Latest info & photos re The Related Group's proposed 31-story waterfront Beachwalk project in Hallandale Beach; Vote is set for Wednesday night despite the fact that many nearby homeowners are away for the summer and can't participate. It needs to be rejected! Don't give away North Beach!

Above, Hallandale Beach/Broward County civic activist Csaba Kulin on Friday afternoon on the sidewalk near the western foot of the Intracoastal Bridge/SR 858 and the intersection of Hallandale Beach Blvd. and S.E. 26th Avenue, standing near one of the city's Public Notice signs about Wednesday night's City Commission meeting.

Visible in the background are the iconic, multi-colored HB Water Tower and the three towers of The Beach Club, three blocks away on the beach on State RoadA1A/S. Ocean Drive. June 2, 2012 photo by South Beach Hoosier 

Over the past week, as the important upcoming vote on Wednesday night regarding the future of the The Related Group's controversial 31-story waterfront Beachwalk project in Hallandale Beach and the give-away deal for the city's North Beach property and parking garage has approached, my friend and fellow Hallandale Beach/Broward County civic activist Csaba Kulin and I have been busy.
Very busy.


Busy not only reading the minutiae of the proposed deal and taking note of what is and is NOT fully spelled-out on its pages, but busy walking the properties involved and the affected neighborhoods, and busy taking photographs so that I could share them with you here to give you a perspective you won't get elsewhere.


Busy, too, speaking with and listening to concerned and angry Hallandale Beach taxpayers, residents and homeowners, of whom there are many, who wonder how and why it could be that with less than a month until he retires, City Manager Mark A. Antonio and the HB City Commission have chosen NOW as the time to push this crucial vote, given that it's common knowledge in this city that lots of residents leave for the summer, or at least for weeks at a time.
(Just as is true in neighboring Aventura and Hollywood.)


But then this is hardly the first time that these characters have pretended not to know something they actually did, because to do otherwise would be to make what they were attempting to do even more transparent and calculating.

The fact that many people who live here have other homes, whether the original homes they and their families lived in before they moved here permanently, or, like Mayor Cooper and her family, a vacation home -in her case, in Colorado- is just something that everyone takes for granted. 


It's one of the least surprising things about this area and this city, given how brutally hot and humid it gets here in the summer, despite the fact that we're an ocean-side city.
(Plus, to be honest, the constant vigilance about prospective hurricanes really wears you out after awhile each summer.)


Nobody-but-nobody begrudges any other Hallandale Beach resident getting away from here for a while in the Summer, and people like me who don't have a second/vacation home up in the mountains of Carolina or on some lakefront near Tahoe or upper New York State, certainly wish we had one.


Especially on brutally hot summer days when there is no breeze to speak of, and walking even a few blocks between 7 a.m. and 7 p.m. seems to sap all the energy out of your body, no matter how much water you drink.
Trust me when I tell you, NOBODY brags about being here for the entire summer!


(Which is why, at least as of now, my plan is to be in Scandinavia for a few weeks this Summer, mostly in Sweden, and then hit Iceland on the way back to Ft. Lauderdale.)


So, to recap, that people living here flee the city/area during the Summer is a well-known anecdote, rather it's a certified fact.
A fact that is nowhere more true than the neighborhood most directly affected by the prospect of a 31-story building and its attendant traffic appearing in their midst.


(Here's a link to a pro-South Florida development website that has a rendering of what The Beachwalk would look like as a 31-story bldg., looking west from the Intracoastal Bridge/State Road 858. http://exmiami.org/threads/beachwalk-hallandale-beach-305ft-31-fl-proposed.81/  )



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March 2011 image is from Google Maps' Street View.


But because many of these HB residents are not here during the summer, due to the scheduling of this meeting, which could easily be postponed for three months until after Labor Day and the first Commission meeting of September, they are now unable to appear in-person to have their say at the City Commission meeting about how it affects their most valuable investment, their home.
It doesn't just seem unfair to me, it seems downright cravenly opportunistic.

To give you all a better sense of what's really going on and what's being attempted on this issue, I'm posting two emails that Csaba has already written and sent.
The first is to the HB City Commission asking them to do the right thing and delay the vote, and the second is to HB residents offering his perspective on what the deal would do to this community, based on his actually having read all the documents.


Farther down in this blog post, I've posted some of the photos I took last week on two separate visits to the sites under scrutiny to better capture what's what.

Above and below, Csaba Kulin on the scene, on S.E. 26th Avenue next to the property in question, and at the city's North Beach Park. Like me and almost anyone else around here who pays attention, we're dismayed at the junk and debris, large and small, that remains on the city's public beach for months and years at a time: mounds of cigarette butts swallowed by sand but still there, next to state-protected plants that have been missing ropes on their poles for years, alcohol bottles, condom wrappers... That also includes a prime example of what looks to be 1920's-era Soviet agricultural machinery, which the city, apparently, used to use to comb the beach. Now, rusty and likely full of germs you don't want to even think about, it's NOT moved in years and is thus an eternal eyesore. And trust me, when you are that close to it, you can practically taste the decades of rust. June 2, 2012 photos by South Beach Hoosier.

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Email was titled, "Please Postpone the Beachwalk Decision"

June 4, 2012


Honorable Mayor, Vice Mayor and City Commissioners:

During the May 2, 2012 City Commission meeting, City Manager Antonio mentioned that The Related Group's Beachwalk development project would be placed on the May 16, 2012 City Commission agenda. At the evening portion of the meeting, I asked that in the interests of fairness, the Commission postpone any final decision on Beachwalk for a few months until the majority of the homeowners most-affected by it would have the opportunity to make their concerns known to everyone.

It only seems reasonable that people living within a block or two of the site should be able to weigh-in when they are facing the possibility of permanently having what could be a 31-story building located that close to them.

