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HomeMy WebLinkAboutPublic Comment Report - 01-20-2021 PZAB Mtg - Eastside RidgePlanning, Zoning and Appeals Board Public Comment Report January 20, 2021 Public Comment for PZAB w/Agenda Items January 20, 2021 9:09 PM MST Public Comment First Last Addr Age Nam Nam nda Public Comment ess e e Item PZA B 5. 3307 h St, the January 20th PZAB agenda regarding the Eastside Ridge proposed project. Our Union represents Wen Wad Mia 5175 7,000 employees in South Florida, almost all of whom were laid off as a result of the COVID-19. The di h mi Ne 2 pandemic has devastated the hospitality industry here and some hotels and restaurants wilt never recover. Gard Ave, Eastside Ridge has a solid plan that wilt provide what wilt be sorely needed new jobs on the other side of ens, 5035 FL Ne 2 the pandemic. They have made a commitment to hire from Little Haiti, a community that is among those 3316 Ave that have been hardest hit in the Last year. For this reason, we urge you to approve the project. 9 and 871 NW Land 167t Use Thank you for this opportunity to comment. My name is Wendi Walsh and I am the principal officer for UNITE HERE Local 355, the hospitality workers union. I am writing to you in support of Item 5 and 6 on 5125 Ne 2 Ct PZA B 8. 8122 Zoni TES TES TES T T T ng TEST Text - Co Livin g First Last Addr Age Nam Nam nda Public Comment ess e e Item PZA Dept of B 6. Glob 3306 (PZA al & B-R- Soci ocuff 19 ural 018) Stud Spec ies, Flori ial Rich Tard da Area Eastside Ridges' proposed $10 million -dollar contribution to the Little Haiti Trust Fund is minuscule when and anic Inter Plan compared to Magic City's $31 million -dollar contribution. Eastside Ridge needs to triple its financial o contribution to the Little Haiti Trust Fund. natio 5175 nal Ne 2 Univ Ave, ersit 5035 y, Ne 2 Mia Ave mi, and FL 5125 3319 Ne 2 9 Ct PZA B 4. 8430 •PZAB 4 item should receive a vote to rescind. Vote Yes to rescind. Please defer the proposed Eastside 720 Moti Ridge Ridge SAP item PZAB 5. We have been attending meetings on this requested up zoning for 4-5 NE on years. The property owner and its lobbyists refuse to fix any of the glaring mistakes. They occasionally to use band aids, which is NOT enough to fix this dog. The proposed project is massively out of scale with Pete Ehrli 69th resci the surrounding 4-5 neighborhoods. A detailed review of the various Traffic Studies further prove how Stre ch et nd dangerous this scheme would be for our City. At two VERY poorly noticed Zoom meetings, put on under Apt Res duress by the lobbyists, 100% of the residents who attended were opposed to the up zoning. And 6W oluti obviously, it makes no sense to evict 500+ units of affordable housing on the site white the City of Miami on and Miami -Dade County suffer an incredible lack of affordable housing. Please vote to defer. Peter Ehrlich PZA 720 NE 69th Street, Apt 6W Miami 33138 Lemon City B-R- 19- 018 PZA B 5. 3307 • Land PZAB 5 on January 20th, 2021 Defer! And the PZAB 4 item should receive a vote to rescind. Please defer 720 Use the proposed Eastside Ridge Ridge SAP item PZAB 5. We have been attending meetings on this NE requested up zoning for 4-5 years. The property owner and its lobbyists refuse to fix any of the glaring 69th 5175 mistakes. They occasionally use band aids, which is NOT enough to fix this dog. The proposed project is Pete Ehrli massively out of scale with the surrounding 4-5 neighborhoods. A detailed review of the various Traffic ch Stre Ne 2 Studies further prove how dangerous this scheme would be for our City. At two VERY poorly noticed Zoom et, Ave, Apt 5035 meetings, put on under duress by the lobbyists, 100% of the residents who attended were opposed to the 6W Ne 2 up zoning. And obviously, it makes no sense to evict 500+ units of affordable housing on the site white the City of Miami and Miami -Dade County suffer an incredible lack of affordable housing. Please vote to defer. Ave and Peter Ehrlich 720 NE 69th Street, Apt 6W Miami 33138 Lemon City 5125 Ne 2 Ct First Last Addr Age Nam Nam nda Public Comment ess e e Item PZA B 6. 