good evening ladies and gentlemen if I
could have you take your seats so we
could begin the meeting
what
not gonna speak and I'll put it for next
okay
Debra please initiate the roll call
certainly commissioner Sarah
Commissioner of ignore Commissioner
Simmons hi smear Carter president city
manager Babinec yeah City Attorney Hearn
yes we will observe a moment of silence
and before we do I wanted to leave you
with some thoughts the first Saturday of
every month the we meet in the peace
garden over by the Center for the Arts
and we start with this quote let Pete
peace on earth begins with me peace on
earth peace peace in my heart brings
peace to my family peace in my family
brings peace to my community priest
peace in my community brings peace to
our nation peace in our nation brings
peace to the world let peace begin with
me peace on earth
please stand for a moment of silence
thank you now we will have from the Girl
Scout daisies McKenzie Eckert equity
whose dad is a city employee McKenzie
will you lead us in the pledge thank you
please join me within the pledge I
pledge allegiance to the flag of the
United States of America and to the
Republic for which it stands one nation
under God indivisible with liberty and
justice for all
one moment don't go
my apology can't tell I'm a little out
of sync so right now I'd like to call up
for our recognition the Thanksgiving
food drive and related team events and
Dale is going to assist me and
Commissioner Sarah Robin McDonald if you
could come up
Debra Hamilton John and Cheryl berry
please come up as well
these wonderful volunteers do an
incredible job of supporting our
community with food drives we are food
deficient in so many areas and they take
their time and energy to provide for our
community and Commissioner Sarah is
going to read a special recognition
first I want to congratulate and thank
you guys for all that you have done to
learn as I joined the Commission how
this event and effort has grown is just
a tremendous accomplishment and without
your efforts so we couldn't really
accomplish greatness in this community
so thank you so much for what you've
done
so we have a special recognition to each
of you the Thanksgiving food drive has
been a cornerstone city initiative for
more than 30 years employees donors and
businesses have successfully provided
meals for 200-300
needy families per year today we
recognize your commendable actions of
providing Thanksgiving bags to over 500
families in 2000 in 2019 that's grown
significantly the largest donation in
the history of the program your
innovation and process improvements have
drastically improved the program while
uniting employees through charitable
work and dedication to the community
thank you
okay next we'd like to recognize our MLK
committee members and we'll call yes
Josh that's a good idea since josh is
the committee liaison all right so when
I call your name please come up here and
join us
all right Jay Reynolds the chair of the
MLK committee I don't see Michael singer
oh okay all right come on up
oh we're all split okay vice chair
Michael singer thank you
mr. Andre Henry Andre Mildred bright
officer Capri if they're here I don't
think he is mr. Ainsworth Clark miss
Carolyn Courtney dr. mark Ken doll
Horace heart the wonderful mr. Horace
over all right miss penny Miller one of
the greatest teachers in Broward County
Schools history and a wonderful voice
yes all right miss Michelle Richard
Phillips miss Ruffin
mr. Miss Dorothy Ruffin come on Miss
Emma Winston okay miss Jackie Bolden and
this month's featured resident for Black
History Month beautiful article all
right
Joyce Campos come on Joyce
grace Carrington I don't see her because
you would know she here grace did I tell
you one thing about grace karen says she
knows how to sneak in like anytime I
tell her our grace is right there
perfect all right Cheryl Cooper miss
Bessie Chris well
mr. Keith Martin I think he is a
firefighter and he is at work today so
yeah him Miss Margaret Paul officer
Glenn Roberts here miss Leilani Smith
and where's miss Janice come on miss
Janice Oh miss Yvette they give me the
paper I read it they give me the paper I
read it that's a typo so this is a
special recognition for the MLK
committee 2020 celebrating 30 years of
fulfilling the dream thank you for your
outstanding efforts and dedication in
making all the 30th anniversary Martin
Luther King jr. celebration events so
successful it is because of you thank
you
and I believe now mr. Reynolds the chair
of the MLK committee want to say just
one word just one first of all the first
thing that I wanted to say is this I
just I was sitting in my chair just
thinking about this and but I've moved
here about 25 years ago and this place
has certainly changed a little bit wild
Road looks a little different sample
Road looks a little different than I
when I moved here 25 years ago but I
will tell you something that what has
not changed is this feeling of community
in this in this great city that we live
in the decency of the people and the
feeling of community has not changed
it's it's endured and I'm so so grateful
that to be a part of this community and
what I wanted to say more than anything
else is to thank this community this
this committee you guys are amazing
you guys are just a testament to what
what this community is all about and I
thank each and every one of you for all
of the hard work that you've put in over
course of the last year one last thing
I'm gonna say for the golfers in the
room we have a golf tournament on the
13th March the 13th benefitting worthy
high school students here as well as
commemorating the life of Martin Luther
King and skip Campbell so if you are a
golfer and you have not registered
registered to play golf or decided to
donate please do that and one also
introduced I'm sorry because the deaf it
goes to worthy high school students here
that's where all the money goes to none
of it goes back to the committee it all
goes back to the scholarships I also
want to introduce the incoming chair of
the committee going forward you just
want Michael to say a couple words well
I've been on the committee now for I
don't know 15 almost 16 years now
yeah 16 years now and it's only gotten
better our program has gotten bigger
more diverse more popular as far as the
people that participate in it and it's a
great feeling to be part of this
committee to like Jay said because we're
such a unified community doing something
like this just fits real well and I
think I speak on behalf of what
everybody here that we're real proud of
the work we do and we're glad to do it
and we look forward to another great
year
thank you
like your life
hey could see if thanks
so it always takes a team a village to
make it a great experience a great event
and because these one of the big reasons
that the MLK is successful is their
support that they get from the community
so we'd like to recognize the sponsors
of the 2020 2020 MLK celebration
sponsors and Commissioner Simmons will
call them out it was a very long month
so I said January felt like a year all
right so our silver sponsors Baptist
Health South Florida please give a clap
they may not be here but getting the
clap they'll fill it our second silver
sponsor JM Lexus alright our bronze
sponsors Abundant Life Christian Academy
our next brown sponsor Alison Clarke de
Sousa dr. Alison Clarke D'Souza
BankUnited
Spicer's come on up mr. Park the Jerome
a Abbot's Foundation John and Dorothy
roughly the North Bauer County Chapter
of the Lynx and into our Emerald
sponsors the Florida League of Cities
our County Commissioner Michael you Dean
which I'm sure he's running around South
Florida so vision world doctor doctor
jindol and I'm sorry I can not say the
night reach there we go reach all right
I like learning something new every day
all right and Vitas health care
and one more form publishing group media
sponsor The Spectator magazine was also
a media sponsor and I believe that is it
but the really good
MLK committee members don't get too
comfortable so now we are going to have
a recognition proclamation for Black
History Month Coral Springs has been
celebrating Black History Month where's
Josh Karl Springs has been celebrating
Black History Month for more than 16
years it's been our way of recognizing
the invaluable contributions of our
community volunteers who devote
countless hours towards preserving the
heritage and the history of
african-americans Black History Month or
national African American History Month
is an annual celebration of achievements
by black Americans and a time for
recognizing the central role of African
Americans in US history the event grew
out of Negro History Week the brainchild
of noted historian Carter G Woodson and
another prominent African Americans
since 1976 every US president has
officially designated the month of
February as Black History Month other
countries around the world including
Canada and the United Kingdom also
devote a month of celebrating Black
History the city of Coral Springs has
gone one step further by hosting a
program on City TV for the entire month
of February with a daily highlight of
the accomplishments of African Americans
past and present the 2020 theme for
Black History Month is African Americans
and the vote congratulations and if I
could have one more picture with the
memoq a committee it's not too much to
ask for you guys to come on yes
alright so in recognition of the
extraordinary contributions that African
Americans have made to our community and
the nation the city proclaims February
is Black History Month the city strongly
believes in strengthen diversity and
this is a time for all Americans to
remember the teachings of those who
helped build our nation took a stance
against prejudice and enhanced civil
rights for all therefore we the City
Commission of coral springs proclaimed
February 2020 as Black History Month and
we all know black history is not just a
month it's 365 days a year so so I'm
grateful to be standing here with all of
you and let's pose for the picture
so as you noticed our mayor is slightly
delayed he should be here shortly so
we're going to take a slight pause and
the recognitions and move on to the rest
of them so right so I apologize for the
pause but it was requested so I'd like
to open up the meeting to public comment
is in Denver do we have any assigned
speakers yes vice mayor we do originally
rosa McCartin was going to come and she
asked to be moved to the next meeting so
our next speaker is Stephanie Clark
followed by Dan Clark great mr. Clark if
you could come up and state your name
and address for the record is it on
hello yes my name is Daniel Clark
I live at 107 72 la Placita Drive I'm
here before before you tonight too I was
sent a letter everybody loves he was
sent a letter this past week and it's
from the actual homeowners association
out front they're threatened to block
the road there by us and what they do
that they would land lock 76 units
there's no way to get into now now I
brought this to your staff last week
some planning people and I brought to
their attention and I guess they talked
to mr. Hearn and some other people I
don't who all talked and they said it's
a civil matter it doesn't have anything
to do with the city however it does
because the city sets precedent when
they built the phase three of LOB's
heceta they gave a developer the
authority to put gates across the South
Road and that South Road I passed out I
hope you got these things we passed this
stuff and stuff around if you got a copy
of these ones the letter that was sent
to us threatened to block the road and
land lock us the other page is out of
our docks
number six for the paper a little paper
clip images there on six it states that
all phases of the roads for all three
phases of the condominium belong to all
the people in the condominium for all
three phases of development however at a
quasi-judicial hearing we were assured
that that that that road would be
protected and we'd have right away over
the property
we went with mr. Hickey and staff
throughout that process but somewhere
along the line they let him put up gates
first the gates opened automatically so
we get it on off our property and use
the South Road now they've got but look
like industrial fences like if you will
factory gates across the road and we
can't use the South Road now this letter
threatening to block the North Road
would land lock us there 76 units back
there I've brought this to your
attention before we've been coming to
the meetings before storms because we
can't get out our North Road because the
new development floods the north to the
North Road now and we raised those
questions too so before storms we've
been coming to you asking to unlock the
road like before hurricanes so we can
get our vehicles out of there when it
floods
now mr. Hearn claimed that one of those
meetings and mayor Gould was at that
meeting he was no longer mayor but he
was at the meeting and he had been at
the quasi-judicial hearing where they
assured us that we would keep our right
away over this property and mr. Hurst at
that meeting said that the decision was
made to block the road at a
quasi-judicial hearing now I was taught
never to say a staffer lies and so I'm
just gonna say million mr. Hearn have a
difference of opinion and mayor goal
came to me after that meeting and said
Dan I was at the dais and I don't
remember anything about blocking that
road in fact they were guaranteeing us
that we'd have you right away in
easement so I'm coming to you now even
though this may be a civil matter for
the other Road you guys set a precedent
mr. Hearn set a precedent when he
allowed them to lock us out of the South
Road also I only have a few seconds left
so I don't have a driver's license I'm
just about to turn 60 I've been walking
around or riding my bike around that
South Road for the past couple of years
when my deed to my property says that's
my right away so you guys have gotten
yourself involved when you gave them
permits to put across the South Road and
we don't want to come in there now and
have a problem so I'm asking I'm asking
I like that there's not time to great
this is I'm doing this cold too you guys
okay so it's not time to discuss all
this right now I would like to meet with
any one of you can maybe help me with
this I'd be glad to set up a meeting and
meet with you because there's not time
to do all this in three minutes
soccer team in the playoffs so I was not
able to be here for your full three
minutes we did hit the time limit you
can contact me and I'm happy to meet
with you anybody else thank you for
being here
yeah we're not we're not required to
give a response to any public comment
sometimes we do sometimes we don't and
it's not a matter of disrespect when we
don't often at City Commission or
comments at the end of the meeting we'll
bring up what was spoken about during
public comment thank you there another
speaker Deborah yes there is
Stephanie Clark welcome Stephanie hey
thank you I'm Stephanie provide a clock
and just want to elaborate on some of
the things Dan spoke about though the
gates went up and down when the first
develop first opened then I've come to
meetings I went to Planning and Zoning
before it was built
I came to Commission meetings I went to
the quasi-judicial hearing talking
through with the staff through every
step of the way apparently a permit was
given for this gate this commercial
fencing I kind of feel like you knew who
I was the staff knew who I was I was
coming to meetings but nobody in LA
Placita was told that there was any kind
of permit that we could challenge I also
want to talk about at the quasi-judicial
hearing that we talked about or mr.
