht Club for the community.

So if FIU or the public wanted to implement some initiative for Bluetech, would they go through, like, what would be the process to approach the Yacht Club to, whether it sounds like they could have an office there, they can host an event, or in the future they'll be able to actually do testing in the environment?

Well, I think that the reality is is that if any community stakeholder would like to utilize the Miami Yacht Club, they should reach out to our Commodore, and our Commodore can meet with them and see where we can collaborate. So today, having meeting space is something that organizations like, a place where they can meet once a month, once a week, et cetera, and that's what we do for organizations. also we have a lot of of students both at the miami-dade county school level but to the university level so that's where internship opportunities innovation really becomes interesting for the yacht club but really it's about a sense of place and that's kind of what we're trying to develop here and we see the urgency as my as watson island really needs to change And we've kind of been waiting along so we can get the kind of connectivity that we'd like to see. And now we're finally here.

Awesome. Thank you. Really exciting project. Thank you. Chair.

Anyone else? You mentioned... phases, you are planning a multi-phase build out of the different components and buildings?

Yes, our goal is to continue operations throughout. So that's part of our phasing plan and logistics, correct. And then the last phase is the clubhouse itself. And that's part of the visioning that we're doing now. Because you can imagine who we're serving, how large we're serving, how things change is obviously something that's important to everyone.

Yeah, you have a lot of different interests that you're balancing there.

Correct. And really, there's something special about the Yacht Club being around for 100 years. That really is what used to be a yacht in Miami has also changed a lot. So just its name of the organization is one that we've worked on branding and how to explain that a 25-foot boat was definitely a yacht 100 years ago, right? And so we have all kinds of... diverse membership, and that's really part of what makes this area of Watson Island so special.

And to confirm one more time, you said that you're planning to come back once you had plans further developed per our standard procedure of the CRC mission?

Right, so development plans, so vertical construction will require that exception process under Miami 21.

Got it. Well, I do appreciate you even showing us the concept this evening and letting us weigh in with this initial idea. Absolutely. I think it meets a lot of goals that I think are resilient for current city standards. And I think we should potentially consider a resolution in support of this initial plan based on us having additional details in order to show support. Would anyone like to add any detail to that statement? Would anyone like to make a motion for something related to that? Well, don't jump all at once. Okay.

I'll make the motion. It's too cold. You stated and put my name on it.

Okay. just a general motion of support of this project based on its current, the currently proposed plans. And then we have a motion from Barbara. Do we have a second? Second. All right, a second from Silvio. All in favor? Aye. Aye. Any oppose or abstain? No. All right, unanimous.

Thank you so much. We look forward to coming back and checking all the boxes that staff provided us. And I was like, I really don't have any plans, but I have a vision. So thank you. We look forward to checking all the boxes next time. Have a great day.

Enjoy the holidays. You too. Happy holidays. All right, we have item C, lease agreement for the Coconut Grove Sailing Club, 2990 South Bayshore Drive. Is that you all? Huh, excuse me? Okay, yeah, we had the intro from Andrew. Thank you, Andrew.

I'll introduce you. Good evening, everybody. Jeffrey Flanagan. My office is at 3399 Ponce de Leon Boulevard in Coral Gables. Long time member of the Coconut Grove Sailing Club. I've been a volunteer through this process. I'm here tonight with James Liebel, past Commodore Alan Pruitt. The three of us comprise 75% of our lease committee. So there's been four of us at this for many, many years. And as Mr. Frey mentioned, piggybacking on what Melissa Tappan has said, the commission has approved a new lease for us. We all tend to call it a renewal. But the lease has expired, so there are new leases that will run concurrent with the expiration of the existing lease. We're very appreciative of the administration, the staff, the city commission. Mr. Pruitt will give you the kind of proposed improvements that we have committed to, talk about where we've been, where we're going. It hasn't been 100 years for us, but On December 9th, so a week ago Tuesday, we celebrated the 80th anniversary of the first meeting of members of the Coconut Grove Sailing Club. So the timing is a very nice coincidence, 80 years is a very long time. And like the other clubs on the bay, we really look forward to continuing our existence, promoting the sport of sailing and seamanship. educating the community, and really providing great opportunities for people to get close to the water, and more importantly, get out on the water to see what a beautiful place Biscayne Bay is and how they can contribute to our environmental stewardship and sustainability for the future. But without anything further, I'll let Mr. Pruitt talk about the club, what we've done, what we provide, and where we're headed. Thank you.

