The Miami Beach-based development group is asking the Miami Beach Design Review Board to approve the 15.38-acre, 140-unit phased-development project, which would clear the project for the construction-permitting stage. But appointed members of the community board could not reach a consensus on the project's architectural design at a recent public meeting.

"They continued it because they wanted the architect to explore ways to improve the view," Thomas R. Mooney, the Miami Beach Planning Department's manager of design and preservation, tells GlobeSt.com.

An employee of the development group referred all inquiries about the proposed project to the firm's public relations agency, where a spokesperson argued there is nothing newsworthy about the project except to say it is no longer internally labeled as the Hazelwoods Apartments.