Urban Development Review Board - Regular Meeting

as part of this process. So we're reducing.

But we'll make a recommendation. Condition, I condition.

So we expect that this project is going to have more available parking than Adela 1 because we already included that surplus. Plus, we're hopeful that there will be 150 spaces. We're happy to. And I should also mention during the weekdays, the covenant provides that we're not allowed to charge more than the MPA, than the Miami Parking Authority. So it's not going to be the crazy prices that you get in the neighborhoods with the pirate parking.

Thank you. One last comment. As far as hardscape on this Paseo, are you reflecting in your renderings what you intend to?

But not in the video. Look at the video. The video is very skimpy.

Right, that's why I'm asking.

This is the rendering that I... No, I would say... No, there's no rendering through the paseo north to south. That is deceiving. That's east-west. That's just the pedestrian... That's the frontage of the park. When you say paseo, you refer to the one through the block, right?

I'm actually referring to the one adjacent to the park.

The video that they showed. That looks like a five-foot sidewalk.

Yes, it's not exactly. It's not powerful.

I mean, you're taking a street, so you should give back something.

Exactly.

So it's much better on the video graphic-wise, but this is reflective of the landscape design.

Yeah, but you see that that's not... You do see that as a 10-foot setback right next to the park, right? Excuse me?

That's not a pedestrian alley or a paseo east to west. You're not paying tribute to the fact you're closing a right-of-way and giving it back on the northern boundary. You're jamming this up with, okay, people can walk in front of my apartment, which I'm not real comfortable about anyway, within five feet of my front door. I mean, really? Yeah.

Is this, like, the tightest... I mean, help us. Like, where is this snapshot?

This perspective is... That's the choke point that you see here.

Choke point. That's the north facade, right?

If I may... I'm going to try to play back the video because the video does reflect more of the park.

I know we've got to move because we've got... But let me tell you, this, that...

It doesn't work for me, I'm sorry.

It is an afterthought.

How could we make it comparable to the other side? The other side seemed to be like a 15 foot.

It's 20 feet. I think that the goal here was to show the choke point, the most smallest area.

Sorry, this is the other side.

This is too important of a project. First of all, the plans didn't have time to update the plans because it was a two-week window. The facade, the massive length of this wall building is not broken up properly. The penetrations of daylight and urban experience with the interior corridors is not articulated. And we don't have a fair exchange of right-of-way closure vacation with this little pedestrian path in front of these apartments.

Well, I think... We have enough to make a motion.

Yes, I'd like to make a motion.

So respectfully, we're showing you the choke point of where it chokes.

Yeah. And we're showing the wider area here. So we're showing you this, we're showing you that.

The other part of that, that is all additional parkland.

Well, the public doesn't have access to that paseo. That's a private.

It's private land and it's intended to be a public easement, open. So people would be able to... But it's fenced in. I'm sorry? We see a fence. That's the park fence. No, it's the park fence. The park is going to be fenced, for sure. The city fences their parks. The idea is that it's a low pedestrian fence so that there is the air and light, but the city will have a fence.

The fence is not the developers. That's a city.

I'm sorry to cut you off. The owner, and I should have said this, but the owner is also working with the Parks and Recreation to open that fence so that we can have that true experience of connecting to the park. But that is still in the works.

But that is up to the city of Miami, and they put up fences, they take down fences. We do not have control over it. The Paseo experience is north to south from 64th to the actual park, as well as east to west.

An effort to to move this I'm willing to make a motion to approve with conditions Starting with you know breaking the building the facade like it is and one of the comments to have a bridge or something so you you get a break and you don't read 420 feet, okay? You're going to lose, how many, this is five stories, six stories, you're going to lose a few units. The break should be, you know, at least on the park side, on the northern side. That condition, I think the other condition will be to work on that paseo So it becomes a little bit more public, accessible, feels like it. That's the goal. You know, that it's not a backyard to those units and it's private. So if I'm taking away right away, which you are, give it back. 100%. Okay, I think that's at a minimum.

And the concept there is also that the right-of-way is being used as public easement drive through the public parking garage, right? That is the key. That is what we're using that public right-of-way for. We're also providing ride share opportunities because the neighbors have long complained with the removal of the public on-street parking spaces by DOT on Biscayne Boulevard. So we're providing a ride share opportunity

Area right at the entrance so you can see it right next to what's in green as well as that interior interior floor plan The next condition would be is to set aside a minimum I will I will try to put a number but whatever the Commission and all the other boards that you have to get approval for that. It's a minimum of X for the residents usage on not only on the weekend, whenever they need to, because if we're going to go there and somebody's going to go during the week, they may need to use that parking.

