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Subj: Item 05-01515: Commission Meeting 2/23/06
Date: 2/21/2006 5:18:47 P.M. Eastern Standard Time
From: BEST SALON
To: mannydiaz@ci.miami.fl.us, jwinton@ci.miami.fl.us, AGonzalez@ci.miami.fl.us, TR@ci,miami.fl.us,
MSpence@ci.miami.fl.us, JSanchez@ci.miami.fl.us, clerks@ci.miami.fl.us
I will not be able to attend the meeting, but I would like to voice my opposition to the Related Group's Oasis
project planned for 79th Street and the Bay.
The president of the Shorecrest Homeowner's Association has gone on record claiming that we are in favor of
this project. Originally, she assured us that this project, "Will never pass the traffic study". Please be aware
that Tess than 5% of the homeowners belong to our association; probably less than that percentage are
informed and there was never a vote taken from the membership on this issue. Anyone who has spoken out
against this project has been Tabled "troublemakers" and we have been told we have no choice as this is a
"done deal and the developer can do whatever he wants".
First and foremost; the neighborhood cannot handle the excess traffic. I don't know who completed a traffic
study; but, this will create a very unsafe situation. You will not be able to enter the project directly from 79th
Street either going Eastbound or Westbound. The only way to enter will be from 81st Street or zigzag from
81st Street to 10th Avenue and down 80th Street. The swing -around traffic lanes coming off the bridge heading
Westbound will make it next to impossible and extremely dangerous for any vehicle trying to cross to the
project. 81st Street is already overburdened by non -local traffic shortcutting to 79th Street via 10th Avenue.
You can barely fit two cars on this street now. There is just no easy configuration once you eliminate Bayshore
Court.
Secondly, it doesn't take a rocket scientist to see that this project is totally out -of -scale. They deleted the
existing condos and single family homes from the renderings as it showed just how out -of -scale the project is.
We are a neighborhood of, for the most part, single -story, single-family homes. The multi -family buildings on
the South side of 79th Street are no higher than eight stories. Oasis is composed of two, large scale, twenty
story buildings. This will set a precedent whereby other developers will expect to build the same height and
density all along the water and up 79th Street.
Please stop this developer from raping and pillaging or community. I urge you to vote NO on the Oasis project.
Respectfully Yours,
Jack Spirk •
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Submitted Into the public
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Priscilla A. Thompson
City Clerk
Tuesday, February 21, 2006 America Online: BEST SALON
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sent to . . y are against development but
support evelopment. 0c we develop our unique
city can make the difference between a well -thought-out plan that
includes how a project fits into the neighborhood, traffic patterns,
flood controls, ecological safeguards, evacuation plans and quality
of life, or, a disaster. We are entering a predicted decade of very ' --
tough storms. Maybe they won't come. But if they do, do we want ra
scenes like we saw in Houston during Katrina? Miles of cars :- 0 c1 0
unable to move, out of gas, people died on that highway out of : _
Houston from heat exhaustion. With the free-for-all construction c °o .a
all along Biscayne Blvd �we are . uilding ourselves right into no �, a
way out. q d' .• ciu.A, 2 v
Wilt) Will IIV@ lit till the10e buildings? The proposed condo project
for our neighborhood, Oasis on the Bay, bills itself as affordable
but the prices, according to the developers, start above $200,000.
Affordable to wh•?,? Prof�ss'onals like teachers and nurses, young
lawyers ' �" ots tci�Tie infrastructure of our city --can't afford
to move to Miami beca - • o iv' • ' . o high and the
salaries so low
Shor est residents have questions we feel need to be add e - d
b - , . re the construction of Oasis on the Bay continues. The \\,,
evelopers assured many things but saying it is one thing and
doing is another. What assurances do we have that the develope
will work with us and the city to lessen the i act of such a larg
roject in our neighborhood . Will the citytatraffic issues n
timely manner? Will the Environmental Inspection Center
r: quire the developers to meet the ecological standards spelle • out
in eir Plan Review? These and too many other questions • main
hangi in the air.
f� _04 we develop affects our image, something we as a city are
ambitious about. Overdevelopment in a city 1 ke this that ca
""/ stretch no further without destruction to the Everglades, our natural