Biscayne Park Improvement Association
...For Government Accountability & a Safer More
Livable Village
Mission:
To help our unique community by supporting the following ideals: resident
involvement and rights; consensus building, community policing,
social networking, innovative technology / information delivery, partnerships
political
advocacy, and a healthy environment. The greater goal
will be to encourage citizen and business participation in long-term
planning tied to sound budgeting, while supporting government adherence to
transparency,
efficiency, accountability and integrity; with people working and
communicating directly with municipal officials in an effort to put
residents first -- as THE guiding principle of government.
Fall FOCUS /
One Goal of the BPIA: Support a healthy and enjoyable
environment for children, adults and future generations of
Biscayne Parkers.
This can be accomplished through
sound management of our parks and medians -- by encouraging
our Village Government to support long neglected
best-practices and urban forestry standards (planting more
diverse trees and maintaining the ones we have) to raise the
value of our village and homes during this economic decline.
Also: Could Sudden Oak Death decimate our Village medians?
Did you know almost 1/3 of our trees are one specie (oaks)? And all
could be lost!
Thanks to the
resident (you know who you are!) who suggested the Village
consider these lightweight Euro-Speed Bumps with
nanotechnology. Tests look promising, even if just for a
laugh for those who expressed a need to cut-down on
non-residents speeding through our peaceful village (video
clip below).
...a "watchdog" page with bite-size bullet notices. (You'll
always find a miniature of Ruff in the main Table of
Contents Links Above. Click on his small image to GO to
short political and economic issue summaries. Update:
The
Watchdog also now helps you track gas prices near Biscayne
Park!
VILLAGE MAP (click map for jpeg; click here for
html map from
Google Earth). You can see, along with the parks,
medians and trees (click on thumbnail below), along with the
borders that help make Biscayne Park a great place to live
-- since there is hardly any E-W traffic. Why? BP is nestled
between the Griffing Canal to the west, that drained the
original glades and prairie, and Flagler's FEC railroad
embankment...that brought the tourist and building
boom of the 1920s...to the east. Or, if you are a fan of
trains, click on the FECR Society emblem below. Or
click here &
here to know more about trains running on the FEC track;
and follow the
Southeast Florida Rail Corridor Study about plans to
bring passenger rail service back to the greater Miami area.
Topics: FPL / North Miami
Development
Commissioner Mallette: a lobbyist whose
firm serves North Miami, criticizes Commissioner Bernard for
his strong defense of the Village against questionable
North Miami Water Bill increases, and planned Hyper-
Development (tied to new water plant). She appears to defend
former North Miami Mayor who visited the BP commission in
the Fall of 2007, as he spoke against commission concerns
that increased development on the NM-BP border is a threat to
a
peaceful village (see video clip above). NOTE: New LDR (land
development regulations) recently passed in North Miami show
the threat to our village is real. More later....
Biscayne Park faces important commission
vote on FPL Franchise. Will we be locked into
a bad deal for our extensive network of above
ground power lines for the next 30 years?
And water and irrigation are essential to plant life.
Have you been wondering what will happen to all the money
we've been giving the N. Miami water department since Nov.
2007? See above video 2-3-08
IBIS
EYE: Use cursor/pointer in below window
to move map; includes web-based tracking of
weather systems, including tropical storms and
hurricanes; with Google-earth-like features
FRESH "GOOGLED" HITS /
BISCAYNE PARK AND NEIGHBOR COMMUNITIES
Gas prices added
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