Land Speculators are trying to turn their bad investment on the wrong side of the Urban Development Boundary “green”. The first hearing is with the West Kendall Community Council on October 27th at 6:30 pm. It will be at the Jorge Mas Canosa Middle School, 15735 SW 144th Street. I am sure the neighbors will show up in droves as I was told that Lennar, Sergio Pino or Easton interests have been peppering nearby families with promises of goodies, i.e. a movie theatre for one thing and there is a rumor that there will be walnut brownie deliveries (it doesn't take much to buy off the neighborhood).
And, when I say GREEN I mean green in both regards. They are peddling this development as the environmentally friendly “Green” (who cares that it buffers the Everglades). The land barons are hoping that the repackaging will make the project fly and then they will make that other more important “Green”.
If the UDB is moved the price of the land will skyrocket and the investors can finally unload it without losing their shirts. We would, in effect, be bailing them out (sound familiar?) with zoning changes.
We have a lot of posts on Parkland, 24 to be exact. These are the last few.
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I am not a realtor, or a land speculator, or a developer or a hippie treehugging freak. I only really understand one thing about real estate. Location, location, location. WHO even wants to live out there? The flooding, the traffic are not made up for with brownies. Paving the Everglades is not "GREEN" development. UGH!
It is not the everglades, it is farms and open land. The reason you want that near the Everglades is because of fires and floods... so that they don't impact people.
As usual, they try to ram these things thru when the holidays approach so people are too busy to get involved.
I am allergic to walnuts. So, they are definitely going to have to do better than that.
There better be a huge showing at these meetings by the people who feel that Parkland is disgusting. the board doesn't know public opinion unless you tell them!
The principals of this project (all zillion of them, read the list) packed the room during the Krome Gold hearings. They even dusted off Lawrence not-a-lobbyist P., who showed that his Toastmasters skills were well learned. It's no wonder why the KFHA folks sat way far away from him. He was not there with the groups blessing to speak, and they were having no part of it.
There were even "neighbors" who spoke in support! They also must have seen the same dollar signs that the rest of the principals had seen.
The other side of the room with the general community (just like a wedding) was out-talked and out-manned. Makes one want to scream.
This hearing will be just like Krome GOLD. But worse.
Please get people out to this meeting. Use your email lists. It's important. This is a big, bad one.
We NEED to stop this development. It is once again greedy developers trying to take the easy way out and bail out their land owning buddies. This is farm land, it shouldn't be worth a hundred thousand an acre, but that's what these people want. If you care about keeping farming in Miami-Dade, traffic in West Kendall, the Everglades, protecting people from climate change, or even just can't see why we should let the developers burden our economy with another 7,000 vacant homes on the market which they themselves have admitted are not needed for at least a decade (and who knows what will happen in a decade from now), then PLEASE follow this issue, write letters, and if you can spare a few minutes of your time, attend meetings. The people must be heard.
If you think the county has made decisions now, just wait until this doozy. The people who live there will be in constant threat of flooding, and will probably have to sell their houses after a decade or 2 as sea level rise starts around 2050.
This is just crazy!
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