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COMMUNITY REDEVELOPMENT PLAN
NOVEMBER 2004
Table of Contents for the
South East Overtown — Park West Community Redevelopment Plan
November 2004
Section ONE Introduction
Page 1.2 • This Document
1.2 • Topics Frequently Asked from Neighborhood Stakeholders
1.2 • Historical Context
Page 1.3 • 21st Century Context
Page 1.5 • The Potential: A Livable City
1.5 • CRA History
Page 1.6 • Revised Boundaries
1.6 • Revisions from the Original CRA Redevelopment Plan
Page 1.7 • Findings of Necessity
Page 1.9 • Legal Description
Section TWO
Page 2.2
Page 2.4
Goals and Guiding Principles
• Redevelopment Goals
#1 Preserving Historic Buildings & Community Heritage
#2 Expanding the Tax Base using Smart Growth Principles
#3 Housing Infill, Diversity, & Retaining Affordability
#4 Creating Jobs within the Community
#5 Promotion & Marketing of the Community
#6 Improving the Quality of Life for Residents
• Guiding Principles
1. The community as a whole has to be livable. Land uses and transportation systems must be
coordinated with each other.
2. The neighborhood has to retain access to affordable housing even as the neighborhood
becomes more desirable to households with greater means.
3. There must be variety in housing options.
4. There must be variety in job options.
5. Walking within the neighborhood must be accessible, safe, and pleasant.
Section TWO
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6. Local cultural events, institutions, and businesses are to be promoted.
7. The City and County must provide access to small parks and green spaces of an urban
character.
8. Older buildings that embody the area's cultural past should be restored.
9. Newer buildings must respond to our climate and reflect the community's cultural heritage
10. Streets and buildings must be attractive.
11. Twenty -four-hour environments are to be encouraged.
12. Identifiable neighborhood centers are to be established in a distributed pattern within
Overtown and Park West.
13. The zoning and other development regulations must be reworked to yield the results
envisioned in this Redevelopment Plan.
14. Restore a sense of community and unify the area culturally.
Section THREE The Build -out Plan
Page 3.2 • Conceptual Plan Diagram
o Land Uses & Residential Units
Page 3.4 • Hypothetical Build -out Plan
Page 3.5 o Publicly Owned Land, for Public Improvements
Page 3.6 o Open Spaces: Parks, Plazas, and Green Spaces
Page 3.8 o Transportation System: Mobility and Access
• Reestablishing the Traditional Urban Network of Streets
• Pedestrian Friendly Street Improvements
• Promoting the Return of Two-way Streets
• Rail and Transit Routes
• Key Ideas from the Miami at Midnight Report
Page 3.22 o Parking
• Providing and Retaining On -street Parking
• Off-street Parking
Page 3.24 o Land Development Regulations
• Adherence to Local Land Development Regulations
• Revisions to the City's Zoning and Land Development Regulations
Page 3.25 o Physical Plan
• Possible Changes to I-395
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Section FOUR Projects and Programs
Page 4.2 • Projects and Project Areas, Overview
4.2 • Criteria for Physical Improvements
Page 4.3 • Project Areas
4.3 o Stakeholders Roles
4.4 o Project Area A. NW 1st Avenue
4.11 o Project Area B. Overtown (including Little Broadway - Lyric Plaza)
4.19 o Project Area C. NW 3rd Avenue Neighborhood Center
4.23 o Project Area D. Historic Overtown Priority Business Corridor
4.26 o Project Area E. West Overtown
4.31 o Project Area F. Properties facing Biscayne Boulevard
4.34 o Project Area G. The Promenade — Park West Entertainment District
4.43 o Project Area H. NE 8th Street "Spine"
Page 4.45 • Projects and Programs
4.46 o Community Heritage and Historic Preservation
4.51 o Promotion and Enhancement of Overtown and Park West as a Business Location
4.53 o Planning, Development, Technical Assistance and Program Compliance
4.56 o Street Improvements, Utility Infrastructure and Transportation
4.58 o Home Ownership Pre -qualification and Counseling
4.58 o Grants to Existing Businesses
4.58 o Laredo/Re-use Plan (CLUC 90 Properties)
Page 4.59 • Summary Chart of Projects and Goals
Section FIVE
Page 5.2
5.2
5.2
Page 5.3
5.3
Page 5.11
Page 5.13
Capital Improvement Costs and Timeline
• Introduction
• Capital Improvement Goals
• Prioritizing Capital Improvements
• Potential Funding Sources
• Capital Improvement Costs by Project Area
• Capital Improvement Costs — Not Project Area Specific
• Timeline and Capital Improvement Costs — Summary
Section SIX Residential Uses and Neighborhood Impact of Redevelopment
Page 6.2 • Neighborhood Overview
Page 6.3 • Housing Policy
6.3 • Relocation Policy
Page 6.4 • Traffic Circulation
6.4 • Environmental Quality
Page 6.5 • Effect on School Population
Page 6.6 • Community Facilities and Services
Page 6.7 • Physical and Social Quality
Section SEVEN Plan Management
Page 7.2 • Powers of the SEOPW CRA
Page 7.3 • Powers Not Given to the SEOPW CRA
Page 7.4 • Authority to Undertake Redevelopment
7.4 • Future Amendments to this Redevelopment Plan
Page 7.5 • State of Florida Statutory Requirements
7.5 • Safeguards and Assurances
Page 7.7 • Land Acquisition
Section EIGHT Definitions
Section NINE Directory of Local Organizations
Section TEN Appendices
Page 10.2 A. Previous Planning Work for the Area
Page 10.5 B. Acknowledgements
Page 10.6 C. School Impact Analysis for the SEOPW CRA Redevelopment Plan
Page 10.15 D. 1982 Resolution adopting the SEOPW CRA
Page 10.29 E. Resolution Adopting New Boundaries
Page 10.39 F. Advertisements Of Public Notice
Page 10.49 G. Findings of Slum and Blight
Page 10.60 H. Overtown Empowerment Trust's Goals
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• This Document
• Topics Frequently Asked from Neighborhood Stakeholders
• Historical Context
• 21st Century Context
• The Potential: A Livable City
• CRA History
• Revised Boundaries
• Revisions from the Original CRA Redevelopment Plan
• Findings of Necessity
• Legal Description
en the fireplaces of civilization, whence light and
the dark.
Introduction
This Document
This 2003 Amendment of the Community
Redevelopment Plan (referred to as
"Redevelopment Plan" or "Community
Redevelopment Plan") for the Southeast
Overtown / Park West Community
Redevelopment Agency (referred to as "CRA"
or "SEOPW CRA") was commissioned by the
governing bodies of the City of Miami ("City")
and Miami -Dade County ("County") to
provide an updated planning document for the
development of the Park West and Overtown
neighborhoods consistent with the
Community Redevelopment Act of 1969
("Act") for eliminating and preventing slum or
blight conditions by rehabilitation,
conservation or redevelopment, or a
combination thereof.
The approved 1982 Redevelopment Plan
has not been effective in the redevelopment
area, due to the lack of financing ability by the
CRA and private enterprises. The need to
update the 1982 Plan and provide a financing
strategy for the implementation of the CRA's
activities in the redevelopment area became
imminent as land throughout South Florida
became scarce and the last portions of
undeveloped land lie within the
redevelopment area boundaries . It is the
intent of this extensive amendment of the
1982 Redevelopment Plan to address ways in
which the CRA and the City can maximize
opportunities presented by current initiatives
and trends, and transform Southeast
Overtown / Park West into a thriving mixed -
use neighborhood and commercial hub in the
heart of downtown, as provided for by this
revised Community Redevelopment Plan.
Topics Frequently Asked
About From Neighborhood
Stakeholders
Every redevelopment area has certain
urgent concerns and problems that the
community wants addressed. While a number
of these issues can be resolved through local
government, some of these issues need to be
fixed by members of the community.
Adopting Redevelopment Plans and
creating Community Redevelopment Agencies
are not solutions in themselves, but only
vehicles to get to solutions. There needs to be
grass -root efforts to further stimulate interest
in, education of, and visions for the
revitalization of the redevelopment
neighborhoods. Overtown and Park West
stakeholders frequently ask questions about::
Making sure that housing stays affordable
for existing residents. Look in Section 2 Goal
#2, Housing Infill, Diversity, and Retaining
Affordability on page 2.2. Also the Guiding
Principles 2 and 3 starting on page 2.5 address
this matter.
Getting help for small businesses and
creating new jobs for current residents in
Overtown and Park West: Look in Section 4,
for program: #43, Design Assistance and
Award of Grants and Other Incentives to
Existing Businesses in Overtown on page 4.18
and also look for III. Grants to Existing
Businesses on page 4.22.
Historical Context
The Southeast Overtown / Park West
Community Redevelopment Agency's area
encompasses one of the oldest residential and
commercial areas of the City of Miami,
although few structures of historic or cultural
significance remain. Overtown and Park West
each have their own historical past, but for
practical reasons and proximity their futures
are linked together.
OVERTOWN
"Overtown" is one of the oldest
neighborhoods in Miami settled by African
Americans about the time that Miami was
founded in the 1890s. African Americans
were not allowed to live in the other
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developing areas of Miami. Jobs available to
Overtown residents were mostly associated
with Henry Flagler's Florida East Coast (FEC)
Railroad Company, the burgeoning tourist
service industry, and agriculture. Like in many
southern American towns, the African
American community lived on the other side
of the railroad tracks from most white
families, and nearer to the citrus and pineapple
farms. The name Overtown came from
people referring that they were going "over
town" to this neighborhood. It was also
referred to in the past as Colored Town.
The area grew and developed into a
vibrant community. African Americans
became business owners and established a
viable economic community by constructing
schools, homes, churches, hotels, apartments,
theaters, night clubs and small neighborhood
markets.
In the 1920's and 1930's, N.W. 2nd
Avenue was called Avenue G. It was a center
for entertainment, retail stores, and hotels.
Dr. W.B. Sawyer built the first African
American hotel in the area in 1921.
The population continued to expand until
the early 1960's. Desegregation, urban renewal,
the Neighborhood Development Program and
construction of the SR-836/I-395 and I-95
expressways significantly changed the
character of the neighborhood. and tragically,
residents from Overtown were scattered and
relocated. Economic, physical and social
decay became pronounced and has
progressively contributed to the decline in the
area.
Various planning efforts have taken place
over the last few decades. For a list of these
planning studies, see Appendix A, Previous
Plan Studies.
PARK WEST
Most of the area currently referred to as
Park West was part of the original "Miami"
Subdivision that was platted in 1896 by the
principal developers of the early City of
Miami.: Mary and William Brickell, Julia
Tuttle, Henry Flagler, and the Fort Dallas
Land Company.
While the initial development of Park
West focused on residential projects, it soon
established a commercial character, housing
general commercial activities, in warehouses,
associated with its downtown location and
proximity to the Port of Miami when it was
formerly located at the site of present day
Bicentennial Park. The name Park West comes
from being "west" of the "park." Before
1964, this area was basically a warehouse and
wholesale district related to the old port.
When the port moved, so did the wholesale
businesses and storage facilities. Few of the
remaining businesses have any functional
relation to the port now located on Dodge
Island in Biscayne Bay. New warehouses and
container storage areas are provided on Dodge
Island and areas west of the Miami
International Airport.
21st Century Context
The Southeast Overtown / Park West
Redevelopment Area encompasses
approximately 279 acres of land generally
bounded by Biscayne Boulevard on the east;
I-95 on the west; I-395 on the north; and NW
5th Street on the south. This is the original
boundary area of the CRA. In 1986, the
boundary was amended to include the areas
bounded by NW 1st Street on the south,
Metrorail right-of-way on the west; NW 5th
Street on the north; and N. Miami Avenue on
the east. This Plan expands the SEOPW CRA
boundary to include adjacent neighborhoods
west of I-95 and east of NW 7th Avenue,
between NW 11th Street and NW 7th and NW
5th Streets; and the NW 3rd Avenue corridor
north of I-395 up to NW 22nd Street. These
new boundaries include areas that have a
direct effect on the original Redevelopment
Area and present excellent redevelopment
opportunities. It is an area of hard edges —
Introduction 1.3
heavily traveled highways to the west and
north and the less imposing but still disruptive
boundary created by the Metromover and
Metrorail tracks to the east and south.
Moreover, the Florida East Coast railroad
tracks serve as a psychological and physical
barrier dividing the area into Southeast
Overtown to the west and Park West to the
east.
In preparation for this planning effort, an
evaluation of slum and blight conditions was
conducted in both the core and expanded
CRA areas. This evaluation indicates that slum
and blight conditions persist throughout,
providing further justification for expanding
the SEOPW CRA boundaries. Addressing and
improving these conditions is a key purpose of
this plan. A summary of the evaluation of
slum and blight conditions are included as an
appendix.
Despite its challenges, Southeast
Overtown / Park West is advantageously
situated between downtown Miami and the
Omni area, Firestation #2, Motion
Picture/Media ("Media") District, and the
Entertainment District, and enjoys excellent
transportation access to Miami Beach, Miami
International Airport, and the regional
transportation system. What happens in the
larger context will therefore shape and be
shaped by what happens in Southeast
Overtown / Park West.
Located directly north of Southeast
Overtown / Park West, the Omni Media and
Entertainment Districts are currently
undergoing a rapid transformation into a
regional epicenter of the cultural and
performing arts. Big Time Productions, Inc., a
studio/production company, moved its
headquarters from Miami Beach to the Omni
area creating a movie production hub along
NE 14th Street. Just east of Big Time
Productions studio buildings is the new
Performing Arts Center, targeted for
completion in 2005. The center will include a
2,200-seat symphony hall, a 2,480-seat ballet /
opera house, a 200-seat black box theater, and
ancillary support and
Anticipation over the
exciting complex has
educational services.
completion of this
served as a strong
catalyst for redevelopment, a phenomenon
that has been further enhanced by a concerted
effort to attract media, arts, and entertainment
related businesses and facilities to the
neighborhood.
South of Overtown and Park West,
downtown Miami's central business district is
a flourishing center of international
businesses, finances, telecommunications,
government and trade. With over 131,000
workers, 4,000+ hotel rooms, and attractions
such as the Bayside Marketplace, the American
Airlines Arena, and the Miami -Dade Cultural
Center, downtown Miami is a dynamic
destination that has the potential to positively
impact adjacent neighborhoods such as
Southeast Overtown / Park West. Despite its
dynamism, downtown Miami lacks the
residential component that is necessary to
transform it into a true 24-hour city center.
With its advantageous location and untapped
redevelopment potential, Southeast Overtown
/ Park West presents perhaps the best
opportunity to develop a livable downtown
core.
The City of Miami is proactively planning
for the future of its neighborhoods, and there
are a number of current initiatives that will
have a direct impact on the Southeast
Overtown / Park West CRA Area. Such
planning efforts as the Baylink Draft
Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS), The
Park West Entertainment District Promenade
Special Area Plan, Biscayne Boulevard Special
Area Plan, Bicentennial Park Master Plan,
Downtown Transportation Master Plan, and
Overtown Greenprint Plan are integral to the
development and redevelopment of the area,
and coordination between these efforts is key.
Some of the more specific planning projects
include: the Flagler Marketplace development
in downtown Miami; redevelopment of the
Omni Mall into a retail and entertainment
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complex; redevelopment and improvements to
Margaret Pace Park in the Omni area;
redevelopment of the historic Lyric Theater as
the cornerstone of the planned Folklife Village
in Southeast Overtown; and the planned
extension of the 9th Street Pedestrian Mall in
Park West. This Plan presents the best
opportunity to integrate these initiatives into a
cohesive vision for the area as a whole.
The Potential: A Livable City
Well -located at the confluence of the
Americas, Miami has emerged as the Western
Hemisphere's international trading center and
one of the world's most vibrant and dynamic
metropolises. Founded in 1896, Miami quickly
established itself as one of the nation's premier
tourist destinations with its world-renowned
climate and natural beauty. Tourism defined
the economy for much of the last century and
remains a major industry. Nonetheless, the last
thirty years have seen an unprecedented
diversification of Miami's economy, as its
strategic location, excellent transportation
linkages, and culturally diverse population
have led to its ascent as the "gateway to Latin
America" and one of the nation's true
international business centers. Greater Miami
today is a cosmopolitan metropolis of over
two million people, and a leading center of
finance, trade, tourism and
telecommunications.
Despite these advantages, Miami lacks
one of the most important characteristics of
great world cities— a walkable, mixed -use
center that is a desirable place to work, play
and live. Bathed in neon light, the downtown
Miami skyline beckons at night, which belies
the fact that its streets are virtually deserted.
Few of the approximately 131,000 people who
work in downtown actually live there— at
business day's close, they disperse to points
north, east, south and west of Miami. While it
is true that many would choose a suburban
location regardless, it is also true that
downtown Miami lacks the housing and
neighborhood services that would make it a
viable alternative for those who would
otherwise find it a desirable place to both live
and work.
In the past few decades, Miami has made
a concerted effort to take advantage of the
new economic realities of globalization and
the rise of information technology. Its location
provides a competitive advantage, as does a
relatively well -developed privately initiated and
funded technology infrastructure. That is not
enough. Recent studies indicate that the
businesses and workers of the new economy
seek out and thrive in mixed -use environments
that foster accessibility, social interaction„ and
the exchange of ideas. This has resulted in a
reversal of trends of the 1970's and 1980's,
which saw economic activity centers move
from city centers to suburban office parks and
"edge cities" that sprang up overnight. In
contrast, the economic activity centers of the
new economy are increasingly located in
central city neighborhoods like San Francisco's
Multimedia Gulch, the Digital Harbor in
Baltimore, and downtown San Jose.
With its strategic location and untapped
redevelopment potential, the Southeast
Overtown / Park West neighborhood presents
the best opportunity for the development of a
thriving, mixed -use economic and activity
center in Miami's downtown. This plan charts
a course to fully realizing Southeast Overtown
/ Park West's possibilities.
CRA History
The Southeast Overtown / Park West
CRA Redevelopment Plan was proposed by
the City of Miami, by Resolution 81-9201, in
1981. On December 7, 1982, Miami -Dade
County adopted resolution R1677-82
approving the plan in compliance with the
City's and County's Comprehensive Plans.
On July 29, 1982 the SE Overtown
Community Redevelopment Plan was officially
adopted pursuant to city resolution R82-755.
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In March of 1983 the City executed the
Interlocal Agreement with Miami -Dade
County for Tax Increment Financing (TIF)
revenue to be deposited into the SEOPW
Trust Fund. In 1995 the Park West area was
added to the CRA with city resolution R85-
1247. During the summer of 2002, the
SEOPW CRA board expanded the boundaries
to include some of the areas of Overtown
west of Interstate 95 and areas surrounding
NW 3rd Avenue north of Interstate 395. This
Boundary Expansion was later adopted by the
City of Miami Commission on July 28, 2002,
pursuant to city ordinance 12247.
Projects performed over the years include
the extension of the Ninth Street Mall, the
creation of parking lots along NW 3rd Avenue
Business Corridor P.A. Dorsey Way) to
service the existing and future businesses
along the corridor, sidewalk, curb and gutter
improvements, the interim improvements to
the Park West Entertainment District
Promenade, Historic Overtown Priority
Corridor ; a designated corridor along NW 3rd
Avenue P.A. Dorsey Way) from 8th Street to
14th Street and along 8th Street from NW 3rd
Avenue to NW 4th Avenue. Funding was to
be used for facade improvements,
infrastructure improvements, and technical
and design assistance, and low interest loans,
and the surveying of parcels of abandoned
properties and vacant government -owned land
for re -use. In May of 2000, the City
Commission also allocated three million
dollars for improvements to revitalize the
Historic NW 3r1 Avenue Business Corridor.
Revised Boundaries
Florida Statute 163.361, "Modification of
Community Redevelopment Plans," states that
the CRA may recommend a change in the
boundaries when it becomes necessary or
desirable to amend or modify the
redevelopment plan. During 2001 and 2002,
the SEOPW CRA evaluated the need to
extend the SEOPW CRA boundaries to
include more of Overtown. In June 2002, a
consultant planner prepared a report for the
CRA examining several different areas for
consideration to add to the existing
boundaries.
The SEOPW CRA Board carefully
deliberated over the various areas studied for
inclusion and then began the process that
resulted in selecting five of the eight areas to
add to the Legal Boundary Description.
Advantages to the enlarged boundary
include being able to use the SEOPW CRA's
resources to affect more of the disadvantaged
neighborhoods of Miami, and to improve the
appearance and usefulness of the expressways
that have caused so much damage and
fragmentation to the community environment.
Revisions From The Original
CRA Redevelopment Plan
The Southeast Overtown / Park West
Community Redevelopment Plan, Revised December
1982 (sometimes referred to as "the '82 Plan")
was prepared for two primary reasons:
1) To state the case for why a CRA was
needed; the City was required to find the
necessity of a community redevelopment
plan within a community area that had
slums and blighted areas, and an
immediate need for affordable housing.
2) To guide the SEOPW CRA within its
redevelopment area for community
redevelopment undertakings activities or
projects that include: eliminating slums
and blight, reducing crime, and
rehabilitation or conservation of existing
places or buildings.
This document is the extensive
amendment of the Southeast Overtown / Park
West Community Redevelopment Plan. This
document replaces the previous "82 Plan" and
is referred to as "Community Redevelopment
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Plan" or "Redevelopment Plan" in this
document.
Revisions from the 1982 Plan:
• Chapter I, "Introduction," has been
significantly revised to identify the
purpose for the SEOPW CRA, its
potential, and to update the context with
the 20 years that have passed since the
original plan was prepared and adopted.
• Parts of Chapter II, "Setting," were
brought into Section 1, Introduction, of
the Community Redevelopment Plan.
For example, "Historic Evolution" was
re-edited into a heading called "Historical
Context."
• Chapter III, "Redevelopment Proposal,"
contained a description of the need for
redevelopment. The objectives stated in
Chapter III have been re-evaluated and
can be found in Section 2, "Goals and
Guiding Principles."
• Chapter IV, "Redevelopment Plan,"
contained projects and strategies. These
have been re-evaluated and some have
been restated in Sections 2 through 6.
These components are separated into
different Sections in the updated
Community Redevelopment Plan to
group them by similar topics so that they
can be more easily found in the
document.
• All maps and graphics from the 1982 Plan
have been replaced, including the
Boundary Map.
• The Land Use Plan, Zoning Plan, and
Traffic & Transportation Plan have been
completely overhauled.
• The Park West Conceptual
Redevelopment Plan and Acquisition
strategy, an overblown approach that was
not successful, has been abandoned for an
incremental approach.
Many of the programs performed by the
SEOPW CRA over the last few years are not
identified in the 1982 Plan. However, some of
the current programs are explained in a
document entitled, "City of Miami
Community Redevelopment Agency, Fiscal
Year 2000 and 5-year Plan 2000-2004,
Budgeted Projects and Programs" dated
September 1999. All of the current programs
identified in the 1999 document are included
in this Community Redevelopment Plan, in
Section 3, Projects and Programs.
Findings of Necessity
The State of Florida Community
Redevelopment Act of 1969 requires that all
Community Redevelopment Plans state their
findings of necessity for the Community
Redevelopment Agency. Necessity is
evaluated by the amount of blight and vacancy
found within the SEOPW CRA area.
In 1969, the Board of County
Commissioners of Miami -Dade County
approved by Resolution 1117-69 the Central
Miami Renewal Plan. This plan included the
area south of NW Twentieth Street; west of
the FEC Railroad, with an extension to N.E.
Second Avenue; east of I-95; and north of the
Miami River. It was amended on January 20,
1981, to include the areas bounded on the
west and south by the FEC tracks; on the east
by Biscayne Boulevard; and on the north by I-
395. In addition, the area bounded on the
south by I-395; on the east by Biscayne
Boulevard; on the north by NW Seventeenth.
Street in part, and the City of Miami Cemetery
in part; and on the west by the FEC tracks.
At those public hearings, evidence was
presented to find this area meeting the
definition of "slum and blight".
Only a portion of this area was included
in the Original SEOPW CRA boundary. Most
of the conditions described in the 1982 CRA
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Plan still exist today. For both SE Overtown
and Park West, the plan describes a decline in
population, marginal retail facilities, and an
excessive amount of vacant and unproductive
land. The majority of multifamily buildings,
single family houses, and duplexes are in a
declining condition. The majority of retail
buildings are vacant, making the vacancy rate
of commercial uses greater than fifty percent.
The areas that are newly included with the
boundary change have all the same conditions
as the original SEOPW CRA area. The
underside of the highways and "pockets" of
land between the SEOPW CRA area and the
Omni CRA area were included because of
their blighted and vacant condition.
The included area west of I-95 and east of
NW 5th Avenue is more than 50 percent
vacant. Eighty percent of the structures were
built before 1960 and are suffering from a lack
of maintenance. The area west of NW 5th
Avenue and east of NW 7th Avenue is almost
60 percent vacant, with a haphazard clumsy
configuration of industrial, commercial, and
residential uses.
The area north of I-395 surrounding NW
3rd Avenue has a large area owned by public
agencies. These properties have buildings that
look outdated and unfortunately give the
impression of a crime -ridden neighborhood
with tall fences, bars, and bunker -style
architecture. The privately owned storefront
buildings, apartment buildings, and houses
need repair and painting.
Employment data for the whole CRA area
indicates the majority of current residents have
low, unskilled paying jobs. This area of the
City and County also has the highest
concentration of homeless individuals.
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Legal Boundary Description
for the SEOPW CRA
The extended Southeast Overtown/Park
West community redevelopment area is
generally bounded as follows:
Beginning near the southeast corner of
Lummus Park; at the southwest corner of the
intersection of NW 2nd Street and NW 3rd
Court; continue north to the north side of
NW 5th Street; then west along the north side
of NW 5th Street to the east side of NW 5th
Avenue; then north along the east side of NW
5th Avenue to the north side of NW 7th Street;
then west along the north side of NW 7th
Street to the east side of NW 7th Avenue; then
north along the east side of NW 7th Avenue to
the southern edge of the Metrorail right of
way ("ROW").
Then east along the southern edge of the
Metrorail ROW to the western edge of the
I-95 ROW; then north along the western edge
of the I-95 ROW to the north side of NW 14th
Street; then east along the north side of NW
14th Street to the west side of NW 4th Avenue;
then north along the west side of NW 4th
Avenue to the south side of NW 17th Street;
then west along the south side of NW 17th
Street to the west side of NW 5th Avenue; then
north along the west side of NW 5th Avenue
to the north side of NW 19th Street; then east
along the north side of NW 19th Street to the
west side of NW 4th Court; then north along
the west side of NW 4th Court to the south
side of NW 20th Street; then west along the
south side of NW 20th Street to a point in line
with the western boundary of the property
abutting the continuation of NW 4th Court
north of NW 20th Street; then north to the
north side of NW 20th Street and continuing
north to the south side of NW 22nd Street;
then east along the south side of NW 22nd
Street to a point 200 feet east of the east side
of the NW 3rd Avenue ROW; then south
along a line 200 feet east of the east side of the
NW 3rd Avenue ROW to the north side of
NW 20th Street; then east along the north side
of NW 20th Street to the east side of NW 2nd
Court; then south along the east side of NW
2nd Court to the north side of NW 17th Street;
then east along the north side of NW 17th
Street to the east side of NW 2nd Avenue; then
south along the east side of NW 2nd Avenue to
the north side of NW 14th Street.
Then east along the north side of NW
14th Street to the east side of NW 1st Avenue;
then south along the east side of NW 1st
Avenue to the northern edge of the I-395
ROW; then east along the northern edge of
the I-395 ROW to the Biscayne Bay bulkhead;
then south along the bulkhead to the southern
edge of the I-395 ROW; then west along the
southern edge of the I-395 ROW to the
western side of Biscayne Boulevard.
Then south along the west side of
Biscayne Boulevard to the north side of NE
5th Street; then west along the north side of
NE 5th Street to the west side of North Miami
Avenue; then south along the west side of
North Miami Avenue to the north side of NW
1st Street; then west along the north side of
NW 1st Street past NW 1st Avenue, to include
properties abutting the west side of NW 1st
Avenue; then north along the western edge of
said properties to the north side of NW 5th
Street; then west along the north side of NW
5th Street to the east side of NW 3rd Avenue;
then south along the east side of NW 3rd
Avenue to the south side of NW 2nd Street;
then west along the south side of NW 2nd
street to the southwest corner of the
intersection of NW 2nd Street and NW 3rd
Court.
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• Redevelopment Goals
• Guiding Principles
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Goals and Guiding Principles
Redevelopment Goals
The goals for the South East Overtown
Park West Community Redevelopment
Agency serve as directives for the SEOPW
CRA Board and staff members when making
decisions, taking actions, and strategizing
projects and programs for the redevelopment
area. They guide the Agency's public policy,
appropriation of funds, and setting priorities
to eliminate the slum and blight within the
CRA area.
The goals are:
1) Preserving Historic Buildings &
Community Heritage
2) Expanding the Tax Base using Smart
Growth Principles
3) Housing: Infill, Diversity, &
Retaining Affordability
4) Creating Jobs Within the Community
5) Promotion & Marketing of the
Community
6) Improving the Quality of Life for
residents
This redevelopment
thirteen guiding principles.
goals and principles in
intended to imply a
plan identifies
The numbering of
this plan is not
prioritization of
importance. All goals and principles are of
equal importance to the revitalization of the
SEOPW Community Redevelopment Agency.
The matrix on the next page shows that
all of the Guiding Principles work toward
more than one goal. Following the Matrix,
each of the Guiding Principles is further
explained.
The Overtown Empowerment Trust has a
list of goals which apply to Overtown's
renaissance. These goals are reproduced in
Appendix H, at the end of this document.
2.2 SOUTHEAST OVERTOWN / PARK WEST MASTER PLAN
Goals and Supporting Principles
Note:
The names of the Guiding
Principles below have been
reduced to a few key words to
save space.
Goal #1:
Preserving
Historic Buildings
& Community
Goal #2:
Expanding the
Tax Base using
Smart Growth
Principles
Goal #3:
Housing: Infill,
Diversity, &
Retaining
Affordability
Goal #4:
Creating Jobs
within the
Goal #5:
Promotion &
Marketing of
the Community
Goal #6:
Improving
the Quality
of Life for
Residents
Community
Heritage
Principle 1:
Livable Community
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Principle 2:
Affordable Housing
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Principle 3:
Housing Variety
Principle 4:
Job Variety
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Principle 5:
Walkable Streets
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Principle 6:
Promotion
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Principle 7:
Green / Open Space
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Principle 8:
Historic Preservation
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Principle 9:
Appropriate Architecture
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Principle 10:
Attractive Streets
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Principle 11:
24-Hour Environment
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Principle 12:
Neighborhood Centers
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Principle 13:
Revise Zoning Regs.
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Principle 14:*
Restore community
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Goals and Guiding Principles
2.3
Guiding Principles
All actions affecting the CRA area by a
government entity, agency, service provider, or
private property owner are to be judged
according to the Guiding Principles and the
Hypothetical Build -out Plan described in
Section 3. If any new projects or efforts are
being proposed that are not identified in
Section 4, then their relevance should be
judged by the Goals and these Principles.
Principle 1:
The community as a whole has to be
livable. Land uses and
transportation systems must be
coordinated with each other.
The most important combination to make
a community livable is to have land uses and
transportation systems working together in
concert. Ideally, a successful neighborhood
will offer the opportunity to reside, work, and
carry out the other activities of daily life
(shopping, recreation, entertainment, religious
and cultural events, education, etc) all within
an area of comfortable walking distance. To
provide this opportunity, a thoughtful mix of
residential, employment, commercial and
community -serving uses should be promoted
by the City and CRA in a densely developed
and well -designed urban fabric.
Neighborhood -serving commercial uses such
as pharmacies, grocery stores, bank branches,
dry cleaners, restaurants, day care facilities, and
entertainment establishments (i.e. bowling
alleys, cinemas, video stores) should be
incorporated into the neighborhood fabric to
serve the population and reduce automobile
dependency. Also, civic buildings and
community -serving uses such as schools,
libraries, police stations, fire stations, and
parks should be provided and located in such
a manner as to create community focal points
and strengthen neighborhood identity. Great
cities are built up from groups of such
neighborhoods.
Transportation modes have to be
balanced and varied too, so that one can
choose to walk, drive, take a taxi, or ride a
bike, a bus, community transit, the Metrorail
or Metromover.
Overtown and Park West can be thought
of as a group of neighborhoods. In order to
reposition Southeast Overtown / Park West as
a livable area, a mixture of housing types,
service establishments, and employment
centers must be provided within each of these
neighborhoods.
Though no two neighborhoods are
exactly alike, neighborhoods are traditionally
about one -quarter mile from center to edge,
for several reasons. This is thought by scholars
to be a dimension within which residents can
come to know many of their neighbors well,
and form a detailed "mental map" of their
daily territory. This helps explain why the ten-
minute walk diameter can be observed in
historical settlements from many time periods,
and in cultures all around the world.
Perhaps more importantly today, most
people are willing to walk— provided they are
presented with a pedestrian -friendly, safe
environment— for approximately ten minutes
before choosing another mode of
transportation. To reduce unnecessary car
trips and dependence on the automobile, the
most livable neighborhoods in modern cities
include an array of residential, business, retail,
and neighborhood -serving uses within that
ten-minute area. While today's technology
offers multiple means of transportation,
"walkability" remains a key component of the
vibrant and healthy neighborhood and an
important determinant of neighborhood
boundaries.
Superimposing a ten-minute walking
diameter on Southeast Overtown / Park West,
and a review of historic development patterns,
reveals that the area is actually comprised of
five distinct neighborhoods: Park West,
Southeast Overtown, North Overtown, West
Overtown, and The Government District.
2.4 SOUTHEAST OVERTOWN / PARK WEST MASTER PLAN
Determining how to improve infrastructure,
services and the provision of uses in each of
these smaller neighborhoods is the most
effective strategy for improving the area as a
whole. The vision of this Redevelopment Plan
is therefore to improve the Redevelopment
Area by transforming it into a group of healthy
mixed -use neighborhoods, and connecting
those neighborhoods with variety of modes of
transportation.
Principle 2:
The neighborhood has to retain
access to affordable housing even as
the neighborhood becomes more
desirable to households with greater
means.
Based on comments and discussions
made at various community meetings in
Overtown and Park West, it is quite clear that
there is general consensus among existing
residents, former residents, CRA and City
staff, and elected officials that Overtown has
to retain affordable housing, and that housing
and job opportunities must be first made
available to existing and former residents of
Overtown as the highest of priorities.
The SEOPW CRA's Housing Policy is
stated in this Redevelopment Plan and can be
found in Section 6.
Principle 3:
There must be variety in housing
options.
The housing stock in Downtown Miami
and the neighborhoods of Southeast
Overtown / Park West is extremely limited.
The existing inventory consists mostly of
lower -priced and substandard houses and
apartments. This lack of residential alternatives
inhibits efforts to foster a 24-hour downtown
and limits options for those who would
otherwise choose to reside in a center city
location.
A mix of market rate and affordable
housing units and types, including rental units,
ownership units, multi -family units, single-
family units, and accessory apartments, is
necessary to accommodate the diversity and
lifestyles of existing and future residents.
The Overtown and Park West of the
future will take advantage of their urban
character
attractive
current
and infrastructure and provide an
array of residential choices for
and new residents. The
neighborhoods have to ensure the integration
of different economic sectors to stimulate a
positive shaping of the urban space.
Principle 4:
There must be variety in job options.
Employment centers should be located
within the neighborhoods to accommodate
those who wish to live in proximity to their
work and reduce dependence on the
automobile and long commutes. As with
access to affordable housing, there appears to
be general consensus in the community that
job opportunities be made available to existing
residents of Overtown has a high priority.
Principle 5:
Walking within the neighborhood
must be accessible, safe, and
pleasant.
Streets have many responsibilities. They
act as a system for movement, providing
mobility and ways to move around the City.
Even more importantly, their right-of-way
serves as the "front door" to private
properties. The character and design of the
street, and thus the resulting "curb appeal,"
have a direct correlation to the type and
quality of development projects, real estate
values, and economic potential.
Providing a range of choices for moving
safely and comfortably throughout the
Goals and Guiding Principles 2.5
neighborhood is an integral function of the
city street network. Neighborhood streets
should therefore be designed to accommodate
a number of transportation choices, including
walking, bicycles, mopeds, automobiles, and
mass transit. The provision of a continuous,
two-way street grid in Southeast Overtown /
Park West will increase accessibility and
reduce congestion, while the provision of wide
shaded sidewalks, walkable block sizes, on -
street parking, bicycle paths, and transit
services increases the range of choices for
moving to, from, and within the area.
Creating pedestrian -friendly streets encourages
the development of street -level businesses and
natural surveillance.
Principle 6:
Local cultural events, institutions,
and businesses are to be promoted.
In order for Southeast Overtown / Park
West to achieve its full potential, it is necessary
to address and improve the neighborhood
economy and expand the economic
opportunities of present and future residents
and businesses. This entails both the support
and enhancement of existing businesses and
local entrepreneurs and the attraction of new
businesses that provide needed services and
economic opportunities. New Economy
business centers are characterized by
concentrations of competing but
complementary firms that are driven by the
advantages of co -location. The redevelopment
effort should actively identify opportunities
for Southeast Overtown / Park West to
capitalize on this trend.
Principle 7:
The City and County must provide
access to small parks and green
spaces of an urban character.
Access to public parks and green spaces is
a key element of quality of life in urban
neighborhoods, as natural environments
provide essential respite in an urban
environment. It is therefore vital that a series
of green spaces and parks, preferably linked by
greenways, be developed within each
neighborhood and that existing green spaces
and parks be enhanced to provide a genuine
amenity to the quality of life for existing and
future residents. These green spaces, parks,
and greenways will be an important element in
developing and maintaining community
aesthetics and identity, providing recreational
and social opportunities for residents and
visitors, and attracting new residents and
businesses.
Principle 8:
Older buildings that embody the
area's cultural past should be
restored.
These older buildings are physical
reminders of the community's heritage and
enhance the experience of the place, giving it a
richness that cannot easily be obtained once
the buildings are lost. Unfortunately far too
many of the historic buildings identified in the
1982 plan have been demolished despite the
efforts of the Black Archives Foundation and
other local initiatives.
One of the projects identified for the
CRA in this Community Redevelopment Plan
focuses on Historic Preservation. See Section
3, Projects and Programs for more
information.
Principle 9:
New and rehabilitated buildings
must respond to our climate and
reflect the community's cultural
heritage.
Established neighborhoods are
distinguished by architecture that is indicative
of their history, climate, and function.
Successful redevelopment efforts capitalize on
2.6 SOUTHEAST OVERTOWN / PARK WEST MASTER PLAN
these elements rather than imposing
development that is disconnected from what
has come before. South Beach provides an
excellent example of this concept in action; its
redevelopment was predicated on its rich
architectural heritage and history, and as a
result has been wildly successful. The five
neighborhoods that comprise Southeast
Overtown / Park West boast unique features
and architecture that reflects their history and
function. For example, Park West's
architecture still reflects its former function as
a warehouse district for the Port of Miami,
while the story of Overtown's heyday as a
thriving center for black -owned businesses
and culture is told in its remaining buildings of
note. The redevelopment of these
neighborhoods should occur within the
context of these histories and new
development should both acknowledge the
past traditions and further their future.
Whenever possible, buildings of architectural
merit should be adapted to new needs and
creatively reused.
Principle 10:
Streets and buildings must be
attractive.
Neighborhoods are defined by their public
realm, the spaces between buildings. The
streets, sidewalks, parks, greenways, and civic
uses bring the community together and link it
to the outside world. A vibrant and engaging
public realm serves as the neighborhood's
canvas and lifeblood, a means for inspiring
and captivating residents and visitors.
Sound urban design, attractive buildings,
and streetscapes are key to having streets that
are both functional and visually attractive.
Looks are important to current residents who
will feel community pride when receiving
pleasant comments about where they live.
Looks are important to attracting investors to
make other improvements to the
neighborhood.
To have attractive, pedestrian -friendly
urban streets, buildings must be set close
together, and building heights and road widths
must be compatible. Building walls with their
windows and doors, that open to the street,
should come together to form a continuous
facade.
Maintenance of public streets and spaces
has to occur to show that the community is
cared for. Private property owners have to do
their part too, painting buildings when they
start to peel or fade badly, and clean up yards
or vacant properties if garbage collects there.
If the owners are not inspired to make
improvements or repairs when the need
becomes visually obvious, then it is Code
Enforcement's job to deliver a citation to
them.
Principle 11:
Twenty-four hour environments are
to be encouraged.
A common feature of prosperous
metropolitan cores is a "24-hour
environment": a broad and diverse offering of
cultural, entertainment, and recreational
options that attract and engage residents and
visitors on weekends and after the workday
ends. This environment encourages social
interaction and is a catalyst for economic
vitality and attracting businesses and residents.
Southeast Overtown and Park West provide
an excellent opportunity to create the 24-hour
environment that downtown Miami lacks.
Principle 12:
Identifiable neighborhood centers
are to be established in a distributed
pattern within Overtown and Park
West.
Cohesive neighborhoods have strong
centers, identifiable from their concentration
of higher density residential, commercial, and
civic uses, and/or a signature public open
space such as a park, square or plaza. The
Goals and Guiding Principles 2.7
neighborhood center helps ensure the
provision of diversity of uses within a walkable
area and is essential to the establishment of
neighborhood identity. Neighborhood centers
should be developed in each of the five
neighborhoods that comprise Southeast
Overtown / Park West.
Principle 13:
The zoning and other development
regulations must be reworked to
yield the results envisioned in this
Community Redevelopment Plan.
Both the SEOPW CRA and the City of
Miami Planning and Zoning Department agree
that the zoning requirements within the CRA
boundaries must be improved to better
promote redevelopment of the desired type.
Revising the development regulations is
identified as a project in Section 4, "Projects
and Programs."
Principle 14:
Restore a sense of community and
unify the area culturally.
The SEOPW CRA needs to do what ever
is in its power to bring back the vitality that
once gave Overtown its character, sense of
place, and cultural distinctiveness.
2.8 SOUTHEAST OVERTOWN / PARK WEST MASTER PLAN
• Conceptual Plan Diagram
Land Uses & Residential Units
• Hypothetical Build -out Plan
Publicly Owned Land, for Public Improvements
Open Spaces: Parks, Plazas, and Green Spaces
Transportation System: Mobility and Access
Re-establishing the Traditional
Urban Network of Streets
Pedestrian Friendly Street Improvements
Promoting the Return of Two -Way Streets
Rail and Transit Routes
Key Ideas from the Miami at Midnight
Report
Parking
Providing and Retaining On -Street Parking
Off-street Parking
Land Development Regulations
Adherence to Local Land Development
Regulations
Revisions to the City's Zoning and Land
Development Regulations
Physical Plan
Possible Changes to I-395
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Hypothetical Build -out Plan
Conceptual Plan Diagram
The Conceptual Plan Diagram to the right
shows the basic framework used to shape the
Hypothetical Build -out Plan, which is very
detailed and has many layers. A number of
other planning efforts by both public and private
groups have studied the same areas either prior
to or in parallel with this Redevelopment Plan.
Many concepts in those plans have been incor-
porated or consolidated into the diagrams.
Other plans whose elements have been added to
shape this Community Redevelopment Plan
include:
• The Overtown Greenway Plan
• The Overtown Greenprint Plan
Miami Downtown Transportation
Master Plan
• Miami, the Downtown Master Plan
• Miami at Midnight Report
• The Historic Overtown Folklife Village Plan
• Overtown Civic Partnership "Ray
Gindroz" Plan
• Bicentennial Park Plan
• Biscayne Blvd Special Area Plan
• Grand Promenade Special Area Plan
• FEC Corridor Study
• Performing Arts Center Site Plan
A summary of the many ideas raised by var-
ious planning efforts over the last few decades is
provided in Appendix A, "Previous Planning
Work for the Area."
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As described throughout this plan, the
intent is to mix land uses within the CRA
area as much as possible. The exceptions will
be where there are large areas of government
offices and facilities or where there are con-
centrations of single-family detached houses.
