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HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolution LPA 2000-01 LPA RESOLUTION NO. 2000-..QJ A RESOLUTION OF THE LOCAL PLANNING AGENCY OF THE CITY OF SUNNY ISLES BEACH, FLORIDA, TRANSMITTING AND RECOMMENDING TO THE CITY COMMISSION OF SUNNY ISLES BEACH THE PROPOSED CITY OF SUNNY ISLES BEACH, FLORIDA, COMPREHENSIVE PLAN, ATTACHED AS EXHIBIT "A", FOR THE REQUIRED TRANSMITTAL TO THE STATE DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNITY AFFAIRS PURSUANT TO THE PROVISIONS OF THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT COMPREHENSIVE PLANNING AND LAND DEVELOPMENT REGULATION ACT; PROVIDING FOR AN EFFECTIVE DATE. WHEREAS, the City of Sunny Isles Beach, Florida was incorporated on June 17, 1997 and is required within three years of incorporation to adopt a comprehensive plan; and WHEREAS, the City Commissioners, serving as the Local Planning Agency ("LP A"), conducted a public hearing relating to the comprehensive planning and future growth of the City which involved public participation; and WHEREAS, pursuant to Florida Statute 163.3167(4) the City has prepared a proposed Comprehensive Plan; and WHEREAS, the LP A has determined that it is in the best interest of the City and its residents to recommend approval of the Comprehensive Plan for transmittal to the applicable State agenCIes; NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF SUNNY ISLES BEACH, FLORIDA AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. That the LP A hereby transmits and recommends to the City Commission of the City of Sunny Isles Beach the proposed City of Sunny Isles Beach Comprehensive Plan, attached to this Resolution as Exhibit "A," for further consideration and transmittal by the City Commission to the State Department of Community Affairs pursuant to Florida Statute 163.3184(15). Section 2. law. That the City Clerk is directed to make the appropriate transmittals as required by Section 3. This resolution shall take effect immediately upon adoption. PASSED AND ADOPTED this 6th day of April, 2000. r---) j / ~~U~ ~TT:EST:- ~~l~~o. Ri$ardiBrown.:Morilla, City Clerk , . ( APPROVED AS TO FORM AND LEGAL SUFFICIENCY: ~ Vote: 5-0 Mayor Samson Vice Mayor Morrow Commissioner Iglesias Commissioner Kauffman Commissioner Turetsky LPA Comprehensive Plan Transmittal Res 3/29/00 - 9:37 AM LMD:ch Vice Mayor Connie Morrow Moved by: Seconded by: ~=K:tt.:' V (Yes) ~(Yes) V (Yes) ~,(Yes) _(Yes) _(No) _(No) _(No) _(No) _(No) 2 City of Sunny Isles Beach 17070 Collins Avenue, Suite 250 Sunny Isles Beach, Florida 33160 (305) 947-0606 phone (305) 949-3113 fax David Samson Mayor Connie Morrow Vice Mayor Commissioners Danny Iglesias Lila KautTman Irving Turetsky Jack Neustadt City Manager Lynn M. Dannheisser City Attorney Richard Brown-MorilIa City Clerk To: Local Planning Agency From: Marla Sherman Dumas Community Planning and Development Director Date: April 13, 2000 Subject: Sunny Isles Beach Comprehensive Plan RECOMMENDATION Planning staff recommends that the Local Planning Agency (LP A) transmit the Sunny Isles Beach Comprehensive Plan to the City Commission for their approval to submit the plan to the Department of Community Affairs for the required review process. REASONS Local Comprehensive Plans are required of municipalities in Florida by Chapter 163, Florida Statutes, in which it is stated: "it is the purpose of this act to utilize and strengthen the existing role, processes and powers of local government in the establishment and implementation of the comprehensive planning program to guide future development" and "through the process of comprehensive planning, it is intended that units of local government can preserve, promote and improve public health, safety, comfort, good order, appearance, convenience, law enforcement and fire prevention, and general welfare; facilitate the adequate and efficient provision of transportation, water, sewerage, schools, parks, recreational facilities, housing and other requirements and services; and protect natural resources within their jurisdiction" . The City of Sunny Isles Beach initiated the visioning process for preparation of a Comprehensive Plan in July 1998 with the engagement of the consultant