e oh you want to get paid more on the on the lease if everyone can take a c please no I never said that haven good evening yeah I thought you were saying like like salary on
folks if we could take a seat please we'd appreciate it would like to get started I'd ask before we start uh welcome if you could all silence or turn off your cell phones we greatly appreciate it Madam city clerk you're good yes okay we'll get started good evening today is
Tuesday April 1st 2025 the time is approximately 7 p.m. we will now call the order um the city commission the city of South Miami Madam clerk please call the role yes mayor Fernand present commissioner Bish here commissioner Cay here commissioner
Rodriguez here we have a forum thank if we could please rise for a brief moment of silence followed by the Pledge of Allegiance led by commissioner bonich yes and again we'd like you all to keep in your thoughts and prayers uh the family of Lucas Ozuna um who was
tragically lost uh this past weekend Madam commissioner I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and
justice for please be seated Madam clerk we have a couple presentations this evening correct yes we have you could read uh item E2 for the record yes cure assist fibrosis kick tournament Trophy presentation Jerry sakman co-founder cure TF Miami Mr
sakman welcome back floor's yours welcome back thank you that's right welcome back I guess youd like it when I come back yes sir winning is good yes so thank you thank you very very much for having me
uh it is my honor as as we did on March 8th when our tournament took place to present the city of South Miami with both the tournament trophy uh and our community champion trophy as well uh we create a separate
bracket for the uh municipalities and so the city of South Miami for the third time in four years and uh for the second time in the last three won both of these trophies defeating the city of Miami firefighters uh Village of paletto Bay
and the village of Pine Crest Police Department uh so congratulations ation to you all we can't thank you enough um for your support over these uh these years uh this year's tournament was our 12th uh takes place at uh Pomo Bay Park
and um this year we raised over $82,000 thanks to uh municipalities like yours and the support of those teams businesses families uh and other sponsors which we are incredibly proud of and uh we can't thank you enough uh this trophy stays here at City Hall for
you all Jerry before you go on entire year what did you raise money for so the public goes where so we I'm from The Cure cystic fibrosis Miami foundation so um we are a local Family Foundation that raises money and uh
awareness in support of cystic fibrosis and the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation um my goddaughter Delaney has cystic fibrosis she's 14 and a half years old uh it is a genetic disease that affects the lungs and digestive system and
really any organ uh in your body uh unfortunately she has a genetic defect as do about 40,000 other Americans that produces a thick sticky mucus in her body that coats all of her organs primarily the lungs um causes digestive issues as well and so it makes it
difficult to breathe over time and they uh people with CFR um more susceptible to infections and that does long-term damage to the lungs fortunately there have been some miraculous uh advancements in this last decade and a half since she uh was born and there is
uh there are medications now that can treat the symptoms and the genetic cause and the defect for about 90% of people with CF it is not a cure uh there is still permanent damage it's still longterm um and it is a debilitating
disease uh Delaney is uh p uh her pancreas doesn't function so she is insulin dependent it's a special kind of diabetes called cystic fibrosis related diabetes not type one type two it's completely different she also has difficulty with digesting food and um
she has a feeding tube as well so it's it's incredibly challenging for her but she um she perseveres and um you know so do so many others with CF and so we are incredibly honored and proud to uh to be
representing her and all the other people with CF to continue fighting for this cause until we find a cure and we will continue to do that as a matter of fact tomorrow morning I'm heading to the National volunteer leadership conference in San Antonio and I'm running from here to a meeting that my partner in crime
who is delany's grandmother Bonnie who's the co-founder of our foundation uh is currently monitoring for an event that we're going to be having here in the city of South Miami at the South Miami Elks Club it's actually a prom so it is an opportunity to revisit that nostalgia
Sans chaperon and for you to experience it actually with your significant other of today because I would venture to say I could probably on a hand on one hand guess the amount of people that would attend this event with the same person that they may have attended their are original
PR so uh it's uh and the South Miami Al Club is uh doing a fabulous job giving us a hand with that so we are appreciative and honored to be hosting it in your wonderful City so thank you all very very much we truly appreciate the support of the entire community and
uh congratulations once again Jerry before we go when is the event next year and how do and how do people get involved okay so March 14th I'm actually going before paletto Bay Council next month to uh request the dates so once that's all signed up uh and they can uh
contact us at U info cfmiami.org or uh cfmiami.org um you know www. CCF miami.org our website is under some maintenance right now so it'll be but it'll be oper running very shortly
um and uh anybody can participate you just need to put together a team uh team is anywhere from as few as eight although that's tough to as many as uh 12 in the initial you can add up to six more people you can bring guests uh there's a whole opportunity it's really
an entire uh Community event it you know we have food all day sponsored by uh some incredible um food sponsors we have a barbecue Publix helps out with that we jodano salads does their salads uh Miami's Best Pizza uh pub grill has also been
involved and so we um we provide people with food and water all day long people can eat to their heart's content and it goes uh it's a long day you guys were in it till the end and obviously uh came home with the trophy I don't know that you guys know that it that some people leave at like two because you're always
there till like 6 or seven hopefully we won't figure that out anytime soon no it doesn't appear so I mean since day one you guys have been uh incredible and um you know you get you get some and you're not bringing ringers either you're bringing you
know real South Miami yeah you know employees yep yeah and and and Commissioners for and Commissioners Council I mean you know I know Steve has played um I think I think the mayor has
maybe gone up the back I tried tried to play I tried to play this year I made a special guest appearance it's okay your city manager played assistant city manager uh chip has Chip has Chip has the skin and EAS to uh and to show it for sure and and assistant city manager
was there in spirit this year and in I don't know a lovely cut out of her was there where is it where is she well Jerry congratulations on another great event if you not gone to anyone in the audience um It's a Wonderful way to support a good cause uh
in really a great family environment uh playing a game that we've all played since we were kids um and it's funny how we take it probably more seriously now as adults than we did when we were kids but uh it's a wonderful day and more importantly I just like to say congratulations to you for your hard work I know you put in a tremendous
amount of time uh to raise this hard earn money for a very worthy cause and um again to to to Brian and Bon and Branny binker who are also part of the heart and soulless organization and have overcome many challenges in their lives um my congratulations to them as well
but with that why don't you present the trophy to our our team captain Alfredo riverol and we can all come down and take a picture [Applause] River mayor if I if I may just point
point a personal of real we we do have employees in the audience that that participate it and ranging from all our departments so I want to thank them for uh going such a well let's bring them up the picture and if uh Mr riveral would like to recognize them on the record as well we'll let him do that if you can
recognize the team Alfredo bring him I want to thank everybody for for coming out elected officials for supporting the cause it's been fantastic we have such a great time all of us all different departments are recognized and are available and and participate and
it's fantastic to spend the day with the whole whole staff and uh for this great cause so thank you so much for everybody and we're number one again [Applause] here you want long ways too
congrats again guys thanks sh thank you my friend not my pleasure it's my my honor so yes sir how you know what else people can do to help donate website yeah so
again if you have checked out one more time the website uh www.c cfmiami.org C C is in Charle f is in Frank miami.org and like I said our site is down right now it'll be up in a probably a week or so and there are ton of sponsorship opportunities so please
uh sponsor get and our promise coming up anybody wants to participate in that as well uh I don't know I can put a phone number in for the record does that work 305 596 3881 305 596 3881 call or text and let's get you with Sam and Brandon
maybe we can get some information up about the event happening here in South Miami on our social media as well okay Terry thank you again thank you guys have a good evening congratulations okay um if without if there's no objection I'd like to skip ahead on tonight's agenda um and maybe
we can open up public comment and then take um a couple of items where I know there some action items that are here people that are here in the audience so without objection let's open a public comment at this
time you going get the list thank you um there's anyone else anyone who's here who would like to address this Commission on any item uh please come forward at this time if you have not registered for public comment we do have a list at the back of the chambers you can also sign up here with M uh with
John at the front folks if You' like to come forward and speak and always sign up afterwards that way we don't hold up to me please come forward just your name and address for the record good evening hello my name is Jason Lopez I live at 7730 Southwest 65th Place I believe that I am here in error tonight
I thought this was a zoning and planning board meeting um about the the lot on the corner of man Lane in 8th Street but since you guys are here it's on the agenda oh fantastic if you'd like to if you'd like to speak when the item is called up we can recog the time as well are they going to give their
presentation before public comment we no no they are not it would be after public comment but you can we will open up the public hearing on that item as well if you'd like to address us contemporaneously with the item okay anyone else like to come up for public comment as well as good evening good evening I'm definitely need
more than three minutes for what I have to discuss tonight I am tired of y'all costing me money at this point I am tired of the amount of time that has gone by and my community has yet to receive an apology
for something that clearly has to be a directive that has to be coming from the leadership with South Miami PD so I'm going to break break down my issues that I have not only with this department but with this government at this point because you guys are failing us I need
to make this very clear Mr city manager something has to get done and it has to get done now one thing I do not play about is my seed that's 16 hours and 43 minutes that I put in on that yes a college educated young lady I'm a
product of this community and what I will not have is having police now targeting her based on a sign that we asked the the previous mayor I think it was mayor starter at the time to stop Lin hospital employees and students from
taking up all of the parking that was in the Marshall Williamson's area and so to get waken up for the last three weeks in a row on stupidity that's a direct result of violations that this Police Department that I already came to you
guys and spoke to you about that is still continuing to happen so explain to me how my daughter can rent a car from Enterprise that is a reputable company and now all of a sudden allegedly the tag is coming back not there when there
was no reason for her to be what was her offense being home then the story changed and this is why I recorded I definitely recorded and it it's out got thousands of views at this point we should be tired of our city being
targeted we should be tired of college educated people who are actually doing what we raise them to do which is to be a productive citizen in this community to get an education to give back all of the things that she is actually doing
but instead what was she harassed by the police and you know what that encounter as soon as I came out the door if they were in such the right they would have stayed they would have tried to continue on if somebody has an unregistered tag
allegedly like come on like I'm tired of the games I am tired of the games one of my mom's friends lost her son you think that's the ideal time to now come and disrupt a funeral a funeral it's getting ridiculous and I've
had enough I need you guys to be interested and I need action I want the after action report for what happened after the black history program and I also want to know I have yet to see the community officer a lot of things can be
resolved listen in the north they have those type of problems and and relationships with the police we've never had a an antagonistic type of relationship with our police which tells me there's a directive there H they have to be carrying out someone else's orders
and that typically comes from the head and here's the thing the assistant chief came out and met with the Community I don't want to hear the excuses of oh we didn't realize it was private property I want that apology for miss Tula I want
that apology for my mother I want the apology because it's clear and you all know that over 20 plus years we've been a private community and none of you have yet to apologize to what happened to the seniors in my community none of you have apologized to even me for what I've
witnessed none of you have apologized for what took place with my daughter this past Saturday it's ridiculous there's no reason for police to be harassing people who are not breaking the law people who are doing nothing
other than just arriving home broke no laws none I'm sick of it and I'm asking this commission I'm asking you Mr Mayor before this things has to escalate you know even further because I promise you if we want to turn this into Mississippi
Burning and we want to be the latest City on the on the news I can do it I think you don't know who my pastor is and I think you guys don't realize like what's waiting we got to do something about your time is up I we fully hear you and I'm I'm going to use my mama's time we we we fully hear you is she here
give is she here to give it to you she on her way okay okay okay there she go okay so that's fine so that's not the only issue though if I if I could if I could address your comment so as to the after Action Report for what happened at Le
condominiums for the benefit of the public as well the chief has retained outside investigators who have conducted interviews in the community about the event they are compiling a report those interviews I think just just concluded this past week I've been sharing the information as I get updates with Mr
Ford at the NAACP so he's aware we will be providing a copy of that report to the public if an apology is owed we are going to provide it okay we're just going through what are the steps to understand what trans transpired so we get a full perspective from everyone in the community about what may have
happened that was improper proper but we'll have an accounting of the facts that we will happily share with you and everyone else I believe the chief has got out and met with the Le condominium board I was not advised of the meeting I would have been there personally happy to go when the when the report is completed and present the findings of
the report to the community and have a conversation about it okay if what do you mean if if what ma'am what do you mean if an apology see that's my issue ma'am ma'am we're not here I I I have my own opinion about what happened which I will share at the appropriate time I'm
allowing the police chief and the department to do their work right I don't you know we're here we're here to do we're here to discharge an obligation which is first and foremost to keep the public safe right we all may have an opinion about what happened at that incident but we have to allow there to
be a a compilation of the facts that's what's happening right now it's not an issue that's being ignored or brushed into the rug I don't want to give anyone that opinion okay the chief has the chief has undertaken to expend resources to have an outside group of people okay do an investigation and understand where we
may have failed okay in our in our management of that particular event and where that encounter may have gone in the wrong direction okay fully acknowledges the possibility that something wrong was done okay but I'm not here to judge it until I'm giving an accounting of the facts okay but I'm telling you I witness I'm not I'm not
saying I'm not saying that your I'm not saying that your perception is in any way wrong I've seen all the videos I've seen all the videos you've posted I've seen the other videos have been posted by people in the community I've observed them I have my personal opinion but I'm waiting to get a full perspective based on that based on that investigation so
there isn't there is an accounting that's there is an accounting of the fact is underway again if you have a question about it I'm not hiding from anyone my cell phone is on the city's website you can contact me anytime to ask me about the status of it and when the report becomes available be made widely it'll be made made widely
available to the public so everyone can Digest it criticize it confirm it and we will take as a body the appropriate action of the time and it may include an apology yes ma'am yeah I definitely want one for myself my mother Miss tuler and
all those residents that were there that were told to go into their homes unjustly no one has the right to do that we understand my other issue see here's something that is very clear to me is when there's smoke there's usually fire somewhere around the premises I'm trying
to understand what is the purpose specifically and I want answers to this question what is the purpose of us trying to now change the zoning across the city Citywide as you brought up Mr Rodriguez that hasn't passed yet but you guys seem to be gung-ho on this I'm
trying to understand what is wrong with our current zoning and the legislation and everything that we have you know taking place as is why do we want to do a Citywide thing if there is no intent to get rid of those you know houses that are on 64th Street because
something in my instincts is telling me if you're going through all of this there has to be a purpose and no one has told me one good reason as to why you're attempting to do that and the last thing is I will under want to understand why are we even considering trying to turn
the Marshall Williamson's area into a concrete jungle that was not the purpose of what that land was given for and I want to understand why you all are specifically targeting this specific area I want answers and I want them soon
ma'am as you know because I think you were here when we announced that we're having a community meeting for those who do not know it's this Thursday evening April 3rd at the bethl Gibson Center at 6 PM we have as we said we would we put out a community survey which is being compiled right now to understand what
the community wants us to do with I believe you're referring to the mangle Lots just okay correct so as we've shared before I believe you were here the CRA which is now extinct had a plan to develop a portion of those lots for affordable housing we all
recognize that the situation may have changed we were advancing a plan to preserve a portion of that lot as a park where we've decided to honor the first African-American mayor in the history of the city which was Dr Anna price that has been approved so portion of the park
will a portion of will remain a park the question is what happens with the rest we've put to the community and and I I think I speak for all of us when I say we will be guided by the community's feedback so if you'd like to participate this Thursday at 6:00 at the bethl Gibson Center please come out you can
