Liveaboard boaters welcome mooring compromise in Miami Beach 

Thank You for reporting the fact so all the residents can stay educated about the Biscayne Bay! Please let’s stop this harassment for the boaters! 🙏🏼⛵️

This politician sounds like a complete jerk! Big surprise.

Welcome to America where you free pay taxes or go to jail for the love of money!

A politician hyping up imaginary problems to build and solidify a base of support amongst the ignorant? Nah, never heard of this.

Who's running this clown show?? Stop harassing people. They just want to live their lives.

Just let those boaters live in peace, they have been there since I can remember. Monitor the problem ones instead of making life impossible for all of them instead of the troublemakers which are a small percentage. Suarez is probably paid by developers. Old Miamians are having to leave town because of the overdevelopment being allowed by these politicians

The reason the anchors are dragging is because the city of Miami Beach outlaws mooring in Biscayne Bay. They force boaters to lay anchor which is naturally not as secure as a stationary mooring ball.

so basically David Suarez is completely full of it

nobody is breathing a sigh of relief until David suarez just leaves the federal waterways alone. his complaints have all proved false. maybe us residents should go and do water tests in the canal when they are dumping excess city water??? this is such a charade

Leave people alone! Live and let live!

meanwhile Suarez ignores the sewage and drains expelled from building along the shoreline ...check it out every time it rains there

Perhaps the boaters should sue the councilman for his defamation of character.

Having traveled through Miami Beach as a transient boater and anchoring for two days, I can say it’s among the least welcoming places I’ve ever stopped and tried to get groceries. This clown Suarez has been proven wrong, but I’ll agree that either a mooring field, or a boats must move every 5 days rule needs to be put in place.

Take freedom from the people. This is America 🇺🇸

All they want is money!! Beware of the new laws they will kick you out!!!

Sad this leadership is not helping live aboard find a safe way o park their dinghy(water car) so they can get to work. Go after the irresponsible owners not good citizens that prefer to live on the water and not a cubical on land surrounded by walls and murders

In over 15 years of boating advocacy in Florida, this coverage by this channel is the only fair and honest reporting I've seen. Kudos to WPLG 10 for a superb job. Got the facts right, even the small details that matter. Amazing, isn't it? The two biggest complaints, dumping waste and harming seagrass, and the boaters are innocent in both cases. Makes you wonder what the city is trying to do to these boaters.

City is mad they arent paying taxes

It’s a shake down! To charge $700 the $1000 a month in Taxes. Living on the hook is hard. And it’s B.S that they try to make people look like a criminal or poor!

That’s so wrong! No one is polluting the water with waste that’s what holding tanks are for!!!

Miami Beach City Commission should concentrate on spring breakers instead of boat dwellers.

Boats are fine as long as the city makes money. Makes sense

Spring break around the corner 🫶🏽🏖️

Trying to outlaw boating in the boating capital of America. Shameful...

Create a 7 day anchor limit - you have to re-anchor every week

Put free mooring balls and provide services for boater. If the boater want to get their goat . Start planting grass and bring back the habitat first before the city or county take them to court and make a township in the water. Buy some land in the bay to provide a dingy area.and pump out station .Your gonna have to put you money together to fight them

Reach and guidelines are a priority, do you want to poison the water with oil leaks and human waste or keep a national treasure pristine with controls of a protected area

They mad that these boaters get ocean views without paying. Welcome to class wars.

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It just the Ritchie people talking about people who are not so dumb they forced liveabored to look smarter then they are they pay someone else’s to own the property but in reality they don’t really own the property even if they pay a lot of money for the view but they don’t own the view just there own view

The city doesn't own the bay...Law suit............

Why doesn't commissioner Suarez worried about the boats that are speeding through here and causing speeding accidents crashing a boat into another boat jet skiers crashing into other boats why doesn't he stopped that instead of harassing us

The boaters have been there. This harassment occurs across the country. The rich don't want to look at others living out there. They want a pristine view and clear of the po folks. Even tho they were likely there first. The boaters aren't the ones wrecking the bay. Its just a distraction.

So the rich that live on those man made islands don’t want the boats there but the land that made the islands destroyed the bay ecosystem. Remove the homes on these dredged up island and put the material back where it came from.

Well he does have a point, there are many boats that are derelict and need to be dealt with. But the people who live on their boats are probably not an issue.

A dinghy is a liveaboard person's car. Just like a car there should/ could be a pay meter for dinghy space at a dock.

Lol

This people live in an inhumane way. I am a boater and have witnessed some of this people dumping garbage to our waters....I think we should limit the amount of boats in our bay and waters.

Nothing free!

While my heart bleeds for the boaters as much as it does for regular residents that don’t want them around my confusion is this: your house literally moves, why do you have to stay in the most expensive city in the world? There are countless more affordable places up and down the east coast to go to.

Anywhere U park in Miami U have to pay, so these boaters need to pay a daily fee….