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The Hollywood City Commission met at City Hall on Wednesday, October 7, 2026, beginning at 1:00 PM. The available transcript resumes at 9:23 PM and runs past 4:00 AM on October 8, so the recorded portion focuses on the last two agenda items. The Commission approved the amended and restated 1301 South Ocean Drive comprehensive/ground lease agreements by a 5-2 vote and approved the related Live Local Act GU zoning parameters by a 6-1 vote.
Thank you all. We are uh resuming our city commission meeting today, October 7, and it is a little bit past uh 923 p.m. Uh we have two items left on our uh agenda besides any comments by the city commission city attorney and city manager afterwards. Uh but for now we have items 29 and 30. Uh item thirty is a quasi-judicial item, but item twenty-nine is not. Item twenty-nine is a resolution of the city commission city of Hollywood approving and authorizing the appropriate city officials to execute the amended and restated comprehensive agreement, an amended and restated ground lease agreement for the development of public and private facilities at 1301 South Ocean Drive between the City of Hollywood and PRH 1301 South Ocean Drive LLC, authorizing the city manager and city attorney to take all actions necessary and proper to effectuate this resolution providing for conflict severality and an effective date. This of course came through our effort through the Office of Communications Marketing and Economic Development some many years ago. Um as to this particular item, uh commission will note that there is uh an updated um corrected um package on our uh dais here for item 29 that uh inserts some additional uh language and I'm sure staff will go through that a little bit uh as they update things. And Pat is distributing an additional document. Let's go ahead and wait for that. Mayor, the item uh that was distributed is the amended and restated ground lease agreement uh with some adjustments since the uh agenda was published. Uh Lisa Leota is going to take you all through those. Uh our our development officer in CMED. Um and uh what is being handed out is uh a few uh additional uh adjustments to the comprehensive agreement. Okay. All right, well you'll go also take you through those. So please, City Manager, go ahead and continue um and uh and into uh the staff presentation on the resolution. Absolutely. So as uh the commission uh will recall uh in March of 2022, you all approved a comprehensive agreement um with PRH 1301. Um an affiliate of the related group. Um and you also as part of that approved an exhibit that was a ground lease, um, and this was for the development uh related to a public-private partnership at 1301 South Ocean Drive, inclusive of a uh private uh condominium development, a uh a a new park area, a additional public parking, and a new community center uh to replace the existing community center. Uh in May uh of this year, you um adopted a amendment, the first amendment to the comprehensive agreement that added in additional uh workforce units utilizing the Live Local Act, and uh tonight you are uh and at that time we let you know uh that we would be bringing back a comprehensive agreement update, a ground lease update uh to uh coordinate all of the First Amendment changes and the new uh uh baseline design uh into the final agreements. And so that is what is before you tonight with item 29. And with that, I'm going to turn it over to Lisa Leota, who has a presentation for you detailing the adjustments. We also have Steve Zelkowitz, he is our outside counsel that has been advising staff on this. Thank you. Okay. For the record, my name is Lisa Leota, I'm the development officer for the City of Hollywood. I'm here before you today to present the amended and restated comprehensive agreement and amended and restated grounds lease agreement between the City of Hollywood and PRH 1301 South Ocean Drive LLC. As our city manager mentioned, there was an edited version of the document submitted to you today. And before going into the presentation, I'm going to briefly outline what was included in that edited document. That's the grounds lease. So the new grounds lease that you received today adds the sculpture park access easement, changes ownership of the sculpture park from landlord to tenant, adds detailed requirements for the sculpture park access easement, including recording public access priority over leasehold mortgages and the inclusion in the condominium declaration. It adds the landlord is not required to pay the tenant, the landlord being the city, the tenant being the developer, or the condominium association a share of costs associated with operating and the maintenance of the additional 79 parking spaces in the garage. It excludes the city spaces, which are the 79 spaces, sculpture park, and public facilities from the category of project areas for which users must pay the condominium association a share of maintenance expenses. I'm sorry for being redundant, and it replaces the three-year professional liability insurance extension with an obligation to continue that insurance extension for seven years. And it replaces the generic bid proposal insurance language with lease specific requirements. So and that is the language at the very end of the insurance requirements. We made them more specific to the lease. Just now.065. Following the receipt of that proposal on June 23rd, 2020, the city published a public notice of its intent to receive, review, and evaluate competing proposals for the same project purpose. On September 28, 2020, the developer enhanced its proposal and submitted a timely response to the solicitation. Then on February 18th, 2021, the city selection committee completed its evaluation and determined that the developer's proposal best met the objective outlined in the notice. The committee therefore recommended that the developer be designated as the winning proposer. Continuing the project history on March 17th, the City Commission, March 17th, 2021.