A wide range of residential types is
sought with this plan. Measures are to be put
in place to retain affordability yet encourage
market rate housing to return to the area.
Institutional
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Hypothetical Build -out Plan
The Hypothetical Build -out Plan portrays
one possible built -out future for SE Overtown
and Park West in a very advanced state of
redevelopment and infill development. It is
useful to show possible configurations for
public and private building placement, streets
and access ways, parking areas, and public
spaces and street patterns.
Think of the Hypothetical Build -out Plan
as a series of layered ideas that have all been
"flattened" into one drawing. These layers
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• Publicly -Owned Land, available for public
improvements
• Open Spaces: parks, plazas, and green
spaces, and greenways
• Transportation System
o Street Network
o Traffic Patterns
o Rail and Transit Routes
• Parking Policy
• Land Development Regulations
• Physical Plan, showing physical conditions
of public and private buildings, parking
locations, sidewalks, and yards
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detail in the pages that follow in this section.
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Each of the properties shown on the map
to the left is land that is owned by the CRA,
City of Miami, County or State agencies that
are suitable for public improvements or pub-
lic -private redevelopment initiatives.
This map shows a "snapshot" of the cur-
rent ownership and should not be viewed as
an end result in itself. Additional properties
may need to be purchased and some current-
ly owned may need to be sold to reach the
goals of this redevelopment plan.
Properties that would be ideal for the
CRA to purchase are purposefully not iden-
tified in the plan, to avoid costly problems in
time and money associated with land specu-
lation; these problems have already hindered
the CRA's performance over the past twenty
years.
Required CRA Actions:
• Continue to evaluate future land pur-
chases to meet the goals of the
Redevelopment Plan.
• Evaluate and advertise public -private
development opportunities, utilizing the
land owned by the CRA, that will further
the goals of the Redevelopment Plan.
SEOPW CRA
City of Miami
Miami Dade County
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Open Spaces: parks, plazas, and
green spaces, and greenways
Urban dwellers do not have the luxury
of large amounts of private open space in
their rear gardens and back yards. Instead,
urban living highlights the enjoyment of
pedestrian -friendly streets and public spaces
(parks, squares, greens, greenways and
plazas). Creating and maintaining high -quali-
ty public spaces is necessary for the CRA
area to achieve its potential. Of the five
neighborhoods that have been identified,
only Overtown, west of the Interstate, has
adequate open space. The acquisition of land
to create these public spaces and the neces-
sary construction and maintenance is possi-
ble through a variety of means.
Required CRA Actions:
1) Acquire more land for publicly accessi-
ble green space for active and passive recre-
ational use.
2) Coordinate with the City of Miami
(Planning & Zoning) to improve public safe-
ty with natural surveillance; requiring that
neighboring buildings front all public spaces
with doors and windows.
3) Coordinate with the City of Miami
(Parks Department) on the installation and
maintenance of public spaces.
4) Require development projects within the
area to maintain green spaces within project
scope.
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SOUTHEAST OVERTOVVN / PARK WEST MASTER PLAN
Ways to acquire more land:
1. Land Swaps
The City and CRA can directly exchange
properties with property owners. For
example, if property that is in a good location
for a park is privately owned, and the CRA
owns land that is a suitable development site,
then the CRA could swap land with the
private property owner. The community gets
a park where it makes sense and the original
owner gets a good development opportunity.
2. Revolving fund for public lands
The County, City, and CRA can create a
revolving fund for public lands. For example,
suppose the CRA needed to consolidate
several properties to make an adequately large
green space. It already owns or recently
purchased a few of the parcels, but one or two
remaining owners hold out and refuse to sell.
To avoid the need to use eminent domain, the
CRA could give up and decide to sell the land
recently purchased. The revenue from the sale
could be put into a fund, and used later in
another location for the purpose of acquiring
land for green space. This may require
specific transaction controls.
3. Purchase the land outright.
The CRA board can, as it has in the past,
purchase the land outright for a fair market
value. Assistance can be sought from the
County, City, State, and the Trust for Public
Land to expedite the purchase of land.
Matching grants can be pursued.
4. Land Pooling
Land Pooling is the consolidation of small
landholdings for their unified planning,
servicing, subdivision and redistribution. This
method for land assemblage provide many
opportunities including the shared cost and
returns of land subdivision between the
landowners in an equitable way at no cost to
the CRA and the orderly design of the
subdivision layout for the planned urban land
use. This process would counter excessive
land speculation and ensure an adequate
supply of land for development purpose.
5. Ask for donations.
The CRA can ask property owners to
donate their land for public use. The old
expression still holds true, "It doesn't hurt to
ask."
Proper maintenance of public spaces
New public spaces are best maintained
through taxing districts applied to the
neighborhood and adjacent properties. These
plazas and green spaces will be relatively small
in comparison to other City of Miami parks.
Maintenance, including grass, tree, and shrub
planting, landscape mowing and clipping,
emptying of garbage cans, litter cleanup, and
pressure cleaning paved surfaces should be
provided by the City of Miami.. These
services can also be provided by locally owned
businesses through an incentive program.
Recreational facilities and functions should
also be provided as part of City or County
programs.
The CRA can also coordinate with local
churches, civic groups, or organizations that
are willing to donate the time and resources to
maintain public spaces.
Successful Small Urban Parks & Squares:
The list below describes the qualities that
make small parks and squares safe and useable:
1) Design matters more than acreage or uses
or luxury.
2) Natural surveillance is essential.
3) Enliven the place with regular activity.
4) Shape the public space with carefully placed
trees and buildings surrounding its edges.
5) Open and frame the views into and from
within the space.
6) Pedestrian access is all-important.
7) Calm the traffic, beautifully.
8) Provide shade.
9) Provide flexible open space for diverse
functions; don't excessively fill up the park
with equipment.
10) Reserve places for symbols of civic pride
and uniqueness.
11) Plan for sustained care and maintenance.
Hypothetical Build -out Plan 3.7
Transportation System: Mobility and
Access
Successful urban environments are
supported by a rich set of mobility choices, the
freedom to move about comfortably, whether
on foot, bicycle, via transit or automobile. In
contrast, areas designed primarily around the
automobile do not provide the level of
mobility and access necessary to create vibrant
places with an active street life.
Part of the challenge of redeveloping Park
West and Overtown is poor mobility and
access. Mobility is the ability to travel over
distances. Access is the ability to get to a
destination —to actually get to the door. This
condition has been created through a
combination of barriers such as the Interstate
Highways and the elevated Metrorail, and
further compounded by the system of one-
way streets. The one-way streets discourage
motorists from comfortably circulating within
the area. These streets also create "straight-
aways" that encourage motorists to speed and
make it unsafe for pedestrians to cross streets.
Although rail cargo and the elevated
transit facilities of Metrorail and the
MetroMover, are seen as positive features in
the neighborhood, there are some specific
negative effects that these have on adjacent
properties and streets. The physical plan
attempts to suggest ways to diminish these
negative effects and maximize the positive
ones through the location of buildings and
public spaces.
Required CRA Actions:
Restoring the urban fabric and mitigating
some of the negative impacts of previous
transportation improvements are possible
through a set of changes carried out in
concert. These include:
• Advocate, fund, and/or facilitate the re-
establishment of the traditional urban
network of streets and restoration of
missing links in the street grid.
• Advocate, fund, and/or build pedestrian -
friendly street improvements.
• Promote the return of two-way streets.
• Advocate, facilitate, and construct on -
street parking.
• Assist with solutions to any noise, access,
and privacy problems associated with
properties along the rail and transit routes.
• Develop pedestrian compatible
community transit system to link all
Southeast Overtown, Park West, and near
by CDC and Omni destinations. (as
described in the Miami at Midnight
report)
• Explore the possibility of a pedestrian
zone adjacent to the Overtown/Arena
Metrorail Station to enhance intermodal
transfers. (as described in the Miami at
Midnight report)
Re-establishing the traditional urban
network of streets
Throughout the Redevelopment Area, the
traditional urban block structure has been
altered. In several locations, streets have been
eliminated, and the network compromised.
This has created super -blocks, some of which
are 1,100 feet long or even longer. These
blocks are of an unusually large size and do
not fit with the established grain and size of
the original street system and blocks, making
navigation needlessly difficult. Super -blocks
limit both vehicular and pedestrian access,
causing unnecessary wastes of time and fuel
for motorists and longer distances to travel for
pedestrians.
Newly created or connected streets should
generally...
• ...be designed as two-way streets with on -
street parking;
• ...be of a similar right-of-way width to the
segments of existing streets with which
connections are being re-established; and,
• ...provide pedestrian -friendly street
improvements described under the next
heading in this section.
3.8 SOUTHEAST OVERTOWN / PARK WEST MASTER PLAN
There are some locations within the
CRA boundary where streets are fenced off
or blocked by highways, rail lines, and the
Metrorail. If for some reason vehicular
access cannot be achieved in these locations,
then every effort needs to be made to at least
open them up for safe pedestrian access.
In contrast to the large super -blocks,
there are several locations where existing
blocks are extremely small. On a very limit-
ed basis it may be advisable to close some of
the intermediate streets to form blocks of a
size more conducive to infill development..
This should be evaluated on a case -by -case
basis and not adopted as an overall policy.
The merits of enlarging a block include:
• " Selling the rights -of -way and using
the proceeds toward the purchase of public
green space or for rights -of -way needed else-
where.
• Increasing the legibility of the major
streets.
• Directing and organizing routes of trav-
el without diminishing the primary street
system.
• Providing a larger development site for
contemporary buildings that may need
more room for midblock parking
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Pedestrian Friendly Street Improvements
In an urban setting, street level businesses
need a comfortable pedestrian environment, as
they are reliant on a walk-in customer base.
Strategies to make streets pedestrian
friendly include:
• Create a two-way street system. Two-way
streets have calmer traffic than one-way
streets; drivers slow down and drive more
cautiously when adjacent to oncoming
traffic.
• Provide on -street parking. The parking
will create a safety buffer between
pedestrians on the sidewalk and moving
vehicles, and will assist ground level retail,
restaurants, and businesses.
• Create narrow travel lanes. Narrow travel
lanes will discourage speeding, and will
conserve the much -needed space for on -
street parking and wider sidewalks.
• Maintain and create small curb radii. This
will require motorists to slow down when
turning at intersections.
• At neighborhood centers and intermodal
pedestrian zones, provide a rough road
surface (bricks or cobble stones, etc) that
discourage speeds beyond 20 mph)
Creating continuity on the streets is also a
top priority. Sidewalks should be designed to
encourage ground level businesses and
pedestrian activity from block to block. In
particular:
• Create wide sidewalks, allowing
pedestrians to walk side -by -side as well as
pass each other. Wide sidewalks will also
allow outdoor dining to be part of the
street scene.
• Shade the pedestrians' paths. This is an
absolute
climate.
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necessity in the South Florida
While shade trees should be
wherever practical, in general
shade trees are not as effective in
providing shade as projecting elements on
buildings such as awnings and colonnades.
Therefore these features should be
facilitated by zoning and mandated as part
of CRA-funded projects.
• Minimize crosswalk distance to limit the
amount of time when pedestrians are
walking in the travel lanes.
Promoting the Return of Two -Way Streets
The existing street system within the CRA
boundary contains a multitude of one-way
streets. These are unfavorable to the future
success of the area for several reasons. One-
way streets increase the speed of traffic,
thereby reducing pedestrian activity. Retail has
great difficulty thriving on one-way streets —
not only is their drive -by volume cut in half,
but each street is traversed primarily by either
the morning or the evening commuters, and
therefore, hours of high visibility are limited.
Creating a two-way street system will alleviate
these problems and also help to orient those
traveling within the street system. Conversion
to two-way streets must be treated as a
priority.
All three scenarios in the Downtown
Transportation Master Plan include improving
the streets into a two-way street system. The
Downtown Transportation Master Plan's
study area is east of Interstate 95. Areas of
Overtown west of I-95 are currently set up as
one-way streets. To extend and complete the
system of two-way streets, the following
streets should be converted as well: 10th Street,
11th Street, 5th Street, and 6th Street between I-
95 and NW 7th Avenue. 5th and 6th Streets
east of I-95 should remain one-way to
accommodate Port of Miami related traffic
only if the FDOT improvements take place.
Rail and Transit Routes
Rail:
The FEC rail line that runs along NW 1st
Avenue carries cargo to the Port of Miami.
This serves a useful purpose, but the tracks
themselves form a barrier down the middle of
Overtown. Fortunately for the neighborhood,
3.12 SOUTHEAST OVERTOWN / PARK WEST MASTER PLAN
the train moves slowly though this area
because it is nearing the end of the line at the
port.
To diminish the physical separation
between Overtown and Park West, more
crossings are needed at 9th, 10th, and 12th
Streets. Preferably these crossings will be for
both pedestrians and vehicles; however
priority should be given to pedestrian
crossings.
Transit Routes
In November 2002, the People's
Transportation Plan was approved by the
voters of Miami -Dade County. The new
transportation Plan will add numerous rapid
transit corridors to the existing Metrorail
system, which currently serves only a limited
area, linking the remainder of the greater
metropolitan region. For reference, this plan
is included in this document.
Having the convenience of Metrorail in
Overtown is advantageous for the residents;
however, the physical structure of the elevated
rail has a negative impact on the
neighborhood with problems that include:
• The elevated tracks further break up the
neighborhood into little pieces by
separating neighbors and commercial
streets.
• The space underneath the rail lines is
generally unlit and unsupervised, making
it unsafe, especially at night
• The noise from the trains makes the
adjacent properties less desirable as places
to live.
• Although the appearance isn't unsightly, it
isn't beautiful either.
Miami -Dade County Government and the
City of Miami have been studying the location
for a new Metrorail route in the East/West
direction, linking the Miami International
Airport to the Port of Miami. Many of the
possible paths for the link between
Government Center and the Port pass
through Park West, but underground. An
underground Metrorail will be an
improvement compared to the elevated tracks.
The route once preferred by the County
and City planning departments may have been
ruined. The preferred route passes under the
federal building that is currently under
construction on NW 1st Avenue. The Board
of Miami -Dade County Commissioners
decided not to pay for the special foundation
that was required to accommodate the subway
train, so instead the building has a foundation
that cannot accommodate a future subway
underneath it.
In light of that problem, and since Park
West is well served by transit already, the best
subway routes for Park West may be those
that spare the inhabitants of Park West the
inconvenience of building a new line. The
subway does not have to go through Park
West. It could travel east on NW 2nd or 3rd
Streets and turn to the port under Bayfront
Park or under Biscayne Bay.
Another suggestion comes from the
Miami at Midnight report. Just as Metrorail
will be connected to the Miami International
Airport (MIA) with the creation of the Miami
Intermodal Center (MIC), The Port of Miami
could be connected to Metrorail with the
creation of the "Overtown-Park West
Community Intermodal System." As
described in the report, these intermodal
improvements would be structurally very
different than the MIC, but would serve the
same intermodal purposes. It is basically
calling for passenger and freight intermodal
access improvements to integrate all modes of
intercity and local transportation as well as
connections with the private automobile in the
context of the existing historic Overtown and
Park West communities. The community
intermodal system will consist of both hub -to -
corridor connections as well as other linkages
in order to complete the interregional trips
within the regional economic asset "the
Hypothetical Build -out Plan 3.13
3.14 SOUTHEAST OVERTOVVN / PARK WEST MASTER PLAN
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3.15
Overtown and Park West communities".
Through various pedestrian -oriented design
and intermodal access strategies, the
community intermodal system will assist the
intercity bus industry in linking passengers
arriving through airports, public transportation
facilities, train stations, and seaports with their
final home, work, and tourist destinations.
The benefit to the community is that the
patrons of the various transportation services
will spend money as they are waiting to catch
the next train, transit line, or bus. The types
of businesses there could become attractions
in themselves. Funding for this idea can come
from the Federal Government exactly because
of its intermodal function. Shared parking
garages that facilitate large-scale automotive
access without typical traffic congestion
included in the project benefit both the
interregional traveler and the local property
owners and businesses.
Key Ideas in the Miami at Midnight
Report
This report explores the opportunities and
options for narrow gauge rail transportation
modality and shared parking strategies to link
the proposed Promenade improvements to the
Bicentennial Park, the Miami Beach Baylink
project and other destinations within the
redevelopment area. It includes a description
of the strategies to create a pedestrian -oriented
intermodal access plan and a case for using
cost efficient narrow gauge rail and small
community transit vehicles for short distance
intermodal movements of passenger and
goods. The report includes a description and
recommended locations for shared parking
structures and mixed -use buildings that are
placed on their perimeter (liner buildings) and
concludes with a description of the
opportunities to secure federal and state
funding, a scale of magnitude cost estimate
and recommended actions to be undertaken.
The value to the SEOPW CRA in the
Miami at Midnight report is that it describes a
unique mechanism to meet many of the
redevelopment objectives with a real funding
source.
Key ideas from the report include:
1) Vehicle
The rail vehicles are intended to be small,
seven feet wide, and nine feet tall. The
floor height should be 5 inches from the
street grade making it easy to get in and
out. Some cars can be open air and some
air-conditioned. Seating can be
positioned to accommodate bicycles, baby
carriages, wheelchairs, luggage, grocery
shopping bags and other goods typical for
pedestrian, bicycle or automotive
transport.
2) Narrow gage rail
Since narrow gage rail is designed for
shorter slower trips, the costs of
installation and maintenance are lower.
3) Pedestrian Intermodal Access
Traffic calming and pedestrian amenities
will need to be provided along the streets
and mixed mode corridors where the
transit routes will occur.
4) Freight Intermodal Access
The report assumes that 5th and 6th streets
become the primary truck route for the
Port. Recently the MPO has rejected that
plan due to opposition from the
Overtown community and Miami -Dade
Community College. This portion of the
report therefore may no longer be valid;
however, continue community discussions
should it be undertaken to find a
beneficial design that provides port access
but minimizes truck traffic adverse to the
community.
5) Liner buildings and Parking Structures
The transit system is not just tracks and
vehicles, but also parking garages. The
slower speed community transit and
narrow gauge rail vehicles also serve as
shuttles from parking to the various
attractions and transportation services in
this intermodal system. To make the
garages meet the objectives of a
pedestrian -oriented downtown neighbor-
hood, the garages must be lined with
useable habitable space that is accessible
from the street for commercial and
3.16 SOUTHEAST OVERTOWN / PARK WEST MASTER PLAN
residential uses.
6) Community Intermodal System
The various components of the
redevelopment plan will function as
elements of a community based
intermodal system (e.g., passenger and
freight intermodal facilities and
connectors). While the redevelopment of
the existing MetroRail and MetroMover
station sites into a series of connected
liner buildings and parking structures
(with properly designed interior and
exterior spaces to better relate the
pedestrian activities at the street level with
the transit station floors twenty to thirty
feet above grade) can obviously be
proposed as an intermodal transportation
project that would qualify for
transportation trust funds, to a greater or
lesser degree, every improvement within
the redevelopment areas should be look
upon as an opportunity to improve the
intermodal movements within the
redevelopment areas. The Overtown -
Park West Community Intermodal System
therefore consists of specific pedestrian -
oriented transportation projects to
enhance intermodal connections and
significantly increase modal splits.
7) Funding Opportunities
In order to understand the magnitude of
these funding opportunities, we only have
to look at the Florida Department of
Transportation (FDOT) annual budget
($4 billion) and the significance of their
This illustration shows how a narrow gauge rail vehicle can be small enough to fit within narrow right-of-way.
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3.17
ongoing efforts to identify and focus
funding towards the critical elements of
Florida's Strategic Intermodal System.
When combined with the congressional
schedule for TEA 21 Reauthorization and
the United States Depaittnent of
Transportation (USDOT) proposed
SAFETEA legislation provisions, there is
a clear opportunity to define elements of
the SEOPW CRA Redevelopment Plan
Update in fundable transportation project
terms. Estimate costs are listed in the
Capital Improvements, Section 5, of this
redevelopment plan.
8) Recommended Actions
The SEOPW CRA needs to immediately
consider and approve these transportation
projects as intermodal projects and seek
the support for these projects from the
City of Miami Commission, the Miami -
Dade County Commission, the Miami -
Dade Metropolitan Planning Organization
(MPO), the USDOT, the FDOT, the
Florida House and Senate legislative
delegation, the U.S. Congressional
delegation and both U.S. Senators from
the State of Florida. Immediate
discussions with members of the FTC and
SITAC would be very important as well.
The proposals need to be presented as
consistent with USDOT and 1-DOT
intermodal initiatives and well -established
transportation law and policy. While
historically large-scale pedestrian -oriented
transportation improvements have been
difficult to conceptualize as valid
transportation expenditures, with the
federal and state interest in intermodal
projects (virtually all passenger intermodal
movements involve pedestrian trips),
there would seem to be a better
opportunity to undertake such an
initiative at this time.
To be seriously considered for state and
federal funding, the proposed intermodal
projects need to be identified in the
Miami -Dade MPO's long-range plan and
should be scheduled within the FDOT's
five-year work program. Further, such
intermodal improvements need to also be
identified as an element of the Strategic
Intermodal Systems (SIS) (intermodal
connectors or otherwise) and addressed in
the TEA 21 Reauthorization and related
federal appropriations decisions.
In undertaking these efforts, the SEOPW
CRA must recognize that they will need to
be a funding participant with the City of
Miami and the Miami -Dade County as to
any state and federal originated
transportation funds. With the
incorporation of pedestrian -oriented
mixed -mode streets and corridors, parking
shuttles and community transit, parking
structures and liner buildings into this
updated redevelopment plan, the SEOPW
CRA along with the Omni CRA should
implement initial components of the
intermodal improvements plan in
partnership with the Miami Parking
Authority (Department of Offstreet
Parking, or other public and private
partners, to demonstrate how such a
system will work and why their
transportation funding partners (USDOT,
FDOT, County and City) should
participate in such community
redevelopment related transportation
intermodal improvements.
Three maps have been included in this
redevelopment plan for reference. Obviously
the details of the routes, systems, and parking
garage locations may change as the system is
closer to implementation.
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Parking
Having more than enough spaces in
surface parking lots can fragment the urban
environment and looks unsightly; having too
few spaces can frustrate residents and patrons.
However, if individual property owners
maximize the amount of parking that can be
created on each private lot, and meet 1970s-
style parking ratio expectations, the result
would be at best a blighted, unsuccessful
aspiring suburb rather than a pleasant,
walkable urban environment. More
commonly, high parking requirements make
small -scaled infill developments too difficult.
Therefore the CRA should promote a
balanced strategy that seeks to use space
efficiently and facilitate a system -wide
approach. Parking should be treated among
matters of public infrastructure rather than
just as a private endeavor on private
properties. The CRA should not enter the
business of parking, but can help implement
projects that can be managed privately or by
the City of Miami Parking Authority.
Required CRA Actions:
1) Advocate, fund, and/or build on -street
parking spaces in any
redevelopment
rights -of -way.
2) Support a reform of offstreet parking
future
efforts within
public
regulations to be adopted by the City of
Miami to reduce the unnecessary burden
on private developers. To jumpstart
redevelopment, new businesses in existing
buildings should be exempt from parking
requirements to reduce their startup costs
and therefore their financial risks.
Providing & Retaining On -Street Parking
On -street parking provides motorists with
access to street level businesses. These
businesses can capture the attention of both
pedestrians and drive -by motorists. On -street
parking also creates a comfortable pedestrian
environment by buffering pedestrians from
moving cars in the travel lanes. Sidewalks
automatically become active with pedestrians
because of people getting in and out of their
cars parked in the on -street spaces.
Existing on -street parking throughout the
Redevelopment Area should be maintained.
The potential for adding on -street parking to
streets where it is not currently provided
should be explored every time roadway
improvements occur over time. All new and
improved streets within the boundary should
be designed to include on -street parking.
Off-street Parking
In overly car -dependent regions such as
South Florida, each development will
commonly attempt to provide for their own
parking on -site with a parking structure or
parking lot. In urban areas, some of the
negative effects of storing large quantities of
cars on each site are:
• Experiencing gaps between buildings,
from parking lots, when walking down a
sidewalk is disruptive for retail
environments. Shoppers are easily turned
off by these gaps and will often stop
shopping or pause and turn around and
go back the way they came if it looks like
there are not any worthwhile destinations
down the street.
• Parking structures greatly increase the
costs to develop a building. This makes
market rate and workforce housing, for
example, more difficult to find in central
urban areas, right where they are needed.
Luxury apartment dwellers more easily
absorb the cost of the parking garages.
• Development that includes parking
structures requires larger parcels to create
functional structures and financially viable
projects. This generally requires the
projects to be large in scale, and therefore
harder to finance and harder to fit within
the fabric of the neighborhood.
• Parking structures associated with one
building do not necessarily create a
3.22 SOUTHEAST OVERTOWN / PARK WEST MASTER PLAN
"shared" situation, which can reduce the
overall needed parking spaces. The
concept of shared parking means that at
night an apaittuent resident can use the
same parking space used by an office
employee during the day. In the suburban
model, office buildings and residential
buildings are not typically designed to
share parking; nor is the building
management company in the business of
managing parking.
Without shared parking, the inefficient
end result is that more money is spent and
more land is utilized for parking than is really
necessary.
Making shared parking work
As shared parking facilities are built and
the area becomes more developed, livable,
interesting, and walkable, with daily needs and
services present, some households may opt to
do without an automobile or share fewer cars
among family members. Developers of new
buildings will not have to provide as much of
their own parking as they did in the past. The
CRA can do its part by participating in public -
private ventures to build shared parking
facilities. This will take the burden off local
property owners interested in redeveloping or
improving their properties and buildings.
Reducing the Impact of Parking Garages:
To diminish the visual and negative
impact of parking garages, these guidelines
should be followed:
1. No blank walls of parking garages or walls
with openings to the parking garage should
directly face public streets.
2. A "liner" of habitable space with a
minimum depth of twenty feet should be
constructed between the street and the garage
portion of the building. Ground floors of
garages may contain lobby entrances,
entrances to parking, and should also contain
retail space. Recommended liner building
depths are thirty to forty feet for residential
and office, fifty to sixty feet for retail. First
floor residential uses should be raised a
minimum of two feet above the average
sidewalk grade.
3. Gates or payment kiosks should be at least
forty feet from the sidewalk if the entrance is
on a street.
4. Wherever possible, entrances to the parking
garage should be from an alley or side street.
5. For safety reasons, garages should be well
lit during all hours of operation and patrolled
by security officers.
Hypothetical Build -out Plan 3.23
Land Development Regulations
Adherence to local land development
regulations
All CRA development activities shall
adhere to the City of Miami's Comprehensive
Plan and all zoning and regulatory
requirements, as revised from time to time.
Revisions to the City's Zoning and Land
Development Regulations
The existing zoning regulations do not
necessarily encourage or ensure the
development of street -oriented, urban
buildings. This situation is not unique to the
CRA; a fine-tuning of the citywide land
development regulations will eventually be
required. However, to assist projects that are
entering the development stage in a timely
manner, a new set of Urban Design Standards
for this specific area, plus accompanying
incentives, can offer an intermediate solution.
The proposed Urban Design Standards
would reflect adjusted zoning mechanisms in
certain zones within the CRA boundaries. In
the past, the low Maximum Building footprint
(the percentage of the property which can be
covered with a building), and the Floor Area
Ratio (the amount of square footage that is
habitable based on size of the lot) required
land assembly to form large parcels,
sometimes encompassing an entire city block.
To reduce this need to assemble several
parcels into one, the Maximum Building
footprint should be increased, minimum
parking requirements reduced, and Floor Area
Ratio either de-emphasized or eliminated.
Then buildings will be allowed to vary in size
and scale, and an orderly mixture of buildings
can occur within any given city block.
Specific reforms that should be reflected
in the new Design Standards, for at least some
areas within the CRA boundaries, include:
• Increased maximum building footprints
• Revised floor area ratios, in certain zones
• Decreased parking requirements
• Decreased open space requirements
• Building envelope requirements (i.e., step -
backs and tower orientation rules) to
maintain access to sunlight and prevailing
breezes. This will have the added benefit
of optimizing east -west view corridors.
The new Standards shall describe the
following:
• The Building -To -Street Relationship: how
buildings should face the street at the
ground level. This includes elements such
as distance between operable doors,
percentage of window glazing, and the use
of projecting elements to provide shade,
such as colonnades and awnings,
balconies, or overhangs.
• Building Envelope: how the mass of the
building is expressed to maintain quality
street spaces, while optimizing
development potential.
• Architectural Elements: the basic
architectural features to create fit with the
climate and visual interest in buildings and
to provide harmony among diverse
designs by many architects.
• A Mixture of Uses: Reducing or
eliminating off-street parking
requirements for storefront businesses
located at the street level will be attractive
to small business, provided there is
enough pedestrian traffic on the adjacent
street. This may also be an incentive for a
developer to build retail square footage at
the base of an office or residential
building, furthering the initiative of
mixing uses.
The overall benefit will be to create
flexibility within a framework of reasonable
certainty, allowing the development
community to deliver a variety of building
types to provide a range of housing options
and services needed to accommodate
individuals of numerous lifestyles and
economic positions.
3.24 SOUTHEAST OVERTOWN / PARK WEST MASTER PLAN
Physical Plan
The Physical Plan shows the physical
and geographic conditions of public and pri-
vate buildings. The plan identifies civic
buildings, private buildings, streets, high-
ways, and mass transit lines. Various colors
for areas between buildings identify parks
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Possible Changes to I-395
At the time of this Redevelopment Plan's
preparation, the Metropolitan Planning
Organization (MPO) has been discussing
modifications to I-395 between I-95 and the
Macarthur Causeway. Various scenarios
have been presented by the Florida
Department of Transportation, the apparent
favored alternative being the one with
trenched through -lanes with at -grade
frontage roads. Park West and the Omni area
would be reconnected with bridges for city
streets spanning the travel lanes below.
This alternative suggests moving the
alignment of I-395 northward along NE -NW
13th Street, and therefore creating a re -devel-
opable swath of land at its current location.
The plans on the right compare this
alternative with the Redevelopment Plan as
drawn and show that it is compatible.
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• Projects and Project Areas, Overview
• Criteria for Physical Improvements
• Project Areas
• Stakeholder's Roles
• Project Area A. NW 1st Avenue
This sets the chief mission for the city of the future: that of creating a
visible regional and civic structure, designed to make man at home with
his deeper self and his larger wort s of human
nature and love.
• Project Area B. Overtown (including Little Broadway - Lyric Plaza)
• Project Area C. NW 3rd Avenue Neighborhood Center
• Project Area D. Historic Overtown Priority Business Corridor
• Project Area E. West Overtown
• Project Area F. Properties facing Biscayne Boulevard
• Project Area G. The Promenade - Park West Entertainment District
• Project Area H. NE 8th Street "Spine"
• Projects and Programs
• Community Heritage and Historic Preservation
• Promotion and Enhancement of Overtown and Park West as a Business Location
• Planning, Development, Technical Assistance and Program Compliance
• Street Improvements, Utility Infrastructure and Transportation
• Home Ownership Pre -qualification and Counseling
• Grants to Existing Businesses
• Laredo/Re-use Plan (CLUC 90 Properties)
• Comparison Chart: Goals and Supporting Projects
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Projects and Programs
Projects and Project Areas,
Overview
This section is organized into two primary
subsections, "Project Areas," and "Projects
and Strategies."
The Project Areas are numbered A
through H and as a group do not encompass
the entire CRA area. They should be thought
of as various "starting points" for projects
within the overall SEOPW CRA boundaries.
The impetus of focusing efforts into these
project areas is a direct response to the unfair
accusations by some members of the public
that the CRA has spent large sums of money
and has little to show for it. When money is
spent evenly throughout the entire CRA,
obviously it is difficult to see where the money
has gone, because you can not stand in one
location an see a 100% transformation. The
purpose of having the project areas is to focus
expenditures and efforts in small areas to totally
transform them, creating as dramatic and
visible an impact as possible. By
concentrating the efforts, people will
experience what the larger area will look, feel,
smell, and sound like as revitalization spreads,
inspiring additional private reinvestment.
The boundaries for project areas are not
intended to be treated as finite boundaries. If
a redevelopment proposal is adjacent to the
area and it meets the urban design solutions of
the project, then it should be considered part
of the project area.
The current projects and programs to be
facilitated by the SEOPW CRA are listed and
described in the second half of this section,
following the description and intent of the
Project Areas. These projects may need to be
updated from time to time as the projects
evolve and components are implemented.
Some may need to be removed from the plan
when they are sufficiently completed. New
projects may need to be added. This section
can be supplemented by another document or
documents revising the list of projects or
describing them in greater detail.
Criteria for Physical
Improvements
The criteria for any priority physical
improvement project to be endorsed by the
SEOPW CRA are:
• It produces a total, outdoor
environment of exceptional beauty,
which exudes safety and optimism, and
which stands out in marked contrast to
blight.
• It involves a combination of adaptive
re -use of existing (or better, historic)
structures with new buildings and
improved public spaces.
• It involves a completion of the public
space; for example, both sides of the
street, all corners of an intersection, or
all sides of a park or green space should
be built out or renovated.
• It includes a significant residential
component, preferably owner -occupied;
one desire is to repopulate the area and
to correct an imbalance of renters
versus owners.
• It lures residents of moderate incomes
or varied incomes; these are "colonists"
who will demonstrate the viability of
close -in convenient neighborhoods and
whose discretionary income will help
support businesses.
• It suggests what the larger
neighborhood will be like as
revitalization spreads, and it inspires
private reinvestment.
• Its purpose meets the principles and
goals described in Section 2 of this
redevelopment plan
4.2 SOUTHEAST OVERTOWN / PARK WEST MASTER PLAN
Project Areas
Stakeholders' roles:
Specific roles for each of the stakeholders
appear below and with the project area
descriptions. In the spirit of teamwork, the
stakeholders can each do their part to
revitalize the area. The roles for stakeholders
other than the SEOPW CRA should be
considered as suggestions. Approval of this
plan should in no way require agencies or
individuals outside of the SEOPW CRA to
perform the suggested actions. Stakeholders
include:
SEOPW CRA:
Perform actions as sanctioned under the
Redevelopment Act of 1969 and identified in
this Community Redevelopment Plan.
City ofMiami
Continue support for the SEOPW CRA
and make changes to the zoning and other land
development regulations for properties in this
part of the City. The City should maintain and
improve its properties in Overtown, and use its
resources to provide a safe and attractive
community.
Overtown Civic Partnership:
Focus efforts in partnership with the City
of Miami and the SEOPW CRA. The
Overtown Civic Partnership's goals mirror
those of the SEOPW CRA. These include
goals regarding housing and physical
development, economic development,
community buildings, and leadership
development.
For -Profit Developers, Community
Development Corporations, and Investors:
Continue redeveloping properties, adding
more jobs and housing options within the
community.
Residents in the Community:
As most are aware, revitalization takes a
long time. Spend the effort and money to
improve the appearance of homes and yards.
Sometimes little tasks that don't cost too
much can make a big difference, such as
repainting, adding a tree or shrubs, and
picking up litter that might be on your street
or in your or your neighbor's yard.
Rental or Commercial Property Owners
and Business Operators:
Maintain or improve the appearance of
your buildings. Grants and low -interest loan
programs are available to accelerate
improvements. Property owners who don't
intend to make improvements should consider
selling their properties or partnering with
others who have greater resources.
Overtown Advisory Board:
Continue monitoring and guiding the
various activities within Overtown., including
implementation strategies and creating new
alliances.
Black Archives of South Florida Research
and History Foundation, Inc.:
Continue the efforts to promote and
preserve the cultural heritage of the
community.
Community Churches:
Stay involved and stay aware of the
revitalization activities in the community.
Help the CRA distribute information as
needed from time to time. Sponsor activities
to improve the visual appearance of the
neighborhoods and continue to promote the
area as a proud community that cares.
Goals and Guiding Principles 4.3
Project Area A. Northwest 1st Ave
General Boundaries:
North: I-395 Overpass
South: NW 1st Street
East: properties that face NW 1st Ave
West: properties that face NW 1st Ave
Challenges
■ There is an awkward traffic pattern for
vehicles proceeding north along NW 1st
Avenue.
• Pedestrians are crossing the railroad tracks
under unsafe condition, simply because
they are walking the shortest route
between two points.
• The railroad tracks, buildings, and vacant
properties lining NW 1st Avenue are
unsightly.
• There is a general lack of sense of place
resulting from low building heights in
proportion to the street width. This takes
away from the potential of NW 1st
Avenue becoming an important signature
location.
New Opportunities
There are a number of opportunities that
an enhanced NW 1st Avenue will afford the
neighborhood. One of these is the
improvement of the pedestrian connection
between the newly proposed Promenade in
Park West and the Overtown neighborhood.
Better pedestrian routes and improved walking
conditions will allow residents and visitors
alike to circulate between the two areas.
Another opportunity is that the railroad
right-of-way can accommodate a new light rail
system, the Baylink. A station along this
section of the avenue will bring people to the
Promenade and serve as a link to downtown
Miami and Miami Beach for neighborhood
residents.
NW 1st Avenue does not need to be a
strong retail oriented street. A mixture of
office and residential buildings are the best
choice for the extra -wide roadway. Retail
efforts should be focused on The core area of
Overtown and the key east -west streets such
as 9th, 11th, and 14th.
Urban Design Solutions
1) With the current traffic pattern,
northbound vehicles need to stop, turn
left and cross the railroad tracks and then
stop and turn right to continue north. To
resolve this odd driving route, the main
travel lanes of NW 1st Avenue will curve
across to the western side of the railroad
tracks and continue to the north. The
roadway on the eastern side of the tracks
should remain a two-way street.
2) Legitimize parking on the east side of NW
1st Avenue by marking on -street spaces
and installing parking meters.
3) A number of changes and improvements
are proposed in the Physical Plan to create
a more pedestrian -friendly environment
along NW 1st Avenue. Several new at -
grade crossings of the railroad tracks are
proposed. This will allow for safer
pedestrian movement across the tracks as
well as establish missing connections in
the street grid. Improvements to
sidewalks and the addition of street lights
and shade trees along the median will
provide a more enjoyable walking
environment at all times of the day.
4) Taller building heights, when combined
with the landscape improvements, will
increase the definition of the public space
on both sides of the tracks and will
contribute to creating a sense of place.
The natural surveillance that occurs when
people can watch the Avenue through the
windows of their homes or offices will
make NW 1st Avenue a much safer place.
5) A parking structure in some location
along NW 1st Avenue, perhaps in
Overtown, will service the parking need
generated by the influx of visitors and
daily inhabitants to the area. Any
proposed parking structures must be
4.4 SOUTHEAST OVERTOWN / PARK WEST MASTER PLAN
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west streets cross them. The lack of shade, empty lots, and blank walls contribute to a hostile environment.
4.6 SOUTHEAST OVERTOVVN / PARK WEST MASTER PLAN
NW 1st Avenue, looking south. The right-of-way is to be reconfigured to accommodate light rail, on -street
parking, and double alleys of shade trees. Properties fronting the street are illustrated as mixed -use buildings
with housing on upper floors.
Projects and Programs 4.7
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4.8 SOUTHEAST OVERTOVVN / PARK WEST MASTER PLAN
NW 1st Avenue, looking north. The right-of-way can accommodate on -street parking, light rail, and wider
sidewalks.
Projects and Programs 4.9
NW 1st Avenue Section.
4.10
SOUTHEAST OVERTOVVN / PARK WEST MASTER PLAN
lined with habitable spaces (such as
offices, apaittuents, or hotel rooms)
facing the streets or avenues.
Stakeholders' Roles for Redevelopment
SEOPW CRA:
• Make sure there are Credit Counseling
Services available for existing Overtown
residents, to help them qualify for
homeownership.
• Make sure there is an organization set up
that can offer basic financial literacy
training, job training, education and other
supportive services for people with
extremely low incomes that can not
qualify for home ownership.
• Begin talks with FEC and Dade County
Public Works to change the configuration
of NW 1st Avenue. This Avenue has
historically been the divider between
Overtown and Park West, and the
redesign is needed to make it the unifier.
• Support the City with the effort of
revising the land development regulations,
by funding the effort and/or promoting it
with the community.
City ofMiami:
• The Planning and Zoning Department
should prepare new development
regulations for properties along Biscayne
Boulevard in Park West to create rules
that will provide an attractive and safe
pedestrian environment facing Biscayne
Boulevard.
Overtown Civic Partnership:
• Continue efforts to implement public —
private joint development projects.
Residents in the Community:
• Residents should participate in programs
to better prepare them to take advantage
of home ownership and opportunities that
arise from redevelopment.
Developers:
• Provide residential units along NW 1st
Avenue that meet the goals and principles
of this redevelopment plan.
• Commercial Property owners: Look for
opportunities for apaitutents or
condominiums to increase the number of
patrons for the local businesses.
Overtown Advisory Board:
• Continue to monitor and offer
recommendations on activities.
Black Archives Foundation:
• Continue the efforts to promote and
preserve community's cultural heritage.
Project Area B. Overtown
General Boundaries:
North: NW 11th Street
South: NW 8th Street
East: NW 1st Avenue
West: NW 3'1 Avenue
Challenges
• The historic
entertainment
in this area
cultural life of arts and
and expression of heritage
needs to be regenerated.
Many of the historic buildings have been
demolished.
• There is a need for a safe public gathering
space associated with the restored and
expanded Lyric Theater.
• Insuring the economic viability of the
Lyric Theater as the cultural anchor of
Historic Overtown
• Once the Lyric Theater and surrounding
businesses become successful, there will
be a perceived shortage of parking spaces,
and new parking spaces will be needed for
infill redevelopment.
• Residential population has decreased in
year 2000 from year 1990 according to the
Federal Census, explaining the decrease in
viable businesses that offer services to the
residents.
Goals and Guiding Principles 4.11
New Opportunities
The project area called Overtown is
intended to be the central core of Overtown.
Groups like the Overtown Civic Partnership
are proactively planning to revive Overtown,
creating a "destination of choice." The Lyric
Plaza will be the focal public open space for
cultural and entertainment activities. The
Black Archives Foundation has restored the
Lyric Theater and rents it out for activities and
events. The Lyric will also attract business to
the area from performances associated with
the Performing Arts Center, currently under
construction.
The SEOPW CRA, Miami -Dade County,
and the South Florida Land Trust already
control significant land parcels in this vicinity,
and have been assembling them for the
purpose of redevelopment.
The May 2002 Economic Programming
Study prepared by ZHA for all of Overtown
recommends that an enticement program be
created by an Action Team for Procurement.
The Action Team is to be made up of
commercial realtors, bankers, commercial
developers, and a senior CRA staff member.
Their job is to attract a tenant mix that
supports the jazz, blues, and gospel
entertainment venues and the supporting
businesses in retail and services. Read that
study for further information.
The Lyric Theater serves as the cultural
anchor of "Historic Overtown." This cultural
anchor can serve to significantly enhance
efforts to create a tourist destination. The
long-term viability of the Lyric Theater as the
cultural anchor, and future commercial retail
and residential developments is critical.
Keeping the theater open and active may
require additional public -private partnerships.
Urban Design Solutions
1) The Lyric Plaza should be surrounded on
three sides by mixed -use buildings, with
the fourth side being the planned addition
to the theater. The ground level of these
buildings should contain restaurants, bars,
clubs, and shops offering unique
merchandise with cultural appeal. These
establishments will complement the
theater -going experience and will
encourage people to come early and linger
after performances at the Lyric Theater
and other future clubs in the area.
2) Offices and/or apartments should occupy
the upper floors around the Lyric Plaza.
3) Vehicular access should be provided on
the west and north sides of the Lyric
Plaza, providing a drop-off location for
patrons and providing access to midblock
parking facilities.
4) The city blocks between NW 2nd Avenue
and 3rd Avenue should follow the Folk
Life Village Plan in character, with two to
four story buildings.
5) Taller buildings should be built facing
NW 1st Avenue and the Metrorail tracks.
Integrated into these buildings should be
garages that provide shared parking spaces
to theatergoers, the businesses, residents,
and visitors on NW 2nd Avenue and in the
Folk Life Village area.
