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TO: Mayor, Vice Mayor & City Commission DATE: August 16, 2005
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FROM: Maria V. Davis AGENDA ITEM No.�
City Manager g RE: Ordinance Setting Criteria for Street
Naming
ORDINANCE
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 *ini° period of fifty years after ° per-son's 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."
"No naming of a public street or piece of public property shall be approved unless the person
being honored has been deee se for- at least fifty ye 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 uimeus four -fifths vote of the City Commission."
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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 a timeperiod of fifty yeafs after- ° ^'s a°°
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 deeeas °a f at least fifty years is done so posthumously.
Section 2 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 tmanimeus 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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P-ASSED AND ADOPTED this day of
"'ITY CLERK MAYOR
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