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Meeting Minutes
Thursday, April 28, 2022
9:00 AM
City Commission Meeting
City Hall
City Commission
Francis X. Suarez, Mayor
Christine King, Chair, District Five
Joe Carollo, Vice Chair, District Three
Alex Diaz de la Portilla, Commissioner, District One
Ken Russell, Commissioner, District Two
Manolo Reyes, Commissioner, District Four
Arthur Noriega, V, City Manager
Victoria Mendez, City Attorney
Todd B. Hannon, City Clerk
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9:00 AM INVOCATION AND PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE
Present: Chairwoman King, Vice Chair Carollo, Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla,
Commissioner Russell, and Commissioner Reyes
Note for the Record: Vice Chair Carollo entered the Commission chambers at 9:51 a.m., and
Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla entered the Commission chambers at 10:10 a.m.
On the 28th day of April 2022, the City Commission of the City of Miami, Florida, met at its
regular meeting place in City Hall, 3500 Pan American Drive, Miami, Florida, in regular
session. Chairwoman King opened the meeting at 9:11 a.m. for presentations and
proclamations only. Upon conclusion of presentations and proclamations, Chairwoman
King officially called the meeting to order at 9:35 a.m., and adjourned at 11:26 a.m.
ALSO PRESENT:
Arthur Noriega, V, City Manager
Victoria Mendez, City Attorney
Todd B. Hannon, City Clerk
Chair King: At this time, I'm going to call the City of Miami Commission meeting for Feb --
April 27th, 2022 [sic] to order. And I'm going to have our pastor come up from New
Providence Missionary Baptist Church to give us a prayer. Pastor Caldwell.
Invocation delivered.
Chair King: Thank you. And now for the pledge of allegiance, might 1 have one of the children
that are here for "Take Your Kid to Work Day" to do the pledge of allegiance? Come on up.
Pledge of allegiance delivered.
Applause.
Chair King: Thank you.
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PR - PRESENTATIONS AND PROCLAMATIONS
PR.1
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PROTOCOL ITEM
Honoree
Presenter
Protocol Item
South Florida Fertility Expo
Mayor and Commissioners
Proclamation
Take Your Child to Work Day
Mayor and Commissioners
Salute
City of Miami Fire -Rescue
Communication Division Alarm Office -
National Public Safety
Telecommunicators' Week
Mayor and Commissioners
Proclamation
City of Miami Police Communications
Unit - National Public Safety
Telecommunicators' Week
Mayor and Commissioners
Proclamation
Arbor Day
Mayor and Commissioners
Proclamation
University of Miami - Alpha Kappa Alpha
Sorority, Inc.
Mayor and Commissioners
Proclamation
RESULT:
PRESENTED
1) Mayor Suarez and Commissioners presented a Proclamation to the South Florida
Fertility Expo. The South Florida Fertility Expo, presented by Memorial Family
Birthplace was established in 2016 as an event that provides support and compassion
for persons and families on their fertility journey, with much -needed resources,
community, and professional expertise. The event takes place during National
Infertility Awareness Week® and it enhances public understanding that infertility
needs and deserves attention while ensuring that people trying to build a family know
the guidelines for seeing a specialist, educate lawmakers about how infertility impacts
people in their state. Saturday, April 30 is a day where individuals navigating
impaired fertility should no longer feel that they need to suffer in silence, but seek to
be empowered, build a stronger community. The South Florida Fertility Expo is an
opportunity to encourage empathy, knowledge and understanding towards persons on
their private and intimate journey towards solutions and family. Elected Officials
paused in their deliberations to honor and commend the South Florida Fertility Expo
and its employees for their invaluable contributions to our community and thereby
proclaimed the week April 30, 2022, as "Infertility Awareness Week" in the City of
Miami.
2) Mayor Suarez and Commissioners recognized the children that participated in the
"Take Your Child to Work Day", a national day that allows for children to get a
glimpse into the working world. City of Miami employees brought their children to the
City of Miami City Commission meeting for a lesson in government and to learn
about their parent's scope of work.
3) Mayor Suarez and Commissioners presented a Proclamation to the City of Miami
Fire -Rescue Communication Division Alarm Office recognizing the City of Miami 911
dispatchers and call takers. The United States Congress introduced what became
H.J. Res. 274 to create `National Public Safety Telecommunicators' Week",
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encouraging celebration, honor, and public attention focused on the otherwise unsung
heroes on the other end of the 911 phone line. April also serves as 911 education
month, which focuses on teaching the proper use of 911 for aid in emergency
situations. During this National observance week, many reflect on the important role
of the Public Safety Telecommunicators as the first "First Responder". The City of
Miami is dedicated to excellent public safety service through its Miami Fire -Rescue
Communications Division Alarm Office. Elected Officials paused in their
deliberations to honor, commend and thank the Miami Fire -Rescue Communications
Division Alarm Office and all its employees who work long shifts and continually
serve to provide a lifeline to those in need, and for their invaluable contributions to
our community. Furthermore, proclaimed April 28, 2022, as "Public Safety
Telecommunicators Day" in the City of Miami.
4) Mayor Suarez and Commissioners presented a Proclamation to the City of Miami
Police Department Communications Unit recognizing the City of Miami 911
dispatchers and call takers. The United States Congress introduced what became
H.J. Res. 274 to create `National Public Safety Telecommunicators' Week",
encouraging celebration, honor, and public attention focused on the otherwise unsung
heroes on the other end of the 911 phone line. April also serves as 911 education
month, which focuses on teaching the proper use of 911 for aid in emergency
situations. During this National observance week, many reflect on the important role
of the Public Safety Telecommunicators as the first "First Responder". The City of
Miami is dedicated to excellent public safety service through its Miami Police
Department Communications Unit. Elected Officials paused in their deliberations to
honor, commend and thank the Miami Police Department Communications Unit and
all its employees who work long shifts and continually serve to provide a lifeline to
those in need, and for their invaluable contributions to our community. Furthermore,
proclaimed April 28, 2022, as `Public Safety Telecommunicators Day" in the City of
Miami.
5) Mayor Suarez and Commissioners presented a Proclamation to commemorate Arbor
Day. Arbor Day is the 1872 brainchild of Nebraskan J. Sterling Morton, and has
become an international event that envisions the creation of a green society and
fosters environment friendly initiatives that ensure livable communities for
generations to come. Arbor Day calls attention to the importance of the tree as a
renewable energy resource for wood, fuel, as a foil for erosion, a habitat for wildlife,
and a natural canopy to moderate the temperature, enhance the vitality of our
business areas, and beautify our community. In honor of National Arbor Day, the City
of Miami has implemented the Miami Green Commission that encourages
neighborhood groups and individuals to plant trees and, in so doing, improve the
urban canopy, and supports the planting of close to two hundred trees City-wide in
the months of March and April. The Elected Leadership of the City of Miami, on
behalf of its citizens, work in partnership with local organizations to encourage the
transition to a green society and call attention to the importance of the tree as a
renewable resource, and thereby, proclaim April 29, 2022, as `Arbor Day" in the
City of Miami.
6) Mayor Suarez and Commissioners recognized and saluted the members of the
University of Miami's Iota Nu Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. These
bright students were thanked for their charitable work in the community and for
organizing and delivering 100 packages of toiletry, donations to the Miami Rescue
Mission. In collaboration with Ransom Everglades School, they also crafted and
sewed shirts for little boys in underserved countries. Additionally, the members of
Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc., were instrunxental in the Virginia Key Beach clean-
up project. Elected Officials paused in their deliberations to pay tribute, commend,
and recognize their great efforts and achievements, while thanking them for their
teamwork and for elevating the quality (Ole in the City of Miami.
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ORDER OF THE DAY
Chair King: Chambers this day, April 27th, 2022 [sic], we are going to get started
with our proclamations, our recognitions, running a little late today.
Presentations made.
Chair King: And now, 1 believe we have a quorum. Madam City Attorney, can you
read into the record your statement, please?
Victoria Mendez (City Attorney): Thank you, Madam Chair. Any person who is a
lobbyist pursuant to Chapter 2, Article 6 of the City Code must register with the City
Clerk and comply with the related City requirements for lobbyists before appearing
before the City Commission. A person may not lobby a City official, board member, or
staff member until registering. A copy of the code section about lobbyists is available
in the City Clerk's Office or online at www.municode.com. Any person making a
presentation, formal request, or petition to the City Commission concerning real
property must make the appropriate disclosures required by the City Code in writing.
A copy of this City Code section is available in the office of the City Clerk or online at
www.municode.com. The City of Miami requests that anyone requesting action by the
City Commission must disclose before the hearing any consideration provided or
committed to anyone for agreement to support or withhold objection to the requested
action pursuant to Section 2-8. Any documents offered to the City Commission that
have not been provided seven days before the meeting as part of the agenda materials
will be entered into the record at the City Commission's discretion. In accordance
with Section 2-33(f) and (g) of the City Code, the agenda and material for each item
on the agenda is available during business hours at the City Clerk's Office and
online, 24 hours a day at www.municode.com. Any person may be heard by the City
Commission through the Chair for not more than two minutes on any proposition
before the City Commission, unless modified by the Chair. Public comment will begin
at approximately 9:45 and remain open until public comment is closed by the Chair.
Members of the public wishing to address the body may do so by submitting written
comments via the online comment form. Please visit
www.miamigov.com/meetinginstructions for detailed instructions on how to provide
public comment using the public comment form. The comments submitted with the
comment form have been and will be distributed to elected officials and City
Administration throughout the day so that the elected officials may consider the
comments prior to taking action. Additionally, the online comment form will remain
open during the meeting to accept comments and distribute to the elected officials up
until the Chair closes public comment. Public comment may also be provided live at
City Hall at 3500 Pan American Drive, subject to any and all City rules as may be
amended. If the proposition is being continued or rescheduled, the opportunity to be
heard will be at such later date before the City Commission takes action on such
proposition. When addressing the City Commission, the member of the public must
first state their name, their address, and what item will be spoken about. Any person
with a disability requiring assistance, auxiliary aids, and services for this meeting
may notify the City Clerk. The City has provided different public comment methods to
indicate, among other things, the public's support, opposition, or neutrality on items
and topics to be discussed at the City Commission in compliance with Section
286.0114 (4) (c) Florida Statutes. The public has been given the opportunity to
provide public comment during the meeting and within reasonable proximity and time
before the meeting. Please note commissioners have generally been briefed by City
staff and the City Attorney on items on the agenda today. Anyone wishing a verbatim
record of an item considered at this meeting may request it at the Office of
Communications or view it online at www.miamigov.com. PZ (Planning and Zoning)
items shall proceed according to Section 7.1.4 of the Miami 21 Zoning Ordinance as
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temporarily modified pursuant to Emergency Ordinance Numbers 13903 and 13914.
Parties for any PZ items, including any applicant, appellant, appellee, City staff, and
any person recognized by the decision -making body as a qualified intervener, as well
as the applicant's representatives and any experts testifying on behalf of the
applicant, appellant, or appellee, may either he physically present at City Hall to be
sworn in by oath or affirmation by the City Clerk, or may appear virtually and snake
arrangements to be sworn in by oath or affirmation in person at their location by an
individual qualified to perform such duty. Pursuant to Emergency Ordinance Number
13903, members of the general public who are not parties to an action pending before
the City Commission are not required to be sworn in by oath or affirmation. The
members of the City Commission shall disclose any ex parte communications
pursuant to Florida Section 286.0115 and Section 7.1.4.5 of the Mianii 21 Zoning
Ordinance. The order of presentation shall be as set forth in Miami 21 and the City
Code. Staff will briefly present each item to be heard. The applicant will present its
application for request to the City Commission. If the applicant agrees with the staff
recommendation, the City Commission may proceed to its deliberation and decision.
The applicant may also waive the right to an evidentiary hearing on the record. The
order presentation shall be a set forth in Miami 21 and the City Code. For appeals,
the appellant will present its appeal to the City Commission, followed by the appellee.
Staff will be allowed to make any recommendation they may have. Please silence all
cell phones and other making -- noise -making devices at this time. Access to the
meeting can be viewed live on Miami TV, the City's Facebookpage, the City's Twitter
page, the City's YouTube channel, and Comcast Channel 77. The broadcast will also
have closed captioning. Thank you.
Chair King: Thank you. Mr. City Clerk.
Todd B. Hannon (City Clerk): Thank you, Chair. The procedures for individuals who
will be providing testimony to be sworn in for Planning and Zoning items, and any
quasi-judicial items on today's City Commission agenda will be as follows: The
members of the City -- the members of City staff or any other individuals required to
be sworn in who are currently present at City Hall will be sworn in by me, the City
Clerk, immediately, after I've finished explaining these procedures. Those individuals
who are appearing remotely may be sworn in now or at any time prior to the
individual providing testimony for Planning and Zoning items, and/or quasi-judicial
items. Pursuant to Emergency Ordinance Number 13903, those individuals appearing
remotely may be sworn in at their location by an individual qualified to administer the
oath. After you're sworn in, please be sure to complete, sign, and notarize the
affidavit provided to you by the City Attorney's Office. Each individual who will be
providing testimony must be sworn in and execute an affidavit. Please email a
scanned version of the signed affidavit to the City Clerk at thannon@miamigov.com
prior to providing testimony on the Planning and Zoning item and/or quasi-judicial
item. The affidavit will -- the affidavit shall be included in the record for the relevant
item for which you will be providing testimony. Commissioners, are you comfortable
with all the notice provisions set forth in these uniform rules and procedures we have
established for this meeting?
Commissioner Russell: Yes.
Chair King: Yes.
Mr. Hannon: Chair, may I administer the oath for the Planning and Zoning items?
Chair King: Please.
Mr. Hannon: Thank you, Chair. Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. Good morning.
If you will be speaking on any of today's Planning and Zoning items, any of today's
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Planning and Zoning items only, may I please have you stand and raise your right
hand?
The City Clerk administered oath required under City Code Section 62-1 to those
persons giving testimony on zoning items.
Mr. Hannon: Thank you, Chair.
Chair King: Thank you, Mr. City Clerk. Mr. Manager, do you have any items from
Administration that you intend to continue, defer or withdraw?
Arthur Noriega (City Manager): Good morning, Ms. Chairwoman, Commissioners,
Madam City Attorney, Mr. City Clerk. At this time, the Administration would like to
defer and/or withdraw the following items: PH.1, to be indefinitely deferred; DI. 1, to
be deferred to May 26; and DI.2, to be withdrawn. On the P&Z agenda, PZ.5, to be
deferred to May 26th.
Commissioner Russell: Madam Chair?
Chair King: Yes.
Commissioner Russell: Mr. Manager, for co -living, you put May 26th. Are we going
to able to get together with your Planning Department to finalize something by then?
Because if not, I'd rather push it to later as an indefinite and then bring it back when
we're ready. But 1'd rather it not pop up on another agenda not ready. 1 want to do it,
1 just want it to be ready. Can we be ready by May 26th?
Commissioner Reyes: Madam Chair?
Commissioner Russell: We have a -- you have a new Planning Director, so let's set it
for indefinite and well bring it back as soon as we can.
Commissioner Reyes: Okay. Okay, yes.
Chair King: PZ.5 is indefinitely deferred.
Commissioner Russell: Indefinite deferral.
Chair King: Anything else, Commissioner? Commissioner Russell?
Commissioner Russell: No, thank you.
Chair King: Commissioner Reyes?
Commissioner Reyes: No.
Chair King: Nothing? May I have a motion?
Commissioner Russell: So moved.
Commissioner Reyes: Second.
Chair King: Second. All in favor?
The Commission (Collectively): Aye.
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Chair King: Motion carries. Are there any pocket items to be considered today? No
pocket items. Okay, well that will set the order of the day.
PUBLIC COMMENT FOR ALL ITEM(S)
11925 DISCUSSION ITEM
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PUBLIC COMMENTS SUBMITTED ONLINE BY MEMBERS OF THE
PUBLIC FOR THE APRIL 28, 2022, CITY COMMISSION MEETING.
RESULT: PRESENTED
Chair King: We will open the meeting for public comment now.
Grady Muhammad: Good morning, Madam Chair.
Chair King: Good morning.
Mr. Muhammad: Grady Muhammad (INAUDIBLE).
Chair King: Hold on, Grady. Hold on. Go ahead.
Mr. Muhammad: Good morning. Grady Muhammad, Director of Intergovernmental
Affairs, the Nation of Islam, 7th Region. It covers the state of Florida, Central, South
America, 5650 Northwest 7th Avenue. Speaking on CA.1 with the consent agenda and
approval for the Liberty City Trust budget amendment and PZ. 6 and 7 for the Freedom
Park. But I think one of the things I would like for you all to consider as a real
community benefit agreement, since this is public land. And we do not want a Marlins
2.0 where the developers walk out of here rich and the community gets stuck with a
whole lot of debt.
Chair King: Mr. Muhammad, what item are you speaking on?
Mr. Muhammad: PZ.6, PZ.7, Freedom Park.
Chair King: That's in a special --
Mr. Muhammad: No, that's not --
Chair King: (INAUDIBLE).
Mr. Muhammad: That's not Freedom Park?
Commissioner Reyes: No, we don't have it.
Chair King: No.
Mr. Muhammad: Freedom Park is on the agenda, correct?
Chair King: It's a special --
Arthur Noriega (City Manager): In the afternoon.
Chair King: In the afternoon.
