Code Enforcement Board - Regular Meeting

Mr. Keon Williams. Present. Mr. Ulysses.

Present.

Mr. Galan.

Present.

Mr. Javier.

Present.

Mr. Moshe. And he also asked for an absent waiver.

I have a motion. Move to excuse the absence of Moshe.

Thank you. We have quorum.

All in favor? Aye. Thank you. Aye.

Good evening. Everybody here this evening is here for either an extension of time or a mitigation. When your case is called, come up to the podium, state your name and the address that you're here on behalf of. If you're here for an extension of time, go thinking how much time you need. So when you come up to the podium, you can explain to the board what you've done so far and how much time you need. The director may have more or less time that they recommend. They'll make their recommendation, the board will vote, and you'll have your extension of time. When you're done, you may want to take the piece of paper that tells you how to request an extension of time in case you need more time and you forgot how to ask for it. Take that paper with you, it'll tell you how to ask for it. If you're here for mitigation, while you wait for us to call the extensions of time and go through those cases, if you want to pick up this chart, it's over here to my right. It explains, based on the kind of property, what the board can and cannot do. And I've said this over and over again. The board cannot do more than what is on this sheet. That is all they can do. If they can go to zero with unanimity and what you put forward is compelling, they'll consider it.

There are certain properties where they cannot go to zero or they cannot go below the stated amount.

So take a look at this while you wait so you understand more or less where you fall on this chart when you're Case is complete on the mitigation and the board votes on the mitigation. Come over to the site and wait for me over here. I'll pick up your order. Once the chair signs it, I'll hand it to you and I'll hand you a piece of paper to tell you how you pay for your violation. If you're not the owner of the property, a managing member of the corporate entity, or a licensed Florida attorney, you need a valid power of attorney with two witnesses and a notary. By now, I've probably reviewed it. Oh, if you did not bring one or you don't have one, come up and see me before we start. And any order of the board can be appealed to 11th Traditional Circuit Court of Florida within 30 days. And also, when you come up, make sure you can move that microphone so that the board can hear you. Don't be afraid to move it and adjust it.

We're gonna call EOTs. The first one is on page 42, property address, 1430 Northwest 28th Street, case number 00133457. Property address, 1430 Northwest 28th Street. Good evening.

State your name and address for the record.

Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

How much time are you looking for and what have you done? 90 days. And ask him what he's done so far on the property.

Nothing has been done at the property because the permit has not been given to me to be able to build.

Give me one second. Okay. Let me check with the director real quick.

So the permit is in review. It was initially applied for in 2024. And so as you can see, you can look through it. There's a lot of no activity, no activity, no activity. Then it went back into applicant review in September of 2025. uh and then from february to march there was no activity again and right now on may uh 20th so all of a sudden i guess we're getting ready to come here he's probably his contractor said i guess we better do something and now they're being active again so 120. 120.

Do we know what's left to be done? It says work before it's got a finalized permit.

Right, he's got the permit, and he doesn't, it's in review now, so.

Okay, so.

Go ahead, Board Member, you had a question?

No, it was answered. Okay, go ahead.

Can you translate to him exactly what I'm going to say? Sir, you said, Seems like you open a permit or come up with a permit and then nothing is done. A permit was opened recently. Are you going to get the job done? It needs to be done? The house? Is that your property there? You are planning to take care of the issue?

The problem is correct. It has been corrected?

No. Madam interpreter.

The pricing has been approved for me to build. On May the 20th, it was approved. And now we're going to start doing it.

So tell him he's going to start it. He's not going to come back without saying that he has not done anything.

Next time.

I don't think you're telling him what I'm saying specifically. Tell him. That is he going to start and not show up here again without having done anything?

Okay.

This is a warning. We may not give him another 120 days after this because he's been dragging the process out.

Can I get a motion?

So moved for extension for 120 days.

All those in favor?

Aye.

Thank you. It's okay. We gave them 120 days.

Yeah.

Thank you. And grab the paper there. Next case.

We're going to move to page 23 on city view mitigation.

Oh, this is a special appearance. Are we going out of order?

A special request from a board.

We're doing the mitigation?

No, no, no. Yeah, this is the gentleman that requested.

Yeah, he's been having health issues, so we're going to take it up at a turn to go ahead and deal with it.

Okay.

I'm sorry, the question is, if in three weeks everything is done and the inspection goes through, can I not come anymore?

So he needs to, after that, speak to his inspector, not the board about that. Yeah. Yeah.

Page 23, City View, property address 720 North Miami Avenue, case number CE2018000264. Good evening, sir.

This is a four-unit rental building. The lien went to $738,000. Okay. The minimum is $15,000.

All right, good evening, sir.

Thank you both for your time and for your work to the city.

Why should we give mitigation to this property?

The problem being a few mistakes with the people who need to do the CO and they do the 40, 50-year certification and never put the application. And everything is done right now as soon as he understands all the process he do in three weeks, all the inspection and everything. And I'm asking if we can reduce for $15,000 the minimum.

I don't believe, you were not the original violator, were you?

No.

Right. He bought. He bought the violation.

He bought it with the violations?

Yes. And fixed it.

And what is it now? Well, the problem is the new owner understand this violation when received the intent of lien. Gotcha. And he called me and said, what's happening with that? Okay. I go to talk with Carlos Sierra in enforcement and he explain what the process and as soon as done.

