HomeMy WebLinkAboutO-09074ORDINANCE NO.-9. -"r 4 'I
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING ORDINANCE NO. 6871,
THE COMPREHENSIVE ZONING ORDINANCE OF THE
CITY OF MIAMI, BY ADDING A NEW ARTICLE
VII-2 - LOW DENSITY TOWNHOUSE R-3B DISTRICT;
BY DELETING SUB -SECTION (91-a), SECTION 2.
ARTICLE 11 IN ITS ENTIRETY AND IN LIEU THERE-
OF ADDING A NEW SUB -SECTION (91-a); BY RE-
PEALING ALL ORDINANCES, CODE SECTIONS, OR
PARTS THEREOF IN CONFLICT, AND CONTAINING A
SEVERABILITY PROVISION,
WHEREAS, the Miami Planning .Advisory Board, at its
meeting of January 16, 1980, Item No. 1(a) following an ad-
vertised hearing adopted Resolution No. PAB 3-80 by a 7 to 0
vote recommending amending Comprehensive Zoning Ordinance 6871,
The Comprehensive Zoning Ordinance of the City of Miami, by
adding a new ARTICLE VII-2 - LOW DENSITY TOWNHOUSE R-3B DISTRICT,
as hereinafter set forth; and
WHEREAS, the Commission deems it advisable and in the best
interest of the City of Miami and its inhabitants to amend said
Ordinance as hereinafter set forth;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COMMISSION OF THE
CITY OF MIAMI, FLORIDA:
Section 1. That Ordinance No. 6871, The Comprehensive
Zoning Ordinance of the City of Miami be and the same is hereby
amended by adding a new ARTICLE VII-2 - LOW DENSITY TOWNHOUSE
R-3B DISTRICT to read as follows:
ARTICLE VII-2 LOW DENSITY TOWNHOUSE R-3B DISTRICT.
INTENT
The intent of the district is to encourage quality
townhouse development on spacious and heavily landscaped sites
that is compatible with surrounding single-family and high -density
multiple -family development.
Section 1. - USE REGULATIONS
No building or structure, or part thereof, shall be
erected, altered or used, or land or water used, in whole,
or in part, for other than one of the following specified uses:
(1) Any use permitted in an R-2 District subject
to the USE, AREA, YARD, HEIGHT, and MINIMUM FLOOR AREA REGULA-
T10NS specified in said District.
(2) Townhouses at a density not in excess of one (1)
dwelling unit for each twenty-four hundred (2400) square feet of
lot area.
(3) USES accessory to the above USES as may be permitted
by other provisions of this Ordinance.
Section 2. - LIMITATIONS ON TOWNHOUSE USE
(1) Except as herein provided, no individual structure
shall exceed a length or width greater than sixty (60) percent the
depth or fifty (50) percent the width, respectively, and in no
instance shall the length or width exceed one hundred (100) feet.
The Urban Development Review Board may approve adjustments in the
aforementioned building lengths and also in the required building
spacing in order to further the intent of the district.
(2) Any outside service and storage areas or facilities
shall be properly screened from view from amy public right-of-way.
(3) An open area at least five (5) feet in width, shall
separate all buildings from other uses of the site such as paved
driveways, paved parking areas and other service areas. This
area shall be maintained in landscaping, walkways, patios, terraces
or similar type usage.
(4) TOWNHOUSES shall be arranged and designed to be
cognizant of the privacy needs of the adjacent yard areas of any
abutting R-1 or R-2 zoning district.
Section 3. AREA
(1) TOWNHOUSE USE
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(a) The minimum lot area shall be ten thousand
(10,000) square feet, and the minimum street frontage shall be
one hundred (100) feet.
Section 4. YARDS
(1) FRONT YARD
( a) Every lot shall have a front yard not less
than twenty (20) feet in depth, unless a greater yard area is
required by a special yard district.
(2) SIDE YARD
(a) Every lot used for townhouse use shall have
side yards with an aggregate width of thirty-six (36) feet, each
of which shall be at least fifteen (15) feet in width for a -
building not exceeding a height of twelve (12) feet. For buildings
exceeding a height of twelve (12) feet each side yard shall be at -
least eighteen (18) feet and shall be increased one (1) foot for
every two (2) feet of permitted building height above twenty-five
(25) feet.
(3) REAR YARD
( a) Every lot shall have a rear yard of not less
than twenty (20) feet in depth for buildings not exceeding twelve
(12) feet in height, twenty-five (25) feet in depth for buildings
above twelve (12) feet but not exceeding twenty-five (25) feet in
height, and thirty (30) feet in depth for buildings above twenty-
five (25) feet but not exceeding thirty (30) feet in height.
