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Balzebre, Frank
From: Robert A. Flanders [palmbayb@msn.com]
Sent: Thursday, December 09, 2004 5:21 PM
To: Diaz, Manuel A. (Mayor); Winton, John L. (Commissioner); Gonzalez, Angel (Commissioner);
Sanchez, Joe (Commissioner); Regalado, Tomas (Commissioner); Allen, Jeffery .
Cc: Balzebre, Frank; Walker, Jason; Gelabert-Sanchez, Ana; Gay, Gregory; Arriola, Joe
Subject: 7460 Biscayne Project
Dear Mayor Diaz, Commissioners, City Manager Arriola & Staff members:
For the record I have polled several responsible community leaders in Palm Grove - including the former and the
present presidents of the Palm Grove Neighborhood Assoc. and I wish to add my name as a supporter of the
7460 Biscayne Project as now proposed by Brad Knoefler of Stonestreet Developers.
Mr. Knoefler has met many times with the neighbors and has addressed the majority of their concerns by
amending the original project to accommodate changes that clearly enhance the project's desirability in the Upper
Eastside.
Some of us in the Upper Eastside have been working together with the City and the County for over ten years -
we participated in the August 1996 three day Biscayne Boulevard Charrette that addressed the fiscal and physical
rehabilitation of the Boulevard - then known as the "Street of Broken Dreams".
Our success in reversing the tide of neglect and history of public prostitution, drugs and other crimes that
tarnished the Upper Eastside's reputation for years is well published and finally we have developers who are
willing to step up to the plate, take a risk and invest millions in the area.
Our vision of redeveloping the Upper Eastside, which we created at the original Boulevard Charrette and as
amended by the Zoning Charrettes which addressed the allowable height of new construction on the Boulevard is
becoming a reality.
But the Boulevard may be DOA - dead on arrival if the current situation of unreasonable, illogical and inflexible
challenges to every project in not addressed. Most of the people who are opposing development of any kind
simply do not have a vision for what they would like to see.
We need some leadership from our elected officials in order to create another Charrette for the future look of the
Boulevard. The Boulevard is a substandard street size -wise and so are the commercial lots that border it - when
the Boulevard was conceived in 1925, parking was not anticipated as the gigantic problem that it was become
today. Yet the neighborhoods that border the boulevard are large and we need a strong base of support
businesses lining the Boulevard - not empty lots and decrepit motels
It is time to bring all of the elements of the community together in an open and transparent Master Plan process
that takes advantage of the current wave of interest on the Boulevard before it dissipates into a swamp of
misguided confusion, well meaning misrepresentation and lack of vision.
Best regards,
Bob Flanders
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