1. Purpose and applicability. The purpose of the University Campus District (UCD) is to provide for the establishment and continuing operation of the University of Miami as an institution of higher education within the City of Coral Gables. The City of Coral Gables recognizes that institutions of higher education constitute a unique mix of land uses, facilities and activities and the City desires to establish procedural and substantive regulations to govern future development undertaken by the University within the campus boundaries.
2. Campus sub-areas. The UCD is comprised of the Campus Buffer Area, Campus Transition Area, Campus Core Area and Campus Core Subareas (University Village and University Multi-Use Zone).
3. Campus master plan components. Subject to, Sections 14-202.1 – 14-202.3 , a Campus Master Plan application shall include the following information or documentation:
   1. A site plan.
   2. A development chart which identifies square footage of all existing and planned buildings and structures; the proposed timeline for construction of planned buildings and structures; and the campus wide ground area coverage and floor area ratio applicable on a cumulative basis for all structures.
   3. Design Manual that includes minimum design guidelines, including sign and lighting design criteria and the design of parking structures which are adjacent to residential land uses outside of the UCD.
   4. Mobility Plan (as defined in Subsection G(6)).
   5. If an amendment to the adopted Campus Master Plan requires conditional use approval, the application shall be accompanied by either a traffic impact study or a justification for why a traffic study is not warranted.
   6. Such other materials as determined by the designated Development Review Official that may be required to demonstrate compliance with requirements not just performance standards this Section.
4. Legal status of adopted Campus Master Plan.
   1. Upon adoption of this Section, building permits shall be issued pursuant to Section 14-202.7 of the Zoning Code for those uses and buildings approved in the adopted Campus Master Plan.
   2. In the event that the adopted Campus Master Plan specifies a development standard which conflicts with other provisions of this Zoning Code, the provisions of the adopted Campus Master Plan shall control.
   3. Uses, buildings or structures which lawfully exist on the date of adoption of this Section shall be deemed approved uses in the University Campus District within those buildings or structures in which they exist as depicted in the adopted Campus Master Plan.
   4. The adopted Campus Master Plan and any amendments thereto shall constitute an intermediate development order and non-traffic concurrency determinations for such development shall be made at the time of the issuance of a building permit. Mitigation for new net impacts not previously or otherwise mitigated takes place at the time of building permit issuance.
5. Modifications to the adopted Campus Master Plan.
   1. Modifications approved as conditional uses. Except as expressly provided in subsection 4-D.1.E.2., any modification to the adopted Campus Master Plan shall be reviewed and approved by the City of Coral Gables in accordance with the requirements for conditional uses in Section 14-203 of the Zoning Code. In the event of a proposed amendment to the Campus Master Plan involving a building or use which is located or proposed to be located so that a portion of the building or use is in more than one Campus sub-area, and the building or use is a permitted use in one Campus sub-area and a conditional use in the other Campus sub-area, the amendment shall be reviewed and approved in accordance with the requirements for conditional uses.
   2. Modifications approved by administrative action. The modifications set out in subsection 4-D.1.E.2. to an adopted Campus Master Plan shall be reviewed and approved by the Development Review Official upon written request. The Development Review Official may submit the request to the Development Review Committee if the application involves the matters within the jurisdiction of the departments represented on the Development Review Committee, but shall not require review by the Board of Architects, the Planning and Zoning Board or the City Commission.
      1. Campus Buffer Area. Any modification, relocation or reconfiguration of buildings or structures included in the adopted Campus Master Plan, provided that the modification, relocation or reconfiguration does not involve:
         1. The addition or modification of ingress/egress into the Campus; or
         2. The addition of new surface parking spaces;
      2. Campus Transition Area. Any modification, relocation or reconfiguration of any building or structure included in the adopted Campus Master Plan, or the introduction of a new building(s) or structure(s) - including (but not limited to) such changes to the master site plan, maps, textual provisions, and any other elements or provisions of the adopted Campus Master Plan - to accommodate such change - provided that the modification, relocation, addition or reconfiguration does not involve:
         1. An increase in total floor area provided for in the Campus Transition Area per the adopted Campus Master Plan;
         2. An increase in the total number of buildings provided for in the Campus Transition Area per the adopted Campus Master Plan;
         3. An increase in the height of any building or structure provided for in the Campus Transition Area per the adopted Campus Master Plan; and,
         4. The establishment of a use which is required to be approved as a conditional use by Section D.1.F. which was not a part of the adopted Campus Master Plan.
      3. Campus Core Area. Any modification, relocation or reconfiguration of any building or structure included in the adopted Campus Master Plan, or the introduction of a new building or structure including (but not limited to) such changes to the master site plan, maps, parking or roadway plans, textual provisions, and any other elements or provisions of the adopted Campus Master Plan to accommodate such change; provided that the modification, relocation or reconfiguration complies with the requirements of Section D.1.G. and provided that the change does not involve an increase in intensity of the adopted Campus Master Plan.
