Will Ultra Music Fest hurt the area?
Ultra Music Festival's plans to move to Virginia Key from downtown Miami, will be discussed by the Miami City Commission.
Key Biscayne residents are having fits over this, a recent meeting notice read: "Moving Ultra to Virginia Key has serious complications for the health and safety of all regular users of Virginia Key and residents of Key Biscayne. Learn how you and your organization can help." Health and Safety issues? Maybe not. But traffic nightmares and probably destruction of a fragile environment - yes. Tickets are already on sale for the March event.
If you live on Key Biscayne, you have to pass through Miami to get in and out of the key and therein lies the rub. But should Key residents be subjected to the inability to leave the Key for the duration of the Ultra Festival? They are throwing the Grove into the equation, making it seem as if we will be affected by the festival. Will we be?
Having the City of Miami as your entrance and the only entrance - going through the City, is not really a great idea. Sort of like Miami controlling Coconut Grove. Nothing good comes out of it.
The City of Miami will always sell itself out when it gets the chance. Look at the over-development in every corner, and when the Boat Show wanted to start using Miami Marine Stadium for their show, they got a slap on the hand for destroying the fragile eco-system and removing mangroves at the site, and for that matter, so did big shot Arquitectonica owner Bernardo Fort-Brescia when he destroyed mangroves that were annoying him. If there is a buck to be made, the City always chooses that over quality of life.
Maybe Key Biscayne neighbors can start a GoFundMe page and build a second causeway at the south end. I believe the original plan was a causeway that was supposed to go from around the Matheson Hammock area to the key, maybe they can do that. This way they can avoid the City of Miami entrance altogether and have a back way in and out.
But seriously, will Ultra ruin the environment with that large mass of attendees? I think I liked Miami Marine Stadium when it was just sitting there rotting in the weeds. Right now it's turning into a large and destructive event space - starting with the Boat Show, then Ultra, what next 50 story condos?
posted by Tom Falco at 9:00 AM
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I can see why residents of KB would be upset as it creates a bottleneck to access their homes. I lived downtown during ultra and traffic was horrendous, but i was able to work around it for the literally THREE DAYS OUT OF THE YEAR event.
I agree though, that virginia key is a terrible location for the event. At least downtown there were multiple access methods (metrorail, uber, walking from the multitude of hotels in the area). No one will be walking across the causeway so it will be perpetually clogged with traffic throughout the event. Maybe they should offer water taxi service from downtown.
It should never have left bayfront park, and i don't get why the city commission catered to the NIMBY's living downtown. Downtown living = noise.
Today's Crespogram Headline Is:
NOTHING EVER SEEMS SIMPLE OR STRAIGHT FORWARD WHEN IT COMES TO DEALS INVOLVING THE CITY OF MIAMI, LIKE FOR INSTANCE THIS LATEST DEAL WITH THE ULTRA MUSIC FESTIVAL THAT MAKES ALL THE PREVIOUS CONTRACTS LOOKS LIKE STERLING EXAMPLES OF GOOD GOVERNANCE
- www.crespogramnews.com
NO Ultra anywhere! Especially Virginia Key. A dangerous venue-no hotels, no public transportation, and only one way out.
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