Miami-Dade Zoning Board Meeting – July 17, 2024
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Miami-Dade Zoning Board Meeting – July 17, 2024
The Miami-Dade Zoning Board met on July 17, 2024, to hear several zoning applications, appeals, and a concurrent Comprehensive Development Master Plan (CDMP) item. The meeting ran from approximately 9:30 AM, with the board acting on deferred items, new applications, and one appeal. All decisions were unanimous, with two items deferred to the September 25, 2024 meeting.
Deferred Items
- Item 2A (Appeal – Z2022000309, District 7): The applicant requested a deferral to meet with neighborhood opposition regarding a settlement agreement. The board deferred to September 25, 2024 (8-0). No public hearing was opened to preserve speaking rights at the future meeting.
- Item 3B (Z2023000155, District 9 – Highway Striping, Inc.): Deferred to September 25, 2024 (10-0) because the district commissioner was absent and a Spanish interpreter was needed for a potential public speaker. Commissioner Higgins requested clarification on pedestrian access to a nearby BRT stop for the next hearing.
CDMP Item (Concurrent with Zoning)
- Item 3B Supplement (CDMP 2023 – Lenar Holmes LLC): Approved unanimously with an amended motion to allow a 30-day condition for the applicant to re‑execute the proffered covenant. The property is located on the north side of SW 316th Street between SW 187th and SW 189th Avenues.
Discussion and Approved Items
- Item 1A (Z2022000070 – The Mark, LLC, District 9): Approved unanimous (10-0). The applicant rezones parcel A to RMD and parcel B to MCD with reduced rear and interior side setbacks and reduced landscaped area. At least 40% (29 units) will be workforce housing (up to 120% Area Median Income, per state definition). No public speakers and no protests.
- Item 1B (Z2023000037 – 296 Legacy, LLC, District 8): Approved unanimous (10-0) with additional conditions. The applicant seeks a district boundary change to MCD for a mixed-use development with 751 multi‑family units including affordable housing. Based on a community meeting with over 60 residents, the applicant agreed to reduce building height and provide a police substation. An updated police memo was received. Public comment was not reopened because the hearing had been closed at a prior meeting.
- Item 3A (Z2022000274 – Archdiocese of Miami, District 9): Approved unanimous (10-0) per staff recommendation with proffered covenant. Rezones property to Leisure City Community Urban Center District (LCUCD) to allow multifamily affordable and workforce housing. The attorney for Atlantic Pacific (developer partner) confirmed the rezoning would support the Archdiocese’s mission. No public speakers or protests.
- Item 1C (Z2023000412 – 585 NW 95 Ter, LLC, District 3): Approved unanimous (10-0) per staff recommendation. Rezones from RU-38 to BU-1A to allow an office building serving an adjacent warehouse. No protests or waivers.
Key Outcomes
- Unanimous approvals on items 1A, 1B, 1C, 3A, and the CDMP item.
- Two deferrals to September 25, 2024: the appeal (Item 2A) for further community negotiations, and Item 3B due to commissioner absence and interpreter needs.
- Conditions added to Item 1B (height reduction, police substation) and to the CDMP item (30‑day covenant submission).
- No public comment was taken on items where hearings had been previously closed, per board rules. The chair advised that the Jennings rule could be cured by disclosure but recommended public meetings to preserve commissioner voting rights.
Meeting Transcript
Commissioners here. We're in the mix. Good morning, Mr. Chairman, Commissioners. Eric Silva RER. I'll read the opening statement now. In accordance with the code of Miami D County, all items to be heard today have been legally advertised in the newspaper. The notice has been mailed and the properties have been posted. Additional copies of the agenda are available here in the chambers. Items will be called up to be heard by agenda number and name of applicant. Please note board action on any item at today's meeting may be reconsidered an additional action, may be taken on such items at the same meeting. Applicants and members of the public may wish to govern themselves accordingly. The recognition file for each hearing for each hearing on each application will include documents from the public agencies, the department of regulatory and economic resources. And where there's an appeal from the community zoning appeals board. We also have the transcript from those hearings. All documents are physically present today, available to all interested parties and available to the members of the Board of County Commissioners who may examine these items from the record during the hearing. Parties have the right to cross-examination. This statement, along with the fact that all witnesses have been sworn in, shall be included in any transcript of these proceedings. In addition, there's an official translator present in the chambers for those individuals requiring such assistance. Will the clerk please swear in the witnesses? Please stand and raise your right hand. Do you solemnly swear that the testimony you're about to give is the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth? So I hope you gone. Thank you. You may be seated. Any interpreters? Please raise your right hand. Do you swear affirm that you will make any true interpretation of the questions asked in testimony given? Thank you. I know we have three and nine and seven on zoning, so let's go ahead and start with seven because we don't have three and nine here right now. Commissioner Regalado. Thank you, Mr. Chair. Is there anyone here to present? Mr. Chairman. Excuse me, through the chair. Yes. We do have a deferral. Would you like me to read the deferral into the record? It's in district seven. Oh, okay. Everybody's here. But who's requesting the deferral? The deferral came from the applicant. Is the applicant here? The applicant's here. Yes. Okay. So the applicant can request it or all themselves.
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