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HomeMy WebLinkAboutSubmittal-Public Comments Submitted Online for the September 13, 2021 City Commission MeetingCommission Report Commission Meeting Public Comment - September 13, 2021 September 13th, 2021, 4:12 pm EST Public Comment motero@miamigov.com First Name Abegail Reverend Pedro Eliz Last Name Ape Martinez Demren Street Address 244 Biscayne Blvd Miami FI 33132 50 Biscayne Blvd. Miami FL 33132 31 SE 5th St Apt 2205, Miami, FL 33131 Agenda Item FR. 3 10602 Amend Code - Chapter 36 - Noise RE. 11 10626 Direct CM - Designated Area FR. 3 10602 Amend Code - Chapter 36 - Noise Public Comment The sidewalk restoration project Downtown Brickell Avenue is allowing for intense construction between 6PM-12AM. Intense construction includes jackhammering! The noise is so loud that is wakes up children from their sleep and in the morning they wake up tired for school. This is NOT accepted by our community. It is not ok to have jackhammering at night. There has to be another way to make this work. Please stop this and make things right by the children and residents of Brickell. I oppose the permission of encampment for the homeless. 1) It is against the current law of Miami Dade County- the no camping ordinance 2) It continues to facilitate homelessness instead of decreasing homelessness. 3) The great majority of homelessness that live in shelters is because they are homelessness by choice -this is their lifestyle. 4) the Homelessness Trust has shelters, permanent housing, bus tickets to relocate them to live with family and friends and substance abuse programs. BUT these homeless tent dwellers refuse again and again all the help offered. They are homelessness by their own will. 5) To allow for homelessness tents is to condone, approve and facilitate a wrongful lifestyle. It is inhumane to allow humans to live this lifestyle. It is also unethical to allow their lifestyle - homelessness by their own choice to impose upon society (residents, businesses and visitors), to continue to affect our quality of life, our investments and our businesses. The solution is: enforce the Miami Dade County no camping ordinance. The City of Miami Beach is the only City enforcing it and they have NO homeless tents in their City. Leaders I plead you follow the law, the evidence and truth. I am a law student who takes classes remotely and works from home. I moved here before Riverside was introduced, because it was the "quieter" part of town. Redbike classes at Riverside: I've called Code Compliance and emailed them on multiple occasions with video -proof of RedBike violating code by using their speaker system on countless occasions even after it was banned. An aggressive woman instructor's voice often woke me up at 7am, as she shouted on the 10730 Submittal -Public Comments Submitted Online for the September 13, 2021 City Commission Meeting Reverend Pedro 50 Biscayne Martinez Blvd. Miami FL 33132 speaker with loud, fast -paced music, and this has also prevented me from studying/having peace in my own home. I believe that the instructors (one woman in particular that has typically been the violator) are very aware of the disturbance they cause, as I had been in constant touch with Tyler from Code Enforcement who, no matter how many times spoke with RedBike, would have to go over and repeat the same thing to them, that they couldn't use the speaker. In one instance, the instructor even lied that she wasn't using it (by the time Tyler got there they had stopped), meanwhile I had very clear, zoomed -in footage of her from my balcony just minutes earlier, shouting on the microphone/speaker system throughout the whole 1-hour or so long class, not to mention the loud house music that was playing along with her at 7am. Riverside: The loud music and especially bass of Riverside at night has always been and still is an issue. Just last night (Wednesday), loud Reggaeton music was playing, along with some other beat from another corner of Riverside, so all I heard as I was trying to sleep was two, colliding loud beats, giving me a headache. Ear plugs don't work, and white noise won't drown out the bass. I shouldn't have to, but I even tried adjusting my sleep schedule, and even then, it's either Riverside late at night or Redbike early in the morning making noise, and it is unpredictable when and who will be loud, and how for *long* they will be loud. I can definitely say that this has caused me stress, anxiety, lost sleep, and more difficulty with my classes and job. I can't imagine what the residents who live on lower floors experience, especially with the large LED display flashing even when Riverside is closed for the entire day. Not to mention the trash that also inevitably enters the River. Miami is noisy enough already, all day, with boats playing loud party music and cars honking below, and parties going on every night for any reason. Miami would be a happier place to live if the City enforced its codes. Dear Comissioner Carollo, concerning RE.11 10626 RESOLUTION A RESOLUTION OF THE MIAMI CITY COMMISSION DIRECTING THE CITY MANAGER TO DESIGNATE AN AREA OR AREAS IN THE CITY OF MIAMI PROVIDING FOR PERMITTED TEMPORARY ENCAMPMENTS OR OTHER SHELTER OPTIONS FOR HOMELESS INDIVIDUALS. RE. 11 10626 I disagree with this resolution because the current Miami Direct CM - Dade County law has a No Camping Ordinance that applies Designated to the whole Miami Dade and this includes the City of Area Miami. By allowing permitted temporary encampments or other shelters for homeless individuals this is contrary to the current law. I have worked with the homeless for the past 20 years and in the last seven years directly with the City of Miami Beach Homeless and Housing. I have worked together with the staff of the City of Miami Beach Homeless Outreach Team (their green shirts), and with the