Remarks by Rachel Streitfeld
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“Right. So somebody who charges there, you know, the eight people who are charging on Monday are going to be a different eight people than the eight people who charge on Tuesday. Right. I spent a lot of time with our architect and our staff ensuring that there were many EV chargers available to the public so that we could offer this service. A lot of people who don't live in single family homes are would like to have evs but they live in older buildings that don't have the capacity and this is a service that we can provide because it requires us to create procedures and rules and enforcement…”
“I don't think anyone made that promise. But again, if you're hearing rumors in the community, then notify our communication staff that they need to get a clarification out to the community.”
“Commissioner Darrow, are we good on 14D?”
“Okay. Commissioner Trevone, the next item is yours.”
“Yeah, they also have been shot down by the Planning and Zoning Appeals Board of the City of Miami. So that's in flux as well. But I will say, for the property owners who purchase TDRs with the expectation that fees for height would be at a certain level, i can agree with what commissioner trevony is saying in terms of the fees that they bargained for when they invested in the tdrs it should reasonably remain those fees so i would like to make that motion commissioner if i can just clarify a couple points when you say that they've purchased tdrs as of april 30th the one that we just stood they…”
“I agree with you on that. I'm happy to second that motion.”
“And let's remember that a SAP does not create height where it does not otherwise exist. It allows existing height to be moved around. And so if they were to acquire... or to want additional height to accomplish their development program they would still have to pay for the height that they want and then move it around in an sap and the rate that they would pay for the height would be the rate that they anticipated when they purchased the tdrs and and as we did with related if they create a park with of x amount of acreage they get a credit on the height payments there was a formula that was…”
“I think related paid... I will have to refresh my recollection, but that sounds right.”
“If you purchase the maximum number of TDRs allowed for the project, you're allowed an additional 30% to 312. That's already in our code. Actually, our code just says if you purchase any TDRs. It doesn't have to be the maximum TDRs. If you purchase TDRs, you can go to 312.”
“But that's already in our code that you can go up to 312 if you have TDRs. And so the cost of bonus height charge of $10,000 per linear foot of bonus due within 60 days of site plan approval.”
“I really appreciate that you worked really hard on this. I want to give it more thought on the numbers. This is a solid proposal. It's thoughtful. Thank you. I'm not prepared to approve it tonight, but I would like to take a look at it if you're okay to discuss it in June and hopefully approve it in June.”
“I will say that... 6.9 million. I will say that I generally have a little bit of hesitation assigning... dollar amounts and values to air rights and density. I know that this is the way that we have done it and the way that we have been doing it. But what I liked about the Miami Economic Associates was that it was a formula based on the value of the land. And I know that we obviously really got into this at the last meeting on the formula. But one of the biggest reasons why the L-ADD cost of height was so significant if we had applied the formula was because they bought a property that had…”
“But that's not how that works. The whole reason it's called entitlements is that once the commission approves the site plan or approves the density or approves the development agreement, whatever it is, the property is now entitled with those approvals. Now, The approvals can disappear and we can, Heidi, we can be specific in our development approvals and our development agreements and in our resolutions that the entitlements disappear after a certain time. Can we not? If someone doesn't submit a building permit application within 365 days or two years or whatever, they can lose that site…”
“Mm-hmm. I don't think we have the ability to do that. You can't get around state law on that. We don't even have the right to confirm how much time they have to toll.”
“Let's talk about it. Let's explore that. I think if the idea is because state law provides that if there is a state of emergency, which there is every year during hurricane season, if the governor declares a state of emergency that affects your county municipality or a radius of municipalities, Your approval is told. So if you had a building permit that was going to expire in six months, now your building permit doesn't expire until the emergency order is lifted and you get another couple of months after that and you can extend and extend and extend your deadlines. I've seen site plans that…”
“So, so I, I, exactly. I agree with you. We all want to see projects up and Craig, this is no shade to you at all. But when we initially conceived of, I almost just said Miami 21 and I hate that for me. But when we initially conceived of NBD 100, we were trying to incentivize developers to come in, get their site plans, and break ground. And we did not accomplish that through what we ultimately approved in NBD 100. And I don't know how we missed that. I was a freshman commissioner at the time. I wish that I had pushed more. I wish that I had questioned more. I remember in those public meetings…”
“This is not about Sunbeam. But it's about the fact that we as policymakers, it's our job to set forth what we want our code to do. Now, we're really fortunate. We have a lot of professional experts and really smart people on this dais. But it is our staff. who are supposed to take those policy ideas and convert them into regulatory frameworks that work and make sense and that achieve those policy objectives. And I just think we've really missed the mark on the T6 regulations and the bonus incentives. We didn't do it the right way because we're not, I mean, look, thank God we have cranes going…”
“So we want to amend our fees, but we also want to take a closer look at the language and how actual building permits are incentivized and sitting on an entitlement or flipping an entitlement is disincentivized.”
“So let's take items two and three for discussion again in June.”
“Yeah. And I would like the commission to agree to provide direction to the village attorney and the village planner to do a review of how the code actually operates in terms of these, you know, milestone timelines and provide recommendations for how we might strengthen the code to achieve our stated objectives.”
“Can I, I'm, I'm, you know, that's, I'm moving that specific direction. Are you seconding my motion?”
“Madam Clerk, can you call the roll on that motion?”
“Commissioner Trevone, you want to talk about RM40? Yep. Okay.”
“So I'm going to object to this on two grounds. One is a strictly practical ground, which is that the state has prohibited us from passing and enforcing any land development regulation or amendment to our comprehensive plan that would be more burdensome or restrictive on property owners. And that would include revising the RM 40 zoning regulations. We cannot make changes to our code until the SB 180 preemption lapses. Because any changes that we make to RM 40 could be perceived as being overly burdensome or restrictive. And anyone can file a lawsuit against us to challenge those regulations.…”
“So this is something I actually lobbied on pretty aggressively when I was in Tallahassee. It's something that I've been following very closely. Fabian knows how I feel about it. In fact, the night before the House voted on the UDB bill, Fabian and I were on the phone drafting alternatives that would relieve SB 180. So he knows how we feel about this. And the 10 or so members of the House of Representatives also know how we feel about this. And Toby, not Toby Overdorf, but Nick Deseglia did have a glitch bill. He was the sponsor of SB 180 in its original passage. He brought a glitch bill and…”