Please place the above referral on the March 13, 2024 City Commission meeting agenda as a referral to the Land Use and Sustainability Committee (“LUSC”).

Pride Park is currently classified as “PF-CCC” (Public Facilities) on the City’s Future Land Use Map (“FLUM”). The purpose of this designation is to provide development opportunities for existing convention center and facilities necessary to support the convention center.

To ensure that the future planning, use, and character of Pride Park remains true to the promise of it being a useable public greenspace, I would like the LUSC to review Pride Park’s designation on the FLUM, and consider whether Pride Park should be re-classified to a different category in the Comprehensive Plan more consistent with park uses such, as “ROS” (Recreation and Open Space Waterways). This would grant Pride Park the same designation and intended uses under the City’s Comprehensive Plan as other parks managed by the City’s Parks Department including: Flamingo Park, South Pointe Park, Collins Park, Marjorie Stoneman Douglas Park, Lummus Park, Collins Park, Bayshore Park, the Miami Beach Golf Club, Polo Park, Muss Park, Pinetree Park, Fisher Park, Belle Isle Park, Maurice Gibb Memorial Park, Stillwater Park, North Beach Oceanside Park, among others. This would officially grant Pride Park a designation appropriate for park use.

As part of this discussion, I’d like the Planning Department to advise whether this change would impact current and/or future development anywhere on the City Hall/Convention Center campus and how those impacts could be mitigated.