Grove Harbour Marina goes back to the drawing board
Press release from Commissioner Marc Sarnoff's office - just in, word-for-word:
City of Miami District 2 Commissioner Marc D. Sarnoff initiated the withdrawal of a controversial plan by a developer to build a 21,000-square-foot office building just 22 feet from the water in Coconut Grove.
The proposed three-story Grove Harbor Marina office building would have been located a block North of Miami City Hall at the Grove Harbor Marina site. The building was not included in the City’s Coconut Grove Waterfront Master Plan as adopted by the City Commission and approved by City residents during public workshops.
“This plan has been unacceptable and inappropriate since it was first introduced. There is no reason to have an office building 22 feet from the water, especially when our City allows nothing closer than 50 feet,” says Commissioner Sarnoff.
After nearly a year of debate and negotiations, the Marina has agreed to withdraw the building as designed, solicit input from the community, and bring back a modified design in one year.
“I am very gratified that the developers are listening to the members of the public who’ve voiced their concerns. Protecting our waterfront must remain a priority,” says Commissioner Sarnoff.
City of Miami District 2 Commissioner Marc D. Sarnoff initiated the withdrawal of a controversial plan by a developer to build a 21,000-square-foot office building just 22 feet from the water in Coconut Grove.
The proposed three-story Grove Harbor Marina office building would have been located a block North of Miami City Hall at the Grove Harbor Marina site. The building was not included in the City’s Coconut Grove Waterfront Master Plan as adopted by the City Commission and approved by City residents during public workshops.
“This plan has been unacceptable and inappropriate since it was first introduced. There is no reason to have an office building 22 feet from the water, especially when our City allows nothing closer than 50 feet,” says Commissioner Sarnoff.
After nearly a year of debate and negotiations, the Marina has agreed to withdraw the building as designed, solicit input from the community, and bring back a modified design in one year.
“I am very gratified that the developers are listening to the members of the public who’ve voiced their concerns. Protecting our waterfront must remain a priority,” says Commissioner Sarnoff.
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10 Comments:
Thank you Sarnoff!
Just curious - is the parcel large enough to have a structure 50 ft. from the water? How can they modify the plan? Do they have room to put up anything worthwhile? Or is this just a tactic to wait until the brouhaha dies down and come back with a slightly modified version of the original plan?
If you watched the meeting, Sarnoff said "I heard from my constituents and I want this plan to be permanately withdrawn."--- but he had no support from the other commissioners and lawyers for the developers declined.
Yes, thank you Marc Sarnoff, for listening to the people and caring about the Grove and the city of Miami.
Ok, but can we use the waterfront in someway? Coconut groves waterfront is the least accessible, least used, least appreciated, least seen, and least utilized of anywhere I've ever even heard of.
I'm sure I'm gonna hear 900 replies saying, no, I do this and that, but the fact is, the waterfront is all private owned and not open to the pubic - saling club, monty's, the Grove marina, some other private club, chart house... and the parks have no water view whatsoever, minus the disguisting dog poo view point at kennedy and that 4 ft. wide, joke of a bridge thing.
It's a damn shame.
Anon 10:09. One of the major goals of the waterfront plan was to provide more access to the water. Most of the properties you mentioned are owned by the city subject to long term leases. Pursuant to the plan, non-native plants will be removed, which should open up views at Kennedy and Peacock parks. We can't remove the mangroves as they provide an important marine habitat and are protected by law. There will be improvements to public access with a pier added for commercial fishing and charter boats behind Chart House. Chart House will be rebuilt to open up views and improve the public realm. The reason we have invited all the entities in that area, including Grove Harbour, to the next waterfront implementation committee meeting is that we are hoping to get them all to work together toward changes consistent with the plan.
Michelle:
All of those so called neighbor friendly waterfront businesses currently block pedestrian access NOW (especially Chart House and Scotty's). What would it be like if we let them build large buildings? Come on Michelle get real, poop park is there to stay and it sucks (and smells) the dogs do not need the view and the people in there with their dogs can barely see the water. All of our parks are run down and poorly maintained NOW with no money in the future redoing everything will be a disaster. I see a Bait and Switch on the way large buildings for all!
County and City rules do not permit any new structures within 50' of the waterfront. Nonetheless Grove Harbour lobbyists and pro-overdevelopment commissioners continue to keep this scam alive. Ugh.
$$Commissioner Sarnoff states protecting our waterfront must remain a priority, but Commissioner Sarnoff is for going forth with the Virginia Key Master Plan? What gives? Shouldn't that waterfront also be protected?$$
Sarnoff is a terrible commissioner that only worries about the grove. What about the other neighborhood in Miami that he's supposed to represent???
Our streets are horrible!! and rehabilitation houses are being opened in our neighborhoods without consent.
I will never vote for him or anyone that he supports.
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