NOVEMBER 2004 by Dover Kohl & Partners FINAL UPDATE MAY 2009 by the City of Miami Planning Department (Ver. 2.0)

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Table of Contents for the Southeast Overtown/Park West Community Redevelopment Plan November 2004 Final Updated May 2009

Section ONE Introduction Page 2 • This Document 2 • Topics Frequently Asked from Neighborhood Stakeholders 2 • Historical Context Page 3 • 21st Century Context Page 5 • The Potential: A Livable City 5 • History of the CRA Page 6 • Revised Boundaries 6 • Revisions from the Original CRA Redevelopment Plan Page 7 • Findings of Necessity Page 9 • New Legal Description

Section TWO Goals and Guiding Principles Page 11 • Redevelopment Goals #1 Preserving Historic Buildings & Community Heritage #2 Expanding the Tax Base using Smart Growth Principles #3 Housing: Infill, Diversity, & Retaining Affordability #4 Creating Jobs within the Community #5 Promotion & Marketing of the Community #6 Improving the Quality of Life for Residents Page 13 • Guiding Principles 1. The community as a whole has to be livable. Land uses and transportation systems must be coordinated with each other.

2. The neighborhood has to retain access to affordable housing even as the neighborhood becomes more desirable to households with greater means. 3. There must be variety in housing options.

ii 4. There must be variety in job options. 5. Walking within the neighborhood must be accessible, safe, and pleasant.

6. Local cultural events, institutions, and businesses are to be promoted. Section TWO 7. The City and County must provide access to small parks and green spaces of an urban (continued) character. 8. Older buildings that embody the area’s cultural past should be restored. 9. Newer buildings must respond to our climate and reflect the community’s cultural heritage 10. Streets and buildings must be attractive. 11. Twenty-four-hour environments are to be encouraged. 12. Identifiable neighborhood centers are to be established in a distributed pattern within Overtown and Park West. 13. The zoning and other development regulations must be reworked to yield the results envisioned in this Redevelopment Plan. 14. Restore a sense of community and unify the area culturally.

Section THREE The Build-out Plan Page 19 • Conceptual Plan Diagram o Land Uses & Residential Units Page 21 • Hypothetical Build-out Plan Page 22 o Publicly Owned Land for Public Improvements Page 23 o Open Spaces: Parks, Plazas, and Green Spaces Page 25 o Transportation System: Mobility and Access ƒ Reestablishing the Traditional Urban Network of Streets ƒ Pedestrian Friendly Street Improvements ƒ Promoting the Return of Two-way Streets ƒ Rail and Transit Routes ƒ Key Ideas from the Miami at Midnight Report Page 27 o Parking ƒ Providing and Retaining On-street Parking ƒ Off-street Parking Page 39 o Land Development Regulations ƒ Adherence to Local Land Development Regulations ƒ Revisions to the City’s Zoning and Land Development Regulations Page 40 o Physical Plan

iii ƒ Possible Changes to I-395 Section FOUR Projects and Programs Page 44 • Projects and Project Areas, Overview 44 • Criteria for Physical Improvements 44 • Project Areas 44 o Stakeholders Roles Page 46 o Project Area A. NW 1st Avenue Page 54 o Project Area B. Overtown (including Little Broadway and Lyric Plaza) Page 62 o Project Area C. NW 3rd Avenue Neighborhood Center Page 66 o Project Area D. Historic Overtown Priority Business Corridor Page 69 o Project Area E. West Overtown Page 74 o Project Area F. Properties facing Biscayne Boulevard Page 77 o Project Area G. The Promenade – Park West Entertainment District Page 86 o Project Area H. NE 8th Street: Miami WorldCenter Page 88 o Project Area I. New Camillus House/UM Research Center 88 o Project Area J. Townpark Homeownership District Page 89 • Projects and Programs 89 o Community Heritage and Historic Preservation Page 94 o Promotion and Enhancement of Overtown and Park West as a Business Location Page 97 o Planning, Development, Technical Assistance and Program Compliance Page 99 o Street Improvements, Utility Infrastructure and Transportation Page 101 o Home Ownership Pre-qualification and Counseling 101 o Grants to Existing Businesses 101 o Laredo/Re-use Plan (CLUC 90 Properties) • Summary Chart of Projects and Goals

iv Section FIVE Capital Improvement Costs and Timeline Page 108 • Introduction 108 • Capital Improvement Goals 108 • Prioritizing Capital Improvements Page 109 • Potential Funding Sources 109 • Capital Improvement Costs by Project Area Page 117 • Capital Improvement Costs – Not Project Area Specific Page 119 • Timeline and Capital Improvement Costs – Summary Section SIX Residential Uses and Neighborhood Impact of Redevelopment Page 121 • Neighborhood Overview Page 122 • Housing Policy 122 • Relocation Policy Page 123 • Traffic Circulation 123 • Environmental Quality Page 124 • Effect on School Population Page 125 • Community Facilities and Services Page 126 • Physical and Social Quality

Section SEVEN Plan Management Page 128 • Powers of the SEOPW CRA Page 129 • Powers Not Given to the SEOPW CRA 129 • Authority to Undertake Redevelopment Page 130 • Future Amendments to this Redevelopment Plan Page 131 • State of Florida Statutory Requirements 131 • Safeguards and Assurances 131 • Land Acquisition

Section EIGHT Definitions

Section NINE Directory of Local Organizations

v Section TEN Appendices Page 142 A. Previous Planning Work for the Area Page 145 B. Acknowledgements Page 146 C. School Impact Analysis for the SEOPW CRA Redevelopment Plan Page 156 D. 1982 Resolution adopting the SEOPW CRA Page 170 E. Resolution Adopting New Boundaries Page 180 F. Advertisements Of Public Notice Page 190 G. Findings of Slum and Blight

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This Document presented by current initiatives and trends, and • Affordable housing for existing transform Southeast Overtown/Park West residents. This is a 2009 update to the 2004 into a thriving mixed-use neighborhood and • Support for small businesses and the Amendment of the 1982 Southeast commercial hub in the heart of downtown, as creation of new jobs for current residents in Overtown/Park West Community provided for by this revised Community Overtown and Park West. Redevelopment Plan (referred to as Redevelopment Plan. This update reflects the “Redevelopment Plan” or “Community expansion of the Redevelopment Area’s Redevelopment Plan”), and was boundaries to include the southwest section Historical Context commissioned by the Southeast and part of the northeast section of the Overtown/Park West Community The Southeast Overtown/Park West Overtown area. Redevelopment Agency (“CRA” or “SEOPW Redevelopment Area encompasses one of the

CRA”), and the CRA’s governing bodies, the oldest residential and commercial areas of the City of Miami (“City”) and Miami-Dade City of Miami, although few structures of Topics Frequently Asked County (“County”) to provide an updated historic or cultural significance remain. planning document for the redevelopment of About From Neighborhood Overtown and Park West each have their own the Park West and Overtown neighborhoods Stakeholders historic past, but for practical reasons and proximity, their futures are linked together. in accordance with the Community Every redevelopment area has certain

Redevelopment Act of 1969 (“Act”). urgent concerns and problems that the OVERTOWN The 1982 Redevelopment Plan has not community wants addressed. While a number "Overtown" is one of the oldest been effective in the redevelopment area, due of these issues can be resolved through local neighborhoods in Miami settled by African to the lack of financing ability by the CRA and government, some of these issues need to be Americans about the time that Miami was private enterprises. The need to update the remedied by members of the community. founded in the 1890s. African Americans 1982 Plan and provide a financing strategy for Adopting redevelopment plans and were not allowed to live in the other the implementation of the CRA’s activities in creating community redevelopment agencies developing areas of Miami. Jobs available to the redevelopment area became imminent as are not solutions in themselves, but only Overtown residents were mostly associated land throughout South Florida became scarce vehicles to get to solutions. There needs to be with Henry Flagler’s Florida East Coast (FEC) and the last portions of undeveloped land lie grass-root efforts to further stimulate interest Railroad Company, the burgeoning tourist within the redevelopment area boundaries. It in, education of, and visions for the service industry, and agriculture. Like in many is the intent of this extensive amendment of revitalization of the redevelopment southern American towns, the African the 1982 Redevelopment Plan to address ways neighborhoods. Overtown and Park West American community lived on the other side in which the CRA can maximize opportunities stakeholders frequently ask questions about: of the railroad tracks from most white

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families, closer to the citrus and pineapple “Previous Plan Studies.” 21st Century Context farms. The name “Overtown” came from The 1982 Southeast Overtown/Park West people saying that they were going “over PARK WEST Redevelopment Area encompassed town” to this neighborhood. It was also approximately 279 acres of land generally referred to in the past as “Colored Town.” Most of the area currently referred to as bounded by Biscayne Boulevard on the east; The area grew and developed into a Park West was part of the original "Miami" I-95 on the west; I-395 on the north; and NW vibrant community. African Americans Subdivision platted in 1896 by the principal 5th Street on the south. In 1986, the became business owners and established a developers of the early City of Miami, Mary boundaries were expanded to include the areas viable economic community by constructing and William Brickell, Julia Tuttle, Henry bounded by NW 1st Street on the south, schools, homes, churches, hotels, apartments, Flagler, and the Fort Dallas Land Company. Metrorail right-of-way on the west, NW 5th theaters, night clubs and small neighborhood While the initial development of Park Street on the north, and North Miami Avenue markets. West focused on residential projects, it soon on the east. This Plan expands the SEOPW In the 1920's and 1930's, N.W. 2nd established a commercial character, in the CRA boundary to include area bounded by Avenue was known as “Avenue G,” and was a form of warehouses, associated with its NW 22nd Street on the north, NW 1st Place on major corridor for entertainment, retail stores, downtown location and proximity to the Port the east, NW 5th Street on the south, and NW and hotels. Dr. W.B. Sawyer built the first of Miami, when formerly located at the site of 7th Avenue on the west (referred to as African American hotel in the area in 1921. present day Bicentennial Park. The name “expanded area”). The expanded areas have a The population continued to grow until “Park West” derives from this area being direct effect on the existing Redevelopment the early 1960's. Desegregation, urban renewal, located “west” of the “park.” Before 1964, Area and present excellent redevelopment the Neighborhood Development Program, this area was basically a warehouse and opportunities. It is an area of hard edges, and construction of the SR-836/I-395 and I- wholesale district related to the old port. heavily traveled highways to the west and 95 expressways significantly changed the When the port moved, so did the wholesale north, and the less imposing but still character of the neighborhood. and tragically, businesses and storage facilities. Few of the disruptive boundary created by the residents from Overtown were scattered and remaining businesses have any functional Metromover and Metrorail tracks to the east relocated. Economic, physical and social relation to the port now located on Dodge and south. Moreover, the Florida East Coast decay became pronounced and has Island in Biscayne Bay. New warehouses and railroad tracks serve as a psychological and progressively contributed to the decline in the container storage areas are provided on Dodge physical barrier dividing the area into area. Island and areas west of the Miami Southeast Overtown to the west and Park Various planning efforts have taken place International Airport. West to the east. over the last few decades. For a list of these In preparation of this planning effort, an planning studies, see Appendix A, entitled

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evaluation of the existing slum and blight NE 14th Street. Just east of Big Time constructed along [Biscayne Boulevard]. Most conditions was conducted in the expanded Productions studio buildings is the new of these developments are viewed as market CRA areas. This evaluation revealed that slum [Adrienne Arsht] Center for the Performing rate and luxury rate properties with limited and blight conditions persist throughout, Arts of Miami-Dade County. The center accommodation for the middle class or providing further justification for expanding includes a 2,200-seat symphony hall, a 2,480- working class citizens desiring an urban the SEOPW CRA boundaries. Addressing seat ballet/opera house, a 200-seat black box residence. With its advantageous location and and improving these conditions is a key theater, and ancillary support and educational untapped redevelopment potential, Southeast purpose of this plan. A summary of the services. The completion of this exciting Overtown/Park West presents perhaps the evaluation of slum and blight conditions are complex has served as a strong catalyst for best opportunity to develop a livable set forth in Appendix G, entitled “Findings of redevelopment, a phenomenon that has been downtown core. Slum and Blight.” further enhanced by a concerted effort to The City of Miami is proactively planning Despite its challenges, Southeast attract media, arts, and entertainment related for the future of its neighborhoods, and there Overtown/Park West is advantageously businesses and facilities to the neighborhood. are a number of current initiatives that will situated between downtown Miami and the South of Overtown and Park West, have a direct impact on the Southeast Omni area, Motion Picture/Media (“Media”) downtown Miami’s central business district is Overtown/Park West Redevelopment Area, District, and the Entertainment District, and is a flourishing center of international business, including the expanded area. Planning efforts, in close proximity to Miami Beach, Miami finance, telecommunications, government and such as the “Baylink Draft Environmental International Airport, and the regional trade. With over 131,000 workers, 4,000+ Impact Statement” (DEIS), “The Park West transportation system. What happens in the hotel rooms, and attractions, such as the Entertainment District Promenade Special larger context will therefore shape and be Bayside Marketplace, the American Airlines Area Plan,” “Biscayne Boulevard Special Area shaped by what happens in Southeast Arena, and the Miami-Dade Cultural Center, Plan,” “Bicentennial Park Master Plan,” Overtown/Park West. downtown Miami is a dynamic destination that “Downtown Transportation Master Plan,” and Located directly north of Overtown and has the potential to positively impact adjacent “Overtown Greenprint Plan” are integral to Park West, the Omni Media and neighborhoods such as Southeast the redevelopment of the area, and Entertainment Districts are currently Overtown/Park West. Despite its dynamism, coordination between these efforts is key. undergoing a rapid transformation into a downtown Miami once lacked the residential Some of the more specific planning projects regional epicenter of the cultural and component that was necessary to transform it include: the Flagler Marketplace development performing arts. Big Time Productions, Inc., a into a true 24-hour city center. With the latest in downtown Miami; redevelopment of the studio/production company, moved its development boom of 2003-2007, several new Omni Mall into a retail, entertainment and headquarters from Miami Beach to the Omni residential and mixed-use development office complex; the newly redeveloped area creating a movie production hub along projects have been planned and/or Margaret Pace Park in the Omni area;

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redevelopment of the historic Lyric Theater as Despite these advantages, Miami has This has resulted in a reversal of trends of the the cornerstone of the planned Folklife Village lacked one of the most important 1970’s and 1980’s, which saw economic in Southeast Overtown; and the planned characteristics of great world cities — a activity centers move from city centers to extension of the 9th Street Pedestrian Mall in walkable, mixed-use center that is a desirable suburban office parks and "edge cities" that Park West. This Plan presents the best place to work, play and live. Bathed in sprang up overnight. In contrast, the opportunity to integrate these initiatives into a decorative neon light, the downtown Miami economic activity centers of the new economy cohesive vision for the area as a whole. skyline beckons at night, which belies the fact are increasingly located in central city that its streets are virtually deserted. Few of neighborhoods like San Francisco's the approximately 131,000 people who work Multimedia Gulch, the Digital Harbor in The Potential: A Livable City in downtown actually live there. At the close Baltimore, and downtown San Jose. Well-located at the confluence of the of each business day, they disperse to points With its strategic location and untapped Americas, Miami has emerged as the Western north, east, south and west of Miami. While redevelopment potential, the Southeast Hemisphere's international trading center and in the recent past, it is true that many would Overtown/Park West neighborhood presents one of the world's most vibrant and dynamic choose a suburban location regardless, it is the best opportunity for the development of a metropolises. Founded in 1896, Miami quickly also true that downtown Miami has a shortage thriving, mixed-use economic and activity established itself as one of the nation's premier of affordable housing and neighborhood center in Miami's downtown. This plan charts tourist destinations with its world-renowned services that would make it a viable alternative a course to fully realizing Southeast climate and natural beauty. Tourism defined for those who would otherwise find it a Overtown/Park West's possibilities. the economy for much of the last century and desirable place to both live and work. remains a major industry. Nonetheless, the last In the past few decades, Miami has made thirty years have seen an unprecedented a concerted effort to take advantage of the History of the CRA diversification of Miami's economy, as its new economic realities of globalization and On July 29, 1982, the Miami City strategic location, excellent transportation the rise of information technology. Its location Commission, by Resolution No. 82-755, linkages, and culturally diverse population provides a competitive advantage, as does a approved the Southeast Overtown/Park West have led to its ascent as the "gateway to Latin relatively well-developed privately initiated and Community Redevelopment Plan. On America" and one of the nation's true funded technology infrastructure. While that December 7, 1982, the Board of County international business centers. Greater Miami may not have been enough, recent studies Commissioners of Miami-Dade County, by today is a cosmopolitan metropolis of over indicate that the businesses and workers of the Resolution No. R-1677-82, approved the two million people, and a leading center of new economy seek out and thrive in mixed- Southeast Overtown/Park West Community finance, trade, tourism and use environments that foster accessibility, Redevelopment Plan. On March 31, 1983, the telecommunications. social interaction, and the exchange of ideas. City and the County executed an Interlocal

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Agreement which provided for the delegation Redevelopment Plan to be prepared. This document is the extensive 2009 of redevelopment powers to the City and the amendment to the Southeast Overtown/Park establishment of the redevelopment trust fund West Community Redevelopment Plan. This Revised Boundaries to receive tax increment revenues. In 1985 the document replaces the previous “82 Plan” and Park West area was included in the CRA’s Section 163.361, Florida Statutes, provides is hereafter referred to as the “Community then-existing boundaries. During the summer that the CRA may recommend a change in the Redevelopment Plan” or “Redevelopment of 2002, the SEOPW CRA Board proposed to boundaries when it becomes necessary or Plan.” expand the boundaries to include some of the desirable to amend or modify the Revisions from the 1982 Plan: areas of Overtown west of Interstate 95 and redevelopment plan. Since 2001, the SEOPW • Chapter I, “Introduction,” has been areas surrounding NW 3rd Avenue north of CRA Board has been evaluating the need to significantly revised to identify the purpose for Interstate 395. This boundary expansion was extend the existing boundaries to include more the SEOPW CRA, its potential, and to update later adopted by the Miami City Commission of Overtown. Advantages to the enlarged the context with the 20 years that have passed on July 28, 2002, pursuant to Ordinance No. boundary include being able to use the since the original plan was prepared and 12247. Notwithstanding, no action was taken SEOPW CRA’s resources to facilitate adopted. by the Board of County Commissioners of redevelopment in more disadvantaged • Parts of Chapter II, “Setting,” were Miami-Dade County on this boundary neighborhoods of Miami, and to improve the brought into Section 1, Introduction, of the expansion. appearance and usefulness of the expressways Community Redevelopment Plan. For On December 31, 2007, the City, the that have caused so much damage and example, “Historic Evolution” was re-edited County, the SEOPW CRA, and the Omni fragmentation to the community environment. into a heading called “Historical Context.” Redevelopment District Community • Chapter III, “Redevelopment Redevelopment Agency entered into an Proposal,” contained a description of the need Interlocal Agreement to provide for, among Revisions from the Original for redevelopment. The objectives stated in other things, the expansion of the Southeast CRA Redevelopment Plan Chapter III have been re-evaluated and can be Overtown/Park West Redevelopment Area The Southeast Overtown/Park West found in Section 2, “Goals and Guiding and the extension of its life. Pursuant to the Community Redevelopment Plan, Revised December Principles.” Interlocal Agreement, the parties agreed that 1982 (sometimes referred to as “the ‘82 Plan”) • Chapter IV, “Redevelopment Plan,” the CRA would cause a Finding of Necessity was prepared for two primary reasons: contained projects and strategies. These have report to be prepared in which the conditions 1) To establish the need for a CRA; and been re-evaluated and some have been of slum and blight within the expanded area 2) To guide the SEOPW CRA’s restated in Sections 2 through 6. These would be documented, and to cause an update redevelopment activities. components are separated into different to the 2004 Amendment to the Sections in the updated Community

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Redevelopment Plan to group them by similar on January 20, 1981, to include the areas slum and blight were present. The 2009 FON topics so that they can be more easily found in bounded on the west and south by the FEC provided evidence of the following: the document. tracks; on the east by Biscayne Boulevard; and • Predominance of defective or • All maps and graphics from the 1982 on the north by I-395, as well as the area inadequate street layout, parking facilities, Plan have been replaced, including the bounded on the south by I-395; on the east by roadways, and public transportation; Boundary Map. Biscayne Boulevard; on the north by NW 17th • Faulty lot layout in relation to size, • The Land Use Plan, Zoning Plan, and Street in part, and the City of Miami Cemetery adequacy, accessibility, or usefulness; Traffic & Transportation Plan have been in part; and on the west by the FEC tracks. • Unsanitary or unsafe conditions due completely overhauled. While the aforementioned areas were to environmental contamination; • The Park West Conceptual found to meet the definition of “slum” and • Site and structural deterioration; Redevelopment Plan and Acquisition strategy “blight,” only a portion of this area was • Aggregate assessed values of real has been abandoned for an incremental included in the original SEOPW CRA property in the expanded are for ad valorem approach. Redevelopment Area. Most of the conditions tax purposes failing to show any appreciable described in the 1982 Plan are still prevalent increase over the five (5) year prior to the Findings of Necessity today in the existing Redevelopment Area, in finding of such conditions; Section 163.355, state that “[n]o county or that, there is still a decline in population, • Existence of crime; and municipality shall exercise the community marginal retail facilities, and an excessive • Physical and economic conditions redevelopment authority . . ., until after the amount of vacant and underdevelopment conducive to disease, infant mortality, poverty, governing body has adopted a resolution, properties. The majority of multi-family and crime because of the predominance of supported by data and analysis, which makes a buildings, single family houses, and duplexes dilapidated, deteriorating, antiquated and legislative finding that the conditions in the suffer from structural deterioration. The obsolescent buildings and the existence of area meet the statutory definition of “slum” majority of retail buildings are vacant, making conditions that endanger life and property by and “blight.” the vacancy rate of commercial uses greater fire and other causes. The 2009 FON In 1969, the Board of County than fifty percent. concluded that the existence of slum and Commissioners of Miami-Dade County, by In February 2009, in accordance with blight conditions within the expanded area, if Resolution No. R-1117-69 approved the Section 163.355, and as required by the left unattended, would persist and Central Miami Renewal Plan (“CMRP”). The Interlocal Agreement dated December 31, undoubtedly extend to and beyond the CMRP examined the area south of NW 20th 2007, the SEOPW CRA caused a Finding of boundaries of the existing Redevelopment Street; west of the FEC Railroad, with an Necessity report (“2009 FON”) to be Area. These conditions will lead to an extension to N.E. 2nd Avenue; east of I-95; prepared in which the expanded area was economic and social liability to the City of and north of the Miami River. It was amended examined to determine whether conditions of Miami and could consume additional County

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and municipal resources to address the myriad of issues outlined above, while reducing the local tax base.

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Legal Boundary Description along the north side of NW 14th Street to the for the SEOPW CRA east side of NW 1st Avenue; then south along the east side of NW 1st Avenue to the The Southeast Overtown/Park West

Redevelopment Area, including the expanded southern edge of the I-395 ROW; then east area, is hereafter described as follows: along the southern edge of the I-395 ROW to

the western side of Biscayne Boulevard; then The legal description of the Study Area is south along the west side of Biscayne physically defined as beginning near the Boulevard to the north side of NE 5th Street; southeast corner of Lummus Park; at the then west along the north side of NE 5th southwest corner of the intersection of NW Street to the west side of North Miami rd 2nd Street and NW 3 Court; continue north Avenue; then south along the west side of to the north side of NW 5th Street; then west North Miami Avenue to the north side of NW th along the north side of NW 5 Street to the 1st Street; then west along the north side of east side of NW 7th Avenue; then north along NW 1st Street past NW 1st Avenue, to include the east side of NW 7th Avenue to the north properties abutting the west side of NW 1st side of NW 22nd Street; then east along the Avenue; then north along the western edge of SEOPW CRA Boundaries north side of NW 22nd Street to the east side said properties to the north side of NW 5th of NW 5th Avenue; then south on the east Street; then west along the north side of NW side of NW 5th Avenue to the North Side of 5th Street to the east side of NW 3rd Avenue; nd NW 22 Street; then east on the north side of then south along the east side of NW 3rd NW 22nd Street to the west side of NW 2nd Avenue to the south side of NW 2nd Street; Avenue; then north on the west side of NW then west along the south side of NW 2nd 2nd Avenue to the north side of NW 22nd street to the southwest corner of the Street; then east on the north side of NW intersection of NW 2nd Street and NW 3rd 22nd Street to the east side of NW 1st Place; Court. then south on the east side of NW 1st Place to the north side of NW 14th Street; then east

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Redevelopment Goals facilitate the achievement of the aforementioned Redevelopment Goals. The

numbering of goals and principles in this plan The redevelopment goals set forth in this is not intended to imply a prioritization of 2009 updated Redevelopment Plan serve as importance. All goals and principles are of parameters for the SEOPW CRA Board and equal importance to the revitalization of the staff members when making decisions, taking Redevelopment Area. The matrix on the actions, and strategizing projects and following page shows that all of the Guiding programs for the Redevelopment Area. They Principles work toward more than one goal. guide the Agency’s public policy, Following the Matrix, each of the Guiding appropriation of funds, and priorities in Principles is further explained. eliminating the conditions of slum and blight within the Redevelopment Area.

