Easy and noise that flow into the surrounding neighborhood were the main concerns that Bird Key's residents expressed during a hearing from the planning committee on May 14 on the reconstruction of his clubhouse facilities.
In the planning authority, the Sarasota City Commission's plan was unanimously recommended by employees who adequately addressed these concerns, unanimously the plan for the Sarasota City Commission, which satisfied the club, personnel and architecture company DSDG Architects.
The project is more than a renovation or expansion. It is planned to tear down the existing 22,300 square meter club house and replace it with a 21,500 square meter structure plus 3,500 square foot outside the decks, to replace the pool, to lay two boccy ball courts and add a fourth tennis court with new, modern lighting.
A rendering of DSDG architects of the Bird Key Yacht Club from the water.
The 4.99 hectare site, which is positioned in the middle of the Bird key residences, is a single-family 1-1-1-1 and both the location plan and the main approval permit require the approval of the city commission.
The Vice of the Bird Key Yacht Club, Commodore Tony Britt, said that the tropical weather events in recent years had improved the club's decision to rebuild and not to renovate in order to improve the location plan.
“This process has been available for about four years,” said Britt to the planning authority. “It started as a renovation, and then after more considerations and the assumption that we found that it has been decisive for the island for 65 years, and we intend to keep it for 65 years, since the club has been decisive for 65 years.
Anna Keitel from DSDG Architects informed the planning authority that the new one-story clubhouse would be in the exact footprint of the current facility, but will be raised to meet the fema standards. The addition of underground vaults to reduce the rainwater flow and a new driveway on the East Royal Flamingo Drive will only ensure the exit from the parking lot.
This curb cut visited some residents to add traffic to the East Royal Flamingo Drive and the additional tennis court and the lighting, which to bring noise and light pollution to the residents of the nearby residents.
The 4.99 hectare location of the Bird Key Yacht Club is outlined in green.
Keitel said that the Sarasota County fire brigade requested the new ascent.
“It was easier for them that they were switched off by this route from the location when our new three-foot inclination to take up and leave the current entrance and output that currently exists,” said Keitel.
With regard to light and noise that emerge from the tennis courts, the club has offered luminaires at 9 p.m., a photometric plan has not yet been submitted in the city, but is subjected to code in the building permit level.
The Keitel and the Landscape Architect Phil Smith insured the planning authority the combination of modern, targeted LED lighting, and the landscape buffer plan will contain light and even sound in the court area.
“The foot candles on which they reach the property boundary must be in the neighborhood of 0.2,” said Smith. “The nice thing about the devices now led is that they are so precise that they can cut the light on the property boundary. That is the intention. That is what is expected from the city.”
The scope of the tennis courts will be two layers of landscape design, added Smith, including brush -Areca palms, which are planted at a height of 16 feet and tear up to 30 feet with a spread of 10 to 20 feet. A layer of sawing palm, the fan -shaped fronding, will expand those that can spread 4 to 6 feet.
Britt, who will take over the title Commodore in just one month, said that the club intends to continue to be a good neighbor.
“We see this critical for our long -term success,” said Britt. “We all live there. We all love our little bird key and we love to make sure that everything we do really await those of a good neighbor and what they would expect from every neighbor who lives next to them.”