While I received no direct answer, Minutes of the meeting indicated that the Beachwalk proposal will NOT be put on the agenda “until ready.” I've interpreted that to mean be decided sometime in the fall, after Labor Day.

To be fair to all three parties, I believe that the developer, the City and the residents must all have an equal opportunity to state their case the best way they can, in-person, BEFORE a final decision is made that'll permanently transform that neighborhood. Along with many other concerned HB residents, I believe that if the City Commission goes ahead and makes a decision this Wednesday evening, even if it is “only” the First Reading, the majority of the actual homeowners most-affected by it will NOT be heard.

Even the City’s staff has admitted that the Beachwalk's paperwork is NOT yet completed but “will be completed” by whenever the second reading.

Given these facts, what is the reason for the rush now?

If the Commission proceeds as currently planned, rather than wait three months, many of the 1,460 registered voters of Precinct 7 -and the rest of the residents of the neighborhood- will be shocked to learn upon their return from Summer their input vacation that the City Commission has gone ahead and made a critical decision THEY will have to live with forever –without their input.

I do not want to talk about the complete and total surrender to all the demands/requests of the developer at this time, since I hope you will see my point and wait until the residents will be back from summer vacation. Many of the most-effected homeowners were present at January's P&Z meeting and there's no reason to think they wouldn't be as well for a City Commission meeting on this matter after Labor Day, given a chance.

Why would any of you be against city taxpayers and residents having a fair chance to speak about this issue?

The proposed new development on the Intracoastal Waterway, along with the addition of an operating contract of the public North Beach and the operation of the city's public parking garage under The Beach Club, to the same developer for the next 30 years, is beyond comprehension to me.

I believe that your consideration of giving a contract to any party to operate a full-service restaurant, as well as manage the public parking garage, that'd serve not only the Beachwalk's customers and the general public, but residents/visitors of The Apogee, just north of our public beach -also being built by The Related Group- and the eventual residents/visitors of whatever is eventually constructed immediately north of the HB Water Tower/North Beach Building, without any competitive bidding, is too much to ask Hallandale Beach taxpayers and residents to swallow.

To me, even the thought of considering a major 30-year commitment to any party there WITHOUT more input from the residents, experts and other interested parties is completely irresponsible and bad public policy.

Most HB taxpayers and residents I have spoken to, once they know the true facts of what is being considered, while supportive of the idea of a nice and reasonably-priced full-service restaurant in that area, believe that should be completely de-coupled and considered separately from building a 31-story condo/hotel blocks away on the Intracoastal.

While people can certainly understand why The Related Group might think this is a very good idea for themselves from a marketing perspective in selling units, those same residents I've spoken to do NOT see why linking them together would in any way be a good idea for them and their family's ability to enjoy the city's public beach, which they ALL believe needs drastic, rapid improvement now, NOT in five more years.

I strongly urge you to table this development item until the paperwork is not only 100% complete, but until the residents and homeowners most-affected by the proposal can be present at any HB City Commission meeting where a final decision is being made.

Sincerely,

Csaba Kulin

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Dear Friends and Neighbors:

While many of you are away on summer vacation, the Hallandale Beach City Commission is planning to make a decision on the Beachwalk project this month.
I've tried to persuade the Mayor and the City Commission to wait until after Labor Day based on the idea of basic fairness, and have enlisted others to try as well, but realistically, I do not expect that we will be successful in getting them to delay for three months so that the most-affected taxpayers and residents can actually participate in-person about a decision that may well result in a 31-story building being constructed in their neighborhood.

Taking a ride through and walking around that neighborhood late this past Friday afternoon, I noticed very few cars parked in the condo/apts parking lots on Diana Drive at 4 p.m. That is very telling to me, since that proves that many of you have already left for the summer, whether visiting children, grandchildren or other family members.
Even if you are here, there is a remarkable and almost shocking lack of knowledge on the details of the agreement between PRH-2600 Hallandale Beach, LLC (the developer) and the City of Hallandale Beach.

I read the 50-plus pages of documentation line-by-line after printing it out, and as they say for good reason, “the devil is in the details.”

I'm going to spend a few moments now to reduce these documents to a few pages, so that you can better  understand the main points and also be able to talk about it with your friends and neighbors.
If you are interested in reading the entire document, they are in the June 6, 2012 Agenda under Items 9 F and 9 G, and 12 A1 through 12 A4.  Here's the link to the city's website for your convenience:
http://www.hallandalebeachfl.gov/files/2012-06-06/Agenda%20Outline%20for%202012-06-06%2013-00.htm

I strongly support anyone willing to develop a piece of property according to the current zoning assigned to that property. When a developer wants and insists on exceptions or variances, though, just like you, I want to look at the overall benefits to the City and to its current residents.
I read the material carefully and have asked myself if it seems to be good or bad for the residents of that area.
If the neighborhood's property value or Quality of Life is clearly going to be adversely affected, as this one seems to be, I have to ask a lot of tough questions.
In this case, though, not only are the residents closest to the proposal adversely affected, but the entire City is as well.
The reason for that is that this proposed condo/hotel tower off the Intracoastal is directly-tied into the future of our small North Beach Park.

This project has two major flaws.
The first flaw is that the project is simply far too large and out-of-scale for the less than two-acre site.
The density of 50 units per acre is not allowed and is not good public policy.

The second flaw is that the proposed parking solution is unacceptable, being roughly 167 parking spaces deficient, and each parking space is too small. Tandem spaces are not allowed and it may limit the future use of the garage. The only way to remedy the situation is to reduce the intensity of the proposed project.

