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Planning Board backs school-friendly zoning changes with conditions to keep public review
Summary
The board recommended the commission approve land-use and comprehensive-plan changes that would give development incentives to educational facilities, but required that schools remain subject to conditional use review and that the floor-area-ratio bonus be limited to educational uses.
Miami Beach Planning Board on May 6 recommended favorably to the City Commission new land-development and comprehensive-plan amendments designed to incentivize expansion and new construction of educational facilities, but the board attached conditions to preserve public review.
The ordinances (LDR amendments and a companion comprehensive-plan FAR incentive) would allow certain educational facilities to be approved administratively for projects under a size threshold, permit staff review of new construction up to specified square footage without planning-board review, allow a city-commission warrant process to grant up to a…
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