Commissioner Joseph Magazine is pushing to allow a private helipad on Terminal Island, where the U.S. Coast Guard Base Miami Beach is located, by amending the city's land development regulations.
Miami Beach commissioners will consider approving Boucher Brothers Pier Park's plan to demolish and replace the aging Nikki Beach concession site with a two-story, high-end beach club — on public land, with multiple regulatory hurdles still ahead.
County commissioners on June 16 cleared the final procedural step toward condemning the roughly 10-acre PortMiami fuel depot — the move the Journal warned was looming — after Mayor Daniella Levine Cava walked away from a $400 million purchase. With only Raquel Regalado opposed, the vote sets up a constitutional fight already playing out in two courtrooms.
Three Miami Beach committees meet this week. The first detailed FY2027 budget-and-millage numbers land Wednesday, the city floats a homegrown alternative to the state's Live Local Act on Monday, and a cluster of ethics and transparency measures advances — all at the committee stage, none a final vote.
Miami Beach's Design Review Board meets Thursday morning to weigh updated designs for North Beach's 72nd Street Community Complex, the next phase of the "Via NoLi" pedestrian corridor near Lincoln Road, changes to a private Terminal Island marina, and a new North Beach multi-family building.
The Miami Beach Historic Preservation Board meets Tuesday, June 9, at 9:00 a.m. to consider three items, including a major renovation and expansion of a late Art Deco hotel on Collins Avenue, a storefront overhaul and new pedestrian arcade on Lincoln Road, and proposed design guidelines for railings on non-contributing buildings.
A LaGorce Drive homeowner has filed suit in Miami-Dade circuit court to block a 2026 state law that allegedly orders Miami Beach to approve a commercial water park at the Fontainebleau Hotel, bypassing the city's Historic Preservation Board.
Fisher Island's homeowners association and private club have sued developer HRP Fisher Island LLC, alleging it abandoned a deal to demolish a dangerous 100-year-old marine fuel terminal and is instead selling the site to Miami-Dade County for roughly $400 million.
Nahla Raleigh LLC is asking Miami Beach to raise the maximum floor area ratio for large oceanfront historic sites from 2.0 to 2.5, a change that would add roughly 66,000 square feet of buildable space to the three-hotel Collins Avenue assemblage.
Miami Beach's Land Use and Sustainability Committee voted to send a revised residential incentive plan for Washington Avenue back to the full Commission, adding new limits on unit size, lot size, and total corridor density.
The Land Use & Sustainability Committee meets Tuesday, May 26 at 11 a.m. Of a longer agenda, six items stand out — focused on housing, development incentives, and long-range planning for North Beach and Washington Avenue.
Hillsborough County filed a landmark lawsuit against the State of Florida on March 6, 2026, challenging the constitutionality of the Live Local Act — a case Miami Beach residents and officials are watching as the city faces its own Live Local battles.