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Design Review Board approves frontage variance for 6240 SW 65th Ave
Summary
The City of South Miami Design Review Board voted to approve a frontage variance for two of three lots at 6240 SW 65th Avenue (PBDash2025-009), with conditions on tree protection, encroachments and clarification of plat frontages before commission review.
The City of South Miami Design Review Board approved a variance allowing reduced frontage on two of three proposed lots at 6240 Southwest 65th Avenue after a staff recommendation and board discussion. The variance (PBDash2025-009) applies to Lot 1 (displaying a 25-foot frontage in the conceptual plan) and Lot 2 (about 44.70 feet of frontage) in an RS‑3 zoning district where the minimum frontage is 75 feet.
City planner Marcus Lightfoot told the board staff had reviewed the request with Corradino Group and recommended approval subject to resolving several conditions, including correcting frontages on the plat, addressing encroachments shown on the conceptual plan and preserving specimen trees. “This review was a joint review between myself and Mr. Mark Alvarez…our staff has recommended approval for the variance,” Lightfoot said.
Applicant consultant Sergio Porinos said the lots exceed minimum area requirements — listing lot areas of about 11,972, 12,123 and 15,289 square feet — and described a 25‑foot ingress/egress easement that the applicant proposes instead of a county-accepted full road dedication. The board stressed the plat dimensions must match the variance and asked staff and the applicant to supply an owner’s affidavit and to resolve shown encroachments, such as a neighboring walk wall and a fence in the proposed easement, before final plat recording.
Board members also added conditions for the applicant to remove invasive trees and to work with an arborist on relocating or preserving specimen trees to meet the city’s 50% canopy requirement. The board made the motion to approve the variance with those board recommendations and the motion passed on a roll call vote by the members present.
The approval is an upstream step: if the city commission grants the variance and approves the plat, the recorded plat then goes to Miami‑Dade County for its plat committee review and notice of action. The variance must be valid when the plat is recorded; the board noted that extensions are available from the city commission under the land development code if additional time is needed.