firm, Walter H. Keller, Inc. This firm was responsible for much of the data collection and information contained in the portion of the Comprehensive Plan entitled "Existing Conditions and Background Documents". Additionally, this firm prepared preliminary drafts of some of the Goals, Objectives and Policies contained within the Comprehensive Plan. Sunny Isles Beach Comprehensive Plan April13,2000 Page 2 of5 In February 2000, the City Commission engaged the firm of Luft Consulting to assist in the final preparation of the Comprehensive Plan. The document before you this evening is the result of this effort. Luft Consulting was assisted by the following firms: the Chesapeake Group and North Meridian. The completion of this effort was made possible by the continued support of the members Citizen Planning Advisory Committee, who met with staff and the consultants on a weekly basis so that this plan could be produced in an expedited fashion. It also should be noted that the preparation of the Comprehensive Plan was aided through financial assistance received from the State of Florida under the Local Government Comprehensive Planning Assistance Program, authorized by Chapter 87-98, Florida Statutes, and administered by the Department of Community Affairs. Based on the purpose and intent for Comprehensive Plans as stated in the Florida Statute and explained above, Luft Consulting prepared the document that is before you this evening. The following information provides a summary of the major features contained within this plan. COMPREHENSIVE PLAN SUMMARY The City of Sunny Isles Beach was incorporated in 1997 as the fulfillment of the vision, efforts and determination of a community of individuals who sought to control their own destiny as a city and shape a higher quality of life for themselves and future generations. This comprehensive plan is an expression of that desire and vision. It was 80 years ago that the South Florida land boom of the 1920's forged the creation of a metropolitan area out of a sub-tropical wilderness. The beauty of the Atlantic beachfront, the subtropical climate and the region's strategic position as a maritime and aviation crossroads were the catalysts for creating within one lifetime the dynamic international community that Sunny Isles is a part of today. But it has been this remarkable pace of growth and change and the complexity of sustaining a vital and high quality environment within the excesses of a major urban center that has underscored the need for a sound, comprehensive, long range community plan. The City of Sunny Isles Beach Comprehensive plan is: Long Range in scope: It is designed to establish clear and predictable outcomes for ways land will be used and developed by providing the policy basis for the implementing codes and regulations administered by the City. Sunny Isles Beach Comprehensive Plan April 13, 2000 Page 3 of5 Comprehensive: It addresses the interrelationships among land, resources, people, natural systems, public facilities and economic development to protect and enhance the future health, safety and welfare of city residents, workers, businesses and visitors. Flexible: It will continue to evolve after its initial adoption through annual updates and five-year reviews. It will be adjusted to meet changing needs and circumstances over time. The City of Sunny Isles Beach Comprehensive Plan Creates a Community Vision: It represents a consensus view of residents, property owners, businesses and civic organizations as to the primary objectives of the plan. These include: Strengthening a sense of Community through better-integrated and enhanced services to its residents, visitors, property owners and businesses. By developing and maintaining improved public safety, accessible and attractive public open space and recreation facilities, improved linkages between and among residential areas and local services, venues and programs for diverse and enriching cultural experiences, improved educational facilities and a high quality, well designed physical environment, a sense of community identity and pride can be fostered and sustained. Protecting and Enhancing the City's Coastal Resources through improved access, increased amenities for public use