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The engagement between the City of South Miami and BusinessFlare® to reestablish the Community Redevelopment Agency — a Finding of Necessity and a Community Redevelopment Plan, prepared concurrently.
BusinessFlare® structured the engagement to prepare the Finding of Necessity and the CRA Plan concurrently — work in the early tasks informs both deliverables — carrying the City through the full statutory process under Chapter 163, Part III, Florida Statutes.
Establishes that slum/blight conditions exist and that redevelopment is necessary — the statutory basis for reestablishing the CRA.
The full plan: existing conditions, goals, priority projects, TIF projections, and the documents needed for adoption.
Review prior plans and annual reports, preparatory meetings with City staff, and a formal data request — crime, code violations, and fire/emergency data for the study area and citywide.
Deliverable: Data Request (within 5 days of NTP)Preliminary assessment of physical, infrastructure, real-estate, and socio-economic conditions against Chapter 163, F.S. and Miami-Dade County criteria. Informs Task 3.
Statutory and county-criteria analysis supporting a slum/blight determination, with data, observational and photo documentation, and a pre-plan summary of priorities.
Deliverable: Draft Finding of NecessityReview with City and (if needed) County staff, optional Commissioner debriefs, and edits from feedback.
Deliverable: Final Finding of NecessityPresent the Finding to the City Commission and Miami-Dade County BCC as directed.
Evaluate prior plans; preparatory meetings; physical-environment and economic-condition analysis against Chapter 163 and County criteria.
Deliverable: Existing Conditions Summary (by statutory criteria)Up to 20 stakeholder meetings and County input; priority objectives; a full CRA Plan with goals, neighborhood impact statements, policy recommendations, priority projects, TIF revenue projections and a conceptual financial plan; plus a Chapter 163 / Miami-Dade checklist and 7-year TIF projections.
Deliverable: Statutorily-Compliant Draft CRA PlanReview with City and County staff, CRA board debriefs, edits, local planning agency review, and final adjustments.
Deliverable: Final CRA PlanAssist with resolutions, bylaws, and the trust fund ordinance; present the Plan to the CRA Board, City Commission, and Miami-Dade County BCC.
Contractual anchors from the executed scope, measured from execution / Notice to Proceed (NTP).
Snapshot as of late 2025. Statuses are indicative for review and will be kept current as the engagement progresses.
Final Finding completed July 3, 2025, documenting the qualifying slum and blight conditions.
Baseline assessment organized by statutory criteria.
Final CRA Plan issued October 1, 2025.
Resolutions, bylaws, trust fund ordinance, and presentations to the CRA Board, City Commission, and Miami-Dade County BCC.
A few items sit with the City to keep the schedule on track: