FDOT Public Meeting - May 2007
FDOT Public Meeting: Biscayne Boulevard Reconstruction
Thursday, 5/17, 6:30pm, Legion Park Community Center
6447 N.E. 7th Avenue (one block East of Biscayne Boulevard)
The Florida Department of Transportation will hold a community meeting to discuss the state agency's reconstruction of
Biscayne Boulevard. This meeting is to focus on the section between NE 78th and 87th Streets (Miami City Limits).
Construction is scheduled to commence in June and last through August 2008.
Do you support preservation of Biscayne Boulevard's landscape?
Please do what you can to attend this meeting to show your support for the preservation of our historic boulevard's
landscape. Questions to be asked: Will the landscape return? Will the City Limits (NE 87th Street) be graced with a
welcome gateway as repeatedly requested? If palms are to continue to be removed and relocated, what will be done to
keep them from dying at a rate of two-to-one? What can be done to allow street renovation without removing the palms?
How much money can be saved by not removing existing full-grown royal palms?
Local History Made at 1/31/07 FDOT Meeting - Keep the Momentum!
We have set a precedence: We spoke, FDOT had no choice but listen...finally. Attendance at the 1/31 FDOT public
hearing was impressive: 7 of 9 speakers supported landscape preservation. Also in attendance were City of Miami
Commissioner Sarnoff and State Representative Brise. The results of this meeting will forever be part of Miami history, for
after announcing the fact that, tree-for-tree, FDOT's new landscape plan was more than 80 trees short, Commissioner
Sarnoff helped ensure that 100 royal palms will return (to the section bounded by NE 37th and 64th Streets).
> Miami Herald's coverage: "Tree Lovers Win" (2/17/07) "Trees Added" (2/16/07)
> SavePalms' 1/31 recap click here
> Official 1/31 transcripts click here
Thursday, 5/17, 6:30pm, Legion Park Community Center
6447 N.E. 7th Avenue (one block East of Biscayne Boulevard)
The Florida Department of Transportation will hold a community meeting to discuss the state agency's reconstruction of
Biscayne Boulevard. This meeting is to focus on the section between NE 78th and 87th Streets (Miami City Limits).
Construction is scheduled to commence in June and last through August 2008.
Do you support preservation of Biscayne Boulevard's landscape?
Please do what you can to attend this meeting to show your support for the preservation of our historic boulevard's
landscape. Questions to be asked: Will the landscape return? Will the City Limits (NE 87th Street) be graced with a
welcome gateway as repeatedly requested? If palms are to continue to be removed and relocated, what will be done to
keep them from dying at a rate of two-to-one? What can be done to allow street renovation without removing the palms?
How much money can be saved by not removing existing full-grown royal palms?
Local History Made at 1/31/07 FDOT Meeting - Keep the Momentum!
We have set a precedence: We spoke, FDOT had no choice but listen...finally. Attendance at the 1/31 FDOT public
hearing was impressive: 7 of 9 speakers supported landscape preservation. Also in attendance were City of Miami
Commissioner Sarnoff and State Representative Brise. The results of this meeting will forever be part of Miami history, for
after announcing the fact that, tree-for-tree, FDOT's new landscape plan was more than 80 trees short, Commissioner
Sarnoff helped ensure that 100 royal palms will return (to the section bounded by NE 37th and 64th Streets).
> Miami Herald's coverage: "Tree Lovers Win" (2/17/07) "Trees Added" (2/16/07)
> SavePalms' 1/31 recap click here
> Official 1/31 transcripts click here
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"It's not about palms versus shade, it's about preserving
South Florida's rich history and sub-tropical landscape"
South Florida's rich history and sub-tropical landscape"
SavePalms
working to save the boulevard palms
working to save the boulevard palms