Ord. No. 29-05-1851ORDINANCE NO. 29 -05 -1851
AN ORDINANCE OF THE MAYOR AND CITY COMMISSION OF THE
CITY OF SOUTH MIAMI, FLORIDA ESTABLISHING GUIDELINES FOR
NAMING CITY PROPERTY AND ROADWAYS WITHIN THE CITY;
PROVIDING FOR SEVERABILITY; PROVIDING FOR ORDINANCES IN
CONFLICT; AND PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE
WHEREAS, the Mayor and City Commission feel it prudent and necessary to promulgate
rules and or guidelines for the naming of public property within the limits of the City of South
Miami in order to ensure that such naming is in the public's interest; and
WHEREAS, the naming of streets and public properties for people who are still among the
living can and may be unduly influenced by politics or personal interests; and
WHEREAS, it is the feeling of the Mayor and Commission that public property is to be
held in the public trust, used for the public good and is not to be unduly commercialized or used
to promote any one individual, company or organization without clear and undisputed evidence
of actions and/or contributions that have been of major benefit to the people of the City of South
Miami; and
WHEREAS, it has been determined that ° time period of fifty years after e death
naming a public street posthumously is sufficient to insure the non - politicization of the use of an
honoree's name, and that a contribution of no less than ten percent (10 %) of the value of a piece
of public property represents a substantial value to the City and its residents.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE MAYOR AND THE CITY
COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF SOUTH MIAMI, FLORIDA THAT:
Section 1 No naming of a public street or piece of public property shall be approved unless
the person being se honored has been deeeased for at least fifty years is done so posthumously.
Section Z The attachment of any organizational name or likeness to any piece of public
property within the City of South Miami shall not be entertained unless a contribution in money
and/or other goods and considerations totaling at least ten percent (10 %) of the value of that
property has been made to the City.
Section 3 These requirements may be waived by a unanimous four -fifth vote of the City
Commission. All ordinances or parts of ordinances in conflict with the provisions of this
ordinance are hereby repealed.
Section 4. If any section, clause, sentence, or phrase of this ordinance is for any reason held
invalid or unconstitutional by a court of competent jurisdiction, this holding shall not affect the
validity of the remaining portions of this ordinance.
Section 5. This ordinance shall be effective immediately after the adoption hereof.
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PASSED AND ADOPTED this % % day of lC� '2005.
ATTEST:
UCLERIC
I at Reading - 8/2/05
2nd Reading - 8/16/05
READ AND APPROVED AS TO FORM:
CIS ATTORNEY
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APPROVED:
Mayor Russell: absent
Vice Mayor Palmer: Yea
Commissioner Wiscombe: Yea
Commissioner Birts- Cooper: Yea
Commissioner Sherar: Yea
CITY OF SOUTH MIAMI
Inter - office Memorandum
TO: Mayor, Vice Mayor & City Commission
FROM: Maria V. Davis
City Manager -
ORDINANCE
South Miami
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DATE: August 16, 2005
AGENDA ITEM No.
RE: Ordinance Setting Criteria for Street
Naming
AN ORDINANCE OF THE MAYOR AND CITY COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF
SOUTH MIAMI, FLORIDA ESTABLISHING GUIDELINES FOR NAMING CITY
PROPERTY AND ROADWAYS WITHIN THE CITY; PROVIDING FOR
SEVERABILITY; PROVIDING FOR ORDINANCES IN CONFLICT; AND PROVIDING
AN EFFECTIVE DATE
FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION:
Commissioner Sherar requested the attached ordinance in order to set specific criteria for the
naming of streets and other public property within the City of South Miami. At the first reading
of the ordinance, the Commission suggested amendments. The major points of the ordinance
now read:
"(I)t has been determined that a time period of A`t° years after ^ ^ ~'s de auh naming a un blic
street posthumously is sufficient to insure the non - politicization of the use of an honoree's name,
and that a contribution of no less than ten percent (10 %) of the value of a piece of public property
represents a substantial value to the City and its residents."
"No naming of a public street or piece of public property shall be approved unless the person
being honored has been deeeased for at least r: =nifty years is done so posthumously"
"The attachment of any organizational name or likeness to any piece of public property within
the City of South Miami shall not be entertained unless a contribution in money and /or other
goods and considerations totaling at least ten percent (10 %) of the value of that property has been
made to the City."
"These requirements may be waived by a unanimous four -fifths vote of the City Commission."
MIAMI DAILY BUSINESS REVIEW
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O.V. FERBEYRE, who on oath says that he or she is the
SUPERVISOR, Legal Notices of the Miami Daily Business
Review f /k/a Miami Review, a daily (except Saturday, Sunday
and Legal Holidays) newspaper, published at Miami in Miami -Dade
County, Florida; that the attached copy of advertisement,
being a Legal Advertisement of Notice in the matter of
CITY OF SOUTH MIAMI
PUBLIC HEARING 8/16/2005
in the XXXX Court,
was published in said newspaper in the Issues of
08/05/2005
Affiant further says that the said Miami Daily Business
Review is a newspaper published at Miami in said Miami -Dade
County, Florida and that the said newspaper has
heretofore been continuously published in said Miami -Dade County,
Florida, each day (except Saturday, Sunday and Legal Holidays)
and has been entered as second class mail matter at the post
office in Miami in said Miami -Dade County, Florida, for a
period of one year next preceding the first publication of the
attached copy of advertisement; and afflant further says that he or
she has neither paid nor promised any person, firm or corporation
any discount, rebate, commission or refund for the purpose
of securing thi dvertise r publication in the said
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Sworn to and subscribed before me this
05 day of AUGUST , A.D. 2005
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(SEAL)
O.V. FERBEYRE personally known to me
Cheryl H mamw
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