Remarks by Rachel Streitfeld
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“I don't know if anybody wants to challenge what's happening here. I think we're fine. Anything else? Can we just move it? I had a similar conversation.”
“I thought it was a little awkward for you not to be there.”
“Do you need a modified motion, or is the recommendation from the Planning and Zoning Board sufficient for your time frame?”
“Yeah, I mean, did you review the resolution before you?”
“If you have any feedback, we'd love to hear it.”
“We're fighting the second. The motion is made by Commissioner Darrow and seconded by Commissioner Cervoni. Madam Clerk, will you call the roll?”
“okay have a great night yes what time is it it's an early one for you it's an early one for all of us frankly it's 8 45 okay yeah no we're not ready for us at happies yet um so i don't have a phone up here today i normally have my My phone is at home. I walked out the door with my phone on the charger.”
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“she was here earlier we're wearing the same dress i was excited all right i'll yeah because we were matching it was very cute no she's in she's wearing a red dress anyway this is not substantive all right so The stormwater park on West Treasure Drive is not going to be immediately developed, obviously, because it needs to be designed. And it's going to be an engineering project. project basically for how it's designed, which is to say that engineering, stormwater management engineering, is going to drive the design of the park. Christina, our chief resilience officer, has been working with…”
“Hang on one second, because we're going to move it, and then we can discuss it.”
“I don't know. So we don't have... So the general understanding is we do not have septic tanks here. However... It is my experience that there have been zombie septic tanks identified in certain places. I've got our building director nodding behind me. We don't really know a whole lot about what happened in the 1940s and 50s here in North Bay Village. And so the existence of a septic tank, have we done any underground exploration?”
“Commissioner, is that amended motion? Is that fine? Yeah. Okay. And I also want to clarify that an arborist will be out there to trim back that black olive and clean it up. This is separate from the demolition contract.”
“No. There's no there's no well for the septic tank issue that's a TBD but, as far as other signs of contamination now there's there's no history of agriculture or other contaminated uses on the site and it was used as a single family home yeah. yeah. Okay, we have a motion from Commissioner Darrow.”
“Okay, we have a second from Commissioner Acosta. Any other questions?”
“The pump station is going in the right-of-way. The electrical and mechanical is going on that site, but the pump station is going in the roadway.”
“The timeline on the Treasure Island roads and stormwater plan is in flux. You may recall that we canceled the current BCC scope of work as project manager because it was becoming obstructive. We are getting ready to go out to bid for a new master engineer on a new Treasure Island specific phased project. So it's not the third project. One, it is a new one, right? So initially we hired Black & Veatch. That contract didn't work out because we were paying through the nose for nothing. At that time, Black & Veatch was... removed we were told by our public works director at the time that he was…”
“It's the pruning of the one tree, the one black olive tree, and that can come. I don't know if it's going to be. That will come from landscaping.”
“We got a motion and a second on the demolition contract. Madam Clerk, will you call the roll?”
“I was not aware. Thank you. I'm so sorry. Discussion and appointment to the Sustainability and Resilience Task Force. We have three applicants here. I have not reviewed these applications, actually. We'll move this one up. Yeah. Yeah, we have a resident here. If any of the applicants are here and want to speak.”
“I'm sorry. Okay, we're not going to take it now. I'm going to actually review the application really quickly. All right. Sorry about that. Let's do 14C. Andy, this is you.”
“What do you mean when you say it's in our site plan? Well, in reference to... Like the village doesn't have a site plan.”
“Let him do his thing. I'm just going to do my thing at the same time.”
“Yeah. Andy, I appreciate what you're getting at. I really do. One, we don't waive our ability to enforce anything by not enforcing it. Period. Full stop. Okay. Two, we don't waive our ability to enforce a site plan or a development agreement by not enforcing it. Okay. So we can enforce the Island Walk on the 360 whenever we decide to do so. Right. And the commission could vote today to file a lawsuit against the 360. Okay. I'm going to oppose that vote. I don't think litigating with the 360 is a good waste of our time or is a good use of our time and money. We know that the 360 is tentatively…”
“We have never taken a vote to sue the 360 to open up the island walk.”
“this is this is this is not about people voting against me this has nothing to do with that if i had been on the dais when the 360 site plan came before us i would have been a hard no there's no way that that building should ever have been approved the way that it was designed there are six vehicular entrance and egress at the entrance to the island should never have been designed that way all of the ingress and egress to that building should have been on east and west drive but the fact that you have cars coming in and coming out right at the entrance is a disaster so i would never have…”