TO: Chair and Members of the Board
FROM: Kim Vazquez, Interim Executive Director
DATE: July 11, 2017
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CONSIDERATION OF CITY CENTER SITE PLAN
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BACKGROUND: The Margate CRA and New Urban Communities LLC ("Developer") entered into a Development Agreement for the Margate City Center project, effective July 19, 2016. Pursuant to the original Critical Path schedule contained within the Agreement, New Urban was to submit their site plan application to the City and CRA by March 16, 2017. This date was later extended to August 7, 2017 by the CRA Board, through a Second Amendment to the Agreement. New Urban submitted the initial site plan package on March 16, 2017. The CRA staff provided initial comments on the site plan to the Developer on April 10, 2017, and at the April 12, 2017 meeting of the CRA Board. Staff's comments noted Material Changes and other differences between the submitted site plan and the Pre-Development Plan included in the Development Agreement.
Staff met with the Developer on April 17, 2017 to review the site plan and to discuss the Material Changes. The Developer responded to staff comments by submitting a revised site plan on May 3, 2017, and letter dated May 4, 2017. With this resubmittal, the Developer responded to many of staff's comments; however, there remained Material Changes to the following elements: (i) the bedroom mix as reflected by the floor plans and data tables, (ii) internal traffic circulation, (iii) angled parking versus parallel parking in the Pre-Development Plan, and (iv) the merging of smaller buildings in the Pre-Development Plan into larger buildings on the site plan. Staff communicated these remaining issues to the Board and Developer in correspondence dated May 8, 2017, and Developer responded with comments and a second revised site plan submittal on May 9, 2017. This last submittal revised the total number of residential units to be constructed through all three project phases to 922 residential...
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