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SUL3MITTED INTO THE
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Commissioners Spence -Jones, Regalado, Sarnoff, Sanchez, and
Gonzalez
The Spring Garden ('ivic Association, even before its historical
designation, is committed to safeguarding its scenic and
environmental character. In the past, we prevented F-DOT
from constructing a metro rail from MIA to the Port of Miami,
which, in passing our embankment on the Miami River, would
have destroyed the neighborhood. Another outcry from our
residents was the proposal to build a hospital for the criminally
insane on NW 11th Street. Fortunately, we succeeded in
relocating it to a commercial, non-residential area on NW 7th
Avenue.
I live on 7th Street Road in a house built in 1911 that my
grandparents purchased in the early 1920s. Despite its
serenity, compared to the noise and debris of the adjacent
high-rise invasion nearby, I find it difficult to drive out of the
neighborhood now. The Humpback Bridge has been closed for
more than a year. My only exit is on NW llt'' Street, which is
now convoluted due to traffic from all directions due to the
reconstruction of the 12th Avenue Bridge. It is a foreshadowing
of the traffic nightmare of what will occur if the building
atrocities proposed at the west end of NW 11 th Street occur.
You can envision what two seven or eight stories buildings
along with a 27 story building will amass with owners' cars
and SUVs spilling over onto our streets and vying for streets to
gain entryway or to exit.
1 empathize with my neighbors who will have concrete walls
bearing down on them, casting their yards with shadows and
the lack of privacy that will ensue. The design is out -of -
character; density has remained the same in all their designs
and the neighborhood is unilaterally opposed to the decimation
of this unique residential neighborhood.
Sincerel
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Ruth W. Greenfield
SUBM[I1 ED i::470 THE
PUBLIC RECORD FCI.
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