Mr. Noriega: So there'll be public comment then for it.
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Chair King: So you have to come back for that.
Mr. Muhammad: Okay, that's not a problem.
Chair King: That's not on this agenda.
Mr. Muhammad: But again, in support of the `Liberty City Trust budget amendment,"
definitely in support of that, Madam Chair.
Chair King: Thank you.
Mr. Muhammad: And question, Madam Chair. What in reference to the --? I've got to
come back for the agenda items for the CRA (Community Redevelopment Agency) as
well?
Chair King: Yes.
Mr. Muhammad: Okay, thank you.
Chair King: (INAUDIBLE) meeting.
Mr. Muhammad: Thank you.
Chair King: Thank you. Good morning.
Truly Burton: Good morning, Madam Chair. My name is Truly Burton, the executive
vice president for the Builders Association of South Florida. I'm here to speak against
PZ.8. We oppose it in its current form and we ask that the Commission retain the
current waiver process. Right now, the waiver process for parking incentives has
worked pretty well for most of the City. It's not perfect, okay, but the changing from a
simple waiver process to a full-blown public hearing in front of the City Commission
adds a much more time-consuming dimension and another obstacle to building more
affordably priced housing, especially during a time of a housing crisis. Here's what
that change would mean. If adopted, the builder applicant would have to wait months
to be heard by this particular body, by the City Commission, go through an expense of
hiring an attorney, having someone to represent them and hope, cross their fingers,
that they could get approved or maybe not, all right. If they do get approved after that
month, that eight or nine -month period, they can then start planning their project.
They'd have to wait for a permit, which takes 14 to 16 months, and then another one
and a half to two years to build it. We're already at three and a half to four years for
any new housing to get built, okay. These additional expenses in time and legal fees
pile up, especially, and they really do hurt the infill developer building on smaller
parcels, but these are the perfect parcels for building affordably priced housing. We
don't think that the City really wants to be a city for rich people only, and I think this
takes us another step in that wrong direction. All of this can be avoided if you just
retain the current waiver process. Right now, Miami 21 does protect -- waivers does
protect single-family and duplex neighborhoods from most parking issues. First, these
waivers are not given to any buildings that are within 500 feet of a single family or
duplex neighborhood. Second, for areas where waivers can be applied for, the
neighborhoods get mailed notice.
Chair King: Thank you.
Ms. Burton: Okay. Rejected and retained. Thank you.
Chair King: Good morning.
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Samuel Diller: Good morning, Chairwoman. Good morning, Commissioners. My name
is Sam Diller. Fin representing the South Florida Community Development Coalition,
and we're speaking on PZ.8. Like the Builders Association of South Florida, SFCDC
(South Florida Community Development Coalition) is also opposing this legislation,
this ordinance. But as background, the South Florida Community Development
Coalition is a member -led 501(c)(3) not for -profit policy advocacy coalition based on -
- focused on building collective action to advance community economic development.
Our mission is to engage, educate, and empower the public, private, and not -for -profit
sectors to champion comprehensive community development. And we presently
convene a collective action of over 1,300 advocates and allies, including developers,
urban planners, housing counselors, and community organizers. Given the recent
housing emergency declaration made by the City of Miami, we believe that transit -
oriented development is a key solution to addressing the interconnected issues of
housing and transportation, both in the short term and in the long term. As such, our
opposition to approval of this ordinance is because we believe it will inevitably result
in more costly development for affordable housing within the City. In particular, we
are concerned that the ordinance worsens the lack of affordable mid -income housing,
which in turn affects the availability of affordable housing for low and moderate
income households, in that loss of the ability to create more market rate housing, as
current TOD (Transit Oriented Development) zoning forces, they moderate income --
excuse me, forces moderate income households to lookfbr housing that is affordable to
them where it exists. And where it exists is in low and moderate income neighborhoods.
This forces gentrification. Market forces takes the income -enabled buyer and forces
them to look where housing is affordable and oftentimes that's in low and moderate
income neighborhoods, again, displacement of long-term residents by those that are
more economically enabled. Furthermore, I think it's important to note that this
ordinance was recommended for denial by a 9-2 vote of the City's Planning and
Zoning Approval Board and the proposed code amendments would counter the City's
Comprehensive Plan and recent Miami 21--
Chair King: Thank you.
Mr. Diller: -- 20 --
Chair King: Thank you.
Mr. Diller: Also, just real quickly, we'd like to have this letter read into the record.
Thank you.
Chair King: Give it to the City Clerk. Good morning.
Mark Merwitzer: Good morning, Commissioners. Good morning, Madam Chair. My
name is Mark Merwitzer. I am here representing Transit Alliance and I live at 14730
Southwest 75th Avenue. And sharing the opinion of the City's own Zoning Board, we
are here in opposition to the passage of Item PZ.8 that would make it significantly
more challenging to reduce parking minimums near transit. Item PZ.8 moves us away
from other world -class cities and repeats the same mistakes of the past by making it
harder to build places without parking. The value of being near a transit stop is that
people can access your business without having to drive there and park their cars.
Requiring builders to go to the City for rightly wanting to walk or use public transit to
get to businesses defeats the whole purpose of building right next to public transit.
Most importantly, this item hampers our efforts to address the affordability crisis
plaguing our city. A reduction of 30 percent in parking spaces could look at adding 20
new homes to a new development or an entire mom-and-pop shop. If there's one thing
we want you to take away from this item is this item will set our city back in its efforts
to make Miami realize her true potential for being an affordable and walkable place to
live, work, and play. Thank you very much. I yield the rest of my time.
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Chair King: Thank you. Good morning.
Aky Fernandez: Good morning. My name is Aky Fernandez. I voiced my opposition to
PZ.8 at last month's meeting. While I'm sympathetic to the Commission's concerns
about protecting residents, the anecdotal parking hardships described in District 3 and
4 are a result of an existing suburban environment. That situation could be vastly
Unproved by stricter parking enforcement on private property and tactical use of
residential -only on -street parking decals. This is already being done in parts of District
3. The City Attorney pointed out last month that hundreds of applications have been
filed using TOD incentives. Very few parcels even qualify for these parking reductions.
This only highlights the tremendous success of the TOD program. This amendment
contradicts the ideas put forth in the Miami 21 Task Force Report, the Miami Forever
Carbon Neutral Plan, and the intent of Miami 21 as laid out in Article 2. These
documents were crafted by experts who were handpicked by this Commission. I'll be
submitting a letter for the record that outlines this information. This notion of parking
reductions by exception is a death pill. No developer is going to risk their life savings
for a no. We need clear, by -right codes that incentivize cost-effective, predictable
buildings. This amendment would make affordable, environmentally responsible
growth the exception instead of the norm. We're in a housing emergency. We need
inventory, not bureaucracy. I urge you all to defer this vote and heed the counsel of
experts. Therein lies the solution. This parking puberty we're going through requires a
nuanced approach that doesn't throw out the baby with the bathwater. Let's find
solutions that protect residents and incentivizes the responsible growth of our city.
Thank you.
Chair King: Thank you. Good morning. Before you start to speak, your item has been
deferred indefinitely, so I don't know if you want to speak today or if you'd like to
come back when your item is actually on the agenda. You're welcome to speak now,
but if you speak now, you won't speak at the next Commission meeting when your item
is actually, on the agenda. So one of you could speak or all of you can speak, but your
item is not on the agenda right now.
Phillip Tavernier: Okay, may I ask you a question?
Chair King: Go ahead.
Mr. Tavernier.' So the first, it's indefinitely, so we wouldn't know when, or do you know
when?
Chair King: You will absolutely have notice when it comes back before the
Commission, but it's been indefinitely deferred by Administration.
Mr. Tavernier: Okay, so if we were to -- if I was to speak today, does that mean that I
can't speak anymore or no one else from the organization?
Chair King: Whoever wants to speak is welcome to speak today, but if you speak today,
you will not speak when it comes before the Commission again.
Mr. Tavernier: Meaning the individual or the organization?
Chair King: The individual, whoever speaks --
Mr. Tavernier: Okay.
Chair King: -- today on behalf of this issue. Thank you. Thank you. Good morning.
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Elvis Cruz: Good morning, Commissioners. Elvis Cruz, 631 Northeast 57th Street. Item
PZ.1 and 2, the proposed upzoning in Buena Vista West, the PZAB (Planning, Zoning
and Appeals Board) got it right when they voted 8-0 against this upzoning because it is
a clear and undeniable incursion into the single family zoning. Instead of buying land
that suits their project, the developer wants you to change the zoning to suit their
project. There is no hardship to justify this zoning change. Please follow the PZAB's
lead and deny this upzoning. For PZ.8, please protect neighborhoods from spillover
parking. It's an important quality of life issue. Lastly, Commissioner Carollo,
Commissioner De La Portilla [sic], Commissioner Reyes, at the previous City
Commission meeting, Commissioner Russell asked for the Morningside Park shoreline
to be placed on the agenda for today's meeting, but that didn't happen. There was
much concern from several of you about the Morningside Park shoreline and how the
proposed plan would be detrimental to the public's enjoyment. Could one of you please
make a motion to put it on the next agenda? Thank you.
Chair King: Thank you. Good morning.
Sabrina Velarde: Good morning, Commissioners. My name is Sabrina Velarde and I
am here on behalf of Miami Homes for All. Our address is 1951 Northwest 7th Avenue,
Miami, Florida, 33136. And I'm here today in opposition of PZ.8. At Miami Homes for
All, we believe that everyone in Miami should have a safe and stable place -- safe,
stable, and affordable place to call home. In order to achieve this, we work with cross -
sector partners throughout Miami in the pursuit of policy to promote increasing our
housing supply and preserving the affordability that we do have. To that end, we
oppose PZ.8. While we understand your desire to improve parking options for City of
Miami residents, we believe that this legislation is more likely to have a negative
impact on affordable development in the City and affordability overall, especially the
future of preservation of smaller mom-and-pop NOAA (National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration) property owners looking to rehab. This legislation
eliminates the existing waiver procedure for parking incentives in TOD or near transit
corridors. Eliminating this waiver and requiring that this occur by exception would be
cost prohibitive for developers trying to build on these parcels. Given the City's recent
declaration of a housing emergency and the desire to streamline the affordable
development process, PZ.8 is counterproductive to this goal. Miami Homes for All,
along with our partners, is willing and ready to work together on holistic housing
solutions for the benefit of the many who live and work in Miami. We look forward to
achieving an affordable Miami with you all.
Chair King: Good morning.
Lisa Martinez: Good morning, Madam Chairwoman and Commissioners. Lisa
Martinez today on behalf of Miami -Dade County Public Schools. My address is 457
Southwest 27th Road. It's regarding Item PH.4, informational purposes. This
particular item is a follow-up to a resolution that was passed in October of 2020. That
particular item referenced the inclusion of Miami -Dade County Public Schools within
the negotiations of the project. The only request that we're hoping that you consider is
including a reference to Miami -Dade County Public Schools being included within the
discussions regarding the agreements in the future. Our goal is to be able to make sure
that the work that we comprehensively have done with the City, the CRA, over the past
seven years is consistent, has the potential to be able to be fully realized, and including
us within the particular item, referencing simply that we will be included within the
negotiations process at the table, that we would be able to know that there is an active
good faith for the strong partnership and possibilities for the work that we have done,
inclusive of workforce housing, affordable housing and additional educational seats
that can emerge as the work that we have been working on can be realized in the years
to come. Thank you so much for your time.
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Chair King: Thank you. Good morning.
Andrei Celea: Good morning. Andrei Celea, 1247 Northwest 9th Avenue. 1 must have
missed a declaration of a parking emergency in Miami. PZ.8 is of great concern. I
don't seem to understand why the City's taking a step backwards with something that
motivates infill development in a City with a housing crisis. Every news report daily is
pointing to Miami becoming the most expensive city in the United States, and yet we're
focused on gutting a part of legislation that is seeming to spur development, small
development. I tried wrapping my head around what, you know, what is the benefit
here and I'm struggling to see it. 1 don't think anything has been put forward in terms
of studies, in terms of showing how this is detrimental to Miami as a whole. 1 think 1 've
heard a lot of people say how it's beneficial. I mean, in your own districts, 1 don't
know, some areas, 1 know that a large percentage of constituents don't even have
personal vehicles. They rely on transportation and these -- this legislation allows for
development in those areas. We're not -- you know, it's not going into single-family
home areas where I know that there's some concern about parking. But I don't think
there's anything that shows that the basic arithmetic of increasing the cost of building
these things would not be passed on to renters. When it costs more to build, that gets
passed on to the end user, and that is the regular Miamian who, if you go on Zillow
just looking for something under two thousand bucks, good luck. Good luck finding it
in the city ofMiami.
Chair King: Thank you.
Commissioner Reyes: Madam Chair.
Mr. Celea: Thank you.
Commissioner Reyes: One question, where do you live?
Mr. Celea: 1247 Northwest 9th Avenue.
Commissioner Reyes: 9th Avenue.
Mr. Celea: Yeah. Thank you.
Chair King: Thank you. Good morning.
Mayra Joli: Good morning, Mayra Joli here. I was going to -- my reason for being
here was totally different until I stood in line and I see how the Circle Brotherhood
brought all their people to come here today, and just like that, you send them home.
And you told them, if you speak now, you're going to have to hold your peace forever
because you're not going to be able to speak ever when this comes back on the table
sometime in the future. What kind of people are we? So you send the Circle of
Brotherhood, the Black people that you say you are so much championing for, and
that's what you tell them? Pick up your bags and go home. Come back some other day.
You should be ashamed of yourself.
Chair King: Thank you. Good morning.
Tony Recio: Good morning, Madam Chair, members of the Commission. My name is
Tony Recio, with law offices at 2800 Ponce Leon Boulevard. I apologize for the sound
of my voice. I'm a little hoarse. It's not COVID, I promise. So, I'm here on behalf of
560-640 Northeast 34th Street, LLC, but also as a resident of the City of Miami. I am
in opposition to PZ.8. I understand that maybe the process can get modified, can be
amended. I am in opposition of eliminating all of the parking waivers, specifically the
30 percent waiver and the waiver for units of -- properties of 10,000 square feet or
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less. These are all in proximity to transit, to transit corridors, to transit -oriented
development. That's what it's for. Now, you've heard a little bit about housing
affordability. Housing affordability is a function of not enough supply and the cost of
development. Unfortunately, to build parking ends up being, in today's numbers,
really, 25 to $35, 000 of space for garage parking. And that is only climbing every day.
The cost of construction impacts affordability. This is an important issue. So we
understand that there may be some ways to tweak the waivers, but we would ask that
you keep them at waivers. They are in proximity to transit, they promote transit, and
they promote density in proximity to transit. When you put density in proximity to
transit, people use the transit and people do not -- developers are not forced to seek
properties in other neighborhoods, neighborhoods that are not -- neighborhoods that
deserve a little bit more parking, that require it. So again, this turning into an
exception injects uncertainty into the process. Uncertainty impacts loans, that
uncertainty kills deals and we don 't get the density in close proximity to transit. We get
it wherever they can find the cheapest property. And that's not the best way to plan a
city. Lastly --
Chair King: Thank you. Thank you.
Mr. Recio: Thank you.
Chair King: Thank you. Good morning.
Josh Gelfman: Good morning, Madam Chair, and members of the Commission. My
name is Josh Gelfman. I'm here as a neighboring property owner to Biscayne Park
speaking on behalf of -- or in favor of PH.4. We've been in touch with the folks that are
working on those improvements and are supportive of their efforts and just wanted to
indicate our support. Thank you.
Chair King: Good morning.
Steven Wernick: Good morning, Madam Chair, Commissioners. Steve Wernick, 320
Miracle Mile, Coral Gables, Florida, and a resident of 2501 Swanson Avenue, Miami.
Here on PZ.8, a lot's been said, but I think one issue to bring up is the fiscal impact of
this ordinance. Commissioner Carollo, you're one of the strongest on the dais on
bringing money to the City of Miami, but I don't think there's been any analysis here. I
was thinking about this in between first and second reading, and if you think about
adding more parking, the property appraiser is going to assign no value to that
amount. If that diminishes the amount of -- you're trading off parking for units, you're
bringing less tax revenue into the City. What is the amount of that impact? Could it be
in the millions? It could be, I think. So, what are people going to do with this
ordinance? They might build more luxury parking where it's okay to provide
additional parking spaces and that might work in some neighborhoods. In other
neighborhoods, you might get more just more expensive housing being delivered,
bigger parking garages, but I think inevitably less tax revenue to the City. Thank you.
Chair King: Thank you. Is there anyone else here for public comment? Seeing none,
the public comment period is now closed.
AM - APPROVING THE MINUTES OF THE FOLLOWING MEETINGS:
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MV - MAYORAL VETO(ES)
NO MAYORAL VETOES
There were no mayoral vetoes associated with legislation that is subject to veto by the Mayor.
Chair King: Are there any mayoral vetoes?
Todd B. Hannon (City Clerk): Chair, there are no mayoral vetoes.
Chair King: Okay.
