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HomeMy WebLinkAbout7389 Submittal-Public Comments Submitted Online for the April 9, 2020 Virtual OMNI CRA MeetingCRA Public Comments Omni CRA Board Meeting April 9, 2020 10:19 AM MDT Q1 - First Name Agenda Item (please fill out First Last Name Email Address Street a separate Name Address form if you will be commenting on m... 3735 5-Omni CRA Oak Redevelopment Clarice Cooper cooperclarice@yahoo.com Avenue Plan and Miami, Interlocal FL 33133 Agreement Please enter your public comment: To the Chairperson and Members of the Board of the Omni Community Redevelopment Agency (CRA): We, the Executive Board of the Coconut Grove Village West Homeowners and Tenants Association (HOATA), are not in favor of your intention to cease the negotiation process of expanding the CRA into Coconut Grove Village West. From its inception, HOATA resoundingly supported the proposal of then - Chairperson of the Omni Community Redevelopment Agency (CRA), District 2 Commissioner Ken Russell, to expand the CRA into Coconut Grove Village West. It was determined in the Findings of Necessity study in accordance with Florida Statutes that Village West met the criteria for the "slum" and "blight' designations. The Miami City Commission thereafter unanimously approved the proposed expansion We anticipated that effectuating the expansion proposal would provide more timely availability of and access to funding for affordable housing, employment opportunities and other vital infrastructure, which this community sorely is in need of and which is long overdue. Therefore, in the absence of a better suited alternative proposal that has been fully collaborated with the community stakeholders and, without which, Village West would be completely left in limbo for an unknown period of time, we cannot support scuttling the expansion plan. 7389 Submittal -Public Comments Submitted Online for the April 9, 2020 Virtual OMNI CRA Meeting First Name Melissa Frank Frances "Dolly" Last Name Email Address Meyer msmeyer@ncsu.edu Schnidman Schnidmanf@earthlink.net Maclntyre macbirch@aol.com Agenda Item (please fill out Street a separate Address form if you will be commenting on m... 3161 5-Omni CRA Ohio Redevelopment Street Plan and Coconut Interlocal Grove, FL Agreement 33133 Please enter your public comment: Melissa Meyer of 3161 Ohio Street in the Coconut Grove Village West. My family has waited 25 years for our neighborhood to be included in the Omni CRA expansion — Item number 5. That's 25 years of community meetings, 25 years of political rallying, and 25 years of commission meetings, to finally have the opportunity for new substantial tax revenue generated within our own neighborhood, stay within our own neighborhood for rehabilitation, street and park improvements, historic preservation, and desperately needed affordable housing. To have this item heard during middle of a global pandemic — when many of those who have worked so hard to expand the Omni CRA cannot participate in a virtual Commission meeting at this time because they are busy saving lives, at a time when we are facing the worst economic calamity in the history of the United States — when we know that even more displacement is on the horizon, is absolutely unscrupulous, unjust and immoral. This item must be tabled until we resume normal working conditions and the community that fought so hard for to expand the Omni CRA into the Coconut Grove Village West can fully participle. Dear Friends; Thank you for the opportunity to comment. Please consider that perhaps it is the time 620 5-Omni CRA to let the OMNI CRA sunset and not expand so that North Redevelopment the millions of dollars in tax increment that comes Cherokee Plan and from the County and City General Funds are no longer Avenue Interlocal diverted to the wealthiest district in Miami, and can be Deland, Agreement allocated by the County Commission and the City FL 32724 Commission as stretched County and City budget needs require. Frank Schnidman 5-Omni CRA 409 Redevelopment Please approve the extension of the CRA to West Viscaya Plan and Grove. It is one of the most underserved Avenue Interlocal neighborhoods in Miami. Agreement End of Report