The goals are: 1) Preserving historic buildings and community heritage; 2) Expanding the tax base through the use of Smart Growth planning principles; 3) Creating infill housing, diversity in housing types, and retaining affordable housing; 4) Creating jobs within the community; 5) Promotion and marketing of the community; and 6) Improving the quality of life for residents of the Redevelopment Area.

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Goals and Supporting Principles Goal #1: Goal #2: Goal #3: Goal #4: Goal #5: Goal #6: Preserving Expanding the Housing: Infill, Creating Jobs Promotion & Improving Note: The names of the Guiding Historic Buildings Tax Base using Diversity, & within the Marketing of the Quality Principles below have been & Community Smart Growth Retaining Community the Community of Life for reduced to a few key words for purposes of brevity. Heritage Principles Affordability Residents Principle 1: * * * * * Livable Community Principle 2: * * Affordable Housing Principle 3: * * * * *

Housing Variety Principle 4: * * * * Job Variety Principle 5: * * * Walkable Streets Principle 6: * * * * * Promotion Principle 7: * * Green / Open Space Principle 8: * * * * Historic Preservation Principle 9: * * * * Appropriate Architecture Principle 10: * * * Attractive Streets Principle 11: * * * * 24-Hour Environment Principle 12: * * * Neighborhood Centers Principle 13: * * Revise Zoning Regs. Principle 14: * *

Restore community *

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stores, bank branches, dry cleaners, residents can come to know many of their Guiding Principles restaurants, day care facilities, and neighbors well, and form a detailed “mental All actions affecting the Redevelopment entertainment establishments (i.e. bowling map” of their daily territory. This helps Area by a government entity, agency, service alleys, cinemas, video stores, etc) should be explain why the ten-minute walk diameter can provider, or private property owner are to be incorporated into the neighborhood fabric to be observed in historical settlements from judged according to the Guiding Principles serve the population and reduce automobile many time periods, and in cultures all around and the Hypothetical Build-out Plan described dependency. Also, civic buildings and the world. in Section 3. If any new projects or efforts are community-serving uses such as schools, Perhaps more importantly today, most being proposed that are not identified in libraries, police stations, fire stations, and people are willing to walk distances Section 4, then their relevance should be parks should be provided and located in such approximately ten minutes away before judged by the Goals and these Principles. a manner as to create community focal points choosing another mode of transportation, and strengthen neighborhood identity. Great provided they are presented with a pedestrian- Principle 1: The community as a cities are built up from groups of such friendly, safe environment. To reduce whole has to be livable. Land uses neighborhoods. unnecessary car trips and dependence on the and transportation systems must be Transportation modes have to be automobile, the most livable neighborhoods in coordinated with each other. balanced and varied too, so that one can modern cities include an array of residential, The most important combination to make choose to walk, drive, take a taxi, or ride a business, retail, and neighborhood-serving a community livable is to have land uses and bike, a bus, or community transit in the form uses within that ten-minute area. While today's transportation systems working together in of Metrorail or Metromover. technology offers multiple means of concert. Ideally, a successful neighborhood Overtown and Park West can be thought transportation, "walkability" remains a key will offer the opportunity to reside, work, and of as a group of neighborhoods. In order to component of the vibrant and healthy carry out the other activities of daily life (i.e., reposition Southeast Overtown/Park West as neighborhood and an important determinant shopping, recreation, entertainment, religious a livable area, a mixture of housing types, of neighborhood boundaries. and cultural events, education, etc) all within service establishments, and employment Superimposing a ten-minute walking an area of comfortable walking distance. To centers must be provided within each of these diameter on Southeast Overtown/Park West, achieve this, a thoughtful mix of residential, neighborhoods. and a review of historic development patterns, employment, commercial and community- Though no two neighborhoods are reveals that the area is actually comprised of serving uses should be promoted by the City exactly alike, neighborhoods are traditionally five distinct neighborhoods: Park West, and CRA in a densely developed and well- about one-quarter mile from center to edge, Southeast Overtown, North Overtown, West designed urban fabric. Neighborhood-serving for several reasons. This is thought by Overtown, and The Government District. commercial uses, such as pharmacies, grocery scholars to be a dimension within which Determining how to improve infrastructure,

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services and the provision of uses in each of Principle 3: There must be variety in those who wish to live in proximity to their these smaller neighborhoods is the most housing options. work and reduce dependence on the effective strategy for improving the area as a The housing stock in Downtown Miami automobile and long commutes. As with whole. The vision of this Redevelopment and the neighborhoods of Southeast access to affordable housing, there appears to Plan is, therefore, to improve the Overtown/Park West is extremely limited. be general consensus in the community that Redevelopment Area by transforming it into a The existing inventory consists mostly of employment opportunities be made available group of healthy mixed-use neighborhoods, lower-priced and substandard houses and to existing residents of Overtown has a high and connecting those neighborhoods with a apartments. This lack of residential priority. variety of transportation options. alternatives inhibits efforts to foster a 24-hour downtown and limits options for those who Principle 5: Walking within the Principle 2: The neighborhood has would otherwise choose to reside in a center neighborhood must be accessible, to retain access to affordable housing city location. safe, and pleasant. even as the neighborhood becomes A mix of market rate and affordable Streets have many responsibilities. They more desirable to households with housing units and types, including rental units, act as a system for movement, providing greater means. ownership units, multi-family units, single- mobility and ways to move around the City. Based on comments and discussions family units, and accessory apartments, is Even more importantly, their right-of-way made at various community meetings in necessary to accommodate the diversity and serves as the “front door” to private Overtown and Park West, it is quite clear that lifestyles of existing and future residents. properties. The character and design of the there is general consensus among existing The Overtown and Park West of the street, and thus the resulting “curb appeal,” residents, former residents, CRA and City future will take advantage of their urban have a direct correlation to the type and staff, and elected officials that Overtown has character and infrastructure and provide an quality of development projects, real estate to retain affordable housing, and first priority attractive array of residential choices for values, and economic potential. to affordable housing and job opportunities current and new residents. The Providing a range of choices for moving must be given to existing and former residents neighborhoods have to ensure the integration safely and comfortably throughout the of Overtown. of different economic sectors to stimulate a neighborhood is an integral function of the The SEOPW CRA’s Housing Policy is positive shaping of the urban space. city street network. Neighborhood streets stated in this Redevelopment Plan and can be should therefore be designed to accommodate found in Section 6. Principle 4: There must be variety in a number of transportation choices, including employment opportunities. walking, bicycles, mopeds, automobiles, and Employment centers should be located mass transit. The provision of a continuous, within the neighborhoods to accommodate two-way street grid in Southeast

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Overtown/Park West will increase Principle 7: The City and County 1982 Plan have been demolished despite the accessibility and reduce congestion, while the must provide access to small parks efforts of The Black Archives History and provision of wide shaded sidewalks, walkable and green spaces of an urban Research Foundation of South Florida, Inc. character. block sizes, on-street parking, bicycle paths, and other local initiatives. Access to public parks and green spaces is and transit services increases the range of a key element of quality of life in urban choices for moving to, from, and within the Principle 9: New and rehabilitated neighborhoods, as natural environments Redevelopment Area. Creating pedestrian- buildings must respond to our provide essential respite in an urban friendly streets encourages the development of climate and reflect the community’s environment. Therefore, it is vital that a series street-level businesses and natural surveillance. cultural heritage. of green spaces and parks, preferably linked by Established neighborhoods are greenways, be developed within each Principle 6: Local cultural events, distinguished by architecture that is indicative institutions, and businesses are to be neighborhood and that existing green spaces of their history, climate, and function. promoted. and parks be enhanced to provide a genuine Successful redevelopment efforts capitalize on In order for Southeast Overtown/Park amenity to the quality of life for existing and these elements rather than imposing West to achieve its full potential, it is necessary future residents. These green spaces, parks, development that is disconnected from what to address and improve the neighborhood and greenways will be an important element in has come before. South Beach provides an economy and expand the economic developing and maintaining community excellent example of this concept in action; its opportunities of present and future residents aesthetics and identity, providing recreational redevelopment was predicated on its rich and businesses. This entails both the support and social opportunities for residents and architectural heritage and history, and as a and enhancement of existing businesses and visitors, and attracting new residents and result, has been wildly successful. The five (5) local entrepreneurs and the attraction of new businesses. neighborhoods that comprise Southeast businesses that provide needed services and Redevelopment Area boast unique features economic opportunities. New economy Principle 8: Older buildings that and architecture that reflect their history and business centers are characterized by embody the area’s cultural past function. For example, Park West's should be restored. concentrations of competing but architecture still reflects its former function as These older buildings are physical complementary firms that are driven by the a warehouse district for the Port of Miami, reminders of the community’s heritage and advantages of co-location. Redevelopment while the story of Overtown's heyday as a enhance the experience of the place, giving it a efforts should actively identify opportunities thriving center for black-owned businesses richness that cannot easily be obtained once for Southeast Overtown/Park West to and culture is told in its remaining buildings of the buildings are lost. Unfortunately far too capitalize on this trend. note. The redevelopment of these many of the historic buildings identified in the neighborhoods should occur within the

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context of these histories and new should come together to form a continuous neighborhood centers are to be development should acknowledge the past facade. established in a distributed pattern traditions and further their future. Whenever Maintenance of public streets and spaces within Overtown and Park West. possible, buildings of architectural merit has to occur in a consistent manner to show Cohesive neighborhoods have strong should be adapted to new needs and creatively that the community is cared for. Private centers, identifiable from their concentration reused. property owners have to do their part too, of higher density residential, commercial, and civic uses, and/or a signature public open painting buildings when they start to peel or Principle 10: Streets and buildings fade badly, and clean up yards or vacant space such as a park, square or plaza. The must be attractive. properties if garbage collects there. If the neighborhood center helps ensure the Neighborhoods are defined by their public owners are not inspired to make provision of various uses within a walkable realm, the spaces between buildings. The improvements or repairs when the need area and is essential to the establishment of streets, sidewalks, parks, greenways, and civic becomes visually obvious, then it is Code neighborhood identity. Neighborhood centers uses bring the community together and link it Enforcement’s job to deliver a citation to should be developed in each of the five to the outside world. A vibrant and engaging them. neighborhoods that comprise the Redevelopment Area. public realm serves as the neighborhood's canvas and lifeblood, a means for inspiring Principle 11: 24-hour environments and captivating residents and visitors. should be encouraged. Principle 13: The zoning and other Sound urban design, attractive buildings, A common feature of prosperous development regulations must be reworked to yield the results and streetscapes are essential to having streets metropolitan cores is a “24-hour envisioned in this Community that are both functional and visually attractive. environment”: a broad and diverse offering of Redevelopment Plan. Looks are important to current residents who cultural, entertainment, and recreational Both the SEOPW CRA and the City of will feel community pride when receiving options that attract and engage residents and Miami Planning and Zoning Department agree pleasant comments about where they live. visitors on weekends and after the workday that the zoning requirements within the CRA Looks are important to attracting investors to ends. This environment encourages social boundaries must be improved to further make other improvements to the interaction and is a catalyst for economic redevelopment of the desired type. neighborhood. vitality and attracting businesses and residents.

To have attractive, pedestrian-friendly Southeast Overtown and Park West provide Principle 14: Restore a sense of urban streets, buildings must be set close an excellent opportunity to create the 24-hour community and unify the area together, and building heights and road widths environment that downtown Miami lacks. culturally. must be compatible. Building walls with their The SEOPW CRA needs to do what ever windows and doors, that open to the street, Principle 12: Identifiable is in its power to bring back the vitality that

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once gave Overtown its character, sense of place, and cultural distinctiveness.

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Conceptual Plan Diagram “Previous Planning Work for the Area.”

The Conceptual Plan Diagram to the right shows the basic framework used to shape the

Hypothetical Build-out Plan, which is very detailed and has many layers. A number of public and private groups have studied the same areas either prior to or in parallel with this Redevelopment Plan. Many concepts set forth in these plans have been incorporated or consolidated into the diagrams, and have contributed to shape this Community

Redevelopment Plan. These plans include the following: • The Overtown Greenway Plan • The Overtown Greenprint Plan • Miami Downtown Transportation Master Plan • Miami: The Downtown Master Plan • Miami at Midnight Report • The Historic Overtown Folklife Village Plan • Overtown Civic Partnership “Ray Gindroz” Plan • Bicentennial Park Plan • Biscayne Blvd Special Area Plan • Grand Promenade Special Area Plan • FEC Corridor Study • Performing Arts Center Site Plan

A summary of the many ideas raised by various planning efforts over the last few decades is provided in Appendix A, entitled

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Land Uses & Residential Units As described throughout this Redevelopment Plan, the intent is to mix land uses within the Redevelopment Area as much as possible. The exceptions will be where there are large areas of government offices and facilities or where there are concentrations of single-family detached houses. A wide range of residential types is sought with this Redevelopment Plan. Measures must be put in place to retain affordability while [insert Jobs / Housing Imbalance encouraging market rate housing in the area. Diagram on this page]

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Hypothetical Build-out Plan The Hypothetical Build-out Plan portrays one possible built-out future for the Redevelopment Area in a very advanced state of redevelopment and infill development. It is useful to show possible configurations for public and private building placement, streets and access ways, parking areas, and public spaces and street patterns. Think of the Hypothetical Build-out Plan as a series of layered ideas that have all been “flattened” into one drawing. These layers include: • Publicly-Owned Land, available for public improvements • Open Spaces: parks, plazas, and green spaces, and greenways • Transportation System • Parking Policy • Land Development Regulations • Physical Plan, showing physical conditions of public and private buildings, parking locations, sidewalks, and yards

Each of these layers is described in further detail in the pages that follow in this section.

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Publicly-Owned Land 3) Coordinate with other private and public Each of the properties shown on the map entities for the development of surplus to the left, either owned by the CRA, City of real property within the Redevelopment Miami, County or State agencies, are Area that will further the goals set forth considered suitable for public improvements herein. or public-private redevelopment initiatives. This map shows a “snapshot” of the current ownership and should not be viewed as an end result in itself. (To obtain a copy of the most updated property ownership map, contact the City of Miami’s Planning Department). Additional properties may need to be purchased and some currently owned may need to be sold to reach the goals of this Redevelopment Plan. Properties that would be ideal for the CRA to purchase are purposefully not identified in the plan, to avoid costly problems in time and money associated with land speculation. These problems have already hindered the CRA’s performance over the past twenty years.

Required CRA Actions: 1) Continue to evaluate and negotiate future land purchases to meet the goals of the Redevelopment Plan. 2) Evaluate and advertise public-private development opportunities, utilizing the land owned by the CRA in furtherance of the goals set forth herein.

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Open Spaces: parks, plazas, and 4) Require development projects within the green spaces, and greenways. Redevelopment Area to maintain green Urban dwellers do not have the luxury of spaces within project scope. large amounts of private open space in their rear gardens and back yards. Instead, urban living highlights the enjoyment of pedestrian- friendly streets and public spaces (parks, squares, greens, greenways, and plazas). Creating and maintaining high-quality public spaces is necessary for the Redevelopment Insert Open Space Map Area to achieve its potential. Of the five HERE neighborhoods that have been identified, only Overtown, west of the Interstate, has adequate open space. The acquisition of land to create these public spaces and the necessary construction and maintenance is possible through a variety of means.

Required CRA Actions: 1) Acquire more land for publicly accessible green space for active and passive recreational use. 2) Coordinate with the City of Miami’s Planning & Zoning Departments to improve public safety with natural surveillance; requiring that neighboring buildings front all public spaces with doors and windows. 3) Coordinate with the City of Miami’s Parks Department on the installation and maintenance of public spaces.

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Ways to acquire more land: Land to expedite the purchase of land. provided by the City of Miami.. These 1. Land Swaps Matching grants can be pursued. services can also be provided by locally owned The City and CRA can directly exchange 4. Land Pooling businesses through an incentive program. properties with property owners. For Land pooling is the consolidation of small Recreational facilities and functions should example, if property that is in a good location landholdings for their unified planning, also be provided as part of City or County for a park is privately owned, and the CRA servicing, subdivision and redistribution. This programs. owns land that is a suitable development site, method for land assemblage provides many The CRA can also coordinate with local then the CRA could swap land with the opportunities including the shared cost and churches, civic groups, or organizations that private property owner. The community gets returns of land subdivision between the are willing to donate the time and resources to a park where it makes sense and the original landowners in an equitable way at no cost to maintain public spaces. owner gets a good development opportunity. the CRA and the orderly design of the 2. Revolving fund for public lands subdivision layout for the planned urban land Successful Small Urban Parks & Squares: The County, City, and CRA can create a use. This process would counter excessive The following are qualities that make revolving fund for public lands. For example, land speculation and ensure an adequate small parks and squares safe and useable: suppose the CRA needed to consolidate supply of land for development purpose. 1) Design matters more than acreage or uses several properties to make an adequately large 5. Ask for donations. or luxury. green space. It already owns or recently The CRA can ask property owners to 2) Natural surveillance is essential. purchased a few of the parcels, but one or two donate their land for public use. The old 3) Enliven the place with regular activity. remaining owners hold out and refuse to sell. expression still holds true, “It doesn’t hurt to 4) Shape the public space with carefully placed To avoid the need to use eminent domain, the ask.” trees and buildings surrounding its edges. CRA could give up and decide to sell the land 5) Open and frame the views into and from recently purchased. The revenue from the sale Proper maintenance of public spaces within the space. could be put into a fund, and used later in New public spaces are best maintained 6) Pedestrian access is all-important. another location for the purpose of acquiring through taxing districts applied to the 7) Calm the traffic, beautifully. land for green space. This may require neighborhood and adjacent properties. These 8) Provide shade. specific transaction controls. plazas and green spaces will be relatively small 9) Provide flexible open space for diverse 3. Purchase the land outright. in comparison to other City of Miami parks. functions; do not fill up the park with excess The CRA Board can, as it has in the past, Maintenance, including grass, tree, and shrub equipment. purchase the land outright for a fair market planting, landscape mowing and clipping, 10) Reserve places for symbols of civic pride value. Assistance can be sought from the emptying of garbage cans, litter cleanup, and and uniqueness. County, City, State, and the Trust for Public pressure cleaning paved surfaces should be 11) Plan for sustained care and maintenance.

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Transportation System: Mobility and attempts to suggest ways to diminish these Station to enhance intermodal transfers, Access negative effects and maximize the positive as described in the Miami at Midnight Successful urban environments are ones through the location of buildings and report. supported by a variety of mobility choices, public spaces. Re-establishing the traditional urban thereby affording residents the freedom to network of streets. move about comfortably, whether on foot, Required CRA Actions: Throughout the Redevelopment Area, the bicycle, via transit or automobile. In contrast, Restoring the urban fabric and mitigating traditional urban block structure has been areas designed primarily around the some of the negative impacts of previous altered. In several locations, streets have been automobile do not provide the level of transportation improvements are possible eliminated, and the network compromised. mobility and access necessary to create vibrant through a set of changes carried out in This has created super-blocks, some of which places with an active street life. concert. These include: are 1,100 feet long or even longer. These Part of the challenge of redeveloping Park 1) Advocate, fund, and/or facilitate the re- blocks are unusually large and do not fit with West and Overtown is poor mobility and establishment of the traditional urban the established grain and size of the original access. Mobility is the ability to travel over network of streets and restoration of street system and blocks, making navigation distances. Access is the ability to get to a missing links in the street grid. needlessly difficult. Super-blocks limit both destination—to actually get to the door. This 2) Advocate, fund, and/or build pedestrian- vehicular and pedestrian access, causing an condition has been created through a friendly street improvements. unnecessary waste of time and fuel for combination of barriers such as the Interstate 3) Promote the return of two-way streets. motorists and longer distances to travel for Highways and the elevated Metrorail, and 4) Advocate, facilitate, and construct on- pedestrians. further compounded by the system of one- street parking. Newly created or connected streets should way streets. The one-way streets discourage 5) Assist with solutions to any noise, access, generally do the following: motorists from comfortably circulating within and privacy problems associated with • Be designed as two-way streets with on- the area. These streets also create "straight- properties along the rail and transit routes. street parking; aways" that encourage motorists to speed and 6) Develop pedestrian compatible • Be of a similar right-of-way width to the make it unsafe for pedestrians to cross streets. community transit system to link all segments of existing streets with which Although rail cargo and the elevated Southeast Overtown, Park West, and the connections are being re-established; and, transit facilities of Metrorail and the nearby Central Business District and • Provide pedestrian-friendly street Metromover, are seen as positive features in Omni area, as described in the Miami at improvements. in this section. the neighborhood, there are some specific Midnight report. negative effects that these have on adjacent 7) Explore the possibility of a pedestrian properties and streets. The physical plan zone adjacent to the Overtown Metrorail

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There are some locations within the Redevelopment Area where streets are fenced off or blocked by highways, rail lines, and the Metrorail. If for some reason vehicular access cannot be achieved in these locations, then every effort needs to be made to at least open them up for safe pedestrian access. In contrast to the large super-blocks, there are several locations where existing blocks are extremely small. On a very limited basis it may be advisable to close some of the intermediate streets to form blocks of a size more conducive to infill development. This should be evaluated on a case-by-case basis and not adopted as an overall policy. The merits of enlarging a block include: • Selling the rights-of-way and using the proceeds toward the purchase of public green space or for rights-of-way needed elsewhere. • Increasing the legibility of the major streets. • Directing and organizing routes of travel without diminishing the primary street system. • Providing a larger development site for contemporary buildings that may need more room for midblock parking.

<<< Map showing locations where the street grid should be opened.

