PLANNING & ZONING BOARD COMMUNITY WORKSHOP

SINGLE FAMILY RESIDENTIAL “R” CODE PROPOSED ZONING REGULATIONS

Thursday, July 17, 2025 at 6:30 p.m.

Village Hall - 10050 NE 2nd Avenue

Last summer, the Village Council improved the Single-Family Residential Zoning Code ("R Code")  with several amendments:  Ordinance 2024-05.

Due to the time constraints of the Zoning in Progress, the Council focused on key metrics to remedy the trend of property owners building structures to the maximum height and the minimum yard setbacks.

Understanding residents' desire for more nuanced single-family residential code amendments, on April 22, 2025, the Village hosted its first R Code Proposed Zoning Regulations public workshop to gather resident input in the process. This presentation was made at the workshop. A video of the workshop and an online survey are available here.

Following the April 2025 workshop, and in preparation for the upcoming R Code workshop, Planning & Zoning Board Member Brandon Spirk prepared a concise list of residents’ issues that he provided to the Village consultants. The issues include massing (height, lot coverage particularly on large lots or double lots, yard setbacks and step backs), coastal zone issues, landscaping, green space (pervious), tree canopy, drainage (septic system/drain fields), on site storm water, roof decks and terraces, location of mechanical equipment and parking.

As part of the South Florida Water Management District's (SFWMD) ongoing resiliency efforts, they are encouraging stakeholders and the public to share their comments on the Draft 2025 District Sea Level Rise and Flood Resiliency Plan.

Currently, there is one SFWMD project within MSV boundaries - the C-8 Basin Resiliency and S-28 Coastal Structure Project. See pages 63 and 172 of the Plan. 

Public comments can be submitted for both the plan and the map. The comments will be evaluated and will play an important role in shaping the final 2025 Sea Level Rise and Flood Resiliency Plan.The deadline to submit comments is Friday, June 20, 2025. All comments must be emailed to resiliency@sfwmd.gov.

The Village is changing its Zoning Code to establish regulations in the new Community Residential District (CR District) that allows single family houses, townhouses and multi-family residential dwelling units.  Lennar plans to purchase 25 acres of vacant land currently owned by Barry University so Lennar can build 277 townhouses in the CR District.

Preserving the Village’s character is on the line in the new CR District.

Do YOU want to decide how the 25 acres of vacant land in the new CR District will be developed or do you want LENNAR, the DEVELOPER, to decide?

On September 12th, the Village hosted a public workshop to discuss the proposed regulations and hear Village resident feedback. Over 80 public workshop attendees (watch workshop here) offered many ways to preserve the Village’s unique character in the CR District including: requiring plenty of green space, larger parcels and unit sizes, public streets in an existing street grid rather than private cul de sacs, ample parking and ensuring buffering and compatibility with the existing neighborhood in the scale, aesthetic and cost of dwelling units as well as applying the Village Code and Ordinances to the CR District residents.

View the Village consultants’, the Corradino Group’s, Public Input Summary Report here. 

You can read the Corradino Group’s August 16, 2024 proposed CR District zoning regulations here.

If you haven’t done so already, to get up to speed quickly, take 5 minutes to view the video presentation* that compares and contrasts Lennar’s concept with one possible alternative .

*Neither the linked video presentation nor the ideas in it were produced by the team that manages this website or the Our Village Our Voice initiative.

OUR VILLAGE NEEDS OUR VOICE!

Your presence at the November 18th meeting will speak volumes.

Please attend, wear black and participate.

E-comments can be submitted here.

MIAMI SHORES VILLAGE IS CHANGING IT'S ZONING CODE

• What do you love about Miami Shores?

• How do you see our Village 10 years from now?

• Who decides what kind of community we become?

For 2 years we've advocated to preserve our Village's charm. NOW IS THE CRITICAL TIME for residents to complete our efforts to ensure that the new CR District Zoning Regulations enhance, protect and preserve the character of our Village for current and future residents. 

The September 12th Public Workshop will seek resident input on zoning regulations for the newly created Community Residential District (CR district) - consisting of 25 acres of vacant land owned by Barry University that Lennar plans to buy and develop into 277 townhomes.

The “Community Residential” designation is a blank slate. It was created for the Barry/Lennar land deal, and NOW is the Village’s only opportunity to help shape how that that land will be developed.

Your attendance and support is needed to give input to ensure the new zoning regulations enhance our Village.

The Comprehensive Plan amendments that passed last September provide a broad vision for the new CR District which currently includes detached single family homes, attached homes, townhomes and multi-family buildings. Earlier this year, Barry and Lennar submitted a proposal to staff that was not widely shared with the public and was not well received by those residents who reviewed it.  As a result, a group of concerned residents, including Brandon Spirk (prior to sitting on the P&Z Board), proposed a potential alternate concept for the CR District that incorporates the hallmark attributes that distinguish the character of Miami Shores Village and identifies some of the shortcomings of the Barry/Lennar proposal. 

Please view the 5-minute video presentation* that compares and contrasts the two concepts here.

 

And please make your VOICE heard at these meetings and especially at the September 12th public workshop!

*Neither the linked video presentation nor the ideas in it were produced by the team that manages this website or the Our Village Our Voice initiative.

On Monday, September 11, the Council voted 3-2 to pass the Comprehensive Plan ordinance. The version passed reinstated the commerical designations (restricted and general) on the 2nd Avenue and Biscayne Boulevard corridors and removed the controversial mixed-use concept. Additionally, the plan reinstates the Multifamily designation at 10500 Biscayne Boulevard.  Under the plan, the vacant parcel owned by Barry in the northwest corner of the Village is designated "Community Neighborhood" and has a density of 13 units per acre to accomodate a townhome development as proposed by Barry and Lennar. The plan also reduces the density of future multifamily development to 20 units per acre. 

Yes votes: Mayor Burch, Vice Mayor Valinsky, Councilperson Charles

No votes: Harris, Marinberg