Can we set up a minimum of the buffer depth? Can you put the other rendering that you have, like put all three together, these two and the other rendering that you had originally with the larger paseo, and see if we can agree to a minimum buffer?

While you do that, the other condition is if the project, the alley is not vacated, you've got to come back here for a brand new project.

Okay.

Okay.

I don't want to seem obvious. I want to make sure that it's, you know, they come back.

And on member Zapatini's note, to add to that, board members, if you could provide as specific of details as possible, numbers and the North, south, elevation.

Listen, the break is wherever they showed up a cell, the break all the way through the building. And they could have a connector between the east and the west. But the break should be...

Break up the volume of the building vertically into at least two, if not three blocks with the use of a recessed glazed window opening full height to the corridors. That's

So basically, the upper floor should be the same as the ground floor.

I'm sorry, could you put...

The upper floor should be the same as the ground floor.

Yes, that's correct. The same as the ground floor. Can you put sheet A101A... And just a connector bridge connecting both buildings.

Glazed...

I'm sorry, can you put up sheet A101A where you show the intermediate parking, where you show the sale? Yeah.

Like that.

That's it. Break the building up all the way to the top.

And just connect it. On the upper floor, connect it.

And provide a bridge. With bridges fully glazed on both sides.

Like we've done in Midtown. You see the Midtown, literally across.

Look, to me, I'm more concerned with the break facing the street and facing the park. I'm not so concerned on the break into the courtyard. That they could keep that unit there. So it's only on the park side that you lose those five units.

Yeah, exactly. If you want.

Okay? So you could get a break there. Otherwise, I'm okay. So we gave you, I gave you, I think it's four conditions. Okay? I don't know if there's any more condition that wants to be added. I welcome those. Again, make sure that this guest, that the street gets vacated.

And...

Okay, so we have a motion do we get a second second Can we set up a minimum depth of that buffer is I think 10 feet is very very narrow would you be Opposed to continuing the 20 feet throughout and maintaining a minimum 20 feet buffer between the new development on the park. I

So we believe that along the Biscayne Boulevard area, that area has the space. It's a matter of just making that curve. And that is where it's just very tight and we're not able to modify the... parcel that is on biscayne boulevard the memo parcel so that area there's significant issues with the legal descriptions in this area because of the how old the park deeds are so that little issue there that little tight point has been an issue throughout but not the rest of the ones that you're having right like unit the one bedrooms

Yeah, so why could that not be pushed in so you have a 20-feet buffer there? That's not historic.

No.

So you could push it in so you maintain the buffer.

Yeah. Would it not be better for them to work with Parks and Rec and take that portion of the park? Of course. Of course.

our hope is that we can move the fence yeah that is what what's missing is so that is part of the work and a lot of coordination I promise let us help you by offering conditions absolutely that that buffer is a continuous 20 feet along the north facade the north elevation and then what you're going to give in return is a hardscape 100% that will align and then

We would love that condition. And the condition should something read like for us to coordinate with parks to move the fence in order to have more of that public easement. And it is a public easement that is in the plan.

I will go further. If the residents wants you to remove the fence, we will support that.

That's a great condition too. We're open to it as well.

I mean, I don't know if parks will allow it, but at least I think it would be better for everybody.

It's part of the eyes on the street. That's why the major revolutionary item here is to actually have units fronting the park. You know that that is obviously the best thing to do, but it never happens because of all these challenges.

So we have five conditions as of now.

I would add that the Biscayne Boulevard building pod, that portion that maintains that 20 feet alignment, is a covered porch, as in your rendering, and you don't enclose it as you're showing on your site plan. Yes, that remains open, like a covered porch. Move your finger down, align it with the residential unit facade. Oh, no, come into the building in line with your facade of your residences. Correct. Take that across and make that space a porch.

Oh, because that's open now?

Well, in the rendering on the left, it is, but in their drawing, they're planning as enclosed space. No, you keep pushing it out a little 10 feet again.

I think I don't see the rendering well.

All right. I don't see a portion there. In this rendering on the left, the corner rendering, it looks to me I can walk behind those columns.

No, no, no, you can't. It's lazy.

Oh, okay.

Yeah, yeah.