Hearn asked mr. mealy about an 8 inch
water main being expanded main because
now we have all these homes we have all
that we need more water pressure and
they were like oh yes we're gonna get
this 8 inch main because you need this
you know we all need it but after the
meeting I don't know if there was a
subsequent show meeting but we didn't
get that and so I brought it up at
meetings and I said well what's my water
pressure how do I know we have enough
pressure for a three-story building you
know we have a three-story building with
a fire after the meeting one of the
firemen said well you have a pool
and we can use that water if there's not
enough pressure really felt comfortable
with that but I said well can I have
notice about what our pressure really is
you know you go and you check fire
hydrants so what's the pressure and they
assured me I think we came maybe two or
three times about this eight inch main
that they would get me how much pressure
was in the line so that we could you
know they could assure me that we had
pressure too for fires or whatever we
needed and I've never seen anything
nobody have a contact and they came
after the meeting and said yes well
contact you you know we have all this
and nobody ever contacted me with
anything I did call the fire department
asked them how I could get copies of
those you know reports the Maine never
got put in and I never got a report of
how much pressure we really have so
these are some of the things that happen
at a quasi-judicial hearing we thought
we go there and things were set in stone
we thought you know you have a hearing
and you tell us things are gonna happen
but then I guess there's meetings
afterwards that we're not privy to that
these things can change or variants are
given I don't know but we didn't get the
Maine and the gates were closed months
after we had the gate that opened and
closed and then these chain-link fence
commercial fencing was put across which
I've never seen that around Coral
Springs where development is you know
barred with this commercial fencing so
these are some of the things we'd like
to meet with some of those staff about
thank you for being here speakers but
anybody else from the public wish to be
heard all right Randall and again please
everybody excuse my tardiness welcome
cutter one two six five five northwest
17th place pastor of new dawn Community
Church co-chair of the clergy coalition
of Coral Springs in parkland and
obviously this will probably come up
tonight but we know that last week was a
day a week of reflection a difficult
week for all of our citizens and I was
very pleased once again to see how
involved not only the City Commission
but the city staff was I ran into mr.
Babinec at the memorial and pine trails
and several of you I ran into and
obviously just cuz I didn't run into you
doesn't mean you weren't there I mean I
know that there was tremendous support
but even above that I see your caring
and your heart for this community and is
someone who is in the care giving
business
I just wanted to commend you all of you
the commissioners the mayor the vice
mayor and the staff for being so open
and available to the citizens of this
community because you have a major
impact in their lives it is an
incredible thing that you do when you
simply stop and let someone share their
heart with you and because of the fact I
counsel with people who are still
working through PTSD and all the other
things and you all know because there's
many many counseling positions in you
know people that are working hard your
ability to impact our community has been
positive and I simply wanted to come up
here commend you and thank you for it
that's very kind of you thank you god
bless we appreciate it
would anybody else from the public wish
to be heard you're just changing your
seat Joe no I'm teasing
eventually I like that I like good
evening mayor commissioners Joel Moreira
3 to 75 Northwest 114th Lane and come
before you tonight to ask a question in
regard one of the items on the agenda
idle number 16 and the policies and
formation direction after reading the
back of material it appeared that this
particular vendor was entered into our
RFP contract
for $150,000 which grew into a 256
thousand dollar expenditure and now has
grown to a $500,000 award and is
continued to grow so my question is how
does a vendor that sign a 150 thousand
dollar contract wound up with five
hundred thousand dollar contract at the
end he perhaps there's a need for that
but have they been put out to an RFP
maybe there would have been other
vendors knowing the scope on the size of
the work forces 150 to 500 thousand they
may have been interested in bidding on
this size of contract I'm just
questioning it because it seems like a
large reward perhaps is all proper and
it's all done correctly based on the
need but as residents looking at the
dollar expenditures just piqued my
curiosity to find out if there was a
particular reason that we can learn as
to why that money he grew to this size
that he did appreciate that you will
when Alex comes up for item number 16
appreciate your time thank you thank you
would anybody else from the public wish
to be heard all right seeing none
public comment is closed we're gonna go
back into the earlier part of the agenda
and we have a very special recognition
and thank you for allowing me to be here
for that special recognition so will the
entire Commission come down we are
recognizing Joshua Simmons as being the
first African American elected official
and his family is going to come up and
introduce it
so we are thank you and thank you
everybody for indulging me in this part
of the meeting and moving it back this
was very important to me
we had history happened November of 2018
and I actually have chills
Joshua Simmons as our first
african-american elected official here
in the city of Coral Springs we were
born in 1963 a little bit before
commissioner Simmons and being this is
Black History Month not only is he the
first but Joshua is passionate he cares
so much about our community he has
always engaged he's always inviting he
is just a wonderful person to work with
he's a passionate teacher and I'm very
proud to be on the dais with you every
meeting and I want to pass it off to
your family for us to Cheyenne to share
a little bit about how special you are
to her when I was canvassing out with
Josh a day or two he would go to
different houses and one thing Josh
would never ever mentioned was that if
elected he would be the first
african-american Commissioner and I was
happy about that because I was one
everyone to know to vote for him based
on his character his integrity and
everything that he stood for so when he
won and it was history that he was the
first african-american Commissioner ever
I was like wow I didn't even know that
and I was like yes because he didn't run
on that he ran on everything else and
even though he is I am very proud to say
I'm very proud of that he is the first
african-american Commissioner of Coral
Springs in 2018
all righty everyone so my name is Jade
Wyatt I'm Joshua's little sister and
he's my best friend as well as my mentor
as well as everything that I look up to
as a person and the fact that he did
make this monumental historical moment I
still remember when he called and he was
all excited and we were all excited for
him I was in New York at the time my mom
was in Florida Cheyenne was here in
Florida we're all over the place and
there's not a day that goes by that I'm
not proud to call this man my brother my
best friend my mentor and everything
above so proud of you brother
so the chorus brings City Commission
honors and recognizes your historic
achievement as the first
african-american elected to serve on the
City Commission February 19 2020
well thank you everybody as a Cheyenne
stated you know in the back of my mind I
knew that if I won I would make history
but it was just much more important for
me to run on my merits and what I wanted
to do for the city you know I think if
you if anyone really sets out to try to
make history you won't make it you won't
you won't happen but if you really
ingrain yourselves and let people know
who you are let them know what you're
gonna do for them then it's always been
my faith to believe in people's better
their better human side and I always
believe that people will look past what
I look like
what I sound like and really see Who I
am and what I could mean to them and
what I could do for their community for
their families for their children and so
I was very happy that everyone in the
city had been so gracious to me when I
showed up you know people who have been
here for for many many years and you
know I came kind of new into into this
area and you know everybody was very
welcoming you know at times you're not
sure what to expect from people
sometimes society makes us feel to
expect the worst in people
but here in Coral Springs people showed
me nothing but the best
and so I every day when I say that I'm
grateful to be a member of this
commission to be a representative for
this city to be a representative for
everybody in this city it really is an
honor and so I'm very thankful and I'm
thankful to the Commission I'm thankful
for my family for being here and
presented me with this achievement so
thank you
so now that the mic is back on with Ryan
reminding me the city of Coral Springs
is proud to recognize Darius Butler who
attended the Coral Springs charter
school he played quarterback and safety
there in addition to football he also
ran track he played basketball
he was an all-county selection as well
as an all-state honorable mention he
played college football at UConn he was
twice named Big East Player of the Week
both during his freshman year in 2005
here in Big East Defensive Player of the
Week in 2005 after he made three
interceptions for 122 yards and he
scored a touchdown well that would be a
dream for me that's awesome and these
three interceptions and the yardage he
got set both a Connecticut record and
Amisha Stadium record he was drafted by
the New England Patriots no boos from
the dolphin fans and the second round of
the 2009 NFL Draft and he also played
for the Carolina Panthers and I was
rooting him on big-time when he played
for my cults in Indianapolis he started
his career as a cornerback he switched
to safety in 2016 and he's currently a
free agent so we wanted to thank Darius
for his contributions to the NFL to our
nation and to your community here in
Coral Springs
we're very we're very proud to honor you
with this certificate congratulations
Barry
I have to say that I have to take a
little point of a privilege here to as
the Broward County athletic director and
having the opportunity to be a part of
Cool Springs Charter and then a couple
years ago walking the halls with Mike
Higgins the athletic director and
they're coming across your picture and
he heared the great things that he
shared with me about your time across
rings charter just made my absolute day
and we put on a piccolo event every year
and you are part of that too and just
you know you've had a phenomenal high
school collegiate and professional
career and coming from a guy who played
high school sports but it was a tragic
story I congratulate you phenomenal
things that you did so on behalf of this
city and especially our mayor I want to
present you this certificate and it says
Darius Butler as a star athlete and NFL
football player the city of Coral
Springs is proud to honor you for this
great contributions to our community
mr. Butler started his football career
in Coral Springs and intended the Krause
springs charter school Coral Springs is
proud of your great accomplishments we
wish you continued success and all of
your endeavors from the city with
everything under the Sun congratulations
ah
thank you thank you all right I'll be
sure to sweet just thank you first and
foremost for having me you know at all
honestly I've been blessed to be in this
position and be surrounded by a lot of
people who know help groom me it's Who I
am today obviously starts at home my
beautiful mother and my father back
there I mentioned Sabrina Butler I've
told my siblings back there and sheriff
s my brother Darrell Butler my little
sister moé Nate Butler but on we're a
big family tight-knit family and that's
the same attitude he bring to the
community whether we're in school
whether were in the church where we are
as tithing it's about looking out for
each other and you know I and I want to
say again congratulations you man
because I said that's a huge huge
accomplishment um you know to do that in
2018 it's amazing
but um mr. singer I can't I can't go
without sent mr. singer to he's when he
was my teacher way back with
cross-breeze charter when it first
started and I honestly I had no idea
where I was going when I showed up the
core Springs Charter had it been a strip
mall before it in and literally my dad
he took me out cuz actually in little
scrubs getting some trouble and he took
me out of middle school complete our
middle school I was home-schooled
and um he was like you know what I'm
taking you to you know different play
I'm taking a cold spring my cross and
literally woke up in the car and I'm
like and he's like she knows school this
is what it is I had been homeschool no
friends no homework so I didn't care
where I went and mr. singer he was my
favorite teacher there he just kind of
prepared me for life after high school
and as far as being a man and being
accountable you know and being you know
wanted it you know the big name in
school a lot of the kids looked up to me
I'm actually a vice mayor I went to
school with her daughter daughters after
Tara yep her daughter's birthday is a
day after mine actually so um it just
it's been a family since I've been here
now I just want to say thank you and uh
you know thank you thank you thank you
yeah
well it is a proud day in Coral Springs
where where you are blessed we are
blessed here in our city our next item
is public hearing number seven ordinance
2020 - 105 this in order that the City
Commission of the city Coral Springs
Florida many section 11 - 11 of the Code
of Ordinances entitled Norwich
disturbances in order to delete a
conflicting application fee provided for
conflict provided for survivability
provided for codification ready for an
effective date mayor's request all the
public hearing approved first reading it
said second reading for March 4th their
presentation fair there's no
presentation this is some language that
clean cleans up a discrepancy in some of
the charges chief Perry is here to
answer any questions should you have any
okay it is a public hearing is there
anybody from the public that wishes to
be heard all right public hearing is
closed we're looking for a motion to
approve instead second reading all right
move by Commissioner Simmons second
second by Commissioner Sarah any
discussion any questions for the chief
all right seeing none all in favor
please say aye
any opposed all right carries five
nothing love Coral Springs Police
Department whoo everybody was a little
nervous the sheriff was there but I was
like wait why is he here no we don't
worry we got and just to be just to be
clear second reading will be on March
4th correct our next item is item number
eight a special exception that is being
sought by Lady Bird Academy there's a
request to hold a quasi-judicial hearing
and public hearing to approve petition
of csj Capital LLC for a special
exception from Section two five zero
eight one six amount of off street
parking in two five zero four four one
required perimeter buffering adjacent to
abutting properties of the land
development code relative to reduction
in the number of required off street
parking spaces and reduction required
landscape buffer with
for an instruction of a daycare Lady
Bird Academy in the neighborhood
business b1 zoning districts located at
the southwest corner of Royal Palm
Boulevard and Northwest 89th drive
legally described as a portion of parcel
a Forest Hills West subdivision
authorized city Turner's officer draft
an order proving SD 19 - 10 and adopted
orders this is request to hold a public
hearing the quasi-judicial has been
waived by the petitioner there's an
affected party that has also agreed to
waive it and so we will have the hearing
the full hearing the affected party is
treated the same as the petitioner four
times of a presentation and then three
minutes for anyone remember from the
public this is a request to approve an
authorized with several conditions the
first item will be speaking on today as
mr. Hearn mention is for special
exceptions relating to ladybird Academy
the property is zoned neighbourhood
business b1 which we don't have too many
properties own this and within the city
but it really is the purpose of this
district is really to serve the needs of
the community hence the name
neighborhood business to meet the local
needs whether they be shopping needs or
personal service needs or something like
this with a daycare to help the
community nearby the property itself is
located on the corner of row upon
Boulevard and Northwest 89th Drive and
that's about two and a half acres in
size part of the reason that's been
vacant for so long and I'll get into it
in a minute here you can see it in your
backup is there's a number of FPL
easements that are going around almost
every side of the property so it's
really been a difficult site as we've
met with people over the years to find
something that would fit here that would
not only fit building wise but that
would be an appropriate use for the
neighborhood especially abutting the
single family and their residential to
the south and the west looking at the
project itself ladybird Academy is
proposing about 12,000 square foot
daycare they will have two playgrounds
which the code only requires one but
they do have one for the older students
and the younger students and they will
have ten classrooms
the hours are 6:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m.
