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please take your seats the meeting is about to begin remember to speak into the microphone as this meeting is being recorded for public record please stand by we are going on air in 5 4 3 2 1
good morning and welcome to the March meeting of the design review board I apologize for the delay a bunch of um us here in the meeting and some of the applicants got stuck in traffic uh but now we are ready to begin and I think that this will proceed very quickly uh
rilio you sure let's start off um taking attendance and I'll do a um a roll call um Miss Baki is absent uh Mr dind derer here Miss Giller Nelson here miss Luen
here miss um oh Mr Pi present um and Mr Lester here I brought the wrong I brought an old uh old naming table um okay so we have we do have five
members present five out of the six so we do have a quorum and we can proceed with the meeting good morning everyone today's meeting of the design review board has been scheduled in a hybrid format with a quorum of the board physically present in the city commission Chambers at the Miami Beach City Hall and applicant
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whole truth and nothing but the truth all right thank you madam chair you may proceed thank you very much um we're going to begin with the approval of the minutes unless there's any other business we have no other business today
okay so moved move by Mr P a second second by Miss Leen all those in favor I I post motion passes and it seems we have a
continuance or a withdrawal yes we do have a deferral um that is is uh actually we do have a withdrawn an item drb 24-10 68 which was 4880 Pine Tree Drive that item is withdrawn by the
applicant um that was an understory home they're now able to proceed um with an administrative approval so they're going to go by that route um so they withdrawn their application um and then we do have a request for a deferral that's item number three on the agenda that's drb
24-104 that's 1500 Bay Road no action is necessary because the item will be Ren noticed for a later date um the applicants here in case you want to allow them to hi good good morning everyone hi my name is Tony resio with off at 28000 p on Boulevard suet 1200 in
cor Gables uh I'm here on behalf of the applicant just wanted to make sure that we uh we intend to make some some modifications to the application we will be Ren noticing it but we did want to make that state that for the record so that is very clear thank you thank you
um this since it's going to be Ren noticed no action is needed so then are we ready to move on to new applications yes okay great uh drb 24-10 60424 West Delo okay this
application is requesting design review approval for the new construction of a two-story residence with an under story to replace an existing residence including one or more waivers and variances to allow the portions of the under story to be filled as proposed to allow a wall fence to exceed the
maximum height on the side facing the street and the rear yard facing the Waterway okay so this is a a waterfront lot it's on Theo um Island one of the Venetian Islands um the applicant is proposing a modern two-story understory
home um I would call it sort of a hybrid home as opposed to your traditional understory home um because they are requesting a variance to be able to fill in a large portion of the story home the applicant does have a a hardship with this in this Regard in that they're
located adjacent to the causeway itself so their front elevation is is about 2 to 3 feet lower than their than the side elevations adjacent to the causeway the causeway this is where it's sloping up towards one of the bridges so they they
have um an interesting uh topology that we don't typically see in Miami Beach where everything is flat um so they they are requesting a VAR to be able to fill in a large portion of the understory the portion of the understory that will be usable will be towards the southern
portion of the lot where the lot will be lower adjacent to the residential neighbor to the South um and so they'll have a garage and then an outdoor dining area that'll be in the understory that'll be that'll be usable the remainder of the understory will be
filled in um there will be some space in between the the portion that's filled and the in the first lab of the home um so so it'll be a an interesting mix they're also requesting two variances for their uh for their fences um and
walls adjacent to the Venetian Causeway they're requesting a variance to um to allow that to be an extra six feet 6 in higher than what would typically be allowed which is 5T at the property line they're requesting to be able to go to 5T 6 in um through a variance um staff
is supportive of both variances given the location adjacent to the causeway is this is um um necessary to ensure the security and privacy of this uh property um and and also to ensure that they don't have any issues related to runoff and and drainage given the the changes
in topology in the in the vicinity the home is of a contemporary style um staff has no uh no concerns with the architecture and design of the home and staff recommends that the application be approved subject to the conditions in the attached order thank you very
much hello my name is Dakota henen with a andd studio principal architect uh offices at 2420 Southwest 27th Avenue um thank you for the opportunity to present this project to you I'll I'll keep the beginning part pretty short um but just
to give you some background uh from from the design perspective where we how we got here um from 2012 to 2016 I was working for New York City Planning during Hurricane Sandy and the recovery afterwards so um a lot of my career has
