Environmental Quality Control Board (EQCB)

The Environmental Quality Control Board hearings are held on the second Thursday of each month, beginning at 1:30 p.m. There will be no hearing in August.

2025 Public Hearing Dates:

• January 9
• February 13
• March 13
• April 10
• May 8
• June 12
• July 10
• August - no hearing
• September 11
• October 9
• November 13
• December 11

Next Public Hearing

July 10, 2025
1:30 p.m.
Overtown Transit Village Building
701 NW 1st Court
2nd Floor Training Room
Miami, FL 33136

Attend via Zoom (to listen only); meeting ID: 857 4956 8114

• Public Hearing Agenda
• Agenda items
  • FIRST INDUSTRIAL LP (2022-EQCB-00032)
  • FIRST INDUSTRIAL, LP AND COMPONENT OVERHAUL SERVICES CORP (2024-EQCB-00058)
  • KRCX WRI HOLDINGS, LLC (2024-EQCB-00074)
  • JOSE MIGUEL GUILLEN AND MARIA AZUCENA TORRES (2024-EQCB-00077)
  • JESUS AGUILAR AND MARIBEL AGUILAR (2025-EQCB-00007)
  • CARLOS PRIETO (2024-EQCB-00067)
  • VILLAGE OF PALMETTO BAY (2024-EQCB-00073)
  • VILLAGE OF PALMETTO BAY (2024-EQCB-00080)
  • SABERLO FAMILY LIMITED PARTNERSHIP (2024-EQCB-00064)
  • MILAGROS PEDRAZA AND CESAR TORRES NIMER (2025-EQCB-00022)

2025 Public Hearing Agendas and Minutes

• May 8 Meeting Results
• May 8 Meeting Agenda
• April 10 Meeting Results
• April 10 Meeting Agenda
• March 13 Meeting Results
• March 13 Meeting Agenda
• February 13 Meeting Results
• Febuary 13 Meeting Agenda
• January 9 Meeting Results
• January 9 Meeting Agenda

Historical Documents: 2013-2024

• Class Variances
• Rulings
  • 2024 EQCB Rulings
  • 2023 EQCB Rulings
  • 2022 EQCB Rulings
  • 2021 EQCB Rulings
  • 2020 EQCB Rulings
  • 2019 EQCB Rulings
  • 2018 EQCB Rulings
  • 2017 EQCB Rulings
  • 2016 EQCB Rulings
  • 2015 EQCB Rulings
  • 2014 EQCB Rulings
  • 2013 EQCB Rulings

• If you are deaf, hard of hearing or speech impaired, you may participate in the public hearing using Florida Relay Service by dialing 711 on your telephone
• If you need a sign language interpreter, or any accommodation to participate in the public hearing, or to request materials in accessible format, please call Alain Donderiz at 305-372-6779 or 786-442-4778 or via email at [email protected], at least five days in advance of the hearing to initiate your request.

Prior to filing for a public hearing, applicants are encouraged to meet with staff to obtain information on the hearing process, filing requirements, filing fees and to review the completed applications and forms. To request a pre-application meeting, please call 305-372-6764 or email [email protected]. 

• View the EQCB application package
• Submit EQCB application and supporting documents

Advertising and Notices

The agenda for the EQCB public hearing will be published prior to the hearing date on the Legal Ads and Public Notices website and posted on this webpage.

The Clerk of the Board will send a Notice of the Hearing (Agenda) via email to the email address provided in the application. Please include email addresses in your application of all parties to receive Notice of the Hearing.

For interim sewage treatment plants only: A notice will be posted on the subject property to inform the public of the purpose, time and place of hearing for the proposed interim sewage treatment plant.

Emergency Public Hearings

An applicant may request an emergency public hearing before the EQCB. It is up to the EQCB to decide to hear emergency cases. Please contact the Clerk of the Board for further information with regard to this procedure.

