I did a public records request of Parcel B and The Historic FEC Slip.
When you go in for a public records request, you just don't know what you will find. Sometimes it is one page (I wasn't broad enough) sometimes it is this cart (too broad). Well I took a quick look, read a few deeds, got overwhelmed and went home.
Could it possibly be that the City threw the FEC slip in the deed to the County by mistake? I saw some yellow post-its that said something to that effect. Hmmm. It says on the Property Appraiser's site that city GSA owns it but the truth is buried in a deed description. Why this is important: Only the City votes if the own it. We ALL get to vote if the County owns it.
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Thank you for doing the research. If you need help let us know. More citizens need to get involved in the fight to protect the FEC slip and Bicentennial Park. Greg Bush, UEL executive, will be on Channel 2 TV this weekend.
Sorry there is no more space by the water. The city should arrange with a developer to gift a couple of blocks to Beckham next to the old Miami Arena if they want to stay in downtown, better yet, build the stadium on top of Town and Country mall in Kendall, that mall has been struggling for ever and it is perfect location next to the turnpike.
Helen Ferre interviews Greg Bush of UEL tonight, Friday, night at 7:30 pm replayed Sunday at noon.
Actually, if Miami-Dade County owns the property wouldn't that completely avoid the referendum?
I haven't personally researched the Carollo amendment myself and my opinion is based on what I have read in the Herald so take it for what it's worth. But my understanding is that the Carollo amendment only applies to land owned by the City of Miami. So if the FEC slip is, in fact, owned by the City of Miami, then the proposal to fill the slip would need to be voted on by City of Miami residents.
However, I do not believe that there is an analogous ordinance in Miami-Dade County. Therefore, if the FEC slip is found to be owned by Miami-Dade County it would seem to me that there would not be a requirement to have an election and the stadium would be one step closer to being built.
I requested a public record last year on a property issue and I do believe my request had been sanitized. Paper work from others was not in the file. At least your request had post its attached. Thank you for the heads up.
I requested a public record last year on a property issue and I do believe my request had been sanitized. Paper work from others was not in the file. At least your request had post its attached. Thank you for the heads up.
People in Kendall should not have a say in what happens downtown. Enjoy the burbs!
It is about time DERM stepped up to defend the FEC slip and deny any attempt to fill it in. 10,000 dump trucks coming from the Everglades? And we need the State of Florida Dept of Environmental Protection involved. Then the Army Corps of Engineers.
Cemex will certainly be busy as our salt water intrusion gets worse by the day. The aquifer should be everyone's concern because without it we won't have drinking water!
If there's a bad idea which will speed up our environmental destruction and/or public land give a ways, this Mayor & BCC & now Regalado will find a way to buy a referendum to get it approved.
Sickening. Recall is too mild, I think theft of public land is more like it.
Next time you go on a scavenger hunt through public records, I bet there will be at least a dozen or so people willing to help go through the files!
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