Council discusses Innovation Overlay rezoning; Wilson urges city to retain and renovate old police building

City of Miami Gardens council members spent significant workshop time on a proposed Innovation Overlay rezoning for a downtown business district and on Councilwoman Katrina Wilson’s proposal to preserve and renovate the city’s old police building for community and small‑business use.

City staff told the council the rezoning item had been advanced previously: “The council at that time voted unanimously to move that item to second reading,” a staff speaker said, referencing a prior meeting. At the workshop the council discussed how rezoning the district would allow uses the current industrial zoning prevents, including entertainment centers, business incubators and expanded city operations.

Councilwoman Katrina Wilson, who sponsored the innovation district discussion, urged the council to keep the former police building in city hands and to begin…