The superhero is not coming.

Just before Saturday’s deadline for the mayoral veto on the Calusa zoning change that allows developers to build hundreds of homes on 168 Kendall acres that are now an organic, overgrown slice of Florida wildlife, Miami-Dade Mayor Daniella Levine Cava issued a statement full of excuses as to why she didn’t, and empty promises as to why it shouldn’t matter.

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It happens every year. Elected officials glom onto the efforts of local organizations and food banks to give turkeys and other Thanksgiving trimmings to Miami-Dade residents.

This has always seemed like a desperate and, frankly, pathetic publicity stunt to garner favor with voters and even local media.

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Here’s some ammunition (read: facts) to avoid an override

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Some residents in Hialeah were surprised last week to find that they could pay for their water and research a nearby charter school at the same time. That’s because a flyer for the COHEA (City of Hialeah Education Academy) Career and Collegiate Academy was found in the same envelope with the utility bill.

Several residents told Ladra that this was the first time they had ever seen an ad come in or with their water bill. And Councilman Jesus Tundidor said he hadn’t seen it or heard anything about it before Ladra called.

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Miami Beach Commissioners Micky Steinberg and Michael Góngora will say their goodbyes to the dais Monday morning as the newly-elected Kristen Rosen Gonzalez and Alex Fernandez are sworn in and take their respective places.

But we aren’t really rid of them, yet.

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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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