Miami-Dade Could Eliminate Parking Minimum In Government Center Subzone

Miami-Dade Commissioners were scheduled to vote today on eliminating a parking requirement for new developments in the Government Center Subzone of the Rapid Transit Zone.

All properties within the Government Center Subzone are County-owned or County-developed properties.

The area is served by Metrorail, Metromover, Tri-Rail, Brightline, and Bus Rapid Transit.

Eliminating a requirement to build costly parking will incentivize the development of transit-oriented affordable and workforce housing within the area, according to a memo from the County Mayor.

The proposal had already unanimously passed a first reading in November.

Three development proposals have been submitted for county properties in the zone known as Metrocenter. They include a proposal designed by starchitect Foster + Partners, and another promising up to 5,000 residential units, including 2,000 affordable and workforce units.

 

Conceptual rendering of Metrocenter:

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We want Rails not buses
4 days ago

Now build the metro so they don’t need the cars. Extend the metro rail to hard rock and to aventura through design district. Add mono rail or something to south of 5th.

WE LAME
4 days ago

WE WANT doesn’t have the billions needed for all that

Anon
4 days ago

Stop shoving your vehicle-only lifestyle down everyone elses throat – not everyone wants to live like that.

WE LAME
4 days ago

^^stop shoving your freeloading lifestyle down taxpayer’s throats and pay for your own transport.

Anon
4 days ago

Pay for your own roads LOL

WE LAME
4 days ago

^^I do with my gas taxes, just like my gas taxes also go to fund your little beercanchitbus so you can get a free ride, definitely not lol

John Galt
4 days ago

I do. If you would have paid attention in the public school that I paid for you, you would know how the world works.

What else do you need me to do for you that you can not figure out on your own?

DEEP THROAT
4 days ago

what’s with you and all the throat shoving references? maybe you should see someone

John Galt
4 days ago

It’s okay. No one is shoving a car down your throat.
You have a Metromover, Metrorail, buses, Citibikes, and presumably feet.

If the confederacy of Beta males are afraid of driving cars, you do not have to. I’m agnostic. Do what you want. I just do not want to pay for your free ride, and you do not have to pay for my ride.

Miami is a Major US city
4 days ago

Oh John it sounds like city living is not for you. You see most major cities have public transit. It is not usually entirely free (neither is the metro-rail or bus btw). If the idea of tax payer funded transit to help people navigate heavily populated areas is so infuriating to you, I recommend you move to north Florida. I hear it’s lovely there!

anon
3 days ago

^^if the idea of taxpayer funded public transit is all that really excites you then move to NYC or Chicago. I hear it’s lovely there, esp. this time of year!

Anonymous
4 days ago

We don’t, but the county did before they pocketed the penny tax that was supposedly for Metrorail extensions.

anon
4 days ago

and you believed the expansions costs would be covered by a penny tax lol

John Galt
4 days ago

Funny. I didn’t vote for that 1/2 penny tax.
I told anyone who’d listen that the money would get misappropriated by the government buffoons.

Some people NEVER learn a lesson.

John Galt
4 days ago

You should visit the site.
The Metromover and Metrorail are there.

Anon
4 days ago

It should eliminate the parking minimum *everywhere*

Cover the Podiums
4 days ago

Parking in this area really doesn’t make any sense. Tons of transit options and close to everything with an uber ride. Plus its already gridlock traffic during rush hour

Mad Dash
4 days ago

It should be eliminated all throughout the city center from the Design District to end of Brickell.

Anonymous
4 days ago

Design District is in the city center, hahaha.

John Galt
4 days ago

That would kill most businesses in the area.
Then the government train people would be whining that WE NEED a Trader Joe’s.

Yan Jammer
4 days ago

the least they could do

Jenna
4 days ago

Amazing as long as we build a top notch public transportation system though!

Cover the Podiums
4 days ago

holy hell, that means that no need to hide parking podiums, which means the towers are going to look amazing. Downtown could be livable again after this project is complete

Anon
4 days ago

Thats great. Imagine that – buildings without a 10-story parking garage at the base. Never thought I’d see the day.

Huh
4 days ago

I know that cover the podiums guy is finally happy after reading this lol

A. Lucis
4 days ago

Impressed by this walkable, connected development model in downtown Miami along the Metromover route, offering a car-free alternative to ease traffic while boosting tourism and enhancing urban life with more amenities within a 15-minute walk.

Anonymous
4 days ago

Metromoober will take like… ten cars off the road at rush hour. The idea of eliminating parking is hopefully it will incentivize the city and county to look at expanding Metrorail and some other alternative to Miami Beach that isn’t Metromoober or buses.

Kurt
3 days ago

Those metromoober cars you speak of can hold up to 90 people lol! I checked . They look bigger inside then they are

No parking mins
4 days ago

Needs to happen county wide

Anonymous
4 days ago

Okay great, so if the bidding is rigged for somebody using Arquitectonica as their architect, does it mean we won’t get a bunch of boxes?

NYC sucks
4 days ago

Great proposal! Keep winning Miami!!

Muhammad
2 days ago

About Dam Time, they grow a 🧠 and don’t require all that parking when its supposed to Transit related developments

anon
4 days ago

cover the podiums gonna love this one (so do I)

Truth Matters
4 days ago

It’s taken the city 50 years after building Metrorail and Metromover that concentrating on parking is counter intuitive? Unbelievable!!!!
Only in the US.

The Real Truth
4 days ago

“Only in the US”–the best country there is.