Remember the Pets’ Trust? A whopping 64% of us approved this initiative on a non-binding ballot question in 2012. It aimed to direct budget dollars for animal services to a massive spay and neuter program to take care of the stray and abandoned dogs and cats that are overpopulating, particularly in the southwestern part of […]
When Miami-Dade Commissioner Raquel Regalado goes Thursday evening to a town hall meeting hosted by the Kendall Federation of Homeowner Associations, it will be an act of courage. This is where the Calusa people live. Ladra fully expects some of them to come and pressure her to change her mind on the development of 550 […]
Developers are making noise and moving earth at start of nesting season What the hell do they think they are doing at the abandoned Calusa golf course turned natural preserve? Trucks are rumbling through. Heavy earthmoving equipment are parked at the perimeter of the lake. Development should be halted completely. A court ruled, and the […]
Miami-Dade Commissioners will have to re-vote on the zoning and land use changes for the abandoned Calusa golf course if developers still want to build 550 homes on the 168 acres. An appeals court on Wednesday upheld an earlier court’s invalidation of the 2021 approval because the county had not provide the required pubic notice. […]
Developers of 550 homes on the former golf course must make changes Neighbors opposed to the development of 550 homes on the 160 acres that used to be the Calusa Golf Course got a reprieve last week, when a court ruled that the county had not provided proper notice of the zoning hearing. And the […]
Neighbors hope county or state will step in and save the natural preserve There’s indisputable proof now: Photographic evidence of threatened Florida birds nesting at the Calusa rookery in the middle of the abandoned golf course in Kendall that developers want to pave over for 550 homes. Miami-Dade Commissioners in November approved a zoning change […]
Neighbors sue to stop mowing, spraying and cutting of trees In an obvious attempt to skewer the results of mandated environmental studies to verify the existence of threatened and endangered wildlife, the owners and developers of the old, abandoned Calusa Golf Course — which has become a natural preserve in the midst of suburbia — […]
Birds seen scattering and confused by deforesting in second day video Two weeks after the Miami-Dade Commission approved a zoning change from parks and recreation to high density residential — and four days after Mayor Daniella Levine Cava promised protections above and beyond for threatened and endangered species living there — a drone captured video […]
The superhero is not coming. Just before Saturday’s deadline for the mayoral veto on the Calusa zoning change that allows developers to build hundreds of homes on 168 Kendall acres that are now an organic, overgrown slice of Florida wildlife, Miami-Dade Mayor Daniella Levine Cava issued a statement full of excuses as to why she […]
Here’s some ammunition (read: facts) to avoid an override Dear Miami-Dade Mayor Daniella Levine Cava, AKA La Alcaldesa: Add this to the mounds of emails and letters from residents who urge you to veto the commission’s vote last week to change the zoning at the property that used to be the Calusa Golf Course from […]