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COMMISSION MEMORANDUM |
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| | | | | | | | | TO: | Honorable Mayor and Members of the City Commission | | | FROM: | Jimmy L. Morales, City Manager | | | DATE: | July 29, 2020 | | | |
| | SUBJECT: | A RESOLUTION OF THE MAYOR AND CITY COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF
MIAMI BEACH, FLORIDA, SETTING A PUBLIC HEARING TO CONSIDER
GRANTING WAIVERS OF CERTAIN DEVELOPMENT REGULATIONS, BY A
5/7TH VOTE OF THE CITY COMMISSION, PURSUANT TO CITY CODE
SECTION 142-425(D), FOR BAYSHORE PARK; IN ORDER TO WAIVE
REQUIREMENTS IN CITY CODE SECTIONS 138-4(3) AND 138-19
APPLICABLE TO SIGN SIZE, DESIGN, AND LOCATION, IN ORDER TO
INSTALL THE PROPOSED BANYAN TREE-INSPIRED MONUMENT SIGNS AT
THE FOUR KEY ENTRANCES TO THE PARK. |
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| | | | | | | | BACKGROUND/HISTORY
| On December 9, 2015, the Mayor and City Commission adopted Resolution No. 2015-29234, authorizing the administration to enter into negotiations and further authorizing the Mayor and City Clerk to execute a Professional Services Agreement with the firm of Savino Miller Design Studio, P.A., (Consultant), to provide professional services for the planning, design, bid, award and construction administration of the Bayshore Park (former Par 3).
The project scope of the park includes a central lake, open meadows and informal open play field areas, site grading, pavilion, tennis courts (6) with restroom facilities, children’s playground, dog park, boardwalk and pathways, security lighting, vita course and fitness cluster, butterfly garden, linear water feature and parking lot. The passive park will preserve landmark specimen trees and pastoral spaces.
On June 24, 2020, the Mayor and City Commission approved additional services for Bayshore Park which included the design of the park identification signage. The consultant has prepared the design of four (4) monument signs for the new Bayshore Park located at 2795 Prairie Avenue.
The approximately 20-acre Bayshore Park is bordered by 28th Street to the North, Prairie Avenue to the West and Pine Tree Drive to the East. The monument signs will be placed at four (4) different access locations within the park as depicted on Exhibit A. The design concept for the monument signs, as depicted in Exhibit B, is inspired by the existing park site’s banyan trees, and is in scale with the proposed park characteristics and the surrounding neighborhood. The park’s entrance monument signs are to be fabricated with a laser cut aluminum metal installed over a concrete base. Additionally, illumination will be placed in the back of the sign to create a dramatic silhouette and avoid light trespass towards the residential neighborhood.
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| | | | | | | | ANALYSIS
| The Bayshore Park property is zoned as Government Use (GU). The park site is predominantly surrounded by single-family residential (RS) zoning. Land Development Regulations (LDR) Section 142-425, regulates that the GU zoned properties, utilize the average requirements contained in the surrounding zoning districts.
The City’s RS zoning district is restrictive in the allowance of commercial signage or other identifying markers. The three signs along the rights-of-way that abut the RS district to the north and west are not permitted as ‘monument signs. However, Section 138-4, allows for certain signs to be exempt regardless of the zoning district, such as traffic signs, historical markers and signs directing and guiding pedestrians; and traffic and parking signs on private property. However, the size of the sign is limited to 2 square feet (SF). The Park’s entrance monument signs are unique and large in scale. In order to achieve the size of the sign resulting from the unique branded design, each of these three signs would require a waiver from this section of the code, unless waived by the City Commission.
Pursuant to Section 142-425(d) of the City Land Development Regulations, the City Commission may waive by five sevenths vote (5/7ths), following a duly noticed public hearing advertised in the newspaper at least fifteen (15) days prior to the hearing, development regulations “pertaining to governmental owned or leased buildings, uses and sites which are wholly used by, open and accessible to the general public, or used by not-for-profit, educational, or cultural organizations, or for convention center hotels, or convention center hotel accessory garages, or city utilized parking lots, provided they are continually used for such purposes.
In order to install these decorative park monument signs, waivers from the following Development Regulations are needed.
1- LDR Section 138-4 (3) Signs directing and guiding pedestrians and traffic and parking on private property but bearing no advertising matter and not exceeding two (2) square feet in area.
The proposed size of the signs requires a waiver from section 138-4(3) of the LDR’s. As listed below the requested waivers would allow construction of a large sign at three (3) of the four (4) key entrances to the Park:
a. Park entrance monument Sign 1 Type A - the 5’-6” high sign with an area of 88 SF to be installed inside the park property with a 0’ set back along Prairie Avenue (RS-4). LDR Section 138-4(3) allows for sign area of 2 SF. Waiver to exceed the sign area by 86 SF in sign area is needed.
b. Park entrance monument Sign 2 Type B - the 9’-6” high sign with an area of 23.75 SF to be installed inside the park property with a 0’ set back along Prairie Avenue (RS-4). LDR Section 138-4(3) allows for sign area of 2 SF. Waiver to exceed the sign area by 21.75 SF is needed.
c. Park entrance monument Sign 3 Type B, - the 9’-6” high sign with an area of 23.75 SF to be installed inside the park property with a 0’ set back along 28th Street (RS-4). LDR Section 138-4(3) allows for sign area of 2 SF. Waiver to exceed the sign area by 21.75 SF. is needed.
The sign along Pine Tree Drive, designed in scale with the others, can be analyzed as a ‘monument sign’ which is permitted within the RM-1 zoning district subject to setback and size restrictions. Therefore, the proposed design and location would require a waiver from Sec. 138-19 of the LDR’s that regulate detached signage throughout the city. As listed below the requested waiver would allow construction of park entrance signage in the remaining fourth (4th) key access area to the Park:
2. LDR Section 138-19 (Detached Signs): Detached signs are signs not attached to or painted on a building, but which are affixed to the ground. Signs are not permitted within the Residential (RS) zoning district.
a. Detached Park entrance monument Sign 4 Type B - the 9’-6” high sign with an area of 23.75 SF to be installed with a setback of 10’-3” inside the park property along Pine Tree Drive (RM-1). LDR Section 138-19 allows for sign area of 15 SF. Waiver to exceed the sign area by 8.75’ SF is needed.
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| | | | | | | | CONCLUSION
| | The Administration recommends that the City Commission approve the resolution. |
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| | | | | | | | Applicable Area
| | Middle Beach |
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| | | | | | | | | Is this a "Residents Right to Know" item, pursuant to City Code Section 2-14? | | Does this item utilize G.O. Bond Funds? | | | Yes | | Yes | |
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| | | | | | | | Strategic Connection
| | Neighborhoods - Evolve parks and green spaces to meet the changing needs of the community. |
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