LAND USE ELEMENT

Introduction

The Land Use Element of the Comprehensive Development Master Plan (CDMP) for the years 2020 and 2030 constitutes the sixth major update of the CDMP Land Use Element. However, the pattern of land use and urban growth promoted in the original 1975 edition of the CDMP remains essentially unchanged. This growth policy includes, among other intents, that the intensification of physical development and expansion of the urban area should be managed to occur 1) at a rate commensurate with projected population and economic growth; 2) in a contiguous pattern centered around a network of high-intensity urban centers well connected by multimodal intraurban transportation facilities; 3) in locations which optimize efficiency in public service delivery and conservation of valuable natural resources; and 4) in recognition of the County's physical limitations to horizontal expansion due to the location of the Everglades National Parks, wetlands and environmental preserves, and the County's unique agricultural land resources.

The Land Use Element identifies locations in Miami-Dade County where various land uses and intensities of use will be permitted to occur in the future. It establishes and articulates broad policy in keeping with the traditional role of the metropolitan area comprehensive plan as a framework for, or schematic plan of, areawide future development.

The Land Use Element is at the same time both reactive and proactive. It not only reflects previously adopted plans and established land use and zoning patterns, it also establishes the County's policy regarding future zoning and land use patterns. Similarly, while it reflects existing urban service capacities and constraints, it also establishes locations where future service improvements will have to follow. It also both reflects, and seeks to promote, activity in the private land market. Recent development trends are carefully considered, however, the Land Use Element endeavors to assert County influence on locations and intensity of future development activity.

The Land Use Element contains all of the material required by Section 163.3177(6)(a), Florida Statutes (F.S.) which establishes the minimum requirements for contents of the future land use element. Moreover, the Miami-Dade County portion of the Big Cypress Area of Critical State Concern is affected by, and addressed in this Element as well as in the Conservation, Aquifer Recharge and Drainage Element. The Big Cypress "Critical Area" boundaries coincide directly with the boundaries of the Big Cypress National Preserve in Miami-Dade County which are identified on Figure 4, Environmentally Protected Parks contained in this Element.

The Adopted Components of the Land Use Element include the Land Use Goal, Objectives and Policies, the Land Use Plan map for 2020 and 2030 and related text titled "Interpretation of the Land Use Plan Map", and maps of future historical and natural resources. Also included is a "monitoring program" for periodically measuring progress being made in implementing the comprehensive plan.

Supporting material for this Element includes the 1988 Support Components report, the 2003 and the 2010 Evaluation and Appraisal Reports, which contain background data and information, analyses of land use trends and synopses of urban service and environmental opportunities and constraints.

The environmental and service analyses included in the land use support materials are brief synopses of extensive inventory and analyses contained in the Conservation and various service Elements of the Plan. The reader is referred to the 2010 EAR report addressing those elements for complete analyses of those services.

GOAL

PROVIDE THE BEST POSSIBLE DISTRIBUTION OF LAND USE AND SERVICES TO MEET THE PHYSICAL, SOCIAL, CULTURAL, HEALTH AND ECONOMIC NEEDS OF THE PRESENT AND FUTURE POPULATIONS IN A TIMELY AND EFFICIENT MANNER THAT WILL MAINTAIN OR IMPROVE THE QUALITY OF THE NATURAL AND MAN-MADE ENVIRONMENT AND AMENITIES, AND PRESERVE MIAMI-DADE COUNTY'S UNIQUE AGRICULTURAL LANDS.

Objective LU-1

The location and configuration of Miami-Dade County's urban growth through the year 2030 shall emphasize concentration and intensification of development around centers of activity, development of well designed communities containing a variety of uses, housing types and public services, renewal and rehabilitation of blighted areas, and contiguous urban expansion when warranted, rather than sprawl.

Policies

LU-1A. High intensity, well-designed urban centers shall be facilitated by Miami-Dade County at locations having high countywide multimodal accessibility.

LU-1B. Major centers of activity, industrial complexes, regional shopping centers, large-scale office centers and other concentrations of significant employment shall be the structuring elements of the metropolitan area and shall be sited on the basis of metropolitan-scale considerations at locations with good countywide, multi-modal accessibility.

LU-1C. Miami-Dade County shall give priority to infill development on vacant sites in currently urbanized areas, and redevelopment of substandard or underdeveloped environmentally suitable urban areas contiguous to existing urban development where all necessary urban services and facilities are projected to have capacity to accommodate additional demand.

LU-1D. In conducting its planning, regulatory, capital improvements and intergovernmental coordination activities, Miami-Dade County shall seek to facilitate the planning of communities which include recreational, educational and other public facilities, houses of worship, places of employment, and safe and convenient circulation of automotive, pedestrian and bicycle traffic throughout the communities.

LU-1E. In planning and designing all new residential development and redevelopment in the county, Miami-Dade County shall vigorously promote implementation of the "Guidelines for Urban Form" contained in the "Interpretation of The Land Use Plan Map" text adopted as an extension of these policies.

LU-1F. To promote housing diversity and to avoid creation of monotonous developments,

Miami-Dade County shall vigorously promote the inclusion of a variety of housing types in all residential communities through its area planning, zoning, subdivision, site planning and housing finance activities, among others. In particular, Miami-Dade County shall review its zoning and subdivision practices and regulations and shall amend them, as practical, to promote this policy.

LU-1G. Business developments shall preferably be placed in clusters or nodes in the vicinity of major roadway intersections, and not in continuous strips or as isolated spots, with the exception of small neighborhood nodes. Business developments shall be designed to relate to adjacent development, and large uses should be planned and designed to serve as an anchor for adjoining smaller businesses or the adjacent business district. Granting of commercial or other non-residential zoning by the County is not necessarily warranted on a given property by virtue of nearby or adjacent roadway construction or expansion, or by its location at the intersection of two roadways.

LU-1H. The County should identify sites having good potential to serve as greenbelts, and should recommend retention and enhancement strategies, where warranted. Such greenbelts should be suggested on the basis of their ability to provide aesthetically pleasing urban spaces, recreational opportunities, or wildlife benefits. Considered sites should include canal, road or powerline rights-of-way, or portions thereof, particularly where they could link other parklands, wildlife habitats, or other open spaces.

LU-1I. The County shall consider urban design, water and energy conservation and wildlife habitat when designing sites and selecting landscape material for all public projects.

LU-1J. Miami-Dade County will maintain its commitment to improve Community Development Block Grant (CDBG)-eligible areas and enhance the County's Enterprise Zone as tools to expand the economy in locally distressed areas.

LU-1K. Miami-Dade County will maintain and enhance the housing assistance and housing programs addressed in the Housing Element as a means to improve conditions of extremely low, very low, low and moderate income residents. This includes the provision of affordable workforce housing.

LU-1L. Public facility and service providers shall give priority to eliminating any infrastructure deficiencies to facilitate rehabilitation or renewal of blighted areas.

LU-1M. In formulating or amending development regulations, Miami-Dade County shall avoid creating disincentives to redevelopment of blighted areas. Where redevelopment occurs within the urban area, requirements for contributions toward provision of public facilities may be moderated where underutilized facilities or surplus capacities exist, and credit toward required infrastructure contributions may be given for the increment of development replaced by redevelopment.

LU-1N. Miami-Dade County shall continue to support the Miami-Dade Economic Advocacy Trust to improve conditions of disadvantaged groups of the community.

LU-1O. Miami-Dade County shall seek to prevent discontinuous, scattered development at the urban fringe in the Agriculture Areas outside the Urban Development Boundary,

through its CDMP amendment process, regulatory and capital improvements programs and intergovernmental coordination activities.

LU-1P. While continuing to protect and promote agriculture as a viable economic activity in the County, Miami-Dade County shall explore and may authorize alternative land uses in the South Dade agricultural area which would be compatible with agricultural activities and associated rural residential uses, and which would promote ecotourism and agritourism related to the area's agricultural and natural resource base including Everglades and Biscayne National Parks.

LU-1Q. It is the policy of Miami-Dade County that the siting of both public and private schools throughout the County shall conform with the school siting policies adopted under CDMP Objective EDU-3.

LU-1R. Miami-Dade County shall take steps to reserve the amount of land necessary to maintain an economically viable agricultural industry. Miami-Dade County shall adopt and implement a transfer of developments rights (TDR) program to preserve agricultural land that will be supplemented by a purchase of development rights program to preserve agricultural land and environmentally sensitive property.

LU-1S. The Miami-Dade County Strategic Plan shall be consistent with the Comprehensive Development Master Plan (CDMP). The Miami-Dade County Strategic Plan includes Countywide community goals, strategies and key outcomes for Miami-Dade County government. Key outcomes of the Strategic Plan that are relevant to the Land Use element of the CDMP include increased urban infill development and urban center development, protection of viable agriculture and environmentally-sensitive land, reduced flooding, improved infrastructure and redevelopment to attract businesses, availability of high quality green space throughout the County, and development of mixed-use, multi-modal, well designed, and sustainable communities.

LU-1T. Miami-Dade County through its land development regulations shall encourage developments that promote and enhance bicycling and pedestrianism through the provision of bicycle and pedestrian facilities and other measures such as building design and orientation, and shall discourage walled and gated communities.

LU-1U[1]¹ By 2027, Miami-Dade County should study the feasibility of allowing cluster development in the area designated Agriculture on the CDMP Land Use Plan map to promote the conservation of agricultural land. Cluster development allows for the concentration of allowable residential units on lots that are smaller than would otherwise be permitted in the Agriculture land use designation with the remainder of the property being conserved for agricultural uses. The study should include consideration of potential land use conflicts between residential and agricultural uses, an analysis of similar programs, identification of the advantages and disadvantages of such a program, and include recommendations on whether a cluster development program should be implemented in the County.

LU-1U Notwithstanding the designation of the SR-836/Dolphin Expressway southwest

extension as an Expressway on the CDMP Land Use Plan map and as depicted in the Traffic Circulation Subelement map series, no construction associated with the SR-836 southwest extension shall occur that would restrict farm vehicle and equipment access to agricultural properties adjacent to the SR-836 southwest extension corridor. Moreover, to minimize the impacts of the expressway’s southwest extension, the design and construction shall be conducted in a manner that does not cause drainage or the spillage of lighting from the expressway onto adjacent agricultural lands.

LU-1V. To mitigate the impacts of the SR-836 southwest extension on the agricultural area, the Miami-Dade Expressway Authority (or successor agency) shall preserve agricultural lands outside the UDB commensurate to impacts to agricultural lands that would be taken out of production by the project. Said preservation may be through participation in the County’s Purchase Development Rights program or other mechanism acceptable to the Miami-Dade County Department of Regulatory and Economic Resources (or successor Department).

LU-1W. The alignment of the SR-836 southwest extension shall remain outside and to the east of the boundary of the 10-day travel time contour of the west wellfield area, and all drainage shall be subject to DERM approval for conformance to Chapter 24 of the Code. In addition, prior to the construction of the roadway, or any phase thereof, MDX shall prepare a surface water sheet flow analysis to demonstrate that the wetlands hydrology in this area shall be adequately retained.

