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HomeMy WebLinkAboutSubmittal-Public Comments Submitted Online for the April 23, 2020 Virtual City Commission MeetingCommission Report Commission Meeting Public Comment - April 23 2020 April 23, 2020 3:55 PM MDT Public Comment motero@miamigov.com First Last Street Email Address Name Name Address Keep West Grove tax dollars in the West Grove. Miami M Otis holaserena@live.com has done little enough for the West Grove's residents in recent decades. 3060 Anita Glick anitaglickwriter@gmaitcom New York Street Fernando Diaz fdiaz1970@yahoo.com Zelalem Adefris zelalema@catalystmiami.org 4235 sw 138ct Miami FL 33175 Agenda Item Public Comment PH. 7 7363 Allocate API Funds - Focal Moore Park After School And Summer Learning Program Are you a Lobbyist? N/A No Support this resolution. After years of hard work by our Commissioner and many, many Grovites wilt RE. 7 7382 FINALLY pay off, and the Direct - Create hard earned tax dollars paid Community year -after -year by Village Redevelopment West residents wilt be used Agency in the for desperately needed West Grove affordable housing, resilient infrastructure, historic preservation and healthy public spaces in the Village West. No PZ. 1 6981 HEPB Decision Appeal - 2167 S. Bayshore Dr N/A No (Special Certificate of Approval) FR. 1 5131 3000 Amend Code — Biscayne Chapter 62 — Blvd Repeal of Suite 210 Special Area Plan Process N/A No 7397 Submittal -Public Comments Submitted Online for the April 23, 2020 Virtual City Commission Meeting Are you First Last Street Email Address Agenda Item Public Comment a Name Name Address Lobbyist? FR. 1 5131 151 SE Amend Code — 1st St., Chapter 62 — De'Sean Weber weberd17@outlook.com N/A No Miami, Repeal of FL 33131 Special Area Plan Process 4935 Parks Battersea PZ. 5 3001 Kathy roccoparks24@gmaiLcom Road Zoning Text - N/A No Suarez Miami NCD Rewrite 33133 2455 PZ. 16981 South HEPB Decision Appeal - 2167 S. Rose Pujol rosepujol@gmaiLcom Bayshore Bayshore Dr N/A No Drive Miami FL (Special Certificate of 33133 Approval) PZ. 1 6981 HEPB Decision 2175 Appeal-2167 S. Rachel Cardello rachelcardello@gmaiLcom Tigertail Bayshore Dr N/A No Ave (Special Certificate of Approval) CA. 1 7280 Accept Proposal 1225 SW - Emergency roberto alfredo mikey1234@gmaiLcom Debris and nice page No lave Disaster Recovery Services 2230 RE. 7 7382 Lincoln Direct - Create I'm in favor of this Community resolution, which keeps Colleen Stovall Miamishakes@gmaiLcom Avenue No Redevelopment some tax dollars in this Miami 33133 Agency in the neighborhood. West Grove RE. 7 7382 In favor with Ken for West Direct - Create 3727 Grove....Too much is taken Lorne Green Baptisimo@yahoo.com Charles Community away from this area and No Terrace Redevelopment needs its sustainable Agency in the West Grove community. First Name Last Name Olga Granda Gary Gross Email Address o@sanctuaryofthearts.org Ggross@aoLcom Nadine Johnson Nadinejohn@aoLcom Kraig Chang kraigchang93@gmaiLcom Street Address 136 Frow Avenue 2437 Tequesta Lane 2915 Catalina Street Miami, Florida 33133 14441 sw 115 ter Miami FL 33186 Agenda Item RE. 7 7382 Direct - Create Community Redevelopment Agency in the West Grove PZ. 1 6981 HEPB Decision Appeal - 2167 S. Bayshore Dr (Special Certificate of Approval) RE. 7 7382 Direct - Create Community Redevelopment Agency in the West Grove PZ. 2 6982 HEPB Decision Appeal - 2167 S. Bayshore Dr, (Special Certificate of Appropriateness) Public Comment Are you a Lobbyist? I am writing to express my ardent support for the creation of a CRA in the West Grove. It is essential that this neighborhood benefit from its own tax - base and work with authorities to equitably distribute its funds for the betterment of its community. The history of No this neighborhood is tong and important for all of Miami and its needs have often been overshadowed by bigger initiatives in other parts of the City. Please rectify this past by committing to support this neighborhood's future. Thank you. Please stop the madness... please vote against this gridlock....) vote! I am in favor of RE 7! The decision to move the appeal to a video conference as opposed normal in -chamber session is absurd during this COVID-19 pandemic. There are bigger issues at hand that the city needs to address and having video conferences to in regards to making major decisions that affects the lives of those in the area when many aren't physically available to participate is doing a disservice to the residents of the city of Miami. No No No First Last Name Name Email Address Theresa Pinto theresajpinto@gmaitcom Liz Gibson Lizgib@aoL.com Street Address Agenda Item Public Comment FR. 1 5131 7231 Amend Code — BeLle Chapter 62 — Meade Repeal of Blvd Special Area Plan Process 4145 eL Prado bLvd RE. 7 7382 Direct - Create Community Redevelopment Agency in the West Grove Are you a Lobbyist? SAPs have not served our city and our residents, and instead, threaten our communities and the affordability of our city. The