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Resolution: R-11-0169
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Miami, FL 33133
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File Number: 11-00399 Final Action Date: 4/28/2011
A RESOLUTION OF THE MIAMI CITY COMMISSION, WITH ATTACHMENT(S),
URGING GOVERNOR RICK SCOTTAND THE MEMBERS OF THE FLORIDA
LEGISLATURE TO OPPOSE THE LANGUAGE FOUND IN 2011 SESSION HOUSE
BILL 1363, RELATING TO THE DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION, CREATING
A STATUTE THAT LIMITS THE ABILITY OF MUNICIPALITIES TO ESTABLISH FEES
CHARGED IN CONNECTION WITH SIGN PERMITS; DIRECTING THE CITY CLERK
TO TRANSMIT A COPY OF THIS RESOLUTION TO THE OFFICIALS DESIGNATED
HEREIN.
WHEREAS, because of the visual blight and deleterious effects to its neighborhoods resulting
from billboards, the City of Miami ("City") has a substantial and significant governmental interest in
reducing the number of billboards within the City, especially within its neighborhoods; and
WHEREAS, the City also has a substantial and significant governmental interest in preventing the
proliferation of illegally constructed billboards throughout the City; and
WHEREAS, the City also has a substantial and significant governmental interest in promoting
public safety and welfare by providing reasonable protection to the visual environment and by
ensuring that billboards do not interfere with traffic safety or otherwise endanger public safety; and
WHEREAS, the City also recognizes that the law protects maintenance of private investment in
signage, including billboards, as a medium of commercial and noncommercial communication; and
WHEREAS, under its Home Rule and Section 70.20, Florida Statutes, the City has adopted
regulations that directly advance the public goals described above; and
WHEREAS, under such regulations the City and sign owners are authorized to enter into
relocation and reconstruction agreements that allow the City to accomplish the public goals
expressed above without the expenditure of public funds; and
WHEREAS, House Bill 1363 contains a provision creating Section 479.075, Florida Statutes, that
would limit fees municipalities can charge in connection with sign permits; and
WHEREAS, such limitation will impede the City's ability establish a payment schedule that
advance its public goals with respect to the regulation of signs and would result in insufficient funding
to administer the City's sign programs;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF MIAMI,
FLORIDA:
Section 1. The recitals and findings contained in the Preamble of this Resolution are adopted by
City of Miami
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reference and incorporated as if fully set forth in this Section.
Section 2. The Miami City Commission urges Governor Rick Scott and the members of the
Florida Legislature to oppose the amendment to House Bill 1363 relating to the creation of Section
479.075, Florida Statutes, entitled sign permit fee limitations.
Section 3. The City Clerk is directed to transmit a copy of this Resolution to Governor Rick Scott
members of the Florida Legislature, the Florida League of Cities, the Miami -Dade League of Cities
and the Miami -Dade Delegation.
Section 4. This Resolution shall become effective immediately upon its adoption and signature of
the Mayor.{1}
Footnotes:
{1} If the Mayor does not sign this Resolution, it shall become effective at the end of ten calendar
days from the date it was passed and adopted. If the Mayor vetoes this Resolution, it shall become
effective immediately upon override of the veto by the City Commission.
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