Urban Development Review Board - Regular Meeting

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YES. YES.

THANK YOU.

ALL RIGHT. WE'RE DOING A ROLL CALL.

CHAIR LOBRADO?

Present.

Vice Chair Barrera.

Present.

Member Behar. Present. Member Gallardo.

Present.

Member Lewis. Member Perez-Azura.

Here.

Member Pamui. Member Zampsis. Member Zapatini.

Present.

We have quorum.

Please rise. If you're with me, my agenda is still loading. Do we have any requests for absence waivers?

Yes, we do. Members requested an absence waiver.

Do we have a motion?

Motion to approve. Second.

We'll vote on it, please. We have a motion and a second.

Yes. Chair LaBrada?

Yes.

Vice Chair Barrera?

Yes.

Member Bayhart? Yes. Member Gallardo?

Yes.

And can we get a motion for last month? I wasn't done. I'm sorry. Oh, I'm sorry.

Member Perez-Azua and Member Zapatini. Yes. Thank you.

All right. We can have a motion for last month's meeting minutes.

Motion re-approved.

Second. All in favor?

Chair Labrador?

Yes.

Vice Chair Barrera?

Yes.

Member Behar? Yes. Member Gallardo?

Yes.

Member Perez-Azul? Member Zapatini?

Yes. Thank you. All right. Do we have any comments, any public comments online?

No, there weren't any when I checked before. I'll check one more time. But there weren't any when I checked the first three times today. No, still no public comment.

Okay, and then if we can close them, please. Thank you so much. And let's start with item number one, if we can.

UDRB number one, file ID 18488. E-Plan PZ 2519175, address 860 Northwest 101st. I'm sorry, 860 Northwest 1st Street, 861 West Flagler Street, and 26 Northwest 8th Avenue. Project name, 805 Residences. Location, East Little Havana. Transit zone, T6-8-0. Square footage, 535,916 square feet. Stories, 8. Residential units, 354. Commercial, 5,400 square feet. Parking spaces, 526 spaces.

Good afternoon, Chair and members of the board. My name is Mark William Riero. I work at Burkow, Fernandez, sorry, Burkow, Riddell, Fernandez, Larkin, and Topanas with offices at 200 South Biscayne Boulevard. I am extremely privileged to be here for the first time in front of this board on behalf of the applicant 805 Flagler LLC. As some of the board members already know, today the applicant is requesting to withdraw the application for further consideration at a later date. The reason, and first I would like to apologize to the board, we're cognizant of the fact that this board volunteers their time to be present in front of us today, and many of you are present today, so I'd like to apologize for the withdrawal today, but we had a CRC meeting with staff last week on November 13th, Thursday, 2025, where we met with city staff reviewers from UDRB, and they addressed several concerns in front of us, provided us with comments, and we believe that it is best to refine the plans in order to present to this board a project that is responsive to what this board is looking for. And respectful of your time, I open myself up to questions from this board.

Thank you.

Do we know, can you tell us what items you're changing? You know, we saw the drawings on the... We can't do that.

We can't do that. They're going to have to come back And they're withdrawing, and this is something that I want to bring to the record, put it on the record, because this morning I became aware that this was going to happen. I wrote an email to Ricky. Ricky is Hemingway. I guess he's out of the office. I got back. I said that it was contact Nicole, I forget his name. In fact, I wrote an email to Nicole confirming if we're going to have the meeting or not. I get Olga Zamora saying that we are. And the reason I'm bringing this up, we got six members here that, at least for myself, I'm busy. I don't have the time to comment and just sit around. I like to say hello, but I could do that in a social setting. If we know something like this because we knew this was going to happen, I don't think it's right of the city for staff to make us come here just to waste the time. I will appreciate if staff will do more and say, yes, in fact, it's going to be withdrawn. We will see you next month. Rather than tell me, you know, Olga, Ms. Zamora telling me, oh, yes, and we appreciate your service, but we are going to have this meeting. That's not right. I'm appalled about it because we wasted six board members' time for no reason knowing that this was going to happen. So that's my end of my comment. I guess, Madam Chair, we'll see them next month.

I would say that out of respect for everyone's time, wherever possible, that we are please made aware of. situation like this. If we had other items to review, it's fine, but this was the only reason why we came here. Thank you.

Thank you. I apologize.

Could we vote on a procedure that in the future, is there anything we can do to help you cancel meetings when there's nothing to review?

You know, I think, listen, if staff know that something is not going to be in the agenda, especially in a case like this with this one item, they should let us know.

Yeah. I mean, I don't think it's a big deal if we have other projects to review. We did earlier, but for one... My apologies. Go ahead. No, I'm done.

I can comment on just the legal aspect of it because... What I do know is that when the meeting is noticed, pretty much there's only two options. Either we still have to formally have the meeting for the applicant to withdraw, pretty much. That's what I do know. We have to have the meeting for the applicant to withdraw. And I understand that your department as well is pretty busy. I'm not too familiar with all the background information, but I do know, like, legally speaking, we have to have the median for the applicant to formally withdraw. And the other alternative is lack of quorum.

If that's the case, then maybe notify the chair, and I can still be here, and then give the board an opportunity to say, if someone has something that's pressing and all we need is quorum, we don't need six board members to be here.

And that's a good point. And from the applicant, get him writing a correspondence from them that they're going to be withdrawn so we're not held liable later if they decide to show up. But you're right. Either the chairperson or the three of you could be here.

I thank you all for your time and coming in. As James said, unfortunately, it's a legal matter. I like the ideas that have been proposed. You know, we're busy as well. My department's super behind on things, and it's frustrating to have to be here for no meeting in the end, but hands are kind of tied. But we'll work on trying to come up with a way to improve upon this in the future.

Appreciate it.

I need a motion for the item.

It still has to be voted on. I'll make a motion to, I guess, accept a withdrawal from the applicant.

Okay.

Second. Second.

Chair Labrada? Yes. Vice Chair Barrera?

Yes.

Member Bayhart? Yes. Member Gallardo?

Yes.

Member Perez-Azul?

Yes.

Member Zapatini?

Yes.

Thank you. I'll make a motion to adjourn. Second.

Thank you.

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