Commissioners for both Miami-Dade County and the city of Miami are going to sit down Wednesday to talk about the county’s push to increase density along the transit corridors, a priority that the city does not share. Miami has threatened to sue the county to keep control of zoning in city limits.
The city of Miami has already filed a lawsuit, though they haven’t served the county. Wednesday’s meeting is supposed to be a dispute resolution session to avoid court. Good luck with that.
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Chairman says D11 is not commissioner’s ‘fiefdom’
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His Coconut Grove house is safe for now. A judge ruled on Friday that Miami Commissioner Joe Carollo can keep his Morris Lane casa off the auction block until it is determined that it is not a legally homesteaded property.
U.S. Marshals posted a notice of levy on the multi-million house last month in an effort to get part of the $63.5 million judgement a jury awarded last year to two Little Havana businessmen who were targeted and harassed by Carollo, who weaponized the city against them in an effort to shut them down simply because they hosted an event for his political opponent in 2017.
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Miami can’t be trusted to run their own show.
Just as the city of Miami grapples with the issue of giant LED billboards on public land in the downtown, Miami-Dade Commissioner Eileen Higgins wants to take away the municipality’s ability to opt out of the county’s sign regulations.
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Miami-Dade Commissioner Roberto Gonzalez, who was appointed by the governor and has never been elected, has a challenger in this November’s election. School teacher Bryan Paz-Hernandez, former president of the West Kendall Dems — now an NPA — filed paperwork Wednesday intending to run.
“I’m tired of the traffic and high cost of housing,” Paz-Hernandez told Political Cortadito. “I’ve lived in Kendall almost all my life — except for when I went to college — and I see the problems go unaddressed.”
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All systems are go!
The Miami-Dade County Elections Department has finished testing all the 1,700+ voting units that will be deployed for the March 19 Presidential Preference Primary Election. On Wednesday, they reached a “milestone day,” said Elections Supervisor Christine White, when the county conducted the state-required random Logic and Accuracy Test of 5% of the equipment to be used.
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