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FYI Miami: March 10, 2022

Written by on March 8, 2022
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Below are some of the FYIs in this week’s edition. The entire content of this week’s FYIs and Insider sections is available by subscription only. To subscribe click here.

BROADER ROLLBACK: After a Miami-Dade Circuit Court judge struck down Miami Beach’s 2 a.m. rollback of alcohol sales from March 7 to 21, the city is voting for similar legislation that would grant no exceptions to 5 a.m. in areas of South of Fifth Street, Alton Road and West Avenue, and 41st Street. “While we have to respond and listen to the desires of our community, we also must have legislation that has legal muster,” said Commissioner Mark Samuelian, sponsor of two of the three items the commissioner is to vote on this week about this issue. “The probability of not getting it overturned are maximized by not picking winners and losers, to have a 2 a.m. without exceptions. Every time we make exceptions, draw lines, pick winners and losers, we reduce our chances of success.”

MODULAR HOMES PLAN: The county’s Public Housing and Community Development Department plans to ask the City of Homestead to change zoning on county-owned property within the Waterstone development near Homestead Air Reserve Base to create a pilot program with companies that could install manufactured modular homes on the site for affordable housing. The department says it has already contacted at least seven companies that would be interested in constructing modular homes and other alternative building technologies there. Commissioner Danielle Cohen Higgins sponsored a resolution that the commission passed in October 2021 requesting that the program be tried first in her district, which encompasses the Watersone area.

RENT CONTROL STUDY: Miami-Dade County is looking at rent-control legislation. A measure proposed by Commissioner Kionne McGhee is to be considered today (3/10) by the Public Housing and Community Services Committee seeking a study of whether “a housing emergency exists in Miami-Dade County that is so grave as to constitute a serious menace to the general public and that stabilizing rents to remain affordable is necessary and proper to eliminate such grave housing emergency.” Rent control in Florida is only legal with such a declaration. If the committee sends his proposal forward, full commission action would be needed to study the situation. The measure would require that report from the mayor’s office within 30 days. The legislation does not specify where rent controls might be imposed, whether the controls would exist at every level of rent, or who would oversee them.  

NO-PICKET ZONES: Florida lawmakers gave final approval to a bill that could curb picketing and protests outside people’s homes. The Senate voted 28-3 to pass the bill, which the House approved last week 76-41. It is ready to go to Gov. Ron DeSantis. Sen. Annette Taddeo of Miami was one of the three dissenters Monday. The bill would make it illegal to picket or protest outside a person’s home “with the intent to harass or disturb that person in his or her dwelling.” People could face second-degree misdemeanor charges for violations.

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