END OF MAYORAL VETO(ES)
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CA - CONSENT AGENDA
The following item(s) was Adopted on the Consent Agenda
MOTION TO: Adopt
RESULT: ADOPTED
MOVER: Ken Russell, Commissioner
SECONDER: Joe Carollo, Commissioner
AYES: King, Carollo, Russell, Reyes
ABSENT: Diaz de la Portilla
CA.1 RESOLUTION
11658
Liberty City
Community
Revitalization Trust
CA.2
11717
Department of
Police
A RESOLUTION OF THE MIAMI CITY COMMISSION, WITH
ATTACHMENT(S), APPROVING AND ADOPTING THE
SUPPLEMENTAL BUDGET OF THE LIBERTY CITY COMMUNITY
REVITALIZATION TRUST, ATTACHED AND INCORPORATED AS
EXHIBIT "D", IN THE AMOUNT OF NINE HUNDRED NINETEEN
THOUSAND ONE HUNDRED SIXTY-NINE DOLLARS
($919,169.00), FOR THE FISCAL YEAR COMMENCING OCTOBER
1, 2021 AND ENDING SEPTEMBER 30, 2022.
ENACTMENT NUMBER: R-22-0148
This matter was ADOPTED on the Consent Agenda.
Note for the Record: For minutes referencing Item Number CA.1, please see
"Public Comments for all Item(s) " and "End of Consent Agenda."
RESOLUTION
A RESOLUTION OF THE MIAMI CITY COMMISSION, WITH
ATTACHMENT(S), ACCEPTING A SUBAWARD GRANT FROM
MIAMI-DADE COUNTY ("COUNTY") TO CONTINUE FUNDING
OPERATION STONEGARDEN IN AN AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED
$46,479.09 WITH NO MATCHING FUNDS REQUIRED FROM THE
CITY OF MIAMI; ESTABLISHING A NEW SPECIAL REVENUE
PROJECT TITLED "OPERATION STONEGARDEN CONTRACT"
FOR SAID PURPOSE; FURTHER AUTHORIZING THE CITY
MANAGER TO ENTER INTO A SUBAWARD AGREEMENT, IN
SUBSTANTIALLY THE ATTACHED FORM, WITH THE COUNTY
AND TO NEGOTIATE AND EXECUTE ANY AND ALL OTHER
NECESSARY DOCUMENTS, ALL IN FORMS ACCEPTABLE TO
THE CITY ATTORNEY, TO IMPLEMENT THE ACCEPTANCE AND
ADMINISTRATION OF THE FUNDS IN COMPLIANCE WITH THE
REQUIREMENTS OF THE SUBAWARD AGREEMENT.
ENACTMENT NUMBER: R-22-0149
This matter was ADOPTED on the Consent Agenda.
Note for the Record: For minutes referencing Item Number CA.2, please see "End
of Consent Agenda."
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CA.3 RESOLUTION
11708
Department of
Resilience and
Public Works
A RESOLUTION OF THE MIAMI CITY COMMISSION, WITH
ATTACHMENT(S), ACCEPTING FOUR (4) RIGHT-OF-WAY DEEDS
OF DEDICATION AS DESCRIBED IN EXHIBIT "A", ATTACHED
AND INCORPORATED (COLLECTIVELY, "DEEDS"), FOR RIGHT-
OF-WAY PURPOSES; APPROVING AND AUTHORIZING THE
RECORDATION OF THE DEEDS IN THE PUBLIC RECORDS OF
MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, FLORIDA; FURTHER DIRECTING THE
CITY CLERK TO RETAIN COPIES OF THE DEEDS.
ENACTMENT NUMBER: R-22-0150
This matter was ADOPTED on the Consent Agenda.
Note for the Record: For minutes referencing Item Number CA.3, please see "End
of Consent Agenda."
END OF CONSENT AGENDA
Chair King: We will take up our consent agenda. Good morning, gentlemen.
Commissioner Reyes: Good morning. How are you doing?
Chair King: Good, thank you. Do I have a motion to pass CA.I, 2, and 3?
Commissioner Russell: So moved, Madam Chair.
Chair King: I have a motion. Can I have a second?
Commissioner Reyes: I second.
Chair King: Second. All in favor?
The Commission (Collectively): Aye.
Chair King: Consent agenda is moved.
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PH - PUBLIC HEARINGS
PH.1 RESOLUTION
11509
Office of
Management and
Budget
A RESOLUTION OF THE MIAMI CITY COMMISSION, WITH
ATTACHMENTS, BY A FOUR -FIFTHS (4/5THS) AFFIRMATIVE
VOTE, AFTER AN ADVERTISED PUBLIC HEARING, RATIFYING,
APPROVING, AND CONFIRMING THE CITY MANAGER'S FINDING
AND RECOMMENDATION, ATTACHED AND INCORPORATED AS
EXHIBIT "B," THAT COMPETITIVE NEGOTIATION METHODS AND
PROCEDURES ARE NOT PRACTICABLE OR ADVANTAGEOUS TO
THE CITY OF MIAMI PURSUANT TO SECTION 18-85(A) OF THE
CODE OF THE CITY OF MIAMI, FLORIDA, AS AMENDED;
WAIVING THE REQUIREMENTS FOR SAID PROCEDURES;
ALLOCATING AND APPROPRIATING AMERICAN RESCUE PLAN
ACT OF 2021 CORONAVIRUS STATE AND LOCAL FISCAL
RECOVERY FUNDS, ON A REIMBURSEMENT BASIS, IN A TOTAL
AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED ONE MILLION DOLLARS
($1,000,000.00), TO CIRCLE OF BROTHERHOOD, INC., A
FLORIDA NOT FOR PROFIT CORPORATION ("CIRCLE OF
BROTHERHOOD"), IN ORDER TO IMPLEMENT CIRCLE OF
BROTHERHOOD'S COVID-19/PANDEMIC COMMUNITY
WELLNESS AND RECOVERY INITIATIVE, SUBJECT TO ALL
FEDERAL, STATE, AND LOCAL LAWS THAT REGULATE THE USE
OF SUCH FUNDS FOR SAID PURPOSE; AUTHORIZING THE CITY
MANAGER TO NEGOTIATE AND EXECUTE A GRANT
AGREEMENT, IN A FORM ACCEPTABLE TO THE CITY
ATTORNEY, WITH CIRCLE OF BROTHERHOOD AND ANY AND
ALL OTHER NECESSARY DOCUMENTS, MODIFICATIONS, AND
AMENDMENTS, ALL IN FORMS ACCEPTABLE TO THE CITY
ATTORNEY, FOR SAID PURPOSE.
MOTION TO: Indefinitely Defer
RESULT: INDEFINITELY DEFERRED
MOVER: Ken Russell, Commissioner
SECONDER: Manolo Reyes, Commissioner
AYES: King, Russell, Reyes
ABSENT: Carollo, Diaz de la Portilla
Note for the Record: For minutes referencing Item Number PH.1, please see
"Order of the Day" and "Public Comments for allltem(s)."
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PH.2
11634
Department of Fire -
Rescue
RESOLUTION
A RESOLUTION OF THE MIAMI CITY COMMISSION, WITH
ATTACHMENT(S), BY A FOUR -FIFTHS (4/5THS) AFFIRMATIVE
VOTE, PURSUANT TO SECTION 18-92 OF THE CODE OF THE
CITY OF MIAMI, FLORIDA, AS AMENDED ("CITY CODE"), AFTER
AN ADVERTISED PUBLIC HEARING, RATIFYING, APPROVING,
AND CONFIRMING THE CITY MANAGER'S FINDING OF A SOLE
SOURCE, ATTACHED AND INCORPORATED AS EXHIBIT "A",
WAIVING THE REQUIREMENTS FOR COMPETITIVE SEALED
BIDDING PROCEDURES AS NOT BEING PRACTICABLE AND
AUTHORIZING THE PURCHASE OF THE AIRTRAQ VIDEO
LARYNGOSCOPE AND CAMERA SYSTEM ("AIRTRAQ"), FROM
EXCLUSIVE DISTRIBUTOR MERCURY ENTERPRISES, INC., A
FLORIDA PROFIT CORPORATION D/B/A MERCURY MEDICAL
("MERCURY MEDICAL"), FOR THE CITY OF MIAMI ("CITY")
DEPARTMENT OF FIRE -RESCUE ("FIRE -RESCUE"), ON AN AS
NEEDED BASIS, FOR A PERIOD OF ONE (1) YEAR, RENEWABLE
ANNUALLY, SUBJECT TO AN ANNUAL SOLE SOURCE FINDING
BY THE CHIEF PROCUREMENT OFFICER ("CPO") AND
APPROVAL OF THE SAME BY THE CITY MANAGER;
ALLOCATING FUNDS FROM FIRE -RESCUE'S VARIOUS
SOURCES OF FUNDS, SUBJECT TO THE AVAILABILITY OF
FUNDS AND BUDGETARY APPROVAL AT THE TIME OF NEED;
AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO NEGOTIATE AND
EXECUTE ANY AND ALL DOCUMENTS, INCLUDING ANY
AMENDMENTS, RENEWALS, AND EXTENSIONS, SUBJECT TO
ALL ALLOCATIONS, APPROPRIATIONS, PRIOR BUDGETARY
APPROVALS, COMPLIANCE WITH ALL APPLICABLE PROVISIONS
OF THE CITY CODE, INCLUDING THE CITY'S PROCUREMENT
ORDINANCE, ANTI -DEFICIENCY ACT, AND FINANCIAL
INTEGRITY PRINCIPLES, ALL AS SET FORTH IN CHAPTER 18 OF
THE CITY CODE, IN FORMS ACCEPTABLE TO THE CITY
ATTORNEY, AND IN COMPLIANCE WITH ALL APPLICABLE LAWS,
RULES, AND REGULATIONS, AS MAY BE DEEMED NECESSARY
FOR SAID PURPOSE.
ENACTMENT NUMBER: R-22-0151
MOTION TO: Adopt
RESULT: ADOPTED
MOVER: Ken Russell, Commissioner
SECONDER: Alex Diaz de Ia Portilla, Commissioner
AYES: King, Carollo, Russell, Diaz de Ia Portilla, Reyes
Chair King: Do I have a motion to pass our PH (Public Hearing) items, the public
hearing items?
Commissioner Russell: So moved.
Vice Chair Carollo: PH items?
Chair King: The PH items.
Vice Chair Carollo: PH.1 through 4?
Commissioner Russell: 2 through 4.
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Commissioner Reyes: And may 1 --?
Chair King: PH.2, 3, and 4. PH.1 was indefinitely deferred.
Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: So moved.
Commissioner Reyes: Ma'am, I will like to ask Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla
about this item.
Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: Sure.
Commissioner Reyes: This item -- Item 4, PH.4. And I know that it is a donation of
$10 million. I congratulate -- you worked on it, and you've done a great job. And --
but -- and my concern is that we are going to maybe -- because the way that the
Administration is working, the no net loss, they're going to use this -- our own land
for no net loss, you see. And if we will be using this tract of land, I request if we can
make an amendment that it cannot be used as a no net loss.
Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: Okay. The -- ifI may, Madam Chair.
Chair King: Please.
Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: This concept originated over a year ago when I
first chairman of the CRA (Community Redevelopment Agency), of the Omni CRA. It
had nothing to do with no net loss.
Commissioner Reyes: Yes.
Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: Now, it's tied into a little bit -- somewhat of a
controversial issue I understand that we're going to vote on today and something
that's been debating and negotiated for years now. So, they make -- they are including
that as no net loss, but they also have gravy. They have other properties, I think,
which you'll find over the course of the debate today that will make up that difference
anyway. So, my idea was to pass this as is without any no less -- no -- not less loss
implications. I'm not sure that -- were you willing to vote for it without that
happening, or do you want an amendment?
Commissioner Reyes: I want an amendment if it's possible.
Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: The same amendment that you asked for
Commissioner --
Commissioner Reyes: The same amendment --
Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: -- Russell last time --
Commissioner Reyes: -- to do the same.
Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: -- when he passed --
Commissioner Reyes: Yes, sir.
Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: -- this item 3-2.
Commissioner Reyes: Yes, sir.
Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: I'll give you that amendment then.
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Commissioner Reyes: Okay.
Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: And we pass it, and we move on.
Commissioner Reyes: Madam City Attorney, you got it?
Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: As amended.
Commissioner Reyes: 1 second that.
Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: We will not include it as no net loss.
Victoria Mendez (City Attorney): Okay.
Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: This particular piece of property.
Ms. Mendez: Okay.
Vice Chair Carollo: But hold on.
Commissioner Russell: 1 was the mover.
Vice Chair Carollo: I just --
Ms. Mendez: For no net loss replenishment calculations.
Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: Replenishment, what I meant.
Vice Chair Carollo: I'm just curious what --
Chair King: Vice Chair.
Vice Chair Carollo: Are we going to be knocking out no net loss just for the sake of
being in a better position to kill the item that we're going to have this afternoon? Or
are we going to try to take some out of the -- out of play because they truly are not
appropriate to have in a no net loss? Is this going to end up in -- to be a park, a real
park, or are we just pretending that it's going to be a park or something? If it's going
to be a real park, it should -- we should have these constraints.
Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: And I agree. And of course, I need four votes here,
right? So, this is the debate we're going to have, right. This is something I think
Commissioner Russell has worked on also in the past. This is something that's a real
park. We have Mr. Riley here who represents the Centner family. And this is
something that's -- they're investing a minimum of $10 million --
Vice Chair Carollo: That's a lot of money.
Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: -- a minimum of $10 million into a park that's been
desolate and empty for decades. So, I would not like to -- you're right. This is not a
fake, no net loss argument here. This is a real park that we're creating, that we're
doing something with. A private donor is giving us money that we don't have to fix it
right now. So, to me, it's a shame that everything needs to get trapped into a different
conversation and a different debate.
Vice Chair Carollo: (UNINTELLIGIBLE).
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Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: I would prefer it not to --
Commissioner Reyes: 1--
Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: Commissioner Carollo, I would prefer it not to
have the amendment.
Vice Chair Carollo: Okay. IfI could --
Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: I would prefer it not to have the amendment.
Vice Chair Carollo: If could ask --
Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: But I will --
Vice Chair Carollo: -- Commissioner Russell --
Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: Let me just finish -- yeah.
Vice Chair Carollo: -- a question on this item.
Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: Let me finish --. just finish quickly.
Commissioner Reyes: Hold on a second. Through the Chair --
Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: Let me just finish quickly.
Chair King: Hold on one second. Hold on.
Vice Chair Carollo: Through the Chair.
Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: I will prefer it not to have the amendment. I would
like the body to vote four -fifths to get this out today. I don't want any deferrals. I want
it done today because I know things get caught up and trapped in other things.
Vice Chair Carollo: But let's see --
Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: So, I prefer it not --
Commissioner Reyes: May I please --?
(MULTIPLE PARTIES SPEAKING IN UNISON)
Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: I prefer it not to have --
Chair King: Let him finish speaking. Let him finish speaking.
Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: Yeah, thank you, Madam Chair. I prefer it not to
have any amendment, but I want to hear what the will of the other three
Commissioners are -- is before --
Vice Chair Carollo: Let's --
Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: -- we do it.
Chair King: Okay, so then --
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Vice Chair Carollo: Madam Chair.
Chair King: -- let's go to Commissioner Reyes.
Commissioner Reyes: Yes, because I -- the thing -- I'm saying this because yesterday I
had a very spirited conversation with the Manager, and there was the Administration
there. And the issue of no net loss came in. And the way that this is going to be
treated, it is that the City of Miami is paying no net loss with their own land. The
developer is not responsible for anything, you see. We are -- according to what I
heard -- looking for parcels, parcels that otherwise could be used for housing, for
development that we generate income to the City, and it will be converted to park in
order to suffice for certain amount of land that they claim that is the only -- no net
loss. 1 don't mind if that -- they have -- I mean, there's other land that they can use.
But what 1 don't want is this tricky way in which we are treating the no net loss item.
Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: But this is not --
Commissioner Reyes: No, but this one --
Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: -- this is not a trick.
Commissioner Reyes: 1 grant you that.
Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: This is not a trick.
Commissioner Reyes: 1 just brought this up because I wanted to make this comment. I
grant you that. This is a park.
Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: It's a park.
Commissioner Reyes: This is park that you'll make, and this is a park and it's going
to be used as park.
Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: And there's nothing underhanded here or anything
like that.
Commissioner Reyes: And this land is -- I mean, what other uses does this have --
land have now?
Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: It's civic. There's nothing there. It's empty.
Commissioner Reyes: It's empty and --
Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: It's just grass, it's just grass.
Commissioner Reyes: -- people are using it as a park now -- right now.
Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: Yes, they're using it as a park right now.
Commissioner Reyes: They're using it as a park, the school.
Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: Sure.
Commissioner Reyes: That is totally, different than to get land that could be leased or
developed and then be used as a park, changed to a park, and then that it is a cost to
the City.
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Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: In fact, what this does -- Madam Chair -- what this
does, Commissioner Reyes, is that it actually stops that area from being developed.
Commissioner Reyes: Yeah.
Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: It's the other way around. It makes it a park. It
legitimizes it as a park.
Commissioner Reyes: I'll bring it back, but I'm glad that I had the opportunity to
express myself --
Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: Yes, sir.
Commissioner Reyes: -- the way that I am because I think that is immoral, totally
immoral the way -- and if it hurts the City, it goes against the City, the way that we're
treating no net loss.
Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: Thank you.
Vice Chair Carollo: Okay, well --
Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: So, 1 want to --
Chair King: Thank you.
Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: -- move it. 1 want --
Chair King: Vice Chair.
Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: Sorry.
Chair King: Vice Chair.
Vice Chair Carollo: I'm glad that Commissioner Reyes acknowledges that this is truly
going to be parkland.
