Directors/Alternates Present
Keith A. Reynolds, Cathy Coates/Brickell Key One
Herbert J. Bailey/Brickell Forest
Berdie Archer/One Tequesta Point
Mac Seligman/Brickell Townhouse
Florence Mazer/The Imperial
Yvonne Oppenheim/25 Bay Tower
Mark Steinberg, Fred Ronen/Fortune House
Melvin F. Frankel, Esq./Bristol Tower
Stoney Welsh, Mike Glogower/The Palace
Paul Lewin/Brickell Bay Club
Bruce Cotten/2000 Brickell
T. Sinclair (Tory) Jacobs/Brickell 25
Bryan Hoffman/The Atlantis

Associate Member Present
Megan Kelly/Swire Properties

Also Present
Sandra Frankel/Bristol Tower
Officer Jeffery Giordano/Miami Police Dept., Coral Way NET
Kristin Read/Communications Plus
Daniel Leibow, Joe Wilkins, Humberto Alonso, Debbie Swain/Miami Roads Neighborhood Civic Assn.
Colin Veeter/South Miami Avenue Homeowners Association
Gerald Marston/Wallace Rogers and Todd
Tony Wagner/Coral Way NET Administrator
Harvey Taylor, Scott Kramer, Jennifer Ciszczon, Andrew Singer/Taylor Development & Land Company
Judith A. Burke, Esq./Shutts & Bowen LLP
Bert Leon/Revuelta-Vega-Leon Architects
Richard Eichenger/Transport Analysis Professionals, Inc.
Mark Jacobsen/Taft Bradshaw Landscaping

The reading of the February minutes was waived and they were approved with two corrections: 1) The City Commission vote on 1900 Brickell Ave. was 3 to 2 against BHA (not 4 to 1); and 2) the number of Brickell Bay Village project parking spaces is 510.

Brickell Park. The Save Brickell Park Committee reported that it does not appear that the City Commission will take action to rescind the contract with the Brickell family to sell the property and split the proceeds. Legal action is being considered.

Graffiti. Mac Seligman, Committee Chair, and Tony Wagner, NET Administrator, reported on their investigation into how the City of Miami Beach and also the Miami-Dade Transit Authority handle graffiti. Two procedures emerged that will be investigated for use in Miami: a strong chemical solvent and team of workers rather than one or two. Mr. Wagner will report back on the tests.

Brickell Avenue Beautification. Paul Lewin, Committee Chair, assisted by Landscape Architect Jerry Marston presented the several approaches that have been considered. At this point, the Committee has narrowed their search to three themes, which are being developed. The Committee will continue to report its progress to the Board.
1900 Brickell.

The Plastic Surgeon has asked BHA to support his application to the City Commission for removal of the remaining restrictions imposed when he was granted a Special Exception including the prohibition against actually performing surgical procedures on the site; in exchange, the plastic surgeon offered to modify his offending signage and to install landscaping to mitigate the starkness of the property and give it a lusher look in keeping with its neighbors. The Board unanimously passed a Resolution (attached and made a part of these Minutes) specifying the terms required on his part for the BHA to grant his request.

Commissioner Jimmy Morales' Cable TV Town Meeting. Brickell Residents are invited to call in or email questions and to tune in to this program from 6:30 to 8:00 pm on March 27th.

Airplane Noise Abatement. This scheduled presentation was postponed until the April Meeting.

City of Miami Police Department's Citizens' Police Academy Class #7. Brickell Residents were invited to apply for participation in this 11-week class starting March 29th, held from 6:00 to 10:00 pm with no costs.

Condominium Living Course. Brickell Residents were invited to attend a free four-hour program offered by the Center for Community & Condominium Living providing answers to the most frequently asked questions faced by Condo Association Officers and Board Members. Course to be given on a Saturday morning at a Brickell facility.

Guard House on 25th Road @ Brickell. A proposal to devote the funds allocated by the Metropolitan for construction of a Guard House east of Brickell on 25th Road to median and street-scape improvements was accepted and made in the form of a Resolution to go to the City Commission. The Resolution, passed unanimously, follows as a part of these Minutes.

Brickell Way Village. Harvey Taylor, President of Taylor Land & Development, along with his team, presented this mixed-use project to be built east of the Brickell Publix, north of 15th Rd. It will include residential, retail and office components. Mr. Taylor invited suggestions and comments. Responses included: plan landscaping in keeping with Simpson Park; coordinate street-scapes, landscaping, etc. with other projects in the area. Concerns were expressed about the impact on traffic and possibly shadows on Simpson Park. Mr. Taylor agreed to take all of this into consideration, rework his plans and come back to the Neighbors.

Brickell Bay Village. The Resolution passed at the February Meeting opposed to the granting a MUSP for this project as presently constituted was formally read and unanimously passed and follows as part of these Minutes.

Marlins Baseball Stadium. The Board Voted to draft a Resolution to go to City, County and local State Legislators stating BHA'sopposition to public funding of the Stadium and also to its Riverside location unless and until traffic solutions are in place to prevent stadium-generated traffic from adding to the already overburdened streets in the Brickell, South Miami Avenue and Roads Neighborhoods and also in the West Brickell Village neighborhood where several major developments are in the works.

