Urban Development Review Board - Regular Meeting

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I'd like to call this meeting to order. It's 2.05. Do we have any requests for absence waivers today?

Can we have a roll call, please?

Oh, yes. Roll call.

Members Amstis? Member Pamoui? Present. Member Perez-Azul? Here. Member Lewis? Member Gallardo? Here. Member Behar? Member Barrera? Vice Chair Zapatini? Chair Lady Labrada?

Present.

Thank you. We have one Absence waiver requests?

Do we have a motion? Scrum?

Motion. Member Barrera?

Do we have a second?

Second.

Ready to vote. Members emphasis. Yes, I'm afraid the zoo. Yes. And we're going to. And we're very hard. Chair labrador.

Yes. And do we have a motion for last month's meeting minutes?

Motion. Second.

Mr. Peres-Essoua is seconded.

Thank you. Members Amstis? Member Pramui? Yes. Member Perez-Azura? Yes. Member Gallardo? Chair Labrada?

Yes.

Motion passes. Madam Chair?

Yes.

We do not have any online public comments. Can we please close them?

Yes, please.

Thank you.

Thank you.

All right, and we only have one item on the agenda today, so this will be short and sweet. Can we please get started?

UDRB item number 1, minute track ID 19009, PZ2418281, address 119, Northwest 29th Street. Project name, Frida Kahlo, Wynwood Residence. Location, NRD 1, Wynwood, NRD Old San Juan. Transit zone, T6-8-0, NRD 1 and T5-0. SQUARE FOOTAGE 143,653, 8 STORIES, WARRANT WAIVER. WARRANT PURSUANT TO ARTICLE 6 TABLE 13 OF MIAMI 21 MICRO-DWELLING UNITS. WARRANT PURSUANT TO APPENDIX J SECTION 4 TABLE 3 ADDITIONAL SHARED PARKING BEYOND THE FIRST SHARED PARKING DIVISOR. WARRANT PURSUANT TO APPENDIX J Section 5.2b.2 to allow parking in mezzanine. Warrant pursuant to Appendix P, Section 5.2.4b for parking in second layer on secondary frontage. Warrant pursuant to Appendix J, Section 4, Table 2 for 30% parking. Warrant pursuant to Appendix J, Section 4, Table 2 for 30% parking reduction. Warrant pursuant to Appendix J, Section 4, Table 2 for 30% reduction. Warrant pursuant to Appendix J, Section 4, Table 2 for 30% parking reduction. Warrant pursuant to Appendix P, Section 4, TABLE 2 FOR 30% PARKING REDUCTION. WARRANT PURSUANT TO APPENDIX P SECTION 4 TABLE 2 FOR 30% PARKING REDUCTION. WARRANT PURSUANT TO APPENDIX P SECTION 4 TABLE 2 FOR 30% PARKING REDUCTION. WARRANT PURSUANT TO ARTICLE 7 SECTION 7.1.2.5.29 FOR 10% REDUCTION REQUIRED OPEN SPACE. This project exceeds over 200,000 square feet.

And just one further note, the project was heard before WDRC last week. It was approved with the following two conditions. For the east facade, for ownership to maintain the art with the adjacent property. And number two, to shift art treatment to the lower ground level and northwest 29th Street main facade. to explore additional art interventions, maintaining color aspects and elements of Frida Kahlo permanently. Thank you. Thank you.

