Board of County Commissioners - Miami-Dade Zoning

commissioner monestime. Commissioner sosa, commissioner souto, voice CHAIRMAN Gilbert, CHAIRMAN diaz, two members present. Two. MADAM Clerk. [Roll call]. >> motion passes. >> all right. So go ahead, MR. Attorney. >> okay, so at this point we would recess the dmp and commence the zoning agenda. >> move to recess. >> I have a motion by commissioner sosa to recess. Do I have a second. >> second. >> second by commissioner heyman. And all in favor say aye. >> aye. >> so now, we're in zoning. MR. Attorney. >> so, MR. Chair ince we're on the zoning agenda do you want to take up the deferral first or go right into this application? >> go ahead, ma'am. How much time? >> I am requesting a deferral on the co-part of the connecticut item. I didn't bring my agenda up when I came. 3a. Is that 3a. 1a. Seeking a deferral with leave to amend to the JANUARY zoning agenda, please. >> MR. Attorney. >> yep. >> are you good with that? >> yeah, we don't have a date -- >>. [Multiple speakers] Sgrfrjs I think it's enough to announce that it's the regular zoning meeting in JANUARY but just in case we MAY readvertise we'll decide that after because we don't have a date yet. >> we have to readvertise all right. >> we'll read quickly the item in the record that's being deferred. >> protest no waivers. >> okay. So with that, I need a motion on the deferral. >> MR. CHAIRMAN, this is in my district I'm happy to make hat motion. >> I apologize. >> no, no problem. >> I didn't know we moved so fast. >> second. >> thank you, commissioner cohen higgins. All in favor say aye. >> aye. >> done. MR. Attorney. >> yes. Okay now we can turn to item 1c which is the evangel church zoning application. If the zoning director, actually let me do the procedural stuff and read the statement. >> absolutely. >> so this is the companion zoning pplication for the morgan group cdmp application that was just approved. As announced at the beginning of the cdmp application we swore everybody in. That public hearing will be considered the public hearing for the zoning application as well. And so as soon as the zoning director reads in the introductory statement this board can take up the zoning item and vote based on the prior hearing. >> thank you, sir. [Reading] [Indiscernible]. >> okay, so with that, commissioner monestime for a motion. >> MR. Chair, there's -- there are no protests and no waivers as stated by the attorney and before I move to adopt staff recommendation, I want to remind the applicant already again something that the former marvin the former civic association PRESIDENT Told me there's a reason why the area is called biscayne gardens is because they like a lot of trees and buffalo aesthetics so bring that into your project. With that I move adoption of the item, thank you. >> motion by commissioner monestime, second by commissioner heyman, roll call MADAM Clerk. >> MR. Chair per staff regions. >> he said per staff regions. >> as adopted. @ . >> yes. >> motion passes. >> thank you. >> all right. We close zoning. >> well, you had wanted to wait for the district commissioner to arrive for the next cdmp item that was the only remaining cdmp item. >> I'm going to give a five minute break. I have no choice. I need to have the commissioner of the district here out of respect. If not I have to open -- >> or you can start the zoning item, it's up to you, MR. Chair. >> yeah, let take a five minute break. And respect to the commissioner maybe something is happening he's running a little late. The time is 10:31, ladies and gentlemen, if you're in the audience, it's okay to get up, but please keep it quiet as much as possible. And we should be back in ten minutes. 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Unless your sergeant at arms or 3 media you need to be sitting down. Please. All right. Commissioners let's get back. Thank you. Everybody >> MR. Applicant MR. Applicant MR. Attorney please take with the district commissioner said to point I want to make sure the residents are heard. >> absolutely with that, MR. Attorney, let's go into the big item. >> that concludes b b >> it doesn't mean the other one wasn't big, it just means this will probably take a little bit longer. >> that concludes your cgmp agenda you MAY reconvene as the zoning board. >> a move by the vice CHAIRMAN, second by the chair all in favor say aye, any opposed? None, let's go. >> the first thing we need. >> before you start, ladies and gentlemen, leave very quietly please so we can get the other proceedings started immediately. You so much. >> we need to have the clerk swear in all the witnesses for the zoning item. Let's make sure every leaves the area so I can be sure who is sworn I. Please leave the area, thank you. >> the zoning directors previously read in the introductory statement so now we just need. >> MADAME Clerk. >> all speaker stand and raise your right hand and respond. >> the people that are going to speak please stand and raise your right hand. >> do solemnly swear the testimony you are about to give is the truth, the whole truth, so help you GOD. Thank you. If you feel there's a group of you and you want to stand up and support or against you have one minute to speak I think all of you heard me say this already twice if you do not agree, thumbs down, that way everybody is respected and their position is heard, thank you so much at this time MR. Attorney morgan open public hearing. >> at this point the zoning director of the item into the record the record and he have a preference. >> the other applicant can go first because any changes in anything that taken place they need to know what's going on. That way maybe a lot of the things have been worked out or not whatever way. I'm trying to save a little time by clarifying everything ahead of time. Let's get the applicant to go first. >> MR. Chair, respectfully, so we are going to do applicant first and then are they going to have a rebuttal after the public speaking? Or just to the public speaking? >> we can allow that too. (Multiple speakers) After that I'll give you the floor and you can take over from there. >> we consolidated our presentation with the attorneys for those folks in order to save your time so instead of having each and every one of them come up and use their one minute we are going to try to consolidate the presentations, we are going to do our best to get it done within an hour and 15 minutes. >> I appreciate that, thank you because when I didn't see the redshirts get up I was like, okay what's going on, with that I understand. >> at one minute each that's more than an hour and 15 minutes. I don't think that math adds up. That means there's 90 people that are, stand up, that's 40 minutes. >> what you're trying to do is reduce the time of the presentation. >> that's not actually reduction if you give them one minute each. >> the question is, what's your presentation and their time, that will clear things up. >> MADAME Attorney. Total time the applicant's presentation plus the supporters presentation. 