Where are the trees? Where is the lot line?
Where are the trees and why is this structure almost from lot line lot line?
How greedy can you get? This is probably being done to code, although I don't see how all the trees were legally removed, but this is what we need to prevent from happening.
I thought trees were protected? I thought there was a certain percentage that could be built on.
Is that cut out part of the landmass? Was the landmass filled when permits were handed out, then cut out?
posted by Tom Falco at 8:30 AM
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Very interesting. Since I don't live in that neighborhood, I don't know when those trees were taken down. Could have been a long time ago or recently. But I found an article about that piece of property. https://www.miaminewtimes.com/news/coconut-grove-residents-battle-wealthy-developer-over-tiny-public-bayfront-access-point-10218885
Ask Ken Russell.
Yes... ask Ken Russell. His recent mailer says he's preserved the canopy. (I wonder where all they've all been preserved?)
This is the short version:
The property was a natural mangrove shoreline like the property
south of it for a million or more years. In the early 50's it became a city dump with garbage "filling up" and raising the ground level of the mangroves. In the late fifties someone threw dirt on top and got the city to allow him to EXTEND his portion of the shoreline 100 feet into the bay (talk about greed!). That's the marina, w/ boathouse that you see. What we called the "Dupont Mansion" was built on the hill on the western end. There were few trees as they wnent for the Big Lawn look. Those trees were removed by the current owner, a Venezuelan developer. When He bought the property ten or so years ago he discovered toxic chemicals in the soil, a result of the dumping earlier. They say this problem has been remediated (the "bad soil" removed). The present owner says he builds malls all over the world and it looks like he is building something like that here. He raised the walls illegally to ten feet and put barbed wire on top. I raised hell and after a long time the wire was removed. Now there are cameras and 24/7 lights illuminating anyone who should walk down to the thin piece of pubic shoreline.
A friend and I built a meditation bench there two years ago for public use. After we left the project manager had it ripped apart and thrown into the bay. The next day we retrieved it and built it again. We complained to the owner, the City, and the Miami Herald and of course, The Grapevine. They last time I checked it was still there. The story of this parcel isin many ways, the story of modern Miami.
Now, just for a minute close your eyes and conjure up images of what the Grove felt like when you first came here. Those of you who recently arrived,this is not for you. Nobody gives a rats what you see. Back to the images. Is this picture what what populates . Are the big white fuggugly boxes what comes to mind? In your images do you hear chainsaws taking down the canopy? Does the foul smell of car exhaust drift thru your dreamy vision? Again if ya just got here you may be very nice but it takes a bit of history here to have a frame of reference. And if you live in one of those sugar cube abominations then you have dumped in you own sheets and ya get what ya sow. The Grove is destroyed. Holding the line against “ Venezuelan Developers” is just too absurd to contemplate. Think about the many people that were the heart and soul of Coconut Grove that have moved away. Why would anyone that valued what a fine funky artsy, musical toy town village this was want to stay and watch this horror show and linger any longer than necessary? Yes, there are those that think this is the cats meow but they mostly never knew what was here. The knee jerk argument that this is progress belongs where the sun don’t shine.
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