Resolution 2020-31217 RESOLUTION NO. 2020-31217
A RESOLUTION OF THE MAYOR AND CITY COMMISSION OF THE
CITY OF MIAMI BEACH, FLORIDA, DIRECTING THE CITY
ADMINISTRATION TO DEVELOP AND LAUNCH AN INSPIRATIONAL
RESILIENCY VISION CAMPAIGN, CONSISTENT WITH THE GUIDANCE
SET FORTH IN THIS RESOLUTION, WHICH WILL ENVISION HOW THE
CITY OF MIAMI BEACH WILL LOOK LIKE IN THIRTY YEARS OR
LONGER, AND FURTHER DIRECTING THE CITY ADMINISTRATION TO
PRESENT A RECOMMENDED APPROACH TO THE RESILIENCY
VISION CAMPAIGN BEFORE THE LAND USE AND SUSTAINABILITY
COMMITTEE AT ITS MAY 26, 2020 MEETING.
WHEREAS, the City of Miami Beach (the "City") is comprised of a number of
islands with approximately 70 miles of shoreline along numerous canals and waterways,
the Atlantic Ocean, and Biscayne Bay Aquatic Preserve, all of which support a wide
variety of flora and fauna; and
WHEREAS, as a coastal barrier island, the City is extremely vulnerable to
environmental threats such as rising sea levels and coastal flooding; and
WHEREAS, City's elected officials and Administration have shown an impressive
commitment in the last few years to addressing these environmental concerns, such as
planning to invest over $658 million to raise roads to a 3.7-foot NAVD and improve
stormwater drainage in the most vulnerable areas, focusing on green infrastructure,
elevating roads and public seawalls, and establishing a Tree Preservation Program; and
WHEREAS, the City also developed and adopted a comprehensive strategy,
known as the Strategic Plan Through the Lens of Resilience (the "Strategic Plan"), which
will focus on the City's needs in both near- term and long-term time horizons by
strategically building resilience through policies, projects and services; and
WHEREAS, while the City's Strategic Plan and its commitment to taking a
proactive approach to resiliency have already positioned it as a world leader in the climate
adaptation space, the City's efforts could be further recognized through an inspirational
resiliency vision campaign detailing how the City will look like in the next thirty years or
longer; and
WHEREAS, Urban Sustainability Directors Network, which consists of local
government practitioners dedicated to accelerate and enhancing urban sustainability in
U.S. communities, recommended that the City develop and launch a visionary campaign
through collaboration with artists, educators, and students to create a vision and/or art of
what the City will look like in the future.(see Attachment A); and
WHEREAS, the Resiliency Vision campaign should illustrate the City's resiliency
efforts, the fight against sea level rise, and planned mitigation and adaptation measures
the City envisions for the future; and
WHEREAS, the Resiliency Vision campaign should also address and depict open
questions on sustainability, such as: (1) long-term land planning, including potential
expansions through land redistribution; (2) long-term zoning and building codes; (3)
evolution and preservation of historic properties and neighborhoods; (4)the future role of
water transport and which roads could become future waterways; (5) the future role of
floating homes and where they might be located; (6) the future role of aerial supply and
human transport; and (7) whether road spending to support private car transport should
take lower priority to resilience investments for non-private vehicle and non-car transport;
and
WHEREAS, per the recommendation of the Urban Land Institute's 2018 Advisory
Services Panel Report, the Resiliency Vision campaign should also depict and promote
a "living with water" concept; and
WHEREAS, the "living with water" approach entails not only the use of different
technologies to manage water, but also different attitudes about convenience, mobility,
health, and aesthetics, such as embracing green and blue infrastructure that can manage
water using natural systems; and
WHEREAS, University of Miami graduate, Isaac Stein, developed a futuristic
Visionary Plan for the City of Miami Beach as part of his architecture senior capstone
project, where he embraced the concept of"living with water"; and
WHEREAS, Mr. Stein's project, which included visual depictions of restoring and
replanting native storm surge-reduction flora such as mangroves, building large sand
dunes between the ocean and waterfront properties, reducing reliance on cars by bringing
back trolleys, widening bike paths, and building raised walkways through natural
ecosystems and water canals, is just one of the many examples on how to visualize the
way the City will look like in the future (see Attachment B); and
WHEREAS, consistent with recommendations from the Urban Sustainability
Directors Network and the Urban Land Institute, the Mayor and City Commission direct
the City Administration to work in collaboration with artists, educators, students, and
businesses to create and launch a Resiliency Vision campaign, depicting how the City
will look like in thirty years, incorporating the guidance set forth herein.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT DULY RESOLVED BY THE MAYOR AND CITY
COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF MIAMI BEACH, FLORIDA, that the Mayor and City
Commission hereby direct the City Administration to develop and launch an inspirational
Resiliency Vision campaign, consistent with the guidance set forth in this Resolution,
which will envision how the City of Miami Beach will look like in thirty years or longer, and
further direct the City Administration to present a recommended approach to the
Resiliency Vision campaign before the Land Use and Sustainability Committee at its May
26, 2020 meeting.