3306 (PZA B-R- 19- 018) 100 NE Spec The COVID-19 pandemic context is not conducive to getting effective community participation, particularly 84th iaL for current Design Place residents. Therefore, the "community input" stage should extend at Least until a St., Area post-COVID phase, allowing the community additional. time to give input and feedback, before options are Paul Nam Mia Plan dosed off to them regarding demolition of residences in the implementation of the East Side Ridge phY mi, project. Therefore, public consultation could be STARTED now, but a decision dosing off certain public FL, 5175 participation options of the decision tree should not occur while the pandemic is stiff raging. We need 3313 Ne 2 feedback from affected folks! 7 Ave, 5035 Ne 2 Ave and 5125 Ne 2 Ct PZA B 5. 3307 • 100 Land NE Use The COVID-19 pandemic context is not conducive to getting effective community participation, particularly 84th for current Design Place residents. Therefore, the "community input" stage should extend at Least until. a St., 5175 post-COVID phase, allowing the community additional. time to give input and feedback, before options are Paul Nam Mia Ne 2 dosed off to them regarding demolition of residences in the implementation of the East Side Ridge phy mi, Ave, project. Therefore, public consultation could be STARTED now, but a decision dosing off certain public FL 5035 participation options of the decision tree should not occur while the pandemic is stiff raging. We need 3313 Ne 2 feedback from affected folks! 7 Ave and 5125 Ne 2 Ct PZA B 5. 3307 • Land Use 5701 Bisc 5175 I respectfully urge the board to DENY application for change of Land use and keep high density ell h Levy Blvd Ne 2 developments south of 36th Street as Miami21 intended. Eastside Ridge is out of scale and out of Ave, character with the neighborhood. Mia 5035 mi Ne 2 Ave and 5125 Ne 2 Ct First Last Nam Nam e e Addr ess 122 NE 78th Stre et Mich CLar #1 aeL kson Mia mi, FLori da 3313 ( Mar Schri k eber Age nda Public Comment Item We ask for a complete pause on Eastridge development until the City Manager conducts a impact studies on Climate Gentrificaition. During this time period Community Leaders, Climate Justice Groups and Eastridge developers can design a much more acceptable plan. The proposed project fails miserably to address the impact of greenhouse gases, the effects of climate change, sewer drainage into an already PZA suffering Biscayne Bay, waste water management and the increasing carbon emission footprint to Little B 5. Haiti and surrounding neighborhoods I.e. Shorecrest, Belle Meade, Bayside, Morningside, Buena Vista, 3307 Design District, Mid -Town and Liberty City. Furthermore, we agree with Planning and Zone Board member, Honorable Anthony Parrish zoning decision should be rescinded on two issues. First, a vote on the Land Land use map change should have come first because a careful Look at this project wilt clearly expose the Use historical tendency to talk Greener. Just having WaLk through the Park for outside residents doesnt speak to the present or future development of a eco-greener design parks, that speak to green economic 5175 development and stops the current plan of family displacement. Also, city code binds the board to vote the Ne 2 same way on both the zoning and Land use, meaning it can't vote one up and the other down. The Ave, planning board tied on the zoning vote, which means under city rules this item goes to the commission 5035 with a recommendation to deny. However, the board has to vote the same way on both items, it's now Ne 2 bound to also deny the Land use change. We feel this project is grossly out of synch of the two story Ave building neighborhood and Main Streets. We need a climate gentrification study to focus in Large part on and the Environmental effects to every neighborhood mention above. What safeguards are in place to hold 5125 developers uncountable to mitigating construction that speaks to eco-greener. Why the rush to fast -track to Ne 2 displacement. Also, how wilt this project initiate a plan to solve the problems of poverty, affordable/decent Ct housing and economic development and stopping increase carbon emission footprints. Finally, across this country policy -makers and urban planners have begun to consider strategies to combat the byproducts of Climate gentrification. It's not too Late for Miami City Leaders, and this body to get on board. Respectfully submitted, Michael Clarkson Interim CEO TAPARI 501 (c) (3) Ti Ayiti Prepared And Relief Institution Email.: tapari1804@gmaiL.com Mobile: 305-322-5417 We appreciate the work that has gone into developing this important Legislation however there are several key items that we believe need further refinement. At the moment this Legislation wilt make co -Living 100 development more expensive and be counter to the goal of making co -Living a naturaLty affordable housing N PZA option within the City of Miami. - Density should consider the building as a whole and not penalize 5/6 Bisc B 8. bedroom units in a silo. Micro -units could count as Less than <1 DU or Look at overall bed density. 