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1 ORDINANCE NO. ______ _
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3 An Ordinance amending Section 20-5.5 (C)(3) and (G)(3) of the City of South
4 Miami's Land Development Code to redefine the newspaper required for
5 publication and to conform to Section 166.041(3)(a) of the Florida Statutes.
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7 WHEREAS, the pertinent part of Section 20-5.5 of the City of South Miami's Land
8 Development Code states:
9 20-5.5 -Applications requiring public hearings.
10 The following procedures shall be followed for all applications requiring a public
11 hearing before the planning board and city commission, including all applications
12 for rezoning, text amendments, special uses and variances.
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14 (C) Planning Board Notice Requirements. Upon receipt of a complete
15 application, the building and zoning department shall prepare a Notice of Public
16 Hearing and a location map of the subject property. At least ten (10) calendar
17 days prior to the scheduled public hearing by the planning board on the
18 application, the building and zoning department shall:
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20 (3) Place a legal notice in a local newspaper of general circulation which
21 notifies the public of the scheduled hearing date, location of subject property and
22 nature of application request; and
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, 24 (G) Commission Meeting Notice Requirements. At least ten (10) calendar
25 days prior to the scheduled public hearing by the city commission on the
26 application, the city clerk shall:
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28 (3) Place a legal notice in a local newspaper of general circulation which
29 notifies the public of the scheduled hearing date, location of subject property and
30 nature of application request; and
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32 WHEREAS, the pertinent part of Section 163.041(3)(a) states: Except as provided in
33 paragraph (c), a proposed ordinance may be read by title, or in full, on at least 2 separate
34 days and shall, at least 10 days prior to adoption, be noticed once in a newspaper of general
35 circulation in the municipality."; and
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37 WHEREAS, the Section 20-5.5 could be interpret to require ten (10) days' notice in a
38 newspaper that gears its publication to the news within the City and surrounding municipalities.
39 Such an interpretation would create havoc with the timing and the scheduling of land use matters
40 before the Planning Board and City Commission. With such an interpretation it would take
41 approximately twenty three (23) days advanced submission of an advertisement to advertise in a
42 local newspaper, whether for City Commission or a Planning Board public hearing. The City
43 typically advertises in the Neighbors section of the Sunday Miami Herald and such
44 advertisements must be submitted by the prior Wednesday, and even then the advertisement is
45 not published more than 9 days before the second Tuesday commission meeting following
46 publication. Consequently the City advertises in the Sunday Neighbors to reach the widest
47 readership within the City and also the Daily Business Review to satisfy the ten (10) advanced
48 publication requirement of the Florida Statutes. Thus, to advertise in Neighbors ten (10) prior to
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1 a City Commission or Planning Board meeting would require that the advertisement be placed an
2 entire week before the normal date of submission. This would cause a delay of an additional two
3 weeks between Planning Board meeting and an additional two weeks for City Commission
4 approval of the second reading of ordinances.
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6 NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE MAYOR AND CITY
7 COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF SOUTH MIAMI, FLORIDA:
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9 Section 1: Section 20-5.5 of the City of South Miami's Land Development Code shall be
10 amended to read as follows:
11 20-5.5 -Applications requiring public hearings.
12 The following procedures shall be followed for all applications requiring a public hearing
13 before the planning board and city commission, including all applications for rezoning, text
14 amendments, special uses and variances.
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16 (C) Planning Board Notice Requirements. Upon receipt of a complete application, the
17 building and zoning department shall prepare a Notice of Public Hearing and a location map of
18 the subject property. At least ten (10) calendar days prior to the scheduled public hearing by the
19 planning board on the application, the building and zoning department shall:
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21 (3) Place a legal notice in a leeal newspaper of general circulation in the City which
22 notifies the public of the scheduled hearing date, location of subject property and nature of
23 application request; and
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25 (G) Commission Meeting Notice Requirements. At least ten (10) calendar days prior
26 to the scheduled public hearing by the city commission on the application, the city clerk shall:
27 * * *
28 (3) Place a legal notice in a leeal newspaper of general circulation in the City which
29 notifies the public of the scheduled hearing date, location of subject property and nature of
30 application request; and
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32 Section 2: Codification. The provisions of this ordinance shall become and be made
33 part of the Code of Ordinances of the City of South Miami as amended; that the sections of this
34 ordinance may be renumbered or re-Iettered to accomplish such intention; and that the word
35 "ordinance" may be changed to "section" or other appropriate word.
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37 Section 3. Severability. If any section, clause, sentence, or phrase of this ordinance is
38 for any reason held invalid or unconstitutional by a court of competent jurisdiction, this holding
39 shall not affect the validity of the remaining portions of this ordinance.
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41 Section 4. Ordinances in Conflict. All ordinances or parts of ordinances and all
42 sections and parts of sections of ordinances in direct conflict herewith are hereby repealed.
43 However, it is not the intent of this section to repeal entire ordinances, or parts of ordinances,
44 that give the appearance of being in conflict when the two ordinances can be harmonized or
45 when only a portion of the ordinance in conflict needs to be repealed to harmonize the
46 ordinances. If the ordinance in conflict can be harmonized by amending its terms, it is hereby
47 amended to harmonize the two ordinances. Therefore, only that portion that needs to be repealed
48 to harmonize the two ordinances shall be repealed.
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2 Section 5. Effective Date. This ordinance shall become effective upon enactment.
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4 PASSED AND ENACTED this __ day of ,2013.
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6 ATTEST: APPROVED:
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10 CITY CLERK MAYOR
11 1 st Reading
12 2nd Reading
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14 READ AND APPROVED AS TO FORM: COMMISSION VOTE:
15 LANGUAGE, LEGALITY AND Mayor Stoddard:
16 EXECUTION THEREOF Vice Mayor Liebman:
17 Commissioner Newman:
18 Commissioner Harris:
19 Commissioner Welsh:
20 CITY ATTORNEY
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