Important meetings in January regarding the NCD
Item 1 is a discussion of the NCD and Item 5 is the Resolution in support of the incentives in the NCD.
It's unfortunate that the NCD makes Village West attractive to speculators and investors.
Land use attorney Frank Schnidman, asks, "How can you preserve the social and physical character of the neighborhood if you allow accessory dwelling units to turn single family lots into in effect duplex lots? How can you preserve the integrity of an historic site by allowing another building to be built on the lot? And, with no on-site parking requirements, the character of the streets will change as on-street parking will be the only option for all of these new-to-Village West residents. And, by not requiring owner occupancy of the primary home, you are opening the door to non-resident speculators and investors who can be absent landlords—decreasing home ownership in Village West (seems a return to prior times of absent landlords)."
But you can ask questions about this on Thursday, January 3, when the Historic Preservation staff will have a presentation at Armbrister Park (4000 Grand Avenue) from 7 to 8:30 pm.
posted by Tom Falco at 4:00 AM
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The matter of "the character of the streets will change as on-street parking will be the only option". Not only is this true, but is understated. Throughout Center-Grove, and on my street, Gifford Lane, just off Oak people literally park on the street, not on the swale or so call easement right of way, literally on the street. And not because they don't have a garage or drive-way, or could park properly on their swale. For this one couple the female literally appears to be lazy. Over these holidays she's just left her car 50% on the roadway. No ticket, no warning. The police must be made/ordered to issue citations.
The proposal for NCD-3 is equally full of problems for residents and potential destruction of the single family district. A recent warrant which allowed a single family site on Royal Palm to be split into 3 building sites cited as a reason that the original residence had a primary building and two ancillary dwelling units. The problem is that the existing code is not being enforced as it was intended. Why would we expect a new code, twice as long and 4 times as complex to result in an improvement.
Really!? I paid $4,876.00 property taxes this year. I paid $50,000.00 for my home 29 years ago on Gifford Lane & offered $750,000.00 last week. If I sold the City would gain in tax revenue about $25,000.00 annually. For Banana Republic mentalities that's a lot of Bananas. This crap happens everywhere, from the North to South Pole and all points in between - - - - unless the people in a given community resist the moment in time when this ugly sucker raises its head and can be noticed.
As unsightly as all of this on street parking is I guess it is a necessity as most of the new construction is 3/4 bedrooms, a 1 car garage, and sometimes not enough room to piggyback a second car. They are squeezed into 50 foot lots. The only upside to this type of construction is the developers are required to provide much needed sidewalks. Unfortunately on my 2 block Street (Indiana St.) I counted 7 cars today blocking the sidewalks.
Instead of raising the parking rates the City of Miami or the MPA could easily make a bundle in a short period of time by having the Parking Fairy cruise around the Center and West Grove ticketing cars blocking the sidewalks.
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