and restoration of natural environmental conditions along the beaches and shorelines that embrace the community. By preserving vistas and view corridors to the ocean and bay and creating greenways and shoreline walkways linking beaches and shores via access corridors to neighborhoods and visitor centers, the unique waterfront assets that best define the image of the City can be protected and enriched for all. Promoting Economic Opportunity and Security through a strategic revitalization of the hospitality and service industries that form the core of the city's economic base. The City will seek to enhance the area's economic prosperity and accommodate a reasonable share of the region's economic growth as a means of assuring employment opportunities and livable wage jobs, raising personal incomes, increasing tax revenues and stimulating private investment in renewing the built environment of the City. By promoting a balanced range of resident income levels, increased year-round tenancy to support local businesses, enhancing education and skill- building opportunities to maintain employability of residents, supporting the renewal and redevelopment of obsolete visitor accommodations and retail service facilities and expanding the range and appeal of visitor attractions and resident leisure services and facilities, the City can offer its citizens, their children and others living, working in and visiting Sunny Isles Beach the benefit of a healthy economy. Sunny Isles Beach Comprehensive Plan April 13, 2000 Page 4 of5 Forming an Urban Village and Town Center Strategy that unifies and preserves the best qualities of Sunny Isles' distinct neighborhoods while responding positively and creatively to the need for a true community center to focus the shared social and economic life of the city. This objective unifies all the elements of the Comprehensive plan into a collective identity for this new community. The Urban Village Strategy combines small changes in the City's development pattern with a system of defined neighborhood entrances and gateways that reflect local history, natural features of each village, cultural symbols and other sources of village pride; distinctive designs and landscape treatments of local roadways including lighting fixtures, street signage, community banners, street furniture and transit stop shelters; the creation of pedestrian, bicycle and local transit linkages to interconnect neighborhoods; the reorientation of certain adjacent retail areas to emphasize convenient pedestrian friendly, attractive and relevant services to neighborhoods; the provision of safe, neighborhood scaled public spaces and recreational facilities within walking distance of residences, especially play and interactive space for children whether in high or low density areas or in rental or owner-occupied housing; and partnerships with neighborhood and community-based organizations to improve people's access to services and strengthen neighborhood planning and policing. The Town Center Strategy combines large scale changes in the City's development pattern with a mix of uses that seeks to combine business and retail services with office employment space and housing in a vertically integrated mix; the incorporation of community based and regional transit services within a high activity retail and employment center; a strong emphasis on pedestrian circulation space and systems with minimal vehicular conflicts and human scaled amenities; a management system for public parking that emphasizes shared parking among commercial, office, entertainment and residential uses to optimize parking utilization and reduce the under-utilization of parking during evening and weekend periods; development of structured parking where appropriate to minimize surface lot coverage; the creation of central public spaces and plazas that accommodate active public programming and events for residents and visitors; expanded entertainment uses and activities to encourage an 18 hour active town center while consistent with maintaining a high quality visitor environment and a family friendly setting; linkage of civic facilities and government services with the Town Center public use spaces and private retail services; direct