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CONING 1925 OR6, W SHOULD. WE'A ULWEN SOO ANOONWEE  THELYLED M O THEC OFAL GABLES HISTOPRVATIONOARD. S ARE HESENTS F COBL AND ARE CHD WI T PRESVATIND PROIOHISTORRCURALWORP T C BOA ISE O N MBERS, YOU . THANKOU.ECD EMRSFHEOARDISS AFATIVE VOTES AECFOR E ADOPTN O. 
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          [III. APPROVAL OF THE MINUTES]
OKAY. I'D LIKE TO HAVE MOVED TOWARD THE MINUTES. LET'S SEE. WE HAVE SOME DISTINGUISHED PEOPLE IN THE AUDIENCE HERE. WE HAVE MISS COUCH. WE HAVE. WHO ELSE? MR. TORY AND ALL OF YOU. 
          CAN I HAVE A MOTION ON THE MINUTES, PLEASE? I'LL MOVE APPROVAL ON THE MINUTES. WE HAVE A MOTION FOR APPROVAL BY MR. SILVA. SECOND, PLEASE, MISS SPAIN, SECOND BY MISS SPAIN. 
          PLEASE CALL THE QUESTION. ALL IN FAVOR? AYE. THANK YOU. OKAY, WE'RE GOING TO MOVE ON TO THE 
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AGENDA. WE'RE GOING TO MAKE ONE LITTLE MOVEMENT HERE, BUT IT'LL BE AFTER WE GO THROUGH THE HISTORIC DESIGNATIONS. AND SO WE'RE GOING TO MOVE THE PALMARITO, WHICH WILL BE UNDER THE SPECIAL SIGNIFICANCE OF APPROPRIATENESS TO NUMBER ONE. AND AND JUST MOVE THAT BECAUSE THAT'S A REHEARING. SO WE'RE JUST GOING TO TRADE THE TWO OF THOSE. BUT THAT'LL BE LATER IN THE MEETING. OKAY. OUR FIRST ITEM ON THE AGENDA IS AD VALOREM TAX RELIEF WHICH IS 
          [1. 26-1826 CASE FILE AV 2025-001: An application requesting ad valorem tax relief for the property at 720 Madeira Avenue, a Local Historic Landmark, legally described as Lot 7, Block 7, Coral Estates Section, according to the Plat thereof, as recorded in Plat Book 19, at Page 7, of the Public Records of Miami-Dade County, Florida. The related Special Certificates of Appropriateness, COA (SP) 2024-040 was granted design approval by the Historic Preservation Board on January 16, 2025.]
CASE FILE AV 2025-001, AN APPLICATION REQUESTING AD VALOREM TAX RELIEF FOR THE PROPERTY AT 720 MADEIRA AVENUE, A LOCAL HISTORIC LANDMARK LEGALLY DESCRIBED AS LOT SEVEN, BLOCK SEVEN CORAL ESTATES SECTION. ACCORDING TO THE PLAT BOOK 19, PAGE SEVEN, MIAMI-DADE RECORDS THE RELATED SPECIAL CERTIFICATES OF APPROPRIATENESS. COA SP 2024-040 WAS GRANTED DESIGN APPROVAL BY THE HISTORIC PRESERVATION BOARD ON JANUARY 16TH, 2025. MISS KAUF MR. OH YES, I MISSED THAT PART. OKAY. IS THERE ANYONE HERE WHO WISHES TO SPEAK TODAY THAT NEEDS TO BE SWORN IN? PLEASE STAND UP AND RAISE YOUR RIGHT HAND. ANYONE WHO WILL BE PRESENTING ON ANY OF THE ITEMS BEING HEARD TODAY. IF YOU'RE GOING TO BE PROVIDING ANY TESTIMONY, PLEASE RISE AND BE SWORN IN. THANK YOU. MR. MAXWELL. CAN WE VERIFY IF THERE'S ANYBODY ON ZOOM OR SHOULD YOU WANT TO TAKE THOSE ONE ITEM AT A TIME? I'M SORRY, DO YOU WANT TO SWEAR IN PEOPLE ON ZOOM NOW, OR DO YOU WANT TO WAIT TILL EACH ITEM, IF THEY'RE AVAILABLE, WE CAN DO IT NOW. 
          OKAY. IF NOT, WE CAN DO IT. WHEN THE ITEM COMES UP. WE CAN WAIT TILL LATER. THANK YOU MISS, THANK YOU, THANK YOU. IF YOU CAN BRING THE POWERPOINT UP, PLEASE. THANK YOU. THE SINGLE FAMILY HOME AT 720 MADERA AVENUE WAS ALSO KNOWN AS 710. OBISPO AVENUE WAS BUILT IN 1937, LOCATED IN THE CORAL ESTATES SUBDIVISION, THE HOME WAS AN UNINCORPORATED DADE AT THE TIME OF ITS CONSTRUCTION. THIS AREA WAS ANNEXED BY THE CORAL GABLES IN 1948. THERE'S A LOCATION MAP 
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ON THE SCREEN. THIS IS THE EARLIEST PHOTO THAT WE HAVE OF THE PROPERTY, AND OUR EARLY RECORDS ARE A LITTLE BIT SPARSE FOR THIS BECAUSE THIS WAS AN ANNEXED AREA, DESIGNED THE MINIMAL TRADITIONAL STYLE. THE HOME WAS DESIGNATED AS A LOCAL HISTORIC LANDMARK IN DECEMBER OF 2024. THE APPLICANT IS REQUESTING AD VALOREM TAX RELIEF FOR THE RENOVATION OF THE HISTORIC STRUCTURE AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF AN ADDITION AND ALTERATIONS TO THE RESIDENCE, AS REFLECTED IN THE CERTIFICATE OF APPROPRIATENESS CASE FILE. COA SP 20 2440, WHICH WAS APPROVED BY THE HISTORIC PRESERVATION BOARD ON JANUARY 16TH, 2025. IT SHOULD BE NOTED THAT ONLY PORTIONS OF THE PROPOSED WORK WILL ACTUALLY APPLY TO THE TAX EXEMPTION, BUT WE'RE GOING TO SHOW YOU EVERYTHING THAT THEY DID. SO I'M GOING TO GIVE YOU SOME VIEWS AROUND AND BEFORE, BEFORE AND AFTERS OF THE HOUSE. AS I DISCUSSED WHAT THEY DID. SO THEY HAD NEW IMPACT RESISTANT CASEMENT WINDOWS AND DOORS TO MATCH THE EXISTING ON THE HOUSE, REMOVAL OF ALUMINUM AWNINGS AND INSTALLATION OF FABRIC AWNINGS, RESTORATION OF ORIGINAL FRONT DOOR AND HARDWARE WHICH YOU SEE HERE. A NEW WHITE TILE ROOF PAINTING OF THE HOME REMOVAL AND OR AND OR STUCCOING OF NON-ORIGINAL BRICK PLANTERS IN THE FRONT. RESTORATION OF THE ARCHED BRICK FRAME PORTICO SHARE AS AN OPEN AIR CARPORT. CLEANING OF EXISTING STONEWORK AT THE NORTH FACADE. IRONWORK RESTORATION, STUCCO REPAIR, FULL INTERIOR REMODELING AND RENOVATION OF THE HOME AND AUXILIARY STRUCTURE. RESTORATION OF ORIGINAL WOOD CEILING AND BEAMS. RESTORATION OF ORIGINAL WOOD AND TILE FLOORS. NEW MEP SYSTEMS. ONE STORY ADDITION THAT CONNECTS THE EXISTING RESIDENCE AND THE EXISTING AUXILIARY STRUCTURE IN THE REAR YARD, CONSISTING OF A FULL BATH CORRIDOR AND MASTER BEDROOM, IT'S APPROXIMATELY 285FT■!S, WHICH IS PART OF WHAT YOU SEE HERE, AND A NEW REAR DECK WITH CASCADING STEPS. THE SITE IMPROVEMENTS WERE LIMITED TO A NEW WING WALL, ALUMINUM GATE, NEW PAVER WALKWAYS, DRIVEWAYS, SWIMMING POOL, POOL DECK AND LANDSCAPING. THE OWNER IS HERE. THE CONTRACTOR IS HERE IF YOU'D LIKE TO SAY ANYTHING. IF NOT, WELL, WE RECOMMEND APPROVAL. OKAY. BOARD MEMBERS, ANY QUESTIONS? OKAY. P MR. SUL COME COMEK TO US. AOT TIS  DONETO SEE THE THISSAT EXA OF ORN. IREAT EXPLNHECONO SIDEWELL, SO  F OUT THER CERE CANE A SAV T A ON BENEF TO RESTORATION AND RENOVATION AS WELL. SO THANK YOU, MR. TORY. THIS IS A GREAT PROJECT. GREAT JOB. AND IT WAS IT WAS A QUICK PROJECT AS WELL. SO FOR THOSE FOLKS THAT SAY THINGS CAN HAPPEN QUICKLY IN THE GABLES, THIS IS AN EXAMPLE OF WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU GET A GOOD TEAM TOGETHER. 
          AND AND YOU CAN ACCOMPLISH GREAT THINGS. SO I'M, I'M THRILLED TO RECOMMEND APPROVAL. 
          I'D LIKE TO SECOND AND MAY I MAKE A COMMENT, PLEASE? I THOROUGHLY ENJOYED GOING THROUGH THIS, THAT BACKYARD ADDITION RESTORATION IS BEAUTIFUL. YEAH, IT'S, IT'S NOT A BIG ADDITION. AND IT MADE A HUGE IMPACT ON THE PROPERTY. SO IT'S, IT'S A REALLY NICE, WELL SCALED, REALLY APPROPRIATE ADDITION. LOVELY. YEAH, IT'S A GREAT PROJECT. ANY OTHER COMMENTS? I THINK WE ALL APPLAUD THE EFFORT. IT'S NOT ONLY SUPERB, BUT IT'S REALLY IN KEEPING WITH OUR TRADITIONS FROM THE EARLY 1920S. IT'S AN EXCELLENT PROJECT AND WE HOPE TO SEE MORE LIKE IT. OKAY. CAN I HAVE A MOTION TO APPROVE PLEASE? IF THERE'S NO FURTHER, ANY FURTHER, ANYBODY THAT WISHES TO SPEAK FOR OR AGAINST THIS IN THE AUDIENCE? NO HEARING? NONE. OKAY. WE'LL COME BACK. ANY FURTHER DISCUSSION BOARD? OKAY. HEARING NONE. 
          MOTION, PLEASE. I WILL MOVE APPROVAL. OKAY. I'LL SECOND MR. SILVA. DO WE HAVE A SECOND? ANNA? OKAY. MISS ALVAREZ. OKAY, SO WE HAVE A MOTION AND A SECOND. WE HAVE ALL THE MOTION, PLEASE. OKAY. MISS ROLANDO? YES, MISS SPAIN, MISS EVERETT. YES. OKAY. MISS ALVAREZ. YES. MR. SILVA. YES. MR. MAXWELL. ENTHUSIASTICALLY. YES. MOTION PASSES UNANIMOUSLY. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. AND THANK YOU FOR YOUR GOOD WORK. AND KEEP IT UP. OKAY. WE'RE GOING TO MOVE ON TO 
          [1. 26-1697 CASE FILE LHD 2025-006 and CASE FILE COA (SP) 2026-007: Consideration of the local historic designation of the property at 439 Majorca Avenue, legally described as Lot 16 & the West ½ of Lot 17, Block 1, Coral Gables Section B, according to the Plat thereof, as recorded in Plat Book 5, at Page 111 of the Public Records of Miami-Dade County, Florida. The applicant is also requesting the issuance of an Accelerated Special Certificate of Appropriateness and design approval for additions and alterations to the residence, a pergola addition to the carport, and sitework.]
THE NEXT TWO ITEMS HERE, WHICH ARE LOCAL HISTORIC DESIGNATIONS. WE HAVE CASE FILE LH 2025-006 AND CASE FILE C O SP 2026-007. CONSIDERATION OF LOCAL HISTORIC DESIGNATION OF THE PROPERTY AT 439 MAJORCA AVENUE. LEGALLY DESCRIBED AS LOT 16 IN THE WEST, ONE HALF OF LOT 17, BLOCK ONE, CORAL GABLES SECTION B PLAT BOOK FIVE, PAGE 11. MIAMI-DADE COUNTY APPLICANT IS REQUESTING 
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THE ISSUANCE OF AN ACCELERATED SPECIAL CERTIFICATE OF APPROPRIATENESS AND DESIGN APPROVAL FOR ADDITIONS AND ALTERATIONS TO THE RESIDENCE, A PERGOLA ADDITION TO THE CARPORT AND SITE WORK. MR. MAXWELL, BEFORE WE BEGIN, IF WE COULD SWEAR IN EVERYBODY ON ZOOM WHO'S HERE FOR THIS ITEM. MISS GWEN? AND JUST FOR EVERYBODY, WE'RE HAVING A LITTLE BIT OF TECHNICAL ISSUES IN THE ROOM TODAY, SO IF EVERYONE COULD MAKE SURE THAT THEY SPEAK UP AND CLOSE TO THE MICROPHONE, WE HAVE A FULL ROOM, WHICH IS GREAT, AND WE NEED TO MAKE SURE EVERYONE CAN HEAR IN THE BACK OF THE ROOM. SO AS YOU KNOW, PULL IT AS CLOSE TO YOUR MOUTH AS YOU POSSIBLY CAN, UNFORTUNATELY. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. MISS GWEN. I'M NOT GOING TO. YES. DO YOU SWEAR OR AFFIRM THE INFORMATION YOU WILL GIVE WILL BE THE TRUTH, THE WHOLE TRUTH, AND NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH. OKAY. THANK YOU. IF WE COULD ASK IT TO TURN DOWN THAT VOLUME ACTUALLY A LITTLE BIT, WE'RE HAVING TROUBLE HEARING PEOPLE ON ZOOM. SO, ELIZABETH GWEN, HISTORIC PRESERVATION COORDINATOR. AND THE FOLLOWING PRESENTATION IS A SUMMARY OF THE HISTORIC DESIGNATION REPORT THAT WAS PREPARED BY STAFF. IT INCLUDES THE POWERPOINT. THANK YOU. THE PROPERTY AT 439 MAJORCA AVENUE IS BEFORE YOU FOR CONSIDERATION FOR DESIGNATION AS A LOCAL HISTORIC LANDMARK. THIS IS A VERY EARLY HOME. IT IS PERMIT NUMBER 31 FOR THE CITY AND BUILT IN 1923. AS PER ARTICLE EIGHT, SECTION 8-103 OF THE CORAL GABLES ZONING CODE. CRITERIA FOR DESIGNATION OF LOCAL HISTORIC LANDMARKS. A LANDMARK MUST HAVE SIGNIFICANT CHARACTER, INTEREST, OR VALUE AS PART OF THE HISTORICAL, CULTURAL, ARCHEOLOGICAL, ESTHETIC OR ARCHITECTURAL HERITAGE OF THE CITY, STATE OR NATION FOR DESIGNATION OF PROPERTY MUST MEET ONE OF THE CRITERIA OUTLINED IN THE CODE FOR 39 NEW YORK AVENUE IS ELIGIBLE AS A LOCAL HISTORIC LANDMARK BASED ON THREE CRITERIA HISTORICAL CULTURAL SIGNIFICANCE CRITERIA FOR. IT EXEMPLIFIES THE HISTORICAL, CULTURAL, POLITICAL, ECONOMIC OR SOCIAL TRENDS OF THE COMMUNITY. ARCHITECTURAL SIGNIFICANCE CRITERIA ONE PORTRAYS THE ENVIRONMENT IN AN ERA OF HISTORY CHARACTERIZED BY ONE OR MORE DISTINCTIVE ARCHITECTURAL STYLE AND CRITERIA. TWO IT EMBODIES THOSE DISTINGUISHING CHARACTERISTICS OF AN ARCHITECTURAL STYLE OR PERIOD OR METHOD OF CONSTRUCTION. FOR 39, NEW YORK AVENUE IS IN THE CORAL GABLES SECTION B ON A 75 FOOT BY 128 FOOT INTERIOR LOT, SITTING ON THE NORTH SIDE OF THE STREET BETWEEN LEJEUNE ROAD AND HERNANDO STREET, THE PROPERTY CONTAINS A SINGLE FAMILY RESIDENCE WHICH RETAINS ITS ORIGINAL STYLE AND CHARACTER. 
          CORAL GABLES WAS ORIGINALLY CONCEIVED AS A MIAMI SUBURB AND ATTRACTED INVESTORS FROM ACROSS THE NATION. DURING THE SOUTH FLORIDA REAL ESTATE BOOM OF THE 1920S, FOUNDER GEORGE MERRICK DREW ON THE GARDEN, CITY AND CITY BEAUTIFUL MOVEMENT OF THE 19TH AND 20TH CENTURY TO CREATE HIS VISION FOR A FULLY CONCEIVED, MEDITERRANEAN INSPIRED CITY. CORAL GABLES IS RECOGNIZED AS ONE OF THE FIRST MODERN PLANNED COMMUNITIES IN THE UNITED STATES. CORAL GABLES DEVELOPMENTAL HISTORY IS DIVIDED INTO THREE MAJOR HISTORICAL PERIODS. BUILT IN 1923 FOR 39, NEW YORK AVENUE IS AMONGST THE EARLIEST HOMES IN THE CITY AND EXEMPLIFIES THE BUILDING UPON WHICH CORAL GABLES WAS FOUNDED. NATIONALLY ACCLAIMED LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT FRANK BUTTON DREW THE FIRST COMPREHENSIVE MAPS OF CORAL GABLES IN 1921 AND 22, ONE OF WHICH IS ON THE LEFT SIDE OF THIS SLIDE ON NOVEMBER 26TH, 1921, MERRICK OPENED CORAL GABLES UP FOR SALES AND AUCTIONING OFF 300 LOTS IN SECTION A. BUOYED BY THIS SUCCESS, ON DECEMBER 27TH, HE HELD A SECOND AUCTION OFFERING, SECTION B UP FOR SALE AND SELLING 400 LOTS BOUNDED ON THREE SIDES BY GRAND THOROUGHFARES, GRANADA BOULEVARD TO THE WEST, LEJEUNE ROAD TO THE EAST AND CORAL WAY TO THE SOUTH. SECTION B INCLUDED AN ARRAY OF MERRICK'S PLANNED FEATURES. LARGER LOTS ALIGNED ALHAMBRA CIRCLE AND A 
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WIDE BOULEVARD WITH A LUSH CENTER MEDIAN, AND THE IMPRESSIVE GREENWAY DRIVES THAT CIRCLED THE PROPOSED GOLF COURSE. ALSO, A LARGE PORTION OF SECTION B WAS PLATTED WITH 50 FOOT LOTS THAT COULD BE BOUGHT SEPARATELY OR BUNDLED TOGETHER, OFFERING BOTH AFFORDABLE AND HIGHER END OPTIONS. IN APRIL 1922, MERRICK EXTENDED ALHAMBRA CIRCLE ACROSS LEJEUNE AS THE MAIN BUSINESS DISTRICT THOROUGHFARE. IN SECTION B, THE MEDIAN OF ALHAMBRA CIRCLE BECAME A BRIDLE PATH IN AUGUST 1922. AS PART OF MERRICK'S GREAT DEVELOPMENT PLAN, THE PLAZAS ALONG CORAL WAY, LIKE BALBOA PLAZA, WERE COMPLETED AND THREE ADDITIONAL PLAZAS IN SECTION B, GRANADA PLAZA, ALCAZAR PLAZA AND CASTILE PLAZA WERE UNDERWAY. IN EARLY 1923, THE MUCH ANTICIPATED CORAL GABLES GOLF COURSE AND ITS COUNTRY CLUB OPENED. THE CLUBHOUSE WAS THE COMMUNITY'S FIRST PUBLIC BUILDING AND BECAME THE HUB OF SOCIAL ACTIVITIES. ALL OF THESE AMENITIES AND ITS PROXIMITY TO THE NEW BUSINESS DISTRICT WERE TOUTED REPEATEDLY IN EARLY MARKETING AND DEFINED THIS AREA OF THE CITY. AS A RESULT, SECTION B DEVELOPED STEADILY IN THE 1920S, AND IN COMPARISON TO OTHER SECTIONS, IT BECAME A WELL DEVELOPED SINGLE FAMILY HOME AREA, WITH THE EXCEPTIONS OF THE RESIDENTS ALONG ALHAMBRA CIRCLE AND ALONG THE GREENWAYS. THE HOMES IN SECTION B WERE PREDOMINANTLY ONE STORY AND MODERATELY PRICED. MERRICK STROVE FOR CORAL GABLES TO BE A SOCIALLY MIXED GARDEN CITY COMMUNITY, WHERE PEOPLE OF VARIOUS SOCIOECONOMIC LEVELS LIVE SIDE BY SIDE IN QUALITY HOMES. MODEST RESIDENTS IN THE SAME CONSTRUCTION AND DETAILED TO HARMONIZE THE LARGER MEDITERRANEAN REVIVAL STYLE HOUSES WERE BUILT THROUGHOUT THE CITY, AND THEY WERE AN IMPORTANT PIECE OF CORAL GABLES. EARLY HISTORY. THE HOME AT 439 YORK AVENUE IS AN EARLY EXAMPLE OF MERRICK'S VISION FOR THESE HOMES. MARTIN AND FANNY MASTENBROEK COMMISSIONED THE HOME IN 1923 AS ONE OF THE EARLIEST HOMES IN CORAL GABLES, AND IS RECORDED AS PERMIT NUMBER 31. MARTIN WAS BORN IN HOLLAND, AND UPON HIS ARRIVAL IN MIAMI IN 1921, HE OPENED HIS NATIVE ROCK COMPANY. HE LIKELY SUPPLIED THE MATERIAL FOR THE LINTEL ROCK FEATURES. AFTER MOVING INTO THEIR HOME, FANNIE OPENED THE CORAL GABLES BEAUTY SHOP A FEW BLOCKS AWAY ON PONCE DE LEON BOULEVARD IN THE NEW BUSINESS DISTRICT. WHILE ORIGINAL PLANS OR OTHER EARLY BUILDING RECORDS FOR THE PROPERTY HAVE NOT BEEN LOCATED TO DATE, PHOTOGRAPHS SUCH AS THESE DATING TO 1924 AND THE 1940S, PROVIDE SOME PRIMARY DOCUMENTATION. THE ARCHITECT IS UNKNOWN. HOWEVER, GIVEN THE DATE OF CONSTRUCTION, IT WAS A MEMBER OF MERRICK'S ORIGINAL DESIGN TEAM, AS THEY WERE THE ONLY ONES DESIGNING HOMES IN CORAL GABLES AT THE TIME. 439 MAJORCA AVENUE IS DESIGNED IN THE MISSION REVIVAL STYLE. IN THE 1920S, THIS STYLE WAS USED SPARSELY AND SEEMINGLY ONLY FOR MODEST HOMES, PERHAPS OFFERING A DISTINCT LOOK FOR THEM. THE MISSION REVIVAL STYLE WAS FIRST DEVELOPED IN THE 19TH CENTURY AND DREW INSPIRATION FROM THE SPANISH COLONIAL MISSIONS HERITAGE IN THE SOUTHWEST. THE RESULTING MISSION REVIVAL STYLE IS CHARACTERIZED BY SILHOUETTED SHAPES THAT MIMIC THE OLD SPANISH MISSIONS, WITH STUCCO FACADES PUNCTUATED BY RECESSED WINDOWS AND DOOR OPENINGS, ARCHES WITHOUT MOLDINGS, AND SPARSE ORNAMENTATION. THE MOST DISTINCTIVE FEATURE OF THE MISSION REVIVAL STYLE ARE THE CURVED OR SHAPED PARAPET FEATURES EVOKING BELL TOWERS AND BELL GABLES. ROOFS ARE COMMONLY FLAT OR LOW PITCHED, WITH CLAY TILES. IN THE 19TH CENTURY, THE STYLE NEVER BECAME POPULAR OUTSIDE THE SOUTHWEST. HOWEVER, IN THE EARLY 20TH CENTURY, VARIANTS OF THE STYLE WERE BUILT IN THE NEW SUBURBS THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY, OF WHICH CORAL GABLES WAS ONE. 
          MERRICK'S INITIAL BUILDING CAMPAIGN RELIED HEAVILY ON SPANISH PRECEDENTS, AND THE MISSION REVIVAL STYLE FITTED HIS VISION. LISTED HERE AND DISCUSSED IN THE DESIGNATION REPORT, ARE SOME OF THE CHARACTER DEFINING FEATURES OF THE EXTERIOR OF THE HOME AT 439 YORK AVENUE. MOST NOTABLY ARE THE MISSION PARAPET, THE ADOBE INSPIRED TEXTURED STUCCO, THE MOORISH INSPIRED POINTED ARCHED CHIMNEY, SEGMENTAL ARCHED ENTRY, THE ROUGH STONE LINTELS, AND THE DECORATIVE CHANNELS. THE ONE STORY HOUSE IS BUILT OF MASONRY BLOCK UNITS ABOVE A 
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CRAWL SPACE AND IS CLAD WITH ADOBE INSPIRED TEXTURED STUCCO RECTANGULAR IN PLAN, THE LIVING SPACE IS UNDER A FLAT ROOF WITH SIMPLE MISSION STYLE PARAPETS, A SLIGHTLY PROTRUDING ARTICULATED BASE RUNS ALONG ALL FACADES OF THE HOME. THE RESTRAINED ORNAMENTATION IS TYPICAL OF THE MISSION REVIVAL STYLE. IN THE MISSION REVIVAL STYLE, WINDOW OPENINGS ARE DEEP WITHOUT ANY FRAMING AND HAVE PROTRUDING SILLS. HISTORIC PHOTOS SHOW THAT THE ORIGINAL WINDOWS WERE SINGLE, HUNG, AND CASEMENT IN TYPE. THEY WERE CHANGED TO JEALOUSIES IN 1967, AND BY 1994, TO CLEAR VIEW CASEMENTS CENTERED ABOVE. MOST OF THE ORIGINAL FENESTRATION OPENINGS ARE DECORATIVELY ARRANGED HALF ROUND BARREL TILE VENTS. LOCATED NEAR EACH CORNER ARE DECORATIVE CANALS. CANOPIES WERE COMMON IN FLAT ROOFED MISSIONS. THE DRAIN PROJECTED THROUGH THE PARAPET DIRECTING THE WATER AWAY FROM THE FACE OF THE ADOBE STRUCTURE. THE USE OF BARREL TILE AND CANALIZE FEATURES ARE DISTINCTIVE. MISSION REVIVAL ELEMENT. THERE HAVE BEEN TWO ADDITIONS TO THE HOME THE ORIGINAL REAR PROJECTING BAY ALONG THE EAST FACADE WAS LIKELY THE LOCATION OF THE ORIGINAL SLEEPING PORCH IN 1960, AN ADDITION FOR A DEN AND A FLORIDA ROOM WAS WRAPPED AROUND THE NORTHEAST CORNER, LARGELY ENCAPSULATING THE SLEEPING PORCH. THE SECOND CAMPAIGN OCCURRED IN 1993. AN OPEN AIR TERRACE ADDITION EXTENDED THE FRONT FACADE TO THE EAST, AND A CARPORT WAS BUILT NEAR THE NORTHWEST CORNER OF THE LOT. IT IS NOT CLEAR IF THE ORIGINAL GARAGE WAS DEMOLISHED DURING THIS CAMPAIGN. 
          ALSO, NEW ENTRY LANDINGS AND STAIRS WERE ADDED ALONG THE REAR AND SIDE FACADES OF THE HOME. THE FRONT FACADE OF THE ORIGINAL HOME IS DOMINATED BY TWO MISSION REVIVAL STYLE CHARACTERISTICS THE CURVED PARAPETS AND THE ARCHED OPENINGS. THE FRONT FACADE HAS TWO BAYS THE WESTERN LIVING SPACE BAY AND THE SLIGHTLY PROTRUDING FRONT ENTRY PORCH. 
