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The Land Use and Environmental
Division is responsible for all matters related
to, real property and its use. The attorneys are
specialists in this area of the law and
routinely deal with a variety of transactions
and issues - from monitoring the step-by-step
progress of complicated projects, to litigating
trial and appellate land use matters, to
negotiating, revising or drafting land use
changes to the code and charter. Queries are
answered and legal solutions are offered to
client departments, boards/committees, and the
Mayor and City Commission covering an
encyclopedia of issues relative to the Miami
Comprehensive Neighborhood Plan, the Zoning
Ordinance, South Florida Building Code, Code
Enforcement, real property acquisitions and
disposition, permitting, impact fees, plat
approvals, street naming, tax increment
financing, Public Works matters, use of public
rights-of-way, covenants, and eminent domain.

Division Chief
Maria J. Chiaro,
Assistant City Attorney
Assistant City Attorney
Victoria
Mèndez
Kymberlee C.
Smith
Rafael
Suarez-Rivas |