PASSED and ADOPTED this f' day of March, 2020.
ATTEST:
Dan Gelber, Mayor
Rafael E. Granado, City Clerk
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FORM & LANGUAGE
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City Attorney Date
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MIAMI BEACH
COMMISSION MEMORANDUM
TO: Honorable Mayor and Members of the City Commission
FROM: Raul J.Aguila, City Attorney
DATE: March 18, 2020
SUBJECT:A RESOLUTION OF THE MAYOR AND CITY COMMISSION OF THE CITY
OF MIAMI BEACH, FLORIDA, DIRECTING THE CITY ADMINISTRATION
TO DEVELOP AND LAUNCH AN INSPIRATIONAL RESILIENCY VISION
CAMPAIGN, CONSISTENT WITH THE GUIDANCE SET FORTH IN THIS
RESOLUTION, WHICH WILL ENVISION HOW THE CITY OF MIAMI BEACH
WILL LOOK LIKE IN THIRTY YEARS OR LONGER, AND FURTHER
DIRECTING THE CITY ADMINISTRATION TO PRESENT A
RECOMMENDED APPROACH TO THE RESILIENCY VISION CAMPAIGN
BEFORE THE LAND USE AND SUSTAINABILITY COMMITTEE AT ITS MAY
26, 2020 MEETING.
RECOMMENDATION
Pursuant to the request of Commissioner Mark Samuelian, the above-referenced Resolution is
submitted for consideration by the City Commission at the March 18, 2020 Commission
meeting.
Applicable Area
Not Applicable
Is this a"Residents Right Does this item utilize G.O.
to Know" item. pursuant to Bond Funds?
City Code Section 2-14?
No No
Legislative Tracking
Office of the City Attorney
Sponsor
Commissioner Mark Samuelian
ATTACHMENTS:
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Description
❑ Resolution
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✓ #1 Recommendation: Develop Terminology Toolkits and Protocol
• Eliminate technical terms ti
• Require vetted communications teams with all hired consultants
✓ #2 Recommendation: Implement Public Safety Framing
• All Resilience efforts brought under public safety umbrella
✓ #3 Recommendation: Revise Community Engagement
• Utilize 3rd party to facilitate public meetings and Change format of public meetings
• Partner with Appreciative Inquiry or other group on co-designed projects
✓ #4 Recommendation: Launch Vision Campaign
• Work with artists , educators, students to create art of what MB will look like in the future
✓ #5 Recommendation: Ensure Confident Communications by City Officials
• find unity in policy implementation so that city staff can engage the community confidently and with
conviction
✓ #6 Recommendation: Collect and Amplify Positive Testimonials
• elevate and share positive stories
✓ #7 Recommendation: Establish Systems for Cross-Departmental Communications
• set up systems for frequent cross-departmental communications and information sharing
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THIS VISIONARY PLAN COULD HELP MIAMI BEACH DEAL
WITH RISING SEA LEVELS
In the course of reporting my December VE feature,"Waterworld,"about Miami
Beach's efforts to reconcile its building boom with alarming forecasts of sea-level
rise,I met a young man named Isaac Stein who had already given the subject plenty
of thought.While he was still an undergraduate at the University of Miami,majoring
in architecture,Stein,now 24 years old and with the urban-design and landscape
architecture firm West 8,devoted his senior thesis project to an impressive,
ambitious plan for Miami Beach to survive through the next five feet of sea-level rise.
Here,he talks us through the mitigation and adaptation measures he envisions.
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"Now we're near the center of the island. Six feet of fill would be cut to form an ecological
canal and raise the grade of Lenox, Michigan, and Jefferson Avenues.The grade
surrounding these residences would go up 1.5 feet. Long term, the cut-and-fill strategy only
protects residences for up to six feet of sea-level rise.At the moment, it's not legal to build
higher in historic buildings, but eventually, as the ground floors of residences are
inundated, it might be best to build atop the existing historic envelope of these buildings.
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to 5th. And Flamingo Park [which runs from Ilth to 15th Streets] becomes a sort of urban
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"Here you can see how these sand dunes may look once established, and how pathways
can be integrated into these natural barriers. The 'sand motor' is a man-made peninsula
built of sand that will be brought in from off-site.As the waves hit it, the sand will be
spread across the shoreline by the ocean's currents.This reduces the amount of time that
the beach needs to be closed off to the public for sand-replenishment purposes, and also
allows the sand to be distributed more naturally and evenly."
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