access and exposure to waterfront amenities, where possible; standards, guidelines and design review to provide a high quality of architectural, landscape, signage and site design to enhance the community image and character as an international destination; and vigorous code enforcement of property maintenance standards. Goals, Objectives and Policies Framework for the Plan The plan is expressed in terms of Goals which represent a destination or desired end state; Objectives which define the paths and offer guidelines for reaching a goal; and Policies which are specific actions, strategies and programs that will move the City towards reaching its stated Goals and Objectives. Sunny Isles Beach Comprehensive Plan April 13, 2000 Page 5 of5 Rather than rely primarily on physical and mapped expressions of the City's plan, this document is a policy plan that emphasizes social and economic factors as a basis to respond to the complexities of the urban environment and its development. Policy plans attempt to translate goals and objectives into specific actions that reflect the thinking of the community on a wide range of issues. Policy planning combines process with substance and is continuous and responsive and, therefore, has a closer relationship with the political process. A comprehensive plan should strike a balance between long-range desirability, predictability and flexibility. This flexibility provided by the policy plan allows for a range of alternative future land uses but assures compatibility between those uses. To achieve greater specificity in policy planning, specific areas of the City may be the subject of sub-area master plans that can be prepared jointly by the public and private sector nearer the time of actual development or redevelopment activities and express greater detail and direction for future land uses, infrastructure, design objectives, and public facilities. Redevelopment Districts, Special Area plans such as for the Town Center or specific residential areas are examples of such sub-area plans. These sub-area plans may be incorporated into the Comprehensive Plan. CONCLUSION Based on the information contained within this report, the workshop held on April 4, 2000 and the presentation made this evening, it is my recommendation that the LP A transmit the Comprehensive Plan to the City Commission for the appropriate action so that the review process by the Department of Community Affairs may begin. ~ctfullY Submitted, Marla Sherman Dumas Community Planning and Development Director :msd F rHURSDAY'APRIL"2OCNI_.h.r.I~'~~._~1l e CITY OF . "SUNNY ISLES BEACH NOTICE OF LAND . USE CHANGE , '. r The City Comml8slon Of the City, of. SUnny Isles Beach, FlorIda, after a public hearing, proposes to adOpt and transmit the following resolution: . A RESOLUT1~ 'OF .THE CI1Y COMMI5S.oN OF THE CI1Y OF SUNNY ISLES BEACH, R.ORIDA; TIlANSMlTTING A COPY OF THE PROPOSED COMPREHENSIVE PLAN, ATTACHED HERETO Mj EXHIBIT "Ae, PURSUANT TO THE PROVISIONS OF THE LOCAL GOVERNMEKr COMPREHENSIVE PLANNING AND LAND DEVELOPMENT REGULATION ACT; PROVIDING FOR ADOPTION OF SAID PLAN BY ORDINANCE SUBSEQUENT TO RECEIPT OF AND APPROPRIATE ACTIONS TO ADDRESS THE OBJECTIONS, RECOMMENDATIONS AND COMMENTS OF THE DEPARTMENT. OF COMMUNITY AFFAIRS; PROVIDING FOR AN EFFECTIVE o'ArE.. . NOTICE IS HEREBY GI'N4 that a public hearing on this proposed resolution will be held by the CIty Commission on'. Thursday, AprIl 1'3, 2000, at 7:00 p.m., In the Commission Chambers, CIty HaU, Suite 250, 17070 .CoIl1ns Avenue, Sunny Isles Beach, florida. 'l:: ~ " C "E ~ .~ Inquiries regarding !Nt 11Im may be direclect to MIlIa Duma, the CIIy'a Community Planning and Development Director at 305-947. 