Remarks by Joseph Corradino
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“Are we allowed to comment on this? Yes, I'm going to call that up as soon as we get done here. You're on next.”
“Let's just take that off the table for now.”
“going there other than what's there right that's why these properties are this one's one is pretty much vacant it's under the alcohol right it's not the best drag on the use for that property yeah i mean that's for a later discussion i think this is a this is a good interim”
“I'm OK with doing this. I think the public in Pinecrest is very well educated. They know exactly what we're doing. They watch the agendas all the time.”
“The referendum is proof that this is This doesn't raise the hackles of the vast, vast majority of people in Pinecrest. It's the reason we do have a second reading. There'll be plenty of time for people to come out and raise their concerns or objections then. And so I just think this is par for the course. There'll be plenty of public involvement over time. And I think we need to move the process forward.”
“Absolutely. Let's open the public hearing. If there are no more comments from counsel.”
“If you would like to make them, that's fine. You can go. All right. All right. Let's open the public comment period.”
“You're welcome. Is there anyone else who would like to come? Please.”
“Thank you. We appreciate it. Anyone else? Please. Welcome back.”
“Thank you. Anyone else? Seeing none, we'll close the public comment period. OK. Any debate amongst the council? Look, guys, this is, in my opinion, this is the right thing to do. We've got two undevelopable, effectively, pieces of land. The transit station is right across the street. We need to do something on the US 1 corridor that improves these things. We've talked for decades about property values. And just a quick little story. We sued Dayland when they came in to develop Dayland. And the story was, that they were going to ruin the property values in Pinecrest. Now, statistically, across…”
“I don't mean to put you on the spot. I don't know. Wouldn't we have any covenant that prevents zoning code changes or right there's nothing i don't know that we've looked at that did you look at that no all right we can go check if there is anything obviously we have to deal with that because that would prevent us from doing that would make it not legal but there's not been presented here can't i don't understand what what”
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“I don't think she was referencing probably something in the 1970s, when they moved here, and and all of that. So I'm sure it's an easy search through our records, if it happened through post incorporation, or if it happens, pre incorporation, we would have it because the county would have given us the information or the county would have it, it wouldn't be very difficult to find. But”
“OK. Re-land use and then? No. No. No, the zoning?”
“just like anything just like when we created the business districts years ago it doesn't guarantee anything nothing has happened on any one of those business districts so maybe nothing will happen here somebody's got to come in with a site plan that fits the code and go through the process of a conditional use right that's what it is so that's not just a site plan That is a site plan on steroids. That means we can put conditions on it. We can do all types of things to balance that development, more so than we deal with in a regular site plan.”
“So this goes through... This isn't a development. This is a complex. This is changing the future land use map to just expand this district that we already did. The district is already south of 104th Street. We're just adding two properties to it in, in my opinion, a very logical way.”
“yeah that's when that's when like like any other development comes in or a large development it comes in an application is filed they run it through traffic impact analysis all those studies site plan review anything like anything that's developing on us one um it's months and months maybe years in the making from the time that an application is put together. This is certainly not the last fight at the Apple. This is just providing opportunity out there where none exists right now.”
“This is old-timey. When did this develop? 50s? 60s? 1950s vintage Miami-Dade County development.”
“It's past its prime. It's undevelopable. Right? We, dude, we're getting killed in the US 1 Corp. I mean, Mayor Fernandez here, there, again, killing us because we haven't been able to upgrade our zoning code. I mean, we got bacon shopping centers. We've got, people are moving out of here. Hopefully, we'll be able to go to the gym sometime soon. But, you know, there is, you know, this code needs an upgrade. We're talking about, you know, looking at future revenue sources. My God, we got sitting on a bacon. This is a large piece of land. sitting there, undevelopable. You can't even bring water…”
“This isn't a site plan. This is an opportunity to get this property into a position where it needs to be so it can be developed.”
“My opinion is over time, that's a good idea. It wasn't contemplated in this, and therefore we can't do it as part of it. We'd have to start over again.”
“We did invite the community and they didn't show up they're gonna be invited in again and After this, but you asked me to answer the question. We invited the community in. We sent 1,000 of these notices out. We got one email back. A handful of people showed up. Everybody knows about this. If they don't, they will. They're going to come back, and there's no guarantee that we're going to approve this on second reading. We're going to hear from the community. There is no benefit to... This is the process. That's why it's got two readings. No benefit to starting the process and stopping because…”
“I presume that the public is more intelligent than that because they got a notice. They know that this is happening. I don't think we have to spoon feed them. We never have before. They understand it very, very well. Years and years of them dealing with zoning says that. And they had the opportunity to come tonight. They didn't. They'll either come next time or they don't. It's not out of ignorance and it's not out of not being noticed.”
“All right, anybody else? No, you can't with a public hearing. No, I'm sorry. The public hearing is closed, and we don't allow two bites at the apple. Does anybody have a motion? This is for tab 11.”
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