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Existing Street Grid Showing Two-way Streets (No Arrows) and One-Way Street (With Arrows)

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Suggested Changes to the Street Grid

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Pedestrian Friendly Street Improvements particular: Creating a two-way street system will alleviate In an urban setting, street level businesses • Create wide sidewalks that allow these problems and also help to orient those need a comfortable pedestrian environment, as pedestrians to walk side-by-side as well as traveling within the street system. Conversion they are reliant on a walk-in customer base. pass each other, and also allow outdoor to two-way streets must be treated as a Strategies to make streets pedestrian friendly dining to be part of the street scene. priority. include: • Shade pedestrian paths. This is an • Create a two-way street system. Two-way absolute necessity in the South Florida All three scenarios in the Downtown streets have calmer traffic than one-way climate. While shade trees should be Transportation Master Plan include improving streets, because drivers are more cautious installed wherever practical, in general the streets into a two-way street system. The when adjacent to oncoming traffic. shade trees are not as effective in Downtown Transportation Master Plan's • Provide on-street parking to create a providing shade as projecting elements on study area is east of I-95. Areas of Overtown safety buffer between pedestrians on the buildings such as awnings and colonnades. west of I-95 are currently set up as one-way sidewalk and moving vehicles, and assist Therefore these features should be streets. To extend and complete the system of ground level retail, restaurants, and facilitated by zoning and mandated as part two-way streets, the following streets should businesses. of CRA-funded projects. be converted as well: 10th Street, 11thStreet, 5th • Create narrow travel lanes to discourage • Minimize crosswalk distance to limit the Street, and 6th Street between I-95 and NW speeding, and conserve the much-needed amount of time when pedestrians are 7th Avenue. 5th and 6th Streets east of I-95 space for on-street parking and wider walking in the travel lanes. should remain one-way to accommodate Port sidewalks. of Miami related traffic only if the FDOT • Maintain and create small curb radii, Promoting the Return of Two-Way Streets improvements take place. which will require motorists to slow down The existing street system within the when turning at intersections. Redevelopment Area contains a multitude of Rail and Transit Routes • At neighborhood centers and intermodal one-way streets. These are unfavorable to the Rail: pedestrian zones, provide a rough road future success of the area for several reasons. The FEC rail line that runs along NW 1st surface (bricks or cobble stones, etc) that One-way streets increase the speed of traffic, Avenue carries cargo to the Port of Miami. discourage speeds beyond 20 mph) thereby reducing pedestrian activity. Retail has This serves a useful purpose, but the tracks great difficulty thriving on one-way streets— themselves form a barrier down the middle of Creating continuity on the streets is also a not only is their drive-by volume cut in half, Overtown. Fortunately for the neighborhood, top priority. Sidewalks should be designed to but each street is traversed primarily by either the train moves slowly though this area encourage ground level businesses and the morning or the evening commuters, and because it is nearing the end of the line at the pedestrian activity from block to block. In therefore, hours of high visibility are limited. port.

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adjacent properties less desirable as places subway does not have to go through Park To diminish the physical separation to live. West. It could travel east on NW 2nd or 3rd between Overtown and Park West, more • Although the appearance isn’t unsightly, it Streets and turn to the port under Bayfront crossings are needed at 9th, 10th, and 12th isn’t beautiful either. Park or under Biscayne Bay. Streets. Preferably these crossings will be for Another suggestion comes from the both pedestrians and vehicles; however Miami-Dade County and the City of Miami at Midnight report. Just as Metrorail priority should be given to pedestrian Miami have been studying the location for a will be connected to the Miami International crossings. new Metrorail route in the East/West Airport (MIA) with the ongoing development direction, linking the Miami International of the Miami Intermodal Center (“MIC”), the Transit Routes Airport to the Port of Miami. Many of the Port of Miami could be connected to In November 2002, the People’s possible paths for the link between Metrorail with the creation of the “Overtown- Transportation Plan (“PTP”) was approved by Government Center and the Port pass Park West Community Intermodal System.” the voters of Miami-Dade County. The new through Park West, but underground. An As described in the report, these intermodal transportation Plan added numerous rapid underground Metrorail will be an improvements would be structurally very transit corridors to the existing Metrorail improvement compared to the elevated tracks. different than the MIC, but would serve the system, which currently serves only a limited The route once preferred by the County same intermodal purposes. It is basically area, linking the remainder of the greater and City planning departments may have been calling for passenger and freight intermodal metropolitan region. ruined. The preferred route passes under the access improvements to integrate all modes of Having the convenience of Metrorail in Wilkie D. Ferguson, Jr. United States intercity and local transportation as well as Overtown is advantageous for the residents; Courthouse on NW 1st Avenue. The Board of connections with the private automobile in the however, the physical structure of the elevated County Commissioners of Miami-Dade context of the existing historic Overtown and rail has a negative impact on the County chose not to pay for the special Park West communities. neighborhood with the following problems: foundation required to accommodate the • The elevated tracks further break up the subway train under the federal courthouse, Key Ideas in the Miami at Midnight neighborhood into little pieces by and instead has a foundation that cannot Report separating neighbors and commercial accommodate a future subway underneath it. The Miami at Midnight Report explores streets. In light of that problem, and since Park the opportunities and options for narrow • The space underneath the rail lines is West is well served by transit already, the best gauge rail transportation modality and shared generally unlit and unsupervised, making subway routes for Park West may be those parking strategies to link the proposed it unsafe, especially at night that spare the inhabitants of Park West the Promenade improvements to the Bicentennial • The noise from the trains makes the inconvenience of building a new line. The Park, the Miami Beach Baylink project and

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other destinations within the redevelopment transport. shuttles from parking to the various area. It includes a description of the strategies attractions and transportation services in to create a pedestrian-oriented intermodal 2) Narrow gage rail: Since narrow gage rail is this intermodal system. To make the access plan and a case for using cost efficient designed for shorter slower trips, the costs garages meet the objectives of a narrow gauge rail and small community transit of installation and maintenance are lower. pedestrian-oriented downtown neighbor- vehicles for short distance intermodal hood, the garages must be lined with 3) Pedestrian Intermodal Access: Traffic movements of passenger and goods. The useable habitable space that is accessible calming and pedestrian amenities will Report includes a description and from the street for commercial and need to be provided along the streets and recommended locations for shared parking residential uses. mixed mode corridors where the transit structures and mixed-use buildings that are routes will occur. placed on their perimeter (liner buildings) and 6) Community Intermodal System: The concludes with a description of the 4) Freight Intermodal Access: The Miami at various components of the opportunities to secure federal and state Midnight Report assumes that 5th and 6th Redevelopment Plan will function as funding, a scale of magnitude cost estimate streets become the primary truck route for elements of a community based and recommended actions to be undertaken. the Port. Recently the MPO has rejected intermodal system (e.g., passenger and The value to the CRA in the Miami at primary truck route due to opposition freight intermodal facilities and Midnight Report is that it describes a unique from the Overtown community and connectors). While the redevelopment of mechanism to meet many of the Miami-Dade Community College. This the existing Metrorail and Metromover redevelopment objectives with a real funding portion of the Report, therefore, may no station sites into a series of connected source. Key ideas from the Report include: longer be valid. However, continued liner buildings and parking structures 1) Rail Vehicles: The rail vehicles are community discussions should be (with properly designed interior and intended to be small, seven feet wide, and undertaken to find a beneficial design that exterior spaces to better relate the nine feet tall. The floor height should be provides port access but minimizes truck pedestrian activities at the street level with 5 inches from the street grade making it traffic adverse to the community. the transit station floors twenty to thirty easy to get in and out. Some cars can be feet above grade) can obviously be

open air and some air-conditioned. proposed as an intermodal transportation 5) Liner buildings and Parking Structures: Seating can be positioned to project that would qualify for The transit system is not simply tracks accommodate bicycles, baby carriages, transportation trust funds, to a greater or and vehicles, but also parking garages. wheelchairs, luggage, grocery shopping lesser degree, every improvement within The slower speed community transit and bags and other goods typical for the Redevelopment Area should be seen narrow gauge rail vehicles also serve as pedestrian, bicycle or automotive as an opportunity to improve the

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intermodal movements within the 7) Funding Opportunities: In order to the congressional schedule for TEA 21 Redevelopment Area. The understand the magnitude of these Reauthorization and the United States Overtown/Park West Community funding opportunities, we only have to Department of Transportation Intermodal System, therefore, consists of look at the Florida Department of (“USDOT”) SAFETEA legislation specific pedestrian-oriented transportation Transportation’s (“FDOT”) annual provisions, there is a clear opportunity to projects to enhance intermodal budget (approximately $4 billion) and the define elements of the Redevelopment connections and significantly increase significance of their ongoing efforts to Plan in fundable transportation project modal splits. identify and focus funding towards the terms.

critical elements of Florida’s Strategic

Intermodal System. When combined with

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8) Recommended Actions: The CRA needs To be seriously considered for state and other public and private partners, to to immediately consider and approve federal funding, the proposed intermodal demonstrate how such a system will work these transportation projects as projects need to be identified in the and why their transportation funding intermodal projects and seek the support MPO’s long-range plan and should be partners (USDOT, FDOT, County and for these projects from the Miami City scheduled within the FDOT’s five-year City) should participate in such Commission, the Board of County work program. Further, such intermodal community redevelopment related Commissioners of Miami-Dade County, improvements need to also be identified transportation intermodal improvements. the Miami-Dade Metropolitan Planning as an element of the Strategic Intermodal Organization (“MPO”), the USDOT, the Systems (SIS) (intermodal connectors or Three maps have been included in this FDOT, the Florida House and Senate otherwise) and addressed in the TEA 21 Redevelopment Plan for reference. Obviously legislative delegation, the U.S. Reauthorization and related federal the details of the routes, systems, and parking Congressional delegation and both U.S. appropriations decisions. garage locations may change as the system is Senators from the State of Florida. closer to implementation. Immediate discussions with members of In undertaking these efforts, the CRA the FTC and SITAC would be very must recognize that they will need to be a important as well. funding participant with the City of Miami and the Miami-Dade County as to any The proposals need to be presented as state and federal originated transportation consistent with USDOT and FDOT funds. With the incorporation of intermodal initiatives and well-established pedestrian-oriented mixed-mode streets transportation law and policy. While and corridors, parking shuttles and historically large-scale pedestrian-oriented community transit, parking structures and transportation improvements have been liner buildings into this Redevelopment difficult to conceptualize as valid Plan, the CRA, along with the Omni transportation expenditures, with the Redevelopment District Community federal and state interest in intermodal Redevelopment Agency should projects (virtually all passenger intermodal implement initial components of the movements involve pedestrian trips), intermodal improvements plan in there would seem to be a better partnership with the Miami Parking opportunity to undertake such an Authority (also known as the initiative at this time. “Department of Offstreet Parking”), or

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Promenade Area Map #1 Narrow Gauge Rail

A. Promenade to I-395 Parking Loop B. Promenade to 14th Street Loop C. 10th and 11th Street Loop D. NW 3rd Avenue Loop E. 8th and 10th Street Loop F. Miami Avenue Area Loop G. Central Loop H. Port of Miami Loop I. Jackson Memorial Hospital Loop (a) via NW 3rd Avenue (b) via N. Miami Avenue J. Omni East Loop K. Omni West Loop

Metromover / Station

Metrorail / Station

Intermodal Areas (Passenger, Freight, and Connectors)

Interregional Destinations & Strategic Intermodal System (SIS) Hubs

Port of Miami (POM) Miami Intermodal Center (MIC) Miami International Airport (MIA) Jackson Memorial Hospital (JMH) Downtown Bus Terminal (DBT) Miami Beach Convention Center (Miami Beach) Orange Bowl Greyhound Intercity Bus Facility (GIB) Miami River (and to MIA / MIC / POM and other waterfront destinations via waterborne transit service

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Promenade Area Map 2 Regional Rail Connectors

1. Baylink Connector to Port of Miami 2. Port of Miami Connector via Metrorail Extension 3. East - West Corridor via 5th and 6th Streets to Port of Miami 4. Baylink

Metromover / Station

Metrorail / Station

Intermodal Areas (Passenger, Freight, and Connectors)

Interregional Destinations & Strategic Intermodal System (SIS) Hubs

Port of Miami (POM) Miami Intermodal Center (MIC) Miami International Airport (MIA) Jackson Memorial Hospital (JMH) Downtown Bus Terminal (DBT) Miami Beach Convention Center (Miami Beach) Orange Bowl Greyhound Intercity Bus Facility (GIB) Miami River (and to MIA / MIC / POM and other waterfront destinations via waterborne transit service

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Promenade Area Map #3 Proposed Community Intermodal System Improvements

Passenger Intermodal Facility Improvements Area

Freight Intermodal Facility Improvements Area and Freight Intermodal Connectors

Pedestrian-Oriented Intermodal Connectors

Recommended Liner Building / Parking Structure Area

Metromover / Station

Metrorail / Station

Interregional Destinations & Strategic Intermodal System (SIS) Hubs

Port of Miami (POM) Miami Intermodal Center (MIC) Miami International Airport (MIA) Jackson Memorial Hospital (JMH) Downtown Bus Terminal (DBT) Miami Beach Convention Center (Miami Beach) Orange Bowl Greyhound Intercity Bus Facility (GIB) Miami River (and to MIA / MIC / POM and other waterfront destinations via waterborne transit service

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Parking regulations to be adopted by the City of Off-street Parking Miami to reduce the unnecessary burden Having more than enough spaces in In overly car-dependent regions such as on private developers. To jumpstart surface parking lots can fragment the urban South Florida, each development will redevelopment, new businesses in existing environment and looks unsightly, while having commonly attempt to provide for their own buildings should be exempt from parking too few spaces can frustrate residents and parking on-site with a parking structure or requirements to reduce their startup costs patrons. However, if individual property parking lot. In urban areas, some of the and therefore their financial risks. owners maximize the amount of parking that negative effects of storing large quantities of can be created on each private lot, and meet cars on each site are: Providing & Retaining On-Street Parking 1970s-style parking ratio expectations, the • Experiencing gaps between buildings, result would be at best a blighted, unsuccessful On-street parking provides motorists with from parking lots, when walking down a aspiring suburb rather than a pleasant, access to street level businesses. These sidewalk is disruptive for retail walkable urban environment. More businesses can capture the attention of both environments. Shoppers are easily turned commonly, high parking requirements make pedestrians and drive-by motorists. On-street off by these gaps and will often stop small-scaled infill developments too difficult. parking also creates a comfortable pedestrian shopping or pause and turn around if it Therefore the CRA should promote a environment by buffering pedestrians from looks like there are not any worthwhile balanced strategy that seeks to use space vehicles in the travel lanes. Sidewalks destinations down the street. efficiently and facilitate a system-wide automatically become active with pedestrians • Parking structures greatly increase the approach. Parking should be treated among because of people getting in and out of their costs to develop a building. This makes matters of public infrastructure rather than cars parked in the on-street spaces. market rate and workforce housing, for just as a private endeavor on private Existing on-street parking throughout the example, more difficult to find in central properties. The CRA should not enter the Redevelopment Area should be maintained. urban areas, where such housing is business of parking, but can help implement The potential for adding on-street parking to primarily needed. Luxury apartment projects that can be managed privately or by streets where it is not currently provided dwellers more easily absorb the cost of the Miami Parking Authority. should be explored when roadway the parking garages. improvements occur over time. All new and • Development that includes parking Required CRA Actions: improved streets within the Redevelopment structures requires larger parcels to create 1) Advocate, fund, and/or build on-street Area should be designed to include on-street functional structures and financially viable parking spaces in any future parking. projects. This generally requires the redevelopment efforts within public projects to be large in scale, and therefore rights-of-way. harder to finance and harder to fit within 2) Support a reform of off-street parking

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the fabric of the neighborhood. facilities. This will take the burden off local lit during all hours of operation and • Parking structures associated with one property owners interested in redeveloping or patrolled by security officers. building do not necessarily create a improving their properties and buildings. “shared” situation, which can reduce the overall needed parking spaces. The Reducing the Impact of Parking Garages: concept of shared parking means that at To diminish the visual and negative night an apartment resident can use the impact of parking garages, these guidelines same parking space used by an office should be followed: employee during the day. In the suburban • No blank walls of parking garages or walls model, office buildings and residential with openings to the parking garage buildings are not typically designed to should directly face public streets. share parking; nor is the building • A “liner” of habitable space with a management company in the business of minimum depth of twenty feet should be managing parking. constructed between the street and the garage portion of the building. Ground Without shared parking, the inefficient floors of garages may contain lobby end result is that more money is spent and entrances, entrances to parking, and more land is utilized for parking than is really should also contain retail space. necessary. Recommended liner building depths are thirty to forty feet for residential and Making shared parking work office, fifty to sixty feet for retail. First As shared parking facilities are built and floor residential uses should be raised a the area becomes more developed, livable, minimum of two feet above the average interesting, and walkable, with daily needs and sidewalk grade. services present, some households may opt to • Gates or payment kiosks should be at do without an automobile or share fewer cars least forty feet from the sidewalk if the among family members. Developers of new entrance is on a street. buildings will not have to provide as much of • Wherever possible, entrances to the their own parking as they did in the past. The parking garage should be from an alley or CRA can do its part by participating in public- side street. private ventures to build shared parking • For safety reasons, garages should be well

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Land Development Regulations city block. • Building Envelope: how the mass of the To reduce this need to assemble several building is expressed to maintain quality Adherence to, and revisions of, the City’s parcels into one, the Maximum Building street spaces, while optimizing Zoning and Land Development footprint should be increased, minimum development potential. Regulations. parking requirements reduced, and Floor Area • Architectural Elements: the basic All CRA Redevelopment activities shall Ratio either de-emphasized or eliminated. architectural features to create fit with the adhere to the City of Miami’s Comprehensive Then buildings will be allowed to vary in size climate and visual interest in buildings and Plan and all zoning and regulatory and scale, and an orderly mixture of buildings to provide harmony among diverse requirements, as revised from time to time. can occur within any given city block. Specific designs by many architects. The existing zoning regulations do not reforms that should be reflected in the new • A Mixture of Uses: Reducing or necessarily encourage or ensure the Design Standards, for at least some areas eliminating off-street parking development of street-oriented, urban within the Redevelopment Area include: requirements for storefront businesses buildings. This situation is not unique to the • Increased maximum building footprints located at the street level will be attractive Redevelopment Area. A fine-tuning of the • Revised floor area ratios, in certain zones to small business, provided there is citywide land development regulations will • Decreased parking requirements enough pedestrian traffic on the adjacent eventually occur. However, to assist projects • Decreased open space requirements street. This may also be an incentive for a that are entering the development stage in a • Building envelope requirements (i.e., step- developer to build retail square footage at timely manner, a new set of Urban Design backs and tower orientation rules) to the base of an office or residential Standards for Redevelopment Area, plus maintain access to sunlight and prevailing building, furthering the initiative of accompanying incentives, can offer an breezes. This will have the added benefit mixing uses. intermediate solution. of optimizing east-west view corridors. The proposed Urban Design Standards The new Urban Design Standards shall The overall benefit will be to create would reflect adjusted zoning mechanisms in describe the following: flexibility within a framework of reasonable certain zones within the Redevelopment Area. • The Building-To-Street Relationship: how certainty, allowing the development In the past, the low Maximum Building buildings should face the street at the community to deliver a variety of building footprint (the percentage of the property ground level. This includes elements such types to provide a range of housing options which can be covered with a building), and the as distance between operable doors, and services needed to accommodate Floor Area Ratio (the amount of square percentage of window glazing, and the use individuals of numerous lifestyles and footage that is habitable based on size of the of projecting elements to provide shade, economic positions. lot) required land assembly to form large such as colonnades and awnings, parcels, sometimes encompassing an entire balconies, or overhangs.

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Physical Plan The Physical Plan shows the physical and geographic conditions of public and private buildings. The plan identifies civic buildings, private buildings, streets, highways, and mass transit lines. Various colors for areas between buildings identify parks and open spaces, parking locations, sidewalks, street trees, and yards.

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Possible Changes to I-395 The MPO has been discussing modifications to I-395 between I-95 and the Macarthur Causeway. Various scenarios have been presented by the Florida Department of Transportation, the apparent favored alternative being the one with trenched through-lanes with at-grade frontage roads. Park West and the Omni area would be reconnected with bridges for city streets spanning the travel lanes below. This alternative suggests moving the alignment of I- 395 northward along NE-NW 13th Street, and therefore creating a re-developable swath of land at its current location.

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Projects and Project Areas: An the project, then it should be considered part street, all corners of an intersection, or Overview of the Project Area. all sides of a park or green space should This section is organized into two primary The current projects and programs to be be built out or renovated. subsections, “Project Areas,” and “Projects facilitated by the CRA are listed and described • It includes a significant residential and Strategies.” The Project Areas are in the second half of this section, following component, preferably owner-occupied; numbered “A” through “J” and as a group do the description and intent of the Project one desire is to repopulate the area and not encompass the entire Redevelopment Areas. These projects may need to be updated to correct an imbalance of renters Area. They should be thought of as various from time to time as the projects evolve and versus owners. “starting points” for projects within the components are implemented. Some may • It lures residents of moderate incomes Redevelopment Area. The impetus of need to be removed from the plan when they or varied incomes; these are “colonists” focusing efforts into these Project Areas is a are sufficiently completed. New projects may who will demonstrate the viability of direct response to the unfair accusations by need to be added. This section can be close-in convenient neighborhoods and some members of the public that the CRA has supplemented by another document or whose discretionary income will help spent large sums of money and has little to documents revising the list of projects or support businesses. show for it. When money is spent evenly describing them in greater detail. • It suggests what the larger throughout the Redevelopment Area, it is neighborhood will be like as difficult to see where the money has gone, Criteria for Physical Improvements revitalization spreads, and it inspires because you can not stand in one location and The following are criteria for any physical private reinvestment. see a 100% transformation. The purpose of improvement project to be endorsed by the • Its purpose meets the principles and having the Project Areas is to focus CRA: goals described in Section 2 of this expenditures and efforts in small areas to totally • It produces a total, outdoor redevelopment plan transform them, creating as dramatic and environment of exceptional beauty, visible an impact as possible. By which exudes safety and optimism, and Project Areas concentrating the efforts, people will which stands out in marked contrast to Stakeholders’ Roles. experience what the larger area will look, feel, blight. Specific roles for each of the stakeholders smell, and sound like as revitalization spreads, • It involves a combination of adaptive appear below and with the Project Area inspiring additional private reinvestment. re-use of existing (or better, historic) descriptions. In the spirit of teamwork, the The boundaries for Project Areas are not structures with new buildings and stakeholders can each do their part to intended to be treated as finite boundaries. If improved public spaces. revitalize the area. The roles for stakeholders a redevelopment proposal is adjacent to the • It involves a completion of the public other than the CRA should be considered as area and it meets the urban design solutions of space; for example, both sides of the

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suggestions. Approval of this plan should in Residents in the Community: As most are Community Churches: Stay involved and no way require agencies or individuals outside aware, revitalization takes a long time. Spend stay aware of the revitalization activities in the of the CRA to perform the suggested actions. the effort and money to improve the community. Help the CRA distribute Stakeholders include: appearance of homes and yards. Sometimes information as needed from time to time. little tasks that do not cost too much can make Sponsor activities to improve the visual CRA: Perform actions as sanctioned under a big difference, such as repainting, adding a appearance of the neighborhoods and the Redevelopment Act of 1969 and identified tree or shrubs, and picking up litter that might continue to promote the area as a proud in this Community Redevelopment Plan. be on your street or in your or your neighbor’s community that cares. yard. City of Miami: Continue support for the CRA and make changes to the zoning and other land Rental or Commercial Property Owners development regulations for properties in this and Business Operators: Maintain or part of the City. The City should maintain and improve the appearance of your buildings. improve its properties in Overtown, and use its Grants and low-interest loan programs are resources to provide a safe and attractive available to accelerate improvements. Property community. owners who do not intend to make improvements should consider selling their Overtown Civic Partnership: Focus efforts properties or partnering with others who have in partnership with the City of Miami and the greater resources. CRA. The Overtown Civic Partnership’s goals mirror those of the CRA. These include goals Overtown Community Oversight Board: regarding housing and physical development, Continue monitoring and guiding the various economic development, community buildings, activities within Overtown, including and leadership development. implementation strategies and creating new alliances. For-Profit Developers, Community Development Corporations, and Investors: The Black Archives, History & Research Continue redeveloping properties, adding Foundation of South Florida, Inc.: more jobs and housing options within the Continue the efforts to promote and preserve community. the cultural heritage of the community.