Objective LU-2

Decisions regarding the location, extent and intensity of future land use in Miami-Dade County, and urban expansion in particular, shall be based upon the physical and financial feasibility of providing, by the year 2030, all urbanized areas with services at levels of service (LOS) which meet or exceed the minimum standards adopted in the Capital Improvements Element, among other requirements set forth in this plan.

Policies

LU-2A. All development orders authorizing new, or significant expansion of existing, urban land uses shall be contingent upon the provision of services at or above the Level of Service (LOS) standards specified in the Capital Improvements Element (CIE), except as otherwise provided in the “Concurrency Management Program” section of the CIE.

LU-2B. Priority in the provision of services and facilities and the allocation of financial resources for services and facilities in Miami-Dade County shall be given first to serve the area within the Urban Infill Area and Transportation Concurrency Exception Areas. Second priority shall be given to serve the area between the Urban Infill Area and the Urban Development Boundary. And third priority shall support the staged development of the Urban Expansion Area (UEA). Urban services and facilities which support or encourage urban development in Agriculture and Open Land areas shall be avoided, except for those improvements necessary to protect public health and safety and which service the localized needs of these non-urban areas. Areas designated Environmental Protection shall be particularly avoided.

LU-2C. Miami-Dade County shall maintain and enhance, as necessary, impact fee and comparable programs and procedures to require all development, regardless of size,

to contribute its proportionate share of capital facilities, or funds or land therefore, necessary to accommodate impact of the proposed development or increment of redevelopment over and above preexisting development on a site. Miami-Dade County shall periodically review and update fee schedules to ensure that all public marginal costs are appropriately recognized, and that fee structures reflect pertinent geographic (i.e., core, fringe, or rural area) variability in facility usage. Miami-Dade County should consider revisions to impact fee structures to better align the provision of County infrastructure with adopted land use development strategies, which promote infill development and development around existing and planned transit corridors.

LU-2D. Miami-Dade County agencies shall continue and, where possible, improve their efforts to coordinate projects to construct or repair infrastructure such as roadways and utilities in order to minimize the disruption and inconvenience caused by such construction activities.

LU-2E. The Department of Regulatory and Economic Resources shall coordinate and centralize the compilation of monitoring information necessary to make determinations regarding existing and projected Levels of Service and to prepare Evaluation and Appraisal Reports for adoption by the Board of County Commissioners, as required by Section 2-116 of the Miami-Dade County Code. All Miami-Dade County agencies shall fully cooperate with the Department by carrying out necessary monitoring and reporting activities identified in the CDMP Monitoring Program.

Objective LU-3

The location, design and management practices of development and redevelopment in Miami-Dade County shall ensure the protection of natural resources and systems by recognizing, and sensitively responding to constraints posed by soil conditions, topography, water table level, vegetation type, wildlife habitat, and hurricane and other flood hazards, and by reflecting the management policies contained in resource planning and management plans prepared pursuant to Chapter 380, Florida Statutes, and approved by the Governor and Cabinet, or included in the Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan approved by Congress through the Water Resources Development Act of 2000.

Policies

LU-3A. Development orders in Miami-Dade County shall be consistent with the goals, objectives and policies contained in the Conservation, Aquifer Recharge and Drainage and Coastal Management Elements of this Plan, and with all applicable environmental regulations, as well as all other elements of the CDMP.

LU-3B. All significant natural resources and systems shall be protected from incompatible land use including Biscayne Bay, future coastal and inland wetlands, future potable water-supply wellfield areas identified in the Land Use Element or in adopted wellfield protection plans, and forested portions of Environmentally Sensitive Natural Forest Communities as identified in the Natural Forest Inventory, as may be amended from time to time.

LU-3C. Development in the Big Cypress Area of Critical State Concern, and in the East Everglades as defined in Section 33B-13, Code of Miami-Dade County, Florida (1981)

shall be limited to uses, designs and management practices which are consistent with adopted State regulations and policies, the Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan, and related federal, State or County policies, plans or regulations as may be formulated, consistent with the goals, objectives and policies of this comprehensive plan. Miami-Dade County shall improve its enforcement of East Everglades development regulations and shall improve such regulations if necessary to enable effective enforcement.

LU-3D. Miami-Dade County shall not sponsor any growth-subsidizing programs which promote future population growth and residential development on the barrier islands of Miami-Dade County or within the coastal high hazard areas (CHHA). Miami-Dade County shall coordinate with municipalities in Coastal High Hazard Areas, and areas with repetitive losses due to flooding or storm damage, to minimize demand for facilities and services that result from redevelopment and increases in residential densities. The provision of facilities and services to accomplish the timely evacuation of already-developed barrier islands in advance of approaching hurricanes shall be a priority of Miami-Dade County's transportation planning and hurricane preparedness programs.

LU-3E. Any zoning action or amendment to the CDMP that would approve any use other than direct agricultural production, the sale of agricultural produce, and permitted residential and Bed and Breakfast uses of property, in an area designated as Agriculture, whether as a primary use or as an accessory or subordinated use to an agricultural use, or action that would liberalize standards or allowances governing such other uses on land that is, a) outside the Urban Development Boundary (UDB), and b) within one mile of the right-of-way line of any portions of Krome Avenue designated in this Plan for improvement to 4-lanes, shall require an affirmative vote of not less than five members of the affected Community Zoning Appeals Board and two-thirds of the total membership of the Board of County Commissioners then in office, where such Community Zoning Appeals Board or Board of County Commissioners issues a decision. The term "direct agricultural production" includes crops, livestock, nurseries, groves, packing houses, and barns, but not uses such as houses of worship, schools, sale of produce and other items, and outdoor storage vehicles. This policy is not intended to permit any use not otherwise permitted by the CDMP. Any modification to this section to allow additional uses within the one mile distance from Krome Avenue shall require an affirmative vote of not less than two-thirds of the Board of County Commissioners then in office.

LU-3F. Any zoning action, or amendment to the CDMP that would approve a use of property other than limestone quarrying, seasonal agriculture or permitted residential use in an area designated as Open Land on land that is, a) outside the Urban Development Boundary (UDB), and b) within one mile of the right-of-way line of any portions of Krome Avenue designated in this Plan for improvement to 4-lanes, shall require an affirmative vote of not less than five members of the affected Community Zoning Appeals Board and two-thirds of the total membership of the Board of County Commissioners then in office, where such Community Zoning Appeals Board or Board of County Commissioners issues a decision. This policy is not intended to permit any use not otherwise permitted by the CDMP. Any modification to this section to allow additional uses within the one mile distance from Krome Avenue shall require an affirmative vote of not less than two-thirds of the Board of County Commissioners then in office.

LU-3G. Any zoning action, or amendment to the CDMP that would approve a use of property other than seasonal agricultural use in the Dade-Broward Levee Basin or permitted residential use in an area designated as Environmental Protection, on land that is, a) outside the Urban Development Boundary (UDB), and b) within one mile of the right-of-way line of any portions of Krome Avenue designated in this Plan for improvement to 4-lanes, shall require an affirmative vote of not less than five members of the affected Community Zoning Appeals Board and two-thirds of the total membership of the Board of County Commissioners then in office, where such Community Zoning Appeals Board or Board of County Commissioners issues a decision. This policy is not intended to permit any use not otherwise permitted by the CDMP. Any modification to this section to allow additional uses within the one mile distance from Krome Avenue shall require an affirmative vote of not less than two-thirds of the Board of County Commissioners then in office.

LU-3H. The Dredged Materials Management Plan for Miami-Dade County, as amended from time to time, shall be implemented by PortMiami in coordination with other agencies to ensure the proper long term management of spoil disposal and the beneficial use of dredged material. All activities related to implementation of the Dredged Materials Management Plan, including storage, transportation, disposal or beneficial use of dredged material shall ensure environmental sensitivity and responsiveness. In addition, Miami-Dade County shall continue to identify disposal sites for dredged materials as needed to assure proper long-term management of material dredged from navigation channels, sufficient long-range disposal capacity, environmental sensitivity and compatibility, and reasonable cost and transportation.

LU-3I. Consistent with the provisions of Coastal Management Element Objective CM-5, Miami-Dade County shall protect and enhance recreational and working waterfronts as defined in Section 342.07, Florida Statutes.

LU-3J. Miami-Dade County continues to support the Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan (CERP), and related regional and local habitat restoration and preservation initiatives through its development review processes and long range land planning initiatives.

LU-3K through LU-3P. Reserved.

LU-3Q. Any zoning action or amendment to the CDMP that would approve any use other than direct agricultural production, the sale of agricultural produce, and permitted residential and Bed and Breakfast uses of property, in an area designated as Agriculture, whether as a primary use or as an accessory or subordinated use to an agricultural use, or action that would liberalize standards or allowances governing such other uses on land that is a) outside the Urban Development Boundary (UDB) and b) within one mile of the right-of-way line of any portions of SR-836 southwest extension designated in this Plan, shall require an affirmative vote of not less than two-thirds of the total membership of the Board of County Commissioners then in office.

LU-3R. Any modification or amendment to this and other policies within this Plan adopted or modified as part of the October 2017 cycle amendment Application No. 8 (SR-836/Dolphin Expressway southwest extension), enumerated below, shall require an

affirmative vote of not less than two-thirds of the total membership of the Board of County Commissioners then in office and no application seeking to amend these policies may be accompanied by an amendment to the land use designation of any property. Policies subject to this supermajority requirement include Land Use Element Policies LU-1U, LU-1V, LU-3Q, LU-3T, and LU-8G, Transportation Element Policy TE-3C, Traffic Circulation Subelement Policies TC-1B, TC-1L, TC-1M, and TC-1N, Mass Transit Subelement Policies MT-4D and MT-4E, Parks, Recreation and Open Space Element Policy ROS-3F, and Intergovernmental Coordination Element Policy ICE-3I.

LU-3S. Reserved.

LU-3T. The SR-836/Dolphin Expressway southwest extension corridor from NW 12 Street to SW 136 Street is planned to traverse and impact wetlands within the Bird Drive and North Trail Wetland Basins and elsewhere along its alignment and will require environmental approval and wetland mitigation. To the maximum extent feasible, mitigation for the SR-836 southwest extension shall be accomplished through the acquisition, preservation, and restoration of wetlands within the Bird Drive and North Trail Basins outside the Urban Development Boundary. At a minimum, preservation of wetlands within the Bird Drive Basin shall be included as a component of the wetlands mitigation for this project. The mitigation shall also include a plan to preserve the hydrological connection and surface water flow of the wetlands remaining in these basins through the use of culverts or bridges.

Objective LU-4

Miami-Dade County shall continue to reduce the number of land uses, which are inconsistent with the uses designated on the LUP map and interpretive text, or with the character of the surrounding community.

Policies

LU-4A. When evaluating compatibility among proximate land uses, the County shall consider such factors as noise, lighting, shadows, glare, vibration, odor, runoff, access, traffic, parking, height, bulk, scale of architectural elements, landscaping, hours of operation, buffering, and safety, as applicable.

LU-4B. Uses designated on the LUP map and interpretive text, which generate or cause to generate significant noise, dust, odor, vibration, or truck or rail traffic shall be protected from damaging encroachment by future approval of new incompatible uses such as residential uses.