Stakeholders' Roles for Redevelopment
SEOPW CRA:
• Offer land as part of public —private joint
development projects.
• Coordinate County efforts to do the
same.
• Support the City with the effort of
revising the land development regulations,
by funding the effort and/or promoting it
with the community.
• Make sure there are Credit Counseling
Services available for existing Overtown
residents, to help them qualify for
homeownership.
• Make sure there is an organization set up
that can offer basic financial literacy
training, job training, education and other
supportive services for people with
extremely low incomes that can not
qualify for home ownership.
4.12 SOUTHEAST OVERTOWN / PARK WEST MASTER PLAN
Overtown
Mid -block parking
garages recommended
On -street parking throughout
Plaza surrounded on all
sides by mixed -use
buildings
9'"Street Pedestrian Mall
opened to vehicular access
Mid -block parking
garage recommended
Historic Overtown Folklife Village
(Redevelopment here should follow the
1997 Master Plan prepared for the
Black Archives History & Research Foundation
by DPZ & Company, updated from an earlier
plan by Ron Frazier & Associates)
Projects and Programs
4.13
9th Street Pedestrian Mall
N.W. 2nd Avenue, existing conditions. The street that was once the center of
Overtown's nightlife is now characterized by empty lots,very little activity, and
commerce. The Lyric Theater stands isolated; most of the dense urban fabric that
once stood along this street was demolished. Because no buildings face the Ninth
Street Pedestrian Mall along its western half, it lacks natural surveillance and feels
desolate and unsafe.
4.14
Historic Lyric Theater
SOUTHEAST OVERTOVVN / PARK WEST MASTER PLAN
A resurrected "Little Broadway" Entertainment District is to take shape around the
Lyric Theater Plaza. Ninth Street could once again be opened to slow -moving
vehicular traffic. Mixed -use buildings will define Ninth Street, facing the public
realm with "eyes on the street."
Projects and Programs
4.15
- Overtown: This drawing by UDA illustrates intense highrise development along NW 1st Avenue and Metrorail, stepping down
to the smaller scaled buildings of Overtown's Folklife Village.
4.16
SOUTHEAST OVERTOVVN / PARK WEST MASTER PLAN
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Overtown: The Lyric Theater and NW 2nd Avenue.
Projects and Programs
4.17
The Folklife Village: NW 9th Street.
4.18
SOUTHEAST OVERTOVVN / PARK WEST MASTER PLAN
• Help existing and future commercial
property owners attract quality tenants,
and national retailers, by starting the
Action Team as described in ZHA's 2003
Economic Programming Study
City ofMiami:
• Change the Land Development
Regulations for Overtown, to meet the
vision for this area.
• Examine the extension or inclusion of the
area around the Lyric Theater into the
City's Entertainment District, so new
businesses in Overtown can receive the
same incentives that businesses in parts of
Park West receive.
Overtown Civic Partnership:
• Continue efforts to implement public—
p rivate joint development projects.
• Help existing business owners improve
the appearance their storefronts to
improve sales by offering design
suggestions for the facades and windows.
Residents in the Community:
• Residents should participate in programs
to better prepare them to take advantage
of home ownership and opportunities that
arise from redevelopment.
Developers:
• Provide residential units in Overtown that
meet the goals and principles of this
redevelopment plan.
.Overtown Advisory Board:
• Continue to monitor and offer
recommendations on activities.
Black Archives:
• Carry out the plan to expand the Lyric
Theatre. Manage the Lyric Plaza.
• Continue to maintain the Lyric Theater
and rent it for events.
• Continue with art and heritage exhibits
showcasing African American cultural
contributions at the Lyric Theater to
provide a destination in Overtown.
• Continue the efforts to promote the
Folklife Village.
• Assist in the development of
complementary uses along the NW 2nd
Avenue corridor.
Project Area C. Northwest 3rd
Avenue Neighborhood Center
General Boundaries:
North: NW 19th Street
South: I-395 Overpass
East: NW 2nd Avenue
West: NW 4th Avenue
Challenges
• Buildings that once opened toward the
street with doors and windows have been
closed up, presumably due to crime or the
perception of vulnerability to crime.
• Neighborhood -serving retail has been
reduced to a handful of bars, small
markets, hair salons and barber shops,
and laundromats.
• The Culmer Center building is far from
the street, fenced off, poorly lit at night,
and the property is significantly
underutilized.
• Existing apaitiuent buildings in the area
are at best plain and, in many cases, aging
and unattractive.
New Opportunities
NW 3rd Avenue could become a thriving
mixed -use / commercial street with businesses
Goals and Guiding Principles 4.19
that better support the daily needs of both
longtime residents and newcomers. New
residential development, such as Village of St.
Agnes, Carrie Meek Tower, and St. John
Village will increase the variety of housing
choices and diversify the household types and
incomes, and return the customers needed for
the businesses. The Culmer Center could be
rebuilt and expanded as an impressive street -
oriented building, with a courtyard for certain
outdoor activities. The corner at NW 17th
Street and NW 3rd Avenue has large trees that
will enhance what could be turned into a
public green square. Vehicular traffic around
the new green square will make it safer than
the property currently appears.
ZHA's 2003 Economic Programming
Report supports the need for additional retail
in North Overtown, especially with the 102
new units that are soon to come on the
market.
Urban Design Solutions
1) Use the Culmer Center property as a
redevelopment site.
a) The existing facility should be
replaced with a new structure built at
the corner of NW 17th Street and
NW 4th Avenue. The new building
should be oriented to the street, with
an open air courtyard.
b) An unfenced public green or park
should be built at the comer of NW
17th Street and NW 3rd Avenue where
currently there are large trees. The
front entrance of the new Culmer
Center should face the new green
square.
c) The remaining portion of the Culmer
Center property along NW 3rd
Avenue should be redeveloped as 2-
to 4-story flexible -use buildings,
oriented toward the street like those
on the east side of NW 3rd Avenue.
d) The remaining portion of the Culmer
Center Property along NE 4th Avenue
should be redeveloped for residential
or office uses. Live/work
combinations should be encouraged.
2) Properties on the eastern side of NW 3rd
Avenue should be refurbished or
redeveloped into 2- to 4-story mixed -use
buildings. Windows and doors must face
NW 3rd Avenue to make walking along
the sidewalk safe and worthwhile.
3) Implement the Trust for Public Land's
Overtown Greenway Plan (the portions
for North Overtown, in particular).
NE/NW 14th Street is the main
pedestrian connection into the Omni
Area.
4) Sidewalks should be repaired where
broken and street trees planted where
there are gaps. This segment of NW 3rd
Avenue currently has a nice mature street
tree canopy that should be retained during
any future streetscape project.
Stakeholders' Roles for Redevelopment
SEOPW CRA:
• Make sure there are Credit Counseling
Services available for existing Overtown
residents, to help them qualify for
homeownership.
• Make sure there is an organization set up
that can offer basic financial literacy
training, job training, education and other
supportive services for people with
extremely low incomes that can not
qualify for home ownership.
• Initiate a streetscape improvement project
for North Overtown.
• Help attract new businesses to NW 3rd
Avenue in anticipation of new residents
moving into Village of St. Agnes, Carrie
Meek Tower, and St. John Village, making
those businesses more viable than with
the current population.
• Provide assistance perhaps through a
facade improvement program or
rehabilitation grant or loan program for
existing commercial building/business
owners to upgrade the existing stores on
4.20 SOUTHEAST OVERTOWN / PARK WEST MASTER PLAN
NW 3rd Avenue Neighborhood Center
Buildings built to front property line
Redeveloped Culmer Center property
Mixed -use buildings
located along avenue
Rear lanes provide access to
parking behind buildings
Projects and Programs 4.21
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NW Third Avenue, Culmer Square. Culmer Square is to be reconfigured as a public green space surrounded by resi-
dences, commercial enterprises, and civic institutions.
4.22 SOUTHEAST OVERTOVVN / PARK WEST MASTER PLAN
the NW 3rd Street.
• Request the County to redevelop the
Culmer Center to improve the facility and
help improve NW 3rd Avenue, or seek a
third party to joint venture with the
County.
City ofMiami:
• Assist with streetscape improvements for
North Overtown.
• Request the County to redevelop the
Culmer Center to improve the facility and
help improve NW 3rd Avenue.
Overtown Civic Partnership:
• Request the County to redevelop the
Culmer Center to improve the facility and
help improve NW 3rd Avenue, or seek a
third party to joint venture with the
County.
• Focus efforts on West Overtown in a
similar manner to that of The core of
Overtown.
Residents in the Community:
• Residents should participate in programs
to better prepare them to take advantage
of home ownership and opportunities that
arise from redevelopment.
Developers:
• Continue to provide more residential units
in North Overtown that meet the goals
and principles of this redevelopment plan.
Commercial Property owners:
• Make improvements to buildings,
• Look for opportunities for apartments or
condominiums to increase the number of
patrons for the local businesses.
Ovvertown Advisory Board:
• Continue to monitor and offer
recommendations to activities in North
Overtown.
Black Archives Foundation:
• Continue the efforts to promote and
preserve the cultural heritage of the
community.
Community Churches:
• Evaluate your building and grounds to see
if changes can be made to the appearance
to help beautify NW 3rd Avenue
• Study the possibility of developing excess
church property for housing or
commercial uses.
• Host or sponsor community events to
attract tourists or visitors to Overtown.
Project Area D. Historic Overtown
Priority Business Corridor
On June 9th, 1998 the City of Miami
adopted resolution R-98-592 designating NW
3rd Avenue from approximately NW 8th Street
to approximately NW 14th Street, and NW 8th
Street from NW 2nd Avenue to NW 3rd
Avenue, as the Historic Overtown Priority
Business Corridor. This general designation
gave the CRA the ability to start planning
activities, which it did, via a pilot program that
will assist the overall commercial revitalization
of Overtown.
The CRA has made progress with some
of the problems identified at that time by the
project report. The two buildings on the east
side of NW 3rd Avenue between 10th Street
and 11th Street have been renovated and have
a new facade that was funded through a grant
from the CRA. The CRA further constructed
parking lots along the business corridor in
anticipation of future parking needs for the
commercial businesses. The blue metal picket
fence surrounding Frederick Douglass
Elementary School is a visual improvement
over the chain link fence that was there.
Project Area Boundaries:
North: I-395 Overpass
Goals and Guiding Principles 4.23
South: NW 8th Street
East: properties that face NW 3m1 Ave
West: properties that face NW 3'' Ave
Challenges
• More buildings need renovation.
• The community has criticized the
construction of the parking lots, because
at present they appear to remain empty
most of the time and decrease the sense
of a built-up neighborhood.
• The street has many churches, each
needing additional parking during church
events and funerals that occur on days
other than Sundays. These events further
reduce the parking availability for business
patrons.
• There is a lack of shade for pedestrians.
• Sidewalks are narrower than those for
typical main streets, making it less
comfortable for shoppers and other
pedestrians.
New Opportunities
The potential for a thriving NW 3fd
Avenue has not been lost. The segment near
NW 8th Street is quite visible for people
getting on Interstate 95, and it is somewhat
visible for northbound motorists on I-95.
More noticeable improvements between NW
8th and NW 10th Streets will attract people to
stop there who might otherwise pass by, or
who might be interested enough by a passing
glance to want to return when they have more
time.
Urban Design Solutions
1) Do not build any more parking lots until
the demand for the area increases to the
point where there is a real parking
problem. The project entitled Planning and
Development of Parking Facilities for the
Historic Priority Business Corridor, should be
considered complete until more parking is
needed in the Priority Business Corridor.
The surface parking lots constructed by
the SEOPW CRA were intended to be an
interim use. The CRA is interested in
development proposals for those
properties provided parking is included
that is also accessible for existing
neighborhing buildings.
2) Shade for pedestrians is urgently needed.
This can be accomplished by planting
trees between the on -street parking
spaces, or with awnings, canopies, roof
overhangs, balconies, colonnades, or
arcades attached to the buildings.
3) Travel lanes in the streets should be
narrowed so that the extra space can be
added to the sidewalk width. On -street
parking must remain in any future
streetscape project, to help the businesses
along the street, and to add a safety
barrier between the moving cars and the
pedestrians.
4) Landscaping along the embankments of
the Interstate Highways and the Metrorail
should be continued. This has been
successfully accomplished in some places
by Marvin Dunn's Group, Black
Reflections, Inc.
5) Improve the appearance of Church
owned parking lots. These are mostly
empty except during Sunday services and
other events and they could be landscaped
better. Better yet, develop new buildings
to house church programs, community
outreach services, subsidized housing or
for generating revenue through renting
and leasing. Any new buildings will likely
have to include parking structures, and
minimize the view to parking from NW
3fd Avenue.
Implementation Strategies
The 1998 Study for the Historic Overtown
NW 3m1 Avenue Priority Business Corridor
recommended that an economic study was
needed, that a business capacity and
identification program be created, and a
"theme" be adopted. The May 2002
Economic Programming Study prepared by
4.24 SOUTHEAST OVERTOWN / PARK WEST MASTER PLAN
ZHA for all of Overtown estimates the
magnitude of commercial and residential
development that SE Overtown can sustain.
It recommends that an enticement program be
created by an Action Team for Procurement.
The Action Team is to be made up of
commercial realtors, bankers, commercial
developers, and a senior CRA staff member.
Their job is to attract a tenant mix that
supports the jazz, blues, and gospel
entertainment venues and the supporting
businesses in retail and services. The study
suggests that the success of future residential
development is dependant upon the success of
the commercial uses. This action team will
have to work on the Priority Commercial
Corridor in a coordinated manner with
entertainment district intended for Overtown.
A "theme" is
positioning the
properly in an
not so important, but
Overtown neighborhood
advertising and marketing
campaign will be important to its success.
Stakeholders' Roles for Redevelopment
SEOPW CRA:
• Continue to plan and coordinate
improvements for this project area.
• Coordinate efforts with the efforts of the
Overtown Civic Partnership. The
projects share many of the same problems
and solutions.
• Help existing and new commercial
property owners attract quality tenants,
and national retailers, by starting the
Action Team as described in ZHA's 2003
Economic Programming Study.
• Make sure there is an organization set up
that can offer basic financial literacy
training, job training, education and other
supportive services for people with
extremely low incomes that can not
qualify for home ownership.
City ofMiami:
• Examine current land development
regulations for the possibility of revisions.
• Upgrade the appearance and facilities in
Athalie Range #1 Mini Park which is a
visual symbol of slum and blight in the
area
Overtown Civic Partnership:
• Continue development efforts for this
area.
Residents in the Community:
• Patronize the businesses on NW 3rd
Avenue.
• Residents should participate in programs
to better prepare them to take advantage
of home ownership and opportunities that
arise from redevelopment.
• Appeal to FDOT and the City of Miami to
renovate Athalie Range #1 Mini Park
consistent with the goals to revitalize
Overtown.
Commercial Property Owners and
Developers:
• Continue making improvements.
• Look for opportunities for apaaments or
condominiums to increase the number of
patrons for the local businesses.
Overtown Advisory Board:
• Pay close attention to NW 3rd Avenue
while focusing on the Overtown efforts.
Look for actions that can benefit NW 3rd
Avenue
Black Archives Foundation:
• Continue the efforts to promote the
Folklife Village.
• Continue efforts to secure funding and
organize businesses consistent with the
Main Street Program that the Foundation
currently oversees.
• Continue to work jointly with the
Overtown Civic Partnership towards
improvements in the neighborhood.
Community Churches:
• Evaluate your building and grounds to see
Goals and Guiding Principles 4.25
if changes can be made to the appearance
to help beautify NW 3rd Avenue
• Study the possibility of developing excess
church property and surface parking lots
for housing or commercial uses.
• Host or sponsor community events to
attract tourists or visitors to Overtown.
Project Area E. West Overtown
General Boundaries:
North:
South:
East:
West:
NW 11dh Street
NW 7th Street
I-95
NW 7th Avenue
Challenges
• Streets were closed off near Reeves Park
that creates large blocks, referred to as
superblocks. These sometimes are
difficult for pedestrians to cross, and
make motorists drive farther, consuming
time and expensive fuel.
• Boarded up buildings greet motorists
entering Downtown from the I-95 ramp
that becomes NW 3rd Court
• The two blocks of neighborhood serving
retail blocks on NW 5th Avenue might be
difficult to revive in the near term.
New Opportunities
The location of this area between
downtown and the Miami River will become
desirable as a neighborhood in which to live
once the apartments and neighborhood
amenities become more attractive and
functional. ZHA's 2003 Economic
Programming Report supports the need for
additional residential units in West Overtown
in addition to those already provided in the
two recent developments, New Hope
Overtown and The Miami River Park.
The one-way streets in this neighborhood
could be returned to two-way, shortening car
trips and removing confusion for motorists.
Apaitinents could be quite desirable facing all
four sides of Reeves Park. Opening up the
superblock so that streets will surround all
four sides of Reeves Park will make the park
appear to be safer.
West Overtown does have industrial uses
along NW 7th Avenue. Those that are
compatible to the neighborhood should not be
discouraged. Special attention will need to be
given to the transition from industrial to
residential uses. These businesses provide
jobs for local residents at wage levels higher
than retail jobs and likely high enough to
support a family.
Urban Design Solutions
1) To break up the superblocks, former
streets will need to be restored, most
importantly the superblock bordered by
NW 8th Street and NW 10th Street
between NW 5th Avenue and NW 7th
Avenue.
2) Apartment buildings must vary in form
and color to enhance the visual
4.26 SOUTHEAST OVERTOWN / PARK WEST MASTER PLAN
West Overtown
Streets added to divide "superblock"
Rear lanes provide access to
parking behind buildings
Residences facing onto the park
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Projects and Programs 4.27
Reeves Park, existing conditions: Apartment buildings are set back far from the street. There are few win-
dows and doors facing the park, depriving it of natural surveillance.
4.28 SOUTHEAST OVERTOVVN / PARK WEST MASTER PLAN
Reeves Park, in the future: Apartment buildings are rebuilt closer to the street with doors and windows
facing the park. Low -slung buildings are to be replaced with apartments of more vertical proportions.
Projects and Programs 4.29
appearance of the neighborhood.
3) The fronts of new aparttuent buildings
facing Reeves Park shall have their front
doors facing the Park.
4) Neighborhood serving commercial land
uses shall be encouraged on NW 5th
Avenue between NW 7th Street and NW
10th Street, except on the Reeves Park
property.
5) Provide on -street parking, especially near
neighborhood serving commercial
buildings and around Reeves Park.
6) Implement the Trust for Public Land's
Overtown Greenway from the Miami
River to Overtown.
Stakeholders' Roles for Redevelopment
SEOPW CRA:
• Help the Trust for Public Land
implement their Overtown Greenway.
• Make sure there are Credit Counseling
Services available for existing Overtown
residents, to help them qualify for
homeownership.
• Make sure there is an organization set up
that can offer basic financial literacy
training, job training, education and other
supportive services for people with
extremely low incomes that can not
qualify for home ownership.
• Help promote neighborhood serving retail with doors and windows to provide
for West Overtown in a similar manner to
Historic Overtown Priority Business
Corridor.
• Encourage the City to change the one-way
streets in West Overtown back to two-
way streets.
• Assist residential developers to provide
additional quality housing in West
Overtown.
• Help existing and future commercial
property owners attract quality tenants,
and national retailers, by starting the
Action Team as described in ZHA's 2003
Economic Programming Study
City ofMiami:
• The Public Works Department should
turn the one-way streets back to two-way
which is recommended for Overtown and
Park West in the Downtown
Transportation Master Plan.
• Contribute to changes to Reeves Park as
new development opportunities arise on
surrounding properties.
• Upgrade the appearance and facilities in
Athalie Range #1 Mini Park which is a
visual symbol of slum and blight in the
area.
• Encourage buildings that face Reeves
Park and Athalie Range #1 Mini Park
natural surveillance of the parks and
provide incentives for creative
architectural designs that blend residential
buildings with the culture of the
neighborhood.
Overtown Civic Partnership:
• Focus efforts on West Overtown in a
similar manner to that of The core of
Overtown.
Developers:
• Continue to provide more residential units
in West Overtown that meet the goals and
principles of this redevelopment plan.
Residents in the Community:
• Residents should participate in programs
to better prepare them to take advantage
of home ownership and opportunities that
arise from redevelopment.
• Appeal to FDOT and the City of Miami to
renovate Athalie Range #1 Mini Park
consistent with the goals to revitalize
Overtown.
Commercial Property owners:
• Make improvements to buildings as
necessary
• Paint or clean building facades on a
frequent basis.
4.30 SOUTHEAST OVERTOWN / PARK WEST MASTER PLAN
Overtown Advisory Board:
• Continue to monitor and offer
recommendations to activities in West
Overtown.
Black Archives Foundation:
• Continue the efforts to promote and
preserve the cultural heritage of the
community.
Project Area F. Properties Facing
Biscayne Boulevard
General Boundaries:
North: I-395
South: NE 5th Street
East: Biscayne Boulevard
West: NE 2nd Avenue
Challenges
• Most properties facing Bicentennial Park
remain vacant and only used for parking
for events at the American Airlines Arena.
However, ownership has changed
recently, signaling change may not be too
far away.
• Zoning regulations for buildings fronting
Bicentennial Park do not necessarily
promote street -oriented buildings.
• Biscayne Boulevard is difficult to cross
with the fast-moving traffic and the large
number of travel lanes. There are very
few marked crosswalks.
New Opportunities
Requiring buildings to be sited on the
front property line or a designated "build -to"
line will allow Biscayne Boulevard to develop
into an urban street befitting its location and
history. Building envelope controls should
prevent new buildings from blocking air flow
and light from existing buildings behind them,
to optimize air quality.
Awnings, colonnades, and balconies must
provide needed protection from the elements
for passing pedestrians. These sheltered
locations will also provide opportunities for
outdoor dining along Biscayne Boulevard,
contributing to Miami's warm -weather
lifestyle.
Parking garages lined with habitable
spaces facing the streets will help satisfy the
parking needs of the new Biscayne Boulevard
buildings. The habitable space lining the
garages will give these utilitarian structures an
urban face toward the public spaces of the
streets and Park.
Urban Design Solutions
1) The primary solutions to the challenges
faced by Biscayne Boulevard buildings will
be found in changes to the zoning code.
These code changes must address such
issues as building placement, awnings, and
colonnades, among others. The Biscayne
Boulevard Special Area Plan details these
recommended changes.
2) More control is to be exercised over the
building envelope, allowing buildings to
interact more sensitively with prevailing
breezes and improve air quality. A twelve
Goals and Guiding Principles 4.31
Biscayne Boulevard
4.32
Museum patrons must
park west of Biscayne Boulevard
Pedestrian crossings added
to Biscayne Boulevard
Towers rise up from the "base"
Parking garage in "base"
(within dashed rectangle)
Buildings built to property lines
as a "base" of 6 to 8 stories
American Airlines Arena
Freedom Tower
SOUTHEAST OVERTOWN / PARK WEST MASTER PLAN
Properties facing Biscayne Boulevard are to be developed with mixed -use buildings. Residences and offices are locat-
ed above shops and restaurants. A redesigned Biscayne Boulevard incorporates light rail, trees, and wide sidewalks.
Projects and Programs
4.33
story building base requirement should be
instituted to create a more unified "street
wall" and improve the spatial enclosure
along Biscayne Boulevard and
Bicentennial Park.
3) Additional pedestrian crossings are to be
located along Biscayne Boulevard to
increase pedestrian safety and mobility.
4) With the two new museums planned for
Bicentennial Park, their parking demands
should be met offsite, on the west side of
Biscayne Boulevard. By making the
motorists park west of Biscayne and walk
down the streets and across the
Boulevard, merchants gain better
visibility, and the pedestrian traffic makes
the streets safer, just by their presence.
Stakeholders' Roles for Redevelopment
SEOPW CRA:
• Support the City with the effort of
revising the land development regulations,
by funding the effort and/or promoting it
with the community.
• Until such time as the new land
development regulations are in place,
facilitate meetings with property owners
prior to the completion of their
construction documents and approvals to
show them the intentions of the new
regulations.
City ofMiami:
• Help the CRA implement a shared
parking garage to serve the Museums and
Performing Arts Center on the west side
of Biscayne Boulevard.
• The Planning and Zoning Department
should prepare new development
regulations for properties along Biscayne
Boulevard in Park West to create rules
that will provide an attractive,
comfortable, and safe pedestrian
environment facing Biscayne Boulevard.
Commercial Property Owners and
Developers:
The most important design features of
buildings facing Biscayne Boulevard should
include:
• Every floor facing Biscayne Boulevard
should have habitable and useable space.
Parking garages on lower floors should
have "liners" of habitable space. Drop-
offs may occur in the on -street parking
lane, should FDOT create a parking lane
in its new design for the roadway.
• Primary entrances should face Biscayne
Boulevard.
• Vehicular entrances to garages and
delivery bays should occur on NE 2nd
Avenue, but not on Biscayne Boulevard.
Project Area G. The Promenade
General Boundaries:
North:
South:
East:
West:
NE/NW 11th Street
NE/NW 10th Street
Biscayne Boulevard
NW 1st Avenue
Challenges
• Unused railroad right-of-way that has
become an unsightly alley.
• Nondescript, windowless buildings lining
the right-of-way, contributing to a bleak
atmosphere.
• The current physical conditions provide
hiding locations for wrong -doers and the
homeless.
• Rapid success of the Entertainment
District has resulted in peak times for
parking and traffic congestion.
• Businesses open during daylight hours are
few, causing the area to look empty and
abandoned during the day.
New Opportunities
The Promenade holds the promise of a
great location for a vibrant entertainment
district and setting for an urban lifestyle in
Miami. It will be a pedestrian link between
Overtown, Biscayne Boulevard, and the new
museums in Bicentennial Park, activated by
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Promenade
Possible location for plaza
Example location
for Media Tower
On -street parking throughout
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Possible location for
lined parking garage
Possible location for
Buildings have entrances and
mid -block plaza windows onto the Promenade
Pedestrian passages should
occur where possible
Former railroad right-of-way
re -opened for pedestrian access
to Bicentennial Park
Projects and Programs
4.35
Alley between 10th and 11 th Streets:
Existing conditions.
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The Promenade: The first round of
improvements include uniform
paving material, lighting, and initial
facade treatments.
Projects and Programs
4.37
The Promenade, over time: New
buildings will be added and addition-
al properties transformed. Signs can
be changed frequently.
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The Promenade: Mid -block paseos will provide alternative routes for pedestrians, increase retail frontage, and become
community gathering spots. A small piazza is envisioned with outdoor dining, kiosks, and a fountain.
Projects and Programs
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The Promenade: Canopies and arcades will shade those who are dining and walking along the Promenade,
extending the potential hours of operation to include daytime.
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The upper floors of buildings may project over the storefronts.
Projects and Programs
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nightclubs and restaurants at night and locally
serving businesses during the day. New
residents will be some of the patrons
supporting the local economy. The parking
needs of these patrons will be accommodated
in a lined parking structure adjacent to NW 1st
Avenue.
New mid -block plazas that will be created
along the Promenade will function as public
gathering spaces for the clubs that have
recently been relocating to the Promenade.
Most successful commercial districts have
anchors to draw patrons. The Promenade will
have on its eastern edge a renovated
Bicentennial Park, with two new museums, the
Miami Art Museum (MAM), and the Miami
Children's Museum. At the western end of
the Promenade, along NW 1st Avenue, a
significant anchor has not yet been identified.
. This anchor should attract people to the
neighborhood during daylight hours, as well as
at night.
Terraces, whether part of new buildings
or added to the existing buildings, will provide
space for outdoor dining at ground level and
above, improving the "outdoor" lifestyle that
Miami's weather allows.
Urban Design Solutions
1) Examine and modify, if necessary, zoning
regulations to encourage new multi -story
mixed -use buildings and parking garages.
The requirement of windows, doors, and
terraces to the existing buildings along the
Promenade will contribute to the natural
surveillance of the space making the
environment safer. New regulations
could add incentives additional parking
for civic buildings such as the Center for
the Performing Arts, the two arenas, and
the future museums in Bicentennial Park.
2) Design a construction plan that will detail
the approach to lighting, signage, and new
pavement in an effort to encourage
business activity and make the area safer.
This could be implemented on a block by
block basis as funds permit.
3) Modify the boundaries of the City's
Entertainment District to include just the
properties that face NE/NW 11th Street
and NE/NW 10th Street from Biscayne
Blvd on the east to NW 1st Avenue on the
west (including both sides of NW 1th
Avenue).
4) Review the Promenade Special Area Plan
for more design concepts and strategies.
Stakeholders' Roles for Redevelopment
SEOPW CRA:
• Fund and implement improvements to
the former railroad now known as the
Promenade. These improvements should
include but not be limited to re -surfacing
pavement, landscaping, increasing
lighting, and painting. Acquiring the
services of engineers or landscape
architects may be required.
• Coordinate, and help facilitate in some
manner, an air conditioned garbage
location accessible by all the businesses
along the Promenade. This could be
constructed as part of a new building or
by renovating an existing one.
Management of this facility should be
taken on by one of the building managers
for collecting fees, for example.
• Support the City with the effort of
revising the land development regulations,
by funding the effort and/or promoting it
with the community.
City ofMiami:
• Work with the CRA if necessary to
implement the shared garbage facility.
The City should not be responsible for
the management of this facility.
• The Planning and Zoning Department
should prepare new development
regulations for properties with C-1 zoning
in Park West, to allow an increase in
development opportunity.
• Support the creation of a zoning
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ordinance that allows outdoor dining for
the Promenade.
• Examine the modification of the
boundaries for the City's Entertainment
District. Interest appears to be focused
on the 11th Street area. The southern
portion of the boundaries should be
removed. The boundaries can be
extended to the west to include portions
of Overtown. The area around the Lyric
Theater should be included.
• Continue to provide police support for
the SEOPW CRA area.
• Solve the homeless situation in the area
and assist Charities Unlimited in the
relocation and/or upgrade of its Camillus
House facility.
• Assist in the infrastructure installation for
the area, particularly the wiring of fiber
optics.
Overtown Civic Partnership:
• Seek opportunities for the positive effects
of the Entertainment District to "spill"
over into Overtown
Corrlrnercial Property Owners and
.Developers:
• When renovating existing structures or
building new ones orient patio entrances,
outdoor dinning, or entertainment spaces
to the Promenade.
• Enclose unsightly rear building items,
such as electrical meters, back flow,
preventers, etc.
• Place mechanical equipment on roofs to
keep the Promenade free of the noise and
unsightliness.
• Work with the CRA or City to create a
shared garbage facility.
Project Area H: NE 8t1 Street Spine
General Boundaries:
North: NE 10th Street
South: NE 6th Street
East: Biscayne Boulevard
West: N. Miami Avenue
Challenges
• Despite the location, properties between
the two Arenas are somewhat separated
from the neighboring downtown.
Barriers include the elevated MetroMover
tracks on 5th Street and the FEC railroad
right-of-way between 6th and 7th Streets.
7th Street is not a through -street, because
it is blocked by the Miami Arena.
New Opportunities
Recently various property owners in this
area have organized a collective effort to
coordinate future development across multiple
City blocks. They can do this with flexibility if
the City designates a zoning district that would
allow transferring certain zoning requirements
and entitlements from one block to another
within the district. This flexibility will allow
opportunities for a grocery store, additional
commercial anchor stores, and better
configurations for parking structures since
some of the blocks are very small for garage.
Goals and Guiding Principles 4.43
ZHA, Inc., the CRA's economic feasibility
consultants, has identified in its 2003 report to
the SEOPW CRA that there is potential in
setting up and attracting a new business
market in preventative medical care to Park
West, generally supported by people with
greater means, spending more than 19 billion
dollars nationally each year. These medical
related uses are not necessarily required for the
8th Street Spine but are offered here as a
unique market potential for the area.
Preventative medical care includes health
maintenance tests and scans to make sure that
customers are healthy and for early diagnosis
of possible health problems. Tests may
include EKG (resting and treadmill), visual
acuity testing, audiogram, chest x-ray,
spirometry, non-invasive colonoscopy, blood
workup, body composition, and nutrition
counseling. Customers will have access to
over 100 specialists and may receive additional
diagnostic tests such as calcium -score heart
scan, CT lung scans, total body scan of the
heart, lungs and abdomen/pelvis, ultrasound
for carotid arteries, dental examination, skin
exams, and cosmetic surgery consultations.
Mingled with the medical services are
holistic services that include traditional
therapeutic massages, facials and body
treatments, and energy healing (Tai Chi, Yoga
and meditation classes, hands-on healing).
Urban Design Solutions
The success of this project depends on
the creation of a district of various buildings
and businesses catering to the preventative
medical market and to typical residential and
commercial markets. The physical form of this
district will not vary from the urban form for
Park West described elsewhere in this plan.
Current property owners should be
interested in this idea, because if successful, it
will provide demands for leaseable space or
land/building purchases in a unique market
for South Florida. If this is slow to
implement, conventional market demands can
provide tenants.
As in the Promenade Area and elsewhere,
the zoning regulations need to be examined
and modified, if necessary, throughout Park
West to encourage new multi -story mixed -use
buildings and parking garages. The
requirement of windows, doors, and terraces
to the existing buildings along streets will
contribute to the natural surveillance making
the environment safer. New regulations
could:
• increase the FAR and density limits, or
eliminating them all together.
• have separate FAR requirements for each
use as an incentive to get mixed used
buildings.
• allow for transfer of development
potential from one property or block to
another.
• add flexibility to setbacks and increased
greenway setbacks on certain streets
connecting major public facilities;
• swapping public and privately owned land
to move public rights -of -way from their
existing locations to new ones. For
example, 7th Street could be swapped for
land next to 8th Street to make a larger
right-of-way that could include a
significant green way between the two
arenas.
• include a streamlined the regulatory
process and increase MUSP thresholds.
Stakeholders' Roles for Redevelopment
SEOPI4 CRA:
• The CRA must first approach the
hospitals and confirm ZHA's solicitation
of the hospital's interest and the
understanding this is a hospital -related
real estate venture as part of the
regionalization of medical/health services.
• Set up a long range planning committee
devoted to finding a workable manner to
construct and recruit tenancy for the
complex. See ZHA's 2003 report for
more details regarding this committee.
• Support the City with the effort of
revising the land development regulations,
by funding the effort and/or promoting it
with the community.
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City oftlliami:
• Economic Development Department: validate
the economic viability of preventative
medical uses and make recommendations
to the CRA board whether to pursue this
project.
• Planning and Zoning Department prepare
new development regulations for
properties in Park West, to allow an
increase in development opportunity.
Cormercial Property OWrlets arld
Developers:
• Collaborate with the CRA to get this
project started. Volunteer to participate
on the planning committee devoted to
designing a coordinated effort and for
recruiting and setting up the potential
preventative medical care market.
• Leasing agents may want to assist with
meeting with the hospitals and doctors.
Projects and Programs
The Projects and Programs for the
SEOPW CRA are organized into the following
headings:
I. Community Heritage and Historic
Preservation
II. Promotion and Enhancement of
Overtown and Park West as a
Business and Investment Location
III. Planning, Development, Technical
Assistance and Program Compliance
IV. Street Improvements, Utility
Infrastructure and Transportation
V. Home Ownership Pre -Qualification
and Counseling Program
VI. Grants to Existing Business Program
VII.Laredo/Re-Use Plan (CLUC 90
Properties) Program
The ordering and numbering of these
projects are not intended to reflect a
prioritization. The programs and strategies
identified here should change over time as
projects are completed and new projects
become important. Each of the projects and
programs has underneath them check marks
that show which goals they are supporting
#1 Preserving Historic Buildings &
Community Heritage
Goals and Guiding Principles 4.45
#2 Expanding the Tax Base using Smart
Growth Principles
#3 Housing: Infill, Diversity, & Retaining
Affordability
#4 Creating Jobs Within the Community
#5 Promotion & Marketing of the
Community
#6 Improving the Quality of Life for
Residents
I. Community Heritage and Historic
Preservation
1. Renovation of Historically Significant
Buildings
✓ # 1-#6 supports all of the goals
Overtown
The SEOPW CRA proposes to build on
the historic character of the area by preserving
and revitalizing historically significant
structures in the SEOPW CRA areas. Projects
will be implemented following the completion
of the designation of the significant historic
structures for rehabilitation. The Black
Archives of South Florida Research and
History Foundation, Inc.'s Master Plan
identifies the following objectives as a guide in
the redevelopment process:
• Effectively communicate information and
develop broad based awareness and
appreciation of historic achievements of
the African -American community through
exhibits, special events, tours, and the
media.
• Develop a magnet area within the target
community for the purposes of: (1) re-
establishing a special identity for Culmer-
Overtown by focusing one era in its
history, the "Little Broadway" jazz era; (2)
to establish interest in the Afro -Caribbean
heritage by encouraging tourism, trade
and cultural exchanges. Develop these
themes to attract night clubs and
restaurants; programming special cultural
events, designing signs, street furniture
and public plaza spaces; and creating
promotional literature for tourism and
local marketing.
• Preserve, where feasible, surviving
buildings which represent important links
to persons, activities or events of major
significance in the past.
• Encourage new development to
incorporate uses which would contribute
to the vitality of the district such as stores,
nightclubs, restaurants, theaters.
• Encourage new buildings to incorporate
selected design elements from the past
which reflect special cultural or thematic
feelings which are relevant today and
should be re-established.
Consideration will be given to the
preservation of all of the identified historic
buildings, wherever structural conditions and
cost of rehabilitation might be favorable.
However, recognizing that overall economic
revitalization plans for Overtown require
extensive new development, emphasis should
be placed on preservation of the following
historic structures, which are considered to be
of major importance (located within SE
Overtown Planning areas boundaries):
Churches
• Greater Bethel A.M.E. Church, 245 NW
8th Street (near 2nd Avenue)
• Mt. Zion Baptist Church, 301 NW 9th
Street (near 3rd Avenue)
• Building which was formerly the Lyric
Church, NW 2nd Avenue and 8th Street,
and the adjacent building
• Ebenezer Methodist Church, 1042 NW
3rd Avenue (near NW 11th Street)
• St. John's Baptist Church, 1328 NW 3rd
Avenue
• St. Agnes Episcopal Church, 1750 NW 3rd
Avenue
Businesses
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• X-Ray Clinic, 171 NW 9th Street
• Stirrup Building, comer NW 8th Street
and 3rd Avenue
• Longshoreman's Hall, NW 2nd Avenue
and NW 8th Street
• Stewart -Scott Building, NW 2nd Avenue
and NW 10th Street
• Dr. Davis' Office Building, NW 2nd
Avenue and NW 10th Street
• Judge L. E. Thomas' Office NW 2nd
Avenue and NW 10th Street
• Ward Rooming House, NW 9th Street and
NW 2nd Court (partially demolished)
• Clyde Kiliens' residence & business,
corner, NW 2nd Avenue and NW 11th
Street
• Lyric Theatre, 819 NW 2nd Avenue
• Clyde Kiliens' Recreation Hall, NW 2nd
Avenue and NW 10th Street
Public Buildings
• Black Police Precinct and Courthouse,
1009 NW 5th Avenue
• Dorsey Library, 100 NW 17th Street
(outside of the SEOPW CRA)
Residences
• Dorsey House, 250 NW 9th Street
• Killens House, corner, NW 2nd Avenue
and NW 11th Street
The Black Police Benevolent Association
would like to rehabilitate and develop the
former Police Precinct located at 5th Avenue
and 11th Street in Overtown. The building has
been vacant for over 10 years and is proposed
to be renovated and used as a Black Police
Museum. In addition, the facility will be
designed and equipped to promote cultural
activities for and within the Overtown
community.
Possible preservation strategies must be
studied for each of the above buildings
individually. Among the factors to be
considered are: ownership, need for repairs,
economic productivity, potential for new uses,
eligibility for federal tax benefits, location and
relationship to planned redevelopment sites,
potential for moving to a new site, potential
sources of funding. Buildings to be of first
priority concern because of imminent threats
of demolition, deterioration or vandalism
include:
• Stirrup Building
• Stewart -Scott Building
• Thomas Building
• Ward Rooming House (only front
remains with temporary structural
support)
• X-Ray Clinic
Buildings that should be considered for
reconstruction (due to previous demolition or
neglect) include:
• Ward Rooming House
• Cola Nip Building, formerly at 233-5 NW
9th Street
• Divine Mission Building
• Brown House
Park West
Older structures located in Park West that
have historic and cultural significance to the
overall Miami Community should be
preserved when economically feasible. Special
attention will be given to the Freedom Tower.
Properties of major architectural,
historical and/or contextual significance
include:
• 500 NE 1st Avenue, Central Baptist
Church
• 505 NE 2nd Avenue
• 521 NE 2nd Avenue
• 545 NE 2nd Avenue, Valencia (Gibson)
Hotel
• 135 NE 5th Street
• 49 NE 5th Street, Salvation Army Citadel
• 600 Biscayne Blvd., Freedom Tower
These buildings reflect the wide variety of
architectural styles common to Miami,
Goals and Guiding Principles 4.47
particularly Mediterranean Revival and frame
and masonry vernacular structures. Two of
the buildings, however, are examples of styles
unusual to Miami: Venetian Gothic (Salvation
Army Citadel) and Neo-Palladian (Central
Baptist Church). The preservation of these
structures should be included in any
redevelopment project.
2. Historic Designation
✓ # 1 Preserving Historic Buildings & Community
Heritage
The City of Miami Planning and Zoning
Department has evaluated Overtown and Park
West as a possible historic district and has
determined that it is not eligible. However,
the significant buildings have been designated
Historic or listed in the National Register for
Historic Places, or both, through the efforts of
the P&Z Department.
The following properties have been
designated by the City of Miami as historic
sites:
• Dorsey House, 250 NW 9th Street
• X-Ray Clinic, 171 NW 9th Street
• Chapman House, 526 NW 13th Street
• Cola Nip Building, 233-5 NW 9th Street,
building demolished
• Lyric Theatre, 819 NW 2nd Avenue
• St. John's Baptist Church, 1328 NW 3rd
Avenue
• Ebenezer Methodist Church, 1042 NW
3rd Avenue
• Mt. Zion Baptist Church, 301 NW 9th
Street
• Greater Bethel A.M.E. Church, 245 NW
8th Street
• St. Agnes Episcopal Church, 1750 NW 3rd
Avenue
• Black Police Precinct and Courthouse,
1009 NW 5th Avenue
• Dorsey Library, 100 NW 17th Street
(outside of the SEOPW CRA)
The properties listed above as historic
sites may utilize the Historic Preservation
"HP" Zoning Overlay District permits, that
provides certain modification to zoning and
building code regulations where necessary to
make preservation economically or
architecturally feasible.
The following properties have been listed
on the National Register of Historic Places:
• Dorsey House, 250 NW 9th Street
• X-Ray Clinic, 171 NW 9th Street
• Cola Nip Building, 233-5 NW 9th Street,
building demolished
• St. John's Baptist Church, 1328 NW 3rd
Avenue
• Mt. Zion Baptist Church, 301 NW 9th
Street
• Greater Bethel A.M.E. Church, 245 NW
8th Street
There may come a time when more
structures will become elligible. Should that
occur, the SEOPW CRA will work with the
Black Archives of South Florida Research and
History Foundation, Inc. and the City of Miami
to further designate properties of historic
value in the community.
3. Promote and/or Organize Activities and
Events That Recreate the Former Vitality
and Atmosphere of the Community
✓ # 1 Preserving Historic Buildings & Community
Heritage
✓ #5 Promotion & Marketing of the Community
An African-American/Caribbean theme is
recommended to recreate the feeling and
atmosphere of "Historic Overtown". The
establishment of an annual Historic Overtown
Cultural Arts Festival reminiscent of the jazz
era will provide the setting for jazz concerts to
be held within the proposed district.
The establishment of an international
cultural complex featuring activities
reminiscent of the nineteen thirties, forties,
and fifties will provide artists with the
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opportunity to receive training as well as to
perform in concert.
