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Resolution: R-12-0066
City Hall
3500 Pan American
Drive
Miami, FL 33133
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File Number: 11-00910ww Final Action Date: 2/23/2012
A RESOLUTION OF THE MIAMI CITY COMMISSION, WITH ATTACHMENT(S),
MAKING FINDINGS AND APPROVING A WAIVER OF THE WATERFRONT
CHARTER REQUIREMENT AS SET FORTH IN SECTIONS 3(mm)(ii)(A) AND (B),
ALLOWING A REDUCTION OF THE WATERFRONT SETBACK OF TWENTY-TWO
FEET (22') BY TWELVE FEET (12'), RESULTING IN A TEN -FOOT (10')
WATERFRONT SETBACK; FURTHER ALLOWING A REDUCTION OF THE
REQUIRED SIDE -YARD SETBACK OF SIXTY-EIGHT FEET AND NINE INCHES
(68'9") BY FORTY-EIGHT FEET NINE INCHES (48'9"), RESULTING IN A
TWENTY -FOOT (20') SIDE -YARD SETBACK, FOR THE CRIMSON TOWER
PROJECT, LOCATED AT APPROXIMATELY 527, 535 AND 623 NORTHEAST 27TH
STREET, MIAMI, FLORIDA.
WHEREAS, on September 30, 2011, Neisen O. Kasdin, Esquire, on behalf of Mckafka
Development Group, LLC, Contract Purchaser and Biscayne Bay of Miami, LLC, Owner, submitted a
request for a modification of the Waterfront Charter requirement as set forth in Sections 3(mm)(ii)(A)
and (B), allowing a reduction of the required waterfront setback of twenty-two feet (22') by twelve feet
(12'), resulting in a ten -foot (10') waterfront setback, further allowing a reduction of the required side
yard setback of sixty-eight feet and nine inches (68'9") by forty-eight feet nine inches (48'9"), resulting
in a twenty -foot (20') side yard setback, for the Crimson Tower project, to be located at approximately
527, 535 and 623 Northeast 27th Street, Miami, Florida, legally described in "Exhibit A", attached and
incorporated; and
WHEREAS, City Commission approval is required to allow modifications to the Waterfront Charter
requirements; and
WHEREAS, the City Commission deems it advisable and in the best interest of the general
welfare of the City of Miami to approve the requested Waterfront Charter modification as set forth
herein;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF MIAMI,
FLORIDA:
Section 1. The recitals and findings contained in the Preamble to this Resolution are adopted by
reference and incorporated as if fully set forth in this Section.
Section 2. The City Commission hereby finds that the Crimson Tower project complies with the
criteria for modification to the Waterfront Charter requirement set forth in Sections 3(mm)(ii), (A) and
(B) and hereby approves a reduction of the required waterfront setback of twenty-two feet (22') by
twelve feet (12'), resulting in a ten -foot (10') waterfront setback, further allowing a reduction of the
required side yard setback of sixty-eight feet and nine inches (68'9") by forty-eight feet nine inches
(48'9"), resulting in a twenty -foot (20') side yard setback, for the Crimson Tower project, to be located
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at approximately 527, 535 and 623 Northeast 27th Street, Miami, Florida, legally described in "Exhibit
A", attached and incorporated.
Section 3. 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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