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Project Area A: NW 1st Avenue Better pedestrian routes and improved walking 3) A number of changes and improvements General Boundaries: conditions will allow residents and visitors are proposed in the Physical Plan to create North: I-395 Overpass alike to circulate between the two areas. a more pedestrian-friendly environment South: NW 1st Street Another opportunity is that the railroad right- along NW 1st Avenue. Several new at- East: properties that face NW 1st Avenue of-way can accommodate a new light rail grade crossings of the railroad tracks are West: properties that face NW 1st Avenue system, the Baylink. A station along this proposed. This will allow for safer section of the avenue will bring people to the pedestrian movement across the tracks as Challenges Promenade and serve as a link to downtown well as establish missing connections in ƒ There is an awkward traffic pattern for Miami and Miami Beach for neighborhood the street grid. Improvements to vehicles proceeding north along NW 1st residents. sidewalks and the addition of street lights Avenue. NW 1st Avenue does not need to be a and shade trees along the median will ƒ Pedestrians are crossing the railroad tracks strong retail oriented street. A mixture of provide a more enjoyable walking under unsafe condition, simply because office and residential buildings are the best environment at all times of the day. they are walking the shortest route choice for the extra-wide roadway. Retail 4) Taller building heights, when combined between two points. efforts should be focused on the core area of with the landscape improvements, will ƒ The railroad tracks, buildings, and vacant Overtown and the key east-west streets such increase the definition of the public space properties lining NW 1st Avenue are as 9th, 11th, and 14th. on both sides of the tracks and will unsightly. Urban Design Solutions contribute to creating a sense of place. ƒ There is a general lack of sense of place 1) With the current traffic pattern, The natural surveillance that occurs when resulting from low building heights in northbound vehicles need to stop, turn people can watch the Avenue through the proportion to the street width. This takes left and cross the railroad tracks and then windows of their homes or offices will away from the potential of NW 1st stop and turn right to continue north. To make NW 1st Avenue a much safer place. Avenue becoming an important signature resolve this odd driving route, the main 5) A parking structure in some location location. travel lanes of NW 1st Avenue will curve along NW 1st Avenue, perhaps in New Opportunities across to the western side of the railroad Overtown, will service the parking need There are a number of opportunities that tracks and continue to the north. The generated by the influx of visitors and an enhanced NW 1st Avenue will afford the roadway on the eastern side of the tracks daily inhabitants to the area. Any neighborhood. One of these is the should remain a two-way street. proposed parking structures must be lined improvement of the pedestrian connection 2) Legitimize parking on the east side of NW with habitable spaces (such as offices, between the newly proposed Promenade in 1st Avenue by marking on-street spaces apartments, or hotel rooms) facing the Park West and the Overtown neighborhood. and installing parking meters. streets or avenues.

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Stakeholders’ Roles for Redevelopment Overtown Civic Partnership: Continue CRA: efforts to implement public–private joint • Make sure there are Credit Counseling development projects. Services available for existing Overtown residents, to help them qualify for Residents in the Community: Residents homeownership. should participate in programs to better • Make sure there is an organization set up prepare them to take advantage of home that can offer basic financial literacy ownership and opportunities that arise from training, job training, education and other redevelopment. supportive services for people with extremely low incomes that can not Developers: Provide residential units along qualify for home ownership. NW 1st Avenue that meet the goals and • Begin talks with FEC and Miami-Dade principles of this redevelopment plan. County Public Works to change the configuration of NW 1st Avenue. This Commercial Property Owners: Look for Avenue has historically been the divider opportunities for apartments or between Overtown and Park West, and condominiums to increase the number of the redesign is needed to make it the patrons for the local businesses. unifier. • Support the City with the effort of Overtown Community Oversight Board: revising the land development regulations, Continue to monitor and offer by funding the effort and/or promoting it recommendations on activities. with the community. The Black Archives, History & Research City of Miami:The Planning Department Foundation of South Florida, Inc.: should prepare new development regulations Continue the efforts to promote and preserve for properties along Biscayne Boulevard in community’s cultural heritage. Park West to create rules that will provide an attractive and safe pedestrian environment facing Biscayne Boulevard.

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Project Area B: Overtown The Project Area called “Overtown” is anchor of “Historic Overtown,” and can serve General Boundaries: intended to be the central core of Overtown. to significantly enhance efforts to create a North: NW 14th Street Groups like the Overtown Civic Partnership tourist destination. The long-term viability of South: NW 5th Street are proactively planning to revive Overtown, the Lyric Theater as the cultural anchor, and East: NW 1st Avenue creating a “destination of choice.” The Lyric future commercial retail and residential West: NW 3rd Avenue Plaza will be the focal public open space for developments is critical. Keeping the theater cultural and entertainment activities. The open and active may require additional public- Challenges Black Archives, History & Research private partnerships. • The historic cultural life of arts and Foundation of South Florida, Inc. has restored Urban Design Solutions entertainment and expression of heritage the Lyric Theater and rents it out for activities 1) The Lyric Plaza should be surrounded on in this area needs to be regenerated. and events. The Lyric Theater will also attract three sides by mixed-use buildings, with Many of the historic buildings have been business to the area from performances the fourth side being the planned addition demolished. associated with the Adrienne Arsht Center for to the theater. The ground level of these • There is a need for a safe public gathering the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County. buildings should contain restaurants, bars, space associated with the restored and The CRA, the County, and the South clubs, and shops offering unique expanded Lyric Theater. Florida Land Trust already control significant merchandise with cultural appeal. These • Insuring the economic viability of the land parcels in this vicinity, and have been establishments will complement the Lyric Theater as the cultural anchor of assembling them for the purpose of theater-going experience and will Historic Overtown redevelopment. encourage people to come early and linger • Once the Lyric Theater and surrounding The May 2002 Economic Programming after performances at the Lyric Theater businesses become successful, there will Study prepared by ZHA, Inc. for all of and other future clubs in the area. be a perceived shortage of parking spaces, Overtown recommends that an enticement 2) Offices and/or apartments should occupy and new parking spaces will be needed for program be created by an Action Team for the upper floors around the Lyric Plaza. infill redevelopment. Procurement. The Action Team is to be made 3) Vehicular access should be provided on • Residential population has decreased in up of commercial realtors, bankers, the west and north sides of the Lyric year 2000 from year 1990 according to the commercial developers, and a senior CRA Plaza, providing a drop-off location for Federal Census, explaining the decrease in staff member. Their job is to attract a tenant patrons and providing access to midblock viable businesses that offer services to the mix that supports the jazz, blues, and gospel parking facilities. residents. entertainment venues and the supporting 4) The city blocks between NW 2nd Avenue businesses in retail and services. and 3rd Avenue should follow the Folk New Opportunities The Lyric Theater serves as the cultural Life Village Plan in character, with two to

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four story buildings. Action Team as described in ZHA, Inc.’s recommendations on activities. 5) Taller buildings should be built facing 2002 Economic Programming Study. NW 1st Avenue and the Metrorail tracks. The Black Archives, History & Research Integrated into these buildings should be City ofChange Miami: the Land Foundation of South Florida, Inc.: garages that provide shared parking spaces Development Regulations for Overtown, to • Carry out the plan to expand the Lyric to theatergoers, the businesses, residents, meet the vision for this area, and examine the Theater and manage the Lyric Plaza. and visitors on NW 2nd Avenue and in the extension or inclusion of the area around the • Continue to maintain the Lyric Theater Folk Life Village area. Lyric Theater into the City’s Entertainment and rent it for events. . District, so new businesses in Overtown can • Continue with art and heritage exhibits Stakeholders’ Roles for Redevelopment receive the same incentives that businesses in showcasing African American cultural CRA: parts of Park West receive. contributions at the Lyric Theater to • Offer land as part of public–private joint provide a destination in Overtown. development projects, and coordinate Overtown Civic Partnership: Continue • Continue the efforts to promote the County efforts to do the same. efforts to implement public–private joint Folklife Village. • Support the City with the effort of development projects, and help existing • Assist in the development of revising the land development regulations, business owners improve the appearance of complementary uses along the NW 2nd by funding the effort and/or promoting it their storefronts by offering design Avenue corridor. with the community. suggestions for the facades and windows. • Make sure there are Credit Counseling Services available for existing Overtown Residents in the Community: Residents residents, to help them qualify for should participate in programs to better homeownership. prepare them to take advantage of home • Make sure there is an organization set up ownership and opportunities that arise from that can offer basic financial literacy redevelopment. training, job training, education and other supportive services for people with Developers: Provide residential units in extremely low incomes that can not Overtown that meet the goals and principles qualify for home ownership. of this Redevelopment Plan. • Help existing and future commercial property owners attract quality tenants, Overtown Community Oversight Board: and national retailers, by starting the Continue to monitor and offer

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Stakeholders’ Roles for Redevelopment City of Miami:Assist with streetscape Overtown Community Oversight Board: CRA: improvements for North Overtown, and Continue to monitor and offer • Make sure there are Credit Counseling request the County to redevelop the Culmer recommendations to activities in North Services available for existing Overtown Center. Overtown. residents, to help them qualify for homeownership. Overtown Civic Partnership: The Black Archives, History &Research • Make sure there is an organization set up • Request the County to redevelop the Foundation of South Florida, Inc.: that can offer basic financial literacy Culmer, or seek a third party to enter into Continue the efforts to promote and preserve training, job training, education and other a joint venture with the County. the cultural heritage of the community. supportive services for people with • Focus efforts on West Overtown in a extremely low incomes that can not similar manner to that of the core of Community Churches: qualify for home ownership. Overtown. • Evaluate your building and grounds to see • Initiate a streetscape improvement project if changes can be made to the appearance for North Overtown. Residents in the Community: Residents to help beautify NW 3rd Avenue. • Help attract new businesses to NW 3rd should participate in programs to better • Study the possibility of developing excess Avenue in anticipation of new residents prepare them to take advantage of home church property for housing or moving into Village of St. Agnes, Carrie ownership and opportunities that arise from commercial uses. Meek Tower, and St. John Village, making redevelopment. • Host or sponsor community events to those businesses more viable than with attract tourists or visitors to Overtown. the current population. Developers: Continue to provide more • Provide assistance perhaps through a residential units in North Overtown that meet façade improvement program or the goals and principles of this redevelopment rehabilitation grant or loan program for plan. existing commercial building/business owners to upgrade the existing stores on Commercial Property Owners: Make NW 3rd Avenue. improvements to buildings, and look for • Request the County to redevelop the opportunities for apartments or Culmer Center, or seek a third party to condominiums to increase the number of enter into a joint venture with the County. patrons for the local businesses.

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Project Area D: Historic Overtown • There is a lack of shade for pedestrians. that is also accessible for existing Priority Business Corridor • Sidewalks are narrower than those for neighborhing buildings. General Boundaries: typical main streets, making it less 2) Shade for pedestrians is urgently needed. North: I-395 Overpass comfortable for shoppers and other This can be accomplished by planting South: NW 8th Street pedestrians. trees between the on-street parking East: properties that face NW 3rd Avenue New Opportunities spaces, or with awnings, canopies, roof West: properties that face NW 3rd Avenue The potential for a thriving NW 3rd overhangs, balconies, colonnades, or Avenue has not been lost. The segment near arcades attached to the buildings. On June 9th, 1998, the Miami City NW 8th Street is quite visible for people 3) Vehicular travel lanes should be narrowed Commission, by Resolution No. R-98-592, getting on I-95, and it is somewhat visible for so that the extra space can be added to designated NW 3rd Avenue from northbound motorists on I-95. More the sidewalk width. On-street parking approximately NW 8th Street to noticeable improvements between NW 8th and must remain in any future streetscape approximately NW 14th Street, and NW 8th NW 10th Streets will attract people to stop project, to help the businesses along the Street from NW 2nd Avenue to NW 3rd there who might otherwise pass by, or who street, and to add a safety barrier between Avenue, as the Historic Overtown Priority might be interested enough by a passing the moving cars and the pedestrians. Business Corridor. This general designation glance to want to return when they have more 4) Landscaping along the embankments of gave the CRA the ability to start planning time. the Interstate Highways and the Metrorail activities, to assist the overall commercial Urban Design Solutions should be continued. revitalization of Overtown. 1) Do not build any more parking lots until 5) Improve the appearance of Church- Challenges the demand for the area increases to the owned parking lots. These are mostly • More buildings require renovation. point where there is a real parking empty except during Sunday services and • The community has criticized the problem. The project entitled Planning and other events and they could be landscaped construction of parking lots, because they Development of Parking Facilities for the better. Better yet, develop new buildings appear to remain empty and decrease the Historic Priority Business Corridor, should be to house church programs, community sense of a built-up neighborhood. considered complete until more parking is outreach services, subsidized housing or • The street has many churches, each needed in the Priority Business Corridor. for generating revenue through renting needing additional parking during church The surface parking lots constructed by and leasing. Any new buildings will likely events and funerals that occur on days the CRA were intended to be an interim have to include parking structures, and other than Sundays. These events further use. The CRA is interested in minimize the view to parking from NW reduce the parking availability for business development proposals for those 3rd Avenue. patrons. properties, provided parking is included

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Implementation Strategies Stakeholders’ Roles for Redevelopment of home ownership and opportunities that The 1998 Study for the Historic Overtown CRA: arise from redevelopment. NW 3rd Avenue Priority Business Corridor • Continue to plan and coordinate • Appeal to FDOT and the City of Miami to recommended that an economic study was improvements for this Project Area. renovate Athalie Range #1 Mini Park needed, that a business capacity and • Coordinate efforts with the Overtown consistent with the goals to revitalize identification program be created, and a Civic Partnership. Overtown. “theme” be adopted. The May 2002 • Help existing and new commercial Economic Programming Study, prepared by property owners attract quality tenants, Commercial Property Owners and ZHA, Inc. for all of Overtown, estimates the and national retailers, by starting the Developers: Continue making magnitude of commercial and residential Action Team as described in ZHA’s 2003 improvements, and look for opportunities for development that Overtown can sustain. It Economic Programming Study. apartments or condominiums to increase the recommends that an enticement program be • Make sure there is an organization set up number of patrons for the local businesses. created by an Action Team for Procurement. that can offer basic financial literacy The Action Team is to be made up of training, job training, education and other Overtown Community Oversight Board: commercial realtors, bankers, commercial supportive services for people with Pay close attention to NW 3rd Avenue while developers, and a senior CRA staff member. extremely low incomes that can not focusing on the Overtown efforts. Look for Their job is to attract a tenant mix that qualify for home ownership. actions that can benefit NW 3rd Avenue. supports the jazz, blues, and gospel entertainment venues and the supporting City of Miami:Examine current land The Black Archives, History & Research businesses in retail and services. The study development regulations for the possibility of Foundation of South Florida, Inc.: suggests that the success of future residential revisions, and upgrade the appearance and • Continue the efforts to promote the development is dependant upon the success of facilities at Athalie Range #1 Mini Park. Folklife Village. the commercial uses. This action team will • Continue efforts to secure funding and have to work on the Priority Commercial Overtown Civic Partnership: Continue organize businesses consistent with the Corridor in a coordinated manner with development efforts for this area. Main Street Program that the Foundation entertainment district intended for Overtown. currently oversees. A “theme” is not so important, but Residents in the Community: • Continue to work jointly with the positioning the Overtown neighborhood • Patronize the businesses on NW 3rd Overtown Civic Partnership towards properly in an advertising and marketing Avenue. improvements in the neighborhood. campaign will be important to its success. • Residents should participate in programs to better prepare them to take advantage

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• Help existing and future commercial the goals and principles of this Redevelopment property owners attract quality tenants, Plan. and national retailers, by starting the Action Team as described in ZHA’s 2003 Residents in the Community: Economic Programming Study • Residents should participate in programs to better prepare them to take advantage City of Miami: of home ownership and opportunities that • The Public Works Department should arise from redevelopment. turn the one-way streets to two-way • Appeal to FDOT and the City of Miami to streets which is recommended for renovate Athalie Range #1 Mini Park in Overtown and Park West in the accordance with the goals to revitalize Downtown Transportation Master Plan. Overtown. • Contribute to changes to Reeves Park as new development opportunities arise on Commercial Property Owners: Make surrounding properties. improvements to buildings as necessary, and • Upgrade the appearance and facilities at paint or clean building facades on a frequent Athalie Range #1 Mini Park. basis. • Encourage buildings that face Reeves Park and Athalie Range #1 Mini Park to Overtown Community Oversight Board: provide natural surveillance of the parks Continue to monitor and offer and provide incentives for creative recommendations to activities in West architectural designs that blend residential Overtown. buildings with the culture of the neighborhood. The Black Archives, History & Research Foundation of South Florida, Inc.: Overtown Civic Partnership: Focus efforts Continue the efforts to promote and preserve on West Overtown in a similar manner to that the cultural heritage of the community. of The core of Overtown.

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side of Biscayne Boulevard. • The Planning and Zoning Departments should prepare new development regulations for properties along Biscayne Boulevard in Park West to create rules that will provide an attractive, comfortable, and safe pedestrian environment facing Biscayne Boulevard.

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• Coordinate and help facilitate in some portion of the boundaries should be unsightliness. manner, an air conditioned garbage removed. The boundaries can be • Work with the CRA or City to create a location accessible by all the businesses extended to the west to include portions shared garbage facility. along the Promenade. This could be of Overtown. The area around the Lyric constructed as part of a new building or Theater should be included. by renovating an existing one. • Continue to provide police support for Management of this facility should be the Redevelopment Area. taken on by one of the building managers • Solve the homeless situation in the area for collecting fees, for example. and assist Charities Unlimited in the • Support the City with the effort of relocation and/or upgrade of its Camillus revising the land development regulations, House facility. by funding the effort and/or promoting it • Assist in the infrastructure installation for with the community. the area, particularly the wiring of fiber optics. City of Miami: • Work with the CRA if necessary to Overtown Civic Partnership: Seek implement the shared garbage facility. opportunities for the positive effects of the The City should not be responsible for Entertainment District to “spill” over into the management of this facility. Overtown • The Planning Department should prepare new development regulations for Commercial Property Owners and properties with C-1 zoning in Park West, Developers: to allow an increase in development • When renovating existing structures or opportunity. building new ones orient patio entrances, • Support the creation of a zoning outdoor dining, or entertainment spaces ordinance that allows outdoor dining for to the Promenade. the Promenade. • Enclose unsightly rear building items, • Examine the modification of the such as electrical meters, back flow, boundaries for the City’s Entertainment preventers, etc. District. Interest appears to be focused • Place mechanical equipment on roofs to on the 11th Street area. The southern keep the Promenade free of the noise and

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Project Area H: NE 8th Street/ and attracting a new business market in and businesses catering to the preventative Miami WorldCenter preventative medical care to Park West, medical market and to typical residential and General Boundaries: generally supported by people with greater commercial markets. The physical form of this North: NE 10th Street means, spending more than 19 billion dollars district will not vary from the urban form for South: NE 6th Street nationally each year. These medical related Park West described elsewhere in this plan. East: Biscayne Boulevard uses are not necessarily required for the 8th Current property owners should be West: N. Miami Avenue Street Spine but are offered here as a unique interested in this idea, because if successful, it market potential for the area. will provide demands for leaseable space or Challenges: Despite the location, properties Preventative medical care includes health land/building purchases in a unique market are somewhat separated from the neighboring maintenance tests and scans to make sure that for South Florida. If this is slow to downtown. Barriers include the elevated customers are healthy and for early diagnosis implement, conventional market demands can Metromover tracks on 5th Street and the FEC of possible health problems. Tests may provide tenants. railroad right-of-way between 6th and 7th include EKG (resting and treadmill), visual As in the Promenade Area and elsewhere, Streets. 7th Street is not a through-street, acuity testing, audiogram, chest x-ray, the zoning regulations need to be examined because it is blocked by the former Miami spirometry, non-invasive colonoscopy, blood and modified, if necessary, throughout Park Arena site. workup, body composition, and nutrition West to encourage new multi-story mixed-use New Opportunities counseling. Customers will have access to buildings and parking garages. The Recently various property owners in this over 100 specialists and may receive additional requirement of windows, doors, and terraces area have organized a collective effort to diagnostic tests such as calcium-score heart to the existing buildings along streets will coordinate future development across multiple scan, CT lung scans, total body scan of the contribute to the natural surveillance making City blocks. They can do this with flexibility if heart, lungs and abdomen/pelvis, ultrasound the environment safer. New regulations the City designates a zoning district that would for carotid arteries, dental examination, skin could: allow transferring certain zoning requirements exams, and cosmetic surgery consultations. and entitlements from one block to another Mingled with the medical services are • increase the FAR and density limits, or eliminating them all together. within the district. This flexibility will allow holistic services that include traditional • have separate FAR requirements for each opportunities for a grocery store, additional therapeutic massages, facials and body use as an incentive to get mixed used commercial anchor stores, and better treatments, and energy healing (Tai Chi, Yoga buildings. configurations for parking structures since and meditation classes, hands-on healing). • allow for transfer of development some of the blocks are very small for garage. Urban Design Solutions potential from one property or block to another. ZHA, Inc. identified in its 2003 report to The success of this project depends on the CRA that there is potential in setting up the creation of a district of various buildings

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• add flexibility to setbacks and increased City of Miami: buildable area across nearly 30 acres of prime greenway setbacks on certain streets • Economic Development Initiatives: validate the connecting major public facilities; real estate.” • swapping public and privately owned land economic viability of preventative medical to move public rights-of-way from their uses and make recommendations to the existing locations to new ones. For CRA board whether to pursue this th example, 7 Street could be swapped for project. land next to 8th Street to make a larger right-of-way that could include a • Planning Department: prepare new significant green way between the two development regulations for properties in arenas. Park West, to allow an increase in • include a streamlined the regulatory development opportunity. process and increase MUSP thresholds.

Commercial Property Owners and Stakeholders’ Roles for Redevelopment Developers: CRA: • Collaborate with the CRA to get this • The CRA must first approach the project started. Volunteer to participate hospitals and confirm ZHA’s solicitation on the planning committee devoted to of the hospital’s interest and the designing a coordinated effort and for understanding this is a hospital-related recruiting and setting up the potential real estate venture as part of the preventative medical care market. regionalization of medical/health services. • Leasing agents may want to assist with • Set up a long range planning committee meeting with the hospitals and doctors. devoted to finding a workable manner to construct and recruit tenancy for the Miami WorldCenter complex. See ZHA’s 2003 report for more details regarding this committee. Envisioned as “a dynamic urban core of • Support the City with the effort of revising the land development regulations, diversity and excitement,” Miami WorldCenter by funding the effort and/or promoting it proposed to be a “blend of exceptional retail, with the community. restaurant, entertainment, hotel, residential, and commercial offerings in one unique

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Project Area I: Camillus Project Area J: Townpark Ownership House/UM Research District District General Boundaries: General Boundaries: North: NW 20th Street North: NE 20th Street South: NW 15th Street South: NW 16th Street East: I-95 East: NW 4th Avenue West: NW 7th Avenue West: I-95

Camillus House’s new home on a 3.1-acre lot Townpark Village is a cooperative housing adjacent to the intersection of US95 and 836. development by HUD for low income

The seven-building center will provide a “safe- families. Built in 1972, these 2 and 3-story haven” and services for up to 4,500 persons homes consist of 2, 3, and 4 bedroom units. each year who are homeless and in need of Homeownership has been a major theme to food, shelter, medical attention and job encourage redevelopment in the Overtown training. The new center will be built community and these residents have decided following the latest “green” construction guidelines, which will provide Camillus House to transition from co-ownership with HUD to with a significant reduction in operational private homeowners. costs.

The center, which is located in Miami’s health district, an area surrounded by other well- established medical, research and community service buildings, includes a central courtyard and a total of 340 beds including emergency shelter beds, rehabilitation and treatment beds, 80 permanent housing units and 64 beds for individuals in job training programs.