• Completed and properly executed application.
• Paid filing and surcharge fees.
• Letter of Intent signed by owner(s) or attorney representing owner(s).
• Letter of intent shall include the type of request (variance, extension of time, modification, class variance, approval of interim package sewage treatment plant), provide sections of Chapter 24 you are requesting a variance or extension of time, how the request meets the criteria in Section 24-12 of the Miami-Dade County Code. Requests for extensions of time shall provide the length of time requested, and how the owner will comply with the extension of time requested.
• Executed ownership affidavit(s) for all owners, including associations, if applicable.
• Copy of Association documents – for properties that are governed by an association. Submit the Declaration of Covenants, Conditions and Restrictions of the association. Submit association approval of the request for EQCB, including voting information, meeting date and time that association approved action.
• Executed attorney affidavit required for properties owned by a General Partnership, Limited Partnership, Limited Liability Partnership, Limited Liability Corporation, Trust and/or City, State or County agency.
• Copy of property deed, quit claim deed, or warranty deed recorded in the Miami-Dade County Clerk of Courts for all properties, including submerged lands.
• Copy of State of Florida Division of Corporation information of the business entity if the property is not owned by an individual.
• A recent, clearly legible boundary survey, signed and sealed by a Florida-licensed professional land surveyor, dated within the past year. Survey must include the legal description of property(ies) of the request.  Must show all structures, rights-of-way, easements, delineation of water and sewer lines, delineation of wetlands, lakes, covenanted preservation areas, and any municipal boundary.
• Copy of Miami-Dade Property Appraiser Tax information for all properties.
• EQCB Water and Sewer Availability Form(s) properly executed by the applicable water and sewer utility. Two forms are required if the property is within or served by different water and sewer utility areas.
• Required, if requesting to utilize existing or proposed potable well – drinking water analysis performed by a Florida certified laboratory for each existing or proposed portable (drinking) well. Results shall not be older than six months.
• Required, if requesting to utilize existing septic tank – submit existing septic tank evaluation form completed by a Florida Master Septic Tank Contractor.
• View the EQCB application package

• For an appeal, a letter of appeal that details the action or decision, the reasons or grounds for appeal, and a copy of the decision of the Director that is being appealed, per Section 24-11 of the Miami-Dade County Code.
• Paid filing and surcharge fees.

Section 24-8 of the Miami-Dade County Code provides that the Environmental Quality Control Board may hear:

• A request for a variance from Chapter 24 of the Code of Miami-Dade County.
• A request for an extension of time for compliance with the provisions of Chapter 24 of the Code of Miami-Dade County.
• A request to modify an existing Board Order.
• A request for approval of an Interim Package Sewage Treatment Plant.
• An appeal from the decisions of the Director of DERM pursuant to a denial of an administration request for a variance to the requirements of the Federal Flood Insurance Program as established under Chapter 11C of the Miami-Dade County Code.
• An application by private and/or public water or sewer service utilities for a statement of approved water quality or approved sewage service.
• An appeal of any person aggrieved by any action or decision of the Director of the Division of Environmental Resources Management (DERM). An appeal may be filed within 15 days from the date of action or decision.

Environmental Quality Control Board members help their community by making decisions on applications requesting variances and extensions of time from the environmental regulations of Miami-Dade County. The board also reviews appeals of decisions of the Director of the Division of Environmental Resources Management (DERM). Miami-Dade County is currently seeking interested candidates to be considered for appointment by the Miami-Dade Board of County Commissioners.

Candidates:

• Must be a permanent resident of Miami-Dade County and
• Cannot hold political office or be a candidate for political office
• EQCB Board members are prohibited from serving on more than one decision-making board
• Must be a scientist possessing a master’s or Ph.D. degree in biology, marine biology, biochemistry, chemistry, botany, environmental studies or any related environmental field of study
• Must be a professional engineer licensed in the State of Florida
  • or an engineer possessing a Ph.D. degree in the field of agricultural, biological, biomedical, chemical, civil, coastal, electrical, environmental, industrial, mechanical, oceanographical, marine or nuclear engineering
  • or a professional geologist licensed in the State of Florida
  • or have a Ph.D. in geology, hydrogeology, groundwater hydrology, marine and coastal geology or geophysics

EQCB members are prohibited from serving on more than one decision-making board.