MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. – Commissioners postponed a controversial vote on Miami-Dade County’s Urban Growth Boundary, a limit on construction jobs near mother nature reserves.
Aligned Serious Estate Holdings requested commissioners to grow the boundary. The Brickell-centered firm wishes to use about 800 acres of agricultural land to develop the South Dade Logistics and Engineering District.
The land extends west of Southwest 107th Avenue from Southwest 268th to 256th streets. It is west of the Mangrove Preserve and northeast of the Homestead Air Reserve.
“The urban progress boundary is not set in stone,” reported Commissioner Joe A. Martinez, who represents District 11.
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Florida Commissioner of Agriculture and Purchaser Providers Nikki Fried opposes the UDB enlargement as “unnecessary” and claimed the project would even more destabilize drinking water management in the space.
“Approving this system would be a large miscalculation of massive consequence,” Fried reported in a assertion on Thursday.
County staff members and The U.S. Department of the Interior also opposed the proposal. Adam Gelber explained approving the proposal is a error. He is the director of the Office environment of Everglades Restoration at the U.S. Section of Interior.
“It has taken 22 many years for restoration to appear to Miami Dade County,” Gelber stated throughout the meeting Thursday.
If the proposal gets accepted, the actual estate organization estimates the project will develop above 17,000 work. Critics claimed there are other attributes in just the boundary where by the challenge can happen.
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Commissioners deferred the vote to June 1.
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