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9 #1-#6 supports all of the goals events, designing signs, street furniture The Projects and Programs for the CRA and public plaza spaces; and creating are organized into the following headings: Overtown promotional literature for tourism and I. Community Heritage and Historic The CRA proposes to build on the local marketing. Preservation historic character of the area by preserving and • Preserve, where feasible, surviving II. Promotion and Enhancement of revitalizing historically significant structures in Overtown and Park West as a buildings which represent important links Business and Investment Location the Redevelopment Area. Projects will be to persons, activities or events of major III. Planning, Development, Technical implemented following the completion of the significance in the past. Assistance and Program Compliance designation of the significant historic • Encourage new development to IV. Street Improvements, Utility Infrastructure and Transportation structures for rehabilitation. The Black incorporate uses which would contribute V. Home Ownership Pre-Qualification Archives, History & Research Foundation of to the vitality of the district such as stores, and Counseling Program South Florida, Inc.’s Master Plan identifies the nightclubs, restaurants, theaters. VI. Grants to Existing Business Program following objectives as a guide in the • Encourage new buildings to incorporate VII. Laredo/Re-Use Plan (CLUC 90 Properties) Program redevelopment process: selected design elements from the past The ordering and numbering of these which reflect special cultural or thematic projects are not intended to reflect a • Effectively communicate information and feelings which are relevant today and prioritization. The programs and develop broad based awareness and should be re-established. programs identified here should change appreciation of historic achievements of over time as projects are completed and the African-American community through Consideration will be given to the new projects become important. Each of exhibits, special events, tours, and the preservation of all of the identified historic the projects and programs has underneath media. buildings, wherever structural conditions and them check marks that illustrate which of • Develop a magnet area within the target cost of rehabilitation might be favorable. the goals set forth in Section 2 above they community for the purposes of: (1) re- However, recognizing that overall economic are supporting. establishing a special identity for Culmer- revitalization plans for Overtown require Overtown by focusing one era in its extensive new development, emphasis should I. Community Heritage and history, the "Little Broadway" jazz era; (2) be placed on preservation of the following Historic Preservation to establish interest in the Afro-Caribbean historic structures, which are considered to be heritage by encouraging tourism, trade of major importance, located within the

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Churches Street relationship to planned redevelopment sites, • Greater Bethel A.M.E. Church, 245 NW • Lyric Theatre, 819 NW 2nd Avenue potential for moving to a new site, potential 8th Street • Clyde Killens' Recreation Hall, NW 2nd sources of funding. Buildings to be of first • Mt. Zion Baptist Church, 301 NW 9th Avenue and NW 10th Street priority concern because of imminent threats Street of demolition, deterioration or vandalism • Building which was formerly the Lyric Public Buildings include: Church, NW 2nd Avenue and 8th Street, • Black Police Precinct and Courthouse, • Stirrup Building and the adjacent building 1009 NW 5th Avenue • Stewart-Scott Building • Ebenezer Methodist Church, 1042 NW • Dorsey Library, 100 NW 17th Street • Thomas Building 3rd Avenue • Ward Rooming House (only front • St. John’s Baptist Church, 1328 NW 3rd Residences remains with temporary structural Avenue • Dorsey House, 250 NW 9th Street support) • St. Agnes Episcopal Church, 1750 NW 3rd • Killens House, corner, NW 2nd Avenue • X-Ray Clinic Avenue and NW 11th Street Buildings that should be considered for Businesses The City of Miami, in conjunction with reconstruction (due to previous demolition or • X-Ray Clinic, 171 NW 9th Street the Black Police Benevolent Association, neglect) include: • Stirrup Building, the corner of NW 8th completely rehabilitated the former Police • Ward Rooming House Street and 3rd Avenue Precinct located at 5th Avenue and 11th Street • Cola Nip Building, formerly at 233-5 NW • Longshoreman's Hall, NW 2nd Avenue in Overtown. The building hasd been vacant 9th Street and NW 8th Street since 1990’s and was renovated to be used as a • Divine Mission Building • Stewart-Scott Building, NW 2nd Avenue Black Police Museum. In addition, the facility • Brown House and NW 10th Street was designed and equipped to promote • Dr. Davis' Office Building, NW 2nd cultural activities for and within the Overtown Park West Avenue and NW 10th Street community. Older structures located in Park West that • Judge L. E. Thomas' Office NW 2nd Possible preservation strategies must be have historic and cultural significance to the Avenue and NW 10th Street studied for each of the above buildings overall Miami Community should be • Ward Rooming House, NW 9th Street and individually. Among the factors to be preserved when economically feasible. Special NW 2nd Court considered are: ownership, need for repairs, attention will be given to the Freedom Tower. • Clyde Killens' residence & business, economic productivity, potential for new uses, Properties of major architectural, corner, NW 2nd Avenue and NW 11th eligibility for federal tax benefits, location and historical and/or contextual significance

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An African-American/Caribbean theme is A "Saturday Marketplace" where vendors would encourage selected elements of historic recommended to recreate the feeling and are allowed to set up in a designated street building forms to be incorporated into the atmosphere of "Historic Overtown". The block or public plaza, featuring ethnic foods, design of new buildings should be considered. establishment of an annual Historic Overtown crafts, fresh produce, artwork, a VIP Cultural Arts Festival reminiscent of the jazz Convention Center for local organizations 5. Establish a First-Class Residential era will provide the setting for jazz concerts to with national and international chapters, and a Village Containing a Cluster of be held within the proposed district. permanent center to exhibit ongoing Restored Buildings – The Folklife The establishment of an international collections unique to the black experience Village. cultural complex featuring activities would also increase the number of visitors to 9 #1-#6 supports all of the goals reminiscent of the nineteen thirties, forties, the area throughout the year. and fifties will provide artists with the The placement of distinctive street opportunity to receive training as well as to 4. Provide Incentives for Revitalization furniture wherever redevelopment plans call perform in concert. in “Historic Overtown” for new improvements to sidewalks and plaza Events that would aid in attracting people 9 #1 Preserving Historic Buildings & Community spaces such as paving, benches, signs, trash into the community include a national Heritage cans, landscaping, etc., and the development oratorical competition, hair styling contests, 9 #2 Expanding the Tax Base using Smart of landscaping standards utilizing historical tennis tournaments and other sporting events, Growth Principles and thematic plant materials can aid in culinary contests specializing in soul food 9 #3 Housing: Infill, Diversity, & Retaining achieving this goal. Public plaza, street, from the Caribbean and Southern States, and Affordability sidewalk and park improvements should be the establishment of a hall of fame with annual 9 #4 Job Creation designed to accommodate the special cultural recognition of national figures. Families from 9 #6 Improving the Quality of Life for Residents events the area will attract. all over the world will be encouraged to hold As a complement to the Historic Folk annual family reunions in Miami-Dade Incentives or requirements may be Life Village Master Pan, the CRA shall County, particularly in the Historic Overtown provided to attract retail stores at the ground promote public private partnerships including district. level on selected commercial blocks, and to partnerships with non-profit organization The establishment of specialty shops attract jazz clubs, permit-controlled street and/or development entities located and which feature products of Africa, the vendors, and outdoor markets. operating within “Historic Overtown” to Caribbean and the Southern States including Special zoning incentives in the HP develop the first-class residential village in a restaurants, caterers, photographer's studios Overlay Ordinance may be used for the manner consistent with “Historic Overtown”. specializing in passports, bookstores and art preservation of existing historic structures. galleries would help attract visitors to the area. Design guidelines for new construction that

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5a. Provide Planning, Coordination, use the theater as a venue for cultural support the increasing use of the Lyric and Technical Assistance to the programming, community meeting Theater and the eventual development of Historic Folklife Village facilities and an anchor for the Historic the Folklife Village. Development Overtown Folklife Village. The CRA will assist in The Black Archives, History & 6. Promotion of “Historic Overtown” as The Historic Folklife Village is Dade Research Foundation of South Florida, a Tourist Destination County's proposed African American Inc.’s on-going efforts to rehabilitate the 9 #1 Preserving Historic Buildings & Community heritage tourist destination. Plans were theater and make available related support Heritage proposed in 1997 and 1998 to guide the facilities. Assistance will include a right of 9 #5 Promotion & Marketing of the Community redevelopment of the tourist site by way for access to back of house related 9 #6 Improving the Quality of Life for Residents emphasizing reestablishment of mixed activities and potential parking. uses. The CRA will assist The Black The establishment of a Tourist Archives, History & Research Foundation 5c. Planning, Design and, information center which would direct tourists of South Florida, Inc. in providing a Development of Infrastructure to attractions, restaurants, hotel detailed survey, a complete economic and Improvements in the Historic accommodations, and historical sites functional evaluation of all the land uses Folklife Village throughout Miami-Dade County would serve and proposed development within the to mark “Historic Overtown” as a tourist Historic Folklife Village, and initiate any As a complement to the Historic destination. The placement of historic environmental assessments in order to Folklife Village Master Plan, the CRA will markers delineating historic sites (including assist in the efforts of developing the area. assist in providing technical assistance for sites now vacant or redeveloped) and the the provision of infrastructure establishment of tours of local historical sites 5b. Technical Assistance to Historic improvements, such as streetscape including bus tours to visit sites county-wide Lyric Theater Redevelopment improvements and landscaping. and mini-tours for sites within the district are among several strategies that can be used to The Lyric Theater is a performing 5d. Planning, Design and generate interest. arts theater that was the center of local Development of Parking Facilities “Historic Overtown,” especially those nightlife in its heyday. Located at NW 2nd to Support the Lyric Theater and areas along the historic NW 2nd Avenue Ave. and NW 8th St., it is currently under the Folklife Village corridor, should be developed in a manner to renovation by The Black Archives, create a tourist destination in suitable sites for History & Research Foundation of South The CRA proposes to assist with the commercial/tourist/cultural uses. As suitable Florida, Inc. Their primary objective is to development of parking facilities to sites for commercial/tourist/cultural uses

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continue to diminish within “Historic corridor. 8. Update Housing Policy, Periodically Overtown,” the need to insure the economic 9 #3 Housing: Infill, Diversity, & Retaining vitality of existing uses becomes more critical. 7. Establishment of Artists’ District by Affordability Therefore, economic conflicts between Legislation existing land uses must also be viewed from a 9 #1 Preserving Historic Buildings & Community The Housing Policy should be reviewed at perspective of improving and redeveloping Heritage least every two years. Changes will be made to existing commercial/tourist/cultural uses, 9 #4 Job Creation to the policy that increase, support, or where appropriate. 9 #6 Improving the Quality of Life for Residents maintain affordablity in the CRA as new The strategic objectives for the promotion outcomes are discovered by the current policy of “Historic Overtown” as a tourist The CRA will petition for the designation or as issues arrise from new development in destination are: of an Artists’ District for Overtown. The the neighborhood. (1) increase the number of commercial and Overtown area possesses a fascinating history cultural attractions, restaurant, hotel as a center of black culture and the focal point II. Promotion and Enhancement of accommodations and historical sites of area entertainment. This legacy is still seen Overtown and Park West as a offering information and memorabilia in its buildings, plazas and theaters. The Business and Investment about “Historic Overtown’s” rich establishment of an Arts District-would Location heritage to visitors; capitalize on these resources by directing (2) increase public visitation to historical future growth in a manner compatible with its 1. Seeking Public/Private Development resources within “Historic Overtown;” history. The establishment of legitimate Opportunities (3) provide public accessibility to cultural theater, writers, and artists’ workshops; and 9 #1-#6 supports all of the goals events within “Historic Overtown;” first class night clubs and restaurants should (4) increase the number of Overtown be encouraged based on the guidelines of the The CRA will search for, evaluate, and residents and visitors benefiting from Historic district. The establishment of advertise public-private development cultural activities each year; and manufacturing as well as other related opportunities that will utilize the land owned (5) coordinate with the Miami-Dade County businesses for the arts, i.e. manufacturing and by the CRA in a effort to further the goals of African-American Tourist Site Task Force distributing equipment and supplies for the Redevelopment Plan. This may include Board, and similar board, entities and dancing, music, art, etc. should also be tasks associated with: organizations to locate and develop encouraged. • coordinating with other private and business opportunities for tourist public entities for the development of attractions within “Historic Overtown,” surplus real property within the CRA. especially along the NW 2nd Avenue • offering land as part of public–private

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joint development projects. greater means, spending more than 19 billion consultants, has identified in its 2003 report to • coordinating efforts with Miami-Dade dollars nationally each year. This is identified the CRA an approach to attracting new County to do the same. in Project Area H, of this section. businesses to Overtown, with incentives and • Request the County to redevelop the The CRA will approach the hospitals and organization. Culmer Center to improve the facility confirm ZHA’s solicitation of the hospital’s The CRA will review the strategy and and help improve NW 3rd Avenue, or interest as a hospital-related real estate establish an Action Team for the purpose of seek a third party to joint venture with venture, part of the regionalization of attracting new businesses to Overtown. The the County. medical/health services. If there is interest on CRA may elect to call the committee by a • coordinating, and help facilitate in some behalf of the City and the hospitals to pursue name different from “Action Team.” To start, manner, an air conditioned garbage this idea, the CRA will also establish long the Action Team will focus on NW 3rd location accessible by all the businesses range planning committee devoted to finding a Avenue from the Culmer Center south to NW along the Promenade. This could be workable manner to construct and recruit 8th Street, the area identified in this plan as constructed as part of a new building or tenancy for the complex. See ZHA’s 2003 The core of Overtown, and along NW 1st by renovating an existing one. report for more details regarding this Avenue from I-395 south to NW 5th Street, Management of this facility should be committee. The location for this grouping of and along 11th Street and the Promenade. The taken on by one of the building medical related uses may occur elsewhere than CRA will keep the Action Team informed of managers for collecting fees, for along NE 7th or 8th Streets, provided it new residential projects as they are being example remains within the CRA. proposed to help in the effort to attract new businesses. 2. Investigation into Hospital-related 3. Establish an “Action Team for Real Estate Ventures Procurement” to enlarge the Business 4. Enhancement of Property 9 #2 Expanding the Tax Base using Smart Community Assessments and Options to Improve Growth Principles 9 #1 Preserving Historic Buildings & Community Values in the Vicinity of Camillus 9 #4 Job Creation Heritage House 9 #6 Improving the Quality of Life for Residents 9 #2 Expanding the Tax Base using Smart 9 #2 Expanding the Tax Base using Smart Growth Principles Growth Principles ZHA, Inc., has identified in its 2003 9 #4 Job Creation report to the CRA that there is potential in 9 #5 Promotion & Marketing of the Community Camillus House is a unique facility serving setting up and attracting a new business 9 #6 Improving the Quality of Life for Residents special needs and indigent populations. This market in preventative medical care to Park area of the CRA is in need of special attention. West, generally supported by people with ZHA, Inc., the CRA’s economic feasibility In order to promote growth along this

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segment of the Biscayne Boulevard entrance Growth Principles meeting area suited for passive gathering and into the City of Miami, the CRA is proposing 9 #4 Job Creation socializing, retail restaurants and other to research and implement specific options for 9 #5 Promotion & Marketing businesses uses and services. spurring growth in this key segment of Park 9 #6 Improving the Quality of Life for Residents West. Potential courses of action include 8. Development of a Professional improving deterrent uses, planning The creation of strategic partnerships Business Office enhancements and alternatives, and stabilizing between franchisers and minority urban based 9 #2 Expanding the Tax Base using Smart neighborhoods. businesses represents a market of untapped Growth Principles consumers, investors, and entrepreneurs. 9 #4 Job Creation 5. Property Assessment Reevaluation Location of these businesses along the 9 #2 Expanding the Tax Base using Smart corridor and impact area will give impetus for The CRA proposes to develop a Growth Principles the expansion and location of other professional office building within the Historic businesses. The CRA will continue its efforts Priority Business Corridor or its impact area. The property values in the CRA continue to identify, negotiate, and market the Historic If the building is constructed within the to appear under assessed. In 1998, the City of Overtown Priority Business Corridor to Historic Overtown Folklife Village, it should Miami requested that the Governor of Florida potential franchisers by offering favorable follow the design guidelines of the Historic undertake a review of the Dade County direct or indirect development incentives. Overtown Folklife Village Master Plan. Property Appraisal methodology and practice of assessing property values in the City of 7. Planning, Design, and Development of 9. Development and relocation of new Miami. The practice of undervalued a Job Creation Plaza Businesses to Overtown and Park assessments particularly related to commercial 9 #2 Expanding the Tax Base using Smart West property negatively impacts the incentives for Growth Principles 9 #2 Expanding the Tax Base using Smart a developer to invest in the area. The CRA 9 #4 Job Creation Growth Principles proposes to continue efforts to follow up on 9 #4 Job Creation this request. In order to help create critical mass along 9 #5 Promotion & Marketing the Historic Priority Business Corridor, the 9 #6 Improving the Quality of Life for Residents 6. Identification, Marketing and CRA is making plans to develop a job creation Negotiation of a National Franchiser plaza that will serve the local community and The CRA will provide marketing and as a Pioneer Project for the Historic other users. The plaza will be a pedestrian assistance for new and compatible businesses Priority Business Corridor friendly environment incorporating open to relocate to Overtown and Park West. 9 #2 Expanding the Tax Base using Smart space, landscaping, a much needed plaza or

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• Funding, and/or building off-street III. Planning, Development, The CRA will initiate the re-zoning of all parking spaces in any future Technical Assistance and properties within the Redevelopment Area, for redevelopment efforts within the CRA Program Compliance reasons described in Section 3 of this boundaries. Redevelopment Plan. Tasks will include: • Coordinating and facilitating efforts 1. Facilitation of the improvements • Funding this initiative and promoting it with the City of Miami that support the identified in each of the Project Areas within the community reform of off-street parking regulations 9 #1-#6 supports all of the goals • Hold workshops and meetings with the to reduce the unnecessary burden on community and the City of Miami private developers. For example, to Efforts regarding the Project Areas, as Planning Department to prepare the jump-start redevelopment, new described elsewhere in this section, will take first draft of an ordinance for a new businesses in existing buildings should precedence over other efforts being zoning district or districts for properties be exempt from parking requirements undertaken by the CRA. The Project Areas within the CRA. to reduce their startup costs and are: • Revise a subsequent draft of the therefore their financial risks • NW 1st Avenue ordinance. • Overtown (including Little Broadway - • Provide guidance and support for the 4. Miscellaneous Land Acquisition Lyric Plaza) re-zoning effort during the re-zoning 9 #1-#6 supports all of the goals • NW 3rd Avenue Neighborhood Center process. • Historic Overtown Priority Business The CRA proposes to acquire land, as Corridor 3. Increase Parking Supply necessary, to support the implementation of • West Overtown 9 #2 Expanding the Tax Base using Smart the projects described in this Redevelopment • Properties facing Biscayne Boulevard Growth Principles Plan within the Redevelopment Area. • The Promenade – Park West 9 #6 Improving the Quality of Life for Residents Acquiring more land for publicly accessible Entertainment District green space for active and passive recreational • NE 8th Street/Miami WorldCenter The CRA will examine ways to increase use will also be a priority. • Camillus House/UM Research Center the supply of parking within its boundaries. • Townpark Homeownership District Tasks may include: 5. Support for Greenways • Advocating, funding, and/or building 9 #6 Improving the Quality of Life for Residents 2. Changes to Land Development on-street parking spaces in any future Regulations streetscape or redevelopment efforts The CRA will assist, where possible, the 9 #1-#6 supports all of the goals within public rights-of-way. Trust for Public Land with implementation of

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their Overtown Greenprint Plan and Commission to make requests to the School specified in the Historic Overtown Folklife Greenway Plan within the Redevelopment Board as well. Since many of the schools Village Master Plan. Area. serving the CRA area are outside of the Redevelopment Area, the CRA can only fund, 8. Technical Assistance/Liaison to 6. Monitor Conditions At Public Schools if possible, improvements to those schools Optimist Club Activities Serving Students in the inside the boundaries. 9 #4 Promotion & Marketing Redevelopment Area 9 #6 Improving the Quality of Life for Residents 9 #3 Housing: Infill, Diversity, & Retaining 7. Create and Design an Overlay of Affordability Special Fencing for all CRA-owned The CRA proposes to continue to provide 9 #6 Improving the Quality of Life for Residents properties and others governmental assistance and support to the Optimist Clubs and non-profit institution owned in terms of policy guidance, assistance with The CRA will send an individual or small properties within its jurisdiction in local governmental organizations, and other committee to each of the public schools that Overtown technical assistance. serve students that live within the 9 #6 Improving the Quality of Life for Residents Redevelopment Area. Since the quality of 9. Plan Improvements of the Overtown schools is often the number one factor for Historically, public agencies that own land Parks: Gibson Park, Williams Park, chosing where to buy a house, the intention of maintain the properties vacant while Reeves Park, Dorsey Park and Athalie this project is for the CRA to help improve redevelopment occurs or is proposed and this Range #1 Mini-Park the neighborhood schools where possible. does not give redeveloping communities a 9 #6 Improving the Quality of Life for Residents The purpose of the school visits is to look for: look that is pleasing and does not do much for • Physical improvements that can better the image of the area. The CRA proposes to According to a report by the Trust for the appearance of the schools create and design an overlay of special fencing Public Land, parks and recreational • Review the performance of the students in the Bahamian, Caribbean style for all CRA opportunities are important to all as compared to other local, state and owned properties and for other properties communities. The lack of adequate national public schools within its jurisdiction to transform an recreational space has been an element of • Overcrowding or under utilization of otherwise challenging situation into an contention in the studies of urban violence. the facilites opportunity to provide the Historic Business Inadequate parks ranked above unemployment Corridor and its impact areas with a linking and difficulties with police amongst the most The CRA will record observations and element that will provide character within a significant problems within the inner city make recommendations and requests to the historic framework. The fencing should be neighborhoods. This realization was behind School Board. The CRA may ask the City compatible with the design parameters the creation and support of the Safe

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Neighborhoods Parks Bond Program. should be in accordance with the Historic to their permit application submissions to the Unfortunately, neighborhoods such as Overtown Folklife Village Master Plan. City. The purpose of the meeting is for the Overtown have the least park land and the Efforts to be coordinated with the Trust for CRA to encourage and negotiate for as much fewest facilities with the most difficulty in Public Land in implementing their affordable housing as possible in each new improving and maintaining the existing areas. Greenway/Greenprint Plan, and with The developemnt. The CRA will not offer The CRA will coordinate efforts with the City Black Archives, History & Research assistance of any kind to developers unless the of Miami’s Parks and Planning Departments Foundation of South Florida, Inc., Overtown developers comply with the CRA’s Housing to provide for incentives to allow for the Civic Partnership and the City of Miami in Policy. creation of additional park/green space and implementing these gateways and preserving for the maintenance of such recreational areas. the historic context of the area. IV. Street Improvements, Utility The CRA may produce schematic designs for Infrastructure, and facility improvements and public safety 11. Update the Housing Policy Transportation measures within the parks. 9 #1 Preserving Historic Buildings & Community

Heritage 1. Streetscape Projects 10. Development of a "Gateway" Project 9 #3 Housing: Infill, Diversity, & Retaining 9 #1 Preserving Historic Buildings & Community into the Omni and the Affordability Heritage Overtown/Park West Areas 9 #5 Promotion & Marketing of the Community 9 #1 Preserving Historic Buildings & Community The CRA will adopt a new housing policy 9 #6 Improving the Quality of Life for Residents Heritage and will update it periodically as changes occur

9 #5 Promotion & Marketing of the Community in the market places and as property values The CRA has begun or completed shift from time to time. streetscape design and construction in a few of The CRA proposes to study and evaluate the Project Areas. The CRA will continue the the potential of entry features for the 12. Promote Affordable Housing to efforts to conclude those projects that have entrances into the Omni Area at the I-395 exit, Developers not begun or been completed. The 11th Street and Biscayne Boulevard and into 9 #1 Preserving Historic Buildings & Community streetscape projects include: the Southeast Overtown Area at NW 14th St. Heritage 1. 9th Street Pedestrian Mall and connections with I-395, I-95, and NW 3rd 9 #3 Housing: Infill, Diversity, & Retaining 2. The Promenade (between 10th and 11th Ave., at NW 3rd Ave and NW 8th StSt. and at Affordability Streets) NW 4th Ave. and NW 8th St. Specific entry 3. NW 3rd Avenue (south of I-395) for the features for the Park West Area will also be The CRA will meet with developers of Historic Priority Business Corridor determined. Entry features for Overtown projects within the Redevelopment Area prior