It was for a certificate of use. It wasn't a legal work or anything else, but until they did all of the other things they needed to do, And since it was bought by somebody else after the lien was already running, the other person let it run for a long time. Gotcha. Can I get a motion?

I'll move to reduce to $15,000.

Second. Second. Any explanations or comments? No. All those in favor? Aye.

Thank you so much.

The discount of about $707,000. Next case.

Okay, we're moving back to EOTs on page eight, code check, property address 2742 Southwest 8th Street, case number 00054264.

Good evening. Good evening, Mr. Chair, members of the board, Ben Fernandez, 200 South Biscayne Boulevard, here on behalf of Shopping Plaza Corp. We are requesting an extension of 120 days There's a corresponding unsafe structures case that we're working on. We've made progress. The inspector supports it.

Thank you. The city recommends 120 as they are in the inspection phase of the permit. Thank you very much. Can I get a motion?

Move for 120-day extension.

A second.

All those in favor? Aye. Thank you very much.

Page 12 on Kocheck EOT, property address 4926 Southwest 7th Street, case number 00107923. Good evening.

Good evening.

Go ahead.

Cassandra Capote, the homeowner.

Thank you. And how much time do you need?

If I could have 120 days since last time I was here, I was able to pull permits. I did close out and finalize one of the permits. The other two, I'm getting the work done. Okay. So it just depends how long the GCs take.

Okay. That is correct. The city recommends 120. They have two permits that are in the inspection phase as well. Thank you. I know it's going to look good.

Thank you. Second.

Second.

All those in favor? Aye.

All right.

Thank you. Bring back pictures when it's done. Have a great night. Thank you. Next case.

Page 38, property address 1005 West Flagler Street, case number 00117312. Good evening.

Good evening.

Nicholas Lons on behalf of the tenant representing the property owner. We're asking for 90 days. It's a failure to obtain the CEU to BTR. We did originally apply for the CEU, but it was denied based off of a use on the building permit. Okay. Our contractors incorrectly added the incorrect use, so we had to redo the building permit and then reapply. So we think 90 days should be enough time for us to do so.

Okay. The city recommends 90 days as that would make sense.

Okay.

Can I get a motion?

Motion for 90 days extension. Second.

Others in favor? Aye. Aye. Thank you. Thank you.

Page 12, City View, EOT. Property address, 1832 Southwest 18th Street. Case number CE-2018-006013. Property address, 1832 Southwest 18th Street.

Mitigation. Are we at mitigation? I mean, I'm good if we are, but it is mitigation.

Oh, I'm sorry.

He's all for it.

Oh, sorry, sorry. No, I have a page. Negative. Okay, sorry. Page 6, property address 1250 Northwest 31st Street, CE 2020-023393. Is that a mitigation? Okay.

Page six.

The address is 1250 Northwest 31st Street.

I don't know. I don't know that. We don't see it on ours. We need it.

It's page six on City View. But if you look at the screens in front of you.

Yeah.

What's the address again?

In the front.

1250 Northwest 31st Street. Yes, it's there.

Okay, we got it. Page six in the front. Good evening. You state your name and address for the record.

My name is Clemencia Maldonado.

My address is 1250 Northwest 31st Street. Miami, Florida 33142.

My name is Clemencia Maldonado. The address is 1250 Northwest 31st Street, Miami, Florida, 33142.

And how much time is she looking for? 120.

Okay.

And what has been done so far on the property?

Speak into the microphone. Yes.

As of right now, we had to hire a lawyer.

Your name?

My name is Ignacia Granado. I'm her daughter. We had to hire a lawyer. We've been scammed by various contractors. So we have court June 26th. There is a notice of lien on the property. So we were actually approved for the single rehabilitation program.

Correct.

But they are not able to move forward because of the notice of lien on the property. So we're scheduled for court June 26th. And once that notice of lien is removed, we'll be able to move forward. Is that a city lien?

No, but not from this. We don't have a lien on the case yet. Is that a mechanics lien from the contractor?

From the contractor, yeah.

The city recommends 120 as they are correct. They have two permits. One is expired and one is active. Gotcha. I get a motion.

Motion for 120 days. Second. All those in favor? Aye.

Aye. Thank you.

120 days.

Thank you.

Yeah, make sure you take the paper in case you guys need more time. Yeah. There's a paper there.

Okay.

Yeah, it'll give you the instructions of how to request more time.

Page 8, co-check EOT, property address 2742 Southwest 8th Street, case number 00054264, property address 2742. We called this one.

Yeah. Yeah, but that's page 8.

We did. The attorney was here for it. Got 120 days.

Page eight.

Is anybody else here for extension of time?

All right. Anyone else?

Yeah.

Yeah. I knew that was at least one.

Come on down.

Anyone else? Extension of time.

Yes. What was the property address?

Hi, Rachel Streifeld for the property owner. The extension of time is 326 Southwest 13th Avenue, Little Havana. That's number eight.

Yeah, okay. Sorry, page 30, property address 344 Southwest 13th Avenue, property address 00105913. Gotcha.

Good evening. How much time are you looking for?

I think 120 days to pull a permit. We are on cycle three of our permit submittals. We have, you know, the buildings are 100 years old, and we've got all the microfilm. We've got all the certificate of use records. We've responded to zoning. I mean, we're moving through. We're on cycle three. We're this close. We've got a permit expediter working on it in addition to the AOR and the EOR. Just 120 days to be safe, and then we're going to keep it moving.

Got you. City recommends 120.