ITEM # 12.A.3 Applying the Planned Development Overlay District (PDD).
The current zoning of the property does not allow any residential units to be included.
In order to include condominiums, the City first has to designate (rezone) the site to “Planned Development Overlay District (PDD)”.
This provides an optional zoning procedure to permit site design flexibility and greater land use intensity and density. The Planning and Zoning Board recommended denial of the assignment of PDD. This assignment of PDD is extremely important and valuable to the developer. Once the PDD is granted, it cannot be taken back even if the developer decides NOT to go forward with the project.
By approving the PDD designation, the City has significantly and irrevocably increased the value of the Beachwalk property.
That is the reason why any promises made by the developer MUST be tied to this approval, not to something that may or may not happen five (5) years from now. The City has been burned by other developers in the past, where zoning changes and other concessions were given and kept by the developer, but the promised “improvements and contributions” by the developer never happened or were negotiated away later. Therefore, approval of the PDD designation MUST be contingent upon the City receiving “iron-clad” assurances, possibly thru a performance bond, that the North Beach Park Improvements money of $2,500,000, promised by the developer to the City, will be available whether the project is completed or not.

ITEM # 9.F. Assigning 84 Residential Flex Units.
Once the Planned Development Overlay District (PDD) is approved, the next step is to assign residential “flexibility” its to the project. The number of units given depends on the availability of flex units and the site’s maximum population density.
The City's code allows a density of 35 dwelling units per acre on a site less than 2 acres. The Beachwalk site is 1.68 acres, therefore only 58 residential units should legally be allowed, not the requested 84 units. The developer is actually counting on the 0.39 acres the City is willing to vacate on Old S.E. 26th Avenue for the maximum dwelling unit calculation.
By providing 58 flex units, the City conserves flex units and reduces the shortages of parking spaces needed.

There are a total of 11 modifications the developer is asking for. Some are minor and no problems, but some are definitely deal-breakers and MUST not be allowed.

In the Development Agreement, Exhibit “E” deals with the North Beach Park Operation and Management Agreement.
It is totally unacceptable to me to tie the Beachwalk project to the future North Beach Park operation for the next 30 years, including the 91 public parking spaces of the adjacent property, The Beach Club.
I do not think there was sufficient public discussion of the future use of North Beach.
Do the residents want a full-service reasonably-priced restaurant on the beach?
(Perhaps, but first, HB residents want to actually have the benefits of the clean and inviting public beach area they've already been paying taxes for for years but not been receiving from the city.)

If a majority of the city's residents clearly want a restaurant, we need to properly advertise nationally via a competitive bid, and not simply make it a part of the deal for the condo/hotel property that few of us will ever have any relationship to.
And honestly, for the city to even consider 30 years as the “initial term,” making us their guinea pigs -and it's already our public beach?
No.
There is no logical reason for any HB citizen to want to get rid of something that is already ours, merely to help the bottom line of a large developer.

I hope you all agree that we are in no way even close to making a long-term commitment, given the complete lack of public discourse on such an invaluable and irreplaceable property to this city.

I hope this will better help you understand what's involved in this project, and urge you to attend the City Commission meeting Wednesday evening at 7:00 p.m., or, at the very least, contact our City Commissioners with your comments and watch it or listen to it online at
http://www.hallandalebeach.org/index.aspx?NID=717


Sincerely,

Csaba Kulin

·         Mayor Joy F. Cooper                  954-632-5700 joycooper@aol.com

·         Vice Mayor Anthony Sanders     954-540-5100 onevision4life@aol.com

• Commissioner Dorothy Ross      954-457-1317 dross@hallandalebeachfl.gov
• Commissioner Keith London       954-457-1320 KLondon@hallandalebeachfl.gov 
• Commissioner Alexander Lewy   954-457-1350 alex@hallandalebeachfl.gov

City Manager Mark Antonio         954-457-1300 mantonio@hallandalebeachfl.gov

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To increase size of photos, move your mouse over the photo and click the size you want. One of the reasons these photos are not quite what I hoped for is because at this point in the afternoon, it was becoming more overcast by the minute -and it was already hazy to begin with. Don't even think about "borrowing" or otherwise using these photos of mine without asking for my permission.

Looking west on Diana Drive & S.E. 26th Avenue, with The Beach Club towers in the distance, three blocks away on the beach. Almost all the condos on this side of the bridge near the site -upper left of photo is SW corner of proposed project- are low-slung and four-story or less. June 2, 2012.

Looking north from Diana Drive and S.E. 26th Avenue towards State Road 858/Hallandale Beach Blvd., which is a mandatory Left Turn corner, which means you'd have to go east and cross the bridge and go over to the beach. Across the street on the north side of East HBB is the area's very popular Walmart and three small shops. This area pictured, the site of the former Manero's Restaurant, would be the western perimeter of the project. June 2, 2012

Looking northwest from Diana Drive & S.E. 26th Avenue. June 2, 2012

 Looking northwest from Diana Drive, with Westin Diplomat Resort & Spa, and Trump Hollywood in distance over on the beach in Hollywood. June 2, 2012.

Looking west. June 2, 2012.

Looking west from the public sidewalk on the north side of the property, which parallels the Intracoastal Bridge and then goes under it to access the north side, adjacent to the Walmart parking lot. Tip of the HB Water Tower and The Beach Club towers in the distance. 

June 2, 2012.

Where that public sidewalk meets the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway, beside the bridge. June 2, 2012.

Looking south on the Intracoastal from the edge of the public sidewalk. June 2, 2012.

The path less traveled... under the Intracoastal Bridge. June 2, 2012.

Looking west from E. Hallandale Beach Blvd. & S.E. 26th Avenue. I actually waited until most of the traffic had passed before snapping this, since traffic in this area is so terrible. June 2, 2012. 

