Please place the above item on the December 14, 2022 City Commission meeting agenda as a referral to the Planning Board.

Section 1.03(c) of the City Charter provides in pertinent part that the “floor area ratio of any property or street end within the City of Miami Beach shall not be increased by zoning, transfer, or any other means from its current zoned floor area ratio as it exists on the date of adoption of this Charter Amendment [November 7, 2001] ... unless any such increase in zoned floor area ratio for any such property shall first be approved by a vote of the electors of the City of Miami Beach.”

On November 8, 2022, the following ballot question, which I sponsored, was submitted to the City’s voters pursuant to Charter Section 1.03(c):

RPS4 District—South of Fifth Street

FAR Incentive to Convert Existing Hotels into Residential Use

City Charter requires voter approval before increasing a property’s floor area ratio (“FAR”) (City’s method of regulating building size).

The RPS4 district lies within the South of Fifth Neighborhood, which is predominantly residential.

Shall City increase maximum FAR from 2.0 to 2.75 in RPS4 District as an incentive for the conversion of existing hotel properties into residential use, if the property owner records a covenant prohibiting short-term rentals on the property?

The measure was approved by 65.66% of the voters. I would therefore like the City Commission to refer the implementing legislation to the Planning Board.