Thank you. Can I get a motion? Motion for 120 days. Second.

All those in favor? Aye.

Thank you. Thank you. And then she has a second case for mitigation on page... Is that the last extension of time? That was the last extension of time.

All right. Okay, we can jump to it then.

Little Havana.

Hold on. I got to restart one of my little computer things. Okay.

Property address, 420 Northeast 72nd Street, case number 00020801, page 110 on COTREC.

Again, Rachel Streitfeld on behalf of Patak Holdings LLC. This is a mitigation request, respectfully requesting the absolute minimum, which is $7,500. The client inherited a parcel that had a pending permit for a parking lot. The prior owner was represented by Burkow Riddell. They had an extension on this parking lot permit, and then the prior owner sold to my client, so we inherited it. He wasn't aware of the extension. He got cited. So he got cited. The owner was new to Miami, very unfamiliar, not sure if he received the mailing on the hearing in 2023. It was posted. He didn't attend. Bottom line, he didn't attend the hearing. Didn't request an extension of time, wasn't aware. He, in 2022, submitted a building permit application for townhouses on this vacant lot. He was moving through building permit and at a certain point realized that he was in a historic district and he needed a special certificate of appropriateness to get this building permit. That's when I came on the scene. We applied for our SCOA. We obtained the SCOA in 2024. We broke ground on the townhouses and I had been emailing with Virgilio Falcone and with Attorney Dooley about getting the violation closed and complied because as soon as we broke ground on the townhouses, we obviously demolished the parking lot, the asphalt that was there. So we inherited the issue. It, at no point in time, provided any threat to public safety, health, or welfare of the city. It was not a nuisance. It did not require anybody to visit the site.

The minimum is $7,500 for the parking lot. Thank you. Thank you, thank you.

Do I have a motion?

Motion to the minimum for $7,500.

Second. All those in favor? Aye. Thank you.

Thanks for your service, everybody. Have a great night.

You too. Okay, the second mitigation is on page 85, code check, property address 762 Northwest 50th Street, case number 00005781. Good afternoon. My name is Nero Roberts.

Good evening.

Good evening.

This is a single family home. It has homestead exemption. Gotcha. The lien went to $750. It is eligible to zero by unanimous vote. Thank you. She has two cases also, page 81.

which is case number 00112539. And page 81 was to $88,250. The minimum would be $5,000. It's a single family home with exemption, so it is eligible for zero by unanimous vote.

Okay. All right, so let's deal with the first one. That would be page 85.

Page 85. That's the one that's $750.

All right. Ma'am, you currently live in the home, correct?

Yes.

Okay. Can I get a motion?

Yeah, I move to reduce it to zero. Second.

All those in favor? Aye. Next page is 81. Yes. Can I get a motion?

Yeah, move to reduce that to zero as well.

Second. All those in favor? Aye. Thank you very much, ma'am. Just wait for your...

He'll bring it to you.

He'll bring you the order. Page 17, City View, Mitigation, Property Address 1738, Northwest 31st Street, Case Number CE-2020-002985.

Good evening.

Page number again.

City View 17.

Good evening, Chairman. Good evening, board members. Bert Hernandez on behalf of the homeowner.

Good evening, Bert. All right.

Hold on a second.

One of the pages on my tablet just disappeared.

Okay. This is a...

An empty lot. It looks like it was a single-family home, though at the time it was cited. The lien ran to $477,500. So as a vacant lot, the minimum would be $7,500. But because its prior immediate use before being vacant was as a single-family home, you can go to zero with a unanimous vote.

Thank you, Ms. Dooley. I'm respectfully requesting a reduction to zero. He inherited the violation. He bought this property in 2015. The violation starts in 2020, five years after the fact. So he goes down the rabbit hole trying to comply, and after years of trying to comply, he ends up demolishing because there was no way to comply, bring the property into compliance because of the illegal additions to the property. So that's why I'm requesting... a reduction to zero.

I move.

Wait, I have a question.

Does the owner live in the property?

There's nothing.

It's a vacant lot. Okay, so what's his intention with the property?

He's going to build, hopefully, in the future. Right now, he just demolished the property several months ago.

But is that for him to live in or for him to sell?

To live in. To live in. By the way, direct impact to his pocket was $292,000 loss. He carried his property for six years, paying taxes, professionals, demolition, property taxes, and he couldn't live in it.

I'll make a motion to bring it down to zero.

Can I get a second? Second. All those in favor? Aye. Thank you very much.

Have a beautiful evening.

You're welcome.

Page 66, property address 4300 West Flagler Street, case number 00087305. Page 66, code check.

This is a commercial property. This is one of my pages that no longer exists. Rant to $85,000. The minimum for a commercial property is $15,000, or 20% of the total. But I don't believe that 20% of $85,000 is less than $15,000.

Good evening, sir. Good evening. How are you? My name is Alfonso Salcines. I'm the owner and the owner of the dental office that exists there. Basically, we modified the parking lot, but that modification did an encroachment on the sidewalk, so it was a violation. This happened back in 2024. A month after that, I did hire Avanti Consulting, an engineer architect, and, you know, so he can take care of it. But eventually, you know, we kept tabs throughout the years, but my last conversation was in February, and he told me we were close, but then about a week later, his secretary called me, and he passed away. Oh, wow. So I didn't know what was, you know, I even signed a power of attorney for him to come, so apparently he didn't come, or something happened, but... But once I did know, and that's when I first found out that there was fines and penalties running. And then with the help of the inspector, Mr. Torres, which was very helpful, we finally fixed it. And we did it within a month and a half and we got a new fine. So, I mean, there was no bad will. And I thought it was really being taken care of.

