DANIA ENTERTAINMENT CENTER, LLC

CITY OF DANIA BEACH

Agenda Request Item

Type of Request: Presentation

(Adopt Resolution, Adopt Ordinance (1st Reading) Adopt Ordinance (2nd Reading)

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The applicant, Dania Entertainment Center, LLC, is requesting to amend a previously approved Developers Agreement for the construction of a casino, hotel, marina and commercial use on the current Dania Jai Alai site located at 301 East Dania Beach Boulevard.

Description of Action

The applicant is proposing a modification to the existing Developers Agreement with the City of Dania Beach that includes three (3) phases.  These phases include:

PHASE 1

This Phase includes the expansion of the existing Jai Alai building to accommodate casino activity and a cabana club.  Modifications are being made to the landscaping on site.  The applicant is modifying Fronton Boulevard by changing the on-street parking for Frost Park, closing NE 1 Street at Fronton Boulevard and adding median and swale landscape treatments.  Signage is also a component of this phase.  In addition to numerous directory and monument signs, they are proposing three (3) LED signs, similar to the Seminole Hard Rock sign on State Road 7.  These signs are capable of full motion video.  The main sign, located at the corner of East Dania Beach Boulevard and Fronton Boulevard will be thirty (30) feet wide and sixty (60) feet in height.  The remaining two (2) signs are attached and located approximately 400 feet west of Fifth Avenue on East Dania Beach Boulevard. 

PHASE 1a

The addition of a 300-500 room hotel is being added to the site in Phase 1a.  The applicant is representing the hotel as two buildings, but no rendering of the buildings have been provided.  The proposed pool deck is shown to be forty-six (46) feet from the east property line, which is shared with the Danian’s Condominium.  With the hotel, the applicant is proposing modification of the parking area to accommodate a grand tree lined entrance into the site with a round-about at the hotel. 

PHASE 1b

The third phase identifies the construction of a marina and commercial retail on the site of the old tomato field north of NE 2 Avenue.  A seventy-five (75) foot perimeter landscape buffer has been identified adjacent to NE 3 Avenue and a fifty (50) foot perimeter landscape buffer has been identified along NE 2 Street.  However, there has been no dimension identified for the mitigation and surface water management areas on the west side of the property.  In addition, the marina dock and parking lot are only ten (10) feet from the east property line which provides an inadequate area to properly landscape and buffer the uses from the adjacent property. This ten (10) foot setback assumes that applicant will purchase the adjacent church property and include it in the pari-mutuel boundaries.  If this does not occur, the area provided for landscape buffer will be increased in size.

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