Okay. But I would recommend that you do it. You give a covered experience and entrance.

So we... We have a motion and a second. Anything else?

Well, for clarification, we had a motion, a second, and then amendments to conditions. So that voids the motion because of those amendments.

Then I'm going to remake the motion with all the conditions. And I don't know if we could read it back from the record.

Right. And yeah, I would appreciate help. I have three. And I heard you say you had four. So I have break up the volume of the building on the north elevation into at least two or three lots with a glazing opening into the corridors. Redesign the paseo on the north elevation providing a minimum width of 20 feet. Set aside a minimum number of parking spaces and a specific number would be appreciated.

75.

Did you have the opening in the what elevation is that where it shows the north elevation? Did you have that?

Breaking up the volume of the building on the north side.

The fourth condition was kind of repeating the first condition. So I think the first condition can include the covered bridges that you guys were requesting.

The first condition, you're going to break the building and you're going to have a connector with glaze. So you could read that at least on the north side. Me personally, I don't need it on the interior courtyard.

So what I think is it breaks the building, right? Then it's like two separate buildings. Yes, correct. And that's going to help a lot, I think. Correct. And it's what the neighbors are looking for, right? Essentially two smaller buildings connecting two bridges.

And then you have whatever minimal spaces the commission is going to mandate that you have open for the public. I wish I could put a number, but I don't know if it can do that.

So the other condition was to coordinate with parks and the neighborhood stakeholders to remove portions of the fence to create a wider pedestrian paseo and areas.

And include the designed hardscape that you show in this rendering with the corner historic building.

Open to the park.

So hardscape opening up to the park, right. As presented today, okay.

And the buffer you have that is 20 feet buffer between the new development and the park?

Correct.

Okay, minimum.

We have a motion. I don't think we have a second on this last one.

Yeah, I have a second and I amend my second. Okay, second, second.

So I'll make a motion.

Okay, and just to confirm, I'll reread the conditions. One, break up the volume of the building on the north elevation into at least two or three buildings with... North and south.

North and south elevations?

Yes. Right. With bridge connectors. Fully glazed.

Okay.

Break up the volume of the building on the north and south elevations into at least two or three buildings with bridge connectors, including glazing openings into the corridors. Two, redesign the Paseo on the north elevation, providing a minimum width of 20 feet and coordinating with Parks and Recreation to move the fence.

Move or eliminate, yeah. Move or eliminate the fence. Move or eliminate, okay.

When you say portions of the fence, because perhaps they may want to protect some parts of the park. Portions of the fence.

Any objections from the board on that?

Okay. That's fine.

Okay.

Go ahead, Matthew, read them again to make sure we're not changing. Whatever it is, it's what we're doing.

Okay, it's been a lengthy, complex discussion here. Okay, one, break up the volume of the building on the north and south elevations into at least two or three buildings with bridge connectors, including glazing openings into the corridors. Two, redesign the Paseo on the north elevation, providing a minimum width of 20 feet and coordinating with Parks and Recreation to move or eliminate portions of the fence. Three, set aside a minimum of 75 parking spaces. Four, include the hardscape design of the historic building as presented at the UDRB meeting.

Matthew, I don't think, based on the applicant, you could put a number. It's whatever the commission will... Based on the warrant... version of the warrant, I don't know, because I don't want to send a number if I cannot legally do that.

I think we can correct it by saying recommend a minimum of 75. Okay. How we get there is we can... That's fine.

I'm okay with that. Recommend. That's what we discussed earlier, so I think that was true.

Yeah, you could do a recommendation. Maintain that.

Recommend a minimum of 75. Yeah.

Right.

Okay.

It is a recommendation board.

All right.

And make sure you say 20 feet somewhere in there. Buffer.

Yes, it's in there. Okay. Guys, we have to move on. I'm going to have this by heart. All right, one, break up the volume of the building on the north and south elevations into at least two or three buildings with bridge connectors, including glazing openings into the corridors. Two, redesign the Paseo on the north elevation, providing a minimum buffer width of 20 feet and coordinating with Parks and Recreation to move or eliminate portions of the fence. Three, set aside a minimum number of 75 parking spaces. And again, yeah, these are recommendations. Four, include the hardscape design of the historic building as presented at the UDRB meeting.

including the color facade palette.

No, no, no, no, you can't. You can't. Done, done, done. That's it. We got those. Call the roll, please. Call the roll. We're done. Move on.