   3. Action on requests for administrative approval. A complete application for administrative approval shall consist of the following materials:
      1. A description of the requested amendment.
      2. A description of the proposed use, height, setback, and total square footage of any structures or campus feature, such as, driveways, surface parking, drive ways and the like.
      3. A revised master plan reflecting the proposed changes.
      4. A revised development chart reflecting the proposed changes to the square footage of any structures.
      5. A description of how the proposed modification is consistent with the performance standards in Section D.1.G.
         
         Following the submission of the materials identified in subparagraphs 3(a)-(e) above, the Development Review Official shall have fifteen (15) days to determine whether or not the application is complete. Thereafter, requests for modifications to the adopted Campus Master Plan that may be approved by administrative action shall be acted upon by the Development Review Official within forty-five (45) days. An administrative determination approving a modification request shall include a determination as to whether a traffic impact statement or study is required prior to the issuance of building permit for the modified structure.
   4. Findings. All modifications to an approved Campus Master Plan which require conditional use approval shall be approved after the following findings have been prepared by planning staff, recommended for approval by Planning and Zoning Board and approved by City Commission.
      1. That the proposed modification is consistent with the stated purpose and intent of the regulations in this Section and the City’s Comprehensive Plan;
      2. That the proposed modification’s departures from the regulations otherwise applicable to the subject property, if any, are in the public interest;
      3. That the proposed modification makes adequate provision for public services, adequate control over vehicular traffic, provide for and protect designated common open areas, and furthers the amenities of light and air, recreation and visual enjoyment; and,
      4. That the proposed modification is compatible with adjacent properties and the neighborhood.
   5. Building permit process. Upon issuance of a development order modifying the adopted Campus Master Plan, an application for a building permit may be submitted in accordance with the approved development order and reviewed in accordance with Section 14-202 and Article 15 of the Zoning Code. Such application shall be accompanied by a traffic impact analysis which demonstrates that the proposed development does not adversely affect the function of the City’s network of roads and streets or includes proposed mitigation of any such adverse impacts.
6. Permitted and conditional uses. The following are the uses permitted in an UCD District as permitted uses and conditional uses pursuant to the procedures in Section 14-203 of the Zoning Code and subject to the standards in this section and applicable regulations in this Code:

P - Permitted

X - Not Permitted

C - Conditional Use if not previously approved as a part of the adopted Campus Master Plan

*Accessory uses and structures. Uses and structures which are customarily accessory and clearly incidental to permitted uses and structures are permitted in the UCD subject to limitations and other lawful regulations pertaining thereto. Any use permissible as a principal use may be permitted as an accessory use, subject to limitations and requirements applying to the principal use.

7. Performance Standards.
   1. Heights and setbacks of buildings. All new proposed structures and buildings within the UCD District shall comply with the following height and setback requirements. In the event, more restrictive provisions have been approved or a part of the Campus Master Plan, the provisions of the Campus Master Plan shall control.
      1. UCD Frontage A.
         1. No structure other than landscape features and a masonry wall with a maximum height of four (4) feet shall be permitted within ten (10) feet from the front property line.
         2. A masonry wall with a maximum height of six (6) feet shall be setback at least ten (10) feet from the front property line.
         3. Surface parking space shall be setback at least ten (10) feet from the front property line, except that surface parking spaces shall be setback at least seventy-five (75) feet from Mataro Avenue.
         4. No building shall be permitted within twenty five (25) feet of the front property line.
         5. The maximum permitted building height within one hundred (100) feet of the front property line is forty -five (45) feet.
         6. The maximum permitted building height between one hundred (100) and nine hundred and forty (940) feet from the front property line shall increase above one hundred (100) feet by one (1) foot in height for every eight (8) feet of additional setback from the front property line.
         7. The maximum permitted height shall be one hundred and fifty (150) feet or thirteen (13) stories.
         8. For the area UCD Frontage A bounded by Mataro Avenue, Red Road, Corniche Avenue, and San Amaro Drive, maximum building heights shall be two (2) stories.
      2. UCD Frontage B.
         1. No structure other than landscape features and a masonry wall with a maximum height of four (4) feet shall be permitted within five (5) feet from the front property line.
         2. A masonry wall with a maximum height of six (6) feet shall be setback at least five (5) feet from the front property line.
         3. Surface parking spaces shall be setback at least five (5) feet from the front property line.
         4. No building shall be permitted within twenty five (25) feet of the front property line.
         5. The maximum permitted building height within one hundred (100) feet of the front property line is sixty-five (65) feet.
         6. The maximum permitted building height between one hundred (100) and four hundred and forty (440) feet from the front property line shall increase above sixty five (65) feet by one (1) foot in height for every four (4) feet of additional setback from the front property line.
