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LEGISTAR FILE ID: 08-00146zt
APPLICANT
REQUEST
PETITION
March 5, 2008
Item #1
Pedro G. Hernandez, City Manager, on behalf of the
City of Miami
An amendment to Ordinance No. 11000, Article 7 and
the Miami City Code, Chapter 23.
An Ordinance of the Miami City Commission amending
Chapter 23 of the City Code of the City of Miami,
Florida, as amended, entitled "Historic Preservation" by
allowing the Historic and Environmental Preservation
Board (HEPB) to grant waivers for locally designated
historic resources; providing definitions and establishing
provisions for: (1)"Transfer of Development Rights for
Historic Resources;" a process whereby owners of
historically significant properties or non-contributing
properties within the designated Miami Modern
("MIMO")/Biscayne Boulevard Historic District may sell
base unused development rights; (2)Requiring the
benefit from such transfer to be used for future
improvements and maintenance of originating historic
properties; (3)Creating an eligibility process for historic
resources whereby those properties not yet locally
designated may qualify for the transfer of development
rights program being established; (4)Establishing a
monitoring process to insure compliance within the
transfer of development rights process; (5)Creating a
tracking system within the building permit process that
limits capacities following the sale of the developable
transfer rights subject to the applicable provisions of the
Zoning Ordinance; (6)Allowing waivers for locally
designated historic resources based on certain
standards; and (7)Establishing procedures fro
nominations to the National Register of Historic Places;
more particularly by amending Sections 23-1 through
23-9 of the Code of the City of Miami; further amending
Ordinance No. 11000, as amended, the Zoning
Ordinance of the City of Miami, Florida, to amend Article
7, Entitled "HP Historic Preservation Overlay Districts,"
that addresses "Deviations" concerning historic
structures, and providing for certain provisions of said
article are incorporated in the Code of the City of Miami,
Florida, as amended, and to add restaurants as a
conditional use with appropriate safeguards; containing
a severability clause; and providing for an effective date.
PLANNING RECOMMENDATION Approval.
BACKGROUND AND ANALYSIS This will allow waivers from certain provisions of the
zoning code for locally -designated historic properties,
create a mechanism to establish transfer of
development rights for historic properties, provide
additional clarification to the process, and add
definitions to further instruct and inform.
PLANNING ADVISORY BOARD Recommended approval to City Commission on March
5, 2008 by a vote of 8-0.
CITY COMMISSION Passed First Reading with modifications on April 24,
2008.
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Date Printed: 6/18/2008 Page 2