A local neighborhood association is raising alarms over a developer's bid to dramatically increase building height and density on the 1600 block of Alton Road, calling on residents to attend a public Zoom meeting Monday evening.
As aggressive condominium buyout campaigns reshape Miami Beach's residential landscape — and as litigation over coercive developer practices mounts up and down Collins Avenue — the City of Miami Beach is preparing to consider a measure that would insert the city itself as an early checkpoint in any future developer-driven acquisition effort.
A Miami Beach condominium association has filed a sweeping 10-count lawsuit in the Circuit Court of the Eleventh Judicial Circuit in and for Miami-Dade County, alleging that its property management company and licensed community association manager conspired — or at minimum grossly neglected their duties — to funnel more than $811,000 of resident funds to a fraudulent construction company that performed no work on the property.
A freshly filed lawsuit in Miami-Dade Circuit Court offers a rare, unfiltered window into the gilded frictions of life on the Venetian Islands — where even the "ordinary wear and tear" arguments cost more than most Floridians earn in a year.
A once-bustling commercial corridor that has sat largely boarded up for nearly a decade could be transformed into a 150-foot mixed-use tower under a sweeping zoning overlay proposal that came before the Miami Beach Planning Board on April 7, 2026 — but not before board members raised pointed questions about parking, building mass, and whether the proposal goes far enough to deliver on the city's housing goals.
The Miami Beach Design Review Board convenes at 9:00 AM on Thursday, April 16, 2026, to consider three significant development proposals spanning the city's South Beach and North Beach neighborhoods. The board will weigh in on a proposed new Bank of America branch on Alton Road, a facade renovation at the landmark "Lincoln" building on Michigan Avenue, and substantial design modifications to the ambitious 72nd Street Community Complex in North Beach.
A proposal set to come before the Miami Beach Planning Board on April 7, 2026, would dramatically reshape the development landscape along a stretch of Lincoln Road and its surrounding blocks, offering property owners the ability to build taller and denser — but only if they permanently surrender their rights to operate hotels, short-term rentals, and other transient uses.
When Miami Beach's Public Safety and Neighborhood Quality of Life Committee convenes on March 30, 2026, Item 14 will ask members to do something the city hasn't done before: craft the framework for a first-of-its-kind Naturally Occurring Affordable Housing (NOAH) Pilot Program
The Committee is set to convene on Wednesday, April 1, 2026, at 3:00 PM for a wide-ranging session covering some of the city's most pressing planning and development questions. With 10 items on the docket, committee members will tackle everything from neighborhood-scale residential planning along Washington Avenue to the future of underutilized land in North Beach, alcohol retail policy on Lincoln Road, and transit improvements.
Commissioner David Suarez's rezoning proposal would dramatically reshape Washington Avenue with new buildings up to 150' — but skeptics question whether the city is trading away its character for uncertain gains.
A decades-long failure to adjust utility impact fees caught up with the Miami Beach City Commission on March 18th, as commissioners voted unanimously to advance one portion of a proposed ordinance — adding an automatic annual Consumer Price Index (CPI) adjustment to water and sewer connection fees — while carving out a more contentious sanitation fee increase for separate consideration next month.
A property developer has filed a sweeping lawsuit against the City of Miami Beach, alleging the municipality is systematically violating state law by blocking affordable housing developments required under Florida's Live Local Act. The case centers on a controversial 249-unit mixed-use project at 1501 Collins Avenue in the heart of the Art Deco Historic District.