Commissioner Reyes: Yes.
Vice Chair Carollo: And this is what I'm looking to do, to keep real parkland into
play. Now, Commissioner Russell has really taken a major lead in the no net loss. You
certainly did when the item that we will be dealing with this afternoon first came up to
go to a referendum. Are you, Commissioner Russell, sufficiently in agreement that
these ten acres are going to truly be parkland also?
Commissioner Reyes: It's only three acres.
Vice Chair Carollo: What's the amount?
Commissioner Reyes: Three acres.
Vice Chair Carollo: Three acres, I'm sorry.
Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: 3.7.
Vice Chair Carollo: Yeah, 3.7 that they're spending 10 million on it.
Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: Yes.
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Vice Chair Carollo: At least 10 million.
Chair King: Commissioner Russell.
Commissioner Russell: Thank you, Commissioner. So, this location's no longer in my
City district. I'm no longer chair of the Omni CRA.
Vice Chair Carollo: Well, it --
Commissioner Russell: I'd like to answer --
Vice Chair Carollo: -- don't matter. It don't matter. I'm just --
Commissioner Russell: I'd like --
Vice Chair Carollo: -- asking a question, yeah.
Commissioner Russell: -- to answer fully, please. Because when it was in my district
and I was chair of the CRA, there was a lot of plans and ideas for this land, and it's
not just three acres. The three acres is the no net loss portion that MFP's (Miami
Freedom Park's) looking at. The Centner piece is the remainder to the west, but there
is an overlap.
Vice Chair Carollo: Right.
Commissioner Russell: I think we need to look comprehensively at that entire lot and
decide what we want to do with it as a citv because the original plan was that the
Centners were going to create the park that would service the school that they have.
But as Lisa Martinez spoke today, there is an MOU (Memorandum of Understanding)
with the Omni CRA that they were going to bring their entire nine acres onto our tax
rolls which would service the Omni CRA --
Commissioner Reyes: That's what I'm saying.
Commissioner Russell: -- and the Omni would work together with them to develop
those nine acres through TIF (Tax Increment Financing) agreements for affordable
housing education, et cetera. The linchpin, the key piece to that was the hope of
moving iPrep to this site next to what the Centners are building as a park, that that
park would service that school and their school, and there is even an opportunity for
affordable housing within that site. Now, that was years ago. And if that's no longer
the will of this body, then we need to make that decision as an Omni CRA and pull out
of that -- and then we can still work with the School Board to develop their nine acres.
And so, I'm not trying to foil the ability for us to develop this land for park or school,
but I think we need to make that decision because the Centner piece has expanded to
where there's only one acre left of City land outside of the Centner piece, and it's a
parking lot which they would be needing to service the sports facility as well. So, if
we're going to go vertical there, it's a very small piece. And if we're not, if we're
going to do it all as park, I am okay with this piece being counted as new parkland --
Vice Chair Carollo: Okay.
Commissioner Russell: -- especially with a $10 million investment in it.
Vice Chair Carollo: All right. You've answered --
Chair King: Hold on, hold on.
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Commissioner Reyes: Hold on, Mr. --
Commissioner Russell: So, I've said a lot of things.
Chair King: Vice Chair.
Vice Chair Carollo: You 've answered my question. You 're okay --
Commissioner Russell: Yes.
Vice Chair Carollo: -- with this being kept as a park, 3.7, and obviously --
Commissioner Reyes: 3.7 (UNINTELLIGIBLE).
Vice Chair Carollo: 3.7 acres.
Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: Yes.
Vice Chair Carollo: Obviously, if for any reason we use this in a no net loss and this
changes in the future, that would have to be replaced immediately. So, I think,
Commissioner, you could move this without any amendments --
Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: Yes, sir.
Vice Chair Carollo: -- as you originally intended. I certainly will second it with no
amendments. I thinkfrom what Fin hearing we're all in agreement, this piece.
Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: And then what I'll do is I'll move --
Chair King: Hold on, hold on. Are you finished?
Vice Chair Carollo: Yes, thank you.
Chair King: Commissioner Reyes.
Commissioner Reyes: Yes. And I'm glad I brought this up because I want also to make
sure that that proposal to develop the adjacent land, you see, won't be taken by the
Administration, but it will not be included and be rezoned as park in order to comply
with the no net loss requirement, which, in my opinion, is it had been manipulated.
Because as Commissioner Russell stated, that tract of land, it was negotiations to -- I
mean, there were negotiations to develop that land. And if you develop that land, then
those revenues are going to come to the City of Miami. And if we are going to comply
with the no net loss issue by changing the zoning of land in the City of Miami that
could be developed, or could be leased and could be income generating, then there is
a cost to the City of Miami for this project. Okay, that's what I wanted to bring out.
Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: Okay.
Commissioner Reyes: Okay.
Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: So, I want -- so, Madam Chair --
Commissioner Reyes: I will vote for it and I --
Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: Thank you, sir.
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Commissioner Reyes: 1 told Vicky, our City Attorney, during the agenda prep that 1
was going to vote for it, but I'm making this -- 1 mean, 1'nz making this point clear
because I wanted to make it clear and there is an opportunity cost every time that we
take some of our land and we change the zoning to comply with a requirement and
help somebody else.
Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: Yes, sir. So, I want to move, Madam Chair, if I
may, with your indulgence, PH.2, PH.3, and PH.4. I know -- and Mr. Clerk is saying
he can 't do it that way, but you can.
Chair King: No, he's saying we can. He just didn't want to jeopardize 2 and 3.
Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: We're not going to --
Chair King: (INAUDIBLE) certainly have (INAUDIBLE).
Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: -- roll it all, 2, 3, and 4.
Chair King: So, I have a motion and a second.
Todd B. Hannon (City Clerk): Chair.
Commissioner Reyes: Yes.
Mr. Hannon: Just for the record, there was a motion made at 10:11 am by
Commissioner Russell, seconded by Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla --
Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: Okay.
Mr. Hannon: -- for 2, 3, and 4.
Chair King: All in favor?
Commissioner Russell: Just a moment.
Commissioner Reyes: Aye.
Commissioner Russell: No, just a last discussion piece on 4.
Chair King: On 4.
Commissioner Russell: There was a concern brought up in briefing regarding public
access to this new park. And we're very, very thankful that $10 million would come to
bring us this park and the facilities look absolutely amazing. But we need to make
sure that we're prioritizing public access. They can use it -- a portion -- there must be
a portion of it that is always reserved for public access that cannot be reserved by the
school so that people can have free play there or league play or training that we can
program. If the Administration could -- or Parks Department or Real Estate Asset
Management could describe what their plan is to protect that, I'll be fully in favor of
this.
Jacqueline Lorenzo (Assistant Director): Good morning, Commissioners. Jacqueline
Lorenzo, with the Department of Real Estate and Asset Management. So, we've
spoken with the foundation and two-thirds of the property after school hours will be
available at all times to the public. And then during school hours, one-third will be
available at all times.
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Commissioner Russell: And will it be programmed by the City Parks Department, the
free --
Ms. Lorenzo: Correct?
Commissioner Russell: -- space?
Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: Yes.
Ms. Lorenzo: So, Parks will be managing the property, and the programming will be
through the typical Parks programming.
Commissioner Russell: Thank you. And then the last thing -- and this is an ask of our
chairman of. the Omni CRA. I would like to work with the School Board because the
goal for our downtown residents -- the lacking in Edgewater and downtown is school
seats, and they were hoping to double the capacity of iPrep. They can still do it on
their nine acres.
Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: Yes.
Commissioner Russell: But they're going to need our help with TIF deals and grants
and things like that.
Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: You have that commitment. I've been working with
Lisa Martinez, so you have that commitment from me.
Commissioner Russell: Thank you.
Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: It's a very good school and they do good work
there. All right, Madam Chair.
Chair King: All in favor?
The Commission (Collectively): Aye.
Chair King: Motion carries unanimously.
Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: Thank you, Madam Chair.
Commissioner Reyes: (INAUDIBLE).
Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: Yes, sir. Thank you.
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PH.3 RESOLUTION
11669
Department of Real
Estate and Asset
Management
A RESOLUTION OF THE MIAMI CITY COMMISSION, WITH
ATTACHMENT(S), PURSUANT TO SECTION 29-B(C) OF THE
CHARTER OF THE CITY OF MIAMI, FLORIDA, AS AMENDED,
AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO NEGOTIATE AND
EXECUTE A GRANT OF EASEMENT ("EASEMENT'), IN A FORM
ACCEPTABLE TO THE CITY ATTORNEY, TO THE FLORIDA
POWER AND LIGHT COMPANY, A FOR -PROFIT FLORIDA
CORPORATION ("FPL"), FOR A PERPETUAL, NON-EXCLUSIVE
EASEMENT OF APPROXIMATELY TWO HUNDRED NINETY (290)
SQUARE FEET OF CITY OWNED PROPERTY LOCATED AT 1250
NORTHWEST 20 STREET (FOLIO NO. 01-3135-001-0010)
("PROPERTY"), AS MORE PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED IN
EXHIBIT "A", ATTACHED AND INCORPORATED ("EASEMENT
AREA"), FOR THE PURPOSE OF CONSTRUCTION, OPERATION,
AND MAINTENANCE OF UNDERGROUND ELECTRIC UTILITY
FACILITIES (INCLUDING CABLES, CONDUITS, APPURTENANT
EQUIPMENT, AND APPURTENANT ABOVE GROUND
EQUIPMENT) WITHIN THE EASEMENT AREA IN ACCORDANCE
WITH THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF THE EASEMENT.
ENACTMENT NUMBER: R-22-0152
MOTION TO: Adopt
RESULT: ADOPTED
MOVER: Ken Russell, Commissioner
SECONDER: Alex Diaz de Ia Portilla, Commissioner
AYES: King, Carollo, Russell, Diaz de Ia Portilla, Reyes
Note for the Record: For minutes referencing Item Number PH.3, please see Item
Number PH.2.
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PH.4 RESOLUTION
11785
Department of
Parks and
Recreation and
Department of Real
Estate and Asset
Management
A RESOLUTION OF THE MIAMI CITY COMMISSION, WITH
ATTACHMENT(S), BY A FOUR -FIFTHS (4/5THS)
AFFIRMATIVE VOTE, AFTER AN ADVERTISED PUBLIC
HEARING, RATIFYING, APPROVING, AND CONFIRMING
THE CITY MANAGER'S FINDING, ATTACHED AND
INCORPORATED AS ATTACHMENT "A," THAT
COMPETITIVE NEGOTIATION METHODS AND
PROCEDURES ARE NOT PRACTICABLE OR
ADVANTAGEOUS, PURSUANT TO SECTION 18-85(A) OF
THE CODE OF THE CITY OF MIAMI, FLORIDA, AS
AMENDED; WAIVING THE REQUIREMENTS FOR SAID
PROCEDURES; FURTHER AUTHORIZING THE
ACCEPTANCE OF A DONATION FROM THE PERPETUAL
LOVE L TRUST, LLC OR AN AFFILIATE THEREOF
("CENTNER"), WITH A MINIMUM VALUE OF TEN MILLION
DOLLARS ($10,000,000), IN THE FORM OF A
RECREATIONAL FACILITY TO BE CONSTRUCTED ON
THE CITY OF MIAMI OWNED PROPERTY LOCATED AT
150 NORTHEAST 19 STREET, MIAMI, FLORIDA KNOWN
AS BISCAYNE PARK ("PARK"); FURTHER AUTHORIZING
THE CITY MANAGER TO NEGOTIATE AND EXECUTE A
DONATION AND CONSTRUCTION AGREEMENT WITH
CENTNER, IN A FORM ACCEPTABLE TO THE CITY
ATTORNEY, PROVIDING FOR CENTNER TO CONSTRUCT
ON THE PARK THE RECREATIONAL FACILITY AT
CENTNER'S SOLE COST AND EXPENSE; FURTHER
AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO NEGOTIATE AND
EXECUTE A REVOCABLE LICENSE AGREEMENT WITH
CENTNER, IN A FORM ACCEPTABLE TO THE CITY
ATTORNEY, AUTHORIZING FOR CENTNER TO PROVIDE
LIMITED PROGRAMMING AT THE PARK AND FOR
CENTNER TO PAY FOR ALL MAINTENANCE AND
SECURITY EXPENSES AT THE RECREATIONAL FACILITY
AT CENTNER'S SOLE COST AND EXPENSE,
AUTHORIZING CENTNER TO OPERATE CONCESSIONS
WITHIN THE RECREATIONAL FACILITY AND, PROVIDING
THAT FIFTY PERCENT (50%) OF ALL REVENUES
GENERATED BY CENTNER SHALL BE PAID TO THE CITY,
WITH THE REMAINING AMOUNT TO BE UTILIZED BY
CENTNER FOR THE COST OF MAINTENANCE,
OPERATIONS, AND SECURITY AT THE PARK, FOR A
TERM OF TEN (10) YEARS; FURTHER AUTHORIZING AND
DIRECTING THE CITY MANAGER TO TERMINATE THE
EXISTING REVOCABLE LICENSE AGREEMENT WITH THE
PEOPLE UNITED TO LEAD THE STRUGGLE FOR
EQUALITY, INC. ON THE PARK; FURTHER AUTHORIZING
AND DIRECTING THE CITY MANAGER TO TERMINATE OR
AMEND THE EXISTING REVOCABLE LICENSE
AGREEMENT WITH TEMPLE ISRAEL OF GREATER MIAMI,
INC. AS NECESSARY TO PERMIT THE DEVELOPMENT OF
THE FACILITY ON THE PARK; FURTHER AUTHORIZING
THE CITY MANAGER TO EXECUTE ANY AND ALL OTHER
NECESSARY DOCUMENTS, ALL IN FORMS ACCEPTABLE
TO THE CITY ATTORNEY, IN ORDER TO IMPLEMENT THE
ACCEPTANCE OF SAID DONATION AND
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IMPLEMENTATION OF THE DONATION AND
CONSTRUCTION AGREEMENT AND REVOCABLE
LICENSE AGREEMENT.
ENACTMENT NUMBER: R-22-0153
MOTION TO: Adopt
RESULT: ADOPTED
MOVER: Ken Russell, Commissioner
SECONDER: Alex Diaz de Ia Portilla, Commissioner
AYES: King, Carollo, Russell, Diaz de Ia Portilla, Reyes
Note for the Record: For minutes referencing Item Number PH.4, please see
"Public Comments for allItem(s)" and Item Number PH.2.
END OF PUBLIC HEARINGS
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RE.1 RESOLUTION
11859
Commissioners
and Mayor
RE - RESOLUTION
A RESOLUTION OF THE MIAMI CITY COMMISSION RESCINDING
IN ITS ENTIRETY RESOLUTION NO. R-21-0514 ADOPTED ON
DECEMBER 9, 2021, THEREBY DE -ALLOCATING ANTI -POVERTY
INITIATIVE ("API") FUNDS PREVIOUSLY AWARDED IN AN
AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED ONE HUNDRED FIFTY THOUSAND
DOLLARS ($150,000.00); REALLOCATING ONE HUNDRED FIFTY
THOUSAND DOLLARS ($150,000.00) TO THE MAYOR'S SHARE
OF THE CITY OF MIAMI'S API FUNDS.
ENACTMENT NUMBER: R-22-0154
MOTION TO: Adopt
RESULT: ADOPTED
MOVER: Alex Diaz de Ia Portilla, Commissioner
SECONDER: Christine King, Commissioner
AYES: King, Carollo, Russell, Diaz de Ia Portilla, Reyes
Chair King: Okay. RE (Resolution). I need that to be read into the record.
Victoria Mendez (City Attorney): An RE?
Chair King: We don't?
Ms. Mendez: No.
Chair King: Okay.
Ms. Mendez: Just the ordinances.
Chair King: Do I have a motion --
Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: So moved.
Chair King: -- for RE.1? Second. All in favor?
The Commission (Collectively): Aye.
Chair King: Motion carries unanimously.
END OF RESOLUTION
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SR - SECOND READING ORDINANCES
SR.1 ORDINANCE Second Reading
11016
Department of
Housing and
Community
Development
AN ORDINANCE OF THE MIAMI CITY COMMISSION AMENDING
CHAPTER 2/ARTICLE XI OF THE CODE OF THE CITY OF MIAMI,
FLORIDA, AS AMENDED, TITLED "ADMINISTRATION/BOARDS,
COMMITTEES, COMMISSIONS," BY REMOVING THE
REFERENCE TO THE HOUSING OPPORTUNITIES FOR
PERSONS WITH AIDS ("HOPWA") ADVISORY BOARD ("HAB");
CONFIRMING THE ABOLISHMENT OF THE HAB; CONTAINING A
SEVERABILITY CLAUSE; AND PROVIDING FOR AN IMMEDIATE
EFFECTIVE DATE.
ENACTMENT NUMBER: 14060
MOTION TO: Adopt
RESULT: ADOPTED
MOVER: Alex Diaz de Ia Portilla, Commissioner
SECONDER: Joe Carollo, Commissioner
AYES: King, Carollo, Russell, Diaz de Ia Portilla, Reyes
Chair King: SR.1, can you read that into the record? Read all of the SRs (Second
Reading).
Victoria Mendez (City Attorney): All the SRs?
Chair King: Yes. Let's get them all out of the way.
Ms. Mendez: SR.1.
The Ordinance was read by title into the public record by the City Attorney.
Ms. Mendez: SR.2.