share your opinion as to what you'd like to see happen with that piece of property in the community the prior the prior desire of the community as we understand memorialized in the CRA plan was to redevelop a portion of that lot for affordable housing okay that is
what's under question do we preserve it as a public space as a passive park or do we develop a portion of it consistent with the c plan and that's what we're hoping to hear uh from the community in terms of what their preferences are so we can move forward concurrent with the
wishes of the community okay okay now I just need you to know I was left out of that yes Mr Rodriguez you're recognized shant um in reference to the the mother who who lost her her son this weekend I was with her today I I was not aware of
that situation and she just told me today you know again from offering the condolences I gave her my business card I told her this is my number email me she informed me of what happened with those officers parking in front of her house we've had a crazy day we've been
here since since 4:00 I haven't had a chance to update them and uh speak to our police chief but I am aware of it and I did say I apologize for the inconvenience that her and her family had to go through um on this Saturday while she was mourning the death of her
son so I do want to make it clear that I tried to address it and I'm sure they will just as just as well once they understand what happened first I hear of it so thank you okay further public comment we have on the list uh Mr Levi Kelly you're recognized sir again if
anyone else like to speak please go ahead and register with uh John here at the front thank [Music] you pass it back to John Bren Brena Levi Kelly 6250 Southwest 60 Avenue good evening sir born and raised
in the city of South Miami just to give you a little context there as of right now I think from an individual standpoint I would like to lower the
temperature as we discuss some important issues that we have to deal with I think that um in the first part of the discussion there were some things that happened that shouldn't have
happened but those things are been discussed they've been investigated there have been Community input in terms of talking to the investigators I know for a fact that
there's going to be a a finished product that's coming aboard uh I per I personally had conversation with the chief and the assistant chief they're committed to doing what's right and I just want to make sure that
uh everybody in this community know that this is not going to be overlooked and it's going to be done decent and in order I think there there's too
much at stake for this city a good city and I think that we as a community and as an elected government have in the past had a good
working relationship and I think that relationship is still there I think there is a a real need to peill back a little bit of the the anger and the anxiety that that happened
before and and and just discuss it in a civil manner I think that uh yeah there there's some some things that that that that made me angry but I'm not going to burn down City
Hall I'm not going to get to the point where I'm going to be pointing fingers at individuals because it's a collective effort by all of us that need to happen I think the the the fact that we
as a community have an obligation also to make sure collectively that our voices are heard clearly and that in totality not by a
few and based on that I think that we need to keep that in mind and move forward with what we need to do as a community I know this manager has committed have talked to him to make
sure that everything is going to be upright up straight to the point no hidden agenda and the fact that the chief has made it a commitment also that his offices are going to be
looked at pretty clear eyed and where there's Improvement need to be made he's going to make those improvements so that's on the first issue the second issue is it relates to the affordable housing complex area I
served on the board with Anna price her commitment was to have additional affordable housing and the part of that plan was that area facing Jr
Lee she wanted that to happen and it would be very appropriate at this time to make that happen but part of that been recognized as a passive park for her as she overlooked that development
for so to speak I think that's that's something that that should happen it it shouldn't be a a a a debate on that I think uh those who have served the community in some
capacity understand that uh we are somewhat losing the ability to tell our story as a black community because of the fact we don't have the necessary housing I've talked
to people every day that's down south I want to come back to South Miami my family my uproots everything is here I'm down there with strangers I don't feel comfortable so I think that
uh we we need to keep eye on the prize make sure that we understand what we're asking and why we're asking and I'll just leave it at that thank you sir appreciate that thank you further
names thank you miss fiser you recognized good evening good evening mayor good evening commission and good evening staff and fellow residents citizens I should say
um so good to be here tonight um the reason I'm here is that I want to make sure that everyone who lives in the Marshall Williamson community and even the rest of the city who may be very interested in this situation with the new project that they be given a very
good opportunity and a thorough enough opportunity just to clarify for the benefit of our us and everyone else which project are you referring to I'm referring to a project that's being proposed on uh facing uh Southwest 64th
Street a one acre project adjacent to the Marshall Williamson lot I'm sorry I'm sorry the mango lot the mang lot in my mind is a marshall Williamson sight I know the history appreciate it thank you sorry okay so
that's the project and I I was invited when I came here to the um to the beautiful uh event for Mar Martin Luther King Day a young lady at the at the end a young lady invited me to come and attend a meeting called a CAC she didn't
tell me what the name of it was she said come and attend our meeting you should go in the senior center on the third Wednesday of every month so I went to the last meeting I was very happy that I did I learned a lot I learned that it's the
cacc and uh Dr Joyce price was um the mo the uh moderator of the meeting uh and I I connected with a lot of people I hadn't seen for a long time it was great and I want to make sure that everyone
gets proper notice and there's like a charet I know there's a meeting this Thursday but when this project actually becomes comes before the commission and everyone is hearing about all the legalities of it is there going to be a
land use change are they going to get variances are they applying for variances when they get into all those legal details I want the citizens to have a great opportunity to express any concerns that they may have and I think
we need something like a workshop with the commission you could call it a chared a workshop whatever but something more than this that is only three minutes because I spoke to uh a citizen over there very close to the air very very close right in that immediate
neighborhood and she talk my ear off for at least an hour and I had and she's a brilliant woman I had to listen to everything she said I said I've got I've got to get to the commission meeting I've got to speak at public remarks because you have too much to say in three minutes so I just wanted you to
know that so and also it wouldn't hurt you could call it a town hall maybe we should start having Town Halls here it would be a very positive thing for the city and that's all I have to say thank you so much thank you and again you may have missed it because I think you arrived a little bit late but we've taken your advice and so there is a town
hall on that very lot tomorrow sorry Thursday evening at six o'clock at the Gibson Center so we will be soliciting public input as to what we should do if anything with the mangalot whether it should stay a passive part or whether we should develop a portion of it consistent with the cra's prior
plan which was to have affordable housing on it and that will be in the community center correct yes ma'am six o'clock this Thursday I'll be there look forward to seeing you okay thank you you uh Miss Ashante Smith good evening hello good evening um what am I
supposed to say my name your name and your address is the right please thank you okay my name is Asanti Smith U my address is 6102 Southwest 68th Street so on March 23rd at 1100
p.m. I was in my because I live in uh the Le parks condominiums so I there's a dead End Circle and I had a car at the I was a rental car at the time and I had parked my car and I was probably you know sometimes you just sit
in the car probably for like a few minutes after you like P up so that was me I was there for probably like 10 minutes and I'm sitting in the car the car is still running and then I see a bunch of flashing lights in front of me and then up on the side of me somebody
knocked on the door so I was confused I'm like okay what you know so I roll down the window and they said um is this your car is this registered to like where's the registration and I'm like what do you mean I was like this is a rental he's like oh well
um you're parked illegally or like he first he said that the car wasn't registered then he said I was parked illegally and so I felt harassed because I had three cops surrounding me I have the pictures and everything surrounding me in video of them surrounding me I
gave them the registration and then he kept he P he pursued on saying oh where's the rental agreement because it's not registered well first of all it's Indiana so we're in Florida so obviously it wasn't registered in the state and then he just kept switching up the story about why he
was there then when I said Okay first you said it was about the sign and I'm like people there were so many cars that were parked on the side of me so what about that car what about that car we all everyone that lives in leap par condominiums in that Dead End Circle that's extra parking it's been like that
for years that little red sign that's been there you don't even know if I've been there for two hours and how am I legally park and you see that my address says what it is on the ID and they were just given attitude I have their um I also have their card numbers as
well um if you want to write it down yeah I so I think I saw the video posted on Facebook yeah and I if I'm not mistaken I sent it to you Chief correct and I I believe you you reviewed the body cam footage and and I believe if you want to share what the origin of the
call was if it's helpful Miss Smith do you understand what the background was and how they ended up uh interacting with you because it was not I don't believe it was targeted at you was unrelated instance if you could just so we can get the sound of the record if you just yield the microphone to the Chief and we'll bring you back up with one more time Chief go ahead so the
original call was a robbery uh call the Officers were in the area looking for a robbery suspect uh from my understanding at this point the officers encountered a vehicle assuming that's uh it's her vehicle that she was renting it was parked under a
restricted parking sign the officers ran the tag on the vehicle vehicle did not come back on file officers investigated the driver of the vehicle who was parked in a restricted parking spot uh in the culdesac they identified themselves she identified herself she provided the
rental information to the vehicle officers let her go uh the encounter was cordial sir before you go just to ask this question so from her perspective I can understand that having three officers respond to that call to what seems to be a parking enforcement matter
would be a typical correct if it were just if it were just about the Parking Enforcement issue yes sir okay but if it's a if it's a call related to a robbery is it atypical for three officers to arrive in support of an officer trying to identify the vehicle it wasn't necessarily identifying a
vehicle they're actually looking for a known person but they found they found the area did the vehicle match did the vehicle match the description of the vehicle that was used in the robbery there was no vehicle mentioned in the robbery the officers were there looking for an individual on foot in the area and countered the vehicle that was
running ran the tag on that vehicle unbeknownst to them uh she was occupying said vehicle in a restricted parking spot so they investigated that and moved on from there so okay I think I think it warrants us having a conversation offline so we can kind of explain what
what the standard operating procedure is because happy to share the body warn camera with them so they can see it from their perspective from the officer's perspective as well okay Miss Smith you recognized again I would like to say to please get the story straight because you're saying it's a robbery then you're saying
restricted the thing says two hours I only been there for two minutes so how is it restricted how is it restricted and there were three other cars that were parked right there and then my neighbors they parked right on theine so how's it restricted I've seen
the parking enforcements come to that Dead End Circle me millions of times and not one has everybody got the ticket you don't even know how long I would stay I think I think what I think again I'm just trying to distill the information I'm hearing from everyone because I saw the video posted online it seems that
what what what what tripped the interaction with you was the fact that they observed a car that was legally parked and they ran the tag and the tag did not did not register on their system how Park where they they weren't even there for two hours even know the time was running illegal how's illegal so if
it's illegal then why is it still available for people to park there the sign literally says 2 hours I wasn't even there for even an hour not even 15 minutes understood you okay let's let's let me rephrase my statement okay so you happen to be at the location they ran
but what tripped I think the further engagement was the fact that they when they observed the car running in an era they were looking for a suspect they ran the tag and the tag came back unregistered right which would led to them interacting with you so again it's an unfortunate
circumstance and you know uh um it's not fun to have lights shown into a joining home or into your car you know uh my house is on a watch order because I'm an elect official and I hate when they drive by and they flash their lights through and it comes through my glass panel but I know they're doing it
because it's just part of their typical protocol so I don't think it was a targeted event to you I would I would invite you to have further conversation with the chief so you can you can get all the facts that you like if you if you're not satisfied from that conversation what I would ask is you can contact any one of us my cell phone's on the C's website I'm happy to follow up
if you're not satisfied okay uh so if I'm not satisfied what happens you can file a complaint and that that complaint will be investigated and it'll be of record and we'll and you know and we can and we can and and the chief will take whatever action he needs his fit based on his review of the record
okay thank you thank you okay Miss Tiffany Irving good evening greetings elected officials I'm here on behalf of Ashante and Shanti um I want to discuss what I've seen as a
resident of South Miami while we appreciate development and growth we also understand regentrification what happened to Shante Smith is deplorable it should not happen to
anyone let alone a young black woman where three or four officers show up to detain a citizen of South Miami it is inexcusable in fact as a
member of Delta Sigma Theta sorority over 400,000 members strong as a member of the NAACP with context and understanding of while we
want growth while we want development we can't push out the old to allow for the new our citizens do not deserve that there are families that have lived in this area for
over 50 plus years my grandparents moved here in 19 73 in leap Park Condominium I have recently moved back to this area and so that you have for the record Tiffany Irving 6111 Southwest
69th Street South Miami Florida 33143 I've recently moved back to the area and was very disheartened and amazed to see the quote unquote growth of this community the University of Miami
students parad around with no clothes on regentrification the citizens being harassed in this area because of regentrification we do not deserve
this we can all coexist but not at the point of pushing out the old to develop and embrace the new we should not have stood up for it I
remember at G Le Community Center we used to link up bikes and skates and skate through what we call the creek now I see Advocates new citizens playing tennis
overdeveloped by what was a senior citizen Community individuals sitting in a park and being told they have to leave because they don't belong there who says we do not deserve this we do not care for this quite frankly and when one
of mine cuz Ashanti is my sisters god daughter is harassed by law enforcement my dad is blue but he'll always say he's black there's no blue or black when one of
is harassed quite frankly I am now taking off time from my job because I work 11 to to 8 by the way to speak about the Injustice I saw the block party I saw
the uni I saw what it was supposed to be I saw that we got a little bit excited and and crouched in the streets and we came and spilled over and that made a little bit of people feel uncomfortable because we were doing what we always did
and always do I saw it but quite frankly there needs to be an embracement and it doesn't have to be with harassment we can all coexist we can all
Embrace regentrification but not with someone's life being possibly endanger that situation could have gone a different way and we will not stand for it that is my time thank you thank you for your
comments is there anyone else who' like to address this Commission on any any item please come forward at this time Mr M good evening good evening everybody James MCC 6210 Southwest thir ter
um um I was sitting back there and I I was saddened um I I have to learn about the um incidents um where the Shante from Shante in the back and what happened um the chief did
call um we have a very good relationship with the with the police department and um we did speak to some inv investigators and was pleased with that we gave our recommendation of what we
saw um uh to them and I look forward to sharing this with um our our community here uh in there so I'm not going to speak to to that case okay I didn't see the film but um I was told by the chief
that uh some things need to change now with the unity Festival we saw film that had to be discussed so that report would come to you guys and and I think the working together we can make a positive
change for next year I think that we um should be on a better speaking term um with the police to iron out these things and mistakes and sometimes with the uh young officers that are not familiar um we we
need to uh deal with that in a different Manner and I'm going to stop it there because we can we I can go with um I can go on with that I'm going to stop it there but I want to I want to go to the to the apartment uh for Marshall
Williamson apartment over 23 years with the CRA we gone through planning uh we beg uh residents to come speak and be a part of the plan and process we saw businesses go we heard of businesses go
we saw Apartments torn down we saw uh shotgun hums torn down uh in my office personally uh before the CRA was stopped I had numerous of folks coming to me wanting to move back to South Miami for
whatever reason they left so part of the strategy and the planning was to always use the back portion of um Marshall Williamson's property to try to bring back uh folks the original part of that was to be
connected to the original Madison Square project that's why we bought that um as a agency that was short change with us we lost within a a 10year period 189
housing units just think about that 189 housing units and we're not talking about just one family we're talking about Grandma's mothers and then granddaughters and then children so we wanted a a place that we can actively have people come back and have a chance
to come back in South Miami so that we can live to unify and fight for another day um I believe that the young people like Shante coming aboard and others that they can have and maybe do things a little bit different from from us to
make it better so the community can actually uh come together for a positive change and that's what that um that poral was was you was meant to be used for so um I hope you take that in St and we're going to talk about it again on
