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Housing committee amends agenda after county attorney reads corrections to ground lease, public comment supports affordable‑housing covenant change
Summary
At a May 2025 Miami‑Dade County Housing Committee meeting, the county attorney identified missing exhibits and read substantive and scrivener corrections to an amended and restated ground lease; the committee approved an amended agenda by voice vote.
At a Miami‑Dade County Housing Committee meeting in May 2025, the county attorney identified missing attachments and read corrections and an amendment to an amended and restated ground lease attached to a resolution (item 3b). Committee members subsequently moved, seconded and approved an amended agenda by voice vote.
The county attorney told the committee that Exhibit A to item 2c and Attachment E (the Miami‑Dade County rental regulatory agreement) for item 2g were missing from the clerk’s packet and should have been handed out. The attorney also read an amendment to the amended and restated ground lease attached to a resolution: scrivener errors would be corrected (e.g., misspelling and replacing the word “developer” with “tenant” where indicated, and updating department initials from PHCD to HCD). The read amendment also added a new subsection providing that “after the expiration of the tax credit compliance period, the tenant shall convert a maximum of 49 units to be unrestricted market rate units with no limitation on maximum AMI,” and that “in no event will these units reduce the 191 RAD units.” The attorney said those and other scrivener corrections would be made in the lease text.
A motion to set the agenda as amended was made and seconded; the committee approved the amended agenda by voice vote with no recorded opposition. The county attorney then noted that item 3d had been removed from the agenda.
During the public‑comment period, Sarah Harold of the law firm Bills and Sundberg spoke on behalf of the YWCA of South Florida in support of an amendment to a restrictive covenant to allow affordable housing, and offered to answer commissioners’ questions about plans for the property. Renita Holmes, director of Wave of Women in Public Housing Education Finance and Development, said she lives in a high‑violence area and urged the committee to consider frontline experiences when addressing safety and housing, noting gaps in policing response and in access to safe housing.
The meeting later concluded after a motion to adjourn.