Csaba Kulin standing on the sidewalk at North Beach Park, next to the city's public parking garage that City Hall wants to practically give away as a sweetener to The Related Group as part of the terrible Beachwalk deal. 

He's standing at an area that, logically, should be where a direct route is available for handicapped access to the beach. But this being Hallandale Beach, the underground garage -under The Beach Club's northern-most tower- doesn't have an elevator, so when you emerge at the top of the garage ramp and are now outside, the corner of the sidewalk closest to you, which used to be ADA-compliant, isn't any more. Why?

So now you have to push yourself or be pushed over towards The Beachside Cafe to get on the sidewalk. But from there you have to deal with the sand, since there are no trails to make it easier for you. June 2, 2012.

Public beach as public ashtray: Sometimes it's hard to ignore the low-hanging fruit when it's there all the time and DPW just keeps ignoring it. This is just a small patch compared to the hundreds of others I've seen over the past eight years. June 2, 2012.

So this is where our tax dollars go to die? Csaba Kulin, perhaps wondering when we're FINALLY going to get the clean and inviting public beach that Hallandale Beach residents believe we're entitled to but have never received under Mayor Cooper and her Rubber Stamp Crew. Instead, we get rusty pipes in the middle of the beach and garbage cans on the beach -without lids- at the windiest place in the entire city. 

And a public building across the street from the beach that the public can't use for free but which city employees can -for their holiday parties. June 2, 2012.

Reminder: The city's election is 22 weeks from Tuesday. 

re The Related Group's 31-story Beachwalk proposal on Intracoastal in Hallandale Beach: Why is City of Hallandale Beach rushing this vote now and having First Reading on Wednesday night, instead of after Labor Day, when all homeowners/residents in the affected area can actually participate?

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North Beach, Hallandale Beach, Florida, via Google Maps Street View



On Monday morning I'll be posting a lengthy fact and photo-filled look at The Related Group's proposed 31-story hotel/condo Beachwalk project on the west side of the Intracoastal Waterway/State Road 858 Bridge & Hallandale Beach Blvd., the former Manero's Restaurant site, which was unanimously rejected in January by the city's Planning & Zoning Advisory Board. Officially, it's 2600 E. Hallandale Beach Blvd.


As of today, the proposal is still scheduled to be heard during a First Reading on Wednesday night in the Commission Chambers at HB City Hall, 400 S. Federal Highway.


I must tell you, among well-informed HB residents and civic activists I've spoken to the past week, there is a heightened sense of concern and even shock in some quarters, about why this particular proposal is being rushed right now, even while everyone in town, including at City Hall, knows perfectly well that many Hallandale Beach taxpayers, homeowners and residents who will be most-affected by this proposal have already left for the summer to escape the brutal heat and humidity we've been experiencing the past month.
And the developer's own paperwork on this project is STILL not even finished.


So why the rush NOW?


To me, perhaps the most discouraging thing, apart from the very bad idea of scheduling such a key vote now, is that what is being largely overlooked by some parties outside of Hallandale Beach, including the South Florida news media, is that the city seems perfectly willing to hand-over the future and development of the northern portion of this city's very small PUBLIC beach, North Beach, to The Related Group as part of the Beachwalk proposal.


They clearly want to be able to tell potential condo buyers.and hotel customers that they will have access to the beach, even though it's actually three blocks away.


Meanwhile, the North Beach area has been VERY POORLY maintained by the city for YEARS, as City Manager Good and Antonio and their highly-paid assistants -and the city's own DPW- already know quite well.
The public beach is not just poorly maintained, but actually filthy in places, with litter and maintenance problems left to linger for years at a time, as I've mentioned here many times previously with photos to prove it's a fact, not just my opinion.


Yes, it's all rather quite the ironic and bitter pill for HB taxpayers that the environmental legacy of Mayor Joy Cooper's self-serving ten years in office -where she has, despite the crappy facts here on the ground that we've all been forced to live with for years- that she has wormed her way into being the Chair of the U.S. Conference of Mayors' (USCM) Environment Committee, despite having just about the worst beach in all of South Florida -and not at all by coincidence.
Really.   


Try not to let the rusty, filthy bacteria-covered pipes that have been left for years in the middle of the public beach ruin your good mood next time you take your family to the beach. 
Just ignore the condom wrappers and the liquor bottles and the mounds of cigarette butts next to the plants that have been there for weeks or months on end... since that's what the city's DPW Director does.


FYI: That's The Related Group's Apogee condo project -in Hollywood- being built at the top of this first photo, all of which I shot in February of 2012, except as noted..

Not that you asked, but as I've been saying for years, in order to get things turned around on the public beach as quickly as possible, and finally bring some degree of public accountability to the area, I've been in favor of hiring a contractor whose only job is to keep the beach areas clean, inviting and properly maintained, since the city's own DPW has consistently shown over the years that they not only lack the will or desire to do so, but consistently seem to try to do as little as possible.
And it shows, too!!!

Tomorrow, you will see further proof of that, but for now, linger on this March 21, 2008 shot, one of dozens I could post, of the city's tenant, The Beachside Cafe, abusing the public beach and our good will, something they have done for YEARS.


This also includes illegally using the public's right-of-way on the sidewalk they aren't entitled to use, on the south side, and placing their chairs and tables there, or, as many people know from experience, actually having the gall to move the public beach picnic tables from the beach over to the sidewalk near their property, and serving food and alcohol.


In this particular 2008 shot above, though, they're using the public beach as a place to dry out their trays on state-protected plants, to break-down their cardboard boxes on the beach and leave them there for hours.
This exact location is also where the restaurant daily dumps dirty water mixed with cleaning chemicals into the ground from their mop bucket, which they often leave on the sidewalk.
They have been doing this and much more for years, with no fear of punishment from the powers-that-be at City Hall, even after you complain as I have.
Why do you suppose that is?