Thursday and um everybody just have a good nightm okay thank you sir further comments please come forward good evening my name is Terry Vicor 6104 southw 68 Street my Florida
33143 I wrote the original email for those signs to be put up in the back of um Lee Park the signs was originally supposed to been so that lock and Hospital would not Park back there I also spoke to the mayor when he put
those signs up saying those was the wrong signs he put up saying that it was only for um the senior citizen in Marshall William Park for two hours hours is there any way we can have those signs taken down because now we do not
have lock and Hospital Park there they have a parking lot that they Park in so M Vickers I think what we can do is have Mr Mr riveral runs our parking enforcement program for lack of a better way of describing it what we can do is if we want to make that a residential
parking zone so it benefits the a buding k of Min Association we can certainly sign it that way as we have in some other neighborhoods and so Mr riverol if you can work on having a conversation with the association and figure out that's something they would want we can certainly go ahead and change the
signage out we've done that for in other areas that are adjacent to commercial like a hospital where there's spillover and often people that are working in the adjacent business will park in the residential area we strip them so that actually people can park curbside but only people that have a residential
parking decal so that would be one way to kind of help uh I guess mitigate any potential conflict there okay then I have a two question and a second question but Quint may can answer this question since he's the director of the park there's a corner sack in the
middle of the park where used to be swings our kids in our neighborhood does not have a swing set on our park I go to Danny forel I go to especially I don't even want to talk about over there by that park over there y'all spun all that money over there they have all this new
stuff but our kids does not have it what is coming into our neighborhood for our kids as far as Park and Recreation is Quinton here I'm sorry yeah qu if you can come up what what is the history on the swing set that was
there and why was it removed if it was removed at all good evening mayor Commissioners um upon my arrival about 11 years ago there was a playground structure underneath the power lines um also underneath that
playground structure is the main uh water main extension that goes down what's that 68th Street so um upon my arrival we were looking at um replacing the playground structures um which included a swing um it was deteriorated
at that time it must have been about 13 years old it was time to bring you know take out the old bring it a new we brought in two new structures um during the permitting process we could not put that playground structure at that same location again underneath there's a
waterman extension that goes all the way down 68 and above are the power lines so for those reasons we had to place the two new playgrounds that are there now um in different locations and that's where they are today okay so I think we
are working on a Parks master plan as Vickers so we've uh our our master plan is over 10 years old at this point so we're going we're just starting that process now I think we can work with the parks department to figure out there's a place where we can actually locate a replacement apparatus if you think it's worth having a conversation with some of
the adjacent uh communities to figure out what they would want we can do we can kind of repeat the exercise cue that we're doing right now around the bangal lots and kind of figure out what people would want to see and what kind of Ages we need to service because I I was speaking personally Dante fael got a new
a new swing set but I will tell you for kids that are a little bit older than 9 years old we had there before before was fantastic what we have there today doesn't engage older kids so it's not just about replacing it with something but also replacing something that gives kids from you know toddlers to you know
pre-adolescence an opportunity to kind of still use that space so let's let's let's follow up on that conversation is that is that an area Mr manager Quant that we are we're charged with maintaining or is that County right away who who's who's got Juris over that
space when you talking about the area it's it's the it's basically the the kisac where there's not a through street it's basically where the streets impeded so huh the partk to the north but the area that's south of the park adjacent to the
conom that's herea you're talking about right under the power lines it's you know if you were to run the street East usest we run right through that section right I don't know if that is our right of way or someone else's I I will walk tomorrow with the park director okay and we'll walk from end to end if someone can get Miss vicker's number just so we
can follow up at least we can keep an open line of communication with someone in the neighborhood about what what what is or is not going to happen there in the short term okay ma'am floor's yours again did you have anything else you want to add okay thank you very much ma'am
please come forward mic's open good evening good evening my name is f Vickers I'm the older sister I just I've been listening to things that has happening and I want say
Shante Shante um this situ situation I don't understand how when we come down and we do something then it it changes because as Terry said she's the one that did the
email for that sign Miss Scott was the manager in Lee part for years she explained to me on her retiring that that area where we park at because I'm her neighbor that area the city knows that
we are allowed to park there that it has not been a problem people have been parking there I parked there every night so I don't understand why the well I heard what the chief said or the captain but why harass a young female like they
did that night when I saw I can see the lights from my window when I saw all of this going on I'm thinking that they're after somebody and I grabb my phone and her mother's on live and I'm I'm looking at what's going on and I couldn't
believe it so is the we said in the last meeting that some of these police officers need training they need to know a history of what's going on in South Miami before they attack what if they they' have shot her or something thinking that she's somebody else in in
that car she Liv right there I mean she's she's in and out every police should know her the police is sit there at night why why would they have to do something like that to her um secondly with the park thing with Quin
I spoke to him a year ago about that because of that open space there it allows for other people to be out there that don't live in leap park with their dogs and their animals and our kids when
they go out and play they're stepping on dog poop and everything and their shoes and things he and he explained to me the easement but what I Tred to explain to him is that that street used to go all the way through when Lee Park was built
68th Street went all the way through the park came later so speak do you do you know why the street was closed I'm just curious if you have that history or Mr M par was built for the it was built it was built to extend the park or no the park wasn't there the park came after
Lee Park was built the the Condominiums was built then the park so when they built the park that's when they did the KAC and and they closed that portion of the street okay right so and my question um to a Quin last year if you remember we met at the
when they put the um statue up for Williamson and I I said that to him then that I our kids run around because they don't have anything to play it's a uh area for the younger kids but what residents have done is taken that area
where they removed the swing sets from and made that a dog area so I have emails from him telling me where the dog park is I'm not interested in a dog park I'm interested in a place for our kids to play and I understand about easements
and how far you have to be away from an easement but it it should be a way that the park Department could put something there for the kids so that it um it could be enough space between the easement I know some easement you have
to be 7 ft in in away and everything I work for the county in the building department for 32 years so I know that there's ways around that if you have to put something smaller or whatever so nothing has been done in over a year and our kids have to go to the bigger Park
when they get to the bigger Park they're met with oh you can't play here this is going on here um they're bringing PE other people in so they charge a dollar to get into the gym to play so you're just running our kids away everywhere
they go and where they should have somewhere to play they don't because it's been removed and he was supposed to send me the the survey showing the easement I never got it I've gotten letters about they put up dog signs and everything I'm not interested in that we
need it's a park Marshall williamon gave it to the community for a park then we should have something if we have to redesign it or whatever so that the the smaller kids have one side and the larger kids have a side um I don't see
what you know why that's such a big problem doesn't sound like it we can we can get it fixed now now that we know that's an issue we'll take we'll take we get Care thank and then on the issue with I I guess when you said you had to meet with the police chief about the
incident with um Miss wealth it it shouldn't be um a issue they should know what they're doing yeah man I I think I think just on that issue again I to to Miss Smith I mean I I'll apologize I I don't think I don't think the intent was
to ask you if that's how it came off I read the video I I I believe from what I've observed yeah there some people that should be harass they were they were president is being harassed they were responding to uh a they were responding to a call and they identified
an unidentified vehicle and that led to the interaction we can I think what I'm hearing though is that we need to have and I know Mr Mr forward is in the back I think we need to kind of figure out and we'll speak to the chief about some sort of a community conversation that's structured
so we can actually do something and we we have hired 10 new officers in the in in the past year right there probably is a good opportunity for some more dialogue some more integration of both the police department and the community so we will we will put our heads together right and we'll have a
conversation about what we can do to kind of bridge that Gap now what I would ask is I think to a person on this day including commissioner Corey or the vice mayor who's here we're not afraid of having these conversations but I I certainly would prefer to have them one-on-one to start as opposed to people
you know having them here at the deis because it's very hard to have an Earnest conversation to get through our business when the first time we're hearing about something is here so I you know I I would ask we our numbers our contact information is available we're typically we're all of our office
numbers available please call us sir my and I I feel the same way as I said to you I'm the president of the association my door is always open the police department brought me signs on holiday knocked on my door and deliver signs so I mean they they are it's they're not
afraid they can come anytime and I I believe the whole community and our association we welcome it but we don't we don't want to have closed meetings we want you all we had two officers what was the name of the officer Corbett came
and sign in our association meeting in our last meeting and we we didn't scare him or anything he sat there through the whole meeting in fact he yeah he knew everybody but me and I've been there 50 years so it's not that we're Afra we
we're afraid of the police that we hate the police it it needs to be some communication okay and as I said that um last year when the shooting when the the game banging was going on and I called Jane mccant and he was in a meeting here
and when I said about the shooting James and this guy came over they said how many shots did you hear I said three when they finished it was about 40 shots so they he stayed out there with us half of the night we're
not afraid we we want to communicate we want our community to be nice we wanted to be a a a place where you can walk the sidewalks the streets and everything we wanted to look nice but we don't want to be harassed we all feel the same way so we're we're like M let's have a
conversation you to that because please that's you're the mayor so I'm looking for that okay and I I just want us to have the same opportunities as other areas in South Miami we do as well and I I know I've heard some comments about gentrification some of the development for folks to understand we don't control
right there are the public housing project is one that's beyond our jurisdiction there's some student housing that's been built on the periphery that I know people commented about we don't get to say grace over everything uh with respect to the mangle lot which is the subject of the community meeting what we're trying to do there if that's the will of the
community is finding on opportunity to provide some replacement housing because Mr MCC has is is dogged in trying to remind us of what we've lost in terms of inventory that that was a place where it was all it was always the intent of the CRA to provide that replacement housing
so we'll have that Community conversation Thursday at the end of the day if if the circumstances have changed and people want us to preserve that as a passive Park we're happy to do what people want we want people to F feel comfortable in their community and see themselves reflected in right because there that the
African-American is important part of that history of that neighborhood and speaking for myself and I think for my colleagues we want to do what we can to commemorate it which is why we started with naming a portion of that Park in honor of Dr Price so thank you for your comments if we can we'll move on okay thank you anyone else who' like to
address this commission Mr Ford evening everyone good [Music] evening Arrow 4 22225 Southwest 112 Place Miami 33170 I come again based on my responses
as to what I've seen and heard and we've met regarding various issues uh I just want to put certain things on record and also those that are in part uh responsible for the investigation or the uh review I want to make sure that this
is on their radar because I'm I'm one of the things I often looked at when I go into situations is what was the Catalyst what was initiating action that spurred whatever transpired and even though we've talked about the community meeting and what
happened with that whole situation I've not heard what led to police feeling the need to respond at that particular event not that it has to be answered today but I want to make sure it's a part of the report second as it relates to this
young lady and the robbery call you know um that went out did their vehicle fit the description that's one of the questions that's ringing in the back of my mind and then the other piece that's most important to me is did you catch the suspects I heard nothing so that is a
priority to me you got dangerous individuals who just committed an act and our Focus or a certain amount of resources and I don't know how many resources you had on that particular shift but a good number was dealing with a situation that I I felt was less of a
priority than what should have been the priority so I want to make sure that that stays uh Focus as it relates to the housing situation as you and I talked affordable housing basically is robbing taxpayers Point Blank period because
developers end up owning the property and doing whatever they want to whomever still getting the tax breaks they look for the loopholes and now guess what your community is not one level better so if we're going to talk about housing let's talk about affordable home
ownership let's have that conversation unfortunately I can't make Thursday but I'll definitely be able to you know because I have an NAACP meeting on that evening so I'm already booked and last but not least I want to encourage every person in the sound of my voice and
every person that may see this online if you're having a police interaction at any level ask for the badge number and the name of that officer they are required to give it to you so that we can only without information we we don't know if we got a
pattern of problematic individuals that you all may need to deal with so I want to encourage everyone and definitely I want you to encourage encourage you all to promote that as well because again you don't stop it by just saying let we'll look at it we'll investigate it and we'll come back and
see later because if we're not identifying who those individuals are and making sure we make the proper notation of that we'll never be able to get to the root cause of the issues and the actions in this in the city and this community thank you thank you Mr Ford uh
Mr Dean oh sorry Miss Dean Sorry Miss Dean yeah no problem that was my Sor good evening good evening welcome I'm up here to talk about this weekend I lost my son on March 17th
condolences and and I called and spoke to Sergeant Corgan about um a escort from Mary Missionary Baptist Church and he said that they didn't do that anymore but he told me to reach out
to Sweetwater in the city of Miami but at that point um the funeral home which is Paradise in Richmond Heights told me that they were hander it so they did they took care of it but on
Thursday night as my family was coming in we were sitting out there playing music the volume probably was like one or two% because we didn't have to scream over each other to talk the radio was real low and it's 530 in the
afternoon um we were talking and then all of a sudden we seen all the police is coming up with the flash so we sto there for a minute and then I seen them jump out their car at that point I got up and went to the gate and said may I help you they saidwell we
got a call saying that the music is too loud I said well you all are here do y'all hear the music no we don't hear the music but we got to do our job we got to call we got to come out and check it I said okay so they
left they comes back again the music still at the same volume and everybody just sitting around grieving we were grieving because my son son death was not planned he was on an operation table when he
died and he went in just for coughing up blood so at that point my whole family was just tore up so um after that day the next day
they come back again so I'm like well what's going on you can't even grieve in your own neighborhood we live at my mom house we've been there since 1970 and I'm still in South Miami I'm not at her house but my house is on 68th
Street in my own house but that's where we celebrate that's where my son is he's there every day with her so at that point my Mama come out want to know what's going on why the officers keep coming we're just grieving nobody wasn't
smoking anything everybody was on the sidewalk just communicating family was study coming in and I told the officer I said if y'all coming out for these people that's on this street now and the whole block was loaded with cars I said
wait till Friday I'm going to have over 200 family members here and it was and the funeral was to 200 plus people that's just how big my family is so the thing is that we need to get these
offices together when people are grieving they don't need to be intimidated by these officers you know you you come up and tell them to stand on the sidewalk don't stand in a road everybody is grown broad daylight you can't stand in
the streets ain't no cars coming I just want this to be on record they really need to do something because if they did it to my family they going to do it to somebody else and thank you okay thank you our condolences again ma'am Ann Hoffman I if you've spoken yet good
evening good evening welcome um I live very close to the empty lot at 66th Avenue and 80th Street and I understand I couldn't make it the last time so it's supposed to be addressed at this one right yes ma'am if
you if you'd like to uh we're going to have a public hearing in conjunction with that item I'm going to call it up here fairly shortly I think there's two items where we have applicants here okay so if you'd like to speak when we bring the item up I'll recognize you that time okay thank you and I think also have Mr Jason Lopez on the same subject yeah
okay so great anyone else in public comment this evening see no one yes ma'am yes you're recognized hello Tiffany Irving again 6111 Southwest 69th Street South L Florida 33143 um I understand that these are
