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Code Enforcement Board — May 27, 2026 - 5:18 PM

on attendance. Yeah. MR. Williams. Present. >> MR. PRESIDENT. MR. PRESIDENT. MR. Javier present. MR. Moshe um absent and he also asked for absent waiver. Yeah I have a motion. >> move to excuse the absence of moshe. Second. >> we have quorum. All in favor? Aye. >> thank you. >> hi. Good evening everybody here this evening is here for either an extension of time or a mitigation. Uh, when your case is called come up to the podium. State your name and the address that you're here on behalf of. If you're here for an extension of time, go thinking how much time you need. So when you come up to the podium, you can explain to the board what you've done so far and how much time you need. The director MAY have uh more or less time that they recommend. They'll make their recommendation, the board will vote and you'll have your extension of time when you're done. You MAY want to take the piece of paper that tells you how to request an extension of time in case you need more time and you forgot how to ask for it, take that paper with you. It'll tell you how to ask for it if you're here from mitigation while you wait for us to call the extensions of time and go through those cases. If you want to pick up this chart it's over here to my right. It explains based on the kind of property what the board can and cannot do. And I've said this over and over again the board cannot do more than what is on this sheet. That is all they can do if they can go to zero with unanimity and what you put forward is compelling, they'll consider it. There's certain properties where they cannot go to zero or they cannot go below the stated amount. So take a look at this while you wait so you understand more or less where you fall on this chart when you're case is complete on the mitigation and the board votes on mitigation come over to the side and wait for me over here. I'll pick up your order. Once the chair signs it I'll hand it to you and I'll hand you a piece of paper to tell you how you pay for your. Violation. Um if you're not the owner of the property, a managing member of the corporate entity or a licensed florida attorney, you need a valid power of attorney with two witnesses and a notary. Uh, by now I've probably reviewed it. I did not bring one or you don't have one come up and see me before we start. Um and any order of the board can be appealed to the 11th judicial circuit court of florida within 30 days. And also when you come up make sure you you can move that microphone so that the board can hear you. Don't be afraid to move it and adjust it. We're going to call the first one is on page 42 property address 1430 northwest 28th street case number 00133457 property address 1430 northwest 28th street. 42. >> but that's in uh. Good evening. State your name and address for the record. Okay. >> herman lemos. Thank you. 1430 northwest 20th street. Thank you. >> how much time are you looking for and what have you done? 90 days. And I asked him what he's done so far on the property. Nada porque el el permiso todavia no para construir. Nothing has been done at the property because the permit has not been given to me to to be able to build. Give me one second. Um he's over there director okay. Let me check with the director real quick. So the permit is in review. It was initially applied for in 2020 for. Hold on. And so as you can see you can look through it. There's a lot of no activity no activity no activity. Then it went back into applicant review in SEPTEMBER of 2025. Um and then from FEBRUARY to MARCH there was no activity again and right now on MAY 20th. 20th yeah. So all of a sudden I guess we're getting ready to come here. He's probably his contractor said I guess we better do something and now they're being active [Laughter] Again. So one. 2120. >> do we know what's left to be done? It says work permit final permit right. He's got the permit and he doesn't it's in review now so. Okay so go ahead board member you had a question. >> no it was answered. Okay go ahead. Can you translate to him exactly what I'm going to say? Uh sir, you seemed like you opened a permit or come up with a permit and then nothing is done. A permit was opened recently. Are you going to get the job done that needs to be done at the house? [Laughter] Is that your property there? Yeah. >> okay. You are planning to take care of the issue. Correct the problem? Yes. Correct. It has been corrected. No. >> yeah. >> el paso de mayo aprobar el ultimo precio del paso de a no estaba permiso activado entonces [Laughter] Ahora entonces a una semana. MADAM Interpreter. The pricing has been approved for me to build the on 20th MAY the 20th uh it was approved and now we're going to start doing