been spent looking at how do we adapt to this new environment where everything is going to be a bit taller um we actually wrote I think the first sort of understory legislation in the country at least we weren't able to find any uh precedents for it which allowed that
extra height using Urban Design tools that help mitigate the impact of of the height um that was back in 20 in 2012 and then I moved to the Department of design and construction with New York City and implemented those zoning rules uh on hundreds of houses being elevated
and rebuilt in the Rock ways in New York um long story short we approached this in a way that we wanted to make the house we were first blessed to be a relatively large site over uh 20,000
Square ft lot area I give you exact 21874 Square F feet so we have quite a bit bit of space to uh adapt the heights across and as roio mentioned um our site is located at the southwest corner of Venetian and
West too and at the West Alo Frontage we're at about 4.2 ngvd and then once you get to the top of the bridge we're almost at 8 so there's quite a bit of elevation difference from from front to side and what we tried to do was was
incorporate the large area and and sort of slowly transition this house so we have a a slight raising of the yard at the front of the house to the to the amount Allowed by the code um but that actual elevation once you get around to
the Venetian side that initial kind of um retaining wall disappears because of that elevation change so we have a small retaining wall at the front of the property that sort of turns into our perimeter wall at the side but at that point the the grades are Level here um
let me I'll get into that uh I'll just to show you through the surrounding neighborhood um 412 West Alo is right next door um the current house is a a 1980s style house that's in somewhat of disrepair
and and um not necessarily of notable quality and doesn't qualify as architecturally significant um there's also an existing large wall on the the property line uh uh along the Venetian Causeway that's you know relatively unsightly these are some additional
photos of of the property and then just to give you a sense of the kind of overall style and and approach this would be the front of the house you'll see the small retaining wall at the front um and the raised part the tallest part is really just at that front middle
section so we've created a Breezeway the the intent of the owner is to Showcase some of his sculptures that he's been collecting so some of those that really driving a lot of the decisions in the house and you'll see from the site plan it's a little bit different because they're not proposing a pool it's more um looking at the house as more of a
sculpture garden and and being able to have views of those sculptures from both the street and from within the house um from the backside you see we also have like a what we call the middle Terrace which is the majority of the site is at the
understory level that's about seven feet NG gbd um and then uh sorry it goes from Seven at the property line up to about nine which is the kind of the under story doesn't go above nine NG gvd and then we have this sort of middle terrace
running through the center of the site which is the highest point um that reaches its Pinnacle at this uh you know the Breezeway between the two sites so um we tried to keep all of the slopes gentle um to really utilize the the
breath of the site um and and then from this would be the Venetian uh Causeway elevation you see we've tried to Our intention is to try to maintain about a six foot height for the for the wall on this side uh above grade so when you
measure from future adjusted grade which we have as a 71 and 3/4 is the future adjusted grade um the wall just steps up sort of in line with that elev you know as the site as the sidewalk slopes up we've tried to step the wall just that little bit of
Mount to maintain um that uh so this 3D axo I think also helps to illustrate where the Topography is is running um within the front yards we we don't go anywhere above nine which
is our BFE uh throughout the site and the this middle Terrace is 11 and at the middle sorry I'm just want
to make sure I get the numbers right are the majority of our finished floor is at 156 Which is higher than what is necessarily even allowed like the the BF plus 5 gets us
to 14 only a small portion of the house is actually at 14 we're raising it an extra foot and a half at the owner's discretion um to for for additional safety and to get us the actual ability to have a a usable space uh at the gym
area so we've also played let me go to the floor plans to give you a sense so this is the understory plan um as you saw from the renderings there's two main blocks of the house the the northern block is just unoccupied below it's about a 3 foot
clear space because that majority of that area is just sloping up to this middle section which is the high point so you can see the toppal lines kind of run around here so this is our tallest point which is actually being cut through in the understory plan
and the rest of this is all uh midlevel and then uh the lowest level which is about 9 which is also the proposed seaw Wall height um the under story has a garage an outdoor dining area um and then as I
mentioned the majority of the rear of the site is dedicated to that sculpture viewing and garden uh when you go up to the the main level um the Breezeway is is UN unenclosed to one side is the gym and
bedroom volume we've actually stepped up the gym like we have a lot of different levels going on in the building and we stepped up the gym in order to give us a clear height for that under story barbecue area um and across uh the Breezeway is the main part of the house