Thanks, Jeff, and good evening. Appreciate the time tonight to speak with you. I did not bring my slideshow, so I'm going to paint a word picture for you of the facilities of the Coconut Grove Sailing Club. First, let's begin with what we have now. As Jeff said, we've been here 80 years, and essentially in the same place on the waterfront down at the corner of McFarland and Bayshore. right between Peacock Park and Myers Park. We currently occupy about 1.1 acres of upland and about 19 acres of submerged bottomland. The club has been there since 1945. Our existing facilities include 175 moorings on the submerged lands with dry storage for smaller boats on the upland property. Dry storage includes boats on trailers and boats stored on racks, the smaller dinghies. Our shoreline includes an existing seawall along with three docks, one fixed dock, one floating dock, and one combined fixed and floating dock facility. And we use all three of those all the time. The Upland property includes a two-story clubhouse that was built in 1982. It includes about 5,200 square feet of conditioned space, includes dockmaster office, general manager office, boat equipment storage, and restrooms on the ground floor. Much of the ground floor is open space, as you can imagine for flood purposes, and a lot of that open space is occupied by both storage racks. The second floor of the club includes a bar, indoor and outdoor seating areas, a kitchen, storage room, restrooms, and a large multipurpose room that's used for classes, meetings, parties, and other events. So that's our existing facilities. The new lease does incorporate, as Jeff mentioned, requirements. for a couple of major improvements. One is a new seawall. That is first and foremost on our agenda, and I'll speak more to that in a minute. The second major improvement is dredging. If any of you know this basin here, it has been subject to silting from stormwater runoff for as long as I've been here, over 30 years, and I'm sure longer. And the following improvement we will have to make as time goes on will be to replace the three docks that exist as they wear out and have to be replaced. So those are the things we've committed to in the lease improvements. I mentioned first the seawall. Some five years ago now, we began the process of preparing a resiliency plan to address the issues of sea level rise. And actually, I think we were among the first in the city who really started to take notice of that problem and get a grip on what it meant for us, because our access to the water is essential, as you can imagine. We have to get people on boats on the water. So we created a resiliency plan, which we'd be happy to share with you, and based on that, we created what we call a framework for the future plan. It's not an official plan document, but it outlines many of the things that we would like to do in the coming years and includes those seawall improvements. And of course those projects are not designed yet, but of course they would come back to this committee and others in the city as they go into the design process. I know you're interested in public service. We have a document which outlines the public service of our club, which is substantial. Thousands of participants on the water over those past 80 years. And one of the programs I'm very proud of is our over 20 year partnership with Miami Dade County Public Schools. This past year, I think we've had over 1,800 participants from the Miami-Dade, at least 30 Miami-Dade public county schools that come to our site every week and get access to Biscayne Bay. So if you multiply that by 20 years, that's over 20,000 students that we've been able to get out on the water through our property. So public service is critical for us. The environment is critical for us. We think of ourselves as stewards for Biscayne Bay. I know you're interested in resiliency in particular. I think as we look at our new seawall, we would love to examine innovative ways that we're not just building another concrete slab, a vertical concrete slab on the water. We've been particularly interested in the kind of living seawall ideas that people are looking into and beginning to build. And so that's something we intend to look at. The dredging issue is also an environmental issue, a sustainability and resiliency issue that... is a little beyond our capabilities because we don't own that bay bottom. But in fact, we would love to partner with the city and others who can help solve that problem going forward because it's a cost to all of us if we have to come in and dredge to correct that problem. So that's kind of where we are. Happy to answer any questions. about our public service, our ideas, our facilities in the future, or our commitments in the lease. One other thing I did want to mention, just so you're aware, the bay bottom on which our mooring field exists was deeded from the state to the city of Miami. That land has a deed restriction that it be used for public purpose. so that at this point in time, our mooring field is open to the public on a first come, first serve basis. You do not have to be a member of the club to access that mooring field. So, thank you very much.