For the record, Javier Avignon with the Law Firm of Bills and Sundberg, 1450 Burkle Avenue, here on behalf of the applicant property markets group. I'm joined by that developer, Adrian Hartman, as well as Eric Samuelson from Cube 3, the architect of record, as well as our landscape architect, Chris Cabezas. First, I just want to go through Ricky's list. This project is interesting for a variety of reasons, but one of them from a zoning nerd perspective is that it has dual zoning, T6 on the front side facing 29th Street, T5 on the back side facing 30th Street, as well as NRD1 again on the front side. So it's T6-8 with an NRD1 overlay. And on the backside, it's a T5O with an NRD2 overlay. So it's an interesting project from a zoning perspective. So many of the waivers that are in front of you are actually duplicative because you have to ask for the same waiver in one section of the code as the other section of the code as well. So it's not that they're necessarily two waivers, but technically they are two waivers because they're applying for the NRD1 section and the NRD2 section of the code. So that's what... triggers some duplicity with respect to the requests. As Paul mentioned, we did appear before the WDRC last week. We obtained unanimous approval from them, and we'll show you some interim concepts or where specifically they asked for some additional treatment of art, which we agreed to do and think it's the right thing to do here. In a moment, I'll ask Eric to go over the project But this is an exciting addition to Wynwood. We're really looking forward to bringing this forth. We think that this project responds well contextually to the Wynwood neighborhood. It is 244 units. We do have some office space as well as some commercial space on the ground floor. So it's truly a mixed-use project. We do have 12 stories on the front side. And eight stories on the backside, which is compliant with what the code has for each of those respective transit zones. As well as the one more item to note, just as of note, one of the waiver requests was an open space waiver request. We actually do comply as an overall project. We actually exceed open space from an overall project. But again, it's examined from a zoning perspective on each side. So on one side, we're a little bit short. On the other side, we're over. Overall, we comply. So with that, keep it short and sweet. I'll let Eric from Cube3 walk you through the project from a design perspective. And again, we're here to answer questions after that.

Good afternoon, everyone. My name's Eric Samuelson from Cube3, representing the architect of the project. We're located at 111 Southwest 3rd Street here in Miami. So I'm just going to walk us through kind of location of the project and some design. I'll keep this short and sweet. So the location, as was mentioned, we have frontage on 29th Street and 30th Street. So we're across block. The location is across the street coming down here north-south is Northwest First Ave. So this project has two frontages. So really we kind of have front doors on both sides of this project. We are considering on 29th Street our main front door. That's where We'll have commercial space, our main front lobby for the building, and that's where we consider our main entry, down here along 29th. On 30th, we have another front door. We do have lobby space for entry along 30th Street, but we also do have two vehicular entries on that side as well. One that comes in at grade, that tucks in behind in the center of the building, and then there will be one that comes up to an elevated level. So, The frontage along 29th Street is the 12-story portion of the building. This is the rendering that we have here. So that ground floor is really going to be all activated space, lobby space, commercial space. And then above that, we have our units. And so there is no parking that's being fronted on 29th Street. There will be either commercial lobby or units that front along 29th Street. This is our rendering along 30th Street. So here you can see that we have two entrances. I didn't want to knock it over. So we have two vehicular entrances here coming in and then you can also see vehicular on the left. We have one more towards the right and then we have a lobby space here along 30th as well. And then this portion of the building along 30th is eight stories. So the design for the building is really what we're trying to create kind of a sculptural form out of the building. We really wanted it to be simplistic, but we wanted to use curves and we wanted to use balconies and arches and really kind of curve forms within the building to not just create a blank canvas for art, but try and use the building as a piece of art itself. So along 30th Street, we do have additional artwork down here on the ground floor. And then switching back to along 29th. We do have the larger mural along 29th that's facing towards the east. And this is the larger Frida Kahlo mural that we have here. That's kind of the signature moment for the project. And then product wise, we are using GFRC, which we have a sample here as well. That's kind of the, the main product that we are using as well as the glazing. This is really kind of a lightweight product that allows us to do those sculptural forms that we're trying to do on the building that you're seeing in these renderings. And I think that's all.

The only thing that I'll indicate is that on 29th Street within the arched spaces is where WDRC asked us to look at moments for additional art, which is similar to what was done on the 30th Street rendering. So if you look at the 30th Street rendering that Eric had previously put up, there were some art moments at that ground level. And so they've asked us to look at additional moments of art there. We're currently exploring that. We don't think we'll have any issues meeting that request from them.

Yeah, and the one thing to add is we didn't have trees in the renderings that we had last week, so we added the trees that are being proposed at the ground level in these renderings.