LU-4C. Residential neighborhoods shall be protected from intrusion by uses that would disrupt or degrade the health, safety, tranquility, character, and overall welfare of the neighborhood by creating such impacts as excessive density, noise, light, glare, odor, vibration, dust or traffic.

LU-4D. Uses which are supportive but potentially incompatible shall be permitted on sites within functional neighborhoods, communities or districts only where proper design

solutions can and will be used to integrate the compatible and complementary elements and buffer any potentially incompatible elements.

LU-4E. Zoning shall be examined to determine consistency with the Comprehensive Plan, and if deemed necessary to remedy an inconsistency, rezoning action shall be initiated. Examination could occur through a special zoning study, area-planning activity, or through a study of related issues.

LU-4F. Miami-Dade County shall implement the Homestead Air Reserve Base Air Installation Compatible Use Zone (AICUZ) Report guidelines and the Joint Land Use Study recommendations through the Land Use Element of the Miami-Dade County Comprehensive Development Master Plan, and the Miami-Dade County Zoning Code to provide for land use compatibility in the vicinity of the Homestead Air Reserve Base.

LU-4G. Miami-Dade County shall continue to cooperate with the Homestead Air Reserve Base (HARB) to ensure that future land uses on properties adjacent to HARB maintain or improve compatibility with HARB and its operations.

LU-4H. By 2014, Miami-Dade County shall amend Article XXXV, Homestead Air Force Base Zoning, of the Code of Miami-Dade County to enhance and promote the compatibility of adjacent land uses and development with HARB and the protection of Base operations and activities. Consistent with the Board of County Commissioners adopted Resolution R-357-10, the amending ordinance shall address the guidelines recommended in the Homestead Air Reserve Base Joint Land Use Study and Air Installation Compatible Use Zone Study, and address the following compatibility criteria:

(a) Permitted uses and use restrictions; (b) Development density and intensity; (c) Building FARs and setbacks; (d) Height restrictions and notification procedures; (e) Lighting standards; (f) Noise attenuation; (g) variances and appeals; (h) Real estate disclosure process; and (i) Avigation easements

LU-4I. It is the policy of Miami-Dade County that proposals for future land uses, including the siting of public facilities (such as roads, sewer, schools, and government buildings), on land adjacent to the HARB and/or within the HARB Military Zone shall maintain or improve compatibility with HARB consistent with the provision of Intergovernmental Coordination Element Policies ICE-3G and ICE-3H, and pursuant to the foregoing Policies LU-4A and LU-4B.

LU-4J. Through its planning, regulatory, capital improvements and intergovernmental coordination activities, Miami-Dade County shall seek to ensure that suitable land is provided for placement of utility facilities necessary to support proposed development. Necessary utility facilities may be located throughout Miami-Dade

County in all land use categories as provided in the "Interpretation of the Land Use Plan Map" text.

Objective LU-5

All public and private activities regarding the use, development and redevelopment of land and the provision of urban services and infrastructure shall be consistent with the goal, objectives and policies of this Element, with the adopted Population Estimates and Projections, and with the future uses provided by the adopted Land Use Plan (LUP) map and accompanying text titled "Interpretation of the Land Use Plan Map", as balanced with the Goals, Objectives and Policies of all Elements of the Comprehensive Development Master Plan.

Policies

LU-5A. The textual material titled "Interpretation of the Land Use Plan Map" contained in this Element establishes standards for allowable land uses, and densities or intensities of use for each land use category identified on the adopted Land Use Plan (LUP) map, and is declared to be an integral part of these adopted Land Use Policies.

LU-5B. All development orders authorizing a new land use or development, or redevelopment, or significant expansion of an existing use shall be contingent upon an affirmative finding that the development or use conforms to, and is consistent with the goals, objectives and policies of the CDMP including the adopted LUP map and accompanying "Interpretation of the Land Use Plan Map". The Director of the Department of Regulatory and Economic Resources shall be the principal administrative interpreter of the CDMP.

LU-5C. All planning activities pertaining to development and redevelopment and the provision of public services and facilities in Miami-Dade County shall be consistent with the "Population Estimates and Projections" contained in this Element, and with the locations and extent of future land uses as identified by the LUP map and its interpretive text. Plans for providing public facilities and services in Miami-Dade County shall be updated by the responsible service providers as soon as possible after the filing of applications to amend the CDMP population projections, and the corresponding elements of the CDMP shall be updated in association with the updating of the facility/service plans.

LU-5D. When estimates of current population are periodically updated by the Miami-Dade County Regulatory and Economic Resources or U.S. Census Bureau, and when revised projections of future population or population distributions are officially filed by the Department as applications to amend the CDMP, these new estimates and projections may be used for planning in Miami-Dade County in lieu of previously published population estimates and the population projections currently adopted in the CDMP.

Objective LU-6

Miami-Dade County shall protect, preserve, ensure the proper management, and promote public awareness of historical, architectural, cultural and archaeologically significant sites and districts in Miami-Dade County, and shall continue to seek the addition of new listings

to the National Register, and increase the number of locally designated historical and archeological sites, districts and zones.

Policies

LU-6A. Miami-Dade County shall continue to identify, seek appropriate designation, and protect properties of historic, architectural, cultural and archaeological significance.

LU-6B. Miami-Dade County shall place increased emphasis on districts, thematic groups and multiple resource listings with local as well as National Register historic sites.

LU-6C. Miami-Dade County shall seek financial resources to develop, and promote implementation of management plans for the preservation, protection and adaptive reuse of historic and archaeological resources on County property. The Office of Historic and Archaeological Resources shall identify possible grants and other funding sources to assist County departments with the maintenance and management of their historic resources.

LU-6D. Public acquisition of historic and archaeological resources shall be pursued when public ownership would provide a major public benefit to the people of Miami-Dade County, when necessary financial resources can be secured, and when public acquisition is the last available resort.

LU-6E. Historic structures shall be used to accommodate government functions where reuse of a facility is financially and logistically advantageous.

LU-6F. Miami-Dade County shall seek to develop technical, legal and financial incentive programs to encourage private sector participation in the preservation and protection of historical and archaeological resources.

LU-6G. Miami-Dade County will continue to provide technical assistance to municipalities with established historic preservation programs that meet the minimum standards set by the County's Historic Preservation Ordinance, and will continue to act as the governing Historic Preservation Board and support staff for those municipalities that do not have their own historic preservation program or ordinance.

LU-6H. Through the Office of Historic and Archaeological Resources, Miami-Dade County shall improve communication for multi-agency review processes, and expand informational networking with municipal, State and regional agencies and with the Miccosukee Tribe of Indians and private non-profit organizations.

LU-6I. Miami-Dade County shall pursue efforts with other local, State and federal agencies to develop policies that recognize the importance of designated historic resources and that comply with the provisions of the County's Historic Preservation Ordinance.

LU-6J. Miami-Dade County shall seek to increase public awareness of the value of local historic and archaeological resources through support from the print and broadcast media, presentations, conferences, seminars and special programs and events such as Dade Heritage Days and National Historic Preservation Week, and by seeking emphasis of local history from Miami-Dade County Public Schools, particularly in grades K through 12.

LU-6K. Awareness of historic sites and districts shall be promoted through expansion of the historic plaques and markers program; and production and dissemination of publications on local archaeology, and historic sites.

LU-6L. Through the Office of Historic and Archaeological Resources in consultation with the Department of Regulatory and Economic Resources, Miami-Dade County shall formulate procedures for establishing Thematic Resource Districts (TRDs) and/or Historic Districts. These districts shall contain architectural and landscape design guidelines, and may authorize approval of additional compatible uses, consistent with and which promote the purposes of the particular district.

Objective LU-7

Miami-Dade County shall require all new development and redevelopment in existing and planned transit corridors and urban centers to be planned and designed to promote transit-oriented development (TOD), and transit use, which mixes residential, retail, office, open space and public uses in a safe, pedestrian and bicycle friendly environment that promotes mobility for people of all ages and abilities through the use of rapid transit services.

Policies

LU-7A. Through its various planning, regulatory and development activities, Miami-Dade County shall encourage development of a wide variety of residential and non-residential land uses and activities in nodes around rapid transit stations to promote mobility, produce short trips, minimize transfers, attract transit ridership, and promote travel patterns on the transit line that are balanced directionally and temporally to promote transit operational and financial efficiencies. Land uses that may be approved around transit stations shall include housing, shopping and offices in moderate to high densities and intensities, complemented by compatible entertainment, cultural uses and human services in varying mixes. The particular uses that are approved in a given station area should, a) respect the character of the nearby community, b) strive to serve the needs of the community for housing and services, and, c) promote a balance in the range of existing and planned land uses along the subject transit line. Rapid transit station sites and their vicinity shall be developed as "urban centers" as provided in this plan element under the heading Urban Centers.

LU-7B. It is the policy of Miami-Dade County that both the County and its municipalities shall accommodate new development and redevelopment around rapid transit stations that is well designed, conducive to pedestrian, bicycle and transit use, and architecturally attractive. In recognition that many transit riders begin and end their trips as pedestrians or bicyclists, pedestrian and bicycle accommodations shall include, as appropriate, continuous sidewalks to the transit station, cross walks and pedestrian signals, bicycle lanes/paths, bicycle parking facilities, small blocks and closely intersecting streets, buildings oriented to the street or other pedestrian/bicycle paths, parking lots predominantly to the rear and sides of buildings, primary building entrances as close to the street or transit stop as to the parking lot, shade trees, awnings, and other weather protection for pedestrians and bicyclists.

LU-7C. On all streets served by Metrobus and all arterial or collector streets designated in the

Mass Transit Subelement as year 2030 or 2040 potential service areas:

i) New non-residential buildings and substantial alterations¹ of existing non-residential buildings, and residential buildings wherever practical, shall provide at least one full-time building entrance that is recognizable and accessible from the street and is comparably as close to the street and/or bus stop as it is to the primary parking lot; and

ii) New residential and non-residential developments, subdivisions and replats shall provide for buildings that front the transit street, or provide streets or pedestrian connections that intersect with the transit street in close proximity to bus stops not more than 700 feet apart and, as appropriate, shall provide for new bus stops and/or pullouts.

LU-7D. Redevelopment of property within one-half mile of existing or planned mass transit stations and bus routes shall not cause an increase in walking distances from nearby areas to the transit services and shall, wherever practical, be done by establishing blocks of walkable scale that form an interconnected network of streets, maximizing connectivity with existing streets and promoting a comfortable and attractive environment for pedestrians of all ages and abilities.

LU-7E. Land uses that are not conducive to public transit ridership such as car dealerships, car oriented food franchises, and uses that require transporting large objects should not be permitted to locate or expand within 1/4 mile of rail rapid transit stations.