(4) USE OF YARD AREAS
(a) Off-street parking and driveways shall not
occupy more than one-half (1/2) the width and area of the required
front yard, and in addition, any walls and/or parking shall be at
least ten (10) feet from the base building line.
(b) A textured wall a minimum of six (6) feet in
height and a maximum of eight (8) feet in height shall be required
= along the rear property line when a rear yard is adjoining an R-1
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or R-2 zoning district and is not treated as a required yard area.
(c) When the rear yard abuts an R-1 or R-2
zoning district, no accessory uses such as swimming pools or other
common recreational facilities, except for parking, shall be lo-
cated within the required rear yard area.
Section 5. HEIGHT
(1) No building or structure, or part thereof, shall be
erected or altered to a height exceeding two (2) stories or twenty-
five (25) feet except where parking is provided under the building,
in which case the height shall not exceed thirty (30) feet.
Section 6. LOT COVERAGE
(1) Except as herein provided, the combined area occupied
by all principal and accessory buildings shall not exceed twenty-
five (25) percent for buildings of a height less than twenty-five
(25) feet and shall not exceed twenty-three (23) percent for
buildings exceeding a height of twenty-five (25) feet.
(2) The Urban Development Review Board may permit lot
coverage adjustments, particularly to allow upper level overhangs
and to accommodate floor area ratio bonuses.
Section 7. FLOOR AREA RATIO
(1) The floor area ratio shall not exceed, except as
herein provided, .50. A floor area ratio bonus of .1 may be
approved by the Urban Development Review Board provided that
seventy-five (75) percent of the required parking is enclosed
- under or within a structure.
Section 8. MINIMUM FLOOR AREA
(a) The minimum floor area for a dwelling unit shall be
one thousand (1,000) square feet.
Section 9. USABLE OPEN SPACE
There shall be provided a minimum of three hundred (300)
square feet of USABLE OPEN SPACE for each dwelling unit erected
upon any site.
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Section 10. LANDSCAPING
(1)A11 ground level usable open space required and/or
provided shall be appropriately landscaped with trees, shrubs,
hedges, or other acceptable landscape material and perpetual
maintenance shall be provided. The Urban Development Review
Board may adjust or require more landscaping than required
herein to further the intent of the district.
(a) A shade or flowering tree shall be provided on
the average of every thirty (30) feet on center along the street
frontage in the ten (10) feet of yard established in Section 4,(4),
(a), above. Trees required herein shall have a minimum height of
fourteen (14) feet and a minimum calipher of four (4) inches.
(b) For other usable open space and/or yard areas pro-
vided, a shade or flowering tree shall be provided on the average
of every fifty (50) feet on center along the width or length of
any usable open space, or for each one thousand (1,000) square
feet of usable open space, whichever requires the greatest number
of trees.
(c) When the rear or side yard is adjacent to an R-1
or R-2 yard area, a five (5) foot landscaped area shall be pro-
vided along the rear property line adjacent to the required wall,
and shall be appropriately landscaped with a minimum of one (1)
shade or flowering tree, 8 to 10 feet in height when planted
for every fifty (50) lineal feet of landscaped area. Other
materials such as hedge and shrubs shall be used to provide a
continuous landscaped treatment the length of the required area.
Section 11.PRELIMINARY DEVELOPMENT PLAN REVIEW
(1) Any development permitted by this ARTICLE shall be
required to have development plan approval by the Urban Develop-
ment Review Board to ascertain that development is in accord with
the intent of the district, and to assure that responsive urban
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considerations have been an integral part of, and are reflected
in, the proposed project. The decision of the Board may be
appealed to the City Commission.
Section 12.OFF-STREET PARKING
(1) Notwithstanding the requirements of ARTICLE XXIII,
two (2) off-street parking spaces are required for each dwelling
unit, unless additional parking is deemed necessary by the Urban
Development Review Board.
Section 2. - That Ordinance No. 6871, the Comprehensive
Zoning Ordinance of the City of Miami be and the same is hereby
amended by deleting sub -section (91-a), Section 2, ARTICLE II, in
its entirety and in lieu thereof add a new sub -section (91-a) to
read as follows:
(91-a) TOWNHOUSE
For the purpose of this Ordinance, a TOWNHOUSE
shall mean a one -family dwelling in series
with a group of three (3) or more such dwellings,
and separated from each other by an adjoining
wall, or walls, as defined by the South Florida
Building Code, without openings through such air
space to be effectively sealed.
Section 3. All ordinances, code sections, or parts thereof
in conflict herewith, insofar as they are in conflict, are hereby
repealed.
