City of Miami District 2 - Commission Meeting Feb 22nd 2018

LEGISLATIVE NEWSLETTER

Commission Meeting

Feb 22nd, 2018

Dear Neighbor,

Incentivizing affordable housing in our city is an urgent need. This is why I have joined the campaign: "100 Great Ideas" to gather solutions proposed by people in our community. Hundreds of people participated in an online civic tech campaign seeking ideas about affordable housing. So many interesting ideas were generated by this exercise that I am bringing a resolution to direct our city manager to identify the ideas that have the potential to become a reality in our city. This is a high level of civic engagement!

On another note, improving the housing infrastructure in the West Grove area is a priority for me. I have assigned $300,000 of CDBG (Community Development Block Grant) funds to help fix up dozens of homes in the neighborhood, to help homeowners in need. This is part of a bigger plan I've been working on to revitalize and preserve the neighborhood.

Everyone is welcome to City Hall on Thursday. Thank you for staying informed and involved. Please follow the commission meeting on Twitter @kenrussellmiami or watch live for the full session online at www.miamigov.com .

Your Commissioner,

Ken Russell

City of Miami Commissioner

District 2

WHAT I'M SPONSORING

SECOND READING

SR.1 - This ordinance would create additional licensing requirements and regulations related to immobilization/booting of cars in privately-owned parking lots. The proposed changes will also lower the removal fee charged to customers at parking lots that use booting contractors. [This item will likely be deferred]

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RESOLUTION

RE.1 – This resolution would direct the City Manager to review the request by the Miami Children’s Museum to expand MCM’s footprint on Watson Island for the purpose of providing an additional entrance and expanded programming and return to the City Commission with recommended next steps.

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PUBLIC HEARING

PH.1 – This resolution allocates the City’s 2017-2018 Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) funds. I will be allocating the District 2 CDBG funds to a City of Miami micro-enterprise business loan program and to Rebuilding Together Miami-Dade for single family home rehabilitation.

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RESOLUTION

RE.7 – Last year, hundreds of residents participated in a 5-day community brainstorm on Facebook called 100 Great Ideas, centered around finding solutions for Miami’s affordable housing crisis. The ideas and conversations generated by this campaign have now been published in a report authored by social impact firm Radical Partners. I am bringing this resolution directing the City administration, in consultation with the Housing and Commercial Loan Committee, to review the report and to bring back to the City Commission any policy proposals that can be feasibly implemented at the City of Miami.

Full legislative summary here

FIRST READING ORDINANCE

FR.1 & PZ.14 - These companion amendments to the City Code and Miami 21 would establish an Underline Public Benefits Trust Fund under the City's Public Benefits Program, which would allow projects abutting the Underline to contribute to construction, maintenance, operation, or improvements to the Underline within City limits. [This item will be indefinitely deferred]

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FR.2 – This ordinance will establish the Miami Forever Bond Oversight Board, which will serve as a citizens advisory board to the City Commission on all projects that propose to use bond funds approved by the voters in November 2017.

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SECOND READING ORDINANCE

SR.2 - This ordinance will change the process for obtaining a Business Tax Receipt from the City by transferring oversight from the Finance Department to the City Manager.

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RESOLUTIONS

RE.6 – This resolution will set the salary and benefits for Mayor Francis Suarez.

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CONSENT AGENDA

CA.1 – This resolution will approve a joint participation agreement between the City of Miami and the Downtown Development Authority to manage the Biscayne Green Lane Elimination Analysis Project, which will analyze the feasibility of eliminating lanes along Biscayne Boulevard between SE 1 ^st Street and NE 6 ^th Street in order to create more green space downtown.

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PLANNING AND ZONING

PZ.2 - This ordinance would amend the Miami Comprehensive Neighborhood Plan to change the land use designation at 2890 Virginia Street to allow for more commercial uses.

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PZ.8 & PZ.9 – These companion items propose a rezoning from T4-L to T5-O and change of use from Low Density Restricted Commercial to Medium Density Restricted Commercial at properties located at 2810, 2814, 2816, and 2818 Southwest 37 Avenue AND 3700 Southwest 28 Street. The applicant intends to develop the property as a mixed-use project.

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If you are interested in items not published here, please refer to the full agenda using the following link .

If you have any questions or suggestions about the upcoming meeting, you may reply to this message or contact my office at (305) 250-5333.

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