this is a permitted use within the b1
district that doesn't require
conditional use that's just the schools
that we may dream before you here and
there
lady bird actually has another location
in situ for y'all there where I've over
a near-total run in two run area so it's
really great that they're choosing to
build another facility here in Coral
Springs so we're really happy to see
that the first request is relating to
the number of parking spaces the code
bases the number of spaces off of the
number of classrooms that are in the
facility so they're required 56 spaces
based on the size of the property the
they're providing 47 they actually did a
study at their other location in Coral
Springs and found that that saw that
school that it's basically the same size
if not a little bit bigger than this one
the max they ever used was 36 spaces so
we definitely feel the 47 will
accommodate them appropriately the
city's traffic this one also looked at
their study and then concurred with the
findings the next requests before you
sorry about that is relating to the
required buffers so in green as you can
see those are all the FPL easements that
are existing around the property at the
front there's a 25-foot I'm sorry a
15-foot along the west side there's a
25-foot and at the rear there's actually
an 80-foot FPL easement so the code does
not allow for buffers to be located
within easements like that so this is
purely really a technicality of the code
as you can see the requirements are well
above and beyond being met as far as
green space goes and helping to
establish those buffers so while if that
easement wasn't there they could have
provided only 12 feet at the south side
there's gonna be about ninety two feet
of green space there abutting the the
canal and the single-family homes
there's also going to be PVC 6 pv c--
fencing around the playgrounds and the
west and the south sides of the property
as well as you know when you're
considering a special exception there
are two criteria the applicant is
requesting their their special
exceptions under the first in that in
literal interpretation of the code
percent of person's hardship as I
mentioned especially relating to those
easements it really is making that
property to hard to develop otherwise
and
definitely met the intent of what the
code is trying to do by buffering this
commercial use from their residents
nearby as well as the the number of
parking spaces I know there were some
concerns that came up at Planning and
Zoning Board relating to the traffic at
that intersection and just so you all
know that what Broward County has been
requested to do a warrant study of that
area to see if it will warrant or light
or not we have not heard back from them
yet but but they are looking into it
right now with that we are recommending
approval we are recommending with a
couple of conditions mainly that it be
for this use for a trial crush Center
with the maximum ten classroom since
that's what the parking is related to
that if FPL has to get into those
easement areas that they need to
reestablish whatever landscaping may be
taken away for them to do the work that
the project be substantially developed
according to the site plan that's
attached and that this may run with the
land so with that for any questions you
might have any questions for Julie to
the house great well thank you very much
Julie next up we have the petitioner
bring the PowerPoint back up feel my mat
welcome good evening Bob big and fuzzy
development services 708 East Colonial
Drive in Orlando Florida on the civil
engineer for the project I'm here
representing not only the property owner
in this but also the Lady Bird Academy
is under contract to purchase this
property at this time so I think staff
for their presentation and wanted to
just go into a little bit more detail
about the merits of the case I do have a
PowerPoint presentation I think
No okay we don't have a power that's
okay I I'm prepared to discuss it either
way so some of the and let me see here
oh it's a little okay so in looking at
this piece of property it is 2.5 acres
and when you look at the easements that
are surrounding the property it's kind
of interesting to note it's 37% of the
site area it's been sumed with easements
it's a just under an acre of land that's
consumed with FPO easements so it's
obviously a hardship to develop this
property it isn't approved used for the
property and a great addition to the
neighborhood and does service the
neighborhood hence that neighborhood
neighborhood business zoning category so
and then as far as the properties that
surround us in kind of the interesting
characteristics there we are a budding
residential is the reason for the larger
landscape widths and so to our west is a
it's a higher density residential I
believe that's an apartment complex to
our west to the south separating us from
that single-family residential zoning
district we have an 80 foot wide FPL
easement plus we have a can a canal that
separates us from those residential
properties and then across the street as
well that's a higher density residential
development and of course we have the
roadway that separates us from them as
well so as we move on
looking at the parking we did do a study
in a little bit of detail about that
study we're presenting the one that was
done with the other Lady Bird here in
Coral Springs
I myself have done well over 50 takers
of my career for this brand and other
brands and I've seen parkies study after
parking study for one of those larger
brands we've worked for and all of these
brands develop in the same general size
of building as 12,000 to 15,000 square
feet the student counts range from 175
to 200 students at all these locations
I've seen studies for the highest I've
ever seen is just in the low 40s and
these are in 15-minute increments
between the hours of 4:00 our excuse me
6:00 in the evening and 7:00 and 9:00 in
the morning and we did it for three
consecutive days recorded every 15
minutes
how many cars entered how many cars left
how many spaces were occupied this one
netted out 36 was the number when we
looked at the other facility here in
quarters to Coral Springs and I've seen
study after study after study with those
student counts in the 180 to 200 range
and 41 42 is the highest I've ever seen
and we've got 47 spaces here so I'm very
comfortable that we're gonna have enough
parking and can tell my clients that
they can feel comfortable with their
facility operating correctly with that
47 Park account and then the other the
other is the landscape buffers and
really that is a big challenge one of
the important things to note as you look
at this you see the green areas and the
orange areas as you're driving by on the
street we've actually if you have a
25-foot landscape buffer providing six
more as you drive by you're gonna see an
effective what 31-foot landscape buffer
the plantings are just forced into the
smaller area that the word that were
quoting as being provided and on the
north side that's six feet the planting
area and on the west side it ranges from
six to eight on the south side it ranges
from twelve to nineteen feet in width
and that's the actual planting area we
plan to provide all of the code required
plantings just in a smaller area and
again as you're driving back and provide
down the street nobody's gonna know that
oh that's an easement not a lane escape
area it's effectively really giving a
larger buffer when as you're driving by
on the street and taking a look at it or
if you're a neighboring residential
piece of property it's effectively
providing a wider than code required
just the plantings being in the smaller
area so with that being said I'm here to
answer any questions you might have and
reserve the right to come back up here
and address any concerns any neighbors
might have great any questions from the
dais all right seeing none thank you
very much next there is at least one
affected party I understand that would
like to be heard
Marion snob
Oh our pleasure well Aryan snap and I
live at 8950 Northwest 23rd which is
directly across the strop um at the
prior meeting they expressed that they
would have 27 employees and so assuming
the 27 employees will park in the 47
parking spaces that only leaves 24 170
parents and I'm skeptical about that
they're not the kind of kids that you
you know pull up to the place and open
the door and say bye Johnny have a good
day they're little kids infants to five
so the parent has to park get the kid
out of the car seat get the equipment
and get you know go in and hand them off
directly to the teacher and come back so
that parking seems inadequate to me the
surrounding businesses had come on the
last hearing to say that they really
didn't have any parking to spare and
they were hoping that they wouldn't you
know Park in their spots so I think
parking could be an issue my main point
was about the zone about the the street
and as one of the Zoning Board members
summed it up last time he said what's
the difference if five hundred more
people go left and right down Royal Palm
Boulevard and I would agree with that
but if you could look at your map and
look at the corner of the 89th a Royal
Palm the problem isn't that traffic
going in east and west the problem is
the people that are going to be coming
out of Lady Bird Academy turning left to
go west on Royal Palm and the people
that are going to be coming from the
east turning left into there and the
people that are turning left from the
neighbourhoods going out onto Royal Palm
and the people that are turning left
from Royal Palm going into the
neighbourhood north of the thing right
now that's a terrible terrible corner
there's traffic accidents there all the
time and the last meeting they did say
that a Broward County had done an
assessment two years ago and I kind of
let that go by but
when I got home I thought oh they didn't
do that for fun some smart person in
Coral Springs noticed that we had lots
and lots of accidents on that corner and
asked them to do it
so I understood her to say that yes
they're gonna do that again my concern
is that what if they come back and say
no some little kid and their mom's gonna
die in that intersection that that
intersection is really really dangerous
we I think we need to take some kind of
reasonable step to see if they can give
us some assurances that they might be
able to accommodate a light there before
you approve putting a place there and
endangering all those people that are
going left and right and it's like
bumper cars out there now I live right
on that corner we had property damage
from an accident where somebody was
turning left and they got run off the
road and they came through the wall we
had to replace the wall around our our
development because we had to comply
with the new code and it cost our
community one hundred sixty eight
thousand dollars which we had to share
amongst 24 residents and so it was a
really expensive the poor lady who hit
us had 25 thousand in property insurance
so that was the rest of it was on us and
you know it is a financial hardship if
we have to continue to do those kind of
repairs if traffic is out of control so
I hope that you'll take the traffic
thing really really seriously and that
you know we'll be cautious not to allow
dangerous that dangerous traffic thing
to happen especially with that kind of
vulnerable population again I thank you
for hearing my comments there are any
other affected parties next portion of
this quasi-judicial hearing is to allow
anyone from the public to speak on this
but anybody like to be heard okay seeing
none
we're going to close the public hearing
is there any questions of the petitioner
before motion
regarding the parking specifically the
question that the nice lady asked
regarding the amount of employees and
the drop-off and pickups yes so part of
the the staff is not there all at once
number one and then as far as the
drop-off and pickup time drop-off
usually ends sometime between 8:30 and
9:00 and so the majority of those staff
members that are there to peek out the
staff for the day or coming during a
time when the parents aren't picking up
and dropping off the students so they
actually bulk up the staff as school is
starting once the drop-off periods and
and then they start leaving letting them
go earlier in the afternoon so then
that's how all of these daycares are
operating in order to waive those people
in and out of there like I said I've
seen countless numbers of studies that
the schools of these size and we get
asked this same question a lot how the
heck can you get that many students in
and out of that facility with only that
number of parking spaces and it could've
been in public hearings all over the
country talking about the same topic and
and seen study after study and like I
said they're they're all coming out and
netting less parking than what we have
here any questions of staff after a
motion we'll take this mission if that's
okay okay
so two questions I have I'm not sure if
you can answer it so based on a couple
of the comments that were made by the
affected party and I'm sorry I didn't
catch the lady's name talked about
potential problems exiting when Western
Royal Palm so it makes me think is there
a way to either potentially look into
having a right turn only and/or light
what would be needed if not now
to potentially pursue that later well
Broward County does a would do a warrant
study which they're conducting again
right now to see if the number of cars
that are in the intersection warrant her
you know cause for the need for a light
so depending on the findings of that
study then we would look at whether or
not a light would need to go there or
not and would that be the same with a
right turn only correct yes
gotcha okay any further questions now of
staff all right thank you very much you
may hear a motion to approve by
Commissioner Simmons is there a second
second second by Commissioner Sara
discussion Commissioner Simmons first
all right so I live around the corner
from this line I Drive past this pretty
much every day I mean especially when I
come to City Hall
and I will tell you this is a terrible
terrible road to be on especially during
rush hour or in the mornings the traffic
backs up you got different people coming
out of different residences the
different roads I'm looking at it on
Google Maps right now and especially
with the public parking lot right there
this is just this this is just a
terrible stretch from university to to
Riverside down this road and so I would
say I would I'm not sure if the traffic
study will warrant a light but I think
if this is a right turn only I think we
could alleviate some of those issues I
think making a left turn out of here
makes absolutely no sense coming out of
on this road at this I just that is a
very as that will put a lot of people in
danger I guarantee you because it's a
very big it's a it's a big wide road and
creating a left turn out of here III
would not I can't
I just I don't think that would be a
good idea I really think this should be
a right turn only lane coming out onto
Royal Palm and having people to have to
kind of come up and you know possibly
make that u-turn and come back down
you know I just think making a left turn
out here
just I'd be too much so along those
lines I often will travel to court from
my office and come down there and then
make the left turn from the north
heading east
and often I have to wait quite a bit I
mean I I've got to really be patient
coming out of there so if there's any
way to potentially make that a
requirement I don't I haven't dealt with
this in a long time but I have this I
have the same concern and the same
solution that would make me feel
comfortable you know saying this saying
yes
any other comments nice man I was
actually there today making that turn
and it was it was 115 ish when I did it
and it was very clear not a problem
Rama would which is the neighborhood
south of that is one of our largest
neighborhoods in the community of 1800
homes although it is on both sides
Riverside Drive I agree that the making
that left can be precarious and I think
I would prefer that if it was just a
right turn but if you do that then
you're gonna have people cutting through
the ramblewood neighborhood to go back
out to university off of 19th
I think it's 19th I'm not sure what's
the best solution but I I had recently