         7. The maximum permitted height shall be one hundred and fifty (150) feet, or thirteen (13) stories.
      3. UCD Frontage C.
         1. A masonry wall with a maximum height of four (4) feet shall be setback at least fifteen (15) feet from the front property line.
         2. A masonry wall with a maximum height of six (6) feet shall be setback at least twenty-five (25) feet from the front property line.
         3. Surface parking spaces shall be setback at least twenty-five (25) feet from the front property line.
         4. No building shall be permitted within fifty (50) feet of the front property line.
         5. The maximum permitted building height within one hundred (100) feet of the front property line is ninety (90) feet.
         6. The maximum permitted building height between one hundred (100) and one hundred and sixty (160) feet from the front property line shall increase above ninety (90) feet by one (1) foot in height for every one (1) foot of additional setback from the front property line.
         7. The maximum permitted height shall be one hundred and fifty (150) feet, or thirteen (13) stories.
         8. A porte-cochere may be extended into a required setback, provided that it does not exceed thirty (30) feet in height and provided that it is set back at least twenty (20) feet from the property line.
      4. UCD Frontage D.
         1. No structure other than landscape features and a masonry wall with a maximum height of four (4) feet shall be permitted within five (5) feet from the front property line.
         2. A masonry wall with a maximum height of six (6) feet shall be setback at least five (5) feet from the front property line.
         3. Surface parking space shall be setback at least five (5) feet from the front property line.
         4. No building shall be permitted within twenty (20) feet of the front property line.
         5. The maximum permitted building height within one hundred (100) feet of the front property line shall be ninety (90) feet.
         6. The maximum permitted building height between one hundred (100) and one hundred and sixty (160) feet from the front property line shall increase above ninety (90) feet by one (1) foot in height for every one (1) foot of additional setback from the front property line.
         7. The maximum permitted height shall be one hundred and fifty (150) feet, or thirteen (13) stories.
      5. UCD Frontage E.
         1. Setbacks. None.
         2. Height. Three (3) floors or forty-five (45) feet, whichever is less.
   2. Maximum square feet.The total combined permitted square feet for the University Campus District shall be 6.8 million square feet of gross floor area.
   3. Lot coverage, frontage, facing or number of buildings per site. No specified lot coverage, frontage, facing, or number of buildings per site restrictions are required for the UCD.
   4. Landscaped open space. The minimum landscaped open space required in the University Campus District shall be not less than twenty (20%) percent.
   5. Maximum retail. No more than fifteen (15%) percent of the total floor area in a Multi-Use Zone may be retail uses which are not university serving uses.
   6. Mobility. The Mobility Plan shall be consistent with the mobility element of the City’s Comprehensive Plan and shall identify specific programs to promote the use of alternative modes of transportation other than the single occupant automobile including walking, bicycles, intra-campus shuttles, transit, van pools, car pools, parking management strategies and programs designed to reduce external trips and shorten trips lengths wherever possible. The Mobility Plan shall provide for management programs for on-campus parking. The Mobility Plan shall establish measurable targets for various modes of travel and identify sources and means for achieving those targets.
   7. Off-street parking.
      1. Location and quantity. The location of off-street parking shall be shown on the Campus Master Plan, and shall be provided in such amounts and areas within the development so that students, faculty, employees, and visitors will not park in or otherwise detrimentally impact abutting residential areas or other off-campus areas as a result of inadequate campus parking. In projecting parking needs, standard traffic engineering methods shall be used and consideration shall be given to daily regular users of the university, auto driver visitors, persons arriving by mass transportation, and persons being served by the university shuttle system. Approval of a building permit application for new development shall not be granted unless the University demonstrates that required parking and traffic capacity for each phase of development would be available prior to or concurrent with such development.
      2. Parking for residential housing. Parking provided and designated for University Village housing shall be limited to the University Village Area.
      3. Parking of boat and recreational vehicles. No boats and/or recreational vehicles shall be parked in the Transition Areas or Buffer Areas unless such boats and/or recreational vehicles are parked within an enclosed building or are being actively used as a part of an organized temporary University event.
   8. Vehicular access and circulation. Vehicular traffic flow in the UCD District shall be designed and oriented so that it will not detrimentally impact nearby residential neighborhoods. Arrangements for traffic flow to and from the proposed development shall be designed to retain the major portion of such traffic on designated arterial and collector streets.
   9. Design. The Design Manual previously adopted by the City of Coral Gables pursuant to Ordinance No. 2964, as subsequently amended, in effect at the date of adoption of this Section D.1. shall be the adopted Design Manual for the University Campus District. Any modification to the adopted Design Manual shall be reviewed and approved by the Board of Architects of the City of Coral Gables in accordance with the requirements for conditional uses in Section 14-202 and Article 15 of the Zoning Code. The design features shall be reflected in the adopted Design Manual. To the extent not inconsistent with the provisions of the adopted Design Manual, which shall govern in the event of any conflict with this Subsection D.1.G., the design features shall include the following elements:
      1. Architectural design. Design criteria shall guide the architectural appearance and style of campus development as a cohesive aesthetic environment.
