Casablanca files to change Miami Beach's land-use rules

The Casablanca, the oceanfront condominium at 6345 Collins Ave., is asking the city to change Miami Beach’s land-use rules, according to applications filed in October.

Two Planning Board applications filed Oct. 15 under the building’s name seek an amendment to the city’s land development regulations and an amendment to its comprehensive plan, the document that sets what can be built where. A traffic study was filed the same day, after pre-application requests on Oct. 8. All were listed as under review on Wednesday.

The filings’ only descriptions are the kind of amendment and the building’s name. They don’t say what rules would change, what the owners want to build, or who filed them, and none appeared on city board agendas for the next six weeks.

The applications arrived the same week as similar requests for a bigger building at 6979 and 6985 Collins Ave., where developers plan to demolish the Normandy Plaza Hotel (see story). Those filings ask about a “proposed FAR and height increase.”

The Casablanca has seven cases on the city’s special magistrate docket for Thursday, Nov. 12, including an overdue 40-year recertification case opened in 2021, Red Sidewalks reported Nov. 3.