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 Legislation
12.9.


City of North Miami Beach
17011 NE 19 Avenue
North Miami Beach, Fl 33162
305-947-7581
www.citynmb.com

MEMORANDUM



 

TO:Mayor and City Commission
FROM: City Manager Arthur H. Sorey III
VIA: Kent Walia, AICP
DATE:March  21, 2023



 RE: Resolution No. R2023-18 Active Design Guidelines (Kent Walia, Community Development Director)


Description
 
BACKGROUND ANALYSIS:


 

Active Design is a set of evidence-based design guidelines that lead to positive health outcomes for our community to reverse negative health trends like rising obesity, high rates of depression, and chronic diseases. Active Design is developed under four areas: Parks and Open Spaces, Development Patterns, Transportation and Mobility, and Buildings; that focus on walkable communities, promote an easily accessible network of parks and open spaces within close distance of residences, encourage a diverse mix of land uses, encourage transit-oriented development, promotes shaded sidewalks with façade elements that improve the pedestrian experience, encourages uses that serve a community for different age groups and inclusive of catering to a variety of needs, enhance bicycle mobility through bicycle infrastructure, and encourages schools with easy access to transit routes, and maximizes the accessibility to stairs.

 

The City of North Miami Beach Ordinance currently supports transit-oriented development, walkable neighborhoods oriented around the five-minute walk, regulates mixed-use development to encourage residents to live, work, and play within the same neighborhood, and supports an environment that attracts day and evening activities so that the street is occupied by visitors, residents, business owners and operators who have a clear and vested interest in the vitality of the City

 

The North Miami Beach Comprehensive Plan, Future Land Use Element Objective 1.6, requires facilitating mixed-use and planned unit development projects that are of appropriate intensity, density, land use mix, and urban design to foster walkable neighborhoods, great public spaces, and increase the viability of pedestrian, bicycle, and public modes of transportation, and reduce dependency on the automobile.

 

The Resolution being proposed supports current policy and regulations and further emphasizes the intent of the Code.

 RECOMMENDATION:


 An Active Design presentation was presented before the Planning and Zoning Board  on November 28th, 2022 as a discussion item.
 FISCAL/ BUDGETARY IMPACT:
 



ATTACHMENTS:
Description
Resolution 2023-XX Active Design Guidelines
Active Design Guidelines Policies and Strategies
Active Design Municipal Planning and Assessment Tool