5/6 ayne 8122 bedroom units can provide a complement to the overall unit mix without creating a project that is overly dense. - Required amenity space should include both indoor and outdoor spaces. As drafted it only Suit Zoni includes indoor space. Given our Location in Miami, pool decks, outdoor seating areas, etc. should all be e ng counted. If the amenity space is required to be all indoor the percentage should be Lowered. - Required 503, Text amenity space calculation would be improved if tied to the co -Living use net RSF rather than GSF. This way Mia - Co parking and BOH areas do not skew the calculation providing for a better analysis of the appropriate mi - balance of amenity space. - The parking requirement should be .25 per co -Living residence rather than .5, FL Livin or provide a parking cap per unit. Co -Living is only being allowed within TOD areas and areas with parking 3313 g trust fund and streetscape masterpLan which wilt ensure that co -Living is only built within transit served 2 walkable neighborhoods. Also the demographic that wilt be renting co -Living units is the most Likely to Live car free. - Operational plan. This needs to consider small scale buildings and ensuring that the operational plan requirements are not a financial burden to the project and can be scaled based on project size. First Last Addr Age Nam Nam nda Public Comment ess e e Item PZA What is most distressing to me is that these hearings are going over the same ground. The community, in B 6. two recent community meetings about Eastside Ridge, made dear its concerns. And you yourselves, as 3306 PZAB, have made dear your concerns regarding this project. Yet the developers persist in showing utter (PZA disregard for the trauma community members are already experiencing as this project develops. What is 1111 B-R- needed is meaningful attention to the concerns of the community: 1. Affordable housing in numbers 1 19- adequate to take care of those who will no longer have housing in the area. This means at least 511 truly 018) affordable units, not the 75 as promised by the developers. 2. The capital contribution of $10 million is a Bisc ayne travesty. As one looks at other Community Benefits Agreements around the country, the capital Blvd, Spec contributions are of a magnitude much greater relative to the costs of the project. 3. The creation of jobs Bldg ial for this project must be much more robust in terms of jobs, both temporary construction jobs, as well as Area permanent jobs, in the complex. In this situation, the long-term jobs are what is most crucial. 4. Ken Barn .1, neth es Apt. Plan Furthermore, what concerns me was the actual community meetings themselves. The developer's 1804 representative gave the appearance of inclusiveness of the community, but in reality did not provide 5175 adequate opportunities for feedback from the community. In addition, due to COVID-19, effective Mia Ne 2 community representation is all but impossible. Community input should be extended to the post-COVID mi, FL Ave, time, allowing for more community input. 5. Eastside Ridge made some promises verbally, but none of 3318 5035 them are written in any document that wilt form the basis for a development agreement. Even the 75 1 Ne 2 affordable housing units, as trivial as they are, is not written any place. 6. The "affordability" criteria have Ave been set at 60-140% AMI. The great majority of residents of Design Place Live on budgets that cannot and afford that criteria. In addition, the range of 60-140% basically allows the developers to put as many as 5125 possible of new renters at the 140% AMI, eliminating most of the current residents. Therefore, I ask that Ne 2 you once again "DEFER" this item until comprehensive and adequate attention have been pain to these Ct community concerns. Kenneth Barnes 11111 Biscayne Blvd, Bldg 1, Apt. 1804 Miami, FL 33181 1111 1 Bisc ayne Blvd, Ken Barn Apt. N/A N/A neth es 1804 Mia mi, FL 3318 1 PZA B 4. 