asked staff to look into that
intersection because the same homeowner
development I spoke to somebody that I
know that lives there had asked me why
they couldn't get a light and I hadn't
gotten a response back yet but I do know
they're working on it anything further
from the dais madam vice mayor I'm
trying to understand what she said by
cutting through 19th right here okay if
you don't if you can't go out if they
can't make a left there and they need to
get going west that would be the next
alternative other than to make a right
and make a u-turn
I guess you come down and you churn
would be right around perc summit and I
just left a left-hand turn a left turn
out of that it's just that that's
dangerous man especially if you got
people getting picked up around 6:30
p.m. that's I mean people are flying
into this public slot all the time it's
really removed from that section right
there because you've got that apartment
complex that tower that's right next to
the towers next to the vacant lot and
then you have Publix well the u-turn
that people make right here that's super
why'd you turn that they kind of made a
little indent so people have enough
clearance right and that's in between
that's in between the public by the
tower so you know again try to make that
left turn it's just it's a lot kind of
that would be a lot happening in that
stretch I think I mean as far as the use
for the property I mean the property's
obviously been there since the beginning
days and we've had a number of people
look at it and it and this seems to be
the lowest density that would be their
universe it's an office complex or
something like that so that part I think
is a good thing but increasing the
probability of more crashes that isn't
such a good thing so right now a staff
indicated it's being studied whether a
traffic light is warranted will ask for
the if a traffic lights not warrant it
will ask if the right turn only can be
considered the county has final say on
that but we will go through the process
all right any further discussion I too
feel like it's a good use for this
property I am NOT concerned about the
parking I haven't done a little bit of
research on that I think it could be you
know different points of time a concern
but for the most part I think it will be
a non-issue and I - sure like with my
colleagues about the safety of the kids
and people there and not only them but
the people that live around that
surrounding community so I appreciate
our city manager's position and
to look forward to hearing what the end
result is of that yeah I mean the only
real my time on the Commission the only
real interest I heard about this
property was from actually gentleman he
used to sit on this seat many years ago
before former commissioner Gould Alan
Pollan he had called me about six seven
years ago about putting an auto part
store in there much better use for it
89th and Royal Palms been dangerous
since I was in high school getting out
of there getting out the Forest Hills
area getting out of there coming across
Royal Palm is one of those difficult
intersections so I'm glad we're gonna go
ahead and make sure that's looked at to
see if we can either get a traffic light
or make the right-hand turn only I
understand what the nice lady said about
the amount of parking
but while sitting up here I'm going
through all the different preschools I'm
looking that I can see in counting up
cars and spaces and they are like 90%
empty in almost every photo I go to
whether it's Google Maps or Bing or our
B CPA so you know but I do think that
this is the best use of property and
people should have a right to develop
regardless of whether or not there are
other things there that create traffic
concerns because it wouldn't be just
this property creating the traffic
concern there are a lot of homes out
over there and thank you anything just
to be clear thank you for coming up in
addressing you know these issues I mean
as you can see we needed to hear from
you as well to help as have you know a
discussion on this
you know the Royal Palm turning into
Coppens that is a county road so all we
can do is ask you know them to take our
concerns into account but we have a
wonderful staff and they're gonna work
with them as best as they can to try to
make sure they listen to us so try to
get them to listen to us yeah and we all
thank you as well for coming up and
being heard so with that all in favor of
the motion please say aye
any opposed all right carries 5-0 thank
you very much
we're on to item number nine and
regarding a special exception for corner
stone down town downtown this is a
request to hold a quasi-judicial hearing
a public hearing to prove petition of La
Boca Partners LLC for a special
exception from sections two five zero
one zero five five circulation to five
zero one zero five six block lengthen
perimeter to five zero one zero five
eight building topologies two five zero
one zero five nine DTM you excuse me
building type table and two five zero
one zero six one general design
standards of land development code
relative bike lane requirements minimum
maximum block links requirements and
ground floor active use requirements for
parking garages facing out the street
reconstruction with mixed-use
development consisting of a four
thousand square feet of retail - and
then 10,000 square feet of commercial a
138 unit hotel and 352 residential units
in the downtown mixed use D TMU zoning
district located the southwest corner of
University Drive on west sample road
legally described as a portion of tracks
1 & 2 section 21 Township 48 South Range
41 East Florida fruit lands companies
subdivision number 203 city turns
officer draft an order approve as C 19 -
11 and adopts that order petitioners
waive the quasi-judicial there have been
no effective parties that have signed up
this is a request to hold the public
hearing approve authorize and adopt the
special exception requests SC 19 - 11
thank you John and please drink some
water
the opportunity to present to you all
and before I get into the kind of
nitty-gritty of the project I may be the
ones standing up here tonight but this
really has been every department that's
worked on this over the last few years
whether it be Public Works and when they
and the improvements that are go to go
on on the streets the attorney's office
and the agreements economic development
would you have a letter supporting here
back up and and working with the CRA as
well it really has been a collaboration
between us and the applicant step by
step through this whole thing so I just
like to acknowledge everyone before I
get start
on this that's great definitely and this
is the first of a set of approvals that
will be coming before you there'll be
additional ones on March 4th that you'll
be seeing including the plat as well as
a few other agreements so if we could
switch over to the other PowerPoint
PowerPoint first I won't go through each
special exception here in the first
slide but as John mentioned there's a
couple that we're going through this
evening you know this is the first major
development we've had with the DTM you
that was adopted two years ago so we
knew when it was adopted that every
every block might be a little different
so that's that's the reason one before
you this evening it's not that this
project doesn't meet the intent of the
downtown district it definitely does
between the mix of the uses and the
building itself and everything it's just
especially with the shape of the
property itself there's a few things
that didn't quite fit into to our new
code so that's why we're here before you
this evening
everyone's familiar with with the
property itself but for just for in case
anyone here is not the financial Plaza
building was built in 1974 as you all
know it's it's a ten storeys this the
property itself is a little over seven
acres right now once they're finished
with their planning and different
dedications that have to happen for F
dot especially department transportation
the property will shrink down size to
about six point three acres in size so
that's and that's another reason for a
couple of the exceptions which I'll go
into a little bit more in a few minutes
and the owners la boca they purchased
the property in 2018 as you all know the
local activity center the land used for
the property that really first allowed
these mixing of uses was adopted in 2005
we followed up a couple years later with
the actual downtown zoning district and
this is our first form based code so it
was different not only for staff but you
know for applicants that we deal with
all the time and in looking at it and
how it was really gonna fit with the
downtown and that the form based code
itself is different than our traditional
zoning and then it doesn't say these
types of uses must be separated by these
things it says here's what the building
we want it to look like and feel like
and how it's going to interact with
people and how you put those uses
together is is up to you so we
specifically didn't put in any
requirements such as requiring an active
liner on a residential property or
things like that because we really
wanted the market to dictate what the
project was gonna be and I think that's
happened with this and the and the
evolution of the project as it's going
on so before we look into the building
itself as you can see there's gonna be a
number of improvements that are gonna
happen to all four rights of ways that
are going on here the sample road is on
on the top there on the north side
University Drive is on the right so
that's our east side of the building you
can see there's there's quite a bit of
landscaping that's gonna go on on
University Drive and that's largely due
to the easement requirements that they
have for the dedications for potential
widening of university at any point
there's gonna be additional parking
added along 94th as well as pavers and
landscaping and larger sidewalks so what
are we going to help activate not only
between this building and the different
events we have going on
here but helped to activate the streets
along along this project as well as we
look into the the building itself I'm
just showing the first floor here but it
is an eight story building at the
tallest point the blue shows that you're
gonna have twin office buildings on the
front facing sample there the red are
the commercial uses that are on the
first floor here there will be a hotel
included up to 138 rooms and then the
residential portion of the site happens
along the South building there on the
south side again this is just the first
floor the the residential and the hotel
and things fill in as the building goes
up and then each side of the building
has its own parking garage I have a few
of the perspectives here just to show
you hopefully people got to take a look
outside we brought some of the boards
from the architectural review committee
with us this evening so people could
take a little bit closer look this would
be looking from sample road I'll go
through these a little quickly though
cuz I definitely want the experts and
the architect that's here too so give
these all the right buzzwords and really
explain the the elevations for you and
really walk you through the project but
just to give you an idea of some of the
you can see that the different parts of
the building really do while they
connect with each other and they
definitely feel like they're a whole
project they definitely have different
looks so you can see here the brown
shows you the hotel on the right side
there's some of the residential aspects
of it again here's the residential with
the hotel in the back so the reason
we're before you this evening as I
mentioned there are a couple special
exceptions I'm sorry
the first relating to circulation so the
the code itself requires
projects that are over six acres inside
to create a main street through the
developments and that helps to break it
up and make it more walkable you want
this long stretch that we all know
living in Florida you know that's on a
summer day if it's too far away people
are not going to walk it so by helping
to break up the projects like this
especially within the core where we have
the larger properties it helps make it
more inviting and more walkable for
people so they are providing the Main
Street
however there instead of this requires
78 feet they have about 66 feet and that
was really an order
to help keep the sidewalks larger so
that way because the outdoor cafes and
enough room for people to feel
comfortable and like the buildings
aren't right on top of them and that
they have an open space that's that's
gonna activate those uses so instead
what they did was they left the the
walkways larger and instead of providing
distinct bike lanes since it's such a
short amount of distance the bike lanes
will really be included with through
sharrows as we call them with the the
Main Street going through the project so
that would be that that east-west spine
that's going through through what
through the main part of the project we
call it the called Main Street so and so
we think that that it's still an you
know meeting the intent of what the DT
mu is trying to create within the
project itself even though those bike
lanes may not be you know distinctly
they're looking to the next section
there are minimum and maximum lengths
for the blocks the minimum being 300
which is being met on most of the sides
however on the on the east and west
sides it's a little under at 253 feet
and then the links themselves on the
east-west portions of the property are a
little over the 500 and and part of that
is due to where they were able to kind
of cut through the property with the the
turn lane that they're incorporating and
the entrances from sample and where
those had to be it kind of limited them
on what they were able to do to help
break that up so while they may be over
a little bit they've tried to
incorporate the two office lobbies on
the corners as well as incorporating
courtyards so it's still kind of
breaking points for people as they're
walking along it would be benches there
trees things like that so it still helps
to meet that pedestrian friendly
atmosphere that we're hoping for looking
at the building typology
ecoute has maximum amounts for
residential and non-residential floor
Heights so you don't want a resident
non-residential project that's too small
nor do you want a residential and that's
too tall so on the south side there
on the north side it's fine it's meeting
all the requirements however on the
south side where you have the mix of
uses of the residential and the
non-residential together it would look
odd to try and meet those requirements
having the residential at one height and
the and the commercial at another as
well as being a little more difficult to
build as well so they've they've
incorporated the maximum height of 16
feet and change for that side the
general design standards require a liner
for the garages or a liner of active
uses and while that's being met around
the other sides that the applicant is
not able to meet it along the sample
Road side on the North Building and
again that was due to where the garage
needed to be located in order to provide
the active uses along Main Street as
well as where the entrance needed to be
for the garage they did again try and at
least meet the intent of the code by
incorporating the off between office
buildings on either side of the garage
it's just that the garage itself is not
lined with a use along the side
similarly so the the DTM you instead of
having here's your setback no matter
what type of building you are
it has different regulations depending
on the size of the building one of those
sizes being the mid rise so it's a
building that's four to eight stories in
size has the vertical mix of uses and it
really is what's going to be a lot of
the makeup of our downtown that four to
eight eight story building it's a lot of
what we'll expect within the downtown so
a width that comes different
requirements to make sure again to keep
those active uses in this instance again
they're not meeting the transparency
requirements just because the garage is
hard up against the street so had they
been able to meet the active use along
that side the the windows and things
like that would have come with it and so
that's why it's short on the side with