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We proactively inspected homes, fix impacted homes at no cost to our homeowners. We did not hide behind corporate entities. Delay, we did not make homeowners go to court. We had promised our homeowners homes without defects. We promptly moved people out, put them in comparable rentals we paid for and we built the inside of their homes. This is the same type of philosophy that guided us with colusa. With a landowner, the county, and immediately adjacent neighbors to the property had been at odds for years. We got involved in 2016. The former golf course had long since ceased operations. Before our operation they had sued the county and adjacent owners about a restriction on the property, which limited to golf and related issues. That restriction was in favor of the county and it required that. >> MAY I interrupt? >> MR. CHAIRMAN we are being told that they have to stop the presentation and it started over to get to the powerpoint. There are some animations in there that we would like to see. Is that possible to do that? >> start what presentation over? >> upstairs they are saying that we have to start the powerpoint presentation. >> while he is talking. >> let them do that well I talk. >> he is doing good. >> we will catch you up. So we are back to the old days where the restriction, you had this restriction that required the consent of 75% of the adjacent homeowners to release it. 145 homes are adjacent to the golf course. Neighbors, 70% formed a group to fight the lawsuit. So the next slide that you will not see highlights the adjacent homes and you will see that only they see the property. No other citizen, no other home sees the property. You cannot see it from the road. That's why they have special status with respect to the site. What you are looking at now is this single entry to what used to be a private golf course. This was always played to play. It was never community property, open space, or a public park. It was never a place to walk your dog or have a picnic. Opponents sometimes give the misleading impression that this is publicly accessible green space. It is not. It is private property that can only be viewed by adjacent neighbors. Designation is a parks and recreation. So there is a 1 acre, another acre, but parks and recreation. The parks and recreation designation explicitly distinguishes between governmentally owned land and privately owned land that have parks and recreation cassifications. For privately owned the lands the comprehensive plan explicitly states that the exact scenario presented today is allowed. Residential development on a privately owned land, not otherwise restricted. Okay you can see how this goes through beautifully and I will catch up myself. That was the adjoining neighbors. Here is the entry. As the entry at parks and recreation, and that is where we are. Does that work? Okay we will continue. >> I'm sorry sir, I apologize for the mess that we are having upstairs, but hopefully we will get it fixed. I know we had a correction of the system a couple days ago and maybe that is what is occurring right now. Please continue. >> you can see here what the status of the properties. It is parks and recreation, privately owned, no restriction, the comprehensive plan that allows development. So that is not where we started though, that isn't where we were in 2016. We started with that active lawsuit about the validity and restriction. Animosity was high and we recognized that the land owner felt wronged. They believed the restriction was invalid. The county needed to protect the process for releasing previously restricted restrictions. the neighbors felt threatened. They needed a seat at the table if the golf course was to be developed. So we tried developing a vision for the property. We presented it to the adjacent neighbors. It. Too many homes. They did not like our buffer and so on. That was okay. The goal was to listen and it come from ice to create a collective, you know, collective vision and turn acrimonious discussions into productive discussions. So we had ongoing conversations and negotiations with these adjacent owners for over two years. Throughout we engaged with county staff so resulting plans would be consistent with county regulations and codes. In the end we and the overwhelming majority of the adjacent neighbors came together on the plan for those who had been fighting the plan, the 75% and those who lived adjacent to the golf course, 123 of the 145, or 84% supported releasing-here we are. Releasing the golf restrictions. So here we go again. Let's see if we can get any further. So last OCTOBER-i can, but it is a lot. What I will do now is if there is somebody in the control room that can do, let's try an experiment. If I say click can you click? >> MR. CHAIRMAN so the applicant is, you're doing a great job explaining it. I am visualizing anything. You should just go ahead and talk. >> I will go ahead and talk. If somebody can get it, somebody tell me that it's working. Occasionally I will click pretty. >> it seems like it is working now. >> there it goes. There goes. >> I will continue. So let's go to last OCTOBER. >> do not worry about I. Thank you. >> so last OCTOBER the county commission agreed with the neighbors that the golf restrictions should be released and