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PLANNING FACT SHEET
City of Miami
Pursuant to discussions in connection with the acceptance
of Record Plats, the City Commission requested that the
administration consider a policy as to whether or not
notification of neighbors would be appropriate in connection
with platting or replatting.
Currently, the City of Miami does not conduct public hearings
in conjunction with the acceptance of a tentative plat by the
Zoning Board or acceptance of a final plat by the City Com-
mission. In recent years, concern has been expressed re-
garding the replatting of large estate lots, particularly in the
southern sector of the City. Quite often large estate sites have
come before the City for development either into developments
of a planned unit nature, planned area developments, or re -
platting into minimum lot sizes as setforth by the Zoning Ordi-
nance.
The Zoning Ordinance prescribes only two minimum lot sizes,
that associated with lots zoned R-1, which require an average
width of 60' and 6,000 square feet, and the R-1B lots, which
have an average width of 100' or 10, 000 square feet.
It should be recognized at this point, that existing lots of a
size larger than the aforementioned minimum requirements,
was by choice of the developer or property owner and was in
fact the condition that existed prior to the majority of lots,
blocks, and subdivisions that exist in the City of Miami.
The majority of Platted lots in the City of Miami contain an
average width of 50' and an area of 5, 000 square feet. This
is based upon the fact that the 6, 000 square foot requirement
did not come into being until 1946. In 1961, pursuant to the
Comprehensive Zoning Ordinance, recognizing certain areas
that were developed larger than 6,000 square feet, a 10, 000
square foot requirement was introduced and is the basis for
the R -1 B zoning.
Thusly, over the years, the City allowed the replatting of
larger sites into smaller tracts as a right because said
replatting adhered to the only minimum standards enacted
by the City of Miami to date. Increasingly, as the pressures
of urbanization take place, not only due to the demand of land,
but due to the cost of maintaining large tracts of land, estate
areas cannot afford to maintain such large tracts of land and
therefore yield to replatting or planned• developments for a
more efficient and economical utilization of the land. As with
the majority of the City, this is viewed as a right and as long
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RECOMMEN1 ATION
PLANNING
DEPARTMENT
PLANNING ADVISORY
BOARD
as the minimum lot requirements presently set forth are
adhered to, is an acceptable practice subject to other re=
quirements such as improvements, maintenance of trees
and natural features, and the meeting of other required
procedures,
'or the reasons stated in the explanation and the analysis,
the Planning Department recommended to the Planning
Advisory Board that Public Hearing should not be required
for the platting and replatting of land.
The Planning Advisory Board made a motion recommending
to the City Commission that it support the opinion of the
Planning Department with regard to Public Hearings asso-
ciated with replats or redivisions of lots, at their meeting
of July 20, 1977.