🚘 Miami Beach Is Being Sued
Breaking (and unsurprising) news – the Suits are filing a lawsuit.
The City of Miami Beach is getting sued by the Nakash family to bring cars back to Ocean Drive. Click here to check out this weekend’s coverage by RE: MiamiBeach.
Do you support a Car Free Ocean Drive? Here are the businesses involved in the lawsuit that do not share the vision:
Hotel Edison
Hotel Breakwater
The Villa
Casa Casuarina
Hotel Victor
Hotel Ocean
Plus a number of properties leased to restaurants
We’ve talked about the pedestrianization of Ocean Drive plenty, so rather than spin like a broken record, check out some of our previous coverage while we dig deeper into the current state of affairs:
LOCAL ELECTIONS
Early voting begins today! The easiest way you can help foster change in our city is by voting the right people – with the right vision – into power.
Click here to check out our candidate questionnaire and see what our future leaders have to say on issues such as the pedestrianization of Ocean Drive, the implementation of our city’s bike network, and the configuration of our streets. You can also click here to check out who we are voting for this election cycle.
October 18 → Early voting begins - you can vote at the Miami Beach City Hall or the North Shore Branch Library
October 23 → Deadline to request a Vote-By-Mail Ballot - click here to request one!
October 31 → Early voting ends
November 2 → Election day
WHAT WE ARE READING
There Is No Free Parking [Bloomberg Businessweek]
The Pandemic has reshaped cities’ ideas about the best uses for public space. A longtime parking-reform advocate and a growing number of city halls say it’s about time
Miami Beach has a lot of subsidized and free parking. It turns out that free parking isn’t so free after all… This article sums it up nicely. Give it a read!
America’s 250 million cars have an estimated 2 billion parking spots and spend 95% of their time parked. To make cities more equitable, affordable, and environmentally conscious, Shoup makes the case for three simple reforms:
1. Stop requiring off-street parking for new developments.
2. Price street parking according to market value, based on the desirability of the space, the time of day, and the number of open spots.
3. Spend that revenue on initiatives to better the surrounding neighborhoods.
If people had to pay for street parking, he argues, it would bring in money to pay for local repairs, infrastructure (like that free Wi-Fi he was talking about), and beautification. It would also make public transit more attractive and force many curbside cruisers to head straight for parking garages and other paid spots—a win for neighborhood air quality, global greenhouse gas levels, and those still playing those two-ton games of musical chairs.