MIAMI – The Miami-Dade commission’s vote in favor of expanding the City Progress Boundary by adding acres of sprawling advancement in the heart of South Dade’s agricultural community is not sitting down perfectly with Mayor Daniella Levine Cava.
On Tuesday the commission voted 8-4 to develop the boundary just north of the Homestead Air Reserve Foundation.
The vote arrived after Commissioner Raquel Regalado dropped her opposition to the South Dade Logistics and Know-how District. It really is a proposed 380 acre mix of warehouses and other commercial businesses south of the Turnpike and north of SW 268th Street,” in accordance to CBS4 news partner The Miami Herald.
“I’m deeply dissatisfied by today’s choice to shift the urban enhancement boundary. Despite apparent, bipartisan opposition from the citizens and Commissioner of District 8, county arranging specialists, and federal, condition, and tribal leaders, the Board of County Commissioners voted in favor of unsustainable, sprawling growth at the price of our treasured purely natural atmosphere and agricultural economic climate,” the mayor explained in a assertion.
Levine Cava mentioned the county has been working with an affordability disaster, worsening traffic, flooding, and contamination of Biscayne which are the consequence of bad arranging in the past and misguided growth. She claimed Tuesday’s vote repeats the errors of the previous.
“By voting to transfer the city progress boundary, we are doubling down on previous mistakes – growing the possibility of flooding for citizens in South Dade, stifling our crucial agricultural economic climate, and threatening the health and fitness of Biscayne Bay and the Everglades,” she mentioned.
In accordance to the Herald, the proposed new district was opposed by environmental groups and farming advocates. It was also opposed by U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio for its prospective to interfere with a federal Everglades restoration venture. Miami-Dade’s possess organizing employees experienced opposed the job, saying the county experienced ample industrial land obtainable without going the boundary, in accordance to the Herald.
