Miami-Dade Legislative Item
File Number: 212985
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File Number: 212985 File Type: Ordinance Status: Adopted as amended
Version: 0 Reference: 21-114 Control: Board of County Commissioners
File Name: RELATING TO WORKFORCE HOUSING DEVELOPMENT Introduced: 12/1/2021
Requester: NONE Cost: Final Action: 10/19/2021
Agenda Date: 10/19/2021 Agenda Item Number: 7A
Notes: THIS FINAL VERSION AS ADOPTED; ALSO SEE 212341 AND 211408 Title: ORDINANCE RELATING TO WORKFORCE HOUSING DEVELOPMENT IN THE UNINCORPORATED AREA; AMENDING SECTION 33-193.11 OF THE CODE OF MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, FLORIDA; PROVIDING FOR PARKING REDUCTION; MAKING TECHNICAL CHANGES; PROVIDING SEVERABILITY, INCLUSION IN THE CODE, AND AN EFFECTIVE DATE [SEE ORIGINAL ITEMS UNDER FILE NOS. 212341 AND 211408]
Indexes: WORKFORCE HOUSING
Sponsors: Jean Monestime, Prime Sponsor
Sunset Provision: No Effective Date: Expiration Date:
Registered Lobbyist: None Listed


Legislative History

Acting Body Date Agenda Item Action Sent To Due Date Returned Pass/Fail

County Attorney 12/1/2021 Assigned Dennis A. Kerbel 12/9/2021

Board of County Commissioners 10/19/2021 7A AMENDED Adopted as amended P
REPORT: Commissioner Monestime addressed concerns expressed by the Board members during the October 5, 2021, Board meeting regarding the impact of lowering the parking requirements for certain developments providing workforce housing developments adjacent to single-family residences. Commissioner Monestime noted that in the amended item parking reductions were limited to ten percent of multi-family developments with fifty or more workforce housing units in areas located within 500 feet of single-family neighborhoods. He also said the reductions applied to workforce housing units located within 660 feet of transit corridors. Additionally, workforce-housing units not located near single-family residences would be subjected to reduced parking by twenty five percent as per Miami-Dade County Code. It was moved by Commissioner Monestime that the foregoing proposed ordinance be adopted, as amended, and outlined in Agenda Item 7A Supplement. This motion was seconded by Chairman Diaz, and upon being put to a vote, passed by a vote of 11-2 (Commissioners Garcia and Martinez voted no).

Legislative Text


TITLE
ORDINANCE RELATING TO WORKFORCE HOUSING DEVELOPMENT IN THE UNINCORPORATED AREA; AMENDING SECTION 33-193.11 OF THE CODE OF MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, FLORIDA; PROVIDING FOR PARKING REDUCTION; MAKING TECHNICAL CHANGES; PROVIDING SEVERABILITY, INCLUSION IN THE CODE, AND AN EFFECTIVE DATE

BODY
WHEREAS, in January 2007, this Board adopted Ordinance 07-05, which established a voluntary workforce housing program to address the growing housing crisis for residents of unincorporated Miami-Dade County in the workforce target income group; and
WHEREAS, after the program sunsetted, this Board readopted it in May 2008 in Ordinance No. 08-51; and
WHEREAS, in December 2016, in response to the ever-increasing need for housing, this Board adopted Ordinance No. 16-138, which comprehensively amended the Workforce Housing Development Program of Miami-Dade County, Florida to revise the workforce target income group from 65 to 140 percent of median family income, to 60 to 140 percent, and to provide additional density and intensity development bonuses to incentivize private development of this necessary housing; and
WHEREAS, in February 2020, this Board adopted Ordinance No. 20-22, which increased the density and intensity bonuses and made other amendments to the program to facilitate workforce housing development; and

WHEREAS, one of the regulatory requirements that affects the development of workforce housing units is minimum parking requirements; and
WHEREAS, the County�s Zoning Code currently reduces minimum parking requirements in the County�s urban centers and in other zoning districts that provide for mixed-use or transit-oriented development; and
WHEREAS, this Board wishes to further incentivize the development of workforce housing by offering the same parking reductions as of right based on the development of workforce housing in proximity to transit, without requiring rezoning to an urban center or other district,
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, FLORIDA:
Section 1. This Board ratifies and adopts the foregoing recitals, as if fully set forth herein.
Section 2. Section 33-193.11 of the Code of Miami-Dade County, Florida, is hereby amended to read as follows:1
Sec. 33-193.11. - Intensity standards.

(A) Notwithstanding zoning district regulations to the contrary, the following maximum intensity standards shall apply to developments that include WHUs on-site >>and, except as provided in paragraph (3)<<, to alternative sites providing off-site WHUs in accordance with >>section<< [[Section]] 33-193.8, to receiving sites for a portable density bonus as provided in >>section<< [[Section]] 33-193.8, and to developments that otherwise obtain density bonuses by complying with this article.

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>>(3) Parking reduction for on-site development of WHUs.
(a) Except as provided in this paragraph, for workforce housing units developed within 660 feet of a CDMP-designated major corridor served by transit, CDMP-designated mixed-use corridor, or CDMP-designated Rapid-Transit Activity Corridor, which includes the SMART Plan Corridors, the WHUs shall be entitled to a parking reduction in accordance with section 33-284.86(F)(3) (Group 1 (work-force reduction)).
(b) Notwithstanding the foregoing, a multifamily development that contains 50 or more WHUs and is located within 500 feet of a property that is zoned for, or developed with, a single-family residence, shall only be entitled to a reduction of 10 percent of the number of parking spaces otherwise required by this chapter.
(c) In calculating the required number of parking spaces, all fractions shall be rounded up to the nearest whole number.
(d) WHUs developed in MCD, RMD, or other mixed-use zoning districts that provide for parking reductions shall be governed by their respective district regulations.<<

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Section 3. If any section, subsection, sentence, clause or provision of this ordinance is held invalid, the remainder of this ordinance shall not be affected by such invalidity.
Section 4. It is the intention of the Board of County Commissioners, and it is hereby ordained that the provisions of this ordinance, including any sunset provision, shall become and be made a part of the Code of Miami-Dade County, Florida. The sections of this ordinance may be renumbered or relettered to accomplish such intention, and the word "ordinance" may be changed to "section," "article," or other appropriate word.
Section 5. This ordinance shall become effective ten (10) days after the date of enactment unless vetoed by the Mayor, and if vetoed, shall become effective only upon an override by this Board.
1 Words stricken through and/or [[double bracketed]] shall be deleted. Words underscored and/or >>double arrowed<< constitute the amendment proposed. Remaining provisions are now in effect and remain unchanged.



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