Events that would aid in attracting people
into the community include a national
oratorical competition, hair styling contests,
tennis tournaments and other sporting events,
culinary contests specializing in soul food
from the Caribbean and Southern States, and
the establishment of a hall of fame with annual
recognition of national figures. Families from
all over the world will be encouraged to hold
annual family reunions in Miami -Dade
County, particularly in the Historic Overtown
district.
The establishment of specialty shops
which feature products of Africa, the
Caribbean and the Southern States including
restaurants, caterers, photographer's studios
specializing in passports, bookstores and art
galleries would help attract visitors to the area.
A "Saturday Marketplace" where vendors
are allowed to set up in a designated street
block or public plaza, featuring ethnic foods,
crafts, fresh produce, artwork, a VIP
Convention Center for local organizations
with national and international chapters, and a
permanent center to exhibit ongoing
collections unique to the black experience
would also increase the number of visitors to
the area throughout the year.
4. Provide Incentives for Revitalization in
"Historic Overtown"
✓ # 1 Preserving Historic Buildings & Community
Heritage
✓ #2 Expanding the Tax Base using Smart
Growth Principles
✓ #3 Housing: Infill, Diversity, & Retaining
Affordability
✓ #4 Job Creation
✓ #6 Improving theQuality of Life for Residents
Incentives or requirements may be
provided to attract retail stores at the ground
level on selected commercial blocks, and to
attract jazz clubs, permit -controlled street
vendors, and outdoor markets.
Special zoning incentives in the HP
Overlay Ordinance may be used for the
preservation of existing historic structures.
Design guidelines for new construction that
would encourage selected elements of historic
building forms to be incorporated into the
design of new buildings should be considered.
5. Establish a First -Class Residential
Village Containing a Cluster of Restored
Buildings, The Folklife Village.
✓ # 1-#6 supports all of the goals
The placement of distinctive street
furniture wherever redevelopment plans call
for new improvements to sidewalks and plaza
spaces such as paving, benches, signs, trash
cans, landscaping, etc., and the development
of landscaping standards utilizing historical
and thematic plant materials can aid in
achieving this goal. Public plaza, street,
sidewalk and park improvements should be
designed to accommodate the special cultural
events the area will attract.
As a complement to the Historic Folk
Life Village Master Pan, the SEOPW CRA
shall promote public private partnerships
including partnerships with non-profit
organization and/or development entities
located and operating within "Historic
Overtown" to develop the first-class
residential village in a manner consistent with
"Historic Overtown".
5a. Provide Planning, Coordination,
and Technical Assistance to the Black
Archives Historic Folklife Village
Development
The Historic Folklife Village is Dade
County's proposed African American
heritage tourist destination. Plans were
proposed in 1997 and 1998 to guide the
redevelopment of the tourist site by
emphasizing reestablishment of mixed
uses. The SEOPW CRA will assist the
Black Archives and Research Foundation,
Goals and Guiding Principles 4.49
Inc. in providing a detailed survey, a
complete economic and functional
evaluation of all the land uses and
proposed development within the
Historic Folklife Village, and initiate any
environmental assessments in order to
assist in the efforts of developing the area.
5b. Technical Assistance to Historic
Lyric Theater Redevelopment
The Lyric Theater is a performing
arts theater that was the center of local
nightlife in its heyday. Located at NW 2nd
Ave. and NW 8th St., it is currently under
renovation by the Black Archives. Their
primary objective is to use the theater as a
venue for cultural programming,
community meeting facilities and an
anchor for the Historic Overtown Folklife
Village. The SEOPW CRA will assist in
the Black Archives' on -going effort to
rehabilitate the theater and make available
related support facilities. Assistance will
include a right of way for access to back
of house related activities and potential
parking.
5c. Planning Design and Development
of Infrastructure Improvements in the
Historic Folklife Village
As a complement to the Historic
Folklife Village Master Plan, the SEOPW
CRA will assist in providing technical
assistance for the provision of
infrastructure improvements, such as
streetscape improvements and
landscaping.
5d. Planning, Design and
Development of Parking Facilities to
Support the Lyric Theater and the
Folklife Village
The SEOPW CRA proposes to assist
with the development of parking facilities
to support the increasing use of the Lyric
Theater and the eventual development of
the Folklife Village.
6. Promotion of "Historic Overtown" as a
Tourist Destination
✓ # 1 Preserving Historic Buildings & Community
Heritage
✓ #5 Promotion & Marketing of the Community
✓ #6 Improving theQuality of Life for Residents
The establishment of a Tourist
information center which would direct tourists
to attractions,
accommodations,
restaurants, hotel
and historical sites
throughout Miami -Dade County would serve
to mark "Historic Overtown" as a tourist
destination. The placement of historic markers
delineating historic sites (including sites now
vacant or redeveloped) and the establishment
of tours of local historical sites including bus
tours to visit sites county -wide and mini -tours
for sites within the district are among several
strategies that can be used to generate interest.
"Historic Overtown" especially those
areas along the historic NW 2nd Avenue
corridor, should be developed in a manner to
create a tourist destination in suitable sites for
commercial/tourist/cultural uses. As suitable
sites for commercial/tourist/cultural uses
continue to diminish within "Historic
Overtown", the need to insure the economic
vitality of existing uses becomes more critical.
Therefore, economic conflicts between
existing land uses must also be viewed from a
perspective of improving and redeveloping
existing commercial/tourist/cultural uses,
where appropriate.
The strategic objectives for the promotion
of "Historic Overtown" as a tourist
destination shall include to:
(1) increase the number of commercial and
cultural attractions, restaurant, hotel
accommodations and historical sites
offering information and memorabilia
about "Historic Overtown's" rich
heritage to visitors,
(2) increase public visitation to historical
resources within "Historic Overtown,"
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provide public accessibility to cultural
events within "Historic Overtown,"
increase the number of Overtown
residents and visitors benefiting from
cultural activities each year, and
coordinate with the Miami -Dade County
African -American Tourist Site Task Force
Board, and similar board, entities and
organizations to locate and develop
business opportunities for tourist
attractions within "Historic Overtown,"
especially along the NW 2nd Avenue
corridor.
7. Establishment of Artists District by
Legislation
✓ # 1 Preserving Historic Buildings & Community
Heritage
✓ #4 Job Creation
✓ #6 Improving theQuality of Life for Residents
The SEOPW CRA will petition for the
designation of an Artists District for
Overtown. The Overtown area possesses a
fascinating history as a center of black culture
and the focal point of area entertainment. This
legacy is still seen in its buildings, plazas and
theaters. The establishment of an Arts
District -would capitalize on these resources by
directing future growth in a manner
compatible with its history. The establishment
of legitimate theater, writers, and artists'
workshops; and first class night clubs and
restaurants should be encouraged based on the
guidelines of the Historic district. The
establishment of manufacturing as well as
other related businesses for the arts, i.e.
manufacturing and distributing equipment and
supplies for dancing, music, art, etc. should
also be encouraged.
8. Update Housing Policy, Periodically
✓ #3 Housing: Infill, Diversity, & Retaining
Affordability
The Housing Policy should be reviewed at
least every two years. Changes will be made to
to the policy that increase, support, or
maintain affordablity in the SEOPW CRA as
new outcomes are discovered by the current
policy or as issues arrise from new
development in the neighborhood.
II. Promotion and Enhancement of
Overtown and Park West as a
Business and Investment Location
9. Seeking Public/Private Development
Opportunities
✓ # 1-#6 supports all of the goals
The SEOPW CRA will search for,
evaluate, and advertise public -private
development opportunities that will utilize the
land owned by the CRA in a effort to further
the goals of the Redevelopment Plan. This
may include tasks associated with:
• coordinating with other private and
public entities for the development of
surplus real property within the CRA.
• offering land as part of public —private
joint development projects.
• coordinating efforts with Miami -Dade
County to do the same.
• Request the County to redevelop the
Culmer Center to improve the facility
and help improve NW 3rd Avenue, or
seek a third party to joint venture with
the County.
• coordinating, and help facilitate in some
manner, an air conditioned garbage
location accessible by all the businesses
along the Promenade. This could be
constructed as part of a new building or
by renovating an existing one.
Management of this facility should be
taken on by one of the building
managers for collecting fees, for
example
10. Investigation into Hospital -related
Real Estate Ventures
Goals and Guiding Principles 4.51
✓ #2 Expanding the Tax Base using Smart
Growth Principles
✓ #4 Job Creation
✓ #6 Improving theQuality of Life for Residents
ZHA, Inc., the CRA's economic feasibility
consultants, has identified in its 2003 report to
the SEOPW CRA that there is potential in
setting up and attracting a new business
market in preventative medical care to Park
West, generally supported by people with
greater means, spending more than 19 billion
dollars nationally each year. This is identified
in Project Area H, of this section.
The SEOPW CRA will approach the
hospitals and confirm ZHA's solicitation of
the hospital's interest as a hospital -related real
estate venture, part of the regionalization of
medical/health services. If there is interest on
behalf of the City and the hospitals to pursue
this idea, the CRA will also establish long
range planning committee devoted to finding a
workable manner to construct and recruit
tenancy for the complex. See ZHA's 2003
report for more details regarding this
committee. The location for this grouping of
medical related uses may occur elsewhere than
along NE 7th or 8th Streets, provided it
remains within the SEOPW CRA.
11. Establish an "Action Team for
Procurement" to enlarge the Business
Community
✓ # 1 Preserving Historic Buildings & Community
Heritage
✓ #2 Expanding the Tax Base using Smart
Growth Principles
✓ #4 Job Creation
✓ #5 Promotion & Marketing of the Community
✓ #6 Improving theQuality of Life for Residents
ZHA, Inc., the CRA's economic feasibility
consultants, has identified in its 2003 report to
the SEOPW CRA an approach to attracting
new businesses to Overtown, with incentives
and organization. See ZHA's 2003 Economic
Programming Study, page 30, #3, "Luring the
Proper Overtown Retailing Mix for the
recommendations.
The SEOPW CRA will review the strategy
and establish an Action Team for the purpose
of attracting new businesses to Overtown.
The SEOPW CRA may elect to call the
committee by a name different from "Action
Team." To start, the Action Team will focus
on NW 3rd Avenue from the Culmer Center
south to NW 8th Street, the area identified in
this plan as The core of Overtown, and along
NW 1st Avenue from I-395 south to NW 5th
Street, and along 11th Street and the
Promenade. The CRA will keep the Action
Team informed of new residential projects as
they are being proposed to help in the effort
to attract new businesses.
12. Enhancement of Property Assessments
and Options to Improve Values in the
Vicinity of Camillus House
✓ #2 Expanding the Tax Base using Smart
Growth Principles
Camillus House is a unique facility serving
special needs and indigent populations. This
area of the CRA is in need of special attention.
In order to promote growth along this
segment of the Biscayne Boulevard entrance
into the City of Miami, the CRA is proposing
to research and implement specific options for
spurring growth in this key segment of Park
West. Potential courses of action include
improving deterrent uses, planning
enhancements and alternatives, and stabilizing
neighborhoods.
13. Property Assessment Reevaluation
V #2 Expanding the Tax Base using Smart
Growth Principles
The property values in the CRA continue
to appear under assessed. In 1998, the City of
Miami requested that the Governor of Florida
undertake a review of the Dade County
Property Appraisal methodology and practice
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of assessing property values in the City of
Miami. The practice of undervalued
assessments particularly related to commercial
property negatively impacts the incentives for
a developer to invest in the area. The CRA
proposes to continue efforts to follow up on
this request.
14. Identification, Marketing and
Negotiation of a National Franchiser as a
Pioneer Project for the Historic Priority
Business Corridor
✓ #2 Expanding the Tax Base using Smart
Growth Principles
✓ #4 Job Creation
✓ #5 Promotion & Marketing
✓ #6 Improving theQuality of Life for Residents
The creation of strategic partnerships
between franchisers and minority urban based
businesses represents a market of untapped
consumers, investors, and entrepreneurs.
Location of these businesses along the
corridor and impact area will give impetus for
the expansion and location of other
businesses. The CRA will continue its efforts
to identify, negotiate, and market the Historic
Overtown Priority Business Corridor to
potential franchisers by offering favorable
direct or indirect development incentives.
15. Planning, Design
a Job Creation Plaza
V #2 Expanding the
Growth Principles
✓ #4 Job Creation
and Development of
Tax Base using Smart
In order to help create critical mass along
the Historic Priority Business Corridor, the
CRA is making plans to develop a job creation
plaza that will serve the local community and
other users. The plaza will be a pedestrian
friendly environment incorporating open
space, landscaping, a much needed plaza or
meeting area suited for passive gathering and
socializing, retail restaurants and other
businesses uses and services.
16. Development of a Professional
Business Office
✓ #2 Expanding the Tax Base using Smart
Growth Principles
✓ #4 Job Creation
The CRA proposes to develop a
professional office building within the Historic
Priority Business Corridor or its impact area.
If the building is constructed within the
Historic Overtown Folklife Village, it should
follow the design guidelines of the Historic
Overtown Folklife Village Master Plan.
17. Development and relocation of new
Businesses to Overtown and Park West
✓ #2 Expanding the Tax Base using Smart
Growth Principles
✓ #4 Job Creation
✓ #5 Promotion & Marketing
✓ #6 Improving theQuality of Life for Residents
The CRA will provide marketing and
assistance for new and compatible businesses
to relocate to Overtown and Park West.
III. Planning, Development,
Technical Assistance and Program
Compliance
18. Facilitation of the improvements
identified in each of the Project Areas
✓ # 9 -#6 supports all of the goals
Efforts regarding the Project Areas, as
described elsewhere in this section, will take
precedence over other efforts being
undertaken by the SEOPW CRA. The Project
Areas are:
• A. NW 1st Avenue
• B. Overtown (including Little
Broadway - Lyric Plaza)
• C. NW 3rd Avenue Neighborhood
Goals and Guiding Principles 4.53
Center
• D. Historic Overtown Priority Business
Corridor
• E. West Overtown
• F. Properties facing Biscayne
Boulevard
• G. The Promenade — Park West
Entertainment District
• H. NE 8th Street "Spine"
19. Changes to Land Development
Regulations
✓ # 1-#6 supports all of the goals
The SEOPW CRA will initiate the re-
zoning of all properties within the SEOPW
CRA, for reasons described in Section 3 of
this redevelopment plan. Tasks will include:
• Funding this initiative and promoting it
within the community
• Hold workshops and meetings with the
community and the City of Miami
Planning Departtuent to prepare the
first draft of an ordinance for a new
zoning district or districts for properties
within the CRA.
• Revise a subsequent draft of the
ordinance.
• Provide guidance and support for
re -zoning effort during the
process.
the
re -zoning
20. Increase Parking Supply
✓ #2 Expanding the Tax Base using Smart
Growth Principles
✓ #6 Improving the Quality of Life for Residents
The SEOPW CRA will examine ways to
increase the supply of parking within its
boundaries. Tasks may include:
• Advocating, funding, and/or building
on -street parking spaces in any future
streetscap e or redevelopment efforts
within public rights -of -way.
• Funding, and/or building off-street
parking spaces in any future
redevelopment efforts within the CRA
boundaries.
• Coordinating and facilitating efforts
with the City of Miami that support the
reform of off-street parking regulations
to reduce the unnecessary burden on
private developers. For example, to
jump-start redevelopment, new
businesses in existing buildings should
be exempt from parking requirements
to reduce their startup costs and
therefore their financial risks
21. Miscelaneous Land Acquisition
✓ # 1-#6 supports all of the goals
The SEOPW CRA proposes to acquire
land, as necessary, to support the
implementation of the projects described in
this Redevelopment Plan within the SEOPW
Redevelopment area. Acquiring more land for
publicly accessible green space for active and
passive recreational use will also be a priority.
22. Support for Greenways
✓ #6 Improving theQuality of Life for Residents
The SEOPW CRA will assist, where
possible, the Trust for Public Land with
implementation of their Overtown Greenprint
Plan and Greenway Plan within the SEOPW
CRA.
23. Monitor Conditions At Public Schools
Serving Students in the SEOPW CRA
✓ #3 Housing: Infill, Diversity, & Retaining
Affordability
✓ #6 Improving theQuality of Life for Residents
The SEOPW CRA will send an individual
or small committee to each of the public
schools that serve students that live within the
SEOPW CRA. Since the quality of schools is
often the number one decision factor for
chosing where to buy a house, the intention of
this project is for the CRA to help improve
the neighborhood schools where possible.
The purpose of the school visits is to look for:
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• Physical improvements that can better
the appearance of the schools
• Review the performance of the students
as compared to other local, state and
national public schools
• Overcrowding or under utilization of
the facilites
The CRA will record observations and
make recommendations and requests to the
School Board. The CRA may ask the City
Commission to make requests to the School
Board as well. Since many of the schools
serving the CRA area are outside of the CRA
boundaries, the CRA can only fund, if
possible, improvements to those schools
inside the boundaries.
24. Create and Design an Overlay of
Special Fencing for all CRA owned
properties and others governmental and
non-profit institution owned properties
within its jurisdiction in Overtown
✓ #6 Improving theQuality of Life for Residents
Historically, public agencies that own land
maintain the properties vacant while
redevelopment occurs or is proposed and this
does not give redeveloping communities a
look that is pleasing and does not do much for
the image of the area. The CRA proposes to
create and design an overlay of special fencing
in the Bahamian, Caribbean style for all CRA
owned properties and for other properties
within its jurisdiction to transform an
otherwise challenging situation into an
opportunity to provide the Historic Business
Corridor and its impact areas with a linking
element that will provide character within a
historic framework. The fencing should be
compatible with the design parameters
specified in the Historic Overtown Folklife
Village Master Plan.
25. Technical Assistance/Liaison to
Optimist Club Activities
✓ #4 Promotion & Marketing
✓ #6 Improving theQuality of Life for Residents
The CRA proposes to continue to provide
assistance and support to the Optimist Clubs
in terms of policy guidance, assistance with
local governmental organizations, and other
technical assistance.
26. Plan the Improvements of the
Overtown Parks: Gibson Park, Williams
Park, Reeves Park, Dorsey Park and
Athalie Range #1 Mini -Park
✓ #6 Improving theQuality of Life for Residents
According to a report by the Trust for
Public Land, parks and recreational
opportunities are important to all
communities. The lack of adequate
recreational space has been an element of
contention in the studies of urban violence.
Inadequate parks ranked above unemployment
and difficulties with police amongst the most
significant problems within the inner city
neighborhoods. This realization was behind
the creation and support of the Safe
Neighborhoods
Unfortunately,
Overtown have
fewest facilities
Parks Bond Program.
neighborhoods such as
the least park land and the
with the most difficulty in
improving and maintaining the existing areas.
The SEOPW CRA will coordinate efforts with
the City of Miami (Parks and Planning
Department) to provide for incentives to allow
for the creation of additional park/green space
and for the maintenance of such recreational
areas. The CRA may produce schematic
designs for facility improvements and public
safety measures within the parks.
27. Development of a "Gateways" Project
into the Omni and the Southeast Overtown
Park West Areas
✓ # 1 Preserving Historic Buildings & Community
Heritage
✓ #5 Promotion & Marketing of the Community
Goals and Guiding Principles 4.55
The CRA proposes to study and evaluate
the potential of entry features for the
entrances into the Omni Area at the I-395 exit,
11th Street and Biscayne Boulevard and into
the Southeast Overtown Area at NW 14th St.
and connections with I-395, I-95, and NW 3rd
Ave., at NW 3rd Ave and NW 8th StSt. and at
NW 4th Ave. and NW 8th St. Specific entry
features for the Park West Area will also be
determined. Entry features for Overtown
should be in accordance with the Historic
Overtown Folklife Village Master Plan.
Efforts to be coordinated with the Trust for
Public Land in implementing their
Greenway/Greenprint Plan, and with the
Black Archives Foundation, Overtown Civic
Partnership and the City of Miami in
implementing these gateways and preserving
the historic context of the area.
28. Update the Housing Policy
✓ # 1 Preserving Historic Buildings & Community
Heritage
✓ #3 Housing: Infill, Diversity, & Retaining
Affordability
The CRA is currently drafting a Housing
policy to apply to both of the City's CRAs.
The SEOPW CRA will adopt this new policy
and will update it periodically as changes occur
in the market places and as property values
shift from time to time.
29. Promote Affordable Housing to
Developers
✓ # 1 Preserving Historic Buildings & Community
Heritage
✓ #3 Housing: Infill, Diversity, & Retaining
Affordability
The SEOPW CRA will meet with
developers of projects within the CRA
boundaries prior to their permit application
submissions to the City. The purpose of the
meeting is for the CRA to encourage and
negoitate for as much affordable housing as
possible in each new developemnt. The
SEOPW CRA will not offer assistance of any
kind to developers unless the developers
comply with the CRA's Housing Policy.
IV. Street Improvements, Utility
Infrastructure, and Transportation
30. Streetscape Projects
✓ # 1 Preserving Historic Buildings & Community
Heritage
✓ #5 Promotion & Marketing of the Community
✓ #6 Improving theQuality of Life for Residents
The SEOPW CRA has begun or
completed streetscape design and construction
in a few of the Project Areas. The CRA will
continue the efforts to conclude those projects
that have not begun or been completed. The
streetscape projects include:
1. 9th Street Pedestrian Mall
2. The Promenade (between 10th and 11th
Streets)
3. NW 3rd Avenue (south of I-395) for the
Historic Priority Business Corridor
4. NW3rd Avenue (north of I-395)
5. NE/NW 11th Street (Entertainment
District)
6. NW 1st Avenue
Additional streetscape projects may be
included in the future. Related tasks may
include
• regular maintenance of lighting, street
furniture, landscaping, and paving
materials.
• acquiring the services of engineers or
landscape architects.
• Discussions FEC and Miami -Dade
County Public Works to change the
configuration of NW 1st Avenue. This
Avenue has historically been the divider
between Overtown and Park West, and
the redesign is needed to make it the
unifier.
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31. Coordination of Infrastructure
Improvements with City of Miami and
Miami Public Works Departments, Miami
Dade Water and Sewer Department,
FDOT, Miami Parking Authority and
Other Relevant Agencies
✓ #2 Expanding the Tax Base using Smart
Growth Principles
✓ #6 Improving the Quality of Life for Residents
CRA efforts are concentrated on planning
infrastructure improvements in the CRA Area,
such as street improvements, landscaping,
lighting, parking and pedestrian amenities, and
enhancements. Coordination with local and
state agencies responsible for implementing
these infrastructure improvements, as well as
private developers and community members,
becomes paramount to set priorities,
coordinate and avoid duplication of efforts,
and find new avenues to pursue resources.
Tasks may include:
• Upgrades to water mains and sewer
mains, by implementing actual
reconstruction or by subsidizing the
upgrades performing others.
• Collaborating with the MPO to return
one-way streets back into two-way
streets.
• Improving pedestrian features such as
crosswalks that are more visible to
motorists or securing easements or
access for pedestrian routes separated
from the roadways.
• Influencing the decision to subdivide
larger blocks into smaller ones with the
creation of new streets.
• Increasing public on -street parking in
rights -of -way.
• Assisting with solutions to any noise,
access, and privacy problems associated
with properties along the rail and transit
routes
• Assisting in the decision making
process of possible changes to I-395
and I-95 as the MPO continues its
study and discussion regarding the
removal or reconfiguration of those two
federal highways.
32. Pedestrian Compatible Community
Transit System
✓ #6 Improving theQuality of Life for Residents
The SEOPW CRA will review, and act
accordingly towards, the work of Thomas
Gustafson and Nova South East University
related to the development of a pedestrian
compatible community transit system to link
all Southeast Overtown, Park West, and near
by CDC and Omni destinations, as described
in the Miami at Midnight report. The report
also describes the possibility of a large
pedestrian zone adjacent to the
Overtown/Arena Metrorail Station to enhance
intermodal transfers.
33. Pilot Infrastructure Improvement and
Maintenance Program
✓ #2 Expanding the Tax Base using Smart
Growth Principles
✓ #4 Job Creation
✓ #6 Improving theQuality of Life for Residents
The CRA will establish for Overtown and
Park West a pilot street cleaning, sweeping
program and a grass cutting program,
primarily for security reasons, for the areas of
the CRA and maintain a closer coordination
with existing property owners and the
Downtown Development Authority, and the
City of Miami.
34. Plan/Coordinate/Design Special
Lighting, Security District (Pedestrian
Enhancements)
V #2 Expanding the Tax Base using Smart
Growth Principles
✓ #6 Improving theQuality of Life for Residents
Security is an important issue in the area.
The SEOPW CRA proposes to provide
pedestrian enhancements, special lighting, and
Goals and Guiding Principles 4.57
create a more pedestrian friendly atmosphere
in the SEOPW CRA Area by developing and
implementing a Security and Lighting District
and a Police Enhancement Program for areas
within the SEOPWCRA, including the
entertainment district, the 9th Street Pedestrian
Mall, and Sawyers Walk. Within the Historic
Overtown Folklife Village, lighting should be
consistant with the character identified in the
Historic Folklife Village Master Plan.
V. Home Ownership Pre -
Qualification and Counseling
Program
✓ # 1 Preserving Historic Buildings & Community
Heritage
✓ #3 Housing: Infill, Diversity, & Retaining
Affordability
✓ #6 Improving theQuality of Life for Residents
The CRA will coordinate efforts with the
City of Miami, local real estate organizations,
mortgage lenders and community bankers,
CDC's, faith -based institutions, consumer
advocates, and residents to implement a home
ownership pre -qualification and counseling
program which will provide homeownership
training sessions, market public sector
assistance programs, and assist in pre -
qualifying home buyers. Services will be
accessible to existing Overtown residents.
The program is intended to provide basic
financial literacy training, job training,
education and other supportive services for
people with extremely low incomes that can
not qualify for home ownership.
VI. Grants to Existing Businesses
Program
✓ # 1 Preserving Historic Buildings & Community
Heritage
✓ #2 Expanding the Tax Base using Smart
Growth Principles
✓ #4 Job Creation
✓ #6 Improving theQuality of Life for Residents
The CRA proposes to assist in creating
jobs in the City by providing technical
assistance with Section 108 loan applications
and administering a revolving loan pool, which
will make low interest, low downpayment,
long terms loans in the amount of $25,000 to
$1 million for business improvement projects
to area businesses. Tasks may include:
• facilitating grants,
• technical assistance to business owners,
• architectural and design services for
building or facade renovation or new
construction
VII. Laredo/Re-Use Plan (CLUC 90
Properties) Program
✓ # 1 Preserving Historic Buildings & Community
Heritage
✓ #3 Housing: Infill, Diversity, & Retaining
Affordability
The CRA will continue to support
development proposals that utilize current
vacant government owned and County Land
Use Code (CLUC) 90 properties located
within the SEOPW CRA. The CRA will liaise
with Miami -Dade County in clearing title and
promoting scattered site housing on these
properties.
Comparison Chart:
Goals and Supporting Projects
The charts on the next four pages list each
of the projects and programs and identify
which of the goals they primarily support.
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Comparison Chart:
Goals and Supporting Projects
Project Names
Goal #1:
Preserving
Historic
Buildings &
Community
Heritage
Goal #2:
Expanding the
Tax Base using
Smart Growth
Principles
Goal #3:
Housing:
Infill,
Diversity, &
Retaining
Affordability
Goal #4:
Creating
Jobs within
the
Community
Goal #5:
Promotion
Marketing
of the
Community
Goal #6:
Improving
the Quality
of Life for
Residents
I. Community Heritage and Historic Preservation
1. Renovation of Historically Significant Buildings
2. Historic Designation
3. Promote and/or Organize Activities and Events That
Recreate the Former Vitality and Atmosphere of the
Community
4. Provide Incentives for Revitalization in "Historic
Overtown"
5. Establish a First -Class Residential Village Containing a
Cluster of Restored Buildings, The Folklife Village.
*
*
5a. Provide Planning, Coordination, and Technical
Assistance to the Black Archives Historic Folklife
Village Development
5b. Technical Assistance to Historic Lyric Theater
Redevelopment
5c. Planning Design and Development of
Infrastructure Improvements in the Historic Folklife
Village
*
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5d. Planning, Design and Development of Parking
Facilities to Support the Lyric Theater and the
Folklife Village Historic Preservation
6. Promotion of "Historic Overtown" as a Tourist
Destination
*
7. Establishment of Artists District by Legislation
*
8. Update Housing Policy, Periodically
Goals and Guiding Principles
4.59
Comparison Chart:
Goals and Supporting Projects
(Continued)
Project Names
Goal #1:
Preserving
Historic
Buildings &
Community
Heritage
Goal #2:
Expanding the
Tax Base using
Smart Growth
Principles
Goal #3:
Housing:
Infill,
Diversity, &
Retaining
Affordability
Goal #4:
Creating
Jobs within
the
Community
Goal #5:
Promotion
&
Marketing
of the
Community
Goal #6:
Improving
the Quality
of Life for
Residents
II. Promotion and Enhancement of Overtown and Park West as a Business and Investment Location
9. Seeking Public/Private Development Opportunities
*
*
*
10. Investigation into Hospital -related Real Estate
Ventures
*
*
*
11. Establish an "Action Team for Procurement" to
enlarge the Business Community
*
*
*
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12. Enhancement of Property Assessments and Options to
Improve Values in the Vicinity of Camillus House
*
13. Property Assessment Reevaluation
*
14. Identification, Marketing and Negotiation of a
National Franchiser as a Pioneer Project for the Historic
Priority Business Corridor
*
*
15. Planning, Design and Development of a Job Creation
Plaza
16. Development of a Professional Business Office
*
*
17. Development and relocation of new Businesses to
Overtown and Park West
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Comparison Chart:
Goals and Supporting Projects
(Continued)
Project Names
Goal #1:
Preserving
Historic
Buildings &
Community
Heritage
Goal #2:
Expanding the
Tax Base using
Smart Growth
Principles
Goal #3:
Housing:
Infill,
Diversity, &
Retaining
Affordability
Goal #4:
Creating
Jobs within
the
Community
Goal #5:
Promotion
&
Marketing
of the
Community
Goal #6:
Improving
the Quality
of Life for
Residents
III. Planning, Development, Technical Assistance and Program Compliance
18. Facilitation of the improvements identified in each of
the Project Areas
*
*
*
*
*
19. Changes to Land Development Regulations
*
*
*
*
*
20. Increase Parking Supply
*
*
21. Miscelaneous Land Acquisition
*
*
*
*
*
*
22. Support for Greenways
*
23. Monitor Conditions At Public Schools Serving
Students in the SEOPW CRA
*
24. Create and Design an Overlay of Special Fencing for
all CRA owned properties and others governmental and
non-profit institution owned properties within its
jurisdiction in Overtown
*
25. Technical Assistance/Liaison to Optimist Club
Activities
26. Plan the Improvements of the Overtown Parks:
Gibson Park, Williams Park, Reeves Park, Dorsey Park
and Athalie Range #1 Mini -Park
27. Development of a "Gateways" Project into the Omni
and the Southeast Overtown Park West Areas
28. Update the Housing Policy
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29. Promote Affordable Housing to Developers
*
Goals and Guiding Principles
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Comparison Chart:
Goals and Supporting Projects
(Continued)
Project Names
Goal #1:
Preserving
Historic
Buildings &
Community
Heritage
Goal #2:
Expanding the
Tax Base using
Smart Growth
Principles
Goal #3:
Housing:
Infill,
Diversity, &
Retaining
Affordability
Goal #4:
Creating
Jobs within
the
Community
Goal #5:
Promotion
&
Marketing
of the
Community
Goal #6:
Improving
the Quality
of Life for
Residents
IV. Street Improvements, Utility Infrastructure, and Transportation
30. Streetscape Projects
31. Coordination of Infrastructure Improvements with
City of Miami and Miami Public Works Departments,
Miami Dade Water and Sewer Department, FDOT, Miami
Parking Authority and Other Relevant Agencies
32. Pedestrian Compatible Community Transit System
*
33. Pilot Infrastructure Improvement and Maintenance
Program
*
*
*
34. Plan/Coordinate/Design Special Lighting, Security
District (Pedestrian Enhancements)
*
*
V. Home Ownership Pre -Qualification and Counseling Program
*
*
*
VI. Grants to Existing Businesses Program
*
*
*
*
VII. Laredo/Re-Use Plan (CLUC 90 Properties) Program
*
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• Introduction
• Capital Improvement Goals
• Prioritizing Capital Improvements
• Potential Funding Sources
• Capital Improvement Costs by Project Area
• Capital Improvement Costs - Not Project
Area Specific
• Capital Improvement Costs - Summary
hould be safe, comfortable, and interesting to the
configured, they encourage walking and enable
ch other and protect their communities.
- Charter of the New Urbanism, 1996
Capital Improvement Costs and Timeline
Introduction
This section identifies the primary capital
improvements, their costs, and timeframe for
implementation. It is not the intent of this
section to serve as an implementation plan or
as an operations budget. The SEOPW CRA
has an independent operation strategy and
budget that will identify capital improvements
among its other projects and expenses. The
known and desired capital projects listed in
this plan are prioritized. It should be expected
that this section will become obsolete over
time as projects get completed and new ones
become important to the community, which is
the reason for a separate budget strategy.
Capital Improvement Goals
The goals for making capital
improvements within the SEOPW CRA area
are:
1) Eradicate the visual blight seen from
streets and public places within the
SEOPW CRA to upgrade the
appearance to attract new investors
and development.
2) Protect the health and safety of the
residents by improving
performance of the
infrastructure systems.
the
City's
3) Remove or diminish negative impacts
caused by existing or inadequate
infrastructure.
Prioritizing Capital
Improvements
The approach to prioritizing improvement
projects focuses on key project areas described
in Section 4, Projects and Programs. These
areas are characteristically unique and show
the greatest potential for immediate positive
change:
Project A - NW 1st Avenue
Project B - Overtown (Little Broadway)
Project C - NW 3rd Avenue
Neighborhood Center
Project D - Historic Overtown Priority
Business Corridor
Project E - West Overtown
Project F - Biscayne Boulevard
Project G - The Promenade
Project H - NE 8th Street Spine
These project areas do not cover the
entire CRA area, but when started, should
attract interest in the community and spark
additional private investment within the
SEOPW CRA. The idea behind concentrating
efforts in small areas is to totally transform
them, creating as dramatic and visible an
impact as possible. When money is spent
evenly throughout the entire CRA, it is
difficult to see where the money has gone. By
focusing the efforts, people will see what the
larger area will be like as revitalization spreads,
inspiring additional private reinvestment.
First Priority should go towards efforts
within the Project Areas. The CRA Board will
decide if certain projects rank higher than
others, as they will with their 5-year
improvement plan.
Areas outside of the project areas may
need improvements too, such as water and
sewer upgrades, parking structures and parking
shuttles. These will be evaluated as to their
impact on furthering the efforts in the specific
project areas.
5.2 SOUTHEAST OVERTOWN / PARK WEST MASTER PLAN
Potential Funding Sources
It is important for the CRA staff to
coordinate with the City and County staff to
leverage or match tax increment funds with
Federal, State, and locally available funds.
Sources include but should not be limited to:
• Capital programs for the City, County
or other local governmental entities.
• Community Development Block
Grants.
• Federal, State, and local Transportation
Trust Funds
• People's Transportation Plan funded
through the local option half -penny
sales tax and overseen by the Citizens
Independent Transportation Trust.
• Federal, State, and Local Park Funds.
• Partnerships with educational
institutions.
• New Market Tax Credits
Capital Improvement Costs
by Project Area
Each project
itemized as:
area has improvements
1. Streetscape Improvements:
Streetscape improvement
estimates
include costs associated with pavement, curbs,
sidewalks, concrete pavers, drainage,
landscaping, utilities, signage, and pavement
markings.
The construction costs were prepared
from information in the Draft Report for the
Southeast Overtown / Park West
Redevelopment Plan dated September 2003.
The costs exclude structures and any right of
way acquisition.
2. Water Main
Water Main estimates include costs for
upgrading underground mains that provide
water service to the properties. Hookup fees
are not included.
3. Sewer
Sewer estimates include costs for
upgrading underground sewer pipes that
provide solid waste disposal from adjacent
properties. Hookup fees are not included.
4. Projects budgeted for Yr 2003-2004
Projects budgeted for the Fiscal Year
2003 — 2004 have been added to the Project
area they serve. Some currently budgeted
projects affect multiple project areas and are
listed under the category of "Other Capital
Imp rovements."
Capital Improvement Costs and Timeline 5.3
Capital Improvements by Project Area
Project A - NW 1st Avenue
Overall Priority: Medium
The visual nature of the street needs
improvement since the railroad right-of-way is
rather unsightly. This avenue that separates
Overtown and Park West can become a linear
park (with transit & rail) with similar buildings
and uses on both sides of the track, so that the
two areas become more unified in character.
First Steps — High Priority
Discussion should begin immediately with
FEC to find out their intentions for the right-
of-way and to find the possibility of modifying
the roadways on both sides as described in this
plan, which will require acquisition of portions
of the right-of-way.
Project F - Biscayne Boulevard
No items are listed for Biscayne
Boulevard because improvements within the
right-of-way are part of current projects in the
planning stage by the Florida Depaituient of
Transportation.
Project A - NW lst Avenue
OVERALL EST. COST: $5,297,400
Future Items:
ITEM
LINEAR FT
COST / Lin. Ft.
COST
NW 1st Avenue Streetscape
3,600
$1,120
$4,032,000
Water Main
$306,000
Sanitary Sewer Main
$76,500
TOTAL:
$4,414,500
20% Contingency
$882,900
TOTAL:
$5,297,400
5.4 SOUTHEAST OVERTOWN / PARK WEST MASTER PLAN
Capital Improvements by Project Area
Project B - Overtown - Little
Broadway
Overall Priority: High
Overtown is the heart of the African -
American community. The SEOPW CRA will
reinforce its previous investments in the
neighborhood by focusing its present efforts
and resources here to get results.
Current Improvements identified in the
budget for FY2004:
• Grant to Lyric Theater expansion
• Grant to Renovation of Ward Rooming
House
• Land Acquisitions (including appraisals,
environmental, etc.)
• Grant for Historic Folk Life Village Food
Franchise
Project B - Overtown
OVERALL EST. COST: $10,340,887
Future Items:
ITEM
LINEAR FT
COST / Lin. Ft.
COST
NW 11th. St.
1,500
$750
$1,125,000
NW 10th. St.
1,500
$750
$1,125,000
NW 9th. St.
1,500
$750
$1,125,000
NW 1st. Ct.
450
$750
$337,500
NW 2nd. Ave.
1,400
$750
$1,050,000
NW 3rd. Ave.
1,400
$750
$1,050,000
Water Main
$281,925
Sanitary Sewer Main
$70,481
Land Acquisitions (after FY04)
$1,500,000
Historic Folk Life Village Tech. Assistance (after FY04); Type Grant
100,000
SUBTOTAL:
$7,764,906
20% Contingency
$1,552,981
TOTAL:
$9,317,887
Items currently listed in the budget for FY2004:
Lyric Theater expansion
Type: Grant
To be determined
Ward Rooming house renovation
Type: Grant
8,000
Land Acquisitions (including appraisals,
environmental, etc.)
1,000,000
Historic Folk Life Village Food Franchise
Type: Grant
15,000
TOTAL:
$1,023,000
Capital Improvement Costs and Timeline
5.5
Capital Improvements by Project Area
Project C - NW 3rd Avenue
Neighborhood Center
Overall Priority: Medium
This project provides attention to the
northern portion of Historic Overtown's
Business Corridor (NW 3rd Avenue) that was
sliced in two by the creation of I-395.
First Steps — High Priority
Provide streetscape improvements similar
to Project D — Historic Overtown Priority
Business Corridor.
Project C - NW 3rd Avenue Neighborhood Center
OVERALL EST. COST: $6,111,750
Future Items:
ITEM
LINEAR FT
COST / Lin. Ft.
COST
NW 3rd Ave.
1,500
$750
$1,125,000
NW 7th. St.
1,000
$750
$750,000
NW 4th Ave.
1,250
$750
$937,500
NW 14th. St.
340
$750
$255,000
NW 15th. St
340
$750
$255,000
NW 16th. St.
340
$750
$255,000
NW 16th. Terr.
780
$750
$585,000
I-395 Frontage Road
550
$850
$467,500
Water Main
$370,500
Sanitary Sewer Main
$92,625
SUBTOTAL:
$5,093,125
20% Contingency
$1,018,625
TOTAL:
$6,111,750
5.6 SOUTHEAST OVERTOWN / PARK WEST MASTER PLAN
Capital Improvements by Project Area
Project D - Historic Overtown
Priority Business Corridor
Overall Priority: High
This corridor is the historic main street
along NW 3rd Avenue. Portions of this area
also fall within the Folk Life Village. The
SEOPW CRA will reinforce its previous
investments in the neighborhood by focusing
its present efforts and resources here to get
results.
Current Improvements identified in the
budget for FY2004:
• Facade Program on NW 3x Avenue
between 8th Street and 14th Street.
Project D - Historic Overtown Priority Business
Corridor
OVERALL EST. COST:
$12,711,250
Future Items:
ITEM
LINEAR FT
COST / Lin. Ft.
COST
NW 11th. St.
1,400
$750
$1,050,000
NW 10th. St.
1,400
$750
$1,050,000
NW 9th. St.
1,600
$750
$1,200,000
NW 8th. St.
1,800
$750
$1,350,000
NW 7th. St.
1,800
$750
$1,350,000
NW 3rd. Ave./I-95 Exit
450
$750
$337,500
NW 4th. Ave.
700
$750
$525,000
NW 5th. Ave.
1,200
$750
$900,000
NW 6th. Ave.
1,200
$750
$900,000
NW 7th. Ave.
1,200
$750
$900,000
Water Main
$157,500
Sanitary Sewer Main
$39,375
SUBTOTAL:
$9,759,375
20% Contingency
$1,951,875
TOTAL:
$11,711,250
Items currently listed in the budget for FY2004:
Facade Program on NW 3'' Avenue between 8th Street and 14th Street
1,000,000
TOTAL:
1,000,000
Capital Improvement Costs and Timeline
5.7
Capital Improvements by Project Area
Project E — West Overtown
Overall Priority: Medium
West Overtown is the core of the area
added to the SEOPW CRA west of I-95, but
east of NW 7th Avenue.
First Steps — High Priority
See Section 4, Projects and Programs
(Project E) for actions that do not require
capital improvements.
Project E — West Overtown
OVERALL EST. COST: $4,101,750
Future Items:
ITEM
LINEAR FT
COST / Lin. Ft.
COST
NW 3rd Ave.
1,500
$750
$1,125,000
NW 14th. St.
400
$750
$300,000
NW 13th St.
400
$750
$300,000
NW 12th. St.
400
$750
$300,000
NW 11th. St
400
$750
$300,000
NW 10th. St.
400
$750
$300,000
Water Main
$634,500
Sanitary Sewer Main
$158,625
SUBTOTAL:
$3,418,125
20% Contingency
$683,625
TOTAL:
$4,101,750
5.8 SOUTHEAST OVERTOWN / PARK WEST MASTER PLAN
Capital Improvements by Project Area
Project G - The Promenade
Overall Priority: High
The Promenade occupies the former
municipal railroad right-of-way owned by the
SEOPW CRA in the burgeoning
Entertainment District. The SEOPW CRA
will reinforce its previous investments in the
neighborhood by focusing its attention here to
get results. Additional parking, shuttles to
distant parking locations, and changes to the
land development regulations are urgently
needed to support the recently renovated
businesses on NE 11th Street.
Current Improvements identified in the
budget for FY2004:
• Security Cameras for the Entertainment
District, however there is no cost identified.
• Interim Promenade construction: to clean
up, pave a center lane, and add landscaping
has been approved for $500,000.
Project G - The Promenade
OVERALL EST. COST: $6,993,000
Future Items:
ITEM
LINEAR FT
COST / Lin. Ft.
COST
Miami Ave.
700
$750
$525,000
Grand Promenade
1,800
$750
$1,350,000
N 11th. St.
1,800
$750
$1,350,000
N 10th. St.
1,800
$750
$1,350,000
NE 1st. Ave.
700
$750
$525,000
NE 2nd. Ave.