adverse effects SAPs can have on working-class communities of color in Miami's historic neighborhoods are becoming impossible to ignore. The SAP process is deeply flawed due to: - Minimal to non-existent requirements in ensuring neighborhood preservation - Lack of meaningful processes to gather public input and negotiate community benefits -Lack of study on the impact to No the surrounding neighborhood, such as on traffic, the environment or displacement In addition, we believe that it's important that community benefit agreements (CBA) are central to any upzoning development and a model CBA be adopted as part of any upzoning development SAPs have become a toot for investors to speculate rather than develop the community for the best of its residents, distorting the Land and real estate market and inflating housing costs, and do not add to our affordable housing stock. Please approve because we need to preserve and improve our neighborhood No and this plan wilt help accomplish those goals First Last Name Name Email Address McLissa Meyer msmeyer@ncsu.edu Aaron DeMayo aarondemayo@gmaitcom Street Address Agenda Item Public Comment I would like to express my disgust about the UNPRECEDENTED virtual pandemic hijack that took place at the Last Commission Meeting when the distraction of the DEADLY PANDEMIC was used to renege on the UNANIMOUSLY approved OMNI CRA expansion into the Coconut Grove ViLtage West that would have kept OUR neighborhood tax revenue in OUR neighborhood for public space and infrastructure improvements, historic preservation and desperately needed affordable housing. But it's not too Late to do the right 3161 RE. 7 7382 thing. The worst thing you Ohio Direct - Create could do now is to shut Street Community your eyes to the economic Coconut Redevelopment devastation and Grove, Agency in the desperation that's occurring FL 33133 West Grove just a few blocks from City HaLL. This pandemic has caused too much death, pain and economic devastation and should be used to propel positive change. PLEASE vote in favor of RE.7 - the West Grove CRA, so we can ALL get to work soon, building a new sustainable economy based on the important values revealed to us all in these awful days of the pandemic — affordable housing, resilient infrastructure and healthy public spaces that we all in the West Grove deserve and have worked so very hard for over the course of many, many years. Thank you. Are you a Lobbyist? No 133 NE FR. 1 5131 Special Area Plans offer a No 2nd Amend Code — useful and productive tool Avenue, Chapter 62 — to allow people to assemble Miami Repeal of Larger projects. By doing so, Special Area the projects create a better Plan Process integration of public and private spaces, more interesting open spaces, pedestrian passages, Larger overall storm water retention areas, and the integration of a variety of building heights. If the First Last Name Name Email Address Street Address Agenda Item Public Comment same 9+ acres, were to be designed and built as separate projects, even at the same time, but not as an SAP, the beneficial public effects mentioned above would not be possible. The positive effects of SAPs are crucial to this conversation. It has been ten years since Miami 21's adoption, adjusting SAPs, not their elimination is the way to go. Miami also has a significant affordable housing crisis, which may become worse, as we are expecting 100,000 more people by 2040. The majority of the city has Low Density zoning. Land and construction costs are high. We need tools to bring costs down so even more units can be built. This is key to the affordability issue. I have heard recommendations of SAP adjustments by the planning department, they make sense. To add to that, from a resilience standpoint: - I would suggest SAPs increased storm water retention, along with projections into the future of storm water retention needs to ensure they are not adding to a flooding hazard to the neighborhood that is attached to the downstream system. - SAP mixed -use projects often include large amounts of parking, designing in public access for both vehicles and pedestrians would be beneficial. Mobility trends are moving to less single - occupancy vehicles. Our minimum standards should reflect that. If the garages are built with public access in mind, as the SAPs own parking needs are diminished in the future, nearby development can treat those large garages Like a parking district. - If there are safe structures on Lots, they should not be allowed to be demolished until certain parameters are met, for instance a building Are you a Lobbyist? First Name Last Name vaLerie vaLdez Email Address vaLval246@gmaiLcom Street Address Bayshore Drive Agenda Item Public Comment PZ. 2 6982 HEPB Decision Appeal - 2167 S. Bayshore Dr, (Special Certificate of Appropriateness) permit or SAP approval is secured. This would reduce Large and areas from being fenced off for many years. - Lastly, there can be requirements, if there is a request in