assistance Reverend Pedro 50 Biscayne Martinez Blvd. Miami FL 33132 RE. 10 10624 Direct CM - Clean Up Homless Areas of the police department. The City of Miami Beach is the ONLY City that does not have one single tent because the No Camping Ordinance is enforced by their Police Department. The rest of the Cities of Miami Dade including the City of Miami continues to not enforce it in contradiction to the law and the great results the City of Miami Beach is experiencing. Commissioners allowing "Homeless Tent Dwellers" is not the solution but the problem - but will only increase the problem. These "Homeless Tent Dwellers" have made the choice to live this way - they are homeless by choice. This is their lifestyle since as the staff of the green shirts, the police department and the homeless trust can attest that Tent Dwellers denial to accept the help that is daily offered to them. What kind of help: shelters, permanent housing, bus tickets to be reunited and live with family and friends and substance abuse program. "Tent Dwellers" have made a choice to live their lifestyle by following their own rules, regulations and freedom to use and abuse their substances. They refuse to work, they panhandle, some violate the law by stealing, selling drugs, etc. Why all of us work hard to live and pay taxes - they benefit from all our public services while draining the funds. It is not humane to continue to allow people to live in tents when there help available by the Homeless Trust and paid by taxpayers. To allow this is to facilitate this wrongful lifestyle. Commissioner it is time to enforce the current No Camping Ordinance in Miami Dade County. It is time to bring down all the tents and to offer help again to "Tent Dwellers" BUT if they refuse the law needs to be enforced. We do not need Homeless Encampment Territories and specially in any area of the City of Miami. How would these Homeless Encampments be maintained and have: public bathrooms and showers, garbage pick, water, fumigation against rodents/rats/cockroaches, police presence to maintain order, electricity, etc. Taxpayers will have to pay for all of this?, , We already have the burden of the largest number of homeless people in Miami Dade County. Our residents, our businesses, our visitors, our investors, the quality and future of the City of Miami does not need Tent Cities for Homeless Tent Dwellers. Thank you, Reverend Martinez Commissioner Carollo thank you for the proposed resolution TO FACILITATE THE CLEANING OF CERTAIN LOCATIONS, AT LEAST THREE TIMES A WEEK, AT AREAS CONSIDERED TO BE HOT SPOTS OF RECURRING HOMELESS ENCAMPMENTS FOR PURPOSES OF IMPROVING THE CLEANLINESS OF CITY STREETS AND SIDEWALKS WHILE PREVENTING A GENUINE PUBLIC HEALTH THREAT. As you very well these homeless encampment areas are filled with garbage, urine, feces, rotten food, empty cans of beer, bottles of liqueur, drug paraphernalia and all kind of unsanitary items - all of these attracts rats and rodents. It is Reverend Pedro 50 Biscayne FR. 4 10623 Martinez Blvd. Miami Amend Code - FL 33132 Tents a health issue and a quality of life problem. I fully agreed and thank you. I encourage all commissioners to support this resolution. Our residents, our business community and our visitors will appreciate it. Thank you, Reverend Pedro Martinez Commissioner Carollo I thank you for your boldness and wisdom on proposing the ORDINANCE OF THE MIAMI CITY COMMISSION AMENDING CHAPTER 37 OF THE CODE OF THE CITY OF MIAMI, FLORIDA, AS AMENDED, ENTITLED "OFFENSES -MISCELLANEOUS," MORE PARTICULARLY BY ADDING A NEW SECTION TO PROHIBIT ENCAMPMENTS ON PUBLIC PROPERTY; PROVIDING FOR DEFINITIONS AND PENALTIES; CONTAINING A SEVERABILITY CLAUSE AND PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE. For years all Cities expect for the City of Miami Beach as not enforced the NO Camping Ordinance that is currently the Law in Miami Dade County. The City of Miami Beach is the ONLY one that it does not have a single tent on its City. While the rest of Miami Dade County and specially the City of Miami by continuing to ignore the law has become a site of "Homeless Tent Dwellers". I have been working with the homeless in the City of Miami and specially the City of Miami Beach for 20 years. The past 7 years directly with the staff of the City of Miami Beach Homeless and Housing Department doing street outreach with their green shirts and with the assistance of PD. I assure you that "Tent Dwellers" are hardcore homeless people that are homeless by choice - they are making a decision to live this lifestyle. The green shirts, the police and the Homeless Trust can attest that their good effort to offer them: a shelter, permanent housing, a bus ticket to relocate to live with family and friends or a substance abuse program is always denied. These "Tent Dwellers" prefer to live in tents and live their lives as they prefer - no rules, no regulations and freedom to do as they please. It is not legal in Miami Dade County to live this way and it is unethical to promote this lifestyle by allowing it - humans should not live in tents in the streets of Miami Dade County. By continuing to disobey the law and not enforcing the NO Camping Ordinance we as a society are only promoting a wrong lifestyle. Their lifestyle is detrimental to the "Homeless Tent Dwellers", the residents, the businesses, the visitors, the quality of life, the finances and the future of Miami Dade County and the City of Miami (because this is the largest concentration of Homeless Tent Dwellers). Commissioners I urge to make the right choice and stop facilitation Homeless Tent Dwellers with the hope they will accept the help that is offered daily by the Homeless Trust and the green shirts and the police. Commissioner please support Commissioner Carollo, the residents, the businesses, the City of Miami. Thank you, Reverend Pedro Martinez