Roll call on UDRB item number four, file ID 17492. Mover, Member Behar. Yes. Seconder, Member Perez-Azura. Yes. Roll call. Member Lewis?

Yes.

Member Zappatini? Yes. Member Pramui? Yes. Vice Chair Barrera? Yes. Madam Chair La Brada?

Yes.

Motion passes, recommended approval with conditions. Thank you all very much for your patience. Have a great afternoon.

Congratulations.

Thank you all. UDRB item number five. ID 17621, PZ2418644, address 3801 Biscayne Boulevard, Project Biscayne Residences. UDRB6, PZ2418642 is an associated project. Location, Upper East Side, Transit Zone, T4R and T612L, square footage. 287,689, and 259,246. It's 20 stories, 86 residential units. Commercial property is 4,276 square feet. Lodging, two keys. There are 224 parking spaces. Application zone, zoning preliminary review with no special entitlement requests. This project exceeds 200,000 square feet.

Are we looking at one or two applications?

Hi. Carlos Lago with the offices at 333 Southeast 2nd Avenue. How are you, board? Thank you very much. We're actually, these are two applications, two by right applications. So we're going to keep this very short. There's no live local, there's no right away closure, there's no waivers, but it is two applications. So it's number item five and item six. The two projects are side by side. So the sheets or the exhibits, some of the exhibits that we're going to be joining today, we're going to be showing you today are joined, okay, are unified exhibits, but they're both from the project sheets.

Can we read them both?

There will be two separate votes.

Right. Okay. Okay.

Would you like for me to read the second one now?

Let's read the second one as well so that we can review them.

Certainly, right. UDRB item number six, track ID 17622, PZ2418642, address 3883 Bisking Boulevard, Project Biscayne Residence, UDRB 5, PZ 2418644 is an associated project. Location, Upper East Side, Transit Zone T4R and T612L. Square footage, 257,760 and 236,203. 20 stories, 79 residential units, commercial facilities, 4,598 square feet. There are 150 parking spaces. Application type, zoning preliminary review with no special treatment requests. This project exceeds 200,000 square feet.

Thank you very much. Carlos Lago, as I mentioned, these two projects were jointly designed and are located side by side. They're separated by an alley. But for zoning purposes, each site and project is being reviewed independently. So what we've done is actually presented this project as a unified project, which is something this board has always wanted to see, is to see the overall project. So today we're joined by architect Bernardo for Brescia, with architect Tonico, who will walk you through the project and the design. And we also have the landscape architects from Enea as well, who are here to answer any questions you may have. The sites are centrally located along Biscayne Boulevard between Northeast 38th Street and Northeast 39th Street, just north of Edgewater and east of the Design District. Site A, as you'll see there, is located to the north and consists of close to one acre of lot area, while Site B is located to the south and consists of approximately 1.1 acres of lot area. So total, we have close to 2.1 acres of land. This area is a part of a self-contained neighborhood that stretches from Biscayne Boulevard to the recently renovated Jose Milton Park, which fronts Biscayne Bay. The sites currently contain outdated office buildings, probably very familiar with them, built at the zero-foot lot line along Biscayne Boulevard with a large surface parking lot to the rear. Both properties have dual zoning designations. The Biscayne Boulevard frontages are zone T612 and the parcels to the rear are zone T4. Okay, so the dual zoning presented design challenges as each portion of the projects must fully comply with their respective zoning regulations under the transit zone. Bargatonega rose to the challenge and they've done an amazing job in creating two beautiful projects that each fully comply with the respective zoning requirements. And I want to make this point as well. These projects were designed completely by right, without any deviations, reductions, or special zoning permits such as waivers, warrants, or exceptions. project consists of two 20-story residential towers with ground floor retail, amenities, and parking. As you can see, the projects do not propose parking or garage frontage along Biscayne Boulevard. The principal frontage is fully lined with habitable uses. Close to 9,000 square feet of ground floor retail anchors and activates the corners at both Biscayne and 38th and Biscayne and 39th. transforming what are currently underutilized street frontages into active pedestrian-oriented spaces. It's also important to note that both projects exceed the required open space for T4 and T6, providing over 21,000 square feet of open space on the ground level and open to the sky. That is a total of 23%. of open space for the combined total property lot area. 23% is open space. These projects will significantly improve the current site conditions by replacing surface parking lots and inactive street frontages that do not currently contribute to the area and will introduce active uses, enhanced pedestrian connectivity, lush landscaping, and significant open space. Bernardo will now walk you through the project design, and we will remain to answer any questions you may have. Thank you very much.

