Endangered Green Area: Overview

August 18, 2020 Leave a comment

PARKING LOT AND GREEN AREA BUFFER ALONG THE CANAL

This is a satellite view of the Doctors Hospital (Baptist Health) parking lot leased from the City of Coral Gables showing the lot and the green barrier between the lot and the neighborhood streets (Granada, Carillo, Pisano).

AREA OF DOCTORS HOSPITAL (BAPTIST HEALTH) CITY OF CORAL GABLES–PARKING LOT—THE CANAL AND RESIDENTS ON THE RIGHT

The City of Coral Gables plans the sale of the parking lot and the green area to Baptist Health for an estimated $3.0 million.

The green buffer hides views of the Doctors Hospital building, traffic and parked cars from the area residents and supplies numerous environmental benefits.

It is worrying that Doctors Hospital will re-landscape the area with the subsequent loss of the environment and local property values.

The City of Coral Gables should require that no buildings or other construction (walls) be allowed on the property and that the green buffer be fully retained or significantly improved.

If the City of Coral Gables cannot ensure the permanency of the dense green buffer then the land sale may be questioned.

Filed under Community, Coral Gables, Environment, Government, Property Values

RAMPAGING: UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI (Coral Gables) STUDENTS

August 14, 2020 Leave a comment

MANY OBSERVED NOT WEARING MASKS IN CORAL GABLES. ENTERING STORES AND SUPERMARKETS WITHOUT MASKS.

Filed under Coral Gables, COVID-19

HAZARD: UM Students in Coral Gables–No Masks, No Distancing

August 13, 2020 Leave a comment

Recently arriving University of Miami UM students, showing total indifference to the highly complex, detailed and sophisticated COVID-19 mitigation rules established by the UM President, are running around like they are in another state, another planet, another country.

It seems unlikely that the UM will be able to sustain a COVID-19/CLEAN campus for very long. Also, the strict on-campus mitigation rules may impel the students into the Coral Gables community (pharmacies, supermarkets. restaurants, rooms and apartment rentals) where they can infect themselves, senior citizens and other bystanders.

Does UM think it has a stand alone place with a Trump-like wall between itself and the City of Coral Gables.

UM promised remote classes for those who selected them and this has not be materialized for some students who are forced to drop courses, drop out or endanger their health. We are still living in national COVID-19 hot spot.

Filed under Coral Gables, COVID-19, Florida

University of Miami (Coral Gables) Remote Classes A Myth for Some

August 12, 2020 Leave a comment

It has been reported that there are numerous students (hard to say the exact number, which only known to the university) who were formally approved in writing for remote classes and who were subsequently assigned to in-person classes. The remote approval turned out to be totally a fiction for many students.

Some students have found that all of their supposed remote classes are fully in-person. The offer for remote classes was misrepresented in numerous documents and videos by the university administration.

This is for a university that authorized high tuition charges and large student loans.

Filed under Coral Gables

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