Miami-Dade ‘Stop Waste Station’ activists ‘petrified’ about property owner’s persistence

MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. – Julio Forte is among the residents who are disquieted astir the imaginable usage of a neighboring spot successful Miami-Dade County’s Three Lakes neighborhood.

Forte, the president of the Venezia Homeowners Association, said the spot is simply a parcel of onshore adjacent to a Florida Power & Light property.

Secure Storage of Miami, Inc., the spot owner, wants to physique a rail-served transportation presumption adjacent the intersection of Southwest 127 Avenue and 136 Street.

“It is simply a concern that takes successful construction, demolition material, and municipal coagulated waste, puts it connected a train, and takes it retired of Dade County,” Forte said.

During a Miami-Dade County zoning gathering successful February, a institution typical described the task arsenic providing “an indispensable service” to woody with coagulated waste.

“We person signs posted everywhere,” Forte said astir the “Stop The Waste Station” campaign. “All of these communities are petrified of this going on.”

Forte said they were relieved to larn the region unanimously turned it down, but the institution isn’t giving up connected the vision.

“They person appealed the determination of the assemblage advisory board,” Forte said adding the fearfulness is “stuff is going to beryllium leaking, particularly erstwhile it rains, volition pollute our groundwater. It is simply a mess!”

Forte said long-time residents successful the country did not expect having to unrecorded adjacent to 1 of those stations.

“It is unspeakable for our community,” Forte said.

Commissioner Roberto Gonzalez, of District 11, said this drastically affects his territory and helium was arrogant of West Kendall residents’ activism.

“Commissioners volition beryllium sitting arsenic judges successful bid to marque this decision,” Gonzalez said. “Because of that, the ineligible squad astatine the region has explained to america we can’t legally opine. If I opine, it volition enactment successful jeopardy maine speaking astatine the gathering and my indispensable ballot for the people.”

In a statement, Miami-Dade Commissioner Kionne McGree, the commission’s vice chairman, said the projected installation does not align with the resident’s imaginativeness of their neighborhoods.

Miami-Dade County has yet to denote erstwhile the adjacent gathering volition be. The spot proprietor did not respond to requests for comment.

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