The following documents the votes taken on downtown zoning matters - these are votes that result in actual approval, providing authorization to build.
I also ask that you read the Miami Herald articles for more background, applicable links and quotes cited at the end of this post.
5 important votes have occurred in the
Palmetto Bay downtown area:
Atlantico passed 4-0 (Vice Mayor absent)
Parkview passed 4-1 (Flinn voted NO – opponent voted to
APPROVE)
Sandpiper passed
5-0
Soleste passed
5-0
Shores passed 4-0 (Vice Mayor absent)
Flinn’s opponent voted for each and every development - 5-0 - 100% for development!
Details below:
Atlantico, June 20, 2016, Resolution 2016-051 -
17945
SW 97 Avenue
FCI
Palmetto Bay, LLC made an application for a site plan, which included design
considerations and a bonus floor, for the property at 179 SW 97th.
PASSED 4-0 (Vice mayor absent)
YES Council Member Karyn Cunningham
YES Council Member David Singer
YES Council Member Larissa Siegel Lara
ABS Vice-Mayor
John DuBois
YES Mayor Eugene Flinn
Atlantico, FCI –Street vacation, April 17,
2017, Resolution 2017 – 064 -
17945 SW
97 Avenue
The
Village of Palmetto Bay vacates an approximate 5 foot strip of land along the
eastern most portion of the 97 Avenue (Franjo Road) right-of-way for an
approximate distance of 208 feet to FCI Palmetto Bay, LLC.
PASSED 4-1
YES Council Member Karyn Cunningham
YES Council Member David Singer
YES Council Member Larissa Siegel Lara
NO Vice-Mayor
John DuBois
YES Mayor Eugene Flinn
Parkview, June 19, 2017, Resolution 2017 –
080 -
9420,
9450, and 9500 SW 174TH Street
PASSED 4-1
YES Council Member Karyn Cunningham
YES Council Member David Singer
YES Council Member Larissa Siegel Lara
YES Vice-Mayor John DuBois
NO Mayor
Eugene Flinn
Sandpiper – June 19, 2017, Resolution 2017 –
079 -
9701
WAYNE STREET
Indigo
Gardens Developers, LLC made an application for a site plan entitled “Sandpiper
Village of Palmetto Bay”, which included design considerations and bonus
floors, for the property located at 9701 Wayne Street
PASSED 5-0
YES Council Member Karyn Cunningham
YES Council Member David Singer
YES Council Member Larissa Siegel Lara
YES Vice-Mayor John DuBois
YES Mayor Eugene Flinn
Soleste - October 16, 2017, Resolution
2017-112 -
Estate
Investments Group, LLC made an application for a site plan, which included
design considerations, for the property located at 18301 South Dixie Highway
PASSED 5-0
YES Council Member Karyn Cunningham
YES Council Member David Singer
YES Council Member Larissa Siegel Lara
YES Vice-Mayor John DuBois
YES Mayor Eugene Flinn
Atlantico, FCI - October 16, 2017, Resolution
2017 – 114 -
17945
SW 97 Avenue
FCI
Palmetto Bay, LLC has agreed to contribute $500,298.46 to the Village of
Palmetto Bay for the construction of a portion of Park Drive and theoretical SW
179 Street, both abutting the FCI Property as shown on the New Streets Plan of
the DUVR.
PASSED 5-0
YES Council Member Karyn Cunningham
YES Council Member David Singer
YES Council Member Larissa Siegel Lara
YES Vice-Mayor John DuBois
YES Mayor Eugene Flinn
Shores at Palmetto Bay, July 23, 2018,
Resolution 2018-097 -
17800
SW 97 Avenue
Shores
at Palmetto Bay made an application for a site plan, which included design
considerations and a bonus floor, for the property at 17800 SW 97 Avenue.
PASSED 4-0 (Vice mayor absent)
YES Council Member Karyn Cunningham
YES Council Member David Singer
YES Council Member Larissa Siegel Lara
ABS Vice-Mayor
John DuBois
YES Mayor Eugene Flinn
My opponent has largely been invisible in her vision for the Downtown. I have always been on the record with the goals we are attempting to achieve. Please review a past Miami Herald article: This city wants to change things up. What will it take for its downtown to be hot?
We cannot go back to the days of allowing the courts to dictate our growth, where the prior administration continued to get hammed by the courts and the developers obtained 100% of what they wanted from Court victories.
Additional recommended reading is also found in the Miami Herald, April 20, 2017: 300 apartments on U.S. 1? Palmetto Bay tells developers to think again, by Monique O. Madan
This project did come back for hearing in June. The glaring deficiencies were not sufficiently addressed in my opinion, so I voted "NO". My opponent voted IN FAVOR.
Is she "anti-development"? Hardly.
My opponent has largely been invisible in her vision for the Downtown. I have always been on the record with the goals we are attempting to achieve. Please review a past Miami Herald article: This city wants to change things up. What will it take for its downtown to be hot?
With hope of attracting more restaurants and relieving its traffic woes, Palmetto Bay is considering tweaking its downtown zoning code to restrict density, limit development incentives and rearrange land uses.
In 2015, the city passed its Downtown Urban Village zoning code, a plan designed to encourage economic investment in the the village’s distressed commercial corridor along Franjo Road and U.S. 1. The goal? To make Palmetto Bay’s core — mostly vacant land, scruffy buildings and warehouses — an urban center that’s more livable and walkable.
The pedestrian-friendly vision features interior, interconnected public walkways, widened and landscaped sidewalks, a civic plaza and twice the amount of required open spaces.
I have always been concerned with traffic. Smart, controlled growth is the key to protecting our community.
“What’s missing are the retail stores, restaurants. How do we make sure to bring those in without having traffic explode?” Flinn said.
We cannot go back to the days of allowing the courts to dictate our growth, where the prior administration continued to get hammed by the courts and the developers obtained 100% of what they wanted from Court victories.
Additional recommended reading is also found in the Miami Herald, April 20, 2017: 300 apartments on U.S. 1? Palmetto Bay tells developers to think again, by Monique O. Madan
In this case, the development would be LEED certified. Developers of the project currently have the right to 74 units, and were asking for 226 bonus apartments — a number that the mayor called “obscene.”
“Your entire project is car-based. I haven’t heard any mention of trying to get people to the rail, no stops, circulators to come pick people up. Everything is about cars and parking spaces, as far as you’re concerned,” Mayor Eugene Flinn said.
Opponents argued that the development would inundate roads with traffic on streets that are already congested during rush hour.
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Planners offered to donate $100,000 to the city, contingent on the plans being passed. Councilman David Singer asked the number be bumped up to $250,000. The mayor joked and suggested $1 million. At the end, talks about $2 million were on the table.
“You know what? I’d rather you keep your $2 million and scale down this project,” Flinn said. “And I really don’t buy the traffic studies. It lead to the conclusion that the traffic issue alone is enough to reject this project. I strongly recommend that you come back and rethink this thing.”
This project did come back for hearing in June. The glaring deficiencies were not sufficiently addressed in my opinion, so I voted "NO". My opponent voted IN FAVOR.
Is she "anti-development"? Hardly.
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