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welfare and public facilities prior to proposing density and intensity within the Town Center North planned development district; and WHEREAS, the City's Local Planning Agency has recommended adoption of the text- based amendments as described herein. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COMMISISON OF THE CITY OF SUNNY ISLES BEACH, FLORIDA, AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. Recitals. The foregoing facts and recitations contained in the preamble to this Ordinance are hereby adopted and incorporated by referenced as if fully set forth herein. Section 2. Text-based Amendments to the Comprehensive Plan. The following policy is hereby amended as follows: Future Land Use Element Objective 14 Policy 14B Town Center - The Town Center designation is a planned development district, also known as an overlay land uses that encompasses both underlying commercial and residential land use categories in the Future Land Use Map. This designation indicates that it is the policy of the City and governmental agencies to encourage and support Town Center development in the designed area in accordance with the following interpretative text. The Town Center is encouraged to become the hub for future urban development intensification around which a more compact and efficient urban structure will evolve. The Town Center is intended to be a moderate to high intensity design-unified area which will contain a concentration of different urban functions integrated both horizontally and vertically. The center will be characterized by physical cohesiveness, direct accessibility by mass transit services and high-quality urban design. The Town Center is located to have direct connections to the 167" Street Causeway and Collins Avenue to ensure a high level of accessibility to the northeast Miami-Dade/bi-county area. It is a primary objective of the Town Center to foster a regionally competitive business and activity center for cultural activities and entertainment, visitor services, dining, financial services, specialty goods and services, professional office and niche businesses serving the North Dade and Broward County Areas. Incorporation of residential uses is encouraged. The Town Center location, and the configuration of land uses within them is designed to encourage convenient alternatives to travel by automobile, to provide more efficient land use than recent suburban development forms and the prevalent strip commercial projects, and to create an identifiable social and economic core for the diverse neighborhoods of Sunny Isles Beach and adjacent areas. Underline denotes revisions during first reading—Bold Underline denotes revisions during second reading. 2