a living room everything from the dining room to the right is all at 156 and then we step down into the great room and outdoor covered area which are at that 14 which is the BFE plus 5 um we've Incorporated it one thing
we've noticed with a lot of houses is mechanical the visibility of the mechanics is even with the screens can sometimes be unsightly the the equipment tends to be taller there always seems to be some some visibility to it so we tried to incorporate above the areas
that can be lower ceilings a mechanical mezzanine so built into the kind of facade of the house is a mechanical roof that will visibly screen all of the mechanical equipment and then on the second floor is the the bedrooms uh the office uh and
some balcony areas and then two staircases that can connect you to each side of the the first floor so theoretically if you if it was raining or you didn't want to go outside you still have opportunity to go through the whole house without um without having to go through
the Breezeway uh roof plan shows a a large overhang for the second floor um you can see the the venting for the mechanical roof areas and then our covered ter the
this is the front of the house uh the materiality that we're looking um the the renderings that I showed at first were were um professionally done so they're a little bit higher quality uh and then I'll just run through the the sections to give you a better sense
of those Heights that we were talking about um here you can see the the undulating ground line below the unoccupied area of the understory so we're still keeping that open we're still allowing water to run underneath the house uh we intend to use a a concrete block screen for that whole
area to block in views um which will will be the 50% open um and then this is through the center of the site which would be the tallest section so you see the Breezeway is is still raised up a little bit above that and and everything can float
underneath um this is the more complicated section which is at the the garage and barbecue Terrace and then this is the opposite view directly through the Breezeway running north south so you see the garage the the main level where there's
the three stories um we have a number of of cross-sections I'll I'll wrap it up quickly uh we have a number of cross-sections in our set but I just highlighted a few here to get if in case you guys have any questions about how the the site is at Each corner this
would be along the Venetian uh at the side of the property um and then just to go over the variances very quickly under story grading um as were showing and and R mentioned it's it's this hybrid philosophy of trying to bring the ground
do a little bit of everything so that nothing looks out of place like slowly slope the ground up raise raise the building a little bit more try to find ways that we don't just either have a blank wall immediately at the street or
that we have these sort of imposing three-story volumes that also you know give us this sense that these these buildings are getting so large so we're trying to mitigate all of those kind of different aspects um the the site conditions are what I think dictate the
requirement for the variance which is this kind of sighting of the house along the Venetian Causeway um and happy to go into any more um specific questions that you guys have I have uh just additional drawings from the set showing how we plan to treat the under story um and
then the the wall we've cut it at kind of the high point of the site and the low point of the site so you'll see that throughout it's it's approximately 6 feet along that ventian Causeway but um we do need that whereas at the the low point we're at code allowed from if
we're measuring from future adjus the grade but when we get to the high point the significantly lower you see the red line is where we measure from and then at the high point of the site it's it's much lower so um we're hopeful
that the design of the wall helps to mitigate any impact of that extra height and provide the security at the side along the v um thank you so much for your time and I'm here to answer any questions thank you very much are there any members of the public wishing to
speak anybody on Zoom please raise your your hand we have no hands raised on Zoom okay great I'm now closing the public portion opening up for discussion for the board who would like to begin do you want to start I mean when I reviewed the plans
yesterday I really enjoyed or really liked the uh removal of the impervious Sur surfaces in the back Terrace area so it's always love when I see more green in the plant than removing the Green Landscaping so I really enjoy that part
of the design thank you yeah thank you for the presentation um I think it's a you know a very thoughtful way to handle the topography um and the grade changes um yeah I I really don't have any questions um but thank you it's a
beautiful design you yeah I have to say um I really appreciate the the sort of deep study of the massing one of the things that we've been finding with these larger properties as you could imagine and with the underst story is is um this very
blocky massive overwhelming structure that overwhelms the neighborhood um and I think that you've done a good job having a sensitivity to that breaking it up I like how um both you and your client are really highlighting the art
The Collection the sculpture collection um and I think that this is an interesting um I would hope too that moving forward that this is a great model to look at of a way to not make a structure that is very tall I thought your comparative elevation I don't know if it was in the presentation but I