In an effort to keep it very brief, Bernardo, because we have a...

Okay, thank you. I appreciate it. Yeah, we'll do that. Bernardo, Fort Brescia, 2900 Oak Avenue, Miami. To simplify, we have a private alley. It's called private alley, which is not public, but we can't occupy it. The legal aspect is, the attorney can explain, but that means we have two projects. Even though we use the alley, we're going to pave it beautiful, landscape it, and so forth, but we need to calculate all the setbacks, everything with respect to this private alley. There's a curb cut that exists from the private alley that we use as the entrance to the drop-off. But we also wanted to provide alternate access from the back. and another access into the garage from the side street to distribute the traffic for the site. Even though this is the official main entrance, we gave alternatives in order to enter the site.

So, Bernardo, just since you're there, that alley is going to become your entry point for your drop-off. So you're going to essentially internalize that.

That's right. It's essentially our drop-off. We're able to use it as our drop-off. We're permitted. The fire department can use it, and so can the neighbors. The neighbors are only a couple of houses here. From it, we can enter the garages, but we have alternate entrances for the purposes of, as I mentioned, to diffuse the traffic. These are adjacent parcels, also owned by the client. but they're not part of this application because they're houses, townhouses. So here you see the two entrances. You see the lobbies do face the avenue, do face the avenue, sorry. So Biscayne Boulevard, so there's a presence and address on Biscayne Boulevard, but everything you see pink is retail. So the entire frontage is really active uses. And if I like to, where's the main view? You can see what happens on the ground floor, but maybe This is a good way to explain the project. It's a two-tower project. You can see the pool decks. You see the reason why they're divided. Otherwise, we would have connected across. And you can see where the eventual development will occur of townhouses in the rear. You can see we moved the towers towards Biscayne Boulevard to create the lower portion of the building in this direction, of the buildings in plural. And You see the building has this sort of curving element that you will see in other views, any of the elevations that will show it, and that divide the building and becomes a fin that connects onto the roof where we have that floating elliptical shape that hides the mechanical under which, you can see it here, under which we have some amenities at the top of the building. It's a very simple building. They're a corner's curve, but they're clean, minimalist design, where there's just sweeping shape that curves down along the facade of the building. And that extends in certain, and one side is lower, and where's the other side? The main side. And the main facades are, no, no, the other side. There you can see where it intersects. But otherwise, it's a very, we look to have a very clean design for the building. And it is the entrance to the design district. And I think there's a garage rendering. We got to hurry up because they have other things to do. Okay. Come on, be prepared. Yeah, you can see the finish of the design and the different tones of bronze. creates ventilation, but it's also concealing completely the garage. The light will just filter sideways from the exterior. And the garage is, of course, not facing Biscayne Boulevard. Everything is occupied. That's it. Thank you.

Thank you for the presentation.

So that concludes our presentation. Thank you. Let us know if you have any questions.

I think this project is absolutely exquisite. I mean, this is exactly what we expect from Arquitectonica. It's timeless, it's beautiful, the materiality is so sophisticated in the restraint that you're choosing, the fin, the podium, the detailing, the stucco, the scoring. It's truly beautiful. So I honestly think you did a fabulous job. I don't have anything except congratulations to say. And please do more projects like this. This is 10 out of 10 on my end.

Thank you.

Nasser, how are you? Thank you. I want to commend the entire team. Mr. Lago, arquitectónica, everyone involved. Exceptional project. Simple in a very elegant way. Beautiful in scale, massing, articulation. the pedestrian realm, so you've addressed all the beautiful circulation. So I want to leave it at that.

Congratulations. Sometimes it's harder to do these things by right, you know, so it's a bigger challenge. But we got it right. Thank you.

I agree. It's beautiful. It took too long, the presentation, because this is absolutely, you know, fantastic. Thank you very much. Thank you, Mr. Behar. I support.

Thank you, Mr. Barrera. We have one more applicant.

Likewise. Well done.

Thank you, Mr. Lewis. Beautifully done. Well done. Mr. Perry. Congratulations. Thank you.

I think we're ready for a motion.

Make a motion.

We approve. Second. Thank you, Carlos. No, Diaz for taking it down.

You asked me a question.

It's truly exquisite. Congratulations.

Thank you so much.

B.T., roll call.

We're waiting for a roll call.

