It’s disheartening to see this type of propaganda put out by the Village of Palmetto Bay. Honesty is the best policy, so let’s tell the whole truth. The residents that abut the FPL easement along 140th Street put in a bid with the county prior to the Village. When the Village decided to reach out to the county to purchase the land for a park, they were informed that the residents already put in a bid for purchase, just like their neighbors on the other side of 77 Ave were allowed to do. The elected officials of Palmetto Bay had no consideration for their constituents who put in the bid, never notified them that they were trying to take the property and tried to plow over them. The residents pleaded their case to the Village on several occasions at open meetings to no avail. The last resort was for the neighbors to plead their case to the county commission, who when hearing the full story were astonished by how poorly the Palmetto Bay neighbors were treated and decided to side with the people and not the government. Regardless of what the constituents that abut the property want, the politicians of the Village of Palmetto Bay continue to try to squash and steamroll the voice of the people. In, addition, this was not a unanimous vote by the Village commission. It was a split vote with the Mayor being the tie breaker against the constituents.
There are lots of improvements that we the residents need with priority to invest our tax money instead of a walking trail besides the sidewalk that already exists
The bridge needs built. Traffic aside, the bridge adds convenient access to navigate the area in Palmetto Bay. The road needs completed without the politics.
Hmm....You are allowed to walk around with a camera recording but citizens doing the same 1st Amendment activity get arrested by Palmetto Bay police......
Celebrating the 4th and our Village. Great turnout. Thank you to our Mayor Cunningham, and our Council members for a great community event. You did a wonderful job!!! Love this video.
So this is a bit of a perplexing video. I was one of the many, many kids who grew up jumping off this bridge as a kid. This video -- which I believe is an official city production -- refers to the tradition of jumping from the bridge and seems to... encourage it? So what IS the city's policy about this? Because I thought jumping was now strictly enforced by local police. But if not, I'd love to head down there with my son next time I'm in town!
It seems that Palmetto Bay decided to hire junior high (or possibly elementary school) students to create the Palmetto Bay Connect app. What other explanation could there be for such a buggy app, one which displays the same alerts over and over and over again on my on my iPhone every few seconds, with no obvious way to turn them off? The Village needs to hire a professional developer to rewrite and/or repair this very poorly written app.
I'm trying to do the same in plazas and around businesses here in east Orlando metro area by UCF. Except by myself. Glad I came across this first because I didn't even think about all the safety precautions and the fact that I will need water/bug repellent.
If you lived two houses in from 87th Avenue and had 3 kids, you would not want that bridge built, especially when you know the improvement s simply minor and a band aid! NO TO THE BRIDGE!!!!!
The bottom line is Mayor Cunningham still chooses to alienate at least half of her constituents, the half that has enough common sense to understand the absolute necessity to immediately connect 87th Avenue > in all fairness to her constituents at least one-half of her four appointees should be "pro-bridge" > that is what Mayor Meerbot of Cutler Bay did, an equitable split as two of his appointees professed that they were undecided. > our Mayor seemingly packed the deck with folks concurring with her anti-bridge sentiments > how fair is that?
Problem is Mayor Cunningham was not present at that vote...and the excuse was - she was at work and could not make the vote. Huh? I thought her job was mayor of Palmetto Bay. I voted for you mayor. You have let us down. Sorry, but it looks like you needed plausible deniability. You should have been there for the vote!
Yes but you are talking about palmetto bay residents trying to keep preserve the tranquility of palmetto bay do you not consider the palmetto bay members that live south of the canal? Do we not deserve the flow as well are we not part of the elite owners that live north of the canals? You sound like you are spitting on everyone that lives in palmetto bay south Canal. I will like to know what you really know about traffic flow. Its common sence you open more roads and traffic will flow better just because 3 blocks of house are going to have a couple cars.
Agree 100%. She obviously doesn’t care about anyone south of the canal in district 3. The bridge will help 1/3 of Palmetto Bay. A small vocal minority on 87 avenue north of the canal believes they bought the road with their homes. The fire department shouldn’t have to deal with incomplete grid. They clearly stated that 1 in 4 calls are impacted by lack of Bridge including senior centers. Build the Bridge!!
Not building the bridge is selfish elitist bullshit! It must be really nice for all those people enjoying their homes on public roads with no traffic while everyone else loses hours of their lives daily in bottle-neck traffic. Shame on them! This bridge was always supposed to be built. Obviously, the people of Palmetto Bay will not willingly allow the fair completion of this grid. I know the bridge won't solve the traffic problem. No one-solution will. But no one can tell me that it won't make a big difference. Eliminating bottle-necks is a critical part of any solution. If the other solutions, like bussing is so fucking awesome, building this bridge will have no impact on traffic through their neighborhoods. But we all know that all these "alternative" plans are bullshit.