8430 PZAB 5 on January 20th, 2021 Defer! And the PZAB 4 item should receive a vote to rescind. Please defer Moti the proposed Eastside Ridge Ridge SAP item PZAB 5. I, and hundreds of area citizens, have attended 631 to meetings on this requested up zoning for 4-5 years. The public is resoundingly opposed to this proposal. It NE is massively out of scale with the surrounding 4-5 neighborhoods, in violation of Miami 21 section 3.9.1 h resci Elvis Cruz 57 nd 10. The Morningside Civic Association board voted to oppose this SAP. At two VERY poorly noticed Zoom Stre Res meetings, put on under duress by the Lobbyists, 100% of the residents who attended were opposed to the et up zoning. And obviously, it makes no sense to evict 500+ units of affordable housing on the site white the oLuti City of Miami and Miami -Dade County suffer an incredible Lack of affordable housing. Please vote to defer. on PZA Thank you. B-R- 19- 018 First Last Addr Age Nam Nam nda Public Comment ess e e Item PZA B 6. 3306 (PZA B-R- 19- 018) Spec The Special Area Plan status being sought for the proposed redevelopment of Design Place fails to follow 830 ial the standards set out in Miami 21 with respect to new projects within existing neighborhoods. A Special Deb Stan NE Area Area Plan at Design Place would result in a building mass that would overwhelm its surroundings in size, orah der 74 Plan scale and volume of added traffic. Redeveloping within existing zoning would result in a perfectly Stre - compatible, attractive, viable development that would not create problems for the surrounding et 5175 neighborhoods. That is the purpose of zoning. We should not be allowing exceptions to it when the Ne 2 exceptions would have a negative impact on the surrounding area. Ave, 5035 Ne 2 Ave and 5125 Ne 2 Ct PZA B 5. 3307 Thank you. It appears that the same old materials are being submitted -yet again! - without taking into • account what community members, public comments, and PZAB itself have raised as serious problems 7424 Land with this project. Please use your platform this evening to defer consideration of this item until meaningful, Use fully documented and written, changes have been made to SPV's submittal in response to repeated Byro requests by community members, to address: 1. setting aside at least 511 affordable housing units, not Goo 5175 only 75; 2. Increasing the paltry $10M capital contribution; 3. increasing and upgrading tangible Dani dma Ave, Ne 2 employment opportunities for local community to high -paying jobs beyond the 10% clause; 4. the real elle Mia Ave, threat of displacement to DPlace residents and Little Haiti residents in the wider neighborhood, which is mi 5035 posed by changing the and use and massive upzoning of this parcel, and which has not been countered Beac h Ne 2 by meaningful, realizable community benefit - as defined by the community, in community's terms. Unless Ave concrete significant affordable housing commitments are made, for example, this project remains only a and vehicle for a single owner to upzone, displace, and depart. This is not acceptable. I urge PZAB to defer 5125 this item indefinitely and rescind the SAP of item 6 as well. Ne 2 Ct PZA B 5. 3307 • 3000 Land Bisc Use ayne Blvd Berb Fost #106 5175 eth er Mia Ne 2 N/A Ave, mi, 5035 FL Ne 2 3313 Ave 7 and 5125 Ne 2 Ct First Last Nam Nam e e Addr ess 2770 SW ADR JOH 24T IAN NSO H A N TER RAC E Age nda Public Comment Item PZA B 10. 8403 Exce Traffic will increase and we have small kids . We are requesting to place speed bumps all around the block ption surrounding the property 2460 SW 27 Av Q2 - Last Name This page will not appear in public reports and will be deselected by default in report exports. View l Q4 - Address This page will not appear in public reports and will be deselected by default in report exports. View Q5 - Agenda Item (please fill out a separate form if you will be commenting on multiple items) This page will not appear in public reports and will be deselected by default in report exports. View Q9 - Please enter your public comment: This page will not appear in public reports and will be deselected by default in report exports. 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