Res No 069-12-13626_RESOLUTION NO. 69-12-13626
A Resolution to draft an ordinance placing a moratorium on multifamily development
pending appropriate studies of absorption and vacancy rates as well as transportation
and parks concurrency.
WHEREAS, the City Commission is requesting analysis of the existing number of available
multifamily, affordable units within the City; and
WHEREAS, the City Commission is requesting an absorption rate and vacancy rate study of housing
units within the City before additional projects are approved for development; and
WHEREAS, the City Commission has expressed concerns on the impact of additional multifamily
units on the City's infrastructure of all new multifamily development; and
WHEREAS, the roadway levels of service (LOS) for principal and minor arterials within the City are
designated at LOS 7 "; and
WHEREAS, the City is presently working to select a qualified consultant or consulting firm to
conduct a transportation capacity analysis, update its current roadway levels of service and the impacts of its
designation as a Transportation Concurrency Exception Area, which upon completion and coupled with any
necessary amendments to the City's Comprehensive Plan and Land Development Regulations shall serve to
further guide land use and development so that development within the City will further the City's goal of
sustainability; and
WHEREAS,
the City
Commission
in its capacity as the legislative
body that approves all
comprehensive land use planning
and land
development code changes, has reviewed
this Resolution.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE MAYOR AND CITY COMMISSION OF
THE CITY OF SOUTH MIAMI, FLORIDA THAT:
Section 1. The City Attorney shall draft an ordinance placing a moratorium on multifamily
development pending appropriate studies and to conduct the necessary data and analysis enumerated
hereinabove concerning transportation and parks concurrency as well as, but not limited to, absorption and
vacancy rates.
Section 2. This resolution shall be effective immediately upon adoption.
PASSED AND ADOPTED this 27thday of March 2012.
ATTEST:
COMMISSION VOTE: 5 -0
Mayor Stoddard: Yea
Vice Mayor Liebman: Yea
Commissioner Newman: Yea
Commissioner Harris: Yea
Commissioner Welsh: Yea
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