LU-7F. Residential development around existing and proposed rapid transit stations should have a minimum density of 15 dwelling units per acre (15 du/ac) within 1/4 mile walking distance from the stations and 20 du/ac or higher within 700 feet of the station, and a minimum of 10 du/ac between 1/4 and 1/2 mile walking distance from the station. Business and office development around rail stations should have a minimum intensity of 1.5 FAR within 1/4 mile walking distance from the station, 2.0 FAR within 700 feet, and 1.0 FAR between 1/4 and 1/2 mile walking distance from the station. Where existing and planned urban services and facilities are adequate to accommodate this development as indicated by the minimum level-of-service standards and other policies adopted in this Plan, and where permitted by applicable federal and State laws and regulations, these densities and intensities shall be required in all subsequent development approvals. Where services and facilities are currently or projected to be inadequate, or where required by Policy LU-7A, development may be approved at lower density or intensity provided that the development plan, including any parcel plan, can accommodate, and will not impede, future densification and intensification that will conform with this policy.

LU-7G. Miami-Dade County should partner with the Transportation Planning Organization (TPO) and affected municipalities to establish a systematic program that will produce transit-oriented development (TOD) plans for the areas within ¼ to ½ mile around all Metrorail, the Miami Intermodal Center (MIC), and Strategic Miami Area Rapid Transit (SMART) Plan rapid transit corridor stations. Transit-oriented development is a mix of land uses that promotes transit use and decreases the dependence on automobiles. A phasing program shall also be established as part of this effort to initiate and

formulate updated or new station area plans based on the overall priority categories for urban centers established by the Board of County Commissioners. Within each priority category, the factors for individual area plans may include such conditions as locations and amounts of undeveloped and underutilized land providing development and redevelopment opportunities, ownership, land use patterns, infrastructure and service levels, recent and nearby development activity, and expressions of interest in cooperating by the municipalities. Priority for station development or improvement shall be for those municipalities that have established zoning standards that ensure minimum average residential density and non-residential intensity in accordance with Policy LU-7F.

LU-7H. The Department of Regulatory and Economic Resources shall review land development regulations to identify reforms that would invite, and not impede, transit-oriented development in the station areas, by the year 2020.

LU-7I. Miami-Dade County will continue to review development incentives to encourage higher density, mixed use and transit-oriented development at or near existing and future transit stations and corridors, and continue to update its land development regulations to remove impediments and promote transit-oriented development.

Objective LU-8

Miami-Dade County shall maintain a process for periodic amendment to the Land Use Plan map consistent with the adopted Goals, Objectives and Policies of this plan, which will provide that the Land Use Plan map accommodates projected countywide growth.

Policies

LU-8A. Miami-Dade County shall strive to accommodate residential development in suitable locations and densities which reflect such factors as recent trends in location and design of residential units; a variety of affordable housing options; projected availability of service and infrastructure capacity; proximity and accessibility to employment, commercial, cultural, community, and senior centers; character of existing adjacent or surrounding neighborhoods; avoidance of natural resource degradation; maintenance of quality of life and creation of amenities. Density patterns should reflect the Guidelines for Urban Form contained in this Element.

LU-8B. Distribution of neighborhood or community-serving retail sales uses and personal and professional offices throughout the urban area shall reflect the spatial distribution of the residential population, among other salient social, economic and physical considerations.

LU-8C. Through its planning, capital improvements, cooperative extension, economic development, regulatory and intergovernmental coordination activities, Miami-Dade County shall continue to protect and promote agriculture as a viable economic use of land in Miami-Dade County.

LU-8D. The maintenance of internal consistency among all Elements of the CDMP shall be a prime consideration in evaluating all requests for amendment to any Element of the Plan. Among other considerations, the LUP map shall not be amended to provide for additional urban expansion unless traffic circulation, mass transit, water, sewer, solid

waste, drainage and park and recreation facilities necessary to serve the area are included in the plan and the associated funding programs are demonstrated to be viable.

LU-8E. Applications requesting amendments to the CDMP Land Use Plan map shall be evaluated for consistency with the Goals, Objectives and Policies of all Elements, other timely issues, and in particular the extent to which the proposal, if approved, would:

i) Satisfy a deficiency in the Plan map to accommodate projected population or economic growth of the County;

ii) Enhance or impede provision of services at or above adopted LOS Standards;

iii) Be compatible with abutting and nearby land uses and protect the character of established neighborhoods; and

iv) Enhance or degrade environmental or historical resources; and

v) Enhance or degrade systems important to the County as a whole including regional drainage, emergency management, transit service, roadways, facilities of countywide significance, and water quality; and

vi) If located in a planned Urban Center, or within 1/4 mile of an existing or planned transit station, exclusive busway stop, transit center, or standard or express bus stop served by peak period headways of 20 or fewer minutes, would be a use that promotes transit ridership and pedestrianism as indicated in the policies under Objective LU-7, herein.

LU-8F. The Urban Development Boundary (UDB) should contain developable land having capacity to sustain projected countywide residential demand for a period of 10 years. The estimation of this capacity shall include the capacity to develop and redevelop around transit stations at the densities recommended in policy LU-7F. The adequacy of non-residential land supplies shall be determined on the basis of land supplies in subareas of the County appropriate to the type of use, as well as the Countywide supply within the UDB. The adequacy of land supplies for neighborhood- and community-oriented business and office uses shall be determined on the basis of localized subarea geography such as Census Tracts, Minor Statistical Areas (MSAs) and combinations thereof. Tiers, Half-Tiers and combinations thereof shall be considered along with the Countywide supply when evaluating the adequacy of land supplies for regional commercial and industrial activities.

LU-8G. When considering land areas to add to the UDB, after demonstrating that a need exists, in accordance with the foregoing Policy LU-8F:

i) The following areas shall not be considered:

a) The Northwest Wellfield Protection Area located west of the Turnpike Extension between Okeechobee Road and NW 25 Street and the West Wellfield Protection Area west of SW 157 Avenue between SW 8 Street and SW 42 Street;

b) Water Conservation Areas, Everglades National Park, Biscayne National Park, Pennsuco Wetlands, and Bird Drive Wetlands, as depicted on Figure 14;

c) Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan project footprints delineated in Tentatively Selected Plans and/or Project Implementation Reports;

d) The Redland area south of Eureka Drive (SW 184 Street) except that property bifurcated by the UDB is not restricted hereby if such property meets the following criteria;

(i) that the property is partially zoned within a designated Urban Center;

(ii) that the property is within one-half mile of the South Dade Transitway and is in the Miami-Dade County Transportation Infrastructure Improvement District (TIID); and

(iii) that the property is under a single folio and has not been combined with any other property as of January 24, 2024.

e) Areas within the accident potential zones of the Homestead Air Reserve Base; and

f) Applications for residential land uses within the Coastal High Hazard Areas

ii) The following areas should be avoided:

1. Wetlands of Regional Significance as depicted on Figure 14 of the Land Use Element not otherwise listed in subsection (i)(b) of this policy; and

2. Land designated Agriculture on the Land Use Plan map, except where located in designated Urban Expansion Areas (UEAs); and

3. Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan projects identified in the 1999 Final Integrated Feasibility Report and Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement, as may be modified formally or informally by the United States Army Corps of Engineers or the South Florida Water Management District or that have been approved by the South Florida Water Management District Governing Board; and

4. Land located within the FEMA V Zone.

iii) The following areas shall be given priority for inclusion, subject to conformance with Policy LU-8F and the foregoing provision of this policy:

a) Land within Planning Analysis SubTiers having the earliest projected supply depletion year; and

b) Land within the UEAs and contiguous to the UDB; and

c) Locations within one mile of a planned urban center or transit service station or bus stop providing peak hour headways of 20 minutes or less; and

d) Locations having projected surplus service capacity that is unrestricted by this Plan or where necessary facilities and services can be readily extended; and

e) Locations that meet the exception criteria stated in Policy LU-8G(i)(d).

iv) Notwithstanding Policy LU-8G (iii), other land may be included to expand an existing unique regional facility, defined as an existing public facility or attraction of regional prominence that has been constructed on publicly owned land with significant public funding and intergovernmental coordination, if it satisfies all of the following criteria:

a) The land is within the UEA, is contiguous to the UDB, and is contiguous to a unique regional facility;

b) The use of the land will be limited to the expansion of the unique regional facility, together with ancillary uses; and

c) The expansion will have a positive economic impact, including increased economic development and tourism.

v) Furthermore, lands within the Area of Impact of the SR-836 southwest extension, as defined in Policy TC-1M, shall not be considered for addition to the UDB if the roadway capacity created by the SR-836 southwest extension is included as a basis for the addition of such lands to the UDB.

LU-8H. In addition to conformance with Policies LU-8F and LU-8G, applications requesting expansion of the UDB must request designation as a “Special District” on the CDMP Land

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Use Plan map and include a text amendment under the “Special District” CDMP text to outline the allowable uses, maximum density, maximum floor area ratio, and how the proposed development will satisfy the criteria set forth in this policy. A zoning application must be filed concurrently with the CDMP Land Use Plan map amendment and should meet the following criteria to be approved:

a) Contain a minimum of 10 acres unless the Board of County Commissioners determines a lesser acreage is appropriate; and

b) Provide a mix of housing types, including but not limited to single-family homes, duplexes, townhomes, or multifamily buildings, at a minimum density of 10 du/acre, for applications that include residential development or mixed-use residential development; and

c) Provide a minimum FAR of 0.25 for applications that include non-residential development, excluding public uses, public utilities, public institutions, and public facilities, except when such non-residential uses are provided to support residential uses located on the same site; and

d) Where multiple project phases are proposed, include a phasing schedule in a recordable instrument in favor of the County that demonstrates how the minimum density and FAR outlined in subsections (b) and (c) will be accomplished; and

e) Demonstrate that the project will be served by utility water and sewer service and that adequate public facilities and infrastructure (including water, sewer, roadways, mass transit, solid waste, flood protection, parks and schools) are available or, where not available, ensure the provision of such improvements through a recordable instrument in favor of the County; and

f) Provide for the non-residential needs of the future residents including but not limited to shopping, schools, parks, and necessary public uses or demonstrate that such uses are available within an acceptable distance of the subject property; and

g) Demonstrate that a jobs-to-housing ratio equivalent to or in excess of the jobs-to-housing ratio in the Minor Statistical Area (MSA) in which the subject property is located, but in no event less than 1:1 (one job for each residential unit), will be provided on-site by or for future residents or is available within five miles of the subject property; and

h) Demonstrate that the proposed development will utilize sound urban design principles contained in the County’s Urban Design Manual or other document approved by action of the Board of County Commissioners and will provide for compatibility and connectivity with adjacent urban land uses; and

i) Incorporate bicycle and pedestrian accessibility throughout the development with connections to adjacent areas, where appropriate; and

j) Provide adequate buffering to adjacent agricultural land; and

k) Provide a minimum of 15% of the gross area as open space; and

l) Protect environmentally-sensitive areas to the maximum extent feasible including consideration of impacts to threatened and endangered species; and

m) Demonstrate that the proposed development will have a positive net fiscal impact to Miami-Dade County; and

n) At least 12.5% of the proposed residential units must be priced affordably for individuals earning up to 140% of the Area Median Income; and

o) Include commitments to ensure that the proposed development will be served by mass transit with at least 20 minute peak hour headways or include a plan to provide such service; and

p) Include commitments to ensure that the proposed development will not cause a roadway to exceed its adopted level of service standard or further erode the level of service on a failing roadway;

q) Provide for the preservation of agricultural land commensurate with the impacts of the application on agriculturally-designated land which may include participation in a Transfer of Development Rights program, Purchase of Development Rights program or other similar effort; however, notwithstanding anything in this paragraph to the contrary, in no event shall properties within the Urban Expansion Area be obligated to preserve agricultural land at a 1-to-1 ratio.

