Rua Metrorail project meeting
The Planning Advisory Board meets 7 p.m. Wednesday, March 7, at Miami City Hall (3500 Pan American Drive) to decide on the Rua Metrorail mess being planned at 27th and US 1. Hopefully they will shoo him off and the Latin American Restaurant will be back. (I like to dream).
Traffic is at a standstill at that intersection already, when will the City start voting for quality of life?
Traffic is at a standstill at that intersection already, when will the City start voting for quality of life?
posted by Tom Falco at 9:31 AM
YOU MAY NOT LIFT THE PHOTOS & TEXT. IT'S COPYRIGHTED INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY. YOU CAN HOWEVER SHARE A STORY ON SOCIAL MEDIA BY USING THE LINKS HERE.
For linking to this one story, just click on the time it was posted & just this story will open for sharing - only through social media. Not copying and pasting.
2 Comments:
I've copied a post to this blog I wrote back on Jan 27 about what happened at the Jan 24th RTDIC meeting. I didn't realize then that there was a first stop at the PAB before going to the Miami city council, but the rest is still valid. Interestingly, and unsurprising given the history of this project, the RTDIC voted on a 200ft height limit but in the Herald today, assuming the paper didn't make a make a mistake, that height has magically morphed to 250 feet.
================
from Jan 27:
The night before the Mercy vote, the "standards" (limitations for building) for the proposed project at the Coconut Grove Metrorail Station were voted on at the County "RTDIC" committee.
The committee approved a maximum height of 200 feet along US-1 and a max height of 75 feet for the first 20' in from the sidewalk along 27th Terrace (to "protect" the single-family homes on the other side of the street). Structure can coverage up to 85% of the lot. There is a _minimum_ FAR of 1.5. There are _minimum_ sqft set for a market (30,000 sqft), for office space (157,000 sqft), and for businesses (34,000 sqft), but no maximum. There is a maximum 150 residences per acre, and the acreage is ~5.2 acres (ie 640+ residences max; no limits on size of residences). There is no maximum sqft-age for the whole development.
Residents were crying "What! No limits on the size of the thing?" and the county rep. said "oh, don't worry, we would never allow anything TOO big."
The next step is that the standards recommended by the committee will go to the Miami city commission for an up-or-down vote.
If the city approves, then the developer will draw up plans for approval by the county zoning department.
If the city disapproves, then it goes back to the county RTDIC committee to draw up something more acceptable.
--Milo Steger
Where can I find information on what you are referring to when you talk about the Rua Metrorail mess? It sounds interesting.
Post a Comment
<< Home