Remarks by Rachel Streitfeld
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“Does anyone have any questions? What this does? How is it different from a variance? Who approves it? No? Yes? Going once, going twice? Madam Clerk, please call the roll.”
“Good night. 13A, an ordinance of the Mayor and Commission of North Bay Village, Florida, amending Chapter 150, boats, vessels, and houseboats of the Village Code of Ordinances by creating Section 150.22, overnight anchoring restrictions to regulate certain overnight anchoring of vessels within the waters of the village, amending Section 153.04, such schedule of fines and civil penalties to establish a penalty for violations, providing for separability, providing for codification, providing for conflicts, and providing for an effective date. This is sponsored by myself and co-sponsored by…”
“Commissioner Darrow is seconding my motion. Thank you. Does anyone have any questions, comments about the overnight vessel?”
“Do you guys need to bring this back to us?”
“I mean, I think he's suggesting that the way that the timing is worded is we're issuing a violation prior to the actual statutory requirement.”
“No, I think we should get the language right. Okay.”
“We think are reimbursed by the property owner, we have to go after it.”
“So one of the things that's going to happen as soon as we adopt this ordinance is our partnership with Miami Beach, City of Miami and Miami-Dade County will reflect that we have all approved these ordinances and that we can enforce. I've already talked to...”
“No, I know. It is a backup to what we needed to get there. I've already spoken to the new manager at the City of Miami and Commissioner Pardo, and I know that Sam has spoken to his counterparts at Miami Beach and Miami, and everybody is on board to work together to enforce this.”
“Let's pass this on first reading and go over it again. This is second reading.”
“Okay. Let's bring this back in May and look at it more closely on second reading. Okay. Thanks all right 13 be a resolution of the mayor and Commission of North Bay village Florida approving approving with conditions denying an application by harbor island development company llc for use exception to permit a temporary sales Center marketing office on property located at 7946 and 8000 East drive, providing for findings conditions, providing for an effective date. It says that this is the managers item.”
“Funny. No, that's funny. That was funny. Okay. Come on. Do you all, you know, I would imagine that our planner has a presentation. You can, I'm happy for the planner to waive his presentation. If the applicant wants to speak briefly. Okay.”
“Do you want to go to View Slideshow so it shows full screen?”
“Thanks so much. I have a couple of questions for ownership if someone wants to come. Hello, name and address for the record, please.”
“Thanks. When can we anticipate you breaking ground on the sales center? And from then on, when do you expect it to be open? And are you planning a public event?”
“And since we have you here, are there any updates on the project's construction timeline that you'd like to share with us? Congratulations on your shoreline review. Thank you.”
“Okay, awesome. All right, good stuff. Thanks. I'm ready to, yeah, my motion is to approve this. I second. Commissioner Cervone is seconding. Madam Clerk, please call the roll.”
“I know. We'll be at Happy's very shortly. All right, guys. Thank you, everybody. All right. So I know Commissioner Acosta wanted to talk about 11A. I do as well. This is a resolution of the Mayor and Commission of North Bay Village, Florida, approving a lease agreement with North Bay Village East Drive owner LLC for the lease of vacant real property located on East Drive and identified by folio numbers. 2332090010250 and 2332090010270 for the village's use for construction staging and operations during village hall construction, authorizing the village manager to negotiate and execute…”
“All right. So we have known for quite a while that we're going to need a location to stage for the construction of Village Hall. And the offer of using... Luis Navas slash Elad slash Grand Vida properties to stage has sort of been like floating around. Like they had negotiated, did it start before you? Did it start with Rosado? It's okay, but it started with you. Okay, so there had been discussion about us leasing their land for a while. And they were eager to sort of, make something materialize like a lease agreement. And we sat down in person, me, Frank, Dave, and Luis. And they said,…”
“I don't think we're ready to rebuild that park. I don't think we have the money to rebuild that park.”
“I want everyone to consider the actual logistics of this. The dog park is much closer to the site than the property that we're talking about leasing. It's much closer.”
“Can you go back to them and ask them if they'll accept one?”
“It will be. It's still going to be a park. It's still going to be a park. Once we rip it up to stage construction, it's going to stay. Exactly. It's going to stay ripped up until we can pay to put a park back there.”
“It's risky. The reason why I was drawn to this alternative is more so because of the logistical advantages of the dog park being closer to the actual site. The properties that we're looking at leasing on East Drive are farther down on East Drive. They're a little bit more than halfway east. down which means that if you have um you know like any any type of construction vehicle that's bringing materials to the village hall site they're gonna have traffic back up like as they wait for them to drive down east drive to get into that intersection so i just was trying to sort of consolidate the…”
“Well, we have a suggestion for an amendment from the vice mayor to say if we increase the cost of TDRs, they do have to pay the difference. I don't know that they're going to agree. They're not going to agree to that because we could... All we have to do is increase the TDRs. I mean, that gives us all the power. Why wouldn't we do that?”