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The owner UX** 02225 SW 18th Ave. purchased a very expensive house, and
what he bought is a very expensive house. A house with a zero lot line parking lot
in the backyard which was illegally paved many years ago without a permit.
The owner's goal is to demand non -conforming office use in this house as zoned
in a residential area in complete opposition to the Miami 21 Zoning Code.
The office use of this house has been allowed in the past by administrative
directives without a public hearing, as it contributes to negative occurrences that
decrease the value of our houses and quality of living, such as an increase in
traffic, overflow street parking into many residential blocks, and as I recently
learned, party noise levels into the night by office employees of an adjacent office
building owned by this owner XXXXX. At a Dec. 15th meeting with two
Commissioners, members of the Planning and Zoning Department, and many
residents ofXe Silver Bluff who take pride in our neighborhood, the owner XXXX
incredulously finalized his remarks that these problems of traffic and parking are
not their concern and kicked in the ultimate threat of suing the Commissioners,
the City and its citizens, if he doesn't get what he wants.
Even more astonishing, instead of working to improve the traffic issues, the
parking problem and quality of life in our neighborhood, the Planning and Zoning
Dept. detrimentally approved this application with a simple online search of any
recent complaints without consulting any residents; furthermore the PZ Dept.
also exhibited utter ignorance of the requirement for mandatory termination of
all non -conforming land uses under Miami 21 Code.
The owner erroneously assumes that his application complies with Sec. 2-212,
titled "Nonconforming use pilot program" which expired on August 1St, 2016. in
fact, this application of a nonconforming office use would prove to be materially
adverse to several criteria in Article 4, Table 12, such as building function and
density, parking standards, and ambient standards. Doesn't anybody in Planning
read these documents ?? as the Planning Dept.'s exasperating and irrational
decision will contribute to real problems that negatively effect our City of Miami
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neighborhood! They should be helping to solve these traffic, parking, and noise
problems, not add to them.
Finally, to quote Ordinance File Number 11-00492zt, this expired Nonconforming
use pilot program was originally enacted to allow businesses to continue where
their Certificate of Use was lapsed due to the economy. This owner did not have
a business jXon that property when the Certificate was negligently lapsed. The
Certificate expired prior to their purchase of the property. The owner bought a
house, he has a beautiful house, with a non-compliant parking lot in a very
friendly and family-oriented, working class, residential Miami neighborhood.