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4. NW3rd Avenue (north of I-395) CRA efforts are concentrated on planning access, and privacy problems associated 5. NE/NW 11th Street (Entertainment infrastructure improvements in the with properties along the rail and transit District) Redevelopment Area, such as street routes 6. NW 1st Avenue improvements, landscaping, lighting, parking • Assisting in the decision making and pedestrian amenities, and enhancements. process of possible changes to I-395 Additional streetscape projects may be Coordination with local and state agencies and I-95 as the MPO continues its included in the future. Related tasks may responsible for implementing these study and discussion regarding the include infrastructure improvements, as well as private removal or reconfiguration of those two • regular maintenance of lighting, street developers and community members, federal highways. furniture, landscaping, and paving becomes paramount to set priorities, materials. coordinate and avoid duplication of efforts, 3. Pedestrian Compatible Community • acquiring the services of engineers or and find new avenues to pursue resources. Transit System landscape architects. Tasks may include: 9 #6 Improving the Quality of Life for Residents • Discussions FEC and Miami-Dade • Upgrades to water mains and sewer County Public Works to change the mains, by implementing actual The CRA will review, and act accordingly configuration of NW 1st Avenue. This reconstruction or by subsidizing the towards the work of Thomas Gustafson and Avenue has historically been the divider upgrades performing others. Nova Southeastern University related to the between Overtown and Park West, and • Collaborating with the MPO to return development of a pedestrian compatible the redesign is needed to make it the one-way streets back into two-way community transit system to link all Southeast unifier. streets. Overtown, Park West, and the nearby Central • Improving pedestrian features such as Business District and Omni areas, as described 2. Coordination of Infrastructure crosswalks that are more visible to in the Miami at Midnight report. The Report Improvements with City of Miami and motorists or securing easements or also describes the possibility of a large Miami Public Works Departments, access for pedestrian routes separated pedestrian zone adjacent to the Miami Dade Water and Sewer from the roadways. Overtown/Arena Metrorail Station to enhance Department, FDOT, Miami Parking • Influencing the decision to subdivide intermodal transfers. Authority and Other Relevant larger blocks into smaller ones with the Agencies creation of new streets. 4. Pilot Infrastructure Improvement and 9 #2 Expanding the Tax Base using Smart • Increasing public on-street parking in Maintenance Program Growth Principles rights-of-way. 9 #2 Expanding the Tax Base using Smart 9 #6 Improving the Quality of Life for Residents • Assisting with solutions to any noise, Growth Principles

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9 #4 Job Creation Village Master Plan. 9 #2 Expanding the Tax Base using Smart 9 #6 Improving the Quality of Life for Residents Growth Principles V. Home Ownership Pre- 9 #4 Job Creation 9 The CRA will establish for Overtown and Qualification and Counseling #6 Improving the Quality of Life for Residents Park West a pilot street cleaning, sweeping Program The CRA proposes to assist in creating program and a grass cutting program, 9 #1 Preserving Historic Buildings & Community jobs by providing technical assistance with primarily for security reasons, for the areas of Heritage Section 108 loan applications and the CRA and maintain a closer coordination 9 #3 Housing: Infill, Diversity, & Retaining administering a revolving loan pool, which will with existing property owners and the Affordability make low interest, low downpayment, long Downtown Development Authority, and the 9 #6 Improving the Quality of Life for Residents terms loans in the amount of $25,000 to $1 City of Miami. million for business improvement projects to The CRA will coordinate efforts with the area businesses. Tasks may include: 5. Plan, Coordinate, and Design Special City of Miami, local real estate organizations, • facilitating grants, Lighting; Security District (Pedestrian mortgage lenders and community bankers, • technical assistance to business owners, Enhancements) community development corporations, faith- • architectural and design services for 9 #2 Expanding the Tax Base using Smart based institutions, consumer advocates, and building or façade renovation or new Growth Principles residents to implement a home ownership pre- construction 9 #6 Improving the Quality of Life for Residents qualification and counseling program which

will provide homeownership training sessions, VII. Laredo/Re-Use Plan (CLUC Security is an important issue in the area. market public sector assistance programs, and 90 Properties) Program The CRA proposes to provide pedestrian assist in pre-qualifying home buyers. Services 9 #1 Preserving Historic Buildings & Community enhancements, special lighting, and create a will be accessible to existing Overtown Heritage more pedestrian friendly atmosphere in the residents. The program is intended to provide 9 #3 Housing: Infill, Diversity, & Retaining Redevelopment Area by developing and basic financial literacy training, job training, Affordability implementing a Security and Lighting District education and other supportive services for and a Police Enhancement Program, including The CRA will continue to support people with extremely low incomes that can the Entertainment District, the 9th Street development proposals that utilize current not qualify for home ownership. Pedestrian Mall, and Sawyers Walk. Within vacant government owned and County Land the Historic Overtown Folklife Village, VI. Grants to Existing Businesses Use Code (CLUC) 90 properties located lighting should be consistant with the within the Redevelopment Area. The CRA 9 #1 Preserving Historic Buildings & Community character identified in the Historic Folklife will liaise with Miami-Dade County in clearing Heritage

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Comparison Chart: Goals and Supporting Projects

The charts on the next four pages list each of the projects and programs and identify which of the goals they primarily support.

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Goal #1: Goal #2: Goal #3: Goal #4: Goal #5: Goal #6: Comparison Chart: Preserving Expanding the Housing: Creating Promotion Improving Goals and Supporting Projects Historic Tax Base using Infill, Jobs within & the Quality Buildings & Smart Growth Diversity, & the Marketing of Life for Community Principles Retaining Community of the Residents Project Names Heritage Affordability Community

I. Community Heritage and Historic Preservation

1. Renovation of Historically Significant Buildings * * * * * *

2. Historic Designation *

3. Promote and/or Organize Activities and Events That Recreate the Former Vitality and Atmosphere of the * * Community 4. Provide Incentives for Revitalization in “Historic * * * * * Overtown” 5. Establish a First-Class Residential Village Containing a * * * * * * Cluster of Restored Buildings, The Folklife Village. 5a. Provide Planning, Coordination, and Technical Assistance to the Black Archives Historic Folklife * * * * * * Village Development 5b. Technical Assistance to Historic Lyric Theater * * * * * Redevelopment 5c. Planning Design and Development of Infrastructure Improvements in the Historic Folklife * * * * * * Village 5d. Planning, Design and Development of Parking Facilities to Support the Lyric Theater and the * * * * * Folklife Village Historic Preservation

6. Promotion of “Historic Overtown” as a Tourist Destination * * *

7. Establishment of Artists District by Legislation * * *

8. Update Housing Policy, Periodically *

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Comparison Chart: Goal #1: Goal #2: Goal #3: Goal #4: Goal #5: Goal #6: Preserving Expanding the Housing: Creating Promotion Improving Goals and Supporting Projects Historic Tax Base using Infill, Jobs within & the Quality (Continued) Buildings & Smart Growth Diversity, & the Marketing of Life for Community Principles Retaining Community of the Residents Project Names Heritage Affordability Community

II. Promotion and Enhancement of Overtown and Park West as a Business and Investment Location

1. Seeking Public/Private Development Opportunities * * * * * *

2. Investigation into Hospital-related Real Estate Ventures * * * 3. Establish an “Action Team for Procurement” to * * * * * enlarge the Business Community 4. Enhancement of Property Assessments and Options to * Improve Values in the Vicinity of Camillus House 5. Property Assessment Reevaluation * 6. Identification, Marketing and Negotiation of a National Franchiser as a Pioneer Project for the Historic Priority * * * * Business Corridor 7. Planning, Design and Development of a Job Creation * * Plaza 8. Development of a Professional Business Office * * 9. Development and relocation of new Businesses to Overtown and Park West * * * *

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Comparison Chart: Goal #1: Goal #2: Goal #3: Goal #4: Goal #5: Goal #6: Preserving Expanding the Housing: Creating Promotion Improving Goals and Supporting Projects Historic Tax Base using Infill, Jobs within & the Quality (Continued) Buildings & Smart Growth Diversity, & the Marketing of Life for Community Principles Retaining Community of the Residents Project Names Heritage Affordability Community

III. Planning, Development, Technical Assistance and Program Compliance

1. Facilitation of the improvements identified in each of * * * * * * the Project Areas 2. Changes to Land Development Regulations * * * * * * 3. Increase Parking Supply * * 4. Miscelaneous Land Acquisition * * * * * * 5. Support for Greenways * 6. Monitor Conditions At Public Schools Serving Students * * * in the SEOPW CRA 7. Create and Design an Overlay of Special Fencing for all CRA owned properties and others governmental and non- * profit institution owned properties within its jurisdiction in Overtown 8. Technical Assistance/Liaison to Optimist Club * * Activities 9. Plan the Improvements of the Overtown Parks: Gibson Park, Williams Park, Reeves Park, Dorsey Park and Athalie * Range #1 Mini-Park 10. Development of a "Gateways" Project into the Omni * * and the Southeast Overtown Park West Areas 11. Update the Housing Policy * * 12. Promote Affordable Housing to Developers

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Comparison Chart: Goal #1: Goal #2: Goal #3: Goal #4: Goal #5: Goal #6: Preserving Expanding the Housing: Creating Promotion Improving Goals and Supporting Projects Historic Tax Base using Infill, Jobs within & the Quality (Continued) Buildings & Smart Growth Diversity, & the Marketing of Life for Community Principles Retaining Community of the Residents Project Names Heritage Affordability Community

IV. Street Improvements, Utility Infrastructure, and Transportation

1. Streetscape Projects * * *

2. Coordination of Infrastructure Improvements with City of Miami and Miami Public Works Departments, Miami * * Dade Water and Sewer Department, FDOT, Miami Parking Authority and Other Relevant Agencies 3. Pedestrian Compatible Community Transit System * 4. Pilot Infrastructure Improvement and Maintenance * * * Program 5. Plan/Coordinate/Design Special Lighting, Security * * District (Pedestrian Enhancements)

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Introduction caused by existing or inadequate others, as they will with their 5-year infrastructure. improvement plan. This section identifies the primary capital Areas outside of the Project Areas may improvements, their costs, and timeframe for Prioritizing Capital need improvements too, such as water and implementation. It is not the intent of this sewer upgrades, parking structures and parking section to serve as an implementation plan or Improvements shuttles. These will be evaluated as to their as an operations budget. The CRA has an The approach to prioritizing improvement impact on furthering the efforts in the specific independent operation strategy and budget projects focuses on key Project Areas Project Areas. that will identify capital improvements among described in Section 4. These Project Areas its other projects and expenses. The known are characteristically unique and show the and desired capital projects listed in this plan greatest potential for immediate positive are prioritized. It should be expected that this change. section will become obsolete over time as Place Corridors projects get completed and new ones become important to the community, which is the The Project Areas set forth in Section 4 reason for a separate budget strategy. do not encompass the entire Redevelopment Area, but when started, should attract interest Capital Improvement Goals in the community and spark additional private The goals for making capital investment within the Redevelopment Area. improvements within the Redevelopment Area The idea behind concentrating efforts in small are: areas is to totally transform them, creating as 1) Eradicate the visual blight seen from dramatic and visible an impact as possible. streets and public places within the When money is spent evenly throughout the CRA to upgrade the appearance to entire CRA, it is difficult to see where the attract new investors and money has gone. By focusing the efforts, development. people will see what the larger area will be like 2) Protect the health and safety of the as revitalization spreads, inspiring additional residents by improving the private reinvestment. performance of the City’s First Priority should go towards efforts infrastructure systems. within the Project Areas. The CRA Board will 3) Remove or diminish negative impacts decide if certain projects rank higher than

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Potential Funding Sources Capital Improvement Costs by It is important for the CRA staff to Project Area 4. Projects budgeted for FY 2003-2004 Projects budgeted for the Fiscal Year coordinate with the City and County staff to Each Project Area has improvements 2003 – 2004 have been added to the Project leverage or match tax increment funds with itemized as: Area they serve. Some currently budgeted Federal, State, and locally available funds. 1. Streetscape Improvements projects affect multiple project areas and are Sources include but should not be limited to: Streetscape improvement estimates listed under the category of “Other Capital • Capital programs for the City, County include costs associated with pavement, curbs, Improvements.” or other local governmental entities. sidewalks, concrete pavers, drainage,

• Community Development Block landscaping, utilities, signage, and pavement

Grants. markings. The construction costs were • Federal, State, and local Transportation prepared from information in the Draft Trust Funds Report for the Southeast Overtown / Park • People’s Transportation Plan funded West Redevelopment Plan dated September through the local option half-penny 2003. The costs exclude structures and any sales tax and overseen by the Citizens right of way acquisition. Independent Transportation Trust. • Federal, State, and Local Park Funds. 2. Water Main • Partnerships with educational Water Main estimates include costs for institutions. upgrading underground mains that provide • New Market Tax Credits water service to the properties. Hookup fees are not included.

3. Sewer Sewer estimates include costs for upgrading underground sewer pipes that provide solid waste disposal from adjacent properties. Hookup fees are not included.

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Capital Improvements by Project Area

Project A - NW 1st Avenue Project A - NW 1st Avenue OVERALL EST. COST: $5,297,400

Overall Priority: Medium Future Items: The visual nature of the street needs ITEM LINEAR FT COST / Lin. Ft. COST improvement since the railroad right-of-way is NW 1st Avenue Streetscape 3,600 $1,120 $4,032,000 rather unsightly. This avenue can become a Water Main $306,000 linear park (with transit & rail) with similar Sanitary Sewer Main $76,500 buildings and uses on both sides of the track, so that the two areas become more unified in TOTAL: $4,414,500 character. 20% Contingency $882,900 TOTAL: $5,297,400 First Steps – High Priority Discussion should begin immediately with FEC to find out their intentions for the right- of-way and to find the possibility of modifying the roadways on both sides as described in this plan, which will require acquisition of portions of the right-of-way.

Project F - Biscayne Boulevard No items are listed for Biscayne Boulevard because improvements within the right-of-way are part of current projects in the planning stage by the Florida Department of Transportation.

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Project B - Overtown - Little Project B - Overtown Broadway OVERALL EST. COST: $10,340,887 Future Items: Overall Priority: High ITEM LINEAR FT COST / Lin. Ft. COST Overtown is the heart of the African- NW 11th. St. 1,500 $750 $1,125,000 American community. The CRA will NW 10th. St. 1,500 $750 $1,125,000 reinforce its previous investments in the NW 9th. St. 1,500 $750 $1,125,000 neighborhood by focusing its present efforts NW 1st. Ct. 450 $750 $337,500 and resources here to get results. NW 2nd. Ave. 1,400 $750 $1,050,000

NW 3rd. Ave. 1,400 $750 $1,050,000 Current Improvements identified in the Water Main $281,925 budget for FY 2004: Sanitary Sewer Main $70,481 • Grant to Lyric Theater expansion Land Acquisitions (after FY04) $1,500,000 • Grant to Renovation of Ward Rooming House Historic Folk Life Village Tech. Assistance (after FY04); Type: Grant 100,000 • Land Acquisitions (including appraisals, SUBTOTAL: $7,764,906 environmental, etc.) 20% Contingency $1,552,981 • Grant for Historic Folk Life Village Food TOTAL: $9,317,887 Franchise Items currently listed in the budget for FY2004: Lyric Theater expansion Type: Grant To be determined Ward Rooming house renovation Type: Grant 8,000 Land Acquisitions (including appraisals, environmental, etc.) 1,000,000 Historic Folk Life Village Food Franchise Type: Grant 15,000 TOTAL: $1,023,000

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Project C - NW 3rd Avenue Project C - NW 3rd Avenue Neighborhood Center OVERALL EST. COST: $6,111,750 Neighborhood Center

Future Items: Overall Priority: Medium ITEM LINEAR FT COST / Lin. Ft. COST This project provides attention to the northern portion of Historic Overtown’s NW 3rd Ave. 1,500 $750 $1,125,000 Business Corridor (NW 3rd Avenue) that was NW 7th. St. 1,000 $750 $750,000 sliced in two by the creation of I-395. NW 4th Ave. 1,250 $750 $937,500

NW 14th. St. 340 $750 $255,000 First Steps – High Priority Provide streetscape improvements similar NW 15th. St 340 $750 $255,000 to Project D – Historic Overtown Priority NW 16th. St. 340 $750 $255,000 Business Corridor. NW 16th. Terr. 780 $750 $585,000

I-395 Frontage Road 550 $850 $467,500 Water Main $370,500 Sanitary Sewer Main $92,625 SUBTOTAL: $5,093,125 20% Contingency $1,018,625 TOTAL: $6,111,750

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Project D - Historic Overtown Project D - Historic Overtown Priority Business OVERALL EST. COST: Corridor $12,711,250 Priority Business Corridor Future Items:

ITEM LINEAR FT COST / Lin. Ft. COST Overall Priority: High This corridor is the historic main street NW 11th. St. 1,400 $750 $1,050,000 along NW 3rd Avenue. Portions of this area NW 10th. St. 1,400 $750 $1,050,000 also fall within the Folk Life Village. The NW 9th. St. 1,600 $750 $1,200,000 CRA will reinforce its previous investments in NW 8th. St. 1,800 $750 $1,350,000 the neighborhood by focusing its present efforts and resources here to get results. NW 7th. St. 1,800 $750 $1,350,000 NW 3rd. Ave./I-95 Exit 450 $750 $337,500 Current Improvements identified in the NW 4th. Ave. 700 $750 $525,000 budget for FY2004: NW 5th. Ave. 1,200 $750 $900,000 • Facade Program on NW 3rd Avenue between 8th Street and 14th Street. NW 6th. Ave. 1,200 $750 $900,000 NW 7th. Ave. 1,200 $750 $900,000 Water Main $157,500 Sanitary Sewer Main $39,375 SUBTOTAL: $9,759,375 20% Contingency $1,951,875 TOTAL: $11,711,250 Items currently listed in the budget for FY2004:

Façade Program on NW 3rd Avenue between 8th Street and 14th Street 1,000,000 TOTAL: 1,000,000

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Project E – West Overtown Project E – West Overtown OVERALL EST. COST: $4,101,750

Overall Priority: Medium West Overtown is the core of the area Future Items: added to the Redevelopment Area west of I- ITEM LINEAR FT COST / Lin. Ft. COST 95, but east of NW 7th Avenue. NW 3rd Ave. 1,500 $750 $1,125,000 NW 14th. St. 400 $750 $300,000 First Steps – High Priority NW 13th St. 400 $750 $300,000 See Section 4, Projects and Programs (Project E) for actions that do not require NW 12th. St. 400 $750 $300,000 capital improvements. NW 11th. St 400 $750 $300,000 NW 10th. St. 400 $750 $300,000 Water Main $634,500 Sanitary Sewer Main $158,625 SUBTOTAL: $3,418,125 20% Contingency $683,625 TOTAL: $4,101,750

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Project G - The Promenade

Project G - The Promenade OVERALL EST. COST: $6,993,000 Overall Priority: High

The Promenade occupies the former municipal railroad right-of-way owned by the Future Items: CRA in the burgeoning Entertainment ITEM LINEAR FT COST / Lin. Ft. COST District. The CRA will reinforce its previous Miami Ave. 700 $750 $525,000 investments in the neighborhood by focusing Grand Promenade 1,800 $750 $1,350,000 its attention here to get results. Additional N 11th. St. 1,800 $750 $1,350,000 parking, shuttles to distant parking locations, and changes to the land development N 10th. St. 1,800 $750 $1,350,000 regulations are urgently needed to support the NE 1st. Ave. 700 $750 $525,000 recently renovated businesses on NE 11th NE 2nd. Ave. 700 $850 $525,000 Street. Water Main $162,000

Current Improvements identified in the Sanitary Sewer Main $40,500 budget for FY 2004: SUBTOTAL: $5,827,500 • Security Cameras for the Entertainment 20% Contingency $1,165,500 District, however there is no cost identified. TOTAL: $6,993,000 • Interim Promenade construction: to clean

up, pave a center lane, and add landscaping

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Project H - NE 8th Street/ Project H - NE 8th Street / Miami WorldCenter OVERALL EST. COST: $3,315,938 Miami WorldCenter Future Items: Overall Priority: Low ITEM LINEAR FT COST / Lin. Ft. COST Priority should be raised if property Miami Ave. 500 $750 $375,000 owners or elected officials show stronger interest in the concept as described in Section NE 6th. St. 700 $750 $525,000 4, Projects and Programs, and further NE 7th. St. 700 $750 $525,000 described in the market analysis performed for NE 8th. St. 700 $750 $525,000 the CRA by ZHA, Inc. NE 1st. Ave. 500 $750 $375,000

NE 2nd. Ave. 500 $850 $375,000 Water Main $50,625 Sanitary Sewer Main $12,656 SUBTOTAL: $2,763,281 20% Contingency $552,656 TOTAL: $3,315,938

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Capital Improvement Costs - Not Project Area Specific

There are capital improvement projects within the Redevelopment Area that are needed outside of the specific project areas and some that address problems that face all Other Capital Improvements OVERALL EST. COST: $19,431,119 areas within the Redevelopment Area. These typically connect or “link” the city Future Items: infrastructure and mobility of people living, ITEM COST working, shopping, and visiting the Redevelopment Area. Property Maintenance $146,000 WASD – Infrastructure Improvements – Major entertainment commercial corridors (first effort to include: 3rd Avenue, 14th Street, 11th Street, 2nd Avenue) $2,000,000

WASD – Impact Fee Reduction Subsidized Loan Program $300,000

Entertainment Grants $200,000 Other Capital Improvements Developer Construction Loans (leveraged) via Grow Miami Fund $2,000,000 Overall Priority: High Grants to private property owners for existing structures $1,905,000 The items in this category are listed in the 11th Street Expansion PD&E in FY2004 $150,000 FY 2004 Budget, except for the Water Main 11th Street Expansion PD&E beyond 2004 $5,850,000 and Sanitary Sewer Main items shown at the 9th Street Streetscape Phase 3 $1,400,000 very bottom of the list. Water Main $4,360,443 Sanitary Sewer Main $1,119,676 TOTAL: $19,431,119

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Community Intermodal System

Projects in this category include various Intermodal system improvements in the Community Intermodal System, 2004 - 2012 OVERALL EST. COST: $30,900,000 context of the redevelopment of the CRA and are subject to intermodal designations and the Future Items: availability of grants and appropriations of ITEMS: COST Federal and State transportation trust funds. Intermodal Connectors for Freight, Goods, and Passengers Overall Priority: High These pedestrian and vehicular access improvements include substantial Time is of the essence to attract Federal street, mixed-mode corridor and greenway improvements as described in funding for these improvements. the Miami at Midnight report. Additionally the SEOPW CRA should use these improvements to enhance future Amtrak-Florida East Coast (FEC) Breakdown of the item: Intermodal service options for Overtown and Park West $6,000,000 Connectors for Freight, Goods, and Parking Structures and Parking Shuttles Passengers, (shown in chart, right) The pedestrian-oriented parking structures and associated parking line buildings will help establish the urban form of the walking environment. Intermodal Connectors: $6.0 Million The parking shuttle vehicles will help extend the travel distance of the • Passenger zone Intermodal improvements pedestrian trip and thereby improving the Intermodal access between • Freight Intermodal Facility Improvements Port of Miami, , Metrorail, Metromover, I-95,and Miami International • Additional Intermodal Improvements Airport. (and Amtrak when FEC service is established) $23,400,000 would be scheduled for implementation Contingencies and Incentive Fees after 2012 costing approximately Every large capital project needs to reserve funds for contingencies and $76Million incentive fees to better manage project costs and to meet the completion schedule (remainder 3.3 million for contingencies and incentive fees for Breakdown of the item: Parking Structures work scheduled after 2012). $1,500,000 and Parking Shuttles (shown in chart, right) TOTAL: $30,900,000 Vehicles and infrastructure: $ 8.4 Million • Promenade to I-395 Parking Loop

(Demonstration Project) • Central Loop (connecting Cultural Community Intermodal System, After year 2012 OVERALL EST. COST: $110,300,000 Buildings) • NW 3rd Avenue Loop • Miami Avenue Area Loop ***** Note: The costs referenced in the charts above are further described in the Miami at Midnight report, Section H, Order of Magnitude Cost, on pages 19 through 24. (Breakdown is continued on next page)

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Breakdown of the item: Parking Structures • The Promenade and Parking Shuttles (continued from prev. page) Revisions to the development regulations should be completed and adopted by year end 2004. All the • Additional Routes (per Miami at Midnight remaining projects, provided efforts to obtain Report) would be scheduled for implementation after 2012 costing additional funding are successful, should be completed approximately $10 million. by 2012.