it. So tom he's going to start he's not going to come back without saying that he has not done anything next time yeah. [Laughter] Oh you're not I don't think you're telling him what I'm saying specifically tell him that is he going to start and not show up here again without having done anything. Yeah. >> ha empezado los trabajos correcto. Okay correct. This is a warning. We MAY not give him another 120 days after this one because he's been dragging the process out. Okay. >> I get a. Motion for extension for 120 days [Laughter] Second. All in favor? Aye. >> thank you. >> it's okay. We give 120 days. Yeah. Thank you. And grab the [Laughter] Paper there. >> thank you. Next case. Okay, okay. Por ejemplo. Si una tres semanas empieza la obra ya tengo un. We're going to move to page 23 on city view mitigation. Thank you. >> oh this is a special appearance or are we going out of order. >> a. Special request from. Board is we're doing the mitigation. >> no no no yeah this is the gentleman that requested. Yeah he's been having health issues so we're going to take it up out of turn to go ahead and deal with. It okay. I'm sorry the question is if in three weeks everything is done and the inspection goes through do I can I not come anymore? So he needs to after that speak to his inspector not the board about that. Yeah. >> page 23 city view property address 720 north miami avenue case number c 2018 000264. Good evening sir. >> this is a four unit rental building. The leon went to $738,000. Okay. The minimum is $15,000. Good evening sir. Thank you all for your time and for your work to the city. Why? >> why should we give mitigation to this property? >> the problem being if you mistake with the people need to do the certificate the ceo and they do the 4050 year certification and never put the application and everything is done right now as soon as he understand all the process he do in three weeks all the inspection and everything and I'm asking if we can reduce for $15,000 the the lean the minimum. I don't believe you were not the original violator were you? No no. No right. He bought he bought the violation. He bought it with the violation. Yes it fixed it. And what is what is it now? Well as soon the problem is the new owner understand this violation well received the lean intent of lean gotcha. And he called me and said what happened with that? Okay I go to talk with carlos sierra in in. Oh gotcha. What do you enforcement and he explain what the process and as soon as. Done it was for a certificate of use it wasn't illegal work or anything else but until they did all of the other things they needed to do and since it was bought by somebody else after the lean was already running the other person let it run for a long time. Gotcha. >> I get a motion. I'll move to reduce the 15,002nd. Second second. Any explanations or comments? No. >> all those in favor? Aye aye. Thank you so much for thank you. A discount of about 700 and some thousand dollars. A lot. Next case. Okay we're moving back to e oh on page eight code check property address 2742 southwest eighth street. Case number 00054264. Good evening. Good evening, MR. Chair members of the board ben fernandez, 200 south biscayne boulevard here on behalf of shopping plaza corp. Um, we are requesting an extension of 120 days. There's a corresponding unsafe structures case that we're working on. We've made progress. Inspector supports it. Thank you. The city recommends 120 as they are in the inspection phase of the permit. >> thank you very much. Can I get a motion. Move for 120 day extension? >> second. All those in favor? Aye aye. Thank you very much. welcome. >> page 12 on code check eot property address 4926 southwest seventh street. Case number 00107923. Good evening. Good evening good. Cassandra capote the homeowner. Thank you. And how much time do you need? If I could have 120 days since last time I was here I was able to pull permits. I did close out and finalize one of the permits. The other two I'm getting the work done. Okay. >> so it just depends how long the g c's take. Okay that is correct. The city recommends 120 they have two permits that are in the inspection phase as well. Thank you. >> good thank you. Second. >> second. >> all those in favor? All right. Bring back pictures when it's done. Have a great night. Thank you. Next case. Page 38. Property address 1005 west flagler street. Case number 00117312. Good evening. Good evening nicholas alonzo on behalf of the tenant representing the property owner we're asking for 90 days. It's a failure to obtain the c unit btr we did originally apply for the c u but it was denied based off of a use on the building permit. Okay we our contractors incorrectly added the incorrect use so we have to redo the building permit and reapply. So we think 90 days should be enough time for us to do so. Okay the city recommends 90 days as that would make sense. Okay can I get a motion. Motion for 90 days extension second. All those in favor? Aye. >> thank you. Thank you. Page 12 city view eot property address 1832 southwest 18th street. Case number ce2018006013 property address 1832 southwest 18th street. Mitigation as a mitigation. We have mitigations. I mean I'm good if we are but it is mitigation. Oh I'm sorry. >> he's all for it. Oh, sorry. Sorry. No, I had a. Page negative. Okay. >> sorry. Page six property address 1250 northwest 31st street ce202023393. This is. >> a mitigation or. >> this one in the front 36 the address is 1250 northwest 35th street 31st street. I don't know. Or is it. I don't know that we don't see it on ours. We need it. It's page six on city view but if you look at the screens in front of. >> you yeah yeah. What's the address. On the front. 1250 northwest 31st. >> street yes it's. There yeah okay we got it. Page six in the front. Front yeah. Good evening. Can you state your name and address for the record? Clemencia. >> maldonado. Cincuenta northwest 23 miami, florida 33. Hi, my name is clemencia maldonado. The address is 1250 northwest 31st street, miami, florida 33142. Thank you. >> and how much time is she looking for? 120. >> okay. >> and what has been done so far on the property that. Speak into the microphone? Yes. >> okay. As of right now we had to hire a lawyer. Your name? >> my name is ignacio granado. I'm her daughter. We had to hire a lawyer. We've been scammed by various contractors so we have court JUNE 26th there's a a notice of lien on the property. So we were actually approved for the single rehabilitation program. Correct. But they are not able to move forward because of the notice of lien on the property. So we're scheduled for court JUNE 26th and once that notice of lien is removed we'll be able to move forward. Is that a city lane? Is that the no it's not from this. We don't have a lien on the case yet. Is that a mechanic's lien from the contractor? From the >> yeah yeah the city recommends 120 as they are correct. They have two permits one is expired and one is active. Gotcha. >> I get a motion. Motion for 120 days. So moved. Second. >> all those in favor. Aye aye. Thank you 120 days. Thank you yeah. >> make sure you take the paper in case you guys need more time. Yeah there's a paper there. Okay. Yeah. It'll give you the instructions of how to request more time. Okay. >> gracias. Page eight code check eot property address 2742 southwest eighth street. Case number 00054264. Property address 2740. >> we call this one. Yeah yeah that's page eight. We did. >> that. Was done. The attorney was here for it got 120 days. Page eight. It was. >> a lady here. For mitigation. Is anybody else here for extension of time? All right. Anyone else. Anybody else. Yeah yeah back there I knew that was at least one. Come on down. anyone else extension of times .Yeah. >> sorry. >> what was the property address? Hi, rachel streitfeld for the property owner. The extension of time is 326 southwest 13th avenue, little havana. Number eight. Yeah. Okay. Sorry. Page 30. Property address 344 southwest third 13 avenue. Property address 00105913. Gotcha. >> good evening. How much time are you looking for? I think 120 days to pull a permit. We are on cycle three of our permit submittals. We have you know the buildings are 100 years old. Um and we we've got all the microfilm, we've got all the certificate of use records, we've responded to zoning. I mean we're we're moving through we're on cycle three. We're this close we've got a permit expediter working on it in addition to the a o r and the eor um just 120 days to be safe and then we're going to we're going to keep it moving. Gotcha. >> city recommends 120. Thank you. Can I get a motion. Motion for 120 days second. >> all those in favor. Aye. >> thank you thank you. And then she has a second case for mitigation on page. Is that the last extension of time? That was the last extension of time. Okay we can jump to it then. Um little havana. Sorry. Hold on. >> I got to restart one of my little computer things. Okay. Property address um 420 north east 72nd street case number 00020801 page 110 on co check. Again rachel streitfeld on behalf of pathak holdings llc this is um a mitigation request respectfully requesting the absolute minimum which is $7,500. The client inherited a parcel that had a pending permit for a parking lot. The prior owner was represented by bercow riddell. They had an extension on this parking lot permit and then the prior owner sold to my client. So we inherited it. He wasn't aware of the extension he got cited. I think 5000. Sorry. >> no. >> go ahead. Oh okay. Um so he got cited. The owner was