LU-8I. By 2021, Miami-Dade County shall develop land development regulations to implement the criteria outlined in Policy LU-8H.

LU-8J. By no later than the time to file an application in the May 2021 CDMP Amendment Cycle to amend the Urban Expansion Areas (UEA), Miami-Dade County shall complete a study of (i) additional areas that may be identified as urban expansion areas, with a goal of replacing the 1,993 acres that were proposed for removal in Application No. 5 of the Evaluation and Appraisal Report amendments in the May 2019 CDMP Amendment Cycle, and (ii) potential additional uses that would be appropriate for the urban expansion areas, particularly near the Homestead Air Reserve Base. A draft of this study shall be made available for review by the public by March 15, 2021.

Objective LU-9

Miami-Dade County shall continue to maintain, update and enhance the Code of Miami-Dade County, administrative regulations and procedures, and special area planning program to ensure that future land use and development in Miami-Dade County is consistent with the CDMP, and to promote better planned neighborhoods and communities and well designed buildings.

Policies

LU-9A. To maintain consistency between Miami-Dade County's development regulations and comprehensive plan, Miami-Dade County's land development regulation commission shall review proposals to amend Miami-Dade County's development regulations and shall report on the consistency between said proposals and the CDMP, as required by Chapter 163, F.S.

LU-9B. Miami-Dade County shall continue to maintain, and enhance as necessary, regulations consistent with the CDMP which govern the use and development of land and which, as a minimum, regulate:

I. Land use consistent with the CDMP Land Use Element and CDMP Level of Service Standards; II. Subdivision of land;

III. Protection of potable water wellfields; IV. Areas subject to seasonal or periodic flooding; V. Stormwater management; VI. Protection of environmentally sensitive lands; VII. Signage; and VIII. On-site traffic flow and parking to ensure safety and convenience and that no avoidable off-site traffic flow impediments are caused by development. The provisions of Policy TC-3A of the Traffic Circulation Subelement, which address access management, shall apply.

LU-9C. Miami-Dade County shall continue to encourage and promote the transfer of Severable Use Rights (SUR) from lands which are allocated SURs in Chapter 33B, Code of Miami-Dade County, to land located within the Urban Development Boundary as designated on the LUP map. When revising development regulations such as may be required to comply with Chapter 163, F.S., the County shall seek to create additional incentives for acquisition and use of SURs. As recommended in Miami-Dade County's State Housing Initiatives Partnership (SHIP) Program Housing Incentives Plan, the receiver area density bonuses in Dade's SUR program should be increased to improve the effectiveness of the program and the production of affordable housing. The County shall consider modifying the SUR program to provide for the transfer of development rights from land acquired by government for uses other than residential or commercial purposes to development sites inside the UDB.

LU-9D. Miami-Dade County shall continue to investigate, maintain and enhance methods, standards and regulatory approaches which facilitate sound, compatible mixing of uses in projects and communities.

LU-9E. Miami-Dade County shall enhance and formalize its standards for defining and ensuring compatibility among proximate uses, and requirements for buffering.

LU-9F. Miami-Dade County shall formulate and adopt zoning or other regulations to implement the policies for development and design of Metropolitan and Community Urban Centers established in the CDMP through individual ordinances for each urban center. By 2025, Miami-Dade County shall complete area plans for station locations along the six rapid transit corridors identified in the Strategic Miami Area Rapid Transit (SMART) Plan.

LU-9G. Miami-Dade County shall review and revise its development regulations to promote building designs in multi-family residential zoning districts which are more compatible with, and sensitive to, surrounding neighborhoods, and to establish minimum densities for development in multifamily residential zoning districts.

LU-9H. Miami-Dade County shall continue its special area planning program with emphasis on the preparation of physical land use and urban design plans for strategic and high-growth locations, such as urban centers and certain transportation corridors as defined in the CDMP.

LU-9I. Miami-Dade County shall continue to update and enhance its land development regulations and area planning program to facilitate development of better planned

neighborhoods and communities, and well-designed buildings, and shall encourage and assist municipalities to do the same.

LU-9J. Miami-Dade County shall continue to use the design guidelines established in its urban design manual as additional criteria for use in the review of all applications for new residential, commercial and industrial development in unincorporated Miami-Dade County, and shall consider the inclusion of such guidelines into its land development regulations.

LU-9K. By 2016, Miami-Dade County shall initiate the review and revision of its Subdivision Regulations to facilitate the development of better planned communities. The Public Works Department shall specifically review and update the Subdivision Regulations for urban design purposes. Changes to be considered shall include provisions for:

a) Open space in the form of squares, plazas, or green areas in residential and commercial zoning categories; and

ii) A hierarchy of street types and designs, ranging from pedestrian and bike paths to boulevards that serve both neighborhood and areawide vehicular and pedestrian trip making needs by addressing cross sections, corner radii, connectivity and rationality of street and pathway networks, and balanced accommodation of automobiles, pedestrians, bicyclists, and landscaping.

LU-9L. Miami-Dade County shall formulate and adopt zoning overlay or other regulations applicable to land outside the Urban Development Boundary to orient the uses allowed in business and industrial zoning districts to those which support the rural and agricultural economy of the area. Uses permitted by right would relate exclusively to agricultural or mining industries, and other uses would be approvable as special exceptions upon demonstration that the use supports the non-urban economy of that area or is required by residents of the immediate area.

LU-9M. Building, zoning and housing codes will be vigorously enforced in all areas of Miami-Dade County.

LU-9N. Miami-Dade County shall continue to update its land development regulations on a regular basis in order to address code amendments recommended by CDMP policy, code deficiencies or changing conditions.

LU-9O. Miami-Dade County shall revise land development regulations to allow live-work units and structures in urban centers and all land use categories that permit the mixture of residential and non-residential uses. Live-work refers to one or more individuals living in the same building where they earn their livelihood usually in professional, artisanal or light industrial activities. The quiet enjoyment expectations of the residential neighbors take precedence over the work needs in a live-work unit or building. Toward this end, the occupational use of the unit shall not include non-resident employees or walk-in trade. No outdoor activity; noise, vibration, odor, electric interference or other effect of the occupation shall be detectable outside the live-work unit. The regulations should provide for disclosure of neighboring industrial and commercial activities to prospective residential tenants and purchasers.

LU-9P. Miami-Dade County shall revise land development regulations to allow work-live units in the Business and Office and Industrial and Office land use categories. The term

work-live means that the needs of the work component takes precedence over the quiet expectations of residents, in that there may be noise, odors, or other impacts of the business, as well as employees, walk-in trade or sales. The predominant use of a work-live unit is industrial or commercial work activity and residential activity is secondary.

LU-9Q. The County shall coordinate with affected municipalities to prepare plans for areas designated as “urban centers” on the Land Use Plan Map, and other small area and neighborhood plans as needed and appropriate. These plans shall formulate a vision for the development and redevelopment of these areas in order to identify appropriate locations for higher density development, recommend area specific design requirements, and produce working and living environments that reflect community goals.

LU-9R. Miami-Dade County shall conduct a study to address minimum requirements for off-street parking and shared parking in transit corridors and areas with mixed use developments.

LU-9S. Miami-Dade County shall continue to review, analyze, and revise as necessary the land use intensity standards established in the CDMP, particularly as they apply to non-residential development, to ensure consistency between intensity standards for Urban Centers and those that apply to the Urban Infill Area, the Urbanizing Area (the area between the Urban Infill Area and the Urban Development Boundary) and outside the Urban Development Boundary. The review, analysis and revision shall also address the need for minimum standards as well as maximums. Following revision of these standards, consideration shall be given to countywide adoption of them and establishment of a joint/city review board to address instances where standards cannot reasonably be met.

LU- 9T. The County shall consider provisions to allow horizontal mixed-use developments, defined as the horizontal integration of parcels with different primary uses within the same site or block, in appropriate future land use categories in the Urban Development Boundary.

LU- 9U. By 2015, Miami-Dade County shall evaluate and propose update(s) to the Guidelines for Urban Form, Mixed Use Development and Urban Center provisions of this plan in coordination with the “Complete Streets” program to be developed pursuant to Transportation Element Objective TE-4. The updates shall address, as appropriate, the maximum allowable FARs, intensity and density of development, allowances that facilitate transit supportive mixed developments, and shall enhance and further the implementation of the County Area Planning Program and support the intent of the Complete Streets Program.

LU-9V. By 2020, Miami-Dade County shall adopt form-based zoning regulations to implement the mixed-use development provisions for areas within the Rapid Transit Activity Corridors. Such regulations shall, at a minimum, address compatibility with adjacent land uses, use of alternate modes of transportation, and connectivity between land uses and transit.

Objective LU-10

Miami-Dade County should achieve a countywide reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 80% from the baseline year of 2008 to 2050 and work to achieve zero emissions for countywide energy sources. Miami-Dade County should encourage development patterns that reduce emissions and promote energy efficiency.

Policies

LU-10A. Miami-Dade County shall facilitate contiguous urban development, infill, redevelopment of substandard or underdeveloped urban areas, moderate to high intensity activity centers, mass transit supportive development, and mixed-use projects to reduce emissions and promote energy conservation. To facilitate and promote such development Miami-Dade County shall orient its public facilities and infrastructure planning efforts to minimize and reduce deficiencies and establish the service capacities needed to support such development.

LU-10B. Miami-Dade County shall continue to update and refine the inventory of countywide greenhouse gas emissions utilizing current data. Further, the County should assess the carbon storage and sequestration capacity of natural and other areas within the County.

LU-10C. Miami-Dade County shall encourage energy conservation by adopting Florida Green Building Coalition, US Green Building Council Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED), or other acceptable commercial building standards for County-owned facilities and the Institute for Sustainable Infrastructure Envision standards for County-owned infrastructure.

LU-10D. Miami-Dade County shall promote energy conservation by encouraging builders, remodelers, homeowners and homebuyers to implement ENERGY STAR, Florida Green Building Coalition green home or other acceptable environmental standards and by encouraging site planners and land developers to implement Florida Green Building Coalition, US Green Building Council Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED), or other acceptable commercial building standards.

LU10-E. Miami-Dade County shall continue to investigate opportunities to incentivize energy efficiency and, as appropriate, access available incentives and/or information regarding available incentives and make such information or accessed incentives available for developers and property owners to incorporate energy efficiency and other conservation measures that meet recognized green building standards into the design, construction or rehabilitation of their buildings.

LU-10F. Miami-Dade County should implement programs to encourage large-scale facilities to track water and electricity consumption and provide efficiency improvements.

LU-10G. Miami-Dade County shall coordinate with municipalities in the County to develop a greenhouse gas emissions inventory and regional plan that establishes short-, mid-, and long-term greenhouse gas reduction targets and strategies.

LU-10H. Miami-Dade County shall take steps towards having 30% of countywide energy obtained from solar by 2030 with the ultimate goal of achieving zero emissions for countywide energy sources.

