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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Negotiations between the county and the operators at Homestead Speedway to put on a rodeo will have to wait. A proposal at the Miami-Dade Commission to establish a countywide rodeo, farmer’s market and farm show was deferred Wednesday after Miami-Dade Commissioner Danielle Cohen Higgins expressed several concerns.
There was no discussion with the Homestead Rodeo Association, which has put on the rodeo at Harris Field for 75 years, Cohen Higgins said. The last one was just this past January.
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Miami-Dade Mayor Daniella Levine Cava, Commission Chairman Oliver Gilbert and several county commissioners and staffers are in Japan on an “outbound mission” to encourage business and economic development, growth, expansion, trade, tourism and cultural exchanges.
A delegation of public officials and about 30 business leaders left Nov. 25 for the trip to visit Tokyo and Kyoto to meet with government officials and “talented Japanese business leaders” in the areas of AI, robotics, biotechnology, transit, tourism and renewable energy to exchange ideas and find opportunities
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Second place bidder almost gets ‘consolation prize’
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Miami-Dade Commission Chairman Oliver Gilbert assigned new committees and appointed the commissioner who will serve as chair and vice chair of these new committees.
Every woman on the commission got a chairmanship, which means that five women will be chair of something or other for the first time in county history. That’s a majority of the eight committees.
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