Next Meeting. 6:00 pm, Wed., April 18, at the J.W. Marriott, 1111 Brickell Ave., London Room, 5th floor.
Meeting adjourned at 7:50 pm.
Attachments: 3 Resolutions

BE IT HEREBY RESOLVED by Brickell Homeowners Association that it opposes the Project under review for the Brickell Bay Village Property located between the Bristol Tower and Atlantis Condominiums in the 2100 Block of Brickell Avenue, for the following reasons:

WHEREAS, the Project as designed imposes an extreme burden on an already overtaxed roadway system, the impact of which will be to reduce the quality of life of the residents in the area, create additional traffic jams during morning and late afternoon rush hours and cause hazardous conditions to arise due to vehicles entering and leaving the Project which enjoys a total of only 200 feet of frontage on Brickell Avenue and only two curb cuts. In the absence of a traffic control device, the only route for traffic exiting the property will be northbound and for those heading South, a traffic-stopping U-Turn; and

WHEREAS, the project as conceived with 359 rental residential units and 510 parking spaces with a maximum of two curb cuts within a 200-foot frontage will create a hazardous condition for those residents needing to go south, who will be forced to first head north, and then make a U-Turn to reverse direction; and

WHEREAS, residents in rental units tend to be in residence all year round, the impact or intensity of use will be greater than a condominium of the same density, where the owners in residence at any one time are generally less than one finds in a rental apartment, and

WHEREAS, the design of the building and its density on only 200 feet of frontage creates a negative impact on the entire Brickell Corridor. It is the only building on Brickell where so many units have been squeezed into only 200 feet of frontage. The number of residents in such a building, their vehicles and the traffic created, impose a significantly greater burden (intensity of use) than any other building in the area; and

WHEREAS, the resulting negative impact on the quality of life for the residents of the area will negatively impact the City of Miami from an economic standpoint. Brickell Avenue right now offers the City its highest ad valorem tax base. A building such as this, which aggressively uses the property for a greater density and impact than others in the neighborhood, will negatively impact property valuesin the area due to a decline in the quality of life caused by the traffic degradation, crowding and congestion, all of which are key elements in causing a drop in demand for properties in the area, and the consequentially lower property values.

NOW THEREFORE, for all of the foregoing reasons, be it hereby

RESOLVED, that the Brickell Avenue Homeowners Association go on record in opposition to the pending application for approval of a Special Use Permit and urges all Departments of the City of Miami and the Miami City Commission to reject the application of Applicant for a Special Use Permit for construction of 359 residential units and 510 parking spaces; and be it

FURTHER RESOLVED, that a true and correct copy of this Resolution be presented to the City Commission of the City of Miami at the Public Hearing to be held to consider the application of the Developer on March 29, 2001.

Signed and executed on behalf of the Board of Directors of Brickell Homeowners Association on this 21st day of March 2001, at Miami, Miami-Dade County, Florida.

Signed: T. Sinclair (Tory) Jacobs, President
Attested: Mac Seligman, Secretary

BE IT HEREBY RESOLVED by Brickell Homeowners Association that it requests the City of Miami Commission modify its condition of the MUSP for the Metropolitan to substitute a cash payment to the City of Miami of $50,000 to a like amount in SE 25th Road median improvements.

WHEREAS, the MUSP for the Metropolitan Project required a contribution toward the construction of a guard gate in the amount of $50,000; and

WHEREAS, that requirement was conditioned upon securing the approval of the adjoining neighbors within a certain time and failing that approval the money was to be paid to City of Miami; and

WHEREAS, the approval of the neighbors was not secured and it is the desire of the neighbors and the developer to make landscape improvements to the median adjacent to the neighbors and the development in the amount of $50,000.

Now, therefore, be it resolved by the Brickell Homeowners Association that the City of Miami is requested to modify its MUSP requirements for the Metropolitan to reflect that the $50,000 is not paid to the City of Miami but is instead used to make median improvements to SE 25th Road adjacent to the project.

FURTHER RESOLVED, that a true and correct copy of this Resolution be presented to the City Commission of the City of Miami at the Public Hearing to be held to consider the application of the Developer on April 26, 2001.

Signed and executed on behalf of the Board of Directors of Brickell Homeowners Association on this _____ day of April 2001, at Miami, Miami-Dade County, Florida.

Signed: T. Sinclair (Tory) Jacobs, President
Attested: Mac Seligman, Secretary

BE IT HEREBY RESOLVED by Brickell Homeowners Association that it will support Dr. Jorge Suarez-Menendez's petition before the Miami City Commission to remove the current prohibition against conducting plastic surgical procedures and other restrictions currently part of the Special Exception Resolution except the overnight stay provision which will continue at 1900 Brickell Avenue provided the landscaping designs presented by Wallace Roberts & Todd are implemented to the sign-off approval of Gerald Marston, principal of Wallace Roberts & Todd prior to the City Commission hearing for the requested change.

And provided that the only exterior sign on the property be of a professional appearance limited to:

Jorge Suarez-Menendez, MD
Plastic Surgeon

Provided further that there will be no subsequent material changes in the signage and landscaping without Wallace Roberts Todd approval (prior and post) as long as Dr. Suarez-Menendez practices at this location.

FURTHER RESOLVED, that a true and correct copy of this Resolution be presented to the City Commission of the City of Miami at the Public Hearing to be held to consider the petition of Dr. Suarez-Menendez on __________________.

Signed and executed on behalf of the Board of Directors of Brickell Homeowners Association on this _____ day of ________ 2001, at Miami, Miami-Dade County, Florida.

Signed: T. Sinclair (Tory) Jacobs, President
Attested: Mac Seligman, Secretary