Holy moly! Wednesday’s Miami-Dade Commission meeting is going to be a doozy.
According to the agenda, the last meeting of the year is heavy-loaded with several big ticket items. According to some County Hall insiders, any one of them could turn into a thing.
Miami city commissioners reversed themselves Monday when they put electric share scooters — which had been banned 10 days earlier — back on certain urban streets, mostly in the downtown and Brickell area.
Commissioner and Chief Scooter Critic Manolo Reyes doesn’t want them in Flagami. He also was the only dissenting vote on the 3-1 passage. Joe Carollo was absent.
Don’t worry, Brickell scooter jockeys. The ban on electric scooters in the city of Miami is temporary and about to end soon. And not because Mayor Francis Suarez is your hero or anything like that.
Yes, Suarez praised scooters while on some junket in Las Vegas on the same day the commission voted to shut the pilot program down, as Commissioner Alex Diaz de la Portilla said.
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.
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.