700
$850
$525,000
Water Main
$162,000
Sanitary Sewer Main
$40,500
SUBTOTAL:
$5,827,500
20% Contingency
$1,165,500
TOTAL:
$6,993,000
Capital Improvement Costs and Timeline
5.9
Capital Improvements by Project Area
Project H - NE 8t1 Street Spine
Overall Priority: Low
Priority should be raised if property
owners or elected officials show stronger
interest in the concept as described in Section
4, Projects and Programs, Project H, and
further described in the market analysis
performed for the CRA by ZHA, Inc.
Project H - NE 8th Street Spine
OVERALL EST. COST: $3,315,938
Future Items:
ITEM
LINEAR FT
COST / Lin. Ft.
COST
Miami Ave.
500
$750
$375,000
NE 6th. St.
700
$750
$525,000
NE 7th. St.
700
$750
$525,000
NE 8th. St.
700
$750
$525,000
NE 1st. Ave.
500
$750
$375,000
NE 2nd. Ave.
500
$850
$375,000
Water Main
$50,625
Sanitary Sewer Main
$12,656
SUBTOTAL:
$2,763,281
20% Contingency
$552,656
TOTAL:
$3,315,938
5.10 SOUTHEAST OVERTOWN / PARK WEST MASTER PLAN
Capital Improvement Costs -
Not Project Area Specific
There are capital improvement projects
within the SEOPW CRA area that are needed
outside of the specific project areas and some
that address problems that face all areas within
the SEOPW CRA . These typically connect or
"link" the city infrastructure and mobility of
people living, working, shopping, and visiting
the CRA area.
Other Capital Improvements
Overall Priority: High
The items in this category are listed in the
FY2004 Budget, except for the Water Main
and Sanitary Sewer Main items shown at the
very bottom of the list.
Other Capital Improvements
OVERALL EST. COST: $19,431,119
Future Items:
ITEM
COST
Property Maintenance
$146,000
WASD — Infrastructure Improvements — Major entertainment commercial
corridors (first effort to include: 3rd Avenue, 14th Street, 11th Street, 2nd Avenue)
$2,000,000
WASD — Impact Fee Reduction Subsidized Loan Program
$300,000
Entertainment Grants
$200,000
Developer Construction Loans (leveraged) via Grow Miami Fund
$2,000,000
Grants to private property owners for existing structures
$1,905,000
11th Street Expansion PD&E in FY2004
$150,000
11th Street Expansion PD&E beyond 2004
$5,850,000
9th Street Streetscape Phase 3
$1,400,000
Water Main
$4,360,443
Sanitary Sewer Main
$1,119,676
TOTAL:
$19,431,119
Capital Improvement Costs and Timeline
5.11
Capital Improvement Costs -Not Project Area Specific
Community Intermodal System
Projects in this category include various
Intermodal system improvements in the
context of the redevelopment of the CRA and
are subject to intermodal designations and the
availability of grants and appropriations of
Federal and State transportation trust funds.
Overall Priority: High
Time is of the essence to attract Federal
funding for these improvements.
Breakdown of the item: Intermodal
Connectors for Freight, Goods, and
Passengers, (shown in chart, right)
Intermodal Connectors: $6.0 Million
• Passenger zone Intermodal improvements
• Freight Intermodal Facility Improvements
• Additional Intermodal Improvements
would be scheduled for implementation
after 2012 costing approximately
$76Million
Breakdown of the item: Parking Structures
and Parking Shuttles (shown in chart, right)
Vehicles and infrastructure: $ 8.4 Million
• Promenade to I-395 Parking Loop
(Demonstration Project)
• Central Loop (connecting Cultural
Buildings)
• NW 3rd Avenue Loop
• Miami Avenue Area Loop
(Breakdown is continued on next page)
Community Intermodal System, 2004 - 2012
OVERALL EST. COST:
$30,900,000
Future Items:
ITEMS:
COST
Intermodal Connectors for Freight, Goods, and Passengers
These pedestrian and vehicular access improvements include substantial
street, mixed -mode corridor and greenway improvements as described in
the Miami at Midnight report. Additionally the SEOPW CRA should use
these improvements to enhance future Amtrak -Florida East Coast (FEC)
service options for Overtown and Park West
$6,000,000
Parking Structures and Parking Shuttles
The pedestrian -oriented parking structures and associated parking line
buildings will help establish the urban form of the walking environment.
The parking shuttle vehicles will help extend the travel distance of the
pedestrian trip and thereby improving the Intermodal access between
Port of Miami„ , Metrorail, Metromover, I-95,andMiami International
Airport. (and Amtrak when FEC service is established)
$23,400,000
Contingencies and Incentive Fees
Every large capital project needs to reserve funds
incentive fees to better manage project costs and
schedule (remainder 3.3 million for contingencies
for contingencies and
to meet the completion
and incentive fees for
$1,500,000
work scheduled after 2012).
TOTAL:
$30,900,000
Community Intermodal System, After year 2012
OVERALL EST. COST: $110,300,000
***** Note: The costs referenced in the charts above are further described in the Miami at
Midnight report, Section H, Order of Magnitude Cost, on pages 19 through 24.
5.12 SOUTHEAST OVERTOWN / PARK WEST MASTER PLAN
Breakdown of the item: Parking Structures
and Parking Shuttles (continued from prey. page)
• Additional Routes (per Miami at Midnight
Report) would be scheduled for
implementation after 2012 costing
approximately $10 million.
Parking Structures: $ 12 Million
• For 800 Spaces x 15Kper space
• Structures associated with additional
Routes (per Miami at Midnight Report)
would be scheduled for implementation
after 2012 costing approximately $18
million.
Transit Barn $ 3 million
• With Shared Freight Loading Facilities
and Maintenance Facilities (5K sq. ft.)
• Expansion associated with additional
Routes (per Miami at Midnight Report)
would be scheduled for implementation
after 2012 costing additional $3 million.
Timeline for Improvements
Everyone familiar with the area will
express the concern that time is of the
essence. Every project is important.
Projects in the 2004 Budget should be
completed by the year end of 2006.
Substantial accomplishments to the
projects deserving the highest priority should
be completed by 2008. These are:
• Overtown,
• NW 3rd Avenue, and
• The Promenade
Revisions to the development regulations should
be completed and adopted by year end 2004.
All the remaining projects, provided efforts to
obtain additional funding are successful, should be
completed by 2012.
Capital Improvement Costs -Summary
Capital Improvements Summary
OVERALL EST. COST: $99,203,094
BY PROJECT AREA:
COST
Project A - NW 1st Avenue
$5,297,400
Project B - Overtown
$10 340 887
Project C - NW 3rd Avenue Neighborhood Center
$6,111,750
Project D - Historic Overtown Priority Business Corridor
$12,711,250
Project E — West Overtown
$4,101,750
Project F — Biscayne Boulevard ***Funded by FDOT***
$ 0
Project G - The Promenade
$6,993,000
Project H - NE 8th Street Spine
$3,315,938
SUBTOTAL:
$48,871,975
NOT PROJECT AREA SPECIFIC:
Other Capital Improvements
$19,431,119
Community Intermodal System
$30,900,000
SUBTOTAL:
$50,331,119
Capital Improvement Costs and Timeline
5.13
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• Neighborhood Overview
• Housing Policy
• Relocation Policy
• Traffic Circulation
• Environmental Quality
• Effect on School Population
• Community Facilities and Services
• Physical and Social Quality
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unts. A small house must depend on its grouping
ts beauty.
- Clarence Stein
Residential Uses and the Neighborhood
Impact of Redevelopment
Neighborhood Overview
The South East Overtown — Park West
Community Redevelopment Area (SEOPW
CRA) has a wide range of land uses because of
its adjacency to the Central Business District.
Park West, the eastern part of the
SEOPW CRA, predominantly has old
warehouses that once contained businesses
that relied on the proximity of the Port of
Miami, when it was located at what is now
Bicentennial Park. Park West is now home to
two sports stadiums (Miami Arena and the
American Airlines Arena), the Network
Access Point (NAP) facility that provides
computer data storage related services, three
large residential towers, an expansion of the
Wolfson Campus of Miami -Dade Community
College, and several new nightclubs catering to
the "after hours" market.
The majority of residents in Park West
reside in the three towers located on NW 1st
Avenue near the Miami Arena. The
Southeast Overtown residents reside in largely
low-rise, older rental development scattered
throughout the community. There is a large
homeless population and an outdated
homeless feeding facility in Park West that the
City of Miami is trying to mitigate. The
existing SEOPW population is considerably
younger and poorer than the City of Miami
and Miami -Dade County as a whole, and
reflects a slightly higher median household
size. The existing households in SEOPW are
more likely to be headed by single head of
household than the City of Miami as a whole.
Unemployment rates in the community are
also higher than the rates for the City and
County.
Overtown is comprised of small
neighborhood businesses, churches, single
family homes and apartment buildings, with
the latter being the most dominant.
According to ZHA's 2003 Economic
Programming Study, a review of the 1990 and
2000 US Census and Claritas market research
service data shows that homeownership is very
low in Overtown, about 10%. This low
homeownership rate is a reflection of the low
household incomes in the community and the
lack of affordable homeownership
development in the community. For
comparison, the City of Miami as a whole has
about 35% of its residential units owner
occupied. In 2002, almost 50 percent of
Overtown's households earned less than
$15,000 per year. The population of the
SEOPW CRA area has increased by 2.9%
between 1990 (6,599) and 2000 (6,792).
Residential characteristics in surrounding
areas:
• Northeast of the SEOPW CRA is the
Omni Redevelopment Area. The new
Performing Arts Center (PAC) is under
construction and anticipated to draw new
people, businesses and residents into that
area. North of the PAC between
Biscayne Boulevard and Biscayne Bay are
several new multi -family residential towers
under construction.
• North of the SEOPW CRA, the
conditions are similar to Overtown.
Redevelopment efforts within the
SEOPW CRA can only have a positive
effect on its northern neighbors.
• South West and West of the SEOPW
CRA is the Miami River and the Spring
Garden neighborhood. The river has
mostly industrial uses, but future loft style
apatnnents are being advertised on signs
posted at various properties. Spring
Garden is a stable residential
neighborhood primarily of single family
homes, separated from western Overtown
by a canal.
• To the south is the Central Business
District with mostly government related
buildings on the southern edge of the
SEOPW CRA.
• Northwest of the SEOPW CRA is the
6.2 SOUTHEAST OVERTOWN / PARK WEST MASTER PLAN
hospital area comprised of several
hospitals, doctors offices, and related
businesses and research facilities.
• To the East are properties facing Biscayne
Bay, including Bicentennial Park and the
American Airlines Arena. Two museums
are anticipated for Bicentennial Park.
Housing Policy
The following items constitute the
SEOPW CRA's Policy toward Housing, both
market rate and affordable:
1) The SEOPW CRA will only endorse,
support, encourage, assist or initiate
housing initiatives that will do their part
to:
a) Improve living conditions for all
residents of the neighborhoods
b) Incorporate a variety of housing
options and serve a range of incomes
c) Includes design features and
considerations that contribute to the
livability of the community
d) Furthers the development of
"workforce" housing through
partnerships with employers located
in and surrounding the SEOPW
community, including the use of
Employer Assisted Housing models
2) A goal for the level of affordable housing
that should be made available in the
SEOPW CRA of, at least, 20% of any
new development or rehabilitation of
existing housing stock, to be periodically
reviewed for results.
3) Affordability can be achieved by:
a) Working with both non-profit and
for -profit developers to help them
find redevelopment opportunities and
to assist with overcoming obstacles
they may encounter.
b) Developing and supporting programs
that will assist in the development of
housing that is affordable to lower -
income families by providing
developer incentives such as density
bonuses, parking concessions and
project subsidies.
c) Establish inclusionary zoning policies
that will require a percentage of the
units in all new rental and
homeownership developments to be
affordable to low and very low-
income families, with best efforts
being made to serve existing
Overtown residents.
d) Assisting developers, who provide
rental housing serving families,
including seniors, earning below 50%
of the area median income, to secure
project based assistance for those
units.
e) Ensuring that existing supportive
housing is better integrated into the
community, and expanding
supportive housing models to address
the unmet needs of existing SEOPW
residents.
f) Ensuring adequate funding of and
access to mortgage subsidy programs
for existing SEOPW families who
seek homeownership opportunities in
the community.
Relocation Policy
As stated in this Redevelopment Plan's
Housing Policy, it is the SEOPW CRA's goal
and intent to retain, improve and increase the
housing stock in the redevelopment area and
not to replace it with a non-residential use.
In the future, if any unforeseen
redevelopment project involving the SEOPW
CRA requires the involuntarily displacement
of anyone from either a rented or owned
housing unit, the project proposal must
contain a Project Relocation Plan which
adheres to all applicable laws and regulations.
The Project Relocation Plan must be approved
by the Board of the SEOPW CRA in a
Neighborhood Impact of the Master Plan 6.3
publicly noticed CRA Board meeting prior to
any final approval of the project.
If any future projects were to require
relocation and CRA funding were to be
"partnered" with Federal funds, the SEOPW
CRA shall make it a condition of its
participation that all provisions of the
Uniform Relocation Assistance Act are met.
This strategy adheres to the requirements of
Chapter 163 and 421, Florida Statues.
Through the Housing Policy and
Relocation Policy described in this Plan, the
existing residents within the SEOPW CRA
area who may be temporarily or permanently
displaced as a result of redevelopment
activities directly supported by the SEOPW
CRA will have access to safe, sanitary and
decent replacement housing.
Traffic Circulation
The network of streets within the CRA is
the typical Miami "grid." The older portions
of Overtown have smaller blocks. The I-95
and I-395 Highways have created some real
and psychological barriers; however there are
several locations where the city streets pass
under the highway. The FEC Railroad, which
runs along NW 1st Avenue, interrupts
circulation for both pedestrians and motorists
in several locations.
For this Redevelopment Plan's proposed
traffic changes, see Section 3, Hypothetical
Build -out Plan: "Transportation System:
Mobility and Access." The primary change
proposed is returning many of the streets from
a one-way configuration back to two-way
streets. The current conditions appear to
make it easy for visitors to enter Overtown,
but confusing to leave. The current roadways
should handle the projected increase in
residential units, since the same city streets
accommodated a former population of 40,000
in 1960. The population in 2000 was 6,792, an
increase from 6,599 in 1990. Also, public
transit serves Overtown rather well, which did
not exist in 1960.
Further community transit and transit
access improvements will be explored related
to Airport to Sea Port Metrorail linkages
through the Overtown/Arena Station and
other possible livable community intermodal
system improvements.
FDOT is proposing changes for the Port
of Miami traffic, which will include
modifications to NE/NW 5th and 6th Streets
to have three travel lanes in each direction,
and additional ramps on to I-95 for
northbound traffic, and traffic westbound on
SR836, The Dolphin Expressway. This
project was recently rejected by the MPO so
efforts to determine new alternatives should
be undertaken.
Transportation capacity is controlled by
the downtown's DRI agreement
(Development of Regional Impact). The local
circulation is addressed on a project by project
basis in the Major Use Special Permits
(MUSP).
Environmental Quality
Redevelopment in the SEOPW CRA will
improve environmental quality due to existing
provisions in the City's building permit
process. Miami -Dade County Department of
Environmental Resource Management reviews
all new construction permits to insure health
standards are followed. Asbestos testing is
required for existing
undergo renovation.
Department must also
sewer changes,
and schools.
Miami Dade
buildings that are to
The County's Health
approve any water and
restaurants, hospitals, clinics,
Water
and
Sewer
Department (M-DWASD) provides water and
sewage services and runoff drainage for the
CRA area. M-DWASD has upgraded their
standards which means that nearly all new
construction and renovations within the CRA
will require upgrades to the water service lines,
given the age and smaller diameter of the
existing water lines.
Areas of concern within the CRA are
those redeveloping areas that once had
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industrial uses and gas stations. Those areas
are primarily in Park West, along the FEC
railroad tracks, and along NW 7th Avenue.
Effect on School Population
The 2000 population of the area within
the SEOPW CRA boundaries was 3,904. The
average household size in the 2000 Census for
Miami -Dade County was 2.90, which means
there are approximately 1,347 households.
Using Miami -Dade County Public School's
five -step School Impact Review Analysis
Process, this suggests that there are currently
approximately:
238 school children enrolled in elementary
school,
130 school children enrolled in middle
school, and
151 school children enrolled in high
school.
519 total students (estimated)
Since the projected population growth for
the SEOPW CRA is difficult to estimate given
the large development potential of the
SEOPW CRA, two scenarios were calculated
using the School Impact Review Analysis
Process (see Section 10, Appendix C) Based
on this analysis, substantial numbers of new
residents will require the construction of new
schools or major additions to existing ones. If
every property in the SEOPW CRA was built
out to its maximum potential, with current
zoning, Miami -Dade Public Schools will need
to double the size of Booker T. Washington
High School and add multiple middle and
elementary schools
Currently with the low utilization of the
one high school serving the neighborhood,
2000 to 3000 more residential units can be
added to the school district and stay within
capacity limits. That is not true for the middle
and elementary schools. The two middle
schools serving the area are both currently
overcrowded. The elementary schools are
currently underutilized but new development
generates more students at the elementary
level.
The analysis only took into account the
public schools, not charter schools. The
student population in the charter schools can
come from outside the SEOPW CRA and
Miami -Dade County Public Schools does not
factor them into their formulas.
Factors that can affect the projections of
the school impact analysis:
1) Increases in zoning causing additional
residential units beyond existing
zoning.
2) A lowering of the student drop -out
rate, primarily affecting the high
school level.
3) A large percentage of new residents
sending their children to charter or
private schools.
Miami -Dade County Public Schools is
assessing their facilities and the number of
students since Florida voters passed a
referendum in 2002 requiring a mandatory
classroom size reduction in public schools.
The deadline for this is the 2008-9 school year.
This will also impact the students living in the
SEOPW CRA.
Current Schools serving the CRA include:
Elementary Schools:
Frederick Douglass Elementary
Paul Laurence Dunbar Elementary
Phillis Wheatley Elementary
Riverside Elementary
Elementary Charter Schools:
Mater Academy East Charter School
Rosa Parks Charter School Overtown
Magnet / Elementary Alternative Schools:
Ada Merritt Elementary
A commuter school within close
proximity to the CRA, providing a dual
language education: English plus Spanish
Neighborhood Impact of the Master Plan 6.5
or Portuguese.
Secondary Schools:
Jose de Diego, Middle School
Booker T. Washington Senior High
Secondary Charter Schools:
Downtown Miami Charter School
Mater Academy East Charter School
Magnet /Alternative Secondary Schools:
Corporate Academy North
Accommodates students who, for various
reasons, have been unsuccessful in a
traditional high school. Facilities
accommodate approximately 160 young
adults. Instructional program is tailored to
the needs of the individual student.
Through a partnership with Communities
In Schools of Miami, Inc., students
participate in mentoring programs that
includes opportunities to explore careers
in many of Miami's larger companies.
Jobs for Miami Training Academy
Provides vocational and educational
training for adults, young adults, out of
school youth, dislocated workers, welfare
recipients and refugees.
Miami Skill Center
Provides basic education, and technical
and career development skills.
New World School of the Arts
A state -supported school cooperatively
administered by the Miami -Dade County
Public Schools, Miami -Dade Community
College, and the University of Florida.
The grades 9-12 program provides a
comprehensive educational sequence of
artistic training, academic and creative
development and preparation for
professional careers in the arts.
School for Advanced Studies,
Wolfson Campus
Provides an accelerated, full-time dual
enrollment program (high school &
college) at Miami -Dade Community
College.
Community Facilities and
Services
Community Facilities and Services in the
SEOPW CRA and vicinity:
• Parks / Public Spaces
o Bicentennial Park
o Gibson Park
o Athalie Range Park
o Lyric Plaza
o Culmer Center's grounds
o Williams Park
o Rainbow Village Park
o Henry Reeves Park
o Lumis Park
• Service, Meeting, & Recreational Centers
o Culmer/Overtown Neighborhood
Center,
o The Overtown Youth Center
o Freedom Tower
o Accion Community Action Agency
Service Center (CAA), 858 West
Flagler Street, (305) 547-4892
o Wynwood Neighborhood Center
(DHS), 2902 NW 2nd Avenue, (305)
547-7661
o Miami Arena, 701 Arena Boulevard
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• Churches
o Central Baptist Church
o Greater Bethel A.M.E. Church
o Mount Zion Baptist Church
o St. Johns Baptist Church
o St. Agnes Episcopal Church
o St. Peter's Catholic Church
• Educational
o University of Miami Medical Campus
(Jackson Hospital)
o Miami -Dade Community College,
Wolfson Campus,
o The Culmer/Overtown Branch
Library, Miami -Dade County Library
System
o Main Library, Miami -Dade County
• Entertainment Venues
o Historic Lyric Theater
o Performing Arts Center
o Seasonal events at Bicentennial Park
o Miami Arena
o American Airlines Arena
o Bayfront Park and Amphitheater
o Gusman Center
o (Future) Museums in Bicentennial
Park
• Public Transit
o Metrorail (two stations)
o Metromover (five stations)
o Metrobus, (many routes)
Physical and Social Quality
Until recently, Park West and Overtown
have been overlooked as a desirable place to
live and work. With the attraction of the Park
West Entertainment District during evening
and early morning hours, and with the
anticipated spill -over effect of the Performing
Arts Center, expansion of the Historic Lyric
Theater, and new proposed market rate and
affordable housing, the physical character of
the CRA area is about to change.
Recent projects from the CRA have been
geared toward beautification of the public
rights -of -way with sidewalk improvements and
tree planting. Athalie Range Park under I-95
is about to undergo improvements with the
installation of a domino park, historic
walkway, renovated basketball courts and new
bathrooms
The CRA has identified that new zoning
regulations are needed with design guidelines.
The intention of the design guidelines is to
ensure that both publicly and privately
constructed buildings are attractive and
support the need for pedestrian access,
comfort, and safety.
Proposed new developments at the time
of writing this amendment all provide a mix of
uses including residential, making it possible to
live and work within walking distance or
transit.
The greatest asset of this community is its
location. The Central Business District is
within walking distance, it is served by public
transit, and it is centrally located in Miami -
Dade County.
Neighborhood Impact of the Master Plan 6.7
• Powers of the SEOPW CRA
• Powers Not Assigned to the SEOPW CRA
• Authority to Undertake Redevelopment
• Future Amendments to this Redevelopment Plan
• State of Florida Statutory Requirements
• Safeguards and Assurances
• Land Acquisition
To the lover of cities...
individuality is a very real quality.
- Raymond Unwin
Plan Management
The Southeast Overtown Park West
Community Redevelopment Plan shall be
managed through the items specified in this
section. The SEOPW CRA shall conform to
all requirements and standards as designated
by Florida State Statute Chapter 163, Part III,
Community Redevelopment. The short title
for Part III is "Community Redevelopment
Act of 1969." The SEOPW CRA is entitled to
all activities under Community Redevelopment
Act of 1969 as it may be modified from time
to time, and it is entitled to activities that may
not be covered in this document but are part
of the state statute.
Powers of the SEOPW CRA
The powers identified below are
paraphrased from Statute, 163.370 of the Act.
Please refer to the statute in the event of any
kind of conflict of interpretation.
1) To write and execute contacts and other
implementation means that may be
necessary or timely to exercise its powers
under the Community Redevelopment
Act.
2) To distribute information regarding
community redevelopment to the
community's residents, property owners,
elected officials, and activists.
3) To commence with community
redevelopment and related activities
within the SEOPW CRA's boundaries,
which may include:
a. Purchasing or accepting title to real
property;
b. Acquiring property in excess of
appraised values and sell property at
less than appraised or fair market
value;
c. Selling or donating title to real
property;
d. Demolishing and removing existing
structures, landscaping, or previous
improvements to real property or
facilities;
e. Installing, constructing, or rebuilding
streets, sidewalks, utilities, parks,
playgrounds, and public spaces; and,
f. Preparing planning or construction
documents to build, repair, or
rehabilitate buildings or public spaces.
4) Within the SEOPW CRA's boundaries:
a. To make inspections, surveys,
appraisals, soundings, or test borings
on private property;
b. To conduct environmental tests and
surveys on private property;
c. To purchase, lease, option, gift, grant,
or bequest, any real property together
or without any other improvements;
d. To hold, improve, clear or prepare
for redevelopment any acquired real
property;
e. To mortgage, pledge, hypothecate or
otherwise encumber or dispose of
any property;
f. To enter into contracts that are
necessary for any redevelopment
activities, projects or programs;
To solicit requests for proposals,
requests for qualification, and bid
solicitation for redevelopment
activities;
h. To apply for financing and to borrow
money from the Federal
Government, the State, the County,
the City or other public body or from
any public or private sources in the
form of loans, bonds, grants,
contributions, and any other form of
financial assistance to be used for
redevelopment activities;
i. To acquire air rights which shall be
used for implementing
redevelopment projects;
To appropriate funds and pay
expenditures as necessary to perform
the actions identified in this plan;
k. To organize, coordinate, and direct
the administration of redevelopment
g.
j.
7.2 SOUTHEAST OVERTOWN / PARK WEST MASTER PLAN
activities, projects, and programs
solely within the SEOPW CRA
boundaries or jointly with other
CRAs within the City of Miami;
1. To establish community innovation
parking projects;
m. To fund pilot programs to market
activities within the redevelopment
area; and,
n. To establish a community
development entity under the U.S.
Treasury New Market Tax Credit
Program.
o. To establish, implement and fund
community policing innovations as
explained in the Community
Redevelopment Act of 1969.
5) The CRA shall be permitted to issue
redevelopment revenue bonds and other
financial instruments as authorized by the
City's governing body as per Section
163.385 of the Florida Statutes. Bonds
issued under this section do not constitute
indebtedness within the meaning of any
constitutional or statutory debt limitation
or restrictions as they apply to the City of
Miami or Miami -Dade County.
6) The CRA may exercise all or any part in
combination of redevelopment powers as
prescribed in the Florida Community
Redevelopment Act, Chapter 163, Part
III, Florida
redevelopment
SEOPW
Statutes, provided the
is not restricted by this
CRA Community
Redevelopment Plan, as it may be updated
from time to time.
Powers not assigned to the
SEOPW CRA
The following activities may not be paid
for or financed by increment revenues but
may be purchased through alternative funding
sources:
1) Construction or expansion of
administrative buildings for public bodies
or operational police and fire buildings,
unless each taxing authority agrees to such
method of financing for the construction
or expansion, or unless the construction
or expansion is contemplated as part of a
community policing innovation.
2) Installation, construction, reconstruction,
repair, or alteration of any publicly owned
capital improvements or projects which
are not an integral part of or necessary for
carrying out the community
redevelopment plan if such projects or
improvements are normally financed by
the governing body with user fees or if
such projects or improvements would be
installed, constructed, reconstructed,
repaired, or altered within 3 years of the
approval of the community
redevelopment plan by the governing
body pursuant to a previously approved
public capital improvement or project
schedule or plan of the governing body
which approved the community
redevelopment plan,
3) General government operating expenses
unrelated to the planning and carrying out
of a community redevelopment plan.
Regarding zoning and land development
regulations, The CRA shall not have the
power to:
a. Independently zone or rezone
property; however the CRA can
recommend and advocate zoning
changes to the City of Miami;
b. Grant variances or exceptions from
zoning, building regulations, or life -
safety codes.; however the CRA can
request such variances and exceptions
to the City on behalf of an applicant;
Or
c. Independently close or vacate public
rights -of -way.
The SEOPW CRA Board shall not have
the power to grant final approval of the
Plan Management 7.3
SEOPW Community Redevelopment Plan
and future revisions.
Authority to Undertake
Redevelopment
The SEOPW Community Redevelopment
Plan has been prepared in accordance with the
Florida Community Redevelopment Act,
Chapter 163, Part III of the Florida Statutes.
The adoption of this Redevelopment Plan and
any later modifications or amendments shall
follow the procedures set forth in Florida
Statute 163.346 (public hearings) and Statute
163.360 (7), (8), and (9) of the Act.
By adopting this Redevelopment Plan, the
Community Redevelopment Act of 1969
confers upon the SEOPW CRA the authority
and the powers to perform "Community
Redevelopment" as defined in Statute 163..340
(9) of the Act.
The SEOPW CRA is the authoritative
government agency that oversees and
monitors development within the SEOPW
redevelopment area, and as such, all
development projects proposed within its
environs must be presented before the CRA
Board of Directors prior to the City of Miami
granting approval of the project.
Future Amendments to this
Redevelopment Plan
This Redevelopment Plan is an
amendment, an update, to the original 1982
SEOPW CRA Community Redevelopment
Plan. In the future, this plan may need to be
amended as new, innovative projects eligible
for Tax Increment Financing (TIF) funds, are
proposed for the area.
Amendments to the Plan shall be
approved by the Board of City
Commissioners. The CRA Board will initiate
any amendment action by adopting a
resolution recommending that the Board of
City Commissioners amend the Plan pursuant
to Statute 163.346 and Statute 163.360 (8) and
(9) by resolution. The CRA Board may then
hold an advertised public hearing on the
proposed modification or amendment and
approve the modification by passage of an
appropriate Resolution. Any amendment
action also requires pre -notification of the
affected taxing authorities by registered mail.
The Community Redevelopment Act of
1969 does not require local planning agencies
to review plan amendments for conformity
with the Comprehensive Plan.
The original "Findings of Necessity"
should be reaffirmed with regard to the
proposed modification or amendment.
Should any provision of the Community
Redevelopment Plan, including later revisions,
be found to be invalid, unconstitutional or
illegal, such provision shall not affect the
remaining portions of the plan. A plan need
not be revised solely to clarify any such
conflicts that are substantive, but such
conflicts should be removed at the time of the
next amendment.
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State of Florida Statutory
Requirements
The Community Redevelopment Act of 1969,
(163.362), requires that specific elements be
included in every redevelopment Plan. The
chart to the right identifies the location for
each of those elements within this Master Plan
Report.
Technical Item
Section
Page
Legal Description
1
1.9
Diagram Showing
Open Space
3
3.6
Diagram Showing
Street Layout
3
3.10
Limitations On
Massing, Intensity And
Density
3
3.24
Properties For Parks
And Other Public Use
3
3.6
Neighborhood Impact
6
6.2
Publicly Funded
Capital Improvements
5 C
5.2
Safeguards And
Assurances
7
7.5
Retention Of Controls
And Restrictions With
Land Sales
7
/
7.5
Residential Use-
Affordability
2 Q_ /_ U
�X
2.2;
6.3
Costs
5
5.3
Timeline
5
5.13
Safeguards & Assurances
Safeguards To Ensure
Redevelopment Activities Follow
The Redevelopment Plan
1) The SEOPW CRA shall file an annual
financial report by _March 31 of each year
with the Miami -Dade County Board of
Commissioners, The Miami -Dade County
Clerk's Office, the City of Miami Board of
Commissioners, and the City's Clerk's
Office. This report shall contain a
programmatic overview of the public
and/or public/private funded activities of
the SEOPW CRA as allowed by the
Redevelopment Plan.
2) The SEOPW CRA shall file a Five Year
Capital Program budget with the City of
Miami, for inclusion in the City's Five
Year Comprehensive Plan, and update
this budgeting document annually.
3) The SEOPW CRA Board shall be fully
subject to the Florida Sunshine Law and
meet at least on a monthly basis in a
public forum.
4) The SEOPW CRA shall provide adequate
safeguards to ensure that all leases, deeds,
contracts, agreements and declarations of
restrictions relative to any real property
Plan Management 7.5
conveyed shall contain restrictions and
covenants running with the land and its
uses, or other such provisions necessary
to carry out the goals and objectives of
the Redevelopment Plan. The SEOPW
CRA shall further ensure that such
conveyance comply with the requirements
of Florida Statutes 163.380
5) The SEOPW CRA shall continue to
acquire property and to convey such
interest to developers and investors for
redevelopment.
6) The SEOPW CRA shall promote the use
of Land Pooling to provide existing
property owners with an opportunity to
participate in the redevelopment of the
SEOPW redevelopment area as an equity
partners in return for the use of the
private owners land for such
development.
7) The SEOPW CRA shall present a
Regulatory Plan to the City of Miami for
adoption and continue to recommend
zoning changes consistent with the
Redevelopment Plan.
8) The SEOPW CRA shall request to the
City that all proposals for new
development, once reviewed by the City
administration, shall be forwarded to the
SEOPW CRA for review and consistency
with the Redevelopment Plan.
9) The SEOPW CRA shall request specific
goals and objectives from developers that
utilize Tax Increment Financing (TIF)
funds.
10) The SEOPW CRA shall require a
Minority Participation Agreement for all
development projects occurring within its
boundaries.
11) The SEOPW CRA shall, or will require
the developer to provide existing business
owners and business tenants within the
redevelopment area preference for re-
entry into business within the
redevelopment area provided the business
is compatible with the uses, theme and
quality of development in the
redevelopment area and that the business
owner or tenant has the financial ability to
operate the business consistent with the
overall integrity of the redevelopment
district.
Safeguards To Ensure Financial
Accountability
1) The SEOPW CRA shall maintain
adequate records to provide for an annual
external audit which shall be conducted by
a knowledgeable Certified Public
Accountant selected by the City of Miami
Board of Commissioners. The findings of
the audit shall be presented at a public
meeting of the Board of the SEOPW
CRA and such findings shall be forwarded
to the City of Miami and Miami Dade
County Board of Commissioners by
March 31 of each year to the preceding
fiscal year which shall run from October 1
through September 30.
The annual Audit Report shall be
accompanied by the SEOPW CRA's
Annual Financial Report and shall be
provided to the City of Miami Board of
Commissioners, City Clerk's Office,
Miami -Dade County Board of
Commissioners and the Miami -Dade
County Clerk's Office and be made
available for public review. Legal notice
in newspapers of general circulation,
including but not limited to the Miami
Today, Miami Times, Daily Business
Review and/or the Miami Herald, shall be
provided to inform the public of the
availability for review of the Annual Audit
and Annual Financial Report.
2) All SEOPW CRA tax increment financing
(TIF) funds shall be held in a
Redevelopment Trust Fund separately
from other funds as required by Florida
Statutes.
3) The SEOPW CRA shall request specific
7.6 SOUTHEAST OVERTOWN / PARK WEST MASTER PLAN
goals and objectives from developers that
utilize Tax Increment Financing (TIF)
funds.
Safeguards To Ensure Proper
Implementation and
Project/Program Accountability
1) The SEOPW CRA shall establish
measurable goals and objectives for each
activity it administers and/or funds.
2) The SEOPW CRA shall coordinate with
related agencies, entities, community
based organzations and stakeholders,
specifically including the Water and Sewer
Authority (WASA), the City and County
Public Works, Capital Improvement
Projects, and Planning & Zoning
departments to ensure the proper
planning, budgeting and implementation
of projects.
3) The SEOPW CRA shall hold public
hearings on the following at its monthly
Board Meetings:
a. Report and status on its programs
and projects (the "Activities")
b. Gather input from property
owners, citizens and interested
parties regarding redevelopment
activities; and
c. Discuss strategies to resolve local
redevelopment issues
Providing for a Time -Certain and
Severability
All redevelopment activities of a
contractual, financial and programmatic nature
shall have a maximum duration, or
commitment of up to, but not exceeding,
thirty (30) years from the date of adoption of
the original 1982 SEOPW Redevelopment
Plan by the City of Miami and Miami Dade
County Board of Commissioners.
Land Acquisition
Florida Statutes 163.358 authorizes the
SEOPW CRA to acquire land and qualifies
acquisitions with Statute 163.370(3). In
Section 4 of this Redevelopment Plan, under
District Wide Program #9, Miscellaneous Land
Acquisition, the CRA objective states: The CRA
proposes to acquire land, as necessary, to support the
implementation of the projects described in this
Redevelopment Plan avithin the SEOPIF
Redevelopment Area.
Pursuant to Florida Statute 163.375 the
SEOPW CRA cannot acquire property
through eminent domain proceedings. The
City of Miami has the sole authority to
commence eminent domain proceedings on
behalf of the SEOPW CRA. The SEOPW
CRA shall recommend that the City resist
resorting to such proceedings, because of its
costly nature which is further typically
perceived as a non -collaborative action by
property owners in the redevelopment area.
In the event that property owners are
unwilling to participate in the redevelopment
of the SEOPW Redevelopment Area even
with the provision of financial and technical
assistance, the CRA shall recommend to the
City of Miami that eminent domain
proceedings commence.
Plan Management 7.7
Definitions
Definitions
The following terms, wherever used or
referred to in this part, have the following
meanings:
Blighted Area
An area in which there are a substantial
number of deteriorated, or deteriorating
structures, in which conditions, as indicated by
government -maintained statistics or other
studies, are leading to economic distress or
endanger life or property, and in which two or
more of the following factors are present:
(a) Predominance of defective or inadequate
street layout, parking facilities, roadways,
bridges, or public transportation facilities;
Aggregate assessed values of real property
in the area for ad valorem tax purposes
have failed to show any appreciable
increase over the 5 years prior to the
finding of such conditions;
(c) Faulty lot layout in relation to size,
adequacy, accessibility, or usefulness;
(d) Unsanitary or unsafe conditions;
(e) Deterioration of site or other
improvements;
Inadequate and outdated building density
patterns;
Falling lease rates per square foot of
office, commercial, or industrial space
(b)
(f)
(g)
compared to the remainder of the county
or municipality;
(h) Tax or special assessment delinquency
exceeding the fair value of the land;
Residential and commercial vacancy rates
higher in the area than in the remainder of
the county or municipality;
Incidence of crime in the area higher than
in the remainder of the county or
municipality;
(k) Fire and emergency medical service calls
to the area proportionately higher than in
the remainder of the county or
municipality;
(1) A greater number of violations of the
Florida Building Code in the area than the
number of violations recorded in the
remainder of the county or municipality;
(m) Diversity of ownership or defective or
unusual conditions of title which prevent
the free alienability of land within the
deteriorated or hazardous area; or
(n) Governmentally owned property with
adverse environmental conditions caused
by a public or private entity.
(i)
(i)
However, the term "blighted area" also
means any area in which at least one of the
factors identified in paragraphs (a) through (n)
are present and all taxing authorities subject to
s. 163.387(2)(a) agree, either by interlocal
agreement or agreements with the agency or
by resolution, that the area is blighted. Such
agreement or resolution shall only determine
that the area is blighted. For purposes of
qualifying for the tax credits authorized in
chapter 220, "blighted area" means an area as
defined in this subsection.
Board or Commission
A board, commission, department, division,
office, body or other unit of the county or
municipality.
Community Policing Innovation
A policing technique or strategy designed to
reduce crime by reducing opportunities for,
and increasing the perceived risks of engaging
in, criminal activity through visible presence of
police in the community, including, but not
limited to, community mobilization,
neighborhood block watch, citizen patrol,
citizen contact patrol, foot patrol,
neighborhood storefront police stations, field
interrogation, or intensified motorized patrol.
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Community Redevelopment Agency
A public agency created by, or designated
pursuant to, FS. 163.356 or FS. 163.357,
Sometimes referred to as "Agency"
Community Redevelopment Area
A slum area, a blighted area, or an area in
which there is a shortage of housing that is
affordable to residents of low or moderate
income, including the elderly, or a coastal and
tourist area that is deteriorating and
economically distressed due to outdated
building density patterns, inadequate
transportation and parking facilities, faulty lot
layout or inadequate street layout, or a
combination thereof which the governing
body designates as appropriate for community
redevelopment.
Community Redevelopment Plan
A plan, as it exists from time to time, for a
community redevelopment area.
Federal Government
The United States Government or any agency
or instrumentality, corporate or otherwise, of
the United States.
Housing authority
A housing authority created by and established
pursuant to C chapter 421.
Increment Revenue
The amount calculated pursuant to FS.
163.387(1).
Mixed -Mode Corridor
A street limited to pedestrian, bicycle and
transit movements for all or part of the day
and night.
Public officer
Any officer who is in charge of any
department or branch of the government of
the county or municipality relating to health,
fire, building regulations, or other activities
concerning dwellings in the county or
municipality.
Real Property
All lands, including improvements and fixtures
thereon, and property of any nature
appurtenant thereto or used in connection
therewith and every estate, interest, right, and
use, legal or equitable, therein, including but
not limited to terms for years and liens by way
of judgment, mortgage, or otherwise.
Redevelopment or Community
Redevelopment
Undertakings, activities, or projects of a
county, municipality, or community
redevelopment agency in a community
redevelopment Oarea for the elimination and
prevention of the development or spread of
slums and blight, or for the reduction or
prevention of crime, or for the provision of
affordable housing, whether for rent or for
sale, to residents of low or moderate income,
including the elderly, and may include slum
clearance and redevelopment in a community
redevelopment area or rehabilitation and
revitalization of coastal resort and tourist areas
that are deteriorating and economically
distressed, or rehabilitation or conservation in
a community redevelopment area, or any
combination or part thereof, in accordance
with a community redevelopment plan and
may include the preparation of such a plan.
Related Activities
Either:
1) Planning work for the preparation of a
general neighborhood redevelopment plan
or for the preparation or completion of a
communitywide plan or program pursuant
to FS. 163.365.
2) The functions related to the acquisition
and disposal of real property pursuant to
FS. 163.370 (3).
3) The development of affordable housing
for residents of the area.
Definitions 8.3
4) The development of community policing
innovations.
Slum Area
An area having physical or economic
conditions conducive to disease, infant
mortality, juvenile delinquency, poverty, or
crime because there is a predominance of
buildings or improvements, whether
residential or nonresidential, which are
impaired by reason of dilapidation,
deterioration, age, or obsolescence, and
exhibiting one or more of the following
factors:
(a) Inadequate provision for ventilation, light,
air, sanitation, or open spaces;
(b) High density of population, compared to
the population density of adjacent areas
within the county or municipality; and
overcrowding, as indicated by
government -maintained statistics or other
studies and the requirements of the
Florida Building Code; or
(c) The existence of conditions that endanger
life or property by fire or other causes.
8.4 SOUTHEAST OVERTOWN / PARK WEST MASTER PLAN
Directory of Local Organizations
Directory
Updating this directory from time to time
does not constitute a revision to this
redevelopment plan.
Southeast Overtown/Park West
Community Redevelopment Agency
Frank K. Rollason, Executive Director
E-mail: frollason@ci.miami.fl.us
Chelsa Arscott, Policy & Program Dev.
Admin.
