This Week in One Paragraph
South Miami gets its redevelopment agency tomorrow. The ordinance creating the South Miami Community Redevelopment Area trust fund reaches second reading and final vote at the Board of County Commissioners on Tuesday, October 20, with the redevelopment area plan and the three way interlocal cooperation agreement set for public hearing on the same agenda, and the question this briefing left open a week ago is now answered on the record: the trust fund ordinance was adopted on first reading at the October 6 Board meeting by a vote of 13 to 0, and municipalities were notified of the public hearing on October 16. Miami Beach also has a date. The amended fiscal year 2024-2025 and 2025-2026 budgets for the Miami Beach Community Redevelopment Agency and the Miami Beach City Center Community Redevelopment Area, totaling $77,183,000 and $71,333,000, cleared the Intergovernmental and Economic Impact Committee 5 to 0 on October 15 and are now calendared for the November 17 Board meeting as item 8G. Alongside those, the county is moving a sign code variance keyed specifically to municipal annexation and incorporation applications, rewriting how it approves municipal codesignations, and signing a basin operating plan with Miami, West Miami and Sweetwater. Countywide, the ordinance that repeals and rebuilds the entire county procurement code as a single new chapter gets its own second reading and final vote tomorrow, which means the rules governing how every county contract is competed may change by Tuesday afternoon.
Cities and CRAs
Six items where a Miami-Dade municipality or redevelopment agency sits on the other side of the table, ranked by how much a city would care.
South Miami's trust fund gets its final vote tomorrow, and the first reading that was missing from the record turns out to have passed 13 to 0
Board of County Commissioners, preliminary agendaTuesday, October 20Items 5G and 5BFiles 261649 and 261671Prime sponsor: Raquel A. Regalado
What it does. Item 5G is the ordinance creating a redevelopment trust fund for the South Miami Community Redevelopment Area under section 163.387, Florida Statutes, for the area bounded on the north by SW 62nd Street, on the south by SW 76th Street, on the east by SW 57th Avenue at Red Road, and on the west by SW 62nd Avenue. It sets the appropriation obligation and how the increment is calculated, limits county approval of agency debt, reserves county review of financial records and a right of audit, and carries a 30 year sunset. The county agenda records it as adopted on first reading at the October 6 Board meeting by a vote of 13 to 0, with public hearing and second reading scheduled for October 20 and municipalities notified on October 16. Item 5B is the companion resolution approving the South Miami Community Redevelopment Area Plan 2025 under section 163.360 and the interlocal cooperation agreement among the county, the city and the agency, and delegating redevelopment powers to the agency through that agreement. It was forwarded to the Board with a favorable recommendation 5 to 0 by the Intergovernmental and Economic Impact Committee on October 15.
Why it matters. A new redevelopment agency in a built out inner ring city is the most consequential thing on any Miami-Dade agenda this month, because the trust fund ordinance and the interlocal are where the agency's actual operating room is decided rather than in the plan. The county's limited approval of debt, the audit right and the sunset term are the three provisions a CRA director reads first, since they set whether the agency can borrow against increment, who can look at its books and how long the clock runs. For every other city in the county weighing whether to create or expand an agency, the South Miami package is now the live template for what Miami-Dade will and will not delegate, and it is worth reading before you commission your own finding of necessity. BusinessFlare® writes redevelopment plans and models increment for exactly these packages, which is why the terms rather than the headline are where our attention goes.
File 261649 · File 261671 · Agenda key 5568 · Agenda key 5566
Two years of Miami Beach CRA budgets clear committee and land on the November 17 Board agenda
Intergovernmental and Economic Impact CommitteeThursday, October 15Item 3AFile 261692Prime sponsor: Vicki L. Lopez
What it does. The resolution approves the amended fiscal year 2024-2025 and amended fiscal year 2025-2026 budgets for the Miami Beach Community Redevelopment Agency and the Miami Beach City Center Community Redevelopment Area, totaling $77,183,000 and $71,333,000 respectively. The committee forwarded it to the Board with a favorable recommendation 5 to 0 on October 15. The county legislative file now shows an agenda date of November 17, 2026 and item number 8G, and the requester is the Office of Management and Budget.
