Miami Neighborhood Associations and the City District Offices

A Miami resident finds a neighborhood association through the City of Miami Homeowners Associations lists, which are organized by district office, from Allapattah and Coral Way to Little Haiti and Upper Eastside (City of Miami HOA lists).

The first step is matching the address to a district. The City of Miami district office page says any address in the city can be searched with the Property Information Tool to determine the District and the District Office, which the tool still labels a Neighborhood Service Center (Commissioner District Offices list). With the district known, the matching list names the associations that the city treats as contacts for that part of Miami.

The My Home and Neighborhood page links eleven lists: Allapattah, Coconut Grove, Coral Way, Wynwood / Edgewater, Flagami, Little Haiti, Downtown / Brickell, Little Havana, Model City, Overtown and Upper Eastside (My Home and Neighborhood). The Planning, Zoning and Land Use copy of the same page adds a twelfth list, for Marlins Park (Find HOA Information).

The Coconut Grove, Little Havana, Upper Eastside and Overtown lists all carry the City of Miami Planning Department, 444 SW 2 Ave 3rd floor, (305) 416-1405 (Little Havana HOA list). The Upper East Side Commissioner District Office at 6599 Biscayne Blvd. posts its hours as Monday to Friday, 9AM to 5PM (Upper Eastside HOA list), and the Overtown District Office at 819 NW 2nd Avenue posts the same hours (Overtown HOA list).

Miami's Neighborhood Enhancement Team offices were replaced by Commission District Offices run by each commissioner, after the city dissolved Neighborhood Service Centers (formerly NET) and moved their services to departments (My Home and Neighborhood).

The City of Miami Commissioner District Offices page puts it plainly: the division no longer exists, the services have been taken over by various departments, and the offices are now called Commission District Offices (Commissioner District Offices). The district list page adds that the department formerly known as NET is now separated by District and run by each commissioner, with locations, hours and staff posted separately for Districts 1 through 5 (district office list).

For a Miami neighborhood association, that change means its local contact is the district office for its area, run under that district's commissioner. The same district list page also points to a chart of Police, Code and Sanitation supervisors per district (Commissioner District Offices list).

Older city material has not caught up everywhere. The Send Notification Letters to Neighbors page in Miami still tells applicants that a district tab will give the name and phone number of the corresponding NET Office, even though the city says NET no longer exists (Send Notification Letters to Neighbors). Anyone following that step should read it as the Commission District Office for the address.

Miami neighborhood associations deal with five district commissioners, Mayor Eileen Higgins and City Manager James Reyes, according to the City of Miami City Officials page checked on October 15, 2026 (City of Miami City Officials).

The City of Miami page notes that Eileen Higgins is the first female Mayor of the City of Miami, and that James Reyes was sworn in as City Manager on January 12th, 2026 after the mayor nominated him on December 29th, 2025 (City Officials).

The HOA lists show where those commissioners are reached. The Coconut Grove list gives District 2 Commissioner Damian Pardo at 3500 Pan American Dr., (305) 250-5333 (Coconut Grove HOA list), the Little Havana list gives District 3 Commissioner Rolando Escalona at (305) 250-5380 (Little Havana HOA list), and the Upper Eastside list gives District 5 Commissioner Christine King at (305) 250-5390 (Upper Eastside HOA list). All three are listed at 3500 Pan American Dr.

Last verified: October 15, 2026, on the City of Miami website.

A Miami applicant must mail letters to the HOA list for the property's district when a permit such as a warrant, exception or special event calls for neighbor notice, using U.S. Certified mail (Send Notification Letters to Neighbors).

The City of Miami Homeowners Associations page states the rule in one line: certain applications, such as special events and temporary use permits, require letters to the HOA lists (HOA lists page). The notification page then sets out the steps in order.

Timing matters in Miami. For most permit requests, the final application and documents must be submitted no later than five (5) business days from the date the notifications are mailed, as shown on the certified mail receipts (City of Miami).

The city's radius step uses the GIS Buffer Radius Distance tool, and the Miami page describes the 1,500 foot radius appearing with the subject property at the center, which selects every property inside it (Send Notification Letters to Neighbors). The HOA list is its own step, Step 4, separate from the abutting and radius searches.

Not always: the City of Miami lists put civic, condominium and business groups under one HOA label, while Florida law defines a homeowners' association as a corporation in which membership is a mandatory condition of parcel ownership (Florida Statutes 720.301).

Section 720.301 of the Florida Statutes adds that a homeowners' association is authorized to impose assessments that, if unpaid, may become a lien on the parcel (Florida Statutes). The City of Miami lists use the label HOA for every entry, but they mix several kinds of groups under it.

The Little Havana list, for example, includes Spring Garden Civic Association, Historic Roads Neighborhood Association, Silver Bluff Homeowner's Association and Miami Shenandoah Neighborhood Association, along with the Miami River Commission and Marlins Park (Little Havana HOA list). The Upper Eastside list includes Morningside Civic Association, Shorecrest Homeowners Association, Palm Grove Neighborhood Association and Belle Meade Homeowners Association (Upper Eastside HOA list).

Coconut Grove shows the same mix. Its Miami list carries Coconut Grove Village West Homeowners & Tenants Association, North Grove Homeowners Assn., Golden Pines Neighborhood Association and Glasshaus Condominium Association, Inc. next to the Coconut Grove Business Improvement District and the Coconut Grove Chamber of Commerce Inc. (Coconut Grove HOA list). In Overtown, the list includes the SEOPW Community Redevelopment Agency (CRA) and the Overtown Community Oversight Board (Overtown HOA list).

For a Miami resident, the practical reading is that being on a city list makes a group a recipient of notice letters; whether membership is mandatory turns on the Chapter 720 definition, not on the HOA label the city uses.

No: Miami-Dade County's 10 Community Councils represent parts of unincorporated Miami-Dade County, so addresses inside the City of Miami go through the city's district offices instead (Miami-Dade County Zoning).

The county zoning page says those Community Councils make zoning and land use decisions and serve as advisory liaisons to the Board of County Commissioners and County staff (Miami-Dade County). A civic group in unincorporated Miami-Dade County takes zoning matters to its Community Council; a group in Little Haiti or Flagami, both on the City of Miami lists, works with the city and its commissioners.

For general City of Miami questions, the city footer lists 311 or 305-468-5900 and the Miami Riverside Center at 444 SW 2nd Ave (City of Miami). The Digital Towns Miami city council guide covers how commission meetings run, and the Miami voting precincts guide covers where residents vote.