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Did the vote happen today? What happened with that?
Miami 21. The hearing lasted 8 hours. Residents, neighborhood activists, land use attorneys, developers, industrial property people and all the affordable housing people all panned the new scheme. Every group was united in opposition. Groups that are usually at each others throats joined hands in protest. Still Manny Diaz and City staff and City’s consultant all refused to listen. Consultant Eliz Plater-Zyberk states “Additional meetings would be unproductive,approve it as is.” Game over. Lead by Commissioners Sarnoff and Regalado item went down in flames. Deferred 4 to 0.
Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk learned a hard lesson yesterday. A city where half the population risked their lives to flee an oppressive dictatorship on a raft doesn’t take kindly to having unpopular new laws slapped on them by authoritarian decree.
Translation of “Additional meetings would be unproductive, approve as is” — “I’m not going to change my mind, and could care less what your constituents want. You’ll adopt my law and like it, or… um…. er… I’ll go back to my ivory tower and write you a letter telling you how very, very angry I am about your refusal to let me have my way.”
God, it was fun watching that arrogant b**ch get smacked around by just about everyone in the room. She needed a good humbling and public reaming-out, and she definitely got it yesterday.
While I don’t know the intricacies of the Miami 21. There were some really good proposals in there, and it is a shame our neighborhoods will not be more pedestrian friendly, or well planned.
Hopefully, the Miami 21 will eventually be instated as law, it will just take closed minded people to open up and listen to reality.
The existed code, (11,000 Code) can be fixed. Really the existing code could be fixed quite easily. In fact, fixing the existing code would cost very little and anything Miami 21 wanted to accomplish could be done better.
Miami 21 is dead. When the Miami 21 attorney could not answer Commissioner Gonzalez’s questions it was dead…