public comments for recording and that you are accepting our concerns do we evoke Robert's Ruth of order in these meetings so how how do we understand what actions will be
presented and move forward with the commentary that is being provided I understand that um the city manager talked about doing a walkthrough of the Park area how do we know that these actions are going to be acted so do we need to make a motion um from the
community pers perspective to do that no ma'am we uh the Motions get made up here but we certainly have the manator has I think uh we've worked together for a while I think the manator stands when we ask a question we typically want to see some followup so I'm sure with respect to the Community Park issue he'll work
with Mr Po to uh assess the area and come back with a recommendation as to how we can improve it on the issues with police we will follow up I know we had another item as Vickers mentioned about parking so CU there's several every everyone and we'll have minutes that are reduced in writing by our clerk so those
will get reviewed as well so we we will have follow-up action on these items to the extent that you're interested any particular one please let us know we're happy to keep you updated on what's being done more importantly interested in the protection and the safety of our citizens of South Miami but also the fact that I do agree and please if we
can keep com sorry ma'am if we can please refrain from speaking in Chambers because we can't hear the speaker here at the microphone I'd appreciate it thank you you yes ma'am thank you for your politeness that we are concerned that I I don't have kids I I am a sister to a York
quite frankly but I have God children Galore and um we want them to have appropriate places where they can play and interact and not have to go to Dante facel not have to go to Tropical Park in order to be able to interact and I did
see because I do walk I'm trying to exercise my health and wealth um that the swing was missing which was an intricate part of me growing up in that area and that CAC that everyone is talking about and it is a desolate empty
space and wondering what is going to be done to beautify the area I see a nice conversion um play that's there but it's the only thing that's there um quite frankly so my concern is about that as well but making sure that the
citizens of South Miami long longstanding old and young are protected and they are being hurt but also wanting to make sure that when we speak in these areas and it's just not speaking that we are heard and there
are actions that are being presented and the only way I know that actions are presented is through Roberts R order and a motion yes yes sir you recognize I I think that one of the things that we do and try to reach out to the community as much as we can is give our phone numbers
office hours I meet with countless residents and we talk about issues we come up with action plans we come up with meetings we we have goals oriented and we move and execute on a lot of these type of programs so I really tell
the community everybody to get involved by giving us a call coming to our office meetings and just having a chat so we understand and come up with a plan so coming up with the plan is verbal what are we putting in writing so it's in force we need to come up with a
plan ma' so if I may just reclaim the claim the the gabble um on with respect to the items that were raised as I mentioned I think the manager knows has our direction as do Mr riveral and the parks director um we don't we do not act with that level formality except when
there's an action item that's on the agenda so he has our Direction at a future managers report which we get every meeting I'm sure he will update us on the items that were're discussed today and how they're being dispensed with and I have no doubt that all of my colleagues will have an interest in any
number of the items that were discussed I certainly will be following up as I have with the police chief on these police items and uh you know we will have we will ask for individual reports that we can share with the community as well man okay okay thank thank you for your time let me let me okay Mr mckeny gotten up and then
I'll recognize you again M Wills yes sir just wanted to make this important announcement uh the Marshall Williamson uh scholarship is available um it started uh last week and the due date is the 25th of this month
the scholarship is for anybody that wants to go to trade school that lives within the city limits or college and I um want people to take advantage of this please so it's available right now online or you can get flyers from the
community center okay thank you for that reminder Miss Wells evening my request will be brief Shante Wells 6102 Southwest 68th Street Marshall Williamson's area um I'd like
to go on record and request for you all to remove the signs that you did at per our request initially so that it can be returned to the way that it was prior to them being erected the problem was solved the parking Department was never
involved in it it was something that the mayor's office did with Parks and Recreation just to to help us as residents the other side of the park where there's parking it you as you'll see there are no signs because there is
not enough parking for those areas and our residents are primarily seniors so it's always been included in that so we're just simply asking for you all to remove the signs and return it to the way it was okay thank you anyone else who like to address this
commission I see no one else in the chambers Madam clerk is there anyone online anyone on Zoom please raise your virtual hand no okay so we'll close public remarks uh colleagues I think we have two application items uh that we have
may have people waiting for here in the audience why don't we take up um item eight on first reading uh which I believe is the Mander Lane parcel uh so Madam clerk if you could please read item eight for the record
yes item eight in ordinance of the mayor City Commission of the city of South qua amending the zoning map of the city of South Miami to change the zoning District of the property located at 6540 man lane from duplex residential rt6 to townhouse residential rt18 thank you uh
Mr manager is there a presentation by staff or yes Mr City attorney yes may I read the quasa judicial you may and uh mayor this would apply to items four and eight on this evening's agenda item four is a final plat application item eight is first reading of a resoning order
uh the clerk has read the title of the resolution uh prior to the to the public hearing on each the public hearing will include presentations by staff and the applicant and public comment the commission may ask any questions either before or after public comment is closed following public comment the commission may deliberate on the item the Quasi
quasi judicial procedures require the commission to consider the evidence presented to it and base its decision on the applicable law and primarily on the evidence presented whether by the applicant staff or members of the public the staff report in the resolution provide the applicable law and criteria for approval of the final pla in item
four uh and section 20- 4.2 of the Land Development code with item eight which uh you're going to hear first uh this is the first of two readings of the ordinance uh to consider the applicant's request to reone the property the criteria to consider is section 20- 5.7
and generally uh the consistency of The Proposal with the comprehensive plan and the compatibility with the surrounding area uh the evidence considered must be substantial confidence competent evidence this means testimony or other evidence based on personal observation or relevant expert testimony the
reasonable mind would accept as adequate to support a conclusion it is not a popularity contest it cannot be based solely on non-expert opinions no matter how fervent those opinions might be uh anyone who seeks to speak on an item should be given an opportunity to speak during the public comment portion of each hearing if you intend to provide
testimony on either items four and8 uh you should be sworn in before your testimon is taken please know if you do speak you may be subject to cross- examination if you refuse either to be cross-examined or to be sworn your testimony will be considered in that context and given its due weight the general public will not be permitted to cross-examine Witnesses but the public
May request the commission to direct questions on their behalf to either staff or the applicant at this time if you wish to speak on either items four or eight I'd ask that you please stand and raise your right hand okay so please stand for items four and eight and raise your right hand be sworn please if you intend to speak okay thank you do you
swear a firm to tell the truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth thank you thank you please be seated uh Madame clerk uh can you confirm that the advertising and notice requirements for these two hearings were complied with yes they were thank you madam Clerk and then last uh order of business mayor uh mayor and
Commissioners uh have any of you had any expart Communications with the applicant or any member of the public either for or against either item I've had none no okay everyone said no mayor thank you very much okay thank you sir for that disclosure uh with that um I guess we
have a presentation from staff on item eight to start good evening hi good it's Marcus life with the city of South Miami on behalf of the city we have C J Don and Associates or our consultant who reviewed his
application here Mr Craig Pender is here to give a presentation on the item thank you Mr leer Mr Pender you're recognized thank you good evening mayor and Commissioners again my name is Craig Fender senior planner with Cal Calvin gordano and Associates and tonight I will be presenting the application for
6540 minor Lane for the request to resume the property so on your screen now you can see the location map on the left side of your screen showing that the property is located next to Southwest 66th Avenue um Southwest 80th Street to the South and
Manan to the north so the corre for you is to amend the city's zoning map to resum the property from rt6 which is suplex residential to rt18 which is townhouse residential the property is
approximately 0.38 acres in size or just a little bit over a third of an acre or approximately 1652 28 square feet and the current land use is residential so on the left of your
screen is the existing future land use map showing the existing future land use designation and on the right of your screen is the zoning District showing the zoning District map showing the existing zoning District so the property is currently excuse me the property
currently has a future land use designation of townhouse residential to the north is single family residential to the South is the Metro Rail RightWay with Miami day County to the east is SLE family
residential and the Metro Rail RightWay and to the South sorry and to the West is business office for the zoning District as mentioned earlier it is currently zoned as duplex residential which is rt6 RS3 is located to the north which is
low density residential gu General use with Miami day County to the South RS3 and gu to the East and R which is residential office to the West so the property had to meet six a
total of six review criteria which include multiple properties City initiated application intergovernmental notice resuming reapplication application requirements neighborhood awareness and the application did meet all of the review
criteria in addition the application request is consistent with the following comprehensive plan goals objectives and policies including the future land use goal one along with the objective 1.1 and policy
1.1.3 future land use goal six along with the objective 6.1 and policy 6.1.1 and housing goal one and the policy 1.1.1 so for the proposed zoning District what exactly will it do for the
property how will it affect the property it will increase the maximum density and the allowable height so specifically the density will increase from six dwelling units per acre to 18 dwelling units per acre and what that means for the site is
that the potential maximum number of units to be built that can be built on the site will increase from two dwelling units to a potential maximum of six dwelling units the applicant has provided a conceptual plan that proposes
a total of six dwelling units and and I must stress that the plan is conceptual and it will have to go through the city's design review board prior to building permit approval so that site plan is not being approved through this action tonight the maximum allowable height
will increase from 25 ft or two stories to a maximum of 40 ft or three stories and the conceptual site planine submitted by the applicant proposes two stories with a main roof height indicated at 31 ft
so on your screen is an example of the conceptual site plan you can see there are six units there are there will be parking accommodated on site a total of believe 12 parking spaces five of those being garage spaces for five of the
units and also a proposal for some on street parking but it's important to note that all of the required parking can be accommodated on site based on this conceptual site planine sorry Mr pend is the in looking at these plans it's a question does the on street parking
actually work geometrically there it looks it looks I mean does not look to fit as its outlined there seems to be that the spaces would encroach into the travel Lane right so again this is the conceptual site plan and that will be fully vetted through the um riew
process but that is a valid question so thank you so the S recommendation is for the city Commission to approve the requested application to amend the zoning the official zoning map to reone the 6540
minor Lane address from duplex residential rt6 to town residential rt18 the planning board sorry the meeting went before the planning board on March 11th and received unanimous approval with the recommendation that
the conceptual plan be updated to demonstrate all of the required parking on site which was demonstrated with the plan that I showed earlier and with that I am available for questions as well as um marus colleagues
questions of staff and our consultant you have any questions ma'am Chris would you recognized thank you I I see that the planning board had the exact same question as our mayor but I find it interesting that
that was March 11th we're here in April it still hasn't been addressed other than to say that well remember the site the site plan is not binding so but but I find it I I I find it curious that we're still then seeing this come to us for six townhouse units that we would be
approving kind of on the it feels to me almost like on the Fly am I am I wrong I mean do you am I the only one that feels this way you follow up if if you can let let the City attorney who wants to say something let I'll recognize him if he want to add something or you I was really going to suggest you may want to
hear from the applicants see if they can address so yeah let's just let's ask questions to staff's recommendation first any questions about staff's recommendation sir well I just wanted to understand what the parking requirement what actually was because I wasn't sure I think I think he stated that the parking requirement is met with a parking provided on site so it's the I
think there's five garage spaces and then six or seven spaces correct so the on street parking does not require it's it's it's two spaces for each unit is my understanding from what I read the staff report and they're providing 12 on site and I were proposed on that on this
conceptual site plan for on street is that correct correct yes okay thank you no problem if you can go back in your presentation to um the land use criteria used for approval I think it was the last sheet I had a question about that um if you can go forward one slide
oh forward sorry there you go perfect so so how how does this particular project Advance housing goal number one CU that that goal speaks to Affordable units is there representation these units are going to be affordable so specifically this is this
is the goal within the comprehensive plan but it meets the policy below which is to utilize the future land use plan and zoning map to assure diversity of housing types so you are getting a townhouse product which is another
housing type within the city okay so specifically for affordable housing not to my understanding but it is set up that way to um um reflect your comprehensive plan on the presentation thank you for that further
questions sorry just to go back on the on the parking so it's two parking spaces per per unit correct so are these seven parking spaces I I guess I would call the east side of the property those are part of the project no they are yes
okay plus the five individual uh parking uh garages why do you need that on street parking for you you do not need the on street parking to meet the parking requirement they're showing I'm imagining they're showing it because they want there the possibility of having additional parking to service the
development on Street correct the required parking is met with I believe with the proposed garage spaces and the surface parking spaces property okay yeah I was just wondering why yes that's correct and another reason why on street
parking may be desired is to also help facilitate any guests that may visit the I'll future unit owners Mr Le yes to answer commissioner Rodriguez question this the zon district for rt18 when it was amended uh last year they
added a provision for properties that are 5,000 to 12,000 fet in site that they provide on street park or accessory dwelling units or location of required spaces so that could be a reason why there's on Street Park shown in in the conceptual plan I'm sorry in in the conceptual plan I didn't see any adus
was I mistaken well they made may not be there but that that okay understand the I understand the explanation that might be a reason why okay thank you sir we'll let them we'll let them we'll let them clarify that point I'm sure okay any further questions of Staff seeing none we will hear from the applicant then we
will open up the matter for public hearing okay is there here so someone here behalf of the applicant good evening good evening and thank you mayor commission and staff uh my name is Nicholas font represent representative for the African SOI
underline with 6540 Manor Lane um thank you very much for the presentation um so we are here obviously asking for a resoning to rt18 to bring us in line with the longstanding uh future land use
of town townhouse town home residential um our intent is to provide a a housing product or housing product type uh that is not necessarily AB in abundance Within the city of South Miami um that
is our our goal here um regarding the uh parking uh that and the question that was asked um the intent behind the on street parking we were actually under the impression that the city would uh would be looking for that um based off
the uh staff recommendation uh or comments um uh from the planning uh board we have uh offered to provide a Covenant regarding uh the two parking spaces per unit on site and remove uh
that onstream parking uh regarding any other design questions we also sorry so just to clarify there's there's Mr has a covenant been proferred formally so it has been uh they have been working on a covenant they have not uh formally proferred a signed version
of it but I think they they intend to speak about it and we'll have it ready for for second reading I want to speak for them thank yes okay the the intent was um to to obviously provide that especially at the time for uh obviously site plan approval when we
when we came for that um based off um I'm sorry based off uh zoning boards CS anything further Mr F good evening thank you for the opportunity heavier font also something
underline um so two quick things the Covenant that we will be profing is to provide at least two parking spaces on site per unit to limit the height of the Town Homes to two stories as opposed to the
three stories that's allowed under the current zoning or the rt18 zoning and we would be more than happy to profer that we will not build the parking spaces on street we do not prefer the parking spaces on street if you look at the design that we have done we have
purposely tried to create the best Street Front that we can right so we've done the little Stoops in front of the Town Homes we've done the little front yard we're stepping them up uh two or three feet just to give it that great feel um so if we could get that area
that is shown us parking today as Landscaping we would definitely prefer that so um and we also think that this plan having one way in with all the parking sort of behind the uh the units works a lot better than if you were to