          EACH HAS A CENTRAL LARGE OPENING WITH A DISTINCTIVE MISSION REVIVAL CURVED PARAPET ABOVE A CONVEX POINTED PARAPET ADORNS THE LIVING SPACE, AND THE TYPICAL ROUNDED PARAPET IS ABOVE THE FRONT AND THE SIDE ENTRY PORCH. ARCHED OPENINGS THE PARAPET WRAPS AROUND THE PORCH WITH BATTLEMENT QUARTERS, FEATURE WINDOWS AND DOORS ON MISSION REVIVAL STYLE HOMES ARE OFTEN ARCHED. THIS HOUSE ACCENTUATES THE OPENINGS WITH ROUGH FACED CUT STONE. AT THE LIVING SPACE WINDOW. THE STONE IS ARRANGED IN A JACK ARCH FASHION. THE STONE WAS REMOVED OR COVERED AT AN UNKNOWN DATE. THE CHANGE IN STUCCO CLEARLY MARKS ITS LOCATION. AT THE ORIGINAL ENTRY PORCH, THE STONE FRAMES THE SHALLOW SEGMENTAL ARCH OF THE FRONT AND THE EAST FACADE. THESE STONE FEATURES ARE EXTANT. AS SEEN IN THESE HISTORIC PHOTOS. THE ENTRY PORCH WAS SCREENED BY 1940 AND THEN ENCLOSED FOR LIVING SPACE. BY 1993. RISING NEAR THE SOUTHWEST CORNER OF THE HOME ON THE WEST FACADE IS A PROJECTING AND SHOULDER MOORISH INSPIRED CHIMNEY. IT DEMONSTRATES THE BROADER INFLUENCE OF THE ISLAMIC ARCHITECTURE ON THE SPANISH AND ITS INCORPORATION IN THE SPANISH MISSIONS. THIS INFLUENCE IS ALSO SEEN IN THE MISSION REVIVAL STYLE. THE CHIMNEY IS A HALLMARK FEATURE OF THE HOME. FLANKING IT WERE SMALL WINDOWS WHICH WERE BLOCKED UP AROUND 2013. THE WEST FACADE ALSO HAS A MISSION REVIVAL PARAPET AT ITS CENTER. THE PHOTO ON THE RIGHT SHOWS THE 1993 STEPS LEADING UP TO THE BAY THAT WAS ORIGINALLY THE SLEEPING PORCH, THE LARGE SCREEN OPENING OF THE PORCH WAS EXPANDED TO ACCOMMODATE FRENCH DOORS. AT THE SOUTHEAST CORNER OF THE HOME, A SUBSTANTIAL OPEN AIR TERRACE WAS ADDED. IN 1993. ITS MASONRY ELEMENTS ARE CLAD IN STUCCO, WHOSE TEXTURE IS DISTINCTLY DIFFERENT FROM THE ORIGINAL 1923 HOME. DECORATIVE CANALS WERE ALSO INSTALLED, THE TERRACES EASILY DISTINGUISHABLE AS AN ADDITION BEHIND TERRACE, THE EAST FACADE OF THE 1923 PORTION OF THE HOME IS LARGELY RETAINED. ITS ORIGINAL CONFIGURATION AND DETAILING. 
          SINCE VEGETATION OBSCURES THIS FACADE, A HISTORIC PHOTO IS PROVIDED FOR REFERENCE. A SMALL 
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POP OUT BAY OCCURS MIDWAY DOWN THE FACADE. IT IS UNDER A FRONT FACING GABLE ROOF, CLAD IN BARREL TILE BARREL TILES. COMMON FEATURE OF THE MISSION REVIVAL STYLE IN THIS HOME, IT IS USED FOR DECORATIVE ACCENT VENTS AND FOR CLADDING IN THE SMALL ROOF. ANOTHER SMALL MISSION STYLE PARAPET RISES ALONG THE NORTHERN END OF THE FACADE. IT MIRRORS THE PARAPETS ON THE WEST FACADE. IN THE 1993 HISTORIC PHOTO. THE 1960 REAR ADDITION IS VISIBLE IN THE BACKGROUND. FORMING AN L AT THE NORTH END OF THE EAST FACADE IS THE 1960 REAR ADDITION. THIS ADDITION HAS SIMPLE PARAPETS AND IS CLAD IN STUCCO, WHOSE TEXTURE IS VISIBLY DIFFERENT FROM THE ADOBE INSPIRED TEXTURE OF THE ORIGINAL 1923 HOME. THERE IS NO ORNAMENTATION ON THE ADDITION, AND THE WINDOWS HAVE MODERN PROPORTIONS. THE 1960 ADDITION IS CLEARLY DIFFERENTIATED FROM THE ORIGINAL 1923 HOME, AND DOES NOT ADVERSELY IMPACT ITS HISTORIC INTEGRITY. A DETACHED GARAGE BUILT CONTEMPORANEOUSLY WITH THE 1923 HOME, ORIGINALLY STOOD NEAR THE NORTHWEST CORNER OF THE HOME. NEWSPAPER ADS IN THE 1930S REFER TO IT AS A TWO CAR GARAGE, AS SEEN IN THE 1924 HISTORIC PHOTO. ITS MISSION REVIVAL STYLE PARAPET AND ADOBE INSPIRED TEXTURED STUCCO COMPLEMENTED THE HOME PROPERTY. SURVEYS INDICATE THAT IT WAS A WOOD FRAME STRUCTURE. IT WAS DEMOLISHED SOMETIME AFTER 1978 AND BEFORE THE 1993 ALTERATIONS CAMPAIGN. A NEW CARPORT WAS ERECTED SLIGHTLY TO THE EAST OF THE GARAGES. LOCATION. THE 1993 CARPORT IS SIMPLE FLAT ROOFED MASONRY STRUCTURE CLAD IN TEXTURED STUCCO, WHICH, ALONG WITH ITS LARGE RECTANGULAR OPENINGS, IS LIKE THE CONTEMPORANEOUS OPEN AIR TERRACE. IN THE FRONT. THE AUXILIARY STRUCTURE ALSO READS CLEARLY AS A LATER ADDITION TO THE PROPERTY, AND DOES NOT DETRACT FROM THE HISTORIC INTEGRITY OF THE PROPERTY. IN CONCLUSION, 439 MAJORCA AVENUE EXEMPLIFIES THE SPANISH INSPIRED BUILDING ARCHETYPE UPON WHICH CORAL GABLES WAS FOUNDED, AND IT IS ALSO SIGNIFICANT AS ONE OF A HANDFUL OF EXAMPLES OF THE ADAPTATION OF THE MISSION REVIVAL STYLE ARCHITECTURE IN GEORGE MERRICK'S PLANNED COMMUNITY. CONSTRUCTED IN 1923, IS ONE OF THE EARLIEST HOMES IN THE CITY, AND EXEMPLIFIES MERRICK'S VISION OF MODEST HOMES IN HIS SOCIALLY MIXED GARDEN CITY COMMUNITY. HENCE, THE PROPERTY, AT 439 MAJORCA AVENUE, IS PART OF A COLLECTION OF QUALITY BUILDINGS THAT SERVES AS A VISIBLE REMINDER OF THE HISTORY AND THE CULTURAL HERITAGE OF THE CITY. IT RETAINS ITS ARCHITECTURAL INTEGRITY AND SIGNIFICANTLY CONTRIBUTES TO THE HISTORIC FABRIC OF THE CITY OF CORAL GABLES. STAFF RECOMMENDS APPROVAL OF THE LOCAL HISTORIC DESIGNATION OF THE PROPERTY AT 439 MAJORCA AVENUE, BASED ON ITS HISTORICAL, CULTURAL AND ARCHITECTURAL SIGNIFICANCE. ARE THERE ANY QUESTIONS OF THE STAFF ABOUT THIS DESIGNATION OR ANY QUESTIONS ABOUT THE REPORT OR ANYTHING? OKAY. HEARING NONE, I'M GOING TO ASK ANY MEMBERS OF THE AUDIENCE WISH TO HAVE ANY PRO OR CON COMMENTS ON MR. MAXWELL. I'M SORRY IF YOU COULD PLEASE MOVE THE MICROPHONE CLOSER. WE'RE HAVING A LOT OF TROUBLE HEARING YOU TODAY. THANK YOU. I KNOW IT'S NOT THE MOST NATURAL FEELING, BUT IT'S QUITE ALL RIGHT. I'D RATHER BE HEARD. ALL RIGHT. IS THERE ANYONE IN THE AUDIENCE THAT WISHES TO SPEAK FOR OR AGAINST THIS APPLICATION? IF NOT, WE'LL COME BACK TO THE BOARD. OKAY. 
          BOARD. COMMENTS. QUESTIONS. MOTION. I'LL MAKE A MOTION TO APPROVE. WE HAVE A MOTION FROM MISS ALVAREZ. I'LL SECOND IT WITH WITH A COMMENT THAT I THINK IT'S CLEARLY HISTORICALLY SIGNIFICANT. I'M SURPRISED THAT IT'S EXISTED THIS LONG WITHOUT BEING DESIGNATED. BUT, YOU KNOW, WE'RE GETTING IT NOW, HOPEFULLY. AND MISS ALVAREZ IS MISS SPAIN. IF I CAN JUST CONFIRM THAT YOUR DESIGNATION IS BASED ON THE STAFF REPORT AND FOR THE SAME CRITERIA OUTLINED IN THE REPORT? ABSOLUTELY, YES. THANK YOU. ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU. OKAY. ARE WE READY FOR ANY FURTHER DISCUSSION? READY FOR A VOTE? THEN PLEASE CALL THE QUESTION, MR. SILVA. YES, MISS ROLANDO? 
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YES, MISS EVERETT. YES. MISS ALVAREZ. YES. MISS SPAIN. YES. MR. MAXWELL. YES. MOTION PASSES UNANIMOUSLY. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. AND CONGRATULATIONS. AND WE'RE GOING TO MOVE ON TO THE NEXT ITEM. GO TO THE CASE FILE LDH2025. I'M SORRY, DO YOU WANT TO DO THE C. OH YEAH. RIGHT. 
          SORRY ABOUT THAT. FOR THE CERTIFICATE OF. YEAH. OKAY. KARA. THANKS. AND FOR THE RECORD, THIS IS THE COSP2026007. THANK YOU. YOU PUT THE POWERPOINT UP, PLEASE. THIS IS AN APPLICATION FOR THE ISSUANCE OF A SPECIAL CERTIFICATE OF APPROPRIATENESS FOR THE PROPERTY AT 439 MAJORCA AVENUE, NOW A LOCAL HISTORIC LANDMARK LEGALLY DESCRIBED AS LOT 16 IN THE WEST HALF OF LOT 17, BLOCK ONE, CORAL GABLES, SECTION B, ACCORDING TO THE PLAT THEREOF, AS RECORDED IN PLAT BOOK FIVE AT PAGE ONE. 11 OF THE PUBLIC RECORDS OF MIAMI-DADE COUNTY. 
          SO WE'RE GOING TO SKIP STRAIGHT TO THE PRESENTATION BECAUSE YOU ALL HAVE JUST SEEN ALL ABOUT THIS PROPERTY. THE APPLICATION REQUEST IS ON APPROVAL FOR AN APPROXIMATELY 350 SQUARE FOOT, ONE STORY ADDITION TO THE EAST OF THE HOME THAT CONVERTS AN EXISTING OPEN AIR PAVILION INTO LIVING SPACE. CONSTRUCTION OF A TRELLIS COVERED TERRACE TO THE EAST OF THE EXISTING CARPORT. 
          MINOR ALTERATIONS TO THE RESIDENCE AND SITE WORK. I DID WANT TO JUST NOTE THAT THE WINDOWS OF THE ADDITION MATCH THE EXISTING CLEAR VIEW, WHICH WERE NO MUNTINS ON THE RESIDENTS. THO WERE INSTAED CIRC 1994. SOEENGS ATN THE FURE, WHEN THE WINDS ON THE HOU ARE TO BREACEDC PPE UNIHAT STAFF AROTEHIALCCURE WWSR A ONHE HOUSE, D THAWATH THEN B DFEIATED FM THE EXTING HRICIDENCE THERE ARNO VARNC THAT HAEEN REQUESTED WITH TH THE BRD OF ATECTS IN NOVEERF025. WE D HAVE A NUMB OFONDITIONS ON THE LAST PAGE OF Y REPSTENING TN PRESENTATII DID W TADD ANOTR ANOTHER CDITION THAT THE CAL STONE AHE EAST SI DRPENG IS TO RETAINED WHE THE AITION MADE. S IAT CAN CONSIDEREDS PART OE APPROVAL PCESS, I'M GOING TO TURNT OVER TTHERCCT HERE. YEAH. OKA THEREOUO, MI WALKER.I. GOOD AERON. AME RAFL MARNEZ. I I'M REPSEING ARCHICTURAL STUDIO. THE INT WITH T ER THEHEITION TTIS JUST IT WASADE IN 1993 INTO A LIVING SPACE. AND INSTEAD OF HAVING AN. THE FACADE THAT OPENING WITH WITH A FABRIC COVER HAS JUST LET ME MOVE FORWARD. LET ME GO TO THE FRONT FACADE. SO IT'S HAVING A. THE RIGHT SIDE OF THE PROPERTY, HAVING THAT COVERED AREA AND CONVERTING TO A LIVING SPACE WITH A BARREL TILE ROOF MATCHING THE SAME ESTHETIC OF A STUCCO OF THE EXISTING HOUSE AND CREATING A NEW, A NEW LIVING LIVING ROOM SLASH DINING ROOM TO THE TO THE RESIDENCE. THAT IS THE MAIN MODIFICATION IN THE FRONT FACADE. IT WAS REQUESTED BY THE BOARD OF ARCHITECTS. THE REPLACEMENT OF THE FRONT DOOR. INSTEAD OF HAVING THE GLASS FRONT DOOR REPLACED WITH THE WOOD, A SOLID WOOD FRONT DOOR MATCHING THE ESTHETIC OF THE REVIVAL STYLE IN THE BACKYARD. THIS IS THE ORIGINAL PICTURE OF THE HOUSE AND AT THE BACK YARD WE ARE. THAT IS ELEVATION. I'M SORRY. AND AS YOU CAN SEE, AND THE PROPOSED FACADE AT THE REAR SIDE THAT IS THE BACKYARD WE ARE PROPOSING TO REBUILD THE EXISTING CARPORT AND KEEP IT AS A CARPORT, AS AN ORIGINAL WAS DESIGNED IN THE IN THE HOUSE AND PUTTING A PERGOLA NEXT TO IT, BECAUSE THE INTENTION FROM THE CLIENT ORIGINALLY WAS USING THE CARPORT AS A AS A GAZEBO WHERE WE SUGGEST TO TO KEEP THE ORIGINAL CARPORT IN THE PROPERTY AND ADDING A AN ACCESSORY STRUCTURE NEXT TO IT, WHICH IS THE, THE GAZEBO THAT IT'S GOING TO BE A PERGOLA. IT'S GOING TO BE AN OPEN, OPEN TRELLIS. IT'S NOT GOING TO BE FULLY ROOFED. THIS IS KIND OF THE STYLE OF THE OF THE REAR FACADE. AND WE'RE ADDING A POOL AS OUR REQUEST REQUESTED BY THE BY THE OWNER, BY THE NEW OWNER. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. IS THERE ANYONE ELSE THAT WISHES TO SPEAK TO THIS? OKAY. ANY BOARD MEMBERS? QUESTIONS OF THE 
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ARCHITECT? I HAVE A BRIEF QUESTION. HAVE YOU LOOKED AT THE STAFF REPORT AT ALL THE CONDITIONS THAT STAFF IS ASKING YOU TO COMPLY WITH? ARE YOU OKAY WITH THOSE? THE CONDITIONS IN THE STAFF REPORT? YEAH, I MEAN, WE WE DIDN'T GET THE REPORT THAT WAS SENT TO US. I'M SORRY, I COULDN'T I COULDN'T READ IT LIKE COMPLETELY. BUT BUT I CAN I CAN READ THEM TO YOU. YEAH. WINDOWS AND DOOR AND WHAT? OKAY. THANK YOU. TAKE YOUR TIME. 
          OKAY. OKAY. YOU'RE OKAY WITH ALL OF THOSE? YES. OKAY. AND AND ALSO WITH THE RETAIN. I'M SORRY, MISS ROLANDO. AND ALSO TO RETAIN THE CORAL ROCK IN THE FRONT. YEAH, YEAH. 
          THANK YOU. YEAH. YEAH. CORRECT. MR. SULLIVAN, I, I, I APPRECIATE THE, THE DESIGN WORK. 
          I DON'T HAVE AN ISSUE IN CLOSING. I MEAN, WE ARE DRASTICALLY CHANGING THE FRONT FACADE, BUT WE ARE ALTERING A 1993 ADDITION. SO I DON'T HAVE AN ISSUE IN CLOSING THAT I THINK IT'S A SMART MOVE AND IT KEEPS IT AS A ONE STORY SOLUTION, WHICH I THINK IS SMART. I WOULD. WHOEVER IS MAKING THE MOTION, IF YOU WOULD ENTERTAIN RIGHT NOW, I THINK YOU'RE COUNTING ON THE VEHICULAR GATES AS PART OF YOUR POOL GATES. AND THAT IS NOT ALLOWED BY CODE. SO YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE TO ADD SOME FENCING SOMEWHERE. SO I WOULD ASK THAT YOU WORK WITH STAFF TO ESTABLISH THAT FENCING, BECAUSE I THINK IT'S GOING TO HAVE TO GO THROUGH THAT CARPORT AND THE GAZEBO AREA. AND THAT HAS TO BE HANDLED WELL. SO I WOULD ASK THAT THAT GETS ADDED TO THE CONDITIONS AS WE AS WE MAKE A MOTION, OKAY. THAT'S ACCEPTABLE. 
          YES. OKAY. THANK YOU. YEAH. MR. ORLANDO, ANY QUESTIONS, MISS EVERETT, MISS SPAIN, ANYTHING FURTHER? SO THERE THERE IS A REVEAL. THERE'S A SETBACK A COUPLE OF A COUPLE OF INCHES ON THE. CAN YOU GO BACK TO THE FRONT FACADE? WELL, MAYBE NOT. OKAY. SO THERE IS A WAY TO DIFFERENTIATE THE ADDITION FROM THE ORIGINAL, RIGHT? I MEAN, YEAH, THE THE. I GUESS THIS IS MORE FOR STAFF, THE MAIN ENTRY. AND THEN IT STEPS BACK TO WHERE IN THE PLANS IT SHOWS A DINING ROOM TABLE. OKAY, LET ME. YEAH. MISS SPAIN I THINK I THINK THERE'S YEAH THERE'S A SETBACK ON THE FRONT FACADE. YEAH. THERE ISN'T A SETBACK OF TWO FEET FROM THE FRONT FACADE OF THE ADDITION. OKAY. THAT WE ARE PROPOSING TO ENCLOSE. YEAH. THERE ARE TWO FEET DIFFERENCE BETWEEN BOTH. THAT'S MY ONLY CONCERN. BUT I THINK IT'S FINE. MISS ALVAREZ. I AGREE WITH ALEX. 
          OKAY. IS THERE ANY OTHER QUESTIONS, ANY FURTHER DISCUSSION ON THIS BOARD? IF NOT, IS THERE ANYONE IN THE AUDIENCE THAT WISHES TO SPEAK FOR OR AGAINST THIS HEARING? NONE. WE'LL CLOSE THAT AND COME BACK TO THE BOARD. OKAY. BOARD. WHAT'S YOUR PLEASURE? I'LL MAKE A MOTION, IF THAT'S APPROPRIATE. WE HAVE A MOTION BY MISS SPAIN. I'D LIKE TO MAKE A MOTION TO APPROVE THE DESIGN PROPOSAL FOR THE ADDITION ALTERATIONS TO THE RESIDENCE ON THE PROPERTY, LOCATED AT 439 MAJORCA AVENUE. WITH. AND APPROVE IT WITH THE CONDITIONS NOTED IN THE STAFF REPORT. WITH THE ADDITION OF RETAINING THE CORAL ROCK AROUND THE. I THINK IT WAS A DOOR DOORWAY AND THEN ALSO TO WORK WITH STAFF IN THE FUTURE ON THE POOL ENCLOSURE, THE. THE GATES AND THE FENCE AND EVERYTHING. AND WITH AN ISSUANCE OF A SPECIAL CERTIFICATE OF APPROPRIATENESS. SECOND. OKAY, WE HAVE A SECOND BY MISS EVERETT. I MISS BEING JUST CLARIFYING THAT THIS IS AN ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENT FOR THE EAST SIDE DOOR OPENING WAS MY UNDERSTANDING. YES. THE CORAL ROCK. THANK YOU. OKAY, WE HAVE A MOTION. AND A SECOND. WOULD 
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YOU PLEASE CALL THE QUESTION MISS ALVAREZ? YES, MR. SILVA. YES. MISS ROLANDO. YES. MISS SPAIN, YES. MISS EVERETT. YES. AND MR. MAXWELL. YES. MOTION CARRIES UNANIMOUSLY. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. LOOK FORWARD TO SEEING THIS IN PERSON. THANK YOU. OKAY. WE'RE GOING TO MOVE 
          [2. 26-1698 CASE FILE LHD 2025-014 and CASE FILE COA (SP) 2026-015: Consideration of the local historic designation of the property at 446 Aragon Avenue, legally described as Lot 1, Block 8, Section Coral Gables Section “B,” according to the Plat thereof, as recorded in Plat Book 5, at Page 111 of the Public Records of Miami-Dade County, Florida. The applicant is also requesting the issuance of an Accelerated Special Certificate of Appropriateness and design approval for additions, alterations to the residence and sitework. Variances have been requested from Article 2, Section 2-101 D (4) and Article 2, Section 2-101 D (5) for the rear setback of the mechanical equipment.]
ON HERE TO THE NEXT CASE FILE, WHICH IS ANOTHER COMBINATION. IT'S CASE FILE LDH 2025-014 AND CASE FILE COA SP 2026-0015. CONSIDERATION OF A LOCAL HISTORIC DESIGNATION OF THE PROPERTY AT 446 ARAGON AVENUE, LEGALLY DESCRIBED AS LOT ONE, BLOCK B LOT I'M SORRY, BLOCK EIGHT, SECTION CORAL GABLES, SECTION B ACCORDING TO THE PLAT THEREOF, AS RECORDED IN PLAT BOOK FIVE, PAGE ONE. 11 MIAMI-DADE COUNTY APPLICANT IS ALSO REQUESTING THE ISSUANCE OF AN ACCELERATED SPECIAL CERTIFICATE OF APPROPRIATENESS AND DESIGN APPROVAL FOR ADDITIONS, ALTERATIONS TO THE RESIDENCE AND SITE WORK VARIANCE VARIANCES HAVE BEEN REQUESTED FROM ARTICLE TWO, SECTION 2-101 D4 AND ARTICLE TWO, SECTION 2-101D5. FOR THE REAR SETBACK OF MECHANICAL EQUIPMENT, MAY WE HAVE A PRESENTATION, PLEASE? THE PROPERTY AT 446 ARAGON AVENUE IS BEFORE YOU FOR CONSIDERATION. FOR DESIGNATION AS A LOCAL HISTORIC LANDMARK CONSTRUCTED IN 1924, IT WAS PERMIT 189. THE APPLICATION WAS FILED BY THE OWNER. AS PER ARTICLE EIGHT, SECTION 8-103 OF THE CORAL GABLES ZONING CODE. CRITERIA FOR DESIGNATION OF HISTORIC LANDMARKS. A LOCAL HISTORIC LANDMARK MUST HAVE SIGNIFICANT CHARACTER, INTEREST, OR VALUE AS PART OF THE HISTORICAL, CULTURAL, ARCHEOLOGICAL, ESTHETIC OR ARCHITECTURAL HERITAGE OF THE CITY, STATE OR NATION FOR DESIGNATION OF PROPERTY MUST MEET ONE OF THE CRITERIA OUTLINED IN THE CODE FOR 46 ARAGON AVENUE IS ELIGIBLE AS A LOCAL HISTORIC LANDMARK BASED ON THREE CRITERIA HISTORIC CULTURAL SIGNIFICANCE CRITERIA FOR. IT EXEMPLIFIES THE HISTORICAL, CULTURAL, POLITICAL, ECONOMIC, OR SOCIAL TRENDS OF THE COMMUNITY. ARCHITECTURAL SIGNIFICANCE CRITERIA ONE. IT PORTRAYS THE ENVIRONMENT IN AN ERA OF HISTORY CHARACTERIZED BY ONE OR MORE DISTINCTIVE ARCHITECTURAL STYLE AND CRITERIA. TWO IT EMBODIES THOSE DISTINGUISHING CHARACTERISTICS OF AN ARCHITECTURAL STYLE OR PERIOD OR METHOD OF CONSTRUCTION. FOR 46 ARAGON AVENUE IS IN CORAL GABLES, SECTION B ON A 50 FOOT BY 110 FOOT LOT ON THE SOUTHEAST CORNER OF ARAGON AVENUE AND HERNANDO STREET. THE PROPERTY CONTAINS A SINGLE FAMILY RESIDENCE AND A DETACHED GARAGE, WHICH RETAINS THEIR ORIGINAL MASSING STYLE AND CHARACTER. 
          CORAL GABLES WAS ORIGINALLY CONCEIVED AS A MIAMI SUBURB AND ATTRACTED INVESTORS FROM ACROSS THE NATION. DURING THE SOUTH FLORIDA REAL ESTATE BOOM OF THE 1920S, FOUNDER GEORGE MERRICK DREW FROM THE GARDEN, CITY AND CITY BEAUTIFUL MOVEMENTS OF THE 19TH AND EARLY 20TH CENTURY TO CREATE HIS VISION FOR A FULLY CONCEIVED, MEDITERRANEAN INSPIRED CITY. CORAL GABLES IS RECOGNIZED AS ONE OF THE FIRST MODERN PLANNED COMMUNITIES IN THE UNITED STATES. CORAL GABLES DEVELOPMENTAL HISTORY IS DIVIDED INTO THREE MAJOR HISTORICAL PERIODS. BUILT IN 1924 FOR 46, ARAGON AVENUE IS AMONGST THE EARLIEST HOMES IN THE CITY AND EXEMPLIFIES THE BUILDING TYPOLOGY UPON WHICH CORAL GABLES WAS FOUNDED. NATIONALLY ACCLAIMED LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT FRANK BUTTON DREW THE FIRST COMPREHENSIVE MAPS OF CORAL GABLES IN 1921 AND 22, ONE OF WHICH IS ON THE LEFT IN THE SLIDE LOTS IN SECTION A WENT ON SALE IN NOVEMBER 1921, FOLLOWED BY SECTION B IN DECEMBER. SECTION B IS BOUNDED ON THREE SIDES BY GRAND THOROUGHFARES OF GRANADA BOULEVARD TO THE WEST LEJEUNE ROAD TO THE EAST AND CORAL WAY TO THE SOUTH, AND IT INCLUDED AN ARRAY OF PLANNED FEATURES, LARGER LOTS LINED ALHAMBRA CIRCLE AND THE GREENWAY DRIVES ENCIRCLING THE PROPOSED GOLF COURSE. HOWEVER, THE MAJORITY OF SECTION B WAS PLATTED WITH 50 FOOT LOTS THAT COULD BE BOUGHT SEPARATELY OR BUNDLED TOGETHER, OFFERING BOTH AFFORDABLE AND HIGHER END OPTIONS. SECTION B DEVELOPED STEADILY IN THE 1920S AND IN COMPARISON TO OTHER SECTIONS, IT BECAME A WELL DEVELOPED SINGLE FAMILY HOME AREA. THE HOMESTEAD SECTION B WERE PREDOMINANTLY ONE STORY AND MODERATELY PRICED. MERRICK STROVE FOR CORAL GABLES TO BE SOCIALLY MIXED GARDEN CITY 
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COMMUNITY, WHERE PEOPLE OF VARIOUS SOCIOECONOMIC LEVELS LIVE SIDE BY SIDE IN QUALITY HOMES. MODEST RESIDENTS OF THE SAME CONSTRUCTION AND DETAILED TO HARMONIZE WITH THE LARGER MEDITERRANEAN REVIVAL STYLE HOUSES WERE BUILT THROUGHOUT THE CITY, AND THEY ARE AN IMPORTANT PIECE OF CORAL GABLES. EARLY HISTORY. THE HOME, AT 446 ARAGON AVENUE IS AN EARLY EXAMPLE OF AMERICA'S VISION FOR THESE HOMES. CHARLES AND OLIVIA PERRIN COMMISSIONED THE HOME IN 1924 AS THEIR RETIREMENT HOUSE. IT WAS ONE OF THE EARLIEST HOMES IN CORAL GABLES AND IS RECORDED AS PERMIT 189. WHILE ORIGINAL PLANS OR OTHER EARLY BUILDING RECORDS FOR THE PROPERTY HAVE NOT BEEN LOCATED TO DATE, THIS EARLY PHOTOGRAPH PROVIDES PRIMARY DOCUMENTATION. 
