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City of Miami Beach

Meeting

Wednesday, September 27, 2023

What happened

Statura summary

The real action was not a ribbon cutting item. It was the FY 2024 money package: final adoption of the city budget, the FY 2024 to 2028 capital plan, and the final millage at 5.8155 mills, which the agenda itself notes is 12.5 percent above the rolled back rate. That locks in the operating and capital spending framework the private sector will actually feel, from procurement timing to neighborhood assessments and redevelopment spending. If you wanted the one binding decision that changes the ground rules now, this was it. After that, the most consequential live policy fights were land use and franchise structure, but they were still in play. The Harding Townsite single family package, both the comprehensive plan amendment and the LDR amendment, sat on the agenda alongside the West Avenue bed and breakfast exception and the Alton Road historic overlay changes for setbacks, pharmacy requirements, and governmental and institutional uses. Those are not housekeeping edits. They decide where flexibility is added and where it is shut down, which means they sort winners and losers parcel by parcel. On the operations side, the city also had two waste items teed up: an RFQ for residential and commercial waste collection and disposal, plus a directive to require termination for convenience clauses in private hauler contracts. Read together, that is the city trying to preserve leverage before the next franchise round. The 500 Alton development agreement items were also major, because they would expand the unified development site and revise obligations, but the key takeaway is procedural posture: those agreements are where project terms get rewritten in plain sight. ReefLine, beach concession, HOA security, Lincoln Road, drummers, and the footvolley referral were secondary by comparison.

Statura-generated summary of the official agenda and minutes. Verbatim per-item votes and dollar figures are in the Agenda & votes tab.

Key decisions

  1. Final budgets for FY 2024
    Pending

    Adopts the final FY 2024 budgets across the General, debt service, RDA, North Beach CRA, enterprise, internal service, and special revenue funds, which sets the city's actual spending plan and the funding base behind contracts and services.

  2. Final Capital Improvement Plan for FY 2024 to 2028 and final capital budget for FY 2024
    Pending

    Locks in the five year infrastructure pipeline and the FY 2024 capital budget, which is the schedule businesses watch for public works, construction sequencing, and city procurement.

  3. Final ad valorem millage for FY 2024
    Pending

    Sets the general operating millage at 5.8155 mills, identified on the agenda as 12.5 percent above the rolled back rate, increasing the tax effort that supports the adopted operating budget.

  4. Harding Townsite single family home supplemental use regulations, Comprehensive Plan amendment
    Pending

    Amends Miami Beach 2040 Comprehensive Plan policy for single family regulations in Harding Townsite, which is the higher level policy step needed before detailed zoning restrictions or allowances can stick.

  5. Harding Townsite single family home supplemental use regulations, LDR amendment
    Pending

    Changes the land development regulations for Harding Townsite single family homes, translating policy into parcel level rules that directly affect what owners can build or use.

  6. Bed and breakfast prohibition exception, West Avenue overlay
    Pending

    Creates an exception to the bed and breakfast prohibition within the West Avenue overlay, carving out flexibility in an area where the default rule is restriction.

  7. Request for qualifications for franchise waste contractors
    Pending

    Authorizes an RFQ for residential and commercial waste collection and disposal, opening the next round of franchise competition for a citywide service market.

  8. Require termination for convenience clauses in private waste contracts
    Pending

    Directs the administration to build termination for convenience language into the non exclusive franchise waste RFQ, preserving customer exit rights and limiting contractor lock in.

  9. Third amendment to development agreement with TCH 500 Alton LLC
    Pending

    Would amend the existing development agreement to expand the unified development site to additional Alton Road properties and revise project terms, a meaningful shift in site control and negotiated obligations.