This is the second time in less than a month that Political Cortadito writes about an upcoming zoning request before the Miami-Dade Commission to build 550 homes on the abandoned Calusa Golf Course, which has turned into an organic natural preserve that his home to endangered wildlife.
Because the commission deferred the request last month. Too many people wanted to talk about it, probably. They’re hoping that those people don’t stay engaged through all these delay tactics. They’re hoping people forget that it’s coming up again at Wednesday’s zoning meeting.
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Miami-Dade Commissioners get blue in the face talking about green space. Blah, blah, blah. Now they have a real opportunity to put our money where their mouth is.
A unique and organic 168-acre little piece of nature, smack dab in the middle of Kendall, is home to some of the state’s signature and threatened wading birds as well as the federally endangered Florida bonneted bat. It is an amazing, magical, special, natural realm, where nearby residents have also spotted a mama fox and her babies, a Gopher tortoise and a bald eagle.
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It looks like the mobilization of Key Biscayne residents against the redevelopment and privatization of Rickenbacker Causeway has found some success: Miami-Dade Commissioner Raquel Regalado, who had defended the RFP as a way to fund long-needed bridge improvements, sent a memo to the mayor asking for some changes and more time.
Miami-Dade Mayor Daniella Levine Cava, who has been the chief cheerleader for Plan Z — named after architect Bernard Zyscovich, who has been designing this makeover for about a decade — reportedly indicated she was okay with some changes.
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Miami-Dade Commissioner Raquel Regalado took a slew of county officials, including Chief Operating Officer Jimmy Morales, to Key Biscayne Wednesday to explain the controversial Rickenbacker Causeway project proposal to concerned Village residents.
Let’s just say it was not her crowd.
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Town hall on the RFP Wednesday at Key Biscayne Community Center
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COVID-19 relief funds plugged the hole in the budget but what about 2022?
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