Developers of 550 homes on the former golf course must make changes

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In an ugly, backstabbing move, Miami Commissioners Alex Diaz de la Portilla and Joe Carollo, at the very last minute last week, snatched the last commission meeting from outgoing Commissioner Ken Russell by postponing the Dec. 8 agenda to January.

This would be after Russell’s resignation is effective on Jan. 3.

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Doral Councilwoman Digna Cabral was reelected last week with 59% of the vote, but two other council contests and the heated mayoral race head into runoffs after nobody got 50% plus one.

For mayor, Christi Fraga, who has served as a Doral councilwoman and a Miami-Dade School Board member, came out on top of a four-way race with 41% of the vote. Doral Councilwoman Claudia Mariaca, who is endorsed by outgoing Mayor J.C. Bermudez, got 30%.

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A confidential offering memorandum distributed to potential investors last year, shows that the developers of the South Dade Logistics and Technology District — the complex of warehouses they want to build across the Urban Development Boundary — were counting on the “relationships” they had to make it happen.

This is important because the developers had five bites at the apple before the commission finally approved an adjusted application Nov. 1 to develop 311 acres of farmland into an industrial park. While the professional staff and every state and federal agency and environmental group — even Sen. Marco Rubio — urged the commission to vote against the application, many commissioners went out of their way to defend the developers’ position and make their case for them.

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Miami-Dade Mayor Daniella Levine Cava vetoed on Thursday the Nov. 1 vote to move the Urban Development Boundary for a controversial 311-acre industrial park to be developed on flood-prone agricultural land.

After four deferrals gave the developers time to iron out details and make it more palatable to the commission, they were finally able to tweak it enough to convince a super majority, which is what was needed to move the UDB.

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After a surprisingly hard loss Tuesday to Congresswoman Maria Elvira Salazar, an upbeat Sen. Annette Taddeo blasted the Florida Democratic Party and vowed to keep fighting for South Florida’s needs.

“I don’t need a title to get shit done,” she told her supporters after conceding defeat. And she read a text message that her daughter sent voters earlier Tuesday before the election ended.

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