Planning, Zoning and Appeals Board - Regular Meeting

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on re-noticing all of the items on tonight's agenda and they will be moved to a future agenda either April 15th or May 6th.

Do you know, is there a date that you will know or are you splitting them between the two?

We'll reach out to all of the applicants tomorrow to let them know what date their items will be deferred to. Right now, I don't know because I have to wait on the Miami Herald to confirm my notice.

Okay. Does everybody get that? So we need seven board members to hold a meeting, and we only have six in attendance, and we're sure that all the rest of the board members are absolutely not coming tonight. so we can't move forward with the meeting. And so everything that's on the agenda for tonight is gonna be split between two future dates. And based on confirmation from the Miami Herald to staff to say when the notices are actually going to be published, we'll determine which items go on which dates and the applicants will be notified so that they know when to show up for their item. And I guess when will the website show the, is it the next couple days, the agendas will be updated on the, or not even, no?

No. No, so. People are welcome to email me and to find out the additional, what date each item is going to. If they would like, we'll also try to put out some communication via the commissioner's offices on what dates items in their districts are going so that we can get that information out to the public.

I think you have the right to convert this meeting into a public forum so that the public can give their commentary and be addressed and taken down for your future meeting. You have the right to do that without court, so you know.

Mm-hmm.

There's a good point made there about discussion. The downside is that we have to take action and so instead of having six people sitting here and everyone speaking their mind now and then having to do that again later to a potentially completely different board or a much expanded board, I think You'd miss out on the opportunity to address the board that's actually voting on your items. So I think doing it once correctly and being voted on is going to best serve the community. Although we acknowledge the board members that are here appreciate the inconvenience and it's for all of us, we all intend to have a meeting every time we show up and we apologize for that. Yes, Mr. Torres. I think we should probably not start doing that because then I think it turns into something. Right. My point is that if we do that, we're going to do it twice and possibly to a different board that's, you know, in other words, the public wants to be heard. That's fine. But it's somewhat pointless if they're going to say the same thing again and to additional comments and to a larger board that's actually going to take action. Because some of these folks may not be here. So just putting it on the record. There's a value to that, but putting it on the record in front of the board that's going to take action and make recommendations to...

I'm sorry, if anyone in the public is going to speak, they need to speak onto the microphone because... Right, got it. Thank you.

Okay. I just wanted a clarity. That's it. Thank you, sir.

Chairman Gersten.

Sir, yes sir.

Would it have been possible for the city to have let us know in advance that there were six different requests for absences?

No, it seems like some came in very late in the day.

Because we're feeling like this has been an April Fool's joke, and the joke's on us.

Well, I'll tell you the real—appreciate that. I'd like to just let you guys know that we absolutely thought that it might be an issue holding a meeting on a holiday. It was discussed. Back when we set the calendar, we did everything we could to find alternate dates. There were no dates available in this room on a Tuesday or Thursday, even if we wanted to have a meeting two days in a row. So we actually tried. And my comments at the time were, well, we're just going to have to roll with it and assume that because of the holiday, there'd be an unlikelihood of quorum. So I don't think anybody did this on purpose and doesn't think it's okay. I don't think anybody thinks it's okay. It is extremely unfortunate. There are some serious items on the agenda, but this is what we're dealing with.

Thanks for coming, everybody. And we're trying, and we are discussing some... No, okay.

Yeah, would you want to just, yeah, say...

So we'll do a roll call to confirm there's no quorum. Clearly there's no quorum. We were working very diligently into the last minutes to try to see if we could obtain a quorum. Sometimes people request an absent waiver because they think they're not gonna be able to make it through, to be able to get here on time, or something gets canceled. And so when we are on the edge, We do not cancel the meeting in advance.

If you all could just stay quiet for a second so we can get through these comments here, please.

And so we were not able to convince anybody else. Nobody was able to come there either at work. It is also Holy Week. It's Holy Wednesday. It's also the beginning of Passover. So we know a lot of people, and it's spring break. So we know that there are a lot of people that have a lot going on this week. Items one through six, which are the CEU revocations, those will most likely be deferred to the first meeting in May. The Miami Loop legislation will most likely be, it will most likely end up at the first meeting in May, but I would expect, or there is a potential for it to be further deferred at that time. The remaining three applications that are, I'm sorry, there's an exception for a must, a variance application, a vacation application. We are trying very diligently to get those into our April 15th and waiting for verification from the Miami Herald on that. So I cannot make a promise because I do have noticing deadlines that I have to meet. And then we do anticipate having the TDD legislation on the April 15th. Again, if the Miami Herald is able to publish our advertisement for that. So that's what we're working on right now in terms of when all of the cases will be deferred to. I am going to stick around and I'm happy to answer any questions that anybody has about any of tonight's items or about the TDD affordable housing legislation.

Thank you. So at this time, we do not have quorum. We cannot move forward with meeting.

I'm sorry, chair.

Oh, sorry.

Okay. Thank you.

Okay. Sorry. I'll get to that. But, um, as you heard the, um, Loop item is at least pushed off to May, at least, and TDD will be as soon as possible, likely April 15th. So with that, we will take roll.

Chair Adam Gersten.

Present.

Vice Chair Andres Lopez. Board Member Maria J. Bailey. Board Member Lynette Kardulch. Board Member Chris Collins.

Present.

Board Member Joseph Carroll. Board Member Maria Polly DeCarolis.

Present.

Board Member Paul Main.

Present.

Board Member Ilan Metier. Present. Board Member Joshua Patikin. Board Member Arthur Peresolf. Board Member Manuel Vidillo. We don't have Chrome.

Well, there's no meeting to adjourn, but really.

I'm available to take anybody's questions.

But Savannah Steiner is available to take questions.

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