LU-10I. Miami-Dade County shall consider strategies to reduce the urban heat island effect which may include requirements for high albedo surfaces, porous pavement, tree canopy, and cool roofs.

LU-10J. By 2025, Miami-Dade County shall consider strategies to expand the availability of electric vehicle charging infrastructure throughout the County.

LU-10K. Miami-Dade County should take steps to reduce greenhouse gas emissions for County facilities and operations by decreasing fuel consumption, reducing electricity usage and increasing use of renewable energy sources, among other strategies. Specific measures should include:

1. Reducing the consumption of gasoline in County operations by 30 percent and the consumption of diesel fuel in County operations by 70 percent from the baseline year of 2016 to 2028 and further move toward conversion of the County’s fleet to electric vehicles; and

2. Incorporating green building practices into the design of County facilities and infrastructure; and

3. Reducing electricity usage for County facilities by 20% from the baseline year of 2009 to 2025.

Objective LU-11

Miami-Dade County shall take specific measures to promote redevelopment of dilapidated or abandoned buildings and the renovation, rehabilitation or adaptive reuse of existing structures. Policies

LU-11A. The Department of Regulatory and Economic Resources will develop and maintain an appropriate methodology (model), which contains relevant variables and has been validated with respect to accuracy for indicating sites, which have a high potential for redevelopment. The results from applications of this model will be reported annually.

LU-11B. Miami-Dade County shall continue to utilize its Community Redevelopment Area (CRA) Program and federal programs such as the Community Development Block Grant and the HOME program to facilitate redevelopment of dilapidated or abandoned buildings and the renovation, rehabilitation or adaptive reuse of existing structures in eligible areas.

Objective LU-12

Miami-Dade County shall take specific measures to promote infill development that are located in the Urban Infill Area (UIA) as defined in Policy TC-1B or in an built-up area with urban services that is situated in a Community Development Block Grant (CDBG)-eligible area, a Targeted Urban Area identified in the Urban Economic Revitalization Plan for Targeted Urban Areas, an Enterprise Zone established pursuant to state law.

Policies

LU-12A. The Department of Regulatory and Economic Resources will utilize its Geographic Information System (GIS) Land Use File to identify vacant sites, which might be suitable for infill housing. An infrastructure assessment will also be carried out and the results forthcoming from this process will be reported annually by the Department.

LU-12B. Miami-Dade County shall identify and consider for adoption a package of financial and regulatory incentives for new development on vacant properties in the UIA.

LU-12C. Miami-Dade County shall evaluate the need to designate an Urban Infill Development Area (UIDA) in the CDMP and if needed develop policies specifying that this area shall receive priority for future public and private investments in infrastructure, services, development and compatible redevelopment.

LU-12D. The County shall consider developing strategies that promote infill development in specific areas.

LU-12E. Miami-Dade County shall continue to investigate and seek opportunities to incentivize infill development, shall publicize available incentives, and make information regarding available incentives easily accessible to developers and property owners, particularly for infill development that is transit supportive and provides workforce housing. Such incentives may include, but not be limited to, joint development agreements at transit stations and transit centers, and flexibility of development standards, particularly for irregular shaped or otherwise substandard lots.

Objective LU-13

Miami-Dade County shall implement strategies to reduce the impacts of climate change on the built environment and address the impacts of the built environment on the natural systems that provide protections against the impacts of climate change.

Policies

LU-13A. By 2022, Miami-Dade County shall develop future groundwater maps appropriate for use in the design of structures and stormwater management systems, at a minimum.

LU-13B. By 2021, Miami-Dade County shall develop a development impact tool or criteria to assess how proposed development and redevelopment project features including location, site design, land use types, density and intensity of uses, landscaping, and building design, will help mitigate climate impacts or may exacerbate climate related hazards. The tool would also assess each development’s projected level of risk of exposure to climate change impacts, such as inland flooding.

LU-13C. Miami-Dade County shall designate areas vulnerable to coastal flooding, storm surge and sea level rise impacts as Adaptation Action Areas and identify policies, capital projects and funding to address such vulnerabilities. Miami-Dade County shall coordinate with its local municipalities to identify Adaptation Action Areas within municipal boundaries and assist with multi-jurisdictional solutions to address identified vulnerabilities.

LU-13D. Miami-Dade County shall continue to identify and address public buildings and infrastructure vulnerable to sea level rise and other climate change related impacts. This analysis shall include public buildings, water and waste water treatment plants, transmission lines and pump stations, stormwater systems, roads, rail, bridges, transit facilities and infrastructure, airport and seaport infrastructure, libraries, parks, fire and police stations and facilities. Miami-Dade County shall identify funding sources to address identified vulnerabilities with priority given to addressing vulnerabilities to critical facilities and infrastructure.

LU-13E. The design, location, and development of infrastructure and buildings operated by or on behalf of Miami-Dade County shall include evaluation of sea level rise utilizing the Unified Sea Level Rise Projection presented below. Miami-Dade County shall develop a sea level rise checklist for use when analyzing County projects.

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Source: Unified Sea Level Rise Projection Report (2019), Southeast Florida Regional Climate Change Compact

LU-13F. In order to address and adapt to the impacts of climate change, Miami-Dade County shall continue to improve analysis and mapping capabilities for identifying areas of the County vulnerable to sea level rise, tidal flooding and other impacts of climate change.

LU-13G. Miami-Dade County shall develop standards for adapting the built environment to the impacts of climate change as an integral component of all planning processes, including but not limited to comprehensive planning, infrastructure planning, building and life safety codes, emergency management and development regulations, stormwater management, and water resources management.

LU-13H. Miami-Dade County shall continue to actively participate in the Southeast Florida Regional Climate Change Compact and collaborate to increase regional climate change resiliency by sharing technical expertise, assessing regional vulnerabilities,

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advancing agreed upon mitigation and adaptation strategies and developing joint state and federal legislation policies and programs.

LU-13I. Miami-Dade County shall support the implementation of climate change related policies, through education, advocacy and incentive programs. Public outreach, such as workshops or a website with relevant information, shall seek to shift residents’ everyday transportation decisions and housing choices to support transit oriented communities and travel patterns. The County shall provide opportunities for the public, including students, building industry and environmental groups, to participate in the development of climate change related land development regulations and initiatives.

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Interpretation of the Land Use Plan Map:

Policy of the Land Use Element

This text, which is adopted as County policy, describes each land use category shown on the Land Use Plan (LUP) map, and explains how each category and the Map are to be interpreted and used. Adherence to the LUP map and this text is a principal, but not the sole, vehicle through which many of the goals, objectives and policies of all elements of the CDMP are implemented. The LUP map illustrates where development of various types and densities, including agriculture, is encouraged and areas where natural resource-based development and environmental protection are encouraged. The LUP map also depicts the general location of physical features such as roadways, railways, canals, manmade lakes and ponds. Additional density and uses may be allowed pursuant to the Mixed Use Development text and other policies set forth in this Plan.

The LUP map provides six Residential Communities categories organized by gross density ranges. The non-residential land use categories, notably industrial, office, business, institutional, public facilities and transportation terminals, are organized by the types of predominant uses allowed or encouraged on land so designated, and relative intensities of development authorized in these categories are expressed as allowable land uses, as contrasted with land uses allowed in other LUP map categories. The specific intensity of development which may be approved on a particular parcel designated in a non-residential category on the LUP map will be dependent on the particular land use, design, urban service, environmental, and social conditions on and around the subject parcel at the time of approval including consideration of applicable CDMP goals, objectives and policies, including provisions of this text chapter, and provisions of applicable land development regulations which serve to implement the comprehensive plan. At a maximum, unless otherwise provided in this Plan, as provided for example for Urban Centers, the following shall be the maximum intensities at which land designated on the LUP map in one or more non-residential categories may be developed. Actual intensities approvable on a given site may be significantly lower than the maximum where necessary to conform with an overriding Plan policy, or to ensure compatibility of the development with its surroundings. Moreover, notwithstanding adoption of these intensity ceilings in the CDMP, estimations of prospective urban service demands or impacts of proposed developments will be based on the actual approved uses and/or intensity of a particular development when applicable, and for purposes of long-range areawide service facility planning purposes, such estimations may be based on averages or trends of development types and intensities in localized areas when consistent with sound service/facility planning practice. The following allowable maximum intensities are expressed as the floor area ratio (FAR) of building square footage (not counting parking structures) divided by the net lot area of the development parcel.

Maximum Allowable Non-Residential Development Intensity

In order to maintain the County’s adopted minimum level of service standards on all State and County roads adjacent to and in the vicinity of the October 2012 Cycle EAR-Based Amendment Application No. 1, Part C, Parcel 296 to amend the CDMP, which is generally bounded by NW 25 Street on the north, the Homestead Extension of the Florida Turnpike (HEFT) on the east, NW 12

Street on the south, and NW 132 Avenue on the west, the maximum allowable intensity under the CDMP shall be a FAR of 0.40 for the Application area.

In order to maintain the County’s adopted minimum level of service standards on all State and County roads adjacent to and in the vicinity of the property subject of the November 2013 Cycle CDMP Amendment Application No. 3, generally located on the northwest corner of NW 47th Avenue and NW 199th Street, the maximum allowable development intensity under the CDMP shall be a FAR of 0.35 for the application area.

Residential Communities

The areas designated Residential Communities permit housing types ranging from detached single-family to attached multifamily buildings, as well as different constructions systems. Also permitted in residential Communities are neighborhood and community services including schools, parks, houses of worship, day care centers, group housing facilities, and utility facilities only when consistent with other goals, objectives and policies of this Plan and compatible with the neighborhood. The character of the “neighborhood” reflects the intensity and design of developments mix of land uses, and their relationship.

Guidelines for Urban Form. The following guidelines establish a generalized pattern for location of different uses, their intensity and density, and the interconnecting network of vehicular and pedestrian movement. The general pattern of land use in residential communities should conform to the following guidelines to the maximum extent consistent with the land use patterns and densities authorized and encouraged by the Land Use Plan (LUP) map, and future amendments to the LUP map should endeavor to promote this localized form within the metropolitan pattern of urban centers and transit corridors. Exceptions may occur (a) for Developments of Regional Impact and Development of County Impact or (b) to conform the density, intensity, use, building, envelope, traffic generation and demand on services and infrastructure of a proposed new use to such contextual elements as the general pattern of use, intensity and infrastructure which exists in an established neighborhood. The general pattern promoted by these guidelines is schematically illustrated in Figure 1.

1. The section line roads should form the physical boundaries of neighborhoods.

2. The section line, half section line, and quarter-section line road system should form a continuous network, interrupted only when it would destroy the integrity of a neighborhood or development, or when there is a significant physical impediment. Pedestrian and vehicular traffic networks should serve as physical links between neighborhoods, with multiple points of access between neighborhoods.

3. Within a section, a variety of residential types and densities are encouraged, with higher densities being located at the periphery, and lower densities in the interior.

4. Intersections of section line roads shall serve as focal points of activity, hereafter referred to as activity nodes. Activity nodes shall be occupied by any nonresidential components of the neighborhood including public and semi-public uses. When commercial uses are warranted, they should be located within these activity nodes. In addition, of the various residential densities which may be approved in a section through density averaging or on an individual site basis, the higher density residential uses should be located at or near the activity nodes.

