HomeMy WebLinkAboutSubmittal-Steven Wernick-Miami 21 Goals & Guiding PrincipalsSubmitted into the public
record for item(s) PZ.3, PZ -4
on 02/25/2016, City Clerk.
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Exhibit — Miami 21 Goals and Guiding Principles
• Article 2, Sections 2.1.2a.1 and 2.1.2.a.2
• Article 2, Sections 2.1.3.2.a, 2.1.3.2.b, 2.1.3.2.c
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MIAMI 21 ARTICLE 2. GENERAL PROVISIONS
AS ADOPTED - MAY 2015
Submitted into the public
2.1 PURPOSE AND INTENT record for item(s) PZ.3. PZ.4
on 02/26/2016. City Clerk.
2.1.1 Title and Purpose
a. This Code shall be known as the Miami 21 Code of the City of Miami, Florida. This Code is de
clared to be in accord with the Miami Comprehensive Neighborhood Plan, as required by the
Local Government Comprehensive Planning and Land Development Regulation Act, Section
163.3161 et seq., Florida Statutes (the "Comprehensive Plan"). A primary purpose of this Code
is to implement the Comprehensive Plan.
b. It is further the purpose of the Miami 21 Code to promote the public health, safety, morals,
convenience, comfort, amenities, prosperity, and general welfare of the City and to provide a
wholesome, serviceable, and attractive community, including without limitation protection of the
environment; conservation of land, energy and natural resources; improved mobility; more efficient
use of public funds; greater health benefits of a pedestrian environment; historic preservation;
provision of recreational and open spaces; reduction of sprawl; and improvement of the built
environment and human habitat.
c. To further the goals and objectives of the Comprehensive Plan and the purpose of this Code, the
City is divided into Transect Zones ("T -Zones") of such number, characteristics, area, common
unity of purpose, adaptability, or use as will accomplish the goals and objectives of the Compre-
hensive Plan and this Code.
2.1.2 Intent
The Miami 21 Code is intended to advance the interests of both conservation and development
while responding to the existing conditions of the City, its regional context, and its natural features,
infrastructure and Buildings.
a. The conservation goals include:
1. Preserving Neighborhoods, Historical Resources and the natural environment
2. Improving the relationship between low Density Residential neighborhoods and
ad acent Commercial Corridors with appropriate transitions of Density and Height
following the theory of the Transect
3. Increasing access to the natural environment through the Baywalk, the Riverwalk,
the north -south Greenway, and new Parks
4. Conserving energy and reducing carbon dioxide emissions through improved Thoroughfare
connectedness to encourage walkability, bicycling and transit use
5. Increasing tree canopy
6. Encouraging green Buildings
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AS ADOPTED - MAY 2015—
Submitted into the public
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b. The development goals include: on 02/25/2016. City Clerk.
Maintaining the future growth capacity of the City core to ensure its preeminence as the
transit -oriented, pedestrian -friendly focus for the region's economic, civic and cultural activi-
ties
2. Rebuilding the City's commercial Corridors to function as Mixed -Use, transit -oriented, walk-
able centers for adjacent Residential Neighborhoods
3. Ensuring that private Development contributes to increased infrastructure capacity, and
through building embellishes a pedestrian -friendly public realm of highest ambient quality
4. Establishing a rational process for successional growth in areas identified for density and
growth
2.1.3 Transect Principles
The Miami 21 Code is intended to encourage the evolution of a settlement pattern based on the
organizational principles of the Transect. The Transect is defined as a geographical cross-section
that reveals a sequence of environments. Applied to the human or the built environment, the Transect
is used to identify and organize a continuum of the physical environment ranging from the least to
the most urban.
Transect planning creates coordinated, integrated and harmonious environments, based on the ar-
rangement of all the components to support locational character. Within the range of urban contexts,
each different type of location, called a Transect Zone, has development Function, Intensity and
Disposition appropriate to the location, and integrates the details of the corresponding public realm.
To ensure this integration, the Miami 21 Code controls development on Lots as well as establishes
guidelines for the detailing of public right-of-way. For example, narrow streets with open swales find
their place in neighborhoods of suburban character, while wide streets with tree lined sidewalks ac-
company Commercial Development in more intense urban areas.
The Transect encourages the making of places that build on historic character and that evolve over
time. This evolution, with the principles enumerated below guiding growth or reduction in Density
and Intensity, is called succession. Successional change emerges from a vision of the larger urban
context and appropriate transitions across Transect Zones.
The City of Miami's urban context is comprised of a series of Neighborhoods, Corridors, urban
centers, and Districts, each with its own arrangement of Transect Zones. In all cases the goal of
transit -oriented, pedestrian -friendly, Mixed -Use urbanism shall guide the arrangement of Transect
Zones, Thoroughfares, Buildings and landscape. The specific design of each component should be
appropriate to its Transect Zone, as provided in this Code.