they voted to release it. You voted to lease it. What that left us with was it vacant private property with an adopted land use designation that allowed over 1000 units. Here is a slide to reestablish contact. It's between the southwest 127th and southwest 137th between keeley and kendall drive. While the land-use allows 1000 homes, we are likely compromised to 550 homes. A further compromise was to make all homes single-family detached. Like other compromises we ended the neighbors documented this in written agreements. Restrictions were incorporated into the declaration of restrictions that we have proffered to the county. We agreed to create a 75 foot buffer around the property's perimeter. The buffer includes a berm with landscaping that we collectively designed with the adjacent neighbors. This was an issue, unique to the adjacent neighbors because development does not impact anybody else's views. So there-okay. So we are getting close. We collectively agreed that open space would be 40% or more based on a definition that we agreed to. We negotiated the-here we go. We negotiated the recreation site location. We agreed to prohibit specific uses and features on the recreation site that might disturb people. Finally we placed homes into the site plan. We agreed on that lot minimum spread here is a partial list of the site planning and other items that we collaboratively address. 550 homes, all single-family detached. The 75 foot buffer around the perimeter with a drainage system to improve current flood control and lighting restrictions. Detailed design for the landscape berm around the buffer. No roads around surrounding homes. Recreation away from surrounding homes and limited recreation uses. Lot with minimum spread setback minimum spread height limits for the clubhouse, two story homes and screens. Limited construction hours and no building on holidays and weekends. Procedures to prevent construction, dust, noise. An agreement to clean roofs, rear windows, and poles if our construction dust does make it into backyards and more. We reached out to every adjacent neighbor and while we can lose everything the one we effectively address the concerns of the overwhelming majority. So obviously though, with all of this our plans include more than a site plan. It is a community and the community is going to be tremendous. It really is. So this would be a picture of our beautiful entry. It is beautiful with a great sense of arrival. We will build a great-looking clubhouse with 10,000 ft.B2 inside. Areas, fitness and aerobic rooms, and events room, and other multipurpose rooms. Outdoor lifestyle includes multiple pools, tennis, basketball, open play areas and more. The benefit to the area of this kind of comprehensive lifestyle program, it is that our residents will not put stress on the surrounding county parks. The homes will be attractive to. I should one of the elevations. The collective work that we in the adjacent neighbors have done has led to a beautiful result. So now let's move from that beautiful community to the existing site and these environmental site issues. I will spend more time on this topic since it has been a focus of some opponents. These opponents have painted this fantasy of an environmental xanadu when describing what is a former graded gawkers. Since 1970 this course was treated with fertilizer and pesticides and has been continuously mowed and trimmed. Four objection letters are misleading at best. Letters state that 577 entries will be removed. That sounds terrible until you state that over 5800 trees are going to be planted. The inaccurate social media allegations summarized in this political blog stood up opposition the same way. With every paragraph, almost every paragraph is demonstrably false and misleading. For example it says gl homes will fill 13 acres of lakes. Without stating that we are going to create more than we fill. So I would be happy, I have a serial port cycle one by one with this was misleading, this was misleading. The bottom line is if you guys are interested, feel free to ask me and we can go through them one by one, but there's no sense wasting your time here. What I want to do instead is present the environmental facts supported by experts and studies and reviewed by your professional staff. The bottom line is that experts who perform the assessment and follow-up, durham has reviewed everything and has attached conditions related to the wood. Durham is recommending approval. They have no objections. Application includes, and durham has reviewed in environment a property survey supplement to buy additional visits and reports. Additional reports identified as backhoes and the siding of two state listed threatened species as items of interest. First on the bat, as ilene said if they do fly all around south miami-dade county to eat insects including on our side, but we did detailed inspections showing that no that roost on the site. As a piece of that information, when ilene said, we inspected every tree. You heard from one side of the room, ugh peter escondido said they look through binoculars, what we had filed with the commission is at least a six hour tour of the property with one tree looked at through binoculars because it was sitting on an island. So we did not go over to the island where the wading birds are. So again, the detailed inspections were on foot and a since roasting is the focus of durham and fish and wildlife and they found a tree in the front of seven trees where they needed to look down into the tree to make sure there was no roosting there, they looked for poop, they look for anything that they could find that indicated that that roost on the site. They do not. We contacted U.S. Fish and wildlife seven months ago in APRIL to let them know, we are open to any technical advice. They don't have regulatory interest on the site, just advisory, but we are absolutely open to anything that they are into recommending. Here's more detail on the inspections. Trees on the entire property as I said. Potential roosting sites, what you would see her normally is the summary of their report and that there were no roosts found. They also commented on the site plan. They