Miami-Dade BCC - Comprehensive Development Master Plan

>> test miami-dade. >> test miami-dade . >>clerk: commissioner bermudez. Commissioner cohen higgins. Senator garcia. Commissioner gonzales. Commissioner hardemon. Commissioner higgins. Commissioner mcghee. Commissioner regalado. Commissioner steinberg. Vice CHAIRMAN Rodriguez. CHAIRMAN Gilbert. Seven members present, we have a quorum. >>chair: okay, please rise for invocation and pledge of allegiance. Bow your head. GOD thank you for this day we've never seen before and will never see again, we pray that you give us the strength, wisdom, grace to do all things in your will and as you would do them and in this time we pray GOD, amen. >> I pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under GOD indivisible with liberty and justice for all. >>chair: let's see, so not going to start with cdmp, we're there are no changes to your agenda so a motion to set the cdmp agenda would be in order. >>commissioner regalado: second . >>chair: all those in favor signify by saying aye. Show the meeting set. Class MR. Chair both sets of items on the agenda are small-scale applications that were previously heard on first reading, these applications are before you for final action, I will read the ordinance title and also reference a companion resolution in the event the board wishes to convert to standard application and transmit but if the board takes final action on the small state scale application the resolution would be deemed withdrawn. Both items on your agenda or conference zoning items. That means the public hearing for the conference application be held once during the cdmp portion of the meeting and national service public hearing for the cdmp and zoning components of the application. I know the clerk swore in witnesses for zoning but in abundance of caution we recommended the they swear in for cdmp as well . >> stand and raise your right hand. Do you solemnly swear the testimony are about to give us the truth, whole truth and nothing but the truth so help you GOD? You MAY be seated. Do you swear or affirm you will make a true interpretation of the questions asked and testimony given? Thank you. >> these hearings will be conducted pursuant to quasijudicial hearings, I can read the first ordinance. Ordinance relating to miami-dade county comprehensive development master plan providing disposition of application cdmp 202 301 i located on the northeast corner of the intersection of northwest six avenue and northwest 95th six avenue and nw. 95th ter. File by 585 nw. 95th ter. Llc as an OCTOBER 2023 cycle application to amend the comprehensive development master plan providing severability exclusion from the code and an effective date and also three a supplement and three a1 which is the companion resolution to transmit. This is a public hearing. >>chair: public hearing is open, can we do all the public hearings together? Never mind, let's do this one. Anyone wishing to be heard on 3a and 3a substitute, you have two minutes. >> good morning commissioners, law offices at stern lieber mueller 150 w. Flagler and I represent the applicant, 585 northwest six llc. We're here on a concurrent application, it's a small scale cdmp as well as a rezoning for one of the parcels. I did submit some slides so if those can be brought up. >>chair: time out. She can do the presentation but we do public hearing first . >>commissioner hardemon: she said she was speaking for public hearing but I didn't see anyone else, >>chair: what item is this? We have no speakers so public hearing on 3a and 3a supplements are closed and now I will turn it over to the applicant. >> I wanted to check to see if there were speakers signed up for the companion zoning. >>chair: is anyone here to speak on 1c? So 3a, 3a supplements and 1c, public hearing are now closed and this is for the applicant. >> I'm not sure if MR. Bell wants to make any comments. >>commissioner hardemon: you can go first. >> perfect. Okay, so this is the wrong one . Because we are at the cdmp so there were two sets of slides but it doesn't matter, they are pretty much the same. Here is the application area so this is an area that consists of two parcels, one parcel 7000 ft.B2 fee, the other 14,000 ft.B2. They are both zoned currently ru3b. I apologize. So I'm looking at a different exhibit. Anyways, this is a small-scale amendment from low density residential to business and office. So on the smaller portion , let's see if I can get to the slide. The 7000, the 7000 ft.B2 parcels is a vacant parcel at the moment. The 14,000 ft.B2 parcel is yes okay. The 14,000 ft.B2 parcel is developed with the warehouse. If you can see around the area there is a lot of business and office around this area. Adjacent there is residential and residential neighborhoods. Here is what I can show you. This parcel is adjacent to I-95 and if the interest in I-95 so to get into this parcel there is two entrances on 95th as well as sixth avenue, sixth avenue is the entrance to the northbound lane. As you see a purple is actually I-95. This is the area we like to do the small-scale amendment to have business and office and the purpose is to be able to construct very small office building for the administrative offices of the warehouse itself so te warehouse administrative offices are contained within the warehouse itself. This would prove to move those offices into that small office building which is 3060 ft.B2 approximately, we are proposing and that will allow more uses in the warehouse and we're hoping to bring in approximately 10 more jobs, entry-level jobs by the way. We comply with the objectives as you can see here of the comprehensive plan. Proposing, we've proffered a covenant, it's been executed and submitted to the county so we're restricting the warehouse