Just this past week, I saw them dumping dirty water and cleaning chemicals from their mop bucket onto the beach for myself yet again.
You may even see a photo of that tomorrow.


Also, if you didn't already know, former Hallandale Beach Development Services director Richard Cannone is working on this project for his new employer, Calvin Giordano & Associates, which means that he is also considered a registered lobbyist for the city's purposes.
http://www.hallandalebeachfl.gov/files/Lobbyist%20Registration%20List_CURRENT_3_16_12.pdf
   
Again, I will have lots of photos and facts for you to consider and mull-over tomorrow, and if everything goes as planned, I'll have that up on the blog before Noon.
Right now, though, I need you to make plans to be present at City Hall Wednesday night -and to bring your kids and neighbors, since we all have a stake in this issue.


It's vitally important that you let the elected City Commission know that you are not only NOT in favor of this important issue being decided right now while so many stakeholders are away, but to also let them know that you are opposed to any part of our small public beach being a throwaway sweetener in a 30-year deal for a real estate developer, one who bought the old Manero's property at deep discount -only $2.92 Million.
http://www.bizjournals.com/southflorida/news/2011/05/05/related-group-buys-waterfront-site.html


Until then, here's the current information on the city's website: 
http://www.hallandalebeachfl.gov/index.aspx?NID=805

PRH-2600 Hallandale Beach, LLC

Beachwalk

2600 E. Hallandale Beach Blvd

#47-11-DB (Major Development) #48-11-CU (Conditional Use) #49-11-Z (Rezoning) #51-11-RV (Road Vacation)

31-story mixed-use building with 84 residential units, 432 hotel rooms and 1,225 sq.ft restaurant

Scheduled for City Commission Hearing on June 6, 2012

DRC Planning and Zoning Board (Recommended Denial by 4-0 vote) City Commission Estimated Site Plan Approval: May 2012

Plans Application Traffic Study

Stone-cold fact: Bill Julian, serial scofflaw, for years has parked in handicapped/access parking spaces so he can hang out at a beach bar for hours

Above, the "Disabled Persons Parking ID Permit" that my father has to use in order to use the designated reserved space.
Unlike Hallandale Beach Vice Mayor Bill Julian, my father obeys the law.


How many times have we seen it?
The able-bodied person who thinks that their time and comfort is much more important than everyone else's, much less, polite society's tenuous moral claims on them, even when it comes to one of the most egregious social taboos of all -parking illegally in a handicapped reserved space.

In contemporary America there are few things that a person can do in public that engenders more universal contempt, instant condemnation and outright anger, than seeing an able-bodied person intentionally parking their car in a handicapped reserved/access parking spot.

Yes, even in most though not all of South Florida, where thwarting or tweaking society's norms
is a common everyday thing for some to either do or witness, for most South Florida residents, THAT is one step beyond which they will not go, and risk instant social outcast status among polite society.

Nobody wants to hear the alibis or the excuses, you just don't do it -period!

Oh, yes, polite society, I remember you.

We got along famously when I was at school at IU in Bloomington, and then then Evanston, near the beautiful Northwestern University campus, then next-door Wilmette and Chicago in succession years later.

Even on brutally cold days after work, when you were tired and exhausted of being tired and exhausted, you simply NEVER EVER sit down in the "El" train seats reserved for the disabled, handicapped or senior citizens, rather than standing.

Polite society was much more fragmented in Washington, D.C. when I lived and worked there for 15 years 'til 2003, outside of certain neighborhood on Capitol Hill, Tenleytown and in Arlington County, but still, regardless of age, race, class, ethnicity, party affiliation or sexual persuasion, that same aversion to becoming an instant social pariah existed when riding around on the Washington Metro system, which I did everyday on my way to and from work, year-after-year.

Some things are just NOT done, and if you want to see a sedate crowd of multiple ethnicities, classes and educational accomplishment crowded together by happenstance in the D.C. area come together in a flash, you just watch what happens when some lazy teenagers try to sit in reserved train seats while senior citizens are standing nearby on the train.
People vocally crack the whip!

I've personally witnessed it dozens and dozens of times and been part of the voice of reason and derision, and seen the sheepish look on the teenagers when they saw that they were henceforth considered persona non grata -UNCOOL!

So with all that said, and knowing that few South Florida pols, even in relatively puny Hallandale Beach, would actively seek to earn society's scorn and enmity for something so completely un-necessary and avoidable, little prepared me for my discovery one day at the public North Beach area of HB off of State Road A1A and Hallandale Beach Blvd. that HB Vice Mayor Bill Julian had a bit of a problem.

Actually, it was a big problem.
Or, would a better term simply be an addiction to a sense of entitlement?

Well, whatever you want to call he's nothing if not consistent, our Vice Mayor, Bill Julian.

When he finds something that he likes, he will keep doing it over-and-over, regardless of time or season or fashion.
Or legality.

Simply put, what I had stumbled upon that afternoon, was that defying all common sense and logic -not a first for Julian by any means- Comm. Julian intentionally broke the law with both impunity and a certain reserved nonchalance, the kind that comes from doing something for so long and nobody saying anything about what he was doing, least of all, the Hallandale Beach Police Dept.
After all, they hardly ever come by the beach, unlike other cities with a beach.

"Yes, but doesn't he works with charities or something? I think I read that somewhere."
Hmm-m-m... so that makes it okay, then?

And so it is with his particularly creepy and egregious pattern for years of abusing his office by habitually illegally parking in disabled/handicapped/access parking spaces.

As if his government ID badge left prominintly on the dashboard, was some sort of powerful 'force field' that rendered nearby people blind to what was happening right in front of them.

Did I mention that part that he's been doing this for YEARS, yet?
Oh, okay, just wanted to make that clear.