reported that our plans, which include increasing lake area and increasing lakes with natural vegetation rather than the degraded vegetation that is there now will increase the forging area for bats and improve foraging habitat for wading birds. In addition the project will implement bonded back best manages their search for the U.S. Fish and wildlife guidelines and derm added -- we are absolutely going to do so. The second issue the psychologist mention is one trike colored hair and and one other heron, both state protected species. To be clear, the presence of a few dozen does not indicate how tepid I have seen tricolor heron by my house. That's on digit, -- tricolored heron and took pictures, as ilene said, our biologist have performed additional inspections, clive who you met earlier inspected as well. we have a good environmental team and we will continue to gather the data. Involved as well. They instituted controls as approval. First they established a schedule of inspections through the nesting season to establish if there is a robust tricolor heron rookery and they established controls through permitting that a rockery of eight species is confirmed. As I indicated before derm has no objections. The permitting authority will prevent development in the area without approval and with respect to eileen's note in the .74 acres, that's how big the islanders. So if somebody, maybe you can see. If you were to look at what I'm showing you right now, right here, actually within 100 feet of an existing neighbor is a 0.147 acre island. 6400 ft.B2. The idea that we differ in entire development plan because of 0.47 acres is just crazy because when it U.S. Fish and wildlife guidelines are that states confirmed that you put it 330 foot boundary around it and we could do that and if it turns out we could do that with a non-substantial change to the site plan. So we will not need to come to the commission to ask them for that. The island doesn't have a lot of birds. The majority are the white ibis or the cattle egret. These are suburban bird species that will thrive with or without ellen. When I say suburban I do not want to take away from the beauty or importance of a bird. In fact with more lakes and the planning of natural vegetation we plan to enhance the habitat on site for better foraging for wading birds. What I'm trying to say is that they are well adapted to sburban life and calusa is not -- florida and beyond. Audubon post on the cattle egret says, and it says cattle egret follows tractors and mowers and forges and that suburban lawns. And conservation says that this is the most abundant heron in the world. White ibis, friends of the everglades say quote or quote the white ibis has become more and more of a suburban, even in urban bird". Where can you see them? Almost everywhere. Regulators are concerned-are they-regulators are concerned with threatened, not suburban species. Clive, the wading bird expert confirm that our development will not have a negative impact on any species threatened or not. To summarize, data MAY indeed support going forward that there's a real tricolored heron rookery in the corner of the property. If there is, there is ample expertise and controls by derm to do the best thing for the species. >> there is a picture that. >> look at the century. >> MAY I? >> there other homes? >> so that is the entry to the club. Next slide. >> so this is page-move to page 8. Now you can see some of the outdoor uses that we were talking about, but again that clip trough this quickly because we already talked about it. Click through again. House elevation, it is cut off. Click through again. Keep clicking. >> let's get back to slide 34 . Is not cute? None of them roost. Click a little quicker. I will allow him to catch up. Can't you see what a spectacular presentation this would have been? You going. >> alright, I mean. >> do you want me to finish through? >> turned it off at this point gentlemen or ladies up there or whatever. Put it back on view. Thank you. I am so sorry about this to everybody that is sitting here. >> so let's wrap up the environmental part. Said I spent a lot of time on it only because that seems like the focus. Normally I would say derm is going to control through permitting anything that we are going to do and that is indeed the case. The broader issues in the calusa area, the neighbors we negotiated with have the same concerns as any west kendall resident. We worked together on the traffic problems in their community. Tim described our extensive efforts to improve traffic and not add to school traffic. Purchasing the two homes that became our entry will keep most of the traffic off of calusa club drive. The chocolate we are putting on southwest 120th avenue will improve morning traffic from a current grade f to a grade b assessment in the morning. We address the terrible cut through traffic that exist today. Not an issue that our development creates. We voluntarily propose those initiatives as part of our development. The impact of addressing the traffic if it is implemented will dwarf, if you recall there are 1820 cars cutting through. We are projected to have 820 morning cars. What we're going to save is going to dwarf what we are going to cause. The initiatives are beyond county requirements that are going to improve morning traffic for both current and future calusa area residents. We contribute to the community that extends beyond the calusa land section. Meeting school concurrency we worked with the local amateur school principal and mid APRIL thousand dollars contribution to make one of her initiatives happen. Just writing parts a check we went to them to see if there was a concrete improvement that we could help them with. When idea relates to a property across from the middle school. I saw that they were even going back and forth with our planning department today on plans of whether there should be shade structures or whatever, but that's an idea of theirs. We are open to other ideas as well. Also included were all of those traffic improvements beyond the immediate area that tim plummer talked about. So we have addressed issues with the adjacent neighbors. The immediate