THE ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AND GROWTH MANAGEMENT DEPARTMENT AND THE PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT MANAGEMENT DIVISION RECOMMEND APPROVAL.
The Miramar Regional Activity Center (RAC) is generally located on the south side of Pembroke Road, between Flamingo Road and Southwest 101 Avenue (Exhibit 1.) The City of Miramar (City) has filed a request to amend a voluntary educational mitigation agreement recorded in Official Record Book 42694, Page 1999-2027 related to the Miramar RAC (Exhibit 2.)
Section 5-182(m) of the Broward County Land Development Code (LDC) requires residential developers to provide for the educational needs of future residents by paying educational impact fees. If the developer chooses an alternative to the payment of educational impact fees or dedication of land or construction facilities, Section 5-184(b) of the LDC requires the developer to enter into an impact agreement with Broward County.
On June 28, 2005, the Board approved Land Use Plan Amendment (LUPA) PCT 05-4 to add 2,000 new residential units to an existing 5,460 dwelling units in the RAC. As a condition of approval, the City voluntarily agreed to enter into a tri-party agreement, with Broward County and the School Board of Broward County, to mitigate the student impacts. The agreement requires paying either a per unit student station fee or County school impact fee, whichever is greater, at the time of permitting.
On April 26, 2016, the Board approved LUPA PCT 15-4 to add 1,250 dwelling units to the RAC, for a total of 8,710 dwelling units. The City is requesting approval of an Amendment to the Educational Mitigation Agreement to mitigate the additional 1,250 units (Exhibit 3.)
This agreement has been approved as to form by the County Attorney’s Office.
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