have your typical duplex with you know three or four cars backing up into the street from the front of the house so we we think that this is a much nicer Urban um infill than than a couple duplexes would be there so thank you very much any questions we'd Happ you to address
sh you recognized um I'm not sure if it's required or not just a request is it condo or is it going to be sold individually or you just it's going to be rentals I I think at this point thinking rentals further questions can we help you with
that do you want the site plan back on the monitor if you could please uh put the site plan back up John if you can if you can speak into the microphone ma'am thank you I appreciate it why speak to all of you when I could just speak to the here I am trying to figure out these parking
spaces and this back road that would access all of these garages concerned about impacts the neighbor exactly so I think where exactly is it in regards to the next door neighbor it it does happen um so this is a very tricky property um
in that as we know it's a it's a pretty busy corner right there's no way you're coming in off of US1 and the and the um underline right there's no way to come in off of a OT so whatever access you
have will come in off of um the the Eastern or the Western street right 66 so um we have had conversations with the neighbor about the uh the driveway there um and we do feel that one point of
access is much better than having as I said before a condition that you typically get when you do these smaller Lots on the busiest streets Bird Road Coral Way where you've got the traffic backing up into the the drive and it also happens along 67th Aven in in some
places we realize that you know we've got commercial to the south of us we've got an office building to the um west of us we've got us one to the east of us so it's you know we we think this is a very
nice transitional product between US1 the Metro obviously is a is a big impact on this particular property we think it's it's a good transition from us one you know North to the to the residential pares
so sorry does that answer your question so the answer is the driveway to and all the parking spots AB but to the neighbor so it the I think the driveway ABS the neighbor I think the parking is oriented south and east into that corner into the corner so I when I when I looked at this
one of my concerns and we'll have some more conversation one my concerns was evening access and headlights and so obviously this this of of the orientations that I could try to figure out this at least had the more
optimal effect of orienting headlights back towards the RightWay as opposed to directly east into the abing home but we can have some more conversation about that further question to the applicant okay Mr F we'll get back to you okay let's go ahead and open up the
public hearing um if there's anyone who would like to address this Commission on item eight this is a public hearing please come forward at this time I had my sign in sheet Miss Hoffman would you like to address us on this item now and then Mr Lopez thank
you good evening man for name and address to record one more time thank you my name is Ann Hoffman I live at 6611 Southwest 79th Street I can see that property from my front
driveway um frequently the cars stack up trying to get out to 80th Street and they're stacked up way past 66th Avenue even past 67th Avenue
sometimes my question is okay first of all has this been approved this change of zoning no ma'am that's that's what's before us tonight and we'll be before us again on second reading one more time so we'll have a second public hearing on this item as well I'm sorry the in order
for the zoning to be approved it has to be approved twice today is an initial vote with the public hearing and there'll be a second vote next month to discuss the same application again and hear from the public on it as well okay and the vote is with you all yes ma'am
and not the community and it requires I believe four affirmative votes correct four out of five four out of five right no I'm sorry three out of five my apologies only three out of five three out of five okay three out of five tonight four out of five on second reading okay sorry so um I heard you all
discussing the parking and um then I Wonder has the issue of the congestion in that area because I do live across the street from a very busy office
building so um has that been addressed at all the um the traffic situation and the fact that if it's 18 and there's six units what does that so theoretically what that means the designation would
allow 18 units an acre this is about a third of an acre a third of an acre and therefore no more than six units could be built what the site plan they're showing us say six has six units on it I want to go on record opposing okay change in zoning um I I would question
why it would be needed to change the zoning there um that lot has been empty since I bought my house in 2000 so that's 25 years um I understand they'd like to
develop it uh it makes sense to use it for something I mean we walk our dogs on it sometimes but um it seems like there is a move toward uh maximizing profits over
um the city of pleasant living right the idea of living being Pleasant because when you have traffic stacked up and you can't move you can't get in or out of your residence that's not really Pleasant
living is it so what would be the reason is it just the revenue it's just they're going to make money who else makes money uh the city makes money is it just that or do
we talk about uh quality of life quality of living in in the neighborhood so um what's what's the reason for needing six anyone I think we
this is not an application that we are sponsoring as a city it's being brought forward by a private party um I believe that owns the property and so that's the right to make the request question the the question I would have for you if I may while I have you here is between zero which is there
today and six which is what they're asking for is there some level of development you think would be appropriate on that site yeah I think I I I I I had thought when this property was at one point in receivership that would be a great thing for us to try to acquire as a park unfortunately that did
not happen so so knowing that that's not in the realm of what we can do today I would ask you as a neighbor between nothing that is you know yeah at times I drive by it is poorly maintained on occasion right yes uh and something what would be
the something that you could think would would would make for a harmonious existence well I think the current zoning that allows for what one or two just two un just two units yeah two two units okay so that would be acceptable I
think for two units there um but anything that you put there is going to increase the traffic so just the bigger uh you know the more spread out um the
higher um is not optimal because of the congestion that already is there and also because of things like Beauty trees for instance um okay so thank you thank you for Mr Lopez you're
recognized hello Jason Lopez 7730 Southwest 65th Place I've lived in South Miami most of my life I grew up here um it seems to me that you guys have two neighborhoods asking you to control the development in front of you um pretty
it's pretty clear here that the residences are the residents the people that live in the residential neighborhoods are struggling with the folks that are coming in trying to make a dollar off of us that was very clear in the previous conversations we heard and I can tell you that in my
neighborhood this proposal that was put up is not taking into account my actual neighborhood uh it's it's taking into account a bunch of lawyers speak and a bunch of stuff on paper that people can make money off um it's the entrance to
my neighborhood it's always been there the plan that they're proposing is going to cut everyone one of those trees down but both Royals which are as old as the city of Miami probably uh all four mango trees are going to go Point Sienna is going to go and then most of all it's
dangerous they're going to be putting up this monstrosity on a corner and I was very glad to see that they took the parking off of that that initial road on the back side as you enter man Lane because the previous proposal they had had six driveways backing up but now
it's all going to the back of that property when you build a two and a half story building because remember they're raising it up for it to look better uh you are going to be creating a blind spot around that corner on Manor Lane and I can tell you living there now it's
already dangerous uh Rush Hour comes both directions we have people piling through there and so this facility is going to make so that it's not going to be 12 cars it's going to be 18 cars this is Miami it's a three-bedroom house
could be 22 cars we don't even know now they're going to end up parking on the street it's it's not a safe place to park it has never been used for parking people used to park further on the interior of the property but since that sidewalk was put in it's no longer used
for parking for the Professional Center and so I imagine the trash trucks that come by all of the different services that are going to be included in this property are not taking into account the actual flow of the space uh I respect
that they want to make money but but it is our neighborhood and it is an entrance they're saying it's keeping with the neighborhood it's a single family residential neighborhood that they're entering into and they're getting by on a technicality because there's a professional Center across the way this is the entrance to single
family residential neighborhood and I realize city of South Miami needs to make more Revenue but there is a middle ground this thing that's being proposed is greedy and it's not taking the residents into account I ask that you consider the residents in your decision
making thank you Mr Lopez is there anyone else who like to address this Commission on item number eight yes sir you're recognized come forward Jim Des Shane I'm also Jim if I can get your address as well for the record please thank you pardon me if I can get your address for the record
please yeah 6611 Southwest 79th Street thank you sir yeah I uh would like to make a plea for your uh understanding in the fact that this is all just a residential neighborhood there's kids and carts people walking
their dogs all over the place it's a sweet neighborhood and it's all residential and they want to put this thing up there you know is you know for a money based money maker and it's going to affect you know
the safety they got a we've got a stop sign on 79th and manner they just blow through that thing it is just it is the the it's just a decoration it's dangerous enough there it's a cut through you know they cut through you
know manners of cut through thing traffic is bad it's dangerous enough already you know um you know people on bikes it's residential you know put a two unit thing there you know it's it's
it's not healthy for the neighborhood and it's a sweet neighborhood just you know it's just doesn't make sense you know just common sense you know I'm eating there out to make some money you
know so and everybody El else's expense I mean none of the residents want that there of course who would want that there you know so I just you know that's my feeling on it thank you
sir appreciate it sure is there anyone else from the public who' like to speak on on this item if so please come forward Miss Wells good evening shant Wells 6102 Southwest 68th Street um I will reiterate on record my concern with this
type of zoning because I feel as though if you all move forward with this this is going to Now set the Precedence for you guys to do the exact same thing that's being proposed on our side and I do not want to see that happen this is supposed to be the city of pleasant Liv
living we are an All-American City and the quality of life matters the heat index matters we don't need to increase the capacity like I am definitely someone that is pro business I'm Pro money but not at the expense of the safety and I've been through the I've
went to lutam elementary school so I go to Big Cheese like this is an area many of the residents we we all go through and we you can't like unsee like the the concern and the safety um issue that's going to be about like he said they people BL blow right through that stop
sign it's like a a suggestion and I'm my concern is that we're not fully taken into account what us as the residents those of us who have been here and our families have built the city and invested in the city please do not turn
this into a concrete jungle please do not all our city to be overdeveloped thank you thank you no no clapping if you want to show some support you can raise your hands and shake them thank you okay uh anyone else who'd like to address this
commission anyone on Zoom please raise your virtual hand okay seeing no one else in the chamber and no else online we will close the public hearing uh colleagues any discussion you recognize sir me May yeah go ahead
sir look the quality the quality of our neighborhoods are all integral of what we're trying to go do you know I think that we're all trying to protect our neighborhoods from a little bit of expansion here and there I think Miami
day County and Miami and South Florida has suffered a lot with the amount of demand that we've gotten down here right so what happens when we have so much demand the prices go up it gives the ability of people getting priced out right this is a tricky situation because
you're literally right next to a business center a re you know an office building that has during the day crazy amount of parking I my kids go there to have orthodontist appointments it is non-stop but there's already par there's already parking issue
there I think the city I think I think we should welcome the ability of having more Neighbors in specific and smart areas Be Welcome to our city um we're talking about a difference of two units versus six
units in that corner the traffic is not going to be crazy more amount because of those four extra units the traffic that's already going through is coming from the south it's not something that we're controlling right we already do a decent you know
decent enough job of enforcement there no no left turns trying to make sure it's hard as possible for traffic to get through there um I do agree with the concrete jungle I we're all not big fans historically on the record we do not
love trees being cut down so I will try to make sure that we work with the architect to make sure we keep as much landscape and treescape especially the mature trees in place if we need to be moved then we'll figure that out but those are the three comments I really wanted to touch to because I think that
we're we're struggling as a South Florida you know Community not just South Miami but a community in general where you know we want to protect but then we get upset when prices go up and people get priced out and people leave we have to find a balance this is
a very specific lot that might cater to that so you know that's my opinion particular on this particular lot for the comments Comm Rodriguez did you have something mam commissioner you
recognize I'm I'm having a hard time with this I continue to look at this one way and the other and any way I look at it I I can't make it work in my head I'm
looking at six units that feel like they're crammed into that property when I look at the impervious space I just see I mean I understand
it's not the shape of a diamond but I see essentially the shape of you know whatever that is where it has a little strip of grass a little strip of grass a little strip of grass um I'm not sure if I'm reading this zoning chart properly when it's saying that each dwelling unit
is going to be 2754 Square fet I don't know if I'm reading that correctly Marcus correct me if I'm wrong please um if you know or the developers if you know
um it it just I I think we might be looking at an unintended consequence of a zoning change and I'm sorry I I know your first name but I don't know your last name
Shanti Shanti and and she she continues to bring it up and there's while I might not agree 100% with what you're saying there's a kernel of that that continues to stick with me and when I see this it's what I think
then there's I feel like we're trying to fit Square pegs into round holes in on some of these properties and and this is one of those for me and I think it's great that they want to stick to two stories instead of three it
it is in character with the area I you know the shifts and grooves that the developer is talking about wanting to make simply makes it agreeable with the rest of the area but I I think there's some work to
be done here and I I wouldn't want to be the one to say what that is I just know that the way it is right now doesn't work for me like there's seven parking spaces they don't fit we'll figure it out there's not this we'll figure it out I I can't do
that Rodriguez so I guess um again I'm I'm like like mayor bonich I'm I'm mayor oh sorry sorry I meant to say vice mayor yeah um commissioner uh
bonish um I'm trying to see how how it fixed and I mean I'm I'm in I'm in the world of construction I understand and I also understand what commissioner Kai is saying I'm also thinking that you know
in other areas in our in our city we use this Con a concept of town homes to separate the commercial district from the residential district as a buffer so that's how the whole City's playing we're doing it in downtown we're looking
at 62nd Avenue and The Brownstone concept is actually what we're trying to to to get from from a lot of these Builders or people who want to who own these properties that of the product that they're trying to put
together um so I understand I understand the neighbors and and and the residents of of what you're saying you know the stop signs I I I don't see and trust me I've I've walked this I've I I know the the
how everybody walks their dogs and how everything it it goes in in this neighborhood the concept to again I I say it again the concept that we're doing this is not just for this lot this is something that we are trying to use
Town Homes you know to avoid buildings and avoid a concrete jungle we're not trying to do buildings these are twostory town homes where where two story the developer says that they were going to two stories so what you see here will be less is there work to be
done well this is not the final product I I think in my opinion also the trees you I do agree we have some of these trees that have been there for a while in C in in the in the footprint of the building there's no way those trees are
staying there I mean it's just logical you know so what is it what what can we do can we relocate it to the to the back of the property to give shade I don't know I I I just I'm in I'm in I'm in the place where I I the
product is what again what we're looking for to buffer into the the residential areas I mean that's what we're trying to do with with town homes or someone buys us and tries to do do a building you know that that would
be worse right exactly so I just think it needs to be worked I think I think the owner of the property the architect needs to work this out show us where the trees are going to go fix the parking of what you're going to
do bring it down to the two stories and and and and give us what this because this is not what we're looking at right now is not going to be what they're going to apply or submit so we we would I don't know I I I I would need to see something before we I proceed with
um changing the zoning okay so so from my perspective um you know I I ran with the idea that we would grow around our town center right our our downtown nether transit station so I'm a big believer in growth and
doing whatever we can to drive development there because I think that's where it's most appropriate with these applications I see the opportunity the applicant is asking us to kind of walk down the road with them on but I share the trepidation of a lot of the neighbors because it's a transitional area where uh a rezoning without any
commitments certainly portends a lot of negative things right um it's the same way I feel colleagues when we talked about the area south of 74 Street we were talking about the rezoning for the Town Center while we know a lot of good things could come from that possible growth the
possibility for conflicts there are very real with single family residential neighborhoods and I kind of feel that this property um is the same way I I always imagined that this would have been re redeveloped with a small um you know something like an a small office building two stories at the site that
would have seemed to me to be the obvious development I think Town Homes here could work what gives me the most discomfort about the applications it's presented is it's not presented with a site plan and just like I had mentioned before in that other area south of downtown I would love to I'd love for us to consider rezonings when there's a site
