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Did
you know…
Miami-Dade reports
59,798 pre-foreclosures between January and September 2008?
More than 14.2% of existing housing units in the county are
vacant?
Since 1994 the county has lost 27% of active farmlands?
Miami residents waste more than 50 hours in traffic delays
each year?
Florida has just beat out California for the highest home
foreclosures in the nation?
Lennar’s
Parklands project would:
Add 6,941 homes
to the surplus of homes on the market in Miami-Dade.
Use nearly 1 million gallons of water per day.
Be built in a FEMA flood zone.
Develop 961 acres of Miami-Dade’s remaining agricultural
lands.
Increase the population by an estimated 18,232 residents.
Pave open space within 2 miles of Everglades National Park.
Offer less than 10% of its units for affordable housing.
Have insufficient density to support mass transit.
Meetings -
YOUR VOICE is needed at these important
meetings. It’s time to tell Miami-Dade officials that
our economy, our environment, and our community can’t
afford to keep bailing out private land developers!
December 18, 2008, 9:30 A.M. Board of County Commissioners
Hearing
County Commission Chamber
111 N.W. 1st Street
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Meetings
- Take
Action NOW!
Although we successfully defeated one application, we still
have a long way to go. County Commissioners voted to transmit
with a recommendation of adoption an application for a Lowe’s
store in Doral and a retail project in West Kendall. Both of
these projects impact fire and rescue service response times,
traffic, and wellfield protection zones which protect our water
supply from degradation. A
special thank you to Commissioners Sorenson, Heyman, Gimenez,
Moss and Sosa who fought for the all of Miami-Dade County
residents citing water needs, infrastructure deficits and
a surplus of available lands for residential, retail and industrial
use within the Urban Development Boundary! Thank you for being
stewards of smart growth for Miami-Dade and not succumbing
to developer driven public policy!
TAKE ACTION NOW! Hold
The Line Needs You!
Click
here to voice your opposition to development outside the current
Urban Development Boundary (UDB).
GET INVOLVED!! The
future of Miami-Dade County is at stake. County Commissioners
are under pressure to move the Urban Development Boundary, in
order to accommodate land speculators and big developers. Some
massive development plans are already being reviewed by state
agencies. Nearly one dozen applications to move the UDB have
been filed with the county and will be reviewed by the county
commission in the coming months. There
will be public meetings
and chances for you to be educated on the issues and to become
involved. Hold The Line believes that the needs of current taxpayers
and residents must be fully accounted for, before any decisions
to build new cities in areas that are already overburdened with
traffic, inadequate schools, and parks. Our drinking water needs
and environment must be fully protected. You must help, if you
care about your future, your neighborhood, or your community.
Help us Hold The Line!!
Urban Sprawl
Strikes Again
A look at
any aerial photograph of Miami-Dade County will show you where
the Everglades meets development and rooftops give way to marshy
wetlands. In a 1975, the Urban Development Boundary (UDB) was
drawn along the southern and western boundaries of Miami-Dade
County in an effort to create a buffer between metro Miami and
Florida’s Everglades.
In 2006, the Hold the Line campaign successfully to kept the
UDB from being moved to accommodate sprawling development that
would strain Miami-Dade’s already backlogged infrastructure.
Four new pending applications have been filed to open another
178 acres of Miami-Dade to development outside the line. An
additional application is expected that seeks to add another
7,000 residential homes to the county’s roads, schools,
and utilities increasing both traffic and pollution.
South Florida can’t
afford to pave wetlands and permit new developments that will
draw from our already taxed water supply and jeopardize the
Everglades. Action:
We need people and organizations to join the Hold the Line
Campaign and send the message to lawmakers. To learn how you
can help fight sprawl, please contact us at (305) 489-5949,
or htl@cleanwater.org.
Imagine
a Miami where we all have our American dream.
It can happen when we work together. Everyone
agrees that growth is an opportunity to improve our Miami-Dade
community, but growth must be fair and include our needs.
We want safe neighborhoods, clean air and water. We want transportation
choices beyond mind-numbing traffic.
The big picture has to be kept
in mind, including the well-being of existing communities.
We are for housing choices for all families in vibrant cities,
suburbs, towns and rural areas.
To get there, we need to put
all options on the table, take all costs into account, and
fairly evaluate the big picture.
We must make our region growth-ready:
that means finishing the job of existing infrastructure needs
and protecting what we have as we look to our future together.
Our first campaign is to persuade
Miami-Dade decision-makers to "Hold the Line", the
Urban Development Boundary that separates urban areas from
environmental and agricultural lands.
Take
the next step.>>
This website is a project
of:
Clean Water Action/Clean Water Fund
190 Ives Dairy Road, Suite 106
Miami, Florida 33179
305.653.9101
305.653.9108 fax
Dawn Shirreffs
South Florida Community Organizer
dshirreffs@cleanwater.org
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