Why it matters. Reopening a closed fiscal year and the current one in the same resolution is the part worth noticing, because an amended prior year budget at a CRA usually means a carryforward, a project reconciliation or a debt service restatement that the agency and the county had to agree on after the fact. The two figures move in opposite directions from what a growing increment would predict, with the amended 2024-2025 number higher than the amended 2025-2026 number, and the resolution title alone does not explain why. Any CRA that has to bring the county an amended budget should read the backup before November 17 rather than after, because the pattern of what Miami-Dade accepts in an amendment is the pattern it will apply to yours.
File 261692 · Agenda key 5566
A sign code variance written for annexation and incorporation applications arrives paired with the lawsuit settlement that produced it
Board of County Commissioners, preliminary agendaTuesday, October 20Items 4N and 11A7Files 260972 and 260973Prime sponsor: Raquel A. Regalado
What it does. Item 4N is a first reading ordinance creating section 33-107.1 of the county code to allow variances from county spacing and height requirements for Class C signs under certain circumstances relating to municipal annexation and incorporation applications, and it approves the form of application and provides for a contingent effective date. The agenda cross references it to item 11A7, a resolution approving the settlement in Road.Space Media Miami LLC against Miami-Dade County, case number 2023-026498 CA 01 in the Eleventh Judicial Circuit, and Road.Space Media LLC against Miami-Dade County, case number 1:19-CV-21971-RNS in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida. The county's own file name for the ordinance is sign code variance procedure, and both files are noted as related to each other.
Why it matters. This is a narrow provision with a wide implication, because it writes annexation and incorporation status into the county sign code as a trigger for relief from spacing and height rules. Boundary change applications are usually argued over service costs, tax base and millage, and a billboard variance keyed to them is a reminder that annexation files carry assets and entitlements that nobody prices in the fiscal analysis. Cities with pending or contemplated boundary applications should know that the ordinance exists and that it arrives attached to a settlement, since the contingent effective date means the variance path and the litigation resolution are designed to move together. The ordinance text is on first reading and the settlement agreement itself is an attachment rather than part of the published caption, so the terms that matter are in the backup.
File 260972 · File 260973 · Agenda key 5568
Miami, West Miami and Sweetwater sign on to a C-4 basin operating plan with the water management district
Infrastructure, Innovation and Technology Committee, preliminary agendaThursday, October 15Item 3DFile 261556Requester: Transportation and Public Works
What it does. The resolution approves a memorandum of understanding among Miami-Dade County, the South Florida Water Management District, the City of Miami, the City of West Miami and the City of Sweetwater defining the C-4 basin operating plan for discharges into the C-4 canal, and authorizes the mayor or the mayor's designee to execute it and exercise all its provisions including termination and renewal. The published agenda lists no sponsor and the legislative file shows the item still in committee with an agenda date of November 17, 2026 and item number 8N. The October 15 committee agenda is posted in the preliminary version and records no action on this item, so the committee outcome is not yet on the record.
Why it matters. A basin operating plan is a development constraint wearing a drainage label. What the plan permits on discharges into the C-4 sets the practical ceiling on how much new impervious area the municipalities along it can approve and on what stormwater standard they can hold applicants to, and once five parties have signed one operating plan the room for a single city to negotiate its own terms project by project narrows considerably. Sweetwater and West Miami are small jurisdictions with large upstream exposure, and the commitments made in an interagency memorandum of understanding rarely surface again until a site plan is already in review.