new to miami. Very unfamiliar. Not sure if he received the mailing on the hearing in 2023 it was posted he didn't attend. Bottom line he didn't attend the hearing didn't request an extension of time wasn't aware he in 2022 submitted a building permit application for townhouses on this vacant lot. He was moving through building permit and at a certain point realized that he was in a historic district and he needed a special certificate of appropriateness to get this building permit. That's when I came on the scene. We applied for our we obtained the scope in 2024 we broke ground on the townhouses and I had been emailing with rogelio falcone and with attorney dooley about getting the violation closed and complied because as soon as we broke ground on the townhouses we obviously demolished the the parking lot, the asphalt that was there. So we inherited the issue. It at no point in time provided any threat to public safety, health or welfare or the city. It was not a nuisance. It did not require anybody to visit the site minimum. >> is 7500 for the parking lot. Thank you thank you thank you. I have a motion. Motion to the minimum for 7,502nd second. >> all those in favor? Aye thank you. >> thanks for your service everybody. Have a great night. Okay to second mitigation is on page 85 code check property address 762 northwest 50th street case number 00005781. Good afternoon. My name is neil robertson. Good evening. At 762 northwest territory. This is a. Single 127. It's a single family home. It has homestead exemption. Gotcha. >> the lien went to $750. It is eligible to zero for a by unanimous vote. Thank you. I'm gonna she has two cases also page 81 which is uh case number 00112539 and page 81 was uh to uh $88,250. The minimum would be $5,000. It's a single family home with exemptions so it is eligible for zero by a unanimous vote. Okay. So let's deal with the first one. Uh that would be page 85. >> page 85. That's the one that's $750. All right. Uh, ma'am, you currently live in the home, correct? Yes. >> okay. >> uh, can I get a motion? Yeah, I move to reduce it to zero. Second. >> second. >> all those in favor? Aye. >> next page is 81. Yes. >> can I get a motion? Yeah. >> move to reduce that to zero as well. Second all those in favor. Aye thank you very much ma'am. Yeah it's just wait for your um. He'll bring it to you. Yeah he'll bring you the order. Page 17 city view mitigation property address 1738 northwest 31st street. Case number ce202002985. Evening page number again. City view 17. Good evening CHAIRMAN Good evening board members bert hernandez on behalf of the homeowner. Evening, bert. All right. The hold on a second. One of the pages on my tablet just disappeared so I'm a little this is a, um an empty lot. It looks like it was a single family home at the time it was cited. Uh, the lien ran to $477,500. So as a vacant lot it would be the minimum would be um $7,500 but because it's prior immediate use before being vacant was as a single family home you can go to zero with a unanimous vote. Yes. Thank you, MISS Dooley. I'm I'm respectfully requesting a reduction to zero. Uh, he inherited the violation. He bought this property in 2015. The violation starts in 2025 years after the fact. So he goes down the rabbit hole trying to comply and after years of trying to comply, he ends up demolishing because there was no way to comply bring the property into compliance because of the illegal uh additions to the property. So that's why I'm requesting uh a reduction to zero. I move uh. Wait, I have a question. Does the owner live in the property? There's nothing vacant. Vacant. >> okay. >> so now vacant. So what's his intention with the property. He's going to build hopefully in the future. Right now he just demolished the property, uh, several months ago. But is that for him to live in or for him to to live. >> in to live. In to live in.? >> by the way, direct impact to his pocket was $292,000 loss. He carried this property for six years paying taxes professionals demolition property taxes and uh he couldn't live in it. I make a motion to bring it down to zero. I get a second second. All those in favor? Aye. >> thank you very much. Have a beautiful evening. You're welcome. Page 66. Property address 4300 west flagler street. Case number 00087305. Page 66 code check. This is a commercial property. This is one of my pages that no longer exists. Uh, ran to $85,000. The minimum for commercial property is 15,000 or 20% of the total. But I don't believe that 20% of 85,000 is less than 15,000. That's. >> yes. Good evening sir. >> good evening. How are you? My name is alfonso. I'm the owner and the owner of the dental office that exists there. Gotcha. Um, basically we modified the parking lot but that modification did an encroachment on the sidewalk