West Miami board defers request to split 5735 SW 12th Street lot after neighbors cite parking, character concerns

The City of West Miami Planning and Zoning Board on March 26 deferred two related variance applications from CAR Property Investments, care of the Cohen Law Firm, for 5735 Southwest Twelfth Street.

The applications sought (1) a frontage variance to subdivide a 10,500-square-foot lot into two 5,250-square-foot parcels with a new frontage of 50 linear feet where a minimum of 60 feet is required by the city code (agenda item 5b), and (2) a variance for lot coverage because each proposed lot would be 5,250 square feet where the minimum lot size in the applicable zoning is 6,000 square feet (agenda item 5c). Planning staff read those requests into the record at the start of the item.

Applicant representative Carlos Corral said the existing parcel is a double-wide lot with a single house on half and a vacant side that the applicant proposed to split and, down the line, build a second single-family house. Corral said…