Please donate to the Livablecutler 2019 effort. Go Fund Me page set up. Watch your donation grow!

Please considering stepping up and making a donation to help support Biscayne Bay Coastal Wetlands Native Plant Drive - goal is $3,500.00.  You can donate by name or anonymously.  

This is one donation where you can actually watch your investment grow!

You can access the gofundme page and make your donation by CLICKING HERE.  

Thank you!

Since 2014 the Livablecutler community from the grassroots and with hundreds of volunteers has been restoring coastal wetlands and uplands along Old Cutler Rd in South Dade. 

Five years at it and great progress has been  made. 

Funds are needed to supplement the existing wetlands and pineland prairy plantings and continue to expand the ecological restoration footprint. 

Please donate what you can, and just as important your time to this worthy effort.  

The funds raised will be used solely to purchase native plants.

Livablecutler will announce future volunteer work days to plant these in early 2019.

Volunteer Eco Restoration fun days -- Hosted by Livablecutler - Sat / Sun, March 24 & 25 see information below

Volunteer - participate in Eco Restoration -- Hosted by Livablecutler

Here is an opportunity to participate in restoring part of our native lands - going on for 7 hours on Saturday with another opportunity on Sunday for an additional 7 hours.  Note that they are NOT seeking a full 7 hour commitment for either day, spend the time and effort to the extend that you are able.  Please see the Livablecutler Facebook site for more information.

Details

We will be restoring our coastal ecosystems.

March 24&25, Sat and Sun. 8:30 - 3:30

What will we be doing?

Planting native plants - restoring uplands with pineland and hammock species and coastal wetlands with native grasses. Also removing light debris, installing interpretive signs, and mulching trails.

Where?

SE corner of Old Cutler Rd and SW 184 St - at the Biscayne Bay Coastal Wetlands

Who?

All are welcomed. From individuals, groups, schools, organizations, and elected officials. And we give credit for needed volunteer hours.

You too can be a part of this great effort and add your own brush strokes to the painting.

Gloves, drinks, and snacks will be provided.

Just bring sunscreen and energy!

Palmetto Bay Pine area clean up - Coral Reef Park - look forward to a similar opportunity for the 22 acres at the PBVC

I continue in the fight to save imperiled Pine Rockland Habitat and assisting in taking care of what we have preserved.  I am posting some photos from a community effort here in our Village.
Coral Reef Park is home to 5 acres +/- of Pine Rocklands.  Some of the area is turning to oak/hardwood hammock.  Palmetto Bay hosted a pinelands clean up as park of the Saturday, 11/5/2016 events.  

Professions, enviro activists and students volunteered and worked together for the second consecutive year to clean up this precious Pine Rockland Preserve area located in Coral Reef Park. This clean-up included removal of debris, loose clippings and removal of invasive species of plants inside the park’s Pine Rockland Preserve area.  

Thank you to all who participated including students from BIOTECH, Riviera and Ferguson High Schools; The Miami Pine Rockland Coalition; members/enviro activists from Livable Cutler; local residents and park staff.  It was another outstanding community effort.  

I will add additional photos as received and as time permits to upload here.  CLICK HERE to view the photos that I have posted on my Facebook page.

 
Photo immediately above: Al Sunshine & Belen Valladares, both board members, 

representing The Miami Pine Rockland Coalition, Daniel Mateo, Principal, BIOTECH, 

Susan Windmiller, President, League of Women Voters, Miami-Dade County, and 

Orestes Mayo, PBay Educational Advisory Committee/BIOTECH school

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EYE ON MIAMI: Help Restore Pine Rockland and Coastal Wetlands - ...: Need a break from the election? Do something to make a difference out enjoying nature. Date: October Saturday 22- Sunday 23 Time: 8:3...

From Eye On Miami -
Need a break from the election? Do something to make a difference out enjoying nature.

Date: October Saturday 22- Sunday 23
Time: 8:30 AM- 3:00 PM
Location: 18400 Old Cutler Rd, Cutler Bay, Fl 33157
*SE corner of Old Cutler Rd and SW 184 st. Park along curb on 184 st east side of Old Cutler Rd.