plan in front of us so that we have a sense that we're not just approving the resoning but a project that actually functionally works on the property so I think you know um you I I I want to commend the team I know the people that are I know the people yes I I'll recognize you like let me just finish
these comments I know that Mr font and font family and the team that are here M Le Point are good people they are well intentioned I frankly like the design aesthetic that you are moving towards I mean it's just the French Village project Justin High Pines the very nice aesthetic it could complement the single
family there but what I don't see here is a commitment to doing it right there you are you've made representations that there would be a covenant to be proferred um but I think there are a lot of conflicts still with preserving canopy that we don't understand based on this conceptual site plan um there may be a better balance to be struck in
terms of the total number of units you know be some something shy of six would be better suited to you know integrate with the balance of the neighborhood so what I think would probably the most prudent thing for my perspective because I think I I I you know I saw Mr Lopez shake his head in the back there when I
saw the site uh come onto the market a few months ago my thought was God that would be a great a great site for us to pick up have the bond we we didn't have the bond approved to do it so we didn't have the capacity we don't have the capacity to do it but I would have loved if this happen 12 months from now 18 months from now would have been one of the first things I'd want to pick up by
way of land acquisition that's not the world I'm living in so but I think the current zoning clearly is inadequate because something would have happened here in the last 25 years if some someone could make the economics work around the land cost with two units I don't think that's reasonable but what I
think would probably be the best thing for us to do and Mr fwn if you're meable I I would like to move to defer of this item maybe for 30 days and allow the team to maybe work on a a binding development concept have some conversations with the neighbors and see if we can get to a site to an approval
of a site plan with you know with the resoning so that you know or at least a proferred covenant to a site plan so when we if we approve a resoning we know that what we're getting in exchange from and the neighbors have a sense that there's a commitment being made around the product that's going to be developed
there so those are my thoughts colleagues I don't disagree with what you just said I just in in the character of being fair you know the transitions spots that we've always spoken about between business and and residential having the opportunity to have these
opportunities these opportunities to have these type of homes in this place fits this character here right we we were doing it throughout all South Miami in very specific areas very smartly put in places that we think the transitions
apply Manor Lane historically has always had the transition between residential homes on the North side and businesses apartments on the South Side all across Manor Lane there are some few homes obviously on the south side of that but historically it's been there right so
this this does not for me completely out of character with the area um I'm a big fan of green I'm a big fan of keeping our residential it's just this specific spot fits the character commissioner I don't I don't disagree with that observation I I think that it's it's
again I don't disagree with your no the geometry of the site in particular makes the execution of the project more challenging than than a square rectangle right I think here you know the you know I think you know to the applicant's credit I think it seems it sounds like because I haven't seen a
prior site plan they've evolved the site plan to bring you know the traffic to the back of the lot I mean when I looked at this again without the benefit of talking to one my first thought was okay people are going to access a site what are the conflicts going to be in terms of lights lights headlights right are we
going to be basically setting up parking so it's facing uh the homes to the east clearly it seems like they thought through some of those conflicts and they've adjusted the site plan accordingly but I think there are some access and circulation some functionality issues that probably worth exploring I think there's there's reason
for the neighbors to have some consternation about what's here my consternation comes from the fact that there's just not a binding site plan you know I think if we if I had product that was designed at two stories you know maybe something less than six units that kind of address these conflicts that
that had for me a survey res survey and said here's how we've mitigated the conflicts to preserve the canopy I would feel much more comfortable approving the rezoning but I don't we don't have that information right now we're being asked right now on first reading is to adopt a reasoning without any commitments I know
there been there have been representations about future propers uh I look forward to those I I would think you know again I don't know if if there was three votes to support it tonight if there's not my preference would be rather than send a well-intended uh developer away it sounds like
development team away let's give him a chance to kind of work on some of the issues and bring something back that you know strikes a better balance yes ma'am I would urge the right side of the day to seriously consider the mayor because as it stands right now I would
be a no vote if we don't vote to defer so if that helps doesn't help you guys make a decision I just I said I I I said I think we need I think the the developer needs to work this and bring it back
with the two stories not three stories show an actual depiction of what's going to happen maybe maybe six doesn't work maybe five works where are the trees going to go like like the mayor said an actual site plan showing us what it is
you know again like Mr K said and like uh like commissioner K said and like we've said our our our looking our our look to transition from commercial to residential we've always spoken about the town home's product because it's
residential it's smaller and it it doesn't impose on you like a building wood because if we put there an office building three four stories with lighting all over their parking you know you're not going to like that because
that's going to just at night you're just going to have these these these parking lights you know dwelling over your house so this is is a is a much calmer nicer looking possibly increased property
value but at the same you know so there are things we need to work out but as of right now the way it stands right now I I think the developer needs to go and just provide us a site plan show us where things are going to go and and and bring us what's actually going to be there so Mr font you wanted to be recognized to say something if you'd
like the opportunity let you add a few comments to the record sir thank you again and if there's any way that I can ask if we can put back the land used plan that that was up there before so um first to address the
Commissioners no the L use plan that one right there okay so first to address the commissioner's concern we would be happy to defer um the application we're you know here to work with staff and with neighbors um you
know I have been I'm not a resident of South Miami today because I've moved a little further south but I grew up in South Miami from the time I was I don't know eight years old and till I moved out of my parents house after college so you know it's it's a a city that I've
been in a long time and I wanted we want to do something correct and right and we are Architects um so we do want to put out a product that we could be proud of and the city can be proud of if you look at the plan on the left hand side and I know you it doesn't show below us but
everything below us is dat County and it is a commercial zoning and I am sure that that property which is a beautiful corner piece right is going to end up being some rtz development at that point right um if you look the office building
which is in the sort of purplish color um and then look at the orange that you see there that's not something that we've done to Accent the property that is the land use that has been with the property since day one so somebody a long time ago said this is a transition
piece this is a piece that needs a little more density than the yellow to the north of it right it is a transition piece as commissioner Cay pointed out so we do feel that this property deserves a little more than a duplex the city did
not have a zoning in place at the time to accommodate that it does today we think it's a great product for the city we've seen it go down the street on the day County side and how successful that has been and how popular that product is um and that's what we would like to
bring to the city we're more than happy to work with staff to get this to the point where we've got all the parking on site which we do now we to take off the parking below um and to keep it to two stories we will work um and we have to mitigate whatever trees we we take right
so obviously as as you all know that's a huge process we we find out how big the trees are what we need to take down we need to replace them with a certain amount of canopy etc etc and we're happy to do so because that will benefit the property as well so hopefully that address some of the concerns that you
guys have and we're happy to defer this for another 30 days okay so I think the defer would be to uh date certain which would be our first meeting in May do we have a date for that meeting May 6 May 6 is that acceptable it is okay and again if you could speak to a couple of the neighbors and you know obviously evolve
the Evolve the concept again thank you for bringing it Forward uh we do want to see this kind of transitional product on the edges of neighborhoods we just want to make sure it's executed so that it has the the I guess the greatest benefit okay you feel the same way thank you so I I'll move the deferral to May 6 I'll
second okay any further conversation on the motion see none Madam clerk if you can call the role please yes commissioner Cen yes commissioner Rodriguez yes commissioner Bon yes mayor Fernandez yes it is the thank you if you can read item four please item
four item four a res of the May City Commission of the city of South Florida approving or denying an application for final PL for stor to section 20-4 point2 of the Land Development code seeking to subdivide a property within within the low dis density single family
residential RS3 zoning District located at 5865 North count drive and the residential modified estate eum zoning District of the village of pine CR Florida located at f65 Southway 88 street thank you madam clerk um
colleagues just looking at the hour uh has everyone had a chance to review the application and do we do we need a staff report a staff presentation on this item no okay uh any questions of staff on this
item no okay is the is the applicant here ma'am good evening would you like to add anything for the record no okay thank you just if you say your name adds for the record sorry about that Veronica Barba 5865 um Southwest 88 street thank you for being sorry for the delay no
worries um this is a public hearing item so what we will do is we will open up the public hearing on item four if there's anyone in the audience who'd like to address this Commission on this approval or or denial of a final plat at 58 65 north
Kendall Drive you are welcome to address this commission at this time See No One in the Chamber Madam clerk is there anyone online anyone on Zoom please raise your virtual hand seeing no one online or in the chamber we will close the public hearing
um my my only comment to the city manager you know [Music] um every time we see an application along this Corridor I I have a heartburn for the um people who live on the stretch of a you
know land that's divided by two governments it's hard enough to deal with one of us I can imagine dealing with both of us is tough I I I have processed a number of plots in my life I would imagine it's got to be doubly difficult to do it when there's two jurisdictions so I apologize Mr manag I
would just say I I think it's worth I think we've talked about this jokingly before but I say it sincerely now whether it's really worth us having a conversation with Pine Crest about maybe de annexing and having them Annex this portion of the candle Drive
Corridor because you know I think just from a practical perspective probably can deliver better Police Service and basic Services than we can given that our our our men and women in uniform have to you know Traverse a canal to respond to calls and again there's just
joint jurisdiction here so it can create substantial confusion so I just wanted to editorialize on that we probably should have a discussion about it at some point uh but just want to add those thoughts to the record colleagues any further thoughts yes ma'am I wonder if everybody else agrees with
you I know I do yeah I don't you always want more yes ma'am you're recognized please into the microphone if you can and your name and address again okay uh Veronica barbar 6031 well my where I live 6031 Southwest 88th Street okay so
we live on that street my in-laws live on that street all of us are in there um and I have to say the police are super responsive when we've needed them and just as recently as Saturday so that's
one of the things that I did want to say is that I do enjoy being part of the city of South Miami but I can see from an Administration it's probably difficult that quor like my house on 6031 I think is all South Miami and as it gets closer to 57th it kind of it's
right down the middle or a portion of the lot some of it um but this particular lot 5865 only has like a little P apple or little pizza cutout like less than 10% of the property is that the village of Pine Crest but again South Miami I enjoy uh Village of Pine
Crest I have no idea um but I do know that um that we've never had a problem with the police or the services that we've been given and I've been living there for over 20 years appreciate the feedback and and and it's my comments were not a reflection also not wanting
you mayor's kicking you out I don't want to kick anyone out but not it's fine because it's all of us there so just let me know so I can tell everybody I just I just I just I just think I look at the map and I I wonder how this happened right from the idea you would think it would be down the down yeah down the middle so there's there's a conversation
that seems to me that needs to be had about how we how we how we either how we solve this issue because I feel badly for people have to go through two jurisdictions yeah to get their plat her and approved anyhow thank you but but I must say that your family is like the mafia of 88 Street when I was
campaigning it was like scooter Barber scooter Barber scooter Barber I'm like not Mafia no but there's like 6,000 of you on that street or at least it felt like 6,000 of you when I was campaigning we we welcome you to the city with not withstanding the comments thank you yeah we don't
want we don't want the mafia in South Miami so yeah exactly there you go thank you again okay colleagues for the comments sir no is there a motion oh is a qu do we have so we already did we we close the public hearing and we just let
her come up and say nice things about our city before we apparently I tried to kick her out to get rid of her I'll move it okay thank you a motion by commissioner bones a second by commissioner Cay Madam clerk if you can call the role please yes commissioner bones yes commissioner Rodriguez yes
commissioner Cay yes mayor Fernandez yes I don't pass it for congratulations good luck and we love you we [Laughter] do thank you okay we'll go back to regular orders there motion to approve the minutes of March 5th and March 18th
you skip I'll move it oh oh sorry let me just do this quickly we'll go back to the presentation okay go ahead I'll move it great is there a second all right second okay Madam clerk if you can call the roll on the approval of the minutes or show them approve without objection thank you yes thank
okay save you the trouble uh if you could read item E1 please E1 s Park parking lot design update M&J engineering DPC thank you so much Mr while the park director comes up um
um you know as as we've discussed over time that that the parking layout at that Park is is very challenging and it was always the intent to take a look at that and and identify some improvements uh we had a lot going on at the time so um uh we're bringing it forward as you
know we have somebody that's taking a look at that for us and so there's an interim report uh of where we are and get some feedback and certainly we're going to be doing some more work but uh just wanted to bring you into the loop of what's going on with the review of parking opportun by the way my only con my only criticism of this report is this
picture that's it yeah it's the old picture yeah I knew you were gonna say Mr director you recognize good evening good evening thank you manager and good evening again uh mayor and Commissioners so joining me this evening
is uh John Shrek who's the senior vice president and project manager is attending virtually and here in person is Miss Karen Fel Fel not felen Fel who's the project
engineer so just wanted to introduce her I'll come on up and she'll give a brief presentation on where we are today thank you thank you quinon good evening everybody I'll try to keep this short and sweet for you guys because I know you've been here for a while you proba want to go
home um so I'm glad to be able to give you guys the update so far what my firm has been working on um for the city of South Miami um this is a very popular Park especially with all the improvements you guys have been doing we've been looking at expansion of the parking spaces um where it makes more sense but also the safety of
pedestrians um and the kids so as of the end of March we're only about 55% complete so total overview of the project is the expansion so we're
thinking about adding um 60 additional offici parking spaces um we know that the residents and the visitors kind of Park um where they're be able to be fit um so we took that into account as well um but we're also focusing on safety accessibility and just connecting
visitors all throughout the entire parking area so for the parking spaces currently you guys have 90 um we're proposing an additional 60 making it on uh entirely 150 parking stalls um in order to do
this we are thinking of expanding the North Corridor portion of the park um so that would have and the repurposing the median on Southwest 58th Avenue um this would have an environmental impact of removing 27 trees um but we are proposing an addition of 38 trees all
within the parking area so this is a quick rendering of the park um you can see here where the median on the east side of the park is repurposed to have parking stalls on both ends um we kept the Ada accessible
parking spaces kind of within the same areas but on the West Side um we added an additional ramp towards the middle for lighting um right now we are proposing 15 new light poles um all with LED lighting that's more uh cost
efficient um but also overall lower uh overhead cost so this is the existing photometric plan of soft Miami Park um just the parking lot area there is a single pole towards the entrance um you guys have a lot of games at night it's not very safe
for kids or it's perfectly safe for the record okay screen went anybody in case anybody wants to sue us it's perfectly safe correct Mr C attorney it's quite safe that is a very it meets every building code and Life Safety Code standard I do not want the record yes
can I strike that from the record please sorry um so for the proposed photometric plans you see here it has illumination all throughout the parking area um specifically where there are also ramps um with very little overheads spillage over to the neighboring
residents for The Pedestrian safety and access routs um we wanted to dedicate Pathways connect connecting pedestrians all throughout the entire parking space um not just focusing on the parking areas and kind of where they're adjacent to um and also include traffic caling
devices like speed humps so in this plan if you see illuminated in the light blue um it's kind of where pedestrians are able to access and come into the park so right at the beginning towards the entrance you have the extension of the sidewalks that come
