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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
Development Commission" be and the same is hereby created.
Said Commission shall continue in being until the 1st day of June,
1966, at which time its existence shall cease and terminate.
2. The Commission shall be composed of 9 voting members
who shall be appointed by the Mayor. Each such member shall
serve for the lifetime of the Commission. Any vacancy which
may occur in its membership shall be filled in the manner provided
for making original appointments.
The voting members shall be from diverse fields of endeavor,
community wide, representative, and they shall be conversant
with all areas of community life , interests, and activities,
provided, however, no such member shall hold any other office,
position, or membership on any other Board in the City ' s
government. The Mayor, the City Manager, the Assistant City
Manager, and the City Engineer shall be ex-officio members of
the Commission, but shall serve in an advisory capacity only,
and shall not be entitled to vote or to be counted in determining
the existence of a quorum.
3. All members of the Commission shall serve without
compensation, but they may, upon approval of the City Council , be
reimbursed for any reasonable expense , including transportation
incurred by them in the actual performance of their duties
hereunder. Appropriations for such reimbursement shall be made
from funds approved for said purpose by the City Council.
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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 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 personnel as may be reasonably required for the perform-
ance of its duties. The Commission is also authorized to employ
professional planning experts or other consultants if deemed
necessary, to make surveys and compile engineering, architectural
and all other data and information requisite to the preparation of
the long-range Planning Program for municipal growth and expansion
hereinafter described. Payment for the services of such personnel
and all other expenditures reasonably incurred by the Commission in
the performance of its duties shall be considered to have been made
for a public purpose, provided, however, that no person shall be
employed by the Commission unless approval by the City Council be
first obtained. The Commission shall not obligate the City of Miami
Beach financially in any manner without the prior approval of the
City Council. City appropriations for all authorized expenditures
shall be made from funds approved for said purpose by the City
Council.
The powers and duties of the Commission shall be:
(a) To acquire, compile and collate all available data, materials,
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statistics, maps, photographs, reports and studies necessary
to an understanding 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 information and data necessary for the drafting and
establishment of the comprehensive and systematic plan called
for hereby.
(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 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.
(d) To determine whether specific proposed developments
conform to the principles of the comprehensive plan herein called
for and to recommend minimum requirements for the same.
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(e) To make and to recommend to the City Council for sub-
' mission to the electorate of the City at an elect, on to
be held on the last Tuesday in May, 1966, a comprehensive general
plan for the physical and economic development of the City,
based on present and anticipated needs, showing existing and pro-
posed improvements in the City, and setting forth the principles
according to which future development should proceed, and the
manner in which such development should be controlled, including
but not limited to the realignment and relocation of streets and
ways, the platting and replatting of the various parcels of land
throughout the City, and the creating of formulae for the size of
yards, courts and other open spaces; the percentage of lot that
may be occupied, and the density of population. Said comprehen-
sive plan should also include recommendations for a long range
financial program for public improvements. The plan shall be made
with the specific purpose of guiding and accomplishing a
coordinated, adjusted and harmonious development of the City, and
which will, in accordance with present and future needs, best
promote public health, safety, comfort, order, convenience, pros-
perity, morals and the general welfare, as well as efficiency and
economy in the process of development.
The Commission shall prepare said Comprehensive Plan with all
reasonable dispatch, but shall complete and submit the same to
the City Council not later than March 1st, 1966 so as to enable
the citizens and residents of the City to become fully familiar
therewith.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED by the City Council of the City of Miami
Beach that nothing in this Resolution set forth shall be deemed to
repeal, rescind, or modify in any way any ordinance or resolution
heretofore adopted and creating a Commission or a Citizens Advisory
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Committee to meet recommendations or requirements under the
Federal Workable Program for Community Improvement, and the
rights and duties of such Commission or Committee shall
continue, and be unaffected by anything in this Resolution set
forth.
PASSED and ADOPTED this 21st day of July, 1965
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