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Board of Adjustment member and residents urge clearer standards for variances, tax amendments and map discrepancies
Summary
Speakers urged clearer procedures and guidelines for tax‑map amendments, mapping discrepancies between surveyor and county records, and limits on the use of variances to obtain large increases in height or density; a Board of Adjustment member said inconsistent procedures let developers exploit gaps.
Hernando Barreto, a member of the Board of Adjustment, and other attendees urged North Miami to tighten rules and clarify procedures for tax‑map amendments, variance requests and discrepancies between parcel surveys and county records.
Barreto said the city currently lacks clear guidelines on who may initiate a tax‑map amendment and on how to reconcile conflicting parcel area information from a…
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