Why is the waterfront closed?
I reached out to Grove Bay Hospitality Group, the builders who are constructing that thing on the waterfront and have been ignored for two days. They aren't really hospitable, are they? And the same with the commissioner's office. I reached out and have not heard back. But I suspect after posting this, I'll receive an answer quite fast.
Not good.
The Village Council will be taking up the issue at Monday's meeting.
They would like to know:
Who gave permission for the waterfront to be closed at this location?
What legal authority does anyone have to close the waterfront, i.e., under what conditions is closing of the waterfront permitted?
If closing of the waterfront is legally permitted, how is it that the City of Miami would permit such a thing without requiring the equivalent of an MOT plan (Maintenance of Traffic) like those that are required when streets are closed or traffic is rerouted for a construction project? No City of Miami street can be closed or traffic rerouted without an MOT plan. The same principle should apply to the public waterfront.
The Village Council meets Monday, March 11 at 6:3 pm at City Hall, 3500 Pan American Drive.
posted by Tom Falco at 3:00 PM
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13 Comments:
I use that path almost daily. It's the best sunrise location in Coconut Grove. The path has not been maintained, and, as owners of this property, we should all be pissed off. The city should be forcing them to give us all access 24/7. We've put up with a lot of crap from all this overdevelopment, but taking our sunrise from us is really the worst!
I use this path daily and have been missing it! As a walker, it’s my route where I don’t have to worry about getting hit by a texting driver.
I run there daily. It sia great sunrise walk.
Thanks for bringing this to our attention.
Sally Willits
City of Miami and Miami Dade County do not have the organizational culture to properly manage Coconut Grove as the high end cultural and local attraction it has been over 150 years. We are losing a cultural treasure to mismanagement as a result of political games fueled by ignorance and bulldozers.
I live at Yacht Harbour and start almost every morning walking through Dinner Key then this property.
I can’t tell you how awesome it is to live in a place like this.
Let’s get it reopened. There is fencing around construction site.
I thought that was a public right of way?
Totally unacceptable. I walk that path every day. I still don’t understand how they have no sidewalk in front of cocowalk for over a year.
We are 2 more daily users of the water front path. We all know why it is closed, the constitution of the new restaurant,the question is whether it is necessary or not. Certainly it is more convenient for the builder but unless they are replacing the seawall, and they are not, then given the setback on the plans it is the same as building along a sidewalk. At some point the path would have to be closed for a relatively short period to integrate it into the construction but not for the 2 years that construction will take. Remember that the developer of the marina initially tried to block entrance and transit along the adjacent marina and we had to speak up and push back.
It's unique to the Grove, there's nothing to compare, Biscayne Bay, sunset, fresh air off the ocean. Jobie Steppe
Please reopen the path. My wife and I jog by there almost daily. We noticed it was fenced off last weekend.
Use it for nightly walks... Not happy
That path has no guard rail and there are rusty hazards sticking up. The water next to the seawall is shallow and potentially full of sharp debris. And it's near a stormwater outfall so who knows what toxins and infectious agents lurk there.
Today you're the city manager. Knowing the risks and liabilities, and understanding that if a drunk stumbles into one of those rusty metal brackets on his way into the soup, it could cost the city hundreds of thousands of dollars, would you open the gate?
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