          THE ARCHITECT IS UNKNOWN FOR 46 ARAGON AVENUE IS DESIGNED IN THE MISSION REVIVAL STYLE. IN THE 1920S, THIS STYLE WAS USED SPARSELY AND SEEMINGLY ONLY FOR MODEST HOMES, PERHAPS OFFERING A DISTINCT LOOK FOR THEM. THE MISSION REVIVAL STYLE WAS FIRST DEVELOPED IN THE 19TH CENTURY AND DREW INSPIRATION FROM SPANISH COLONIAL MISSION HERITAGE IN THE SOUTHWEST. THE RESULTING MISSION REVIVAL STYLE IS CHARACTERIZED BY SILHOUETTED SHAPES THAT MIMIC OLD SPANISH MISSIONS, WITH STUCCO FACADES PUNCTUATED BY RECESSED WINDOWS AND DOOR OPENINGS, ARCHES WITHOUT MOLDINGS, AND SPARSE ORNAMENTATION. THE MOST DISTINCTIVE FEATURES OF THE MISSION REVIVAL STYLE ARE THE CURVED OR SHAPED PARAPET FEATURES EVOKING BELL TOWERS OR BELL GABLES. ROOFS ARE COMMONLY FLAT OR LOW PITCHED, WITH CLAY TILES. IN THE 19TH CENTURY, THE STYLE NEVER BECAME POPULAR OUTSIDE THE SOUTHWEST. HOWEVER, IN THE EARLY 20TH CENTURY, VARIANTS OF THE STYLE WERE BUILT IN NEW SUBURBS THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY, OF WHICH CORAL GABLES WAS ONE. MERRICK'S INITIAL BUILDING CAMPAIGN RELIED HEAVILY ON SPANISH PRECEDENTS, AND THE MISSION REVIVAL STYLE FIT HIS VISION. ALTHOUGH A SIMPLE VERSION, THE HOME AT 446 ARAGON AVENUE CELEBRATES THIS STYLE. LISTED HERE AND DISCUSSED IN THE DESIGNATION REPORT ARE SOME OF THE CHARACTER DEFINING FEATURES OF THE EXTERIOR OF THE HOME, MOST NOTABLY THE MISSION PARAPET, THE BUTTRESSING WING WALLS, BARREL TILE ACCENTS, THE CHIMNEY WITH THE ADOBE INSPIRED STACK, AND BELFRY INSPIRED TOP GROUPED ROUND VENTS IN HORIZONTAL LINES REMINISCENT OF ADOBE VIGAS. THE RESIDENCE WAS DESIGNED AS A TWO BEDROOM HOME WITH COVERED IN FRONT AND REAR PORCHES. THERE HAVE BEEN NO ADDITIONS. THERE ARE VERY FEW BUILDING PERMITS ON RECORD FOR THIS HOME. PRIMARY ALTERATIONS CONSIST OF ENCLOSING THE SCREENED PORCHES, WINDOW TYPE CHANGES AND HEIGHT, AND REDUCTION OF SOME OF THE SMALLER WINDOWS. THE ONE STORY HOUSE IS BUILT OF MASONRY BLOCK UNITS ABOVE A CRAWL SPACE AND IS CLAD WITH ADOBE INSPIRED TEXTURE. STUCCO RECTANGULAR IN PLAN, THE LIVING SPACE IS UNDER A FLAT ROOF WITH SIMPLE AND MISSION STYLE PARAPETS. THE LARGE CURVED PARAPET IS A STRONG IDENTIFIER OF THE MISSION REVIVAL STYLE AND IS REPEATED AROUND THE HOME. 
          BARREL TILE ADORNS THE FLAT PARAPET COPINGS AROUND THE HOUSE, STRATEGICALLY PLACED ABOVE THE PARAPETS ARE HORIZONTAL GROUPINGS OF ROUND CLAY VENTS. THE HORIZONTAL ARRANGEMENT OF THESE ROUND FEATURES EVOKE THE VIGAS OF ADOBE STRUCTURES. THE WINDOWS ARE ALSO TYPICAL MISSION REVIVAL STYLE. THEY ARE SINGLE HUNG WINDOWS WITH UPPER SASH MOUNTAINS. IT APPEARS THAT MOST OF THE ORIGINAL WINDOWS ARE EXTANT AT ALL CORNERS OF THE HOME. WINGED WALLS GENTLY KICK AND FLARE OUT, HARKENING BACK TO THE BUTTRESSING AT THE CORNERS OF ADOBE STRUCTURES. THE FRONT FACADE IS DOMINATED BY TWO CHARACTER DEFINING FEATURES OF THE MISSION REVIVAL STYLE THE CURVED PARAPET AND THE ARCHED OPENINGS. THE MAIN ENTRY TO THE HOME IS THROUGH THE SLIGHTLY PROJECTING EASTERN PORCH BAY, CENTERED AT THE TOP OF THIS BAY IS ONE OF THE DISTINCTIVE MISSION REVIVAL PARAPETS, WITH AN APPLIED PLAQUE. ACCESS IS THROUGH THE CENTRAL ARCHWAY THAT IS FLANKED BY THE NARROWER ARCHED OPENINGS SITTING ON PROJECTING SILLS. THE EAST SIDE FACADE HAS A LARGE ARCHED OPENING, WHICH ALSO HAS A PROJECTING SILL. ARCHED OPENINGS SUPPORTED BY LARGE SQUARE COLUMNS, IS A CHARACTER DEFINING FEATURE OF THE MISSION REVIVAL STYLE. ON THE PORCH, A HORIZONTAL PROTRUDING BAND RUNS ACROSS BOTH FACADES AT THE HEIGHT OF THE ARCHES SPRINGER LINE, 
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THEREBY VISUALLY SUGGESTING IT'S A CAPITAL FOR SQUARE COLUMNS SUPPORTING THE ARCHES. 
          THE BAND WRAPS THROUGH THE ARCHES AND CONTINUES ON THE INTERIOR, THEREBY COMPLETING THE ILLUSION THAT IT IS A CAPITAL. AT EACH CORNER OF THE PORCH, WING WALLS BEGIN THEIR FLARE JUST UNDER THAT BAND, AND APPEARS TO BE BUTTRESSING THE COLUMNS. ORIGINALLY SCREENED. 
          NEWSPAPER SALES ADS SUGGEST THAT THE PORCH ARCHES WERE ENCLOSED WITH THE CURRENT AWNING WINDOW ENSEMBLE. IN 1983. THE WESTERN BAY OF THE FRONT FACADE IS SLIGHTLY RECESSED FROM THE ENTRY PORCH. AT ITS CENTER IS ANOTHER CURVED MISSION REVIVAL PARAPET, UNDER WHICH IS A DOUBLE WINDOW ENSEMBLE. ABOVE THE WINDOW IS A FAUX ARCH WITH AN APPLIED PLAQUE. BELOW THE WINDOW IS A MASONRY WINDOW BOX SUPPORTED BY MASONRY CORBELS, ALIGNING WITH THE TOP OF THE FAUX ARCH. AT EACH SIDE OF THE ENSEMBLE ARE THREE ROUND VENTS IN A HORIZONTAL LINE. THIS BAY IS REPEATED AT THE CENTER OF THE EAST FACADE FACING HERNANDO STREET. THE CHIMNEY RISES NEAR THE NORTHEAST CORNER OF THE HOME. THE STACK FLARES OUT TOWARDS THE GROUND IN A MANNER REMINISCENT OF A TYPICAL ADOBE ARCHITECTURAL FORMS. BELFRIES WERE ALSO COMMON IN SPANISH COLONIAL MISSIONS, AND THEIR FORMS ARE COMMON IN MISSION REVIVAL STYLE. IN THIS HOME, THE TOP OF THE CHIMNEY IS SHAPED LIKE A BELFRY, AND ITS GABLE IS CAPPED WITH BARREL TILE. THE EAST SIDE FACADE APPEARS TO RETAIN ITS ORIGINAL CONFIGURATION AND FEATURES. THE SOLE ALTERATION IS THE HEIGHT OF REDUCTION OF A WINDOW AT THE SOUTH END, WHICH LIKELY OCCURRED DURING A PRE 1980S KITCHEN REMODEL. IT REMAINS A JEALOUSY WINDOW. THE SILL WAS RETAINED AND THUS THE ORIGINAL SIZE OF THE WINDOW WAS EASILY DISCERNED. THE REMAINDER OF THE WINDOWS APPEAR TO BE THE ORIGINAL SINGLE HOMES WITH TOP SASH, HIGH PROFILE MUNTINS. THE WEST FACADE ALSO REMAINS LARGELY INTACT. AT THE NORTH END OF THE FACADE IS A SLIGHTLY PROJECTING ENTRY PORCH CENTERED ON THE FACADE. BEHIND THE PORCH IS ANOTHER CURVED MISSION REVIVAL PARAPET. RUNNING ACROSS THE PARAPET IS A HORIZONTAL LINE OF SEVEN ROUND VENTS, AGAIN REMINISCENT OF ADOBE VIGAS. BELOW IS A SINGLE WINDOW, AND IT'S THE ONLY APPARENT ALTERATION TO THE FACADE. THE BATHROOM WINDOW WAS REDUCED IN HEIGHT BUT RETAINS ITS SILL, SO IT'S. THE ORIGINAL SIZE IS EASILY DISCERNED. THE REDUCTION SEEMS TO CORRESPOND WITH INTERIOR ALTERATIONS THAT OCCURRED IN THE EARLY 1980S. 
          IT'S CURRENTLY AN AWNING WINDOW. THE REMAINING RETAIN THEIR ORIGINAL SIZE AND HOLD WHAT APPEAR TO BE THE ORIGINAL SINGLE HUNG WINDOWS. ON THE REAR FACADE, GENTLY FLARING OUT AT THE SOUTHWEST AND SOUTHEAST CORNERS OF THE HOME'S ORIGINAL LIVING SPACE ARE BUTTRESSING WING WALLS. BEHIND THE LIVING SPACE IS A PROJECTING BAY THAT WAS ORIGINALLY THE SCREEN BACK PORCH. A 1981 PERMIT FOR THE CURRENT AWNING WINDOWS INDICATE THE SCREENS WERE REPLACED BY JEALOUSY WINDOWS IN THE 1950S. THE REAR ENTRY TO THE HOME REMAINS THROUGH THIS BAY. 
          BEHIND THE HOME IS A DETACHED ONE CAR GARAGE THAT IS LIKELY CONTEMPORANEOUS TO THE HOME. 
          BUILT OF MASONRY UNITS AND COVERED IN STUCCO, WHOSE TEXTURE MATCHES THE HOUSE. IT IS UNDER A FLAT ROOF WITH PARAPETS. THE STREET FACING FACADE HAS A CURVED PARAPET IN THE MISSION REVIVAL STYLE, MATCHING THOSE ON THE HOME. BARREL TILE. COPING. FLANK THIS PARAPET. THE SIDE PARAPETS ARE SIMPLE AND UNADORNED. ON THE NORTH FACADE IS A MASONRY SCREEN WITH THE PALM TREE MOTIF. IT IS NOT ORIGINAL TO THE STRUCTURE, AND IT LIKELY REPLACED A WINDOW. A WINDOW ON THE REAR AND NORTH SIDE FACADES WERE REDUCED TO ACCOMMODATE THE CURRENT AWNING WINDOWS. LIKE THE HOUSE, THE SILLS WERE LEFT IN PLACE, AND HENCE THE ORIGINAL SIZE OF THE WINDOWS IS EASILY DISCERNED. IN CONCLUSION, 446 ARAGON AVENUE EXEMPLIFIES THE SPANISH INSPIRED BUILDING ARCHETYPE UPON WHICH CORAL GABLES WAS FOUNDED, AND IS ALSO SIGNIFICANT. AS ONE OF A HANDFUL OF EXAMPLES OF THE ADAPTATION OF THE MISSION REVIVAL STYLE ARCHITECTURE IN GEORGE MERRICK'S PLANNED COMMUNITY. CONSTRUCTED IN 1924, IT'S ONE OF THE EARLIEST HOMES IN THE CITY, AND IT EXEMPLIFIES MERRICK'S VISION FOR. OF MODEST HOMES IN HIS SOCIALLY MIXED GARDEN CITY COMMUNITY. HENCE, THE PROPERTY OF 446 ARAGON AVENUE IS PART OF A COLLECTION OF QUALITY BUILDINGS THAT SERVES AS A VISIBLE REMINDER OF 
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THE HISTORY AND THE CULTURAL HERITAGE OF THE CITY. IT RETAINS ITS ARCHITECTURAL INTEGRITY AND SIGNIFICANTLY CONTRIBUTES TO THE HISTORIC FABRIC OF THE CITY OF CORAL GABLES. STAFF RECOMMENDS APPROVAL OF THE LOCAL HISTORIC DESIGNATION OF THE PROPERTY FOR 46 ARAGON AVENUE, BASED ON ITS HISTORICAL, CULTURAL AND ARCHITECTURAL SIGNIFICANCE. 
          GREAT. OKAY. BOARD QUESTIONS. SO THIS WAS A RESULT OF THE OWNER APPLYING FOR A HISTORIC DESIGNATION? YES. VERY NICE. YOU'RE HERE TODAY. WAVING. I APPRECIATE THAT. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. OKAY. ARE THERE NO OTHER QUESTIONS HERE FROM THE BOARD? WE'RE GOING TO ASK IF. I THINK THAT'S OUT OF OUR JURISDICTION. IS THERE ANYONE IN THE AUDIENCE OR ON ZOOM THAT WOULD LIKE TO SPEAK FOR OR AGAINST THIS? OKAY. HEARING NONE, WE'LL COME BACK TO THE BOARD AND HAVING NO QUESTIONS, WE'LL I'LL ASK FOR A MOTION. I'LL MOVE. OKAY. MISS ROLANDO MAKES A MOTION. I MOVE THAT THE BOARD APPROVE THE LOCAL HISTORIC DESIGNATION OF THE PROPERTY AT 446 ARAGON AVENUE. BASED ON ITS HISTORIC, CULTURAL AND ARCHITECTURAL SIGNIFICANCE, AS SET FORTH IN THE STAFF REPORT. WE HAVE A MOTION. MAY I HAVE A SECOND, PLEASE? I'LL SECOND IT. I HAVE A MOTION. A SECOND BY MISS ABBOTT. OKAY. WOULD YOU PLEASE CALL THE QUESTION MISS ALVAREZ? YES. MR. SILVA. YES. MISS SPAIN. YES, MISS ROLANDO. YES. MISS ABBOTT. YES. AND MR. MAXWELL. 
          YES. MOTION PASSES UNANIMOUSLY. WE'LL NOW GO TO THE SECOND PART OF THE. FOR THE COA. OKAY. SO AS PREVIOUSLY DESCRIBED, THIS IS THE PROPERTY AT 446 ARAGON AVENUE, DESCRIBED AS LOT ONE, BLOCK EIGHT OF CORAL GABLES, SECTION B, ACCORDING TO THE PLAT THEREOF, AS RECORDED IN THE PLAT BOOK FIVE, PAGE ONE ONE. ONE OF THE PUBLIC RECORDS OF MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, FLORIDA. 
          TODAY WE PRESENT TO YOU, AS NOTED, 446 ARAGON AS A HISTORIC SIGNIFICANCE AND HAS BEEN MINIMALLY MODIFIED AS REQUESTED BY THE APPLICANT. WE ARE ALSO SUBMITTING TO YOU GUYS A DECISION THAT THEY WOULD LIKE TO DO, AND ALSO A VARIANCE REQUEST. SO THE ADDITION IS COMPOSED OF JUST A DETACHED CONNECTION TO THE DETACHED GARAGE, TO THE ORIGINAL PART, TO THE ORIGINAL PROPERTY AT THE REAR END. IT WILL BE PARTIALLY SEEN AT HERNANDO STREET AND BASICALLY TAKE OVER ON THE SOUTHWEST SIDE OF THE REAR LOT. THE REQUEST FOR THE VARIANCE THAT WE WOULD WANT YOU TO SEE IS BASICALLY A REQUEST FOR THE MECHANICAL EQUIPMENT. THE REQUIREMENT FROM ZONING IS TEN FEET OF REAR SETBACK, AND CURRENTLY THEY ARE PROPOSING A FOUR FEET SIX INCHES. OKAY. IS THERE A PRESENTATION BY THE ARCHITECT OR THE OWNER? PLEASE STATE YOUR NAME FOR THE RECORD PLEASE. IN ADDITION, I DO WANT TO ADD THAT THE PROPERTY OWNER IS GOING TO BE PURSUING THE CORAL GABLES COTTAGE DESIGNATION. I WAS GOING TO ASK THAT. SO THAT'S WHERE WE ARE LIMITED TO THE ONE STORY CONDITION. SO THEIR FOOTPRINT IS A LITTLE BIT BIGGER THAN YOU WOULD USUALLY ALLOW WITH ZONING REQUIREMENTS. AND THAT IS WHERE THE REQUEST FOR THE HVAC EQUIPMENT CAME FROM, SO THAT THEY CAN SPREAD OUT A LITTLE BIT WITHOUT HAVING TO GO UP, WHICH WAS A BIG. SO THERE'S, THERE'S NO VARIANCE FOR LOT COVERAGE, NO, BASED ON THE COTTAGE RIGHT REQUIREMENTS. COOL. THAT WAS MY QUESTION. 
          IT'S WORKING IN THIS ONE. ISN'T THAT INTERESTING THAT IT ACTUALLY WORKS? YES. PLEASE INTRODUCE YOURSELF. GOOD AFTERNOON. MY NAME IS RAUL CRUZ. I'M AN ARCHITECT WITH ARCHITECTURAL STUDIO AND I'M REPRESENTING THE OWNER FOR 446 ARAGON AVENUE. CAN WE SEE THE PLANS ON THE SCREEN? OH, I GOT IT. THANK YOU. YEAH, I DID. I WAS THE PROPERTY IS A ONE STORY RESIDENCE BUILT IN 1929, LOCATED AT THE CORNER OF ARAGON AVENUE AND HERNANDO STREET. A 
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PROPOSAL IS INTENDED TO PRESERVE AND REHABILITATE THE HISTORIC HOME, WHILE ADAPTING IT TO THE OWNER'S FAMILY AND CONTEMPORARY NEEDS. THE PROJECT INCLUDES THE RENOVATION OF THE EXISTING RESIDENCE AND A 616 SQUARE FOOT, ONE STORY ADDITION CONNECTING THE MAIN HOUSE TO THE ORIGINAL DETACHED HOME. ORIGINAL DETACHED GARAGE. THE ADDITION IS LOCATED BETWEEN THE TWO EXISTING STRUCTURES ITS FLAT ROOF AND INTERMEDIATE HEIGHT CREATE A TRANSITION BETWEEN THE RESIDENCE AND THE GARAGE, ALLOWING THE ORIGINAL MASSING AND HISTORIC CHARACTER OF THE HOME TO REMAIN DOMINANT. WE ARE PRESERVING THE HOME'S DEFINING EXTERIOR FEATURES, INCLUDING THE ORIGINAL TEXTURED STUCCO, DECORATIVE DETAILS, AND PLANTERS. WE WILL CONTINUE COORDINATING WITH HISTORIC RESOURCES STAFF ON THE FINAL WINDOWS, DOORS, PORCH TREATMENT, STOCK OR ROOFING, AND OTHER DETAILS TO ENSURE THE COMPATIBILITY WITH THE HISTORIC PHOTOGRAPHS. WE ALSO REQUEST APPROVAL OF THE REAR SETBACK VARIANCE FOR THE MECHANICAL EQUIPMENT. IF THE PROPOSED LOCATION BEHIND THE WING, WALL AND GATE NEXT TO THE EXISTING GARAGE IS THE LEAST VISIBLE OPTION DUE TO THE CORNER LOT CONFIGURATION, WE RESPECTFULLY REQUEST APPROVAL OF THE COA AND THE ASSOCIATED VARIANCE SUBJECT TO THE CONDITIONS RECOMMENDED BY STAFF. THANK YOU AND I WILL BE HAPPY TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS. ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU. 
          BOARD. MISS ALVAREZ. I, I AGREE WITH THE STAFF REPORT AND THE AND THE ADDITION I. I JUST HAD A QUESTION. SOME OF THESE GARAGES WERE OFTEN BUILT OUT OF WOOD FRAME. HAVE YOU HAVE YOU LOOKED AT THAT. WE HAVE THE ROOF IS A WOOD FRAME, BUT NOT THE WALLS. NOT THE WALLS. NO. 
          OH THAT'S GOOD. YEAH. THAT USUALLY CREATES SOME NEW, SOME ADDITIONAL CHALLENGES. YEAH FOR SURE. MISS SPAIN, DO YOU HAVE ANY COMMENTS? NO. I THINK THAT THIS WILL CHANGE THE LIVABILITY OF THIS HOUSE. IT'S VERY EFFICIENT PLANS. IT'S VERY NICE. THANK YOU. MR. SILVA. YEAH. I ECHO MY COLLEAGUES SENTIMENTS. I THINK IT'S IT'S A GREAT PROJECT AND I, I APPRECIATE THE EFFORT THAT'S GONE THROUGH AND THE KIND OF MAINTAINING THE COTTAGE AND THE SINGLE STORY. I DID HAVE I DID WANT TO SPEAK ON THE ON THE VARIANCES. SO JUST TO CLARIFY THE REAR VARIANCE, RIGHT. WE'RE ASKING TO REDUCE THE CLEARANCE FROM THE PROPERTY LINE TO THE MECHANICAL EQUIPMENT TO FOUR FOOT SIX. RIGHT. AND THAT'S BASED ON A TEN FOOT REAR SETBACK. I DID WANT TO POINT OUT THAT IF THIS EQUIPMENT WAS ON THE SIDE, RIGHT. AND THEY HAD ROOM FOR IT, THAT WOULD ALLOW A FIVE FOOT SETBACK. SO REALLY ALL WE'RE LOOKING AT IS, IS A SIX INCH DIFFERENCE. I UNDERSTAND SINCE IT'S ON THE REAR, BUT JUST SO WE ALL KEEP THAT IN MIND, RIGHT. 
          IT'S NOT A FIVE FOOT. I MEAN, IT TECHNICALLY IS A FIVE FOOT, BUT IN PRACTICALITY IT'S LESS RIGHT. THE I DID HAVE A QUESTION ON, ON THE THE WAY THAT THE COTTAGE SETBACK VARIANCE IS BEING APPLIED. RIGHT. I DON'T WANT THEM TO RUN INTO A PROBLEM LATER ON WITH ZONING AND HAVE TO COME BACK, AS WE'VE SEEN SORT OF RECENTLY, BECAUSE IT HAS ZONING LOOKED AT THIS AT ALL? YES. SO THEY BECAUSE THE WAY THAT THE THING THAT THE THE CODE READS SPECIFICALLY SAYS THAT YOU CAN EXCEED THIS, YOU CAN WAIVE THE SIDE SETBACK RIGHT UP TO THE LINE OF THE EXISTING HOUSE AND NO LESS THAN TWO FOOT SIX. RIGHT. SO YOU'RE IN COMPLIANCE WITH A TWO FOOT SIX. BUT SINCE THE PROPERTY LINE SKEWS, YOU'RE CLOSER TO THE PROPERTY LINE AT THE ADDITION THAN THE OTHER CONDITION. I WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT WE DON'T NEED A VARIANCE FOR THAT. BUT WE AND THAT ZONING HAS VETTED THAT ALREADY. BUT WE ALSO ARE ALIGNING THE ADDITION TO THE I UNDERSTAND, I UNDERSTAND, AND I'M IN FAVOR OF THIS, AND I JUST I JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT YOU DON'T HAVE A PROBLEM LATER ON. RIGHT. LIKE, SO EVEN IF WE. SO WE ONLY NOTICE FOR THE ONES THAT WE IDENTIFIED WITH ZONING. ZONING DID HAVE INITIAL COMMENTS AT FIRST BECAUSE OF COURSE, THE BUILDING HASN'T BEEN DESIGNATED AND HADN'T BEEN DESIGNATED AT CORAL GABLES COTTAGE. SO THERE WAS A PLETHORA OF ZONING COMMENTS BECAUSE IN AS A NON-DESIGNATED BUILDING, IT WOULD NOT MEET ANY OF THE ZONING SETBACK REQUIREMENTS, GROUND COVERAGE, ANYTHING LIKE THAT. SO WE WENT THROUGH AND THEY MET WITH ZONING. SO THIS IS WHERE WE ENDED UP. IS THERE A CHANCE THAT MAYBE BETWEEN THE PERMITTING PROCESS, THEY DID ALREADY GET A FIRST ROUND OF COMMENTS. SO WE'LL MAKE SURE. BUT WE WANTED TO MOVE THIS FORWARD BECAUSE WE HAD KIND OF BEEN GOING AROUND IN CIRCLES FOR A LITTLE BIT, AND THEY WERE EAGER TO GET STARTED AND GET THE PERMIT DRAWINGS IN AND ALL OF THAT. SO WE APPRECIATE IT, BUT WE CAN'T EVEN ADD ZONING VARIANCE TODAY IF IT HASN'T BEEN NOTICED. UNDERSTOOD. AND I'M NOT SURE IT WOULD BE A VARIANCE. IT'S A MATTER OF INTERPRETATION OF THE ZONING 
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CODE. EXACTLY. I WANT TO GO ON RECORD AND SAY I WOULD BE IN FAVOR OF THIS INTERPRETATION AS IT'S AS IT STANDS NOW. RIGHT. SO THAT ALIGNING THE BUILDING. STEPHANIE IS ALL EARS. I, AS THE DEPARTMENT TASKED WITH INTERPRETING THE ZONING CODE, I HEAR YOUR COMMENTS THERE. NOTED. 
          THANK YOU. DO YOU HAVE ANY OBJECTION TO THE CONDITIONS NOTED IN THE STAFF REPORT? NO, I DON'T. OKAY. SO THE OWNER HAS ACCEPTED THOSE. YES. OKAY. YES. MR. LANDO, ANYTHING ELSE, MISS EVERETT, ANY COMMENTS FROM YOU? I'D LIKE TO MAKE A COMMENT. I THINK THIS IS A AN EXCEPTIONAL ADAPTATION. SO I REALLY COMMEND YOU. YOU'VE YOU PUT FORTH NOT ONLY REALLY GOOD ENERGY ON IT, BUT YOU'VE MAINTAINED A BUILDING THAT'S HARD TO MAINTAIN. SO THANK YOU VERY MUCH. AND OKAY, SO. WE'VE GONE THROUGH EVERYTHING. OKAY. IF I COULD ADD ONE THING, JUST WE DO LEARN A LOT FROM ELIZABETH'S REPORTS AND PRESENTATIONS. SHE DID MENTION THAT THE PAM MOTIF WAS SOMETHING THAT WAS ADDED LATER ON. SO IT IS A CONDITION. IT WAS A CONDITION TO MAINTAIN IT. IF YOU ALL WANT TO WORK WITH STAFF ON THAT. NOW THAT WE KNOW IT'S NOT ORIGINAL WITHIN THAT REPORT, WE'LL, YOU KNOW, WE COULD REMOVE THAT AS A AS A, YOU KNOW, CONDITION. WELL, IT WILL BE GREAT IF WE CAN REMOVE THAT BECAUSE THERE IT WILL BE HARD TO INTEGRATE RIGHT NOW. 
