02-22-1938 Special Meeting MINUTES OF SPECIAL MEETING OF
MIAMI SHORES VILLAGE COUNCIL
February 22, 1938
The Miami Shores Village Council held a special meeting on
February 22, 1938.
Present were Mayor Lindsey, Mr. Carlisle and Mr. Pruitt.
The council received a report from the Committee appointed to
study the Planning Board recommendation that the zoning ordinance
requirements be raised. The report being:
TO MIAMI SHORES VILLAGE COUNCIL:
Your Committee, consisting of Hoa. John
J. Lindsey, Mayor, Hon. Otto H. Goll, Councilman, and
George Edward Holt, your Village Attorney, met, pursuant
to your instructions, in the office of the Village Attorney,
and considered proposed changes in the zoning ordinanee,for
the purpose of improving the type of buildings now being
erected in the village.
After full discussion, your Committee
recommends that Zoning Ordinance No. 52 be amended in
the following particulars:
Section 6, Paragraph 5, which reads
as follows:
"Dwellings containing not less
than the following cubic contents, inclusive of attached
garages, servants quarters, and enclosed porches ."
be changed to read as follows:
"Dwellings containing not less than the
following cubic contents, inclusive of servants quarters,
but exclusive of attached garages and open porches, may
be erected ."
By open porches, it is the intention of
your Committee to describe porches which are only screened,
and which do not have windows which can be closed against
the elements.
By eliminating attached garages, it is
the conclusion of your Committee that the same will add
approximately 2000 cubic feet to the size of the houses
now being erected in the Village, and which have been
found to be objectionable.
By this amendment, it will not be
necessary to change the cubic footage found in the remain-
der of the paragraph under discussion, and which design-
ation of cubic footage should remain as stated in the
Ordinance.
Your Committee also recommends that
the Planning Board be instructed forthwith, to make a
complete survey, as soon as practicable, of the conditions
existing at the entrance to the Village where the
Halliwell Tourist Camp is located, and report back its
findings and recommendations to the Council. Many
complaints have been received concerning this area, as to
its looks, as to the signs which have been erected, the
distance of the signs from the Boulevard, and the size-
of the same. In its present condition, the same constitutes
an "eye sore" and one that does not reflect credit upon
the Village, and which detracts from the harmonious plan
of development in the Village, which is now being followed.
It is suggested that in addition to
reeommending .legislation making it mandatory from the
owner or owners of this property, to beautify their
property, that the Planning Board ascertain what can be
done on the part of the Village in planting trees and other
shrubbery to shield from the Public eye, the conditions
existing there.
Your Committee also suggests that all
plans and specifications submitted for approval to the
building inspector, if the same be found to violate any of
the provisions of the Zoning Ordinances now in force, that
such plans be rejected without being passed on to the
Planning Board.
In this connection, your Committee
feels that the Planning Board should state a definite time
and place of holding its meetings at least once a week, so
that thg administrative officers of the Village should
not be placed in the position of being unable to do anything
concerning the approval or disapproval of the plans and
specifications of buildings within the Village.
Your Committee further recommends
that the Zoning Ordinances and the Planning Board Ordinances
of the Village be fully and strictly complied with, and
that all matters pertaining to building and other things in
connection therewith, be first presented to the Planning
Board for action. If this fails to conclude the matter,
then and only until then should such matters be brought
before the Council for action.
e tf ubmitted,
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HAT . LINDSEY, Mayor
OTTO H. GOLL Councilman
GEORGE EDWARD HOLT
Village Attorney
(COMMITTEE)
As there were only three members present it was decided to
i take up this matter at the next meeting.
Mr. BureXel requested approval of his proposed plan to subdivide
his land in Gov't. Lot 4, and Mr. Beery and Colonel Musgrave requested
the council to acquire a right of way and extend N. E. 94th Street
through Mr. Burckel 's land as well as through Mr. Sturdevant's,
Mr. Beery's, Mr. Bozarth's and the Bessemer Properties' lands.
The Clerk read the Planning Board recommendation for the development
of these lands, which was, that due to the expense of acquiring a
right of way and filling in a rock pit in order to extend N. E. 94th
Street, the Planning Board concluded that if N. E. 9th Ave. and
N. B. 9th Court• were constructed through these lands the development
could be properly carried on.
The Council postponed action on this matter and the Mayor called
for a special meeting to be held Thursday evening, for further
consideration of this application.
After which the meeting was adjourned.
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