File 261556 · Agenda key 5565
West Miami gets a transit interlocal backdated thirteen months, paid out of its own surtax share
Transportation CommitteeWednesday, October 14Item 3FFile 261558Requester: Transportation and Public Works
What it does. The resolution approves an interlocal agreement between the county and the City of West Miami for on demand transportation services, authorizes and ratifies the city's use of its municipal share of Charter County Transportation System Surtax proceeds for those services, and provides that the agreement is effective retroactively to September 22, 2025. The committee forwarded it to the Board with a favorable recommendation 4 to 0 on October 14, the published agenda lists no prime sponsor, and the legislative file shows an agenda date of November 17, 2026 and item number 8N.
Why it matters. The retroactive date is the news. A city has been running an on demand service and spending its surtax share on it for more than a year ahead of the interlocal that authorizes the spending, and the county is now ratifying both at once. Every municipality drawing a surtax share should read this as the shape of the cure when the service starts before the paperwork, and should also read it as confirmation that the county will ratify rather than claw back. For small cities weighing a circulator or a microtransit pilot against fixed route service, the surtax share is usually the only money available, and what it can lawfully buy is settled in agreements like this one rather than in the surtax ordinance.
File 261558 · Agenda key 5562
The county tightens who may sponsor its approval of a municipal street renaming
Board of County Commissioners, preliminary agendaTuesday, October 20Item 4CFile 261769Prime sponsor: Natalie Milian Orbis
What it does. The first reading ordinance amends section 2-1 of the county code, the Board's own rules of procedure, to revise the requirements for sponsorship of county approvals of state or municipal namings, renamings or codesignations of roads, facilities or property, and to clarify the background research requirements that attach to those approvals. The same agenda carries two examples of the process in motion: item 5A codesignating a portion of SW 127th Avenue, with a background research report from the Office of the Commission Auditor added on, and item 11A3 urging the City of Miami Springs to codesignate a portion of Oakwood Drive and approving that codesignation, also with an auditor research report.
Why it matters. Codesignations look ceremonial until a city discovers that the county approval its own ordinance depends on now has a sponsorship gate and a research file attached. Cities route a steady volume of naming and codesignation requests through the county, usually on a constituent timetable, and a change in who must sponsor the county side and what background has to be documented changes how long that takes and who in the city has to go find a commissioner. Read the amended section before you promise a family or a business association a date.
File 261769 · Agenda key 5568
The Countywide One
The entire county procurement code gets repealed and rebuilt tomorrow, and the committee referral that was unresolved last week turns out to come after the vote
Board of County Commissioners, preliminary agendaTuesday, October 20Item 5IFile 261735Prime sponsor: Anthony Rodriguez
What it does. The ordinance implements, in whole or in part, recommendations from the final report of the Special Task Force to Reduce Inefficiencies in Procurement. It creates a new Chapter 3 of the county code for county procurement and repeals the enumerated sections of the existing code along with Chapter 2, Article CXLII, moving those provisions into the new chapter with technical updates. It repeals fifteen implementing orders and adopts a single master procurement implementing order, IO 3-38, including a revision to former IO 3-39 as Attachment 5. On the professional services side it removes the requirement that a selection committee evaluate a response when only one responsive bid is received, and it amends the cone of silence to require the mayor or the mayor's designee to commence negotiations within a set period when only one responsive proposal is received, or else report to the Board. The repealed and relocated provisions include local preference, the preference for local veteran businesses, the small business programs for goods, services and architecture and engineering, fair subcontracting, prompt payment, the user access program, art in public places, the first source hiring referral program, contract extensions, intergovernmental agreements for services and joint purchases, and the sections governing public private partnerships and unsolicited proposals and the purchase, sale and lease of real property. The ordinance also directs a vendor performance review program, recommendations on improving the local preference and small business programs, and a centralized automated online portal for the protest process. The county agenda records it as adopted on first reading on October 6 with public hearing and second reading scheduled for October 20, and tentatively scheduled for a further public hearing before the Policy Council or a successor committee to be determined by the incoming chair.