into the park on each side um that go down up the post sidewalk towards the east that's adjacent to the elementary school and also a winding path that goes into the playground um there's also a proposed path where we're trying to connect the playground into the athletic field this is are where people naturally
just walk up the BM um so wanted to actually visually delineate a space for them um as well as create an accessible route where everybody can kind of also connect to the current construction project of the restrooms so this is a rendering of what
that ramp would look like towards the middle um where it would have steps and then also a ramp next to it uh for we're trying to do the Turning videoo system um it's integrated with the design of the entire parking area it can capture vehicle images and also
license plates um and you can have realtime surveillance also a cloud based system so you're able to you know review footage 247 for the enhanced entrance um this is a rendering of kind of what we're proposing so you have beautiful columns
cladded in the Keystone that's something that's kind of carried throughout the park you have it in the picnic shelters but also on the exterior building of the restrooms um a black aluminum picket fencing and an archway along with a South Miami logo for the uh Landscaping the project
will meet full tree mitigation requirements that's set forth from South Miami but also Miami day County um so that would include the planting of 38 wood trees that are all native to South Florida and additional vibrant shrubs and
flowers so some of the hardwood trees and shade trees that we're proposing are what's currently at the park as well we have Live Oak Gumbo Limbo silver Buttonwood and wild Tamarind and these are a couple of the Native low maintenance shrubs and
they're also salt tolerant that we're thinking about planting throughout the Landscaping overall cost um within our per our design progress we're thinking a range from anywhere from 850,000 Milli that is that number inclusive of design cost or is that just the hard
construction cost hard construction okay so what we have to add for design design cost we have a contract for 134 134 okay got it okay questions I think uh commissioner P each first ory second what are we looking at
time frame wise time frame for construction we're looking anywhere between four to six months um that's something that's more um methods for the contractor but we are proposing where the park is the parking lot is fully operable just shutting down particular
sections at a time okay and your part you said you're 55% complete with design progress when do you envision that part being done that part should be done in yeah June so then you're talking June plus okay thank you thank you further
questions commissioner yeah can we go back to the slide where you have the parking rendering well the site plan or yeah I think the rendering of the site plan for parking yeah this one this one go back yet that one work this one yeah so what
what's your thought process on how we're going to have dual Lanes on some of these areas here you know you know as as we've struggled especially some of these parking spots on the on the west side of the parking lot there m they're very
tight um dual dual access going back and forth on traffic is is difficult and you're going to have that same problem on the east side of those parking spots about so actually you it's hard to see here but uh Southwest 58th Avenue was
widened so it comes more into the Green Space of what's actually existing I think currently right now road is only between 19 to 20 ft and here we're proposing what you guys have in the other areas which is 22 in terms of the Turning Lanes where you're more so on the medians around um we're proposing
mountable curbs so you see them a lot in on like traffic circles and Highway applications where if there is a need that's more so for turning vehicle access for fire trucks they're going to be easily be able to maneuver throughout that area I would just look at the
traffic close that we have currently it's it's very difficult to come in back and forth or drop offs with the kids the amount of cars that are stopping when there's not that much like when it's at capacity it's going to be very difficult so I would I would suggest I would suggest that we go ahead and and look at
the traffic location to go all the way through on like one way oh one way okay so yeah I want to ask to clarify so you want you want them to examine a oneway traffic circulation pattern is supposed to dual directional movements okay it's a good
idea hi hi um so I was actually my daughter plays at South Miami Park so I was dropping and on the South Side people Park along which would be the skinniest Road there yes Park along the the south side of it it was a firet
truck there the other day yes firetr truck was telling Robert because the cars were coming all the way to the curb where they couldn't turn yeah uh some kid got hurt it ended up not being an emergency but I was there when when uh with Robert when the guy told him that
I'm GNA take the cars out next time you know if we have to get out an emergency so how do we address the people parking along that and I know they were giving tickets and all that but people still park there yeah no contract I think something that we can do as a design
firm is that we can put entire like no uh no parking striping along that entire South Corridor we do show it as a oneway um just because we know that it's used for parking that's why um we we didn't expand it to also include parking on
that area except for that small portion where there's a maintenance access so that is something that we can include yeah I'm I'm just letting you know that's that was an issue that came up about recently yeah I know that's the the biggest issue right there so so I have a couple questions
regarding the S plan my biggest concern is this park is pretty under landscaped generally um you know to to Quenton I think one of the complaints I've gotten most about what we've done is that the existing shade structures over the bleachers really do not provide much
shade when you're sitting more than above the first or second row so we probably need to look at not sure when we designed that whether we looked at how the Sun travels across and Inter act structures but I hear that they get very hot for parents that are out there um on the weekends so my concern here is the
biggest thing is we're moving 27 trees I'm not sure are those are these mature specimen trees that we're removing there are n that are mature specimen trees okay so I mean and and where are located if you can highlight most of those are located towards the North End where we are expanding um okay so I mean are we
how many parking spaces would we lose if we kept those nine major trees 22 22 so we would basically net 38 spaces as opposed to 60 yeah okay um you know I it's a conversation we should have
frankly whether yes ma'am but realistically where those trees are would people be sitting there would they don't help anybody where they're at no but I mean they do but I mean again point is we want to just I mean again lower lower the general again we made
the decision for for operational purposes to Turf the pl fuel because you know we have 900 kids in that program and so I just want to make sure that we're not creating more of a heat island there do we want to then instead of I don't remember the numbers so don't kill
me but instead of like 38 trees do we want to maybe put a little bit less and get bigger trees I always think of you when you're like I don't want a tree that's like two correct like I I don't want a tree that my grandchild will you know so that's so that so that was going to be
the corer to my comment which is I think there's a conversation about keeping them or are these nine trees candidates for relocation into other areas of the park uh and then for the 38 hardwood trees I certainly do not want to see 2in dbh or forign dbh trees I want something
that's close to mature right M so that we're getting shade day one um and I think you know we had talked about this before when we were out there for the opening the air is right now in between the playing fields and if we need to expand the scope and on the west end of the park closer to the playing fields
are there opportunities to add more canopy trees there as well to just kind of again soften the condition I mean we made the decision to Turf it for I think very valid operational reason I do not want to be a Cavalier about getting rid of specimen trees and
creating more of a heat island effect there the other the other thing I don't know if we've had any conversation or if you've looked at if there's a way for us to optimize our use of the adjon parking lot and integrate it into the operation of this facility you know after hours
and on weekends I I do believe there's an Asal parking lot just across the fence line right next door you know I don't know what the inventory is there if we've analyzed that again um this is one of those opportunities I think Mr manager where we can immediately go to the school system and say hey we're
going to upgrade your parking lot let's have a cross use agreement for that facility and maybe we can still create 60 spaces of inventory just not all on the footprint of our park right so you know I would think if that's something that the design isn't so far down the
field that we can look at that as an alternative to maybe removing some of these specimen trees that would be something I'd like for us to consider because I think we've had a lot of discussion about trying to see how we could integrate this park with the school and this might be the first opportunity to start some tangible
progress towards that goal I won't be able to personally answer that for you but um definitely go up to my supervisor and we can have conversations related question in terms of the cost not not to you but to our staff Mr City attorney you know we to
the chrin of uh my colleague to my left enacted a school zone camera enforcement program and you know there are this is a park that is many ways a safe route to the neighboring school is there any way that we can use those resources which
are very limited in terms of their application to actually build some of this connectivity you know uh through the park to uh David Fairchild Elementary particularly the perimeter enhancements you know I think they they showed some
intersection or you know um speed mitigation uh elements on the periphery of the park on the west side I was imagin was that the image on the west side of the park uh the one you showed that had the kind of the Trap the street and the speed hump that is actually for the east side
of the park that's adjacent to the so again I'm just wondering whether there's a CH as we think about how we fund this because I don't think this is in our Capital program as much as I would like it to be we could do it right away but is there an opportunity for us to leverage some of those resources to to pay for portions of these improvements
particularly The Pedestrian connectivity part since we do know that we did get a lot of requests to keep the fence on the northwest side of the park open so people can actually use the park to get to the school Off the Grid okay it's something for us to I don't need an answer but just something
to think about yes ma'am that actually sparked something in my head because when I was looking at the sign that said South Miami Park I was thinking of Marshall Williamson Park and there's a school there it's a head start correct the preschool the preschool it's
a head start would I think it's St Alvin is that the one I'm right is can the funds from the cameras be used next to a Head Start program it's a federally funded program so again I I I I again I know that we I know that the statutory
authorization for how we use that money is very narrow I certainly no recall that we can fund school crossing guards I thought we could fund certain uh pedestrian amenities that enhance connectivity to schools but I think it's yeah I think to the extent that we can
it's not a terrible idea either so yeah maybe we can use some of it for the safety stuff that we might need for the park y okay further questions no we not have do we not have any money set aside
for the construction of this no one step at a time okay further questions to the consultant you okay so thank you for the presentation and for the good work appreciate it have a good evening okay Mr manager your report
please yes sir Madame Deputy will be providing we have a couple new programs in parks and recre we have a women self-defense class that's being held at the community center um every second Thursday residents get that class for $15 $30 for non-resident space is
limited so people should sign up up quickly we have Youth Flag Football that begins April 6 there's also a 10% resident discount on that program and they'll be playing games on Sunday at South Miami Park early summer camp registration is also open right now just for South Miami residents through April
20th after that it's open to the public that program is $50 a week anyone with small kids knows that that is a great price that's for South Mi residents on the event side we have our last SOI uh second Saturdays of the season our next
one picks up in October this is April 12th and it'll be country night so everybody's invited to come out for that it'll be our last one this Saturday we have the Easter egg hunt at Dante fael park at 11:00 a.m. this is a free Event open to the public and as mentioned many times tonight on Thursday at the
community center we have the community meeting um having to do with the future of the mango lots that begins at 6 pm. the end of the manager's report thank you question to the manager anyone comments yes question so we're off for the on the second Saturdays we come back
the second Saturday in October and octo why October not September I'm just curious rain he right yeah yeah this season we started earlier because we wanted to make sure that you know something was going on in that SOI District area but it was a very hot so I
remember I was there we pick up at the beginning of the fiscal year okay further questions casone thank you for the report thank you uh Mr City attorney your report please we will decline to make any report at this time thank you mayor I
have I have one question for you yes yes sir um since we filed the complaint last Thursday uh I know I asked you this offline before do we have a sense of what the timing uh for this process to play out will be uh we know the the initial part of the process the we are
in the process of serving uh the governor oh that's great uh and the um and the Attorney General thank you and uh we should have that I'm sure completed by the end of the week and um they will have I believe they have uh 20
days to respond um and that's where we'll proceed from there okay and typically what's our expectations this just something that's decide based on briefs filed by the parties is there oral argument that's scheduled how does this our our our goal will be to uh coordinate with the
Attorney General's office and the general council's office uh to uh agree to some kind of expeditus schedule and I'm sure we both sides would like a a fast resolution so that we have the clarity that we're looking for that's why I'm asking so okay great okay thank
you comments questions okay moving on uh discussion item summer commission meeting schedule Madam clerk yes Alfredo wanted me to bring this because of the budget hearing schedule so afredo you wanted Mr riveral
your date good evening sir good evening again um as you know budget we're starting the budget process we're about to begin meetings with our budget and finance committee um we have our Quorum we have our five members I'm excited they're all the same one of the main and one of the
first questions that they have at all their first meetings is what is the budget schedule um you have summer coming I believe in the summer everybody takes vacation obviously kids and things of that nature um so the idea here is there's one crucial meeting in July
which is setting the millage for the trim notice that goes out in August um we have it proposed on the 29th of July um and then we have the two hearings in September we cannot have our first budget hearing until and this is
by Florida statute until the 3rd of September you have the first regular meeting in September on the 2nd the idea is you could have two meetings the regular meeting meeting on the second and come on Wednesday for the first budget hearing or you can reschedule
your September 2nd and just have move it to to the Wednesday after um that's a an option um and that's that's pretty much what it is it's to coordinate your calendar for the summer which again is the peak of our budget and our CIP
Workshop is scheduled or uh hope to be scheduled for June 3rd I'm back from vacation from The Middle of July to the end of the year so there's no conflict for me on the DAT you've identified and July 29th he wants to
have that meeting so that means we need U need to move one of those July meeting July 1st or 15th I I will not so I'm I'm planning on traveling this 21st of June through July 12th so I would I would suggest I think we meeting July 1st that
schedule which is our regular 1 and 3D Tuesday just looking at the calendar is that correct Madam clerk yes so I would suggest that we move the July 1st meeting to July 29th and then we have one July meeting correct we have one July meeting which would be July 15th it be our regular meeting but would you I
would be back okay yeah so July 15th would be the July meeting and then the 29th is the trim meeting trim notice meeting yes sir yes sir it'll be the budget workshop and the trim notice correct no problem and the setting of that resolution of the trim okay I'm
fine with all of these dates yeah July July 15th I I Pro I'm not going to be so I'm here at the beginning I'm a little opposite you but I will be back the 29th okay that's probably the most that's the that's the that's the big one so right anyone else have a conflict with the
dates you suggested what about June are we going to do two meetings in June we have June 3rd and June 17 if you want to I I have no conflicts on those dates so I'll defer to the rest of the board if you want to do have a meeting or not be here June okay and June 17th you're
going no I'm here I don't leave till the 21st okay Tred to avoid as much conflict as possible the July meeting always gets me the first July meeting okay so we are are we you want to leave both June meetings open right now we can leave them and I can always
cancel one if we need it yeah okay yeah and August meetings as well again I'll keep them because as the as you know our City attorney Works through the schedule on City Hall we may need those dates to kind of have some discussions on that item I would suspect
in August at some point I'll be gone when I take the kids back to college but I don't know what that is yet and we we are allowed to have a single meeting in August are we not yes in June July and August okay so I mean I I would we could probably you can let us know the earlier
one would be easier for you to cancel or the later one if you give me one minute I'll look at it okay so so June we have to decide we're going to do one we'll leave both for now because we may given some other items need them but uh we can always
choose to cancel one okay as we get closer okay uh let's table that if you'll let us know if there's a conflict no I'm I'm dropping them off somewhere around the 18th so okay so you're clear both dates then okay um is there if you can read item one for the record please
yes item one a resolution of the mayor and City Commission of the city of South for designating mayor Javier Fernandez as the city's director and vice mayor Brian Cory as the alternate director with the miam day County Leal cities thank you is there a motion on item one I'll move it okay is there a second
second great Adam cler if you can call the rooll please yes commissioner cayen yes commissioner Rodriguez yes commissioner bones yes mayor Fernandez yes item passes for if you can read item two please item two a resolution approvement an authorizing a waiver certain B related fees and cost an amount not to exceed
$2,255 pursu to section 15 B6 of the city code for a special event known as Community yoga on rooftop Municipal parking garage presented by complex Sony LLC DBA complex health and wellness to be held once once each month beginning
on Saturday August 5th through September 25th at the municipal parking garage Mr rival or but U Clon was a special event so got it I'm sorry our Park director yeah Mr director you're
recognized there there's a number of a parking Revenue there so that's probably where you were thinking River it's the parking garage I still have nightmares about it so that was associated with alfredo I'm sorry Mr rall sorry not
sorry good evening good evening again uh the applicant complex uh somi LLC is requesting to host a yoga um event monthly um on the rooftop approximately 40 um people to attend a class it's a