We have to do the roll call.

Roll call on UDRB item number 5, 17622. Mover, Vice Chair Barrera.

So the motion has to be clear that it's for item number 5.

For item number 1, number 5, and then item number 6.

Two different votes.

Item number 5, you make the motion. I second it. Yes.

Thank you. Roll call. Member Lewis? Yes. Member Perez-Azura? Yes. Member Zapatini?

Yes.

Member Pamoui? Yes. Madam Chair Labrada?

Yes.

Motion passes.

Item number six, I make a motion to approve. Second.

Second.

Yes. Roll call on UDRB item number six, ID 17622. Mover, Member Behar. Yes. Seconder, Vice Chair Barrera.

Yes.

Roll call, Member Perez-Azura. Yes. Member Lewis.

Okay. Okay.

Members Appatini? Yes. Member Pramui? Yes. Member and Madam Chair Labrada?

Yes.

Motion passes.

Thank you very much, Board. We truly appreciate it. Congratulations.

Thank you. Beautiful.

And a quick reminder, we still have that 5.30 hard stop.

All right. I think we only need five minutes, so we're good. Board members, thank you very much. On behalf of the applicant, New Sense LLC, I'm Edward Martos, office at 2800 Ponce de Leon Boulevard. I'm joined today by our architect team from Anillo Toledo Lopez. The project you see before you, and slow me down if you need me to slow down, but the project you see before you is a 36-story building

Live local project, 40% of the project will be- I'm sorry to interrupt, but just for protocol, do we introduce, say, item seven at the beginning?

No, item number seven.

Okay, thank you.

Item number seven. So as I said, it's a T6-8 zone property, but it's a live local project. And in terms of context, which I know is very critical to you all, it's critical to us as well, the key thing I want you to know is that we are 300 feet away from T6-36 zoning. T6-36 zoning allows 60 stories of development. We are building practically next door to T6-36, and we're only building 36 stories. The project is also within a mile of T680. So under the Live Local Act, we could actually build 80 plus stories. We're not doing that. It's not that big a footprint. Realistically, we wouldn't do that. But I just want to give you some idea of the context. In terms of the neighborhood, we are two blocks north of the Bremen SAP complex that you saw very recently. So development is coming to this area very promptly. And I also want to emphasize just that same SAP area is in an area where 500 units per acre is permitted. So we are not out of context in any way with our neighborhood. We're next to two transit corridors, Second Avenue and also Biscayne Boulevard. And with that, I'll turn it over to our architect, Carlos.

Good afternoon, board. Carlos Jimenez, project director, ATO Architects. Today, I would like to present to you Sense 22. We had a lot of fun actually designing this building with our client, H.A. Empredimentos. They're actually here from Argentina. So thank you for your time to get us in today. I just want to kind of start off. I want to do this quick because I know we're in a time constraint here. But I just want to kind of start off with the pedestrian realm. From the street, going from the street up to the tower, 36 stories, 328 units. The pedestrian realm here. The end of the block from the site that Edward was saying, it's kind of like a dead end. Dead end cul-de-sac, a boat yard at the end. So there's not much going on at the block. But Across the street, we have a 16-story development for Melo, which has reeds on the bottom. And our building composes basically a bike storage in the front, and then the residential lobby in the bottom, which activates the mid block on that block there. The podium design is a rectilinear pattern, which is the main design component from the second level to the eighth level. where we created the pattern all the way through, rectilinear moving side to side. All these liners here, they're Miami 21 compliance. They blocked the garage in the behind. The ninth level, it's our amenity level, which has the gym, pool, club room, all those good amenities. And then from the podium design here, We jump up the tower where we created the same harmonious rectilinear design motion on the northeast corner of the building. But in this case, the podium would have is floor to ceiling glazing, no balconies. On this design up here, it would have five foot balconies wrapping that corner, overlooking the Biscayne and Midtown area. On the northeast, On the northwestern portion of the building, we lightened it up a little bit more from the many deck up to the 14th level. We kind of just softened it up with colors and not make it look so extravagant. And then from there on up, we continued up on the northwest side with a more soft wraparound, smaller balconies in the corner. And then we get to the 36th level where we have our, it's a sky deck lounge is what we're shooting for there with an angled covered terrace. on the top for residents to use and to be able to light up the skyline. Here's the front elevation on the north side. Also the screening of the mechanical equipment for the cooling towers that we have on top. We're emphasizing our structure to go around and wrap around the top of the building so that we can kind of encase the, the mechanical equipment up there. Just two more. Here's our main elevations here. You can kind of see our covered terrace. You can see the design of the mechanical equipment on the top. And then here we have the west elevation. The garage is fully screened. All the calculations have been done already for the mechanical For the free ventilation of the garage, as well as, since we're five feet away from the property line, the fire requirements of the separation we need to have at 25%. So that's already all calculated in. The movement on the south side of the elevation, we played with the movement there of the building, trying to keep a continuous harmonious flow of the whole design wrapping around. And then on the west side here, which faces the bright line about a block down, this will be the view that you get to see from there. And with that, I'll just conclude my presentation. Thank you. Actually, let me just walk up the building real quick. Sorry, I'm all over the place here with this thing being broken.