Parking Structures: $ 12 Million • For 800 Spaces x 15K per space • Structures associated with additional Routes (per Miami at Midnight Report) would be scheduled for implementation after 2012 costing approximately $18 Capital Improvement Costs -Summary million. Capital Improvements Summary OVERALL EST. COST: $99,203,094

Transit Barn $ 3 million • With Shared Freight Loading Facilities and Maintenance Facilities (5K sq. ft.) BY PROJECT AREA: COST • Expansion associated with additional Project A - NW 1st Avenue $5,297,400 Routes (per Miami at Midnight Report) Project B - Overtown would be scheduled for implementation $10,340,887 after 2012 costing additional $3 million. Project C - NW 3rd Avenue Neighborhood Center $6,111,750 Project D - Historic Overtown Priority Business Corridor $12,711,250 Timeline for Improvements Project E – West Overtown $4,101,750 Everyone familiar with the area will Project F – Biscayne Boulevard ***Funded by FDOT*** $ 0 express the concern that time is of the Project G - The Promenade $6,993,000 essence. Every project is important. Projects Project H - NE 8th Street Spine $3,315,938 in the 2004 Budget should be completed by SUBTOTAL: $48,871,975 the year end of 2006. Substantial NOT PROJECT AREA SPECIFIC: accomplishments to the projects deserving the Other Capital Improvements $19,431,119 highest priority should be completed by 2008. Community Intermodal System $30,900,000 These are: • Overtown, SUBTOTAL: $50,331,119 • NW 3rd Avenue, and

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Neighborhood Overview Overtown residents reside in largely low-rise, about 35% of its residential units owner older rental development scattered throughout occupied. In 2002, almost 50 percent of The Redevelopment Area has a wide the community. There is a large homeless Overtown’s households earned less than range of land uses because of its proximity to population and an outdated homeless feeding $15,000 per year. The population of the CRA the Central Business District. facility in Park West that the City of Miami is area has increased by 2.9% between 1990 Park West, the eastern part of the in the process of providing assistance in (6,599) and 2000 (6,792). Redevelopment Area, predominantly has old relocating. The existing population in warehouses that once contained businesses Southeast Overtown is considerably younger The following are residential that relied on the proximity of the Port of and poorer than the City of Miami and Miami- characteristics in surrounding areas: Miami, when it was located at what is now Dade County as a whole, and reflects a slightly • Northeast of the Redevelopment Area is Bicentennial Park. Park West is now home to higher median household size. The existing the Omni Redevelopment Area. The one sports stadiums - American Airlines Arena households in Southeast Overtown are more Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing (Miami Arena – demolished in September likely to be headed by single head of Arts of Miami-Dade County (“PAC”) was 2008), the Network Access Point (NAP) household than the City of Miami as a whole. completed in 2006 and serves as a catalyst facility that provides computer data storage Unemployment rates in the community are to draw new people, businesses and related services, three large residential towers, also higher than the rates for the City and residents into that area. North of the an expansion of the Wolfson Campus of County. PAC between Biscayne Boulevard and Miami-Dade Community College, and several Overtown is comprised of small Biscayne Bay are several new multi-family new nightclubs catering to the “after hours” neighborhood businesses, churches, single residential towers under construction market. family homes and apartment buildings, with and/or recently completed. The majority of the existing residents in the latter being the most dominant. • North of the Redevelopment Area, the Park West reside in the three towers located According to ZHA’s 2003 Economic conditions are similar to Overtown. on NW 1st Avenue near the former Miami Programming Study, a review of the 1990 and Redevelopment efforts within the Arena site, while four new luxury mixed-use 2000 US Census and Claritas market research Redevelopment Area can only have a residential towers were development during service data shows that homeownership is very positive effect on its northern neighbors. the recent real estate boom from 2003-2007. low in Overtown, about 10%. This low • Southwest and West of the This represents a potential increase in new homeownership rate is a reflection of the low Redevelopment Area is the Miami River middle to upper income residents to the Park household incomes in the community and the and the Spring Garden neighborhood. West area but the recent recession, occupancy lack of affordable homeownership The river has mostly industrial uses, but of these edifices will proves to be a challenge development in the community. For future loft style apartments and mixed use for the next 2-5 years. The Southeast comparison, the City of Miami as a whole has developments have been advertised on

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signs posted at various properties. Spring c) Includes design features and new rental and homeownership Garden is a stable residential considerations that contribute to the developments to be affordable to low neighborhood primarily of single family livability of the community and very low-income families, with homes, separated from western Overtown d) Furthers the development of best efforts being made to serve by the Seybold canal. “workforce” housing through existing Overtown residents. • To the south is the Central Business partnerships with employers located d) Assisting developers, who provide District with mostly government related in and surrounding the community, rental housing serving families, buildings on the southern edge of the including the use of Employer including seniors, earning below 50% Redevelopment Area. Assisted Housing models of the area median income, to secure • Northwest of the Redevelopment Area is 2) A goal for the level of affordable housing project based assistance for those the hospital area comprised of several that should be made available in the units. hospitals, doctors’ offices, and related Redevelopment Area of, at least, 20% of e) Ensuring that existing supportive businesses and research facilities. any new development or rehabilitation of housing is better integrated into the • To the East are properties facing Biscayne existing housing stock, to be periodically community, and expanding Bay, including Bicentennial Park and the reviewed for results. supportive housing models to address American Airlines Arena. Two museums 3) Affordability can be achieved by: the unmet needs of existing residents. are anticipated for Bicentennial Park, (to a) Working with both non-profit and f) Ensuring adequate funding of and be renamed “Museum Park”). for-profit developers to help them access to mortgage subsidy programs find redevelopment opportunities and for existing families who seek Housing Policy to assist with overcoming obstacles homeownership opportunities in the The following items constitute the CRA’s they may encounter. community. Policy toward Housing, both market rate and b) Developing and supporting programs affordable: that will assist in the development of Relocation Policy housing that is affordable to lower- As stated in this Redevelopment Plan’s 1) The CRA will only endorse, support, income families by providing Housing Policy, it is the CRA’s goal and intent encourage, assist or initiate housing developer incentives such as density to retain, improve and increase the housing initiatives that will do their part to: bonuses, parking concessions and stock in the Redevelopment Area and not to a) Improve living conditions for all project subsidies. replace it with a non-residential use.

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requires the involuntarily displacement of have created some real and psychological modifications to NE/NW 5th and 6th Streets anyone from either a rented or owned housing barriers; however there are several locations to have three travel lanes in each direction, unit, the project proposal must contain a where the city streets pass under or over the and additional ramps on to I-95 for Project Relocation Plan which adheres to all highway. The FEC Railroad, which runs along northbound traffic, and traffic westbound on applicable laws and regulations. The Project NW 1st Avenue, interrupts circulation for SR836, The Dolphin Expressway. This Relocation Plan must be approved by the both pedestrians and motorists in several project was recently rejected by the MPO so CRA Board in a publicly noticed CRA Board locations. efforts to determine new alternatives should meeting prior to any final approval of the For this Redevelopment Plan’s proposed be undertaken. project. traffic changes, see Section 3, Hypothetical Transportation capacity is controlled by If any future projects were to require Build-out Plan: “Transportation System: the downtown’s DRI agreement relocation and CRA funding were to be Mobility and Access.” The primary change (Development of Regional Impact). The local “partnered” with Federal funds, the CRA shall proposed is returning many of the streets from circulation is addressed on a project by project make it a condition of its participation that all a one-way configuration back to two-way basis in the Major Use Special Permits provisions of the Uniform Relocation streets. The current conditions appear to (MUSP). Assistance Act are met. This strategy adheres make it easy for visitors to enter Overtown, to the requirements of Chapters 163 and 421, but confusing to leave. The current roadways Environmental Quality Florida Statues. should handle the projected increase in Redevelopment will improve Through the Housing Policy and residential units, since the same city streets environmental quality due to existing Relocation Policy described in this accommodated a former population of 40,000 provisions in the City’s building permit Redevelopment Plan, the existing residents in 1960. The population in 2000 was 6,792, an process. Miami-Dade County’s Department within the Redevelopment Area who may be increase from 6,599 in 1990. Also, public of Environmental Resource Management temporarily or permanently displaced as a transit serves Overtown rather well, which did reviews all new construction permits to insure result of redevelopment activities directly not exist in 1960. health standards are followed. Asbestos supported by the CRA will have access to safe, Further community transit and transit testing is required for existing buildings that sanitary and decent replacement housing. access improvements will be explored related are to undergo renovation. The County’s to Airport to Sea Port Metrorail linkages Health Department must also approve any Traffic Circulation through the Overtown/Arena Station and water and sewer changes, restaurants, The network of streets within the other possible livable community intermodal hospitals, clinics, and schools. Redevelopment Area is the typical Miami system improvements. Miami Dade Water and Sewer “grid.” The older portions of Overtown have FDOT is proposing changes for the Port Department (“M-DWASD”) provides water smaller blocks. The I-95 and I-395 Highways of Miami traffic, which will include and sewage services and runoff drainage for

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the Redevelopment Area. M-DWASD has Since the projected population growth for not factor them into their formulas. Factors upgraded their standards which means that the Redevelopment Area is difficult to that can affect the projections of the school nearly all new construction and renovations estimate given the large development impact analysis: within the Redevelopment Area will require potential, two scenarios were calculated using 1) Increases in zoning causing additional upgrades to the water service lines, given the the School Impact Review Analysis Process residential units beyond existing age and smaller diameter of the existing water (see Section 10, Appendix C). Based on this zoning. lines. analysis, substantial numbers of new residents 2) A lowering of the student drop-out Locations of concern within the will require the construction of new schools or rate, primarily affecting the high Redevelopment Area are those locations that major additions to existing ones. If every school level. once had industrial uses and gas stations, property in the Redevelopment Area was built 3) A large percentage of new residents which are primarily in Park West, along the out to its maximum potential, with current sending their children to charter or FEC railroad tracks, and along NW 7th zoning, Miami-Dade Public Schools will need private schools. Avenue. to double the size of Booker T. Washington High School and add multiple middle and Miami-Dade County Public Schools is Effect on School Population elementary schools assessing their facilities and the number of In 2000, the population of the Currently with the low utilization of the students since Florida voters passed a Redevelopment Area was 3,904. The average one high school serving the neighborhood, referendum in 2002 requiring a mandatory household size in the 2000 Census for Miami- 2000 to 3000 more residential units can be classroom size reduction in public schools. Dade County was 2.90, which means there are added to the school district and stay within The deadline for this is the 2008-9 school year. approximately 1,347 households. Using capacity limits. That is not true for the middle In 2008, Miami Dade County Public Schools Miami-Dade County Public School’s five-step and elementary schools. The two middle implemented a school concurrency system School Impact Review Analysis Process, this schools serving the area are both currently which allows them to receive information suggests that there are currently overcrowded. The elementary schools are from the all local municipalities to determine approximately: currently underutilized but new development the amount of future growth a community can • 238 school children enrolled in elementary generates more students at the elementary anticipated based on new/proposed school; level. development or redevelopment.. This will • 130 school children enrolled in middle The analysis only took into account the also impact the students living in the school; and public schools, not charter schools. The Redevelopment Area. • 151 school children enrolled in high student population in the charter schools can school. come from outside the Redevelopment Area • 519 total students (estimated) and Miami-Dade County Public Schools does

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Current Schools serving the reasons, have been unsuccessful in a professional careers in the arts. Redevelopment Area include: traditional high school. Facilities accommodate approximately 160 young School for Advanced Studies, Elementary Schools: adults. Instructional program is tailored Wolfson Campus Frederick Douglass Elementary to the needs of the individual student. Provides an accelerated, full-time dual Paul Laurence Dunbar Elementary Through a partnership with Communities enrollment program (high school & Phillis Wheatley Elementary In Schools of Miami, Inc., students college) at Miami-Dade Community Riverside Elementary participate in mentoring programs that College. include opportunities to explore careers in Elementary Charter Schools: many of Miami's larger companies. Young Men’s Preparatory Academy Mater Academy East Charter School Provides a rigorous curriculum along with Rosa Parks Charter School Overtown Jobs for Miami Training Academy positive role model using intensive study Provides vocational and educational of Sean Covey’s “The Seven habits for Magnet / Elementary Alternative Schools: training for adults, young adults, out of Highly Effective Teens.” Ada Merritt Elementary school youth, dislocated workers, welfare A commuter school within close recipients and refugees. Community Facilities and proximity to the Redevelopment Area, Services providing a dual language education: Community Facilities and Services in and English plus Spanish or Portuguese. Miami Skills Center near the Redevelopment Area: Provides basic education, and technical • Parks / Public Spaces Secondary Schools: and career development skills. o Bicentennial Park [to be renamed Jose de Diego, Middle School “Museum Park”] Booker T. Washington Senior High New World School of the Arts o Gibson Park A state-supported school cooperatively o Athalie Range Park Secondary Charter Schools: administered by the Miami-Dade County o Lyric Plaza Downtown Miami Charter School Public Schools, Miami-Dade Community o Culmer Center’s grounds Mater Academy East Charter School College, and the University of Florida. o Williams Park The grades 9-12 program provides a o Rainbow Village Park Magnet / Alternative Secondary Schools: comprehensive educational sequence of o Henry Reeves Park Corporate Academy North artistic training, academic and creative o Lummis Park Accommodates students who, for various development and preparation for

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• Service, Meeting, & Recreational Centers • Entertainment Venues tree planting. o Culmer/Overtown Neighborhood o Historic Lyric Theater The CRA has identified that new zoning Center, o Adrienne Arsht Center for the regulations are needed with design guidelines. o The Overtown Youth Center Performing Arts of Miami-Dade The intention of the design guidelines is to o Freedom Tower County ensure that both publicly and privately o Accion Community Action Agency o Bicentennial Park [to be renamed constructed buildings are attractive and Service Center (CAA), 858 West “Museum Park”] support the need for pedestrian access, Flagler Street, (305) 547-4892 o American Airlines Arena comfort, and safety. o Wynwood Neighborhood Center o Bayfront Park and Amphitheater Proposed new developments at the time (DHS), 2902 NW 2nd Avenue, (305) o Gusman Center of writing this amendment all provide a mix of 547-7661 uses including residential, making it possible to • Public Transit live and work within walking distance or • Churches o Metrorail (two stations) transit. o Central Baptist Church o Metromover (five stations) The greatest asset of this community is its o Greater Bethel A.M.E. Church o Metrobus, (many routes) location. The Central Business District is o Mount Zion Baptist Church within walking distance, it is served by public o St. Johns Baptist Church transit, and it is centrally located in Miami- o St. Agnes Episcopal Church Physical and Social Quality Dade County. o St. Peter’s Catholic Church Until recently, Park West and Overtown have been overlooked as a desirable place to • Educational live and work. With the attraction of the Park o University of Miami Medical Campus West Entertainment District during evening (Jackson Hospital) and early morning hours, and with the o Miami-Dade Community College, anticipated spill-over effect of the Performing Wolfson Campus, Arts Center, expansion of the Historic Lyric o The Culmer/Overtown Branch Theater, and new proposed market rate and Library, Miami-Dade County Library affordable housing, the physical character of System the Redevelopment Area is about to change. o Main Library, Miami-Dade County Recent projects from the CRA have been geared toward beautification of the public rights-of-way with sidewalk improvements and

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The Redevelopment Plan shall be managed market value in accordance with h. To apply for financing and to borrow through the items specified in this section. Section 163.380, Florida Statute; money from the Federal The CRA shall conform to all requirements c. Demolishing and removing existing Government, the State, the County, and standards as designated by the structures, landscaping, or previous the City or other public body or from Community Redevelopment Act of 1969. The improvements to real property or any public or private sources in the CRA is entitled to undertake all activities facilities; and form of loans, bonds, grants, under the Act, as it may be modified from d. Installing, constructing, or rebuilding contributions, and any other form of time to time. streets, sidewalks, utilities, parks, financial assistance to be used for playgrounds, and public spaces. redevelopment activities; Powers of the CRA 4) Within the Redevelopment Area: i. To acquire air rights which shall be The CRA shall be empowered to engage a. To make inspections, surveys, used for implementing in the activities set forth in Section 163.370, appraisals, soundings, or test borings redevelopment projects; Florida Statutes, which include the following: on private property; j. To appropriate funds and pay 1) To write and execute contacts and other b. To conduct environmental tests and expenditures as necessary to perform implementation means that may be surveys on private property; the actions identified in this plan; necessary or timely to exercise its powers c. To purchase, lease, option, gift, grant, k. To organize, coordinate, and direct under the Community Redevelopment or bequest, any real property together the administration of redevelopment Act. or without any other improvements; activities, projects, and programs the 2) To distribute information regarding d. To hold, improve, clear or prepare City of Miami and/or Miami-Dade community redevelopment to the for redevelopment any acquired real County; community’s residents, property owners, property; l. To establish community parking elected officials, and activists. e. To mortgage, pledge, hypothecate or projects; 3) To commence with community otherwise encumber or dispose of m. To fund pilot programs to market redevelopment and related activities any property; activities within the Redevelopment within the Redevelopment Area, which f. To enter into contracts that are Area; and, may include: necessary for any redevelopment n. To establish a community a. Acquisition of property by purchase, activities, projects or programs; development entity under the U.S. lease, option, gift, grant, bequest, g. To solicit requests for proposals, Treasury New Market Tax Credit devise, or other voluntary method of requests for qualification, and bid Program; acquisition. solicitation for redevelopment o. To establish, implement and fund b. Disposition of property at its fair activities; community policing innovations.

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5) The CRA shall be permitted to issue capital improvements or projects which to the City on behalf of an applicant; redevelopment revenue bonds and other are not an integral part of or necessary for or financial instruments in accordance with carrying out the community c. Independently close or vacate public Section 163.385, Florida Statutes. Bonds redevelopment plan if such projects or rights-of-way. issued under this section do not constitute improvements are normally financed by indebtedness within the meaning of any the governing body with user fees or if The CRA Board shall not have the power constitutional or statutory debt limitation such projects or improvements would be to grant final approval of this Redevelopment or restrictions as they apply to the City of installed, constructed, reconstructed, Plan and future revisions. Miami or Miami-Dade County. repaired, or altered within 3 years of the 6) The CRA may exercise all or any part in approval of the community Authority to Undertake combination of redevelopment powers as redevelopment plan by the governing Redevelopment prescribed in the Community body pursuant to a previously approved This Redevelopment Plan has been Redevelopment Act. public capital improvement or project prepared in accordance with the Florida schedule or plan of the governing body Community Redevelopment Act, Chapter 163, Powers not assigned to the which approved the community Part III of the Florida Statutes. The adoption redevelopment plan, SEOPW CRA of this Redevelopment Plan and any later 3) General government operating expenses The following activities may not be paid modifications or amendments shall follow the unrelated to the planning and carrying out for or financed by increment revenues, but procedures set forth in Chapter 163, Part III. of a community redevelopment plan. may be purchased through alternative funding By adopting this Redevelopment Plan, the sources: CRA is authorized to perform “community Regarding zoning and land development 1) Construction or expansion of redevelopment” as defined in Section regulations, the CRA shall not have the power administrative buildings for public bodies 163.340(9), Florida Statutes. to: or operational police and fire buildings, The CRA is the government agency that a. Independently zone or rezone unless each taxing authority agrees to such oversees and monitors development within property; however the CRA can method of financing for the construction the Redevelopment Area, and as such, all recommend and advocate zoning or expansion, or unless the construction development projects proposed within its changes to the City of Miami; or expansion is contemplated as part of a environs must be presented before the CRA b. Grant variances or exceptions from community policing innovation. Board prior to the City of Miami granting zoning, building regulations, or life- 2) Installation, construction, reconstruction, approval of the project. safety codes.; however the CRA can repair, or alteration of any publicly owned request such variances and exceptions

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Future Amendments to this Redevelopment Plan This Redevelopment Plan is an amendment and update to the original 1982 Plan. In the future, this Redevelopment Plan may need to be amended as new, innovative projects eligible for tax increment revenues are proposed for the area. Amendments to the Plan shall be in accordance with Section 163.361, Florida Statutes. The CRA Board will initiate any amendment action by adopting a resolution recommending that the Miami City Commission adopt the proposed amendment to the Plan, and requesting transmittal to Miami-Dade County for approval by the Board of County Commissioners. The original “Findings of Necessity” should be reaffirmed with regard to the proposed modification or amendment. Should any provision of the Community Redevelopment Plan, including later revisions, be found to be invalid, unconstitutional or illegal, such provision shall not affect the remaining portions of the Plan.

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Safeguards & Assurances State of Florida Statutory Technical Item Section Safeguards to Ensure Redevelopment Requirements Legal Description 1 Activities Follow the Redevelopment Plan Diagram Showing The Community Redevelopment Act of 1969 Open Space 3 requires that specific elements be included in 1) The CRA shall file an annual financial every redevelopment Plan. The chart to the Diagram Showing report by March 31 of each year with right identifies the location for each of those Street Layout 3 Miami-Dade County, and the City of elements within this Master Plan Report. Limitations On Miami. This annual report shall contain a Massing, Intensity And 3 programmatic overview of the public Density and/or private funded activities of the Properties For Parks CRA as allowed by the Redevelopment And Other Public Use 3 Plan. Neighborhood Impact 6 2) The CRA shall file a Five Year Capital Program budget with the City of Miami, Publicly Funded 5 for inclusion in the City’s Five Year Capital Improvements Comprehensive Plan, and update this Safeguards And 7 budgeting document annually. Assurances 3) The CRA Board shall be fully subject to Retention Of Controls the Florida Sunshine Law and meet at And Restrictions With 7 least on a monthly basis in a public forum. Land Sales 4) The CRA shall provide adequate Residential Use- 2 & 6 safeguards to ensure that all leases, deeds, Affordability contracts, agreements and declarations of Costs 5 restrictions relative to any real property conveyed shall contain restrictions and Timeline 5 covenants running with the land and its uses, or other such provisions necessary

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further ensure that such conveyance owners and business tenants within the be provided to inform the public of the comply with the requirements of Section Redevelopment Area preference for re- availability for review of the Annual Audit 163.380, Florida Statutes. entry into business, provided the business and Annual Financial Report. 5) The CRA shall continue to acquire is compatible with the uses, theme and 2) All CRA tax increment financing (TIF) property and to convey such interest to quality of development in the funds shall be held in a Redevelopment developers and investors for Redevelopment Area and that the Trust Fund separately from other funds as redevelopment. business owner or tenant has the financial required by Florida Statutes. 6) The CRA shall promote the use of land ability to operate the business consistent 3) The SEOPW CRA shall request specific pooling to provide existing property with the overall integrity of the goals and objectives from developers that owners with an opportunity to participate redevelopment district. utilize Tax Increment Financing (TIF) in the redevelopment as an equity partners funds. in return for the use of the private owners Safeguards to Ensure Financial land for such development. Accountability Safeguards to Ensure Proper 7) The CRA shall present a Regulatory Plan 1) The CRA shall maintain adequate records Implementation and to the City of Miami for adoption and to provide for an annual external audit Project/Program Accountability continue to recommend zoning changes which shall be conducted by a 1) The CRA shall establish measurable goals consistent with the Redevelopment Plan. knowledgeable Certified Public and objectives for each activity it 8) The CRA shall request to the City that all Accountant. The findings of the audit administers and/or funds. proposals for new development, once shall be presented at a public meeting of 2) The CRA shall coordinate with related reviewed by the City administration, shall the CRA Board and such findings shall be agencies, entities, community based be forwarded to the CRA for review and forwarded to the City of Miami and organizations and stakeholders, consistency with the Redevelopment Plan. Miami-Dade County by March 31 of each specifically including the Water and Sewer 9) The CRA shall request specific goals and year for the preceding fiscal year which Authority (WASA), the City and County objectives from developers that utilize shall run from October 1 through Public Works, Capital Improvement Tax Increment Financing (TIF) funds. September 30. The annual Audit Report Projects, and Planning departments to 10) The CRA shall require a Local shall be accompanied by the CRA’s ensure the proper planning, budgeting and Participation Agreement for all Annual Financial Report and shall be implementation of projects. development projects occurring within the provided to the City of Miami, and 3) The CRA shall hold public hearings on Redevelopment Area. Miami-Dade County and shall be made the following at its monthly Board 11) The CRA shall, or will require the available for public review. Legal notice Meetings: developer to provide existing business in newspapers of general circulation shall a. Report and status on its programs

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and projects (the “Activities”) . behalf of the CRA. The CRA shall b. Gather input from property recommend that the City resist resorting to owners, citizens and interested such proceedings, because of its costly nature parties regarding redevelopment which is further typically perceived as a non- activities; and collaborative action by property owners in the c. Discuss strategies to resolve local Redevelopment Area. In the event that redevelopment issues property owners are unwilling to participate in the redevelopment, despite the provision of Providing for a Time-Certain and financial and technical assistance, the CRA Severability shall recommend to the City of Miami that The term of the CRA shall be through the year eminent domain proceedings commence. 2030, or through the end of the fiscal year in . which any outstanding bonds are retired, whichever is later.