Can you walk us through your ground floor circulation, please?

Do we not have it?

I can talk through it here, too.

So I don't think we have the actual ground floor board, but I can kind of talk you through at least conceptually where everything is located. So in the plan, kind of bottom left here is where we will have our commercial space. And then on the right side is where we'll have our lobby along 29th Street. And then behind that is where we'll have parking essentially in the center, kind of in between where the two towers are located underneath the courtyard. That's where your parking will be located. And then up here at the top, we have one drive entry here kind of on the left side on 30th. And then we have another one on the right side. And then we have a lobby space kind of located in between. And then we have a couple of utility locations along 30th as well.

So the ground floor parking that you go in, that you access from the north on the street level, the circulation is to go in and out or you have to back out?

There'll be a loop inside, so you'll be able to enter kind of right around here on 30th Street, and then it's kind of in the middle of the building here. There'll be a loop that it'll be kind of an in and out on that portion. So they'll be able to kind of come straight in, loop within the internal space, not exposed to the street frontages, and they'll be able to come head out.

And then I presume are those parking spaces designated for commercial only or how do you?

Commercial and retail.

And for the office space? How many apartments versus office do you have? What's your? I think so, yeah.

Yeah, I think it's around 45. I'm trying to find that.

So it's 4,600 square feet of commercial space. And it's 15,000 roughly square feet of office space. And then it's 244 residential units.

So the office space, if I saw from the plans, you just have, I guess these are like co-working spaces? Is that correct?

Correct. And it's really, it's residential only, right? So it's not office. They are a co-working space for residential unit owners exclusively. I see. Yeah, this isn't a traditional co-working space that is available to other folks.

And since you, before we get started with critiques, since you have your landscape architect here, would you have him present and talk to us a little bit about?

Absolutely. He's ready.

Oh, good. What was the question?

If you could just walk us through your landscape plan. Sure.

Chris Cabezas from Cala Design Studio.

So on the ground level, in this new rendering, we're showing the street trees. There's not too much space on 30th Street for street level planting, but on 29th, we do have a full landscape right of way sort of buffer zone. And then The really exciting part of this project is the amenity level. We took inspiration from Frida Kahlo's personal residence in Mexico. We studied the organic shapes, the circulation and flow through her private residence, and we tried to recreate and make an inspired pool amenity deck using that reference. So it turned out great. We really love this pool amenity level, the curvilinear shapes, the organic garden moments. It turned out great. I think the team really likes it. And it's another moment in the project that is inspired by Frida Kahlo.

Thank you. We don't have any other questions. And we'll get started to my left, Mr. Zamses.

Thank you very much for your presentation. It's a very interesting project and I think there is a lot of things within this project that in my opinion are very forced. I'm disappointed with the uses on Northwest 30th Street. I think you're almost denying that street entirely. You have a very small portion. which is a lobby, and then you have an FPL vault, a generator room, bicycle racks, two driveways. There is really nothing of any pedestrian value whatsoever. I'm not so familiar with Northwest 30th Avenue, but this is This is an area that does deserve pedestrian attention, and there's none on 30th. North West 30th Street is dead completely. You killed it. There's a lot of tandem parking spaces, so I really don't know how you plan to work that out logistically. What happens, the facade of the building on the, I guess, the east facade that has another building against it, above the eighth level or so, you recess the building. So does that mean that there is a zoning requirement so that the future builder will have to recess their building as well at that level? I don't understand.

Follow me. Can you repeat your question one more time?

Well, we're looking at this. This is the south facade. Is that correct? Yeah, I was referring to the east.

Okay, where the actual mural is.

Yes, but above the mural, there is a recess. The building goes back. The building goes back above the mural.

Right, there's a building in the corner that's not part of this property.

No, no, I understand. I understand that that facade is blank because there's a building. Is that correct?

There's a building that's at a lower scale, correct. Yeah.

Okay, I was just curious to know why are you recessing the building at that 12th level or 8th level? Is that like a zoning requirement or?

