HomeMy WebLinkAboutSubmittal-Charles Tavares October 22, 2009Miami, October 21, 2009
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OPEN LETTER TO CITY OF MIAMI COMMISSIONERS
Re:N iami 21's nein ive effects on the Brickell & City Economy
Dear City of Miami Commissioners,
I would like to take this time to please ask you to consider proposing to Miami 21's Planners and the City
of Miami Planning Department, a correction of the current Miami 2I's proposal for the Brickell Area.
As we have seen throughout the last decades, the Brickell Area has been one of the greatest economic and
social contributors of the City, due to its density, intensity and quality of projects, achieved thru Height,
which is one of the various existing entitlements for the vast majority of Properties in the Brickell Area!
With the Current Miami 2I's proposal for the Brickell Area, Miami 21 is limiting and curbing future
sustainable quality mixed use Projects, which would create thousands of temporary and permanent jobs, all
accessible by the best mass public transportation system, without any costs to City of Miami taxpayers,
thus helping the environment and making it a Win Win situation for all of us that truly care for the City.
Brickell is a very Central Urban Core Community and limiting and curbing its future thru limiting heights
from the existing 11.000 Code, will cause irreparable damages to the Community and the City.
Therefore, please propose T6-60 for the whole Brickell Area, as Miami 21 has already proposed T6-80 for
the Downtown Area, so our Community and City can be successful for generations to come and provide
economic growth and sustainability for our City for generations to come and be a World Class City.
Also, we urge the City of Miami Commission to create and apply economic and social policies that will
create the foundation for additional good jobs so it can substitute the jobs once Brickell and Downtown are
built out with T6-60, so our City, like people say, will minimize the `Boon and Boost" of development
cycles, which we have seen throughout the last years in South Florida and across The United States.
Until them, we need to have these conditions on Brickell to create thousands of jobs, needed now, for our
community and its families, so it can attract World Class sustainable projects with thousands of jobs.
We can not tell a father and head of a family that we are curbing development on Brickell so maybe, 20
years from now, someone will implement foundations for another job's industry, while today, there is no
plan for such a reposition of our economy that will provide needed jobs for our Community now!
We need jobs now and these jobs can be created quickly with T6-60 for the Brickell Area, even in these
daring times, as we have seen this year alone, thousands of jobs created within Brickell alone, just in
projects retail businesses alone within Brickell, all accessible by Mass Public Transportation System.
We, the Community, can and shall have more sustainable conditions and this Commission can do it, today!
Please support T6-60 for Brickell, NOW!
Thank you,
Charles Tavares
For Brickell-Bric
www. welovebric
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Priscilla A. Thompson
City Clerk
Unemployment in Nevada, Florida Increases to Record
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By Timothy R. Homan
Oct. 21 (Bloomberg) -- Unemployment rose in 23 U.S. states in September and hit records in
Nevada, Rhode Island and Florida.
Nevada's jobless rate, at 13.3 percent, was the second- highest among U.S. states behind
Michigan, the Labor Department said today in Washington. Unemployment in Rhode Island
reached 13 percent, and Florida's rate climbed to 11 percent, the highest since data began in
1976.
Mounting unemployment is hurting state budgets by cutting tax revenue and boosting benefits
to fired workers. Joblessness nationally will reach 10 percent this quarter, a Bloomberg News
survey of economists showed this month, indicating consumers will probably not lead a
recovery from the recession.
"There is still scant evidence of hiring," said Marisa Di Natale, a director at Moody's
Economy.com in West Chester, Pennsylvania. "We expect the unemployment rate in most
areas to continue rising despite fewer job cuts," she said.
The number of states with at least 10 percent unemployment held at 14 last month. The
jobless rate nationally reached a 26 -year high of 9.8 percent in September, the Labor
Department reported earlier this month.
Unemployment in the District of Columbia also exceeded 10 percent for a fifth consecutive
month, rising to 11.4 percent from 11.1 percent.
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record in connection with
item PZ.5 on 10-22-09
Priscilla A. Thompson
City Clerk
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proper, consistent and sustainable zoning and mapping for the Brickell-Brickell West Are&
As you know, the Bfickel] Area has been one of the largest contributors of tax paym, ents to the City of
Miami, has been one of the Areas that employ the most and it is a vital part of the City and Community,
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Area, with T80 Unlimited 24 FLAR, which also should have been granted to Brickell as well.
As a single example but a clear one, Miami 2 I's planners have devoted 2 1% of the whole Miami 21 Code
to a single Downtown, private owned project, called "Miami World Centee'(95 pages out of 458 for the
entire Miami 21 Code!) and completely neglected and deliberately down zoned the Brickell Area, which
for decades, has been the biggest contributor financially to the City of Miami.
Therefore, I urge you to, based on the facts presented throughout the last 41 months, to properly correct
these aberrations towards the Brickell-Brickell West Community and the whole City of Miami indeed.
These aberrations, if left uncorrected properly, wi I I not only take away property fights, but cause
insurmountable financial liabi-lities to the City of Miami and its taxpayers for generations to come, but will
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Charles Tavares
For Brickell-Brickell West Area
444 Brickell Awonue Suivk-�A — Miarr-�, FIJ3131
www.welovebfickell.com
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Miami 21 Code has a total of 458 pages. Priscilla A. Thompson
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First Bert J. Harris, Jr. Private Property Rights Protection Act Approved by the City
MIAMI (March 11, 2009) - Attorneys Santiago Echemendia and Bob de la Fuente,
partners at Tew Cardenas is full service law firm with offices in Miami, Tallahassee
and Washington D.C., announced today that they have successful resolved a Bert J.
Harris , Jr. Private Property Rights Protection Act claim for $8.135 million against the
City of Coral Gables on behalf of Almeria Row, LLC and Fernando Menoyo. This was
the first Bert, 3 Harris, Jr. Private Property Rights Protection Act settlement approved
by the City of Coral Gables.
On January 9, 2007 the City Commission adopted Ordinances No. 2007-01 and 2007-
03, reducing the permissible height on Almeria Row, LLC's and Fernando Menoyo's
properties, from 45 feet to 35 feet for the first 50 feet of each property, and allowing a
height of 45 feet thereafter. This restriction essentially reduced the height to 35 feet
for the entire property.
Almeria Row, LLC and Fernando Menoyo claimed that the City's adoption of the
Ordinances Inordinately burdened, restricted and limited the properties under the Bert
J. Harris, Jr. Private Property Rights Protection Act, entitling the property owner to
relief in the form of compensation for the loss to the fair market value of the
properties.
The Almeria Row, LLC properties were appraised by Integra Realty Resources, LLC,
the application of the Ordinances was $8.135 million. On January 8, 2008, Almeria
Row, LLC filed a claim for compensation for the said monies pursuant to the Bert 3,
Harris, Jr. Private Property Rights Protection Act,
Echemendia, who chairs the Land Use and Local Government Law group at Tew
Cardenas LLP, and De la Fuente, successfully resolved the claim with the City, with the
City agreeing to reinstate the 4S foot height limit for townhomes on their client's
properties, thereby bringing back the property value that was taken away when the
city reduced the height.
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City of Miami 001
3500 Pan American Way Date November 1st, 2010
Miami, FL 33133
PAY TO THE Charles Tavares $60,900,000.00
ORDER OF
Sixty million nine hundred thousand DOLLARS
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FOR Miami 21
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Submitted into the public
record in connection with
item PZ -5 on 10-22-09
Priscilla A. Thompson
City Clerk