Yeah, I'm extremely sorry for your troubles.

No, no, yeah, that's awful because I actually knew him and he had worked before. And you may question, why didn't you call him? But I did call him, and he had done work for me before, and he did take his time before, but he did resolve it. Yeah.

Well, I mean, the good news here is that we can mitigate it down, but, you know, we can't reduce it to zero. No, I understand that. Okay. I get a motion.

Yeah, I move to reduce to $15,000. Second.

All those in favor? Aye. All right. Thank you so much. I'll say about $70,000. Yeah.

Page 92, code check, mitigation, property address 1877 Northwest 42nd Street, case number 00123023.

This is a duplex. It does not have homestead exemption. So the minimum is $10,000 or by unanimous vote, it can go to zero. The lien ran to $16,250. What's the page? Page 92. Good evening, sir.

Good evening. So this property has been demolished. So it's just a back and forth right now. So we couldn't bring the property to code. So it took so long because we got some squatter into the property. So we went into the legal process. Right.

The 20% of the $16,250 is $3,200. Right.

So that would be the minimum, $3,200?

So you could go to $3,200 without a unanimous vote. If you wanted to go any lower than that, then you would have to be unanimous.

Because its last use was as residential.

Even before it became an empty lot, but when it was sited, it did have a house on it.

But it is an empty lot right now.

Yes.

And you plan to build something there in the future. I move to bring it down to zero. Make a motion.

Can I get a second? No. Okay.

All right.

So let's... Let me just state this for the record. So motion failed for lack of seconds.

So let's make a motion for 3200.

Second. All those in favor? Aye. Thank you. Thank you.

Page 56, property address 1449 Northwest 67th Street, case number 00034884. He has a couple of cases, but I'll just call them one by one.

Right, this is the first, yeah, he has two cases in City View and two cases in Kocek. The first case, this is a single-family home, no homestead exemption, obviously, because it's an LLC. I don't know if the owner resides in it. They'll have to answer that. I think it's a rental, but I don't know. The first case went to $16,750, so the minimum is $10,000. or it can go down as low as zero. The 20% of 16,750 is... 3,350? It's 3,350? Yeah, 3,350 is the 20%. Okay, good evening, sir.

Good evening. Carlos Lopez from Ponder Good and Lopez, 314 South Federal Highway, Dania Beach, Florida, 33004, on behalf of the property owner. Okay. Just to clarify, the first violation, are we addressing the 2009 case?

No. Oh, okay. So I'll bring it up for you. Sure. This is the code check case. I'll bring it up on the screen.

Sorry. It's a little confusing with the four of them, so I just want to make sure.

It is. Yeah, yeah.

This is the one that had outside storage, material debris, and stuff like that.

So this was from 2023.

Yeah.

With, yeah, the outside storage. Crates and things and boarding. But it was complied rather quickly. Obviously, $16,750 is pretty low for us. Again, their minimum is $3,350. Right. Which you can do that without a unanimous vote. It is a single-family non homestead exempt. So technically the minimum is 10 you could do 3350 because that's 20% of the overall or you can go below by unanimous Okay, so

So, yeah, so just to be clear, yeah, this is a rental property. My clients own it. It was originally purchased, and I'll address this for the other violations that predate their ownership. It was purchased through a bank foreclosure case back in 2018. The property was dilapidated. We've had issues with squatters there before. Obviously, where the neighborhood it's located is prone to that. So I'd just be asking for a reduction to zero on this one. Obviously, it was complied with. It was taken care of relatively quickly. And that was during a period of time where the property was vacant. There was no tenant in there. There was a subsequent tenant that moved in, and there had been no other issues after that.

So rental property. Can I get a motion?

A motion for 3350.

Second. Second. All those in favor? Aye. Aye. Next case.

His second case is on page 59, property address 1449 Northwest 67th Street, case number 00080915.

Again, it's the same property. It's a single family home. It does not have homestead exemption. This lien ran to $89,500. The minimum is $10,000. The 20% of the overall lien is not lower than the $10,000, but you can go any amount lower from $10,000 to zero by unanimous vote. If you wanted to do 5,000, if you wanted to do the same as the other one, but it would have to be unanimous.

What are you thinking?

Anybody want to give a motion?

So if I could be addressed on this one, because there's a special circumstance regarding. I'll bring this one up.

This one was from 2024. It was work without a permit for the fence.

Right. Correct. So here's the issue with this one. I was in a couple hearings regarding this. So they had issues with squatters on the property. There was a back portion of the property that was not fenced in. There were squatters on there. Police were called. Police came. Squatters left. Squatters came back. And there was issues removing them. So my client, the only way to keep them out was to build the fence. Granted. without permits they then obtained after the fact permits but that was the only way to keep out the squatters because we were getting a separate violation for having the squatters there so this catch 22 so these are the special circumstances regarding that no one's disputing the violation they got the permit but we needed to address the squatter issue which frankly was more important than building the fence without the permit at that time in their eyes i think the city would have been probably happier that we did that instead of having squatters on the property. I'm not suggesting that the city would be okay with you bringing them all.

You can get an emergency permit.

You're right. There was. I think regarding the circumstances.

But, you know, hey.

I know.

