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E-mail
from Antoinette
Baldwin to Miami City
Commissioners
From: Antoinette
Baldwin
To:
Commissioner Angel Gonzalez,
Commissioner Jeffrey L. Allen,
Commissioner Joe M. Sanchez,
Commissioner Johnny Winton ,
Commissioner Tomas P. Regalado
Cc: Mayor Manuel A.
Diaz
Sent: Wednesday,
April 13, 2005 12:45 PM
Dear Commissioners,
At the March 24th
city commission meeting, Commissioner
Allen asked the Home Depot
representative the size of their
smallest Home Depot. The Home Depot
representative said about 100,000, not
including the garden center. Would you
have removed the maximum size limitation
for a store in Coconut Grove and/or
voted differently if the Home Depot
representative had truthfully answer the
question that the smallest store size is
around 70,000 square feet? Why is there
a need to negotiate with Home Depot if
they have already submitted plans for a
building permit and are grandfathered
in? Wouldn't the size limitation only
apply to future big boxes. Also, why
does Home Depot have to apply for a
Class 11 Permit if they are
grandfathered in?
I respectfully ask
these questions as a confused concerned
resident of this city.
Antoinette Baldwin
Coconut Grove
Miami, Florida
33133
PS:The picture
below looks like the one architect Max
Strang showed at the Coconut Grave
Village Council meeting as an example of
an architecturally friendlier Home Depot
store.
Home
Depot urban concept in Canada
A
mention of lifestyle centres in Canada
by the ICSC included a hint: the first
completed lifestyle center, the Village
at Park Royal in North Vancouver,
includes a 70,000 sq ft design-focused
Home Depot with a round, street-facing,
two-level layout. It looks quite good
from these photos from architect MDMA.
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