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Home My WebLink AboutO-12688City of Miami Legislation Ordinance: 12688 City Hall 3500 Pan American Drive Miami, FL 33133 www.miamigov.com File Number: 05-00295 Final Action Date: 5/26/2005 AN ORDINANCE OF THE MIAMI CITY COMMISSION AMENDING ORDINANCE NO. 11000, AS AMENDED, THE ZONING ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF MIAMI, FLORIDA, BY AMENDING ARTICLE 6 TO AMEND SECTION 627, FEC CORRIDOR DISTRICT, TO RENAME OF THE SPECIAL DISTRICT FROM FEC CORRIDOR DISTRICT TO MIDTOWN MIAMI SPECIAL DISTRICT AND CERTAIN DEFINITIONS; CONTAINING A REPEALER PROVISION AND A SEVERABILITY CLAUSE; AND PROVIDING FOR AN EFFECTIVE DATE. WHEREAS, the Miami Planning Advisory Board, at its meeting of March 16, 2005, Item No. 8, following an advertised hearing, adopted Resolution No. PAB 30-05 by a vote of seven to zero (7-0), RECOMMENDING APPROVAL of amending Zoning Ordinance No. 11000 as hereinafter set forth; and WHEREAS, the City Commission after careful consideration of this matter deems it advisable and in the best interest of the general welfare of the City of Miami and its inhabitants to amend Ordinance No. 11000 as hereinafter set forth; NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF MIAMI, FLORIDA: Section 1. The recitals and findings contained in the Preamble to this Ordinance are adopted by reference and incorporated as if fully set forth in this Section. Section 2. Ordinance No. 11000, as amended, the Zoning Ordinance of the City of Miami, Florida, is amended by amending the text of said ordinance as follows: "ARTICLE 6. SD SPECIAL DISTRICTS GENERAL PROVISIONS Sec. 627. SD-27 FEC Corridor Midtown Miami Special District * * * * For the purpose of the SD 27, the following definitions shall apply: 1. Active Uses: The principle component of the SD-27 district is ground floor active uses which promote pedestrian activity. An active use is any use that provides a public entrance from the street with an interior use that serves the general public. This may include retail, office, educational facilities, entertainment, and live -work. 2. Big -Box retail is defined as a single retail store comprised of at least twenty thousand (20,000) City of Miami Page 1 of 3 File Id: 05-00295 (Version: 11 Printed On: 11/14/2016 File Number: 05-00295 Enactment Number: 12688 square feet. 3. Build -To Line: An alignment established a certain distance from the base building line to a line along which a building shall be constructed. Build -to dimensions are established in Sections 627.1.7 and 627.1.8 for each street frontage and require that primary building frontages (excluding colonnades, arcades and awnings) be constructed at the dimension provided for a minimum of x (x) percent of the lineal building frontage. Pursuant to Sections 627.1.7 and 627.1.8, colonnades and arcades may encroach the specified build -to line provided a minimum unobstructed pedestrian space of five (5) feet is provided. Colonnades and arcades shall not encroach upon the base building line. Furthermore, Build -To lines are subject to compliance with the City of Miami Vision Clearance requirements of Article 908. 4. Gateway: The SD-27 District promotes the design of buildings as gateway structures by providing greater allowable height at strategic street intersections within the district. The gateway sites shall be as follows: (1) the Southeast corner of the intersection of North Miami Avenue and Northeast 36th Street; (2) the Southwest corner of the intersection of Northeast 36th Street and Northeast 2nd Avenue: and (3) the Southeast corner of the intersection of Northeast 34th Street and Northeast 1st Place. 5. Liner Uses: Building uses that have entrances directly accessible from public sidewalk or open cpacc and serve to conceal uses such as parking garages and service areas. When hliner uses shall contain ground floor space, such space shall be designed to accommodate retail and/or other uses that promote pedestrian traffic and shall have entrances directly accessible from a public sidewalk or open space. 6. Live -work: Live -work describes residential units that have a commercial and/or office component accessed through an external street entrance. The intent of this use is to provide efficient housing with the opportunity for workspace that can contribute active uses at the ground floor. Home occupations pursuant to the provisions of 906.5.2 shall also qualify as live -work, except that additional parking, defined in 906.5.2f, shall not be required. 7. Mixed Use: The SD-27 District promotes multiple uses within the same lot and on adjoining lots by permitting multiple principal uses within the underlying district. A mixed use building or parcel exists when there is more than one use and must include residential and/or live -work uses;. When the majority of building area is dedicated to uses other than residential and/or live -work uses, Aat least two of the uses must each exceed 10% of the net square footage total FAR of the building shall be dedicated to residential and/or live -work uses in order to be classified as a mixed -use building. For the purposes of calculating mixed uses, live -work uses shall be allowed to count towards residential or commercial uses, but shall not be allowed to count towards more than one use. 8. Open Space: Any parcel of land or water, excluding public right of way, that is at ground level or open to the sky and designed and intended for the common use of the residents, tenant and the general public and may include parks, linear parks, plazas, and landscape areas. Additionally, canopy trees and large palms planted within pedestrian zones of the public right-of-way in accordance with the design standards shall respectively each count as four hundred (400) square feet and one hundred seventy-five (175) square feet of open space. Open Space is substantially free of structures other than structures that contribute to the common use of the space. City of Miami Page 2 of 3 File Id: 05-00295 (Version: 11 Printed On: 11/14/2016 File Number: 05-00295 Enactment Number: 12688 Section 3. All ordinances or parts of ordinances insofar as they are inconsistent or in conflict with the provisions of this Ordinance are repealed. Section 4. If any section, part of section, paragraph, clause, phrase or word of this Ordinance is declared invalid, the remaining provisions of this Ordinance shall not be affected. Section 5. This Ordinance shall become effective thirty (30) days after final reading and adoption. Footnotes: {1} Words and/or figures stricken through shall be deleted. Underscored words and/or figures shall be added. The remaining provisions are now in effect and remain unchanged. Asterisks indicate omitted and unchanged material. City of Miami Page 3 of 3 File Id: 05-00295 (Version: 11 Printed On: 11/14/2016