Line but you have to pay-- in her April 13th article "South Dade planning study killed
Move could clear way for more projects outside urban boundary":
“Under the threat of a countywide building ban, Miami-Dade recently approved $4.5 billion in capital projects for water and sewer in order to come into compliance with state and federal agencies. State planners have been rejecting projects because of insufficient water supply planning.”
I hope you all have some extra money in your pocket. My $4.5 billion is spoken for.
The Watershed Study, for which we paid $3 million dollars, according to Stabley:
"The study estimated that $7.6 billion would be saved by following the recommendation for controlled growth, especially in costs for additional water and sewer infrastructure."
So, you know we won't follow any of the recommendations, that is a given in this town.
And you all think you are getting a property tax reduction. Hah! Really.
I have just figured it out — it came to me like a little light bulb. If they do reduce your property taxes (only because the developers want it that way) they will sock you with a State Income Tax in a year or two. You will not get a free lunch.
P.S. For those of you who do not live in South Florida, this is what Miami Dade does not yet have that Broward does: Development to the levee.
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And I was going to buy a dress with my $4.5 billion...but I will give it up...
anything to help our developers!
this blogger gets it totally correct! As a person who follows the watershed study very closely, I was dumbfounded by the bait and switch of resolutions. Sejias got us! The reso was supposed to just receive the study WITHOUT a recommendation. that is why many of us didn't mind not having the opportunity to speak, and many left the chamber. Susan Stabley's article left my jaw hanging and my blood raging. Now its time to go to the full BCC and demand that vicious and unsupported whereas clause is removed. We need our counity commissioners to get something from the $3 million dollars of our tax payer money that they invested in the watershed study. It is irresponsibile for them to throw all that away.
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