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Miami-Dade County was the first in Florida to certify hurricane-resistant standards for structures which the Florida Building Code subsequently enacted across all requirements for hurricane-resistant buildings. Many other states reference the requirements set in the Florida Building codes, or have developed their own requirements for hurricanes.
The Miami-Dade Board of County Commissioners is the governing body of unincorporated Miami-Dade County and has broad regional powers to establish policies for Miami-Dade County services. The government provides major metropolitan services countywide and city-type services for residents of unincorporated areas.
He noted the Miami-Dade permit restrictions affordable housing developers face. “Affordable housing is just going to be a persistent issue here, until we get more units in the ground,” Johnson ...
A lawsuit is demanding that the city of Miami refund more than $76 million in “excessive” building permit fees collected over more than a decade.
Miami-Dade County (/ m aɪ ˈ æ m i ˈ d eɪ d /) is a county located in the southeastern part of the U.S. state of Florida. The county had a population of 2,701,767 as of the 2020 census, [4] making it the most populous county in Florida and the seventh-most populous county in the United States. [8]
The Stephen P. Clark Government Center, known also as Government Center, Miami-Dade Center, or County Hall, is a skyscraper in the Government Center district of Downtown Miami, Florida, United States. It is the headquarters building of the Miami-Dade County government. Many county offices are located in or near the building.
Two items on the Nov. 8 ballot would alter Miami-Dade County’s charter to beef up the county’s legal defenses of its “home rule” autonomy against some state action.
City of Miami Commission Districts Map 2019. The mayor of Miami, currently Francis Suarez, is the city's executive and is directly elected; the mayor appoints a city manager to act as Miami's chief administrative officer. Five city commissioners are also elected from single-member districts of which they are residents.