Ordinance 1440ORDINANCE NO. 1440
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING CHAPTER 24, OF "THE CODE
OF THE CITY OF MIAMI BEACH, FLORIDA, 1950."
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF MIAMI BEACH,
FLORIDA:
SECTION 1. That Section 24.2 of "The Code of the City of Miami
Beach, Florida, 1950," be and the same is hereby
amended to read as follows;
"Section 24.2. No person shall conduct, operate or
maintain a parking lot without first
obtaining an annual license therefor from the City
Clerk, Each license issued hereunder shall expire
on the 31st day of October, of each years"
SECTION 2. That Section 24.4 of "The Code of the City of
Miami Beach, Florida, 1950," be and the same is hereby
amended to read as follows:
"Section 24.4. All operators of parking lots shall
construct and maintain permanent and
substantial barriers of either concrete, or square
or rectangular cut timbers on each side of the parking
lot. Such barriers shall be so located, constructed,
maintained and fastened as to effectually prevent any
portion of any motor vehicle parked in such parking lot
from extending over, across, or upon the line of any
adjoining property, sidewalk, alley, street or other
public way. An opaque wall or fence, not less than five
feet in height, of material and construction to be approved
by the chief building inspector or an opaque dense hedge,
not less than five feet in height, shall be erected or
placed and maintained upon the side and rear lines of
parking lots where such side or rear lines are within
fifty feet of any existing dwelling, apartment building
or hotel, or any dwelling, apartment building or hotel
hereafter erected7 provided, however, that the requirement
of walls, hedges or fences along rear or side lines of
parking lots may be waived, in the discretion of the City
Council, where the occupants of the abutting property
consent to such waiver in writing. The consent of the
owner, manager or other person in custody or control of
multiple -family or business property abutting the parking
lot shall be deemed to be consent by all the occupants
thereof."
SECTION 3. That Chapter 24 of "The Code of the City of Miami
Beach, Florida, 1950," be and the same is hereby
amended by adding a new section immediately following Section 24.4
thereof and to be numbered and to read as follows:
"Section 24.4.1. All parking lots, except those
immediately adjacent to any hotel
or apartment house, and owned or operated by the owner
or lessee of such hotel or apartment house, shall have
constructed and maintained thereon, in addition to the
foregoing, the following:
Along the street frontages (exclusive of alleys,
and excepting approved driveways or other openings)
there shall be constructed either.
(a) A wall
4 feet
stucco
sides,
not less than 3 feet nor more than
in height. Such wall shall have a
or equal finish on the street side or
or
(b) A living hedge not less than 3 feet nor
more than 4 feet in height; said hedge to
be within a verdant grass or equal land-
scaped border 4 feet in width; or
(c) Landscaped areas having at least a total
of 2.5 square feet for each 1 foot of
street frontages, with no less than two
landscaped areas for each parking lot --
each area to have at least three living
shrubs not over 4 feet in height, or one
living tree having a clear trunk of at
least 8 feet. The use of Australian Pines
is prohibited. Where the lot is a corner
lot, and the long frontage is on the less
traveled street, the landscaped areas along
the long frontage shall have at least a
total of 1.25 square feet for each foot of
street front, with no less than two landscaped
areas.
Provided, however, that all persons, firms or
corporations owning, leasing and/or operating such
parking lots as referred to in this section shall
have until February 1, 1963 to meet the requirements
of this section."
SECTION 4. That all ordinances or parts of ordinances insofar
as they are inconsistent with or in conflict with
the provisions of this ordinance, be and the same are hereby
repealed.
SECTION 5. That this ordinance go into effect immediately upon
its passage and posting as required by law.
PASSED and ADOPTED this 2rid day of May, 1962.
(SEAL)
1st reading
2nd reading
3rd reading
POSTED
- April 18, 1962
- April 18, 1962
- May 2, 1962
- May 3, 1962
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STATE OF FLORIDA
COUNTY OF DADE:
I, R. WM. L. JOHNSON, City Clerk in and for the
City of Miami Beach, Florida, do hereby certify that
Ordinance No. 1440, entitled
"AN ORDINANCE AMENDING CHAPTER 24, OF 'THE CODE OF
THE CITY OF MIAMI BEACH, FLORIDA, 1950",
having been passed and adopted by the City Council of the
City of Miami Beach, Florida, has been posted by me in three
conspicuous places in the City of Miami Beach, one of which
was at the door of the City Hall in said City on the
3rd day of May, 1962, and that said Ordinance
remained posted for a period of at least thirty days in
accordance with the requiretaents of the City Charter of the
said City of Miami Beach
IN WITNESS WHEREOF I have hereunto set my hand and
affixed the official seal of the City of Miami Beach, Florida,
on this the 20th day of June, 1962.
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