don't have it in the presentation um you know this structure is a lot taller than the ones adjacent that are also very new homes um so you know and that's always something that we're aware of of like how is this going to impact the context
but I think that um because it's at the corner and you're right next to the causeway you know I I think that this this property can absorb that in a way that maybe other properties couldn't um so so yeah I appreciate that and then um
is this I'm wondering does this condition where you have the property sloping up does it affect all of the homes on the Venetian that are like this or this just one in part like has it been raised since it will likely affect homes that are on the Venetian at the
approach to a bridge um it it it will likely affect other homes like that so we may see um this this would set an example that we may see other homes that might request similar variances um to come before the board because this is when you're saying with the hybrid um I mean I know how that plays
out here but it it seems like maybe there's a concern from the planning perspective of um you know applicants who are proposing doing both and then getting even more height so that I mean that would be my only concern with this project to and I think that this is a
very sensitive way of of figuring out this right hardship but just to I don't want to set too much precedent by saying oh yeah you can do both I I don't foresee everyone wanting
to use this mechanism because they lose usable space in the underst story and I think people want to maximize um that usable space in the under story to the extent possible um maximize that square footage and and they're forgoing that so I don't think everybody's going to do it but I think you might see a few that
might request the similar variants um if they're at similar locations so we have um I wouldn't see it at Bel Isle but the other two islands perhaps um you might have four properties total that would be in a similar circumstance um so I I
don't think you're going to see an explosion of this type of or I'm even thinking too maybe in other areas of the city where you have properties Jon to these small Bridges I mean I don't know how it's been whatever it is yeah it's it's possible um I think the Venetian Causeway is probably higher than for
example the sunset Island the sunset Island Bridges um a few of the other bridges that I'm thinking of um but so I I I don't foresee this take this concept taking off because of because of the loss of the of that space But but if
people are proposing it I I don't think it's I think it's a pretty good idea in these circumstances yeah and then the other thing that I noticed about the design which I do think is lovely but there's a lot of screening did the client not want any windows or fenestration Facing
East so from well from the East all of that is glass behind and the intention is that those screens would be openable so the master bedroom volume those will all open completely um it's it's sort of using a Brazilian reference of of like
mitigating the sun with the screens but also giving them the opportunity to open those completely the master bedroom which is kind of on the second floor FL at the furthest East section um this area that has Windows on all three sides and we anticipate that the water views
would be both north and south from that location um so the intention is very much that that even though it appears in the renderings to be more solid that there will be a a ton of glass behind it so basically everything you see on the Upper Floor the side here facing the
neighboring property is more solid but the rest these are all sliding glass do that will also have bold those screens will bold out of the way and what about along the the east facing facade on the street so uh on the East is is a gallery
so there's going to be art opportunities along that whole thing and and would also have we're still in the deciding if those screens will completely open or if they'll be more on the fixed side but there's a gap between all of them so there's still going to be visibility in and out um we did we just completed a
house in Bay Harbor Islands with similar product and it's it's phenomenal from the inside both open and closed it it really gives you a a filter to the light without blocking your view um so it it came out really beautifully and we're hoping to sort of
implement it on a bigger scale here that's great yeah know and I asked specifically too because we found in these renderings that it doesn't necessar like the gaps don't necessarily translate like some things they read as more solid than they actually are so
exactly that was part of the question and then um oh I see there yeah there we have glazing behind all of them uh this whole extent so this whole wall is going to be uh art facing the East well and I also think too that's also
again a good design choice you know that that that it's it's it could appear sort of solid is but it's recessed like there's a you know it's not this sometimes we see projects where it's just you know a 40ft wall and so this
you get the sense of privacy but also lightness um and then can you show us on the rendering where those screen mechanical areas appear again like from what would be visible from the street or is that just all hidden behind
the initial screens so you can see sorry if this um the slab is approximately here so we've tried to we have like a continuous screen to prevent you from seeing that it you know it changes at
that moment but then there'll be a secondary screen that's behind sorry you can sort of see the crosshatch appearing in the renderings if I can zoom in sorry I wanton try to zoom in but in