use to 7000 to 7650. That is existing, we're not increasing that square footage and we're also restricting the proposed use of office 22 stories no more than 35 feet in height. Here I'm going to show you some examples of what the existing site looks like. This is the warehouse adjacent to the vacant parcel. Again a couple of pictures from other areas so you can see what's on the site right now. This is across the street to the warehouse parcel and adjacent there is a gas station and single-family homes. Again this is adjacent to the warehouse parcel there is a single-family home and again commercial uses across the street that are already being used commercially. This is what we are proposing. This is if you notice this building is split by an elevator shaft. On one side with the gray that the existing warehouse and we're building the office adjacent to it. And here is another picture, this is what you will see from the residential side. We agreed efficient buffers to the residential side on the east side of the parcel. Again this is now looking at the parcel from the north elevation. There is a single-family home there so we're trying to make it look more residential rather than office so we've made those architectural designs so it blends into the neighborhood even though it's not 100% the neighborhood doesn't have this architectural style but we think it's going to be a nice improvement to this neighborhood area again a few more renderings, I want to show you what this will end up looking like when we finish this project. We have gone through the community council and received unanimous approval . They commented we blieve this will be great for the neighborhood. We came to the planning advisory board which unanimously approved and what we were rezoning is one of the parcels where the 14,000 ft.B2, that's going to be sold bu1a so we're rezoning that to bu1a and with that I will answer any questions you MAY have . >>commissioner hrdemon: can you take the slide back to the renderings where we can see where the residential poperty is? That's correct. So the north side is the part where I see the palm trees that are going from left to right, east to west. But s do you have access to the property from that viewpoint? >> the access to the property will be on 95th or sixth. There's not going to be access on that site on the north side of the parcel . >>commissioner hardemon: so I'm assuming on the east side of the parcel and this is a question that also the department can answer, they have some sort of semen wall at a minimum height, is that correct? This use from the residential use? >> we have not submitted a site plan, that's one of the things we would work with zoning and planning to come up with whatever they want as a buffer to that site. We told them we would create the above or whatever is needed, either it's a cement wall. Right now it's fencing. >>commissioner hardemon: I want to be clear and I will need the departments help with this. I'm willing to move forward with this proposal, however what I would believe to make it sufficient because it's adjacent to those properties, i would like whatever cement wll that is required to be built because I'm sure there's a cement wall required to be built because it's a commercial property mixed residential so we would require that semen wall to be built probably at a minimum height, I'm going to assume minimum expert wall that would be built. I want it to be built walls are still built interior to the property because of the way you have the foundation however I want to push a little further inside, the reason being is on the outside of the wall which still belongs to the applicant I would like sufficient hedging to be planted so what you will see is we have sufficient hedging so as you look next to this you see beautiful green and behind that you will have a wall that satisfies the code. Then and can you go back one more where you just work? Okay, so I don't want to see this. This is the review. If I were a household I'm looking westward. Even on the screen it doesn't show up very well because it's bright light so what I'm saying is I would love to see hedging on the side of assist to the residents. Which means the wall would just have to be set back so if a wall for instance is of foot and a half off the property line and maybe you had an additional foot which gives you the opportunity to plant hedges there so now when I'm looking at this I see a well-maintained hedge that would be required or some sort of planting that would be green , that would be tall, that could grow. That is nothing considered to be grass or low plantings that would reveal this monstrosity wall because most people who own property next to properties like this don't think those are very large so that wall will be rather close. And so I don't know how you would do that but if the applicant is okay I feel that would be a welcome change to whatever proposals they move forward with in the future so how would we capture that with all of this? >> commissioner, these were just conceptual plans so this is what we want it to look like. We did talk to staff and we are going to put landscaping there. This is a tight spot, a type area that could be the driveway I want to make sure whatever goes in there, we want to put landscaping but if the wall interferes with the landscaping , I think that we could probably put a fence . >>commissioner hardemon: offense is not sufficient but I'll give you an example. I don't know but if you plant bamboo, bamboo is a very narrow sort of space that you need and it would give you a break up in the site so it gives you some sort of beautification. I want it to look beautiful. The design is nice, you have palm trees, one commissioner hates palm trees but however, there