E-mail: carscott@ci.miami.fl.us
49 NW 5 Street, Suite 100 Miami, Fl 33128
Telephone: (305) 679-6800 Fax:: (305) 679-
6835
Board of County Commissioners
Dr. Barbara Carey-Shuler, District 3
Stephen P. Clark Center
111 N.W. 1st Street, Suite 220
Miami, Florida 33128
Telephone (305) 375-5393
Email: district3miamidade.gov
Bruno A. Barreiro, District 5
1454 SW 1st Street, Suite 130
Miami, Florida 33135
Telephone (305) 643-8525
Email: district5@miamidade.gov
Board of CRA Directors
Commissioner Arthur Teele, Jr., Chairman,
Telephone: (305)250-5390
E-mail: ateele@ci.miami.fl.us
Commissioner Johnny L. Winton
Vice -Chairman
Telephone: (305)250-5333
E-mail: jwinton@ci.miami.fl.us
Commissioner Angel Gonzalez, Board
Member
Telephone: (305)250-5430
E-mail: agonzalez@ci.miami.fl.us
Commissioner Joe M. Sanchez, Board
Member
E-mail: jsanchez@ci.miami.fl.us
Telephone: (305)250-5380
Commissioner Tomas P. Regalado,
Board Member
E-mail: tregalado@ci.miami.fl.us
Telephone: (305)250-5420
City of Miami Staff
Joe Arriola, City Manager
3500 Pan American Drive, Miami, FL 33133
Telephone: (305)250-5400
E-mail: jarriola@ci.miami.fl.us
Alejandro Vilarello, City Attorney
444 SW 2nd Avenue, Suite 945
Miami, Florida 33130
Telephone: (305)416-1800
E-mail: law@ci.miami.fl.us
Depatuuent of Community Development
Main Number (305) 416-2080
Barbara Gomez -Rodriguez, Director
Telephone: (305) 416-2099
Planning Depatunent
Main Number: (305) 416-400
Fax: (305) 416-1435
Ana Gelabert-Sanchez, Director
Telephone: (305) 416-1435
Lourdes Slazyk, Assistant Director
Telephone: (305) 416-1435
Depatuuent of Economic Development
Main Number (305) 416-1400
Fax: (305) 416-2156
Keith Carswell, Director
Telephone: (305) 416-1411
Laura Billberry, Assistant Director
Telephone: (305)416-1452
Public Works Department
Main Number (305) 416-1200
Albert Dominguez, Assistant Director
E-mail: aadominguez@,ci.miami.fl.us
9.2 SOUTHEAST OVERTOWN / PARK WEST MASTER PLAN
Building Department
Main Number (305) 416-1100
Hector Lima, Director
E-mail: hlima@ci.miami.fl.us
Overtown Advisory Board
Irby McKnight, Chairperson
1600 NW 3 Ave, Bldg C
Miami, FL 33128
Telephone: (305) 573-8217
Overtown Civic Partnership & Design
Center
Philip Bacon, Executive Director
Dorsey House
250 NW Ninth Street .Miami, FL 33136
Phone: 305-416-3301 Fax: 305-416-3302
www.overtown.org
The Black Archives Historic Research
Foundation
801 NW 2 Avenue, Miami, FL 33136
Telephone: 305-636-2390
Fax: (305) 636-2391
The Trust for Public Land
Lavinia Freeman, Program Manager
7900 Red Road, Suite 25
South Miami, FL 33143
Telephone: (305) 667-0409
www.tpl.org
BAME Development Corporation of
South Florida
William G. Mauzy, Director
245 NW 8th Street, Miami, Florida 33136
Telephone: (305) 373-7233 Fax: (305) 373-
8915
Collins Center for Public Policy
Rod Petry, President
150 SE 2nd Avenue Suite 703,
Miami, FL 33131
Telephone: (305) 377-4484
www.collinscenter.org
St. Johns CDC
David Alexander, Director
1324 NW 3 Avenue, Miami FL 33136
Telephone: (305) 372-0682
St. Agnes CDC
James Gibson, Director
2031 NW 4th Court Miami FL 33136
Telephone: (305) 573-6885
Mt. Zion CDC
Laurence Kerchen, Director
301 NW 9 St, Miami, FL 33136
Telephone: (305) 379-4147 Fax: (305) 374-
3733
The Overtown Youth Center
Gerald Deloney, Executive Director
450 NW 14th Street, Miami FL 33136
Telephone: (305) 349-1204
Local Initiatives Support Corporation
(LISC)
Denis Russ, Program Director
150 S. E. 2nd Ave., Suite 911
Miami, FL 33131
Telephone: (305) 381-7967
Fax (305) 372-1890
www.liscnet.org
Beacon Council Inc.
Charles Byrd, Director
80 SW 8 Street, Suite 2400, Miami, FL
33130
Telephone: (305) 579-1300
www.beaconcouncil.com
Habitat for Humanity
Anne Manning, Director
9350 S. Dadeland Blvd., Suite 200
Miami, Florida
Telephone: (305) 670-2224
www.miamihabitat.org
Miami Dade Empowerment Trust
Bryan Finney, President/CEO
E-mail kfinney@co.miami-dade.fl.us
Aundra Wallace, V.P., Exec. Director
E-mail: consir@co.miami.-dade.fl.us
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Directory 9.3
3050 Biscayne Blvd, Suite 300
Miami, FL 33137
Telephone: (305) 372-7620
www.ezonetrust.org
Overtown EZ Neighborhood Assembly
Irby McKnight, Chairperson
1600 NW 3 Ave, Bldg C, Miami, FL 33128
Telephone: (305) 573-8217
www.emp owermenttrust.org/community/
overtown.htm
Florida Department of Transportation
District VI Secretary
1000 NW 111th Avenue Miami, FL 33172
Telephone: (305) 470-5197
Fax (305) 470-5610
General Information: (305) 470-5349
www.dot..state.fl.us
9.4 SOUTHEAST OVERTOWN / PARK WEST MASTER PLAN
• A. Previous Planning Work for the Area
• B. Acknowledgements
• C. School Impact Analysis for the SEOPW CRA Redevelopment Plan
• D. 1982 Resolution adopting the SEOPW CRA
• E. Resolution Adopting New Boundaries
• F. Advertisements of Public Notice
• G. Findings of Slum and Blight
• H. Overtown Empowerment Trust's Goals
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Appendices
Appendix A
Previous Planning Work for
the area
1973
Urban Development and Zoning Plan.
This report recommended redevelopment of
the area north of the port access road to I-395
between N.W. 1st Avenue and Biscayne
Boulevard, later designated as Park West. This
recommendation was incorporated within the
MCNP in 1976.
1976
Miami Comprehensive Neighborhood Plan
4MCNP)
A Comprehensive Plan is required by the State
of Florida for every municipality. Miami's
Comprehensive Plan provides the framework
for the overall development of the City of
Miami. This plan is periodically updated and
continues to guide the City's decisions. In
1976 Development opportunities were
identified for the CRA area within this
document including the establishment of an
in -town residential community and
redevelopment opportunities made possible by
the expanded transit system.
1979-1980
Overtown Redevelopment Plan
Prepared by the City of Miami Planning and
Zoning Department with extensive citizen
review, this plan was for the larger Overtown
community, not just the CRA boundaries.
This plan was adopted by both the City of
Miami and Miami -Dade County. Portions of
this plan that referred to Southeast Overtown
were incorporated into the original SEOPW
Community Redevelopment Plan.
1979 - 1981
Miami Park West, A Redevelopment Program
for Downtown Miami
Prepared by Wallace, Roberts and Todd
(WRT), American Cities Corporation, and
Parsons Brinckerhoff Quade and Douglas, this
plan called for land purchase of a 16-block
area, extensive clearance and redevelopment
of the industrial area into a residential and
commercial community. The focal point of
the plan was a large linear green space linking
Overtown to Bicentennial Park. This plan was
incorporated into the 1982 SEOPW
Community Redevelopment Plan.
1981-82
SEOPW Community Redevelopment Plan
Prepared by the City of Miami Planning and
Zoning Depaitnient, this plan stated to the
State of Florida the need for a Community
Redevelopment Agency, and specified projects
and operations for the CRA. Although the
plan was modified over the following few
years, it is now out of date, which has led to
the Community Redevelopment Plan to which
this appendix is attached. The 1982
redevelopment plan was reviewed and
modified over a six-month period by the
Southeast Overtown/Park West Ad Hoc
Committee that included representatives of
the Overtown and Park West communities
and provided a forum for community
concerns.
1986-87
Omni Area Redevelopment Plan, September
1986
Prepared by the City of Miami Planning
Department, this is the Community
Redevelopment Plan for the Omni Area CRA.
August 1984
Design Standards and Guidelines for the
Southeast Overtown / Park West
Redevelopment Project
This document was prepared by the
Downtown Development Authority for the
SEOPW CRA. These standards contain many
10.2 SOUTHEAST OVERTOWN / PARK WEST MASTER PLAN
common sense practices for treating pavement
and landscaping on public streets. The
guidelines however reinforce a plan that is
heavily dependent upon a wide landscaped
pedestrian mall, an idea since widely
discredited nationally. The small segment of
the pedestrian mall that was constructed on
NW 9th Street in the late 1980's has already
been re -opened to traffic.
February 1989
The Historic Overtown Folklife Village,
Master Plan / Urban Design Guidelines.
This plan and accompanying guidelines were
prepared for the Black Archives, History and
Research Foundation of South Florida, Inc. by
Ronald E. Frazier & Associates. The plan
surveys a three block area of historic buildings
and offers architectural guidelines for
buildings.
1989
Downtown Miami Master Plan 1989
This document was prepared by the City of
Miami Depattinent of Planning, Building, &
Zoning and the Downtown Development
Authority. This plan was officially adopted by
the City Commission in 1989 and continues to
guide decision making for the downtown.
May 1997
Master Plan for Historic Overtown Folklife
Village, May 1997.
This plan was prepared by Duany, Plater-
Zyberk & Company as an update to the 1989
plan for the Black Archives. It offers new
implementation strategies for the previous
plan.
1998
NW 3rd Avenue Priority Business Corridor.
This document prepared by Bermello-Ajamil
& Partners, Inc for the SEOPW CRA
examines the physical existing conditions
along this historic commercial corridor.
Recommendations are also included to
stimulate business.
September 1999
City of Miami Community Redevelopment
Agency, Fiscal Year 2000 and 5-Year Plan
2000-2004, Budgeted Projects and Programs
Prepared by the SEOPW CRA, this document
lays out the current five-year plan of programs
and expenditures. Projects and programs
from this document have been included in the
SEOPW Community Redevelopment Plan.
March 2000
Overtown, Redevelopment Area Design
Charrette Report
This document was prepared by Treasure
Coast Regional Planning Council and
produced through a grant from the Florida
Department of Community Affairs to the
South Florida Regional Planning Council for
Eastward Ho initiatives. SFRPC brought in
the Treasure Coast Regional Planning Council
to provide a community design charrette
workshop and produce a detailed plan for all
of Overtown. Many local architects and
planners participated along with local property
owners and residents. The plan showed how
the community can redevelop over time with
small incremental improvements and
reinvestment, unlike typical grand schemes.
Unfortunately the plan failed to capture the
excitement needed in the investment
community and official circles, and is
perceived by some members of the
community as the latest in a string of broken
promises.
March 2000
Housing Needs and Potential of the
Overtown / Park West Area
This document was prepared by Reinhold P.
Wolff Economic Research, Inc. for South
Florida Partnership Office Fannie Mae. It is a
market housing study.
Spring 2000
History of the City of Miami, a brief summary
Appendices 10.3
of its past in pictures, maps and writings
This was prepared by students at the
University of Miami School of Architecture
under the directions of professors Allan
Shulman and Adolfo Albaisa. This is not a
planning document but rather a summary
showing how Downtown Miami has changed
over the years.
2002
Miami River Corridor Urban Infill and
Redevelopment Plan This document was
prepared by Kimley-Horn and Associates, Inc
for the Miami River Commission, City of
Miami and Miami -Dade County.
2002
Park West Club District Streetscape Master
Plan. This plan was prepared by Wallace
Roberts & Todd for the CRA. It identifies
parking areas and streetscape improvements
along Eleventh Street.
August 2002
Overtown Greenway Plan
This document was prepared by Trust for
Public Land and Wallace Roberts & Todd.
This document identifies the various planning
efforts taking place in the area and offers
greenway alignments and landscaping and
streetscape guidelines. transportation trust funds and to develop such
October 2002
Overtown Greenprint Plan
Prepared by the Trust for Public Land, The
Greenprint Steering Committee, and Glatting
Jackson Kerscher Anglin Lopez Rinehart Inc.
The Greenprint Plan is a strategic plan to
design and build an interconnected system of
urban open spaces, including parks, greens,
gardens, plazas, bikeways and sidewalks.
December 2002
Overtown: A Look Back, Connections to the
Future
This plan was prepared by Urban Design
Associates on behalf of the Collins Center for
Public Policy, Inc and the Overtown Civic
Partnership. The document analyzes the
existing conditions and shows design
alternatives for "Downtown Overtown," the
core area of Overtown.
November 2003
Miami at Midnight
This report was prepared by Thomas F.
Gustafson, P.A. to examin the use of narrow
gauge rail modality in the SEOPW and OMNI
CRA areas and to suggest locations for liner
buildings and related parking structures. The
report provides a basis for requesting
improvements
system.
as a community intermodal
10.4 SOUTHEAST OVERTOWN / PARK WEST MASTER PLAN
Appendix B
Acknowledgements
The Southeast Overtown — Park West
Community Redevelopment Plan, Update
2004 has been prepared by Dover, Kohl &
Partners, Town Planners with the incredible
support, ideas and information from:
• City of Miami Commissioners and
CRA Board Members:
o Commissioner Angel
Gonzalez, District 1
o Commissioner Johnny L.
Winton, District 2
o Commissioner Joe M. Sanchez,
District 3
o Commissioner Tomas P.
Regalado, District 4
o Commissioner Arthur Teele,
Jr., District 5
• County Commissioner, Dr. Barbara
Carey-Shuler, District 3
• City Manager, Joe Arriola
• Miami Community Redevelopment
Agency Director and Staff
o Frank K. Rollason, Executive
Director
o Chelsa Arscott-Douglas,
Policy & Program
Development Administrator
• CRA consultants:
o TY Lin International/HJ Ross
o Greater Miami Neighborhoods
o ZHA, economists
o Thomas Gustafson
• City of Miami Planning and Zoning
Depait.inent
• Many residents, property owners, and
business owners within and near the
SEOPW CRA area.
• Overtown Advisory Board
• Overtown Civic Partnership
• Black Archives of South Florida
Research Foundation, Inc.
• The Trust for Public Land
• LISC of Greater Miami
• The Overtown Youth Center
• Several Community Development
Corporations that included:
o BAME CDC
o St. Agnes CDC
o St. John's CDC
• Park West Civic Association
• Florida Department of
Transportation
• Several Community Churches that
included:
o St Agnes
o Mt Zion
• FDOT (Florida Department of
Transportation)
• Thomas F. Gustafson and Nova
Southeast University's Center for
Public Policy and Leadership
Appendices 10.5
Appendix C
School Impact Analysis for
the SEOPW CRA
Redevelopment Plan
This Impact Analysis has been performed
to examine the impact of the CRA
Community Redevelopment Plan on the
public school system in Miami -Dade County.
This analysis is projecting a total
redevelopment of all properties within the
SEOPW CRA area as if almost all of the area
were to be built out today using the current
zoning code. This scenario is not likely to
occur because the eventual redevelopment will
happen gradually over a long time, and many
of the existing structures will remain.
However, this is the best approach to examine
possible problems that can be avoided over
the next few years as properties do get
redeveloped.
Approach:
Each City block within the CRA was
numbered. (See attached map) The zoning for
each block was cross-referenced. A
spreadsheet was generated that lists each
block, corresponding gross square footages,
and the maximum Floor Area Ratio (FAR) for
each zoning district. The spreadsheet
generates the approximate number of dwelling
units with the assumption that the average
apatttnent size is 1,250 square feet of space.
This dwelling unit size is from a recent analysis
by a developer for a project in Overtown. The
columns on the right of the spreadsheet
separate out the number of possible dwelling
units that occur in each of the school districts
provided by Miami -Dade County Public
Schools (M-DCPS). There is one high school
that serves the SEOPW CRA, two middle
schools, and three elementary schools.
A second scenario:
While examining the FAR, it became
apparent that a developer could build smaller
units and stay within the maximum density
allowed in each zoning district. Therefore a
second spreadsheet was prepared that removes
the FAR limitations and estimates the possible
number of units using the maximum density
allowed. The SD-6, and SD-16 zones do not
specify a maximum density, so for those areas
we used the first scenario (with FAR) to
estimate the number of units on those blocks.
This second scenario suggests that more
dwelling units are possible if the controlling
factor becomes the maximum density instead
of the FAR. There was no analysis prepared
to determine if a developer could maximize
the density within the FAR limitations.
Findings:
Using M-DCPS's equations to estimate
the number of students for each school, the
new capacity is compared with the existing
capacity as reported in M-DCPS's Region IV
FISH Design Capacity (Permanent +
Relocatable). The comparison suggests the
following:
Booker T. Washington High Schook
Scenario 1 reveals 3,060 new high school
students would be added to the neighborhood,
putting the high school at 202% of its current
capacity. This reveals that another high school
of a similar size would need to be added, or
the school would need to double its current
student capacity, by renovation or additions to
the existing school. Scenario 2 reveals 6,278
new high school students, requiring much
more capacity. Booker T. Washington HS is
presently under utilized. It can accommodate
approximately 1,000 additional students before
exceeding M-DCPS's acceptable threshold of
115%.
Citrus Grove Middle Schook
Only a small portion of the SEOPW CRA area
lies within the Citrus Grove Middle School
10.6 SOUTHEAST OVERTOWN / PARK WEST MASTER PLAN
district. Scenario 1 (by FAR) reveals 35 new
middle school students could be added to the
school. Scenario 2 (by maximum density)
reveals 150 new middle school students.
Without any new students, Citrus Grove
currently has a capacity problem at 151%
utilization. More capacity is currently needed
at Citrus Grove Middle School. The utilization
becomes a concern to the School Board when
it increases above 115%.
Jose de Diego Middle Schook
The majority of the SEOPW CRA area
lies within the Jose de Diego Middle School
district. Scenario 1 reveals 2,603 new middle
school students could be added to the
neighborhood. Scenario 2 reveals 5,318 new
middle school students. This is a significant
number of new students. Without any new
students, Jose de Diego currently has a slight
capacity problem at 119% utilization. Scenario
1 creates a capacity utilization of 342% and
Scenario 2 creates it at 575%. Jose de Diego
Middle School needs to be increased in size
immediately for more capacity. Another
middle school should be planned now if it
isn't already.
Paul Dunbar Elementary Schook
Only a small portion of the SEOPW CRA
area lies within the Paul Dunbar Elementary
School district. Scenario 1 reveals 129 new
elementary school students could be added to
the school. Scenario 2 reveals 451 new
elementary school students. It appears that
new development within the SEOPW CRA
will cause minimal capacity problems at Paul
Dunbar Elementary School. With 451 new
students from the unlikely Scenario 2, the
capacity is at 119% utilization.
Phillis Wheatley Elementary Schook
Scenario 1 reveals 925 new elementary
school students could be added to the school.
Scenario 2 reveals 1,768 new elementary
school students. There appears to be no
capacity problems at Phillis Wheatley
Elementary School.
Scenario 1 reveals 925 new elementary
school students would be added to the Phillis
Wheatley Elementary's school district, putting
the school at 209% of its current capacity of
655 students. This reveals that another
elementary school of a similar size would need
to be added, or the school would need to
more than double its current student capacity.
Scenario 2 reveals 1,768 new elementary
school students. If this much redevelopment
were to occur, an additional Elementary
School will be needed for the neighborhood.
Phillis Wheatley Elementary is presently under
utilized. It can accommodate approximately
310 additional students before exceeding M-
DCPS's acceptable threshold of 115%.
Frederick Douglass Elementary Schook
A greater portion of the SEOPW CRA
area lies within the Frederick Douglass
Elementary School district. Scenario 1 reveals
3,800 new elementary school students could
be added to the school. Scenario 2 reveals
7,841 new elementary school students. Most
of these new students would be living in Park
West, where the development potential is very
large. If Park West develops in a manner
similar to Brickell Avenue, many of the
households will then be part-time residents,
professionals without children, or parents who
send their children to charter schools or
private schools. If this is the case, then the
actual number of students for public schools
will be reduced from the projected amount in
this study. With both scenario projections,
additional elementary schools will be needed
in the neighborhood. Frederick Douglass
Elementary can accommodate approximately
414 additional students before exceeding M-
DCPS's acceptable threshold of 115%.
This study was prepared by Dover, Kohl & Partners
in preparation for the SEOPW CRA Community
Redevelopment Plan, October 2003.
Appendices 10.7
SEOPW CRA Redevelopment Plan School Impact Analysis
October 2003
Potential Buildout Using Existing Zoning FARs --Scenario 1
Future Dwelling Unit Projection for SEOPW CRA
Block nw6es referto aty Nooks numbered on an attached rrep
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333
283
90
283
333
320
332
260
312
320
328
217,
8s 000
228,260
222,000
229,800
99,800
44,000
65,880
190,476
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211 640
218,504
]],320
207,064
19G,470
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28
29
30
31
32
33
34
35
36
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38
40
41
42
43
44
45
46
47
48
49
50
51
52
53
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55B
56A
56B
57
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58B
59
60
61
62
63
64
65
66
67
68
69
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71
72
73
]4
75
]6
PA
770
]8
]9
80
81
82
83
84
85
86
CBD
C-1
SD-16 2
50.16
SD-16
6-1
6-2
6-2
6-2
R-3
R-3
R-3
R-4
SD-16
SD-16
SD-16 2
C-1
SD-16 2
SD-16 2
C-1
C-1
CBD
CBD
CBD
CBD
GII
SD-16 2
SD-16
C-1
C-18 R-4
C-1 & R-4
C-1 & R-4
C-1
R-3
R-3
C-1
R-3
R-3
C-1
R-3
PR&C-1
PR
C-1 & R-4
C-18 R-4
C-1
R-3
C-1
R-3
0-1
R-3
C-1
R-3
C-1
R-3
R-3
R-3
R-3
C-2
R-3
R-3
R-3
R-3
R-3
R-3
R-3
R-3
R-3
GII
GII
C-1
R-3
R-4
6-1 & R-4
R-4
6-1 & R-4
6-1
C-1
R-3
R-3
C-1
R-3
R-3
R-3
GII
685
460
650
650
650
420
595
501
575
498
535
320
577
339
339
329
509
408
312
279
326
320
268
538
538
538
538
320
320
540
316
316
297
314
314
314
460
397
820
757
375
330
228
228
229
229
226
226
229
229
81
84
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56
54
02
O6
6
59
59
75
90
5
9
5
1
2
2
41
41
34
42
42
34
39
39
39
8
459
312
560
320
320
283
280
322
204
155
315
412
320
320
320
124
320
312
192
234
230
228
219
149
321
329
334
321
238
252
335
75
254
209
75
254
204
100
280
414
673
335
227
100
275
100
275
100
277
100
277
75
75
241
292
287
175
175
175
317
317
306
102
664
135
363
206
525
333
109
290
325
312
312
75
100
100
260
75
416
541
230
335
374,115
84620
464,210
259,000
259,000
233,100
155,100
239940
139,954
128,125
200,020
270,270
2,500
136900
231,990
143,930
67,686
140,230
202,358
110,836
102,808
92,120
104,528
99,530
63,282
218,148
222,852
225,792
218,148
106,560
111,740
227,150
45,]50
111264
89,873
45,500
110,656
92,456
76,500
147,510
403680
583,46
163,625
105,260
41,700
90,350
41,850
90,675
41400
90,252
41,850
91233
16,375
1fi]50
98,067
173,052
169,848
79,200
37.575
80,100
171,022
150,103
145,604
110,352
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DU+APT
FP FP11250=DUPF FL FL'DUPF=APT
599,040 00 479 23
820,51200
820,51200
866 376 08
656 4
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69310
479
400
656
656
693
400
400
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25,000
25,000
development appr
20
20
SIDENTIA
319920 00
9422400
381,840 00
395256 00
343,656 00
247,680 00
285,313 60
327,618 ]2
76,810.72
255 94
315
305 4]
31620
274 92
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228.
262 09
301 45
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375,826 88
304,990 40
356 150 08
300 66
243 99
284 92
256
s
05
6
275
98
262
01
01
244
285
400
400
25,000
25,00
20
20
NO RESIDENTIAL LIKELY - Fede
317,54640 254.04
928,420 00 742 74
NO RESIDENTIAL LIKELY
NO RESIDENTIAL LIKELY
400,932 00
266,772 00
412,696 80
240,720 88
96,09375
50,015 00
202,702 50
4,30000
591,408 00
002,196 &I
287 860 00
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280460 00
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445,704 00
975,421 44
375214 56
83,28320
92,19280
390 698 00
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67,40475
78,26000
82,99200
69,34200
31,580 00
0,632 50
NO unRs recommended
NO unls recommended
281 43500
81 04720
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67,]62 50
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6800625
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67,68900
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68,424 ]5
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2,56250
73,55025
29,]89 00
27,38600
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28,18125
60,07500
28,266 50
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118.400 075 88,80000 ]104
288.687 075 216,51525 1]321
147,200 0 75 110,400 00 88 32
384.675 0 75 288,506 25 230 81
105.325 172 181,15900 14493
57,399 075 43,04925 3444
123,080 1 n 211697 60 169 3G
135,750 1 n 233,490 00 186 79
213,942 1 n 367,980 24 294.38
213,942 1 n 367,980 24 294.38
48,000 1 72 82,56000 6605
28,800 112 49,53600 3963
28,800 0 75 21,600 00 1728
121,344 075 9100800 7281
23,625 1 n 40,635 00 32 51
88,074 075 a6,05550 5284
111,699 075 83,77425 67 02
159,040 075 119,280 00 95 42
159,005 NO RESIDENTIAL USES SUGGESTED FOR B
Builtling
CK
254
743
56
463
2
21
93
77
20
62
473
802
230
224
24
53
41
400
400
400
49
57
780
00
47
54
67
54
63
66
55
05
225
2
45
57
54
58
54
54
58
55
23
59
02
09
23
48
03
90
87
66
71
73
88
45
4
87
294
294
66
40
73
67
95
These units war Itl be attached to tt
25,000
25,000
25,000
25,000
based on orrr-
20
20
20
20
sign by owner
87
88
89
90
R-3
R-3
6-1
R-3
40
40
33
3
5
334
334
222
268
333
264,960 0 75 198,720 00
264,960 075 198,720 00
104,176 1n 179,18272
121,794 075 91,345 50
58 98
5898
43 35
73 08
270,015 NO RESIDENTIAL USES SUGGESTED FOR B
CO
59
59
43
91
92
93
55
55
334
334
334
270,720
270,720
270 720
0 75
0 75
0 75
203,040 00
203,040 00
624
624
62 43
62
62
62
R TOTAL: 30,878 Dwelling Units
424 Acres 72.83 Units / Acre: Overall Density
rvalfor half
e Miami Sta
]
]
]
he bl
0
0
400
400
0
a
0
0
0
a
a
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
400
400
0
30
0
0
0
0
a
0
0
0
0
0
a
a
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0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
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1400
1400
1400
1400
356
463
10
49
34
55
96
75
48
65
35
30
14
179
118
40
79
113
17
46
35
56
48
44
118
158
106
60
102
22
23
67
36
62
34
119
149
32
50
38
53
Gross SF assumes the blocks front 50 ft ROW and s added to the block dmensfons for cal ulatIng GROSS SQ FT (25 ft on both block std. add up to 50 ft)
Block dmensons have been mcdrred to account for diagonal block edges
Block dmenscns have been reduced when zoning Ines cress wrthin the block, to make the math fomlula in MS Excel work correctly
FAR for C-1, C-2, and F-4 [s all the same, by cede For thrs study, C-1 & C-2 blocks are assumed to be 100% Residential
New Possible
dwelling
units for School
nninus Existing
Dist
Li ni
icts: (Total Possible
s)
Units
479
479
479
400
400
400
656
656
656
656
656
656
693
693
693
0
0
0
256
256
256
285
285
285
316
316
316
275
275
275
228
228
228
262
262
262
301
301
301
0
0
0
244
244
244
285
285
285
0
0
0
254
254
254
743
743
743
0
0
0
0
0
144
144
43
43
43
65
65
65
66
66
66
473
473
473
802
802
802
230
230
230
93
93
93
224
224
224
276
276
276
153
153
153
141
141
141
349
349
349
357
357
357
715
715
715
265
265
265
117
117
117
134
134
134
67
67
67
14
14
14
66
66
66
88
88
88
89
89
89
-6
-6
-6
-6
-6
-6
179
179
179
145
145
22
22
22
54
54
54
2
2
2
54
54
54
54
54
54
14
14
14
55
55
55
10
10
10
59
59
59
49
49
49
23
23
23
103
103
103
90
90
90
87
87
87
66
66
66
76
76
76
49
49
49
150
150
150
88
88
88
231
231
231
78
78
78
34
34
34
163
163
163
187
187
187
258
258
259
232
232
232
32
32
32
40
40
40
17
17
17
73
73
73
53
53
53
67
67
67
0
0
0
127
127
127
109
109
109
112
112
112
73
73
73
0
0
0
109
109
10g
124
124
124
109
109
109
Negatrve number above for city blocks show which blocks currently have more reside tial dwelling
unrLs than are possible with mosIng zoning, using the average sze dwelIng unit (1250 sg ft per unrt)
assumed HI ths study.
Capacity Analysis -Using SEOPW CRA's Existing Zoning FAR
Projected Dwelling Units:
Blocks
High Schools
There is only one high school serving the entire SEOPW CRA.
Booker T. Washington High School
New Res. Units"
Blocks 1 - 93
27,410
"From chart, "total unit Counr
Number of Students in this Area:
27,410 dwelling units x 0.385 "" Students / unit 10,553 students
From School Enroolment Ratios For Public Schools, K-12 M-O County by Minor Statistical Area
Number of High School Students in this area:
10,553 students x 0.29 """ = 3,060 High School Students
"""From M-OPS's School Impact Review Analysis Process, based on student pulation data reported by 0f'ce of Information Tech ology
Cacacity Analysis:
School Name
Student Population
Design
Capacity
%Utilization
Capacity,
Pemanent
Design
Capacity in
Relocatable
classrooms
Design
Capacity
Total
TOTAL, %
Utilization
Capacity
Current
Booker T. Washington Sr. High
1,706
2,355
72.44%
0
2,355
72.44%
Wth Proposed
Development
Booker T. Washington Sr. High
4,766
2,355
202.39%
0
2,355
202.39%
Comments & Results:
This school does exceed the review threashold of 115% Capacity. The new potential students cannot all be accommodated.
Booker T Washington HS would need to double in size to handle the capacity, or an additional high school at a similar size will be needed.
t
Scenario 1
Middle Schools
There are two middle schools serving the entire SEOPW CRA, with Jose de
Diego servicing almost the entire SEOPW CRA area
Citrus Grove Middle School
Projected Dwelling Units:
Blocks
New Res. Units"
Blocks 1 - 93
364
"From chart "Total U itCounr
Number of Students in this Area:
364 dwelling units x 0.385 *" Students / unit 140 students
"" From School Enroolment Ratios For Public Schools, K-12 M-O County by Minor Statistical Area
Number of Middle School Students in this area:
140 students x 0.25 *"* = 35 New Middle School Students
"""From M-OPS's School impact Revew Analysis Process, based on student populatnn data reported by Office of information Technology
Cacacity Analysis:
School Name
Student Population
Design
Capacity
%Utilization
Capacity,
Pemanent
Design
Capacity in
Relocatable
classrooms
Design
Capacity
Total
TOTAL, %
Utilization
Capacity
Current
Citrus Grove Middle
1,487
895
166.15%
90
985
150.96%
Wth
Proposed
Development
Citrus Grove Middle
1,522
895
170.06%
90
985
154.52%
Comments & Results:
This school does exceed the review threashold of 115% Capacity. The new potential students cannot all be accommodated.
Jose de Diego Middle School
Projected Dwelling Units:
Blocks
New Res. Units"
Blocks 1 - 93
27,046
"From chart "Total u It Counr
Number of Students in this Area:
27,046 dwelling units x 0.385 "" Students / unit 10,413 students
"From School Enroolment Ratios For Public Schools, K-12 M-O County by Minor Statistical Area
Number of Middle School Students in this area:
10,413 students x 0.25 """ = 2,603 New Middle School Students
"""From M-OPS's School impact Review Analysis Process, based on student population data reported by Office of information Tech ology
Cacacity Analysis:
t
School Name
Student Population
Design
Capacity
%Utilization
Capacity,
Pemanent
Design
Capacity in
Relocatable
classrooms
Design
Capacity
Total
TOTAL, %
Utilization
Capacity
Current
Jose de Diego Middle
1,387
1,166
118.95%
0
1,166
118.95%
Wth
Proposed
Development
Jose de Diego Middle
3,990
1,166
342.21%
0
1,166
342.21%
Comments & Results:
This school does exceed the review threashold of 115% Capacity. The new potential students cannot all be accommodated.
t
page 10.10
Capacity Analysis -Using SEOPW CRA's Existing Zoning FAR
Elementary Schools
There are three elementary schools serving the entire SEOPW CRA, with
Frederick Douglas servicing the greater portion of the SEOPW CRA area
Paul Dunbar Elementary School
Projected Dwelling Units:
Blocks
New Res. Units.
Blocks 1 - 93
727
'From chart "total unit Count
Number of Students in this Area:
727 dwelling units x 0.385'" Students / unit 280 students
"" From School Enmolment Ratios For Public Schools, K-12 M-D County by Minor Statistical Area
Number of Elementary School Students in this area:
280 students x 0.46 """ = 129 New Elementary School Students
"""From M-OPS's School Impact Revew Analysis Process, based on studentpopulaten data reported by Office of Information Technology
Capacity Analysis:
School Name
Student Population
Design
Capacity
%Utilization
Capacity,
Pemanent
Design
Capacity in
Relocatable
classrooms
Design
Capacity
Total
TOTAL, %
Utilization
Capacity
Current
Paul Dunbar Elementary School
661
928
71.23%
0
928
71.23%
Wth Proposed
Development
Paul Dunbar Elementary School
790
928
85.11%
0
928
85.11%
Comments & Results:
This school does not meet the review threashold of 115% Capacity. The new potential students can be accommodated.
Projected Dwelling Units:
Blocks
Phillis Wheatley Elementary School
New Res. Units*
Blocks 1 - 93
5,225
"From chart "total unit Count"
Number of Students in this Area:
5,225 dwelling units x 0.385 "" Students / unit 2,012 students
"" From School Enmolmant Ratios For Public Schools, K-12 M-D County by Minor Statistical Area
Number of Elementary School Students in this area:
2,012 students x 0.46 *"" = 925 New Elemen ary School Students
From M-DPS's School Impact Review Analysis Process, based on student pulation data reported by 0fce of Information Tech ology
Capacity Analysis:
t
School Name
Student Population
Design
Capacity
%Utilization
Capacity,
Pemanent
Design
Capacity in
Relocatable
classrooms
Design
Capacity
Total
TOTAL, %
Utilization
Capacity
Current
Phillis Wheatley Elementary School
443
655
67.63%
0
655
67.63%
Wth Proposed
Development
Phillis Wheatley Elementary School
1,368
655
208.92%
0
655
208.92%
Comments & Results:
This school does exceed the review threashold of 115% Capacity. The new potential students cannot all be accommodated.
t
Scenario 1
Frederick Douglass Elementary School
Projected Dwelling Units:
Blocks
New Res. Units.
Blocks 1 - 93
21,457
"From chart "Total u it Count'
Number of Students in this Area:
21,457 dwelling units x 0.385 '"* Students / unit 8,261 students
From School Enmolment Ratios For Public Schools, K-12 M-D County by Minor Statistical Area
Number of Elementary School Students in this area:
8,261 students x 0.46 "" = 3,800 New Elementary School Students
"'From M-OPS's School impact Revew Analysis Process, based on student population data reported by Office of information Tech ology
Capacity Analysis:
School Name
Student Population
Design
Capacity
%Utilization
Capacity,
Pemanent
Design
Capacity in
Relocatable
classrooms
Design
Capacity
Total
TOTAL, %
Utilization
Capacity
Current
Frederick Douglass Elementary School
715
778
91.90%
204
982
72.81 %
Wth
Proposed
Development
Frederick Douglass Elementary School
4,515
778
580.34%
204
982
459.78%
Comments & Results:
This school does exceed the review threashold of 115% Capacity. The new potential students cannot all be accommodated.
t
page 10.11
SEOPW CRA Redevelopment Plan School Impact Analysis
October 2003
Potential Buildout Using Existing Maximum Allowable Density --Scenario 2
Future Dwelling Unit Projection for SEOPW CRA
Block numbers refer to city blocks numbered on an attached map
The Purpose 16 tha chart is to calculate the total possible resdential unts within the SEOPW CRA and allot those
possible unrfs into each of the school districts. For the school dstricts, the exfi/ng units have been subtracted from
each city block
Block#
Exist. Zoning
For Estimating # of Rowhouses and Apartments (3-4 stories)
Total Possible
Units perk
pkate(SgFt)
#of units/
Floors�r
-
#of units
Existing units
Blk Length BIk VAdlh Gross SF Acres Max. Density #of DU
Formulas
1
SD-6
f L
270
W
210
(L+50')x (W=50')= GSF
83,200
AC
191
U/AC IAC(U/AC)=DU
None- default to FAR
DU+APT
479
FP
0
FP/1250=DUPF
0
FL
0
FL'DUPF=APT
0
0
2
SD-6
335
258
118,580
272
None- default to FAR
400
0
3
SD-6
320
258
113,960
2 62
None- default to FAR
656
0
0
4
SD-6
320
258
113,960
262
None- default to FAR
656
0
0
5
SD-6
332
265
120,330
276
None- default to FAR
693
0
0
6
CBD
139,503
320
1,00000
3,20255
3,203
0
0
7
CBD
423
311
170,753
392
100000
391995
3920
0
0
8
CBD
550
312
217,200
499
NO RESIDENTIALUKELY
9
C-1
550
260
186,000
4 27
150 00
640.50
640
0
0
10
C-1
550
332
229,200
5 26
150 00
789 26
789
0
30
11
C-1
556
320
222000
510
150 00
764 46
764
0
0
12
C-1
550
333
229,800
5 28
150 00
791 32
791
0
0
13
C-1
550
283
199,800
4 59
150 00
688 02
688
0
0
14
C-2
550
190
144,000
331
6500
21488
215
0
0
15
C-2
522
240
165,880
3 81
6500
247 53
248
0
0
16
C-1
522
283
190,476
437
1500
65591
656
0
0
17
C-1
522
333
219,076
503
15000
754.39
754
0
0
18
C-1
522
328
211,640
486
15000
72879
0
The NAP- no resdental
unitslikel
19
C-1
522
332
218,504
502
15000
752.42
752
0
0
20
C-1
522
260
177,320
407
15000
61061
611
0
0
21
C-1
522
312
207,064
475
15000
71303
713
0
0
22
CBD
481
320
196,470
451
100000
4,51033
4,510
0
0
23
CBD
459
328
192,402
442
100000
4,41694
4,417
0
0
24
CBD
685
459
374,115
859
NO RESDENTIAL
LIKELY - Fede
IBuktng
25
C-1
460
312
184,620
424
15000
635.74
636
0
0
26
SD-162
711
560
464210
1066
None- default to FAR
743
0
27
SD-16
656
320
259,000
432
NO New RESDENTIAL
LIKELY
356
356
28
SD-16
650
320
259000
432
NO New RESDENTI
AL LIKELY
463
463
29
C-1
650
283
233,100
535
15000
80269
803
0
10
30
C-2
420
280
155,100
356
6500
23144
231
0
2
31
C-2
595
322
239,940
551
6500
35804
358
0
0
32
C-2
501
204
139,954
321
6500
208.84
209
0
49
33
8-3
575
155
128,125
294
6500
191.19
191
0
34
34
6-3
493
315
200,020
459
6500
29847
298
0
55
35
6-3
535
412
270,270
620
6500
40330
403
0
96
36
R-4
2,500
006
15000
861
9
0
75
37
SD-16
320
320
136900
314
None- default to FAR
473
0
0
38
SD-16
577
320
231990
533
None- default to FAR
802
0
0
39
SD-162
339
320
143,930
330
None- default to FAR
230
0
0
C-1
339
124
67,686
1 55
150 08 233 08
233
40
SD-16 2
329
320
140,230
3 22
None- default to FAR
224
0
0
41
SD-162
509
312
202,358
465
None- default to FAR
324
0
48
42
C-1
408
192
110,836
2 54
150 00
381 67
382
0
0
43
C-1
312
234
102,818
2 36
150 00
354.02
354
0
0
44
CBD
279
230
92,120
211
100000
2,11478
2,115
0
0
45
CBD
326
228
104,528
240
100000
2,39963
2,400
0
0
46
CBD
320
219
99,530
228
100000
228489
2,285
0
0
47
CBD
268
149
63,282
145
100000
145275
1,453
0
0
48
G/I
538
321
218,148
5 01
None- default to FAR
349
0
0
49
SD-162
538
329
222,852
512
None- default to FAR
357
0
0
50
SD-16
538
334
225,792
518
None- default to FAR
780
0
65
51
C-1
538
321
218,148
501
15000
75120
751
0
35
52
C-1 & R-4
320
238
106,560
2 45
1550 00
366.94
367
0
30
53
C-1 & R-4
320
252
111,740
2 57
150 00
384.78
385
0
14
54
C-1 & R-4
540
335
227,150
521
15000
78220
782
0
179
SSA
C-1
316
75
45,750
1 05
150 00
157 54
158
0
118
6-3
316
254
111264
255
6500
166.03
166
55B
6-3
297
209
89,873
206
6500
134.11
134
0
40
56A
C-1
314
75
45,500
104
15000
15668
157
0
79
8-3
314
254
110056
254
6500
165.12
165
56B
6-3
314
204
92,456
212
6500
137 96
138
0
113
57
C-1
460
100
76,500
1 76
150 00
263 43
263
0
17
6-3
397
280
147,510
339
6500
220.11
220
58A
PR & C-1
820
414
403,680
9 27
NO units recommended
for this block
0
6
58B
PR
757
673
583,461
1339
NO unts recommended
forthis block
0
6
59
C-1 & R-4
375
335
163,625
3 76
150 00
563 45
563
0
46
60
C-1 & R-4
330
227
105,260
2 42
150 00
362.47
362
0
0
fit
C-1
228
100
41,700
096
15000
3 6
140
144
0
35
8-3
228
275
90,350
207
6500
134.82
135
fit
C-1
229
100
41,850
096
15000
144.11
144
0
56
6-3
229
275
90,675
208
6500
13530
135
63
C-1
226
100
41400
095
150 00
142 56
143
0
48
6-3
226
277
90,252
207
6500
13467
135
64
C-1
229
100
41,850
096
15000
144.11
144
0
44
6-3
229
277
91,233
2 09
6500
136.14
136
65
C-1
81
75
16,375
038
15000
56.39
56
0
118
8-3
84
75
16,750
038
6500
2499
25
6-3
287
241
98,067
225
6500
146.34
146
66
8-3
456
292
173,052
397
6500
258.23
258
0
158
67
8-3
454
287
169,848
3 90
6500
25345
253
0
106
C-2
302
175
79,200
182
6500
118.18
118
0
60
fib
8-3
117
175
37,575
086
6500
5607
56
69
6-3
306
175
80,100
184
6500
11952
120
0
102
70
8-3
416
317
171,022
3 93
6500
255 20
255
0
0
71
8-3
359
317
150,103
345
6500
22398
224
0
0
72
8-3
359
306
145,604
334
6500
21727
217
0
0
73
8-3
676
102
110,352
253
6500
16467
165
0
0
74
8-3
675
664
517,650
1188
6500
77243
772
0
75
8-3
590
135
118,400
272
6500
17668
177
0
22
76
8-3
649
363
288,687
663
6500
430.78
431
0
23
71A
G/I
525
206
147,200
338
6500
21965
220
0
0
77B
G/I
619
525
384,675
8 83
6500
574 01
574
0
0
78
C-1
225
333
105,325
242
15000
36269
363
0
67
8-3
311
109
57,399
132
6500
8565
86
79
R-4
312
290
123,080
2 83
150 00
423 83
424
0
6
80
C-1 & R-4
312
325
135,750
312
150 00
467 46
467
0
0
81
R-4
541
312
213,942
491
15000
736.71
737
0
36
82
C-1 & R-4
541
312
213,942
491
15000
736.71
737
0
62
83
C-1
334
75
48,000
1.10
15000
16529
165
0
34
8-1
142
100
28,800
066
15000
99.17
99
8-3
142
100
28,80
066
6500
4298
43
8-3
334
266
121,344
279
6500
18107
181
84
C-1
139
75
23,625
054
15000
8135
81
0
119
R-3
139
416
88,074
202
6500
13142
131
8-3
139
541
111,699
256
6500
16668
167
85
8-3
518
230
159,040
365
6500
237 32
237
0
149
86
G/I
363
335
159,005
365
NO RESIDENTIAL
USES SUGGESTED
FOR BLOCK
0
0
87
8-3
640
334
264960
608
6500
395.37
395
0
32
88
8-3
640
334
264960
608
6500
395.37
395
0
50
89
C-1
333
222
104,176
239
15000
358.73
359
0
31
8-3
333
268
121,794
280
6500
181 74
182
90
I
655
333
270015
620
NO RESIDENTIAL
USES SUGGESTED
FOR BLOCK
0
91
8-3
655
334
270,720
621
6500
40397
404
0
53
92
8-3
655
334
270,720
621
6500
40397
404
0
38
93
8-3
655
334
270,720
621
6500
40397
404
0
53
®Sg Ft
424 Acres
TOTAL: 166,27dj Dwelling Units
142.16 Units I Acre: Overall Density
Grass SF assumes the blocks front 50 ft ROW and is added to the block dimensi ns for cak0ulab g GROSS S8 FT
Block dimensions have been modrfed to account for diagonal bddc edges
Block dimensions have been reduced when zoning lines cross within the block to make the math workcscredly
FAR for C-1, C-2, and F-0is all the same, by code For this study, C-1 & C-2 blocks are assumed to be 100% Re0dent0l
3,4b8
New Possi
le dwelling
nits for School
minus Existing
Distric
Uni s)
s: (Total Possible Units
B T. Washington
Citrus Gro00
J Diego
P. Dunbar
P. Wheatley
Hgh
Il Middle
Middle)
Elem
Elem
1
F Douglas m
1479
479
479
400
400
400
656
656
656
656
656
656
693
693
693
3203
3203
3,203
3920
3.920
3,920
0
0
0
640
640
640
759
759
759
764
764
764
791
791
791
688
688
688
215
215
215
248
248
248
656
656
656
754
754
754
0
0
0
752
752
752
611
611
611
713
713
713
4,510
4510
4.510
4,417
4417
4.417
0
0
0
636
636
636
743
743
743
0
0
0
0
0
0
793
793
793
229
229
229
358
358
358
160
160
160
157
157
157
243
243
243
307
307
307
-66
-66
-66
473
473
473
802
802
802
230
230
230
233
233
233
224
224
224
276
276
276
382
382
382
354
354
354
2,115
2115
2,115
2,400
2400
2,400
2285
2285
2,285
1,453
1,453
1,453
349
349
349
357
357
357
715
715
715
716
716
716
337
337
337
371
371
371
603
603
603
40
40
40
166
166
166
94
94
94
78
78
78
165
165
165
25
25
25
246
246
246
220
220
220
6
-6
-6
-6
-6
-6
517
517
517
362
362
362
109
109
109
135
135
135
88
88
88
135
135
135
95
95
95
135
135
135
100
100
100
136
136
136
-62
-62
-62
25
25
25
146
146
146
100
100
100
147
147
147
58
58
58
56
56
56
18
18
18
255
255
255
224
224
224
217
217
217
165
165
165
772
772
772
155
155
155
408
408
408
220
220
220
296
574
296
574
-
296
86
86
86
418
418
418
467
467
467
701
701
701
675
675
675
131
131
131
99
99
99
43
43
43
181
181
181
-38
-38
-38
131
131
131
167
167
167
88
88
88
0
0
0
363
363
363
345
345
345
328
328
328
182
182
182
0
0
0
351
351
351
366
366
366
351
351
351
56,232
1555
55,251
2,54/
9,986
44,2/
Negative number above for city blocks show whitlu blocks currently have more reside tial dxelli ng
units than are posstb0 with eex6ng zoning, using the maximum allowed density.