I have literally dozens of photos of Bill Julian and his car illegally parked in reserved handicapped/access spaces all over Hallandale Beach, as well as No-Parking zones, but the most damning are those at the public beach, near The Beachside Cafe, where he is the resident... well, something.

I'm not really sure of the word, even after all these years of seeing it.
For lack of a better phrase, I'll say presiding judge.
Yes, that's it, because that's where he holds court while his car breaks the law.

For many years he has parked his car in what until very recently was the one-and-only public parking space there reserved for folks who are handicapped, whether residents or visitors.
(Why did it take so many years for the city to finally have three?)

But Julian and his friends, who were, themselves, not above taking advantage of this "Friends Plan," would not get upset if someone with a legitimate disabled/handicapped parking space license plate or permit was parked there before they got there.

No, they always had a backup plan.

They would simply park in the handicapped access spot next to it for hours instead.
The space that has a fine that is the exact same as for illegally parking in a handicapped spot -$250.

Anything, so long as Julian was close to the bar & restaurant he so dearly loves to hold court at.

The same establishment with a lease with the city that expires soon and which should be put out to bid so that others can improve the area's reputation.

The same establishment that for years, despite city policy, has recklessly and wantonly thrown their recyclables into the nearby garbage dumpster, which anyone who goes to that beach has often heard as the glass and/or aluminum cans landed with a glass-breaking thud.

Yes, the very dumpster that has not had a wooden fence or partition around it, like is required for every other dumpster in the city, but which the city's Code Compliance keeps NOT seeing.
despite how obvious it has been for years.

Rules about recyclables? What rules?

When you are talking about Bill Julian's personal convenience, while the public parking lot -lots and lots of rocks and gravel- or the city's cheap public parking garage under The Beach Club might be good enough for you and me, they were simply too far for Julian.

Julian's car needed to be where it could be as close to the beach and the bar as possible.
By any means necessary.

I guess it's true what the Outhouse Gang says: It's Julian's world, we just live in it.

As if beach regulars and life guards didn't know exactly whose car it's been parking there illegally for years, depriving someone with a legitimate and legal right to park there from actually enjoying the public beach.

And did I mention that the city's public garage doesn't have an elevator?
Well, now I have!

Week-after-week, month-after-month, year-after-year, Bill Julian has used his official status as an elected official to trump common sense, polite society's rules of conduct and state law. You remember state law, don't you?

It's the thing that Julian and his cohorts on the City Commission took an oath to uphold and respect, though we know that that is a lie from all the accumulated evidence that's passed before us in this city over the past seven years.

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Mea Culpa at Midnight

I'd originally planned on posting a lot more here, including numerous photos from my archives of Julian and his trusty familiar car -and his law-breaking pals- illegally parking in disabled/handicapped/access spots, esp. over at the beach, but owing to some time constraints -overdue need for sleep- and some unexpected things that came up Sunday night that required my immediate attention and concentration, I'm not going to be able to finish in time before going to sleep.

Instead, I'm going to show some good judgment here and post what I have now, and simply add the rest to it over the next few days to give it further definition and contrast, until it looks like what I've always envisioned in my head.
Trust me, you won't lack for details.

Photos of, well, let's see...
There's his car, of course; the actual spaces he parked in illegally; the posted warning signs he ignored with impunity advising what the fine was; the HB govt. ID badge he left in plain view on the car dashboard for everyone to see, and yes, even photos of the Hallandale Beach Police Dept.controlled surveillance cameras that somehow never seemed to quite see Julian's car
parked illegally for years, despite it being directly in view and instantly recognizable by most people who are paying attention to things in this city.

Yes, the city surveillance camera that lacks a required posted warning/notice sign so that visitors know they are being watched.
Just like all the missing legally required Warning/Notice signs all over the City Hall complex, years after they were installed.

See ya back here soon!

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Florida Statutes

316.1959 Handicapped parking enforcement.--The provisions of handicapped parking shall be enforced by state, county, and municipal authorities in their respective jurisdictions whether on public or private property in the same manner as is used to enforce other parking laws and ordinances by said agencies.

History.--s. 6, ch. 85-227.

WHAT ARE THE RULES FOR HANDICAPPED PARKING?

http://www.floridasectionite.org/TIPS/TIPS%2022%20Rev%202003.pdf

Come for the HB Pay Raise Grab, but Stay for the Fireworks!

Dave, your faithful correspondent, is somewhat embarrassed to admit that he has failed to come through for you readers on something of some importance.

Despite his carefully thought out and choreographed plans to have about 2-3 dozen photos here before tomorrow's city commission meeting, all neatly organized by topic in order to buttress and illuminate points of contention I've been hammering home here for a few months about the City of Hallandale Beach's pathetic and ineffective management style, as well as the laissez-faire work ethic among its bureaucracy, I've come up short due to some unexpected computer and photo problems. C'est la vie!

However, I can promise you with 100% certainty that they will be up for your perusal long before the September city commission meeting, which, if anything, I can promise will be even more eventful than the one scheduled for Wednesday, for reaons that I'll detail as that meeting approaches.
Until then, here's a hint of what's to come, though the specifics are quite well-known to me and many other people in the community, including other elected officials and media members, both print and TV:

At that meeting, Hallandale Beach's city clerk, E. Dent McGough, police chief Thomas Magill, and city attorney David Jove, will all see what happens when they violate both the spirit and letter of Florida's invaluable Sunshine laws.

The city attorney's office in particular has a lot to be worried about over the next few weeks, as Mr. Jove and his staff will see what happens when they ignore aspects of signed contracts for years, which have the very self-evident ripple effect of directly threatening the public safety and welfare of Hallandale Beach's residents and visitors.

