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Home My WebLink AboutO-12560City of Miami Legislation Ordinance: 12560 City Hall 3500 Pan American Drive Miami, FL 33133 www.miamigov.com File Number: 04-00390 Final Action Date: 6/24/2004 AN ORDINANCE OF THE MIAMI CITY COMMISSION, ORDINANCE NO. 11000, AS AMENDED, THE ZONING ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF MIAMI, FLORIDA, BY AMENDING ARTICLE 6 SPECIAL DISTRICTS, MORE SPECIFICALLY SECTIONS 614, 623 AND 625 IN ORDER TO MODIFY LANGUAGE PERTAINING TO PARKING REQUIREMENTS IN ORDER TO ALLOW FOR CERTAIN CONDITIONAL REDUCTIONS; CONTAINING A REPEALER PROVISION AND A SEVERABILITY CLAUSE; AND PROVIDING FOR AN EFFECTIVE DATE. WHEREAS, the Miami Planning Advisory Board, at its meeting of March 31, 2004, Item No. 4, following an advertised hearing, adopted Resolution No. PAB 30-04 by a vote of eight to zero (8- 0), RECOMMENDING APPROVAL of amending Zoning Ordinance No. 11000 as hereinafter set forth; and WHEREAS, the City Commission desires to modify the parking requirements in the Latin Quarter, Coral Way and SW 8th Street areas; and WHEREAS, the City Commission after careful consideration of this matter deems it advisable and in the best interest of the general welfare of the City of Miami and its inhabitants to amend Ordinance No. 11000 as hereinafter set forth; NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF MIAMI, FLORIDA: Section 1. The recitals and findings contained in the Preamble to this Ordinance are adopted by reference and incorporated as if fully set forth in this Section. Section 2. Ordinance No. 11000, as amended, the Zoning Ordinance of the City of Miami, Florida, is amended by amending the text of said Ordinance as follows: {1} "ARTICLE 6. SPECIAL ZONING DISTRICTS Sec. 614. SD-14, 14.1: Latin Quarter Commercial -Residential and Residential Districts. * 614.3.7. Offstreet parking and loading. 614.3.7.1. SD-14 offstreet parking and loading. Except as established for R-3 and C-1 districts, City of Miami Page 1 of 4 File Id: 04-00390 (Version: 1) Printed On: 9/19/2016 File Number: 04-00390 Enactment Number: 12560 minimum offstreet parking and loading requirements shall be as indicated for the particular use. In addition, the following provisions or limitations shall apply: 1. Reductions in overall nonresidential parking of up to 10% may be granted pursuant to a Class II Special Permit if metered parking is located along any street frontage adjacent to the proposed establishment. 2. 100% of nonresidential parking may be located offsite, pursuant to a Class II Special Permit, as long as such parking is located no more than one thousand (1000) feet from the subject establishment to be served by such parking; the 1000-foot distance limitation is to be measured from the nearest point of the subject establishment to the nearest point of the property on which the parking is located. In order to locate such parking offsite as described above, a lease for such parking will be required for a minimum of three (3) years. The Class II Special Permit will run for the same time period as the lease and may be renewed upon appropriate lease extensions be granted. Such parking area may be on a surface lot or a garage structure, as long as such spaces are excess and not otherwise required for another use. 1, Location of nonresidential offsite parking shall be permitted as provided in sections 918, 922 and 923, but without any demonstration or required finding as to practical difficulties or unnecessary hardship in providing required parking on the site or the limitation of the number of spaces that maybe located offsite. Offsite required parking for residential uses shall require such demonstration and finding. 3. Offstreet parking requirements for restaurants shall be as follows: A minimum of one (1) parking space for each two hundred (200) square feet of floor area. Where outdoor areas are regularly used as dining areas or for display and sales, the floor area shall be exempt from offstreet parking requirements up to fifty (50) percent of the size of the lot but not more than two thousand (2,000) square feet, whichever is less. In addition, for restaurant/food service establishments, as adaptive re -use of an existing structure, any square footage utilized for kitchen and/or storage areas will not be counted towards parking requirements. Parking structures on top of the portales shall be fenestrated and properly screened from street views. 4-5. No offstreet parking or loading areas shall be permitted between any front portion of a building and the front line of a lot adjoining a pedestrian street. 614.3.7.2. Maximum distance limitations. The maximum distance from a -principal entrance of any offsite parking shall not exceed nine hundred (900) feet, with distance measured by shortest pedestrian routes. Reserved. 