that the applicant is requesting for the
special exceptions under criteria number
two and as I mentioned overall this
project it's it's amazing right we're so
glad it's here they just needed a few
things that weren't quite able to meet
with the code largely due to the size of
the building I'm sorry the size of the
property as well as the different
dedications that they had
so we've worked with them I don't even
know how many times we've met on this
trying to to get really the best project
for the city so it truly it's gonna be a
catalyst for our downtown so we're
excited that it's here as you can see on
page one and two of my memo we do have a
number of conditions we are recommending
including that they continue to work
with us to incorporate an active use on
the rooftop I know that's been a concern
about the Commission wanting to have
these active evening uses as well so
we're going to continue to work with
them on that that they continue to work
with us to screen the garages again
they'll go into the design features a
little bit more during their
presentation but we think there's a
little bit more work that can be done to
help help just screen the cars a little
bit more that's all as well as hopefully
you saw the color blocking outside and
we just like to work with them on the
materials for that that they intern at
landscape maintenance agreement again
it's a standard condition that you see
often when we're coming forward with you
whether it be conditional use or special
exception that the plat be recorded
prior to building permits
that'll be cross access and cross
parking agreements between both
buildings to make sure the residents and
the visitors for the building's can
utilize both sides of the of the project
they're gonna be installing larger trees
especially a bit coincide with our
building now that our trees have been
here for a little while they're maturing
they'll be able to have a little bit
higher tree to help create a better
sense of place a few of these are
delayed relating to deliveries as well
as track trash collection and that they
enter into a right-of-way agreement with
us for the pavers and the improvements
that'll be in the city right away
they'll be adopting a master sign is
project program that'll be coming to for
forward to you at a later date and then
we're also recommending that the special
exception run with the land and may be
transferable that I'm here for any
questions and I know the applicant is
here with their presentation as well any
questions for Julie I have one are the
bike lanes colored they're not colored
but they do have markings on the roadway
to show like it's for bikes too okay all
right
and even a good evening
Scott Backman on behalf of the applicant
yeah I'd like to echo Julie's excitement
it's it's we are thrilled to be here
this evening I live in the area as well
so to be involved in a project like this
as influential and and and
groundbreaking as we believe it will be
for the city of Coral Springs for what
the city of Coral Springs we know has
been trying to accomplish for a lot of
years obviously starting across the
street from us to the east and it's it's
taken some time for a lot of different
reasons and I'm absolutely thrilled to
be part of it this development project
also to ecchi echo some of Julie's
sentiments look it's not every day that
we're involved in development projects
and the mutual feelings amongst the
applicant and staff at all levels
throughout the project sure there were
some conversations that needed to be had
in order to figure out how to move this
project forward and get the special
exceptions in place and move some things
around on the site plan and you know
obviously we've been at this for a
little over two years since before you
adopted the new zoning regulations but
the the manner in which our entire team
has embraced the city and their staff
and the city has embraced our team to
try and bring this project to fruition
is really it's second to none work in
Broward and Palm Beach counties probably
50 different jurisdictions and it's not
it's not often you stand up here and
have this kind of conversation I think
that's a testament obviously you talk to
all of you sitting up there on the dais
and to your staff and so you know thank
you for that from the applicants point
of view because it's a really nice thing
to be welcomed the way that we are I
wish it was like that everywhere um
Julie as always I mean your staff here
does a phenomenal job presenting I've
been working in the city for almost 20
years and it's it's rare that doing what
I do I need to stand up and unless it's
an unbelievably controversial project
spent a whole lot of time going through
my presentation so the first few slides
my present
almost identical to Julie's summaries
explanation of where the retail the
office things of that nature are would I
really want to spend some time talking
you through probably have about fifteen
or twenty different renderings of the
project just to give you a little bit
more perspective from the four or five
that Julie showed you I will walk you
through all of those our architecture
team who has done an unbelievable job on
this project is here they're they're
happy if you have any questions or want
to hear a little bit more from them in
terms of you know the the vision for
this project they're happy to speak our
Landscape Architect our civil engineer
everyone's here obviously this evening
as we're all sitting here talking is a
very exciting evening for all of us so
the project itself it's taken on a few
different iterations before I got to you
obviously we're here because of the
special exceptions the way the process
in this city works in the way the
foreign-based code works the site plan
process by itself so to speak is
administrative which also as a developer
to representative is another very good
and positive thing that this city does
it takes the politics out of development
deal sometimes which is a very good good
thing from a developer's point of view
but the what we're bringing before you
and as Julie mentioned some of the
points associated with the special
exceptions that we need in the type of
the property it really was all a matter
of the design and how we got to where we
god there were other iterations as I
mentioned earlier that had different
components and and and and uses within
the project and it took a little bit of
time and a lot of discussion with with
city staff economic development the CRA
and and some of you all as well in fact
I think all of you as we worked our way
through those various points to get to
the project that you see here today and
so what you're looking at is the the
hard corner of the project at sample and
university you're looking at one of the
office towers and then you're looking
west at the parking garage and then you
can see the other far office tower in
the distance and then beyond that would
be City Hall it really dawned on us
about a year ago maybe a little less
where we're getting rid of a pretty
significant amount of office space and
to
bring some office back to this piece of
property made sense for a variety of
reasons obviously to replace some of
what's being lost but more importantly
with the Main Street component in the
manner in what this project was always
envisioned in and and being brought
forward the Main Street is going to have
a significant amount of retail
restaurant outdoor cafes create that
activity and that connection from City
Hall the open spaces at City Hall in
into this project and to ensure the
vibrancy and long-term sustainability
and viability of a project like this
that is going to have that kind of
restaurant in retail we realized that
there was a missing component to this
project not that it doesn't exist in
some respects around it but making sure
that Monday through Friday during the
daytime hours that those uses on Main
Street are not sitting there I wouldn't
say empty but but without providing
bodies as part of this project we became
very concerned as a development team for
the long-term sustainability of those
uses and so so that was really at the
end of the day how we ended up at the
project that's being presented to you
but I can assure this Commission and you
saw it in Julie's presentation as well
for almost 90,000 square feet of
restaurant and retail and that is almost
entirely within that ground-floor Main
Street area we need to make sure that
we're doing what we can to keep that you
know those users that are coming in all
the various tenants that we're talking
to sustainable for a very long time
another view of the project I think
Julie showed you this one looking
directly from the north across the
street what you see you see two gaps it
almost looks like three buildings there
really it's not but it isn't it's not
but what you see there are really two
courtyards on either side of the garage
in order to ensure some additional
activity out on sample again we want to
make sure that there was a good balance
and we spent a lot of time working with
yourself on this the Main Street is the
epicenter of this particular development
project but it is not the epicenter of
your downtown the epicenter of your
downtown his University and sample so we
needed to make sure that we were
providing the activity out off of sample
Road and at the hard corner of
University and sample and so you've got
you can see some of the
awnings out on the eastern building and
there there are entrances to the lobby
and things of that nature and so that
was a delicate balance from a use and a
design standpoint that we obviously had
to work through looking from the other
corner so you're looking down 94th on
the right and you're looking directly
toward University Drive straight ahead
so this is a view looking from 94th down
Main Street and you can start to see
some of the activity and what Main
Street looks like on your left is the
office is the westernmost office
building on your right is the hotel
again a lot of awnings Julie talked a
little bit about the the code
requirements for what Main Street needs
to look like and and to the city's
credit in designing that code there's
there's 15 feet of sidewalk there are
different zones within this sidewalk but
15 feet on either side and that is
exactly what is necessary in order to be
successful you guys see it out at the
walk where you've got a lot of room a
lot of courtyards a lot of opportunity
for outdoor cafes and and a lot of other
development projects I work on in other
areas the most successful are the ones
that have that width because that's
where pedestrians really start to feel
comfortable and you know start to spend
a little bit of time and hang out which
i think is really what we're all looking
for here to bring that activity bring
people that want to spend the time that
wanna you know I know there are some
some plans and we've been speaking with
your city manager and your staff about
some of the uses at City Hall and
creating opportunities for that
interaction between this project in the
Main Street and some of the open spaces
that have yet to really been developed
in totality outside of this building
just of you looking again down Main
Street you're standing on the on the
south side of the residential block
looking to the north and you can see
some of the some of the retail
restaurant commercial uses again a lot
of this stuff is similar but I'd like
you to pay attention to here you're
again looking down Main Street from the
West but you're you can see the sidewalk
along University Drive and even though
width there and I think Julie briefly
touched on this
well there was some delays for this
project there was almost a six-month if
not longer delay dealing with FDOT in
Broward County on a University Drive the
right-of-way issue and and dedications
and requirements and you know when
you're dealing with in your city again
the testament to your city staff they
went separately in met with FDA ot to
try and help us through the issue there
aren't a lot of cities that would
actually go down to the building on
commercial Boulevard and sit there and
have that meeting to try and work
through issues and it shows how
important the downtown and this type of
project is and so ultimately I think we
arrived at a solution I mean not exactly
what we were originally proposing but a
solution that works and you're gonna end
up with that that with and it's gonna
create we was talking to rod about this
just yesterday it's gonna create some
really good opportunities for the to
restaurant slash storefronts at
University Drive in Main Street because
of this condition actually so this is a
view looking at the hotel a little bit
down Main Street the hotel essentially
is off 94 to only showed you a really
good rendering that I'm gonna show you
in just a minute of really how the hotel
although it's it's all integrated has
the vehicular frontage off of 90 fourth
and there's a porter cachet and a
drop-off and so even though you've got
all these different uses you know on 6.3
acres at the end of the day that's all
that we've got left of just over seven
we were able to do so through our design
team in such a way that that really
makes this project work with the
entrances to the residential versus the
office versus the hotel and and the
manner in which we've designed Main
Street with regard to the retail and the
residential and the restaurant so this
is another view looking at the hotel
this is right at the intersection of
94th and Main Street and you can see by
the way also the ground floor of the
hotel there's additional restaurant and
retail space which which we think will
actually go very well and be very
compatible with with the hotel itself
and and then this is the same rendering
that was in Julie's presentation and it
shows you the the interaction so you
this is a large parcel just to the east
what you're looking the grass there is
just to the east of the garage the big
open grass parcel and so then just
across from that on
fourth is a port of cachet it's also the
main entrance to the parking garage I'll
point out I know Julie wanted me to
mention it the what you see there almost
look like louvered yellow and black
that's an exposed area of the parking
garage obviously we've worked on design
and screening we're continuing to work
with staff that is a condition of
approval during the permitting process
to make sure everyone's really happy at
the end of the day with with that
portion and then one of the there's an
exposed portion of the garage as you've
already seen from the sample road
frontage and we're working on different
colors and screening options for that as
well so this is we're basically working
our way in and around and and then back
now to the south side of the project
this is a view from the West looking
down Main Street at the residential and
you can see the the differing design
there and again I think our architects
did a wonderful job of differentiating
between the the residential and the
hotel in the office and the retail but
again still really integrating
everything and making it compatible the
architectural review committee was very
pleased with what they saw as well I
mean see the different designs
components the ins the outs the movement
of the building I'm sure my architects
laughing at me right now cuz I'm not
using all the bus words but again the
balconies the glass all of those
different elements that you don't always
see on a building that you know I mean
that's what is important that what
creates the the distinction for a
project like this versus you know an
apartment building that's generally
relatively square looking maybe has a
couple of balconies on it so this is
another view this is looking from I
believe 33rd and University Drive again
just another view looking down each of
the respective excuse me rights of way
and then this is the corner just to the
just to the south of the hotel and again
another another view of of the
residential building and again just
taking note there's a little bit of a
different view here with the manner in
which the balconies are provided versus
on the other side of the building as
well just to kind of give a little bit
of distinction to the building as as you
work your way around so that it's not so
you're not just looking at the same
elevation
as you work your way through and around
the project another view at the
residential and the hotel and the port