Frankly, they seem to have taken it for granted that they could continue their chronic pattern of neglect indefinitely with respect to this particular matter, but they will have strongly underestimated someone with lots of knowledge and resolve: HallandaleBeachBlog.

The power of one person with a blog and plenty of readers who also know well the difference between right and wrong, and who know when something isn't, to use a cliche, kosher.
(What's particularly galling about this to HBB is that the evidence in this particular case is both overwhelming and all around you as you make your way around the City of Hallandale Beach, if you just know where to look -it's the classic tree-for-the-forest syndrome!

Yes, it's a classic case of HB bureaucratic myopia, wherein city employees don't see things that would call into question their fitness for their job, so they pretend not to see what's right in front of their face. Fortunately, HBB still retains his 20/15 vision.)

Yes, you can definitely count on being able to read here my very public indictment of their inexcusable behavior and shameful actions, with pointed and incident-specific copies of my letter to the appropriate state and legal authorities, as well as local and regional news media.
You will for yourself that there REALLY are still towns in the state of Florida that continually fail to live up to their legal and civic responsibilities under the state constitution, seemingly winking at existing laws and daring anyone to call their collective bluff.

Well, HallandaleBeachBlog and parent blog SouthBeachHoosier will be calling their bluff for all to see, and will force them to answer for their crimes of commission -and omission.
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http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/southflorida/sfl-sjulian08may08,0,3993480.story?track=rss
Florida Sun-Sentinel
Hallandale official, rebuffed in bid for $55,000 raise, says he'll ask for smaller one By Thomas Monnay
May 8, 2007

HALLANDALE BEACH · Vice Mayor Bill Julian conceded Monday that the $55,000 pay raise the City Commission passed then quickly rescinded last week was "way too much money" but said he plans to bring up the matter again.

"I'm not going to back down, but [the proposed increase] wouldn't be nearly as much," said Julian, 54, who claims he can't make ends meet on his $20,500 annual salary.

Mayor Joy Cooper, who mobilized grass-roots opposition to the "outrageous" raise that was passed without public notice, was unsympathetic.

"I believe we have a reasonable salary for a part-time job," said Cooper, who is working on a proposal to ensure commissioners' raises are capped and approved only during public hearings.

Julian, a retired horse trainer and Hallandale Beach resident for 51 years, came under a barrage of criticism last week after he and Commissioners Dorothy Ross and Fran Schiller voted to more than triple their salaries to $75,000 a year. They voted while having lunch Wednesday during a planning meeting.

Cooper and Commissioner Keith London rejected the raise, which triggered a furor because it wasn't advertised and the public didn't get an opportunity to comment on it.

Some voiced concern that the vote came as state legislators were considering major property tax reductions, which could cut millions from city budgets.

At Julian's request, commissioners repealed the raise Friday during a special meeting on development issues in Hallandale Beach.

"We've all learned from this experience, and our residents should be assured this would never, ever happen again," said City Manager Mike Good.

Ross said of residents' opposition, "If there is something I've learned from this, it's the wakeup call."

Schiller declined to comment.

Commissioners are responsible for adopting city budgets, setting policies and ordinances and responding to residents' complaints, among other duties. They receive an annual cost-of-living increase, Good said.

In Oakland Park, a comparably sized city, the mayor earns $10,400 a year and commissioners $9,000. In Davie, a larger municipality, council members are paid $7,200 a year.

Julian said the demanding nature of the position makes it difficult to work at another job and therefore commissioners should get more pay.

"I know I cannot continue to live on this salary unless I get another job or some kind of raise. ... In a matter of time, my savings will be depleted," said Julian, who was first elected in 2001.

"The mistake I made was that I asked for way too much money," he added.

Julian said he knew the salary when he ran for office, but commissioners have more work to do because a lot has been happening recently in Hallandale Beach, including casinos at the racetracks and new development.

Julian said he would bring the pay issue back for discussion during a budget workshop in the next few months. He said the city, with about $40 million in reserves, wouldn't be affected by tax cuts as much as other cities. Still, he said, any decision would be made only after public input.

Good said Julian would agree that the large, unannounced raise was "poor judgment."

Thomas Monnay can be reached at tmonnay@sun-sentinel.com or 954-385-7924.
Copyright © 2007, South Florida Sun-Sentinel
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Miami Herald
Commissioners in throes of gambling fever
By FRED GRIMM fgrimm@MiamiHerald.com
May 6, 2007

Experts warned that this could happen.
A quiet seaside town like Hallandale Beach becomes a gambling Mecca, with a casino om the north side of town, another on the south. Suddenly once solid, sober are driven crazy by the scent of easy money. Until even the folks down at City Hall catch the fever.
That's the only plausible explanation for what happened in Hallandale Beach last week. Three city commissioners were obviously consumed by a momentary gambling frenzy. They bet that no one would notice that they had voted themselves the kind of jackpot that would set off bells and sirens at the Mardi Gras's casino.
It is a notorious symptom of gambling fever that the infected no longer grasp the value of a paycheck. Little Vegas Vice Mayor William Julian and Commissioners Dorothy Ross and Francine Schiller voted to up their annual pay from $21,196 to $75,000 as if they were talkin' chump change.

