2000-23873 RESO
RESOLUTION NO. 2000-23873
A RESOLUTION OF THE MAYOR AND CITY COMMISSION OF THE
CITY OF MIAMI BEACH, FLORIDA, APPROVING AND ADOPTING BY
REFERENCE AN AUTOMATED CONCURRENCY MANAGEMENT
SYSTEM (CMS) FOR THE CITY, AS ONE OF THE OBJECTIVES OF THE
MUNICIPAL MOBILITY PLAN, AND AS DEVELOPED BY CARR SMITH
CORRADINO IN COOPERATION WITH THE CITY STAFF; THE CMS
SOFTWARE PROGRAM BEING RECOMMENDED BY BOTH THE CITY'S
TRANSPORTATION AND PARKING COMMITTEE AND THE PLANNING
BOARD.
WHEREAS, Rule 9J-5, Florida Administrative Code, requires and regulates the
development of local government concurrency management systems (CMS); and
WHEREAS, Rule 9J-5 also requires that local governments maintain an adopted level of
service for roads, sanitary sewer, solid waste, drainage, potable water, parks and recreation, and
mass transit; and
WHEREAS, a CMS is required of all local governments in order to establish an on-going
mechanism to ensure that the public facilities and services needed to support development are
available when the impacts of development occur; and
WHEREAS, concurrency requirements may curtail or impact certain development projects
in high density cities such as Miami Beach, which typically have difficulties maintaining the adopted
level of service standards for public facilities; and
WHEREAS, for the City's CMS, a database approach was developed using computerized
databases and maps - a Geographic Information System (GIS) - to track proposed new developments
against the development that would be allowed under concurrency regulations; and
WHEREAS, for traffic-impact calculation purposes, this CMS employs the traffic analysis
zone/transportation concurrency management method, instead of the link method previously adopted
by the City's Comprehensive Plan; and
WHEREAS, as applications for new development/redevelopment projects are received, the
CMS estimates the number of new vehicle trips that would be generated by each project, using
industry standards for trip rates; the number of trips that would be generated is compared to the
allowable growth at the baseline time; consequently, a proposed project approval, denial and/or
modification would depend on whether the number of trips generated would or would not exceed
the allowable growth; and
WHEREAS, in order to become effective, the CMS provisions need to be incorporated by
Ordinance as Section 22, Land Development Regulations of the City Code; and
WHEREAS, the First Reading on the enabling Ordinance is being held as a companion item
to this Resolution.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE MAYOR AND CITY
COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF MIAMI BEACH, FLORIDA, that the Mayor and City
Commission hereby approve and adopt by reference an Automated Concurrency Management
System (CMS) for the City, as one of the objectives of the Municipal Mobility Plan, and as
developed by Carr Smith Corradino in cooperation with the City staff; the CMS software program
being recommended by both the City's Transportation and Parking Committee and the Planning
Board.
PASSED AND APPROVED this the 12 th
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April
,2000.
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COMMISSION MEMORANDUM NO. 2. q '1-00
FROM:
Mayor Neisen O. Kasdin and
Members of the City Commission
Lawrence A. Levy ~
City Manager
DATE: April 12, 2000
TO:
SUBJECT:
A RESOLUTION OF THE MAYOR AND CITY COMMISSION OF THE
CITY OF MIAMI BEACH, FLORIDA, APPROVING AND ADOPTING BY
REFERENCE AN AUTOMATED CONCURRENCY MANAGEMENT
SYSTEM (CMS) FOR THE CITY, AS ONE OF THE OBJECTIVES OF THE
MUNICIPAL MOBILITY PLAN, AND AS DEVELOPED BY CARR SMITH
CORRADINO IN COOPERATION WITH THE CITY STAFF; THE CMS
SOFTWARE PROGRAM BEING RECOMMENDED BY BOTH THE CITY'S
TRANSPORTATION AND PARKING COMMITTEE AND THE PLANNING
BOARD.
ADMINISTRATION RECOMMENDATION
Adopt the Resolution.
ANALYSIS
As required by the Growth Management Act of 1985, the City of Miami Beach wishes to ensure that
adequate public facilities and services are available to all its citizens, at an appropriate level of
service. "Public facilities" means the facilities for which the City has adopted levels of service
standards through its Comprehensive Plan, inclusive of roads, transit, potable water, sanitary sewer,
solid waste, flood protection, stormwater management and parks and recreational facilities.
The proposed Automated Concurrency Management System (CMS) is an efficient and equitable
software program to ensure that new growth and redevelopment will not occur without the provision
of adequate facilities to serve the needs of such new growth and redevelopment. Carr Smith
Corradino and the City staff have developed a database approach to concurrency management. This
approach uses computerized databases and maps - a Geographic Information System or GIS - to
track proposed new developments against the development that would be allowed under concurrency
regulations.
The CMS determines an individual project's demand upon the infrastructure relative to the available
capacity ofthe infrastructure. The impacts of implementing infrastructure capacity projects are also
evaluated and applied to the calculation for allowable growth within the City.
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As an example, let's choose one of the infrastructure elements - the roadway system. For traffic-
impact calculation purposes, the CMS employs the traffic analysis zone (T AZ) / transportation
concurrency management area (TCMA) methods, instead of the link method previously adopted by
the City's Comprehensive Plan. As applications for new developments are received, the CMS
software program estimates the number of new trips that would be generated by each development.
Industry standards for trip rates, such as trips per square foot of floor area for retail employment, and
trips per seats for restaurants, are used to estimate the number of trips attributable to each new
development. The number of trips that would be generated by the new development is then
compared to the allowable growth within the T AZ/TCMA in question. Allowable growth is the
allowable growth at the baseline time, minus the trips from developments that have been approved
since the baseline time. If the number of trips does not exceed the allowable growth, the
development is approved. If the number of trips exceeds the allowable growth, the developer is
required to perform a detailed traffic engineering study to be evaluated by the City. This evaluation
will determine whether a particular project should be approved with mitigation measures, scaled
back, or denied.
It is recommended that the allowable growth be recalculated every two (2) years, or when
major capacity-increasing infrastructure projects are implemented.
In order for the Concurrency Management System (CMS) to become effective, its provisions require
approval and incorporation as Section 22, Land Development Regulations of the City Code. The
enabling Ordinance is submitted for first reading, as a companion item on this City Commission
Agenda.
The Concurrency Management System was previously presented at workshops held before the
Transportation and Parking Committee, the City Commission, and the Planning Board. The
Administration joins the Committee and Board in recommending approval of the CMS Resolution.
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