Miami Marine Stadium damaged by Andrew

With all traffic problems and congestion going on in the intra-local streets that closing McIntyre Street that divides the Civic Center campus is being considered as a good idea. Council member Mike Kelly is once again showing his near sightedness along with the ” opens pace tribesman” that support such a regressive idea. First the Fire Station abuts McIntyre Street. There Fire Trucks need to use it when emergency call requires it. Secondly, it is major access artery from the condominium district to the Community Center. The brain dead idea also accompanies closing Greenway Way that travels to the doorstep of the Community center itself. Thirdly, part of Greenway provides rear access to Suntrust Bank drive thru. This easement was provided in perpetuity by written agreement between Village municipality and building owner. At the time the existing Key Biscayne Bank property in the rear (Community Center building sits)was exchanged for the frontage on Crandon Boulevard.

Suggestions like this requires serious consideration not for it merits but rather charter amendment to reduce the amount time Village Council meets as a governing body.

Unfortunately for the Village of Key Biscayne going to court to stop the City of Miami from renovating the Miami Marine Stadium for the South Florida Boat Show is futile. The Village Council for years wanted athletic fields on Virginia Key. But when a fantastic master planned athletic compound on steroids was proposed Mayor Many Diaz the Village of Key Biscayne was in opposition to its size and scope. Basically fearing the change they sought. The plan was tremendous with over two different venues for soft ball, hard baseball, track and field, Football stadium , expanded Rowing facilities and dormitories for visiting athletes and even bird watching stands on nature preserve! The Village of Key Biscayne joined forces with the Friends of Virginia Key along with Friends of Marine Stadium to quash Miami Mayor Manny Diaz’s splendid plan for a state of the art facility for all Miami-Dade County’s young ones. History must recall that the Village of Key Biscayne also went to court over renovations to Miami Seaquarium in 1990’s. Now look the VKB community ‘s worst nightmare is upon us, more commercial development on Rickenbacker Causeway. With it ten events a year on the stadium site instead of young kids off the streets competing in sports throughout the entire Virginia Key….

The old saying “be careful what you wish for” applies to Village leaders throughout the island city’s young history. Most recently Councilman Luis Felipe de la Cruz is quoted in the Miami Herald article, telling Deputy Miami City Manager Alice Bravo, “You told us that phrase that I love, that we would be ‘at the table.’ At the table for what? To be spoon-fed whatever you wanted to tell us?”Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/miami-dade/key-biscayne/article8530022.html#storylink=cpy

Sometimes amateur actors should portend to be professional politicians. All Past Village Councils are guilty of lack of vision to the major government on Mainland “to just say no to all things on Virginia Key” is a retarded approach óó MacontheRock óó

Village Council of Key Biscayne closing McIntyre Street?

Marine Stadium lawsuit to stop South Florida Boat Show is too late.