Read it here:
Recommendation:
“The requests meet the
criteria that are presented in detail in the Staff Analysis. The staff recommendation is to approve
to approve (sic) the site plan for a
multi-family development consisting of 480 multifamily development units
....”
From
Gregory Truitt, Village Manager (apparently no longer Interim?)
Are you ready for 480 units on Old Cutler Road? This is more than I ever envisioned. This is more than what the current mayor promised, yet here it is a full recommendation, with supportive traffic studies (paid for by Palmetto Bay tax dollars), which all support the FAVORABLE RECOMMENDATION from her hand-picked Interim Village Manager. 480. So technically, this is not “485” but it is also not less than the 400 that I was working to reduce this project down to. Ask yourself, go ahead, ask the question: Is 480 what Karyn promised to you for your vote?
Perhaps this tax and spend council needs the revenues to fund their pet projects. The same recommendation also shouts out the very favorable positive impact:
"A positive fiscal impact is expected from the Village portion of the ad-valorem property tax on the 480 residential units. In addition, there is a positive impact to Village assets through the donation of a total of 35 acres of park and preservation land.”
Abandoning Government lite has costs. More development is needed to increase the tax base needed for all the entitlements this current mayor and council are dishing out to their political base.
Vindication. I recommend that Village voters pay special attention to the development of the PBVC; what was stated when, what was promised in the 2018 elections and what is being now being delivered in 2020.
Vindication. I recommend that Village voters pay special attention to the development of the PBVC; what was stated when, what was promised in the 2018 elections and what is being now being delivered in 2020.
I
should have fought harder for the truth as Karyn Cunningham and her supporters
continued to misrepresent my position on the Palmetto Bay Village Center (PBVC)
for their political gain. Her mission, if I understood it correctly was elect
her over me because she would stop the alleged overdevelopment. Yet, if I read
the staff report correctly, and I am sure that I am, her hand-picked Interim
Village Manager has RECOMMENDED 480 units.
This is a full
acceptance of maximum development of the PBVC which, in my opinion, clearly and
completely contradicts her campaign promises.
What will really happen?
The
project will be voted down for the political show and the proceeding will then move
on to courts where the decision will be overturned at great public expense,
both in budget and in public angst, all so the spineless mayor and council can
then blame the court and prior councils – we have seen this before. See my
prior posts on the Palmer Litigation (CLICK
HERE).
THE TOOLBOX:
CLICK HERE to review prior blog
posts laying out the history and facts related to the PBVC and the 485.,
included in this is the post of January 27, 2020, Fact Checking the Palmetto Bay Village Center issue. Facts, not conjured up rumors and outright lies.
CLICK HERE to view the prior blog posts relating to the
extensive, expensive and fruitless litigation on the Palmer Litigation.
CLICK HERE to view a link to the 11
page agenda to read it for yourself.
Special notes – items of
interest that you will find in the 11 pages:
The proposed site plan
has been reviewed for traffic impacts by the Village's Traffic consultant that
concluded that the study intersections and roadway segments are expected to
operate at adopted levels of service or better under all analysis conditions
during the A.M. and P.M. peak hours, with report completed and submitted to the
Village, October 2019 by Kimley Horn & Associates, Inc; ….
The proposed site plan
has been reviewed for compliance with Ordinance 2016-14 requirement for
limitations of trip generation to Old Cutler Road by the Village's Traffic
consultant and concluded that the proposed development meets the requirements
of the ordinance, with report completed and submitted to the Village, November
22, 2019 by Kimley Horn & Associates, Inc ....
Palmetto Bay’s own
evidence. This is significant: The traffic engineers hired by Palmetto Bay
reviewed the plan and approved it in reports rendered in October and November
2019 – a year after the current mayor and new council members were elected. All
this going on behind the scenes. I thought they were going to 'get tough on traffic' instead, Mayor Cunningham and council have blessed this traffic.
Impact: Ask any competent lawyer
how Palmetto Bay would defend a council denial in the courts when Palmetto
Bay’s own experts provide the evidence that the PBVC applicant would rely upon?
Crazy! Traffic concerns are the #1 reason to reject or scale down a project.
Closing statement – for those who have read
this far: I feel quite vindicated here. The Village officials keep kicking this
can down the road as they know that their campaign promises don’t mesh with the
factual or legal realities. Considered yourself played.
But
then again, far too many vote based upon what they want to hear rather than
focusing on the facts and the truth.
Me?
I have always fought to save the 22 acres on Palmetto Bay. This needs to happen,
but it could have happened either by purchase that would have cost the village
less than $1.8 million or at a development number of approximately 389 (more on
those in later blog posts). I remain the only mayor who ever served Palmetto
Bay who has fought against development on those 22 acres. Which mayor first
recommended development? I will point you to a Miami Herald article for that
fact nugget: July 22, 2014, Palmetto Bay council defers old Burger King property zoning; approves Palmer Trinity’s site-plan changes,
by Lola Duffort. Yes, that is correct, Mayor Stanczyk first proposed
development within the 22 acres on the PBVC. Where was the alleged covenant
then? And I never heard a peep in
opposition from CCOCI.
The complaint that the village will lose the tax revenue from the 22 acres does not address the income generated from nearly 500 new house priced around 2 million dollars each..
ReplyDeleteFunny how the facts seem to get left out.