Who knows what you're going to do in that situation? It's up to them anyway. Of course.

Can I get a motion?

I would move to reduce it to $3,000.

You said $3,000?

Yeah, if the board wants to follow that.

I get a second? I second it. All those in favor? Aye. Thank you. That's a reduction of about $86,500. Is it $86,500? Yeah, the lien ran to $89,500.

We reduced it to $3,000, so it was $86,500 discount.

I appreciate it. Thank you. Thank you.

The third case is on page 38, City View, property address 1449 Northwest 67th Street, case number CE2014007682. And one more time for the page. Page 38, City View.

Right, it's page 38. This, again, single-family home, not homestead exempt. This case is from 2014, so now we're getting to the older cases. Obviously, we're under the older one. Probably not when these guys were the owner. Correct. Just before they purchased it, I think. Wow. It ran to $931,750. Dun, dun, dun. Okay. It's, trust me, it's not the highest lien we've ever seen.

It's not the highest I've ever had here either.

I mean, it's a lot, but it's not the highest. So again, the minimum is $10,000. You have the option to go as low as zero, but anything between $10,000 and zero has to be unanimous. So again, this was for work without a permit, but this was for the interior for the past owner who had it. And they created, it's a single family home, they created a nice extra second unit

And this is a property you got from the bank and all those things.

Correct. This is the bank. At that point in time, the bank was foreclosing. I mean, there's been quite a few transfers on this property before. Bank was foreclosing. It was purchased by my client in 2018 at the bank foreclosure. And obviously, they've done whatever work after to remedy the issue. That one was complied with. So I would be requesting a reduction to zero. Obviously, it predated my client's ownership of the property.

Out of 7,000, so... I'm sorry? Out of 10,000, Sal. Sure. It's not 131,000. Discount. 750.

I make a motion to bring it down to $8,000. To $8,000.

You said $1,000?

$8,000. $8,000. $8,000.

Second?

I'll second.

All those in favor? Aye. Thank you. Save a little bit more.

And the fourth case is on page 41, City View, property address 1449 Northwest 67th Street. Case number is CE2009014007.

And this one's a little bit less. So again, single family home, no homestead exemption.

This is the 2009 case ran to

$82,600, so a little bit less than the last one by quite a bit. The minimum again is $10,000 or anything between 10 and zero must be unanimous.

Okay. Again, so this is 826.

Do you have any same... This is the same issue. I mean, this goes even back further.

It's 2009, so... Yeah, this was like constantly grass overgrown, debris and all those things in the yard.

Correct. And this was an issue because, obviously, prior owner was being foreclosed on, didn't... No one maintained the property. It was just sitting there.

All right. No problem. Can I get a motion? All right. You can do 20%.

Yeah, 20% would be more than the $10,000.

I want to check and make sure I don't have an email on this one.

I'm just considering since there's been other fines if you want to give them a break.

I mean, so far, give me about a point over a million.

Discounts? Not bad.

Yeah, let me just... My computer's slow today, but hold on. Let me check something. Come on.

Hmm?

Oh, it's a user issue, is it? Okay. Look how slow it is. You can see it for yourself. Good afternoon. I hate you.

Are you looking up something else in your system?

For this.

Okay.

I should probably take that out so you can't see my emails. Nothing's working. This went through a foreclosure, did it not?

It did, correct.

Yeah. Let me see. Okay.

Are you looking to see if there's any surplus funds or whether anything?

That was, so, right. So for this one in particular. The other one, no, but for this one in particular.

I don't recall there being any.

Okay, I was wondering if there was something on it. I just wanted to see if there was. We would recommend a minimal from you. I think that obviously they're still paying a lot.

That's okay. Yeah, I know it's been eight years, but I don't recall when it was purchased that there was anything.

And the minimum here would be, would it be the 10? The minimum is 10.

Like anything else, you can go as low as zero or anywhere in between unanimously. Okay. Can I get a motion?

I'll make a motion for a reduction to $2,000. Second.

All those in favor?

Aye.

Thank you. Not bad. You've done well for your client. Next case.

Page 103. Code check. Property address 27 Southwest 55 Ave Road. Case number 00078970. Good evening.

My name is Nilsa Torres.

What page again?

103. Good evening.

Hi. This is a duplex. It also has homestead exemption on it. Correct. Correct. It ran to the whopping and wild amount of $7,500. Yep. So the minimum would be $5,000 or actually 20% of $7,500 or, which would be $1,500. Gotcha. And that's not because I did that in my head. It's because you did that on the calculator for me.

Or it can go to zero by unanimous vote.

Gotcha.

Um, I would like to be to zero. Um, the only, um, um, the only reason why I went to a lean is because I missed my last hearing. Um, I was going through a divorce, whatever, but, um, I missed that one last hearing. Um, it's been on compliance. Uh, like I, like she said, it's homestead exemption. Everything is done. Fence, um, grass, uh, driveway, everything is done.

Is that a scrub you are?

Yes, you am.

You am?

Mm-hmm.

I make a motion to bring it down to zero.

I get a second?

Second. All those in favor? Aye.

Thank you so much. Have a good night.

This is an add-on from CodeCheck.

Can we pass that? Is that the one you're doing the order on?

No, no.

Okay.

Add-on two, CodeCheck. Property address 402 Northwest 12th Avenue. Property address 00058631. Add on to property address 402 Northwest 12th Avenue.

