Florida Power and Light had some pretty photos (one similar is at bottom) -- an artist rendering -- of what the power lines would look like in the neighborhood, at the meeting on Sept. 2nd that I previously wrote about. The people could have seen some REAL photos. You know that FP&L had to have some of equivalent lines. I took a ride down to North Miami and snapped these -- this is more like what South Miami, Coral Gables, Pinecrest, Cutler Ridge and even Doral will be getting, unlike the photos shown at the meeting. The City Council in North Miami was really pissed at these power lines and you can see why.
This last photo was on the FP&L website. (Hit to enlarge photos). 
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I might not be a fan of the power lines, but showing them going down a residential street is much different than running along a commercial corridor adjacent to the metrorail.
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Agreed with above. Love the enthusiasm, but you're reaching on this one. I think a rendering on the actual street is more helpful than a photo on another.
Then they should be rendered how they actually look...don't you think? And, why wouldn't the utility tell people the height of the lines?
People got up at the meeting and said that the power lines were proposed to pass by their house. Do the people live on the metro or are they lying?
Florida power & light is going to screen the lines with landscaping...wait landscaping can't go up that high!
Isn't this the area "M" where the county has urged the cities to put their most intense development (watershed study). The buildings will have a view of the top of the powerlines.
I liked the FPL photos better than your. I hope theirs is accurate. LOL
Last Anon, I'm not sure what your comment has to do with FPL, but at least in Pinellas County, I got a fair and accurate assessment on my investment property and my taxes dropped substantially. Pinellas is over built and was a mini hub of condo converters gone wild, mostly real estate newbies, it created an inflated development market without the buyers and the market and now it's at bottom (I hope) and better planning will come out of the whole mess.
I took off the post last anon...I don't like people off subject to that extent.
I believe the photo on the FPL site is a "simulated" photo. Actually the other photos they "simulated" are more intimidating.
You can't blame FP&L for these insidious icons of progress; after all, FP&L is a for-profit corporation and its sole motive is profit. Voters need to go to the root cause of the problem; voters need to scrutinize and remove FP&L’s enablers – our elected local officials. The following Sun-Sentinel article is very enlightening: http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/florida/sfl-fpl-political-power-f090709,0,5692671.story Whether it’s a Ft. Lauderdale elected official or a City of South Miami elected official, these are FP&L’s enablers; these compromised elected officials need to be removed from the process.
Didn't you already post the R. Crumb "A Short History of America" drawing?
Why should the City Council in North Miami be “really pissed at these power lines”? Isn’t this the municipality, long-time shills to special interest groups which brought us the EPA Super Fund site "Munisport Landfill"; aka the now bankrupt Boca Developer’s “Biscayne Landings” – once a pristine Biscayne Bay wetland? Wikipedia has even devoted a special web page to Munisport: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Munisport.
Wade L Hopping (1931-2009)- may he rest in peace; would be proud of these photos! Hopping, Green & Sams has been retainer as siting legal counsel. May we only hope for many more facilities to come Wade! http://www.hgslaw.com/practice-areas/energy-facilities-siting-licensing.html
The reason all those lines in North Miami were needed was the perceived increase in power on the eastern edge of the city due to the glorious, New World concept of (now bankrupt) Biscayne Landings.
Lucky me! Miami Shores residents (my townfolk!) had suggested to run those lines on my street then up along the FEC tracks. At a town meeting I had to run from table to table "suggesting" that FPL run the lines along 7th Ave and through North Miami. Then I suggested the same to FPL. My street could have been scarred by such towering lines thanks to Shores village people even though the lines were supplying to the expanding North Miami.
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