He may not have gotten his hands on our public golf course, but President Donald Trump gets to keep a golf cart bridgedoral4and pedestrian bridge on Miami-Dade property for the next ten years.

And it only cost the millionaire leader of the free world $7,200, which the county said was fair market price.

Quietly and without any fanfare, Miami-Dade Commissioners on Tuesday authorized the “conveyance of a temporary aerial easement” across Northwest 97th Avenue at 52nd Street to Trump Endeavor 12, one of the president’s, er, his son’s companies, so they can continue to use a pedestrian bridge — for people and golf carts — they built with a permit and have been using since the World Golf Championship in 2014.

In 2015, Mayor Carlos Gimenez suggested giving the county’s beautiful Crandon Park golf course to the Trump organization to run — during the time his son, CJ Gimenez, was working as a lobbyist for them. The plan, which was hatched quietly between the mayor’s office and Trump’s people, was quashed after the community balked.

Maybe keeping the bridge is a consolation prize.


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Doral leaders are getting ready to update their master plan for the young Northwest doralparkcity’s parks system and is seeking more public input about what residents want.

The city — which conducted a survey last Fall — had two public meetings on Wednesday. Two more public meetings are planned for today, Thursday. The first is from 6 to 7 p.m. at City Hall, 8401 SW 53rd Terr. And the second is from 8 to 9 p.m. at Windward at Islands of Doral, 11485 NW 77th Lane.

Officials are looking for feedback on current facilities and programs as well as what residents want in equipment, green space and/or sports and recreation programs.

Doral currently has a pretty robust program at its six city parks. They are also planning an aquatic facility with a lazy river, water tot lot, Olympic sized pool, slides and “funbrellas.”

 

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