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�►, WEICSS OLE & BIERMAN HELFAN Ai me Crm Ro.mns nr tilims<s. GoVuRsi%Ifni & nu LAW Impact Fees • Reviewed and advised on the implementation and updating of impact fee ordinances in all of our client municipalities, including an affordable housing linkage fee in the City of Coconut Creek and Village of Islamorada, a transit impact fee for the City of Aventura, and police, public works and parks fees for the City of Homestead. Comprehensive Plans Comprehensive Plan Amendments • Advised the City of Sunrise, and participated in the comprehensive plan amendment process for Tao residential high-rise development, Metropica Transit -Oriented Development and Westerra Local Activity Center. • Advised the City of Coconut Creek on the Regional Activity Center for the MainStreet development. • Advised various municipal clients on the development of the first comprehensive plans or plan amendments following incorporation in the Villages of Islamorada and Key Biscayne, the Cities of Aventura, Marathon and Weston and the Towns of Cutler Bay and Miami Lakes. • Advised all municipal clients on Evaluation and Appraisal Reports and related plan amendments, and other plan amendments necessary to implement new state mandates including school concurrency, water supply planning and greenhouse gas reduction. Small Area Plans • Advised the City of Sunrise in the development and implementation of the Western Sunrise Area plan and land development regulations from 1995 to the present. • Advised the City of Homestead on the adoption of neighborhood plans for redeveloping areas of the City. • Advised the City of Dania Beach on issues related to a small area plan. Developments of Regional Impact (DRIB) • Advised and part icipated in the DRI review process for the creation or amendment of DRIB for Sawgrass Mills, the Broward County Civic Arena (the BankAtlantic Center), Amerifirst/Metropica(foo, Sawgrass International Corporate Park and Harrison Park(Westerra for the City of Sunrise. • Advised and participated in DRI review process for implementation and amendment of the Villages of Homestead for the City of Homestead. • Developed new zoning districts, comprehensive plan amendments, development agreements and other associated approvals for these projects in Homestead and Sunrise. • Advised on implementation of the DRI development order for the original area of the City of Weston. Land Development Regulations Regulation of First Amendment -protected land uses Signs • Updated and revised regulations of signs for City of Sunrise after challenge, and resulting regulations were upheld by the Eleventh Circuit. • Updated and revised regulation of signs for City of Miramar and, working with our Litigation Division successfully defended the sign regulations in the Southern District of Florida. • Working with our litigators, successfully defended the City of Boca Raton's sign regulations in the Southern District of Florida. • Updated and revised regulations of signs for Cities of Dania Beach, Aventura, Homestead, Weston and Pasco County, without challenge. • Part of consultant team revising City of Coconut Creek sign code. • Revised sign code for Town of Lauderdale -By -The -Sea and Cooper City. • Advised Village of Islamorada, cities of Dania Beach, Weston and Fort Myers on billboards on interstate highways. Sexually -Oriented Businesses • Updated and revised regulations concerning sexually -oriented businesses in City of Dania Beach. Also, assisted the City and its insurer in successfully enforcing the amortization requirement against three existing, nonconforming locations. • Updated and revised regulations of sexually oriented businesses in the City of Hallandale Beach, and worked with our