MB RDA MINUTES APRIL 17, 1985 Miami Beach
Redevelopment Agency
1700 Convention Center Drive
Miami Beach, Florida 33139
MIAMI BEACH REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY MEETING
APRIL 17, 1985 - 9:00 A.M.
CITY HALL commissrom CHAMBERS
AGENDA
Page No.
1. Roll Call.
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2.
Acceptance of Minutes of April 3, 1985 Meeting.
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3. Report of ,Executive Director.
4. Old Business.
a. Financial Statement (for information only) 4
5. New Business.
6. Report of Agency Attorney.
7. Adjournment.
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EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR'S REPORT
APRIL 17, 1985
1) Status of Coast Guard Property
Representatives of GSA met with City staff on Wednesday, April 10, 1985, to review
with the staff the City's position regarding the donation of the property, and they also
visited the site. Vice Mayor Grenald participated in the discussions. The following
points were raised with GSA as reasons for them to reconsider
their position of the
sale of the property: the City's need to complete the linkage from South Pointe Park
to the Marina; the City's need to locate the Marine Patrol at the Pilot Station; the
City's cooperation with various Federal Agencies on drug interdiction and Federal uses
in the South Pointe Park; the lack of City funding; the City's expense in
dealing
with
the Mariel influx; the difficultyin committing to long term financing because
of the
Falk Amendment; the existing zoning was not recognized in the appraisal; the value
that has been added to the property based on our efforts toward the redevelopment of
South Pointe. Mr. Maltby, GSA's representative in Atlanta, assuredP
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review our position and would respond to us at the earliest possible date.
2) Cheezem Development Agreement
A construction and administration trailer has been placed on the Cheezem Property.
Cheezem is rethinking the design of Ocean Drive and Biscayne Street because of the
difficulty that a traffic circle creates in access to hisj
roect at that
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assured by the representatives of Cheezem that their closing will take placerior to
May 15, 1985. P
3) South Pointe Park
Phase I construction, which consists of the parking areas, roadways with lighting,
underground utilities, tree transplanting, irri irrigation feeders,
g e , park lighting, jetty
promenade and interior walkways, is approximately 65% completed.
Phase II construction, which consists of the amphitheater with a tensile structure
stage covering, adjacent support building with public restrooms, picnic shelters and
pavilion, vita course, observation towers, dune boardwalks, athletic field lighting,
irrigation systems and final landscaping, is approximately 22% complete.
This project is on schedule, and is within the approved budget that was appropriated.
4) South Pointe Promotional Efforts
Follow-up letters have been sent to the participants of the Developers/Investors
Conference. A second South Pointe Newsletter is currently being prepared.
Additional copies of the audio/visual tape on South Pointe have been ordered. As a
result of the Conference, staff has been contacted by developers to discuss several
potential development projects which are currently being worked on at staff level.
5) SSDI Lawsuit
Representatives of First Boston met with City Staff on Tuesday, April 9, 1985, to
gather information on constraints of development of the Upland site. The planner and
architect representatives from First Boston indicated that they would be getting back
to the City within approximately a month with a development proposal, as is required
by fudge Turner's new ruling.
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6) Corridor Studies
Drafts are currently being prepared and we are targeting presentations to the City
Commission in early May 1985 of Halcyon and Land Design/Research
recommenda t ions.
7) Housing Authority Negotiations
The Agreement which was negotiated between the City Commission and the Housing
Authority was circulated to Agency Members during the week of April 8th. The
Housing Authority has suggested that they will be responsible for providing cards for
access through the proposed gated areas, since Carner/Mason had previously indicated
that they will not participate in distribution of cards. Further, the Housing Authority
is suggesting that if a gate is put in place, that it be located on the Housing Authority
property easement area. The difficulty that this will present is that a vehicle could
drive down the access drive and suddenly be confronted with a gate and no method of
turning around and going back out.
For your information, the attached article appeared in the Thursday, April 11, 1985
edition of the Sun Reporter.
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