Capacity Analysis -Using SEOPW CRA's Existing Maximum Allowable Density
Projected Dwelling Units:
Blocks
High Schools
There is only one high school serving the entire SEOPW CRA.
Booker T. Washington High School
New Res. Units"
Blocks 1 - 93
56,232
"From chart "total unit Counr
Number of Students in this Area:
56,232 dwelling units x 0.385 "* Students / unit 21,649 students
"From School Enroolment Ratios For Public Schools, K-12 M-D County by Minor Statistical Area
Number of High School Students in this area:
21,649 students x 0.29 "" = 6,278 High School Students
From M-OPS's School Impact Review Analysis Process, based on student pulation data rep rted by 0f'ce of Information Tech ology
Cacacity Analysis:
School Name
Student Population
Design
Capacity
%Utilization
Capacity,
Pemanent
Design
Capacity in
Relocatable
classrooms
Design
Capacity
Total
TOTAL, %
Utilization
Capacity
Current
Booker T. Washington Sr. High
1,706
2,355
72.44%
0
2,355
72.44%
Wth Proposed
Development
Booker T. Washington Sr. High
7,984
2,355
339.04%
0
2,355
339.04%
Comments & Results:
This school does exceed the review threashold of 115% Capacity. The new potential students cannot all be accommodated.
t
Scenario 2
Middle Schools
There are two middle schools serving the entire SEOPW CRA, with Jose de
Diego servicing almost the entire SEOPW CRA area
Citrus Grove Middle School
Projected Dwelling Units:
Blocks
New Res. Units"
Blocks 1 - 93
1,555
"From chart "Total U itCounr
Number of Students in this Area:
1,555 dwelling units x 0.385'"* Students / unit 598 students
"" From School Enrolment Ratios For Public Schools, K-12 M-D County by Minor Statistical Area
Number of Middle School Students in this area:
598 students x 0.25 *"* = 150 New Middle School Students
"""From M-DPS's School impact Revew Analysis Process, based on studentpopulation data reported by Office of information Technology
Cacacity Analysis:
School Name
Student Population
Design
Capacity
%Utilization
Capacity,
Pemanent
Design
Capacity in
Relocatable
classrooms
Design
Capacity
Total
TOTAL, %
Utilization
Capacity
Current
Citrus Grove Middle
1,487
895
166.15%
90
985
150.96%
Wth
Proposed
Development
Citrus Grove Middle
1,637
895
182.86%
90
985
166.15%
Comments & Results:
This school does exceed the review threashold of 115% Capacity. The new potential students cannot all be accommodated.
Jose de Diego Middle School
Projected Dwelling Units:
Blocks
New Res. Units*
Blocks 1 - 93
55,251
"From chart, "Total U It Counr
Number of Students in this Area:
55,251 dwelling units x 0.385 *" Students / unit 21,272 students
"From School Enmolment Ratios For Public Schools, K-12 M-O County by Minor Statistical Area
Number of Middle School Students in this area:
21,272 students x 0.25 *" = 5,318 New Middle School Students
"""From M-OPS's School impact Revew Analysis Process, based on student population data reported by Office of information Tech ology
Cacacity Analysis:
t
School Name
Student Population
Design
Capacity
%Utilization
Capacity,
Pemanent
Design
Capacity in
Relocatable
classrooms
Design
Capacity
Total
TOTAL, %
Utilization
Capacity
Current
Jose de Diego Middle
1,387
1,166
118.95%
0
1,166
118.95%
Wth
Proposed
Development
Jose de Diego Middle
6,705
1,166
575.04%
0
1,166
575.04%
Comments & Results:
This school does exceed the review threashold of 115% Capacity. The new potential students cannot all be accommodated.
t
page 10.13
Capacity Analysis -Using SEOPW CRA's Existing Maximum Allowable Density
Elementary Schools
There are three elementary schools serving the entire SEOPW CRA, with
Frederick Douglas servicing the greater portion of the SEOPW CRA area
Paul Dunbar Elementary School
Projected Dwelling Units:
Blocks
New Res. Units.
Blocks 1 - 93
2,547
"From chart "total unit Count
Number of Students in this Area:
2,547 dwelling units x 0.385'" Students / unit 981 students
"From School Enroolment Ratios For Public Schools, K-12 M-D County by Minor Statistical Area
Number of Elementary School Students in this area:
981 students x 0.46 """ = 451 New Elementary School Students
""From M-OPS's School Impact Revew Analysis Process, based on studentpopulaten data reported by Office of Information Technology
Capacity Analysis:
School Name
Student Population
Design
Capacity
%Utilization
Capacity,
Pemanent
Design
Capacity in
Relocatable
classrooms
Design
Capacity
Total
TOTAL, %
Utilization
Capacity
Current
Paul Dunbar Elementary School
661
928
71.23%
0
928
71.23%
Wth Proposed
Development
Paul Dunbar Elementary School
1,112
928
119.84%
0
928
119.84%
Comments & Results:
This school does exceed the review threashold of 115% Capacity. The new potential students cannot all be accommodated.
Projected Dwelling Units:
Blocks
Phillis Wheatley Elementary School
New Res. Units*
Blocks 1 - 93
9,986
"From chart "total unit Count'
Number of Students in this Area:
9,986 dwelling units x 0.385 "* Students / unit 3,844 students
"From School Enroolmant Ratios For Public Schools, K-12 M-D County by Minor Statistical Area
Number of Elementary School Students in this area:
3,844 students x 0.46 *"" = 1,768 New Elemen ary School Students
""From M-DPS's School Impact Review Analysis Process, based on student pulation data reported by 0fce of Information Tech ology
Capacity Analysis:
t
School Name
Student Population
Design
Capacity
%Utilization
Capacity,
Pemanent
Design
Capacity in
Relocatable
classrooms
Design
Capacity
Total
TOTAL, %
Utilization
Capacity
Current
Phillis Wheatley Elementary School
443
655
67.63%
0
655
67.63%
Wth Proposed
Development
Phillis Wheatley Elementary School
2,211
655
337.63%
0
655
337.63%
Comments & Results:
This school does exceed the review threashold of 115% Capacity. The new potential students cannot all be accommodated.
t
Scenario 2
Frederick Douglass Elementary School
Projected Dwelling Units:
Blocks
New Res. Units.
Blocks 1 - 93
44,273
"From chart "Total u it Count"
Number of Students in this Area:
44,273 dwelling units x 0.385 '"* Students / unit 17,045 students
"From School Enroolment Ratios For Public Schools, K-12 M-D County by Minor Statistical Area
Number of Elementary School Students in this area:
17,045 students x 0.46 *** = 7,841 New Elementary School Students
"'From M-OPS's School impact Revew Analysis Process, based on student population data reported by Office of information Tech ology
Capacity Analysis:
School Name
Student Population
Design
Capacity
%Utilization
Capacity,
Pemanent
Design
Capacity in
Relocatable
classrooms
Design
Capacity
Total
TOTAL, %
Utilization
Capacity
Current
Frederick Douglass Elementary School
715
778
91.90%
204
982
72.81 %
Wth
Proposed
Development
Frederick Douglass Elementary School
8,556
778
1099.71%
204
982
871.25%
Comments & Results:
This school does exceed the review threashold of 115% Capacity. The new potential students cannot all be accommodated.
t
page 10.14
Appendix D
1982 Resolution adopting
the SEOPW CRA
Please see next few pages for:
City of Miami Resolution 82-755,
adopted July 29, 1982
Appendices 10.15
REE iLl'1"ION No. "' -
A RESOLUTION APPRovING, IN PRINCIPLE,, TRH
SOUTHEAST OVERT/PARR i ST CQ t U1S TTY
OEVELopmaNT PAN, WITH AMENDMENTS DATED
m.. 19822t .....IOP,. At1, . Am.:.OENBRALLY
BOUNDED BY flI SCAYNE L OOLWARD ON THE
EAST,.:.1095, os THE WEST, I-395 Om TAB
NORTH AND NORTH STH STREET ON THE SouTH,
A COPY OF ERICH Is ATTACHED SIREIO, AND
MADE A PART HERS0i t IIMARINO CERTAIN FI4r
IHIO Or rAcT AND CONCI UBIr N or LANA
MARCINTO RECONMENDATION tOR APPROVAL BY THE
HOARD OF COUNTY COMlISSIONSx AND SUPPORT-
ING A JOINT ErPORT BY THE cm AND COUNTY
IN I PLEMEN1 A" ION.
WHEREAS, under the provisions of Chapter 164 Part III
of Florida Staattntee known as the Community Redevelopment Act
of 1 'd9, as amended. the City of MiAMi may d+ eignaate a slum,,
or as 'blighted area or as coibinaa.tion thereof, as appropriate
ariate
for a. community redevelopment pr.ojecti and
WHEREAS, the Miami City Coaamiaaalon adopted ' OVertown
Redevelopment Plana (Romelutice No. 71-7 4) which recommended
than redevelopMent of the aroutheastern portion' of Overtown
Community for txiiirtercjai And residential develOpmentA and
WHEREAS, the Miami City Cong fission approved .in princi-
ple the Southeaast. 0vertown/Pna,ark Nest Community Redevelopment
(Resolution 01-9201 and subsequently modifications to the
Plan were requested by the Southeast 0vertorwn/Park West
Community Redevelopment Ad Hoc Committee which was, appointed
by the City to reVi+aw the plan.
WHEREAS, under the provisions of Chapter 163, Part III
of Florida Statutes known as the Community Redevelopment Act
of 1969, as amended, Metropolitan Dodo County, Florida
(herein called Dads County P is required to aapprove all
community. redevelopment plane' and
WHEREAS, the eoaard of County Comanissione of Dade
County Florida, is
ixag body of Dodo do County
the duly empowered and aUthori ed govern -
for purposes of approving sae*
r.IY commtssoit
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f ri irad area. to 7sr dle,teri.orated and/or b3 iw hte4, les igt-`,
t 4 '.t:hi4 arola : ea..',Te ^t, of the Central .. m4
. ,411EHEJ S, the Arlan is in' Conformity with 'lte aiM,
Comprehensive Neighborhood Plate.
'SRRNFORi , Pg IT MOWED 1LD BY THE cGm1 xM S QN or THE
CiTY or MIAMI., PLORXDAg
Section 1.. The Commismion approves in priinciple the
Soatbsast Ome:town/Park weart Community Redevelopment Plan
dated June 1982 as amended, a copy of which is attached
hereto +and made a. part hereof. for an area bounded generally
by f3.eCaynee Rou3+ewa.rd cr the Neat, L-9S on the Fast, I-3i5
on the North, North Sth Street on the. South, sUbstantia3.ly
in the forma of the attached hereto. Said Pl+a‘n includes
acquisition and clearance, relocation, rehaiilita.tL n.
tract; .♦imps vementa end beautifixtkntions.
Section 2. The Commission approves in principle the
amendments to the plan a copy of which is ette rhed hereto
and made a part hereof by reference.
Section 3. The Connieaton Made, determines and
declares that the matters iet out in the forego pg recitals
aro tree and correct and they are hereby incokporra;ted as
portion of the reaolettcn..
ection 4. The Commisaion recommends bp the* flo+ar+d!
of County Commissioner* that the Southeast +(lvertwemn/Park
west area be appropriately declared a. CommunitY Redevelop -
Pent Area and that future public actions will 'beigouerrned by
the Commenity Redevelopment Plan.
Section $. The commission extends iti l support to
joint City/County redevelopment efforts in. t Je Southey et
Cvrertownr/Park w'eat Area and directs the Administration n to
wok jointly with Metropolitan Dade County tca i wplesrrent the
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A PROGRAM FOR RATIONAL PRESERVATION-
IN THE FUTURE DEVELOPMENT c OF OVERTOWN
Goals and Objectives
The goal of the,Historic Overtown program is to vitalize the rich'
history and culture of Overtown, thereby creating a sense of iden
tity and community: pride that will contribute to the economic and'
physical revitalization of the Overtown community. By examining
the past, it is intended to identify those elements that once made
Overtown the thriving, exciting focus for the Black community in'.
South Florida, and to incorporate appropriate and productive ele
ments of that past era into the future redevelopment plan.
Objectives of the program include:
• Effectively communicate information and develop broad
based awareness and appreciation of historic achievements
of the Black community through exhibits, special events,
tours, and the media.
e Re-establishaspecial identity for Overtown by focusing
on one era in its history, the "Little Broadway" jazz
era. Develop this as a theme for attracting new night-
clubs and restaurants; programming special cultural events;
designing signs, street furniture and public plaza spaces;
and creating promotional literature for tourism. and local
marketing.
o Preserve, where feasible, surviving buildings which repre-
sent important links to persons, activities or events of
major significance in the past.
G Secure official recognition and protection for the area
by establishing an historic district.
e Encourage new development to incorporate uses which would
contribute to the vitality of the district such as stores,
nightclubs, restaurants, theaters.
o Encourage new buildings to incorporate selected desien
elements from the past which reflect special cultural or
thematiC feelings which arc relevant today and should be
re-established.
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Historical siga_ifioence
Known by`several names, including Avenue'''
Colored '.Down;'
Washington Heigl•}ts, Overtown, Culmer, Central Negro District
Avenue 'H': the area immediately west of downtown Miami is
one of the oldest neighborhoods in the City of Miami.
referred to todey as Overtown, this community developed in 1896
as a result of the need to house black workers who were brought ;.
to the Miami area from West Palm Beach during the time when
Henry M. Flagler extended the Florida East Coast Railroad to Miami:
By 1904, several issues of the Miami Metropolis, (Forerunner of
the Miami News) reported an active literary group in 'colored Town':
According to the 1907 official directory of the City of Miami, the
black Women's Cultural Club held regular bi-monthly meetings. Re-
search through the Foundation also reveals that as early as 1918,
the St. Agnes Coronet Band held regular activities, attracting
residents and tourist alike. Tourists were known to also fre-
quent the areaItoenjoy the fine traditional foods featured•in
the numerous black owned and operated restaurants. As the area
grew, blacks developed many economic ventures, such as hotels,
apartment complexes, theatres, nightclubs and small neighborhood
markers. In effect Overtown became a strong pulsating community.
In the 1920's and 1930's, NW 2nd Avenue was known as Avenue 'G'.
It was the center of good black entertainment, retail. stores and
pioneer citizens reveal that by the 1940's Overtown was a cultural
oasis where artists from all over the world cane to perform and
to practice for upcoming engagements. Equally exciting is the fact
that for many years tourists visitinc, Miami Beach came across
tin to the OvlIortown area to listen to the popular Negro Spirituals
sung inthe arca's churches. Once k;.own as 'Little Broadway' Overtown
has made a valuable contribution to the City of Miami, the County of
Dade, Florida land the federal United States.
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Northwest Second Avenue was the place
The. syncopated sounds; of jazz and blues issued nightly from th
nightclubs and dance halls. Its .rish:entertainment accounted %
for a growing national reputation. In the 1930's and 1940'
its clubs presented such stars. as Marian Anderson, Bessie Smith,`
Hazel Scott, and "Nat King" Cole.
Former resident Rosebuld Silas recalls such performers as
Billie Holiday, Erskine Hawkins, and Jimmy Lunceford, at the
Rockland Palace. Count Basie and Cab Calloway brought their big
bands. Roland Hayes and Etta Motten, a singer who displayed
African artifacts were presented in the auditorium at Booker T.
Washington Senior High School. These afternoon performances which
often included Ben Richardson from Atlanta reading poetry, cost
5C per student. Singer Paul Robeson, Sammie Davis Jr. and his
trio, Barbara McNair, Lena Horne, Dinah :•.ashington, Buddy Johnson,
and Nina Mae McKinney appeared annually. The Katherine Dunham
Dance Company was also a favorite.
Lj
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PI,J'SERT.FATIQN OP XISTItG E ISTORIC sT1:1LDINGt
Thu ni sto •ic Sites Committee has identified 4? number) of - buildingS
ha:'irig historical si+y`]'iificancs to the Ovurtowh community. A liSc
of these hui. -dings is attached to this report as Appendix A. The
crite 'i± fo. selecting these historic Luildi.n.;s Wer0
(e';clain)
Cor.siderati.On should be givers to nreserwation of. env as thu identi-
fied historic buildinEi wheru'f r structural. eenditions and cost of
ren t',i1itatio;7, r'siht be f{a4rsa- jle, However, raOognizin'4] Lhat over-
all all ec r. =,ic revitalization plan} for overtown require e_.Ie:•:si--e
new ile'aelo-,-lent, emphasis
should be p1.LLed on pyeseTvatiur.yr the
f011ow'U g h's oric structures i3hi.z1i ai' COnUi,.- d tO b
1_ Churches
a.. C:.ea ur Bethel A.` -LE. Cirafch, Northwest ,:h ,St='et,l and
and 2nd Avenue
b. Nr Z._£)Ii Baptist Church. Northwest 3rd 7-,venue and
zh Street
c. n':.L 1.6-^- which was formerly the Lyric Church,
Northwest 2nd ovenUe and 8th Street
d. Church which was fcariltrly Pbeneee}er Church.
2. 1Bus .nessee
a_ Cola Ili- Bulldl,-^-c;
•b. -Tta't t:: ice >�uil=::i risx
_ Carver Hotel
e. Lon{honor null Hall
OLnkin huilL:a._..
CJ.. 5 ott building
h. dice ;L.P.. ___ m3s" office
.- L. 'r.Y t'V_r` o°ice beili._rL
3.
',J. _ Ice .. WiAshincton :rich Scala.
4- Ro 4-3.= nce6,
ha five-
tc . 77-,. ...... d- _ _ .i T° or l r .[ 7,7enue F 10th Street
t
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bv an astr,-is..171 are tc be la,: First priCri.L7 c:2ncern
because uf imminent deterioraticnorvanda-
LiEm. Bulidioqs for wor).. 715 currayttly underwev
include:
Dcrsey riouse
X-Ray Clinic
booker T.
eive short atat'..ls $.tatomeftt
cm each
OPDT:TAL'CE
local Hit. .:- :.E.eervation !tiLiled -KC"
Prcoi.idea thu of deE,iqnatim-2
Of an historic d.:rict. co.ferirlq a largiiz are,a of Ov...f-
1.71.. The City orinahce ie.,: :Id provide a degrue of protection to
11_,T,t1c nui2.dinqs bv requirin,g that any demoli-,Lion,
L. new ,t1vicuc':-Lon. be approved by A special review heard.
TEle proposed "1.C" ordinance :tibia permits eero.,in mIdiicazions
zoning and buildinLj tte regelatior.s where neassary tq make
preaervalca. economicl:,,, or drohir-t..],rally
TafiDfL:y SIC11:J :iven to the ±j uak his-
toric bwildinge that wer... : riks tn the ancve section:
Booker T. WasningtcR L-ccile NIA 6th and 1..2th St.
2 Doreey r .and Avenu.!
1. x-Ray c1inL!2, and lit.h
4. Lewis ;o,7nue
5. Rouse. f,1 lOtt
G. CI.Dp:Ilan Court and Street
7. V.Itchnil rasiduixe. F:k; are Avenee Street
woOc shoui procOed on a potent2:711 a:-1:t:L!2
Cva-rtcVn. E,?-t2nsive ;:dditional histuri-:-al research and Gocnta-
tion is reqUired as lagal juatificatioL for any hiEtorie district.
This iG particularly critical for Ou,aC,OWn, Urtich WOULd L-F a unique
of historic district with new builuinkj5 outnumbering thE
A lack of fundini3 !or professional aeist.anee can be e;,.pocte to ham --
per this process.
7,7,1,7711NAL P=TER OF ”ISTOIC
jr Pi==.:11-J5 thcl City prop.3sed
h,
. .7 anwi ce7,11tt,-.n or Fklr-r--.11,DrE cf
;ictiun 15 a uE tune3e4
crinL1c[1. dave,Ys zictton
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and private investors ); b) the National Register makers income -
producing properties eligible for federal income tax benefits;
c) the National Register has more stringent standards for accept-
ing historic buildings and districts (many buildings in Overtown would
be eligible for recognition under the "HC" ordinance but would not
qualify for the National Register); d) the National Register has
no effect on zoning' and building code regulations; e) National
Register listing requires the consent of the property owner and
the "HC" ordinance would not.
Considering the above advantages and limitations, a selected list
of buildings Should be nominated for listing on the National Re-
vs
gis.er. Initially, this would include Booker T. Washington High
School and the Dorsey House. This list should be expanded based
upon the analysis ofpreservation strategies for individual build-
ings recommended above. Particular consideration should be given
to commercial buildings operated by profit -making entities that
could utilize the tax benefits.
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Because the'zoning plan will largely shape the physical form of
future development in Overtown, consideration should be given to
inCerporating elements that would help to recreate the feeling
and atmosphere of "Historic Overtown" such as:
1. Provide incentives or requirements for retail
'stores at the ground level or. selected com-
Imercial blocks
2. Provide incentives for jazz clubs
3. 'Permit controlled street vendors and outdoor markets
4. Utilize the special zoning incentives in the HC
ordinance for preservation of existing historic
structures
5. Develop landscaping standards utilizing historical
and thematic plant materials
6. Consider possible design guidelines for new con-
struction that would encourage selected elements
of historic building forms to be incorporated
into the design of new buildings, as for example
the following low rise housing concepts by Universit
of Miami students for the Key West Naval Station.
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PUBLIC SPACES
Aside from preserving selected historic buildings, the greatest
opportunity for developing physical evidence of Historic Overtown
in the public spaces - sidewalks, plazas and parks:
1. Hist ric Markers - should be a top priority short
term project. The Black Archives will assemble
a sh rt written text and appropriate photograph
or i lus.tration for each major histo is site in
Over Own (including sites now vacant or redeveloped)
Fund ng will then be requested from he redevelop-
ment project, CD and private sources to reproduce
this information on anodized aluminu (or other
valid 1 resistant material) plaques, to be securely
moun�ed in appropriate locations. T is will pro-
vide a vital communications tool for stimulating
awareness amongst large numbers of 0 ertown resi-
dents and visitors.
2. Stre t Furniture - wherever redevelo ment plans call
for .ew improvements to sidewalks an plaza spaces
such as paving, benches, signs, tras cans, land-
scap ng etc. an opportunity exists t design such
impr vements with an historic theme - particularly
the I"Little Boradway" jazz era.
Spec
park
the
ring
ial Events - public plaza, street, sidewalk and
improvements should be designe to accommodate
stecial cultural events envisioned in the "Program-
" section of this report.
Programming
Most of what is Significant in the histor; of Overtowl involves the
people themselves and the activity they generated, rathe than physi-
cal things such 2s buildings Therefore, an essential element of the
Historic Overtow2
will recreate the
Such prcgrams wi i be critical to attracting tourists and visitors
around Dade County.
1. Hol jazz concerts within the propo
2. Pia for the establishment of an an
Ove town Cultural Arts Festival rem
Est."aliah an international cultural
ing activities reminiscent of the n
for ies, and fifties where artists
as ;el] as perform in concert.
4. Eric
ann
in
a.
b.
f ron
c..
d.
e.
concept is to program activities and events that
former vitality and atmosphere
:;rage families from all over th
el family reunions in Dade Coun
he Historic Overtown district.
Establish Oratorical national c
Culinary contests specializing
from the Caribbean and Southern
Hair styling contests
Establish a hall of fame, annu.
rational figures
Establish a tennis tournament,o
sports event
of the community.
ed district
ual Historic
niscense of jazz era
complex featur-
neteen thirties,
an receive training
world to hold
y, particularly
mpetiti.on
n soul food
States.
recognition of
some ether
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5. Encourage the establishment of legitimate theater,
writers, and artists workshop; and irst•class night
clubs and restaurants based on the gjuidel:ines of
the Historic district.
5 Encourage the establishment of menu acturing as well
as other related businesses for the arts, i.e. menu-
factprina and distributing equipme t and supplies --
for dancing, music, art, etc.
7. Encourage the establishment of tours of local his-
torical sites and Landmarks.
a. Bus tours to visit sites county -wide
b. Mini -tours for sites within the district
8. Encourage the establishment of a Tourist informa-
tion center which would direct tourists to attrac-
tions, restaurants, hotel accommodations, and his-
torical sites throughout Dade County.
9 Encou
featu
South
age the establishment of specialty shops which
e products of Africa, the Caribbean and the
rn States.
a. Restaurants, caterers, etc.
b. Photographer's studio specializi
c. bookstores and art galleries
10 Este lish a "Saturday Marketplace" w
alloped to set up in a designated st
public plaza - featuring ethnic food
fres produce, artwork, etc.
Archives
The on -going work of the Black Archives Research
g in passports
ere vendors are
eet block or
, crafts,
and History Foun-
dation should reOeive increased public and private support. The
project involves establishing a research collection documenting
issues, activities, events and sites of historical
within the district
Establish
(1)
(2)
(3)
Hous
Hous
doeu
Hous
chiv
Flor
a permanent Black Archives as a
organizational papers related
records, photographs and manus
ent the district
the organizational papers of t
s, History and Research Foundat
'de, Inc.
b Establish an on -going publication program
Establish an international research inter
with coil ges and universities around the
significance
depository to:
to this process
ripts which
ze Black Ar-
ion of South
ship program
world
Continue on -going research programs for tpe
the community -at -large.
Serve as he international clearinghouse
tion cent r on the culture of black peopl
guage, li °style, food, dress, visual and
arts, hai#• styles, music, etc.
benefit of
nd dissemina-
i.e_ lan-
performing
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A RS8OLtT rOo APPSOVI'4U nSVISIomS pATED 3=t.9
7T8, 1965, To TEE NoorEtANT ovswermeternmm
WEST commsmITY REDEVELOPMENT PLAN DAM],
DIMMER, 1912 Boa TER ARRA BOOMED BY
imams BO1JLSVARD. NOR'z9FAST/NORT5we5T srR
STRE4. , INT$RSTAI`S 95 M D INTSRS AT8 395.
psen6ns, it is rrtesiiat7 to amend the land use and lend
acquisition ele1enta of the 1982 Southeast Overtairn/Park Nast '
Community Redevelopment Plan in order to conform to the approved
Phase I Redevelopment PCogra* (City Commission Reolution No. 83-
972 and County Commission, Resolution Rio. R-1006-04)' and
VISenSAS, all of the peopoded changes are in general
conformance vibh the Miami CoMprehenSiVe VeighberhOOd Development
Maatercplan MOP) 1976 through 1966: and
alRBRSRS• ail the proposed changes are consistent with the
goals and objectives of the southeast Ovettovn/Pa*k Mast
Community Redevelopment Plan; and
MEWS, the proposed chances are .weeded to accommodate
development of a sports arena/Coliseum, development of pedestrian
i a11s, reMovel of interior black pedestrian malls and
simplification of 004Mercial/residentie.[ laird Ose Rises' and
WIUM249, the Miami Planning Advisory Board, at its saeti'rg
of September B, roes, Item SO. 3, following an *dvertised
hearing. adopted Resolution Mo. PAS 51-RS by an 8 tte 0 Vote,
recommending approval of amending the Southeast Overtovn/Par1
west Community Redevelopment Plan as hereinafter set forth; and
WtISIZA6, the City CoMmissivn, after topsider*tion of this
matter, deems it advisable and in the best interest of the
general welfare of the City of Miami to wend the southeast
OVlttnvA/patIC meet col unity RedevelepMent Plan as set out
herein'
NOR ■ TBBPeFORg e BC Vf RRSOLVED D NY Tilt COMMISSION or THE cir
of MIAl I, FLORIDA'
Cl2'Y AXON
MEETING Or
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deveiopeent Plan dated becember Y9S2 and adopted,,py;the :City,
Commission via **solution NO. 83
�97 arJ• by :'kh .D�d county.
Commission via Resolution 1io. a-1006-84 ie hereby amended .b ►' :z
incorporating the changes stipulated in the ' Southeagt•
Overtown/eark nest Redevelopment plan revisions dated July- 7th,
I9Q5, and incorporated herein by ceeerer►ces ,
PASSED AND ADOPTS° this t5th day
RhI
CITY CL!RR
PREPARED AND APPROVED OY;
ISTR1tP CITY ATTORgey
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Appendix E
Resolution Adopting New
Boundaries
Please see next few pages for:
SEOPW CRA Resolution 0293,
adopted May 30, 2002
and
City of Miami Ordinance 12247,
adopted July 9, 2002
Appendices 10.29
RESOLUTION NO. SEOPW/02-
02 — 93
A RESOLUTION OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF THE
SOUTHEAST OVERTOWN/PARK WEST COMMUNITY
REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY ("CRA"), WITH
ATTACHMENT(S), RECOMMENDING THAT THE CITY
COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF MIAMI ("CITY
COMMISSION"), AS GOVERNING BODY OF THE CRA,
AMEND AND MODIFY THE CRA REDEVELOPMENT PLAN
TO EXTEND THE BOUNDARIES OF THE
REDEVELOPMENT AREA, AS SET FORTH IN THE
ATTACHED MAP; REQUESTING THAT THE CITY
COMMISSION SCHEDULE A PUBLIC HEARING TO
CONSIDER THE PROPOSED AMENDMENT AND
MODIFICATION OF THE PLAN AT TIME EARLIEST DATE
PERMITTED BY LAW; REQUESTING THAT THE CITY
COMMISSION DIRECT THE CITY MANAGER TO PROVIDE
ALL NOTICES REQUIRED BY LAW; AND AUTHORIZING
THE ACTING EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF THE CRA TO
TAKE ALL ACTIONS NECESSARY TO ACCOMPLISH
APPROVAL OF THE PROPOSED AMENDMENT AND
MODIFICATION OF THE PLAN TO EXTEND THE
BOUNDARIES OF THE REDEVELOPMENT AREA BEFORE
JULY 1, 2002 .
WHEREAS, the Southeast Overtown/Park West Community Redevelopment Agency (the
"CRA") is responsible for carrying out community redevelopment activities in the redevelopment
area pursuant to Southeast Overtown/Park West Community Redevelopment Plan ("Plan"); and
WHEREAS, as provided for by the Community Redevelopment Act of 1969, the CRA
finds its necessary and desirable to amend and modify the existing Plan to extend the boundaries
of the community redevelopment area to more fully and effectively carry out its community
redevelopment activities; and
WHEREAS, the Board of Directors of the CRA (the `Board") desires to recommend to
the City Commission of the City of Miami (the "City Commission"), in its capacity as the
governing body of the CRA, that the Plan be amended and modified to extend the boundaries of
the redevelopment area as set forth in the attached map, so that the CRA's urban designers may
immediately plan for redevelopment of both the current redevelopment area and the areas within
the proposed boundary extensions; and
WHEREAS, the Board is aware that the City Commission may modify the proposed
boundary extensions to the redevelopment area when the City Commission considers final
approval of the amended redevelopment plan at the public hearing required by Section 163.361,
Florida Statutes (2001).
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF
THE SOUTHEAST O'VERTOWN/PARK WEST COMMUNITY REDEVELOPMENT
AGENCY OF THE CITY OF MIAMI, FLORIDA:
Section 1. The recitals and findings contained in the preamble to this resolution are
incorporated herein as if fully set forth in this section.
Section 2. The Board hereby recommends to the City Commission that it adopt the
proposed amendment and modification of the Plan extending the boundaries of the
redevelopment area as set forth in the attached map.
Section 3. The Board requests that the City Commission authorize a public hearing as
required by Section 163.361, Florida Statutes (2001), to consider the proposed amendment and
modification of the Plan at the earliest date permitted by law.
Section 4. The Board further requests that the City Commission direct the City
Manager to provide all notices required by law, including notice to the appropriate taxing
authorities and publication of notice of hearing prior to the City Commission holding a public
hearing to consider approval of the amendment and modification of the Plan.
Section 5. The Board is aware that the City Commission may, at its discretion, reduce
the recommended boundary extensions when the amended redevelopment plan is submitted to
the City Commission for final approval at the public hearing.
Section 6. The CRA's Acting Executive Director is directed to take all actions
necessary to accomplish approval of the proposed amendment and modification of the Plan to
extend the boundaries of the redevelopment area before July 1, 2002.
Section 7. This resolution shall be effective upon its adoption.
PASSED AND ADOPTED this 30th day of May, 2002.
ATTEST Arthur E. Teele, Jr., Chairman.
Priscilla A. Thompson
Clerk of the Board
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APPROVED AS TO FORM
AND CORRECTNESS:
Alejandro Vilareilo
CRA General Counsel
ATTACHMENTS
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CITY ATTORNEY'OFFICE 305 416 1804 P.01
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ORDINANCE NO. '
AN ORDINANCE OF THE MIAMI CITY COMMISSION,
WITH ATTACHMENTS, AMENDING AND MODIFYING THE
SOUTHEAST OVERTOWN/PARK WEST COMMUNITY
REDEVELOPMENT PLAN TO EXTEND THE BOUNDARIES
OF THE COMMUNITY REDEVELOPMENT AREA AS
DESCRIBED IN "EXHIBIT A" AND INCORPORATED
HEREIN; AMENDING CHAPTER 14, ARTICLE V,
DIVISION 1, OF THE CODE OF THE CITY OF MIAMI,
FLORIDA, AS AMENDED, ENTITLED "DOWNTOWN
DEVELOPMENT, SOUTHEAST OVERTOWN/PARK WEST
REDEVELOPMENT DISTRICT AND COMMUNITY
REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY, GENERALLY", TO REFLECT
THE AMENDMENT AND MODIFICATION OF THE
SOUTHEAST OVERTOWN/PARK WEST COMMUNITY
REDEVELOPMENT PLAN, MORE PARTICULARLY BY
AMENDING SECTION 14-252 OF SAID CODE;
CONTAINING A REPEALER PROVISION AND A
SEVERABILITY CLAUSE; AND PROVIDING FOR AN
IMMEDIATE EFFECTIVE DATE.
WHEREAS, the Southeast Overtown/Park West Community
Redevelopment Agency (the "CRA" is responsible for carrying out
community redevelopment activities in the community redevelopment
area pursuant to Southeast Overtown/Park West Community
Redevelopment Plan ("Plan" ; and
WHEREAS, as provided for by the Community Redevelopment Act
of 1969, the CRA finds its necessary and desirable to amend and
modify the existing Plan to extend the boundaries of the
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12247
"Chapter 14
DOWNTOWN DEVELOPMENT
ARTICLE V. SOUTHEAST OVERTOWN/PARK WEST REDEVELOPMENT
DISTRICT AND COMMUNITY REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY
DIVISION 1. GENERALLY
Sec. 14-252. Boundaries designated
The Southeast Overtown/Park West Redevelopment
Area Di ("district") shall encompass the area
described on the map on file with the city clerk
geaqcrally beeedod by Biscayne Reu1evaxd-ems-tote-east•; 1-
5 er tyre- +cat; I 395 on the port-111-en Northwest-5t-}s
Street on the siaiah. The district shall be under the
jurisdiction and control of the agency.
*
Section 4 All ordinances or parts of ordinances that
are inconsistent or in conflict with the provisions of this
Ordinance are repealed
Section 5 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 6 This Ordinance shall become effective
IMMEDIATELY upon its adoption and signature of the Mayor.1V
If the Mayor does not sign this Ordinance, it shall become
effective at the end of ten calendar 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.
Page 3 of 4
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LIIIT HI IUKNtY`Ut-I 1Lt
PASSED ON FIRST READING BY TITLE ONLY this
June , 2002
13th
day of
PASSED AND ADOPTED ON SECOND AND FINAL READING BY TITLE ONLY
this 27th day of June , 2002
ATTEST.
•
MANUEL A. DIAZ, MAYOR
in accordance with Miami Code Sec. 2-36, since the Mayor did not indicate approval of
this legislation by signing in the designated place provided, said legislation now
becomes effective with the elapse of ten (10) days from the date of commission action
regarding same, without the Mayor exercising a vote.
PRISCILLA A. THOMPSON
CITY CLERK
APPROVED AS TO FORM. AND C(`RECTNESS :
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Cl/TXA' 'TQRNEY
W129yBSS:JHV:ELF
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dila A. Thompson, City Cerk
12247
Boundary Description
08-08-02
(Does not include Bicentennial Park or Watson Island)
The extended Southeast Overtown/Park West community redevelopment area is
generally bounded as follows:
Beginning near the southeast corner of Lummus Park; at the southwest comer of
the intersection of NW 2nd Street and NW aid Court; continue north to the north side of
NW 5th Street; then west along the north side of NW 5th Street to the east side of NW 5th
Avenue; then north along the east side of NW 5th Avenue to the north side of NW 7th
Street; then west along the north side of NW 7th Street to the east side of NW 7th Avenue;
then north along the east side of NW 7th Avenue to the southern edge of the Metrorail
right of way ("ROW").
Then east along the southern edge of the Metrorail ROW to the western edge of
the 1-95 ROW; then north along the western edge of the I-95 ROW to the north side of
NW 14th Street; then east along the north side of NW 14th Street to the west side of NW
4th Avenue; then north along the west side of NW 4th Avenue to the south side of NW
17th Street; then west along the south side of NW 17th Street to the west side of NW 5th
Avenue; then north along the west side of NW 5th Avenue to the north side of NW 19th
Street; then east along the north side of NW 19th Street to the west side of NW 4th Court;
then north along the west side of NW 4th Court to the south side of NW 20th Street; then
west along the south side of NW 20th Street to a point in line with the western boundary
of the property abutting the continuation of NW 4th Court north of NW 20th Street; then
north to the north side of NW 20th Street and continuing north to the south side of NW
22°d Street; then east along the south side of NW 22nd Street to a point 200 feet east of the
east side of the NW 3td Avenue ROW; then south along a line 200 feet east of the east
side of the NW aid Avenue ROW to the north side of NW 20th Street; then east along the
north side of NW 20th Street to the east side of NW 2nd Court; then south along the east
side of NW 2nd Court to the north side of NW 17th Street; then east along the north side of
NW 17th Street to the east side of NW 211d Avenue; then south along the east side of NW
2nd Avenue to the north side of NW 14th Street.
Then east along the north side of NW 14th Street to the east side of NW 1"
Avenue; then south along the east side of NW 161 Avenue to the northern edge of the
1-395 ROW; then east along the northern edge of the 1-395 ROW to the Biscayne Bay
bulkhead; then south along the bulkhead to the southern edge of the I-395 ROW; then
west along the southern edge of the 1-395 ROW to the western side of Biscayne
Boulevard.
Then south along the west side of Biscayne Boulevard to the north side of NE 5th
Street; then west along the north side of NE 5th Street to the west side of North Miami
Avenue; then south along the west side of North Miami Avenue to the north side of NW
1" Street; then west along the north side of NW 1st Street past NW 1st Avenue, to include
properties abutting the west side of NW 1" Avenue; then north along the western edge of
e1ESEOPW Boundary 0eacrip O8-0B-02 revised by clover after board mtg
12247
said properties to the north side of NW 5th Street; then west along the north side of NW
5th Street to the east side of NW 3rd Avenue; then south along the east side of NW 3rd
Avenue to the south side of NW 2nd Street; then west along the south side of NW 2nd
street to the southwest corner of the intersection of NW 2nd Street and NW 3rd Court.
clf•SEOPW Boundary Descrip 08-0B-02 revised by dovcr after board mtg
12247
TOTAL P. i 5
Appendix F
Advertisements Of Public
Notice
Please see the next few pages.
Appendices 10.39
SEOPW Redevelopment Plan
Public Meetings
2002-2004
Public Meetings
Notices Posted
Type
Discussion
Location
Time
Comments
Monday, April 26, 2004
Miami Times, Miami Today,
Daily Business Review
CRA Board
Meeting
SEOPW Plan resubmitted to the CRA
Board for approval
Miami Arena
5:30-7pm
See City Clerk for minutes
305-250-5360
Monday, March 29, 2004
Miami Times, Miami Today,
Daily Business Review
CRA Board
Meeting
SEOPW Plan submitted for approval. Item
deferred to 4-26-04 Board Meeting
Miami Arena
5:30-7pm
See City Clerk for minutes
305-250-5360
Thursday, February 19, 2004
Miami Times
Community
Briefing
CRA Housing Consultant, Greater Miami
Neighborhoods, Inc. regarding housing
policy for the SEOPW Redevelopment
Area. Presentation by Crosswinds
Communities Inc.
Culmer Center
6-8pm
Contact City Clerk for
Overtown Advisory Board
Minutes for 2-19-04,
contact 305-250-5360
Thursday, October 02, 2003
Miami Times, Miami Daily
Business Review
Workshop
SEOPW Draft Plan
Miami Arena
4-6:30 pm
See City Clerk for minutes
305-250-5360
Saturday, March 08, 2003
Miami Times, Miami Daily
Business Review
Plan Review
Plan available for distribution. Creation of
the SEOPW Review Panel for review of
DRAFT SEOPW Plan
Plans could be picked
up at CRA (Dupont
Office), Overtown NET
and Downtown NET
March 8-
March 28,
2003
Comments available,
contact CRA Office at 305
679-6800
Saturday, January 25, 2003
Miami Times
Town Hall
Meeting
CRA Economic Consultant, ZHA to discuss
economic analysis of SEOPW
Redevelopment Area
Lyric Theater
10-12
noon
See City Clerk for minutes
305-250-5360
Saturday, November 09, 2002
Miami Today, Miami Times
Town Hall
Meeting
SEOPW Draft Plan
Lyric Theater
10-12
noon
See City Clerk for minutes
305-250-5360
(Vir
Southeast Overtown Park West
(SEOPW)
Community Redevelopment Agency
NOTICE -OF COMMUNITY BRIEFING
The SEOPW CRA's housing consultant,
Greater Miami Neighborhoods Inc. ("GMN"),
will brief the community and seek input on its
work to develop the housing component of the
update of the 1982 SEOPW Redevelopment
Plan. The housing component will include an
analysis of current and future housing needs
and trends, and establish housing goals and
policies for the SEOPW redevelopment area.