Yes, above the 8th floor? Yes. Correct. It is a zoning requirement.

A zoning requirement. So that distance is how much, the recess?

I want to say it is... is it that much roughly 11 feet no it's got to be more than that 10 feet

Another comment I have is that in the residential layouts in both the south and the north portion of the building that have units, you have very long corridors that have dead ends. I realize there are dead ends because there will be another building on the other side, I would like to have seen something happening with those dead-end corridors. But my primary comment relates to the utilitarian facade on Northwest 30th Street that I think doesn't give justice to the area.

Thank you.

Mr. Perez-Asua?

Yeah, thank you for the presentation again. Interesting building. I love the art. There's a lot of aspects of this building that are really nice, especially the overall scale. You guys have done a great job there. I wish that the, I guess it would be the south, elevation the south side it just looks like it looks like different buildings right we've got this very interesting base and then we've got this very very you know like just just the glass on the second half and then we've got like a different building on the top and and i don't you know just maybe look at that and maybe you can integrate some of the balconies can come down you can be a little bit more play there. So, I mean, I think it would be very easy to do that. So it just feels like one building, right? Instead of, you know, that would be my recommendation. You know, I would like to see what my colleagues think. But, you know, I think that it just needs to be a little more joined together. I like the things that Again, we don't see the elevations inside the courtyard, but it seems like you're doing more of that when you look at the, you know, just from looking at these models. Like what's going on inside the courtyard is a little more interesting than just that elevation.

We put up the day one. I don't want to interrupt your thoughts, but just so that you could see it, you know, perhaps from a different, you know, but understood on your comments.

Yeah, yeah, no, I see the same thing, right, yes. And then the, on this east elevation, the two-dimensional rendering is a little different than that rendering. I see in those, you have balconies, or it looks like, maybe I'm a little blind, but are those balconies, yeah, up there? Yes. And I don't see them in the two-dimensional rendering, sheet A4.2. So it looks like maybe you have two different concepts, and I was just wondering which one is the one that you're seeking approval for today. Because I do like those balconies facing east, but again, I don't see them. Or again, maybe I'm going blind here, which on one of these renderings.

Good catch.

Yeah, so which one is it?

It has balconies. It's not that sheet. It should have balconies.

We're approving the one with the balconies here today, right?

I'm sorry?

Yeah, we're approving the one with the balconies. The one with the balconies, sir. Okay, okay, yeah, thank you. Okay. Yep, that's all for now. Thank you.

Thank you. First, I would like to thank you for presenting us with these models, the mass models. It does help a lot, though we do get most of the info from the drawings. Whenever we see these mass models, they're very clear and it tells us there's nothing to hide and Okay, now I like this project a lot. I think the massing is very well done. I like the articulation. And with the dual zoning, I think it was handled very well. So the way the program is resolved, the massing, I think it's gonna be a very positive and immediate impact in the area. So I truly appreciate, I know there's challenges. With the code and for example, the vault, the FPL vault has to have, you know, there's only two frontages, so I understand the challenge, but some things could have been done other ways, but if you get 10 different architects, you're gonna have 10 different designs. So I want to commend the developer, Mr. Avino. Thank you very much. My pleasure. And I'm sure that the city, which never gets mentioned here a lot, but I'm sure they had some very positive input. They did. Absolutely. In this one. Absolutely. And also the architects. I think you've done a very good job. So I want to commend you. That'll be all.

Thank you. I guess I'm going to be the bad guy now.

Francisco, right?

I agree with most of his comments. I could see from your sample boards, you had the, at least you had the 1,000, what is it called, 1,000, one of the best, you know, queen of curbs, let's put it this way. Unfortunately, she died. But I see that you're building, I see the inspiration, but it hasn't been carried out fully to the building itself. Seems like it's a little bit lackluster I could see the beginning, but not really the development. I think Francisco mentioned the balconies, maybe doing something to the balconies to make it more unified, maybe with some arches. I'm not saying to make an arch, but to make it more sculptural, because I think you mentioned to be sculptural. But right now, it's more like a box, more like a rectangle. It kind of reminds me of that commercial from Nick Saban. I think his Airbnb is like, you only have two hours to shower. And it seems like you guys maxed out that building, you know, ready to explode. I have some questions. I think on 30th, some minor ones in terms of the mural. I think that's the one that's kind of cut out. I usually don't see murals cut out.

