LTC 167-2005 Versailles Hotel Condo - 3425 Collins Avenue CITY OF MIAMI BEACH
Office of the City Manager
Letter to Commission No. 67-2o05
To:
From:
Subject:
Mayor David Dermer and
Members of the City Commission
J or ge M. G onzalez~'~.
City Manager ~' "--~,"~ -// '-"'-
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VERSAILLES HOTEL/CONDO - 3425 COLLINS AVENUE
Date: June 24, 2005
-Inspections of the structure by the Building and Fire Departments as well as an inspection
by an independent engineering firm have revealed numerous life-safety building code
violations at Versailles Hotel/Condo (3425 Collins Avenue). The City's Building and Fire
departments have been working with the Versailles Hotel/ Condominium Association
Board, engineer and contractor to address the violations. Some violations revealed by the
Association's engineer and verified by City inspectors pose an imminent threat to life safety
and must be corrected immediately.
To eliminate the life safety threat to residents, the Versailles Hotel Condominium
Association Board has agreed to voluntarily evacuate the building as an alternative to a
mandatory evacuation. All residential and commercial units must be unoccupied by
Monday, June 27 at 5:00 p.m. The agreement also enables the Association to secure any
financing to complete the necessary work that they have agreed to complete.
In an effort to assist the residents, the City posted letters on the door of every unit on
Thursday, June 23. In addition, the City's outreach team has been on location since
yesterday and plans to stay there to make every effort to provide housing assistance to the
effected residents most in need. Should any relocation costs be incurred by the City, the
City will seek reimbursement from the unit owner or Association, including a right of lien
against that particular unit or the Association.
In order to reoccupy the building, all life safety violations must be eliminated prior to
occupancy of the building, which includes, but is not limited to removal of all illegal or
inadequate electrical installations, adequate fire rating of all existing electrical utility rooms
where applicable, elimination of any fire penetration throughout the building, submittal of an
electrical engineering analysis for the adequacy of the power supply for any proposed
remedial solution for the building's mechanical systems, elimination of any possible smoke
migration through mechanical systems or any horizontal or vertical penetrations,
certification of all structural remedial work by a structural engineer, repair and closure of
any open sewer piping and repair of water heater exhaust system. The Association also
agrees to remove or contain any hazardous material, including, but no limit~ tcl=~sbestos
in the Building.
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