Beba Mann is going to have a cow.
After more than two years and a prolonged legal battle between the county and city of Miami, illegal plastic barricades placed suddenly and without a public process to restrict traffic in Silver Bluff were finally removed Wednesday morning.
The streets were closed in a public press event by Miami City Commissioner and circus master Joe Carollo, in a political stunt to appease and create allies before the 2021 election. Almost immediately, the county said nana nina, no can do. Muncipalities can’t just willy nilly close streets without a process. Imagine if every one of the 37 municipal cities and villages did that.
When the county went to remove the barriers themselves, the city sent police to stop them. So they went to court.
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Last month, Miami-Dade Circuit Judge Charles Johnson ruled “the county has exclusive jurisdiction over traffic engineering countywide, including road closings.”
Johnson also forbade the city from interfering with the county’s removal of the barricades “or any other obstructions that modify, obstruct, impede or prevent the free flow of traffic” at the four “obstructed intersections.” Those are the intersections of SW 22nd Street at or near SW 14th Avenue, SW 23rd Street at or near SW 17th Ave, SW 22nd Street at or near SW 16th Avenue, and SW 22nd Street at or
near SW 16th Court.
The judge did say the county has to do something to address the cut through traffic invading Silver Bluff because it is their responsibility after all.
But the fight didn’t just pit the county against the city. It pitted neighbor against neighbor.
Proponents, led by community activist Beba Mann, say barriers were needed to remedy the cut-through traffic that avoids both Coral Way and U.S. 1. And Miami-Dade County has failed the Miami neighborhood and every last one of us by not finding more ways to get cars off the roads.
Critics of the street closures said it took them longer to get home and they had to drive 10 and 12 blocks out of their way to run errands. Some also feared that it would take first responders longer to respond to emergencies inside the closed off area.
But the main protest was that there had been no formal process, no public hearing for community input, no traffic studies, nothing but a Carollo demand, showing once again how much power these Miami commissioners have in their fiefdoms (read: districts).
The war costs taxpayers a pretty penny, too. Miami had to have police guard the intersections so drivers wouldn’t just ram into the barriers. According to a report last year in New Times, the first year of the closure costs $385,000 in police time — at point more than $1,000 a day.
Now the new mission should be how to get that money back to taxpayers.
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” Good to know on few occasions, justice still prevails in the city of miami.”
The entire post was outstanding as sadly so true and agree that justice prevailing here is not the norm as an assembly line of corrupt , up for sale , self serving if not outright lazy politicos .
My parents live further North in the state and no such thing as Shangri-la but Miami is genuinely a Banana Republic .
Add it takes so so long here to get anything done .
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Unfortunately MOST in Miami do not think like this — ” Vote accordingly in November and support actual residents and independent thinkers not more political hacks.”
any chance you could post the case name or number?
The City and the County should send the bill for Police overtime to Beba Mann.
Good to know on few occasions, justice still prevails in the city of miami. This time thanks to the County but Unfortunately most of us don’t have the thousands of dollars it would take to legally take on every single injustice in the City of Miami especially with regards to the building department and Joe Carollo. Vote accordingly in November and support actual residents and independent thinkers not more political hacks.
Beba is NOT our neighborhood president…she’s a lowlife criminal that continues to make claims that she’s president of a made up silver bluff association when she really just created an LLC w the name….and the city is so dumb they’ve never checked how legit it is HENCE all neighborhood things that we as owners should be aware of are all filtered through her.
That community leech needs to be put in her place…this city needs to stop allowing her to hijack neighborhoods.
Being so chummy corrupted politicians like Suarez and Corollo guess has its perks making her thinks she’s in charge.
She’s incredibly desperate for power and attention…enough is enough at trying to destroy our neighborhood for her own personal benefits.
City Life-how wonderful!
When people buy property with public streets, they are giving permission to EVERYONE to drive in front of their property ALL DAY AND ALL NIGHT. If they dont’ like that, they need to buy proeprty within an area like those in Kendall, along the Snapper Creek Canal, for example.
I congratulate Judge Johnson on his ruling. There should be penalties to the Commissioner responsible for this over reach, and he should be responsible for compensating the City and County for the expense.
Politicians That Lost always Blame Some thing Else , But Inability to be ELECTED ! The Street Belongs To ALL THE PEOPLE Not only a FEW ! Want Privacy Pay an IMPACT FEE for IT ! Want Fairness and Transparency , Maybe When Mike Gabela get Elected !
Did you know that stuck up wine lover Beba Mann is anti-renters? She blames people who rent for her traffic troubles. She accuses renters of reducing her property values. She stages traffic videos and fought to close Silver Bluff behind a big wall. Ironic, she’s not actually in Silver Bluff. Not according to the Miami neighborhoods map. What a self entitled phony! Rude, condescending, lies often too. A failed politician. A judgmental see you next tuesday!
She and her other beighbors could have gone through the independent steps to validate their traffic claims. They didn’t want to be bothered. After all,
The studies would have shown traffic during rush hour, just like everywhere else. In a neighborhood with duplexes and a condo, those cars are residents. She thinks they rent and shouldn’t be there to spoil her imaginary kingdom.
Instead of following the rules She offers voites and support to slimy politicians. The irony is people outside her little group of less than 20 “owners” despise her. Why? Because she claims to speak for everyone without including everyone, listening to anyone, or actually have any actual power to represent anyone but her tiny HOA. Does that sound like an activist to you? Not to me.
She lives one off 17th Ave. Francis Suarez who is somehow related, maybe through the catholic church they all attend to confess and wash away their many sins against humanity, gave her a traffic circle at her corner. She continued to cry because the only acceptable solution for Beba is a wall. Francis loves walls. So he gave her stop signs at the traffic circles too. Insanity and more wasted tax dollars to apease this awful woman.
Don’t forget the pole drama on 22nd ave. Also and illegal closure attempt. At least there the county wasn’t stopped by Miami’s private police force, I mean City of Miami puppet force.
These people stole our tax dollars. They need to be made to pay us back.
She has yet to deliver her votes. Ask Renier diaz e la Portilla. He lost her district bigly after her support. Looks like all those disenfranchised renters and owners who do not want to live in a police state voted against him. Could it have been the Beba factor?
Reminder to all who vote, renters and owners alike, if Beba and her mob of angry villagers support a candidate, keep voting against them.
Typical stuff here at the manigua city