You're doing great, Carlos.

All right. Ground floor, north side of the building on the top, residential lobby, back of house, the parking in the center of the building. We have a linear dog walk at the south side of the property for the residents to use with their animals. Intermediate level, double level mezzanine overlooking down to the lobby area. Bike storage, the requirements now for the bikes have gotten ridiculous. So we definitely have a lot of bike storage. Liners from two all the way to eight level, blocking the garage from the street. Same thing there. Ninth level amenity deck, where we come up, we have full circulation around the whole deck, everything enclosed to meet the codes needed.

Excuse me, Ion, you've done an excellent job. I think if you want, we have to vote.

We're good.

Towered.

You're good. You're good. Don't worry about it.

You're good. Roof deck sky launch. Thank you. Sorry, guys.

I'll start on my right. Mr. Perez?

I mean, this is a beautiful project. I'm ready to vote. I have no comments. You guys have done a great job. I really like it. I can tell you have fun designing it because you've got a nice product. Thank you. Congratulations. Thank you.

I like it as well. I would have loved to see a little more difference in height between the two vertical cubes that you're using to articulate the volumes, but I'm still in full support of the project.

In support.

Great project in support.

Beautiful project. A matter of preference is you could have anchored one of these facades down further, but you've done an exceptional job. Very well articulated. Congratulations.

Yeah, I think I agree. It's an excellent project. I do want to say that you have that opportunity because you have a zero setback in that area to just make the tower feel taller. Yes. So I think that's something that just a suggestion for you to look at it in the future. You have an opportunity that not a lot of people have, which is having that very long option. But other than that, it's perfect. Thank you.

Thank you. Motion to approve.

Second.

Roll call on UDRB item number seven, ID number 17642. Motioner, Vice Chair Ferreira. Seconder? Yes. Yes. Seconder, Member Behar? Yes. Roll call, Member Perez-Azura? Yes. Member Lewis? Yes. Member Zapatini? Member Pramui? Yes. Chair Lady Labrada?

Yes.

Motion passed, recommended approval.

Board members, thank you very much.

Motion to adjourn.

Congratulations.

Thank you.

Motion to adjourn.

Second. Good job.

I have homemade cookies every day, brownies. I make it my home.

For Maria and Ashia, the city of Miami represents a second home where their dreams have flourished. But for Ashia, it represents freedom.

Miami was my second home with a lot of freedom, because freedom you don't have when you're Muslim is a little difficult. That's why I accepted Miami.

The city of Miami impact us very good, and everybody come to eat here, so.

That's good. Lemony's connection to the community is strong, and they cherish the support from the city of Miami.

Community Comstat in Coconut Grove. We went over all the crime statistics for last year. We discussed what happened, what our successes were, what our failures were, and what we plan to do going forward. And then I kind of gave them a taste of what could be. We showed some technology elements that could get information out to the residents in a much faster manner if we leverage some of that technology. So hopefully that happens in the future. This was a great meeting. The commissioner was here. They listened to the voices of the community and what their concerns are. Their concerns are traffic. Their concerns are homelessness. Their concerns are theft. Let's fix it.

Today we are recognizing Isidore Cohen. Mr. Cohen was one of the founders of the City of Miami. He voted to incorporate the City of Miami. It was an effort by District 3 Commissioner and by the City Commission and the Mayor of the City of Miami to name Southwest 2nd Avenue between 27th and 26th Isidore Cohen Road.

I want to thank the temple, Beth David, Profiles in Black Miami, and I'd like to thank the city of Miami. You know, if it wasn't for Profiles in Black Miami and the work that they've done, what happened here would have been lost. This is just really a tribute to that, and it makes me really feel proud to be a Miamian.