The Ordinance was read by title into the public record by the City Attorney.
Ms. Mendez: SR.3.
The Ordinance was read by title into the public record by the City Attorney.
Ms. Mendez: Those are all the SRs, Madam Chair.
Chair King: Do I have a motion?
Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: So moved -- I'll second it.
Chair King: Motion and second. All in favor?
The Commission (Collectively): Aye.
Chair King: Motion carries unanimously.
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SR.2 ORDINANCE Second Reading
11260 AN ORDINANCE OF THE MIAMI CITY COMMISSION AMENDING
Office of Zoning CHAPTER 13, ARTICLE I, TITLED "DEVELOPMENT IMPACT AND
OTHER RELATED FEES/IN GENERAL," OF THE CODE OF THE
CITY OF MIAMI, FLORIDA, AS AMENDED ("CITY CODE"),
SPECIFICALLY BY AMENDING SECTION 13-16(D), TITLED
"PETITIONS FOR REFUND OF IMPACT FEES," TO PROVIDE FOR
REFUNDS UNDER LIMITED CIRCUMSTANCES; CONTAINING A
SEVERABILITY CLAUSE; AND PROVIDING FOR AN EFFECTIVE
DATE.
ENACTMENT NUMBER: 14061
MOTION TO: Adopt
RESULT: ADOPTED
MOVER: Alex Diaz de Ia Portilla, Commissioner
SECONDER: Joe Carollo, Commissioner
AYES: King, Carollo, Russell, Diaz de Ia Portilla, Reyes
Note for the Record: For minutes referencing Item Number SR.2, please see Item
Number SR.1.
SR.3 ORDINANCE Second Reading
11439
Commissioners
and Mayor
AN ORDINANCE OF THE MIAMI CITY COMMISSION AMENDING
CHAPTER 10/ARTICLE 1/SECTION 10-5 OF THE CODE OF THE
CITY OF MIAMI, FLORIDA, AS AMENDED, TITLED "BUILDINGS/IN
GENERAL/WAIVER AND DEFERRAL OF FEES AND SENIOR
CITIZENS WAIVER," TO PROVIDE FOR A WAIVER OF CITY
PERMIT FEES FOR LOW INCOME HOMEOWNERS FOR
REMODELING OR REPAIR ACTIVITIES ON HOMESTEADED
PROPERTIES UP TO $50,000.00 OF THE COST OF
CONSTRUCTION WORK; CONTAINING A SEVERABILITY
CLAUSE; AND PROVIDING FOR AN EFFECTIVE DATE.
ENACTMENT NUMBER: 14062
MOTION TO: Adopt
RESULT: ADOPTED
MOVER: Alex Diaz de Ia Portilla, Commissioner
SECONDER: Joe Carollo, Commissioner
AYES: King, Carollo, Russell, Diaz de la Portilla, Reyes
Note for the Record: For minutes referencing Item Number SR.3, please see Item
Number SR.1.
END OF SECOND READING ORDINANCES
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DI - DISCUSSION ITEMS
DI.1 DISCUSSION ITEM
11463
Code Compliance
Task Force
A PRESENTATION OF THE CODE COMPLIANCE TASK FORCE
RECOMMENDATIONS REPORT TO CITY COMMISSION.
MOTION TO: Continue
RESULT: CONTINUED
MOVER: Ken Russell, Commissioner
SECONDER: Manolo Reyes, Commissioner
AYES: King, Russell, Reyes
ABSENT: Carollo, Diaz de la Portilla
Note for the Record: Item DLI was continued to the May 26, 2022, City
Commission Meeting.
Note for the Record: For minutes referencing Item Number DLI, please see
"Order of the Day."
DI.2 DISCUSSION ITEM
9171
Commissioners
and Mayor
A DISCUSSION REGARDING THE RECONSIDERATION OF THE
MOTORIZED SCOOTER PROGRAM.
MOTION TO: Withdraw
RESULT: WITHDRAWN
MOVER: Ken Russell, Commissioner
SECONDER: Manolo Reyes, Commissioner
AYES: King, Russell, Reyes
ABSENT: Carollo, Diaz de la Portilla
Note for the Record: For minutes referencing Item Number DL2, please see "Order
of the Day."
END OF DISCUSSION ITEMS
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PART B: PZ - PLANNING AND ZONING ITEM(S)
PZ.1 ORDINANCE Second Reading
11082 AN ORDINANCE OF THE MIAMI CITY COMMISSION AMENDING
ORDINANCE NO. 10544, AS AMENDED, THE FUTURE LAND USE
Department of
Planning MAP OF THE MIAMI COMPREHENSIVE NEIGHBORHOOD PLAN,
PURSUANT TO SMALL SCALE AMENDMENT PROCEDURES
SUBJECT TO SECTION 163.3187, FLORIDA STATUTES, BY
CHANGING THE FUTURE LAND USE DESIGNATION FROM
"DUPLEX RESIDENTIAL" TO "LOW DENSITY RESTRICTED
COMMERCIAL" OF THE REAL PROPERTY AT 19 NORTHWEST 41
STREET AND 20 NORTHWEST 42 STREET, MIAMI, FLORIDA, AND
DENYING A CHANGE TO THE FUTURE LAND USE DESIGNATION
FROM "LOW DENSITY RESTRICTED COMMERCIAL" TO "GENERAL
COMMERCIAL" OF THE REAL PROPERTY AT 4136 NORTH MIAMI
AVENUE, MIAMI, FLORIDA, ALL AS MORE PARTICULARLY
DESCRIBED IN EXHIBIT "A", ATTACHED AND INCORPORATED;
MAKING FINDINGS; CONTAINING A SEVERABILITY CLAUSE; AND
PROVIDING FOR AN EFFECTIVE DATE.
ENACTMENT NUMBER: 14063
MOTION TO: Adopt
RESULT: ADOPTED
MOVER: Alex Diaz de la Portilla, Commissioner
SECONDER: Christine King, Commissioner
AYES: King, Carollo, Russell, Diaz de la Portilla, Reyes
Note for the Record: For additional minutes referencing Item Number PZ.1, please
see "Public Comments for all Item(s)."
Chair King: Do I have a motion for --?
Vice Chair Carollo: (INAUDIBLE).
Chair King: Well, we have the -- Discussion 1 was deferred, discussion item.
Commissioner Russell: They were both deferred.
Chair King: They were both deferred?
Commissioner Russell: One was withdrawn.
Chair King: Okay. So --
Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: Planning and Zoning.
Chair King: We're on Planning and Zoning.
Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: Yeah, in the morning.
Commissioner Russell: Before 10:30.
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Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: And in the morning. That's awesome.
Chair King: Look at that. Okay, PZ.1. Is anyone here on behalf of PZ.1?
Victoria Mendez (City Attorney): PZ.1 and 2 are companion items, Madam Chair.
Chair King: Okay.
Vice Chair Carollo: Madam Chair, again, for the record, the PZ items that were
deferred were PZ.6 and 7. And was PZ.5 also deferred?
Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: Yes.
Commissioner Reyes: Not that I know.
Vice Chair Carollo: Okay. PZ.5, 6 and 7.
Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: Yes.
Vice Chair Carollo: Okay. Thank you.
Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: A technical question. Can we take all the PZ
(Planning and Zoning) items together or we're not allowed to do that?
Chair King: Mr. City Clerk.
Ms. Mendez: We have some -- a substitution. I have to change one of the titles
because the addresses were juxtaposed so --
Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: Well, with that substitution, could we take them all
together?
Commissioner Reyes: I'm also --
Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: Just to get them done so we can take a break and
talk about what's coming up in the afternoon. We have more conversations that need
to be had.
Vice Chair Carollo: Yeah.
Commissioner Reyes: Madam Chair.
Chair King: Commissioner Reyes.
Commissioner Reyes: Yes. And on PZ.8, I would like to recommend some exceptions.
Chair King: Okay.
Commissioner Reyes: You see, and see if it is the will of the Commission to -- because
it's going to affect certain areas that -- and certain people.
Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: Can I move, Madam Chair, PZ.1, 2, 3 and 4? And
a substitution memo for --
Commissioner Reyes: Move it.
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Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: -- PZ.1.
Vice Chair Carollo: Excuse me.
Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: With a substitution memo for PZ.1 that's being
handed out now.
Commissioner Reyes: 3 and 4.
Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: Can I move PZ.1, 2, 3 and 4? We'll leave 8 out for
now.
Chair King: We have persons here to speak on behalf of PZ.1 and 2, I believe,
correct?
Ulysses Kemp: That's correct, but we're going to request that you hear it later on in
the day.
Chair King: There's no later on in the day.
Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: No.
Chair King: This is it.
Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: This is it.
Mr. Kemp: My attorney is not here.
Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: Well --
Chair King: We have gone through the agenda. It is -- this is the last thing that we
have to take up for this agenda.
Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: So, the motion, Madam Chair, is PZ.1, 2 --
Chair King: Hold on a second there.
Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: I'm sorry.
Chair King: Just to -- you know, it's a new day with me as Chair. We work through
these things.
Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: And by the way, I want that chair that you have
right now, the actual chair.
Chair King: This is -- we're trying this out, and I would like everyone to sit in it
(INAUDIBLE).
Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: Is it working out? Is it working out?
Chair King: (INAUDIBLE).
Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: Okay. So, by next Commission meeting, Mr.
Manager -- I want to direct the Manager to give everybody the same chair. That's a
directive from this Commission. Do we need to vote on that or it's just a directive?
Arthur Noriega (City Manager): She's testing the chair out.
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Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: Okay.
Mr. Noriega: This is a test run.
Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: She loves it. She already told me she loves it.
Mr. Noriega: She loves it already?
Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: Yeah.
Mr. Noriega: She's only been sitting in it for like an hour so I -- absolutely.
Mr. Kemp: On the first meeting, my attorney had to leave on an emergency, so he
wasn't able to be here for the first reading. And just -- I was informed by Mr. Winker -
- I meant Riley, that he informed Mr. Winker that it was -- I mean, Mr. Winker that it
was going to be after 3, so he anticipated that it was going to be later on this evening,
and that was by the --
Chair King: Do you want to do a deferral because we're here, and I think my
colleagues are ready to go. I don't want to not allow you the opportunity to speak or
your attorney.
Mr. Kemp: Well, 1 -- my legal counsel isn't here and wasn't here on the first one
because of an emergency.
Chair King: Right.
Mr. Kemp: And --
Chair King: I understand. I'm asking Mr. Riley, are you willing to defer this to the
next Commission meeting?
William Riley: Madam Chair, for the record, William Riley, with address at 3050
Biscayne Boulevard. This application has been pending for about 18 months. It's been
heard several times. It's been deferred several times. I can't -- I don't have the
authorization to ask for another deferral. We've met with the neighbors extensively.
Promises made, promises kept. At the last Commission meeting, over 45 days ago, I
promised that I would meet the neighbors. We did that on several times. We came up
with a covenant. We limited the use of the property by over 12 different types of uses,
which basically means that everything that was objected to -- and there has been
testimony by the neighbors extensively on this item. Everything in the covenants that
were asked for that were objected to before, we have restricted as not permitted on
the property. We have done everything we were supposed to do. And I would ask that
the Commission please proceed today, respectfully.
Commissioner Russell: Madam Chair.
Chair King: Commissioner Russell.
Commissioner Russell: I think the important factor for us is that whatever decision we
make as a body is not subject or vulnerable to challenge. And so the question is
whether the City has transmitted anything to Ulysses about the timing of this meeting
or his attorney that it would be this afternoon. Relying on the other counsel does not
bind us. We have a schedule that is published, and we do allow for public -- Planning
and Zoning meeting items to come in the morning. So, I would say the factor is if we
have given any notice to them that it would only be in the afternoon, we should wait
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because then they will be able to say that he was not properly represented in this
hearing. But if we have not and it was able to he taken up this morning, I believe we
should move forward.
Chair King: Madam City Attorney.
Ms. Mendez: I would request that Mr. Kemp be given the opportunity to speak and
everything that he wanted to say if this Commission wants to move forward with this
item.
Chair King: It's not -- the issue is not if Mr. Kenip can speak. The issue is that his
attorney isn't here.
Ms. Mendez: No, no, I understand. What I am saying is that if you wish to proceed,
Mr. Kemp should be allowed to say everything he wants to say.
Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: Well, let him say what he wants to say.
Chair King: Mr. Kemp, I understand that --
Ms. Mendez: We can also call Mr. Winker and he can appear by phone.
Chair King: Would that be --
Ms. Mendez: Would that work?
Chair King: -- a compromise that (INAUDIBLE)?
Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: Well --
Chair King: We can either one or two things, one of two things. We can either take it
up in the afternoon --
Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: No.
Chair King: -- so we'll just hold it for the afternoon, after lunch. Or we can have him
appear by phone. Is that -- would that be an option to have him appear by phone? I
believe it is the will of my colleagues to go ahead and move this. And in fairness to
Mr. Riley, we have had this issue going, and if Mr. Riley came in the morning, counsel
should have been here as well. Being an attorney, you know, you don't know what
time something is going to come. You show up. I don't want to not allow him to have
something -- you know, present his side. I do want to have that, but in all fairness,
everyone is here for their PZ items. Everyone that has an item before this Commission
for PZ is here. And we've had several months of me being chair. Everyone knows I
run these meetings. We're moving ahead. So, can you get in touch with him and see if
he can call in? And we'll go to the other -- well, they're ready to take all of them at
the same time. Or, Mr. Riley, if you would, as a personal favor to me, allow it to be
deferred just to the next Commission meeting --
Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: Well --
Chair King: I mean --
Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: Madam Chair.
Chair King: I understand.
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Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: You're a lawyer.
Chair King: I understand.
Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: You're a lawyer.
Chair King: And sometimes we mess up. And sometimes we mess up.
Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: But the judge --
Chair King: And it shouldn't be held against (INAUDIBLE).
Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: But in a courtroom, when you go --
Chair King: (INAUDIBLE).
Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: If you're not there at 9 in the morning --
Chair King: I understand.
Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: -- and it's brought up at 9:01 --
Chair King: I understand.
Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: So --
Chair King: I am trying to be -- aren't we here at 8:30? I'm timely. I understand. I'm
just trying to come up with a resolution for this issue.
Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: But the resolution is not to make them wait almost
two years now.
Chair King: (INAUDIBLE).
Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: He could -- the gentleman should be able to speak,
but Mr. Winker --
Chair King: (INAUDIBLE).
Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: Actually, he --
Chair King: (INAUDIBLE).
Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: But --
Chair King: (INAUDIBLE).
Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: Okay. Mr. Winker has a fiduciary responsibility --
Chair King: I understand.
Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: -- to be here on time.
Chair King: I said that. I said that I understand.
Mr. Kemp: I have --
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David Winker (via phone): Did they give you a call -in number?
Mr. Kemp: Do you have a call -in number or what do you have?
Chair King: Victoria, is there a call -in number he can --?
Ms. Mendez: Todd, do we have, you know, the little machine?
Chair King: A number that he can call in?
Ms. Mendez: IT (Information Technology). Can IT come out, please?
Mr. Kemp: They're trying to see if they have a number for you to call.
Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: He could just put him on speaker and put it on the
microphone.
Mr. Winker (via phone): Perfect. Let me get it.
Mr. Kemp: Hold on. Let's see if you can work on speakerphone. I don't know.
Mr. Winker (via phone): Well, no, but give me -- they said 1 can call in. This is really -
- like this is one of the items that has to be heard after 5.
Chair King: I didn't hear what he said.
Mr. Winker (via phone): Do you have a copy of the agenda in front of you?
Mr. Kemp: They're going down the agenda. You -- by the way, I have you on speaker
at the podium, so you can ask them whatever questions you want to ask them. Would
you prefer me putting you on speaker or --?
Mr. Winker (via phone)_: Yeah, yeah, put me on speaker.
Mr. Kemp: Okay. They will hear what you're -- whatever you have to say. Go ahead.
Mr. Winker (via phone): Okay, perfect. Good morning, everybody.
Chair King: Good morning.
Todd B. Hannon (City Clerk): Chair, may I administer the oath to Mr. Winker? I --
Chair King: Please.
Mr. Hannon: Mr. Winker; can you hear me? It Todd Hannon, the City Clerk.
Mr. Winker (via phone): Say that again.
Mr. Hannon: Mr. Winker, it's Todd Hannon, the City Clerk. Can you hear me?
Mr. Winker (via phone): I can't. I'm sorry, I can't hear. Is there a number I can call
in?
Mr. Hannon: Just a moment, sir. I think IT is trying to work on something for us.
Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: Does he have to stand up, Mr. Clerk? No? Okay.
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Mr. Kemp: Okay, where do you want the link sent to?
Mr. Winker (via phone): Just send it to my -- to this -- just text it to me, just to my cell
phone.
Unidentified Speaker: Is there an email where I can send it right now?
Mr. Winker (via phone): Yeah. You ready? You want me to text you my email?
[Later...
Chair King: I understand that Mr. Winker is available via Zoom if we can queue that
up.
Vice Chair Carollo: Hold on. Mr. Who?
Chair King: Winker.
Vice Chair Carollo: Winker. For what?
Chair King.: PZ.1 and 2.
Vice Chair Carollo: Oh. (INAUDIBLE) come first?
Chair King: He was coming in the afternoon, and he didn't realise we would complete
the agenda so quickly. So, he's not available to get here so quickly.
David Winker: Hey, guys. I'm here now if you can hear me.
