A.

The NCUAD regulating plans were guided by the three Urban Centers located within the boundary and the major roadways provisions of the Comprehensive Development Master Plan.

B.

The regulations contained in this chapter and Chapter 18A, Landscape Code, Code of Miami-Dade County, Florida, shall apply to this article, except as otherwise added to or modified herein.

C.

Figure 1 shows the boundaries of the North Central Urban Area District (NCUAD).

D.

The NCUAD's Designated Urban Center shall consist of the areas designated as being the Core and Center Sub-districts on the Sub-districts Plan. As provided in the Standard Urban Center District Regulations, the Workforce Housing requirement shall apply to the area included in the Designated Urban Center boundaries. The legal description of the boundaries of the NCUAD is on file with the Department.

E.

Full scale maps and a legal description of the boundaries presented in Figure 1, as well as all the Regulating Plans and Street Development Parameters figures, are on file with the Department.

F.

No provision in this article shall be applicable to any property lying outside the boundaries of the NCUAD as described herein. No property lying within the boundaries of the NCUAD shall be entitled to the uses or subject to the regulations provided in this article until an application for a district boundary change to NCUAD has been heard and approved in accordance with the provisions of this chapter.

Figure 1: North Central Urban Area Boundary

(Ord. No. 11-65, § 1, 8-2-11; Ord. No. 16-91, § 21, 9-7-16)

Except as provided herein, all developments within the NCUAD shall comply with the requirements provided in Article XXXIII(K), Standard Urban Center District Regulations, of this chapter.

(Ord. No. 11-65, § 2, 8-2-11)

Except as provided herein, all permitted, conditionally permitted, and temporary uses within the NCUAD shall comply with Section 33-284.83 of this Code.

A.

Permitted Uses. In addition to the uses provided in Section 33-284.83(A), the following shall be permitted:

1.

In the Mixed-Use Corridor Special (MCS) area, all uses permitted in the Mixed-Use Corridor (MC) category and the following additional uses:

(a)

Automobile and truck services and facilities including:

(1)

Open lot car and truck sales new or used, including as ancillary uses, automobile repairs, body and top work and painting, provided that no more than fifteen (15) percent of the gross building area is devoted to such ancillary uses, and subject to the following conditions:

(a)

That attention attractive devices, such as blinking or flashing lights, streamer lights, pennants, banners, streamers and all fluttering, spinning advertising devices (either mobile or stationary) are prohibited.

(b)

That outdoor lighting shall be designed to avoid spilling beyond the site boundaries.

(c)

That no vehicular test drives shall be conducted on residential local traffic streets (fifty-foot right-of-way or less).

(d)

That the applicant obtains a certificate of use, which shall be automatically renewable yearly upon compliance with all terms and conditions.

(e)

All outdoor paging or speaker systems are expressly prohibited.

(2)

Open lot car rental.

(3)

Automobile parts, secondhand from store building only.

(4)

Automobile body and top work and painting.

(b)

Engines, steam and oil; sales and service.

(c)

Garage or mechanical service, including automobile repairs, body and top work and painting. All outdoor paging or speaker systems are expressly prohibited.

(d)

Glass installation.

(e)

Tire vulcanizing and retreading or sale of used tires.

(f)

Truck storage, only within an enclosed building or an area enclosed by a CBS wall.

(g)

Automobile washing.

(h)

Self-service mini-warehouse storage facility in compliance with Section 33-255(23.1) of this Code.

2.

Industrial uses. In the Industrial District (ID) area:

(a)

MC uses at maximum residential densities shown on the Density Regulating Plan in Section 33-284.99.51 of this article.

B.

Conditionally Permitted Uses. Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 33-284.83(B), only the following conditional uses shall be permitted, subject to the administrative approval of a site plan as required by Section 33-284.88 of this Code:

1.

Liquor package stores, which shall only be permitted in the Core and Center Sub-districts, and only in compliance with Article X of this chapter.

C.

Prohibited Uses. Notwithstanding the provisions of 33-284.83(A)(6), 33-13, 33-15, or any other provisions of this Code to the contrary, no junkyard or scrap metal use shall be permitted in the North Central Urban Area District as a new unusual use or special exception. Nothing contained in this article shall be deemed or construed to prohibit a continuation of a legal nonconforming junkyard or scrap metal use in the North Central Urban Area District that either: (1) was existing as of the date of the district boundary change on the property to North Central Urban Area District; or (2) on or before January 1, 2014, had received final site plan approval through a public hearing pursuant to this chapter or through administrative site plan review or had a valid building permit. However, any structure, use, or occupancy in the North Central Urban Area District that is discontinued for a period of at least six months, or is superseded by a lawful use permitted under this chapter, or that incurs damage to an extent of 50 percent or more of its market value, shall be subject to Section 33-284.89.2 of this chapter.

(Ord. No. 11-65, § 3, 8-2-11; Ord. No. 14-45, § 1, 5-6-14; Ord. No. 18-02, § 3, 1-23-18)

Editor's note— Ord. No. 16-91, § 22, adopted Sept. 7, 2016, repealed § 33-284.99.51, which pertained to regulating plans and derived from Ord. No. 11-65, § 4, adopted Aug. 2, 2011; Ord. No. 15-16, § 1, adopted March 17, 2015; Ord. No. 15-104, § 1, adopted Oct. 6, 2015, and Ord. No. 15-130, § 1, adopted Nov. 17, 2015.

A.

Except as otherwise provided in this section, all new development and redevelopment within the NCUAD shall comply with the development parameters as set forth in Article XXXIII(K) of this chapter.

B.

All new development and redevelopment in areas designated MCS shall comply with the development parameters for the MC area as set forth in Article XXXIII(K) of this Code.

C.

At a minimum, streets within the NCUAD shall comply with the Street Type Parameters for Type 5, Minor Street, as provided in section 33-284.85. It is provided, however, that lots with frontage on streets with a zoned right-of-way of seventy (70) feet or greater may instead be developed in accordance with the following standards:

1.

The front and side street setbacks shall be measured from the property line.

2.

Required street trees may be planted within the setback area.

3.

For business and mixed uses, the minimum sidewalk width shall be five (5) feet.

4.

For multi-family residential uses, the minimum sidewalk width shall be eight (8) feet.

5.

For single-family residential uses, the minimum sidewalk width shall be six (6) feet.

D.

Buffering between dissimilar land uses shall be in accordance with Section 18A-6(H) of this Code.

E.

Where a proposed development abuts an area designated for single-family residential on the Future Land Use Map of the CDMP, the height of the proposed development along the abutting property line, for a minimum depth of 50 feet, shall be no greater than three stories. Examples of the required height transition are shown below.

Example of building heights transition from mixed-use to single-family.

(Ord. No. 11-65, § 5, 8-2-11; Ord. No. 15-19, § 1, 3-17-15; Ord. No. 18-02, § 3, 1-23-18)

This article shall govern in the event of conflicts with other zoning, subdivision, or landscape regulations of this Code, or with the Miami-Dade Department of Public Works Manual of Public Works.

(Ord. No. 11-65, § 6, 8-2-11)

Non-conforming structures, uses, and occupancies shall be governed by the provisions of Section 33-284.89.2 of this chapter.

(Ord. No. 11-65, § 7, 8-2-11; Ord. No. 16-90, § 1, 9-7-16)