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| | | | | | | | | | Item 9.
COMMITTEE MEMORANDUM | | | |
| | | | | | | | TO: Land Use and Sustainability Committee
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| FROM: Alina T. Hudak, City Manager
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| DATE: March 4, 2022
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| | | | | | | | | TITLE: | DISCUSSION REGARDING WHETHER TO PROHIBIT APARTMENT HOTELS IN ADDITIONAL DISTRICTS OR THROUGHOUT THE CITY OF MIAMI BEACH |
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| | | | | | | | HISTORY:
| On October 13, 2021, at the request of Commissioner Steven Meiner, the City Commission referred the subject discussion item to the Land Use and Sustainability Committee (C4 H). The sponsor is requesting that the LUSC discuss whether to prohibit apartment hotels in additional districts or throughout the city.
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| | | | | | | | ANALYSIS:
| The following is the current definition of apartment hotel in Section 114-1of the LDR’s:
Apartment hotel means a building containing a combination of suite hotel unit, apartment units and hotel units, under resident supervision, and having an inner lobby through which all tenants must pass to gain access. An apartment hotel must contain at least one unit apartment.
Apartment hotels are permitted in those zoning districts that allow for other hotel uses, such as hotel, suite hotel and/or hostels. Apartment hotel has been an allowable use in the City Code since at least 1989 and provides a needed definition for those properties containing a mix of residential and transient uses.
The Administration would not recommend prohibiting this use, either city-wide, or within additional districts, for the following reasons:
• Apartment hotels are generally less intense than a hotel use.
• Most legal conforming apartment hotel uses reflect an historic configuration of a building, when there was a better balance of residential and transient units.
• Other than larger development projects that incorporate a greater mix of residential and transient uses (e.g., the FAENA overlay, the Carillon/Canyon Ranch) very few new apartment hotel projects have been proposed because most transient uses prefer to be all transient.
• Prohibiting this use, particularly city-wide, would create a number of legal-nonconforming uses with districts that allow for transient uses.
The Administration has further reviewed the definition of apartment hotel and developed some modifications to this definition in order to address the current imbalance in the make-up of units. Additionally, at the recommendation of the Independent Planning Reviewer for apartment hotels in the South of 5th area, as well as the recommendation of the OIG, the definition has been amended to reflect the longstanding interpretation of the Planning Department pertaining to the requirement for an inner lobby. The following is the revised definition proposed in the attached draft Ordinance:
Apartment hotel means a building containing a combination of apartment units and hotel units and/or suite hotel units. For purposes of this definition, the following shall apply to an apartment hotel:
(1) The majority of the units within a property (50% plus one unit) shall consist of apartment units.
(2) All hotel and/or suite hotel units shall be under resident supervision. For purposes of this definition, the resident supervisor shall be required to live on the property and shall be available at all times to address any operational issues at the property.
(3) The property shall contain at least one guest lobby. Access to all hotel and/or suite hotel units may or may not be through a common lobby.
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| | | | | | | | CONCLUSION:
| The Administration recommends the following:
1. The Land Use and Sustainability Committee discuss the item and provide any applicable recommendations to the City Commission.
2. The Land Use and Sustainability Committee recommend that the City Commission refer the attached draft Ordinance to the Planning Board. |
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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 | | No | |
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