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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: | May 16, 2018 | | | |
| | SUBJECT: | A RESOLUTION OF THE MAYOR AND CITY COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF MIAMI BEACH, FLORIDA, SETTING A PUBLIC HEARING TO CONSIDER GRANTING A WAIVER OF CERTAIN DUNE PRESERVATION OVERLAY REGULATIONS, BY A 5/7TH VOTE OF THE CITY COMMISSION, AFTER A PUBLIC HEARING, PURSUANT TO SECTION 142-425(D), OF THE CITY’S LAND DEVELOPMENT REGULATIONS (LDR), FOR THE ALTOS DEL MAR PARK PROJECT, LOCATED AT 76TH STREET AND COLLINS AVENUE, WITHIN THE HARDING TOWNSITE/SOUTH ALTOS DEL MAR HISTORIC DISTRICT AND WITHIN THE ALTOS DEL MAR NEIGHBORHOOD, IN ORDER TO WAIVE LDR SECTIONS 142-774, 142-774(4) AND SECTION 142-774(6), IN ORDER TO CONSTRUCT THREE (3) CONCRETE BEACHWALK LINKAGES AND A BEACH SHOWER BETWEEN THE OLD CITY BULKHEAD LINE AND THE EROSION CONTROL LINE (ECL). |
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| | Administration recommends the City Commission approve the Resolution. |
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| | | | | | | | ANALYSIS
| Altos Del Mar Park is located east of Collins Avenue between 76th and 77th Street and is one of the few remaining beach front parcels within Miami Beach that is designated park land. The Historic Preservation Board (HPB) reviewed the Application for Certificate of Appropriateness for the design of a new park, including landscape and the construction of a new 1-story restroom facility and approved it on July 12, 2016. Subsequently, the Design team moved forward with completing the construction documents and obtained permits through various local and State Agencies.
On October 18, 2017, Pursuant to Invitation for Bids (ITB) 2017-146-ZD, the Mayor and City Commission awarded a contract to West Construction, Inc., for the construction of the Altos Del Mar Park Project. The contract was executed on January 23, 2018 and the Office of Capital Improvement Projects issued the Notice to Proceed for the construction of the Project on April 12, 2018. Construction of the project is currently underway.
In order to construct three (3) concrete pathways ranging in width from six to twelve feet (6’-12’), and a beach shower between the old city bulkhead and the erosion control line (ECL), as approved by HPB (Attachment A), it will be necessary to obtain a waiver of Section 142-774, 142-774(4), and 142-774(6), of the City of Miami Beach Land Development Regulations. The development regulations are designed to accommodate and promote recreational, open space and related uses and structures that are compatible and supportive of the beachfront park system and natural environment. In addition, structures permitted under this division shall be designed to accommodate and channel pedestrian movement in such a manner as to protect and enhance vegetation and the beach.
Section 142-774(4), states, “Promenade linkages shall be constructed of wood materials and shall conform to the design specifications established in the beachfront park and promenade plan. Sites having less than 300 linear feet of oceanfront frontage shall be limited to one dune crossing and/or promenade linkage. Sites having more than 300 linear feet of oceanfront frontage shall be permitted one crossing or linkage per each additional 100 linear feet of frontage or part thereof. In no instance, however, shall the total aggregate number of crossings and linkages exceed four per site.” This request seeks to waive the beachwalk link limitation of a maximum of two (2), and allow the project to construct a total of three (3) links, as presented and approved to the HPB.
Section 142-774(6), allows, “Walkways and ramps constructed of wood materials and which are not more than six feet in width.” This waiver request also seeks to waive this requirement by allowing concrete walkways, abutting the existing concrete beachwalk, in lieu of wood material, and allowing up to twelve (12) feet in width.
Finally, Section 142-774, states that “no land or structure shall be used, in whole or in part, except for one of the following permitted uses.” The proposed beach shower is not one of the permitted uses identified in the Dune Preservation Overlay. This request also seeks to waive the permitted uses to allow for the installation of the proposed beach shower.
Altos del Mar Park is currently zoned Government Use (GU), open to the general public and, as per Section 142-425(d) of the City Code, 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.”
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| | The Administration recommends the City Commission approve the resolution. |
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