Thank you very much. I think it's great that you have the small sailboats and give opportunities to the public and the youth. I spent some time in some of those boats when I was growing up, and it was wonderful. Just being out on the water and seeing all the fish and everything. We had a presentation, I think it was even earlier this year, or it may have actually been last year, for Peacock Park, and we saw the improvements that were proposed there. And one of our questions, I believe, was asking about tying into the north into your property. As you mentioned, the seawall and being a part of your lease agreement, that's obviously important for protecting your own assets, as well as the collective nature of a seawall, that water going around it. So tying into that and what they're doing is quite innovative where they're doing a berm where they hide the seawall within earth. I think that's going to be something that we see a lot more of because it allows for that elevated protection while still allowing nature and a connection down to the waterfront. So hopefully something that you all come up with includes maybe a berm potentially as it may be a nice feature to integrate that protection.

Well, I'm glad you mentioned that because I did not when I spoke. But we have been advocates for as long as we've been working on the plans for this project for what I call an area-wide resiliency plan. To date, The city has done work at Myers Park. They've replaced the boat ramp there. They're doing the plan for Peacock Park, which includes the berm, as you mentioned, and we're aware of both of those projects. In fact, we had a specific meeting on the Peacock Park plan not long ago. But as it stands right now, as we go forward with our plans, perhaps independent of those, we're going to be required to literally build a bathtub for our property to protect ourselves from the flooding of adjacent properties. That's not necessarily, I think, the best solution for that. So we're hopeful that as we go forward and meet further with the folks doing the Peacock Park planning, that we can come up with a solution that addresses not only each property independently, but all of the properties together so that we get the best overall solution, if that makes sense.

Yeah, absolutely. I hope so as well. This area is interesting topographically because Bayshore is a little bit higher. So in a large storm sort of event, a lot of the other properties are protected simply from topography. So you guys being right on the water are a little bit of an outlier here, and it's gonna be a bit of a balancing act of protection versus cost versus integration and finding a happy medium between all of those. But I'm sure you'll be able to figure it out, connecting into the north and the south. We'll figure it out. And then the silting that you mentioned, that's from the 27th Avenue outfall?

Yes.

So it just comes out of the pipe, all the sediment and debris and dirt from the roads, and it just builds right there?

Right.

Very interesting.

Yeah, I believe the Stormwater Master Plan addresses a solution for that, but I'm not sure there is funding for it or a schedule for it at this point.

I have heard of it.

But again, that's off our property. It has nothing to do with our property. property itself.

I've heard of ideas for people putting, they wanted to put a large green infrastructure area there, like a wetland. It might help collect some of that sediment and do some more naturally, and maybe looking into that as part of your overall resilience plan might be a way to kind of solve that issue with a more proactive solution.

Well, I think it's going to require a partnership with the city to look at Myers Park, because Myers Park is along with part of our property, the lowest portion of that whole waterfront. And so if anything is going to happen along the lines of your suggestion, it's probably going to happen at Myers Park. And we have to work with the city.

Understood. Any other questions or comments?

May I just ask you to talk a little bit about Shake a Leg and your plans for the future?

Well, honestly to say, we do not have anything to do with Shake a Leg. That's a completely separate organization.

Is it on your property?

No.

It's a couple of properties across the shoreline. It's a bit north of here, correct? It's north of us.

They're at Dinner Key.

They're at Dinner Key.

I misunderstood something that this...

To the north, yes.

Okay, I misunderstood something you said, sir, Mr. Frey. I'm sorry, thank you.

Any other questions for me?

Thank you.

Not at this time would, so again, this is a lease amendment with them sharing plans for the future. Would any of you guys want to make a motion of support of what they've described to us, or If not, maybe we don't have enough information or there's no interest.

