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ORDINANCE NO. 2019- 5.40
<br /> AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF
<br /> SUNNY ISLES BEACH, FLORIDA, AMENDING THE CITY OF SUNNY
<br /> ISLES BEACH COMPREHENSIVE PLAN FUTURE LAND USE MAP
<br /> AMENDMENTS RELATED TO THE TOWN CENTER DISTRICT;
<br /> CREATING A TOWN CENTER SOUTH DISTRICT AND A TOWN
<br /> CENTER NORTH DISTRICT; PROVIDING FOR LAND USE
<br /> DESIGNATION AMENDMENTS FOR PROPERTIES LOCATED IN THE
<br /> TOWN CENTER SOUTH; PROVIDING FOR SEVERABILITY;
<br /> PROVIDING FOR REPEALER; PROVIDING FOR TRANSMITTAL TO
<br /> THE DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY; PROVIDING
<br /> FOR AN EFFECTIVE DATE.
<br /> WHEREAS, in 2000, the City adopted its Comprehensive Plan in accordance with the
<br /> provisions of the State of Florida Growth Policy Act as they existed at that time; and
<br /> WHEREAS, included in the original comprehensive plan, was the Town Center as a land
<br /> use overlay category, and in 2004, the City created the Town Center zoning district, which was
<br /> intended to establish a true community center to focus the shared social and economic life of the
<br /> City; and
<br /> WHEREAS, under the Comprehensive Plan, the Town Center's purpose is to combine a
<br /> mix of uses, both business and retail services, with office employment space and housing, in a
<br /> vertically integrated mix; and
<br /> WHEREAS, over the past fifteen years, the subject properties have been developed
<br /> within the proposed Town Center South District as follows: the City's Gateway Park and
<br /> Gateway Park Parking Garage, the City's Bella Vista Park, the Miami-Dade Water and Sewer
<br /> Facility, the St. Tropez Towers I, II, II, the Parque Towers, the 400 Sunny Isles Marina, and the
<br /> One Netanya, and the two properties currently under construction, the St. Tropez Office Building
<br /> and the Chabad Lubavitch of Sunny Isles Beach ; and
<br /> WHEREAS, the City's consultant, Calvin Giordano & Associates, has prepared a
<br /> Memorandum which addresses the proposed land use designation amendments for those
<br /> properties; and
<br /> WHEREAS, on September 18, 2019, the City adopted Ordinance 2019-541, adopting a
<br /> temporary moratorium on any application for zoning or rezoning within the Town Center in
<br /> order to allow time for the City to research, analyze, and consider the adoption of potential
<br /> amendments to the City's Comprehensive Plan and/or Land Development Regulations to address
<br /> issues relating to future development within the Town Center to analyze, review, consider,
<br /> modify, process for adoption, and implement potential changes to its Comprehensive Plan and/or
<br /> its Land Development Regulations pertaining to the densities and intensities in the Town Center
<br /> and their impact on, among other things, infrastructure, emergency and public service vehicular
<br /> traffic, public safety, aesthetics, public welfare and public facilities; and
<br /> WHEREAS, the City desires to amend its Comprehensive Plan to comply with the
<br /> requirements of Sections 163.3177 and 163.3184, Florida Statutes, to provide for land use
<br /> Underline denotes revisions during first reading—Bold Underline denotes revisions during second reading.
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