Okay, and this is a commercial property. The, here we go, the lien for a certificate of use and BTR. Okay. The lien ran to $311,000. The minimum is $15,000 for commercial property.

Good evening. How are you guys? My name is Drew Levy. How are you? Property address 402 Northwest 12th Avenue. Thank you for that. The reason I'm here is for the BTR and CU. Yeah. The property was purchased at the very end of 2020, 2022, excuse me. The property went through a full gut renovation in 2018. Gotcha. Not only that, it also went through the 40-year recertification in 2018. Therefore, everyone was under the impression that the recertification would be due 10 years post that. However, it was due the following year. As you can see, I don't know if you're able to see, but we've been diligently working through getting the 40, 50-year, which then did not allow us to be able to receive RCU and BTR. The first two engineers received and architects that we brought on, ran off with the deposits, made our lives very, very difficult, and that's what took as long as it did to get this job done. As you can see, I mean, once we were able to actually get the correct engineers in place, everything moved as quickly as we possibly could. This property is 100 years old. We do our absolute best to take care of it in the best way we can. But yeah, the liens were due to, we were unable to receive their certificate of use in BTR because the 40-50 year was due, and that's where we are.

Well, thank you for that. And again, sorry for the misfortune of the situation with the deposit. We'll try our best here to help. Can I get a motion?

Yeah, I mean, unfortunately, we can only go down to $15,000.

There is a possible way of reducing any further. I don't think we're limited by our city pass and stuff like that.

So that's the lowest we can actually go. I understand. We try to listen to as many cases and try to reason with you, put ourselves in your shoes. And so we do understand. Second.

You already moved for $15,000.

Thank you. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Aye. Thank you, guys. I appreciate it.

Rachel, are you ready for the add-on?

No, we needed to fix the order.

Okay, okay.

That other one that she was doing.

Okay.

Yeah.

Page 12, City View, property address 1832 Southwest 18th Street, case number CE- There we go. 2018-006-013, property address 1832 Southwest 18th Street.

It's a single-family home with homestead exemption. The lien ran to $255,300. Good evening.

Good evening. Thank you. Board, I received these violations in 2018. I bought the property in 2016. Ever since this started, I've been actively trying to resolve it. Improve it. Everything's in compliance now. Okay. And I only ask that you rule fairly. You live in the property. I do live there, yeah. It's my only property. My homestead's on it.

Can I get a motion?

I move to reduce to zero. I second.

All those in favor?

Aye. Thank you.

Thank you for your time. Thank you. Thank you.

This is add-on three in City View. Property address 55... 555-29 Northwest 4th Avenue, property address CE-2021-005945. Good evening, ma'am. State your name, not just for the record.

Yes, hi, I'm Maya , the owner of 5529 Old West Fort Avenue.

Thank you.

I have a lien on my property.

You live in the property?

I have a lien.

Do you live in the property?

I do live part there, part in.

Okay.

Yes.

What is?

The lien ran to $855,750. I don't have a file. Hold on a second. Yeah, I don't seem to have anything.

What page did you have there?

No, it's an add-on. No, you don't have to do that. It's an add-on, so we don't really have anything.

No, this was add-on three. Add-on three. 555. No, it's 5529. Yeah, 5529 Northwest 4th Avenue, right?

Oh, I'm sorry. I thought you called the other one up.

All right, we don't have anything else on it other than address.

It's an add-on, so it won't be in your package. Gotcha. All right.

All right, give us a minute. Let's try to pull up.

One moment, I had the wrong one. Hold on a second. The other one, I'll look that up.

Well, Rachel, while you look it up.

5529 Northwest 4th Street. All right, hold on a second. All right, this lien ran to $437,750. This is a single family home. It does not have homestead exemption. So the minimum is $10,000 or zero or anything between 10,000 and zero has to be by unanimous vote. This was for removal of a tree without a permit by the same owner.

Can you tell us why the tree was removed?

No, the tree wasn't removed, and I complained in the city. Also, I have from the city the inspector that said that there wasn't any violation. They just had a big tree in 2021 that it's go to the line of the electricity.

Speak into the mic.

Yes. Let's go to the line of the electricity. So I want to trim it. I hired a contractor legally. And I think what they did, they started the work to trim a little bit from this and the waste. They didn't put it in the right place.

It was a hat rack. They hat racked the tree. the ticket was, you know, not appealed, and so you have to do the after-the-fact mitigation. There's no, it didn't happen.

Correct. It's already adjudicated. It's already adjudicated, so we're just here to see how can we help reduce the lien for you, okay?

Yes, I actually didn't know about the lien. I didn't know I had an open permit. I paid the fine. I just didn't know. How much was the fine?

How much was the fine?

$1,000. Two trees.

It's not removed tree.

I have also the... Yeah, the trees were hat racked. To do the kind of trimming that was done required a permit. Simply paying the ticket does not comply the violation. You need to get an after-the-fact permit in order to comply whatever was going on. Those are usually free anyway to go meet with people, and that's what wasn't done. Then it got set for hearing because after the fact permit was ever done, again, when somebody doesn't appear, the case still gets heard, and then liens start running, and you know. And here we are, $437,000 later. Do you have a homestead exemption on the property?

She said she doesn't. I didn't see it on there. She said no.

I have a question. You did, but you don't anymore. I have a homestead, and I had... On this property? Huh?

You have a homestead exemption on this property?

I don't have a homestead.

Not on this property?

No.

Okay.

No, I don't. It's my only property. I just wasn't living like I was... Right now.