I think we're good. I mean, just kind of going forward, I believe that, you know, in the case of nonprofit benefits, you have some organizations like, I know, for example, Team Paradise over here at the U.S. Olympic Sailing Center, which I think maybe, Barbara, to your point, is more relevant with the maybe Dinner King Marina, which is right here, where sometimes they just have issues in terms of, like, having a boat ready to go. versus how long it takes you to drop your boat into water to be able to get your kids or the community out into the water. There seems to be a bottleneck that's being faced. And again, this is maybe not really relevant to you. Maybe it is. Maybe you can chime in. But there's a choke point for the community benefit aspect here where you're limited on how many boats you can put in the water. And if you have one crane and you have multiple people trying to get in the water, in the case of Team Paradise, It just messes up all the logistics because everybody else is trying to get other boats. So the community benefit element to Mr. Andrew Frey's point and kind of one of my questions for Andrew was to think about that in terms of element of how do you really make sure we get to that community benefit level That aside, also thinking about future-proofing some of the infrastructure. So we're expecting, I know, vertical takeoff and landing is not something we're seeing yet. But these coastal areas that are city property, maybe like with the Marine Patrol unit in the sailing center, I think should... be equipped to have a landing pad kind of ready or a surface drone to be ready. And we're seeing that coming down the pipeline. Those conversations are already happening. And I know that Marine Patrol is also looking for those assets. So that would be kind of my two cents in terms of what that's going to look like when we have these vehicles coming up, which is going to be in the timeline of this lease, maybe not in the next two years, but maybe in the next 10. Yeah, so anyways, this is really exciting to see and to meet all of you guys. I love sailing, so I'm a big fan of all your projects.

This seems like an odd location for an EV tool, but, you know, it's pretty small.

Yeah, I think the other, maybe the Yacht Club, perhaps that location is kind of strategic just from between, like, county and city, yeah.

Did you want to... There's already a helipad on Watson Island.

All right. Well, if there's no other questions or comments, then thank you all for your time this evening and for all the great work you're doing and wish you success in accomplishing it. Thank you. Andrew, before you go, I do want to address, Silvio mentioned something in his last presentation. Silvio asked a question a few minutes ago in the other one. He said something about wanting more about the public benefits. That's included in the Appendix B from the Bayside presentation, their public benefits. That's what he asked before. About Bayside?

All of them. What is in the public benefits package? How do you track that?

Yeah, so what we're trying to do these days is when we do new leases or lease amendments, we try to break out the public benefits into their own exhibit so that it's easy to find. Yeah. And that's something we talked about with the city attorney as well, various city, assistant city attorney. So we're trying to make that consistent. I think that's been done in all the three deals that you saw today. So when they went to the commission, and we can send you the links for the agenda items that went to commission so you can have the actual lease document and you flip to, I think it's usually like exhibit D or something like that as the public benefits. as they're listed out. So, you know, they're different depending on the size and scale of the tenant and also whether it's not private, you know, for-profit or non-profit. With Bayside, there weren't really any new public benefits because this lease amendment was really about cleaning up Skyrise and just getting that, all those, you know, Skyrise references out of there because... that was just causing a lot of confusion about what was required or not required. And what was feasible, not feasible. So that was really the gist of Bayside. So it wasn't changing the economics. It was actually helpful for us as the city of Miami to understand what was or wasn't coming down the pike So we don't really have a long conversation about new public benefits, although we clarified if they build something there on the peninsula area, they would have to incorporate. That requires the demolition of the existing marina office. They would have to build marine offices in the new structure. They also have to provide office space for marine patrol. The Marine Patrol was operating out of a temporary trailer. That trailer was on Bayside's lease premises. That temporary trailer, they're generally beautifying the property, right? They built Pier 5. They're bringing in new tenants. They're putting in a lot of money trying to sort of reorient it more towards downtown locals rather than also tourists, but... So they're putting a lot of money into the property. That trailer was kind of an eyesore. So wanted to get rid of the trailer, but they agreed to provide office space for Marine Patrol. So now we're formalizing that as part of the lease. So there were some public benefits that were incorporated into this lease amendment. But because it really wasn't changing the lease economics, it was more about deleting the references to Skyrise. it wasn't an opportunity to kind of go big on the public benefits discussion. And with the nonprofits, a lot of it has to do with, you know, commitments to, you know, serving a certain number of kids in summer camp or with discount sailing lessons or swimming lessons and things like that. So, again, we try to list those out in the exhibit for the leases.

Chair, if I may, I mean, I think that that's a huge, you know, first acknowledge that that's very valuable if you're able to work on that with the legal team to make sure that you have a common format to be able to see the benefits. So I commend you on that. And then the last thing is another question in regards to environmental quality. So I don't know if we have to report into our MS4 if you're managing a marina, if you're water from property, if you're doing construction changes, are they having to report on water quality? If somebody's doing like bilge dumping in their marina, you know, are they obliged to, like, you know, who's responsible for remediating that, if anything, or if somebody, if they find out, I don't know if there's any mechanisms in place for that type of, you know, water quality or environmental stewardship.