free yoga event this is in conjunction to a um run event that they do um every month so uh prior to the Run they do yoga then afterwards they'll go for a run uh the applicant is requesting a
full waiver in the amount of 4510 um which includes the application and administrative cost uh City staff is recommending a 50% waiver of fees in the amount of 2,255 what what are I did not review the
items so what are the costs that are that make up the full $4,510 the special event application in admin feed is $160 and the parking fee uh is $4,350 and again this is over a
six-month period between starting in April through September okay and and again the parking fee is for for leasing the empty parking spots okay yes sir you
recognized I'm afraid what's going to come out of his mouth right now sorry um is it is there a specific time can we allocate specific time for this particular event or have they specified
that or not yes their actual yoga will be held between the hours of 7:30 7:30 a.m. to 8:30 a and that's and that's written yes in the application okay further questions no is there a motion I'll move
a motion to give him the full benefit of the parking so have give them the full 44 or 4310 whatever it's called Sir you recognize I apologize uh quincon this is the 44 four is uh the
4,000 that's for all six months that's for all six months yes sir I I would agree with that motion okay so there's a motion and I'll take yours as a second okay uh any discussion yes commissioner
bonich what are the actual fees for your work it's $160 which by the way if you want to withdraw it what I will happily do is pay it out of my expense expense fund it's fine so either way happy to cover it you want to pay $160 for I'll pay the
160 bucks yeah I want they they've been a good partner they're trying to they're trying to create some more activity in the district so I I'd love to support u i don't somehow thought the answer was going to be more than $160 and they're doing yoga on a rooftop
on the hottest months of the year so okay so go God bless them they can they can have we can bring them water those same people are going to go have breakfast somewhere I think there's a run after that isn't there after their yoga they're going to be dying it's okay
okay so let's let's you want to would you accept an amendment so you don't want to take out the $160 okay oh that's the only hard cost correct that's apparently it's the only hard staff cost is $160 okay okay so we have a motion and second okay I don't have anything
okay let's call the question clar if you can call the role please commission C yes commission B yes commission Rodriguez yes mayor Fernandez yes item passes thank you thank you sir if you can read item three please item three a resolution amending the schedule fees
and fines to revise parking permit fees for parking and residential areas in the South mem parking garage thank you Mr riveral I think this is yours y'all better say yes now good evening um what this resolution is doing is incorporating we had our first
hearing uh um for the ordinance not first hearing but our first reading of the ordinance at the last we took or I took back the comments that was made I Incorporated them into the schedule of fees to accompany the ordinance that I hope at second reading and final hearing
today uh is adopted so what you're seeing before you is the fees that were discussed I made some modification by including a rooftop not during yoga obviously but a rooftop permit uh fee if somebody is interested to to to pay for
that to park their car in the hot sun questions to Mr riverol no commission K commissioner Rodriguez any questions no only question did we is this did we address the parking turnover time frame for overnight parking in this
resolution as far as the 72 hour 48 hour whatever yeah yeah what we envision and we're going to this is something that's handled on the regulation side and we're going to make modifications based on it we've spoken um Mark Mark from Avalon matter of fact he's I talked to him earlier today he said he couldn't be on
the last meeting he was going to be on that's why he's on this even that's why he is he's here to support me because he knows that I need as much support as I can get so we've worked it out and we've talked about IR rationale somebody those on vacation sort of like a credit card you notify your credit card that you're
going out of town we're going to have a program in place to make sure we address those that are going to be long-term out um but at the end of the day our goal is to have that as a public parking and to be moving so so the answer is it's not
addressed no short yeah so we're staying with our guns which is 72 hours I'm I'm going to be know then on the computer is there a motion move the motion I'll second is there a second Mark is your emotional support
Mark is his emotional support animal Madam Madam CL call the rooll please commissioner bonish yes commissioner Rodriguez yes commissioner C yes mayor Fernandez no no yeah I I want I want that's that's got to be garage that turns over so anyhow I don't
pass 3 Z 31 thank you if you can read item five please item five an ordinance amending section 15 a-18 control parking residential zone of chapter 15a parking of the city code of ordinances to establish a single residential permanent
parking Zone per eligibility and issuance of procedures for implementation of the program Mr riveral you want to present any modifications since the last time this was heard no modifications just for clarification clarifications we're we're
staying with the 72 hours after 72 hours we will be citing a v in other words I know that's why I voted no oh because you want it to be what 24 48 oh 48 yeah I again I I think 72 is too much I think you know again like I said at the last meeting I don't and again we're not on
the item but I'm going to indulge you which is if it's going to if if people are going to park in that garage is going to be the secondary reservoir for the building across the street right it should be the car that they used most frequently because I don't want to have cars sitting there for extended periods of time on the upper levels when they
should be available for businesses in the district during the day so that was just my rationale I apologize to Mr sh or everybody else who may be offended by my no vote thank you questions on item item five puet I'm sorry item no item five
oh questions on item five none okay is there a motion item five the public oh sorry thank you he's throwing me off now is there any member of the public who'd like to address this commission with respect to item five on tonight's agenda regarding uh our single family
residential permit program modifications seeing No One in the Chamber Madam clerk is there anyone online anyone online please raise your virtual hand see no online we will close a public hearing is there a motion on item five I'll move before I do the motion
just a quick question yes we we spoke about the roundabout today on the Marth Marshall Williamson area that there is a portion there that's already residential on the south side of that street I'm sorry yeah on the south side of that street so are we going to extend that
now or what what or are we just kind of thinking about it to see what we do there we're walking out there tomorrow at 1:00 to address that you're 100% correct that's the purple right right that's right remember so that that residential on that street already exists as a purple would it be extended
to the I I I have to look at it we're going to look at it tomorrow it's going to be under advisement obviously this is second reading correct yes yeah do we need to have yeah okay this isn't this I don't think this establishes the map correct it allows you you can establish a district without us taking any action
100% correct it's not going to prevent that from happening okay thank you thank you for the question though okay further questions Mr Rodriguez you're good good okay uh did we have a motion Madam clerk no not okay second motion by um C second
by Rodriguez mam Clark please call the RO yes commission C yes commissioner Rodriguez yes commissioner Bon yes mayor Fernandez if we can read item yes I pass if we can read item six for the record please item six in ordinance amending chapter 15 offenses and miscellaneous
Provisions article one in general section 15- 63 mobile vendors to permit special events featuring mobile vendors for religious institutions and establish regulations and permit procedures thank you madam clerk uh commissioner Rodriguez you want
to walk us through any modifications between first and second reading um I don't believe there were any modifications I think everybody was good with there was one one yes Mr City attorney yes thank you mayor uh the it's on uh lines 134 and uh 135 and 136 and
it was just to expand the city manager's Authority uh that that was the discussion at first reading oh um basically to to put a maximum cap if necessary on on the number of people on the number of people and and allow and and the number of
vendors we have it depending on the size of the lot yeah the manager has brought authority to fix additional conditions he already has that so the catchall condition you think covers that as well correct okay correct fair enough okay is there a motion on item would you like to move it sir move the motion okay is
there a second second the second by commissioner Cay uh mooved by commissioner Rodriguez Madam clerk please call a roll oh sorry public hearing uh item six is a public hearing regarding mobile vendors to permit social events uh on religious institutions on properties Mr Kelly
would you like to address the item okay so for the record Mr Kelly is thanking uh the City attorney and all the sponsors of the modification for uh allowing for a cap on the number of attendees uh at a possible event so with that by way of public comment is there
anyone else in the chamber or online Madam anyone else online please raise your your hand we will close the public hearing Madam clerk if you could call the role please yes commissioner Rodriguez yes commissioner c yeah commissioner bonish yes mayor Fernandez yes item passes 4 Z thank you so much if
you can read item seven please item seven an ordinance amending section 15- 82 prohibited noise of article 3 noise of chapter 15 offenses and miscellaneous provisions of the city code of ordinances to revise the noise or regulations within the
city thank you madam clerk M caber do you want to quickly address any modifications from the last time we saw this item good evening good evening for the records development services director so we went back to the Des readings that we had
originally and uh we modified the the um limits of where this supplies so that we're not affecting I don't I don't remember that part because that was Tony's section of modif the TSD area the the different
subsets of the TSD area so uh based on your input uh on first reading the TS the TOA which is the the most central part and the tsda have ID identical uh exemptions uh it's it's 9:00 a.m. to 12:
a.m. that they're exempt Monday through Sunday um and then there the tsna district which is the neighborhood the outskirts um has slightly different hours of exemption 5:00 P p.m. to 10 p.m. Monday through Thursday 5:00 p.m.
to 11:00 p.m. on Fridays noon to 10 p.m. on Saturdays and noon to 9:00 p.m. on Sunday with one exception the commercial uses in on properties fronting 74th Street are exempt until 12:00 a.m. on Fridays and
Saturdays to account for those those are on the south side that are fa facing north we have yeah these would be on the South Side TS tsna okay fair enough questions comments yes sir recogniz so when we made this motion um we discussed
it but it got through the the cracks it threw the cracks Thursday right now in the commercial Zone calls to 8 we had said about going to 11 Thursday in the you're saying on the
commercial uses till 7 on 74 Street yeah yeah on this hold on uh it is yeah right now it is 5:00 P p.m. to 10 p.m. Monday through no the the the one that's till 8:00 pm is sorry I was looking at this over he's
looking at 1582 number section A oh uh in the chart that's what you're looking at yeah he's looking at the chart yeah the the these are so are you are you saying outside of the TSD area outside of the transit supportive area downtown and all that yeah so where you see how it goes Friday
Saturday we changed it from 10: a.m. to 12:00 a.m. those those are not the those are not the standards for the these are okay and these are these are the general standards else general for the whole the balance of the city sir okay all right um so that clarification
you're f i i i mean residents are going to I just figured 8:00 a.m. but okay I mean if everybody else is good with it if what everywhere else I mean to forget no you're right you're right my that's fine no it's okay we here to get clarification so if you feel you're good
no no no we're good we're good okay is there a motion oh sorry because this this area here Monday through Thursday we go to 8m yeah okay okay so with uh that by way of a summary of the modifications uh this is a public hearing item if any member
of the public would like to address this Commission on item seven which is a modification to the city's noise ordinance please come forward at this time Adam clerk is there anyone online anyone on Zoom please raise your BRD your hand okay seeing no one online and no one uh in the chambers we will
close the public hearing is there a motion on item seven Comm K would you like to move it since yes sir I'll move it thank you is there a second second a motion by commissioner k and a second by commissioner Rodriguez Madam clerk if you can please call the role yes commissioner cayen yes commissioner
Rodriguez yes commissioner Bon yes mayor Fernandez yes item passes 4 Z thank you uh if you could read item nine for the record please yes an an ordinance providing for a moratorium on the enforcement of section 3.6 W of the city's Land Development code relating to
residential requirements for solar photov volti systems provided for Ved rights thank you for that Madam clerk uh commissioner bonich this is your item anything You' like to say by way of introduction actually may I just clarify for the record that is commissioner
bonich is the sponsor of this item error agenda yeah that's why I said she's the sponsor this is just making official the discussions that we had a group at the last meeting so we are essentially placing a moratorium which we had
effectively already done taking into account the discussions that we had for tsami to then follow the suggestions that the mayor had had in looking at other incentives and coming back to us
and commissioner Kai and commissioner Rodriguez everybody's input so that we can have a more effective way of dealing with alternative energies in our city and that we don't have edicts down like if this was a monarchy we will have
incentives and we look forward to them and that's what this is okay any questions yes sir um so question to suami or to the to the manager we were talking about I just wanted to confirm this this may also or
does also include re-roofing projects the where where you were supposed to do the yes that's our interpretation of the ordinance so it also so it included I I don't think we were we didn't talk about that last time so no I think I think I think there was mentioned that uh not re
Roofing her analysis had not included included the re Roofing permit numbers or the or the remodeling and renovation numbers it was just construction but my recollection the presentation was that included new construction construction above a certain threshold and re-roofing projects but that was just my takeaway
the I spoke to you after that I read the ordinance more clearly I went to Tony to see if his interpretation was what I was reading if it included rofs or not and we both agree that it includes re roofs you got pre information I wasn't sure at the last meeting okay no problem I
discussed it with you I've conflated our conversation so anyhow so no just to make it so so then that number is going to grow exponentially yes I have the numbers that been provided uh to the city managers of this afternoon via memo and commissioner bonich has to put soda on
her house not that will never happen Okay [Music] um again I I made the comment the last time looking forward to getting an accounting of what transpired and understanding how we ended up in the situation and I'm it's the nicest I can
put it so um very I you weren't here the last time so I'm grossly disappointed with how this has played out so yeah no I met I met with a director or we spoke um and um she had done some research she provided a memo this afternoon of which I'm going to take a look at and and and
share the information part of the research was um capturing those categories that were mentioned rots and and try to get some numbers behind it and then historically what what happened as a result of enforcing this and it it it seems like it goes back actually all the way to 2017 where
there are inconsistencies throughout that time frame and certainly from 22 November 22 uh another confusion as to whether there was a morage nor in place or not so that's part of her research and I'm going to take a look at what she shared and and if there's more research involved we'll we'll do that and then
share give you something more so I I I just want to say this as a Corel to this which is when you and I first met I think what I my conversation about this opportunity was I want to make sure that we have the best department to handle you know small single family and two
plus projects in terms of our capacity on staff today you know um certainly feel less confident about that today than I did 24 months ago uh you know today's presentation on the one project that we had that we disc discussed I was
surprised to see that it was handled by a third party consultant given the size of the project it's a pretty small project I think that kind of speaks to the fact that we kind of really need to grow the capacity of our in-house staff and figure out how we're going to get to the balance of what's going to be
handled outside you know our our typical review process so you know hopefully between now and the end of the year we kind of figure out a plan so that going into our budget discussion if we do need to add resources or make some modifications there that we do that and
you know I I have now had a couple of experiences as an elected official seeing things and identifying gross deficiencies and people's understanding of the code uh internally that I you know you know it's not my it's not a reflection on you because you really just gotten here but I just think we
really need to grow the capacity uh development services particularly for what is our core function which is know permitting permitting homes right um and the better we make that experience the better the quality of the interaction I think obviously it serves the city very
well in the long term so I'll just say that by way of editorial and if there's a motion on the item I will entertain it I'll move the item okay is there a second I'll second okay any further discussion seeing none then Madame clerk if you can call the role please yes commissioner
bodney yes commissioner Rodriguez yes commissioner C yes mayor Fernandez yes I don't pass uh Commissioners uh we have commission reports I have just one piece of information I want to share on an item
um regarding Dante facel Park and the new building we've been trying to get permitted where we had the fire uh access issue um had a lot of conversations with Rodney mandon about granting us access off his parking lot um he has uh agreed
to do that so hopefully we'll have a solution we'll bring an easement forward he is looking for us to also uh he's had some concerns about his zoning rights on that property for some time is looking at making some modifications so I've asked the City attorney to bring forward a settlement agreement in that lawsuit
that would that would basically provide this consideration in the form of an easement and we would then take uh promise to take affirmative steps to I think modify his PUD correct and possibly then enter into a development agreement that would give him some entitlement guarantees for the maximum
statutory term which I think is third years so that's where we are on that conversation we've made some progress there hopefully that'll result in us being able to get that building permitted so just wanted to share that by way of information anybody else want to share anything by way commission reports yes I just want to say thank you
for that that's great thank you welcome okay oh uh yes sir it was Brian Cory's birthday this past week we didn't really say anything so it was say happy birthday to vice mayor you want to say happy birthday no okay thank belated happy birthday
commissioner or vice mayor excuse me anything further okay seeing no further business before this commission We Stand adjourn thank you