HomeMy WebLinkAboutMemorandumCITY OF MIAMI
INTER -OFFICE MEMORANDUM
To: Honorable Members
of the City Commission
From: Todd B. Hannon
City Clerk
Date: September 2, 2025
Subject: Historic and Environmental
Preservation Board
References: Agenda for September 11, 2025
Enclosures: List of members, Application
Summary, Applications and
Resumes
The Historic and Environmental Preservation (HEP) Board administers the environmental and
historic preservation ordinances, and serves as a quasi-judicial instrument in certain areas.
Members of the HEP Board shall be from the electorate of the city and must be experienced
individuals representing specific professions related to the Board's responsibilities. The board
consists of nine members and one alternate member qualified as follows:
• One member shall be an architect registered in the state.
• One member shall be a landscape architect registered in the state.
• One member shall be a historian or architectural historian qualified by means of education or
experience and having demonstrated knowledge and interest in county history or architectural
history.
• One member shall be an architect or architectural historian having demonstrated knowledge
and experience in architectural restoration and historic preservation.
• One member shall be an experienced real estate broker licensed by the state.
• One member shall be a person experienced in the field of business and finance or law.
• Three members shall be citizens with demonstrated knowledge and interest in the historic and
architectural heritage of the city and/or conservation of the natural environment, and may
also qualify under any of the above categories.
• One alternate member shall qualify under one of the above categories.
Our office advertised for applications in a newspaper of general circulation, as required by the City
Code Sec. 62-187(c). Since Board members must be appointed to specific category positions; the
incumbents, categories, and eligible applicants to the category are as listed in the summary sheet and
shown below.
Ten (10) appointments are required at this time:
• Commissioner Miguel Angel Gabela has two (2) nominations for seats currently:
1. Najeeb Campbell, incumbent, Citizen (Category 7), whose term expired on June 18,
2025.
*Eligible applicants for this category are:
Najeeb Campbell
William Hopper
Julie ODell
Jordan Trachtenberg
Ana Perez
2. Jordan Trachtenberg, incumbent, Architect or Architectural Historian (Category
4j, whose term expired on June 14, 2019, has been a member since February 12,
2015, and will require a term waiver by a unanimous (5/5) vote of the Commission.
*Eligible applicants for this category are:
Najeeb Campbell Ana Perez
Jordan Trachtenberg
• Commissioner Damian Pardo has two (2) nominations for seats currently held by:
1. William Hopper, incumbent, Citizen (Category 7), whose term expired on
December 1, 2023, has been a member since March 12, 2011, and will require a
term waiver by a unanimous (5/5) vote of the Commission.
*Eligible applicants for this category are:
Najeeb Campbell
William Hopper
Julie ODell
Jordan Trachtenberg
Ana Perez
2. Julie ODell, incumbent, Real Estate Broker (Category 5), whose term expired on
December 1, 2023.
*Eligible applicant for this category is:
Julie ODell
• Commissioner Joe Carollo has two (2) nominations for seats currently held by:
1. Luis Prieto y Munoz, Business and Finance or Law (Category 6), whose term
expired on June 14, 2019.
*Eligible applicants for this category are:
Jordan Trachtenberg
2. Hugh Ryan, Historian or Architectural Historian (Category 3), whose term expired
on April 14, 2023.
*Eligible applicants for this category are:
Najeeb Campbell
William Hopper
Jordan Trachtenberg
Ana Perez
• Commissioner Ralph "Rafael" Rosado has two (2) nominations for seats currently:
1. Vacant. Architect (Category 1)
*Eligible applicant for this category is:
Jordan Trachtenberg
2. Vacant. Alternate (Category 8)
*Eligible applicants for this category are:
William Hopper Ana Perez
Jordan Trachtenberg
• Commissioner Christine King has two (2) nominations for seats currently held by:
1. Robert J. Powers, incumbent, Citizen (Category 7), whose term expired on June
18, 2025.
*Eligible applicants for this category are:
Najeeb Campbell
William Hopper
Julie ODell
Jordan Trachtenberg
Ana Perez
2. Christopher Cawley, incumbent, Landscape Architect (Category 2), whose term
expired on July 13, 2018, has been a member since July 13, 2017, and will require a
term waiver by a unanimous (5/5) vote of the Commission.
*Eligible applicant for this category is:
Christopher Cawley
For your convenience, we are including a copy of the current membership of said board. By copy of
this memorandum to the Agenda Office, we are requesting that this issue be placed on the September
11, 2025, Commission agenda.
TBH:ne
c: Kenneth Kalmis, Preservation Officer
James Brako, Assistant City Attorney
Miriam M. Santana, Agenda Coordinator