A new exercise opportunity for Coral Reef Park - here now : "The ROCKY II Chicken Chase"

For the fitness buffs - Palmetto Bay is supplying the chickens - all you have to do is chase them!

Also see PRIOR RELATED POST - Monday, July 22, 2024, Coral Reef Park and the Mangowood community have a morning wake up alarm.

I'm told that there are many to choose from - see photos posted below - supplied by readers (Please send more)

Also coming soon - reader submitted photos of Roosters who have come home to roost in other areas of Palmetto Bay (please mail photos to me at eugeneflinn@bellsouth.net)

Meeting notice from the EBC - wait - didn't at least one of their reps advocate for the 136th Street fiasco? What's the difference?

 

Coral Reef Park and the Mangowood community have a morning wake up alarm.

It's time to wake up Palmetto Bay!

“Curses are like young chickens, they always come home to roost” 

So who brought the chickens to Coral Reef Park? Perhaps it was Palmetto Bay Ordinance 2023-12, sponsored by Vice Mayor Leanne Tellam.  

How is that Palmetto Bay Chicken ordinance working out?  There were plenty of backyard chicken keepers pre-incorporation (prior to 9/10/2002) through 2019. But people kept them responsibly; it was live and let live and Palmetto Bay did not have a feral Chicken issue. People kept them under wraps, but the village, most notably ,  Vice Mayor Leanne Tellam wanted to open the door to encourage them – Such as contained in Palmetto Bay Ordinance 2023-12, sponsored by Vice Mayor Leanne Tellam.    As many predicted – the chickens would come home to roost – and you can’t have free ranging chickens without attracting Roosters. Nevertheless, Palmetto Bay officials enacted a hastily considered ordinance which even noted that "...roosters, which can and do disturb the peaceful quality of life in the Village ...." – and yet here they are (Roosters).  Now there are feral populations of chickens and the accompanying roosters throughout Palmetto Bay.  

So what is next, a Rooster slaughter on the scale of the past duck and tree slaughters at Coral Reef Park?  Stay tuned. 

Palmetto Bay Ordinance Sec. 20-66. Domestic animals.

(a) No person shall be permitted to take any domestic animal into any park unless the park specifically permits domestic animals. Canines (dogs) are particularly excluded from all parks other than Perrine Wayside Park. The provisions of Chapter 5 (sections 5-3 through 5-15) of the Code of Miami-Dade County (Miami-Dade County Dog Control Ordinance No. 58-28) shall apply to all park property not specifically designated for canine use. The provisions of this rule shall not apply to the use of a special needs service animal. As special needs service animal is defined as any dog guide or other animal individually trained to work or perform tasks for an individual with a disability.

(b) Cattle, mules, swine, sheep, goats, fowl or horses shall be precluded from entry into park property. All owners or attendants of such animals are charged with the duty of preventing such occurrences. However, this prohibition does not apply to animals and fowl kept by the parks department of under its direction. Any person found violating this provision shall receive a $200.00 civil citation.

(c) Animals may be allowed into the park for special events upon obtaining a written permit from the department director.

(Ord. No. 07-16, § 1(Rule 16), 6-11-2007)

Photos of the day - Wanna buy a courthouse?

Wanna buy a courthouse? Be the first to privatize the Civil court system.  Turnkey ready.  Historic elevator doors.  Mold and prone to basement flooding.

What a way to go – a FOR SALE sign on the steps. Usually other properties are “sold on the courthouse steps.” Appreciate the irony.

This is the current Miami-Dade County Courthouse, formerly known as the Dade County Courthouse.  The building is a historic courthouse and “skyscraper” (for its time) located at 73 West Flagler Street in Miami, Florida. This building was added to the U.S. National Register of Historic Places on January 4, 1989.

It was constructed over four years (1925–28). The building is 361 feet tall with 28 floors (give or take, based upon any undocumented settlement).  This building was once famous for the seasonable buzzards.  The Courthouse was the tallest building in both the city of Miami and state of Florida in its heyday.

A new courthouse is nearly completed nearby. It is time to offload this building.  I’m sure this will be an “as is” sale.

Just for fun - I like to take "Bike Leaning Against --- " photos.  Here are two from a May 2023 ride from home in Palmetto Bay to downtown Miami and back.  A great ride by the way.