community beyond them. We have addressed issues in the area outside of kendall. Last expansion of the circle addresses the countywide housing issues that you have been hearing about all day. Particularly the absence of new single-family housing alternatives within the urban development boundary. Andy" at one of our experts through his economy miami economic associates filed an economic impact report for the unity. That highlights the lack of detached single-family housing and again you have heard all day. Miami-dade county is booming, finance, technology, and other hot industries want to be here. Municipalities are giving incentives and yet there is no single-family opportunities left. Udp will be moved and create more single-family detached opportunities, but this project can make an immediate impact. I will not get into MR. (Name?)'s detailed report. this is what I think you need to know. This great demand at no support. They point out the economic benefits that a project like this brings such as jobs, and his tax base, and turning vacant land into productive land. That report is filed and MR. (Name?) Can answer questions about it. Wasted opportunity to decide that this property should be a vacant lot. One of our support letters came from the beacon council. Says in part, an important component in supporting the counties job growth is having a diverse mix of available housing. The mix needs to include sngle-family detached homes that appeal to executives and managers with families. At present the supply of new and conveniently located single-family detached homes is seriously constrained. A disadvantage when attracting new businesses. The calusa community will provide a well located alternative for these families. Plans to move into the urban deponent boundary for residential homes, high-quality single family detached -- are important to meeting there one community, one goal objectives. So we have done the work to plan the future of this property responsibly. We have collaboratively worked with the adjacent neighbors to develop a community plan and through that effort we compromised on density and agreed to build only single-family detached homes. We provided buffers and other measures to ensure that our community did not have a negative impact on the neighbors. We agreed to additional stipulations in our community plans as well as stipulations to minimize construction disruption. We address for mental concerns and we will be supervised through derm through permitting to make sure that any bat or bird issues are appropriately addressed. We address the broader issues in the calusa neighborhood to benefit the entire area including that ambitious traffic mitigation plan. We have worked on it the positive community impact outside of kendall. Got a great opportunity to address this critical housing shortage. As a senior member of your staff told us at the conclusion of a meeting a few weeks ago, gl homes hs worked through this process the right way. Certainly not the fast way. Almost 4 years ago the commissioners asked us to work it out with the homeowners before coming back before you. Slowly and thoroughly for four years and in response to community and county concerns we obtained support from the most impacted homeowners. We earned a positive staff recommendation. We ask for your support in approving this application. Thank you. >> thank you and again i apologize all of the mass, but you did a great job. >> thank you, dick. >> I will try to wrap this up. I really am sorry about the powerpoint presentation. My personal favorite photograph that you missed is the one of the white ibis using the crosswalk in an intersection. Adapted to urban and suburban life. I do want to, I'm going to save some time for rebuttal, but I do want to mention a few things. I know there have been people who have been told that this is their green space and who wouldn't want to protect their green space? The fact of the matter is it is not. It has never been their green space and people have been told that be because it has been designated parks and recreation on the comprehensive plan that means it is there park. Okay. I want you to know that the ability for a private golf course to develop in a matter compatible with the immediate surrounding area has been in your blog, in your comprehensive plan since at least 1975 that I know of. That language was written by I believe alan gold, one of the fine assistant county attorney's who later became a united states district judge. He did that because the case law said that if you do not do that you are in danger of a taking. Restrictions on private property. So people MAY think that it is your partner, but your law for 45 years or more has specifically provided that golf courses can be redeveloped in this manner, notwithstanding that designation and you have applied that provision of your company has a plan multiple times, in fct we are going to put into the record all of the different golf course redevelopments that you have approved using that designation and I will tell you that this one is the lowest density of all of them. I will just say, I think you have heard enough from our presentation. I want to be able to answer questions. I want the opposition of course to be heard, but I would like to have an opportunity to have some rebuttal. Thank you so much. >> thank you. With that-okay. I have the following people and I will call their names. Please step in the line of the sergeant of arms. Remember once again state your name and address and you have one minute. >> danielle and emma, mary waters, jd weicker, raul (Name?), stephen lenore, joseph b (Name?), vanessa vasquez, george (Name?), amanda (Name?), sarah lee blanes, lucia (Name?), danielle. Amor (Name?), and (Name?). Please sergeant in arms if not put them on both sides so it would be easier to distribute or whatever you can do. Please so that everybody does not (Word?). Danielle (Name?). >> you call my name on it david weicker and I represent save calusa. >> I did not know there was a representation attorney. Is there a person registered? >> so this is the first I'm hearing that he represents a particular group. To identify who it is-you do