Friday, September 18, 2026 · Independent Miami Beach journalism
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A city advisory committee is pushing back after the City Commission quietly pulled the plug on a voter-approved mobility project last month.
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.
The Committee convenes on Monday, March 30, 2026, at 9:00 AM for a wide-ranging session covering 13 agenda items that touch on transportation safety, micromobility regulation, community spaces, affordable housing, and neighborhood improvements.
A $150 annual parking pass that lets Miami Beach residents ditch the app and simply park could be heading to a 12-month pilot program — funded, its sponsor argues, not by residents, but by the visitors who already dominate the city's parking revenue.
Eleven structurally deficient bridges along one of Miami Beach's most historically significant landmarks are headed for demolition — but not without a carefully orchestrated effort to ensure that what rises in their place looks almost identical to what came before.
In a vote that drew sharp criticism from cycling advocates and raised serious questions about Miami Beach's commitment to its own Bicycle/Pedestrian Master Plan, the City Commission approved a resolution to discontinue two long-planned multi-use path projects — forfeiting over $1.2 million in Florida Department of Transportation grants and walking away from years of planning work, largely in response to opposition from residents living adjacent to the Miami Beach Golf Course.
The Miami Beach City Commission on March 18, 2026, approved a resolution directing the administration to close Ocean Drive to vehicular traffic during the FIFA World Cup 2026 games in Miami. The resolution, sponsored by Commissioner Monica Matteo-Salinas and co-sponsored by Commissioners Joseph Magazine and Tanya K. Bhatt, stems from a February 20, 2026, Finance and Economic Resiliency Committee recommendation.
Nearly seven years after Miami-Dade County first approved slower speeds on Miami Beach's residential streets, city officials are finally seeking to put the legal framework in place that should have preceded the signs already posted on neighborhood corners across the island city.
A stretch of 12th Street between Washington Avenue and Ocean Drive could soon carry a second name — "Pride Street" — if the Miami Beach City Commission approves a proposed ordinance at its March 18, 2026 meeting. But the path to that symbolic designation requires something more fundamental: rewriting the city's own rulebook on how streets get named in the first place.
The Miami Beach City Commission will consider directing City Manager Eric Carpenter to coordinate with local homeowners to install traffic calming devices on Sunset Drive, which runs through Sunset Islands 3 and 4. The resolution, sponsored by Commissioner Laura Dominguez, responds to resident concerns about vehicular speeding and pedestrian safety on the main roadway.
Mayor Steven Meiner is pushing the city to explore what could be one of the most ambitious infrastructure projects in Miami Beach's history: a network of underground tunnels designed to ease the persistent traffic congestion that has plagued the barrier island city for years.
The Florida Department of Transportation is positioning the state as a national leader in Advanced Air Mobility, a new transportation system that could bring electric flying taxis to Miami Beach and other urban areas as early as 2028.