of cachet and that's where I'll stop
Julie did a phenomenal job working
through the special exception criteria
I'm happy to again or just happy to
answer any questions but I just want to
again reiterate I mean this has been a
very pleasurable enjoyable experience
you know the delays were solely on the
parts of other parties the city's been
great you know CRA actually we've got an
agreement with them I think we'll be
seeing you guys again in two or three
weeks whenever you're first meeting in
marches maybe it's two weeks from now we
have our plat and a couple of other
agreements that are necessitated by FDOT
there's an agreement that we've been
working on with staff for the shared use
of our garage as well as the city's
garage depending on you know certain
times of the year when the city
certainly has needs certainly over the
holidays and things of that nature
with that said happy to answer any
questions any questions of the
petitioner back to slides absolutely
special exception the slide before that
the hotel the front of the hotel
there there yep
what's that big white door garage yeah
it's got to be a garage for the hotel oh
that's the surface parking garage
entrance okay
service sorry that's facing City Hall
right one thing that I know that talk
about for a few years here with the
prior Commission's and this Commission
and things is you know our residents and
people in South Florida like to be
outdoors one of the unfortunate things
about being outdoors in South Florida
especially as we hit this the summer
months is the heat and when I take my
wife out for a nice evening what we've
noticed it is a great way in the summer
months to avoid the heat and still be
outdoors too
go to a place where up high there's a
place to hang out on top of roof where
you get that nicer breeze
I know that's one of the conditions that
staff is recommending that we go ahead
and take a look at is some type of
rooftop addition absolutely yes sorry
and I actually meant to touch on it
while I was walking through everything
so the hotel itself will have a rooftop
lounge bar something along those lines
so that that's great and and and from
conversations we've had the idea is that
that will be open to the public
ideally like you see in a lot of other
big cities the hotel itself is for
private guests but you could potentially
go up to the top floor and you know have
a drink and overlook we are all so I
don't need to bring it up you guys saw
at the top of the parking garage where a
lot of those colors were that that was
designed or is designed as a usable
space it is our intention ideally to
have some sort of entertainment or other
usable use up there again it's very
tenant specific where that's a very
fluid process we are negotiating with a
number of tenants right now it is
absolutely the goal to try and have a
secondary rooftop use on being on the
what would be the north lock on the on
the garage above where the office
buildings are yeah okay thank you happy
to come back for other questions if you
had this is a public hearing would
anybody like to be heard okay please let
us know your name and address Robert
Fogel 109 nine eleven Northwest 12th
Drive Coral Springs welcome garage for
tenants versus public use for hotels are
they separate because tenants are not
going to want to be involved with other
parking facilities for businesses and so
on and so forth that's question number
one though Scott will write it down and
okay question number two security for
the garages itself because there's
probably going to need some kind of
secure
he was not mentioned rentals versus
condos are they good are the apartments
going to be rentals versus condos and
what kind of income is expected in both
categories and lastly why do we need
more office space in city of Coral
Springs when we have I think a lot of
vacancy and if you look across the
street at the complex that was built 10
years ago or something along those lines
I believe it's still empty to a certain
degree where the charter school is in
the library so those are my four
comments they you're just so I'm clear
on your fourth comment you're thinking
that there's a lot of vacancy in the
first part of downtown on the South
throughout Coral Springs I think there's
a lot of vacancies in in office space
and I don't know what we're doing to
fill that space and why do we need more
you're welcome is there anyone else from
the public that wishes to be heard you
may come up
Stephanie Clark um one of the things
they talked about was rooftop seating
bars most of the places here have air
conditioners on the roof so is now going
to be down there with people I think
we're really congested on this corner
and this is a big project for this
corner and I kind of like the old city
in the country where we had parking and
we had that that that space between the
road and the buildings and it seems like
that whole intersection especially
what's across the street on the other
side with the little narrow sidewalks it
just seems very congested it seems like
we're trying to redevelopment let's put
as much as we can into this intersection
so it just seems crowded seems like
again office space we need more office
space it seems like a lot of congestion
a lot of building more parking garages
you know so we're gonna are we when we
talk about swapping use for the parking
garages are they paying to use our city
parking garages is it just gonna be the
residents will have extra spaces in our
now are our parking garage here so I
just feel like it's congestion and I
guess you guys like it but I think it
doesn't fit in with what I think Coral
Springs used to be there's you know and
still want it to be and I think a lot of
residents still want it to be you know
that open space we appreciate your
commentary this is still a public
hearing would anybody else like to be
heard
all right public hearing is now closed
anything from the day's motion oh I'm so
sorry yes thank you
Commissioner vignola so you had about
four or five questions from Robert I've
got four so the first was the the garage
is the
north garage the one that's visible from
sample is dedicated to the north lot as
the north block essentially so you'll
have office users restaurant and retail
users the I'm going to kind of blend the
first two because security was a
question as well
there will be limited access on certain
floors in all likelihood the office as
you get a little higher in the garage
they'll be a gate that you go through
for office tenants obviously the first
few floors of the garage are going to be
dedicated to the retail and restaurant
users so it will be unrestricted so to
speak I don't believe at the moment
there is a plan to charge for those
spaces and there will be cameras in the
right locations to ensure that safety
and security is a most important on the
south side same thing as it relates to
the security component it is for solely
the hotel and the apartments they are
rental apartments so that answers
another question not condo the first few
floors will in all likelihood be
dedicated parking for the hotel so
you'll have guests there may be valet
service as well so relatively
unrestricted but again you'll have a
murres and things of that nature and
then at once you get to a certain point
in the garage there will be a gate and
that will be restricted access for the
residents of the apartments so I believe
that covers the first three there was
also a question of income I don't know
that I'm gonna comment on income but
these will be market rate hotels are
great apartments one two and
three-bedroom you know market rate rents
are probably in the high you know
somewhere in the neighborhood and I'm
probably taking a shot on the dark at
the moment but seventeen hundred twenty
five hundred if not higher on the
three-bedroom units and then lastly just
to comment cuz I know it came up as it
relates in the office space obviously I
mentioned when I was speaking earlier
one of the reasons it's so important we
did a market study you don't have a
whole lot of new class a market space in
this city
plenty of office space no question about
it but not a whole lot that's been built
new recently to the the class of tenant
that we're seeking to attract that we
think the city will be very happy with
as well covers everything so I'm not
sure if this is still a thing my guess
is it is it's been a while since I've
been here dealing with something like
this
Leeds Oh green sir so so I don't believe
that we're pursuing a certification it
is still a thing but what what happens
is now their best building practices and
what you would see if we ran up the
numbers and I think you got we right
you'll see we do provide a checklist and
you'll see very significant amounts of
green building concepts incorporated
into the construction process yeah yeah
I'm very excited and that we're very
happy to hear about the collaborative
efforts and from what I hear from staff
you were all very very responsive to the
suggestions and same with P & Z so great
to me commissioner big know I had a
comment okay I just want to make a quick
clarification they the office building
on the southeast corner of sampling
University is completely least I'm a
tenant and we could use more space there
you know that's good I had a sense of
that so that's good to hear one sided at
all it's been some back and forth as if
you were listening to Mr Bachmann's
presentation he said there were some
things that they want it but they're not
getting and that's just because of the
great work of our staff also from our
retreat where we kind of set out what we
wanted to see from this project and
staff taking those recommendations or
suggestions and kind of implementing
that and their work with the developer
for this project to - miss Clark I'm
sorry Coral Springs is no longer the
city in the country that is that is gone
and so what we what we all are facing
with and the task that we're we're
meeting head-on is trying to help Coral
Springs shape its new identity we want
to make sure that this is something for
everyone I hope that once this project
goes up and it is everything that we
believe it will be and trust me we are
keeping very tight eyes on this that you
will be able to come out and enjoy it
and see that you know hopefully you'll
go this isn't so bad and you know it's
it's it's just one of those things where
we need to innovate and we need to be
that benchmark City that we used to be
and this project will help that go a
very long way
so I'm very grateful to everyone who's
putting their their hearts and minds
into it I can feel that everyone is
invested in this and that this is
something that they really want to see
get done and not for any you know
personal reasons but because they know
that this will be really good for this
city so awesome yes vice mayor one more
thing with the state of Florida
constantly changing our funding sources
the city's growth and survival is going
to be on repurposing our real estate and
the comments were already made about the
office space however I will reiterate
something mr. Baughman said that you
have a hotel and you have condos and
retail but that has a time period and a
life span for all of that it is the
office space that will keep the plaza
busy consistently and then the rest of
it takes over so it's having that
constant activity 9:00 to 5:00 that will
be the positive of having the offices
there that makes sense okay
they're just for the Commission we have
about an 8% vacancy rate for offices in
the city of Coral Springs in the second
part as I believe those a question asked
about will there be any charge if
if the development is going to be using
the city garage and there would be an
agreement put in place that we would
negotiate a rate for any spaces that
were dedicated for that project that you
for the commentary before we take a vote
commission of vignola then Commissioner
Sarah and me so talk about downtown for
many many many years you know we look at
where other communities have failed you
know I haven't looked at keeping areas
filled during a day everyone worries
about you know Friday night Saturday
night but they don't look at during the
week I know we've said it for many years
we're talking about getting the stroller
pushers out there in the mornings in the
days that business people out there for
lunch a place for you know take your
take your significant other out for
dinner and also a place for young people
and those who still like to go out late
into the evening and making it something
that there's constant use and you look
at areas that have failed in South
Florida over the last 20 years that had
some type of nice prominent development
and it worked for a little bit and then
it died down and I think the office
space
you know Class A office space you know
is in need here in the city energy I
know we talked about a percent vacancy
rate not to be the same type of area
like this and I think business people
might want to move their offices that
live in Coral Springs but work out in
Fort Lauderdale or somewhere else maybe
you go ahead and you bring your office
in into Coral Springs here and it's a
less of a commute when you work out in
Fort Lauderdale or driving to Vogue or
some of these other places you're eating
up time away from your family you're
eating you know wait time you can spend
with it with your with your wife and
your children and things I think it's
nice to have an opportunity like that
for the people that live here in Coral
Springs that call call Coral Springs
home to be able to bring their business
like like that here I can't thank staff
enough throughout this whole process I
know you guys keep hearing that whatever
really really visionary moving us
forward in getting the right fit for our
community you know I know we talked
about how do we make downtown right for
Cole Springs and I think this is a
first big project here and it's gonna be
gorgeous it's gonna be beautiful and I
think it's something that our residents
gonna be really really proud of and and
I just wanted to thank you guys for
working with our staff and putting
something forward that again I think
everyone here very very excited
I too want to thank staff actually a
phenomenal job and all the other
department leaders and people in the
trenches
you guys have done a phenomenal job for
anyone listening and everyone in the
audience as I've kind of integrated my
way on to the Commission learning how
things work cornerstone was a very big
conversation in the campaign trail and
having worked with not only the owner
and developer architects the attorneys
we have hit a homerun with this team and
there are a hundred percent committed to
this community and I'm super excited
about this project every time that I
briefed or get some updates or just ask
questions the more more than I'm
learning in here and is exactly what
Coral Springs needs so we are in good
hands with what the team that's putting
this together and I can't wait to enjoy
it in late 2022 if not sooner so that's
awesome yeah we're all very thrilled I'd
say to some extent it's about time you
know I was on the dais when we got
started and and we got stopped so to
carry forward like this and you know
local person that is your attorney local
person that is our developer the
collaborative effort you know that's so
great with our staff having an
understanding of you know our vision and
of course us understanding we don't own
the land so the partnership that I see
has already occurred is awesome the Main
Street area looks fantastic we need
something that's walkable we need
something we're
people of all ages want to be you know
in my mind while we are slogan as
everything under the Sun I put
parentheses right after everything and I
put and everyone and I see this being
something for everyone so we may no
longer be the city in the country but I
certainly want us to be one of the best
cities of the country and this is you
know the next phase of us helping to get
there
one thing I'd share with you as I share
with you and rod privately is how
important it is to have momentum and
continue the momentum and I'd like to
just ask you know if you ever feel like
there's some stoppage somewhere get us
engaged and get citizens engaged as we
keep up the momentum I'd say it doesn't
matter if you know there's a little
stoppage somewhere else you know you
have to to some extent agree to
participate in a recession we won't
