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Planning Commission Approves CUP to Legalize 15 Arch Creek Units as Affordable Apartments
Summary
The commission unanimously approved PC17-115, a conditional-use permit to convert and legalize 15 former dormitory units at several Northeast addresses into permanent multifamily apartments (Arch Creek Apartments). The approval reallocates density from the city's floating unit pool and follows a Board of Adjustment variance allowing units below the 500-square-foot minimum.
The North Miami Planning Commission voted unanimously to approve PC17-115, a conditional-use permit (CUP) to legalize 15 existing residential units in buildings that were previously operated as dormitories for Johnson & Wales University.
Debbie Love, community planning and development director, explained the site totals roughly 0.98 acres and is zoned Public Use (community facility university) within the North Miami Transit Station overlay district; multifamily residential use on the property requires a CUP because a prior rezoning removed residential density from the site. The applicant is seeking to reallocate 15 units from the city’s floating unit pool back to the parcel so the existing buildings can be…
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