Why it matters. A week ago the open question on this file was where it would get its hearing. The answer on the posted agenda is that the public hearing and second reading are tomorrow and the committee hearing is tentatively set after that, before a committee whose membership the incoming chair has not yet determined. Anyone who sells to Miami-Dade County, and every municipality that has copied the county's procurement language into its own code, should treat tomorrow as the operative date rather than waiting for the committee. The two substantive changes worth marking are the removal of selection committee evaluation when a single responsive bid arrives and the negotiation clock the cone of silence now imposes in the same situation, because together they shorten the path from a thin solicitation to an executed contract. The relocation of the public private partnership and unsolicited proposal sections into the new chapter is the other thing to track, since those are the provisions a developer bringing an unsolicited proposal to the county actually reads, and a renumbered section with technical revisions is where substance quietly changes. BusinessFlare® advises on public private partnerships and unsolicited proposals, and the practical question after tomorrow is which cross references in your own documents now point at a repealed section.
File 261735 · Agenda key 5568
Land and Money
Nearly six acres at West Dade Government Center go to a named developer with the public outreach rules waived and thirty days on the clock
Board of County Commissioners, preliminary agendaTuesday, October 20Item 11A5File 261810Prime sponsor: Anthony Rodriguez
What it does. The resolution directs the mayor or the mayor's designee to perform all due diligence necessary for the lease of an approximately 5.85 acre portion of the county property at 9250 West Flagler Street to Flagler TOC Development Partners LLC for development and use as an affordable housing project and parking garage, to negotiate and finalize a lease and development agreement consistent with the project term sheet to the extent possible, and to place that agreement on the Board's agenda within thirty days without committee review, or else report to the Board within thirty days. It waives the commission auditor review required by Implementing Order 8-4, and waives, by a two thirds vote of the members present, Rules 5.11(1) and 5.12 requiring public outreach meetings and a statement regarding public outreach efforts and community benefits. The county's own file name for the item is West Dade Government Center lease.
Why it matters. Three procedural protections come off at once on a county land disposition to a named counterparty: committee review, commission auditor review and the public outreach and community benefits requirements. Each of those exists because a no bid lease of public land is the transaction most likely to be questioned later, and a city manager watching this should note how the waivers are packaged inside a due diligence directive rather than inside the lease approval itself, which is a sequencing choice other jurisdictions will copy. The thirty day return with no committee stop also means the substantive terms, the rent, the term, the affordability covenants and the garage obligation, reach the Board without an intermediate public reading. If you are building a disposition policy for your own agency, this is the item to read against it.
File 261810 · Agenda key 5568
Culmer Place moves to a ninety nine year ground lease valued at $215 million, with the county taking a note instead of cash
Housing CommitteeWednesday, October 14Item 3BFile 261698Prime sponsor: Keon Hardemon
What it does. The resolution authorizes a second amendment to the master development agreement between the county and Culmer Holdings LLC, as assignee of Atlantic Pacific Communities LLC, for the redevelopment of the Culmer Place and Culmer Gardens public housing sites through the Rental Assistance Demonstration program, incorporating the housing plan of the Choice Neighborhoods Initiative transformation plan as approved by the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development. Subject to federal approvals it authorizes a 99 year ground lease with Atlantic Pacific Communities III Ltd for the Culmer Place V phase in a total estimated amount of $215,054,098, and authorizes the county to accept a promissory note securing the capitalized ground lease payment for that phase in the principal amount of $15,000,000. It further authorizes the mayor or the mayor's designee, in their discretion and subject to federal approval, to negotiate and execute additional 99 year ground leases for subsequent phases. The committee forwarded it with a favorable recommendation 4 to 0 on October 14, and the legislative file shows an agenda date of November 17, 2026, item number 8K, flagged as a late item.
