Coral Gables Watch

NEIGHBORHOOD BENEFITS OF A DENSE GREEN BARRIER

A dense green buffer (shown here in part on the Coral Gables Canal near the University of Miami, abutting the Doctors Hospital parking leased from the City of Coral Gables) provides significant community, environmental and ambient benefits to residents and homeowners in the City of Coral Gables. 

The many community benefits of the green area:

• Provide wildlife habitat (birds, fish, reptiles, manatees…) diversity
• Traffic calming and noise mitigation
• Impeding views of car traffic, valet parking, buses and ambulances
• Impeding view of Doctors Hospital buildings
• Mitigate Doctors Hospital lighting
• Wind and temperature mitigation in storms and hurricanes
• CO2 capture
• Favor canal users’ recreational boating and fishing
• Bolster local property values

Doctors Hospital Green Barrier

The green barrier is very dense and cuts off the view of Doctors Hospital to the neighbors. It also reduces noise and adds to the local wildlife that are typical in this area.

Since Doctors Hospital has implemented some aggressive pruning of the barrier there has been an important increase in light contamination to the neighbors.