5. Areas abutting and adjacent to activity nodes should serve as transition areas suitable for eligible higher residential densities, public and semi-public uses including day care and congregate living uses.

6. Areas located along section line roads between transition areas are also authorized for eligible higher residential densities, public and semi-public uses. When section line roads are served by adequate mass transit, these areas are more suitable for office uses than such properties not served by adequate transit.

7. Sites located near the center of the section at or near the intersection of half-section roads may be utilized for neighborhood-serving community facilities such as elementary schools, day care, recreational uses, and open spaces.

8. Pedestrian circulation shall be provided between activity nodes, all public places, and all subdivisions through connectivity of section, half-section and local roadways constructed with sidewalks and supplemented by pedestrian paths.

9. Along arterials, Major and high-speed roadways, pedestrian circulation should be accommodated by sheltering sidewalks from passing traffic by providing landscaping and trees at the street edge. In commercial areas, pedestrian access should be further accommodated by pedestrian pathways from the neighborhood to the business entrances as convenient as those from parking lots, and by providing awnings, overhangs or porticos for protection from the sun and weather.

10. The walling off of neighborhoods from arterial roadways should be avoided by alternatives such as placement of other compatible uses being along the periphery of suburban neighborhoods. These uses include public and semi-public uses, higher density residential building types, and office uses, where any of such uses are otherwise permitted by this category and justified. If lower density residential uses are to be located on an arterial, the building lots should be provided with ample setbacks, side yards and block ends should face the arterial, frontage roads may be utilized, or landscaping should be used in lieu of continuous walls.

11. In planning and designing new residential developments, the frontages of public canals should be designed to remain open and accessible to neighborhood residents by such measures as the provision of adjoining frontage streets, and the avoidance of platting new contiguous building lots which would back up to the canal rights of way and prevent access. Similarly, new developments should be designed so that at least a portion of the shoreline of private water bodies will remain visible and accessible to neighborhood residents.

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ACTIVITY NODE

TRANSITION AREA

SECTION PERIPHERY WITHOUT/WITH OFFICES

RESIDENTIAL

SECTION CENTER

SOURCE: DEPARTMENT OF REGULATORY AND ECONOMIC RESOURCES, 2004

Figure 1

GENERALIZED NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT PATTERN

DEPARTMENT OF REGULATORY AND ECONOMIC RESOURCES

Gross Residential Density. The basic unit of measurement of residential density is "dwelling units per gross residential acre." Among the land uses that may be included in the "gross residential acreage" when computing the number of dwelling units permitted per gross acre in a residential communities area are the following: housing; streets; public schools; local public parks; fire stations; police stations; private recreational open spaces that are protected by covenant; public or semipublic utility sites, easements or rights-of-way donated at the time of development approval; and nature preserves and water bodies created as open-space amenities during project development or credited for density purposes during previous development approval, or inland waters¹ wholly owned by the applicant. The sites of these nonresidential uses may be included in the gross residential acreage only if they are under the same ownership or are multiple ownerships that are legally unified (legally unified development) as the site for which gross density is being determined. Among the uses not considered to be part of the "residential" area when computing the number of units permitted are industrial, commercial and office sites; communication facility sites; utility sites; easements and rights-of-way unless expressly permitted elsewhere in this section; expressways; non-local parks and nature preserves; universities, colleges and other institutional use; any land that has been credited for other development; previously dedicated road rights-of-way; and any already-developed parcels whether underdeveloped or not. Hotels and motels may be approved in certain areas designated as Residential Communities only as provided in the following paragraphs. Where approved in Residential Communities, each hotel or motel unit shall count as two thirds (2/3) of a dwelling unit when calculating gross density. (Motels and hotels that are located in areas designated Business and Office or Industrial and Office on the LUP map are considered to be commercial uses and, therefore, their units are not considered in determining the number of residential units permitted in an area). In contrast, net density is the number of housing units per acre of land that is used exclusively for residential units. For example, a ten-acre parcel of land, half of which is devoted to 30 residential units and half to a park, would have residential development at a NET density of 6 units per acre and a GROSS density of 3 units per acre. Gross density is used for long-range areawide comprehensive planning because it provides flexibility for design and development of varied unit types, while Net density, typically used in zoning and design regulations, provides greater control over physical characteristics of development such as building massing and height.

The Land Use Plan map includes six residential density categories, each of which is defined in terms of its minimum and maximum allowable gross residential density. Development at a lower than maximum density may be required where conditions warrant. For example, in instances where a large portion of the "gross residential acreage" is not part of the "net" residential building area, the necessity to limit the height and scale of the buildings to that compatible with the surrounding area may limit the gross density.

In order to efficiently use, and not prematurely deplete, the finite development capacity that exists inside the Plan's Urban Development Boundary (UDB), land should not be developed at densities lower than the minimum established for each category. Exceptions to the minimums may exist outside transportation or transit corridors where such an exception would serve the interest of compatibility or protect the public health, safety, or important resources. For purposes of this paragraph, transportation and transit corridors are land areas located within 660 feet of planned Major Roadways identified on the LUP map, and within one-quarter mile from existing rail transit

stations, express busway stops, future transit corridors and planned transit centers identified in the CDMP.

Open space consisting of green spaces such as natural areas, gardens, greens, squares, and plazas; water bodies, and/or recreational facilities shall be provided for each townhouse or multi-family development. Where practical for the planning of new townhouse developments or multi-family developments, an open space network consisting of interconnected active (e.g. play areas, swimming pools and tennis courts) and passive areas shall be provided for. The passive portion of the open space shall include any on-site archaeological or historic sites, environmentally sensitive areas such as wetlands and Natural Forest Communities, water bodies and the shoreline walkway for sites abutting Biscayne Bay or the Atlantic Ocean. The open space for a parcel shall, whenever practical, be connected to the open space of adjacent parcels, the open space network for the neighborhood, and to the County's interconnected system of parks and open spaces including public spaces, natural and cultural places, greenways, trails, and water trails as described in the Parks Open Space System Master Plan. To provide for the open space on a parcel, the clustering of residential structures on the property will be permitted. If a public park with existing recreational facilities or programmed facilities is located within a ¼ mile of a residential parcel, recreational facilities need not be provided on-site. However, the open space requirement must be met, unless authorized after public hearing. The on-site open space shall be maintained by the property owner for rental apartments and by the homeowner association for ownership housing.

Estate Density. This density range is typically characterized by detached estates which utilize only a small portion of the total parcel. Clustering, and a variety of housing types may, however, be authorized. The residential densities allowed in this category shall range from a minimum of 1.0 to a maximum of 2.5 dwelling units per gross acre.

Low Density. The residential densities allowed in this category shall range from a minimum of 2.5 to a maximum of 6.0 dwelling units per gross acre. Residential densities of blocks abutting activity nodes as defined in the Guidelines for Urban Form, or of blocks abutting section line roads between nodes, shall be allowed a maximum residential density of 10.0 dwelling units per gross acre. To promote infill development, residential development exceeding the maximum density of 6.0 dwelling units per acre is permitted for substandard lots that were conveyed or platted prior to August 2[^nd], 1938. This density category is generally characterized by single family housing, e.g., single family detached, cluster, and townhouses. It could include low-rise apartments with extensive surrounding open space or a mixture of housing types provided that the maximum gross density is not exceeded.

Low-Medium Density. This category allows a range in density from a minimum of 6.0 to a maximum of 13 dwelling units per gross acre. The types of housing typically found in areas designated low-medium density include single-family homes, townhouses and low-rise apartments. Zero-lot-line single-family developments in this category shall not exceed a density of 7.0 dwelling units per gross acre.

Medium Density. This category allows densities from 13 to 25 dwelling units per gross acre. The type of housing structures typically permitted in this category includes townhouses and low-rise and medium-rise apartments.

Medium-High Density. This category authorizes apartment buildings ranging from 25 to 60 dwelling units per gross acre. In this category, the height of buildings and, therefore, the attainment of densities approaching the maximum, depends to a great extent on the dimensions

of the site, conditions such as location and availability of services, ability to provide sufficient off-street parking, and the compatibility with and impact of the development on surrounding areas. The provisions of the section below entitled “Density Increase with Urban Design” are not applicable to this density category.

High Density. This category permits from 60 to 125 dwelling units or more per gross acre. This density is found only in a few areas that are located within certain municipalities where land costs are very high and where services will be able to meet the demands.

Density Increase With Urban Design. Some parcels are designated on the LUP map both with a color designating the allowable residential density basis and one of two hatch patterns. The hatch pattern labeled on the LUP map legend as DI-1 (Density Increase 1) denotes that the parcel is eligible for approval of one density category higher than the residential density indicated by the underlying color code, and DI-2 denotes eligibility for approval of up to two density categories higher. A property shall be eligible for a DI-1 designation only if the development containing the designated property utilizes sound urban design principles adopted by County ordinance or incorporated in the Urban Design Manual endorsed by Resolution R-1360-98 as may be amended from time to time, or addresses the urban design concerns contained in another binding instrument approved by action of the Board of County Commissioners. A property shall be eligible for a DI-2 designation only if it meets the above urban design principles, is located in a transit corridor and addresses in a development agreement or site plan the urban design concerns of identifying civic areas, defining open spaces and streets, incorporating any historic theme and providing a pedestrian-friendly environment along roadways. For purposes of this paragraph, transit corridors are land areas located within 660 feet of planned Major Roadways identified on the LUP map, and within one-quarter mile from existing rail transit stations, express busway stops, future transit corridors and planned transit centers identified in the CDMP. To provide a transition between the transit corridor and adjacent neighborhoods, the height of buildings along the edge of the corridor should taper for at least 20 horizontal feet to the height of the existing adjacent buildings outside the corridor. However, where the adjacent property is vacant, heights of buildings at the edge of the corridor may be based on adopted comprehensive plans and the zoning of the surrounding area. Existing or proposed developments with vehicular entrances that are controlled or have entry gates with private streets are not eligible for a density increase designation of DI-1 or DI-2. If the referenced urban design principles are not employed, the allowable density shall be limited to that authorized only by the underlying color code.

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⬚ figure (DI-2) Two Density Increase With Urban Design

Density Bonus Programs for Affordable/Workforce Housing: The following describes the various density bonus incentives for affordable housing and workforce housing that may be approved:

17% Density Bonus for Affordable Housing: A density bonus up to 17% above the maximum land use designation may be approved if it is certified that that no less than 30% of the units in the development, excepting accessory dwelling units, will be priced affordable to low and very-low income households (households at or below 80% of the Area Median Income [AMI]).

25% Density Bonus for Workforce Housing: Through the Voluntary Inclusionary Zoning program, a density bonus of up to 25% may be allowed for projects that set aside residential

units for workforce housing. The Workforce Housing Development Program (Voluntary Inclusionary Zoning program) defines workforce as households with incomes between 60 and 140% of the County’s Area Median Income.