Make sure you speak to Mike a little bit more.

I usually don't see murals cut out in pieces. So I'm not sure, you know, it's almost like a photo cut up in pieces, scissored, you know, and put together. So it's kind of distracting. It's not really, I could see the attempt to make it artistic, but it's kind of like butchering in a sense. And then the step up, which I think maybe Francisco mentioned or some other mentioned, is the step back, which almost looks like the buttresses in France. Maybe you can make that arch kind of go up or something, make it more integrated, because right now it looks like it's butchered, like you got a bad haircut. It's not together. If you guys can do maybe the corner balconies or make it a little bit more sculptural and make that kind of what I call a buttress in the middle, those three columns kind of like arch up I don't know if that's possible or not but I just some some thoughts about it also I have some questions I think one of the floors I'm not sure what I think you mentioned it when you when you were doing your introduction about your offices they're tiny little offices right on one floor yes you say they're assigned to the tenants

Well, yes, exactly. They're exclusive for the tenants. Not each tenant will necessarily have one, but their uses.

I didn't know whether they were rental or they were, you know, part of the condo or the lease or whatever.

Yeah, so only a residential unit owner can have one. I don't know that we've clearly identified whether they'll be rented or whether they will be owned.

They're going to be deeded.

Okay.

Because I know on other ones we have.

Okay, so on this one, they will be deeded with the unit, similar to many years ago when there were additional storage rooms or things of that nature that were part of condos. It's the same concept there. So they will be deeded, but exclusively to unit owners. In other words, you or I, if we don't have a unit, in the building wouldn't be able to.

Because I remember the old, you know, the Senate District when they had a little retail, I mean, a little area and they would divide it.

A little storage, yeah.

For different people, painters, whatever, artists, you know, they would take up a space or whatever. I mean, those are two main issues. You don't have a drop-off point, right, for some? No. There's some things that kind of bother me, and I think it's maybe because you guys... because of development, whatever, price, whatever. You guys maxed it out so much that it's kind of overbearing. Regarding the landscaping, I have some questions for the gentleman. I saw briefly your landscaping plan, and I saw your elevations of trees and so forth. I just want some explanations. Your street trees on 29th Street is different from the one on 30th Street. Any reason why? The choice of trees, I guess.

Yeah, 30th Street has... A lot of underground utilities running through where you could plant the street trees. So there are less street trees on 30th just because of the... Not the number, I'm talking about the species.

The species differences? The reason there are different species on one side of the project.

I believe Wynwood has... code of species to choose and the irregularity. They have to be different species. You can't all do the same species. So we went by those guidelines.

Because sometimes when you have a street tree, let's say Coral Way or Miracle Mile, you've got those live oaks, very nice, but there's not a mixture of trees.

No, in Wynwood you have to have a mixture.

I mean, I haven't seen that many projects here, but I haven't seen that many completely different from one to the other. I'm not even talking about one street to the other street, but along the same street.

It's a design guideline. It's to create a biodiverse ecologic habitat rather than just one sole species. It actually is better for the environment to do a variety.

The trees in the center, in the open area, common area in the middle where the pool is, All the trees that I've seen, they're huge. They're huge trees. I don't know if you have a tree in your house, but I mean, the leaves fall 365 days a year. It's not winter, it's not fall, it's constantly. And it seems like you got some huge trees in the middle, which I'm not sure if it's gonna interfere with your pool or how high these trees are gonna be.

It's pretty common nowadays to have some larger trees up on structure. The structure and the base is going to be able to hold the trees and that's coordinated with the structural engineer. We're not putting the largest trees that you can get. They're more of the medium-sized ones. And so it's all done to, you know, designed to code.