Section 4. Should any part or provision of this ordinance
be declared by a court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid,
the same shall not affect the validity of the ordinance as a whole.
PASSED ON FIRST READING BY TITLE ONLY THIS 12thday of
FEBRUARY 1980.
PASSED AND ADOPTED ON SECOND AND FINAL READING THIS 18
day of March , 1980.
MAURICE A. FERRE
ATT: M URI RE, MAYOR
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RALP G. O GIE, CITY CL
PREPARED AND APPROVED BY:
J. CH EL H GOOD
ASSISTANT CITY ATT RNEY
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MIAMI REVIEW
AND DAILY RECORD
Published Daily except Saturday, Sunday Ar.
Legal Holidays
Miami. Dade County, Florida.
STATE OF FLORIDA
COUNTY OF DADE
Before the undersigned authority personally ap-
peared Becky Caskey, who on oath says that she Is the
Assistant Director of Legal Advertising of the Miami
Review and Daily Record, a daily (except Saturday,
Sunday and Legal Holidays) newspaper, published at
Miami in Dade County, Florida; that the attached copy
of advertisement, being a Legal Advertisement or
Notice in the matter of
CITY OF MIAMI
Re: Ordinance No. 9074
in the ............... X X X . Court,
was published in said newspaper in the Issues of
March 26, 1980
Affiant further says that.the said Miami Review
and Daily Record is a newspaper published at Miami, In
said Dade County, Florida, and that the sold newspaper
has heretofore been continuously published in said
Dade County, Florida, each day (except Saturday, Sun.
day and Legal Holidays) and has been entered as
second class mail matter at the post office in Miami, in
said Dade County, Florida, for a period of one year next
preceding the first publication of the attached copy of
advertisement; and affiant further says that she has
neither paid nor promised any person, firm or corpora•
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CITY OF MIAMI.
DADE COUNTY, FLORIDA
LEGAL NOTICE
" All ilitt�`�Tetl w)i) fake notice that on the tf)fh day of March, IM,
the City Commission of Miami, Florida passed and adopted the -
following titled ordinance:
ORDINANCE NO. 907I
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING ORDINANCE NO. 6871, THE
COMPREHENSIVE ZONING ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF
MIAMI, BY ADDING A NEW ARTICLE V11.2- LOW DENSITY
TOWNHOUSE R-3B DISTRICT; BY DELETING SUB-
SECTION (91-a), SECTION 2. ARTICLE 11 IN ITS ENTIRETY
AND IN LIEU THEREOF ADDING A NEW SUB -SECTION
(91-a); BY REPEALING ALL ORDINANCES, CODE
SECTIONS, OR PARTS THEREOF IN CONFLICT, AND
CONTAINING A SEVERABILITY PROVISION.
RALPH ONGIE
nm CITY CLERK
CITY OF MIAMI, FLORIDA j
Publication of this Notice on the 26 day of March 1"0
3126 M80-032603
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(2) Townhouses at a.density not in excess`of one (1)
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dwelling unit'for each 'twenty-four hundred (2400) square feet of
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lot area.
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(3) USES accessory. to the above USES as may be perm t.ted
by other.provisions of this Ordinance..
Section Q. = LIMITATIONSOtJ TOIIC1HOt1SE USF�
(1) No individual s'tructureshall exceed a length
or width greater than sixty (60) percent the depth or fifty
(50) percent the,width,,respectively, and in rig instance shall
the length or width exceed 'one hundred (100) feet. The urban'
T�evelopment Review Bo11 ard may annrove' adjustments',in the aforementioned
building lengths and also in the required building; spacing in order
-to further the intent of the.distri;ct.
(2) Any outside'service and'storage areas or.'facilities
shall be properly screened' from view from any public."r right -of -wait`.
(3) An open area-at..least.fve (5) feet in width,; shall
separate 'all buildings from other uses of ,the site such as Waved'
driveways, raved narking areas and .other. service' areas. This area`
shall be maintained in landscaping;, walkways, ratios, terraces or
similar type usage.
(4) TO�diJiiQUSFS shall be arranged and:': designed to be
cognizant of the . privacy needs ` of the adj acent -vard -areas of `an�
abutting R-1 or R=2 zonina, district.
Section T. ARE
(1) TOWNHOUSE 'USE
(a) The minimum lot area sha11 be ten thousand
(10,000) square feet, and the minimum street frontage shall he, one
hundred feet.
Section G. YARDS
(1) rROIIT YAF.n
(a) Evert/ lot shall have a`front' yard not loss
than` twenty (20) feet; in depth', unless a greater var.d areci is b.
required by a special' vard district.
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