614.3.7.3. Special consideration on vehicular access to property, parking structures. Offstreet parking structures either shall be underground or if above ground shall be designed to provide a minimal visual impact, well integrated with the principal structures and appropriately screened from exterior views. Yards adjacent to pedestrian -oriented streets may be crossed by driveways equal in maximum width to ten (10) feet for one-way traffic and twenty (20) feet in total for two-way traffic. City of Miami Page 2 of 4 File Id: 04-00390 (Version: 1) Printed On: 9/19/2016 File Number: 04-00390 Enactment Number: 12560 The upper surface of underground parking structures shall not exceed a height of three and five -tenths (3.5) feet above the average grade of the abutting public sidewalk. Sec. 623. SD-23 Coral Way Special Overlay District. * Sec. 623.8. Limitations on signs. See Article 10 for sign regulations and limitations. Sec. 623.9. Parking. Parking requirements shall be as for the underlying district, except as follows: 1. Reductions in overall nonresidential parking of up to 10% may be granted pursuant to a Class II Special Permit if metered parking is located along any street frontage adjacent to the proposed establishment. 2. 100% of nonresidential parking may be located offsite, pursuant to a Class II Special Permit, as long as such parking is located no more than one thousand (1000) feet from the subject establishment to be served by such parking; the 1000-foot distance limitation is to be measured from the nearest point of the subject establishment to the nearest point of the property on which the parking is located. In order to locate such parking offsite as described above, a lease for such parking will be required for a minimum of three (3) years. The Class II Special Permit will run for the same time period as the lease and may be renewed upon appropriate lease extensions be granted. Such parking area may be on a surface lot or a garage structure, as long as such spaces are excess and not otherwise required for another use. 3. For restaurant/food service establishments, as adaptive re -use of an existing structure, any square footage utilized for kitchen and/or storage areas will not be counted towards parking requirements. * Sec. 625. SD-25 SW 8th Street Special Overlay District. * Sec. 625.8. Limitations on signs. See Article 10 for sign regulations and limitations. Sec. 625.9. Parking. Parking requirements shall be as for the underlying district, except as follows: City of Miami Page 3 of 4 File Id: 04-00390 (Version: 1) Printed On: 9/19/2016 File Number: 04-00390 Enactment Number: 12560 1. Reductions in overall nonresidential parking of up to 10% may be granted pursuant to a Class II Special Permit if metered parking is located along any street frontage adjacent to the proposed establishment. 2. 100% of nonresidential parking may be located offsite, pursuant to a Class II Special Permit, as long as such parking is located no more than one thousand (1000) feet from the subject establishment to be served by such parking; the 1000-foot distance limitation is to be measured from the nearest point of the subject establishment to the nearest point of the property on which the parking is located. In order to locate such parking offsite as described above, a lease for such parking will be required for a minimum of three (3) years. The Class II Special Permit will run for the same time period as the lease and may be renewed upon appropriate lease extensions be granted. Such parking area may be on a surface lot or a garage structure, as long as such spaces are excess and not otherwise required for another use. 3. For restaurant/food service establishments, as adaptive re -use of an existing structure, any square footage utilized for kitchen and/or storage areas will not be counted towards parking requirements. Section 3. All ordinances or parts of ordinances insofar as they are inconsistent or in conflict with the provisions of this Ordinance are hereby repealed. Section 4. If any section, part of section, paragraph, clause, phrase or word of this Ordinance is declared invalid, the remaining provisions of this Ordinance shall not be affected. Section 5. This Ordinance shall become effective thirty (30) days after final reading and adoption thereof. {2} Footnotes: {1} Words and/or figures stricken through shall be deleted. Underscored words and/or figures shall be added. The remaining provisions are now in effect and remain unchanged. Asterisks indicate omitted and unchanged material. {2} This Ordinance shall become effective as specified herein unless vetoed by the Mayor within ten days from the date it was passed and adopted. If the Mayor vetoes this Ordinance, it shall become effective immediately upon override of the veto by the City Commission or upon the effective date stated herein, whichever is later. City of Miami Page 4 of 4 File Id: 04-00390 (Version: 1) Printed On: 9/19/2016