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Thank God the city council elections are over in North Miami Beach and the signs began coming down. In reading about the results in Neighbors, someone said that ``Chernoff and Marin's pro-development stance had led many to feel they did not have a voice in local government.'
So, I ask, what pro-development stance ? Are we speaking of the Marina Grande Project? If so, I say ''yes'' in that both Chernoff and Marin were in favor of it. This project would have netted the city of NMB about $1 million per year, but thanks to the anti-development few, it now sits as an eyesore and a monument to the NMB Citizens Coalition.
I also ask, besides the Marina Grande Project, which has water access to the Intracoastal and would have been the most beautiful and luxurious project ever in NMB, how many other requests for variances beyond the present limitations in height and density have there been in the past 20 years? None? The anti-development group does not get it. Our name is North Miami Beach, except that we do not have a ''beach.'' We are not Hallandale, Sunny Isles, Bal Harbour or Surfside.
Developers are not lined up requesting permits to build a luxury office or residential condo across the street from Wal-mart. NMB has only a handful of parcels of land along the Biscayne corridor, with Marina Grande being the most attractive, that have some ''water view'' or could have commercial attractiveness because of their location on U.S. 1.
I wish the new City Council the best. They will face city employees who will not want to work for less pay as time passes, so what is ''in our hands'' is that the council will have to either come up with the money or cut services to all residents. However, even with our strong anti-development ''stance'' we may still be able to attract another half-dozen strip joints to help out with our future finances. Council members may want to just leave their campaign signs up from now until the next elections.
From Miami Herald
ReplyDeleteThank God the city council elections are over in North Miami Beach and the signs began coming down. In reading about the results in Neighbors, someone said that ``Chernoff and Marin's pro-development stance had led many to feel they did not have a voice in local government.'
So, I ask, what pro-development stance ? Are we speaking of the Marina Grande Project? If so, I say ''yes'' in that both Chernoff and Marin were in favor of it. This project would have netted the city of NMB about $1 million per year, but thanks to the anti-development few, it now sits as an eyesore and a monument to the NMB Citizens Coalition.
I also ask, besides the Marina Grande Project, which has water access to the Intracoastal and would have been the most beautiful and luxurious project ever in NMB, how many other requests for variances beyond the present limitations in height and density have there been in the past 20 years? None? The anti-development group does not get it. Our name is North Miami Beach, except that we do not have a ''beach.'' We are not Hallandale, Sunny Isles, Bal Harbour or Surfside.
Developers are not lined up requesting permits to build a luxury office or residential condo across the street from Wal-mart. NMB has only a handful of parcels of land along the Biscayne corridor, with Marina Grande being the most attractive, that have some ''water view'' or could have commercial attractiveness because of their location on U.S. 1.
I wish the new City Council the best. They will face city employees who will not want to work for less pay as time passes, so what is ''in our hands'' is that the council will have to either come up with the money or cut services to all residents. However, even with our strong anti-development ''stance'' we may still be able to attract another half-dozen strip joints to help out with our future finances. Council members may want to just leave their campaign signs up from now until the next elections.
HANK ANGLADE
North Miami Beach