Because the ones you showed on your presentation, I mean, they're huge. I didn't think, I didn't see any one that was kind of a small species. They're, you know, pretty big. So I think those are, you know, the drop-off, the curves, the integration, the buttresses. Those are basically my comments.

Can I just ask a quick question, Mr. Genovese? For the WDRC, were there any specific comments, and was it, and the type of approval, was it, I believe it was approved.

Yes, that's correct, approved with two conditions. Two conditions, okay.

Can you tell us the conditions? Yes. Or a brief summary of the conditions, if it's a long one.

Yeah. Condition number one was regarding the east facade for ownership to maintain the art with the adjacent property. And condition number two was regarding shifting art treatment to the lower ground level and the northwest 29th Street main facade, exploring additional art interventions, maintaining color aspects and elements of Frida Kahlo permanently. So like Javi said earlier, the one rendering for 30th Street where they have the artwork along the top of the ground floor, they're going to be integrating that onto the 29th Street facade as well.

Thank you very much.

Okay, I definitely see that you guys have used or maybe been inspired and used maybe 1,000 museum as a precedent. And I think on the south facade, it was successful. I think the sculptural elements of the columns where it meets the base of the building, the scale of it is wonderful. I wish it would have been as successful at the roofline. I think there's an opportunity to bring this up as well. Obviously, balconies on the eight-story podium, if you will, I think will benefit. It's hard to see apartments in Miami with no outdoor space. So wherever you can consider that, I think it's a plus. And then I'm also wondering if you've considered, I'm always really anxious about seeing these decks, amenity decks in between two buildings. And also the fact that your property is in an info lot. So potentially to your right, you know, on the east side, those buildings will be developed. and to see those buildings come up in the future and completely block any light and create that wind tunnel. Was there any consideration as to why maybe you didn't place the deck on the south side and maybe push the 12-story back a little bit? I turned it off, so I'll have to turn it back on.

Yeah, it came down to massing, which is part of it, but we did look at it in a variety of different ways. And I think through our kind of studies, we found that this was the best version that worked for the project for a variety of reasons. And I think kind of this courtyard allows for this connection between these two buildings. And it's similar to kind of some of, you know, what we were looking at with Rita Kahlo and the way she had her residence set up with these kind of connections between the two. So that's how we looked at it. We looked at some shadows and other things to make sure we weren't going to completely capture ourselves in. So it was something we considered and we felt comfortable with it.

I think the massing works. But I would say I think your south facade is much more successful than the north. And I think there's little tweaks that can be done. You know, the arches that you have expressed on the north side where you just have two arches in the middle, where in the middle you really don't have anything, right? I mean, it's a blank wall. But maybe, you know, delineate where the cars go through. And so express that in that way as well, I think would kind of make that base and that north elevation a little bit more cohesive. And they're simple, you know, simple changes. I think this is something that could be easily looked at.

Yeah, I think we obviously there's always refinements and these are great comments and suggestions. I think we can absolutely explore, you know, those refinements to, you know, make the project better. And I just going back to one other item with respect to the adjacent property, because we have studied it and we actually have a very good relationship with the abutting property owner. It's a much more limited lot size. You know, even when you take the the the The one on the facing 30th Street is just a 50-foot frontage. And on facing 29th Street, it's a 100-foot frontage. So it's not to say that something else can't be developed there. Absolutely. That's a real possibility. But I don't know that it would reach the same, you know, sort of scale as this project would. And so I don't think it's going to, you know, reach those heights that would start to impact. So just, you know, just to keep that. We've evaluated that. based on what kind of massing they can put in when you account for parking and other things that are required. And we don't think they'd be able to even get to an eight-story level. And remember, they have the same zoning situation as we do, where they'd have five feet with three bonus stories on one side and eight stories on the other side. So just to keep that in mind.

Those are all my comments. Thank you. If we don't have any other comments, are we ready to make a motion?