Do you have homestead exemption on this property right now? No, okay So the minimum is ten thousand dollars.

You can go between ten thousand and zero with the unanimous vote And I just want to know yes, you know, you do live at the property.

Yes But you live there part-time you said you live in the property part-time You said sometimes Yeah, she said part-time yeah Can I get a motion?

I would move to feel comfortable with I mean I would move to reduce it to 5,000 second that yeah okay being that it's a single family non-homestead I really appreciate if you go to zero because I'm a single mom and I really don't don't have money and also I why don't you have homestead exemption on the property that you live on because your taxes have to be outrageous one second

Yeah, so that's a good question. Why don't you have homestead exemption on it?

I'm going to do now homestead because I was away from here because my son is living in Israel and I had to take care of him. But now I'm going to do the homestead and I will live in Israel.

I have two questions here. Board member, you have a question?

That was my question. Where was it that you were living? So you were traveling from Israel back here.

And then Madam Attorney, you said there once was a homestead exemption on it?

Yes, it was cited as a homestead exempt property at the time.

Right.

So I don't know why you don't give it up unless you do it by choice. So I don't understand, but that's not for me to understand.

Also, I asked for earrings before when this happened, and I had two earrings. One of the earrings Because I wasn't here, my son's situation, my friend go to the urine, he reduced the fine from 500 to 250, and then I had another urine, that nobody can go. So I thought that I'm paying the fine of $1,000, and then I resolve everything, and then when I come back here now, so I'm trying to do a refinance, and I found out I have a lien. This is like... One second here. And I took everything. As I heard that I have something... I complained to the city.

I'm a very, you know, person that... Well, give me one moment here, ma'am, because we do have an active motion that has been properly seconded. So I just want to make sure board members still want to... You already tracked your motion.

I stay with my motion about $5,000 if you guys want to second it.

Yeah, second that. All those in favor? Aye. Okay, so yeah, that's the lowest we're able to reduce it to, okay? Thank you.

Page 70, code check, property address 5536 Southwest 2nd Street, case number 00088329. What's the page?

Can you always say the page again at the end? Because I always forget it by the time.

Page 44, code check.

70 or 44? 44. Pay 70.

See, I'm rubbing off on you. It's terrible. All right. So this is a... Good evening.

Buenas. Buenas tardes. Good evening.

State your name and address for the record.

Yanisek Fernandez. Mm-hmm. 5536 Southwest 2nd Street.

Does she need an interpreter? Do you need an interpreter? I'm right here. So the address is...

But he's not a certified... Yeah, yeah.

Hold on a second. It doesn't work like that. Right.

We got an official interpreter.

She may want you to speak on her behalf, and that's okay, but an interpreter is going to be here to get her name, and then she can let it know.

Okay. Yes.

So let me ask you the question. Is the interpreter, we're interpreting, then we'll go forward. Right. So ma'am, would you like this gentleman behind you to speak on your behalf?

Yes.

Yes.

Okay, thank you. Sir, could you state your name and address?

Thank you so much. Good afternoon.

The address is 5536 Southwest 2nd Street. And your name? My name is Alejandro Pantoja. Thank you.

This is a duplex. It does not have exemption on it. The lien ran to $109,000. The minimum is $10,000, which is less than that 20%. or you can go to zero with a, anything between there and zero with a unanimous vote.

And this was a work performed without permit and encroachment in yard space or something like that, required yards? Okay. Sir?

Are you speaking on her behalf? She's not, so... Yeah, if you're speaking on her behalf, it's different. See, she said she wants you to speak on her behalf, so either you're speaking or she's speaking, but if she's speaking, we need to have an interpreter.

All right, I'll speak for her fully, no problem.

Yeah, yeah, however you want to do it.

Okay, so we had a violation, and we had a contractor...

All right, so I'm going to ask that the interpreter come up, please. Madam interpreter, because she's just speaking to him in Spanish. Yeah. We have to do it the other way because it's like a court record.

They first notified us of the violation and we chose a contractor that he did not work properly.

Mm-hmm.

I have everything here I brought the conversations printed out every time we would talk to him and ask him how everything was going he would say everything was doing fine At some point he said he had surgery or that he was having dialysis. We felt a little bit of shame and we decided to give him some time after that.

All right, stop right there for a second.

Hold on.

Board members, you guys want to take a motion here?

I have a question. Hold on, we have a question. Is the property a rental? Is she renting the duplex?

Both units. It's a rental.

It's now back to being a duplex. It's a rental. It doesn't have any exemption on it, so your minimum is 10, or you can go lower by Inanna's vote.

One more question. Does she live on the other side of the duplex?

No. Okay. No, it's in a...

One second, hold on. Go ahead, what's your motion?

Yeah, I would make a motion for $10,000.

No, she said no.

She doesn't need it on the other side. Got it.

I got a motion for $10,000. Second. All those in favor? Aye. Okay, we made a motion and it was seconded for $10,000. So it's reducing it from $109,000 to $10,000, okay? All right, just wait for your order over there.

Call the next case up. Is there any way you can consider something lower than that? My husband just lost his job, and we don't have the money. He is a tennis professor, and he is injured. His hand is injured right now.

We just took the motion. We just voted. I don't think so. We already made the vote.

Our next add-on, Rachel, do you have the correct order? The 1255? Yes, 1255 Northwest 60th Street, case number CE 2012-00412-1. This is not going to be in your booklet, okay? Okay.