Vice Chair Carollo: Hey, Mr. Winker. I thought we weren't going to hear from you
until this afternoon. Surprise, surprise.
Mr. Winker: I'm sorry I'm not there. I appreciate the indulgence, guys.
Victoria Mendez (City Attorney): The Clerk needs to state something with regard to
Mr. Winker's appearance.
Todd B. Hannon (City Clerk): Good morning, Mr. Winker. Can you hear me?
Mr. Winker• Yes, I can. Good morning, Clerk.
The City Clerk administered oath required under City Code Section 62-1 to those
persons giving testimony on zoning items.
Mr. Winker: Yes, sir.
Mr. Hannon: Thank you, Mr. Winker.
Chair King: You may proceed.
Ulysses Kemp: Good morning. My name is Ulysses Kemp. I'm here in reference to
PZ.1 and 2. On PZ item 1, there as a resolution that Planning and Zoning had put --
had placed on this property on 6/5/2019 with an exception. And I would appreciate it
if the Zoning Department can reference this Article VII, Section 7-126 of Ordinance
Number 13113 so that it can be understood what this exception is for and what they
are granting. I was requesting that you read the exception of Article VII, Section 7-
126 of Ordinance Number 13113, the Zoning Code of the City of Miami, as amended.
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This is a resolution that you guys presented to the client with stipulations for property
20 Northwest 42nd Street. And this was an exception granting that they would he
allowed to use it as a T3 with this exception that you guys granted allowing them to
park publicly -- not publicly, but the personnel working there will be able to park
there and utilize this even though it's a zone 3, that they'll be -- I mean -- yeah, zone
3, that they will be able to use it as a 4 use.
Chair King: Mr. Kemp, are you asking our City Attorney to answer that or read
something?
Mr. Kemp: Well, this resolution was put in place by Planning and Zoning. And I just
wanted them to clam to everyone what this exception is so that we could understand
what it is that was granted to them on this resolution.
Ms. Mendez: Could we have a copy, pretty please, because we don't know what
you're referring got right now.
William Riley: And Madam Chair, if it's helpful, I can ver ' -- at least my --
Ms. Mendez: If you know what he's talking about, that would be great.
Chair King: Please.
Mr. Riley: So, at -- about two years ago, when the Centner preschool got approved,
they had enough property and enough parking to be self-sufficient on one site. There's
a T3 property next door which is under your consideration today as a rezoning from
T3-L to T4-L. T3 and T4 both allow educational uses only by exception. We had to
come before this body and ask for a special exception in order to be able to utilize the
T3 property. And by the way, the preschool is a T4 property, so both of them had to
come for a special exception in order to get approval for a school. So, I believe that's
what Mr. Kemp is referring to. We got that approval. The T3 does allow it through
exception, just like T4.
Mr. Kemp: No, T3 did not allow what you wanted to use it for.
Chair King: Hold on, hold on. Hold on, hold on. Victoria.
Ms. Mendez.: We're waiting for the -- oh, do we have --? We're getting --
Mr. Hannon: We're making copies of the resolution.
Ms. Mendez: We're getting a copy right now.
Chair King: Okay.
Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: Madam Chairwoman, I have a pocket item. It's
just an amendment, a HUD (Department of Housing and Urban Development) rider
amendment to the UNI project that we passed on 7th Avenue in the Omni CRA
(Community Redevelopment Agency) already. It's just a -- for the covenant, the City
needs a HUD rider on, and we can bring that up and just pass it. It's technical in
nature. I think everybody should have a copy of it.
Chair King: (INAUDIBLE).
Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: Yeah, everybody should have a copy of it.
Chair King: Go ahead, Mr. Snow.
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David Snow (Assistant Director, Planning): So, the exception was specific for the use
that's there today. So, that's what that exception was for, and there were specific
conditions associated with that use request.
Mr. Kemp: There were --
Chair King: And what is happening today will not --
Mr. Snow: So, to --
Chair King: -- (INAUDIBLE) that exception?
Mr. Snow: That --
Mr. Kemp: The problem is that that exception is allowing T3 to be used because --
only because this is an educational facility that that exception applied, and that's
what was told in 2019. And that was the reason why they allowed them to use this T3
for the staff to park there with several different criterias [sic] that they had to meet.
However, my concern with this is that if, in fact, you guys do change this zone, they're
going to still be allowed the same exception for the adjacent T3, which means that
they can continue to consume the entire block with this exception as long as they keep
presenting it next to a T3 -- to a T4. And that's a problem for the neighborhood
because we're going to be in a big situation where we're just going to be overcome by
the school. And that was one of the reasons why at that meeting in 2019, Mr. Riley
decided that he was not going to pursue the zoning change that he was requesting at
that time to ask for a T4 and just said that, okay, we're not required -- we don't need
it. We're going to utilize the exception that the City is presenting to us, and that was
how that went at that time. But obviously, they're forgetting a fact that this resolution
was in place and that he also signed this. And I'm wondering why they're even asking
for it and why the City would even allow them to get a T4. This is something that
should never happen.
Chair King: Mr. Snow, can you answer that question?
Mr. Snow: Yes, right. So, Mr. Kemp is correct. There is an exception for the use. And
within that exception, there are conditions that limits those T3 parcels --
Mr. Kemp: Correct.
Mr. Snow: -- for parking. Today, before you is a rezone application for those parcels.
Within that rezone application, the applicant has proffered a covenant to limit the
uses that can -- that are allowed on that site, and that's what this covenant is for, to
further limit those uses that you mentioned.
Mr. Kemp: That covenant does not address the fact that they will not be using it for an
educational facility. They will not be using it for any type of -- that's not pertaining to
this particular property. And because of the fact that the resolution and the exception
only allow them to use it for parking at the time because of the fact that they were
required to have additional parking that they were not able to supply, however, the
residential property that was next door that they knocked down a building and utilized
it for parking was an exception by the City. So, if this is something that's going to be
continued, the property next door to it, again, would be an exception that they'll be
able to utilize it for the same reasoning and they can consume the entire block,
property by property, by doing the same thing. The covenant that he's doing today
does not have on there no educational facility, no school, no daycare. That's not in
that covenant. And the thing is that you guys are grouping them both together,
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property one and two, which they're totally different conditions. The Centner property
and the Courtney property are two different situations. The Courtney property, I can
understand what's going on with that one. As much as 1 really don't like to have
zoning changed in our neighborhood, I'm willing to accept the Courtney property
zoning change because I feel that will be beneficial to the neighborhood. However,
the Centner property change that they're asking for, 20 Northwest 42nd Street,
should, without a doubt, be denied. And that's based on the criteria that this was set
up in 2019. Why come and ask for another zoning change? And before, on the last
meeting, he said that I said that they would not be coming back asking for a zoning
change. In the meeting, I never stated that. And 1 brought that to his attention after the
meeting, which he agreed to. But in -- before you guys, he said 1 lied. And I really
don't like somebody to do that because 1 come before you and what 1 state to you, if I
can't prove it as a fact, I'm not going to fabricate it.
Chair King: (INAUDIBLE). So, what I asked was the covenant and this exception,
does it run afoul to what happened in 2019?
Mr. Snow: So, the covenant restricts the property further because there are more uses
that are limited. Now, if Mr. Kemp is asking for additional uses to be added, then
that's something that the applicant may consider.
Chair King: Mr. Riley.
Mr. Riley: Yes, ma'am. So, I just wanted to be brief but 1 wanted to explain some
items and address Mr. Kemp's concerns. So, there are a difference between the
Courtney covenant and there's a difference between the Centner covenant. And
there's a really specific reason for that. The only difference is the educational
component. If I covenant it and I said it didn't have educational on that T3 lot, then I
would run afoul of the 2018 special exception because it allows us to have
educational parking there, and we need that parking to operate the school. So, that's
the difference. Secondarily, Mr. Kemp said if you grant the T3 to T4, then the next T3
will be rezoned. I haven't asked for a waiver of the 18-month period. We don't own
the lot next door. If the lot next door came before this board, it wouldn't qualify for a
rezoning. It doesn't meet the minimum requirements in your Code of 200 linear feet
and 40,000 square feet of land area. And I think that addresses the comments. And
I'm happy to answer any questions.
Mr. Kemp: That really didn't address --
Chair King: That -- Mr. Kemp, please, let's (UNINTELLIGIBLE) because --
Mr. Winker: Yes, please.
Chair King: -- I allowed you time.
Mr. Winker: Thank you.
Mr. Kemp: Okay.
Mr. Winker: Thank you, everybody.
Chair King: You need to allow your --
Mr. Kemp: Okay, I understand. There was one other item on this form where he said
he got the abutting neighbor's signature on it. The abutting neighbor has a power of
attorney which is Allen McPhee. The persons that's signing the paperwork as the
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abutting is not the person who has power of attorney of the abutting property. 1 have a
copy of his power of attorney and that's not the same signature.
Chair King: Can you enter that into the record?
Mr. Winker: And Chair, when you have a chance, I'd like to make a couple comments.
Chair King: Please, can you make your comments now? Go ahead.
Mr. Winker: Yes, ma'am. Good morning, everybody. This has been a long process.
And we really think that this issue should be bifurcated into the two properties. The
Centner and the Courtney building are very different, as you heard. And what is
happening here is we've been able to come to an agreement on the Courtney property.
Not everyone's happy; it's a classic negotiation. He gave up some stuff, the neighbors
gave up some stuff and we are ready to move forward on that. But Centner; we've not
been able to come to agreement. They have not worked with us on this. We've had no
meetings with them. And we would ask that you guys deny that change. You guys were
just talking about parking in residential neighborhoods. This school is going to
consume a residential neighborhood. It's not right. And we 'd ask you to deny it. And
that is consistent with the unanimous negative vote at the PZAB (Planning and Zoning
Advisory Board). You know, your PZAB recommended a unanimous denial of this.
And we'd ask that you respect that and, you know, let's go back to the drawing table
and see if the neighbors can come to an agreement with them. But we would ask that
you deny that one and that you would approve the Courtney with the conditions that
we've been able to work out with Mr. Courtney.
Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: Madam Chair, I would like to call the question.
Chair King: I'm waiting for (INAUDIBLE).
Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: Oh, okay.
Chair King: I'm just waiting to get the information that Mr. Kemp (INAUDIBLE). Mr.
City Clerk.
Mr. Hannon: Oh, so you would like us to make copies of what he's --
Chair King: Yes.
Mr. Hannon: -- submitting into the record.
Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: Who's that little thing sitting over there? Yes.
(COMMENTS MADE OFF THE RECORD)
Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: How are you? Who are you? Hi, welcome. Don't
get into politics. You're having fun?
Unidentified Speaker: Yes.
Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: Good.
Arthur Noriega (City Manager): He only says that because he doesn't want
competition.
Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: Yes, definitely give me some competition there,
that's for sure. Abbott, where's Stanley's daughter? Stanley's daughter. I think she's
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in my office. Let her come over here so you could see her. Where's your daughter?
Yeah, 1 didn't see you hiding back there behind Noriega, so I didn't see you. There
you go.
(COMMENTS MADE OFF THE RECORD)
Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: Are you protecting Noriega? Because they've been
writing some negative stuff about him lately, so you got to be careful. Oh, he's the one
-- okay. That's why we need more sergeants. Now he needs protection too.
Mr. Kemp: By the way, Buena Vista East Historic District asked me to also speak on
their behalf because they're also in favor of what 1'in asking for.
Chair King: Mr. Kemp, they needed to be here. You can't just speak on their behalf.
They needed to be here. I was also just advised by the City Attorney that we can 't pass
the Courtney portion and not the Centner portion because they're all in one so I can't
separate the two.
Mr. Kemp: They're actually, two P -- separate PZ items. They're PZ.1 and PZ.2.
Chair King.: No.
Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: No.
Chair King: Victoria -- because 1 asked. Victoria, could you respond to that?
George Wysong (Assistant City Attorney, Supervisor): The difference -- George
Wysong. The difference between PZ. 1 and PZ.2 is one is a zoning change, and one is
a land use change.
Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: Of course.
Mr. Wysong: But for the -- both for the same properties.
Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: It's the same thing.
Mr. Kemp: I really didn't catch all of that. Excuse me, sir, the mic.
Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: I did call the question.
Mr. Wysong: What I was saying was there's PZ 1 and PZ.2. One is a zoning change,
and one is a land use change, but they both change the same properties. So, they're
not for separate properties. They're for the same properties. One's a zoning change,
and one's a land use change.
Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: So, we have a special --
Mr. Kemp: But they're different owners.
Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: One second. I have something a little bit more
important right now. We have a special guest, Stanley's daughter. Are you going to
introduce yourself and say hello to the Commissioners? That's our Madam
Chairwoman there, Commissioner King.
Unidentified Speaker: Hello.
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Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: Commissioner Russell, Commissioner Carollo, and
Commissioner Reyes. So, introduce yourself.
Unidentified Speaker: Hi. My name is Serenity.
Applause.
Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: I think that's where the real competition is going
to come from, by the way. You happy to be here with your dad?
Unidentified Speaker: Yes.
Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: Good, awesome. You're having fun?
Unidentified Speaker: Yes.
Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: Good, awesome. You look beautiful today.
Unidentified Speaker: Thank you.
Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: I love your hair.
Unidentified Speaker: Thank you.
Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: Okay, welcome. Welcome to Miami, City of Miami.
Chair King: Does everyone have a copy of --?
Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: Okay, so it's been -- I called the question, I think.
Ms. Mendez: Commissioner, Commissioner, there may be an amendment to what I
told you. Just one second. I thought they were all -- two different owners and one
property, but apparently, there's multiples properties. So, give -- one second.
Chair King: Okay.
Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: Can I do my pocket item, my rider -- HUD riders --
to get that out of the way? Just do that and get it --
Chair King: Let's finish this one.
Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: Okay, all right. okay.
Ms. Mendez: Mr. Kemp, we just want to figure out what you're asking so that we can
advise the Chair appropriately.
Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: Now, someone is getting jealous, by the way, in the
audience. I think that someone over there is getting jealous in the audience -- right? --
that he wants to come up and introduce himself too, so why don't you come up here.
Add some levity to this beautiful process that we engage in. Come, come.
(INAUDIBLE) in my district. Oh, wow. This is Pedro. So, he's going to introduce
himself. Go ahead.
Pedro Villa: Hello. My name is Pedro.
Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: And?
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Mr. Villa: My last name is Villa.
Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: Pedro Villa. And you have something at Grapeland
Park, right?
Mr. Villa: Yes. (UNINTELLIGIBLE) baseball game at Grapeland Park.
Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: Today?
Mr. Villa: Yes, sir.
Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: What time?
Mr. Villa: I -- it's in the afternoon at some time. 1 don't know yet, but I know that it's
in the afternoon.
Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: Do you play soccer at all?
Mr. Villa: Yeah. I play soccer with my brother in the backyard sometimes.
Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: Wow. So, you're going to the baseball park over at
Grapeland. It's my district, you know that?
Mr. Villa: Yes.
Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: Maybe I'll pass by.
Mr. Villa: Okay.
Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: If your dad gives me a ride, I'll pass by. How
about that?
Mr. Villa: Okay.
Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: Okay? Welcome to the City of Miami. A big round
of applause for him too, right?
Applause.
Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: Bye, Pedro. I love that innocence. I wish you had
some of that still when you get older, right?
Chair King: Victoria, you said you had an amendment to your statement?
Mr. Wysong: You want me to --?
Chair King: George.
Mr. Wysong: Yeah, so just sort of globally. This is -- the initial application was for
three properties, right, 19 -- let me read the addresses real quick. So, there's three
properties that are affected: 19 Northwest 41 Street, 20 Northwest 42 Street, and 4136
North Miami Avenue. The legislation as written is denying the larger property, which
is 4136 North Miami Avenue and approving 19 Northwest 41 Street and 20 Northwest
42 Street. What the intervenor, Mr. Kemp, is asking is that you also deny 20
Northwest 42. So, you could bifurcate the legislation if you find there's competent
substantial evidence not to amend the zoning and the land use there, or you could just
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approve both of them. But his request is, I guess, appropriate if you wanted to sort of
approve and deny.
Chair King: (INAUDIBLE).
Mr. Wysong: And he's not a true intervenor.
Mr. Riley: Yes, Madam Chair. And just wanted to -- the City Attorney, after you
reminded me, I missed something in my presentation. So, as a cooperation with the
neighbors, we actually are supporting the denial of one of the Centner's properties,
the largest portion of the property, the one on the corner of North Miami Avenue and
42nd Street, 4136. We did that. We also entered into the covenant restricting 18
different uses on the property. But we do ask the Commission to approve the smaller
surface parking lot.
Chair King: Okay, thank you. I believe my colleague had called the question --
Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: Yes.
Chair King: -- four times.
Mr. Hannon: Chair.
Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: Four times.
Chair King: All in favor?
Mr. Hannon: Chair, Chair, Chair.
Chair King: I'm sorry.
Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: Oh, here we go.
Mr. Hannon: First, I need a mover and seconder.
Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: I --
Mr. Hannon: We also need to read both titles into the record.
Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: I will move it.
Chair King: I thought we had a --
Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: I thought I had moved it already, and there was a
seconder.
Chair King: Yeah, for sure.
Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: So, I'll move it. I'll move it.
Mr. Hannon: Remember, that motion was on 1, 2, 3 and 4. And then we took out 3 and
4. So, now we're --
Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: Okay, so --
Mr. Hannon: -- just back to a clean slate with Land 2.