All that's, you know, heavily monitored by DERM. So you have your, you have to have your... you know, turbidity barriers and, you know, management plan as part of your permit documents. I mean, we just went through that at the boat ramp on Virginia Key. You know, it was kind of a funny, it was a funny but also sad moment where our contractor had, I guess, proposed temporary sheet piles around the area where the boat ramp was going to be built to prevent turbidity and silted water from going out into the basin. So they were going to drive the sheet piling to contain the silt and the sedimentation. And I think they they drove the temporary sheet piling like six inches out of the area where they said they told DERM they were gonna drive the sheet piling, and DERM shut the whole job down for six months, because it was like six inches outside of where. So DERM is very, very, very micromanage-y, sometimes even to the detriment of the project. In that case, we lost hundreds of thousands of taxpayers' money uh, for no benefit, right? There was, you know, six inches we were talking about. So, um, so, but, but they're very laser focused on, on turbidity plans and turbidity barriers and all that kind of stuff during construction. So DERMS, DERMS got that covered.

Perfect. Well, thank you so much for your efforts with these leases and, uh, appreciate your time this evening.

Well, I was, I was saying, I don't, I don't come here very often. Um, And we talked about the seawall for Coconut Grove Sailing Club. There are several areas in Coconut Grove with hardened seawalls. And I don't know if you guys have discussed seawall standards in the past. There are some standards in city code or city policies. Public Works has some standards around seawalls. But it might be an interesting topic for you guys to discuss in the future. The seawall around all of Dinner Quay Marina, that's 2,500 linear feet of seawall, is also basically rusted out and is going to need to be replaced. So Coconut Grove Sailing Club wants to replace theirs. the city is going to need to replace ours very soon. And so I want to make sure, this is from my standpoint, as the department that oversees all the marinas, one of our biggest revenue-producing real estate assets of the city is our marinas, but also being a steward of taxpayer dollars, if I'm going to replace the seawalls, I want to do it once for 100 years. Yeah. And so the question is, you know, what's the height of that seawall? What's the design of that seawall? What materials is that seawall made out of? These are things that I'm thinking about for Dinner Key Marina. But I think having a consistent policy across the city so that, you know, the seawalls are all built for, you know, the next several generations. I think there's now sheet piling that's, you know, has certain coatings on it. I think there's electrodes that you can attach that reduce corrosion, which we did at the Marine Stadium. We replaced 11 columns at Marine Stadium, and we attached the electrodes there, which reduced corrosion. Now I think best practices is On a seawall, you actually pour your pile cap below the water line so that the wave action hits concrete rather than hitting the sheet piling.

Or below, scouring up.

Below, yeah, so whatever the low water line is. And then, because it's a lot easier to re-pour concrete than it is to re-drive sheet piling. So if the wave action is hitting the concrete and eroding or wearing down the concrete, Okay, I can form, you know, 20, 25 years into it, I can form and pour a new concrete pile cap. I can't redrive sheet piling. So is that kind of a standard that should be part of seawall design? So something that my department's thinking about for dinner key, and we have no funding. You know, we know we need to replace, but it's always a funding issue. I hope it doesn't reach a crisis point, but it probably will. But, you know, since I was thinking about it for my department, just, you know, I was thinking that maybe there's, you know, all the Hooker and Grove waterfront or other waterfront properties are going to have to have this thought experiment at some point. And the other thing that I wanted to bring up is the breakwaters, the islands, the four islands or five islands that are out there.

Which one of those?

Zooming out here. So these islands protect the marina and the shoreline from storm surge and wave action. And during Hurricane Irma, the Inner King Marina took about, just the marina itself, not counting the boats, the marina itself took about $20 million of damage. And FEMA, through flood insurance, paid out and we used that money to help repair the marina. But on top of that, FEMA said that they would help pay for beefing up those islands to help protect the marina and the shoreline better. And So we have, you know, we have a study of FEMA's initial proposal and an alternate design, conceptual design, schematic design. Not detailed, but, you know, kind of schematic design. To harden the islands, it would involve additional riprap, additional mangroves, things that absorb wave action. And... We're looking for money to continue with engineering and permitting for that. FEMA's basically said that they won't make, they're offering us construction dollars. They're not committing to those construction dollars until we have a permit in hand and they're able to do whatever the federal analysis is. So basically you have to spend money to get access to money or potential access to money.