so it was a violation. This happened back in 24, 2024 and um a month after that I did hire a consulting engineer architect and uh, you know, so he can take care of it. But eventually, you know, we kept tabs throughout the years. But my last conversation was in FEBRUARY and he told me we were close. But then about a week later yeah, the uh secretary called me. He passed away. Oh wow. So I didn't know what was you know, I even signed a power of attorney for him to come. So apparently he didn't come or something happened. But but once we once I did know and that's when I first found out that there was fines and penalties running and then with the help of the inspector MR. Torrez which was very helpful, we finally fixed it and we did it within a month and a half and got in compliance. So I mean there was no bad will and yeah, I thought it was really being taken care of. Yeah I'm extremely sorry for your troubles and. No no yeah that's awful because I actually knew him and he had worked before and you MAY you MAY question why why didn't you call him but I did call him and he had done work for me before and he did take his time before but he did resolve it so yeah. Well I mean the good news here is that we can mitigate it down but you know we can't reduce it to zero. So no I understand I understand. >> that okay I get a motion. Yeah I move to reduce the 15,002nd. All those in favor. Aye aye. All right thank. >> you so much. About 70,000 yeah. Page 92. Kocek mitigation property address 1877 northwest 42nd street. Case number 00123023. Which is a duplex. Uh it does not have homestead exemption so the minimum is $10,000 or by unanimous vote it can go to zero. The lien ran to $16,250. What's the page. Page 92. Thank you. >> good evening sir. Good evening. So this property has been demolished so it's just a back and lot right now so we couldn't bring the property to code. So it took so long because we got some squatter into the property so we went to the legal process so. Right the 20% of the $16,250 is $3,200. Okay. >> so that will be the minimum $3,200. So you could go to $3,200 without a unanimous vote. If you wanted to go any lower than that, then you would have to be unanimous. Okay. >> because it was its last its last use was as residential even before it became an empty lot. But when it was cited it did have a house on it. >> but it is an empty lot right now. Yes, yes. And you plan to build something there in the future? I move to uh bring it down to zero uh make a motion. Can I get a second? No. >> okay. >> all right. So let's um. Let me just state this for the record. So motion failed for lack of second. Okay. So I let's um make a motion for 3,202nd. Second all those in favor? Aye aye. Thank you. >> thank you. >> page 56 property address 1449 northwest 67th street. Case number 00034884. He has a couple cases but I'll just call them one by one. All right. This is the first yeah he has two cases in city view and two cases in code check the first case this is a single family home no homestead exemption obviously because it's an llc. I don't know if the owner resides in it. They'll have to answer that. I think it's a rental but I don't know. Um the first case went to $16,750 so the minimum is $10,000 or it can go down as low as zero. The 20% of 16,750 is. 3350. >> it's 3350 yeah 3350 is the 20%. [Laughter] Okay good evening sir. Good evening carlos lopez uh from good and lopez 314 south federal highway dania beach, florida 33004 on behalf of the property owner okay, um, just to clarify the, uh the first violation we were addressing the 2009 case. Uh, this no. >> oh, okay. So I'll bring it up for you. It's um this is the code check case. Let me I'll bring it up on the screen. Sorry it's a little confusing with the four of them so I just want. To make it is yeah yeah. This is this was the one that had outside storage material debris and stuff. >> so this was from 2023. Yeah with yeah the outside storage crates and things and boarding. Sure. >> but it was complied rather quickly. Obviously 16,750 is pretty low for us. Again their minimum is $3,350 right which you can do that without a unanimous vote. Um it is a single family non homestead exempt so technically the minimum is ten you could do uh 3350 because that's 20% of the overall um or you can go below by unanimous. Llc okay. So so yeah, so just to be clear, yeah, the this is a rental property. Uh, my client own it. They it was originally purchased and I'll address this for the other violations that predate their ownership. It was purchased through a a bank foreclosure case back in 2018. Property was dilapidated. We've had issues with squatters there before. Um obviously where the neighborhood it's located is just prone to that. Um so I'd just be asking for a reduction to to zero on