          YEAH. WHAT DO YOU WHAT DO WE WANT A PALM MOTIF THAT'S LIKE A CONCRETE SCREEN IN THE GARAGE THAT EXISTS ON THE NORTH ELEVATION. VERY 50S. YEAH. BUT YOU KNOW, YOU SEE THEM SOMETIMES AND THERE'S NEVER DESIGNED SPECIAL ANYMORE. SO WE'VE BEEN KIND OF HOLDING ON TO THEM A LITTLE BIT MORE THAN USUAL, I GUESS. AND SINCE IT'S GOING TO BE WHAT CONDITION IS THAT. IT WAS NUMBER TEN. CONDITION NUMBER TEN WAS TO THE PALM MOTIF. YEAH. BUT ELIZABETH DID MENTION IN THE REPORT THAT IT WAS SOMETHING THAT WAS ADDED LATER ON. SO WE DON'T NEED TO MAINTAIN IT IF IT'S NOT ORIGINAL. AND IF YOU KNOW WE COULD WORK, THEY WANT TO WORK WITH IT FOR ANOTHER LOCATION. WE COULD FIGURE THAT OUT, BUT I DON'T WANT TO HOLD IT TO THEM. 
          IF IT'S NOT ORIGINAL, HOLD THEM TO IT. SORRY. OKAY, GREAT. ANY OTHER QUESTIONS OF STAFF? OKAY. 
          IS THERE ANYONE IN THE AUDIENCE THAT WISHES TO SPEAK FOR OR AGAINST THIS? OR IS THERE ANYONE ON ZOOM? OKAY, WE HAVE NONE. SO WE'LL CLOSE THAT AND CLOSE THE PUBLIC HEARING AND COME BACK TO THE BOARD. OKAY. BOARD. DO WE HAVE A MOTION? I'LL MAKE A MOTION. OKAY. MISS SPAIN, I'D LIKE TO MAKE A MOTION TO APPROVE WITH A CONDITIONS NOTED IN THE STAFF REPORT OTHER THAN CONDITION NUMBER TEN, WHICH YOU CAN WORK WITH STAFF WITH. BUT I'M NOT INCLUDING IT. THE DESIGN PROPOSAL FOR THE ADDITIONS AND ALTERATIONS TO THE RESIDENCE AND SITE WORK ON THE PROPERTY, LOCATED AT 446 ARAGON AVENUE, A LOCAL HISTORIC LANDMARK AS OF TODAY, AND APPROVE THE ISSUANCE OF A SPECIAL CERTIFICATE OF APPROPRIATENESS. AND SHOULD I DO THE VARIANCE? ALSO APPROVE OF A VARIANCE TO ALLOW THE MECHANICAL EQUIPMENT TO MAINTAIN A REAR SETBACK OF FOUR FEET SIX INCHES VERSUS THE REQUIRED MINIMUM REAR SETBACK IN A SINGLE FAMILY RESIDENTIAL DISTRICT SHALL BE TEN FEET PURSUANT TO ARTICLE TWO, SECTION 2-101D4 AND ARTICLE TWO, SECTION 2-101D5 OF THE CORAL GABLES ZONING CODE. THANK YOU. 
          OKAY, WE HAVE A MOTION. HAVE A SECOND PLEASE. I'LL SECOND. MISS ALVAREZ. SECONDED. OKAY, WE HAVE A MOTION. AND A SECOND, PLEASE CALL THE QUESTION. MR. SILVA. YES, MISS ROLANDO. YES, MISS ABBOTT. YES. MISS ALVAREZ. YES. MISS SPAIN. YES. MR. MAXWELL. YES. MOTION PASSES UNANIMOUSLY. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. THANK YOU. ALL RIGHT. WE'RE GOING TO MOVE ON TO THE 
          [2. 26-1700 CASE FILE COA (SP) 2026-016: An application for the issuance of a Special Certificate of Appropriateness for the property at 4400 Palmarito Street, a Contributing Resource within the “Italian Village,” legally described as Lots 7 thru 9, Block 12, Coral Gables Riviera Section Part 1, according to the Plat thereof, as recorded in Plat Book 28, at Page 31 of the Public Records of Miami-Dade County, Florida. The application requests design approval for additions and alterations to the residence and sitework. Variances have also been requested from Article 2, Section 2-101 D (4) (b) for the side setback of the garage addition, and from Article 2, Section 2-101 D (4) (c) the rear setback of the two-story garage addition and one-story covered terrace.]
SECOND. MR. ALVAREZ, SPECIAL CERTIFICATES OF APPROPRIATENESS SECTION, AND WE'RE GOING TO MOVE ITEM NUMBER TWO, WHICH IS CASE FILE COASP2026016 TO NUMBER ONE, IF THAT'S OKAY. 
          OKAY. AND THEN THE REST WILL FOLLOW IN ORDER. GOOD AFTERNOON. AND A PRESERVATION OFFICER. IF WE COULD PLEASE HAVE THE PRESENTATION UP, PLEASE. AND JUST JUST TO NOTIFY YOU ALL. 
          THE APPLICANT COULD NOT BE HERE TODAY. WE DID GIVE I DID SPEAK WITH THEM AND THEY'RE ON ZOOM. 
          SO CALUM GIBBS, THE ARCHITECT, IS GOING TO BE PRESENTING ON DIGITALLY, BUT I'LL BEGIN WITH A BRIEF INTRODUCTION. THIS IS AN APPLICATION FOR 4400 PALMER STREET, A CONTRIBUTING RESOURCE 
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WITHIN THE ITALIAN VILLAGE HISTORIC DISTRICT. THIS PROPERTY WAS DESIGNED IN 1926 BY DISTINGUISHED ARCHITECT A.L. KLINGEBIEL, AND THE PROPERTY WAS DESIGNATED A CONTRIBUTING RESOURCE WITHIN THE ITALIAN VILLAGE HISTORIC DISTRICT. ON NOVEMBER 17TH, 1992. THE APPLICANT IS REQUESTING DESIGN APPROVAL FOR DEMOLITION WORK, ADDITIONS AND ALTERATIONS TO THE RESIDENCE AND SITE WORK. IN ADDITION, THERE ARE VARIANCES HAVE ALSO BEEN REQUESTED FROM ARTICLE TWO, SECTION 2-101D4B FOR THE SIDE SETBACK OF THE GARAGE ADDITION AND FROM ARTICLE TWO, SECTION 2-101D4C, THE REAR SETBACK FOR THE REAR SETBACK OF THE TWO STORY GARAGE ADDITION AND THE ONE STORY COVERED TERRACE. THE ADDITION PROPOSED IS MOSTLY LOCATED WITHIN THE REAR PROPERTY AT THE DETACHED GARAGE. AT THIS PROPERTY THERE WAS. SOME BACK AND FORTH ABOUT WHERE EXACTLY A GOOD LOCATION FOR AN ADDITION WOULD BE, SINCE IT IS A PROMINENT ELEVATION. I MEAN, IT IS A PROMINENT STRUCTURE ON THE STREET AND HAS A VERY LARGE SIDE YARD. IT WAS THE ARCHITECT'S INTENTION TO BRING A TWO STORY ADDITION TO THE REAR, USING THE DETACHED GARAGE AS THE BEST LOCATION TO TO CREATE A SIGNIFICANT MODIFICATION THAT WOULDN'T REALLY ALTER THE CHARACTER OF THE HISTORIC DISTRICT AND THE ORIGINAL POMERADO STRUCTURE. THE SIDE SETBACK AND THE REAR SETBACK CONDITIONS ARE. OUR REQUEST FOR THE VARIANCES FOR. TO ALLOW FOR THOSE SETBACKS, AND THEN TO MATCH THE EXISTING SETBACKS OF THE ORIGINAL GARAGE. THE TWO STORY PORTION WILL HAVE A. LET ME JUST GO BACK. I BELIEVE IT'S FIVE FEET FROM THE REAR YARD, FROM THE REAR YARD, RATHER THAN THE TEN FEET THAT'S REQUIRED. AND AGAIN, FOR THE SIDE SETBACK, IT WAS THE SAME. THE THE THE SORRY, THE, THE TWO REAR SETBACKS WAS FOR A TEN FEET REQUIREMENT AND REQUESTING A FIVE FOOT SETBACK. AGAIN, STAFF WORKED WITH THE APPLICANT CLOSELY. WE DO UNDERSTAND THAT THERE IS A MAJOR MODIFICATION AND SIGNIFICANT DEMOLITION WORK THAT'S BEING DONE TO THAT REAR STRUCTURE. THE BUILDING IS MINIMALLY VISIBLE FROM THE STREET, DIDN'T HAVE MUCH CHARACTER FROM WHAT THE SITE VISIT THAT I COMPLETED, AND THE ONE STORY PORTION OF THE GARAGE IS ACTUALLY BEING MAINTAINED, SO THAT THAT LINE OF SIGHT FROM THE STREET IS REMAINING THE SAME FROM THE DRIVEWAY. I'LL GO AHEAD AND LET CALLUM PRESENT. HE IS ON ZOOM AND WILL NEED TO BE SWORN IN. AND STAFF IS RECOMMENDING APPROVAL. WITH THE CONDITIONS NOTED BELOW. SOME OF THESE CONDITIONS HAVE ALREADY BEEN ADDRESSED WITHIN HIS PRESENTATION, SO HE'LL GO THROUGH THAT AS WELL. HELLO. 
          WOULD YOU RAISE YOUR RIGHT HAND? DO YOU SWEAR OR AFFIRM THE TESTIMONY YOU'RE GOING TO GIVE TODAY WILL BE THE TRUTH, THE WHOLE TRUTH, AND NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH? YES, I DO. THANK YOU. 
          GOOD DAY. APOLOGIES FOR NOT BEING ABLE TO BE IN ATTENDANCE TO THIS MEETING, AND I REALLY THANK YOU FOR GIVING ME THE OPPORTUNITY TO PRESENT BY ZOOM. WE WERE SCHEDULED FOR LAST MONTH AND IT GOT. COULD COULD YOU TURN YOUR VOLUME DOWN A LITTLE, PLEASE? SURE. THANK YOU. 
          IT WOULD BE FROM KHGI-TV IF YOU COULD TURN THE VOLUME DOWN IN THE PRESENT IN THE ROOM, PLEASE. 
          CALLUM, YOUR VOLUME IS SHOULD BE FINE. IT WOULD BE ON OUR END. THANK YOU. OKAY. GIVE IT A GO, CALLUM. OKAY. IS THAT BETTER? YES. THANK YOU. OKAY. JUST AGAIN, WE WERE SCHEDULED FOR LAST MONTH AND JUICES AND PROCESSING. WE GOT PUSHED TO THIS MONTH AND UNFORTUNATELY, I WAS ALREADY SCHEDULED FOR A TRIP OUT OF TOWN. BUT GOING TO THE PROJECT, I NEED TO SHARE MY SCREEN TO SHOW YOU THE DRAWINGS. SEE IF WE CAN GET THAT A LITTLE BIGGER. THERE WE GO. WE'VE GOT THEM UP. YOU HAVE? OH, FANTASTIC. YES. SO I'M JUST GOING TO RUN THROUGH THE DRAWINGS. THIS IS SORT OF THE COVER SHEET JUST SHOWING THE THE THE TWO STORY ADDITION TO THE REAR OF THE PROPERTY. OBVIOUSLY THE HOUSE IS PART OF THE WONDERFUL ITALIAN VILLAGE DISTRICT, WHICH, YOU KNOW, FOR ME HAS ALWAYS BEEN THAT SORT OF PART OF THE GABLES WHERE THE SETBACKS IN THE FRONT WERE SORT OF USUALLY SMALLER THAN ANOTHER AREA, SORT OF CREATING THESE SORT OF LOVELY WALLED STREET APPEARANCES. THE OTHER BENEFIT OF THIS OBVIOUSLY MEANS YOU GET 
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A LOT OF COURTYARD FEELING WITHIN THE DISTRICT. PARDON ME, THE THE HOUSE IS ON A FAIRLY LARGE, WIDE LOT AND THERE'S BEEN A POOL ADDED WHICH TAKES UP THE WHOLE SIDE YARD. AS YOU CAN SEE FROM THE SURVEY, EXISTING SITE PLAN JUST LOWERED THE DIAGRAMMATIC IN THE REAR. 
          THE. THE ONE STORY COTTAGE WHICH IS ATTACHED TO THE EXISTING GARAGE IS THE AREA WHERE OUR ADDITION WILL SIT. HERE ARE SOME PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE OF THE PROPERTY ALONG THE FRONT. YOU CAN SEE THAT THAT. THAT HOUSE CREATES A VERY MUCH. A CONTINUOUS FACADE WITH AN EXTENDED WALL TO ONE SIDE, CULMINATING IN AN ARCHER SORT OF BOUGAINVILLEA ARCH TO THE. 
          WHICH LEADS TO THE GARAGE IN THE REAR. LET'S SEE. SO THIS IS OUR PROPOSED SITE PLAN, THE IDEA BEING TO TAKE DOWN THE ONE STORY GUEST HOUSE IN THE REAR AND REPLACE IT WITH A TWO STORY ADDITION, BECAUSE IT THEN BECOMES A AN ADDITION, WE HAVE TO ATTACH IT TO THE MAIN HOUSE IN SOME MANNER SO THAT. AND WE THOUGHT THE BEST WAY TO DO THAT WOULD BE THROUGH A BREEZEWAY WITH A MINIMAL IMPACT ON THE MAIN STRUCTURE. SOME DIAGRAMS. SO THESE ARE THE TWO COMPARING FLOOR PLANS. AND YOU CAN SEE THAT THE THE BREEZEWAY CONNECTION, WHICH LEADS CONVENIENTLY FROM THE THE KITCHEN BREAKFAST AREA ACROSS TO THE TO THE NEW GROUND FLOOR AND THEN INTO THE THROUGH INTO THE GARAGE. UNDERCOVER. SECOND FLOOR AGAIN, EXISTING HOUSE. 
          THERE IS A SMALL OPEN PORCH ON THE SECOND FLOOR OF THE EXISTING HOUSE, WHICH IS IN THE AREA WHERE THE ROOFED BREEZEWAY WILL CONNECT TO THE HOUSE AND WE CAN ADDRESS THAT LATER. THIS IS THE MAIN GROUND FLOOR, AND THE IDEA IS TO EXPAND THE LIVING AREA WITH SOME, YOU KNOW, SORT OF A HOME GYM, A GAME ROOM WHICH COULD BE USED FOR GUEST BEDROOMS. AND THEN UPSTAIRS, TWO ADDITIONAL BEDROOMS AND A HOME STUDY. THIS IS A FRONT ELEVATION. THE HOUSE IS HAS HAD SOME RENOVATIONS, BUT THE THE IDEA OF THIS DRAWING IS TO SHOW THAT THE LITTLE OUTLINE OF THE OF THE ADDITION IN THE REAR AND AND HOW THAT THE EXISTING HOUSE REALLY IS, IS KEEPING ITS PRESENCE ON THE STREET. AGAIN, THIS IS A SIDE. SO THIS IS LOOKING FROM THE POOL TO THE TOWARDS THE HOUSE, YOU CAN SEE THE BREEZEWAY CONNECTION AND THE, THE MASSING OF THE TWO STORY ADDITION. THIS IS FROM THE SOUTH SIDE. LOOKING ACROSS YOU SEE THE THE THREE WINDOWS ARE SORT OF IN THIS SORT OF ORIGINAL HOUSE AS YOU CAN WALK, AS YOU SORT OF MOVE BACK INTO THE PROPERTY, YOU CAN SEE THE GARAGE, THE TWO STORY ADDITION, AND THE EXISTING PORCH THAT OVERLOOKS THE COURTYARD. THERE'S A REAR ELEVATION OF THE HOUSE SHOWING THE CONNECTION. 
          AND THIS IS THE, THE, THE NEW REAR OF THE PROPERTY ON THE BOTTOM IS THE EXISTING ONE STORY GARAGE AND GUEST HOUSE. AND THEN ABOVE IS THE NEW TWO STORY ADDITION. THERE'S A LITTLE SECTION THAT TAKES THE SHOWS HOW THE THE BREEZEWAY REALLY FORMS A LITTLE CONNECTION PIECE THAT SORT OF CREATES A. A LOVELY COURTYARD BETWEEN TWO OPEN PORCHES OVERLOOKING FROM THE. IN THE ADDITION. IN THE SAME MANNER THAT THE ORIGINAL HOUSE HAS A PORCH OVERLOOKING THIS COURTYARD. I'M GOING TO JUST SHOW YOU SOME RENDERINGS HERE JUST TO SHOW THE IMPACT REALLY FROM THE STREET. BY LOCATING THE ADDITION IN THE REAR, WE FELT LIKE THAT SORT OF ISOLATED THAT HOME AS A COMPLETE STRUCTURE AND KEPT IT SORT OF AS ORIGINAL AS POSSIBLE WITH A MINIMAL IMPACT ON THAT, ON THAT STRUCTURE. AND THEN IN THE BOTTOM RIGHT, YOU CAN SEE THIS SORT OF CREATION OF THIS COURTYARD, WHICH SORT OF IS DEVELOPED BETWEEN THE EXISTING HOUSE AND THE AND THE NEW STRUCTURE IN THE. ONE OF THE CONDITIONS IN THE REPORT WAS A DISCUSSION ABOUT HOW THE ROOF OF THE BREEZEWAY ATTACHES TO THE EXISTING HOUSE. I DID A LITTLE DETAIL HERE, JUST SHOWING THAT THE. THE END OF THAT ROOF WE CAN CREATE A GABLE WHICH. WHICH WOULD SORT OF ACT AS A TERMINATION FOR THE ROOF TILE AND THE TERMINATION FOR BEHIND THE RAILING OR THE WOOD RAILING OF THE HOUSE. I HAVE SOME PICTURES ALSO OF THAT PORCH I WANTED TO SHOW YOU. THE THE WOOD LIKE DISAPPEARED. 
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LET'S TRY AGAIN. OKAY, SO WE GOT TWO LITTLE PORCH DETAILS HERE. I THINK THAT WHAT THEY SHOW IS THAT THE THE MAIN WOODEN STRUCTURE IS ACTUALLY THE BEAM THAT RUNS ACROSS THE TOP OF THE PORCH AND THAT THE, THE VERTICAL ELEMENTS ARE REALLY JUST A CLADDING TO THE MASONRY. YOU CAN SEE THAT I DON'T THINK THERE'S AN EMBEDDED WOODEN COLUMN IN THAT CORNER. I REALLY FEEL IT'S SORT OF AN IMPLIED WOODEN COLUMN. SO THAT WAY WHEN WE ATTACH TO IT, I DON'T THINK WE'RE GOING TO AFFECT ANYTHING STRUCTURAL IN THAT IN THAT AREA. AND WE CAN ADAPT THAT AS STAFF SEEMS, YOU KNOW, WOULD DEEM IT MOST APPROPRIATE. SO WITH THAT IN MIND, I'LL GO BACK TO THE RENDERINGS. AND I FEEL THAT, YOU KNOW, LIKE I SAY, THE THE GOAL OF THIS WAS TO EXPAND SPAN THE PROPERTY, THE LIVING QUARTERS, BUT MAINTAIN THE ORIGINAL HOUSES INTACT AS POSSIBLE. AND IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS, OBVIOUSLY I I'VE SEEN THE COMMENTS, THEY ALL SEEM VERY REASONABLE AND HOPEFULLY WILL COME TO AN AGREEMENT ON HOW BEST THAT DETAIL BETWEEN THE ADDITION AND THE MAIN HOUSE IS RESOLVED. 
          OKAY. THANK YOU CALLUM. THAT'S REALLY THAT'S VERY LOVELY. THANK YOU. OKAY. BOARD QUESTIONS OF THE ARCHITECT AND THE PRESENTATION. I HAD A QUESTION. THE ONLY VARIANCE REQUEST IS ABOUT THE FLAT ROOF. NO, THEY THEY EXISTING GARAGES CLOSE ON THE SOUTH PROPERTY LINE. IT'S CLOSER THAN FIVE FEET. AND SO WHEN WE WHEN WE ADD TO THAT, WE HAVE TO WE MAINTAINING THAT SIDE SETBACK. SO THAT'S ONE VARIANCE. THE SECOND VARIANCE IS THE LOCATION OF THE ADDITION AT FIVE FEET FROM THE REAR PROPERTY LINE. WHEREAS A TEN WOULD BE A. 
          ANOTHER REQUIREMENT. I BELIEVE THERE'S THREE VARIANCES REQUESTED. CLARIFY THE. THE THIRD ONE, WHICH IS AN ODD ONE, IS THAT IF YOU SEE THE THE ONE STORY PORCH, WHICH IS ATTACHED TO THE TWO STORY THAT HAS ITS OWN VARIANCE BECAUSE IT'S ONE STORY, IT ALSO HAS A VARIANCE OF BEING CLOSER THAN TEN FEET TO THE REAR. IT'S, I BELIEVE IT'S LIKE EIGHT FEET. I THINK. 
          MR. SILVA. SORRY. GO AHEAD, GO AHEAD. I'M SORRY, MISS ALVAREZ. GO AHEAD. ALEX. NO, I JUST HAD A QUESTION. BEFORE WE BEGIN THIS QUESTION, THE FOR CALLUM, THE WERE YOU'RE PROPOSING TO DO THE THE KIND OF THE WALL TO RECEIVE THAT GABLE AT THE AT THE AT THE SECOND FLOOR BALCONY, I THOUGHT IT YES. I THOUGHT RATHER THAN HAVING THE THE YOU KNOW, IF YOU IF YOU DIDN'T DO A WHAT I THOUGHT I'D DO IS RAISE A CONCRETE CURB OR GABLE AT THAT POINT SO THAT WHEN YOU'RE LOOKING THROUGH THE RAILING, YOU DON'T ACTUALLY SEE THE OVER LAPPING TILE. YOU WOULD JUST SEE THE, THE TRUE CONCRETE GABLE. AND THEN THE TILE WOULD ABUT BEHIND THAT GABLE. SO YOU WOULDN'T HAVE THE ISSUE OF HAVING TO CUT CLAY TILE AND HAVE IT IN CONTACT WITH THE, WITH THE WITH THE RAILING. THERE WOULD BE A CLEANER BREAK BETWEEN THE TWO. OKAY, OKAY, SO THERE'S A CLEAN A CLEAN WALL IN FRONT AND IT FOLLOW. IT'S IT'S A GABLE. SO OR OR IS IT. YES, IT WOULD, IT WOULD BE A TRIANGULAR IN PROFILE. WE'LL JUST GET THE. SO IT SORT OF CUTS INTO THE. IF YOU WERE ON THE PORCH LOOKING OUT, YOU WOULD, YOU WOULD LOOK THROUGH THE RAILINGS AND SEE THE, THE BACKSIDE OF THAT CONCRETE GABLE. OKAY. AND YOU'RE CONFIDENT YOU CAN SAVE THOSE, THOSE RAILS. YES. THE RAILS ARE NOT ORIGINAL. THEY'RE THEY I'M SORRY. I'M JUST GOING TO SCROLL TO A PHOTOGRAPH. THEY'RE THEY'RE SET ON THE CENTER OF THE BEAM ABOVE. 
          SO THEY'RE SORT OF INBOARD, MAYBE FOUR INCHES INTO THE INTO THE PORCH. SO THEY WOULD NOT BE IN CONTACT WITH A CONCRETE ELEMENT THAT WAS SET FLUSH WITH THE CONCRETE WALL. THANK YOU. 
          SORRY. MY IMAGES ARE DISAPPEARING AS YOU ZOOM IN, BUT ON THE PORCH RAILING DETAIL, YOU CAN SEE THAT THE RAILING IS SET BACK. AND IT'S IT'S NOT, THEY'RE NOT ACTUALLY TURNED RAILINGS, AS YOU WOULD EXPECT, AN ORIGINAL. THEY ALMOST FEEL LIKE THEY'VE BEEN CUT OUT OF A FLAT PIECE. SO THEY FEEL THAT THEY WERE PROBABLY REPLACED OVER DURING THEIR LIFETIME. 
          RIGHT. OKAY. MISS ALVAREZ, ANY ANY QUESTIONS? NO. I JUST WANT TO SAY I SUPPORT THE THE 
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PROPOSAL AND I AGREE WITH THE STAFF RECOMMENDATIONS AND THE VARIANCES. MR. BEN, I'M GOOD WITH IT. MISS EVERETT. MISS ROLANDO, MR. SILVA, I IN SPEAKING ABOUT THE VARIANCE, I THINK THE ADDITION AND THE WAY IT'S BEING HANDLED AND SET TO THE REAR IS GREAT. I THINK THE MASSING WORKS WELL. AND YOU'RE CREATING ANOTHER ONE OF THESE COURTYARDS YOU TALK ABOUT. 
          RIGHT IN THE DISTRICT. I'M A LITTLE BIT CONCERNED THAT ONE OF THE JUSTIFICATIONS WE'RE USING TO JUSTIFY THE VARIANCE IS TO SAVE HISTORIC FABRIC, AND THEN WE'RE TEARING DOWN A BIG CHUNK OF THAT EXISTING BUILDING. RIGHT. I THINK THAT THAT BY KEEPING THE GARAGE, THAT SORT OF MITIGATES IT A LITTLE BIT. AND, AND AT THAT POINT, IT MAKES SENSE TO SORT OF HOLD THAT LINE. SO, SO I AM, I AM IN FAVOR, BUT IT'S NOT TO ME, IT'S NOT CUT AND DRY. I AM IN FAVOR, THOUGH. I BELIEVE THAT THAT THE VARIANCE IS JUSTIFIED. THANK YOU. ANY FURTHER QUESTIONS OF THE BOARD? ANY FURTHER QUESTIONS OF MR. MR. GIBB OKAY. ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU. WE'RE GOING TO NOW OPEN IT UP TO THE AUDIENCE. IS THERE ANY PERSON THAT WISHES TO SPEAK FOR OR AGAINST THIS ITEM? IS THERE ANYONE ON ZOOM? OTHER THAN MR. CALLEN? NO. OKAY. WELL, THEN WE'RE GOING TO CLOSE THE BOARD HEARING AND MOVE BACK HERE TO THE BOARD. OKAY. DISCUSSION BOARD. I'LL MAKE THE MOTION. OKAY. MOTION BY MISS ROLANDO. OKAY. I MOVE FOR APPROVAL. WITH THE CONDITIONS NOTED IN THE STAFF REPORT, THE DESIGN PROPOSAL FOR THE ADDITIONS AND ALTERATIONS TO THE RESIDENCE AND TO THE SITE WORK ON THE PROPERTY LOCATED AT 4400 PALMARITO, A CONTRIBUTING RESOURCE OR STRUCTURE IN THE ITALIAN VILLAGE HISTORIC DISTRICT. AND FOR APPROVAL OF THE ISSUANCE OF A SPECIAL CERTIFICATE OF APPROPRIATENESS. 
          AGAIN, WITH THE CONDITIONS NOTED. OKAY, WE'LL TAKE EACH ONE OF THE. YEAH. OF I THINK I PREFER TO TAKE THE VARIANCES. VERY GOOD. OKAY. SO WE'RE GOING TO TAKE THE FIRST MOTION PLEASE OF FOUR. OKAY. SO I'VE GOT A A SECONDLECD ITABLE. DO IE YE MSAR Y MOU YOUPLSE THE ROLR.? IS ROLAN YES M YEOTSEKA.LL MO THA WROVE AARNCE X IN VER RDMINIMU FIVET PANTO TF RTICLE TWO, SON 2-1 SECD AND WE  AMOTION AECON PAS SONTH REVISN ISECTION 2-101. INHE'SNL ONE ZERO. 