additional density, for portions of the new total density, for instance 5-10%, to be set aside for workforce housing. Thank you for your consideration. We a respectfully requesting that you defer this matter until we resume normal in -chamber meetings, when our community can fully participate and not during a time when we are addressing the ongoing catastrophic Covid-19 heath care crisis that has crippled the economy. In less than 5 months, almost 1,000 people have signed a petition on https://bayshoreingrove.org/ Pressing forward with this matter when so many who have voiced opposition wilt not be able to effectively participate in a virtual meeting, is simply unwarranted and fundamentally wrong. Hearing this matter NOW, a time when your Leadership has such a critical impact on our Lives, would be a grave disservice to residents of the City of Miami, as it diminishes your focus on prioritizing the severe Life threatening needs of our community during this pandemic. Please defer this matter to September when we should have all resumed our normal Lives and you are back to holding in -chamber Commission meetings. Thank you. Are you a Lobbyist? No First Last Name Name vaLerie Email Address Valdez vaLval246@gmaiLcom Street Address Bayshore Drive Agenda Item Public Comment PZ. 1 6981 HEPB Decision Appeal - 2167 S. Bayshore Dr (Special Certificate of Approval) We a respectfully requesting that you defer this matter until we resume normal in -chamber meetings, when our community can fully participate and not during a time when we are addressing the ongoing catastrophic Covid-19 heath care crisis that has crippled the economy. In less than 5 months, almost 1,000 people have signed a petition on https://bayshoreingrove.org/ Pressing forward with this matter when so many who have voiced opposition will not be able to effectively participate in a virtual meeting, is simply unwarranted and fundamentally wrong. Hearing this matter NOW, a time when your Leadership has such a critical impact on our Lives, would be a grave disservice to residents of the City of Miami, as it diminishes your focus on prioritizing the severe Life threatening needs of our community during this pandemic. Please defer this matter to September when we should have all resumed our normal Lives and you are back to holding in -chamber Commission meetings. Thank you. Are you a Lobbyist? No First Last Name Name Lisa Email Address Street Address 1717 North Hogan Thecsrfoundation@gmaitcom Bayshore Drive 1656 3940 Main Highway, Anthony Parrish aparrish@windandrain.com Coconut Grove, FL> 33133 Agenda Item Public Comment FR. 1 5131 Amend Code — Chapter 62 — Repeal of Special Area Plan Process RE. 7 7382 Direct - Create Community Redevelopment Agency in the West Grove Are you a Lobbyist? I write on behalf of The Corporate Social Responsibility Foundation to comment on item FR1 in support of the repeal of references to Special Area Plans in the City of Miami code. This Item AND Repeal of SAPs from Miami 21 should be both brought together. SAPs have not served our city and our residents, and instead, threaten our communities and the affordability of our city. In addition, we believe that it's No important that community benefit agreements (CBA) are central to any upzoning development and a model CBA be adopted as part of any upzoning development. A baseline CBA wilt include a detailed description and timeline of community input into the project, reference a displacement analysis, inclusionary housing, job creation, living wage, and community benefits and amenities provided by developer and project. Village West Coconut Grove as a Bahamian heritage community wilt be nearly extinct in another 5 years due to gentrification, i.e.., People with more money displacing existing residents who are of Island descent I support creation of a CRA in West Grove to assist homeownership via creation of Land Trusts and to facilitate repair/replacement of existing homes for current Village West residents. Renters are easy to displace while homeowners anchor their neighborhoods. It's better for everyone in Miami to have healthy and happy neighborhoods for people of all income leveLs. No First Last Name Name Kathy Parks Suarez Email Address roccoparks24@gmaitcom Sherrill Martin HUGHESMARTIN@YAHOO.COM Street Address Agenda Item Public Comment 4035 Battersea PZ. 5 3001 Road Zoning Text - Miami NCD Rewrite 33133 Please WITHDRAW NCD 2 & 3 We already have NCDs along with Miami 21 When what we have is enforced we can discuss if any further changes need to be made Furthermore NCD2 is specific to West Grove No enforcement or follow thru on this Legislation As a matter of fact more development - demo by neglect & displacement (130 plus units) has happened since Ken Russet was elected We can never be ONE GROVE UNITL WE ALL SHARE THE SAME RULES My dirt should not be worth more than my Legacy families & friends Thank you Be welt My name is Sherrill Martin and I am a member of St. James Baptist Church Located at 