this area behind it and and this is a thicken slab so we don't have a roof on top it's just a a screen to allow ventilation out the top so we're getting about 6 feet in height uh clear there for the mechanical equipment uh to to
fit behind here so that'll be our AC's our hot water heaters um we also have generous spaces inside so the hot water heater is we're we're still deciding exact location because we have a mechanical room within within the space um but this would be all of our typical
Outdoor Equipment would be located here okay yeah and I I like the fening that that you know the attention to detail with that so it's lovely the ex I was I drove by yesterday and there's an existing wall that's maybe made of coral
is that right on the front on the Delo sorry yeah on the Delo side it's it's covered but in the like these you can see from here like this part is coral and it has some Coral columns but as it turns the corner it's
just have you considered and I don't know if how thick the coral is but repurposing that as part of a landscape element just CU it's nice um we would I mean I noticed that there was like rock you know some rock formations or
whatever in the absolutely and I I mean that's our intention with some of the rock shown here is to utilize some of the the coral that's dug up from the site or or that's already there so that we can use it to impact the land okay
good I think that's all the yeah I agree with everybody the design is really nice and I think it really takes into account everything I I just want to ask you though you you're aware of the impending rebuilding of the
Venetian Causeway Bridges and I just this is such a beautiful project I want to make sure that you're aware so it harmonizes nicely with what you're doing you know I I didn't make it a huge part of this presentation we reviewed all the drawings the the future adjusted grade
seems to be in line with those so kind of using that future adjusted grade is helping us I correct me wrong it's not going up significantly at the center but they're obviously replacing the bridges the the one at a time we looked into the
full project and it seemed like we were okay for a planning purposes using that future adjusted grade and then modify just make I mean at one point they had proposed these really obnoxiously high bridges that and they lowered it a lot and they kept it more in the historical
character but I just really I really want to make sure that there's not a weird snapu at the end and you have some weird thing to overcome because it really is beautiful no thank you we have uh We've looked at it and and think that we've accommodated
accordingly actually Rio um let me ask you question too again with this sort of hybrid understory thing because I'm I'm looking at there seems to be a solid wall for the garage is I I thought that an understory it has to be open it it has to be open but there are some
exceptions made for the garage and for for um access areas for accessing the upper levels um otherwise it does have to be open but there are some exceptions made for for those types of of uses okay because and that it this doesn't seem I
guess the understory isn't as visibly an underst story right in this house it's it's almost like a crawl space for for for a good portion of it yeah okay okay yeah these are the most unique properties these ones that are right on the bridges I think those are going to
be exceptional as we go forward with this so any other comments or thoughts no okay does anybody want to make a motion I'll make a motion to approve um and and should we separate out the
variances it's up to you you can combine them if if usually if you if you think some are more likely to get approved than others then then it's better to separate them out but if you think they're all easy to approve then you can do it combined yeah I combined approved thank you good I
second okay we have a motion by Miss Luen second by Mr diffenderfer um all those in favor any opposed motion passes okay congratulations yeah thank you
okay uh then moving on to our other item drb 24174 um 394,000 Alton Road this application is requesting modifications to a previously issued design review approval for the replacement of the existing fence and
installation of a new fence along portion of the perimeter of the property including a variance to exceed the maximum allowable height for a fence within the required yards as a background on October 3rd 2017 the drb approved a similar variance to exceed
the maximum allowed height for a fence within the required yards and later on on December 17 2021 the design review board approved the approved the construction of a new ninstory multif family building on the vacant portion of the site so this site has two Parcels
the the talic university on the North and the multif family H project on the south this is located in the rm2 zon in district and the applicant is requesting the variance which is um from the
required setback and height in section 7.5.3 point2 to exceed by 3 11 in the maximum allowed height of 5 ft for a fence located adjacent to the property line in order to construct a fence and Gates up to 8 ft 11 in in height
measured from grade which is 3.83 ngbd within the required yards um as we know fences are measured from grade the existing grade at the middle of the sidewalk is 3.83 ngbd and the yard elevation within
the property is at 5.5 ngbd there is a difference of 2.3 ft from the side from the sidewalk and yard elevation and without a Vari the fence would only be 3.3 ft in height from the yard elevation
of the property uh the hardship here is that the site has different yard elevations so in order to achieve a a good fence is uh Varian is required