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Definitions compared to the remainder of the county agreement or agreements with the agency or or municipality; by resolution, that the area is blighted. Such The following terms, wherever used or (h) Tax or special assessment delinquency agreement or resolution shall only determine referred to in this part, have the following exceeding the fair value of the land; that the area is blighted. For purposes of meanings: (i) Residential and commercial vacancy rates qualifying for the tax credits authorized in Blighted Area higher in the area than in the remainder of chapter 220, "blighted area" means an area as the county or municipality; defined in this subsection. An area in which there are a substantial (j) Incidence of crime in the area higher than number of deteriorated, or deteriorating in the remainder of the county or structures, in which conditions, as indicated by Board or Commission municipality; government-maintained statistics or other A board, commission, department, division, (k) Fire and emergency medical service calls studies, are leading to economic distress or office, body or other unit of the county or to the area proportionately higher than in endanger life or property, and in which two or municipality. the remainder of the county or more of the following factors are present: municipality; (a) Predominance of defective or inadequate Community Policing Innovation (l) A greater number of violations of the street layout, parking facilities, roadways, A policing technique or strategy designed to Florida Building Code in the area than the bridges, or public transportation facilities; reduce crime by reducing opportunities for, number of violations recorded in the (b) Aggregate assessed values of real property remainder of the county or municipality; and increasing the perceived risks of engaging in the area for ad valorem tax purposes (m) Diversity of ownership or defective or in, criminal activity through visible presence of have failed to show any appreciable unusual conditions of title which prevent increase over the 5 years prior to the police in the community, including, but not the free alienability of land within the finding of such conditions; limited to, community mobilization, deteriorated or hazardous area; or (c) Faulty lot layout in relation to size, neighborhood block watch, citizen patrol, (n) Governmentally owned property with adequacy, accessibility, or usefulness; adverse environmental conditions caused citizen contact patrol, foot patrol, (d) Unsanitary or unsafe conditions; by a public or private entity. neighborhood storefront police stations, field (e) Deterioration of site or other

improvements; interrogation, or intensified motorized patrol. However, the term "blighted area" also (f) Inadequate and outdated building density means any area in which at least one of the patterns; Community Redevelopment Agency factors identified in paragraphs (a) through (n) (g) Falling lease rates per square foot of A public agency created by, or designated are present and all taxing authorities subject to office, commercial, or industrial space pursuant to Section 163.356, Florida Statutes. s. 163.387(2)(a) agree, either by interlocal

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Community Redevelopment Area Mixed-Mode Corridor affordable housing, whether for rent or for A slum area, a blighted area, or an area in A street limited to pedestrian, bicycle and sale, to residents of low or moderate income, which there is a shortage of housing that is transit movements for all or part of the day including the elderly, and may include slum affordable to residents of low or moderate and night. clearance and redevelopment in a community income, including the elderly, or a coastal and redevelopment area or rehabilitation and tourist area that is deteriorating and Public officer revitalization of coastal resort and tourist areas economically distressed due to outdated Any officer who is in charge of any that are deteriorating and economically building density patterns, inadequate department or branch of the government of distressed, or rehabilitation or conservation in transportation and parking facilities, faulty lot the county or municipality relating to health, a community redevelopment area, or any layout or inadequate street layout, or a fire, building regulations, or other activities combination or part thereof, in accordance combination thereof which the governing concerning dwellings in the county or with a community redevelopment plan and body designates as appropriate for community municipality. may include the preparation of such a plan. redevelopment. Real Property Related Activities Community Redevelopment Plan All lands, including improvements and fixtures Either: A plan, as it exists from time to time, for a thereon, and property of any nature 1) Planning work for the preparation of a community redevelopment area. appurtenant thereto or used in connection general neighborhood redevelopment plan therewith and every estate, interest, right, and or for the preparation or completion of a Federal Government use, legal or equitable, therein, including but communitywide plan or program pursuant The United States Government or any agency not limited to terms for years and liens by way to Section 163.365, Florida Statutes. or instrumentality, corporate or otherwise, of of judgment, mortgage, or otherwise. 2) The functions related to the acquisition the United States. Redevelopment or Community and disposal of real property pursuant to Housing authority Redevelopment Section 163.370, Florida Statutes. 3) The development of affordable housing A housing authority created by and established Undertakings, activities, or projects of a for residents of the area. pursuant to Chapter 421, Florida Statutes. county, municipality, or community redevelopment agency in a community 4) The development of community policing Increment Revenue redevelopment 0area for the elimination and innovations. The amount calculated pursuant to Section prevention of the development or spread of 163.387, Florida Statutes. slums and blight, or for the reduction or prevention of crime, or for the provision of

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Slum Area An area having physical or economic conditions conducive to disease, infant mortality, juvenile delinquency, poverty, or crime because there is a predominance of buildings or improvements, whether residential or nonresidential, which are impaired by reason of dilapidation, deterioration, age, or obsolescence, and exhibiting one or more of the following factors: (a) Inadequate provision for ventilation, light, air, sanitation, or open spaces; (b) High density of population, compared to the population density of adjacent areas within the county or municipality; and overcrowding, as indicated by government-maintained statistics or other studies and the requirements of the Florida Building Code; or (c) The existence of conditions that endanger life or property by fire or other causes.

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Directory Chairperson, Miami, Florida 33130 Telephone: (305)250-5390 Telephone: (305)416-1800 Updating this directory from time to time E-mail: [email protected] E-mail: [email protected] does not constitute a revision to this redevelopment plan. Commissioner Marc Sarnoff Department of Community Development

Vice-Chairperson Main Number (305) 416-2080 Southeast Overtown/Park West Community Telephone: (305)250-5333 George Mensah, Director Redevelopment Agency E-mail: [email protected] Telephone: (305) 416-2099 James Villacorta, Executive Director

E-mail: [email protected] Commissioner Angel Gonzalez, Planning Department 49 NW 5 Street, Suite 100 Miami, Fl 33128 Board Member Main Number: (305) 416-400 Telephone: (305) 679-6800 Telephone: (305)250-5430 Fax: (305) 416-1435

E-mail: [email protected] Ana Gelabert-Sanchez, Director Miami Dade County Telephone: (305) 416-1435 Board of County Commissioners Commissioner Joe M. Sanchez,

Audrey Edmonson, District 3 Board Member Economic Initiatives Division Stephen P. Clark Center E-mail: [email protected] City Manager’s Office 111 N.W. 1st Street, Suite 220 Telephone: (305)250-5380 Main Number (305) 416-1400 Miami, Florida 33128 Fax: (305) 416-2156 Telephone (305) 375-5393 Commissioner Tomas P. Regalado, Lisa Mazique, Director Email: [email protected] Board Member Telephone: (305) 416-1411 E-mail: [email protected]

Dennis C. Moss, District 9 Telephone: (305)250-5420 Chairperson, Board of County Public Works Department Commissioners City of Miami Main Number (305) 416-1200 111 N.W. 1st Street, Suite 320 Pedro G. Hernandez, City Manager Stephanie Grindell, Director Miami, Florida 33128 3500 Pan American Drive, Miami, FL 33133 E-mail: [email protected] Telephone (305) 375-4832 Telephone: (305)250-5400 Email: [email protected] E-mail: [email protected] Building Department Main Number (305) 416-1100 CRA Board of Commissioners Julie O. Bru, City Attorney Hector Lima, Director Commissioner Michelle Spence-Jones, 444 SW 2nd Avenue, Suite 945 E-mail: [email protected]

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Overtown Community Oversight Board Collins Center for Public Policy Beacon Council Inc. Saliha Nelson, Chairperson 150 SE 2nd Avenue Suite 703, 80 SW 8 Street, Suite 2400, Miami, FL 33130 1600 NW 3 Ave, Bldg C Miami, FL 33131 Telephone: (305) 579-1300 Miami, FL 33128 Telephone: (305) 377-4484 www.beaconcouncil.com Telephone: (305) 573-8217 www.collinscenter.org Habitat for Humanity Overtown Civic Partnership & Design St. Johns CDC Anne Manning, Director Center David Alexander, President/CEO 9350 S. Dadeland Blvd., Suite 200 Philip Bacon, Executive Director 1324 NW 3 Avenue, Miami FL 33136 Miami, Florida Dorsey House Telephone: (305) 372-0682 Telephone: (305) 670-2224

250 NW Ninth Street .Miami, FL 33136 www.miamihabitat.org St. Agnes CDC Phone: 305-416-3301 Fax: 305-416-3302 2031 NW 4th Court Miami FL 33136 www.overtown.org Florida Department of Transportation Telephone: (305) 573-6885 District VI Secretary

The Black Archives, History & Research 1000 NW 111th Avenue Miami, FL 33172 Mt. Zion CDC Foundation of South Florida, Inc. Telephone: (305) 470-5197 Don Patterson, Director 819 NW 2 Avenue, Miami, FL 33136 Fax (305) 470-5610 301 NW 9 St, Miami, FL 33136 Telephone: 305-636-2390 General Information: (305) 470-5349 Telephone: (305) 379-4147 Fax: (305) 636-2391 www.dot.state.fl.us

The Overtown Youth Center The Trust for Public Land Carla Penn, Executive Director 7900 Red Road, Suite 25 450 NW 14th Street, Miami FL 33136 South Miami, FL 33143 Telephone: (305) 349-1204 Telephone: (305) 667-0409

www.tpl.org Local Initiatives Support Corporation

(LISC) BAME Development Corporation of 150 S. E. 2nd Ave., Suite 911 South Florida Miami, FL 33131 245 NW 8th Street, Miami, Florida 33136 Telephone: (305) 381-7967 Telephone: (305) 373-7233 Fax (305) 372-1890 Fax: (305) 373-8915 www.liscnet.org

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Prepared by the City of Miami Planning and Appendix A 1979 -1980 Zoning Department, this plan stated to the Overtown Redevelopment Plan State of Florida the need for a Community Previous Planning Work for Prepared by the City of Miami Planning and Redevelopment Agency, and specified projects the area Zoning Department with extensive citizen and operations for the CRA. Although the review, this plan was for the larger Overtown plan was modified over the following few

community, not just the CRA boundaries. years, it is now out of date, which has led to 1973 This plan was adopted by both the City of the Community Redevelopment Plan to which Urban Development and Zoning Plan. Miami and Miami-Dade County. Portions of this appendix is attached. The 1982 This report recommended redevelopment of this plan that referred to Southeast Overtown redevelopment plan was reviewed and the area north of the port access road to I-395 were incorporated into the original SEOPW modified over a six-month period by the between N.W. 1st Avenue and Biscayne Community Redevelopment Plan. Southeast Overtown/Park West Ad Hoc Boulevard, later designated as Park West. This Committee that included representatives of recommendation was incorporated within the 1979 - 1981 the Overtown and Park West communities MCNP in 1976. Miami Park West, A Redevelopment Program and provided a forum for community

for Downtown Miami concerns. 1976 Prepared by Wallace, Roberts and Todd Miami Comprehensive Neighborhood Plan (WRT), American Cities Corporation, and 1986-87 (MCNP) Parsons Brinckerhoff Quade and Douglas, this Omni Area Redevelopment Plan, September A Comprehensive Plan is required by the State plan called for land purchase of a 16-block 1986 of Florida for every municipality. Miami’s area, extensive clearance and redevelopment Prepared by the City of Miami Planning Comprehensive Plan provides the framework of the industrial area into a residential and Department, this is the Community for the overall development of the City of commercial community. The focal point of Redevelopment Plan for the Omni Area CRA. Miami. This plan is periodically updated and the plan was a large linear green space linking continues to guide the City’s decisions. In Overtown to Bicentennial Park. This plan was August 1984 1976 Development opportunities were incorporated into the 1982 SEOPW Design Standards and Guidelines for the identified for the CRA area within this Community Redevelopment Plan. Southeast Overtown / Park West document including the establishment of an Redevelopment Project in-town residential community and This document was prepared by the redevelopment opportunities made possible by 1981-82 Downtown Development Authority for the the expanded transit system. SEOPW Community Redevelopment Plan SEOPW CRA. These standards contain many

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common sense practices for treating pavement Master Plan for Historic Overtown Folklife Coast Regional Planning Council and and landscaping on public streets. The Village, May 1997. produced through a grant from the Florida guidelines however reinforce a plan that is This plan was prepared by Duany, Plater- Department of Community Affairs to the heavily dependent upon a wide landscaped Zyberk & Company as an update to the 1989 South Florida Regional Planning Council for pedestrian mall, an idea since widely plan for the Black Archives. It offers new Eastward Ho initiatives. SFRPC brought in discredited nationally. The small segment of implementation strategies for the previous the Treasure Coast Regional Planning Council the pedestrian mall that was constructed on plan. to provide a community design charrette NW 9th Street in the late 1980’s has already workshop and produce a detailed plan for all been re-opened to traffic. 1998 of Overtown. Many local architects and NW 3rd Avenue Priority Business Corridor. planners participated along with local property February 1989 This document prepared by Bermello-Ajamil owners and residents. The plan showed how The Historic Overtown Folklife Village, & Partners, Inc for the SEOPW CRA the community can redevelop over time with Master Plan / Urban Design Guidelines. examines the physical existing conditions small incremental improvements and This plan and accompanying guidelines were along this historic commercial corridor. reinvestment, unlike typical grand schemes. prepared for the Black Archives, History and Recommendations are also included to Unfortunately the plan failed to capture the Research Foundation of South Florida, Inc. by stimulate business. excitement needed in the investment Ronald E. Frazier & Associates. The plan community and official circles, and is surveys a three block area of historic buildings September 1999 perceived by some members of the and offers architectural guidelines for City of Miami Community Redevelopment community as the latest in a string of broken buildings. Agency, Fiscal Year 2000 and 5-Year Plan promises. 2000-2004, Budgeted Projects and Programs 1989 Prepared by the SEOPW CRA, this document March 2000 Downtown Miami Master Plan 1989 lays out the current five-year plan of programs Housing Needs and Potential of the This document was prepared by the City of and expenditures. Projects and programs Overtown / Park West Area Miami Department of Planning, Building, & from this document have been included in the This document was prepared by Reinhold P. Zoning and the Downtown Development SEOPW Community Redevelopment Plan. Wolff Economic Research, Inc. for South Authority. This plan was officially adopted by Florida Partnership Office Fannie Mae. It is a the City Commission in 1989 and continues to March 2000 market housing study. guide decision making for the downtown. Overtown, Redevelopment Area Design Charrette Report Spring 2000 May 1997 This document was prepared by Treasure History of the City of Miami, a brief summary

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of its past in pictures, maps and writings streetscape guidelines. transportation trust funds and to develop such This was prepared by students at the improvements as a community intermodal University of Miami School of Architecture October 2002 system. under the directions of professors Allan Overtown Greenprint Plan Shulman and Adolfo Albaisa. This is not a Prepared by the Trust for Public Land, The planning document but rather a summary Greenprint Steering Committee, and Glatting showing how Downtown Miami has changed Jackson Kerscher Anglin Lopez Rinehart Inc. over the years. The Greenprint Plan is a strategic plan to design and build an interconnected system of urban open spaces, including parks, greens, 2002 gardens, plazas, bikeways and sidewalks. Miami River Corridor Urban Infill and Redevelopment Plan This document was December 2002 prepared by Kimley-Horn and Associates, Inc Overtown: A Look Back, Connections to the for the Miami River Commission, City of Future Miami and Miami-Dade County. This plan was prepared by Urban Design Associates on behalf of the Collins Center for 2002 Public Policy, Inc and the Overtown Civic Park West Club District Streetscape Master Partnership. The document analyzes the Plan. This plan was prepared by Wallace existing conditions and shows design Roberts & Todd for the CRA. It identifies alternatives for “Downtown Overtown,” the parking areas and streetscape improvements core area of Overtown. along Eleventh Street. November 2003 August 2002 Miami at Midnight Overtown Greenway Plan This report was prepared by Thomas F. This document was prepared by Trust for Gustafson, P.A. to examine the use of narrow Public Land and Wallace Roberts & Todd. gauge rail modality in the SEOPW and OMNI This document identifies the various planning CRA areas and to suggest locations for liner efforts taking place in the area and offers buildings and related parking structures. The greenway alignments and landscaping and report provides a basis for requesting

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• CRA consultants: Transportation) Appendix B o TY Lin International/HJ Ross • Thomas F. Gustafson and Nova o ZHA, economists Southeastern University’s Center for Acknowledgements o Thomas Gustafson Public Policy and Leadership • City of Miami’s Planning and Zoning The Southeast Overtown – Park West Departments Community Redevelopment Plan, Update • Many residents, property owners, and 2004 was prepared initially by Dover Kohl & business owners within and near the Partners, Town Planners, with the 2009 Redevelopment Area. Update modified by City of Miami Planning • Overtown Community Oversight Department. Incredible support, ideas and Board information for the entire plan was received • Overtown Civic Partnership from: • The Black Archives, History & • City of Miami Commissioners and Research Foundation of South CRA Board Members: Florida, Inc. o Commissioner Angel • The Trust for Public Land Gonzalez, District 1 • LISC of Greater Miami o Commissioner Marc Sarnoff, • The Overtown Youth Center District 2 • Several Community Development o Commissioner Joe M. Sanchez, Corporations, including: District 3 o BAME CDC o Commissioner Tomas P. o St. Agnes CDC Regalado, District 4 o St. John’s CDC o Commissioner Michelle • Park West Civic Association Spence-Jones, District 5 • Florida Department of • County Commissioner, Audrey Transportation Edmonson, District 3 • Several Community Churches, • City Manager, Pedro Hernandez including: • CRA Executive Director, James H. o St Agnes Villacorta o Mt Zion • FDOT (Florida Department of

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gross square footages, and the maximum factor becomes the maximum density instead Appendix C Floor Area Ratio (FAR) for each zoning of the FAR. There was no analysis prepared district. The spreadsheet generates the to determine if a developer could maximize School Impact Analysis for approximate number of dwelling units with the density within the FAR limitations. the CRA Redevelopment the assumption that the average apartment size Plan is 1,250 square feet of space. This dwelling Findings: unit size is from a recent analysis by a Using M-DCPS’s equations to estimate

developer for a project in Overtown. The the number of students for each school, the This Impact Analysis has been performed columns on the right of the spreadsheet new capacity is compared with the existing to examine the impact of the CRA separate out the number of possible dwelling capacity as reported in M-DCPS’s Region IV Community Redevelopment Plan on the units that occur in each of the school districts FISH Design Capacity (Permanent + public school system in Miami-Dade County. provided by Miami-Dade County Public Relocatable). The comparison suggests the This analysis is projecting a total Schools (“M-DCPS”). There is one high following: redevelopment of all properties within the school that serves the Redevelopment Area, Redevelopment Area as if almost all of the two middle schools, and three elementary Booker T. Washington High School: area were to be built out today using the schools. Scenario 1 reveals 3,060 new high school current zoning code. This scenario is not students would be added to the neighborhood, likely to occur because the eventual A second scenario: putting the high school at 202% of its current redevelopment will happen gradually over a While examining the FAR, it became capacity. This reveals that another high school long time, and many of the existing structures apparent that a developer could build smaller of a similar size would need to be added, or will remain. However, this is the best units and stay within the maximum density the school would need to double its current approach to examine possible problems that allowed in each zoning district. Therefore a student capacity, by renovation or additions to can be avoided over the next few years as second spreadsheet was prepared that removes the existing school. Scenario 2 reveals 6,278 properties do get redeveloped. the FAR limitations and estimates the possible new high school students, requiring much

Approach: number of units using the maximum density more capacity. Booker T. Washington HS is allowed. The SD-6, and SD-16 zones do not presently under utilized. It can accommodate Each City block within the specify a maximum density, so for those areas approximately 1,000 additional students before Redevelopment Area was numbered. (See we used the first scenario (with FAR) to exceeding M-DCPS’s acceptable threshold of attached map) The zoning for each block was estimate the number of units on those blocks. 115%. cross-referenced. A spreadsheet was This second scenario suggests that more generated that lists each block, corresponding dwelling units are possible if the controlling

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Citrus Grove Middle School: Paul Dunbar Elementary School: were to occur, an additional Elementary Only a small portion of the Redevelopment Only a small portion of the School will be needed for the neighborhood. Area lies within the Citrus Grove Middle Redevelopment Area lies within the Paul Phillis Wheatley Elementary is presently under School district. Scenario 1 (by FAR) reveals Dunbar Elementary School district. Scenario utilized. It can accommodate approximately 35 new middle school students could be added 1 reveals 129 new elementary school students 310 additional students before exceeding M- to the school. Scenario 2 (by maximum could be added to the school. Scenario 2 DCPS’s acceptable threshold of 115%. density) reveals 150 new middle school reveals 451 new elementary school students. students. Without any new students, Citrus It appears that new development within the Frederick Douglass Elementary School: Grove currently has a capacity problem at Redevelopment Area will cause minimal A greater portion of the Redevelopment 151% utilization. More capacity is currently capacity problems at Paul Dunbar Elementary Area lies within the Frederick Douglass needed at Citrus Grove Middle School. The School. With 451 new students from the Elementary School district. Scenario 1 reveals utilization becomes a concern to the School unlikely Scenario 2, the capacity is at 119% 3,800 new elementary school students could Board when it increases above 115%. utilization. be added to the school. Scenario 2 reveals 7,841 new elementary school students. Most Jose de Diego Middle School: Phillis Wheatley Elementary School: of these new students would be living in Park The majority of the Redevelopment Area Scenario 1 reveals 925 new elementary West, where the development potential is very lies within the Jose de Diego Middle School school students could be added to the school. large. If Park West develops in a manner district. Scenario 1 reveals 2,603 new middle Scenario 2 reveals 1,768 new elementary similar to Brickell Avenue, many of the school students could be added to the school students. There appears to be no households will then be part-time residents, neighborhood. Scenario 2 reveals 5,318 new capacity problems at Phillis Wheatley professionals without children, or parents who middle school students. This is a significant Elementary School. send their children to charter schools or number of new students. Without any new Scenario 1 reveals 925 new elementary private schools. If this is the case, then the students, Jose de Diego currently has a slight school students would be added to the Phillis actual number of students for public schools capacity problem at 119% utilization. Scenario Wheatley Elementary school district, putting will be reduced from the projected amount in 1 creates a capacity utilization of 342% and the school at 209% of its current capacity of this study. With both scenario projections, Scenario 2 creates it at 575%. Jose de Diego 655 students. This reveals that another additional elementary schools will be needed Middle School needs to be increased in size elementary school of a similar size would need in the neighborhood. Frederick Douglass immediately for more capacity. Another to be added, or the school would need to Elementary can accommodate approximately middle school should be planned now if it more than double its current student capacity. 414 additional students before exceeding M- isn’t already. Scenario 2 reveals 1,768 new elementary DCPS’s acceptable threshold of 115%. school students. If this much redevelopment

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