Once again, someone wants to move the Urban Development Boundary line, this time it is for retail space. The only trouble is, there is already a lot of retail space in the area available (see all the pushpins in the map above created by Clean Water Action). For instance, the red pushpin is in the Hammocks, a retail complex with a Publix as an anchor store. There is already property in the Hammocks available for many usages, says the crack tag team at Tropical Audubon Society and Clean Water Action, and the Hammocks is only a little over a mile away. Of course, this is not the only reason NOT to be moving the line.
The hearing at the Planning Advisory Board is at the Stephen Clark Gov’t Center on Monday, 3/22 at 9:30a.m. The address is 111 NW 1st Street, Suite 200, Miami. If you can't go, contact Planning Advisory Board Members at mclf@miamidade.gov. Here is a list of the members of the board:
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Urban sprawl is a cancer that spreads faster than we can find a cure. But actually, if you remove or minimize the financial rewards and political incentives, antibodies would kick in and we would preserve some our precious drinking water and fertile agricultural lands for future generations. This is akin to whats going on at Fairchild Tropical Botanical Garden where a cancer has taken hold and efforts to thwart it have been blocked by resistant and dishonest trustees. When will we ever learn from our past mistakes?
Oh my god - here we go again. County Commissioners will ignore the economic realities and continue pushing unnecessary development to fill up their campaign coffers.
Why are so many seats vacant? Did we get rid of the bums that voted for the Lowe's?
More development? REALLY? UGH!
This is the final hearing on the Ferro application. It has been rejected before when it was a larger application. This one was given first approval from the BCC ostensibly to "get input from the State" although that was the excuse for Lowes and Brown UDB moves. The State listed about a dozen reasons the Ferro application contradicts the County's growth management plan just as they did for Lowes.
After PAB it goes to the BCC for a final vote. People need to read the report from the state and send letters to their commissioners now. Identify the ones that might actually listen and let them know what you think of this latest incursion on farmland.
www.miamidade.gov/planzone/CDMP_april09.asp
Also this will be the last hearing to change the open land area up in Northwest Dade to allow truck parking all along US27. This is the area where all the animal slaughtering operations were raided. There are also a zillion wetland destruction violations in the area from illegal truck parking. This is the first step in making that a permanent feature out there.
Hope the BCC denies the application. But can't EOM start advocating for a more progressive planning solution than this annual fight? Is EOM waiting for someone else to? Why?
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