3500 Charles Avenue, a member of the Woman's Club of Coconut Grove and active with the MinisteriaLALtiance.I am writing to support RE-7 which is the resolution to RE. 7 7382 direct the City management Direct - Create to create a West Grove 6201 SW Community CRA. We are not asking for 61 ST Redevelopment a new vote because you Agency in the voted on it unanimously on West Grove January 11, 2018. It is now April 22, 2020. Two years have past and this community has not seen anything except more decline of our neighborhood. We deserve more than nothing. We deserve a CRA in our community to help with revitalization. Are you a Lobbyist? No No First Last Name Name Meena Email Address Street Address 3000 Biscayne Jagannath meena@communityjusticeproject.com Blvd, Miami 33137 Agenda Item Public Comment FR. 1 5131 Amend Code — Chapter 62 — Repeal of Special Area Plan Process Are you a Lobbyist? I am in support of this item, however I believe it needs to be heard together with the ordinance under File ID 5132, which amends Miami 21 to remove references to Special Area Plans. FR1 only amends the City Code, and removes references to Special Area Plans from the functions of the PZAB. These items are directly linked and should be decided upon together. It is also important to note that repeal alone is not enough; as detailed in the attachment to this item entitled "Comments on Future Legislation..:' the repealshould by accompanied by other policies to support affordable housing development, better access Yes to affordable commercial space, enforceable community benefits and environmental impact controls as well as incentives for development of community and trusts. The Miami 21 Task Force's review of Miami 21 theoretically presents the opportunity to ensure that some of these mechanisms get written into a revised zoning code. This Commission should seize this opportunity and urge the Task Force to pass affirmative policies for equitable development such as those detailed on page two of the Little Haiti Advisory Group and Altapattah Collaborative submission. Thank you. First Last Name Name Da rLa h Lopez Rodriguez Email Address darlah.lopez@gmaitcom Street Address 2850 SW 28th ter Miami FL 33133 Agenda Item Public Comment PZ. 1 6981 HEPB Decision Appeal - 2167 S. Bayshore Dr (Special Certificate of Approva L) Please vote no on PZ.1 6981 and PZ.1 6982 resolutions. This an unnecessary development, since there are 17 schools Located in Coconut Grove serving over 6700 students when the Grove has approximately an area that is 5 square miles and 21,000 residents. The impact to the City of Miami's neighborhoods is even greater traffic bottlenecks that will impose an immense burden on our quality of life, with gridlock causing increased pollution and toxic traffic fumes, and the loss of our most personal measurable resource, our time and money. Especially for the residents of Coconut Grove — where school traffic congestion is already crippling. Removing over half of its 220 trees wilt destroy ViLta Woodbine's Lush tree canopy, green space and the site's protected historic and naturaL resources. The footprint SF of new construction wilt be 8 times Larger than the ViLta, and wilt add over104,000 SF of non -pervious surface. These factors pose a grave hazard to the resilience of an already delicate coastal corridor area and will Likely create flooding of surrounding properties. Approving a new school at the historic ViLta Woodbine property at 2167 S Bayshore Drive poses risks to the City of Miami that we cannot afford! Are you a Lobbyist? No First Name Last Name Email Address Thelma Gibson jking@tghimiami.org Cyndee Levy- Angulo cLa 1210@ me.com Street Address Agenda Item Public Comment 3661 RE. 7 7382 Franklin Direct - Create Avenue Community Coconut Redevelopment Grove, Agency in the FL 33133 West Grove 3096 Blaine St PZ. 2 6982 HEPB Decision Appeal - 2167 S. Bayshore Dr, (Special Certificate of Appropriateness) I have downloaded a video (mp4) tilled In Favor RE7 Thelma Vernell Anderson Gibson - 3661 Franklin Avenue Please view and although it is over 2 minutes long, I have read that the full file will not be shown at Virtual Meeting (2min max) but the entire video will be provided to teh Commission. Sincerely, Thelma V A Gibson Are you a Lobbyist? No Please do not add another school, more traffic, and destroy all the beautiful trees that are on the property. This type of development is destroying No the beauty of Coconut Gove and why we Live here. It is already way over developed. Let's preserve what is unspoiled. First Last Name Name Email Address Street Address 3325 Reynold Martin bigreynoLd@yahoo.com Percival Ave Agenda Item Public Comment RE. 8 7393 Allocate API Funds - Agape Enrichment Summer Academy 2020 I was born and raised in Village West we lovingly referred to as The Grove.My parents were immigrants from thr Bahamas who followed other relatives that settled here as early as the late 1880's.The passing of this item gives me and others similarly