      2. External relationships. The scale of buildings in the buffer and transition Areas shall be based on careful site planning consideration of the relationship between University uses and structures and off-campus uses and structures in the surrounding perimeter areas and/or neighborhoods. New buildings shall be designed to provide protection of surrounding areas from potentially adverse impacts and influences from development and to provide protection of university development from potentially adverse surrounding influences.
      3. Internal relationships and arrangement of uses. Compatible and complementary uses proposed within the UCD shall be so arranged as to:
         1. Provide for safe, efficient, and harmonious groupings of structures and facilities.
         2. Create successful relationships between interior and exterior spaces.
         3. Include adequate parking facilities which are reasonably accessible to the function they serve by walking, bicycling, or shuttle.
         4. Include pedestrian linkage between facilities.
         5. Simplify circulation routes and minimize opportunities for pedestrian/ vehicular conflicts.
      4. Signs and lighting. The character and size of the proposed signage and lighting shall take into account their compatibility and appropriateness with the surroundings and issues of safety, if applicable.
      5. Landscaping. Desirable landscaping shall be preserved in its natural state to the maximum extent possible. Landscaping requirements and standards established by the Zoning Code for off-street parking shall be used. Placement of structures and vehicular areas shall be such as to retain, to the extent reasonably practical, desirable existing landscaping, open space and natural features, and to promote the provision of compatible new landscaping.
      6. Parking garages.
         1. Any parking structure or any portion thereof, which is located in the Transition Area shall be screened from view from adjacent single family residential districts by liner buildings/wraps.
         2. All parking structures within three hundred (300) feet of San Amaro Drive and Campo Sano Drive between Mataro Avenue and Pisano Avenue shall be screened from view from adjacent single family districts by liner buildings/wraps.
         3. All parking structures within three hundred (300) feet of San Amaro Drive and Campo Sano Drive between Mataro Avenue and Pisano Avenue shall be designed and constructed so that the square footage of the parking structure, light fixtures and parked cars are not visible from any residential lot which fronts on San Amaro Drive and Campo Sano Drive between Mataro Avenue and Pisano Avenue.
         4. Any parking structure within three hundred (300) feet of Pisano Avenue between Campo Sano Drive and University Drive shall be treated with architectural designs, features and materials, such as varying column spacing, real or false windows and other treatments which obscure the identity of the structure as a parking garage.
      7. Installation of utilities. All utilities within the University Master Campus including but not limited to telephone, electrical systems and television cables shall be installed underground.
      8. Pedestrian amenities. Wherever possible, pedestrian amenities such as convenient and covered walkways, benches, water fountains, trash receptacles, bicycle racks and landscaping should be included, especially along street frontages and near access points.
      9. Refuse and service areas. Refuse and service areas shall be so designed, located, landscaped and screened and the manner and timing of refuse collection and deliveries, shipment or other service activities so arranged as to minimize impact on adjacent or nearby properties or adjoining public ways, and to not impede circulation patterns.
8. Required reports.
   1. Annual report. On an annual basis, on or before June 1, the University shall submit an annual report to the City setting forth any changes to the adopted Campus Master Plan which were approved administrively and any actual development which has occurred in the prior year.
   2. Parking capacity monitoring. The University shall monitor the capacity and utilization of its off-street parking facilities and perform a supply/demand analysis to assess the level of utilization, availability and appropriateness of location of campus parking facilities. The analysis shall also indicate the type of user and the extent to which parking is used jointly by different components of the campus. The results of the monitoring and analysis shall be incorporated in a Parking Impact Analysis Report prepared by a certified traffice planner or engineer to be provided by June 1, 2013, and every five (5) years thereafter as part of the Annual Report.
   3. Annual Mobility Plan implementation report. The University shall submit an annual Mobility Plan report to the City describing implementation of the Mobility Plan with reference to the measurable objectives set out in the Mobility Plan.
   4. Traffic analysis reports. The University shall submit a Regional Traffic Impact Analysis Report as part of the Annual Report by June 1, 2013, and every five (5) years thereafter. The report shall be prepared by a certified traffic planner or engineer and shall assess existing and projected roadway conditions, levels of service, traffic volumes, capacities, and such other information as may be necessary to determine the impact of the proposed development. The report shall also identify methods of mitigating any negative impacts projected by such analysis.
   5. Utility reports. Growth projections and their impact on existing utilities, along with any recommended utility improvements to meet future campus development or redevelopment shall be reported to the City by June 1, 2013, and every five (5) years thereafter.