They want permit ready.

So we're trying to get, we're trying to cobble together funding to do the engineering and permitting on the alternate plan. And so that we can maybe have access to FEMA dollars.

I just wanted to add that our office worked together with other departments this summer to submit an application to get funding for this exact project. submitted a grant for 100% design and permitting to the National Fish and Wildlife National Coastal Resilience Fund. We have been successful in getting grants from this fund in the past. We were invited to submit a full application, which we did, and we found out a week or two weeks ago that the grant was not awarded, which is unfortunate. So we are looking to meet with the funder and figure out what was maybe missing about the proposal that we could enhance so we can perhaps apply again. But this is a project that we did recently apply for a grant for, but unfortunately we're not awarded.

I need someone to make a motion for us to continue because we're past eight.

Motion.

And a second?

Second.

All in favor? Aye. Aye. Any oppose or abstain? You gotta vote.

Opposed.

All right, we're almost done. Andrew, yeah, we actually wrote a memo in support of the Dinner Key Islands last year. So we have a memo with a whole write-up of the board's recommendations to be used in support your office or from office of resilience that they could they could pair that with with support um potentially even uh this could be an item that we want to maybe bring up during our budget cycle we did a budget recommendation sheet this year and maybe hopefully we'll do one in 2026 as well and this is probably a good priority project um and one thing i will mention is that for the grant application we did use the motion that you all made so there was a presentation made on the dinner key break waters

That was by David Hoot, if you remember that gentleman. So the memo that was developed by this committee in support of the project was used as supporting documentation. We also have project support from the Coconut Grove Sailing Club, the Coconut Grove Village Council, And I'm trying to remember if there was an additional entity that provide a letter of support, but the surrounding properties and the support of this committee was supporting documentation for that grant application.

Perfect thanks and I just wanted to mention them those topics. since I was here, and there are two topics that I'm very concerned about. The breakwater, I think if we don't move forward with engineering and permitting, FEMA will not only withdraw their offer for construction dollars, they will refuse to pay claims in the next storm, because they will say that we offered you mitigating You know, we told you to do mitigation, take mitigation actions. We offered you money to do it and you didn't take us up on it. So good luck repairing your marina.

And there's a lot of assets in that marina as well. Personal assets, but I mean, hundreds of boats.

Yeah, I mean, that would be tens of millions of dollars of damage to the city assets and as not counting all of the damage to the boats. So I'm very worried about that and the exposure to the taxpayers of Miami. And the seawall, I think, is, you know, the inspection report didn't look good. We sent divers under the water. The seawall's all rusted out. And it's a big expense. I understand it's a huge cost, which is why I only want to do it once for multiple generations. But we have to do something about it because it's part of the 40-year recertification process, and it doesn't look pretty.

Definitely noted, and appreciate the information, and I'm definitely going to look into the type of seawall you mentioned. I hadn't heard of the one going below the low tide, so thanks for sharing. Thanks so much.

Chair, is there anything we can do to support some of the insights that we've gotten here in terms of either inviting a presentation to have this conversation to see if we can do anything, pass a motion or understand to what level the severity is, especially if it's going in towards like critical area?

Yeah, I think we can request to see the report or other documentation from Andrew, and then we can figure out what an agenda item might be to look further into this and make a recommendation to commission to focus in on this.

Yeah, especially the sheet piling versus seawall replacement component. I mean, this is not my expertise, so I think it would be helpful to understand really what we're up against in that whole FEMA decision. Sure thing. Okay.

All right. So let's move on to item eight. We have the Office of Resilience and Sustainability updates from Alyssa. And I also have been looking into different, the seawall options. We had that discussion during the Brickell Bay seawall item two meetings ago or three meetings ago when they were talking to us about the acrylic panels and various, and the ones that lift with the pressure of water. So kind of compiling some of those different things and was thinking that maybe I would try to get experts to come and talk to us about those. So many of our projects are waterfront that we would be well informed on those different techniques. Alyssa, if you're ready for item eight, please.

