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Miramar transmits 10- and 20-year comprehensive-plan amendments to state, shifts growth focus to corridors and housing options
Summary
The Miramar City Commission voted May 7 to transmit an evaluation-and-appraisal-based update to the city's comprehensive plan, aligning future land-use, mobility and capital-improvement policies with recent state law changes and local growth projections.
The Miramar City Commission on May 7 voted to transmit an evaluation-and-appraisal-based (EAB) update to the city's comprehensive plan for state review. The transmittal begins the state-coordinated review period required under Florida planning law.
City planning director Nixon Lebron presented the package, saying the update revises multiple plan elements to reflect changes in state law and local conditions since the city's last comprehensive-plan update. Lebron said the amendments will put greater emphasis on directing growth along major corridors such as State Road 7 and University Drive, expand policies to encourage housing choice and affordability, rename the Transportation Element to a Mobility Element that emphasizes multimodal options, and update the Capital Improvements and Environmental elements. The presentation noted the city is largely built out and described projected population growth cited in staff materials: roughly 29,000 currently and about 54,000 over a 20-year planning horizon.
Lebron also told the commission the amendment package incorporates changes required by recent state action (presenter cited "Senate Bill 1632" in the presentation) including a provision requiring local plans to provide sanitary sewer service for developments of more than 50 residential lots within the 10-year planning horizon. The planning and zoning board (the city's local planning agency) held hearings in March and April 2025 and recommended approval.
Under the state's process, the city will transmit the proposed amendments to reviewing agencies. Staff said the state has 60 days to issue an objection, recommendations and comments (ORC), and the city would have about 180 days thereafter to consider adoption and submit any adopted amendments for a compliance determination.
Commissioners asked clarifying questions during the presentation but took no substantive changes to the text at the meeting. The commission unanimously voted to transmit the EAB amendments for state review: Commissioner Chambers; Commissioner Sherzard; Vice Mayor Coburn; Commissioner Edwards; and Mayor Wayne Messam all voted yes.
If the state returns comments, staff said it will prepare responses and any necessary edits before a future adoption hearing.
