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Revised Comments on Amendments to Miami 21, Second Reading, October
22, 2009
Barbara K. Bisno, Esq.
Dear Commissioners, City Manager, Mayor, and Department of Planning:
The administration has advised that NET offices will remain in 10
districts with two employees each plus V2 time of a NET administrator.
We have been assured that the notice requirements will be thus be met
and that the Planning Department will assume if the system requires.
Further, these comments are intended to advise the Commissioners and
others of the inclusion or lack thereof in the most recent draft of Miami 21 of
the amendments submitted by me at first reading on September 4, 2009 (see
attached), and approved by the City Commission at that time:
1) Amendment to exhaustion of administrative remedies
provision in several provisions 17.1.2.3, 7.1.2.4, 7.1.2.8,
7.1.2.7
In my mind, this provision is the most crucial impediment to
the residents' due process and ability to object to zoning
changes. When I began this opposition, there was little
traction and therefore I proposed a provision which was
adopted on first reading by the City Commission and not
incorporated in the document submitted for second readin
which essentially tried to state that any appellant could stand
in the shoes of anyone from the neighborhood who was of
record at the PZAB hearing.
At this point, based on the White Papers and additional
resident opposition, I respectfully suggest that the exhaustion
of administrative remedies be stricken in its entirety and have