agree to that if there is anything like
that
I really I would love a Jazz Cafe so I'm
partially joking partially tonight
I love all the outdoor seating that is
planned for I love the colors I love the
designs and you know very very excited
to vote yes and I think bringing back
the office space is a great way to
leverage everything involved in the
project and I think I'd love to have an
office space there it sounds great to me
so no further coming for me anybody else
on the dais
okay all in favor please say aye any
opposed
carries five oh thanks for continuing
downtown like I said earlier it's a big
day in Coral Springs big day in Coral
Springs we are on to the consent agenda
are there any pulse and does anybody
have a snack mer yeah I think we should
pull 16 I think there was that is
already been moved by Commissioner
Simmons and seconded by
big NOLA any discussion all in favor
please say aye so we're on to number 16
security systems integration including
upgrades installations and repairs and
maintenance there Alex Falcone will come
up and talk a little bit about this
there was a question asked earlier about
the DES pricing this was a project that
we had to start immediately following
February 14 2018 to ensure that our
Charter School had the proper security
procedures in place and in citywide it's
something that we are working we have
been working on over the last two years
we cannot discuss a lot of the
particular due to we don't want that
information out there to be honest with
you it's security for security reasons
but this contract allows us to put what
we need to put in place to ensure to the
best of our ability the security of our
city facilities as the city manager
mentioned this is this is a request to
raise the maximum annual expenditure on
this current security contract this
enables us to finalize some pressing
security improvements that we've already
been working on over the last year to
address the public concern we do we have
issued an RFP request for proposal which
is a competitive process for us to get
businesses involved and companies
involved for the long-term sustainment
maintenance and upgrade of security
systems into the future this request
item 16 tonight is to address the
pressing issues this is a short-term
solution that allows us to finalise
these prop up these projects and exhibit
a most these projects are at the charter
school and a couple of other projects at
our Fire Academy and here at this
facility here at City Hall have any
questions
do it my motion to approve okay I didn't
hear you sorry
all in favor aye opposed carries where's
there
where the next item is ordinance 2020
isomeric - 100 it's north of the city of
Coral Springs Florida many land
development code of the city of Coral
Springs by men in chapter 25 article 16
internal communication facilities
provided for severability provided for
codification provided for an effective
date we had first reading in a public
hearing this is second reading to a
proven adopt I swear there's no
presentation however Julie is available
to answer any questions if you have any
okay we have a motion in a second all
those in favor I passed this for ya the
next item is a cat interface Kathy
Liriano Steven Dyer and chief Perry are
here to answer any questions on this we
do have a just a quick overview I'm very
excited about tonight tonight will
provide us the infrastructure to be able
to hook some of our disparate cats
together that we have in the in the
county allowing for a higher level of
Public Safety we've been working
collectively as a team on this for a
couple a couple years now and we're very
excited to get this this this piece of
infrastructure in place to allow us to
expand our capabilities so the cat hub
is a system that would actually allow us
to be interoperable countywide and
beyond so this would allow for the fire
department to participate in the closest
unit response that was voted in 2002 by
County residents the regional system is
in the process of starting a phase one
actually March second and this will
allow us to participate in that and
so with neighboring counties such as
Palm Beach if they're willing to join
this hub so what this hub is is a
technological device that would allow us
to communicate and give us a situational
awareness for first responders and for
dispatch piece apps throughout the
county to be able to communicate we need
additional officers if there is a big
response kind of like MSD if we needed
to share information and one piece app
receives a call and we need another
assistance from another location and
other officers to respond this would be
able to allow us to communicate without
having a transfer 9-1-1 call it would
reduce us having to have a lot of radio
communication if we can type it into the
computer system because that's how we
communicate with the officers on the
road and we communicate with the public
and input the information into the
system any questions with their
transitions just it really would help
with interoperability we have the radio
interoperability but now we just need
the technology for the CAD to be able to
communicate with the other piece apps we
communicate awesome I feel when it comes
to the radio so I think having this
technological piece that would help us
communicate technology wise computer
that we can relay information via that
network not only by the radio system
would allow us to get additional units
when need be and also be able to work
with neighboring jurisdictions because
this can you know be even a tri-county
project that we can expand this to
because at the end of the day we
eventually will need each other some way
or not and this will help us with not
only with law enforcement especially for
fire with close to senior response mr.
mayor I'd like to go on the record and
just thank our County manager miss Henry
I had a meeting with her and she
committed to partnering with us to try
to make Brauer a safer place when it
comes to our interoperability so our
teams will be working together hopefully
in the near future to to establish the
connectivity need it to make this work
both to second
alright who move first we'll give it to
Larry Commissioner vignola
any further discussion I'll just say
thank you to the city manager for
mentioning the county because I wanted
to go on record and say that we need to
make sure that Broward County is a part
of this I don't think it it it's it's
cool to be connected to Palm Beach but
we we need to be connected to our county
right here so I hope that that
conversation in those meetings will bear
fruit and that we will get Broward
County onto the system as well this is a
much bigger deal I think then people
realize we're talking about the cat
system and what it does and what it
allow us to do and some of the things
that came out of the MSD commission and
stuff this this gives us the
interoperability that will solve some of
the concerns that the state might have
saw or the comments well done
all in favor please say aye all right
thank you up to number 19 appointment
for the Charter School Advisory Board a
reappointment actually of raymond
Lefevre it's a request to reappoint
Serra motion seconded
did you want to share anything with us
Melissa just in case for questions mr.
Lefever was a fantastic principal at
Westchester elementary great contributor
our community still lives in the area
sounds great to me
so where there are other educational
representatives that applied the Charter
School advisory board in the past the
individuals serving in the three seats
that are appointed by the Commission is
there seven voting members three of
those members are appointed by the
Commission
traditionally what has been done
that if you seek reappointment if you
want to be reappointed your name simply
comes back to the commission and that
has been the past practice thank you
any further discussion on the motion I
just wanted to congratulate and really
thank ray for serving
when I became a principal I was pretty
green and he took me under his wings
even though he was an elementary
principal he's just that kind of guy and
I can't think of anyone better to serve
in this position but also just from a
district school board side there's not a
person I've ever met that doesn't
respect race so I think this is a
perfect fit for not only cruel Springs
charter community as a whole and I want
to thank him for being not only a great
guy a fantastic president but a servant
to Coral Springs children alright any
further discussion carries 4 0 next is
item 20 on this is an appointment to the
historical Advisory Committee it's a
request to consider the appointment of
Tracy Lee Tom to the historic historical
Advisory Committee
that's my committee Tracy's a great
contributor I would like to make a
motion that we thank you
any further discussion all right all in
favor please say aye
next is an appointment to the MLK junior
committee it's a request to consider the
appointment of Janice days eights meet a
longtime resident longtime banker here
today MLK junior committee it's a
request to a point all right second by
Commissioner vignola any discussion all
in favor please say aye
next is an appointment to the
multicultural Advisory Committee it's a
request to that consider the appointment
of Karen Williams to the multicultural
Advisory Committee
second moved and seconded by
Commissioner Vignola any discussion all
in favor please say aye aye any opposed
all right next is item number 23 it's a
request to consider appointments to the
CI GC of the several candidates listed
there so a request to a point by the
dais by Commissioner Simmons okay
second bike vice mayor quarter any
discussion
glad to welcome them to the team all in
favor please say aye
next is an appointment for the one seat
architect Landscape Architect or related
field to the public art committee it's a
request to a point move to approve
second by Commissioner Serra any
discussion all in favor please say aye
thank you very much very very smooth and
we appreciate the timing the patience
and getting them all on now so Thank You
Melissa for your work anybody else
involved next we are on to Commissioner
communications who would like to go
first
okay all right vice mayor quarter we're
gonna go from left to right this time oh
I want to remind everybody that Friday
is the Beach Boys for I'll use 70s fans
out there it'll be at the Coral Springs
city center but the coolest thing Friday
is going to be innovation if you have
not been to see innovation you have got
to come there are some of the greatest
inventions there there was a machine
that it stops your air conditioner from
leaking and that's not a good thing
speaking of air conditioners I learned
something today that I think is very
very valuable changing our popcorn
ceilings to textured ceilings has become
very popular if you have this service
done in your home please have your air
conditioners turned off while they were
doing it or it could cost you thousands
of dollars and repairs I heard that
today so please do plan to come to
innovation and see all the cool
experiments and you get your chance to
vote and then Saturday is our
his waist pick up and we are in
cooperations with the city around us and
so the pickup will be in North
Lauderdale if you would like to speak to
me oh I did have one more thing the
couple from law pacita if you would like
to me say I'm happy to but I understand
that it's this is an issue that's been
ongoing and perhaps may be have to be
resolved by your homeowners association
but I'm always happy to talk to you I
can be reached in 954 nine nine eight
four one eight six or joy Carter at
Coral Springs org Thank You mr. mayor
and stuff thank you guys do a great job
alright so I have to ask for a wrecker
get consists of sacks for a recognition
a recognition recognition for the Phi Z
Zeta chapter of Zeta Phi Beta Sorority
Incorporated for their chapter here in
Coral Springs and for their organization
at large they are celebrating their
centennial this year and so we want to
give them a recognition to celebrate and
commend them for all the work that they
do for our community so I'm hoping to
get consistence from you all to get a
recognition for some of the things that
they're involved they have youth
mentoring programs they do community
street cleanups they represent finer
womanhood making sure they uplift black
women in the in society and they do a
lot of philanthropy events and things
throughout the community I would love it
that's all right definitely want to
thank staff again for the events on
February 14th you know that is a very
somber day and you know your commitment
to making sure that people have a place
to you know express themselves and think
and feel however they need to about the
the tragic events at MSD two years ago I
just want to say that we appreciate you
and big shout out to Susie has Kristin
for our work with getting all of the
events and the Bloomberg philanthropy
for you know to kind of help heal us
through art right so thank you for your
tireless efforts on that I want to take
a moment to thank Senator Lauren book I
met with her recently when I was in
Tallahassee just to kind of shore up
some of the things that we need for our
appropriations I think we have gotten
funded in the house and we're working to
get fully funded in the Senate as well
and if that goes through we're gonna be
looking pretty good so I want to thank
her first meeting sometime with me and
talking with me over some of her
priorities as well I want all of us if
you can to keep state representative
Kristin Jacobs and your thoughts and in
your prayers she is not doing too well
and so please be mindful of that and if
you want to reach out to her office or
anything like that if you know her
family you know just you know reach out
to her when not when I was just in
Tallahassee last week she was in the
Mayo Clinic so let's keep one of one of
our our own lifted up next thing I want
to say and all right so on April 1st to
all the residents of Coral Springs you
will be receiving invitations to
participate in the 2020 census the
number of House of Representatives that
we get depends on the responses that we
get from our communities right now
Florida is projected to receive two more
congressional seats but we need to make
sure that we get every one as many
people as we can count it equally as
important dozens of federal programs use
the responses and from the census to
direct funding to state and local areas
so that would impact us here obviously
the coral spring staff is doing a great
job of getting prepared we have a
complete count committee and we have
already designated the areas in the city
that are traditionally difficult to get
accurate counts from so please remember
on April 1st
we start counting so you can fill out
your invitation through the mail or you
can do it online which is the first time
and PS there is not I repeat there is
not a citizenship question on the census
so that should not bar anyone from
filling out the census and being counted
and the last thing I'll say it's in
Cecilia's Black History Month you know
recently Cheyenne and I binge watched a
documentary on Netflix called who killed
Malcolm X and you know if you don't know
too much about Malcolm X or if you still
have kind of the version of history that
was presented to you while he was here
on this earth then you may still have a
very negative view of him I would
encourage you I would encourage you to
take a look at that documentary if you
just like learning if you're curious if
you like documentaries take a look at
that and what you'll start to see is
that this man who had a very rough start
in life found someone to help him get
lifted out of that trouble of life and
then as he went through that started to
see how the world was really working
started to move towards a more moderate
approach when it came to fighting for
civil rights in this country and so I
would encourage you just to take a look
at that so you can learn more about him
and I will leave you with this quote
from him we declare our right on this
earth to be a human being to be
respected as a human being to be given
the rights of a human being in this
society on this earth in this day which
we intend to bring into existence by any
means necessary and he said that because
at that height of in the 60s we know how
bad it was right and this was someone
