MIAMI — Miami-Dade County Commissioners on Tuesday voted to override a veto by Mayor Daniella Levine Cava, which will make it possible for for design work to start out outdoors the present Urban Progress Boundary, or UDB.
The commission’s 8-3 vote came immediately after the veto on Nov. 9 by the mayor, who expressed her dismay at the commission’s move.
“I am really upset that the county fee chose the brief-term monetary get of a few more than the prolonged-phrase health and fitness and wellbeing of our setting and overall economy,” she claimed in a prepared assertion. “Shifting the urban growth boundary with out a established require to do so threatens all the function we have previously completed to construct a globe-course, superior linked, additional resilient Miami-Dade.”
Underneath the phrases of county constitution, two-thirds of commission customers have to vote to override a mayoral veto.
According to the Miami Herald, Commissioners Sally Heyman, Danielle Cohen Higgins and Eileen Higgins sided with the mayor although Commissioners Jose “Pepe” Diaz, Oliver Gilbert, Keon Hardemon, Jean Monestime, Kionne McGhee, Raquel Regalado, Rebeca Sosa, and Javier Souto.voted to override the mayor. Rene Garcia was not existing for the vote, the Herald claimed.
The South Dade Logistics and Technologies District is a proposed 380-acre mix of warehouses and other professional firms that would be situated south of the Florida Turnpike and north of SW 268th Street,