          YE. WEOT ERA ZER TL, PIN TY. WLD SS ALV? Y MR. S MS. MISOLANDO. 
          YES. M SINES. M MAXWELES M CARRI. OK.EXT. OKA A MOTN TH BOA TO APPRO A VARNCE TO ALLOW A NEWWO STO E FESUREQU MINUM SETCK I A NG FAM RESIDTI TO ALEWO STIONRT 2- OF THEORS NING CODE. OKAY, SECIT. CONDISS ALB M IL SECO IT. YES THANK YOU. 
          PLEASE CALE R MS ALVAREZ. YES, MR. SILVA. YES, MISS EBBOTT, MISS ROLANDO. YES. 
          MR. MISS SPAIN. YES. AND MR. MAXWELL. YES. MOTION CARRIES. OKAY. AND FOR THE FINAL. OKAY. 
          THE FINAL MOTION TO APPROVE A VARIANCE TO ALLOW A NEW ONE STORY COVERED TERRACE ADDITION TO HAVE A REAR SETBACK OF FIVE FEET VERSUS THE REQUIRED MINIMUM REAR SETBACK IN A SINGLE FAMILY RESIDENTIAL DISTRICT OF TEN FEET. IF COMPATIBLE WITH THE NEIGHBORHOOD CHARACTER. THE SETBK OFE URANTVATION BOARD, ASA ART T SECTION 2-101D4C OF THE CORAL GABLES ZONING CODE. OKAY, HAVE A MOTION SECOND, PLEASE. I'LL SECOND IT. OKAY, MISS SPAIN, YOUR HONOR, ROLL A QUESTION FOR MISS THROCKMORTON BEFORE WE PLEASE. WHY IS THIS A VARIANCE IF THE ZONING CODE ALLOWS IT ALREADY BY. I THINK IT'S AT THE DISCRETION OF THE BOARD. OKAY, OKAY. THANK YOU FOR THE CLARIFICATION. THEY HAVE TO BE 
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A FINDING THAT IT'S COMPATIBLE WITH THE NEIGHBORHOOD. THIS WOULD BE A FINDING MADE. DO WE NEED TO HAVE A FINDING THAT IT'S COMPATIBLE? I THINK YOUR MOTION SAYS THAT IT IS COMPATIBLE. I THAT'S HOW I INTERPRETED YOUR MOTION. OKAY. THANK YOU. I AGREE WITH THAT INTERPRETATION. THANK YOU. AS DO I. THANK YOU. WELL, THANK THANK YOU FOR ALL THE AGREEMENTS. WOULD YOU PLEASE CALL THE ROLL, MISS EVERETT? YES, MR. SILVA. YES, MISS ALVAREZ. YES. MISS SPAIN. YES. MISS. ROLANDO. YES. MR. MAXWELL. YES. MOTION CARRIES. OKAY. ALL. 
          ALL. ALL APPROVED. OKAY. WE'RE GOING ON TO THE NEXT ITEM, PLEASE. WHICH IS CASE YOU. 
          THANK YOU VERY MUCH, CALLUM. OKAY. DO WE NEED TO TAKE A BREAK FOR ANYBODY? JUST. JUST A QUICK ONE. OKAY. WE'RE GOING TO TAKE A QUICK RESTROOM BREAK FOR. WE NEED MISS ALVAREZ. YEAH. YES. 
          TO A BREAK. YES TO A BREAK. YES. WE ALL. I THINK WE ALL NEED ONE AT THIS TIME. OKAY. WE'LL COME BACK BUT WE VE FIVE AND. SHE'S COMG RIGH NOW. SO WE'RE GOI TOO EAANEP EVERYTHING MOVINGERE A LITTL BIT SO THAT WE CAN GET EVERYBODY OUT OF HERE AND ON THEIR WAY. OKAY. WHENEVER YOU'RE READY WE'LL START THE RECORDING BACK IN PROCESS. RECORDING IN PROGRESS. OKAY, WONDERFUL. WE'RE BACK IN SESSION. THANK YOU ALL FOR YOUR 
          [1. 26-1467 CASE FILE COA (SP) 2025-019: An application for the issuance of a Special Certificate of Appropriateness for the property at 547 Alcazar Avenue, a Contributing Resource within the “Alcazar Avenue Historic District,”  legally described as Lot 24, Block 13, Coral Gables Section “B,” according to the Plat thereof, as recorded in Plat Book 5, at Page 111, of the Public Records of Miami-Dade County, Florida. The application requests design approval for the enclosure of the open front porch with impact-resistant windows and doors.]
PATIENCE. OKAY, WE'RE GOING TO GO TO PREVIOUS ITEM NUMBER ONE, WHICH WAS RELOCATED TO NUMBER TWO, WHERE THIS IS GOING TO BE CASE FILE COSP2025-19. AN APPLICATION FOR THE ISSUANCE OF A SPECIAL CERTIFICATE OF APPROPRIATENESS FOR THE PROPERTY AT 547 ALCAZAR AVENUE, A CONTRIBUTING RESOURCE WITHIN THE ALCAZAR HISTORIC DISTRICT, LEGALLY DESCRIBED AS LOT 24, BLOCK 13, CORAL GABLES. SECTION B PLAT BOOK FIVE, PAGE ONE. 11 MIAMI-DADE COUNTY. THE APPLICATION REQUEST DESIGN APPROVAL FOR THE ENCLOSURE OF AN OPEN FRONT PORCH WITH IMPACT RESISTANT WINDOWS AND DOORS. GOOD AFTERNOON. THIS IS AN APPLICATION, AS MENTIONED FOR 547 ALCAZAR AVENUE. THIS PROPERTY WAS BEFORE THE BOARD ON SEPTEMBER 18TH, 2025. IN THE HISTORIC PRESERVATION BOARD REVIEWS AN APPLICATION TO INSTALL WINDOWS WITH A WOOD GRAIN FINISH AND GLASS SELECTION OF GRAY. AFTER A THOROUGH DISCUSSION IN TWO FAILED MOTIONS, THE ITEM WAS CONTINUED ON MARCH 19TH. AN UPDATED SUBMITTAL RESPONDING TO STAFF'S RECOMMENDATIONS WAS RECEIVED. THE APPLICANT IS REQUESTING DESIGN APPROVAL FOR THE ENCLOSURE OF THE FRONT PORCH, WITH IMPACT RESISTANT WINDOWS WITH BLACK FRAMES AND CLEAR GLASS. THIS REQUEST WAS BEFORE YOU ALL IN APRIL AND AGAIN WAS CONTINUED BECAUSE OF TWO FAILED MOTIONS OR MAYBE ONE FAILED MOTION. AT THIS TIME, THE PROPERTY OWNERS ARE HERE. 
          THERE WAS SOME DISCUSSION ABOUT IF THE CONDITIONS THAT WERE SET IN THE FIRST REPORT WERE MET, AND I JUST WANT TO CLARIFY TODAY THAT THE CONDITIONS THAT STAFF HAD INCLUDED, IF THE PROPOSAL WAS GOING TO BE CONSIDERED, WERE ALL ADDRESSED. SO THERE WERE SOME ITEMS WITHIN THAT REPORT THAT THEY DID COMPLY WITH AND INCLUDED IN THEIR NEW PROPOSAL, WHICH INCLUDED, TO CONSIDER DIVIDING THE WINDOW OPENINGS WHERE THE TOP OF THE ORIGINAL PORCH RAILING WAS LOCATED. CLARIFY THE FRAME COLOR TO BE USED, CLARIFY THE INTERIOR RAILINGS AT THE EAST AND WEST DOORS ARE CONSIDERED FIXED WINDOWS. NO ALTERATIONS ARE TO BE MADE TO THE EXISTING ORIGINAL FRONT STEPS AND WING WALLS. WINDOW AND DOOR BUTTONS WERE TO BE HIGH PROFILE DIMENSIONAL, AND THE WINDOW GLASS TO BE CLEAR, NO REFLECTIVE, NO TINT AND NO LOW E. ANNA. JUST A QUICK QUESTION HERE. THE REPORT, THE COA THAT WE HAVE HERE OR THAT I'M LOOKING AT IS FROM APRIL. OH, SORRY, WE JUST DIDN'T. THERE WAS NO UPDATE TO THE COA BECAUSE THE MODIFICATIONS. THERE'S BEEN NO CHANGE SINCE THAT MARCH PROPOSAL. AT THE APRIL MEETING. WE WERE HOPING WE. THEY REQUESTED A CONTINUANCE BECAUSE WE DIDN'T HAVE A FULL BOARD. RIGHT. AND IN THE MONTHS PASSED SINCE THEN, WE STILL HAVEN'T HAD A FULL BOARD. BUT IT'S BEEN THREE MONTHS NOW AND THE APPLICANTS ARE READY TO MOVE FORWARD. 
          THEY'RE HERE TODAY. OOPS, SORRY. RIGHT. OKAY. BUT BEFORE THEY COME UP, I HAVE A QUESTION HERE BASED ON WHAT YOU JUST SAID, HAS STAFF CHANGED ITS RECOMMENDATION? SO OUR RECOMMENDATION REMAINS THE SAME. WE'RE WE'RE PRETTY CONSISTENT ABOUT NOT WANTING TO ENCLOSE 
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ORIGINAL FRONT PORCHES. AND YES, THEY CAN BE CONSIDERED ON A CASE BY CASE BASIS. I THINK WE HAD VERY CLEAR REQUIREMENTS OF IF THEY ARE CONSIDERED THAT THESE WOULD BE THE IDEAL SITUATION. IN THIS CASE, EVEN MORE SO BECAUSE THEY ARE RETAINING THE ORIGINAL FRONT WALL OF THE BUILDING. MOST PEOPLE WOULD BE DOING THIS IN ORDER TO BLOW OUT THAT WALL AND MAKE A BIGGER LIVING ROOM, FAMILY ROOM, DINING ROOM. SO THERE WAS SOME DISCUSSION AT THE LAST BOARD ABOUT WHETHER OR NOT THAT BECOMES AN INTERIOR WALL AND EXTERIOR WALL. NOW THAT THE PORCH WAS BEING ENCLOSED. WE HAVE BEEN IN DISCUSSION WITH THE APPLICANTS AND THEY WERE GOING TO, I BELIEVE IF YOU WANT ME TO. OKAY. THEY WERE GOING TO PROFFER. AND WE GOT CLARIFICATION FROM THE CITY ATTORNEY THAT WE COULD DO A COVENANT SO THAT THAT IN THAT ORIGINAL FRONT WALL CAN BE RETAINED AS PART OF THE HISTORIC DESIGNATION AND REVIEWED FOR FURTHER MODIFICATIONS IN THE FUTURE SO THAT COVENANT CAN RUN WITH THE PROPERTY, AND THEN WE'LL FLAG IT IN OUR PERMIT SYSTEM AND OUR FILES SO THAT ANY MODIFICATIONS FOR FUTURE OWNERS, MAYBE NOT THEM, THAT TRY TO MODIFY THAT WALL WOULD HAVE TO COME THROUGH OUR PROCESS. OKAY. BUT THEIR INTENTION IS TO MAINTAIN THE WALL, THE EXISTING CASEMENT WINDOWS WITHIN IT AND THE FRONT DOOR. ANOTHER QUESTION. SO IN YOUR REVIEW FROM LAST TIME TO THIS TIME, HAS IT CHANGED? HAS THE DESIGN CHANGED BECAUSE IT APPEARS TO BE THAT IT'S YOU KNOW, YEAH, I WAS JUST GOING TO TRY TO GET TO THE MAYBE THAT WAS THE BETTER RENDERING. YES. 
          SO THE, THE, THE DESIGN NOW IS MORE IN KEEPING WITH A SCREENED IN PORCH CONDITION RATHER THAN A CASEMENT WINDOW CONDITION. SO IT IS A MORE SIMPLIFIED DESIGN. LET ME GO TO THE ELEVATION. SO THAT'S A BETTER TO READ THE. THE LINE DRAWING. AND THEIR INTENTION TO WAS TO HAVE OPERABLE WINDOWS AT THE TOP HALF. RIGHT AND AND FIXED BELOW SO THAT THEY'RE STILL ABLE TO HAVE AN OPEN AIR SPACE IF THE WEATHER IS FITS. OKAY. DO YOU WANT TO ARE WE GOING TO HAVE ANOTHER A NEW PRESENTATION OR WE'RE JUST GOING TO HAVE A DISCUSSION? IT MIGHT BE GOOD TO HEAR FROM THEM DIRECTLY, JUST FOR THE RECORD. AND THEN WE'RE HERE TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS THAT YOU MIGHT HAVE. OKAY. SORRY IF I MAY, JUST TO TO BE CLEAR, THE DOCUMENT, THE MOST RECENT DOCUMENT AND THE ONE WE SHOULD BE LOOKING AT IS THE ONE THAT'S LABELED 547 ALCAZAR PERMITTING, 031926. RIGHT. AND THE AND THE REVISED RENDERINGS. RIGHT. WE'RE NOT LOOKING AT THE OLD. RIGHT. THE OLD WAS BECAUSE IT'S ALL IN THE SAME CASE. SO THAT THAT'S THE REVISED IS THE ONES FROM APRIL. OKAY. IS THAT THE DATE ON IT. YEAH. AND THIS IS THE NEWEST MARCH MARCH, MARCH. SORRY. APOLOGIES. RIGHT. YEAH. BUT THAT IT'S ONLY THAT'S THE PROPOSAL. THAT'S THE PROPOSAL. AND THAT'S THE PROPOSAL THAT RESPONDS TO THE COMMENTS FROM THE SEPTEMBER REPORT. OKAY. THANKS. OKAY. OKAY. PROPERTY OWNERS, PLEASE REINTRODUCE YOURSELF AGAIN. 
          IT'S GOOD TO SEE YOU. HI, MY NAME IS CORINNA LORENZEN. I HAVE NOT BEEN SWORN IN, SO I DON'T KNOW IF THAT HAS TO HAPPEN. BEFORE WE START, I APOLOGIZE. YES, PLEASE, BOTH OF YOU. IF YOU'RE GOING TO TESTIFY, I CAN PLEASE BE SWORN IN. I WAS SORRY, OKAY. THANK YOU. SORRY. 
          I CAN'T SEE WITH THIS THING HERE. YES. HI. MY NAME IS JAVIER DIAZ. I'M THE OTHER PROPERTY OWNER. SO AS MENTIONED BY OUR VERY NICE INTRODUCTION HERE, THIS IS NOT OUR FIRST TIME HERE. WE ARE HOPING TO CREATE A MORE USABLE SPACE WITHIN OUR HOME THAT STILL PRESERVES THE ESTHETIC THAT WE ABSOLUTELY LOVE. WE CHOSE AN OLD SPANISH HOME. I GREW UP IN HISTORIC CORAL GABLES ON NAVARRE. WE. WE WANTED TO BE HERE OUR ENTIRE. HOPEFULLY MOST OF OUR LIVES. I'VE ONLY KNOWN HIM 12 YEARS, BUT THIS HAS BEEN OUR DREAM FOR THE SPACE SINCE WE BOUGHT THE HOUSE. THIS ALLOWS FOR US TO HAVE A MORE USABLE SPACE REGARDING ANY WEATHER CONDITIONS. IT IS ALSO SOMETHING THAT'S REMOVABLE. IF ANYONE IN THE FUTURE DECIDES THAT THEY PREFER THE SCREENED IN ESTHETIC THAT IS CURRENTLY THERE, ALTHOUGH WE HOPE TO BE AT THIS PROPERTY FOR SOME TIME, WE'VE TAKEN ALL OF THE ADVICE AND RECOMMENDATIONS AT MULTIPLE MEETINGS, AS LONG AS MEETINGS WITH STAFF, AND WE'VE TRIED TO INTEGRATE THEM TO THE BEST OF OUR ABILITIES. AS MENTIONED, THE GLASS MATCHES THE REST OF THE HOME. THE FRAMES ARE BLACK WOOD GRAIN, THEY'RE OPERABLE CASEMENT WINDOWS. THAT SHOULD HOPEFULLY BE BEAUTIFUL IF WE EVER HAVE THE CHANCE TO SEE THEM WITH A FIXED, STRUCTURED BOTTOM TO ALLOW FOR SAFETY. WE HAVE A VERY RAMBUNCTIOUS, WONDERFUL, ALMOST THREE YEAR OLD WHO WILL FOREVER BE TWO. 
          BUT I WANT HIM TO BE SAFELY TO BE ABLE TO PLAY AT THAT AREA IF POSSIBLE. AND THAT WAS 
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DEFINITELY TAKEN INTO ACCOUNT AS WELL. I REALLY THINK THAT THE EXCUSE ME, THERE'S OTHER. 
          THE ONE OF THE MAIN POINTS, AND I KNOW THAT ANNA MENTIONED THIS AS WELL. WE HAVE A EXISTING INTERIOR WALL AT THE PORCH CURRENTLY THAT HAS THE ORIGINAL WINDOWS TO OUR HOME WITH BEAUTIFUL CRANKS. THEY HAVE BECOME HEAVILY WARPED AND HEAVILY DISTURBED OVER TIME. 
          THAT HAS A LOT OF AIR LEAK. IT IS AN ELEMENT OF THE HOME THAT WE REALLY LIKE THOUGH, AND WE'D LIKE TO PRESERVE. AND THIS WOULD ALLOW US TO BOTH PRESERVE THE INTEGRITY OF A PORCH WHILE HAVING A MORE USABLE SPACE, MAINTAIN THAT WINDOWED AREA TO BE ABLE TO ALLOW US TO FUNCTIONALLY KEEP IT IN OUR HOME. OUR INTERIOR OF OUR HOME IS MAINTAINED IN AN OLD SPANISH STYLE. WE DID NOT BUY THE HOUSE AND SCRUB ALL THE WALLS AND MAKE THEM SMOOTH. THE STUCCO IS THERE. I CHOSE THAT FOR A REASON. I LOVE THIS AND I HOPE THAT YOU SEE THAT WE'RE NOT TRYING TO, YOU KNOW, CHANGE ANYTHING. I ALSO, WE'RE BOTH WILLING TO SIGN WHATEVER IS NECESSARY WITH THE CITY ATTORNEY'S HELP TO MAINTAIN THAT WALL AS IS. I APOLOGIZE FOR NOT KNOWING THE CORRECT VERNACULAR. IT IS NOT MY AREA. ANYTHING THAT YOU HAVE TO ADD. 
          NO, I THINK WE'RE OPEN TO ANY QUESTIONS, SUGGESTIONS, ETC. I KNOW THAT WE'VE ALREADY PRESENTED TO YOU BEFORE. I HOPE THAT YOU'LL ALLOW FOR SOME RECONSIDERATION. THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME. THANK YOU. AND I APOLOGIZE THAT YOU HAVE TO BE HERE SO MANY TIMES. I DO HAVE A QUESTION FOR YOU AND HOPEFULLY IT'LL HELP EVERYONE CLEAR IT UP. HAVE YOU SEEN A PICTURE OR ANYTHING LIKE THAT OF THE EARLY HOME SHOWING THE SCREEN PATTERN, OR HAVE YOU WORKED WITH STAFF ON THAT? JUST SO THAT SORT OF DOCUMENTED? YEAH, NO, WE DO HAVE THE 1940S PHOTO FOR THEM, AND FROM OUR FILES, IT'S HARD TO READ BECAUSE THERE WERE AWNINGS ON THE PROPERTY, BUT THERE WAS ONE FROM, I THINK, THE 70S. OH, SORRY, NOT THAT ONE. YEAH. THE TOP RIGHT. YEAH. 
          SO WE WERE GOING OFF THAT TOP RIGHT 1980. SORRY. APOLOGIES. OH, THIS WHERE YOU GOT THE BAR AT THE BOTTOM AND THEN IT'S SPLIT IN HALF. YEAH, I CAN SEE THAT. YEAH. AND IN ORDER TO MAKE THEM OPERABLE WAS WHY THAT LIKE THAT HORIZONTAL. I MEAN SORRY, THE VERTICAL IN THE CENTER WAS ADDED SO THAT THEY COULD HAVE LIKE A CASEMENT CONDITION ON THE TOP HALF, LIKE A THIRD OF THE WAY UP CROSSBAR. RIGHT. YES. AND THAT WOULD MEET THE REQUIREMENT FOR THE 36 INCH RAILING HEIGHT. AND SO THE WINDOWS PRETTY MUCH MATCH WHAT THAT LOOKS LIKE AS BEST AS YOU. 
          THAT WAS THE BEST AS BEST AS THEY CAN. OKAY. THANK YOU. I JUST WANTED TO CLARIFY THAT. 
          OKAY. BOARD, LET'S HAVE SOME QUESTIONS AND DISCUSSION OR SO THAT WE CAN MOVE FORWARD. MISS SPAIN, IF YOU'LL TURN THAT ON A QUESTION AND A COMMENT, ARE YOU AWARE THAT YOU NEED FIVE OUT OF THE SIX OF US HERE TO VOTE? I JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE YES, WE'RE AWARE. OKAY. AND ALSO, IF THIS WAS COMING TO US, NOT DESIGNATED, AND THEY HAD DONE, SOMEONE HAD DONE THIS EXACT THING. AND SO WE WERE LOOKING AT IT FOR A DESIGNATION WITH GLASS IN THAT OPENING, WE COULD EASILY DESIGNATE IT AS HISTORIC, SAYING THAT IT DOES NOT IMPACT THE HISTORIC INTEGRITY OF THE HOUSE. WE'VE DONE THAT BEFORE. I JUST THOUGHT I'D BRING THAT UP BECAUSE IT IS REMOVABLE AND IN THE PAST, NOT THAT NOT WE GO BY WHAT WE DO ON THE CAST. IT'S ON A CASE BY CASE. BUT IF THIS CAME TO US PRIOR TO BEING DESIGNATED, I BELIEVE THAT WE WOULD DESIGNATE THIS HOME EVEN IF IT HAD THE GLASS IN THOSE OPENINGS. SO THAT'S MY COMMENT. THANK YOU. THAT'S A GOOD COMMENT. MISS ALVAREZ, DO YOU HAVE ANYTHING THAT YOU WISH TO ADD OR ASK A QUESTION? I'M GOING THROUGH THE FILES, BUT I'M LOOKING FOR A PROPER PLAN THAT SHOWS THE ATTACHMENT. I'M SORRY IF I MISSED IT. I'M TRYING TO OPEN UP BECAUSE IT'S A IT'S A BUNCH OF INDIVIDUAL. 
          DO WE GET THE POWERPOINT BACK UP? YOU NEED. DID YOU WANT TO COMPLETE FLOOR PLAN? I DON'T THINK THERE IS A COMPLETE FLOOR PLAN BECAUSE THEY WEREN'T MAKING ANY CHANGES TO THE REST OF THE BUILDING. SO HERE'S A FLOOR. I JUST THINK THIS IS SO MUCH ABOUT HOW IT ATTACHES, RIGHT? BECAUSE YOU HAVE THE THE SPECIAL COLUMNS ON THE FRONT, THOSE COLUMNS THAT HAS TO ATTACH. YEAH. OH, I THINK I KNOW WHAT YOU'RE REFERRING TO. CORRECT ME IF I'M WRONG, BUT ARE YOU ASKING IF THE FRONT STRUCTURE, WILL IT ALL BE INHIBITED BY THE INSTALLATION OF THE WINDOWS? BECAUSE I DON'T KNOW THE ANSWER TO THAT. SO I THINK, ANNA, IF YOU LOOK AT THE PHOTO HERE TO THE TOP LEFT, THE THE COLUMNS ARE ACTUALLY SET ON TOP OF THEIR A CONCRETE WALL. 
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SO YOU COULD EVEN SEE THE SURROUND THE YELLOW BEHIND THE COLUMN. SO THEY SHOULD BE ABLE TO ATTACH IN THAT SAME PLANE. SO IT WOULDN'T DAMAGE ANY OF THOSE DECORATIVE ELEMENTS. WE HAD ALSO BEEN HOPEFULLY ASSURED THAT THAT'S THE CASE. AND THEN ANY REINFORCEMENT, RIGHT. 
          BECAUSE THAT'S PROBABLY WHAT'S GOING TO BE NECESSARY FOR THAT WOULD HAVE TO HAPPEN BEHIND THAT COLUMN ANYWAYS. SO YOU MIGHT HAVE TO BUILD OUT SOME OF THE WALLS SOME, BUT IT'LL BE ON THE INTERIOR SIDE, RIGHT? I JUST FEEL LIKE THAT'S AN IMPORTANT CONSIDERATION. THAT SHOULD HAVE BEEN PART OF THE PACKAGE. BUT I WILL SAY THAT WITH THE COLUMN, THAT COLUMN DOESN'T PROTRUDE IN THE BACK. IT IS A VERY IT'S FLAT ON THE BACK. IT IS CONCRETE. LIKE YOU WILL BE ABLE TO NAIL IN THE THE WINDOWS FOR LIKE THE FRAMES. WE'VE BEEN ASSURED BY THAT BY BOTH THE WINDOW COMPANY AND THE INSTALLERS. SO WE CAN ADD THAT IF AGAIN, IF THIS IS CONSIDERED TODAY, THERE COULD BE A SPECIFIC DETAIL REQUESTED FOR THE CONSTRUCTION DOCUMENTS TO ENSURE THAT THAT IS INCLUDED AND THAT THOSE ELEMENTS ARE PROTECTED DURING CONSTRUCTION. 
          OKAY. IF CONSIDERED, MR. SILVA. OKAY. YES. THANK YOU FOR WORKING WITH STAFF. I APPRECIATE THAT WE DID HAVE SOME CONCERNS PREVIOUSLY WHEN WE WERE DISCUSSING THIS, AND I'M GLAD YOU HEARD THEM. THE DOORS ON THE ENDS ARE GONE. THE PATTERN IS MORE APPROPRIATE AS TO ANNA'S CONCERN. CAN YOU GO BACK TO THE TO THE ACTUAL PHOTO, NOT THE RENDERING. I BELIEVE THAT THOSE COLUMNS ARE AS AS MR. PRONOUNCED WAS SAYING, KIND OF IN FRONT. SO THERE SHOULDN'T BE AN ISSUE. I THINK WE'RE GOING TO BE. YOU'RE GOING TO BE ATTACHING TO CONCRETE DIRECT FLAT CONCRETE, RIGHT? YEAH. YEAH. YES. YOU GO BACK. YEAH. IF YOU GO BACK TO THAT, THERE YOU GO. RIGHT. YOU CAN, YOU CAN KIND OF SEE IT HERE CLEARLY IN THE, IN THE BLOW UP. AND IF YOU GO TO THE PACKAGE AND YOU ZOOM IN HERE AS WELL. YEAH. SO YOU'RE GOING TO BE ATTACHING TO, TO CONCRETE AND IF ANY REINFORCEMENTS NECESSARY, YOU KNOW, YOU COME IN BOARD, RIGHT. 
          DON'T, DON'T GO OUT BOARD. BUT THAT'S, THAT'S A TYPICAL THING, RIGHT? THAT THAT YOU WOULD WORK YOUR PERMIT DRAWINGS THROUGH WITH STAFF. SO I, I AM IN FAVOR OF THIS AS IT CURRENTLY STANDS. 
          SO YEAH. THANK YOU MISS ROLANDO. ANY QUESTIONS COMMENTS. I LIKE WHAT THE RECONFIGURATION I THINK IT'S IT'S PROJECTING THE OR PRESERVING THE LEGACY AT LEAST OF THE SCREENED IN PORCH. 
          AND THANK YOU FOR WORKING WITH STAFF ON IT. THANK YOU MISS ROLANDO. MISS EVERETT, SINCE I JOINED THIS BOARD ABOUT A YEAR AGO, SO MANY OF THE HOUSES THAT COME TO US ARE IN THE NORTH GABLES, AND THEY'RE THE SMALL HOUSES THAT NEED MORE SPACE TO MAKE THEM MORE LIVABLE BY TODAY'S STANDARDS. IN FACT, THE HOUSE THAT WE JUST DESIGNATED AT 446, ARAGON, HAD A FRONT PORCH FRONT END, AND THE TWO ON EACH SIDE THAT HAD WERE GLASSED IN, AND WE JUST DESIGNATED IT. 
