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PRESS
ALERT: Mounting concern about the City's
plans for the Grove Waterfront
PRESS ALERT: Mounting
concern about the City's plans for the
Grove Waterfront
PRESS ALERT:
WHO:
Tomorrow morning (APRIL 19 AT 9 AM) the
Coconut Grove Business Improvement
Committee (BIC) will meet at City Hall.
The BIC was formed to improve the
Grove’s commercial district, and is
led by its self-appointed chair,
Commissioner Johnny Winton.
WHAT: The City has promised the
residents of Coconut Grove a public
planning process for the Coconut Grove
waterfront and is in the final stages of
negotiating a contract with a
world-renowned planning firm, Sasaki
Associates.
There should be no plan of any kind
until the professional planners consider
the environmental, economic, traffic,
and quality of life concerns of Coconut
Grove residents and businesses, and the
plan for the waterfront should come out
of that public planning process.
In spite of the City’s promise to
the residents of Coconut Grove, an
agenda item for tomorrow morning’s BIC
meeting is a presentation by the City
Manager regarding the possible
relocation of the Coconut Grove
Playhouse to Dinner Key (within the
scope of the waterfront plan).
Our committee has been working to
protect the citizens’ right to
participate in decisions regarding what
will be done (or not be done) with
Coconut Grove’s most important natural
resource, its waterfront. We do
not take any position about what should
be done except that the process must
invite and utilize the results of
extensive public input so that the
resulting plan reflects the desires and
needs of our Coconut Grove community.
WHEN: We hope that you will
attend the BIC meeting at 9:00 AM
tomorrow, APRIL 19, 2005, as well
as other related meetings to help keep
the public informed about what the City
may be trying to do behind the scenes,
in small meetings like the BIC, outside
of the planning process.
WHERE: CITY HALL
for mor information:
Michelle Niemeyer, Chairperson
Coconut Grove Waterfront Working
Committee
T (305) 443-1818
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