the the proposed fences are located in the northeast corner of the property along the shared access driveway between the multif family project and the ttic parcel and the dog park amenity located at the southeast corner of the multif family
project ER staff does recommend that the final finished color of the fence be limited to a natural aluminum or silver gray to be consistent with the existing fence and as requested on the previously design review board
order uh the requested variance would allow the fences and gates to be approximately 7 ft tall within the prop property providing adequate security to the talmud college and multif family parcel the staff recommends the application be approved including the
approval of the variant subject to the conditions enumerated in the draft order and with this I will let the applicant thanks good morning Nicholas Rodriguez 200 South bis G Boulevard here representing the applicant 3900 Alton rhod LLC um joined by essi siso from
architectonica he's our architect also from ownership by Andrew guash and Christina quvo uh so this application is really like a Finishing Touch to the project that as uh Miss Miss Nelson and Mr Defender will remember was approved in 2021 um but we'll show you the the
project as it was approved shortly um and really it's just to ensure that the town Munich University maintains a secure campus as well as securing the multif family site and with respect to the dog park a 3-foot fence just wouldn't be adequate to keep people's pets in and it's a very heavily
traversed section of all Road right next to the project so uh these fenes are really just the minimum that we can do to keep the site safe and uh and you know finish the project which is very close to being done I was just discussing with Andrew they're going to be going for a temporary certificate of occupancy at the end of May uh so it's
exciting to see that project finishing up um so as Alejandro mentioned this site is a unified development site with a covenant Lou with the town Mich University so it's kind of unique in that even though there are two folio numbers and two partials uh it's one site for zoning purposes so there's no
setback in between the two properties um they they essentially share the site uh and just so you guys see I'm sure you guys have seen it and droven by the site but the project um is almost complete they're going to be going for temporary certificate of occupancy this summer uh and this fence really the dog
park would be in this area this heavily landscaped area at the southeast corner and then going to the next uh photos of the existing conditions this one you can see the existing talm mutic fence and where it kind of abruptly stops where the driveway is going to go and that's
where we're proposing the new fence essentially continue exactly what the talmudic has there now so this is a closeup of the existing fence and as Alejandra mentioned in 2017 they obtained a variance for that fence and the primary justification was to
secure the site uh and it's a you'll see the retaining wall because there's a difference in grade elevation between between the sidewalk and the level of the actual lot um and this driveway that you see here will be the same driveway that's going to access the project but we're going to reconfigure that gate so
the gate will become perpendicular to Alton Road so you'll turn right to go into the ttic site or go straight and left into the multif family site and you'll see that here on a site plan so uh on this site plan we're marking up where the existing fence is at the top
in Green in blue it's kind of tough to see oh highlight that but uh the perpendicular portion of the fence that will be the T mudic access gate um and then our access gate to the multif family property will be deeper into the site to allow enough depth so that
there's no queuing problems um and as mentioned the dog park is at the southeast corner of the site here uh right next to that Julia Tuttle kind of entrance ramp so we need the the additional height of the fence to keep those uh people's pets inside uh so this is the fence detail um one thing we
wanted to point out here is this is the approximate height of the fence that we could build as of right it just wouldn't secure the site at all um it would create a liability for the Tom mudic University also for the multif family site and it only applies within the first four feet from the property line
everything that's beyond four feet from the property line we are allowed to build the fence that we're proposing at the height that we're proposing um accidentally put the wrong fence detail here but just so you know um the second gate will be a little bit further into the it's going to be a swinging open
gate uh but that one doesn't require a variance it's just so you guys understand how the circulation within the site Works uh so this is the rendering where we prepared and uh really the fence is pretty difficult to see and that's on purpose uh with regard to the design of
the fence we didn't want to detract from the architecture of the building um I'm sure as you all remember the building went through several iterations of of different designs at this board we're actually really proud of the way it's come out thanks to the large part to to the comments from this board um we don't
want the fence to become you know an architectural feature or something to detract from the building and we want it to match what the talmudic has uh because it would be kind of a drawing transition to do anything different so we accept staff's condition to keep the color the same um the idea is for it to just blend since it is one unified