are things you can do. Just ask for your landscape architect to dig deep into the toolbox to make this look pretty so that it is in the neighborhood something that people can look at and appreciate rather than look at and reject. >> I'll take it and my client wants to do a very nice project . >>commissioner hardemon: thank you, you have some response . >> commissioner, I know you're asking our office out to accomplish this. There are two covenants here, one is the cdmp covenant, one is the zoning covenant. My recollection and perhaps staff can confirm is the zoning application covers a smaller portion of the property, the cdmp application covers both the existing warehouse and the new proposed office building but the zoning application, I think only covers the new proposed office building portion of the property. So depending on where you are requesting the landscaping, it could be appropriate to if it's the will of the board if this meets what you're looking for to add something to the cdmp covenant . >>commissioner hardemon: I want to be clear. Whatever is required to meet the adjustments to achieve our desired goal is what I want and it seems the applicant is willing to make those adjustments. Don't know if it was a driveway and I have a technical question. To build a wall, what is the typical, what is it, to buy for? Or what is it, 4 x 6? Like a block, like a one cement block. 4 x 8? Going once. Sounds pretty good, 4 x 8? So my question is this. I've seen when , say you have a straight wall and you want to show a recess in the wall, they use a smaller block so my question is do you have to use a 4 x 8 to build a wall or can you build a wall with a smaller block? >> through the chair, commissioner it is a precast wall so it would be a little narrower so you would have to columns but do the precast in the middle to provide the buffer. Hardemon: I'm not telling you what to do much but my point is I don't want to cheat the residents out of a better view . We all appreciate what all wall does because I think it's probably required by law when we had zoning that we had to build a wall next to residential places so I'd like to see that there is sufficient separation through that wall I'm sure is what will be required but also on the side closest to the residents that we have sufficient planting so it is bautified. I don't know what that is is what I want to agree to in spirit here because I don't want to do for the item . I want you to move forward with this understanding today and we can accept those adjustments within whatever documentation we have to if that's sufficient and then we can move forward . >> the attorney said there are two covenants, one for the cdmp and one for zoning and on the zoning covenant that's where we added language where he said the owner would provide buffers between the property and adjacent residential uses has recently required by miami-dade county during the site plan review. We can add it there because in that same covenant it says we also shall comply with the cdmp covenant so either way I think we are covered . >>commissioner hardemon: I don't want the language necessary to mean just the law but use a reasonable so to me that takes a step beyond the law because there is the law then you have other reasonable expectations and as long as we understand this is where we are I'm fine with it. But I don't want to drive by this project in the future and see a bg blank wall and have people have heat bouncing off their wall. >> through the chair, commissioner hardemon I would recommend some change to either one of the covenants in addition to the existing language related to the buffer so I don't know what the applicant would be unable to. I just joined something down. And so it could say that the applicant is required to add additional outer landscaping to prevent additional buffering along the east side of the property between the adjacent properties and the wall. >>commissioner hardemon: okay, yes but make sure that landscaping must be at least the height of the wall. Or within 1 foot , at least shy of 1 foot of the height of the wall so for example if you had a wall 5 foot, that's sufficient . But I agree, I just don't want it to be a one but I agree, I just don't want it to be a 1 foot plan as oposed to a 6 . >> we don't have any objections. The one thing I want a little bit of wiggle room in the event there is a conflict with the driveways so we will put the landscaping in, that is clear that that's something the client has been willing to do from day one. >> I don't intend to do that so that's why I was asking about the width of the wall, what's required there. But I think that's sufficient, we can agree on that. Is that fair? Yes? So moved with the recommendations. >> through the chair. >>chair: it's been moved by the district commissioner, seconded by the vice chair, you are recognized. >> to clarify the motion this would be on the cdmp, it would be a change to the covenant. To require that the owner had additional outer landscaping to provide additional buffering on the east side of the property between the adjacent properties on the wall and such landscaping shall be approximately the height of the wall or 1 foot lower than wall height. And provided that such landscaping and wall are designed in such a way not to compare the use of the driveway. Commissioner, does that meet your, did I capture that? >>commissioner hardemon: repeat one last time. >> provided such landscaping and wall are designed in such a way so as to not impair the use of the driveway . >>commissioner hardemon: I wanted to be clear about this, I don't want that to mean they design a building that wider to make a smaller driveway which then impacts the size of the wall. >> we already have agreed the building will not