Why it matters. The structure is the lesson rather than the dollar figure. A capitalized ground lease payment taken as a promissory note converts what would be land rent into a financing instrument, and the $15,000,000 principal against a $215,054,098 estimated lease value is the ratio worth understanding before you price your own public land contribution to an affordable deal. The discretionary authorization for subsequent phases is equally significant, because it means the terms set on Culmer Place V become the default for the rest of the transformation plan without another Board reading. Any CRA or housing authority negotiating a long term ground lease on public land as its equity in a project should read this amendment and the note terms together.
File 261698 · Agenda key 5561
A ground lease is stretched from seventy five years to ninety nine for the sole purpose of qualifying for a tax exemption
Board of County Commissioners, preliminary agendaTuesday, October 20Item 11A4File 261805Prime sponsor: Natalie Milian Orbis
What it does. The resolution approves and authorizes, subject to approval by the United States Federal Transit Administration, a fifth amendment to the ground lease between the county and Okeechobee Lease Holdings LLC, a subsidiary of Cornerstone Group Partners LLC, for the development of the Metro Grande Apartments. The amendment extends the term of the ground lease from 75 years to 99 years for the stated purpose of facilitating the developer's ability to qualify for an ad valorem tax exemption under Florida law and to close on the financing of the phase known as Metro Grande II in time. The legislative file flags the item as late.
Why it matters. This is a clean, citable example of a lease term being set by tax law rather than by the economics of the deal, and it is a move any jurisdiction with land near transit will eventually be asked to make. The practical consequence for the landowner is twenty four additional years of committed use on a transit parcel in exchange for a closing that would otherwise fail, which is a real trade and not a technicality. The federal condition is the other thing to note, because a transit agency parcel carries a grant interest that has to be cleared before a local board's approval means anything, and the same sequence applies to station area land anywhere in the county.
File 261805 · Agenda key 5568
The county files a comprehensive plan amendment on its own land at the southwest tip of Virginia Key, and the ordinance does not say what the change is
Board of County Commissioners, preliminary agendaTuesday, October 20Item 4MFile 261798Prime sponsor: Raquel A. Regalado
What it does. The first reading ordinance provides the disposition of application number CDMP20260007, located at 4400 Rickenbacker Causeway on the southwesternmost portion of Virginia Key, filed by the Miami-Dade County Parks, Recreation and Open Spaces Department in the May 2026 cycle. The legislative text states that the application is eligible for and has requested adoption as a small scale amendment, and that it has requested concurrent processing with zoning application Z2026000106. The requested land use change itself is not stated in the ordinance caption or body, which recite only the procedural history; the substance sits in the department's initial recommendation report for CDMP20260007, dated September 2026, which the ordinance directs readers to on the county permitting portal. The county's internal file name for the item is CDMP first reading MSQ 26-07.
Why it matters. A local government filing a comprehensive plan amendment on its own waterfront parcel and asking for small scale treatment with concurrent zoning is a sequence worth watching, because small scale adoption shortens the state review path considerably and concurrent zoning means the land use change and the entitlement arrive together. We are not going to characterize the change itself from a caption that does not contain it. If you have an interest in this parcel or in the Rickenbacker corridor, read the department's initial recommendation report before the first reading rather than after, and note that first reading is procedural and the public hearing follows.
File 261798 · Agenda key 5568
A private comprehensive plan amendment at Krome Avenue and SW 288th Street reaches first reading
Board of County Commissioners, preliminary agendaTuesday, October 20Item 4LFile 261801Requester: Regulatory and Economic Resources
What it does. The first reading ordinance provides the disposition of application number CDMP20250020, located at the southwest corner of the intersection of SW 288 Street and SW 177 Avenue, known as Krome Avenue, filed by 288 Street LLC in the October 2025 cycle. The published agenda lists no prime sponsor and the file is noted as first reading. As with the Virginia Key application, the ordinance caption provides the disposition of the application without stating the requested land use change, which sits in the department's recommendation report.