development site oh sorry and there's a closeup here so you guys can see it a little bit better um here's where the the fence why is it keep doing that the fence terms per perpendicular to Alton and there'll be a gate here and then our access gate will be in here so
with that we respectfully request your approval of this variance today uh so we can finish up this project and have new multif family housing here thank you very much thank you any other members of the public wishing to speak no anybody online please raise
your hand nope nobody online okay great I'm now closing the public portion opening up to the board for comment do you want to I just have to concede the building came out much much nicer than I thought it would I have to say it really turned out really nice so and I don't have any
problem with the fence thank you thank you anyone else seems pretty straightforward I have two sort of clarifying questions um is the dog park public or it's just for the people that live in the building I believe it's an amenity for people that live in the
buildings on a just you go go outside to go in right okay yeah I don't have a problem with the fence either um I I do have a question um about I think maybe this is more for you just to clarify first of all there was a
very large tree in front that was taken down is that going to be replanted and replaced want come up it's okay you can't talk from back there you got to come up with room or you can tell me and I can talk you
so yeah so it was an FD landscape offer um that right away is an FD right away so they're discussing I guess mitigation with FD s visibility triangles uh so there's site visibility triangles that the tree might conflict with so it blocked previously so where they replant
I guess is being negotiated okay because I mean it was a beautiful shade tree that I know the city is promoting in the Swale which I believe is public property so I just want to make sure that something is there to the the cities uh
tree protection ordinance would require mitigation um um so so they'll have to plant something somewhere I I can't tell you I don't know off the top of my head where that's where that's going to happen but they would definitely have to have to mitigate that and I do remember um I think it was part of this
discussion that the increased foot traffic that's going to happen with this building are there any plans to put a crosswalk anywhere already I will say there is a lot of foot traffic in
the middle of the street of people crossing from the Talman University and that's a very busy very busy street so and I think it's only going to get worse when this building gets full so something I I know the 41st Street master plan talks about improving
pedestrian connectivity um so that's definitely the city's goal along 4 First Street we're working with fot on on making that happen it's ultimately their right of way so we we rely on them um definitely where we can improve pedestrian safety we're going to do it um I I don't know specifically if
there's any crosswalks proposed here uh but I'll I'll follow up and I can get back to you on that I would say too because um I'm I live I'm I'm in this section A lot and nobody seems to walk from the entrance or exit of the the
building now to 41st Street to cross they cross in the middle and there's people turning left to go south and it's a lot of families and it's really dangerous so and there's nothing
there s 39th Street to have a crosswalk there for uh for pedestrians okay yeah and I don't think that the issue is ever there's never been a need because there's never been so much there but it seems that The Pedestrian so through the chair there actually did build the
crosswalk it's at the southeast corner where the dog park is fdot wouldn't let them put it at the middle of the site because it doesn't comply with their regulations um but they did build one uh that will go into effect can you bring up where the exactly that is because isn't the dog part really close to where
the entrance to the Julia Tuttle is like right there you can't see it on the site plan but Andrew it's here in the corner this keeps highlighting next to this driveway it's right next to the entrance the right next that's it aligns with Ouran
entrance so does that align with that pedestrian pathway that the site so go to the site sorry about theing maybe it'sing so that would be on Barry Street the
cor so it's at the corner of Barry Street we could send you a site plan that shows it it was studied as part of our traffic study that we submitted with the original project um we just we didn't expect that to come up today so but I believe it was studied as part of our traffic study and Andrew's telling
me that they built it so okay yeah I mean just so you know just so you know like that's what's happening on that street now and it's only going to get worse so it's it's really like I I've not you know like it's people are turning they're coming out of the church
it's really really busy and no one seems to go to the corner right so something that to think about with the planning agreed okay thank you thank you any other comments does anyone want to make a
motion she moov that we approve the variances I'll second that second okay second by Mr dender all those in favor I motion passes thank you thank you all very much good luck navigating the
traffic this weekend and today all right and those are all the items we have for today next month we also will have two items uh May will be a little busier um I'll be on vacation so Michael balouch will be here in my
place um but um we'll see you next month and what's the What's oh here April 10th April 10th is the next meeting okay great thank you very much thank you everyone for your patience and have a good month thank you thank you