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Miami Beach planning board continues Vendome revocation hearing, orders tighter security and bans special-event permits
Summary
After months of citations and appeals, the Planning Board continued a revocation/modification hearing for the Vendome (Mentor and Co. LLC) to April and directed staff/applicant to add security measures and ban special-event permits; the board removed a proposed ban on "promoted events."
The Miami Beach Planning Board on Feb. 4 continued a revocation and modification hearing for Mentor and Co. LLC, doing business as the Vendome (660 Washington Avenue), and instructed staff and the applicant to add specific security measures and ban special-event permits while striking a proposed ban on "promoted events." The board set the next review for the April 8 meeting.
The hearing, which grew from repeated code enforcement citations and earlier appeals to a special magistrate, examined whether the venue complied with its Conditional Use Permit (CUP). Staff told the board that since the last hearing there were no new citations issued to the property, but several prior citations had been adjudicated guilty by the special magistrate in January. Staff recommended modifying the CUP to prohibit special events and to add public-safety-related conditions, then continue monitoring the property.
Why it matters: The Vendome has been under heightened enforcement and public scrutiny for nighttime queuing, promoted events…
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