          AND AS I SAID, WHEN THIS FIRST CAME TO US AS A YOUNG FAMILY, WE DID MUCH THE SAME THING IN PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA. IT WAS A 1920S STONE HOUSE THAT THE. THE PORCH WAS SCREENED IN AND THEN WE GLASSED IT IN. AS OUR FAMILY GREW, WE NEEDED THE ADDITIONAL SPACE. AND I CAN TELL THAT YOU ARE VERY SINCERE ABOUT LOVING THIS HOUSE. SO I'M SAYING THE SAME THING I SAID BEFORE. I'M VERY MUCH IN FAVOR. WELL, THANK YOU, MISS HERBERT. IT'S OKAY. IS THERE ANYONE IN THE AUDIENCE THAT WISHES TO SPEAK FOR OR AGAINST THIS ITEM, OR IS THERE ANYONE ON ZOOM? THERE'S NO ONE ON ZOOM. IS THERE ANYONE IN THE AUDIENCE? NO. OKAY. SO WE'RE GOING TO COME BACK TO THE BOARD FOR A MOTION. I'D LIKE TO HAVE A MOTION, PLEASE. I'LL MA O.IF I F RT. I I T SAM ISS. MR. SILVA IS TIN TO GE THERE. Y WAN T TAKEO ATT?F YOUISH,R.AP LA COU Y S INTO MR. URICROONE AITTLE BIT APRIATS F TDOWSPECL CERTIFICAF DEPICTE THEINDOWS FOR54 ALCVEND MARIALS DCH 11T . ARE GOING TO INCLUDE E CONDION IN TH STAFF RT?. SOY UNTAINS AT THE WITH ALL OTHOSEONDITIS., IRM TT THOSEDITIONSAREN'T ND BEE T  TARCH PNS Y.THOSE WERSE WEREA ARE LISTED WITHIN THE REPORT. BUT IF YOU WANTED TO INCLUDE 
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THE ONE OF, YOU KNOW, JUST TO ENSURE THAT WE'RE PROTECTING THE EXTERIOR COLUMNS, WE CAN ADD THAT NOW. OH, THE BACK WALL. OH, SO THAT'S AGAIN UP TO YOU ALL. IF YOU WANT TO REQUIRE THAT COVENANT. IT'S SOMETHING THAT THEY WOULD PROFFER BEFORE YOU ALL TO BE ABLE TO INCLUDE THE PROTECTION OF THAT FRONT WALL. WELL, ORIGINAL FRONT WALL, WHATEVER THE WILL OF THE BOARD IS. RIGHT? I'M NOT QUITE SURE HOW TO PHRASE THAT. SO, MR. ORLANDO, IF I UNDERSTAND YOUR MOTION SO FAR, IT'S TO APPROVE THE PLANS PRESENTED TODAY, THE MARCH PLANS AND APPROVE THE CERTIFICATE OF APPROPRIATENESS. IF YOU WANT TO ADD A CONDITION ABOUT THE COVENANT, IT WOULD BE TO ACCEPT THEIR PROFFER OF A COVENANT TO BE WORKED OUT WITH THE CITY ATTORNEY'S OFFICE, TO RETAIN JURISDICTION OVER THAT WALL FOR HISTORIC. BY THE HISTORIC PRESERVATION BOARD GOING FORWARD. AND WE CAN WORK ON THE EXACT LANGUAGE. BUT MY UNDERSTANDING IS THAT'S THE GIST OF THE PROFFER. OKAY. SO IT WOULD BE TO THE MOTION WOULD HAVE TWO PARTS. FIRST, A CERTIFICATE OF APPROPRIATENESS FOR THE PLANS AS SUBMITTED WITH THE CONFIGURATION AND SIZE OF THE WINDOWS DEPICTED ON THE MARCH 11TH. AND THE SECOND HALF WOULD BE THAT THERE BE RECORDED A BY THE HOMEOWNER A COVENANT RUNNING WITH THE LAND THAT WOULD RECOGNIZE AND PROTECT THE ORIGINAL FRONT WALL OF THE RESIDENTS AND ALLOW THE CITY AND BOARD. HISTORIC PRESERVATION BOARD TO RETAIN JURISDICTION OVER IT IN THE EVENT THERE'S PROPOSED ANY MODIFICATION IN THE FUTURE. UNDERSTOOD. THANK YOU. AND JUST TO BE CLEAR, WAS THERE AN ADDITIONAL. CONDITION REGARDING THE INTERIOR BUILD OUT IF NEEDED? THE INTERIOR WALL OF THE. NO. IT WILL BE REVIEWED AT STAFF EITHER WAY. SO PERFECT. I UNDERSTAND YOUR MOTION. I DON'T THINK WE NEED TO GET THAT GRANULAR UNDERSTOOD. YEAH, WE I UNDERSTAND YOUR MOTION. OKAY. 
          I'D LIKE TO SECOND IF I CAN. OKAY. WE HAVE A QUESTION. SORRY, BUT THIS. YOU SAY THE SIX HAVE BEEN COMPLIED WITH, BUT NUMBER FIVE IS THEOUNS ARE TOEHIROLE NX NO REFLECTIVITY, NO TINT, NO LOW E. I THINK THOSE THAT SHOULD BE INCLUDED INCLUDED. OKAY. MISS ROLANDO, DO YOU WANT TO INCLUDE THOSE? I WOULD ACCEPT THAT AMENDMENT. I DON'T KNOW WHETHER I'M ABLE TO MAKE AN AMENDMENT. YOU ARE? YES. OKAY. YEAH, YEAH. THERE'S DISCUSSION AFTER THE SECOND. 
          AND WILL WE NEED A SECOND ON THE MOTION AS AMENDED, A SECOND ON THE MOTION AS AMENDED. OKAY. 
          WE HAVE AN AMENDED, AMENDED MOTION. WOULD YOU LIKE ME TO RESTATE THE MOTION, MR. MAXWELL? BRIEFLY. I THINK EVERYBODY YOU'RE ALL GOING TO GIVE THE HOMEOWNERS A HEART ATTACK. I THINK WE ALL HAVE IT APPROVED WIWO CTIS.HE NT. YES. AT' IN ONE MOTION.ES. UNDERSTOO IF WE SSEZ?ESVAESTN,AS OKA RO YES. MISS. ETT. 
          YE MR.AXLLBSELY.THAN. TIMS AR T YOU YR EVAN. AL RIGHT. YO GU ARED.HA YOUWE'L WORK ON THE ST WTEPHAN. . PERRANCE F OKAYWE'RE GOINGOONTHINE FASR IN. NOWO CILE COS6- IS I APPON FOR 
          [3. 26-1825 CASE FILE COA (SP) 2026-004: An application for the issuance of a Special Certificate of Appropriateness for the property at 118 Florida Avenue, a Contributing Resource with the “MacFarlane Homestead Subdivision Historic District,” legally described as Lot 20, Block 1-A, MacFarlane Homestead, according to the Plat thereof, as recorded in Plat Book 5, at Page 81, of the Public Records of Miami-Dade County, Florida. The application requests design approval for an addition and alterations to the residence and sitework. Variances have also been requested from Article 10, Section 10-110 #4 (a) and Article 5, Section 5-301 of the Coral Gables Zoning Code for the elimination of the required off-street parking and to permit wood construction.]
CERTIFICPPROPRNESS FOR  PPEY, LOCATED AT 118 FLORI ANUCONGESTO MCFARLDOM SSION DISTRICLY A MCFLA HTE BE ONE APPLIC REQUESTESIGNPRALORDDITNSA ALTERAONTOHEIDCEDEIANC. SECTN F OHE CALGABLES COR TIMAT. 
          PLEASE. THE LOCATION MAP OF THE PROPERTY IN QUESTION IS THE MCFARLAND DISTRICT, JUST NORTH OF GRAND AVENUE. AND THIS IS A PROBABLY 1980S PHOTO, IF I'M NOT MISTAKEN. SO THE HISTORIC DISTRICT MCFARLAND HOMESTEAD SUBDIVISION HISTORIC DISTRICT WAS FIRST DESIGNATED BY THE CITY OF CORAL GABLES IN SEPTEMBER OF 1989. IN MAY OF 1994, THE DISTRICT WAS LISTED ON THE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES, AND IT REMAINS. OUR ONLY DISTRICT ON THE NATIONAL REGISTER. WOOD FRAME SINGLE FAMILY RESIDENCE AT 118 FLORIDA WAS BUILT CIRCA 1930, AND IT'S AN IMPORTANT EXAMPLE OF AN INTACT EARLY BUNGALOW IN THIS HISTORIC DISTRICT. SO THE APPLICATION IS REQUESTING DESIGN APPROVAL FOR AN ADDITION TO THE REAR OF THE PROPERTY OF 
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APPROXIMATELY 620FT■!S, ALTERATIONS TO THE RESIDENCE AND MINIMAL SITE WORK. THERE ARE TWO VARIANCES THAT HAVE BEEN REQUESTED FROM THE ZONING CODE. THE FIRST IS TO ALLOW THE RESIDENTS TO NOT PROVIDE A CARPORT OR PORTICO SHARE. THE MAJORITY OF THESE RESIDENCES IN THE DISTRICT DO NOT PROVIDE A COVERED OFF STREET PARKING AS REQUIRED BY THE CODE, AND THERE IS NO EVIDENCE THAT A GARAGE OR CARPORT EVER EXISTED ON THIS PROPERTY. WE FEEL THAT THE ADDITION OF SUCH A FEATURE WOULD BE DETRIMENTAL TO THE HISTORIC INTEGRITY OF THE STRUCTURE AND THE DISTRICT AS A WHOLE, AND SUPPORT THE GRANTING OF THE VARIANCE. THE SECOND VARIANCE HAS TO DO WITH GRANTING TO ALLOWING WOOD FRAME CONSTRUCTION, WHICH IS NOT CURRENTLY ALLOWED IN THE CITY OF CORAL GABLES. AGAIN, THE EXISTING RESIDENCES IN THE HISTORIC DISTRICT UTILIZE WOOD FRAME CONSTRUCTION AND WOOD SIDING AS PART OF VERNACULAR ARCHITECTURE. THE USE OF WOOD AS A CONSTRUCTION MATERIAL IS UNIQUE TO THIS DISTRICT, AND THE ONLY PLACE IN THE CITY WHERE THIS TYPE OF ARCHITECTURE AND CONSTRUCTION DOES EXIST. 
          THE USE OF WOOD AS A CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS IS ENTIRELY APPROPRIATE AND WOULD RESPECT THE INTEGRITY OF THE ARCHITECTURE OF BOTH THE HISTORIC BUILDING AND THE DISTRICT. STAFF SUPPORTS THE GRANTING OF THIS VARIANCE AS WELL. BOARD OF ARCHITECTS APPROVED ULTIMATELY ON JULY A WEEK AGO, 2026. AND WE DO HAVE A BUNCH OF STAFF CONDITIONS THAT ARE NOTED ON THE LAST PAGE OF THE REPORT. I DID WANT TO NOTE THAT, ONE, IT'S NOT A CONDITION, BUT IT PROBABLY SHOULD BE THAT THE EXISTING RESIDENCE IS IN NEED OF SUBSTANTIAL REPAIR AND RESTORATION WORK, WHICH IS IS NOT NOTED ANYWHERE. NO NOTES OR INFORMATION WERE PROVIDED ON THE PLANS ABOUT WHAT THAT RESTORATION WORK IS GOING TO ENTAIL, THE SCOPE OF THAT WORK, WHAT WHAT THAT PLAN IS, SO THAT ALL NEEDS TO BE INCORPORATED INTO THE PERMIT SET OF DRAWINGS. SO WE'RE WE'RE ABUNDANTLY CLEAR OF WHAT EXACTLY IS HAPPENING ON THE HISTORIC FABRIC OF THE EXISTING HOUSE. SO. WE HAVE A PRESENTATION ON BEHALF OF THE PROPERTY OWNER WHO WAS NOT EXPECTING TO PRESENT. SO BE KIND. SO I MOVE IT FORWARD FOR YOU. ALL RIGHT. SO FORWARD. BACKWARD. HI. GOOD AFTERNOON. MY NAME IS CAROLYN. AND UNFORTUNATELY, THE ARCHITECT AND THE OWNER OF THE HOME COULDN'T BE HERE TODAY. I JUST WANT TO SAY SOMETHING BRIEFLY. THIS IS THE FOURTH SUCH STRUCTURE THAT THIS OWNER HAS PURCHASED, AS THEY HAVE AN INTEREST IN PRESERVING AS MUCH OF THE WEST GROVE AS POSSIBLE. 
          THIS IS A 1930S BUNGALOW. SHOTGUN HOUSES, SOME PEOPLE CALL IT. I THINK CARA GAVE YOU MOST OF THE POINTS. I'LL DO MY BEST TO ANSWER ANY OTHER QUESTIONS THAT YOU HAVE. AS SHE MENTIONED, IT WOULD BE IN ADDITION TO THE REAR OF THE HOUSE. IT'S MINIMALLY VISIBLE FROM THE STREET. WE PLAN TO PRESERVE EVERYTHING ELSE ABOUT THE FACADE OF THE HOME, WITH THE EXCEPTION OF THE THINGS THAT NEED TO BE REPLACED WINDOWS, DOORS AND THAT TYPE OF THING, INCLUDING THE RAILING AND THE PORCH AND OTHER THINGS THAT HAVE BEEN MENTIONED. AS CARA SAID, WE'RE LOOKING FOR TWO VARIANCES. ONE IS TO BE ABLE TO BUILD THE ADDITION TO THE HOME WITH WOOD CONSTRUCTION. THAT WAS ACTUALLY A RECOMMENDATION FROM THE BOARD OF ARCHITECTS IN TO BE CONSISTENT WITH THE EXISTING STRUCTURE. AND THE OTHER, AS CARA MENTIONED, IS TO WAIVE THE REQUIREMENT FOR HAVING A COVERED OFF STREET PARKING STRUCTURE. THESE ARE JUST. IF YOU HAVE ANY SPECIFIC QUESTIONS AS TO WHAT IS GOING TO BE PRESERVED FROM THE CURRENT STRUCTURE, THERE ARE STILL A LOT OF DETAILS OUTSTANDING ABOUT THE INTERIOR CONSTRUCTION, AND WE WILL BE WORKING WITH THOSE THROUGHOUT THE PERMIT PROCESS WITH THE STAFF. PLEASE LET ME KNOW IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS ON THIS SLIDE. I'M HAPPY TO WALK YOU THROUGH THROUGH ANY OF IT. I, I THOUGHT IN THE STAFF REPORT THAT THE ONE OF THE CONDITIONS WAS A MAINTAINING THE PIPE RAILING. YEAH. AND IS THE OWNER ACCEPTING OF ALL OF THE STAFF REPORT CONDITIONS? ABSOLUTELY. THEY REVIEWED THE REPORT AND THEY ARE IN AGREEMENT WITH ALL OF THE CONDITIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS. AND WE LOOK FORWARD TO WORKING THROUGH THOSE WITH STAFF. WE LOVE THAT RAILING. IT'S ACTUALLY KIND OF INSTEAD OF BEING THIS WAY, IT'S KIND OF TILTED. IT'S VERY INTERESTING FEATURE. ANY OTHER QUESTIONS IN REGARDS TO WHAT'S GOING TO BE RETAINED? WE ALREADY WENT THROUGH THAT. 
          THERE'S OUR CUTE LITTLE HOUSE. LIKE I SAID, THIS IS A FOURTH STRUCTURE THAT'S VERY SIMILAR THAT WE'RE WORKING ON. THAT'S ONE SIDE OF THE HOUSE. THAT'S THE REAR. THAT'S WHERE THE ADDITION WILL GO. HOMES THAT YOU OWN THERE HAVE HAVE YOU RESTORED THOSE? WELL, THOSE ARE 
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NOT ON THE HISTORIC SIDE OF THE GROVE. THEY'RE WEST OF DOUGLAS ROAD, BUT THEY HAVE ALL BEEN RESTORED. WE HAVE TWO THAT ARE SIDE BY SIDE THAT WERE ONCE A DUPLEX AND THEN SEPARATED AT SOME POINT. AND THEN WE HAVE ANOTHER FREESTANDING ONE ON THOMAS AVENUE, AND THEY'RE ALL CURRENTLY RENTED. OKAY. IT'S ADDED QUITE A BIT TO THAT. THAT PART OF THE NEIGHBORHOOD. THIS OWNER ALSO OWNS A 14 UNIT BUILDING ON GRAND AVENUE AND PLAZA. SO HE'S VERY MUCH INVOLVED IN, IN PRESERVATION OF, AGAIN, THE WEST GROVE, WHICH WE'RE LOSING DAILY. THIS. BEG YOUR PARDON? I SAID IT'S GONE. I KNOW, AND THEY'RE TAKING OUR CANOPIES, BUT I WON'T GET INTO THAT RIGHT NOW. THIS GIVES YOU A VERY GOOD IDEA OF THE. THE SETBACK, THE ENTRANCE TO THE PORCH, THE ENTRANCE TO THE MAIN HOME, WHICH ONLY HAS ONE BEDROOM. THE IDEA FOR THE ADDITION IS TO PROVIDE A BETTER LIVING ENVIRONMENT WITH A PRIMARY BEDROOM, A BATHROOM, A CLOSET, AND A LARGE OPEN KITCHEN. AND THEN I WON'T BORE YOU SINCE I KNOW IT'S BEEN A LONG AFTERNOON, BUT IF THERE'S ANYTHING THAT YOU'D LIKE ME TO ADDRESS IN MY NON ARCHITECTURE CAPACITY, HERE'S THE ELEVATIONS. AGAIN. PLEASE STOP SHOWING IN THE PLANS THAT THE ENTIRETY OF THE BUILDING IS BEING RENOVATED. YES, SIR. OKAY. THAT'S CORRECT. AS WAS MENTIONED BEFORE, THE THE STRUCTURE THE HOME NEEDS QUITE A BIT OF REPAIR, BUT IT'S NOT UNLIKE ANY OF THE OTHER ONES THAT WE'VE WORKED ON. THEY WERE ALL PRETTY MUCH IN THE SAME CONDITION. THESE ARE THE MATERIALS THAT ARE BEING PROPOSED. I THINK WE LOST A LITTLE COLOR ON THE BASE COLOR THERE, BUT IT'S KIND OF A BUTTERY BEIGE. THE TRIM IS KIND OF A GREENISH BROWN. THOSE ARE THE SHINGLES THAT ARE PROPOSED FOR THE EXISTING STRUCTURE AND THE ADDITION ROOF, AND THEN ALUMINUM WINDOWS AND WHATEVER DOORS ARE, ARE DEEMED APPROPRIATE FOR THE HOME. AND THAT'S JUST A SURVEY THAT'S SNUCK IN THERE. ANY QUESTIONS I CAN ANSWER FOR YOU OR BOARD? NO. 
          OKAY, GREAT. KEEP YOUR KEEPING YOUR EXISTING CANOPY. YOU'RE KEEPING THE EXISTING CANOPY OF TREES THAT I SEE. I MEAN, THAT IS OUR NUMBER ONE GOAL TO MAKE THE HOUSE MORE LIVABLE. BUT THAT IS OUR NUMBER ONE GOAL IS TO KEEP THE CHARACTER OF THE HOME. AND TO THE EXTENT THAT IT CONTRIBUTES TO THE OVERALLFAANDG DUESTIO OTHERYUCH. DON'T KNOWFHE'D BEBLE SWER.AS JUST CUR, ATH WOULD I TD SIDIR HERD INK THEY'RE BOTH GOOD. TRUE. 
          YOU' GOI TO ED TO COME BACK UP. I THINK. SO THEY CAN SO THAT YOUR RESPONSES WILL BE ON THE RECORD. YOUR QUESTION WAS ABOUT WAS IT WOOD SIDING. YES. CORRECT. OKAY. YEAH. THAT OUR BRILLIANT. MISS SPAIN. NO NO QUESTIONS, NO QUESTIONS. MISS EVER ANYTHING. DO WE KNOW WHAT TYPE OF WOOD YOU'RE USING? WHAT TYPE OF WOOD? WHAT? I'M SORRY, I DO NOT, BUT I CAN GET THAT INFORMATION FOR THE STAFF. YEAH, SURE. OKAY. ANYTHING ELSE OVER THERE? CAN I SAY SOMETHING? I WANTED YOU GUYS TO. I WANTED TO ACKNOWLEDGE MR. PRIME, WHO WAS HERE IN THE AUDIENCE. AND I DIDN'T KNOW IF IF YOU WANTED TO SPEAK AT ALL. I MEAN, I KNOW IT'S NOT PUBLIC COMMENT YET, BUT. NO, ABSOLUTELY HAPPY TO HAVE HIM. OKAY. WED  FOR PUICME. HANON JTEWEO TTO THE SWT WITH BNGWO I LIE. OKA SVA, DO UAV A QION, MIS I'L ITOR HIS CMENTS. A RIGHT,O AHEA INO TEN. MBERS OTHOA, OF PY AN ISNG I'MGLAD SEO'SAKINA HA ME RESEN IBLE. ONLYONCERN ITH I ALWSFIUTUT TSES THE NOT OHATEVE AND IT'SLMOS I TSE WHO BEFORS OADE TT INK AF  D'TXISTOST ORE. YES,T'BEEN OR0 ARS, BUT. WO STAY NT. S AS FAR I AYITHITH SCOPE O TROJE, G  KNOWN I. TREOR ITEEN FORVER0RS. S BELIEVE WE SHOULO JU MEMBERSFMUTYD LET THEM KN WHI 
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NK Y SIR, I HOMENE ASSOCIATIONOTE ONIANCES? ARE THEY HE EIR ARESS?ITHIN THEDIRICT? RIG.O WI THE RSHOD BEIES CED.KA I JUS PTITHAT ON THEORD.E ASSOCIIS NOT AEO A PRT OWNER S S AR GALLY AOOTIE AS WELLT'SEVERHE WELLS THE PRORTYERMETISSE AHE SAME MLING ADDRE.H, AH. P IS THOMEOWNESSOCIA, USTH E DIST, DONET NOTN WHATHA W I'T AT WREHEWNER ATN ATIS AOKAY SO TY SHOD VE BN. BACK TST,S ETTAT I THE T CIRMFEN RCUME THAT'IFD? I MEA I TS HS000, 1014 1000 OT RIUS.OWO NOTIFIED A MR., YOU . DID YOUIN OUT CES. ALWS CHE THEEIHE TYSI,D WCH MEETGSRE GNG ON RE OR THE AN WVER. A I TRY ME  T CY IL TOEEFHE'S ANY NOTECVE A N M YOU E YOUNT, DO ORID AW YOU'RE . INOW YOU'RE IN PR Y KHERE ARERICALH. SO I ECT O ANOERDE PD OUTHE. MAYBEY'A HA THETO DRES. BYONOW, IWO THINKHAT ESPEA AT FATHEDIHELD LEAST REMEMBER TS DESIGNATN. R, RNSIB FOR KNOILTE R. PRIME WHA WHAT DOINHEEIRHOOD, THATS NOT A HISTORICISTRT. 'SHERE NEAAS SIGNANNE THAT Y IVE IN. AUALLYAL AROU ANDVEROUNDND OK FORHE CY SNS BECAUSE I TRE PAULLY I YRIST, ERE MAY A HOUSEHAT IHAVINGLTERAT T REQRE A VIA A SOHEOU W G TI.ALLY DEMOLIS IATNEIGHB ARE AREENT T IUS TO TO TH HONEOCTION ARE WH HAP AMORE I'TI D'T KNOW OWTHT' PT OFHE NOOMHILD BE W NOT BE ENIN IN TH AREA. A VIGANT IIKE O KNT'S G ON.CSE IUST EASIT. CHECK MLLLEE EVEING.UT FRONT OU THE I, THEN L D OUHA GOIN ON.EAND THA I I D MAKURE  E TE DAYS IE G AUNAC T OKA JUSUSNUTE.S.HAH.E'. YOU'RE I' TOT HETHEN MOVE TO THEO ON TH ANYBRE HAVY MORE ES F THE PNTS? AY INOT, WOIO CL PART OF THARD ANDN ITO THEUBC.KAY. SO HPEOPLEHAT DKE TK HE ISS PLEASE.AVE BSW YO PLEASE STATE YOUR NANK OP. I AM THE NEIBO FROM POSSIB. JT OU MCUOSITLD YOU PUTT PUTON T ON.EAH. ON ERYO L TS INOER. 
          TH ESTG HOUSE. YEAH. Y PRENON UP PAS NHE AH. L U PUT T ESENTATIONOU LOOK ME I HDING U YEAH. HERE WE GO. OKAY. THERE YOU GO. ALL RIGHT, SIR, YOUR QUESTIONS AND MY, MY. SO THAT WAS MY FIRST QUESTION. THE SECOND ONE IS A REMARK OR A COMMENT THAT MAY LEAD INTO A QUESTION. I DON'T KNOW IF THIS IS THE RIGHT BOARD TO BRING THIS UP WITH, BUT CONSIDERING THE FACT THAT MANY OF THE PROPERTIES IN THAT NEIGHBORHOOD ARE MADE OF WOOD AND TERMITE SEASON IS YEAR ROUND, I DID NOTICE, AND AFTER DOING A LITTLE BIT OF RESEARCH, THAT THE WHITE LIGHTS ON THE STREET. 
          SO THE LED, I DON'T KNOW IF THEY'RE LED, THEY MIGHT BE HALOGEN OR SOME KIND OF WHITE LIGHT. THEY DO DRAW IN MORE TERMITES THAN YELLOW LIGHTS DO. AND SINCE LED LIGHTS CAN BE PROGRAMED TO BE A YELLOWER TONE, THAT MAY ACTUALLY MINIMIZE THE RISK OF DRAWING IN TERMITES IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD AND ADVANCED PRESERVATION EFFORTS FOR THAT NEIGHBORHOOD. SO SOMETHING WORTH CONSIDERING, RIGHT? I THIS IS AMATEUR RESEARCH, OBVIOUSLY, BUT WORTH LOOKING INTO. WELL, THANK YOU VERY MUCH. I THINK UNFORTUNATELY, THE LIGHTS ARE CONTROLLED BY FPL. 
          YEAH. SO THIS BOARD'S BEEN THROUGH THAT. DID YOU GET A NOTICE ABOUT THIS MEETING? I LOOKED ACROSS THE STREET. I WAS HAVING COFFEE AND I LOOKED ACROSS THE STREET. I SAW, OKAY, BUT YOU DIDN'T GET MAILED NOTICE. NO I DIDN'T. NO NO NO. BUT YEAH, IT WAS JUST A NOSY NEIGHBOR WHO GOT CLOSE TO THE PROPERTY. I JUST READ THE SIGN. YEAH. ALL RIGHT. COOL. SIDE NOTE. WELL, THANK YOU VERY MUCH. I APPRECIATE WE APPRECIATE THAT SINCE MAY TODAY. OKAY. IS THERE 
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ANYONE ELSE THAT WOULD WISH TO SPEAK FOR OR AGAINST THIS? IS THERE ANYONE ON ZOOM?O, WE HA OM.RE GOING TOSEHE PC ION HE AAN CE BATHE BRD ON. I HEIO YEAMHO WDSSE TICES? IS IT? MYIO IOEN THE NOTE HOMES IN000F RADS? I THAT IS THAT THE HISTORIC DEPARTMENT OR IS THAT THE LABELS ARE PROVIDED BY THE APPLICANT AND THE CITY PREPARES THE NOTICES AND THEY'RE MAILED OUT THROUGH OUR MAIL. AND AND JUST TO CONFIRM, BECAUSE THIS PROPERTY WAS ACTUALLY ON THE LAST AGENDA AS WELL. SO THERE WAS NOTICES MAILED FOR THE PREVIOUS MEETING WHEN THE ITEM WAS DEFERRED AND THIS MEETING AS WELL. SO YOU MAILED OUT TWO NOTICES? YES. AND THE PROPERTY IS POSTED PHYSICALLY ON THE SITE. OBVIOUSLY. WHAT THAT'S WHAT I THINK WHAT THEY WERE SAYING HAD MENTIONED. SO THAT'S BEEN UP. AND THEN AGAIN, THE PROPERTY IS POSTED AT THE TIME OF THE BOARD OF ARCHITECTS MEETINGS. SO IT WAS ALSO POSTED FOR BOA LAST WEEK OR TWO WEEKS AGO AS WELL. 
