Speculators who want to change the zoning on 800 acres of environmentally sensitive land outside the Urban Development Boundary will get another bite of the apple on Wednesday.
To call them developers would be wrong. They are real estate flippers who have no real plan to develop the land, no announced tenants, and no control of the land in question. About a quarter of the assembled farmland acreage is not even for sale and will not be part of any repurposing. It will continue to grow food, the owner insists.
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Neighbors hope county or state will step in and save the natural preserve
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They didn’t have the votes and they knew it. That’s the only reason why the would-be developers of an 800-acre industrial park on farmland beyond the Urban Development Boundary asked for a deferral Thursday, after several hours making their case before the Miami-Dade County Commission.
But it should have — woulda, coulda — died right there on the floor. The only reason it didn’t is because Commissioner Danielle Cohen Higgins — whose district the project would lie in — couldn’t read the room y se adelantó. If she had let someone make a motion to approve the application — which needed a super majority 9 of 13 votes — it would have failed and died right there. Never to come back again. At least not the same application.
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Town hall focus: Rapid transit zoning density and height increases
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Neighbors sue to stop mowing, spraying and cutting of trees
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It seemed like an easy win for residents against a zoning change for 168 acres of naturally overgrown green space that used to be the Calusa Golf Course by those who would turn it into yet another West Kendall gated community of 550 big, square, identical homes.
There was evidence of endangered bonneted bat activity on the property. There was photographic documentation of nesting by the threatened tri-colored heron and other Florida wading birds, including the threatened little blue heron, hanging out. There were incomplete or inadequate environmental assessments because they were done off peak times — which nobody can tell Ladra wasn’t intentional.
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