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<br /> <br />To: <br /> <br />From: <br /> <br />Date: <br /> <br />Re: <br /> <br />City of Sunny Isles Beach <br />17070 Collins Avenue, Suite 250 <br />Sunny Isles Beach, Florida 33160 <br /> <br />City Commission <br />David Samson, Mayor <br />Norman S. Edelcup, Vice Mayor <br />Gerry Goodman, Commissioner <br />Lila Kauffman, Commissioner <br />Danny Iglesias, Commissioner <br /> <br />(305) 947-0606 City Hall <br />(305) 947-2150 Building Department <br />(305) 949-3113 Fax <br /> <br />Christopher J. Russo, City Manager <br />Lynn M. Dannheisser, City Attorney <br />Richard Brown-Morilla, City Clerk <br /> <br />MEMORANDUM <br /> <br />City Commission <br /> <br />Lynn M. Dannheisser, City Attorney ~ <br />Jorge Vera, Zoning and Planning Direc~ <br /> <br />October 18, 2001 <br /> <br />Resolution Transmitting Ordinance Amending Comprehensive Plan Re <br />Transferable Development Rights <br /> <br />RECOMMENDATION <br /> <br />It is recommended that the City Commission adopt this Resolution Transmitting an Ordinance <br />amending the Comprehensive Plan regarding transferable development rights. <br /> <br />REASONS <br /> <br />By Ordinance No. 2000-105, the City Commission passed a Comprehensive Plan wherein <br />transferable development rights ("lDR'S") were addressed in Policy 11 of the Future Land Use <br />Element portion of the Plan which limited lDR's from municipal government sites to the Town <br />Center area designation. In addition, after discussion with the Department of Community affairs by <br />both Jack Luft, the City Manager and the City Attorney's office, it was recommended by DCA that <br />we amend our Comprehensive plan to adjust the lDR section to allow such transferable <br />development rights to resort and commercial areas abutting Collins A venue (in addition to the <br />Town Center) in order to promote redevelopment as well as economic revitalization, to allow <br />private transfers under certain conditions and further to amend Policy 15C to provide for the basis <br />for creating in our Land Development Regulations a specific regulation and mechanism for the use <br />of lDR's which would delineate both the sender and receiving districts providing that the density <br />and intensity on any given receiver site does not create a thirty (30%) increase in the maximum <br />pennitted land use category. <br /> <br />This amendment also provides that if private property owners elect to send lDR's to another <br />private site (receiver site), the sender site will then be dedicated to public ownership or preserved for <br />