          AND JUST FOR THE RECORD, BECAUSE I MENTIONED BEFORE, THE CODE REQUIRES THAT THE MAILED NOTICE BE SENT TO THE PROPERTY ADDRESS AND AS WELL AS THE MAILING ADDRESS ON THE MIAMI DADE PROPERTY APPRAISER, SHOULD THAT BE A DIFFERENT ADDRESS? FOR INSTANCE, IF THERE'S AN OWNER WHO'S NOT OCCUPYING THE BUILDING, SO IT GOES TO SOMETIMES TWO ADDRESSES. REALLY? THAT'S BEEN A RECENT CHANGE. YES. THAT'S GOOD. OKAY, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, IF THERE'S NO FURTHER DISCUSSION, I THINK MR. PRIME WANTS TO SAY SOMETHING. I'M SORRY. PLEASE GO AHEAD. I'M SORRY. I JUST ONE ADDITIONAL THING. IT MAY NOT HAVE BEEN CLEAR, BUT. THE NOTICES FOR THE MEETINGS THAT WENT WERE LIKE THE BOARD OF ARCHITECTS. THE OTHER PARTS, WE DON'T GET A LOT OF THOSE. BUT AS FAR AS THE HISTORIC DEPARTMENT IS CONCERNED AND PUBLIC WORKS, THEY DO SEND THEM OUT AND WE DO SEE THEM. BUT MY CONCERN IS THAT IT'S NOT REALLY CONSISTENT, BUT IT DOES HAPPEN, AND THAT THE HISTORIC DEPARTMENT, THEY ARE ON TOP OF THINGS. OKAY. 
          THANK YOU, MR. PYNE, THAT THAT'S GOOD TO KNOW. I THINK THE BOARD OF ARCHITECTS DON'T. 
          THEY DO NOT MAIL OUT NOTICES AT ALL. SO WITH THE BOARD OF ARCHITECTS, IT'S ONLY THE SIGN IN FRONT OF THE HOUSE. OKAY. OKAY. BOARD WE'RE GOING TO HAVE THERE'S GOING TO BE THREE MOTIONS ON THIS THE WAY WE HAVE IT IN THE REPORT. OKAY. I'D LIKE TO HAVE A MOTION, PLEASE, FOR APPROVE OR DENIAL. THAT'S WITH NUMBER ONE. DO I HAVE SOMEONE FOR A MOTION? I'LL MOVE, MR. SILVA. SURE. BEFORE. BEFORE MAKING THE MOTION, THOUGH, I WOULD LIKE TO STATE FOR THE RECORD THAT THAT IN TERMS OF THE VARIANCES, WHICH WE HAVEN'T REALLY DISCUSSED YET, I THINK THEY ARE ABSOLUTELY JUSTIFIED AND NECESSARY IN KEEPING WITH THE WITH THE CHARACTER OF THE DISTRICT AND THE CHARACTER OF THE BUILDING. SO I'M IN FAVOR AND MY MOTION WILL REFLECT THAT. 
          SO I WILL MOVE TO APPROVE THE DESIGN PROPOSAL. WITH THE CONDITIONS NOTED IN THE STAFF REPORT FOR THE ADDITIONS AND ALTERATIONS TO THE RESIDENCE AND SITE WORK ON THE PROPERTY LOCATED AT 118 FLORIDA AVENUE AND APPROVED THE ISSUANCE OF A SPECIAL CERTIFICATE OF APPROPRIATENESS AS PREVIOUSLY DESCRIBED. I WILL ALSO INCORPORATE IN MY MOTION APPROVAL OF THE VARIANCE TO ALLOW THE RESIDENTS TO NOT PROVIDE A CARPORT OR PORTE COCHERE. AND THAT WITHOUT PROVIDING OFF STREET PARKING FACILITIES OR ADDITIONAL OFF STREET PARKING FACILITIES. I WILL ALSO INCLUDE A MOTION TO APPROVE A VARIANCE TO ALLOW WOOD FRAME CONSTRUCTION, WHICH IS A VARIANCE FROM ARTICLE FIVE, SECTION 5-301 OF THE CORAL GABLES ZONING CODE. OKAY, SO IT'S ONE MOTION WITH THREE PARTS. DOES EVERYONE UNDERSTAND? OKAY, I'D LIKE A SECOND, PLEASE. I'LL SECOND IT. OKAY. MISS SPAIN IS SECONDED. ALL RIGHT. 
          WOULD YOU PLEASE CALL THE ROLL, MISS ALVAREZ? YES, MISS ROLANDO. YES. MISS ABBOTT. YES. MR. SILVA. YES. MISS SPAIN. YES. MR. MAXWELL. YES. OF COURSE. THANK YOU. MOTION APPROVED. AND SO MOVE FORWARD. LET'S LOOK FORWARD TO SEEING THIS HOUSE IN GORGEOUS CONDITION. THANK YOU. 
          IT'S A GREAT NEIGHBORHOOD. THANK YOU, MR. PYNE, FOR COMING AND AND SHARING YOUR INFORMATION. I THINK IT'S REALLY IMPORTANT. AND THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT. I JUST WANTED TO SAY A QUICK THANK YOU TO ANNA AND HER TEAM, WHO ARE ABSOLUTELY WONDERFUL AND HELD MY HAND THROUGHOUT THIS ENTIRE THING. SO THANKS AGAIN. THEY'RE A GOOD TEAM. OKAY, WE'RE GOING 
          [4. 26-1712 CASE FILE COA (SP) 2026-006: An application for the issuance of a Special Certificate of Appropriateness for the property at 410 Minorca Avenue, a Local Historic Landmark, legally described as Lots 10 & 11, Block 4, Coral Gables Section “B,” according to the Plat thereof, as recorded in Plat Book 5, at page 111, of the Public Records of Miami-Dade County, Florida. The application requests design approval for an addition and alterations to the residence and sitework.]
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TO MOVE ON TO THE LAST ITEM AND THAT IS ITEM COASP2026-006. AN APPLICATION FOR THE ISSUANCE OF A SPECIAL CERTIFICATE OF APPROPRIATENESS FOR THE PROPERTY LOCATED AT 410 MINORCA AVENUE, A LOCAL HISTORIC LANDMARK LEGALLY DESCRIBED AS LOTS TEN AND 11, BLOCK FOUR, CORAL GABLES. SECTION B PLAT, BOOK FIVE, PAGE ONE. 111 MIAMI DADE COUNTY RECORDS THE APPLICATION REQUEST, DESIGN, APPROVAL AND DESIGN APPROVAL FOR AND ADDITIONS AND ALTERATIONS TO THE RESIDENCE AND SITE WORK. MAY WE HAVE THE PRESENTATION, PLEASE? YES. SO TODAY WE'RE GOING TO BE PRESENTING A READY A DESIGNATED HOME IN 2020 FOR THE 410. 
          MINORCA WAS PERMITTED IN MARCH 1935, AND IT'S ONE OF THE EARLIEST HOMES BUILT IN CORAL GABLES DURING THE NEW DEAL ERA. IT'S CONTEMPORARY MEDITERRANEAN TRANSITIONAL STYLE. IT BLENDS IN WITH THE NEIGHBORHOOD AND CURRENTLY SHOWS CHARACTERS OF THAT CHARACTERISTICS WITHOUT. 
          WITH MINOR CHANGES. TODAY, THE PROPOSAL THAT IS BEING SHOWN TODAY IS A DESIGN APPROVAL FOR A SECOND STORY ADDITION TO THE REAR AND ONE STORY SIDE ADDITION WITH. WITH ALTERATIONS TO THE RESIDENCE. LIMITED SITE WORK IS ALSO PROPOSED. NO VARIANCES ARE NEEDED FOR THIS APPLICATION AND I DO WANT TO HAVE A SIDE NOTE WHICH IS ONE OF THE REQUIREMENTS, BUT I DO WANT YOU GUYS TO TAKE A LOOK AT IT. OBVIOUSLY, WE'LL WE'LL KNOW THE THE APPLICANTS UP TO A TO TRY TO MAINTAIN THE CONFIGURATION, THE CURRENT, THE CURRENT CONFIGURATION OF THE MAIN ENTRANCE. THAT'S OKAY. PUT THE PRESENTATION UP. GOOD AFTERNOON. PLEASE INTRODUCE YOURSELF. YEAH. THERE WE GO. THERE YOU GO. HERE WE GO. GOOD AFTERNOON. MY NAME IS JORGE GONZALEZ WITH VERTICAL DESIGN. I'M THE ARCHITECT FOR THE THE PROPERTY REPRESENTING THE HOMEOWNERS MIQUEL AND NATALIA PAOLINI. JORGE, IF YOU WOULD PLEASE. JUST. THANK YOU. OKAY. 
          MY NAME IS JORGE GONZALEZ, VERTICAL DESIGN STUDIO. I AM THE ARCHITECT FOR THE PROPERTY. 
          SO THIS IS THE THE EXISTING RESIDENCE. WOW. AS YOU CAN SEE ON THE RENDERINGS AT THE BOTTOM OF THE PERSPECTIVES ON THE BOTTOM, OUR INTENT WAS TO SET BACK. THE ADDITIONS AND THE ALTERATIONS TO STILL HIGHLIGHT THE EXISTING PORTION OF THE OF THE RESIDENCE. WE'RE ONLY CONNECTING AT THE REAR AND BASICALLY GOING TOWARDS THE REAR. THESE ARE THE EXISTING PHOTOS OF THE RESIDENCE AS IT SITS TODAY. OUR INTENT IS TO RESTORE AS MUCH AS AS MUCH AS WE CAN SEE ON THAT ORIGINAL PHOTOGRAPH, THE FEATURES, FOR EXAMPLE, WE'RE PLANNING ON REMOVING THE THE CANOPY ON THE ON THE FRONT, WE'RE PLANNING ON RESTORING THE CANOPY ON THE RIGHT THAT YOU CAN SEE ON THE ON THE FOURTH PHOTO. AND WE HAVE GONE OVER THE RECOMMENDATIONS FROM STAFF AND WE AGREE WITH THEM. THAT THIS IS A. ON THE LEFT SIDE, YOU CAN SEE WHAT'S EXISTING. ON THE RIGHT SIDE, YOU CAN SEE WHAT'S BEING PROPOSED. FOR THIS LITTLE HOUSE. THESE ARE THE ELEVATIONS OF THE HOUSE. AND SOME SECTIONS. GEORGE. THE EARLY PHOTOGRAPH FROM 1935 SHOWS A SCREENED PORCH. THERE YOU GO. THANK YOU FOR BRINGING THAT UP. THAT'S THE ONE POINT THAT I. IN THE CONDITIONS IT WAS PHRASED AS TO CONSIDER BRINGING THE SCREENED PORCH BACK. BUT. BUT THE HOMEOWNERS DO NOT WANT TO. BUT WE ARE WILLING TO MAKE ALL OF THE OTHER CHANGES. THAT'S PRETTY IMPORTANT. THAT'S ONE OF THE VERY FEW CHINOISERIE DETAILS THAT YOU'LL SEE IN ANY BUILDING IN CORAL GABLES, EVER. IN OTHER WORDS, IT'S KIND OF WHAT WE USED TO CALL CHINESE CHIPPENDALE, YOU KNOW. I AGREE, BUT I HAVE DISCUSSED THIS WITH 
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THE CLIENT AND THEY'RE THEY REALLY WOULD LIKE TO STAY AWAY FROM THE SCREEN PORCH. OKAY. 
          THANK YOU. BOARD. BUT NOW IT'S JUST OPEN, RIGHT. THERE'S NOTHING THERE. THEY'VE THEY'VE TAKEN IT ALL OUT. IT'S JUST AN OPEN MA. NO, NO, IT IS CURRENTLY OPEN. YEAH. THE SCREENED PORCH DOES NOT EXIST NOW. SO IN OUR REPORT WE WERE RECOMMENDING THAT IF IT WAS CONSIDERED THAT WE WOULD WORK WITH THEM ON THE DETAILS. OKAY. I HAVE AN ISSUE WITH STAFF INCREASING THE SCOPE OF WORK ON ANY ON ANY. THAT'S WHY IT WAS A CONSIDERATION BECAUSE WE CANNOT REQUIRE IT. AND TO ANNA'S POINT, THE OTHER THING IS THAT EVEN THE EXISTING FACADE OF THE ENTRANCE IS BEING MODIFIED. SO IT'S GOING FROM A SINGLE DOOR TO A DOUBLE DOOR WHEN YOU ENTER. 
          SO IF WE LOOK AT THE THE RENDERINGS VERSUS THE EXISTING CONDITION, RIGHT, THAT WE'RE WILLING TO, TO REVERT OR NOT, DO NOT MODIFY THAT OPENING. OKAY. THANK YOU. OKAY, SO IT'S GOING TO STAY THE ORIGINAL OPENING. YES. WE'LL KEEP THE ORIGINAL OPENINGS. WE'LL HAVE THE DIMENSIONALLY ONE DIMENSIONAL MUNTINS, THE TRUE TWO PIECE. TILE AND ALL OF THE OTHER THINGS THAT WERE MENTIONED. THE ONLY ITEM THAT WE WOULD LIKE TO PUSH BACK ON IS THE SCREEN PORCH. BUMMER. AND AGAIN, IT WAS JUST A RECOMMENDATION BECAUSE THERE WAS SOME RESTORATION WORK OCCURRING AT THE PROPERTY THAT WE THOUGHT THAT IT COULD BE SOMETHING THAT COULD BE WORKED IN AS PART OF AN AD VALOREM APPLICATION AS WELL. SO MUST BE $1,000 TO DO IT. OKAY. BOARD QUESTIONS. I HAVE TO SAY, I'M RATHER APPALLED BY THE MASSING IN THIS. IT'S LIKE THE ADDITION THAT ATE THE HOUSE. IT'S, YOU KNOW, I UNDERSTAND THE NEED FOR MORE SPACE, BUT I DON'T THINK IT'S VERY SYMPATHETIC. I THINK THE MASSING I CAN APPRECIATE WHAT YOU'RE SAYING, BUT I THINK THAT FROM A STREET POINT OF VIEW, IT IS NOT AS IT IS NOT GOING TO FEEL AS MASSIVE BECAUSE WE HAVE SET IT BACK QUITE A BIT. SO A LOT OF CARE WAS TAKEN INTO KEEPING THE EXISTING HISTORICAL STRUCTURE HIGHLIGHTED WITH EVERYTHING ELSE SET BACK AND THE TWO STORY ADDITION AT THE VERY REAR. 
          I THINK A GOOD EXAMPLE WOULD BE THE THE SECOND COLUMN, SECOND PERSPECTIVE, JUST OVERPOWERING. SO SECOND, WHAT HAPPENED TO THE REQUIREMENT THAT THEY SHOW EXISTING AND PROPOSED ON EACH SHEET? ARE WE NOT DOING THAT ANYMORE OR AM I MISSING THESE ARE ON THEIR EXISTING AND PROPOSED. YEAH. SO IT'S IN THE PLANS AND THE PLANS. YEAH. BUT WHAT ABOUT THE ELEVATIONS. OH I'M SORRY, I'M NOT USED TO THE MICROPHONE. NO. I THINK IN THE GLASSES YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT THE ELEVATIONS. THE ELEVATIONS I THOUGHT WERE ALSO SUBMITTED THAT WAY. SO THIS MIGHT HAVE BEEN AN OLDER APPLICATION. SO THIS WENT TO THE BOA. OKAY. ALL RIGHT. I GOT IT RIGHT. THERE YOU GO. I JUST HADN'T GOTTEN TO THAT. OH OKAY, I GET IT. 
          PERFECT. 
          WOULD YOU LIKE TO SEE IF THERE'S ANY PUBLIC COMMENT WHILE THE BOARD IS. IS THERE ANY CONSIDERATION FOR SCREENING FOR THE. ONE STORY ADDITION? SCREENING AS IN LANDSCAPING? SO IN OTHER WORDS, YOU DON'T SEE IT FROM THE STREET. WELL WE HAVE. WE ARE PROPOSING. LET ME SEE IF IT'S VISIBLE HERE. AND I'M LOOKING AT YOUR YOUR YOUR SITE PLAN HERE. WE ARE PROPOSING A LOW PROPERTY WALL. AND CERTAINLY WE COULD, WE COULD HAVE SCREENING, 
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VEGETATION SCREENING. LET'S JUST OVERPOWERS THE HOUSE. WOULD YOU CONSIDER NOT DOING THOSE DECORATIVE VENTS OVER THE. I MEAN THIS IS A VERY SMALL COMMENT COMPARED TO THE SIZE OF THE ADDITION. BUT THE DECORATIVE VENTS OVER THE ARCHWAYS SO THAT IT DOESN'T COMPETE WITH THOSE THAT ARE ORIGINAL TO THE HOUSE. YEAH, ABSOLUTELY. I DON'T KNOW. 
          ONE QUESTION. THE LOT IS 100FT IN THE FRONT. WHAT'S THE WHAT'S THE OTHER DIMENSION? LET ME HAVE IT. SORRY, 100 BY 100. OKAY. THANK YOU. THAT'S QUITE A LOT. WHEN THE HOMEOWNERS PURCHASED THE PROPERTY, IT WAS NOT DESIGNATED HISTORIC. WE BASICALLY, THROUGH CONVERSATIONS WITH THE HISTORIC DEPARTMENT, WE OFFERED IT AS A TO BE DESIGNATED. THE INTENT OF THE HOMEOWNER ORIGINALLY WAS TO BUILD A LARGER HOME. TO DEMOLISH THIS ONE. WELL, I DON'T KNOW IF DEMOLISH. BUT THEY WERE NOT CONSTRAINED BY HISTORIC SENSIBILITIES. SO THIS WAS DESIGNATED IN 2020 FOR. AND LIKE AS A RESULT OF OF SIGNIFICANCE REQUEST. NO, NO, THEY CAME TO OUR OFFICE BECAUSE THEY WANTED TO SEE AGAIN TO LEARN WHAT THEY CAN DO WITH IT BECAUSE OF THE AGE OF THE PROPERTY. I THINK FOR GEORGE, IT KIND OF TRIGGERED THAT LIKELY YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE TO SEE HISTORIC AT SOME POINT. SO WHY DON'T WE GO EARLY? AND THERE WAS SOME MASSING STUDIES, I THINK, DONE FOR A LARGER TWO STORY ADDITION ON THAT SIDE YARD. AGAIN, THIS IS ONE OF THOSE CONDITIONS THAT'S HARD TO DEVELOP, RIGHT? BECAUSE YOU HAVE A DOUBLE LOT AND A VERY SMALL ONE STORY HOUSE. SO REALLY A LOT OF THE ANY MODIFICATIONS TO IT YOU DO TO IT ARE, ARE GOING TO OVERWHELM IT BECAUSE OF THE AMOUNT OF GREEN SPACE THAT THERE IS. SO DEVELOPABLE PROPERTY. THERE WAS A MUCH LARGER TWO STORY AT, AT THE EARLY STAGES OF THIS, I THINK THERE WAS MULTIPLE BOA REVIEWS ON THIS ONE MAYBE FOUR TIMES. YEAH, 3 OR 4 ON HOW TO KIND OF, YOU KNOW, PLAY WITH THE MASK SO THAT IT DIDN'T FEEL LIKE THIS LOOMING BIG TWO STORY ADDITION AND KIND OF BREAKING IT UP TO HAVE THAT ONE STORY, LITTLE COURTYARD SPACE AND, AND HAVE THE TWO STORY REALLY SET BACK TO THE EDGE OF THE PROPERTY. I, AGAIN, I HEAR YOUR CONCERNS. AND WE HAD THEM TOO. 
          AND WE ALSO HAVE TO THINK OF THE BALANCE OF LIKE, BECAUSE OF THE SIZE OF THE LOT, THIS COULD BE. YEAH, MUCH BIGGER. AND AGAIN, THE PROPERTY OWNERS DID COME TO US. THEY ENDED UP AGREEING TO THE, THE DESIGNATION THEY WORKED WITH THAT THEY WORKED THAT OUT WITH US TWO YEARS AGO AND HAVE BEEN IN THE PROCESS SINCE. THEY WERE EXCITED BECAUSE THE CHIMNEY HAS THAT LITTLE W THAT THEY'RE RESTORING BACK IN THEIR LAST NAME HAPPENS TO START WITH A W, AND IT'S IN THE HISTORIC PHOTO. SO. I HEAR YOU. AND IF THERE'S RECOMMENDATIONS OF MAYBE SOMETHING THAT WE COULD WORK ON TOGETHER TO KIND OF MITIGATE SOME OF THOSE THINGS, WE'LL DO THAT. AND I THINK THAT THE HOMEOWNERS WOULD WOULD. DID YOU DISCUSS LANDSCAPE SCREENING AND ANYTHING TO HIDE THIS SECTION ON THE SIDE? WELL, I KNEW THAT THEY WERE DOING THE OVERWHELMED BY THE SECOND STORY ALREADY. OKAY. AND THEN YOU'RE ADDING, THEN WE'RE ADDING THIS LARGE PIECE THAT THAT'S ALMOST THE SAME SIZE AS THE HOUSE OVER TO ONE SIDE, EVEN THOUGH IT'S SET BACK, YOU KNOW, THERE'S A GREAT OPPORTUNITY TO CREATE THAT AS A SPECIAL PRIVATE COURTYARD, YOU KNOW, BUT WHERE YOU COULDN'T SEE IT TOO, I MEAN, AS A LANDSCAPE SCREEN, WHICH WOULD THEN THAT WOULD HELP REDUCE THE MASSING THAT THAT'S BEING PLACED THERE. AND THIS IS HUGE. 
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IT'S REALLY OVERPOWERING. YEAH. BUT WE HEAR YOU. YEAH. NO, AND WE CAN WORK WITH THEM AGAIN. 
          ANY CONDITIONS THAT ARE PROFFERED BY YOU ALL CAN BE ADDED TO THE RECOMMENDATION TODAY. AND IF THERE'S SOMETHING THAT YOU ALL MAYBE WANTED TO COME BACK TO SEE, THAT IS ALSO AN OPTION TO. OH, I, I HEAR WHAT YOU'RE ALL SAYING. I THINK WHAT WE'RE ALL REACTING TO GEORGE IS, IS, IS, IS A CIRCUMSTANCE NOT OF YOUR MAKING. RIGHT? IT'S, IT'S, IT'S RARE THAT WE SEE A LOT THIS LARGE WITH A HOUSE THIS SMALL ON IT, RIGHT? SO BY RIGHT, THEY HAVE A CERTAIN AMOUNT OF SQUARE FOOTAGE THEY CAN BUILD. AND IF THE OWNER WANTS TO BUILD A LARGE ADDITION, WHICH, WHICH THEY TECHNICALLY HAVE THE RIGHT TO DO, IT'S DIFFICULT TO BALANCE KIND OF ALL THAT WITH, WITH THE SIZE OF HOUSE. THERE'S IT'S A ONE STORY, VERY SMALL HOUSE. THAT BEING SAID, I THINK THE DECISION TO PUT THAT TWO STORY VOLUME ON THE BACK WAS, WAS THE RIGHT ONE FOR SURE. I'D RATHER SEE IT BACK THERE THAN, THAN IN THE SIDE YARD. YEAH. I THINK WE'RE ALL KIND OF ON THE SAME PAGE ABOUT THAT. THE, THE ONLY THING THAT THAT AND I UNDERSTAND WHY YOU DID IT THE, THE CHANGE IN ROOF PITCH, RIGHT? YOU'RE DIFFERENTIATING. SO ON THAT FRONT FACADE, IN THE ONE STORY ADDITION, YOU'RE DIFFERENTIATING THE PITCH, WHICH I GET TO DIFFERENTIATE THE NEW ADDITION FROM THE OLD AND THE, AND THEN YOU'RE, YOU'RE MY, MY, IT'S NOT EVEN A CONCERN. IT'S, IT'S SOMETHING THAT MAYBE WE CAN FURTHER STUDY WITH STAFF. THAT FRONT FACADE ON THE ADDITION, YOU'RE SORT OF MIMICKING THE EXISTING, BUT CHANGING SLIGHTLY, RIGHT? INSTEAD OF THE LARGE ARCH, YOU'VE GOT KIND OF A TRADITIONAL ARCHED OPENING, SMALLER. THE THE ROOF IS, IS A LOWER SLOPE. YOU KNOW, I DON'T KNOW IF MAYBE, MAYBE CHANGING THAT TO, TO A HIP WOULD, WOULD KIND OF ALLEVIATE THE THING. TO MAKE IT MORE CLEAR, THERE IS A HIP CONDITION, LIKE A SHED CONDITION. BUT, BUT I THINK MAYBE THAT WOULD WOULD HELP THINGS IF NUMBER ONE, THAT WOULD SORT OF DECREASE THE VISUAL HEIGHT OF THAT ADDITION, RIGHT? YOU'RE SORT OF IF YOU PUT A HIP ON THAT FRONT, YOU'RE MAKING IT APPEAR SMALLER THAN IT IS. YOU'RE KIND OF NOT CONFUSING THINGS WITH THAT EXISTING GABLE. AND I THINK IF YOU DID THAT, MAYBE, MAYBE THAT WOULD BE SOMETHING THAT THAT WOULD HELP THE PROJECT AND WOULD HELP US KIND OF GET OVER THAT HUMP. YEAH, THAT WOULD BE MUCH BETTER THAN JUST TAKING AWAY THE DECORATIVE. THAT WOULD THAT WOULD HELP, I THINK, HELP A LOT. MUCH BETTER THAN JUST TAKING AWAY THE DECORATIVE INSERTS, BECAUSE THAT WOULD ACTUALLY TOTALLY DIFFERENTIATE IT. I MEAN, I'M NOT FOND OF TWO DIFFERENT ARCHES ON THE, ON THE FRONT ELEVATION MYSELF, BUT, YOU KNOW. YEAH, BECAUSE I, I, I THINK THE HISTORIC EXISTING HISTORIC HOME WITH THAT LARGE ARCH SHOULD BE THE MAIN FOCAL POINT. AND THIS OTHER ARCH JUST CONFUSES THE ISSUE. SO THAT'S WHY FOR ME, I TAKE AWAY THE ARCH ALSO AND PUT IT. WE ALSO HAD THAT SENSIBILITY. IT'S JUST THAT THEY'RE BOTH FACING THE STREET. AND JUST TO HAVE A SQUARE OPENING WOULD SEEM LIKE 1980S CLASHING WITH A WELL, NOT REALLY 1930S, NO. BUT FOR ME, FOR ME, I THINK IT WOULD HELP. BUT I DON'T WANT TO, YOU KNOW, START DESIGNING. AND THAT'S MY REASON FOR SCREENING IT JUST TO TAKE AWAY THAT THAT BLOCKY SIDE. OKAY. ANYWAY, BOARD. WE'RE ON OUR LAST MISS EVERETT, ANY COMMENTS QUESTIONS SUGGESTIONS, RECOMMENDATIONS, DENIALS, APPROVALS OR INDECISIONS THE ORIGINAL SQUARE FOOTAGE OF THE THE THE OLD HOUSE. WHAT IS IT? NINE WHATEVER WAS WHAT 35 YEAH. 1935. THAT SQUARE FOOTAGE IS WHAT. AND WE'RE GOING TO WHAT I MEAN IT IT'S AMAZING. YEAH. IT IS A 1700FT■!S. 1718 OKAY. AND AND THE NEW STRUCTURE WILL BE. 
