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Lucia Dougherty
(305)579-0603
April 29, 1997
Mr. Ed Marquez
City Manager
City of Miami
444 S.W. 20d Avenue
Miami, Florida 33130
Re: Outdoor Advertising Signs in the City of Miami within 600 Feet of Limited
Access Highways
Dear Mr. Marquez,
Please place the above referenced matter on the City Commission agenda of May 22,.1997
as a personal appearance by me to discuss this matter.
By way of background, in 1995, Ordinance No. 9993 amended Zoning Ordinance No. 9500
to provide that outdoor advertising signs would be permitted within 600 feet of the westerly side of
I-95 or other expressways westerly of I-95 to a maximum height of 65 feet, spaced 1,500 feet apart
and facing the expressway.
By Motion 85-540, May 23, 1985, the City Commission requested the Planning
Department to initiate the requisite amendments limiting the number of said outdoor advertising
signs to ten (10), reducing the eligible width from 600 feet to 200 feet and prohibiting such signs
east of I-95 (see Attachment A). Ordinance No: 10037 adopted September 12, 1985 incorporated
these amendments. Nine (9) signs were subsequently permitted and erected.
At the City Commission meeting of March 13, 1987, the Commission heard a proposal for
a tenth (10te) sign. Following the discussion, a motion was made and passed which limited the
number of signs in the City of Miami to nine (9). Subsequently, Ordinance No. 10360 amended
Zoning Ordinance No.9600 to delete the tenth (W) sign in favor of allowing only nine (9) signs to
be erected in the City of Miami (see Attachment B).
In 1990 with the adoption of the new Comprehensive Zoning Ordinance 11000, all
legislation pertaining to the existing permitted nine (9) outdoor advertising signs was deleted (see
Attachment Q. Therefore, all nine (9) existing signs become non -conforming uses. This action
was taken without the input or knowledge of the advertising industry. It is now requested that the
GREENBERG TRAURIG HOFFMAN LIPOFF ROSEN & QUENTEL, P.A.
1221 BRICKELL AVENUE MIAMI, FLORIDA 33131 305-579-0500 FAX 305-579-0717
MIAMI NEW YORK WASHINGTON, D.C.
FORT LAUDERDALE WEST PALM BEACH TALLAHASSEE ORLANDO J 7 - 378
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Mr. Ed Marquez
April 29, 1997
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City Commission reenact the legislation to permit these existing nine (9) signs, and also to permit a
tenth (10'b) sign that was contemplated by Ordinance No. 10037.
Thank you very much for consideration of this matter.
Sincerely,
Lucia Dougherty
I cc: Mr. Andy Hancock
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ATTACHMENT A
EXCERPT FROM ZONING ORDINANCE 9500, AS
AMENDED BY ORDINANCES 9993 AND 10037 1N 19
ZONING
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2026-IL Structural members of signs required to be concealed or otherwise made visually
anobtrauis�
Structural members of all signs, including supports, shall be covered, painted, and/or
designed in such a manner as to be visually unobtrusive.
=6.1"t Bsserved
= 1tk Outdoor ad&vWAV signs,
Signs used in the conduct of the outdoor advertising business shall be regulated and
restricted as follows in districts in which they are permitted:
202615.1. Limitations on eign areq including embellishments; limitations on projections
of embellishm,enta The area of an outdoor advertising. sign shall not exceed seven
hundred fifty (760) square feet, for each surface, including embellishments, if any
(with sign and embellishment area measured as provided at section 2025.1.3. "Area
Of sigas'l.
Total area of embellishments, including portions falling within or superimposed on
the general display area, shall not exceed one hundred (100) square feet.
No embellishment shall extend • pure than five (5). feet above the top of the sign
structure, or'two (2) feet beyond the sides or below the bottom of the sign structure.
Embellishments shall be included in any limitations affecting minimum clearance or
maximum height of signs, permitted projections, or distance from any structure or lot
or street line.
2106.15.2. Limitations on location" orientation, spacing, heigh4 type and embellishments
of outdoor advertising signs in relation to limited access highways and expressways.
Except as otherwise provided in section 2026.15.1, outdoor advertising signs may be
erected, constructed, altered, maintained or relocated within six hundred (600) feet of
any limited access highway including expressways as established by the State of
Florida or any of its political subdivisions, provided that such sign faces are parallel
to or at an angle of not greater than thirty (30) degrees with the cente* Iine of any
such limited sccess highway and faced away from such highway.
2026.15.2.1. No outdoor advertising sign which faces any such limited access high-
way to a greater degree than permitted in 2026.15.2 shall be erected, construct-
ed, altered, maintained or relocated within six hundred (600) feet of any such
highways, including expressways, easterly of 1.95. Outdoor advertising signs, a
maximum of ten (10) in number which face such limited access highways, may be
erected, constructed. altered, maintained or relocated within twQ hundrP i (200)
feet of the westerly side c' 15 right-of-way lines, or of any IimitMl access
highway including exprew westerly of I.95, as established by the State of
Florida or any of its pol' .1 subdivisions, after city commission apprr i-1 utiliz-
ing standards and review procedures for special exceptions, and subject to the
following Condit;n-•s:
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ATTACHMENT B
f EXCERPT 1'R0M ZONING ORDINANCE 9500, A;
r AMENDED BY ORDINANCE 10360 IN 1987.
