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COMMISSION MEMORANDUM
Mayor Matti Herrera Bower
and Members of the City Commission
Jorge M. Gonzalez, City Manager erA
June 6, 2012 '0 v
Referral to Planning Board -Parking Requirements to lncentivize Hotel
Development
ADMINISTRATION RECOMMENDATION
Forward the proposed ordinance to Planning Board for its review and recommendation.
SUMMARY
At the May 16, 2012 meeting, the Land Use and Development Committee had a
discussion that explored ways to incentivize good hotel development and recommended
that such an ordinance be referred to the Planning Board for its input and
recommendation.
A review of parking requirements for hotels in other Florida cities and in other tourist
destination cities throughout the country show that most of them have a lower parking
requirement for the dense, walkable, urban districts than our current requirement of one
parking space per hotel room (1 :1). While the ITE Institute of Transportation Engineering
parking manual reflects a similar level of required parking as our existing code, this may
reflect a more suburban, auto oriented type of hotel and may be less appropriate for
Miami Beach. This theory is consistent with the other cities surveyed, which generally
have a 1:1 parking requirement for suburban areas and a lower parking requirement for
urban districts.
Based upon the research conducted so far, the hotel parking requirement could be
reduced to 1 space per 2 rooms as an incentive for good hotel development. However,
changing the current parking requirements for ancillary facilities within hotels such as
retail, restaurants, bars, nightclubs, meeting rooms and ballrooms is not recommended.
Parking requirements for such uses have already been discounted for a certain
percezta e of users being guests in the same hotel.
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