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Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: All right, so 1 will move it. I will move it.
Chair King: Do 1 have a second?
Commissioner Russell: I'll defer to the district Commissioner.
Chair King: I'll second it.
Mr. Hannon: Now --
Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: Okay.
Chair King: Now, Commissioner, I need Victoria to read it into the record.
Mr. Hannon: Right. And are there any amendments?
Mr. Wysong: There will be a modification to PZ.2 and the substitution memo that was
already entered into the record.
Chair King: Can we check and see if Commissioner Reyes wants to be here for this
vote?
(COMMENTS MADE OFF THE RECORD)
Chair King: Come on.
Commissioner Reyes: (INAUDIBLE).
Chair King: I'll wait.
Mr. Wysong: Okay, ready?
Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: If yot're going to miss a vote, let it not he this one,
please.
Chair King: Do you have something --?
Mr. Wysong: I want to read the title.
Chair King: Go ahead. Read the title.
Mr. Wysong: PZ.1.
The Ordinance was read by title into the public record by Assistant City Attorney
George Wysong.
Mr. Wysong: PZ.2.
The Ordinance was read by title into the public record by Assistant City Attorney
George Wysong.
Mr. Kemp: Chair.
Chair King: All --
Mr. Kemp: You guys are aware the PZ Board unanimously, 8-1, denied both of those
parcels?
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Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: The question has been called, I think.
Chair King: Yes, and I believe that because of the withdrawal (INAUDIBLE) now,
correct?
Mr. Riley: Yes, Madam Chair.
Chair King: Okay. Call the question. All in favor?
The Commission (Collectively): Aye.
Chair King: Motion passes.
Mr. Hannon: As amended.
Chair King: As amended.
Mr. Riley: Thank you, Madam Chair. Thank you, Commissioners.
Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: Thank you, Mr. Riley.
PZ.2 ORDINANCE Second Reading
11083 AN ORDINANCE OF THE MIAMI CITY COMMISSION AMENDING THE
Department of ZONING ATLAS OF ORDINANCE NO. 13114, THE ZONING
Planning ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF MIAMI, FLORIDA, AS AMENDED, BY
CHANGING THE ZONING CLASSIFICATION FROM "T3-L," SUB-
URBAN TRANSECT ZONE — LIMITED, TO "T4-L," GENERAL URBAN
TRANSECT ZONE — LIMITED, FOR THE PROPERTIES LOCATED AT
19 NORTHWEST 41 STREET AND DENYING THE APPLICATION
FOR ZONING CHANGE FOR THE PROPERTY LOCATED AT
APPROXIMATELY 20 NORTHWEST 42 STREET FROM "T4-L,"
GENERAL URBAN TRANSECT ZONE — LIMITED, TO "T5-O," URBAN
CENTER TRANSECT ZONE — OPEN, FOR THE PROPERTY
LOCATED AT 4136 NORTH MIAMI AVENUE, ALL AS MORE
PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED IN EXHIBIT "A"; MAKING FINDINGS;
CONTAINING A SEVERABILITY CLAUSE; AND PROVIDING FOR AN
EFFECTIVE DATE.
ENACTMENT NUMBER: 14064
MOTION TO: Adopt with Modification(s)
RESULT: ADOPTED WITH MODIFICATION(S)
MOVER: Alex Diaz de Ia Portilla, Commissioner
SECONDER: Christine King, Commissioner
AYES: King, Carollo, Russell, Diaz de Ia Portilla, Reyes
Note for the Record: For minutes referencing Item Number PZ.2, please see
"Public Comments for allltem(s)" and Item Number PZ.1.
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PZ.3 ORDINANCE First Reading
11324 AN ORDINANCE OF THE MIAMI CITY COMMISSION AMENDING
ORDINANCE NO. 10544, AS AMENDED, THE FUTURE LAND USE
Department of
Planning MAP OF THE MIAMI COMPREHENSIVE NEIGHBORHOOD PLAN,
PURSUANT TO SMALL SCALE AMENDMENT PROCEDURES
SUBJECT TO SECTION 163.3187, FLORIDA STATUTES, BY
CHANGING THE FUTURE LAND USE DESIGNATION FROM
"MEDIUM DENSITY RESTRICTED COMMERCIAL" TO "RESTRICTED
COMMERCIAL" OF THE ACREAGE DESCRIBED HEREIN OF THE
REAL PROPERTIES AT 8038 NORTHEAST 2 AVENUE (WESTERN
PORTION) AND 165 NORTHEAST 80 TERRACE, MIAMI, FLORIDA,
ALL AS MORE PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED IN EXHIBIT "A"; MAKING
FINDINGS; CONTAINING A SEVERABILITY CLAUSE; AND
PROVIDING FOR AN EFFECTIVE DATE.
MOTION TO: Pass on First Reading
RESULT: PASSED ON FIRST READING
MOVER: Alex Diaz de Ia Portilla, Commissioner
SECONDER: Manolo Reyes, Commissioner
AYES: King, Carollo, Russell, Diaz de Ia Portilla, Reyes
Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: Madam Chair, while they fix that, can 1 just move
PZ.3 and 4? Can I withdraw my motion and just move PZ.3 and 4?
Chair King: Yes.
Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: Okay, so let me move PZ.3 and 4.
Chair King: Hold on a second.
Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: Commissioners.
Chair King: Commissioners, can we move 3 and 4 while we try to straighten out 1
and 2?
Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: Okay.
Chair King: Motion, second.
Todd B. Hannon (City Clerk): Chair, who's the seconder?
Victoria Mendez (City Attorney): Yeah.
Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: Yes.
Chair King: Who seconded?
Mr. Hannon: Commissioner Reyes.
Chair King: Commissioner Reyes.
Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: Commissioner Reyes.
Chair King: All in favor?
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Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: Aye.
Mr. Hannon: Chair, there's a title that needs to be read in the record.
Ms. Mendez: Right, so the title and then the applicant, anyone has to --
Chair King: Is anyone here to speak on behalf of PZ.3 and 4?
Edward Martos: Only if you need me to. Edward Martos, Officer at 2525 Ponce de
Leon Boulevard. Thank you.
Chair King: I don't think so.
Ms. Mendez: So, PZ.3?
Chair King: 3 and 4.
Ms. Mendez: PZ.3.
The Ordinance was read by title into the public record by the City Attorney.
Ms. Mendez: That's PZ.3. And PZ.4.
The Ordinance was read by title into the public record by the City Attorney.
Chair King: All in favor?
The Commission (Collectively): Aye.
Chair King: Motion carries unanimously.
PZ.4 ORDINANCE First Reading
11325 AN ORDINANCE OF THE MIAMI CITY COMMISSION AMENDING THE
Department of ZONING ATLAS OF ORDINANCE NO. 13114, THE ZONING
Planning ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF MIAMI, FLORIDA, AS AMENDED, BY
CHANGING THE ZONING CLASSIFICATION FROM "T5-O," URBAN
CENTER -OPEN, TO "T6-8-O," URBAN CORE -OPEN, FOR THE
PROPERTIES LOCATED AT APPROXIMATELY 8038 NORTHEAST 2
AVENUE (WESTERN PORTION) AND 165 NORTHEAST 80 TERRACE
MIAMI, FLORIDA, ALL AS MORE PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED IN
EXHIBIT "A"; MAKING FINDINGS; CONTAINING A SEVERABILITY
CLAUSE; AND PROVIDING FOR AN EFFECTIVE DATE.
MOTION TO: Pass on First Reading
RESULT: PASSED ON FIRST READING
MOVER: Alex Diaz de Ia Portilla, Commissioner
SECONDER: Manolo Reyes, Commissioner
AYES: King, Carollo, Russell, Diaz de Ia Portilla, Reyes
Note for the Record: For minutes referencing Item Number PZ.4, please see Item
Number PZ.3.
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PZ.5
8166
ORDINANCE
MAY BE DEFERRED
First Reading
Commissioners AN ORDINANCE OF THE MIAMI CITY COMMISSION AMENDING
and Mayor- PZ ARTICLE 1, SECTION 1.1 OF ORDINANCE NO. 13114, THE ZONING
ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF MIAMI, FLORIDA, AS AMENDED
("MIAMI 21 CODE"), TITLED "DEFINITIONS/DEFINITIONS OF
BUILDING FUNCTION: USES," AND SECTION 1.2 OF THE MIAMI 21
CODE, TITLED "DEFINITIONS//DEFINITIONS OF TERMS"; ARTICLE
3, SECTION 3.4 OF THE MIAMI 21 CODE, TITLED "GENERAL TO
ZONES/DENSITY AND INTENSITY CALCULATIONS"; ARTICLE 4,
TABLE 3 OF THE MIAMI 21 CODE, TITLED "STANDARDS AND
TABLES/BUILDING FUNCTION: USES," AND TABLE 4, TITLED
"STANDARD AND TABLES/DENSITY, INTENSITY AND PARKING";
ARTICLE 6, TABLE 13 OF THE MIAMI 21 CODE, TITLED
"SUPPLEMENTAL REGULATIONS"; AND ARTICLE 7, SECTION 7.2,
TITLED "PROCEDURES AND
NONCONFORMITIES/NONCONFORMITIES: STRUCTURES; USES;
LOTS; SITE IMPROVEMENTS; AND SIGNS", TO ALLOW AND
ESTABLISH DEFINITIONS AND REGULATIONS FOR CO -LIVING
RESIDENTIAL USES AND TO MODIFY THE REGULATIONS FOR
MICRO DWELLING UNITS; MAKING FINDINGS; CONTAINING A
SEVERABILITY CLAUSE; AND PROVIDING FOR AN EFFECTIVE
DATE.
MOTION TO: Indefinitely Defer
RESULT: INDEFINITELY DEFERRED
MOVER: Ken Russell, Commissioner
SECONDER: Manolo Reyes, Commissioner
AYES: King, Russell, Reyes
ABSENT: Carollo, Diaz de la Portilla
Note for the Record: For minutes referencing Item Number PZ.5, please see "Order
of the Day."
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PZ.6 ORDINANCE Second Reading
10957 AN ORDINANCE OF THE MIAMI CITY COMMISSION, WITH
Department of ATTACHMENT(S), AMENDING ORDINANCE NO. 10544, AS
Planning AMENDED, THE FUTURE LAND USE MAP OF THE MIAMI
COMPREHENSIVE NEIGHBORHOOD PLAN, PURSUANT TO SMALL
SCALE AMENDMENT PROCEDURES SUBJECT TO SECTION
163.3187, FLORIDA STATUTES, BY CHANGING THE FUTURE LAND
USE DESIGNATION FROM "LOW DENSITY RESTRICTED
COMMERCIAL" TO "MEDIUM DENSITY RESTRICTED COMMERCIAL"
OF THE APPROXIMATELY 1.75 ACRES DESCRIBED HEREIN OF
REAL PROPERTIES LOCATED AT 600 NORTHWEST 42 AVENUE,
4251, 4253, AND 4255 NORTHWEST 6 STREET, AND 601
NORTHWEST 43 AVENUE, MIAMI, FLORIDA, ALL AS MORE
PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED IN EXHIBIT "A"; MAKING FINDINGS;
AND PROVIDING FOR AN EFFECTIVE DATE.
MOTION TO: Continue
RESULT: CONTINUED
MOVER: Joe Carollo, Commissioner
SECONDER: Ken Russell, Commissioner
AYES: King, Carollo, Diaz de la Portilla, Russell, Reyes
Note for the Record: Item PZ.6 was continued to the May 26, 2022, City
Commission Meeting.
Chair King: I'm sorry, ma'am.
Ines Marrero: Yes. Hi, good morning, Madam Chair. My name is Ines Marrero. I'm
an attorney with offices at 701 Brickell Avenue. I'm here this morning on Items PZ.6
and PZ.7. And we would like to request a deferral of this item with the support of the
Administration. I don't know if this is the proper time or you want to have the PZ
(Planning and Zoning) agenda.
(COMMENTS MADE OFF THE RECORD)
Ms. Marrero: 6 and 7, they are on second reading. We had submitted a covenant and
we understand that staff has not had sufficient time to review it for it to come back
before you.
Vice Chair Carollo: I agree to it.
Chair King: Okay. Can I have --?
Commissioner Russell: I'll second it.
Chair King: Motion and second. All in favor?
Commissioner Russell: What date?
Ms. Marrero: For the 26th, May 26th.
Chair King: May 26th.
Unidentified Speaker: Okay.
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Chair King: Okay. All in favor?
The Commission (Collectively): Aye.
Chair King: Motion carries unanimously. PZ.6 and 7 is deferred until May 26
Commission meeting.
Ms. Marrero: Thank you very much.
Chair King: You're welcome. Thank you.
Ms. Marrero: Good luck today.
PZ.7 ORDINANCE Second Reading
10958 AN ORDINANCE OF THE MIAMI CITY COMMISSION, WITH
Department of ATTACHMENTS, AMENDING THE ZONING ATLAS OF ORDINANCE
NO. 13114, THE ZONING ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF MIAMI,
Planning FLORIDA, AS AMENDED ("MIAMI 21 CODE"), BY CHANGING THE
ZONING CLASSIFICATION FROM "T4-L," GENERAL URBAN
TRANSECT ZONE — LIMITED, TO "T5-L," URBAN CENTER
TRANSECT ZONE —LIMITED, OF THE PROPERTIES GENERALLY
LOCATED AT 600 NORTHWEST 42 AVENUE, 4251, 4253 AND 4255
NORTHWEST 6 STREET, AND 601 NORTHWEST 43 AVENUE,
MIAMI, FLORIDA, ALL AS MORE PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED IN
EXHIBIT "A"; FURTHER ACCEPTING THE VOLUNTARILY
PROFFERED COVENANT, ATTACHED AND INCORPORATED AS
EXHIBIT "B"; MAKING FINDINGS; CONTAINING A SEVERABILITY
CLAUSE; AND PROVIDING FOR AN EFFECTIVE DATE.
MOTION TO: Continue
RESULT: CONTINUED
MOVER: Joe Carollo, Commissioner
SECONDER: Ken Russell, Commissioner
AYES: King, Carollo, Diaz de la Portilla, Russell, Reyes
Note for the Record: Item PZ.7 was continued to the May 26, 2022, City
Commission Meeting.
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PZ.8
11307
ORDINANCE
MAY BE DEFERRED
Second Reading
Commissioners AN ORDINANCE OF THE MIAMI CITY COMMISSION
and Mayor- PZ AMENDING ORDINANCE NO. 13114, THE ZONING
ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF MIAMI, FLORIDA, AS
AMENDED; MORE SPECIFICALLY BY AMENDING TABLE 4,
TITLED "DENSITY, INTENSITY AND PARKING," TO CHANGE
THE METHOD BY WHICH THE PARKING RATIO MAY BE
REDUCED WITHIN A TRANSIT ORIENTED DEVELOPMENT
AREA OR WITHIN A TRANSIT CORRIDOR FROM A WAIVER
PROCESS TO THE PROCESS OF AN EXCEPTION WITH
CITY COMMISSION APPROVAL; CONTAINING A
SEVERABILITY CLAUSE; AND PROVIDING FOR AN
IMMEDIATE EFFECTIVE DATE.
ENACTMENT NUMBER: 14065
MOTION TO: Adopt with Modification(s)
RESULT: ADOPTED WITH MODIFICATION(S)
MOVER: Alex Diaz de Ia Portilla, Commissioner
SECONDER: Joe Carollo, Commissioner
AYES: King, Carollo, Diaz de Ia Portilla, Reyes
NAYS: Russell
Note for the Record: For minutes referencing Item Number PZ.8, please see
"Public Comments for all ltem(s). "
Commissioner Russell: PZ.8? 8? You want to do 8?
Chair King: Would we like to take up PZ.8?
Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: PZ.8?
Vice Chair Carollo: There's going to be an amendment that Commissioner Reyes
wanted to bring up.
Commissioner Reyes: Yes. I would like to carve out the area of DDA (Downtown
Development Authority), downtown, because there are a lot of buildings there that
they never had parking, and if we are going to use this in this ordinance, what is
going to happen, they will have to be demolished. And there are plans to rehab those
buildings. And I would like to carve out that area. It is an area that is very close to -- I
mean, many people leave for the work around there. And those buildings, they will be
Vice Chair Carollo: I will accept that amendment and let me explain why. First of all,
those buildings were created without parking decades ago.
Commissioner Reyes: That's right.
Vice Chair Carollo: Secondly of all, they're within the downtown core --
Commissioner Reyes: That's right.
Vice Chair Carollo: -- where truly, the people that live in those type of smaller
buildings, smaller units, it's an area that truly they use little -- not that many vehicles
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for transportation. Those are the people that use our public transportation the most.
But beyond that, it's in the downtown core that there's ample parking everywhere,
that off-street parking has or private garages has, that if people need it, they're not
going to be parked in the streets. They're not going to be fighting one another to get a
parking space. So, I accept --
Commissioner Reyes: Thank you.
Vice Chair Carollo: -- the amendment.
Victoria Mendez (City Attorney): So, to clarify, Commissioner, I just want to make
sure that I capture your change. It wouldn't be the DDA, it would be the Urban
Central Business District would be the better way to describe it, which is the
downtown, super dense core.
Commissioner Reves: The Central Business --
Ms. Mendez: It a defined boundary that we have.
Commissioner Reves: The Center Business District is within the DDA.
