Resolution 12319 RESOLUTION NO. 12319
BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF MIAMI BEACH, FLORIDA,
AS FOLLOWS:
1 . An Advisory Board, to be known as the "Miami Beach Planning Commission"
be and the same is hereby created.
2. The Commission shall be composed of eleven (11 ) members, four (4) of
whom shall be appointed by a majority vote of the City Council , and
each member of the City Council shall be entitled to appoint one of
the remaining seven (7) members. Each member shall serve for a term
of one year. Any vacancy which may occur in the membership of the
Commission shall be filled in the manner provided for making the
original appointment.
3. No person except a resident of the City of Miami Beach, or having his
main business interest in the City of Miami Beach shall be eligible for
appointment to said Commission. In the event any member of the Commission
fails to attend more than two consecutive meetings without due cause or
bona fide excuse, as found and determined by a majority of the Commission,
he shall automatically and forthwith, without any action by the Commission
or by the City Council , cease to be a member of said Commission.
4. The Commission created hereby shall elect a Chairman, a Vice Chairman,and
a Secretary. It shall have authority to adopt rules and regulations for
its guidance in the transaction of its business, subject to the limitations
of the City' s Charter and ordinances. The Commission shall , by appropriate
rule, establish the time, place and manner of holding regular and special
meetings. The Commission shall hold not less than one meeting per month.
The Commission is also authorized to call public hearings and to create
committees and sub-committees when deemed appropriate or convenient for
the performance of its duties.
5. The City Manager is authorized and directed to provide for the Commission,
at its request, the assistance of such administrative and clerical per-
sonnel as may be reasonably required for the performance of its duties.
6. The powers and duties of the Commission shall be:
(a) To acquire, compile and collate all available data, materials statis-
tics, maps, photographs, reports and studies necessary to an under-
standing of past trends and present conditions, which affect the City and
the economic and general welfare of its residents and the forces now at
work which are and will continue to affect the future of the City.
The Committee shall evaluate the data so acquired and derive therefrom the
past, present and future trends as they relate to population, property
values, economic bases, land use, and to evolve the principles and policies
required to guide the direction and type of the future development and
expansion of the City.
(b) To conduct such public hearings as may be helpful in gathering infor-
mation and data necessary for the drafting of suitable and appropriate
plans for the comprehensive and systematic development of the City and to
transmit the same to the City Council for consideration thereof by said
City Council .
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(c) To make, cause to be made or obtain special studies on the location,
condition and adequacy of specific facilities of the City. These
may include, but are not limited to, studies on single and multiple
family housing, including hotels, apartment houses, cooperatives and
1 condominiums, commercial and industrial conditions and facilities,
beaches, parks, playgrounds and other recreational facilities, public
buildings, public and private utilities, traffic, transportation and
parking. The Commission is authorized to study and consider any and
all studies in this field made and published by Federal , State and
County governmental and private agencies. Upon completion of such
studies, the Commission shall transmit the same, with the recommendations
of the Commission, to the City Council , for such action as the City
Council may deem appropriate.
(d) To make appropriate studies of the location and extent of present
and anticipated use of land, population, social and economic re-
sources and problems, and to submit said data, with the recommendations
of the said Commission, to the City Council .
(e) To consider and to act upon any and all matters referred to it by
the City Council pertaining to the development of the City of Miami
Beach, and to submit its findings and recommendations on such matters
to the City Council .
PASSED AND ADOPTED this 3rd day of January 1960.
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MAYOR
ATTEST:
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City Clerk and Finance Director
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