Additional concessions are on the table — are they enough? Just when you thought the Calusa saga was heading for yet another showdown at County Hall, plot twist: the fight over the former golf course — and its politically famous bird island — is being punted again. But this time, not because Miami-Dade forgot to […]
As everyone knows, Raquel Regalado can count Residents of Calusa — fighting the development of the long-abandoned golf course with an organic, urban rookery into a mega gated complex of 500+ homes — got a mulligan Thursday when county leaders, again, put off a decision for another month. Ladra has been writing about Calusa since […]
UPDATE: This item has been deferred because there was no proper notice. We can’t make this shit up. There is a rare and fragile bird sanctuary in the middle of Kendall. Not a planned one. Not a county-created one. An organic one — a tree island in a lake on the long-shuttered Calusa Country Club […]
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 — […]