Why it matters. Krome Avenue at SW 288th Street is the edge where South Dade's agricultural land meets the pressure coming south from the development front, and the October 2025 cycle is now reaching the Board one application at a time. South Dade and Homestead readers should track this alongside the two zoning applications deferred at the September 24 comprehensive plan and zoning meeting and now carried to October 22, one at SW 288 Street and SW 157 Avenue and one between SW 272 and SW 278 Streets, because the cumulative effect of a cycle is never visible in any single file. A cycle is a pattern, and the pattern is what tells a planning director where the line is actually moving.
File 261801 · Agenda key 5568 · Agenda key 5569
Rules Changing
The Miami-Dade Economic Advocacy Trust is rewritten from purpose to powers
Board of County Commissioners, preliminary agendaTuesday, October 20Item 4AFile 261706Prime sponsor: Oliver G. Gilbert, III
What it does. The first reading ordinance amends sections 2-501, 2-503, 2-505 and 2-506 of the county code, changing the purpose, composition, tenure, organization, staff support, reporting requirements, powers and duties of the Miami-Dade Economic Advocacy Trust.
Why it matters. When an ordinance amends purpose, composition and powers in the same motion, the body that comes out the other side is a different instrument than the one that went in. The Trust is one of the county's standing economic development vehicles, and anyone who has taken a program, a grant or a targeted urban area designation through it should read the four amended sections against the current text rather than the summary. Changes to staff support and reporting requirements in particular tend to determine whether a body like this can actually move money.
File 261706 · Agenda key 5568
Workforce housing allowances granted administratively would come with a notice requirement
Board of County Commissioners, preliminary agendaTuesday, October 20Item 4KFile 261795Prime sponsor: Natalie Milian Orbis
What it does. The first reading ordinance creates section 33-193.17 of the county code, establishing notice requirements for administrative decisions on certain applications relating to workforce housing development allowances.
Why it matters. Workforce housing bonuses are deliberately administrative, which is the whole point of them, and attaching a notice requirement to an administrative decision reintroduces a step that applicants and lenders schedule around. For a developer the question is how much time the notice adds and whether it creates an appeal window; for a planning director the question is who has to be noticed and from what list. The ordinance is on first reading and the public hearing date will be set in the Clerk's report on proposed public hearing dates, so the operative text can still change.
File 261795 · Agenda key 5568
The minimum size for a retail entertainment district comes down on second reading
Board of County Commissioners, preliminary agendaTuesday, October 20Item 5FFile 261580Prime sponsor: Oliver G. Gilbert, III
What it does. The ordinance amends section 33-284.28.9 of the county code, revising the minimum size requirements for the Retail Entertainment District Planned Area Development district. It was adopted on first reading on October 6 by a vote of 13 to 0, with public hearing and second reading scheduled for October 20, and is also tentatively scheduled for a public hearing before the Infrastructure, Innovation and Technology Committee on November 12. A fiscal impact and social equity statement was added on to the agenda as a supplement.
Why it matters. Minimum acreage is the gate that decides who can use a planned area development district at all, and lowering it on a retail entertainment district opens the tool to smaller assemblages. For a city or an agency trying to get a cohesive entertainment use onto a site that was never going to reach the old threshold, this is the kind of unglamorous dimensional change that makes a project legal. Watch which direction the revision runs in the adopted text, since the caption says revising rather than reducing.
File 261580 · Agenda key 5568
The county takes on state onsite sewage permitting, with municipalities formally notified
Board of County Commissioners, preliminary agendaTuesday, October 20Item 5HFile 261728Prime sponsor: Anthony Rodriguez
What it does. The ordinance amends Article I, Division 2 of Chapter 24 of the county code to adopt by reference certain state statutory provisions for the purpose of administering and implementing the delegation to the county, by the Florida Department of Environmental Protection, of authority related to its onsite sewage program, including certain state environmental permitting. Vicki L. Lopez and Raquel A. Regalado are listed as co-sponsors. It was adopted on first reading on October 6 by a vote of 13 to 0, required municipal notification on September 29, and municipalities were notified of the October 20 public hearing on October 16. It is tentatively scheduled for a further public hearing before the Policy Council or a successor committee to be determined by the incoming chair.