Ms. Mendez: I -- right, but that's --
Unidentified Speaker: That's the greater.
Ms. Mendez: -- the greater of the DD -- you want the greater and not the --
Commissioner Reyes: That's right.
Ms. Mendez: -- just the denser --?
Commissioner Reyes: Yes.
Ms. Mendez: Okay.
Commissioner Reyes: Because there are buildings that they are outside the -- those
are the ones that are important, buildings that are outside the DRI (Development of
Regional Impact).
Chair King: Commissioner?
Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: Since obviously I cannot speak to any
commissioner before. And Commissioner Carollo seems so amenable and so
agreeable this morning. I don't know what the afternoon is going to look like, but I
know that now he's in a very good mood. But I would also make sure that the Omni
CRA (Community Redevelopment Agency) is also included in that, because we have
the same type of situation.
Commissioner Reyes: Yes, sir.
Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: If you're okay with that, Commissioner Carollo.
Commissioner Reyes: Yes, sir.
Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: So, we --
Commissioner Reyes: Well, let's include that.
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Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: So, we include the Omni CRA also moving north.
Vice Chair Carollo: But these two areas --
Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: Yes, sir.
Commissioner Reyes: That's right.
Vice Chair Carollo: -- are set precisely for that.
Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: Correct.
Vice Chair Carollo: These are areas that have high buildings.
Commissioner Reyes: Yeah.
Vice Chair Carollo: They have ample parking in many private or City garages. Many
of the people that live in these areas are the ones that use public transportation.
Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: Yes, sir.
Vice Chair Carollo: Unlike the inner-city areas where we 're having this problem,
serious problems.
Commissioner Russell: Madam Chair?
Chair King: Commissioner Russell.
Commissioner Russell: Thank you. I got clarification from Planning that the UCBD
(Urban Central Business District) is not the CBD (Central Business District). The
CBD is very small. The UCBD goes beyond the DDA, and I think it would probably
be a better capture. I would also ask if you could consider NCD-2 (Neighborhood
Conservation District), which is West Grove. Grand Avenue, Douglas and that US-1
area is something we're really trying to get additional density without additional
costs for affordability. And if that proffer would be accepted, that would be very
helpful for that neighborhood.
Commissioner Reyes: Yeah, I have no problem.
Ms. Mendez: Commissioner, is there any way then --? I mean, these are like all
mapping changes and things. Is there any way we could reset this then and get the
proper descriptions for these three areas?
Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: No, I think -- no, I don 't think we need to do that.
Vice Chair Carollo: No.
Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: It's agreed by the body. You guys then can figure
out what the boundaries look like. We -- I think we agreed that it's the --
Commissioner Reyes: That's right.
Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: -- UCBD, that it's the Omni CRA, that it's the
NZD-2 [sic], right, District 2?
Ms. Mendez: Then can we have five minutes?
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Chair King: So, wait a minute, then. Should I include the Overtown CRA?
Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: You could, yeah.
Chair King: So, let's include the Overtown CRA.
Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: It captures -- yeah.
Commissioner Reyes: That's within -- there are a lot of --
Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: And the Overtown CRA.
Commissioner Reyes: -- old buildings there that --
Chair King: Yes, yes, yes, yes.
Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: So, those four areas are just --
Ms. Mendez: So, can we have --
Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: You know the intent of the Commission.
Ms. Mendez: -- five minutes then to look at all the maps and just make sure that --?
Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: It doesn 't matter. Once we pass it, you do the map.
Commissioner Reyes: In other words, there, in Miami, we have in every
neighborhood, we have buildings that they -- I mean, they are very old, they never had
a parking, you see. And if they are going to be remodeled, if we force them to be -- to
add parking, they will have to demolish them. And that's one thing that I want to
avoid. Those buildings, the new buildings is the one we have the problem.
Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: That's correct.
Chair King: We have someone that would like to say something.
Vice Chair Carollo: Well, he spoke already.
Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: Yes.
Tony Recio: Excuse me, Madam Chair. Yes, I did speak and I'm not going to speak
again. I just want to leave -- to submit this for the record, which is a letter that I sent
to all of you, Commissioners. Thank you.
Chair King: Give it to the City Clerk, please.
Mr. Recio: Thank you so much.
Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: So moved. As amended.
Commissioner Reyes: As amended.
Ms. Mendez: I need all the names then again.
Chair King: We want to be amenable to our City Attorney. If she needs a little bit
more time, please let's afford her that so that we get this right. Is that okay?
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Commissioner Reyes: Okay.
Ms. Mendez: Okay. So, could you at least repeat the -- all the locations?
Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: UCBD, the Omni CRA, the Overtown CRA, the
Downtown Development Authority, if it has some areas that go outside the UCBD,
and District 2 NZ [sic], right?
Commissioner Russell: NCD-2.
Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: NCD-2.
Vice Chair Carollo: The UCBD goes to what areas, Commissioner Russell?
Commissioner Russell: Yeah, I'm sorry?
Vice Chair Carollo: The UCBD goes to what areas?
Commissioner Russell: The Planning Department can describe it better, but it's
basically Greater Downtown. It's more than just this tight, tight corridor.
Chair King: It's more than just the DDA.
Vice Chair Carollo: Okay.
Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: Correct.
Vice Chair Carollo: Greater Downtown.
Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: And the NCD-2.
Vice Chair Carollo: Okay.
Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: Which is the -- those are the four mapping things.
Commissioner Russell: I'm concerned we're missing some where we want to be
encouraging this type of development. The exception process -- here's my concern. I
want to be supportive of good parking policy. But what I want for the development
world is predictability. I'm not necessarily trying to save them money or give them a
gift, but if they don't have predictability, it slows down their investment. If they have
predictability, they will find a way to make their profit. But by creating the exception
process for everybody, I would rather tighten the rules and keep it in the waiver
process versus the exception because that means every one of those is going to have to
come to here, and it becomes a political decision versus a policy decision that was
already established. And so that's the only reason I have trouble with the ordinance
as a whole.
Vice Chair Carollo: Right.
Commissioner Russell: I want predictability so they can move fast and create housing
fast under whatever policy we agree by the majority' is the right parking policy.
Vice Chair Carollo: Look, we have areas --
Commissioner Reyes: That's right.
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Vice Chair Carollo: -- that are getting just killed by having no parking. And frankly,
Commissioner, what bothers me the most is that if this is going to make such a huge
difference, I haven't seen it. None of us have seen it. But you know what? The profits
that smaller developers are making it's, you know, quite significant. So, I'm seeing
this as a tool so that some developers can make more money, add more units without
having to put parking, and we're getting the pain of it. I submit to you, come to my
neck of the woods one night, go to Commissioner Reyes' --
Commissioner Russell: All the on -street parking.
Vice Chair Carollo: -- yeah -- and you're going to find that there's no parking in the
neighborhoods. People are fighting to get parking spaces. And part of it is already
built in and we're stuck with it for whatever reason, commissions back in the '20s,
`30s would approve these little square, three-story housing units that had 25, 30, 35
units with absolutely no parking. So, if on top of that, we're going to be doing the
same thing to get more units, it's just not workable. Because as much as we like in
working-class neighborhoods, because this is not New York, Chicago, Philadelphia,
Boston, cities that have been established since basically the founding of our country,
where they planned sufficient public transportation. We don't have that in Miami -
Dade, where you could get someone from Point A to Point Z, and people still depend
on their cars. And no matter what they tell us, until we built enough public
transportation to connect people, we're going to have that problem. This is why this is
one of the areas that later in the year that I want to revisit to see at least within City
of Miami proper, we could create that public transportation to connect our whole city
and then probably encourage the County to take it from the end of Commissioner
Reyes' District all the way to FIU (Florida International University) and cut through
Sweetwater to bring it to Doral and maybe use it to go south in addition. But right
now, what we have is not sufficient for anyone that lives not just in the city of Miami,
but in Miami -Dade County as a whole, to move around. You could use public
transportation for a segment, but then what do you do? And this is why so many
people in working class neighborhoods have cars, because it's not a luxury for them,
it's a must to be able to earn a living and survive.
Commissioner Reyes: Madam Chair, I want to add to --
Chair King: Commissioner.
Commissioner Reyes: -- I want to add to what Commissioner Carollo just stated. I
heard all the comments, you see, that this is going to curtail development and blah,
blah, blah, all of those things. I don't believe so. Developers develop. They are not
going to become restaurateurs or anything. They develop, and that's the only thing
they know how to do. They're going to develop. But the truth of the matter is that
every time that you use the transportation and people using, I mean, using public
transportation as an excuse to build more apartments without parking, that is not
real. We don't have a decent, not even a decent transportation system, mass transit
system here. And the other day I was talking to a couple of county commissioners, and
I told them, I said, what we have to do instead of trying to fight each other, I mean,
let's eliminate parking, let's build bike lanes, let's build -- I mean, let's make this a
pedestrian and cyclist city. That's impossible. That's not going to happen. What we
have to do is, and I think that all cities and the county, we have to get together and
develop a decent mass transit system. Then that will work, you see? And I think that it
is -- it is -- it is the -- I think it is the duty of all cities and the county that we take --
should take the lead and we shall start, I don't know, sharing the cost according to
what we are, I mean, our size, I don't know, but work together. Work together and
have an objective of developing a decent transportation system in Dade County. If
not, I will agree with Commissioner Carollo, we will go a la Hialeah, which did the
Conchitas -- you remember that? -- and we might bring a transportation -- I mean,
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maybe a bus system or small bus or jitneys, whatever, within the city of Miami. But
until we have a decent transportation system, we are not going to solve the problem
that we have with traffic and parking, and we should concentrate on developing that
system.
Vice Chair Carollo: I call the question, Madam Chair.
Todd B. Hannon (City Clerk): Chair?
Ms. Mendez: Commissioner?
Chair King: Hold on, hold on. The City Attorney has to read into the record the title
for PZ. 8.
Mr. Hannon: And Chair, who is the seconder? I have Commissioner Diaz de la
Portilla moving it with all amendments, but I do not have a seconder.
Chair King: Vice Chair is the second, yes.
Vice Chair Carollo: Second.
Ms. Mendez: 1 just wanted to confirm then by adding these carve -outs, these carve -
outs that were picked by the Commission, these will stay as the law is right now,
correct?
Chair King: Correct.
Ms. Mendez: Okay.
The Ordinance was read by title into the public record by the City Attorney.
Chair King: All in favor?
The Commission (Collectively): Aye.
Commissioner Russell: Respectfully, I'm a no.
Chair King: Motion carries, 4-1.
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Planning
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ORDINANCE
AN ORDINANCE OF THE MIAMI CITY COMMISSION AMENDING
CHAPTER 2 OF THE CODE OF THE CITY OF MIAMI, FLORIDA,
AS AMENDED, TITLED "ADMINISTRATION"; MORE
SPECIFICALLY, BY AMENDING SECTION 2-1328.1 OF DIVISION
21 OF ARTICLE XI TITLED "WYNWOOD DESIGN REVIEW
COMMITTEE" TO AMEND THE REQUIREMENTS FOR
QUALIFICATIONS AND TERMS OF OFFICE FOR MEMBERS OF
THE WYNWOOD DESIGN REVIEW COMMITTEE AND TO AMEND
THE FUNCTIONS, POWERS, AND DUTIES OF THE WYNWOOD
DESIGN REVIEW COMMITTEE; CONTAINING A SEVERABILITY
CLAUSE; AND PROVIDING FOR AN EFFECTIVE DATE.
RESULT: NO ACTION TAKEN
ORDINANCE
AN ORDINANCE OF THE MIAMI CITY COMMISSION AMENDING
ARTICLE 6 "SUPPLEMENTAL REGULATIONS" AND APPENDIX J:
WYNWOOD NEIGHBORHOOD REVITALIZATION DISTRICT
("NRD-1") OF ORDINANCE NO. 13114 ("MIAMI 21 CODE"), AS
AMENDED, MORE SPECIFICALLY BY AMENDING ARTICLE 6,
TITLED "SUPPLEMENTAL REGULATIONS" TABLE 13, APPENDIX
J SECTION 2, TITLED "PURPOSE AND INTENT", APPENDIX J
SECTION 3, TITLED "GENERAL TO ZONES", APPENDIX J
SECTION 4, TITLED "STANDARDS AND TABLES" AND APPENDIX
J SECTION 5, TITLED "SPECIFIC TO ZONES", TO ESTABLISH A
PROGRAM FOR MICRO DWELLING UNITS IN THE WYNWOOD
NEIGHBORHOOD REVITALIZATION DISTRICT ("NRD-1"); TO
AMEND THE SCOPE OF REVIEW OF THE WYNWOOD DESIGN
REVIEW COMMITTEE ("WDRC"); TO AMEND THE OFF-STREET
PARKING REQUIREMENTS RELATING TO EXISTING
STRUCTURES AND FOR NEW SMALL-SCALE DEVELOPMENT;
TO AMEND THE REQUIREMENTS OF ATTAINABLE MIXED
INCOME DEVELOPMENTS; TO AMEND THE SMALL BUILDING
PARKING STANDARDS; TO AMEND ROOFTOP DEVELOPMENT
STANDARDS; AND TO AMEND THE REQUIREMENTS FOR
PAINTED ART MURALS; CONTAINING A SEVERABILITY CLAUSE
AND PROVIDING FOR AN EFFECTIVE DATE.
RESULT: NO ACTION TAKEN
END OF FUTURE LEGISLATION
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RESOLUTION
A RESOLUTION OF THE MIAMI CITY COMMISSION, WITH
ATTACHMENT(S), AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO
EXECUTE A HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT ("HUD")
RIDER TO DECLARATION OF RESTRICTIVE COVENANTS WITH
THE CITY OF MIAMI FOR THE AFFORDABLE HOUSING
DEVELOPMENT LOCATED AT APPROXIMATELY 90 NORTHEAST
17 STREET, 70 NORTHEAST 17 STREET, AND 1642 NORTHEAST
1 AVENUE, MIAMI, FLORIDA, IN SUBSTANTIALLY THE
ATTACHED FORM.
ENACTMENT NUMBER: R-22-0155
MOTION TO: Adopt
RESULT: ADOPTED
MOVER: Manolo Reyes, Commissioner
SECONDER: Alex Diaz de Ia Portilla, Commissioner
AYES: King, Carollo, Russell, Diaz de Ia Portilla, Reyes
Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: I have my pocket item, which is the --
Chair King: Can you --? Where's --? George, can you read the pocket item into the
record, please?
Commissioner Russell: Let me see. Madam Chair, this is another Miami record. Not
even 11..30.
Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: I want to keep it in the morning. I've been telling
her, she's comfortable in her chair. We have lunch in my office, by the way, sushi and
some cooked stuff for you, Commissioner Reyes, if you want something cooked. I have
sushi in my office, butt have some cooked things for you over there.
Chair King: We have right after this meeting, the Overtown CRA (Community
Redevelopment Agency) meeting.
Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: Yes, that'll be fast.
Chair King: But that'll be quick. Wait, the City Clerk is telling me no, no, no. It's
noticed for 12 p.m. or thereafter, so we'll take it up right before the special meeting.
Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: Yeah, at like 2 o'clock or whatever.
Victoria Mendez (City Attorney): Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla, you're asking
about a pocket item?
Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: It's a pocket item, it's a rider clause for the UNI
development at the --
Ms. Mendez: Right, so --
Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: -- Omni CRA.
Ms. Mendez: -- that item I had sent everyone --
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Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: A copy.
Ms. Mendez: -- right, a copy of a subordination agreement, a HUD (Department of
Housing and Urban Development) document that HUD is asking us to sign in order
for HUD to fund the project.
Commissioner Russell: Which one?
Ms. Mendez: The UNI project located at --
Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: 17th Street. It's called the UNI project, the Omni
CRA, which 1 know you were very supportive of. Yes, that's it.
Vice Chair Carollo: Can we have lunch and then come back?
Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: This is not controversial. This is just a technicality.
We can do it in 30 seconds. Is there any controversy?
Ms. Mendez: Right, so I basically said that if there was any objection by the
Commission to bring it to Commission, and if not, we would have the Manager sign
off on the subordination agreement.
Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: Okay, that's it.
Vice Chair Carollo: This is the item you want?
Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: Yes, it's a pocket item. This is a rider clause for
something we already voted unanimously for, which is on 17th Street at the Omni
CRA.
(COMMENTS MADE OFF THE RECORD)
Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: Yeah, it's a covenant.
(COMMENTS MADE OFF THE RECORD)
Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: No, it's not the other one. No, it's not the other
one.
Commissioner Russell: I'll move it.
Chair King: Motion by Commissioner Reyes.
Commissioner Russell: Second.
Chair King: All in favor?
The Commission (Collectively): Aye.
Todd B. Hannon (City Clerk): Chair? Public comment.
Chair King: This item is open for public comment. Anyone wishing to speak on this
item? Seeing none, motion carries.
Ms. Mendez: Thank you.
Chair King: All in favor?
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ADJOURNMENT
The Commission (Collectively): Aye.
Chair King: Motion carries unanimously.
(COMMENTS MADE OFF THE RECORD)
Chair King: We -- right. We'll take it up right after the special --
(COMMENTS MADE OFF THE RECORD)
Chair King: So, the meeting is now adjourned. We will resume -- what time is it?
Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: 2:30.
Chair King: -- at 2:30, and we'll have the Overtown CRA meeting begin at 2:30 and
then the special commission meeting. Thank you, everyone.
The meeting adjourned at 11:26 a.m.
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