0606. Coptea 01 !Nt pIOpOI8d rnoIution IIfll available for public InIpedlon cUIng normal business hours In CIty Hall. All penonS IIfllInvlled to appear at this maetlng or be represented by an agent, or to express thetr vtawa In writing addre8sad to the CIty Clark, CIty 01 SUmy ISlas Beach, 17070 CollIns AY8IIU8, SuI1a 250, SUnny ISlas Beach, FlOrIda, 33160. My penon wiShIng to addreaa the CIty CommISSIon at a pubItc haerIng Is IIIIc8d to reglll8r wtlII the . CIty Clerk by compIalIng a public speaker" can! prkJr to the 118m belng haanI. My public haerIng may be conUnued at 1hIa meeting and under such cllcunistancas, addnlonallegal notlca would not be provided. In accordance wtlII the AmerIcana wlll1 DlaabIIItIea Act. all penons who IIfll disabled and who need special accommodations to pIIflIcIpata In lhls meeting because 01 that disability should contact the CIty Manager at 305-947-l1606, no later than 48 houra prIOr to the procaedIng. n a person decides to appeal. any decision made by the City CommISSIon wtlII reapect to any mattar COl1IIdered at such meeting or haering, they will need a racord 01 the proceedInga and, for such llU/PllI8, may need 10 ensure thel a verbatim record of Ihe proceedIngI, Is made, which record Includes the I8IIImony and tvldenct upon which the appall It to be bisect. ThIs notice do88 not conatIIut8 COIIItIlt by the CIty for lntroduct1on or edmlallon 01 oIharwItt IntdmI8tIbIe or Imllevenfavldtnca, nor do88 n authortzt chtIlengts or ~ not alhIIWttt aIlowtd by law. ........~~..~..... ......-:.........-... __.......h..... ....w..... _...... ....u ........ ...ult". a Busb - administration researcher B1lsabeth DollO\ljln employee, t1iougb be was the. contrIbutod to this report,: ,;<0\'1 .~ .~ LOCAL PLANNING AGENCY' :. ~ ' OF THE CITY OF W" . SUNNY ISLES BEACH NOTICE OF' LAND USE CHANGE. The Local Planning Agency (City Commission) of the city , ) of Sunny Isles Beach, Florida, proposes to adopt and transmit the followlng'resolution: II', ~;: A RESOLUTION OF'THE LOCAl. PlANNING AGENcY OF f: THE CITY OF SUNNY ISLES BEACH, FLORIDA, .~ TRANSMITTING AND RECOMMENDING TO THE CITY. : COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF SUNNY ISLES BEACH . THE PROPOSED CITY OF SUNNY ISLES BEACH,' ~ FLORIDA. COMPREHENSIVE. PLAN, ATTACHED AS ..= EXHIBIT "A" FOR THE REQUIRED TRANSMmAl. TO THE , :. STATE DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNITY AFFAIRS ,~ . PURSUANT JO THE PROVISIONS OF THE LOCAl.. . GOVERNMENT COMPREHENSIVE PlANNING AND LAND i~ ','DEVELOPMENT REGUlATION ACT; PROVIDING FOR AN ':;. EFFECTIVE DATE.' ;:. I r _' .~ NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a publiC hearing on this .~; proPosed action will be held by the LocalPlannll1G. , AgeoCy (CIty Commission) on ThursdaY, Aprll13, 2000. at , . ,~ 6:00 P.M" In the Commission Chambers, CIty Hall, SUIl8': ~\ 250' 17070 Collins Avenue Sunny Isles Beach- .", .:1 It, .'1.....'~JOj!~ 'J1 , , it': :'~ ~ . ;0"o ;'1' Inquiries reganItng thls nem may be directed to MIlIa Dumas, the CIty's Community Plaonlng and Development Dlraclor, at 305-947-C1606. CopIes oIlhIt proposal are available for public InIpedlon durtng normal busIn888 holIa In City Hall. I;' All persons are Invtted to appear at this meeting or be represented by ;'j', an ~ or to 1IJlIlI'888 their vtews In wriIlng addrasIed to the CIty Clerk, CIty 01 Sunny Illes Baach, 17070 Collins AY8IIU8, SuI1a 250, \," Sunny ISlas Beach, FlOrIda, 33160. MY penon wIthIng to IIddraa the. II Local PlannIng Agency al a public healing Is IIIIc8d to ragIstar wtlII the !, CIty Clerk by completing a public speaktr'I can! prior to the 11Im being. n: haanI, My public haerIng may be conUnued at lhIt fIleIung and under, .'. such clrcumstancas, addIIIonaIlegaI notice would not be provided, In accordanct wtlII the AmerIcans wtlII DIaablIIIIea Ad. all ptIIOIlI who . IIfll disabled and who need spacial accommodaUona to partIcIpata In -'1 thls meeting because of that disability should contact the CIty Manager j at 305-94NI606, no IIl8r than 48 hours prior to the Jiroc;ttdIng, : " I If a person decides to appeal any decision made by the Local PlannIng " : Agency with respecl to any matter conalderad at such meeting or '/: httrtng; they Will need a record of the procaadtlllll, and, for such " PlIJlOt8, may need to ensure that a verIllIUm IlICOId 01 the pnx:ttdIngt rt I It made, Whlchracord Includes the testimony and avIdtnca upon WhICh . the~ II to be based, This notice do88 not COIlIItIuIt COIlIItIII by 1I1 the CIty for.1n1nlCluctIon or admission of OtheIWlte IntdInIttlllle or. 0 I IrraItvant evtdInct, nor do88 n authOltze challtngtl or tppttIt not 3 oIhelwItt tIIowtd.by law, , ,. ,.. .'.'. '~':'''''; ~ i .~~ r: ,: ,i"~ ,'0 ", ITI ~ ., , ,.. ;~ . jl"~ ..~ ~, l' .{ ,t. .\ ~ I'~' ~ ~f-. Ii', Ii! fll