Mayor's veto needed regarding Villa Woodbine issue
LETTER TO THE EDITOR
Tom, your piece on Carrollton/Villa Woodbine was well thought out and written.
I wanted to share a strategy with you that has been successfully used to recently stop the County's Playhouse demolition and the Babylon upzoning in Brickell.
The biggest problem facing residents is that the Commission is so pro-development that developers can always get the 3 votes needed for approval, regardless of the merits/deficiencies of the project.
So developers don't care about the recommendations of HEPB or PZAB or their decisions... they just want to get to the Commission as soon as possible.
The reality is that it will be very difficult to get 3 commissioners to vote against Carrollton/ Villa Woodbine.
The only hope is to do what we did on the Playhouse and Babylon and get the Mayor's veto and then get 2 Commission votes in support because it takes a 4-1 vote to override the Mayor's veto.
These battles have three fronts - legal, political and public/press awareness- and all three fronts need to be carefully coordinated and inter-related.
A bunch of billboards and news articles are only going to help if you leverage it into real political action to kill these odious deals off.
The developers know how to use the process to their advantage- residents need to start doing the same.
Thanks,
David Winker, Esq.
Miami
Tom, your piece on Carrollton/Villa Woodbine was well thought out and written.
I wanted to share a strategy with you that has been successfully used to recently stop the County's Playhouse demolition and the Babylon upzoning in Brickell.
The biggest problem facing residents is that the Commission is so pro-development that developers can always get the 3 votes needed for approval, regardless of the merits/deficiencies of the project.
So developers don't care about the recommendations of HEPB or PZAB or their decisions... they just want to get to the Commission as soon as possible.
The reality is that it will be very difficult to get 3 commissioners to vote against Carrollton/ Villa Woodbine.
The only hope is to do what we did on the Playhouse and Babylon and get the Mayor's veto and then get 2 Commission votes in support because it takes a 4-1 vote to override the Mayor's veto.
These battles have three fronts - legal, political and public/press awareness- and all three fronts need to be carefully coordinated and inter-related.
A bunch of billboards and news articles are only going to help if you leverage it into real political action to kill these odious deals off.
The developers know how to use the process to their advantage- residents need to start doing the same.
Thanks,
David Winker, Esq.
Miami
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2 Comments:
Bravo David Winker
LaSharown Sims
Agree, very interesting.
However, the developers get to the commissioners before the public and they're paid to vote for their projects. These gangsters are getting very rich and ruining the city with out-of-scale overdevelopment. :(
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