I am ready. I am ready. Okay. Good evening, everyone. Alyssa Harina, the Assistant Chief Resilience Officer for the city and the Assistant Director of the Office of Resilience and Sustainability. So the first thing I want to bring up, I'm going to drag and drop. I pull up my notes. Okay, so for our first update, this is a project that's been a long time coming. The city received a grant from the Ocean Conservancy for $5,500 for a storm drain painting project as part of the Shores Forward Initiative. The Shores Forward Initiative is something that came to the city when Miami hosted the Super Bowl in 2020. So that was looking at partnering with the Ocean Conservancy to look at events and how we can make sure that our bay is clean and utilize the momentum of the Super Bowl to promote environmental stewardship. So there was, you know, a pause, as you can tell, by the time that has lapsed, but we picked up the project earlier this year, late last year, to use the funding, the 5,000, so $500 at the time went towards supplies for a habitat cleanup at Virginia Key in partnership with Parks, Ocean Conservancy, and the Frost Museum of Science. And then the remaining $5,000 is now being used for stenciling and mural supplies for the storm drain art project. We were also successful earlier this year and securing an additional $10,000 for this project from the Arts in Public Places Board. So over the summer, we held with the planning department a student art competition at FIU, and a final design was selected. So what you're looking at is a stencil art design that was developed by an FIU student. We have it in English, Spanish, and Haitian Creole. And we will be working with Public Works to install this art at 10 locations throughout the city near storm drains to inform the public about the dangers of marine debris and storm drain pollution by debris entering the storm drains. And we looked at areas that have high pedestrian traffic so that way it would have high visibility. So right now the stencil is in development, and then over the next month and change, these will be installed throughout the city. So more to come when they are done and public, but we're really excited for these to be displayed throughout the city. So here's kind of like on grass, a maca, another maca, but they'll be near storm drains in some high pedestrian areas throughout the city. So moving on. E-waste event. So in November, on November 15th, the Department of Solid Waste held its second e-waste and recycling drive of the year. When they do these events, they partner with the Coconut Grove Women's Club and the Brazilian American Chamber of Commerce. and use a vendor called eScrap. So the city was able to collect 3,002 pounds of obsolete electronics and 137 pounds of lamps and batteries. And so by partnering with eScrap, they provide a certification that everything collected is recycled in accordance with EPA protocols and DEP regulations. So we're excited to offer that. service to our residents. Next is an update on the bicycle master plan. So a resolution went forward at the last at the city commission in November and December or November rather to adopt the 2025 update to the city's bicycle master plan. The city first adopted a bicycle master plan in 2009. The 2025 update seeks to address today's multimodal transportation challenges and align with long-term local and Miami-Dade planning initiatives. The plan was developed from 2021 through 2025. The city engaged at the time in community outreach, including surveys that were answered by with more than 700 responses. There was an interactive mapping tool, meetings with the community organizations, which resulted in public priorities such as protected bike lanes, improved network connectivity, and secure bicycle parking. So to support the adoption of this plan, the city will be planning additional public engagement opportunities to inform the public of the update to the plan, and the project implementation plan. So those activities have not yet been finalized, but just to let you all know and the public know that they are coming, there is a plan for a city hall meeting that will also be virtual, have a virtual component. So when that information is available, our office will share it. We will put it in our newsletter and forward it to the committee as well. So more to come when that is available. And lastly, another transportation initiative. The city is, or the Department of Resilience and Public Works is working on a trolley master plan. The city of Miami, we have a free trolley service. It has 13 routes, and the ridership is over 4 million rides per year. The Department of Resilience and Public Works is seeking feedback from trolley users to inform and update to their master plan. So if you go on the city's Twitter, X, whatever you want to call it, there is a link to a survey that just talks about how do you use the trolley, how often do you use the trolley, what routes do you use. So anyone who has ever, ever, ever used the trolley, has thoughts about the trolley, I encourage you to fill out that survey. That's it.

