Planning board approves Noble 33 restaurant on Drexel/Lincoln Road with sound limits, neighbor contact and event caps
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The Miami Beach Planning Board approved Noble 33’s conditional-use permit Oct. 7 for a Lincoln Road/Drexel restaurant, subject to pre-issuance acoustic testing, limits on music audibility off-site, a neighbor point-of-contact and a cap on special events with entertainment.
The Miami Beach Planning Board on Oct. 7 approved a conditional-use permit for Noble 33’s proposed restaurant on the southwest corner of Lincoln Road and Drexel Avenue, allowing a restaurant program with rooftop dining while imposing sound and operational conditions to reduce neighborhood impacts.
Staff described the proposed unified development: a two-level restaurant with rooftop seating, part of a larger unified development site that includes the Miami Beach Community Church. The application lists 460 seats (254 indoor; 206 rooftop) and a total patron occupant load of 683–727 depending on measurement; the applicant proposed hours of operation Monday–Friday 4 p.m.–2 a.m., and Saturday–Sunday 11 a.m.–2 a.m. Staff required that roof-level music be ambient only and that no sound from the exterior of the property be "plainly audible" at residential locations; staff also required on-site commissioning tests by the applicant’s acoustical consultant before issuance of a certificate of use.
The applicant presented environmental acoustic modeling showing modeled music and patron noise levels would be below measured ambient sound at the nearby residential receivers; the applicant’s acoustician proposed a modern approach using small satellite speakers at about 8 feet and compact woofers mounted under seating to reduce low-frequency egress, and asked that the usual blanket prohibition on subwoofers be modified to permit such compact configurations under measurement and limiter controls. Planning staff and the board accepted a narrowly tailored modification to the subwoofer prohibition tied to measured commissioning results and enforceable limits.
Neighbors raised concerns about rooftop noise and late hours; in response the board added conditions to limit special events with entertainment and to require a point-of-contact phone number be provided to nearby residents. The board also required that music be turned off at closing. The planning board approved the CUP with the conditions described by staff and the applicant’s acoustical testing and limiter conditions to be established during final commissioning.
