22-unit project at 2101-2111 N 16th Ave

The adjacent property owner described repeated garage flooding and said she wasn't notified of the RAC designation or the applicant's meetings; she cares for a disabled daughter and fears a four-story building overlooking her yard.

A 42-year Shenandoah Street resident said the city has wrecked residential neighborhoods and urged the board to 'vote your conscience' against a building that would overlook backyards and pools.

A 19-year Liberty Street resident described chronic flooding to her front door, existing cut-through traffic, and estimated 44 additional cars from the project on streets not built for it.

She lives directly adjacent with solar panels; she opposed the variance as 'developer convenience, not hardship,' asked who pays for flood damage after construction, and complained a promised TAC meeting never happened.

The father of a four-year-old reported six to eight inches of flooding in his first year, worried about overwhelmed drainage, speeding traffic, and loss of privacy from a transient rental building facing his home.

A 25-year Liberty Street resident blamed a misplaced speed bump for acting as a dam during the April 2023 flood, lost hardwood floors, and said the modern building doesn't fit the 1950s-era neighborhood — 'don't allow this to be built.'

He presented a neighborhood petition, questioned the FEMA elevation and construction-phase flooding, worried about insurance rates, and asked why the RAC boundary extends to the alley rather than stopping at 16th Avenue.

A 37-year Shenandoah Street resident declined to waive quasi-judicial formalities and called the nearby 14-story complex the 'elephant in the room,' saying the quiet neighborhood is being invaded by rentals.

He lives directly adjacent with 44 solar panels, more than half of which would be shaded; he demanded answers on how king and neap tides — which flood him twice a month — will interact with the project's drainage.

A 14-year Shenandoah Street resident said she was never notified of the zoning changes, noted only one-story houses on her street, and asked why a large building is allowed before flooding infrastructure is fixed.

Speaking for the Hollywood Lakes Civic Association, he called the project an 'unintended consequence' of a rezoning carve-out that went too deep, flagged a 5,000-square-foot discrepancy in the staff report, and recommended continuing the item and denying the variance.