situated an opportunity to finish something our forefathers started so very long ago which is the building of a great community with sembLances of Bahamian Culture and that of the many that came to make a decent Living for our families. The kind of assistance enabled by a CRA tends to negate all of the maL treatment of this community by all of this Commission's predecessors.I and so many of my friends and relatives that stilt think of this place as our home hope that this esteemed bodg sees fit to right so many wrongs done a community that has suffered so much. Help stop the bleeding before the Life blood of the community is fully depLeted.Make a difcerence this day in helping to reestablish a community that is so significant even in the establishment of this very City. Give us a chance to survive with a passing of the resolution and a continued support of this sttruggLing but deserving people. Are you a Lobbyist? No First Name Last Name Email Address Horacio Aguirre brettbibeau@miamirivercommission.org Ligia Crystal LigiacrystaL@bellsouth.net Street Address 1407 NW 7 ST STE 2 Miami, FL 33125 4150 Crawford Ave Agenda Item FR. 3 7338 Amend Code - Chapter 20, 29 and 54 PZ. 2 6982 HEPB Decision Appeal - 2167 S. Bayshore Dr, (Special Certificate of Appropriateness) Public Comment Dear City Commission: During the Miami River Commission's March 2 Public Meeting, City of Miami Public Works Director Dodd distributed and presented an excellent presentation and the subject FR.3 draft ordinance revisions to elevate seawalls in response to sea level rise. The MRC unanimously recommended approval of the City's proposed ordinance amendments to increase sea level elevations in response to sea level rise, with the following conditions: 1. Work on addressing the required financing 2. Include both private and public sector seawalls 3. Consider any differences which maybe needed in D1 and D3 zoning, in order to avoid any unintentional impacts. 4. In response to a code violation, amend the compliance deadline to 5-6 years to provide time needed to secure funding 5. No code enforcement violations if flooding occurs in severe storms Your time and support for the Miami River District are appreciated. Are you a Lobbyist? No I Ligia Crystal, a resident of No Coconut Grove for 30 yrs., of the most beautiful (at Least until recent years) community in our city (maybe even the country), am respectfully requesting that you deny Carrollton School of The Sacred Heart's appeal to reverse the December 3, 2019 decision of the Historic and Environmental Board regarding their Woodbine School Application. How can City of Miami Commissioners in good conscience allow this to happen?. The site contains a mature tree canopy of 173 trees with the planned removal of 116, 67% of the existing trees to add another school?. Not only First Last Name Name Email Address Street Address Agenda Item Public Comment does the tree canopy provide important environmental functions for the welfare of the community, it stabilizes the soil, prevents erosion and excessive run-off; gives shade and cools the Land; provides protection from forceful winds, their Leaf surfaces dilute gaseous pollutants and trap and fitter out ash, dust and pollen in the air; absorbs a high percentage of carbon dioxide and returns oxygen to the air; aLteviates noise pollution; increases the value of property not to mention the addition to the natural scenic beauty of the City of Miami." In 1988, ViLta Woodbine received Local designation as an Historic Resource, protecting one of the few intact estates that remain along South Bayshore Drive. It is time for "our" elected Commissioners to act in the best interest of the people that voted you in rather than a puppet to those that contributed to your campaign. Is time for you to stop Listening to corrupt voices and do what is right for the community. You have chosen to hold a virtual meeting tomorrow, I am respectfully requesting that you defer this matter until we resume normal in - chamber meetings, when our community can fully participate and not during a time when we are addressing the ongoing catastrophic Covid-19 heath care crisis that has crippled the economy. Pressing forward with this matter when so many who have voiced opposition wilt not be able to effectively participate in a virtual meeting, is simply unwarranted and fundamentally wrong. Hearing this matter NOW, a time when your Leadership has such a critical impact on our Lives, would be a grave disservice to residents of the City of Miami. Please defer this Are you a Lobbyist? First Last Name Name Email Address Street Address Agenda Item Public Comment End of Report matter to September when we should have all resumed our normal lives and resume in -chamber Commission meetings. But, in the event you ignore our pleas, please DENY Carrollton Schoo's appeal to reverse the December 3, 2019 decision of the Historic and Environmental Board regarding their Woodbine School Application. Are you a Lobbyist?