Why it matters. Septic to sewer is the binding constraint on infill development across large parts of Miami-Dade, and moving onsite sewage permitting authority from the state to the county changes who an applicant deals with, how long a determination takes and which agency's interpretation governs. Cities that have been waiting on state determinations for small infill projects should find out what the county intends to do with the delegated authority, because a single permitting counter is either a meaningful acceleration or a new queue depending entirely on how it is staffed.
File 261728 · Agenda key 5568
What We Read and Skipped
Fourteen agendas were read in full for this edition, covering agenda keys 5558, 5559, 5561, 5562, 5563, 5565, 5566, 5567, 5568 and 5569 inside the reporting window, with keys 5551 through 5557 read and found to fall before it. Every key from 5530 through 5600 was probed. No community redevelopment agency board agenda is posted anywhere in that range with a meeting date inside this window, which is the first week in some time with no CRA board meeting of its own to report. The highest existing agenda key is 5569.
Two keys inside the sequence, 5560 and 5564, do not resolve to a meeting. Their positions are worth noting: 5560 falls between the October 13 Aviation and Seaport agenda and the October 14 Housing agenda, which is where an October 13 Policy Council agenda would sit, and 5564 falls between the October 14 Recreation, Tourism and Resiliency agenda and the October 15 Infrastructure, Innovation and Technology agenda, which is where an October 15 Appropriations agenda would sit. Both of those committees appear on the Board calendar for those dates with no cancellation noted and neither has an agenda in the system.
Skipped as routine district business: the petition of Downtown Doral Community Development District to expand its boundaries by approximately 18.82 acres, the petition of Epmore Community Development District to expand by approximately 39.75 acres, and the creation of the Upland Park and Tregor North street lighting special taxing districts and the Sandero Landing multipurpose maintenance special taxing district. None of the five was created over documented objection, carries an assessment outside the normal range, or moves a municipal service line.
Also read and set aside: twelve district office, community based organization discretionary reserve and in kind allocation resolutions; ten mayoral directive reports including the quarterly report on mobility fees, impact fees and water and sewer connection fees; plats, waivers of plat, road closings and right of way vacations; off system construction and maintenance agreements with the Florida Department of Transportation and a surplus donation of a 1,154 square foot parcel to the state; the Berth 10 interim agreement with Fincantieri Infrastructure Florida at not to exceed $18,220,058.87, approved with competitive bidding waived by a two thirds vote; water and sewer contract ratifications including a $184,267,400 injection well pump station award and a $387,681,818.42 supplemental agreement on the South Corridor transitway; two Housing Finance Authority multifamily revenue debt approvals at $61,000,000 and $70,000,000; the transfer of previously conveyed county property from Goulds BH to Hive Residences with a one year certificate of occupancy extension; the substitute personal delivery device ordinance now pending before the Board; homeless prevention and behavioral health grant items; a brownfield area designation at 7248 SW 42 Terrace returning for a second public hearing; the Vizcaya restoration covenant and six environmentally endangered lands covenants; advisory board appointments, minutes approvals and the proposed 2027 meeting calendar. The Metrorail right of way affordable housing development agreement with Pine Development, with approximately $21,000,000 in projected county revenue, was deferred to no date certain at the October 14 Housing Committee and remains deferred.
One item is genuinely unclear and we are flagging it rather than characterizing it. The October 15 Infrastructure, Innovation and Technology Committee agenda is posted only in the preliminary version and records a committee action on one item while leaving the departmental items without recorded outcomes, so the fate of the C-4 basin memorandum of understanding and five other departmental items at that meeting cannot be read off the posted agenda. The source is linked in the item above.
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