Good evening, sir. State your name and address for the record.

Good afternoon, board members. Alex Udiva with office at 2800 Ponce de Leon Boulevard here on behalf of the property owner.

Okay.

So...

It is an empty lot. Yeah. It ran...

The lane ran to $855,750. The minimum is $7,500. Thank you. What was the previous use?

So, as far as our records...

Went back. We were not able to find a previous use here. The last photos that I was able to find.

It was a vacant lot at the time it was cited. So that's all that would count. So $7,500 would be the minimum.

It has been. So this property and the violation that remained on this property, first of all, was issued long before my client bought the property. My client bought the property with a quit claim deed and did not learn about the violation until after he had bought the property. And so that you kind of see where the timeline Goes with this, my client bought the property in late 2021, and the affidavit of compliance was issued on February 25th, 2022. So promptly thereafter, he went up and fixed everything. But the important part was, I think the main violation really was a very simple one. It was for not registering the vacant lot.

Mm-hmm.

That is what ran up here. And as Ms. Dooley stated, this has been a vacant lot. And I was able to verify through aerial photos back as far as 1999, this has been a vacant lot. So nobody's actually ever made any money off of this. This isn't the case of property owner you know using a property in violation of something this is just empty so my client promptly fixed it when they bought it we'd like to see it put to the property developed rather than be an empty lot add something to the neighborhood and so we would ask for $7,500, which is the minimum on this case. I respectfully ask for that. Thank you.

I make a motion to do the minimum of $7,500.

Second. All those in favor? Aye. Aye. Thank you very much. Thank you. Have a good evening.

Page 44, City View, Property Address 450, Northwest 23rd Avenue, Case Number CE2020-006675. Property address 450 Northwest 23rd Avenue, page 44 City View, Marcos Humana. They were here.

Which one?

Yes.

Okay, so this is a single family home with homestead exemption. The order does state that the lien ran to $29,700. The assistant director reviewed it from the date. We had an inspector who left to become, he's a firefighter with the county now. So it took a few, like an extra month for them to get it complied. The actual amount was $6,600. So it is a single family home with homestead exemption. So the minimum would be $5,000 or 20% of $6,600 or it can go all the way to zero with a unanimous vote.

Gotcha. Sir, do you want to add anything for the record? No, I'm going to ask for a motion for zero. No. Can I get his name and address for the record?

Just for... Humana Marcos.

450 Northwest 23rd Avenue.

Marcos Humana. Humana Marcos. 450 Northwest 23rd Avenue.

Thank you. Can I get a motion, please?

I move to reduce it to zero.

All those in favor? Aye. This is zero.

Page 35, City View, property address 5630 Southwest 5th Street, case number CE20-18025509. Page 35, City View.

This is a single-family home. It does not have homestead exemption. The fine ran to $379,500. The minimum is $10,000, and it can go as low as zero.

Good evening.

Good evening. My name is Beatriz Llorente, and I'm here on behalf of the homeowner, Luis de Villiers, and his wife. Thank you. Who is also present. They're a little older. Okay.

Is there any factors you would like us to consider?

Yes. He actually came with someone who was helping him in March 7th of 2019 and had asked for an extension. Then obviously the guy took advantage of him and he thought he had the extension. And then COVID hit and the prices of fixing up the house. But he got everything taken care of. He carried this property. all these years with, it wasn't occupied. And the lien was entered, he had no idea until January of this year when he got something in the mail. He did get finally the building CO on February 4th of 2025. This is his life savings in this extra property that he's expended and carried. Everything's up to, he finally got, and it's only until recently that someone is occupying it from his family. So he's asking that if you can mitigate it as much as possible. He is 90 years old, and his wife is 85 who's sitting over there. He looks good. Tell him that he looks good. He looks great. But he did get taken advantage of, and he's like a family member to me. That's why I'm here. I'm trying to help him out.

Appreciate you for doing that.

And I even sat through hours of the hearing and realized that they were definitely taking, I mean, he just.

Yeah, counsel did call me. So I showed her where the hearing was.

And it was, you know, I sat through the whole hearing, all the hearings to find it.

He doesn't live in the property, though. He doesn't.

He's got a family member.

He's got family members that live there.

Okay. Does he rent it to them or is it?

At very minimum, like just to cover the expenses of the taxes. He's carried the property all this time. Initially.

What would you think those carrying costs would be up until today? What would you think? I'm sorry? The total for the carrying costs in your opinion. What would you think?

All his savings. Because when they initially purchased the property, he purchased it with someone else and then eventually purchased it from that person. So that other person at one point lived there. So bad friendship ended, you know. I understand. So. And the cost of getting the permits and all of that stuff. And then obviously when COVID hit, all the prices of all the building stuff. So I'd ask if you would mitigate it to zero. If we can.

Yeah, I see it was originally cited for illegal units. So that when he bought the property, it had that issue already?

Yeah, it already had it. Correct. And it was empty. And the people, his partner lived in it, but he didn't have it rented. Understood. The actual partner he had. Okay. Yeah. But it's been empty since 2019. I'd ask to mitigate it to zero if possible.

I would make a motion to reduce it down to 2,000. I'll second that.

Is that reasonable? I mean, I'm a girl. I'm always going to ask for more, but...

I think considering the... No pun intended, but... It's a major reduction, and considering that it's not homestead, we went pretty low than we normally would, so... Thank you.

I'm sorry to mis-twitch you.