GMN's final work product will result in a housing
policy for the SEOPW redevelopment area that
will be a companion document to the updated
SEOPW Redevelopment Plan. This housing
policy will be presented to the CRA Board and
the City of Miami for adoption and implementa-
tion.
Michigan based developer, Crosswinds
Communities, Inc., is in negotiations with the
City of Miami and the SEOPW CRA to settle the
ongoing Poinciana Village/Sawyers Walk litiga-
tion and will brief the community on its pro-
posed 1000 residential unit, mixed -use devel-
opment project on 5 1/2 blocks in Overtown.
Both briefings will take Place during the
Overtown Advisory Board meeting on Thursday,
February 19, 2004, at 6:00 pm, at the Culmer
Center located at 1600 NW 3'° Avenue, Miami,
Florida.
Interested individuals and stakeholders are
encouraged to attend this meeting. Contact
Chelsa Arscott at 305-679-6800 if additional
information is required.
(# 4)t �1 H I ffi. '
STATE OF FLORIDA
SS
COUNTY OF DADE
Miami Vtimcg
5.. STREET. MIMI, 331a7
Published Weekly
Miami Dade, County, Florida
PROOF OF PUBLICATION
Before the undersigned authority personally appeared Mitzi Williams who, on oath, says that
she is the Ad Traffic Clerk of THE MIAMI TIMES weekly newspaper published at Miami,
Dade Cowry, Florida; that the attached copy of advertisement was published in said newspaper
in the issues of:
February 19, 2004
Affiant further state that THE MIAMI TIMES is a newspaper published in Miami, Dade
County, Florida and that the said newspaper has heretofore been continuously published in said
Dade County, Florida, each week and has been entered as second class mail matter at the U.S.
Post Office in Miami, Dade County, Florida, for a period of more than one year next txeceding
date of publication of the attached copy of advertisement: further affiant says that she has
neither paid nor promised any firm, person or corporation any discount, rebate, commission or
refund for the purpose of securing this advertisement for publication in this newspaper.
Ad TlitTiic Clerk
Swo to and subscribed before meson this, the 19th day of February A.D. 2004
NO ARY PUBLIC STATE OF FLORIDA
AT LARGE, My commission expires:
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MIAMI DAILY BUSINESS REVIEW
Published Daily except Saturday, Sunday and
Legal Holidays
Miami, Miami -Dade County, Florida
STATE OF FLORIDA
COUNTY OF MIAMI-DADE:
Before the undersigned authority personally appeared
O.V. FERBEYRE, who on oath says that he or she is the
SUPERVISOR, Legal Notices of the Miami Daily Business
Review f/Wa Miami Review, a daily (except Saturday, Sunday
and Legal Holidays) newspaper, published at Miami in Miami -Dade
County, Florida, that the attached copy of advertisement,
being a Legal Advertisement of Notice in the matter of
AD NO. 11096
NOTICE OF COMMUNITY WORKSHOP
SOUTHEAST OVERTOWN PARK WEST
in the XXXX Court,
was published in said newspaper in the issues of
09/22/2003
Affiant further says that the said Miami Daily Business
Review is a newspaper published at Miami in said Miami -Dade
County, Florida and that the said newspaper has
heretofore been continuously published in said Miami -Dade County,
Florida; each day (except Saturday, Sunday and Legal Holidays)
and has been entered as second class mail matter at the post
office in Miami in said Miami -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 he or
she has neither paid nor promised any person, firm or corporation
any discount, re to. corn n"ai i refund for the purpose
of securing thi actvertisltaTint lar p .5licatian irr the said
-tewspaper.,
Sworn lo and s
22 fday of
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(SEAL)
O.V. FERBEYRE pers
cribed before rr th'
TEMBER
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SOUTHEAST OVERTOWN PARK WEST
(SEOPWI
COMMUNITY RIEDEVELOPMENT AGENCY
NOTICE OF COMMUNITY WORKSHOP
PUBLIC COMMENTS ON THE DRAFT
SEPTEMBER 21303SEOPW REDEVELOPMENT
PLAN UPDATE
The €EOFW CRA will be holding its third community workshop hosted
by SEOPW CRA Planning Consuliant, rarnrer Kohl 8 Partners, to diecutis
the DRAFT (September 2003} SEO1'W Rerieveloornenl Plan Vpriate.
Said rneeting wilt teJ & place on Thur:.day. October 2. 2003, from 4:00 :R
6:30 pm_, at the Miami Arens (VIP Room) loaned at 701 Arena
Boulevard. Miami, Florida_
Public comments received since the March 8. 21303 Community
Wr rkshfrop have been InDarporated Into the revised Ftedeve?opment I'Ial,
Transcripts from the previous tw+o corrmunlly meetings (November 3,
2002 and March 8, 200:4 can be obtained from the City Clarks Oli'eoa try
contacting 305-250-53£0.
The eltrnial documents Irxraps. drawings, and other perlinenl isrformelidn)
will be available for public review Muoday, Saplerrrber 29, 2003 through
Wednesday, October 1, 2003. tram 6;00 am. to 5:00 p.m_, al the C.orumunity
Pteadevelopmant Agency oice, 49 PAY Sth Street, Suite 1IXI , Miami,
Florida. Ail of these documents will also be available at the communiy
workshop.
lri forested individuals and stakeholders who reviewed and commented
on 1he rust draft {Match 6, 20D3} of the redevelopment plan update are
2003 eraCbureged to attend said meeting. For more intorrnation, please canta.:t
Ra iekah Lowe at305-679-8BD0.
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Priscilla A. Thompson
Cterk of the Board
02-4-35/39647f3iu1
STATE OF FLORIDA
SS
COUNTY OF DADE
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==1 the .111.1aimi
Published Weekly
Miami Dade, County, Florida
PROOF OF PUBLICATION
Before the undersigned authority personally appeared Mitzi Williams who, on oath, says that
she is the Ad Traffic Clerk of THE MIAMI TIMES weekly newspaper published at Miami,
Dade County, Florida; that the attached copy of advertisement was published in said newspaper
in the issues of:
September 18, 2003
Affiant further state that THE MIAMI TIMES is a newspaper published in Miami, Dade
County, Florida and that the said newspaper has heretofore been continuously published in said
Dade County, Florida, each week and has been entered as second class mail matter al the U.S.
Post Office in Miami, Dade County, Florida, for a period of more than one year next preceding
date of publication of the attached copy of advertisement: further affiant says that she has
neither paid nor promised any firm, person or corporation any discount, rebate, commission or
refund for the purpose of securing this advertisement for publication ink'yy is newspaper.
li AD
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Sworn to and subscribed before me on this, the 19l1L day of )lied. A D. 2004
NOTARY PUBLIC STATE OF FLORIDA
AT LARGE, My commission expires:
show' with 175 participants,
business matchmaking, busi-
ness education sessions, a
Leant 1ta11 meeting and the
naming .af the National Small
Sihs`iness of Year award winner.
Otter sessions will include
speakers from industry and
government with .a focus on
issues of interest to the small
business community. Another
special feature of the confer-
ence will be the unveiling of the
SBJla `Golden Anniversary
Hall Of Fame," where the
agency will honor nationally
known companies that :got
started with the help of SBA-
baciced financing.
me Warner
a%O s Turner Broadcasting
rliatston, which runs the teams,
entered exclusive talks in April
with McDavid to buy the Hawks
anti 'Thrashers, along with
operating rights to Philips
1 ' Arena, The negotiations
`stretched longer than expected.
I ending McDavid's rights to
exclusivity.
Recently. the negotiations
werecomplicatedby .a provi-
sion in the Philips Arena bond
sale, which uses The Hawks as
a form of collateral.
When the arena was built
with government -backed
' bonds. Turner Broadcasting
put up the Hawks as collateral
t up to a limit of $60 million, in
jj ease The company defaulted on
on oblieatinn to '.-Ike the
:nts of
ever 30
at, AOL
have to
to 6800 per month failed at $48,000 salaries for mayors
the polls by a of 173-67. and commissioners.
Southeast Overtown Park West (SEOPW)
Community Redevelopment Agency
NOTICE OF COMMUNITY WORKSHOP
Public Comments on the DRAFT
September 2003 SEOPW Redevelopment
Plan Update
The SEOPW CRA will be holding its third community workshop host-
ed'by SEOFW CRA Planning Consultant, Dover Kohl & Partners, to
discuss the DRAFT (September 2003) SEOPW Redevelopment Plan
Update. Said meeting will take place on Thursday, October 2, 2003
from 4:00 pm to 6:30 pm, at the Miami Arena (VIP Room) located at
701 Arena Boulevard, Miami, Florida.
Public comments received since the March 6, 2003 Community
Workshop have been incorporated into the revised Redevelopment
Plan: Transcripts -from the previous two community workshops
(November 9,2002 and March 8, 2003)can be obtained from the City
Clerks office by contacting 305-250-5360.
The official documents.(maps, drawtrtgs.aod other pertinent informa--
tion) will be available for public review, Monday, September 29, 2003
through Wednesday, October 1, 2003 from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.rn. al
the Community Redevelopment Agency office, 49 NW 5th Street,
Suite 100, Miami, Florida. All of these documents will also be available
al the community workshop.
Interested individuals and stakeholders who reviewed and comment-
ed on the first draft (March 8, 2003) of the redevelopment plan update
are encouraged to attend said meeting. For more information, please
contact Rebekah Lowe at 305-679 5800. 1~
(#11096)
Priscilla A. Thompson
Clerk of the Board
MIAMI DAILY BUSINESS REVIEW
Published Daily except Saturday, Sunday and
Legal Holidays
Miami, Miami -Dade County, Florida
STATE OF FLORIDA
COUNTY OF MIAMI-DADE:
Before the undersigned authority personally appeared
O.V. FERBEYRE, who on oath says that he or she is the
SUPERVISOR, Legal Notices of the Miami Daily Business
Review f/k/a Miami Review, a daily (except Saturday, Sunday
and Legal Holidays) newspaper, published at Miami in Miami -Dade
County, Florida; that the attached copy of advertisement,
being a Legal Advertisement of Notice in the matter of
PO #11006
SOUTHEAST OVERTOWN PARKWEST COMMUNITY
REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY - PUBLIC NOTICE 3/28/03
in the XXXX Court,
was published in said newspaper in the issues of
03/17/2003
Affiant further says that the said Miami Daily Business
Review is a newspaper published at Miami in said Miami -Dade
County, Florida and that the said newspaper has
heretofore been continuously published in said Miami -Dade County,
Florida, each day (except Saturday, Sunday and Legal Holidays)
and has been entered as second class mail matter at the post
office in Miami in said Miami -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 he or
she has neither paid nor promised any person, firm or corporation
ally di9CGuri, rebate , siorr or refund for ine purp:se
of ss uri . this - .'d���I JI I for publication in the sald
news
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Community Redevelopment Agency
Public Notice
On Saturday, March 8, 2003, the SEOPW Community Redevelopment
Agency issued the draft Amendment to the 1982 Redevelopment Plan
("the 2003 Redevelopment Plan") for review and comment by the general
public. In addition, the CRA created the SEOPW Review Panel, which is a
committee made up of volunteers who committed themselves to reading
the 2003 Redevelopment Plan and providing written comments.
To obtain a copy of the Plan, please contact the CRA at (305) 579-3324,
drop by the CRA office at 300 Biscayne Boulevard Way, Suite 309
(Mezzanine of the Dupont Plaza Hotel), or fill out a sign up sheet at the
Overtown NET office (1490 NW 3 Avenue) or the Downtown NET office
(63 NW 9 Street).
Comments on the redevelopment plan must be received by the
CRA no later than March 28, 2003 for review, and possible incorporation
into the Plan.
Priscilla A. Thompson
Clerk of the Board
(#11006)
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STATE OF FLORIDA
SS
COUNTY OF DADE
Published Weekly
Miami Dade, County, Florida
PROOF OF PUBLIC ION
authorit} personally appcsc,; i.; i . -w ii�iams wno, on oath, says that
she is the Ad Traffic Clerk of THE MIAMI TIMES weekly newspaper published at Miami,
Dade County, Florida; that the attached copy of advertisement was published in said newspaper'
in the issues of:
11...E :oe
Affiant further state that T ii I a newspaper published in 11;:_--ni, Dad,
Counts Honda and Mai; i €: re been continuously f i.
pn dm ssn..
nt for puhhcation :n this newspaper.
Ad Tree Clerk
Sworn to and subscribed before me on this, the 19th day of March. A.D. 2
NOTARY PUBLIC STATE OF FLORIDA
AT LARGE, My commission expires:
BLIC HEARING
he City Commission of the City of
at 9.00 a.m., at City Hall, located at
Florida, for the purpose of authoriz-
Perpetual Non -Exclusive Easement
square feet of City -owned property
Mami, Florida. This property is need -
relocating and maintaining existing
to appear and may be heard con-
erson desire to appeal any decision
)ct to any matter considered at this
that a verbatim record of the pro-
estimony and evidence upon any
Priscilla A. Thompson
City Clerk ,
The Miami Times, March 19-25, 2003 7I)
Southeast Overtown Parkwest
Community Redevelopment Agency
Public Notice
On Saturday. March 8. 2003, the SEOPW Community
Redevelopment Agency issued the draft Amendment to the
1982 Redevelopment Plan ("the 2003 Redevelopment Plan")
for review and comment by the general public. In addition, the
CRA created the SEOPW Review Panel, which is a committee
made up of volunteers who committed themselves to reading
the 2003 Redevelopment Plan and providing written com-
ments.
To obtain a copy of the Plan, please contact the CRA at (305)
579-3324, drop by the CRA office at 300 Biscayne Boulevard
Way, Suite 309 (Mezzanine of the Dupont Plaza Hotel), or fill
out a sign up sheet at the Overtown NET office (1490 NW 3
Avenue) or the Downtown NET office (63 NW 9 Street).
Comments on the redevelopment plan must be received by
the CRA no later than March 28, 2003 for review, and pos-
sible incorporation into the Plan.
(#11006) Priscilla A. Thompson
Clerk of the Board
MIAMI-DADE
MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, FLORIDA
NOTICE TO PROFESSIONAL CONSULTANTS
MIAMI-DADE COUNTY WATER AND SEWER DEPARTMENT
SOUTH DISTRICT WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT
DEEP INJECTION WELL DESIGN
I? CICC PROJECT NO. E03-WASD-02
;TATE _ORIDA
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$Miami Tim
Published Weekly
Miami Dade, County, Florldt
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lanuary 16,2003
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tate that THE MIAMI TIMES i': a newspape
rid that the said newspaper has hei '.tofore been c
trida, each week and has been entered as seconc
ami, Dade County, Florida, for a peril
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sromised any firm, person or corp
pose of securing this advettisemen cati.
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Southeast Overtown Parkwest (SEOPW)
Community Redevelopment Agency
NOTICE OF PUBLIC MEETING
The SEOPW CRA will be conducting a town hall meeting host-
ed by CRA Economic Consultants, ZHA, to discuss the eco-
nomic analysis of the SEOPW Redevelopment Area. Said
meeting will take place on Saturday, January 25, 2003, begin-
ning 10:00 a.m., at the Lyric Theater locatedat-819 NW 2nd
Avenue, Miami, FLorida.
Interested individuals are encouraged to attend said meeting,
Priscilla A. Thompson
(#10964) CRA Clerk of the Board
Wished in k,
inuously publi
!ss mail matte
year next preceding
it says that she has
bate, commission or
tetysgaper.
STATE OF FLORIDA
SS
COUNTY OF DADE
IIr. altaizumi Timr
Published Weekly
Miami Dade, County, Fl
PROOF OF PUBLICATION
CITY OF MIAMI
COMMUNITY REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY
CITY OF MIAMI
Southeast Overtown/Park West
Community Redevelopment Agency
(SEOPW /CRA)
NOTICE OF TOWN HALL MEETING
The SEOPW CRA will be conducting a town hall meeting to
obtain community input to the existing 1982 SEOPW'
Redevelopment Plan. Residents, Church Members, Business
and Property Owners are invited to provide input on the vision
for the Overtown and Park West community.
Said meeting will take place on Saturday, November 9, 2002,
beginning 10:00 a.m., at the Lyric Theater located at 819 NW
2nd Avenue, Miami, Florida. The meeting is open to the public
and interested individuals are encouraged to attend said meet-
ing.
#10936
Before the undersigned authority personally appeared Marjorie Nelson ho, on oath, says tha
she is the Ad Traffic Clerk of TIIIE MIAMI TIMES weekly newspa r published at Miami
Dade County, Florida; that the attAched copy of advertisement was publ hed in said newspape
in the issues of: Novamber 07, 2002
Affiant further state that THE NIIAMI TIMES is a newspaper published in Miami, Dad
County, Florida and that the said newspaper has heretofore been continuously published in sal
Dade County, Florida, each week and has been entered as second class mail matter at the U.f
Post Office in Miami, Dade County, Florida, for a period of more than one year next precedin
date of publication of the attached copy of advertisement: further affrant says that she he
neither paid nor promised any fu*t, person or corporation any discount, rebate, commission
refund for the purpose of securing this advertisement for publication in this newspaper.
Traffi C erk
Swom and subscribed before me on this, the i de
NOTARY PUBLIC STATE OF FLORIDA
AT LARGE, My commmmisslonl expires:
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Pricilla A. Thompson
Clerk of the Board
IURSDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 2002
rliami Chamber of Corn-
nd vice chairman of
tealty Services Inc.
k Nero, presidentand
the Beacon Council.
In Reiter, chairman of the
2ouncil and president of
mi Children's Hospital
on.
r Roulhac, chairman -
le Greater Miami Cham-
)mmerce and vice presi-
�ommunitydevelopment I
of First Union National f
Florida.
. Antonio Villamil, chair-
lorida's Council of Eco-
3visors and president and
he Washington Econom-
p
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Southeast Overtown/Park West Community
Redevelopment Agency (SEOPW/CRA)
NOTICE OF TOWN HALL MEETINS
The SEOPWICHAWill be conducting a town hall meeting to obtain community
input to the existing 1982 SEOPW Redevelopment Plarf. Residents, Church
Members, Business and Property Owners are invited to provide input on the
vision for the Overtown and Park West community.
Said meeting will take place on Saturday, November 9, 2002, beginning 10:00
a.m., at the Lyric Theater located at 819 NW 2nd Avenue, Miami, Florida. The
meeting is open to the public and interested individuals are encouraged to attend
said meeting.
#10936
Priscilla A. Thompson
Clerk of the Board
exceeo z4 moms. Letters OT interest must contain:
MIAMI TODAY 1:
• The firm's qualifications. -
• Resume of principals in the firm.
• Examples of prior relevant work.
Letters of Interest must be received no later than 5:00 pm., December 10,200;
addressed to Chelsa Arscott-Douglas, Policy and Program Developmer
Administrator of the Omni Redevelopment District Community Redevelopmer
Agency, at 300 Biscayne Boulevard Way, Suite 309 (Mezzanine Floor), Miam
Florida 33131. It is recommended that all interested parties pick up a copy of th
1986 Omni Redevelopment Plan (as amended in 1987) for review. Hard copies c
the existing redevelopment plan are available in the office al a cost of $10 each. Fo
further information, please contact Rebekah Lowe at (305) 579-3324.
The Omni Redevelopment District Community Redevelopment Agency reserves th
right•to accept any Letter(s) of Interest deemed to be in the best interest of th
agency, to waive any irregularities in any response, to reject any arid all response:
to cancel this request at any time, and/or to re -advertise for Letter> of Interest.
Annette Lewis
Acting Executive Director
Adv. No. 10939
Appendix G
Findings of Slum and Blight
Please See Next Page
Appendices 10.49
GUILLERMO OLMEDILLO
TO: ANNETTE LEWIS, DIRECTOR
C.R.A. CITY OF MIAMI
SERGIO VAZQUEZ
DOVER, KOHL & PARTNERS
FROM: GUILLERMO OLMEDILLO
SUBJECT: SLUM AND BLIGHT REPORT
DATE: 5/23/2002
CC: SERGIO VAZQUEZ, DOVER, KOHL & PARTNERS
SLUM AND BLIGHT CONDITIONS
PROPOSED EXPANSION AREA
This report is presented for the consideration of the C.R.A. Board during its
deliberations on the potential expansion to the boundaries of the existing
redevelopment district.
BACKGROUND
In 1969, the Board of County Commissioners approved by Resolution
1117-69 the Central Miami Renewal Plan. This plan included the area south of
NW Twenty Ninth. Street; west of the FEC Railroad, with an extension to
N.E. Second Avenue; east of I-95; and north of the Miami River. It was
amended on January 20, 1981, to include the areas bounded on the west and
south by the FEC tracks; on the east by Biscayne Boulevard; and on the north
by I-395. In addition, the area bounded on the south by I-395; on the east by
Biscayne Boulevard; on the north by NW Seventeen. Street in part, and the
City of Miami Cemetery in part; and on the west by the FEC tracks.
At those public hearings, evidence was presented to find this area meeting
the definition of "slum and blight".
The importance of that decision is that the proposed expansion area located
north of I-395 and fronting on NW Third Street, extending north to NW
Twenty Second. Street was declared through resolution of the County
Commission as "slum and blight". (Area B1). Additionally, Areas B and C of
the proposed expansion, were part of the Central Miami Urban Renewal Area
graphic provided for illustration purposes at the hearing of January 20, 1981,
when the expansion was approved.
PROPOSED AREA A. These properties are located within the rights of
way of I-395 and I-95. They were not included in the description of either of
the existing redevelopment districts. These properties are presently in a state of
disrepair, and to leave them out of the districts simply creates a ribbon of
neglected properties separating them. These properties meet the criteria to be
classified as "slum and blight".
PROPOSED AREA A-1. The general boundaries of this area are: on the
south and west, the I-395 Right of Way; on the north NW 14`h. Street from I-
395 to North Miami Avenue, and NW 15th. Street from North Miami Avenue
to North East Miami Court; and on the east North East Miami Court.
This area is partly in the existing Omni Redevelopment District, therefore
there is no need to make a "slum and blight" finding. The portion that is not in
the Omni Redevelopment District is in state of disrepair, and it contains a
number of vacancies that present serious limitations for redevelopment. It is
important to consider this area in connection with the SEOPW Redevelopment
District because of its visual relationship and continuity under the expressway.
PROPOSED AREA A-2. This area is bounded generally on the north and
east by the I-95 Right of Way; on the west by NW Fifth Avenue; and on the
south by NW Tenth Street.
Two of the three properties are owned by the City, and the other one is a
decrepit structure, which needs major work or demolition.
The percentage of vacant land and dilapidated structures qualifies the area
as "slum and blight".
PROPOSED AREA A-3. Bicentennial park is presently vacant. There is
no permanent use established. The only meaningful structure is the seawall and
it is damaged to a great degree.
2
It is important to consider this area as expansion to the Redevelopment
District because its planned use will serve as a support activity to the residential
development that will emerge in the immediate neighborhoods.
PROPOSED AREA A-4. Watson Island has some uses projected, but
presently its major portion is vacant.
Again, the percentage of existing vacant land qualifies this area as "slum and
blight".
PROPOSED AREA B. This area is defined on the north by NW Tenth
Avenue; on the east by I-95; on the south by NW Fourth Street; and on the
west by NW Fifth Avenue.
It is evident that the identity of the existing SOTPW area is changing, from
a primarily residential neighborhood to a more dynamic mixed -use district,
defined by attractions and recreational activities. As these uses take up some of
the properties that were originally considered for residential purposes, Area B
emerges as a natural expansion to the west. There is a neighborhood
infrastructure, which maintains a very close visual relationship and great
connectivity through the street network that crosses under the expressway.
The building code requires a 40/50 year certification for structures built
before 1960. Eighty percent of the properties were built before 1960.
Approximately fifty percent of the properties are vacant.
The number of vacancies, lack of maintenance and updating qualify this
area as "slum and blight" under the criteria of "deterioration of site and other
improvements"; "diversity of ownership which prevents the free alienability of
land within the deteriorated area"; and "inadequate and outdated building
density patterns".
AREA B-1. This corridor runs along NW Third Avenue, from I-395 to
NW Twenty Second Street. It includes all properties fronting on the east side
of the right of way. On the west side, it includes a number of properties owned
by public agencies, which have contributed to the character of the strip. It is
important to expand the District to include this corridor so that the tax
increment may be used to improve a significant number of historically
significant structures in disrepair. The majority of structures were built before
1950.
3
Number of vacancies and the age of the buildings meet the criteria of
"slum and blight".
PROPOSED AREA C. This area is defined by NW Eleven Street on the
north; on the east by NW Fifth Avenue; On the south by NW Sixth Street; and
on the west by NW Seventh Avenue.
Almost sixty percent of the property in this area is vacant, and the
remainder contains a mix of industrial, commercial and residential uses.
Diversity of ownership and vacancy rates qualifies this area as "slum and
blight".
Attached please find a list of properties according to the proposed area,
including vacancies and condition of the existing structures. This will assist the
Board during its consideration for expansion.
4
Slum Blight Findings
Expanded SEOPW CRA Boundaries
May 23, 2002
AREA
Consultant:
FOLIO NUMBER
Guillermo
LOT SIZE
Olmedillo
BUILDING
SIZE
BLDG.
CONDITION
OWNERSHIP
AREA Al
01-3136-009-0420
121,447
89,291
GOOD
SCHOOL BD.
01-3137-032-0010
3,333
0
VACANT
PRIVATE
01-3136-009-0600
11,924
11,644
POOR
PRIVATE
01-3136-010-0020
3,590
0
VACANT
PRIVATE
01-3136-009-0610
1,658
0
VACANT
PRIVATE
01-3136-010-0010
4,600
4,000
FAIR
PRIVATE
01-3136-009-0570
1,728
0
VACANT
PRIVATE
01-3136-009-6590
3,458
2,997
FAIR
PRIVATE
01-3136-009-0580
0
3,046
FAIR
PRIVATE
01-3136-009-0430
7,180
7,073
FAIR
PRIVATE
01-3136-009-0440
10,000
14,655
POOR
PRIVATE
01-3136-009-0470
10,000
0
VACANT
PRIVATE
01-3136-009-0460
10,000
0
VACANT
PRIVATE
01-3136-009-0540
8,467
0
VACANT
PRIVATE
01-3136-009-1280
6,099
0
PARKING
PRIVATE
01-3136-009-1270
6,750
5,500
FAIR
PRIVATE
01-3136-009-1260
6,750
0
VACANT
PRIVATE
01-3136-009-1380
5,306
0
VACANT
PRIVATE
01-3136-009-1390
6,750
0
VACANT
PRIVATE
01-3136-009-1190
1,747
0
VACANT
PRIVATE
01-3136-005-1160
10,000
10,536
FAIR
CITY
01-3136-005-1150
2,000
0
VACANT
PRIVATE
01-3136-005-1140
4,000
0
VACANT
PRIVATE
01-3136-005-1130
4,000
0
VACANT
PRIVATE
01-3136-005-1090
6,000
0
VACANT
PRIVATE
01-3136-005-1080
6,000
18,441
FAIR
PRIVATE
01-3136-005-1060
5,400
386
POOR
PRIVATE
01-3136-005-1070
9,900
6,000
POOR
PRIVATE
01-3136-005-1110
8,000
0
VACANT
CITY
01-3136-005-1151
5,000
5,533
FAIR
PRIVATE
01-3136-005-1180
3,000
0
VACANT
PRIVATE
AREAA2
01-3136-061-0020
71,003
NA
GOOD
CITY
01-3137-032-0010
3,333
0
VACANT
PRIVATE
01-3136-061-0010
26,572
6,646
POOR
CITY
AREA B
01-0107-030-1090
9,000
2,498
GOOD
PRIVATE
01-0107-030-1080
4,000
2,394
GOOD
PRIVATE
01-0107-030-1100
7,500
269,204
GOOD
PRIVATE
01-0107-030-1110
7,500
0
VACANT
PRIVATE
01-0107-030-1120
7,500
0
VACANT
PRIVATE
01-0107-030-1130
7,500
0
VACANT
PRIVATE
01-0107-030-1140
7,500
0
VACANT
PRIVATE
01-0107-030-1150
7,500
0
VACANT
PRIVATE
01-0107-030-1160
7,500
0
VACANT
PRIVATE
01-0107-030-1170
7,500
0
VACANT
PRIVATE
01-0107-030-1220
7,500
0
VACANT
PRIVATE
01-0107-030-1010
4,000
2,125
GOOD
PRIVATE
01-0107-030-1020
5,000
3,437
GOOD
PRIVATE
01-0107-030-1030
4,000
1,889
GOOD
PRIVATE
1
Slum Blight Findings
Expanded SEOPW CRA Boundaries
May 23, 2002
AREA
Consultant:
FOLIO NUMBER
Guillermo
LOT SIZE
Olmedillo
BUILDING
SIZE
BLDG.
CONDITION
OWNERSHIP
01-0107-030-1040
0
0
01-0107-030-1050
10,500
0
VACANT
PRIVATE
01-0107-030-1060
11,550
0
VACANT
PRIVATE
01-0107-030-1070
11,550
0
VACANT
PRIVATE
01-0107-040-1090
9,000
13,167
GOOD
PRIVATE
01-0107-040-1040
32,356
26,395
GOOD
PRIVATE
01-0107-040-1100
0
0
01-0106-080-2080
112,740
32,121
GOOD
H U D
01-3137-030-0010
2,498
0
VACANT
H U D
01-3137-030-0020
2,512
1,974
GOOD
HUD
01-3137-030-0030
10,012
0
VACANT
H U D
01-3137-030-0040
2,512
5,432
GOOD
HUD
01-3137-030-0050
2,379
1,427
GOOD
HUD
01-3137-030-0060
4,103
4,345
GOOD
H U D
01-3137-029-0090
3,750
0
VACANT
COUNTY
01-3137-029-0100
3,750
0
VACANT
COUNTY
01-3137-029-0110
3,750
0
VACANT
COUNTY
01-3137-029-1190
3,750
0
VACANT
COUNTY
01-0106-070-2020
3,000
0
VACANT
COUNTY
01-0106-070-2010
32,000
27,454
GOOD
YWCA
01-0106-070-2060
2,000
0
VACANT
COUNTY
01-3137-029-0030
2,000
0
VACANT
PRIVATE
01-3137-029-0020
2,000
0
VACANT
PRIVATE
01-3137-029-0040
2,000
0
VACANT
PRIVATE
01-3137-029-0050
2,000
0
VACANT
PRIVATE
01-3137-029-0060
4,000
0
VACANT
PRIVATE
01-3137-029-0070
6,000
0
VACANT
PRIVATE
01-3137-029-0080
6,000
0
VACANT
PRIVATE
01-0104-080-2060
5,000
0
PKG
PRIVATE
01-0104-080-2070
5,000
0
VACANT
PRIVATE
01-0104-080-2080
5,000
0
VACANT
COUNTY
01-0104-080-2090
5,000
0
VACANT
COUNTY
01-0104-080-2100
5,000
4,661
GOOD
PRIVATE
01-0104-080-2110
5,000
1,573
GOOD
PRIVATE
01-0104-080-2120
15,000
8,411
GOOD
PRIVATE
01-3137-033-0010
3,967
1,225
POOR
PRIVATE
01-3137-033-0020
2,550
1,226
POOR
PRIVATE
01-3137-033-0030
2,550
1,226
POOR
PRIVATE
01-3137-033-0040
2,550
1,444
POOR
PRIVATE
01-3137-033-0050
2,550
1,444
POOR
PRIVATE
01-3137-033-0060
2,550
1,226
POOR
PRIVATE
01-3137-033-0070
3,683
1,226
POOR
PRIVATE
01-3137-033-0180
1,226
0
VACANT
PRIVATE
01-0104-080-1070
3,000
2,632
POOR
PRIVATE
01-3137-028-0060
2,000
428
POOR
PRIVATE
01-3137-028-0050
4,000
3,362
POOR
PRIVATE
01-3137-028-0040
3,000
0
VACANT
COUNTY
01-3137-028-0030
3,000
0
VACANT
COUNTY
01-3137-028-0020
5,000
0
VACANT
COUNTY
01-3137-028-0010
5,000
0
VACANT
COUNTY
01-0104-080-1010
5,000
3,404
POOR
PRIVATE
2
Slum Blight Findings
Expanded SEOPW CRA Boundaries
May 23, 2002
AREA
Consultant:
FOLIO NUMBER
Guillermo
LOT SIZE
Olmedillo
BUILDING
SIZE
BLDG.
CONDITION
OWNERSHIP
01-3137-033-0080
2,984
1,226
POOR
PRIVATE
01-3137-033-0090
2,550
1,226
POOR
PRIVATE
01-3137-033-0100
2,550
1,444
POOR
PRIVATE
01-3137-033-0110
2,550
1,226
POOR
PRIVATE
01-3137-033-0120
3,100
1,226
POOR
PRIVATE
01-3137-033-0130
3,075
1,226
POOR
PRIVATE
01-3137-033-0140
2,550
1,144
POOR
PRIVATE
01-3137-033-0170
0
PKG.
PRIVATE
01-0104-070-1120
3,750
0
VACANT
PRIVATE
01-0104-070-1100
2,500
1,064
POOR
PRIVATE
01-0104-070-1110
1,250
0
VACANT
PRIVATE
01-0104-070-1080
2,500
1,237
POOR
PRIVATE
01-0104-070-1090
2,500
1,053
POOR
PRIVATE
01-0104-070-1130
3,500
0
VACANT
PRIVATE
01-0104-070-1140
11,500
0
VACANT
PRIVATE
01-0104-070-1150
7,500
7,331
POOR
PRIVATE
01-0104-070-1160
7,500
2,281
POOR
PRIVATE
01-0104-070-1170
7,500
0
VACANT
PRIVATE
01-0104-070-1060
17,528
3,954
GOOD
PRIVATE
01-0103-040-1110
15,000
22,782
POOR
PRIVATE
01-0103-040-1100
6,825
6,065
POOR
PRIVATE
01-0103-040-1090
4,935
0
VACANT
PRIVATE
01-0103-030-1010
30,000
23,299
POOR
PRIVATE
01-0103-030-1080
15,000
13,966
POOR
PRIVATE
01-0103-030-1070
15,000
13,966
POOR
PRIVATE
01-0103-030-1020
30,000
0
VACANT
PRIVATE
01-0103-030-1060
6,000
6,598
POOR
PRIVATE
01-0103-030-1050
455
0
VACANT
PRIVATE
01-0103-030-1030
48,875
0
VACANT
PRIVATE
01-0102-080-1040
7,500
3,264
POOR
PRIVATE
01-0102-080-1049
5,000
0
VACANT
PRIVATE
01-0102-080-1030
2,500
885
POOR
PRIVATE
01-0102-080-1011
2,500
0
VACANT
PRIVATE
01-0102-080-1010
21,750
14,140
POOR
PRIVATE
01-0102-080-1012
23,250
0
VACANT
PRIVATE
01-0102-080-1080
52,500
43,407
POOR
PRIVATE
01-0102-080-1070
7,500
4,017
POOR
PRIVATE
01-0102-080-1020
7,500
1,094
POOR
PRIVATE
01-0102-080-1060
10,000
0
VACANT
PRIVATE
01-0102-080-1050
5,000
0
VACANT
PRIVATE
01-0101-010-2030
594,860
163,448
FAIR
COUNTY
01-0101-010-2020
149,846
6,392
GOOD
CITY
01-0101-010-2031
8,883
0
VACANT
CITY
AREA B1
01-3136-021-0070
749
0
VACANT
PRIVATE
01-3136-021-0770
10,710
6,049
FAIR
PRIVATE
01-3136-021-0780
5,100
1,627
FAIR
PRIVATE
01-3136-021-0790
5,610
4,170
POOR
PRIVATE
01-3136-021-0910
1,924
1,393
POOR
PRIVATE
01-3136-021-0911
3,536
2,592
POOR
PRIVATE
01-3136-021-0920
5,355
0
VACANT
PRIVATE
3
Slum Blight Findings
Expanded SEOPW CRA Boundaries
May 23, 2002
AREA
Consultant:
FOLIO NUMBER
Guillermo
LOT SIZE
Olmedillo
BUILDING
SIZE
BLDG.
CONDITION
OWNERSHIP
01-3136-021-0930
5,355
0
VACANT
PRIVATE
01-3136-064-0010
93,900
33,455
GOOD
CITY
01-3136-064-0020
302,850
NA
NA
COUNTY
01-3136-064-0910
1,924
1,393
FAIR
PRIVATE
01-3136-064-0911
3,531
2,592
FAIR
PRIVATE
01-3136-021-1791
3,588
3,215
FAIR
PRIVATE
01-3136-021-1790
1,872
1,854
FAIR
PRIVATE
01-3136-021-1810
10,350
4,013
FAIR
PRIVATE
01-3136-021-1812
2,860
0
VACANT
PRIVATE
01-3136-021-1820
2,860
0
VACANT
PRIVATE
01-3136-029-0370
7,128
0
VACANT
PRIVATE
01-3136-029-0360
6,048
6,987
GOOD
PRIVATE
01-3136-029-0350
6,401
0
VACANT
PRIVATE
01-3136-029-0340
6,754
4,809
GOOD
PRIVATE
01-3136-029-0330
7,106
6,751
GOOD
PRIVATE
01-3136-029-0320
6,237
0
VACANT
PRIVATE
01-3136-029-0230
12,289
11,744
GOOD
PRIVATE
01-3136-029-0310
6,955
1,793
FAIR
PRIVATE
01-3136-029-0300
14,918
3,194
FAIR
PRIVATE
01-3136-029-0290
7,998
0
VACANT
PRIVATE
01-3136-029-0280
8,215
6,567
FAIR
PRIVATE
01-3136-028-0230
6,950
1,224
FAIR
PRIVATE
01-3136-028-0220
6,950
1,224
FAIR
PRIVATE
01-3136-028-0210
6,950
1,451
FAIR
PRIVATE
01-3136-028-0200
6,950
1,224
FAIR
PRIVATE
01-3136-028-0190
6,950
1,451
FAIR
PRIVATE
01-3136-028-0180
7,100
1,224
FAIR
PRIVATE
01-3136-028-0090
6,850
1,224
FAIR
PRIVATE
01-3136-028-0080
6,850
1,451
FAIR
PRIVATE
01-3136-028-0070
6,850
1,451
FAIR
PRIVATE
01-3136-028-0050
6,850
1,224
FAIR
PRIVATE
01-3136-028-0040
6,850
1,798
FAIR
PRIVATE
01-3136-028-0020
12,285
1,229
FAIR
PRIVATE
01-3136-028-0280
8,215
6,567
FAIR
PRIVATE
01-3136-028-0230
6,950
1,224
FAIR
PRIVATE
01-3136-028-0220
6,950
1,224
FAIR
PRIVATE
01-3136-028-0210
6,950
1,451
FAIR
PRIVATE
01-3136-028-0200
6,950
1,224
FAIR
PRIVATE
01-3136-028-0190
6,950
1,451
FAIR
PRIVATE
01-3136-028-0180
7,100
1,224
FAIR
PRIVATE
01-3136-028-0090
6,850
1,224
FAIR
PRIVATE
01-3136-028-0080
6,850
1,451
FAIR
PRIVATE
01-3136-028-0070
6,850
1,451
FAIR
PRIVATE
01-3136-028-0050
6,850
1,224
FAIR
PRIVATE
01-3136-028-0040
6,850
1,798
FAIR
PRIVATE
01-3136-028-0020
12,285
1,229
FAIR
PRIVATE
01-3125-042-0280
397,362
NA
FAIR
COUNTY
01-3125-042-0160
25,220
0
VACANT
PRIVATE
01-3125-042-0110
14,065
15,773
FAIR
PRIVATE
01-3125-039-0360
12,691
15,130
FAIR
PRIVATE
01-3125-039-0260
25,906
2,959
FAIR
PRIVATE
4
Slum Blight Findings
Expanded SEOPW CRA Boundaries
May 23, 2002
AREA
Consultant:
FOLIO NUMBER
Guillermo
LOT SIZE
Olmedillo
BUILDING
SIZE
BLDG.
CONDITION
OWNERSHIP
AREA C
01-0101-020-1010
25,000
3,052
GOOD
FPL
01-3137-020-0860
255,000
85,000
GOOD
PRIVATE
01-0101-000-1040
15,360
0
VACANT
COUNTY
01-0101-000-1030
10,000
0
VACANT
COUNTY
01-0101-000-1020
10,000
0
VACANT
COUNTY
01-0101-000-1011
11,959
7,200
FAIR
PRIVATE
01-0101-000-1011
11,291
11,964
FAIR
PRIVATE
01-3137-031-0200
35,000
0
VACANT
COUNTY
01-3137-031-0190
11,902
0
VACANT
FPL
01-3136-000-0220
4,000
0
VACANT
RR
01-0105-000-1060
16,643
0
PKG.
PRIVATE
01-0105-000-1070
31,881
0
VACANT
PRIVATE
01-0105-000-1080
7,500
0
PKG.
PRIVATE
01-0105-000-1090
52,500
52,218
FAIR
PRIVATE
01-0105-000-1010
30,000
31,090
FAIR
PRIVATE
01-0105-000-1050
45,000
28,866
FAIR
PRIVATE
01-0104-090-1130
5,000
0
VACANT
PRIVATE
01-0104-090-1110
5,000
0
VACANT
PRIVATE
01-0104-090-1120
5,000
0
VACANT
PRIVATE
01-0104-090-1150
5,000
0
VACANT
PRIVATE
01-0104-090-1140
10,000
5,387
GOOD
PRIVATE
01-4137-041-0030
37,497
0
VACANT
PRIVATE
01-4137-090-1080
7,500
6,874
FAIR
PRIVATE
01-4137-090-1190
7,500
5,487
FAIR
PRIVATE
01-4137-041-0040
22,497
2,264
FAIR
PRIVATE
01-0104-090-1210
3,750
1,625
FAIR
PRIVATE
01-0104-090-1240
7,500
6,431
FAIR
PRIVATE
01-0104-090-1220
11,250
3,235
FAIR
PRIVATE
01-0104-090-1050
11,250
3,000
FAIR
PRIVATE
01-0104-090-1030
3,750
0
VACANT
PRIVATE
01-0104-090-1020
4,125
3,002
GOOD
PRIVATE
01-0104-090-1041
3,375
0
VACANT
PRIVATE
01-0105-010-1100
9,779
0
VACANT
COUNTY
01-0105-010-1080
28,250
0
UTILITY
COUNTY
01-0105-010-1120
11,600
635
UTILITY
COUNTY
01-0105-010-1060
75,000
16,310
UTILITY
COUNTY
01-0105-010-1150
10,000
0
VACANT
COUNTY
01-0105-010-1140
5,000
0
VACANT
PRIVATE
01-0105-010-1020
3,750
0
VACANT
PRIVATE
01-0105-010-1010
11,250
0
VACANT
PRIVATE
01-0105-010-1040
15,000
8,202
GOOD
PRIVATE
01-0105-010-1050
15,000
5,213
GOOD
PRIVATE
01-0105-020-1080
30,000
26,887
GOOD
PRIVATE
01-4137-041-0010
14,879
0
VACANT
PRIVATE
01-0105-020-1100
7,500
7,340
GOOD
PRIVATE
01-0105-041-0020
74,186
0
VACANT
PRIVATE
01-0105-020-1050
23,100
26,316
GOOD
PRIVATE
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