Ordered by a court to go back to the literal drawing board to define new commission districts for the city, Miami Commissioners will have a special meeting Wednesday to discuss which direction to take — including the possibility of abolishing districts completely.
But commissioners don’t want to hear from the public.
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About three dozen activists and residents from Coconut Grove milled about the grassy patch in front of Miami City Hall Thursday morning in the heat — for nada.
The residents — most of the same people who went to speak against the cutting up of the Grove at every redistricting meeting — want to convince Mayor Francis Suarez to veto the map that cuts the historic neighborhood into three districts and was approved 3-2 last week.
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Miami Mayor Francis Suarez is under pressure from both Coconut Grove residents and black activists to veto last week’s vote on the redistricting map, which they say gerrymanders the Grove into three districts.
Suarez, who has been glaringly absent throughout the entire redistricting process, has 10 days from the 3-2 March 24 vote to issue a veto. So that means by Sunday or Monday, at the latest, depending how the city attorney’s office does the math this time.
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Coconut Grove residents beg no-show mayor to veto redistricting map
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What the hell happened?
People are still asking themselves that after last week’s special meeting in Miami to give final approval to the redistricting.
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District 2 could be kept whole under new Miami redistricting map
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