The Lexi Condo Association
members met with the directors and developers yesterday for the first time. The
meeting was concerning a water front thirty nine unit condo building been
propose. This structure is to be erected on the lot where the gas station used
to be on the causeway. This preliminary meeting was to discuss the building
plans been proposed and how it may affect North Bay Village and the Lexi condo
owners.
This building will sit directly
in front of the Lexi. Naturally, the Lexi condo owners were concern not as much
as how high the building will stand but how wide. These development company directors do not
show the same interest to accommodate the Lexi as the Hotel/Condo developers
did. They have heard the concerns and
requests of the Lexi Condo Owners and have said they will see what can be done,
but not in a promising tone.
The architectural
design of the building can and should be modified to improve the water view for
North Bay Village residents and Lexi condo owners. However the developers don’t
appear to be flexible or willing. I suggest that the North Bay Village P & Z Board and the Commission show them the same inflexibility and unwillingness they have shown the Lexi Condo Owners and
residents of North Bay Village with any and all variances that come up.
Hopefully
I am wrong and the developers make changes that are acceptable to all concerns,
we will see. When community and developers
work together and compromises are agreeable to all parties then everyone wins!
PUTTING
NORTH BAY VILLAGE FIRST!
Mario
Garcia
February
20, 2014
When the meeting at the Lexi condo took place, many of the neighbors had conflicting requests. While some of the neighbors in the lower floors of the building had concerns about the width of the development, the neighbors in the top floors argued that they wanted the new development to be shorter. Some neighbors asked for no commercial uses while others argued that the increase of commercial would benefit the City. It is very difficult to make everyone happy in this situation. That may be the reason why the Lexi owners may have gotten the impression that the development group was not being flexible. Nonetheless, the development group has gone back to the drawing board and has started to spend extra hours with architects, engineers, zoning attorneys, and the the city's planning adviser in order to address the concerns of the Lexi board and offer better solutions. After having reinvested into the plans and delayed hearings with the approval boards of the City and Miami-Dade, the developer will, at the next meeting with the Lexi condo owners, present that they indeed addressed all of their concerns.
ReplyDeleteSincerely,
Mariano Saal
TIR Prime Properties
March 12, 2014