It's a great honor and blessing for him to be, for his legacy to be remembered in this way, and it'll be exciting to see his name on that street for years to come.

The Miami City Commission has approved a resolution to join the Zero Drownings Miami-Dade Program. This collaborative effort aims to reduce and prevent childhood drownings in our city. By providing education, resources, and promoting awareness, this initiative aims to save lives. Drowning is the leading cause of death among children aged 1 to 9 in the county, making this program a vital step towards ensuring their safety.

The Building Department and the Environmental Resources Division is celebrating Black History Month by distributing to city employees plants of African and Caribbean origin. So we have nine species that we are thankful that we're able to be rooted in heritage. and spread the joy of plants, increasing tree canopy, loving the environment, and loving and appreciating how the African and Caribbean culture signifies our environment and how we can have plants from indigenous and other areas that we can have here in South Florida.

Today is the culmination of Fit City Miami, a 30-day long contest where people are in charge of their own health, trying to promote wellness across all departments of the city of Miami, because a healthy employee is a happy employee.

Today we're actually promoting health in our city.

We want to make sure that we're setting the example for our residents, that they can stay healthy, that they exercise, and also, of course, make this the fittest city in America.

Everyone benefits from this initiative because we stay healthy together and a healthy team is a team that can serve our community.

A healthy body and a healthy mind makes a great employee and a great employee makes our city even greater.

It's a good incentive for promoting healthy habits.

We get to basically come together and just have a moment with the employees and we can have fun.

It's just a great event. You see how happy everyone is getting together for this wonderful day and running and exercising. I thought it was so important I brought my daughter who finished the 5K also. We had a wonderful time.

I am so excited to be here for the ribbon cutting of Wynwood Works. It's an affordable housing project, 120 units in Wynwood. So real families can afford to live in our beautiful city. It's a collaboration between the City of Miami and the Omni CRA, Udonis Haslam, and the building is just beautiful.

affordable housing project that's called Wynwood Works. I'm incredibly proud of the team, of all the partners and $15 million investment by Omni CRA. In this case, we're putting units that are at 30% AMI, 50% AMI, 60% AMI and 80% AMI. That's incredibly affordable for an area like Wynwood.

An honor and a privilege for me, my office, my wife to be here and participate in looking at this and hoping to bring these kind of projects to Alapata after the Alapata CRA is created.

Even if you're living in Wynwood and you're from this community, you don't have to move out of this community to have housing. You can still stay in your community and you can still be housed and you can still live like the people that come from out of town and come all these amazing things that people come to Wynwood for. We want to give it to the same people that are from Wynwood. So that was the goal of this. Given all those things that people come to Wynwood and though it's grown and it's amazing now, there are still people that are from this community. We don't want to forget about those people.

I'm really excited. This is the second year we host it. It's a culmination of bringing everybody together, all the agencies, so that local small businesses are able to connect with them. So if they can't get a contract with me, they can get a contract perhaps with Miami-Dade County or Miami-Dade School Board or the City of Miramar. And it's just a great way to be able to help our local small business community.

This event is a procurement initiative to really promote and encourage small businesses to really do business in the city or with the city and with our various municipal partners because we have municipal partners here from a number of different cities.

Oh, we're so excited to be here to share the excitement of World Cup 26 coming here to Miami. We're one of 16 host cities, but we know that here South Florida is going to shine bigger and brighter than any other host city. And we want to just talk about all the possibilities and opportunities that are going to light up this town.

As a small business owner, this has been just a tremendous resource to gather a lot of great information, a lot of great resources, amazing speakers, and I'm going to walk away with just a whole bunch of knowledge and be able to resource my small business.

I am here to support the city of Miami's efforts to bring in as many vendors as we can to take part in the procurement process.

We will be hosting this event 2027 and we look forward to expanding this year. We were working with 37 agencies, local and state agencies. So we're so excited for the small businesses

This is phenomenal. These are vitally important to our business community. To everyone, thank you, and let's change some lives today.

The event looks pretty amazing. There's a lot of people from a lot of different cities that basically guide us all, small businesses here, to how to get new contracts and to grow from small businesses into big enterprises.

I am here today in the beautiful neighborhood of Spring Garden where we are celebrating road improvement. And it's always great to come out and do a ribbon cutting for what the city of Miami is doing and I am happy to be the public servant for this community.

This morning we are doing the ribbon cutting.