It seemed like an easy win for residents against a zoning change for 168 acres of naturally overgrown green space that used to be the Calusa Golf Course by those who would turn it into yet another West Kendall gated community of 550 big, square, identical homes. There was evidence of endangered bonneted bat activity […]
This is the second time in less than a month that Political Cortadito writes about an upcoming zoning request before the Miami-Dade Commission to build 550 homes on the abandoned Calusa Golf Course, which has turned into an organic natural preserve that his home to endangered wildlife. Because the commission deferred the request last month. […]
Miami-Dade Commissioners get blue in the face talking about green space. Blah, blah, blah. Now they have a real opportunity to put our money where their mouth is. A unique and organic 168-acre little piece of nature, smack dab in the middle of Kendall, is home to some of the state’s signature and threatened wading […]
Well, after years and years and suing and pleading and losing in court and Tallahassee and trying again and coaxing and buying properties and people off and threatening homeowners with frivolous lawsuits, developers who want to turn the Calusa Golf Course into 550-plus homes finally got a 75% vote of the homeowners to break a 99-year […]
A group of West Kendall residents in a longtime fight against the redevelopment of the Calusa Golf Course won an important battle last week when the Miami-Dade Commission basically did nothing — and, effectively, killed a proposal to turn the 168 acres into more homes. But Ladra has a feeling that the war is not over and […]