I would like to make a motion for approval with, and I would like to leave it open for the board to either comment on recommendations or conditions. If anyone would like to add to that.

Yes.

I want it to be a successful building, just like you guys.

Can you please speak into the microphone?

I want it to be a successful building like you guys. I'm also worried about, I want to make sure that the sculpture is more pronounced, it's more visible. Right now, the sculpture is basically some arches and not too much of the building itself. So my conditions or my recommendations is to make the corners at least more sculptural somehow. The one on the 30th to kind of work that buttress going up and see if that can be made a little nicer. And just to consider the trees, I think the trees are just going to be conflicting itself because there's so many species. I know you guys are saying that it's something that is forced by the board or by the city, but I really think this is not going to be very good. So just consider the trees, the sculpture on the corners of the building and the buttresses along the middle of the building on 30th Street.

So is that in the form of a recommendation or condition? Recommendation. Is there anyone else?

I would, as a condition, ask that you revisit the north elevation and just take a look at the columns, the expression of the columns on the north facade, specifically on the far ends of the building, where we're missing those. It just seems incomplete. Right, on the east and west ends of the building. Yeah, just kind of delineating where you have the egress and aggressive cars. And then also consider taking a look at the roof line on the south facade. You know, how do you tie in the sculptural aspects and these architectural features that you've expressed on the base and bring it up to the skyline?

I would say integrating, you know, the balconies, you know, somehow integrating the two segments of the building on the south elevation specifically. I don't mind the north elevation at all because the scale is much smaller, right? So I think it works well, in my opinion. However, the south elevation is so tall, right, 12 stories. If you can bring some balconies down, maybe some of the glass up or something. I think that... you'll be really happy with it if the building is a little more integrated, reach at one, as opposed to so segmented. And it's not difficult to do, you know? I think it's the architect taking notes there, so hopefully, you know, you got some good ideas. But again, it's all our recommendation. I mean, we want you to, you know, I think we want you to be proud of this building, so I think these are, you know, if you take a few of these recommendations, it will only make it better.

Understood. So we got two recommendations, one condition. Is there another?

My comment about the north, the facade on the Northwest 30th Street that should be enhanced somehow in a manner that is responsive to pedestrian. Like in your presentation, you show a beautiful um, artwork or something behind the arches. But the truth is that there are doors to generator rooms and doors to FPL vault and doors to fire pumps. I don't know. I don't know how to improve that.

And then, you know, immediately there is an entrance, there's vehicular conflicts.

So it's a difficult thing to do, but, uh, The north facade has to at least take a little bit from the south facade to have something to resemble the dignity of the other side and respect the pedestrian movement.

That's my comment.

But I think it has been addressed by the comments.

Thank you, Anthony. Okay, I think that, do we need to repeat that? Can you summarize that for us, if it's possible? Are you asking me?

No, no, no.

Staff.

Yeah, we need a second still.

Okay.

Yeah, we need a second. Second. Okay, cool. And you accept all their conditions? All the conditions you found?

Yes.

And I will read the recommendations and conditions as I have them written, and then please, you know, feel free to pitch in if you have some changes or things to add. The condition of increasing the sculptural elements on the facades, especially on Northwest 30th Street, more specifically the columns on that facade, recommendations to revisit the roof line to include similar architectural expressions as the ground floor, and the other condition to integrate the balconies further into the south facade on Northwest 29th Street. Very good.

Okay, I guess we have a motion and a second. Motion and a second.

Member Garlardo?

Yes.

Member Perez-Avzor? Yes. Member Pamoui? Yes. Member Zamses? Yes. Chair Labrada?

Yes.

Motion passes.

Thank you.

Congratulations.

Thank you all. And we appreciate you also coming when there's only one item on the agenda. I tend to get a little nervous that we may have an issue. So we appreciate your service. Thank you.

Congratulations. Good luck with the rest of the journey.

Can we get a motion to adjourn, Madam Chair?

So we have a motion to adjourn.

So moved. Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you. Thank you.

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