typically give latitude to attorneys that represent groups so that would be appropriate and I would also say in the interest of due process since the applicant got about one hour you should alow the objectors to get about, roughly equal time collectively. Not one individual. >> MR. Attorney with all due respect, I did not hear from any of the people in the red. I just heard from their attorney and staff and developer, and the applicant. I'm giving the same equal time that I have given everybody else today. >> as long as you give equal time. >> I've given equal time as everyone else, one minute. My confusion is right now is the attorney representing, I did not get a letter of representation or anything. Just want to make sure. >> I have not gotten any identification of a particular client. I have seen the concern homeowners, no particular client has been identified so maybe he can clear that up now. >> sir you are under oath, public record. I want to make sure that there is representation. So if there is please state so and who you are representing at this time. >> yes david weicker, law office at 4720 s. (Name?) Road. I appeared at the last hearing that we had on this zoom on behalf of the save calusa group. It's a group of about 40 homeowners that are hre today. I did submit a letter prior to this hearing notifying that I included my powerpoint presentation and a number of objections to various aspects of the application to the clerk and to the county attorney's office. >> against that letter said, I represent concern homeowners, but it does not identify a legal entity or a person. So if he wants to clarify that now would be the appropriate time or if he wants to say he represent all of the people that have signed up to speak he can also say that and you could work out the time that you want to give him for representing a group. >> status are. >> I represent the the green shirt brigade that you will hear. I only need about seven minutes. I have a powerpoint that I would like to go through. That is all and I can do it in whatever order you want to do. I do not want to interrupt public comment, but you call me during public, so I want to. >> I dn't have you has an attorney or anything else so that's why I called you on the public, and you signed up as public comment. So that's why it puts us at a predicament here and we want to make sure what is going on and as the chair I have to represent my colleagues and I sure think they want to know what is going on. >> he has asked for seven minutes and I think in light of the applicant's presentation and the number of people I think it's appropriate. >> of seven minutes. Please if you want to sit so you will not be standing in line too long, but please put yourself back in the order that you were in. Sir you have seven minute starting now. >> david winker on behalf of save calusa, an organization of residents who live next to this golf course that is being proposed to be developed. Next slide, please. I would like to begin-I sent a letter t the county attorney. We are here today on a deferral of an item. The deferral was previous to the last meeting. You guys said that you did not have quorum and you canceled the meeting. I would like to put on the record that I believe that this was not properly noticed. It should have been placed into the newspaper and anything that happens today I believe- >> failure to provide a notice is required, renders voidable this hearing so I just want to make sure that everybody is on notice. I heard talk earlier of re-noticing and I think that that was good advice and I don't know why that didn't happen here. Please. We are here concerning-next slide. A piece of land that is vacant that is zoned parks and recreation. Next slide, please. The designation as parks and recreation on the comprehensive development master plan raises certain issues that are not addressed in the application. Next slide. There is a 2015 letter to MR. Tim foreman, bring the next slide up, and it sets forth what I believe is exactly what should happen here. It talks about in the letter from the county that we have submitted, I state that I find -sorry, the letter states that I find that the subject property is designated as parks and recreation on the lup map and is limited for future development by restricted covenant. If the conditions, I'm sorry I need to bring it up here, and it sets forth the limitations of the restrictions on what they can do. Next slide, please. I would also like to point out that the, in coordinates with your own staff report the application fails to meet planning objectives. It fails to me that lu-t that indicates that you should discourage walled and gated communities. They just showed you a picture of the entrance and it is a gated community. Lu-4c, intrusion into residential neighborhoods in excess of density. objective con nine about conserving fish, wildlife, and plants, and undeveloped habitat, critical to federal, state, or county designated endangered threaten, or rare species. I will get to that in a second. Next slide, please. Co9 nine a. All things should be prohibited the attack federal, state, or county spaces. Coo99b. The destruction of those habitats shall not be authorized. Rookeries and nesting sites shall not be moved or destroyed. Con-9f. It is important to point out that this developer but this development for $2.7 million. They bought it because of the restrictions. This is a real estate play. If what they are asking for is granted it will probably be $40-$50 million payday for them to make this happen. They paid what they paid because it was designated parks and recreation on the cdmp. Next slide, please. I show this map and I submitted it because you can see how little green space there is. Our parks and recreation space is critical for our resiliency and our options moving forward. Next slide, please. I believe the commission should reject this application. There are no community benefits. They are asking you to do something for them. A series of exceptions and they are not giving anything in return. In fact even the park that was requested by the county staff is rejected. Next slide, please. I put into evidence this picture