30% Density Bonus for Affordable/Workforce Multifamily Housing: A density bonus of up to 30% above the maximum allowable density may be approved for projects that are located in close proximity to transit service and provide a mix of market rate, workforce and affordable housing opportunities. Below is a list of the conditions that must be met for the 30% density bonus to be awarded:

1. At least 30% of the total residential units shall be priced affordable to households at or below 140% of the AMI, and no less than 20% of the total units shall be priced affordable to households at or below 80% of the AMI for a period of no less than 30 years, pursuant to a deed restriction;

2. The site shall have a land use designation of Low-Medium Density Residential, Medium Density Residential, Medium-High Density Residential, Office/Residential, or Business and Office (Estate, Low Density or High Density land use designations shall not be eligible);

3. The site shall front a major roadway and be located within ¼ mile radius of transit service, which is defined as a transit station or bus stop with at least one route that provides 20 minute peak-hour headways or better during weekdays;

4. The location of the site shall be consistent with the guidelines for urban form;

5. The site is located within ½ mile radius of activity nodes with neighborhood retail establishments;

6. The property is located within ½ mile radius of public recreational open space or a public school, unless 15% of the site is set aside for recreational open space facilities. Recreational facilities are defined as play areas, swimming pools, tennis courts, and other active outdoor facilities.

7. Existing and planned public services and facilities, including water and sewer facilities, shall be adequate to serve the maximum development allowed on the proposed site; and

8. The development shall obtain a certification rating from LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) or a similar organization accredited by the U.S. Green Building Council (USGB); and

60% Density Bonus for Not-for-Profit or Government/Public Sponsored Affordable Housing Providers: A density bonus of up to 60% above the maximum allowable density may be permitted if: 1) the developer is a not-for-profit affordable housing provider, a government/public sponsored affordable housing provider, or if the application site is publicly owned and made available for the development of affordable/workforce housing; and 2) all the conditions for the 30% Density Bonus for Affordable/Workforce Multifamily Infill Housing are satisfied. A government/public sponsored affordable housing provider is defined as a private developer or organization that has been awarded public funding or is participating in a public housing program to develop affordable/workforce housing, and/or a private developer or organization that has received approval to develop affordable/workforce housing on a County or publicly owned site either through donation of the land, a lease, or other form of legal agreement.

Density Bonus programs of 30% or higher shall only take effect upon the adoption of an ordinance providing for implementation of such programs. A density bonus of 30% or higher may only be approved following public hearing.

To be eligible for any of the density bonuses described above, the proposed development shall be consistent with the adopted goals, objectives, and policies of the Comprehensive Development Master Plan. The actual density achieved on a particular property will depend on all applicable land development regulations and compatibility standards. Sites shall be within the Urban Development Boundary, and sound urban design principles adopted by County ordinance or other binding instrument approved by action of the Board of County Commissioners must be applied. Appropriate compatibility standards must be followed to assure that the proposed development is compatible or made compatible with any adjoining or adjacent uses. Density bonuses shall not be combined. Furthermore, all residential units set aside for workforce housing or affordable housing should be disbursed throughout the housing development and be similar in size and type, as well as appearance on the exterior from non-set-aside units in the housing development. Prior to receiving the certificate of occupancy for market-rate units, all of the affordable housing units shall be under actual construction.

Transferrable Development Rights. Miami-Dade County may create and implement Transfer of Development Rights (TDR) programs to provide for the preservation of agricultural land, environmentally sensitive land, historic structures, archaeological resources, or to ensure airport compatibility. The entire area within the UDB may be eligible to receive and utilize Transferrable Development Rights (TDRs) including Severable Use Rights (SURs). When TDRs are utilized on parcels within the designated receiving area, development shall be allowed to exceed the maximum density or Floor Area Ratio limits designated for the site or affected portions of it; however, this provision does not authorize the approval of a zoning district that would exceed the Plan limits without use of TDRs. In no case shall the density cap of the land use category be exceeded by more than 20 percent through the use of TDRs.

By March 2021, Miami-Dade County shall adopt and implement land development regulations establishing a Transferrable Development Rights program that provides for the preservation of agricultural land. These land development regulations may allow development rights to be transferred at a greater ratio to incentivize transfer of development rights from certain areas.

Density Averaging. The land use density ceiling designated on the LUP map will apply to every parcel of land. However, in certain instances, the averaging of density may be authorized among different parcels. Specific provisions for this to occur are specified below. All of the following allowances are limited to lands located within the Urban Development Boundary, which are designated for urban uses. Where groups of parcels under a single ownership or multiple ownerships that are legally unified (hereinafter legally unified development) are located within a unit area bounded by Major or Minor Roadways as indicated on the Land Use Plan map, portions of the unified development may be developed at densities higher than that shown on the LUP map provided that other portions are developed at correspondingly lower densities so that the average density of the entire development does not exceed the maximum gross density limits shown on the LUP map. Where a parcel or group of contiguous parcels under a single ownership or legally unified development has two different LUP map residential designations, the number of units permitted under one designation may be averaged with the number of units permitted under the other and developed at varying densities providing that the total number of units built on such property does not exceed the total number permitted under the two designations. Further, where 50 percent or more of the boundary of a parcel or group of contiguous parcels, not exceeding 20

acres in size, adjoins land that is developed or zoned for densities that are higher than those which are shown on the LUP map, such property may be zoned for a density higher than that shown on the LUP map but not higher than the highest density which is permitted by zoning on the adjoining properties. Density may be transferred across a Major or Minor roadway to an adjacent and legally unified parcel or portion thereof contiguous to the Roadway provided, further, that the site receiving the increased density shall be developed at a density no greater than the higher of adjoining or adjacent existing residential development or zoning, or if the adjoining land is undeveloped and not zoned for urban use, one density category higher than the LUP map designation of the parcel. The above provisions, however, are all conditioned upon a determination being made that the requested density and housing types are compatible with the surrounding development and would not create a significant negative impact on services within the area.

The land use and residential density patterns indicated for municipalities represent the development basis that Miami-Dade County will use to plan and program public facilities and services that are its responsibility. The patterns of land use and densities indicated along municipal boundaries also seek to minimize conflicts between different jurisdictions. Because municipal planning agencies possess greater familiarity and the authority to plan land use of their jurisdiction, adopted municipal comprehensive plans may average densities among different density categories indicated on the LUP map, within unit areas bounded by Major and Minor Roadways indicated on the Land Use Plan map. However, the total potential number of dwelling units and acreage of other land uses should not be changed from the total indicated by the County plan for the unit area bounded by these roadways. Moreover, maintenance of compatible uses and housing types at local government jurisdictional boundaries is particularly important.

Housing Variety. Residential communities having a variety of housing types, such as standard single-family detached homes, townhouse, other single-family attached homes, and multi-family units, are encouraged by this plan. Toward this end, all new residential developments should include housing types, which will contribute to the diversity of housing types in the immediate area, and in all instances residential developments exceeding 40 acres in size shall contain more than one of the foregoing housing types. It is especially important to mix townhouses with single-family detached and the former with multi-family units. Multi-family buildings should offer a variety of sizes ranging from efficiency units through two and three bedroom apartments.

Accessory Dwelling Units. Accessory dwelling units ranging from 400 to 800 square feet of habitable area are authorized on single-family lots with a minimum area of 7,500 square feet that are located inside the Urban Development Boundary. The appearance of the structure(s) containing the primary and accessory units shall maintain an appearance consistent with the character of the neighborhood. Accessory dwelling units provided in accordance with this section shall not be counted toward the LUP map residential density maximum which governs the subject property.

Uses and Zoning Not Specifically Depicted. As provided in the previous paragraphs, mixing of different housing types and densities is allowed within certain unit areas. The average gross residential densities depicted on the Land Use Plan map reflect such averaging. They also reflect certain non-residential use sites previously credited in accordance with the section titled "Gross Residential Density" and its predecessor standard.

Existing lawful residential and non-residential uses and zoning are not specifically depicted on the LUP map. They are however reflected in the average Plan density depicted. All such lawful uses and zoning are deemed to be consistent with this Plan as provided in the section of this

chapter titled "Concepts and Limitations of the Land Use Plan Map." The limitations referenced in this paragraph pertain to existing zoning and uses. All approval of new zoning must be consistent with the provisions of the specific category in which the subject parcel exists, including the provisions for density averaging and definition of gross density.

Other Potential Uses in Residential Communities. The uses generally permitted in Residential Communities are listed above under the residential, and gross residential density headings. The establishment of other new uses in residential areas is not allowed; however, under limited circumstances and conditions, some other land uses may be permitted to locate in Residential Communities. These special use situations are described below. No "other new use" in a residential area as described in this section shall be deemed consistent with the CDMP where the use or zoning district has, or would have, an unfavorable effect on the surrounding area: by causing an undue burden on transportation facilities including roadways and mass transit or other utilities and services including water, sewer, drainage, fire, rescue, police and schools; by providing inadequate off-street parking, service or loading areas; by maintaining operating hours, outdoor lighting or signage out of character with the neighborhood; by creating traffic, noise, odor, dust or glare out of character with the neighborhood; by posing a threat to the natural environment including air, water and living resources; or where the character of the buildings, including height, bulk, scale, floor area ratio or design would detrimentally impact the surrounding area.

Congregate Living Facilities, Group Homes, Foster Homes, Nursing Homes, and Day Care Facilities. "Congregate residential uses" and nursing homes, with ancillary rehabilitation facilities to serve only the needs of the residents of the home or congregate facility and occupying no more than 10% of the total floor area, may be permitted at suitable locations in Residential Communities in keeping with the following density allowance: Each 2.5 occupants shall be considered to be one dwelling unit, and the maximum number of dwelling units allowed shall be no greater than the number allowed in the next higher residential density category than that for which the site is designated. For example, a ten-acre site located in an area designated for six dwelling units per gross acre may be permitted up to 13 units per gross acre or in this instance, up to 130 units. Assuming 2.5 occupants per unit, up to 325 persons could occupy the site. The foregoing density provision does not apply to "daytime service uses". The intensity of use that may be approved for "daytime service uses" such as day care facilities shall be limited as necessary to be compatible with adjacent uses and to comply with water supply and sewage regulations contained in Chapter 24 of the Miami-Dade County Code.

If located in Estate, Low or Low-Medium Density neighborhoods, congregate residential uses, and daytime service uses such as day care centers, shall locate only in activity nodes, transition areas and section centers as indicated in the Guidelines for Urban Form, or on sites that are transitional to higher density or higher intensity land uses, to public uses or to other areas of high activity or accessibility. In particular, nursing homes are best located on a Major or Minor Roadway and in, or adjacent to commercial or institutional areas, higher density areas or other situations transitional from lower density residential areas.

Public Facilities. Large-scale public facilities, institutional and communications uses, and utilities are specifically identified in the Institutions, Utilities, and Communications category on the Plan map. Small-scale uses and the facilities intended to serve the immediate needs of the residential community may be permitted on compatible sites in Residential Communities subject to adequate design and buffering. These facilities include fire stations, electrical sub-stations and distribution facilities, cell antenna, natural gas, telephone, fiber optic, cable, water and sewer facilities. They are preferably located in activity nodes, transition areas, and along major thoroughfares, and also at section centers if designed to serve the immediate neighborhood. Larger uses and facilities