• 70I1ING 12026
.202611. Structural members of signs required to be concealed or otherwise made visually
c�nobtrusit►c
Structural members of all signs, including supports, shall be covered, painted, and/or
designed in such a manner as to be vku�Ay unobtrusive.
=&I& Outdoor advat s4 signs.
Signs used in the conduct of the outdoor advertising business shall be regulated and
rutricted as follows in districts in which they are permitted:
2026.15.1. Limitations on sign area, including embellishments, limitations on proections
of embellishment& The area of an outdoor advertising sign shall not exceed seven
hundred fifty (750) square feet, for each surface, including embellishments, if any
(with sign and embellishment area measured as provided at section 2025.1.3, "Area
of signs").
Total area of embellishments, including portions falling within or superimposed on
the general display area, shall not exceed one hundred (100) square feet.
No embellishment shall extend more than five (5) feet above the top of the sign
structure, okw.o (2) feet beyond the sides or below the bottom of the sign structure.
Embellishments shall be included ;n any limitations affecting minimum clearance or
maximum height of signs, permitted projections, or distance from any structure or lot
or street line.
202615.2. Limitations on location, orientation, spacing, height, type and embellishments
of outdoor advertising signs in relation to limited access highways and expressway&
Except as otherwise provided in section 2026.15.1, outdoor advertising signs may be
erected, constructed, altered, maintained or relocated within six hundred sixty (660)
feet of any Iimited access highway including expressways as established by the State
of Florida or any of its political subdivisions, provided that such sign faces are
parallel to or at an angle of not greater than thirty (30) degrees with the c4nter line of
any such limited access highway and faced away from such highway.
2026.15.2.1. No outdoor advertising sign which faces any such limited access high-
way to a greater degree than permitted in 2026.25.2 shall be erected, construct-
ed, altered, maintained or relocated within six hundred sixty (660) feet of any
such highways, including expressways, easterly of I-95. Outdoor advertising
signs, a maximum of nine (9) in number which face such limited access high-
ways, may be erg cted, constructed, altered, maintained or relocated within two
hundred (200) feet of the westerly aide of 1-95 right-of-way lines, or of any limited
access highway including expressways westerly of 1.95, as established by the
State of Florida or any of its political subdivisions, after city conur ;^won ap-
proval utilizing stanlards and review procedures for special excepwuns, and
subject to the following conditions:
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ZONING
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EXCERPT FROM ZONING ORDINACNE 11000, A
•(PRESENT)
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otherwise lawful, such signs may be replaced by current advertising material. If
nonconforming, such sigrui shall not be replaced.
06.11. Structural members of signs required to be concealed or otherwise made visually un-
Structural members of all signs, including supports, shall be covered, painted, and/or
dWSD d in such a manner as to be visually unobtrusive,
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X&15. Outdoor advxrtising signs.
Signs used in the conduct of the outdoor advertising business shall be regulated and
»trilled as follows in districts in which they are permitted:
026.15.1. Limitations on sign area, includiing embellishments, limitations on projections of
embellishments. The area of an outdoor advertising sign shall not exceed seven hun-
dred fifty (750) square feet, for each surface, including embellishments, if any (with
sign and embellishment area as defied at section 2502).
Total area of embellishments, including portions falling within or superimposed on
the general display area, shall not exceed one hundred (100) square feet.
No embellishment shall extend more than five (5) feet above the top of the sign
structure, or two (2) fleet beyond the sides or below the bottom of the sign structure.
Embellishments shall be included in any •limitations affecting minimum clearance or
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maximum height of signs, permitted projections, or distance from any structure or lot
or street line.
92615.2. Limitations on location, orientation, spacing, height, type and embellishments of
} - outdoor advertising signs in relation to limited access highways and expressways.
Except as otherwise provided in section 926.15.1, outdoor advertising signs may be
erected, constructed, altered, maintained or relocated within six hundred sixty (660)
feet but no nearer than two hundred (200) feet of any limited access highway in-
cluding expressways as established by the State of Florida or any of its political
subdivisions, provided that such sign faces are parallel to or at an angle of not greater
than thirty (30) degrees with the centerline of any such limited access highway and
faced away from such highway; subject to the height limitation in the zoning district.
92615.5. Limitations on spacing of outdoor advertising signs in relation to federal -aid
primary highway systems. Outdoor advertising signs shall be spaced a minimum of
one thousand (1,000) feet from another sign, or an approved location, on the same side
of a federal -aid primary highway.
926.15.4. Landscaping. All outdoor advertising sites shall be appropriately landscaped as
follows: One (1) shade tree for the'first five hundred 15011 square feet of site area and
one (1) side shade tree for each additional one thousand (1.000) square feet or portion
thereof of site area; the remainder of tho site area shall be landscaped with equal
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