and the photographer is here and he will talk about it, but this idea that this is not a critical site is just not true. Next slide, please. Outreach has not occurred. These neighbors have one minute to make the case today. Community meetings should have happened. This project should have looked at differently. Bad process equals bad results. Next slide please. You see people in red here today in support of this. Every one of them and everyone in support of this project was paid and I think that is very important. They are not speaking today and I honestly don't think that they would be able to speak because I think they would be lobbyist. They are being paid to support this project, tens of thousands, six figures, and that has never been disclosed. That is asecret agreement on what they have been paid. Next slide, please. Please do the right thing for the environment, for resiliency, for our children, for our community, and for our future. If I could have your indulgence for just one-I want to read one letter in that will lead us into the public comment. It has to do with the environmental impact. i sent a letter last night and in that letter I wanted to pass on that I believe, and I apologize I will gt to it right now. Sorry I am fumbling with my tchnology. If you indulge me for 30 extra seconds I will read the letter that I sent last night. Good evening, calusa project site for the miami-dade application is located at 9400 southwest. 130th avenue. The environmental report submitted to the county by the applicant states, there are no state or federal jurisdictional wetlands on the project site. This is a false statement commissioners. U.S. Fish and wildlife service national wetlands inventory map and wetlands map are currently showing fairly jurisdictional wetlands including five freshwater ponds, each classified pubhx that are a part of the proposed site plan and intended to be filled as part of this plan. National wetlands wetland map also shows one freshwater emergent land that is not a part of the currently proposed site plan and remains restricted by the 1960 land-use covenant. There are freshwater ponds that are -- part of the biscayne aquifer. Given this connection U.S. Epa and the U.S. Army corps of engineers provides protection of the federal jurisdictional wetlands on the calusa property under the clean water act, which reaffirms protection of critical waters. We don't think that you have been supplied with the right information to make this important decision. I will turn it over to public comment. Thank you for all that you guys do. >> so please line up in the wter-order I called earlier. Your your representative attorney speak earlier so everybody has one minute. Please proceed to request my name is danielle (Indiscernible) And I live at one 3281 southwest. 98th street. Also on behalf of the kendall federation of homeowners associations. The board members of the kendall federation of homeowners association cannot understand why the citizens of the calusa have to come before you, begging you not to destroy the last remaining green space in our community. As elected officials, shouldn't you be leading that mission? Isn't that your job? Isn't it you that should be seen, do not worry we will protect the land, the animals, the wildlife, and the water supply. Is it you that should be saying, we would never allow more than 130 homes, that commissioner heyman said on this project. >> sir stop one minute. Going to ask everybody to not mention a commissioner. You mentioned an address is as a whole. If you want to mention anybody you address me question forgiveness, chair. Move forward. put his time back on. >> here we are with feeling of impending doom, seeing the lobbyists circle their wagons knowing that neither you or this mercenary group of soldiers actually live in the calusa, yet will be deciding the fate of thousands of families including my own. Your vote today will either save calusa or destroy it. Thank you. >> thank you for your testimony. Ma'am? >> mary waters, 13 600 southwest. 229th street. This is an issue where the homes that are to be built are going to be on small lots. 5000 foot lots, sq. Ft. Lot excuse me. The original applicants intent was to build 1000 homes. For them to not be able to say that they will build half of that and still be on 5000 sq. Ft. Lot that would say to me that they would end up having to be attached homes to be able to put that many on their or the single family home would be on the 2500 sq. Ft. Lot, which would almost be impossible. It is also my understanding that the applicant is telling you that they met with the neighbors, the only neighbors that they met with are the people that lived on the ring. These people are also offered financial benefit for their vote to release the covenant. This was a 99 year covenant that was not written where it could be reviewed and released. It was to have lasted 99 years, which would be the year 2067. I do know that you all met on this before and you agreed to waive that. I'm sorry, but a commitment is a commitment and I feel that that was a bad judgment in the first place. Now these people are able to have about that property for the $2.7 million and they bought it cheap because they did hve that covenant at the time and it had to go to the expense to be able to remove that. I would suggest that. Thank you ma'am. Thank you for your testimony. We please keep bringing people down. >> (Crosstalk). >> I am worried about the covenant timeline as well, but you have heard the argument. I'm more worried about the green space loss. Everybody's talking about how adding some trees and more lakes are going to help things out. I just want to caution you that lights from residential areas hurt nesting birds, bats do not want to fly around rooftops. They wnt to fly low right above the ground where the insects are and I do not see any community benefit to this project, but I do see that derm is going to have them put the natural trees where they are supposed to be. Indigenous to the county. It will supply cover for the birds, but not the nesting birds. Nesting birds are not going to come to a small area where there is light pollution. That is all I have to say. Thank you. so much. >> one last thing, >> thank you so much. >> sir? >> my name is brian (Indiscernible) And I reside at 14525 southwest. 