The following email was received on February 14th, 2013.
This is not the end of the proposed site, but a re-evaluation of this proposed site for the West South West Trash and Recycle Center.
Re: Proposed West Southwest Neighborhood Trash and Recycling Center
Dear Southwest Miami-Dade Resident:
Thank you for offering your thoughts and concerns regarding the potential development of a Neighborhood Recycling Center (TRC) at SW 202nd Avenue and 290th Street. I want to assure the community that a concerted effort was made by County’s Public Works and Waste Management Department (PWWM) to inform area residents about its plans for the TRC, but I understand that many of you feel the two (2) publicly noticed meetings held on December 12, 2012 and January 16, 2013 at Fruit and Spice Park were inadequate.
Having read your letters and email messages, and in consultation with your district Commissioner Lynda Bell, I have decided to have the PWWM re-evaluate the location chosen for the proposed TRC and determine if another more suitable site is available that better conforms to County policy. Therefore, the third and final public outreach meeting scheduled for March 20, 2013, from 7:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m., at the South Dade Government Center, Room 203, 10710 SW 211th Street, has been cancelled. Your County Commissioner, Vice-Chair Lynda Bell, listened closely to the strong objections of the residents of the area, and has worked with my office to satisfy the requests of her constituents and the needs of the Department to find an equitable solution for everyone. The information gathered at the previous meetings will be kept on file.
Again, thank you for participating in the Government Facilities process and rest assured that any future plans for TRC development in the Southwest area will be fully shared with you at the earliest possible time.
Sincerely,
Carlos A. Gimenez, Mayor
Miami-Dade County
cc: Honorable Chairwoman Rebeca Sosa and Members,
Board of County Commissioners
Alina T. Hudak, Deputy Mayor
Kathleen Woods-Richardson, Director,
Public Works and Waste Management Department
My photos (use link below) show a typical day at the Moody Drive Dump - no lines, no waiting. WE DON'T NEED A DUMP anywhere near Redland FARM Area:
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URGENT QUESTIONS: County's Search for "Another More Suitable Site" for a DUMP
ReplyDelete... is there an "available (translation: county-owned) site" near YOU?!
At first I was relieved to receive the Valentine's Day Letter from Mayor Carlos Gimenez about his decision "to have PWWM re-evaluate the location chosen for the proposed TRC",
but the wording is so vague, it leaves us waiting for the next site they determine to be "suitable" to "the needs of the Department".
It certainly isn't our needs - I photographed the Moody Dump last Saturday - it is so obvious we don't need another county dump down this way.
Now that Mayor Gimenez cancelled the March 20 meeting, we need a Town Meeting to provide a venue for those of us who want to protect the Ag and Redland Fringes from further Non-Ag intrusions. Perhaps the Ag Center would be the best venue.
The Mayor's letter raises a lot of serious questions:
1. Why is our Public Works and Waste Management Dept so eager to spend our tax dollars on a huge County Dump we don't need, with an "Administrative office, Guardhouse for attendants, Disposal bays, Drop-off area for white goods, tires, and electronics, Furniture, Yard waste." That's not a "TRC" - that's an Industrial Complex!
During this time of drastic budget cuts ? It doesn't make any sense.
2. If the money budgeted for that Dept must be spent (for whatever reason) why not spend it on the crippled Water & Sewer infrastructure in the urban and suburban communities
(see Water & Sewer repair notice, Feb 12, District 8 e-mailing).
Those communities have one costly emergency after another.
There is no emergency out here in Redland, other than staving off one assault after another by developers who pressure our county officials into moving the UDB, so they can built whatever they want, wherever they want. (see Lennar's Kendal Plaza on Kendall, just west of 167th)
3. What is this "County Policy" that "another more suitable site" needs to "conform to" ?
"The Master Plan Can Be Changed" was practically chanted (at Jan 16 meeting, Fruit & Spice Park) by angry residents responding to PWWM Dept official Lee Casey's explanation of a mandate for a TRC within 5 miles of every Dade County resident. That “policy” should NOT apply to Agricultural Lands!
4. What are "the needs of the Department" ? And why do they supersede our needs?
5. We don't need an "equitable solution" to a problem that does not exist !
The Moody Dump has proven to be more than adequate.
Please ask the important questions of county officials, elected to represent us and request to be placed on their e-mailing lists to receive NOTICES of PROPOSALS and MEETINGS :
Mayor Carlos Gimenez: carlos.gimenez@miamidade.gov
Deputy Mayor Alina Hudak: ath2@miamidade.gov
Commissioner Lynda Bell: district8@miamidade.gov
Public Works & Waste Management: pwwm@miamidade.gov
Regarding the County's Published Notices on the proposed "TRC": Redland is NOT the "West Southwest Neighborhood"! Redland is NOT a "neighborhood" in any sense of the word! - Redland FARM Area is FARM country, HORSE country, OPEN SPACE, under attack by county planners and developers. Dade County Officials need to publish their notices about REDLAND FARM AREA by indicating: "Redland FARM Area". We have signs all over the place out here announcing "Entering Redland Farm Area". It's about time County officials took note, and published their "notices" accordingly!
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ReplyDeleteI completely agree with your re-evaluation of the missive from the county. It seemed very "political" in it's wording i.e. there was a sense of layered meanings and obfuscation . I am relieved though, that the plans for this site were objected to and that there was a reaction to "the will of the people". I have long been concerned with the speed of the disappearance of the agricultural areas of south Florida. As the costs of getting food to this part of the world increases, this gets more impotent to all of us. There are also the undervalued quality of life issues connected with living in a rural setting.
Congratulations to all on the interruption of the steamrolling county forces.