          THE FOOT. BASICALLY IT'S DOUBLING THE SIZE OF THE FOOTPRINT AND WHAT IS AND WHAT IS THE MAXIMUM F.A.R ALLOWED ON THAT SITE. YEAH. SO MAXIMUM ALLOWED IS 4150. WE'RE AT 4019. 
          AND YOU'RE AT 4015 OR 4019. THE MAXIMUM IS 41 4150. BASICALLY MORE THAN DOUBLING IT. YEAH. 
          YEAH. BUT YOU KNOW THEY'RE ALLOWED TO DO THAT BY RIGHT. YEAH. I MEAN JUST HOW TO DO IT. 
          YEAH. YOU KNOW. OKAY. THIS RECEIVE THE 10% INCREASE FROM BOA. IT DID. BUT WE ONLY NEEDED 
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IT FOR THE OUTDOOR TERRACES. OKAY. SO I HAVE A QUESTION. I KNOW YOU WENT THROUGH SEVERAL ITERATIONS, BUT SOME OTHER PROJECTS WE SAW TODAY. CAN YOU ASK FOR A VARIANCE? YEAH. CAN YOU GET CLOSER? CLOSER. SO THEY ASKED FOR A VARIANCE IN THE BACK. I GUESS MAYBE WHAT WE'RE STRUGGLING ALL STRUGGLING WITH IS THAT SOME OF THE SUCCESSFUL ADDITION PROJECTS, THEY EITHER HAVE A LIKE A HYPHEN ADDITION OR THERE'S SOME KIND OF TRANSITION FROM THE, THE EXISTING VOLUME TO THE TALLER PROPOSED VOLUME. WAS THERE AN OPPORTUNITY TO BUILD CLOSER TO THE BACK PROPERTY LINE? BECAUSE RIGHT NOW, I THINK MARTIN'S FIRST COMMENT WAS THAT IT'S ALMOST LIKE ENGULFED, RIGHT? THE EXISTING HOUSE. SO THERE'S NO WAY TO GAIN MORE DISTANCE IN THE BACK, IS THERE? RIGHT WHERE WE'RE AT THE. NO. I KNOW, BUT WE SAW SOME EXAMPLES WHERE THERE WAS A VARIANCE TO GET CLOSER. THE TWO STORY ADDITION PORTION ACTUALLY STARTS BEHIND THE EXISTING HOUSE. NO, NO, I, I SEE THAT YEAH, I KNOW, I KNOW WHAT YOU MEAN. WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE FLOOR PLAN, IT'S JUST ONE KIND OF LARGE MASS. YEAH. I, WELL I DON'T THINK THE REQUEST WAS THERE AT SOME POINT. I THINK HE WAS TRYING TO ACTUALLY MAKE THE CHANGES SO THAT, THAT HE COMPLIED WITH THE ZONING BECAUSE WE WERE CONCERNED OF PUSHING FOR A VARIANCE THAT MAYBE WASN'T DOING IT ANY FAVORS BECAUSE. IT'S NOT THAT IT WOULD MAKE IT BIGGER, BUT. 
          WELL, RIGHT. YOU STILL HAVE TO MEET THE REQUIREMENTS. I DON'T KNOW IF THERE WAS ENOUGH SPACE, IF THERE AT THE MAX AT THAT TEN FEET NOW, WOULD FIVE FEET REALLY? OKAY, JUST A QUESTION. 
          YEAH, I, I DON'T AGREE WITH THE CHANGE IN THE ROOF PITCH. I THINK IT I DON'T KNOW, I THINK IT THROWS IT OFF FOR THAT FRONT ROOM. THE EXISTING ROOF PITCH IS VERY, VERY STEEP. IT'S LIKE NINE AND NINE INCHES IN A IN A FOOT. WE OUR ORIGINAL DESIGN DID MIMIC THE THE ORIGINAL HOUSE EVEN EVEN MORE, BUT WE UNDERSTOOD THAT WE HAD TO. YEAH, I THINK EVEN EXISTING. YEAH. 
          BOA HAD BEEN THE ONE TO RECOMMEND ACTUALLY TO CHANGE THE ARCH TYPE AT ONE POINT. I DON'T REMEMBER IF YOU HAD A PROPOSAL WITH A PITCH AT THAT TO MATCH THE EXISTING THOUGH. 
          THERE'S MULTIPLE ITERATIONS OF THIS OVER TIME, SO. OR SOMETHING IN BETWEEN. IT FEELS VERY DIFFERENT FROM THE HOUSE. I THINK VEGETATION SCREENING IS A GREAT IDEA FOR THE FOR THE EAST PORTION OF THE OF THE ADDITION. I WOULD BE. I DON'T THINK WE CAN RELY ON ON VEGETATION TO COVER UP. YOU CAN ADDITION. WELL, I MEAN, IT'S SET BACK. I MEAN LOOK AT IT. IT APPEARS TO BE SET BACK ABOUT 20FT. I GET IT, I UNDERSTAND, BUT IF IT'S YOU KNOW, EVERYBODY'S GOT THESE BIG GREEN WALLS, YOU KNOW THAT VEGETATION. I UNDERSTAND, BUT I THINK WE NEED TO BASE OUR DETERMINATIONS ON THE ARCHITECTURE, NOT ON WHETHER THEY HAVE A BUSH. AND I'M HEARING YOU, I'M TRYING TO AMELIORATE. YEAH. WHY DON'T WE TRY A MOTION? LET'S SEE. SEE HOW IT GOES, I GUESS. OKAY, LET'S DO THAT. SO WE WELL, WAIT A MINUTE. OKAY. WE LET'S, BEFORE WE GET TO THE MOTION, WE'VE GOT TO GO THROUGH THE PROCEDURE. OKAY. IS THERE ANY ARE THERE ANY OTHER QUESTIONS THAT WE WANT TO HAVE WITH THE ARCHITECT RIGHT NOW HEARING? NONE. WE'RE GOING TO CLOSE THAT AND ASK THE PUBLIC, IS THERE ANYONE HERE THAT WISHES TO SPEAK FOR OR AGAINST THIS? IS THERE ANYONE ON ZOOM? WE'RE GOING TO CLOSE THE PUBLIC PORTION AND COME BACK TO THE BOARD FOR A MOTION. OKAY, HERE WE ARE. OKAY. SO I WILL MAKE I WILL MAKE A MOTION TO APPROVE THE THE APPLICATION OF DESIGN PROPOSAL FOR AN ADDITION, ALTERATIONS TO THE RESIDENCE AND SITE WORK ON THE PROPERTY LOCATED AT 410 MINORCA AVENUE WITH STAFF CONDITIONS AND AN ADDITIONAL CONDITION TO STUDY THE. THE ONE STORY PORTION OF THE ADDITION AND LOOK AT A HIP ROOF IN THAT AREA AND ALTERING THAT. THAT ARCHED OPENING AS WELL. I SECOND THAT I'D LIKE TO AMEND THAT MOTION AND ADD THAT THEY ADD SCREENING TO THE UP A 
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LARGE LANDSCAPE SCREENING AND MAINTAIN THAT SCREENING. COULD YOU REPEAT THAT, MICHAEL? I'M SORRY I SAID I'D LIKE TO ADD TO THAT THAT THEY ADD A LOT TO THAT SIDE IN FRONT OF THAT ADDITION, THAT THEY ADD A LARGE LANDSCAPE SCREENING THAT WOULD SCREEN IT. I DON'T MEAN A LOW WALL, I MEAN A HIGH WALL, LEGAL, WHATEVER IS LEGAL FOR THE TOP OF A HEDGE OR THAT KIND OF THING, SOMETHING THAT SCREENS IT OUT AS A LANDSCAPING, A LANDSCAPING SCREEN, YES. NOT A WALL. WOULD YOU ACCEPT THAT, MR. SILVA? I DO, I DON'T, SO SOMEONE ELSE WILL NEED WE NEED A SECOND. WE'LL NEED ANOTHER SECOND. I'LL SECOND IT. OKAY. MR. ORLANDO IS SECONDED. OKAY, OKAY, MISS ALVAREZ. NO. MISS HEBERT. YES. MR. SILVA. YES. MISS. ROLANDO. NO. MISS SPAIN, ONLY BECAUSE OF THE LANDSCAPING. NO. MR. MAXWELL. YES. MOTION FAILS. IS THERE ANOTHER MOTION TO BE MADE. THERE'S STILL NOT GOING TO GET THERE. WE CAN TRY. LET'S TRY THE MOTION WITHOUT THE LANDSCAPE REQUIREMENT. UNDERSTOOD. SO THAT'S APPROVING WITH THE STAFF CONDITIONS AND THE CONDITION ABOUT THE HIP ROOF AND THE ONE STORY BUILDING. AND I WOULD LIKE TO OFFER STAFF RECOMMENDATION TO BRING BACK THE SCREENING AT THE FRONT, AT THE FRONT CURVE, IF IT WILL HELP THE RESTORING THE SCREEN PORCH. YOU'RE SAYING AS A MANDATORY CONDITION? YEAH, I WILL ACCEPT THAT OR REVISE MY MOTION TO INCLUDE THAT. I'LL SECOND THAT. OKAY. WE HAVE A MOTION ON THE TABLE. WOULD YOU PLEASE CALL THE ROLL? MISS ALVAREZ? NO. MISS ROLANDO. NO. 
          MISS EVERETT. YES. MR. SILVA. YES. MISS SPAIN. YES. MR. MAXWELL. YES, BUT THE MOTION FAILS. WE ONLY HAVE SIX PEOPLE. YOU HAVE TO HAVE FIVE TO PASS. CAN CAN WE MOTION TO CONTINUE THE ITEM SO THE ITEM WOULD AUTOMATICALLY BE CONTINUED TO THE NEXT MEETING UNTIL A MAJORITY VOTE IS ACHIEVED. WHICH WAS FIVE REQUIRED. OKAY. AND THE FULL COMPLEMENT OF THE BOARD IS NINE. OKAY. SO THE ITEM WOULD BE CONTINUED TO A DATE CERTAIN OF THE AUGUST MEETING. AND IF IT'S NOT THAT AUGUST MEETING, WE WOULD APPROPRIATELY RE NOTICE ETC. OR SEPTEMBER. IS HE GOING TO HAVE ENOUGH TIME TO TO GO FOR THAT, TO PUT IT IN WITH AUGUST OR SEPTEMBER? WELL, IF IT'S JUST CONTINUED AND THERE'S NO CHANGES TO THE PROPOSAL, THEN OKAY, IT WOULD BE ABLE TO BE SCHEDULED FOR AUGUST. BUT IF HE WANTS TO TAKE INTO CONSIDERATION THE COMMENTS THAT WERE GIVEN TODAY, BE HERE IN AUGUST. I'M JUST LETTING YOU KNOW. SO YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE, YOU KNOW, POSSIBLY EIGHT INSTEAD OF NINE. NO, IT'S ACTUALLY EARLY THIRD, 13TH. OKAY. ALL WE NEED IS FIVE. I UNDERSTAND, BUT HE NEEDS TO KNOW. SO JUST FOR THE RECORD, THIS ITEM WILL BE CONTINUED TO THE AUGUST 13TH, 2026 MEETING FOR FURTHER CONSIDERATION UNLESS DEFERRED TO ANOTHER DATE. BUT FOR THE PUBLIC WATCHING AUGUST 13TH. OKAY. THANK YOU. WELL, THAT CONCLUDES THAT. I'M SORRY. THANK YOU. WE'LL LOOK FORWARD TO SEEING YOU COME BACK. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. LADIES AND GENTLEMEN. THAT CONCLUDES THE ITEMS THAT WERE ON OUR AGENDA. IS THERE ANY OLD BUSINESS? WE DO HAVE ONE MORE ITEM ON THE AGENDA UNDER NEW BUSINESS, I BELIEVE. OH, APOLOGIES THAT THAT WAS A MISTAKE. OH, OKAY. 
          AND WE HAVE CONCLUDED. OKAY. DO WE HAVE ANY OLD BUSINESS, MISS PEREZ? I'M A GRANT APPLICATION. 
          OH, NO. OH, THIS IS NEW BUSINESS, I GUESS. SORRY. SHOULD I WAIT FOR NEW BUSINESS? 
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OKAY. DO WE HAVE ANY NEW BUSINESS? SO, IN NATALIE'S FIRST MONTH, SHE DID WORK ON A FLORIDA STATE GRANT APPLICATION FOR THE CORAL GABLES MUSEUM BUILDING FOR THE RESTORATION OF THE EXTERIOR STONE MASONRY WORK, AND SOME INTERIOR SPACES ALSO THAT HAVE INCURRED SOME DAMAGE. 
          AND SO CROSS YOUR FINGERS FOR US. THAT APPLICATION WAS SUBMITTED ON MONDAY, AND THAT 
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WOULD BE FUNDING FOR NEXT JULY, A YEAR AND A HALF FROM NOW. YEAH. YES. NORTH STUDY NORTH STUDY SHOULD BE COMING FOR YOU. STAFF HAS BEEN REVIEWING. I JUST ACTUALLY GOT COMMENTS FROM NATALIE TOO. AND KAREN ELIZABETH HAVE HAD IT ALSO FOR REVIEW. AND THEN WE'LL HAVE AFTER THE SUMMER IN THE FALL BECAUSE MEGAN IS OUT OF TOWN. SHE'S OUR CONSULTANT. SHE'S LEAVES FOR THE SUMMER. SO SHE'S NOT HERE NOW TO PRESENT, BUT SHE'LL COME BACK IN THE FALL. 
          WOULD IT BE APPROPRIATE TO SEND THE BOARD OF DRAFT JUST FOR JUST TO LOOK AT? WE COULD. THAT WOULD BE NICE. I THINK WE WOULD ALL IN ADVANCE. IT'S A IT'S A BIG DOCUMENT. IT'S ABOUT 400 PAGES. IT'S A LOT OF PHOTOS, RIGHT. BECAUSE OF THE INVENTORY. BUT YOU'VE GOT IT ALL DIGITIZED. 
          YES. WE COULD SHARE IT WITH THE BOARD. I THINK THAT WOULD REALLY BE GOOD. IT WOULD JUST GIVE US ALL A LITTLE HEADS UP, THAT'S ALL. YEP. AND IF THERE'S ANY COMMENTS IN ADVANCE THAT WE CAN SHARE, THAT WOULD BE GOOD TOO. SO THAT WAY WE DON'T HAVE TO. IT'S IT'LL BE THOROUGH. I THINK WE'RE ALL HAPPY TO DO THAT. WE'VE ALL BEEN VERY EXCITED ABOUT THIS COMING ALONG. 
          SO. THAT'S EDITED UP. MARLON, MEGAN'S LAST NAME. MCCLELLAN. OKAY. IT'S FROM SERBIA, IS OUR CONSULTANT. RIGHT? OKAY. WE'VE GOT THE COLUMBUS STREET PROJECT. OH, NO, THAT WAS THE MISTAKE. 
          SORRY, THAT WAS AN ERROR. OKAY. IS THERE ANYTHING ELSE? THEY ACTUALLY DO? THERE WAS SOMETHING THAT WAS COME UP A LOT LATELY FOR THE REPLACEMENT OF ORIGINAL WOOD DOORS. SO WE JUST NEED TO WE NEED TO START THINKING ABOUT REPLACEMENT MATERIALS BECAUSE WE'VE HAD IN THE LAST MONTH, OBVIOUSLY, EVERYONE COMES WITH THERE'S HUMIDITY, HEAT, RAIN, AND EVERYONE'S WOOD DOORS SWELLING UP AND HURRICANE SEASON. AND THEN THE SAME THING HAPPENS WITH A LOT OF THE ROOF TILE CONDITIONS. WHY ARE YOU MAKING ME DO LESS TILE OR THE BARREL TILE AND IT COSTS DOUBLE. AND WHAT ARE YOU DOING TO US? YOU DON'T WANT PEOPLE TO LIVE IN THIS NEIGHBORHOOD AND YOU'RE TRYING TO KICK OUT THE I'VE GOT WE GOT I WAS THREATENED WITH I'M TRYING TO KICK OUT THE ELDERLY FROM THEIR HOMES FOR REQUIRING A TWO PIECE BARREL TILE. SO I JUST WANT YOU ALL TO KNOW THE EFFORTS THAT STAFF PUTS IN TO JUST GET THROUGH A ROOF REPLACEMENT PERMIT SOMETIMES. AND THE SAME THING IS GOING TO HAPPEN. WE WE GET LESS PUSHBACK FOR THE FRONT DOORS, BUT AND USUALLY THEY'RE ABLE TO MAINTAIN THEM BECAUSE AGAIN, IT'S ONE OPENING. EVERYTHING ELSE IS IMPACT. JUST SHUTTER IT, PLEASE. AND THEY KIND OF WORK WITH US. SOME PEOPLE DO NOT WANT TO DO THAT. THEY'RE LOOKING SHOWING US COMPOSITE MATERIALS OR METAL MATERIALS. SO WE'VE MADE SOME MISTAKES. I WILL SAY I MADE ONE MISTAKE THAT I CAN HAVE. NO, NOW I WOULD NOT EVER APPROVE AGAIN, BUT UNFORTUNATELY IT EXISTS. LUCKILY, IN A RECESSED PORCH CONDITION. PLEASE. THERE ARE STREETS I CAN'T DRIVE DOWN BECAUSE OF THE ADMINISTRATIVE. YOU KNOW YOU HAVE TO. WE HAVE TO GIVE THEM THE OPPORTUNITY. 
          AND IT WAS ONE THAT NOW I KNOW, AND I'VE SAID IT IN THE EMAIL BACK TO THEM AFTER THE FINAL INSPECTION. I WOULD NEVER APPROVE THIS PRODUCT AGAIN. WHAT WAS THE MATERIAL? ANNA. 
          JUST OUT OF CURIOSITY, IT WAS AN ALUMINUM DOOR. IT WAS A YEAH. IMPACT DOOR. YEAH. SO JUST KEEP THAT IN MIND. AS YOU KNOW, I KNOW THERE WAS A DESIGN. THE SHIPPO HAD A, A CLG TRAINING THE OTHER DAY ABOUT SECRETARY OF INTERIOR STANDARDS, REPLACEMENT MATERIALS, APPROPRIATE CHANGES TO BUILDINGS, THINGS LIKE THAT. SO I KNOW THAT WE SENT YOU THE LINK. I THINK THEY SHARE THE POWERPOINT AFTERWARDS. WE'RE HAPPY TO DO THAT TOO. AND I'LL TRY TO INCLUDE YOU ALL IN THOSE CLG TRAININGS BECAUSE AS BOARD MEMBERS, YOU ARE INVITED TO ATTEND. YEAH, WE WE RECEIVED ALL THOSE NOTICES. IS THERE ANY UPDATE ON THE CITY HALL? CITY HALL IS PROGRESSING RIGHT NOW. THEY ARE AT 75% CONSTRUCTION DOCUMENTS WORKING ON THE 100% FOR, I THINK THIS WEEK OR NEXT WEEK. THEY'RE PUT MOVING FORWARD WITH THE INVENTORY AND THE RELOCATION OF ALL THE HISTORIC FURNITURE AND ALL THE ITEMS THAT ARE BEING CATEGORIZED, CATALOGED IN ORDER TO COME BACK TO CITY HALL. SO THAT SHOULD BE THAT MOVE SHOULD HAPPEN, HOPEFULLY NEXT WEEK. THERE WAS A CHANGE IN THE PROCUREMENT STUFF THAT WE HAD TO DO TO IN ORDER TO GET THE RIGHT COMPANY AND THE CONTRACT FOR THREE YEARS, AND THEN THEY'LL BE PERMITS AND HOPEFULLY WORK STARTING BY FALL, TRULY STARTING. THERE'S BEEN INVESTIGATIVE WORK HAPPENING OVER TIME, AND THEN IT'S GOT TO GO OUT. HAS THERE BEEN ANY THOUGHT TO PRESERVING WINDOWS IN STORAGE? IN OTHER WORDS, IN WHERE DON'T GET ME STARTED ON OH, IN OTHER WORDS, SAVING WINDOWS AND STORING THEM OR GIVING THEM TO THE HISTORIC MUSEUM OR SOMETHING ELSE, AT LEAST ONE OF EACH KIND, I'M SURE THAT WE CAN FIGURE OUT MAYBE ONE THAT CAN BE PROPERLY RESTORED AND SAVED AS MORE THAN WE CAN FIGURE SOMETHING OUT SO 
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THAT WE'VE GOT PROFILES AND THINGS LIKE THAT. SO WHEN WHEN THE STEEL RUSTS OUT, WHICH IT WILL, I DON'T CARE WHAT KIND OF COATING YOU'VE GOT ON IT. WE CAN REPLACE THE WINDOWS AS THEY SHOULD BE. AND THE FRONT DOORS, WHAT'S HAPPENING WITH THE FRONT DOORS? THE FRONT DOORS ARE RIGHT NOW BEING PROPOSED TO BE REPLACED WITH IMPACT RATED WOOD PRODUCT. OH MY GOD. YOU KNOW, YOU KNOW, THERE'S AN ARGUMENT THAT I HAD WITH PEOPLE WHEN THEY WOULD COME IN AND, AND SAY THAT THEY WANTED TO REPLACE THEIR FRONT DOORS OR SOMETHING VERY ELEGANT ABOUT AN INSWINGING DOOR, I CAN'T REMEMBER IN CITY HALL, BUT IN RESIDENTIAL, YOU KNOW, THERE'S SOMETHING YOU'RE NOT SMACKING SOMEONE WITH THE DOOR ABOUT TO ENTER YOUR HOME. COMING IN. 
          WHEN I LIVED ON SANTA MARIA STREET, THAT DOOR SWUNG IN. IT WAS SO COOL. YOU KNOW, NOW I'M IN A TOWNHOUSE THAT I ABSOLUTELY LOVE, BUT. BUT IT SWINGS OUT ONTO THIS LITTLE AREA THAT I HAVE TO FIGURE OUT HOW TO GET THE GROCERIES IN OR WHATEVER IF I'M COMING IN. AND SO IT'S, IT'S A HUGE IT ISN'T JUST THE MATERIALS, IT'S, IT'S THE ACTUAL ENTRY, YOU KNOW, FEELING THAT YOU HAVE. I, I'VE PUSHED MULTIPLE TIMES BECAUSE THE DOORS ARE, HAVE KIND OF BEEN SECOND IN CONVERSATION. THE FOCUS IS REALLY STILL IS STILL THE WINDOWS AND THE DETAILS OF THOSE WINDOWS. AND I, I WILL CONTINUE TO SAY THAT I THINK THAT WE CAN SHUTTER THOSE SIX DOOR OPENINGS THAT THERE ARE, BECAUSE THERE'S NOT THAT MANY DOOR OPENINGS ACTUALLY ON THE EXTERIOR OF THE BUILDING. SO I WILL CONTINUE. AND THEY'RE VERY ACCESSIBLE RIGHT THERE, RIGHT? THEY'RE VERY ACCESSIBLE. THE ARGUMENT AGAINST NOT NOT PUTTING THE SHUTTERS WAS ALL THE LABOR THAT IT TAKES. YES, EXACTLY LIKE THIS. THIS IS A DIFFERENT. YEAH. AND YOU COULD DO THE KEVLAR SCREENINGS. YOU DON'T HAVE TO DO THE BIG METAL PANELS. THERE'S WAYS TO THERE'S OPTIONS OUT THERE. NOW, AM I ABLE TO MAKE A MOTION TO ENCOURAGE THE CITY TO KEEP THE ORIGINAL DOORS ON ON? I KNOW I'M GETTING GLARED AT. YOU CAN MAKE THAT RECOMMENDATION IN THE MINUTES TO ENCOURAGE THE THE THE CITY TO KEEP THE ORIGINAL EXTERIOR DOORS IN CITY HALL. 
          YES. AND AND RESTORE THEM, NOT JUST THE ONES ON THE FIRST FLOOR BECAUSE THERE'S A THAT WHOLE BALCONY. YEAH. THOSE ARE THE OTHER THERE'S FOUR EXTERIOR DOORS SHOULD BE KEPT, RETAINED AND RESTORED. HOW ABOUT HOW ABOUT SOMETHING LIKE RETAIN, RESTORE REUSE IN SUITS IN SITU AND PROVIDE HURRICANE PROTECTION? IN ADDITION, I THINK THEY'LL PROVIDE HURRICANE PROTECTION REGARDLESS. AND THEY'LL SAY SEAL THE BUILDING. YES. ANYWAY, I'M. I'M WHAT? WHATEVER YOU WANT. OKAY. WE'VE GOT A MOTION ON THE TABLE, FOLKS. I'LL SECOND THAT MOTION. 
          WE HAVE A SECOND BY MR. SILVA. WOULD YOU CALL THE ROLL, PLEASE? MISS ALVAREZ? YES. MR. SILVA. 
          YES. MISS ROLANDO. YES. MISS SPAIN. YES. MISS EBBERT. YES. MR. MAXWELL. ABSOLUTELY. 
          OCTOBER. I'M HOPING. ANYWAY, WE'RE OFF THE RECORD NOW. OKAY. ARE THERE ANY CITY COMMISSION 
          [XI. CITY COMMISSION ITEMS]
ITEMS, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, DO WE NEED OTHER THAN THAT, THAT MOTION THERE, WHICH WILL GO TO THE CITY COMMISSION, I BELIEVE. IF SO, THAT'S MY UNDERSTANDING. IS THE RECORD JUST A RECOMMENDATION TO BE INCLUDED IN THE MINUTES? IF IT'S REQUESTING ACTION FROM THE CITY COMMISSION, THEN IF THAT'S WHAT YOUR REQUEST IS, WE WOULD PUT THAT ON AS REQUESTING ACTION. I DIDN'T UNDERSTAND IT THAT WAY, BUT IF IT IS, WE CAN CERTAINLY BE PRESENTED TO THE CITY MANAGER. AND IF YOU WANT IT TO GO BEFORE THE BOARD TO COMMISSION, THEN THAT'S A DIFFERENT PROCESS. SOMEONE WOULD HAVE TO ATTEND THE COMMISSION MEETING TO PRESENT THAT TO THEM. YEAH. SO THE ITEMS THAT GO ON THE COMMISSION ARE ITEMS REQUESTING ACTION FROM THE CITY COMMISSION. I UNDERSTOOD THIS AS A RECOMMENDATION TO STAFF, BUT HOWEVER YOU ALL WOULD LIKE TO PHRASE IT AS IS HOW WE WILL DEAL WITH IT. I MEANT IT TO BE FOR STAFF. UNDERSTOOD. WE ACTUALLY ARE MEETING BEFORE OUR NEXT COMMISSION MEETING. WE DON'T MEET UNTIL LATE AUGUST. SO YEAH. SO I COULD COME BACK TO YOU WITH ANY FEEDBACK. IS THERE ANY TIME SENSITIVE? WHEN ARE THEY WHEN ARE THEY MAKING THAT DECISION FOR THE DOORS AND WINDOWS? YEAH, I MEAN, NOT FOR THE WINDOWS THAT'S ALREADY PASSED. I, I DON'T KNOW IF THERE'S A TIME LINE FOR THAT, BUT WE DON'T THEY HAVEN'T EVEN WE'VE BEEN SO FOCUSED, THEY'VE BEEN SO FOCUSED ON THE DETAILS OF THE WINDOWS AND HOW TO GET THOSE PROFILES RIGHT, THAT THE DOOR PRODUCT HAS KIND OF BEEN SECONDARY TO IT. BUT THE IDEA WAS THAT THE NEW PROPOSAL WAS ALWAYS GOING TO BE A WOOD PRODUCT THAT WAS IMPACT RATED. ARE THERE ANY OTHER DISCUSSION 
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ITEMS BOARD ANYTHING ELSE THAT YOU WISH TO DISCUSS, THRASH AROUND OR BE FUTILE WITH? IF NOT, WE'LL CALL FOR ADJOURNMENT. DO I HAVE A MOTION? SO
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