increase beyond the existing 7650 ft.B2 and the office is also limited restricted to 3675 . >>commissioner hardemon: so we are good? We captured all that spirit. Yes, okay . >> perhaps the applicant can respond as to how much additional time they MAY need to make that revision to the covenant. >> I'm going to have to have it re-signed. Need a week to get back to you . I'll get it to you sooner if I can, it's just my issue is my clients uually travel a lot and to get hold of them is difficult. >>commissioner hardemon: I understand. No further questions. Moved , already seconded by the vice chair and I guess call the roll on the amended item. >> this would be the vote on the cdmp application and it would be to approve wth the change and the condition they submitted a revised covenant. Within 10 days? Within 10 days. >> call the roll . >>clerk: [Roll call vote] Motion passes unanimously . >> through the chair, MR. Chair would you like to recess the cdmp and moved to the companion >>vice chair: we're going to recess zoning and move back into cdmp. Let's take up the last cdmp item, 3b supplement and train 51 class would like me to read the item at this time? >> item 3b related to comprehensive allotment master plan providing disposition application number cdmp 202 300 204 located on the north side of sw. 316th st. Between sw. 167th avenue and 189th avenue by lennar homes llc is an OCTOBER cycle application to amend the county's comprehensive development master plan providing separability, exclusion in the code and an effective date and also 3b supplement and 3b one and this is a conference zoning application so there would be one public hearing for both the cdmp and zoning portion and the companion zoning item just for clarity is the zoning item 3c under the name rancho grande. >>vice chair: no public speakers lined up to speak, public hearing is now closed. MR. Arza you are recognized for a quick presentation, three minutes, two mnutes. >> I can run through it in a couple of minutes, I've spoken on the portion. >>vice chair: it's best to keep it brief. >> I'm joined today by lnnar homes eric adams and I'm going to ask MISS Adams, hugo arza 701 brickell ave., thank you for reminding me who I am. >>vice chair: thank you for speaking with the district commissioner prior . >> we are blessed with our applications, you know we will reach out. We've had an opportunity to explain this application talking about 21 acres on the south side of 312th st. Just west of 187th ave., very modest request today. It is low-density and we're asking for the next category of , however we're also placing a cvenant and I will ask my colleague to turn in the fully executed cdmp covenant to staff. We're doing a covenant that caps at 150 units so if you do math and lawyers are not good at math maybe a little bit over one additional unit per acre so a very modest request. The two things that I think are most important to look at here , single-family homes so you're going to see an increase in single-family homes and for sale. And I think interestingly enough we're incorporating a significant historical structure as defined by the county or the walkers castle in the property will be integrated into our clubhouse area. So I think it gives it a different flair for sure. The final and I think this is probably the best rendering to capture that point, these are not to belabor the point , that's the pad agreement and we do have to make one quick additional change to the pad agreement so were going to have to have that reexecuted so we will ask for a few days but the covenant is fully executed so we will have to. The neighborhood outreach, it's important to the district and I want to show we have received letters of support from knocking on doors, you obviously don't see anyone here, nobody attended pad so we are confident this is being well received in this community so the letters of support are in the record submitted through the pad. I will not belabor the factors because I think you all know them, I will close with we have recommendations of approval on your staff on both the cdmp item and zoning item which obviously is a conference item, we have the planning advisory board recommendation of approval. Community council 14 did not have a quorum at the time, they do know now so if you follow staff recommendation of the proffered covenant you would appreciate this that this morning and I'm happy to answer questions you MAY have. >>chair: commissioner from the eighth district . >>commissioner steinberg: I appreciate a number of things at this location at first I appreciate our modest increase in density. We certainly need inventory particularly homeownership as opposed to rental but I appreciate our modest increase in density because it's befitting the area and I think that's important especially for development so we appreciate that. I also appreciate the inclusion of the historic site into the design of the social club and pool area. The residents are always appreciative of that because you're just showing this level of commitment to designing around these gems that I have that everybody wants to see preserved and also I'm pleased with the letters of support that you were able to acquire and the level of community outreach on this application so in light of all those considerations and the fact that the planning advisory board as a recommendation of approval as does our staff I moved to adopt with the proffered declaration of restrictions . >>vice chair: moved by district commissioner, second by the chair. Seeing no further discussion MADAM Clerk please call the roll. >>clerk: [Roll call vote] Motion passes unanimously . >> commissioner higgins moved to adjourn cdmp. Adjourned, seconded by commissioner bermudez, show us adjourned. We will now take up