ANALYSIS: Unlike other municipalities within Miami-Dade County, the City of Miami Beach has codified guidelines that regulate and enforce the special events process. The special events permitting process is intertwined with other City departments that work closely to monitor, staff, and permit such events.
In planning stages, various City Departments review, approve and staff these events including the critical activity of the Police Department to review and sign-off on the Street Closure form, FDOT application, MOT plan, pre-action plan, and course route. This information is then routed to the Transportation and Public Works Department, where Transportation reviews and approves the MOT Plan (Management of Traffic Plan). The MOT is then routed to the traffic management division in order to closely review the traffic monitoring service. Transportation then routes the Street Closure packet to Public Works for review and approval of the public right of way permit. Once completed and approved by all corresponding departments, the Department of Tourism, Culture and Economic Development reviews the full permit, approves and routes to the City Manager to sign off for final approval. In most of these cases, specific bicycle permitting requests would need to obtain Commission approval due to the use of State roads such as the McArthur Causeway, Collins Avenue and Alton Road.
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