Transect Zones are sequential in Intensity: successional zoning changes shall only be permitted
sequentially and respecting transitions across Abutting Transect Zones as provided in Article 7.
Transect Zones manifest a range of responses to natural and urban conditions. As described in
Article 5, Transect Zones 1"1, T2 and T3, the least urban, emphasize the presence of the natural
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environments. Transect Zones T4, T5 and T6, D1, D2 and D3 prioritize the built environment.
'qr Specific to Natural (T1), Rural (T2) and Sub -Urban (T3) Zones, impermeable surface shall be mini-
s mized and confined to the ratio of Lot Coverage by Building specified in Article 5. To the extent not
m U inconsistent with applicable state or federal law, storm water management on Thoroughfares may
0N., 4- be accomplished through retention and percolation, channeled by curbside swales, or through un-
U derground storm drainage channeled by raised curbs.
4 N Specific to General Urban (T4), Urban Center (T5) and Urban Core (T6) Zones, to the extent not
o N inconsistent with applicable state or federal law, the continuity of the urbanized areas should transi-
tion to take precedence over the natural environment, except Parks, recreation and natural features.
0 o Storm water management on Thoroughfares and Lots shall be implemented primarily through un-
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required on the individual Lots. Impermeable surface shall be confined to the ratio of Lot Coverage
by Building specified in Article 5.
2.1.3.1 The City - Guiding Principles
a. The City should retain its natural infrastructure and visual character derived from its location and
climate, including topography, landscape and coastline.
b. Growth strategies should encourage Infill and redevelopment.
c. New Development should be structured to reinforce a pattern of Neighborhoods and urban cen-
ters, focusing growth at transit nodes rather than along Corridors.
d. Transportation Corridors should be planned and reserved in coordination with land Use.
e. Green Corridors should be encouraged and developed to enhance and connect the urbanized
areas.
The City should include a framework of transit, pedestrian, and bicycle systems that provide
alternatives to automobile use.
g. A diversity of land use should be distributed throughout the City to enable a variety of economic
activity, workplace, residence, recreation and civic activity.
Affordable and Workforce Housing should be distributed throughout the City to match job op-
portunities and to avoid concentrations of poverty.
i. The City should expand and enhance transit opportunities and connections throughout the City.
2.1.3.2 The Community - Guiding Principles
a. Neighborhoods and urban centers should be the preferred pattern of Development and Transect
Zones emphasizing single use should be the exception.
b. Neighborhoods and Urban centers should be compact, pedestrian -oriented and Mixed -Use.
Density and Intensity of Use should relate to degree of transit service.
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c. The ordinary activities of daily living should occur within walking distance of most dwellings, al-
lowing independence to those who do not drive.
i. Within Neighborhoods, a range of housing types and price levels should accommodate diverse
ages and incomes.
2.1.3.3 The Block and the Building - Guiding Principles
a. Buildings and landscaping should contribute to the physical definition of Thoroughfares as civic
places.
b. Development should adequately accommodate vehicles while respecting the pedestrian and the
spatial form of public space.
c. The design of Thoroughfares and Buildings should reinforce safe environments, but not at the
expense of accessibility. Designs should incorporate principles of Crime Prevention Through
Environmental Design (CPTED).
d. Architecture and landscape design should grow from local climate, topography, history, and
building practice.
e. Buildings should allow their inhabitants to experience the geography and climate through energy
efficient design.
f. Civic Buildings and public gathering places should be located to reinforce community identity
and support self-government.
g. Civic Buildings should be distinctive and appropriate to a role more important than the other
Buildings that constitute the fabric of the City.
h. Preservation and renewal of historic resources should be facilitated to affirm the continuity of the
community.
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d. Interconnected networks of Thoroughfares should be designed to disperse and reduce the length
of automobile trips and to encourage walking and bicycling.
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h. Schools should be located to enable children to walk or bicycle safely to school. New schools
should not be located on primary Thoroughfares.
i. Within Neighborhoods, a range of housing types and price levels should accommodate diverse
ages and incomes.
2.1.3.3 The Block and the Building - Guiding Principles
a. Buildings and landscaping should contribute to the physical definition of Thoroughfares as civic
places.
b. Development should adequately accommodate vehicles while respecting the pedestrian and the
spatial form of public space.
c. The design of Thoroughfares and Buildings should reinforce safe environments, but not at the
expense of accessibility. Designs should incorporate principles of Crime Prevention Through
Environmental Design (CPTED).
d. Architecture and landscape design should grow from local climate, topography, history, and
building practice.
e. Buildings should allow their inhabitants to experience the geography and climate through energy
efficient design.
f. Civic Buildings and public gathering places should be located to reinforce community identity
and support self-government.
g. Civic Buildings should be distinctive and appropriate to a role more important than the other
Buildings that constitute the fabric of the City.
h. Preservation and renewal of historic resources should be facilitated to affirm the continuity of the
community.
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