FPL
- Unless you were out of the country or in a coma,
you must have been watching the traffic jams that
have occurred due to the high tension lines that
were now being stretched along 7th Ave. it seemed
like a no brainer that these lines originally were
supposed to go through Miami Shores to the east of
us, along the rail road right away. but Miami Shores
said, "NOT IN MY BACKYARD" and the
railroad wanted to extract from FPL too much for the
right away, so that it became a problem for them to
proceed in that direction.
These lines connect the two transformer farms that
are at NE 127th St. and the railroad and 92nd St and
I-95. The most direct route as explained above was
abandoned and they took your FPL dollars north 1
mile then west 2 miles then south down 7th Ave.
adding yet another mile until they equaled their
starting point at 127th St. four miles and a couple
of million more gets us to where we are.
Recently we were in contact with the project manager
and told him that we are in a forest of telephone
and other peripheral concrete utility poles and did
he foresee any of these coming down in the future.
His reply was that all unnecessary poles would be
removed. We can only hope!
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State Road 7/US 441 Collaborative, The
Greater 7th Avenue Improvement Association (G7AIA)
is now a member of The Collaborative. Officially we
joined a few weeks ago after a 2 hour orientation
meeting with its Project Manager, David Dahlstrom.
G7AIA is the only business organization within the
collaborative, who's boundaries extend from Palm
Beach County to Miami Dade County. Most of the
membership is made up of officials from small cities
and towns along 441/State Road 7.
Had we been a member prior to this FPL debacle we
might have received a lot of professional help to
fight off this mess. the main mission of the
Collaborative, is to plan a practical answer to the
growth problem in Broward/Miami-Dade Counties for
the next 20-30 years; rather than move west and
expand through the Everglades.
The plan that the Collaborative is using, has been
devised by the Urban Land Institute: A group of
professional planners, developers and builders who
have had successes throughout the US and abroad.
This plan is timely and detailed. It shows us a way
to absorb the population growth and the commercial
development for over 600,000 people. We do not have
to go west into the Everglades to achieve growth.
This is an effort to have a reformation of the land
we already hold.
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Please send your dues
in, as we have a 30% deficiency at this point. We
would appreciate it!
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Paul Bertell - President
Don Kressly - Coordinator
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