*Please bring sunscreen, mosquito repellent and work gloves. Water and snacks will be provided*

What is this effort about:

Florida's coastal communities and our Biscayne Bay Coastal Wetlands are increasingly threatened by rising sea levels and extreme weather events are being intensified by climate change. This is why local community restoration efforts of coastal habitats like in Cutler Bay and Palmetto Bay are critical to reduce the impacts where rapid development is threatening neighborhoods and safety.

Please learn more and join these efforts by coming to our workdays 10/22 & 23. Come experience an ecosystem restoration hands on. Volunteers are wanted to continue to restore coastal wetlands, pine rocklands, and hammock habitat. Please, help create a natural buffer that will protect us and bring resiliency to our community. We will be planting native plants, mulching, and weeding.

You can also make a donation online The raised money will be used to buy hundreds of native plants and trees, and supplies.
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SDU Editor note: You never know who will be in attendance at this event - and perhaps, if there is interest, time and things fall into place, we can have a tour of the Park that 3 out of 5 Palmetto Bay council members voted to protect through TDRs - the 22 acre PBVC site - a site that currently has mature pines and needs some love, but certainty no to development.

 (Photos above - 22 acre pinelands at PBVC - left - the Old Cutler Run club using it as part of their run trail and to the right, members of the Miami Pine Rocklands Coalition touring the site.)

Application WITHDRAWN - 2-24-2016 - Cutler Properties, LC / Pending Land Use and Rezoning Applications for Old Cutler Village (Folio No. 36-6003-001-0013)

The applicant has withdrawn the pending land use and rezoning applications set for public hearing before the Cutler Bay Town Council on March 16.  A copy of the letter withdrawing the application is posted below.  This Town Officials are advised by this letter that the property owner will now,, instead, move forward with a new plan that is based upon their current developmental rights (removing any hearing).

The 'important' paragraph - this is the intention of the developer:

In lieu of the development of the Property under the proposed “Mixed-Use” land use designation and “NC-1” zoning classification, the Applicant will pursue the “as of right” development of the Property under the existing “Low Density” land use designation and “SR” zoning classification. To that end, as soon as the Applicant’s design team is able to prepare an alternative site plan for the development of a single-family subdivision on the Property, we will amend the pending Site Plan Application so that it may be scheduled for consideration by the Council at the earliest possible opportunity.

Look for additional information to be provided by the Town of Cutler Bay.   You can also follow the Livable Cutler Facebook page (CLICK HERE)

Presentation by the Miami Pine Rocklands Coalition - -- Who they are. How you can join.

Thank you.

Thank you Al Sunshine and the entire Miami Pine Rocklands Coalition for the work you do - fighting to protect and preserve our sensitive Pine Rocklands.  The photo was taken on Saturday, December 12, 2015, during a Livable Cutler session.

I am honored to receive a Miami Pine Rocklands Limited Edition print as a "Miami Tiger Beetle" Member.  I accept this on behalf of all members of my family who have been so supportive of the effort "Save it, Don't Pave It."

CLICK HERE to view the Facebook page for Miami Pine Rocklands Coalition. Follow this link to the website for the Miami Pine Rocklands Coalition

This website also takes you to a page where you can learn of all the critters that inhabit these imperiled Pine Rocklands, including access to the downloadable / printable Coloring Books of the Pine Rockland critters.  (You may access, print and please distribute to friends, family, groups that may have an interest, teachers, etc. simply by 'rightclicking' to save it to your computer for printing.

This photoprint to the right says it all, beautifully capturing our native Pinelands.   

Thank you,

Eugene Flinn

Public Protest Against Over-Development on Old Cutler Road

Saturday, April 25th starting at 10:30am.

A community protest against over-development is taking place at the corner of Old Cutler Rd. and 184th Street. 

The Cutler Bay town council will soon be asked by this property owner to up-zone the property to allow for a 4-story mixed use development. To find out more about the event and to join the growing number of residents and HOAs opposed to this project, visit facebook.com/livablecutler.


Information provided by Tom and Barbara Condon, http://www.cutlerbay.net  
cutlerbay.net is an independent community website serving the Cutler Bay area.