that spoke to kind of everything that
was happening and so he wanted he really
desperately wanted to be seen and wanted
other black people to be seen for what
they were which was a human being just
like anyone else in this country on this
planet so again I would encourage you
just take a look at that documentary if
you're just interested and curious just
to see more about it so thank you thank
you Commission vignola tie into a couple
things that Chris or Simmons spoke about
state representative Jacobs I will tell
you when I first got elected I was put
on the MPO I had the privilege of
sitting next to Commissioner Jacobs and
although I disagree with her on a few
topics at the MPO I will tell you she
was the most well-prepared person in the
room every single time and up in
Tallahassee she's done a wonderful job
representing us so where's that way the
census you spoke about yes congressional
seats all those wonderful things but the
funding that comes in to the community
you know over six hundred and seventy
five billion dollars in federal funds
annually to support states counties and
communities vital programs housing
education transportation employment
health care and public policy it is
vital that everyone goes ahead and make
sure that they're counted in the census
I want to congratulate chief McNally
again I meant to my last mr. comments
last meeting when unfortunate I had a
family emergency I had to run so very
happy to see Ali in his new role events
of the 14th and the anniversary that
after working on it and probably safety
officials and everyone I think that that
we can continue promote healing susan
has Chrisman and the work that you've
done with the different projects and all
the people that work with you on that
I think it really really means a lot in
our community I don't think you really
understand what it does for our
community so thank you very much I know
for many years you've gone way above and
beyond for our community and I
appreciate you and thank you want to go
ahead and wish my daughter Madison a
happy birthday
so we have a 14 year old next week which
is scary has any issue please call my
cell phone at nine five four six three
two seven five four four it's the we are
very thankful as staff if you couldn't
tell today yes Commissioner Sarah I just
want to reiterate and I say this pretty
much every time but it
privilege and honor to serve this
community I'm very proud of Coral
Springs in the direction that we're
going and I look forward to working with
this commission also would like to say
happy birthday to Massa and then I also
want to recognize Commissioner Simmons
once again you made history in Coral
Springs and shared that quote from Kobe
earlier and another vamp and in order to
make history you have to do a historical
things and I think you're just getting
started personally so congratulations
we have unplugged this Friday and I'm
really looking forward to the event so
hopefully we'll see you on his City Hall
on
I wanted a Saturday I'm sorry yeah so I
would have been really early we try to
get there a little early sometimes first
watch and top-40 to had some grand
openings this weekend and it was pretty
cool to be a part of you know both
places were packed and it was just a
vibe in there so excited not only for
our city but for both of those
businesses I want to congratulate Suzy
and everyone that was involved with the
power of art you know we went through a
very difficult time as the two-year
anniversary hit and that day is
especially hard for everyone in a
community but you know losing a couple
friends on that day and going around to
different opportunities to honor and
remember them as special and I know
their families truly appreciate that but
we got a lot of work ahead of us and a
lot that we need to still accomplish to
make our community stronger and safer
when it comes to not only schools but
also mental health I just served my
first committee meeting for the
architectural review and I was
mesmerized by the knowledge in the room
I realized I was not the smartest person
in a room at all I was the dumbest but
Elizabeth did a beautiful job
facilitating the conversation and I want
to thank all five members that serve on
a committee without them we really could
the city forward and it was good to hear
the give-and-take in the conversations
and people you know given their argument
of why they should have a tile roof or
you know metal roof or whatever but I
look forward to serving on that
committee moving forward and just for
those of you that have unused medication
there's a CBS 5 7:01 Coleridge Drive
that's willing to take any of your
disposable unused medication so I think
that's good it's better than throwing it
in the garbage
so please it's a safer way and it's
definitely available within our own City
if you're interested in meeting with me
I don't hold office hours but if there's
concerns I'm a visual person so if you
reach out to me on my cell nine five
four six one two seven one one four I'm
happy to meet with anyone and everyone
and I'll go to you and we'll take a look
at it so I could get better educated and
informed on what your concerns are thank
you thank you
I just want to piggyback on what Sean
said about the drop off for drugs and
prescriptions the cross brings
improvement Digitas district which is
not the city's water district but
everything south of Royal Palm in the
three three oh seven one your zip code
if you contact them they will drop off a
bag for you to dispose of your
medications so you do not put them down
the wastewater I just want to add that
so with a lot of the commentary in the
historic portion of our evening in
several ways recognizing you
Commissioner Simmons which i think is
it's not just awesome for you and your
family it's awesome for our community to
have you up here and how you ran and how
you are serving and I appreciate you
very much
there is just such collaboration here in
our city with staff with department
heads with volunteers with citizens you
know all five of us are listening to
this
that are here responding to their
questions considering their
considerations I remember even at a
recent meeting cellular of you had you
know shared a lot of sympathy for one of
the young ladies that came up and talked
about the effect on potentially her
property with one of our decisions I
just really appreciate that demeanor my
colleagues have and the listening
ability that you have an ability to
respect differences it's just a pleasure
to be part of your team it really is the
power of art finished amazingly this
program that we were such a fortunate
benefactors of for our city for our
healing for our community for a combined
community of parkland and Coral Springs
really phenomenal and and Lynn I want to
thank you also for your leadership for
being such a great spokesperson for
preparing wonderful speeches for me to
share because it's mostly coming from
you and I edit revise a little bit Suzie
has Chrisman thank you for your
leadership and all of your team that's
involved with that we had a fantastic
ceremony of peace and love isn't that
great peace and love Joe on the western
end of sample it's up there and so is it
March or May June 1st now perfect so one
of the requests that I had that I'd like
us to look into consider and we can talk
about it workshop to is I had a request
can we do yoga
can there be a yoga event or several
over there and really leverage that
piece of property so if we can get some
information about that that would be
awesome and maybe even consider some
other event I'll I'll be talking about
possibilities at our upcoming workshop I
would like to also thank the museum for
all of their efforts in helping our
community heal I think in many ways
Julia who is the former head of the
museum I believe she resigned recently
I'd like to recognize her with consent
from you all
retired that's what I meant retired not
resign retired so if I can have consent
for that I'd like to recognize her at a
future meeting all right I have consent
for that I appreciate it
our performing arts center is doing
wonderful things they've got packed
houses for so many events I think bill
hag gets doing an extraordinary job
there he's also out and engaged and
involved with the community which i
think is so important from one of the
leaders that we have and I would love
for them to come and share I don't know
maybe every quarter you know what's
coming up as frequently as they want to
but I'd like to us to extend a formal
invitation to come every so often as
befits them let us know what's happening
some of the shows I think it's also
somewhat under utilized and/or
appreciated by a residence and I know I
often don't necessarily know exactly
what show is coming up when so I'd love
to make a formal invitation come on over
bill or your team and let us know what's
happening that's okay with you all great
let's see one of the things - I'd like
to bring up and I might have brought it
up before at our upcoming workshop or
another one if there's no time is what
can we do to leverage our proximity to
the Everglades
thank you have an idea on that Mary
we're working on that as a staff will
have yeah we'll have something for you
soon we have some conceptual ideas we
want to run by you guys they're pretty
big picture ideas it's going to take a
lot of work to get it done but if we can
get it done it'll do exactly what you
guys are looking for so and you're
reminding me - I want to share publicly
I've shared it with you privately Frank
you've hit the ground running like
you've been the city manager for a long
time you're not skipping a beat you're
proactive you're out there in the
community I can't thank you enough and I
love the partnership that you and JJ
have really the the communication that
you have is fantastic and it makes our
jobs so much easier so much easier
all the involvement with staff to
transition the museum and I'm looking
for us to you know act as the board just
great stuff great stuff I want to
promote again eagles Haven Eagles Haven
is a pillar in our community and eagles
Haven is a great way for people to
continue their healing whether they're a
student a parent of a student somehow
affected by MST and so many of us are
it's a great pit stop for especially
young people to really feel heard and be
part of something bigger than them and
just be themselves we recognize them can
we pay special tribute we did we don't
need to do it again and I'll keep
promoting them I think that's all I have
oh if you would like to set up an
appointment with me I have office hours
usually two or three times a month and
they're typically upstairs every now and
then at a coffee shop and you can make
that appointment and please tell me if
this number is wrong I think I got it
three four four five nine eleven as
opposed to five nine oh six three four
four five nine eleven and if you need me
personally and directly you can get me a
ninety five four six nine six seven five
nine nine thank you very much and any
further comments from the dais yes we
got city manager and then city attorney
mayor thank you for further comments and
commission thank you for the comments
but it's easy when you have a great
group of professionals that care so much
about the city you know they they all
truly put a lot of heart into what they
do as mentioned I just want to mention
it again we added three great
restaurants to over the already great
restaurants and in Coral Springs this
week ballet is in the process of opening
first watch in tap 42 also I want to say
thank you to decimal engineering for for
investing in Coral Springs and putting a
large facility out in the
in the Corporate Park it's a large
manufacturing facility so that means a
lot to Coral Springs to have something
like that out there also a cornerstone
what a great project but it's been a lot
of work it's been a lot of hard work by
a lot of different people there's
probably nobody sitting staff wise in
this room that hasn't worked on it so I
think when the project is done I think
everybody will be will be happy with it
lastly I just want to thank sheriff Tony
last night on his way home he he saw
somebody that was in need and and pulled
over to help them and provided
assistance until Coral Springs police
and Coral Springs Fire Rescue could get
there and and and transport the the
patient to the hospital so I know there
was a news article that came out today
about it but I'd like to thank him for
you know for always being on duty so
that's it I forgot to mention one thing
about our state representative Kristen
Jacobs I met her first when she was
campaigning for her first elected
position in Deerfield Beach and she was
just awesome I mean so caring and so
loving had an incredible ground game and
have much money but it wasn't about the
money and she had enough support to win
her first election and just always a
giver always has time to listen
it reminds me somewhat of Senator Graham
you know when you're in her presence
doesn't matter how many other people in
the room she's with you goes on to the
next person it's hard to be so present
all the time as an elected official so
she'll definitely be in my prayers I had
no idea and I've considered her a good
friend for a long time I didn't even
know about it
JJ thanks Marilyn item that I want to
move forward now which is as you know
there is a couple bills we've talked
about it individually concerning
vacation rentals trying to further
preempt priam local government on
vacation rentals there's a Senate bill
11:28 and a house
10:11 they would continue to move
forward several cities have begun and I
like to be one of the first ones to do
it with you as well to do a resolution
opposing these bills and again trying to
protect our home rule on that issue so
if I could do a draft and adopt it's
very simple resolution against those two
bills that are trying to take away our
home or a lot of vacation rentals I
doubt I could drive to adopt it with you
mayor have it signed tomorrow if we get
a motion to do that that would be great
sounds like vice mayor would like to
make a motion I said I feels like
hundreds of emails to the Senate in the
house and I was there Josh was there too
right yeah you spoke yes at the hearing
and it was awful it felt like they just
look like they weren't listening I
didn't care so yes I definitely make a
motion that we drop that resolution
second by Commissioner Simmons any
discussion with some of the leadership
that was that's in the majority control
of the state and we were having some
very very intense conversations about
home rule in the role of cities and
states and things like that so I firmly
let them know our opposition about
vacation rentals and what that could
mean to cities and so I hope that what I
have suggested it's something that we're
going to be working on - just in case
making sure we sure if our landlord
registration and things like that to
kind of try to circle around that as
well so that we won't you know be left
without any kind of recourse so one of
my concerns is they'll make it a so
broad that it would solve landlord
registration as well so that's another
reason for this motion I would also like
to say I think in 2000 in 2011 they
tried this and had to come back and it
was a because it was a complete mess
they made it broad and it wasn't done
appropriately so what I'm hoping is that
if we are a but if we get something in
before that then this will ultimately
kind of get them to go back to the
drawing board now since I've been up
there the last couple of weeks there
have been lots of people that have voted
to move it forward but said they needed
to hear more tweet
being done once it got to the floor
because if it got to the floor and the
suggestions weren't being taken into
account they would not vote to move it
forward on the floor so still a little
bit of hope but you know I want to make
sure that we're protected any further
discussion on the motion
all in favor say aye aye any opposed
all right carries unanimously thank you
it do we have a museum board meeting
before the Commission meeting on March
4th I think we're prepared to do that if
we can do it
administrative really one too I'm
hopeful that we will have a resolution
to append to a outstanding lawsuit by
that time okay gotcha
so our next regular Commission meeting
is Wednesday March 4th at 9:00 a.m.
we're adjourned good evening everybody