Thanks so much for the update. I'm really looking forward to the bike master plan meetings planning to attend those. And also the other updates. Thank you. Any other questions or comments? All right, so we'll move to open discussion other items. We have first a 2025 annual board reports are due January 15. So we're going to be voting at that on that item at our January meeting. which is before the January 15th. I don't recall the exact date offhand, but if you have any specific recommendations you'd like to see in it, please forward it. If not, I'll be finalizing that, and you'll all be getting it prior to the meeting so that we can discuss and vote. For future agenda topics, I know we talked about a couple today, seawalls, dinner key. We also have an ongoing list of various items that are requested. And any others we can try to add? Go ahead.

We talked about the back bay, the county back bay.

Yes.

And I wonder if you would think about Amy Knowles coming over from Miami Beach to talk about... Can you speak in the speaker? I thought I was. No, it's fine.

You just got to move it closer.

It just doesn't pick up.

Okay, okay. Back Bay Study, Christian Kamath in the county, I think, is the person to contact. And Amy Knowles in the city of Miami Beach, they call it the Miami Beach Rising Above or the PPA program, private, public. project for neighborhoods to everything from elevating houses to strengthening a person's roof. I would think both of those would be good things to hear about.

Absolutely. Yep. will fit in the back bay as soon as we as soon as we can, and I know the county also has their own meetings on those as well. And I'll reach out to Amy and see what we can do. I know that that program we've been talking about for a while. All right. And then also, you know, Sarahi, if there's a any update on the thing that you were looking into?

Yeah, so I actually met with Natasha Wade today before the meeting. She was on vacation, so it was a little hard to reach out, but we were able to figure it out. We discussed real quick, I brought out the residents' concerns with certain bus stops and shelters, and she did let me know that if they do want to request a bench or shelter, it first has to be ADA compliant. So the best thing that they can do is reach out to Outfront Media, or she offered her email as well, and they can reach out, and that can be discussed. Really, the biggest thing is the ADA compliance. In some areas, benches can't be built. In some areas, the shelters can't be built. So we talked about that. She did offer to attend next month's meeting if we're able to fit her into the agenda. If we have any questions that we want to draft up, maybe they can be sent to Miriam. And then those could be forwarded to her so she can prepare for next month's meeting. But I already sent her the invite and she's like pretty much confirmed. So maybe if she can't fit into the agenda, a little bit of public comment could be helpful too. But she's willing to answer any questions and just kind of like bridge that gap between us.

I can't recall exactly what it was that spurred this. What was our topic of discussion or meeting that spurred this conversation? Was it budget? I think it was budget.

It's been an on and off topic. We've received some public comments about specific intersections and areas that people have wanted shelters and benches at. So I guess it's like somehow reaching out to them too and offering this email. I was like, hey, you can reach out and this can actually happen. Great.

So I'll get... Natasha's contact from Miriam, and we'll coordinate with her to try to get her on the future agenda.

Yeah.

All right. So we also have item C is future committee dates. Were there certain dates that you wanted to discuss, Miriam, for next year?

Okay. So the months I'm looking at are September, October, November, December. I'm still looking at a couple of days to see if I could get them locked in at the city chambers because what's occurring is that if I lock in one day for September, like two weeks later from that date, we have another date in October. So it's like back to back. So I just need to re-look at it and at the next meeting we can talk about it further.

It's not the beginning of September.

The conversation on this was just to review the calendar also just so people have it because we have some dates that are set already. So I don't know, Miriam, if you want to go down the dates that we do have confirmed, just so the committee members are aware up front.

Okay, so the dates we do have confirmed are January 13th, February 2nd, March 2nd, April 6th, May 4th, June 1st, and July 6th.

Great. So everyone can review those on their own time, and we can discuss it at our next meeting, or you can share with Miriam if you have a conflict. We can plan ahead, but we have a full committee now, so hopefully we'll always have a quorum. And as Miriam locks in September, October, November, December, she'll let us know. Okay. So we have item 10, public comment. Is there any public comment submitted?

No additional public comment submitted.

All right. Well, then I want to thank you all for a great 2025. It's been a pleasure serving with you. And for our excellent staff, thank you for all your tireless efforts, as well as all the other staff of the city who has come before us and presented things for us and prepared things for us. So thank you all so much for your efforts. And hopefully we have an amazing 2026. So see you all next year. Thank you.