Friday June 3, 2005
There Goes the Neighborhood
[Contributed by Steve Klotz]
The re-examination of Miami-Dade’s urban limits begins in April of every odd year, when the Planning & Zoning Department accepts applications.—Miami Herald
Must be another odd year—but aren’t they all?
Ten, count-em, ten separate applications have been filed in Miami-Dade County to extend the Urban Development Boundary farther west The only real question is, how far west will it go?
I don’t understand why we’re nickel and diming this issue, moving the boundary a couple miles at a time every decade. Let’s just move it out to the Collier County line. In fact, why stop there? Let’s go to the Gulf. I’m sure we can buy an intelligence report and a Federal agency that support a case for Naples and Ft. Myers possessing weapons of mass destruction—Miami-Dade County troops, led by Police Czar Timoney on his militarily-modified swamp hopper bicycle, could launch a shock-and-awe type of strike and claim both cities.
Evidently, we won’t stop until every toad, bird, and palm tree is deader than King Tut, and every drop of water is three parts petroleum by-product. At this writing, 700,000 residential units are planned or under construction in Miami-Dade County alone but that’s not enough—Go West, Young Builder, and plunder the Earth. Who gives a shit about the environment anyway? We have air conditioning.
There’s even a surefire positive way to spin it: It’s to Protect Our Children! With the cities falling over one another in a frenzy to pass ordinances prohibiting convicted sex offenders from living in the same time zone as a school or playground, let’s clear a space out in the swamp where they all can legally relocate. Call it the Evergropes. Jerk Circle West. Hey, great exposure! (Jackson’s Hole has already been claimed, right?)
And hell, with the cost of South Florida housing where it is, only the finer class of pants-dropping, sneak-in-the-night pervert would find it a feasible move Snakes and skeeters would leave on their own, clearing the way for new, non-native vermin. Say—that rather describes what’s happening anyway.
Build Baby Build.
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Hold the line Miami Dade campaign UDB urban development boundary
please try to come out and kill these proposals.
how do you kill proposals of this kind? lets be specific so that we can help ourselves be informed and readily active for response, rather than passive nagging.
go to the box and near the top of their caiotic webpage there is this:
GET INVOLVED!! On Tuesday June 7th, the Board of County Commissioners will vote on the Florida City annexation request, which would lead to moving the Urban Development Boundary. Please let us know, by return email, if you will be able to attend. The public hearing is scheduled for county chambers at 10:00 AM. County Government Center: 111 NW 1st Street. 2nd Floor WE NEED YOU!
but then I got an email with some better information please read:
Dear Florida PIRG supporter,
I want to invite you to a very important Miami-Dade County Commission meeting where a critical vote on the future of Miami-Dade County and the Everglades will be taking place. The Commission meeting will be held on Tuesday, June 7th at 9:00am at the downtown Commission Chambers – 111 NW 1st St. (2nd Floor).
A crucial decision will be made by YOUR County Commissioners whether or not to allow Florida City to annex land beyond the southern portion of the Urban Development Boundary. If approved, upwards of 6,000 new homes will be built in an area that is critical for Everglades restoration and the health of Biscayne Bay.
WHAT: Miami-Dade County Commission meeting
WHEN: Tuesday, June 7th at 9:00am
WHERE: Downtown Commission Chambers – 111 NW 1st St. (2nd Floor)
We need you and your friends and family to attend this meeting to take a stand for the future of the county and the health of the Everglades. Help us fill the Council chamber! Also, wear a blue shirt if you can to identify yourself with other opponents of urban sprawl and poorly planned development.
While it is certainly not required, I’m asking people to e-mail me in advance if you think you’ll be coming. You can reach me at the following e-mail address:
MarkF@floridapirg.org
Background
Florida City has submitted a proposal to the Miami-Dade Board of County Commissioners to annex 1700 acres of environmentally sensitive wetlands in the Coastal Everglades of Miami-Dade County. Concurrently, Atlantic Civil, Inc. has submitted a development proposal to the South Florida Regional Planning Council, encompassing 1,465 acres within the proposed Florida City annexation.
* The land is outside the urban development boundary. Development of this land would spend funds desperately needed inside the urban core on unnecessary infrastructure in wetlands.
* The land is completely within an Everglades restoration project necessary to restore both Everglades and Biscayne National Parks.
* The land is on the state’s Save Our Rivers and the county’s Environmentally Endangered Lands Program lists, due to its importance to the health of Biscayne and Florida Bays and Everglades and Biscayne National Parks.
The Miami-Dade Board of County Commissioners should deny Florida City’s proposal to annex 1700 acres in the Coastal Everglades to protect the quality of life of south Miami-Dade County residents, promote economic incentives that are socially, economically, and environmentally responsible, and ensure restoration of Biscayne Bay.
We need you and your friends and family to attend this meeting to take a stand for the future of the county and the health of the Everglades. Help us fill the Council chamber! And, wear a blue shirt if you can to identify yourself with other opponents of urban sprawl and Everglades destruction. The Commission meeting will be held on Tuesday, June 7th at 9:00am at the downtown Commission Chambers – 111 NW 1st St. (2nd Floor).
While it is certainly not required, I’m asking people to e-mail me in advance if you think you’ll be coming. You can reach me at the following e-mail address:
MarkF@floridapirg.org
P.S. Supporters of quality of life in Miami-Dade County and Everglades protection will be wearing blue – so come in a blue shirt!
Sincerely,
Mark Ferrulo
Florida PIRG Director
MarkF@floridapirg.org
http://www.FloridaPIRG.org
P.S. Thanks again for your support. Please feel free to share this e-mail with your family and friends.
I am going to try to show up but its hard because – like many of us I have work that morning and I need to be there too. but wear blue and give it a try to come. This is important.
Best wishes and good luck.
Don’t let South Florida devolve into Planet Arse.
By the time Miami-Dade’s marrauding invasion gets launched, we in Ft Myers will have built out to the county line already: We’ll be standing by our bulldozers waiting for you. Fuck nature anyway. If god hadn’t wanted us to eat meat, why did he make animals so tasty?
I can decide if that comment is meant to be sarcasm or your a fool let up know! Hummer boy, I hope you choke on a bone.