88th street. >> will you hold on one second please. If you have a presentation I was informed by the attorney that presentation has to be under one minute. So if you want to put it up and show it, so long that it can be under a minute as we agreed two for all of the applications that we have had today that is what needs to be done. So it's up to you if you want to put the presentation or just speak and express like other people have had to do because right now I do not trust what is going on with the presentations too much as to be on time. So those of you that have presentations, make sure that they are better teed up. With that I apologize for interrupting you, sir. >> MR. Chair on that point, just to give some comfort to folks we have received them. If they are here to introduce in person and say I submitted a powerpoint, such and such it can be maintained as part of the file. >> okay. Did everybody here that so it goes as public record. >> so with that once again I apologize sir. >> thank you. Name again is brian (Name?) And I reside at 14525 southwest. 88th street in kendall lakes. I'm the vice PRESIDENT And field trip correlator for the tropical audubon society. I have held these positions since 2001. I'm here on behalf of tropical audubon society to express our opposition to the proposed evolving plans for calusa golf course. We have grave concerns about the negative impact that this development will have on the federally endangered bonded to the back and other debts that use this property for foraging. We are concerned about the potential for the destruction of an active waiting bird recovery that includes use by the state designated -- I do want to mention that I visited this rectory earlier and it said that only one tricolored heron visited this rectory, but on the day I visited there were eight tricolored herons that were actively engaged in nest building. >> thank you so much sir. Thank you. >> good afternoon commissioners, stephen lightner 555 ne. 34th street. Staff recommendations are incomplete and accurate, misleading. Staff recommendations are not accurate and it do not show the addition of the tricolored heron to dfw see map of waiting bird colonies nesting in the calusa rookeries -- derm says this in their memo. They have not surveyed the rectory during nesting season and this should have been -- there is absolutely no mention of county resiliency or importance of green space in it the information being presented to commissioners. Thank you. >> thank you please. >> good afternoon commissioners I am vanessa vasquez eight homeowner at 9301 w. Calusa club drive. With great power comes great response but he and today I'm asking you to exercise your power responsible by voting no on this application. The calusa community needs your help to be our voice. The developer paid off the few neighbors supporting this development and called it community outreach. However, calusa is made up of thousands of residents who oppose this irresponsible development that ignores wildlife, wetlands, green space, traffic, and our quality of life. Calusa was designed to be a golf course community surrounded by single family homes with a minimum lot size other 15,000 sq. Ft. Lots. As a matter of fact the single family lot size in the calusa and off the ring is 7500 sq. Ft., yet the developer wants you to believe that the only option is a gated 550 home development of 5000 sq. Ft. Lots. How exactly does this benefit or fit into our community? I ask you here today to please take everything into consideration. Take a full account of what has been truly happening and I vote no on this application. Thank you. >> thank you. >> good morning my name is (Name?) And I'm on the ring as well, 9301 west calusa club drive and I oppose the proposed development. One of the major issues that we face as dwellers of the west kendall community is the massive amount of traffic that we deal with that already negatively impacts the lives of hundreds of thousands of people. As commissioners the sole responsibility is to enrich the lives and not to fat in the already -- the people that put you in a position of power that you sit upon today. The promulgation of irresponsible development will lead to a lower quality of life for adults, children, and -- to corporate interest. Are only three groups benefiting here. It is the developer who is out of area. Does not live in a calusa and the people who got paid to be here wearing the silly redshirts today. Thank you. >> just before we go on, while I appreciate every buddy's opinion and you have done next her new job with your booze and your aye's. We want to keep our comments as simple as possible. We don't want to attack each other and we are all here in the same community. Ultimately what decision is made we are all a community. So let's be as simple as possible. Thank you. >> good afternoon commissioners and CHAIRMAN Deas my name is jordan (Name?) And I reside at 13001 s. Calusa club drive miami, florida along with my wife josephine and my two younger daughters. I would like to start by stating that my wife and I are not part of the club of the calusa trust that negotiated with the bacardi scum although I live on the ring. The developer MAY not agree, but the fact is that we did not purchase our homes t run it into the ground and try to turn it into something else. That is what I saw bacardi do with the golf course. I know this because I saw the back of my house is where the 15 hope was. The removal of the covenant was there because the covenant said to the commissioners that only 30 homes would be built and not 550. The developer used the word misleading today. That is what I am reflecting on you. In closing I asked the board to side with the concerns and desires of those who live in miami-dade and it not with the broward county dveloper. Thank you. >> thank you my name is lucian (Indiscernible) And I live at 27610 southwest. 153rd court. I know I'm out of the area, but my kids grew up here and I lived here for 15 years in the areas on very familiar