WHEELING OVER LUNCH
They hedged their bets by putting the issue on their luncheon agenda, the only portion of the commission meeting not recorded. As if they hoped no one would notice. As if they assumed what happened in City Hall, stayed in City Hall.
Lunch was a little like an all-you-can-eat casino buffet. Salad, sandwiches, crab cakes, chicken wings, pasta and, for dessert, $53,804 drizzled in chocolate.
Another symptom of gambling fever renders addicts utterly impervious to the warnings of looming catastrophe from relatives, friends, associates. ''I begged them to reconsider,'' Mayor Joy Cooper told me. They dismissed her as Mayor Kill Joy.
Even modest raises have been bad bets in South Florida. Last year, voters in Parkland, where the mayor and commissioners make $2,400 annually, voted down raises. Same thing in Coral Springs. Voters in Miami-Dade County, where the $6,000-a-year county commissioners haven't had a raise since 1957, said no to pay increases.
Commissioners in Cooper City caught so much hell trying after voting to raise their piddling salaries from $6,000 to $15,000, they decided to use most of the extra money on a landscaping project.
The Hallandale Beach caper was even riskier. There was the usual voter reluctance to pad elected officials' salaries. And they voted to raise their salaries even as the state legislature, which will reconvene in June, threatens to whack away at the city's property tax base. ''We could lose 40 percent of our budget,'' Mayor Cooper said.

LIKE HIGH ROLLERS
But there's no reasoning with the fever. Mayor Cooper and Commissioner Keith London warned them, but those three commissioners thought they were on a roll. They were hot. They blew on the dice, tripled their salary and figured to walk out of city hall like a high roller after a good night at Gulfstream Park.
Oh my, what a bad bet. They voted for fat raises on Wednesday. Word got around town on Thursday. By Friday, their folly was splashed across the Miami Herald.
And all hell broke loose. Constituents went berserk. State legislators, after hearing so many complaints from city politicians that budgets were tight, wanted to know how it was that Hallandale Beach was tossing money around like a drunken tourist at the Hard Rock.
The fever subsided. On Friday the repentant gamblers slunk into a commission workshop meeting and voted to rescind their winnings.
They had learned a hard, humbling lesson: If you're going to gamble in Little Vegas, stick to the slots.
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http://www.miamiherald.com/548/story/95761.html
Miami Herald
Hallandale Beach commissioners triple pay
By Aliza Applebaum and Jennifer Lebovich
May 4, 2007

Over a taxpayer-funded lunch of steak and chicken sandwiches on Wednesday, Hallandale Beach commissioners raised their annual pay by nearly $55,000 and catapulted themselves into the salary stratosphere for part-time public servants.
Starting immediately, commissioners will earn $75,000 a year.
In a tight budget year when the Legislature nixed raises for state employees, commissioners in the city of 35,000 voted 3-2 to more than triple their current salary of $21,196.
Discussion of the raise, and the vote, came during the luncheon portion of the city's regular meeting -- the only part that is not recorded. It will be reflected generally in the city's minutes, which had not yet been prepared on Thursday.
''I thought it was outrageous and completely out of line for an elected public official whose work is part time,'' said Mayor Joy Cooper, who asked commissioners to defer voting on the raise until the city's next budget meeting.
The raise means commissioners will make substantially more than the elected leaders in some of Broward's biggest cities.
Commissioners in Pembroke Pines -- a city of nearly 150,000 residents -- make $23,708, and the mayor gets $46,485.
And commissioners in Fort Lauderdale earn $30,000 a year, while the mayor gets $35,000.

COUNTY SALARY
Broward County commissioners bring in $91,996 a year to oversee an airport, a seaport, parks and libraries for a county of about 1.8 million.
''I'd like to get that kind of pay raise,'' said Ben Wilcox, the executive director of Common Cause Florida, a government watchdog group. ``If they feel like they're worth that. I guess the final decision will be up to the voters the next time they come up for reelection, if they feel like that's too big a pay raise.''
Cooper pointed out that the city could face significant revenue cuts in the coming year, depending on what form of property tax relief is passed by the state Legislature, which plans a special session in June.
''This is the absolute worst commission decision ever made in this city's history,'' said Cooper, who said she won't accept the increase.
Vice Mayor William Julian proposed the raise during the lunch planning meeting in a conference room in City Hall. The issue was not on any publicized agenda.
''If I was in their shoes I would bend over backward to make sure there was full notice and an opportunity for public discussion,'' said Wilcox.

"After all, this is the public's money and they should have, I would think, the opportunity to weigh in on whether they feel the commissioners deserve that increase.''
Voting in favor were Julian and commissioners Dorothy Ross and Francine Schiller. Cooper and Commissioner Keith London voted against it.
Julian said he had planned to propose an even higher increase. He likened the city to a corporation, and said the pay should be commensurate. He also praised the commission for lowering the tax rate and maintaining a healthy reserve fund.
''Other people in this position in the corporate world would be making much more money than we are,'' Julian said. "It is a steep jump, but it just shows how little we received before. I don't think it's out of line at all.''
At the meeting, London suggested doing a comparison of salaries of elected officials in other cities before settling on a number.
''I wanted more information and the opportunity to do more research,'' he said in an interview. "We didn't have enough information at that time to make a decision.''

FULL-TIME HOURS
Ross -- who has been on the commission since 1995 -- defended the raise Thursday, saying it's a job that calls for full-time hours. ''I'm experienced, I'm qualified, I'm trained and I'm worth it,'' she said.
Schiller declined to comment.
''I think that's an insane amount of money for a commission in a city our size,'' said Julie Hamlin, a Hallandale Beach resident who lost a bid for a commission seat during the last election.
''It's not responsible at a time when we have a property tax and insurance crisis in the state that is bound to impact our city tax structure,'' she said. ``It's totally crazy.''

'BEYOND BELIEF'
When former Hallandale Beach Mayor Arthur ''Sonny'' Rosenberg got wind of the raise, he thought he had heard wrong.
''It's tough to comment on it because it's beyond belief,'' said Rosenberg, who served on the commission for more than two decades and said he made about $9,000 in 2000.
"I think they made a mockery out of public service, and I think Hallandale Beach is going to be the laughingstock of South Florida.''

Miami Herald staff writer Roberto Santiago contributed to this report.
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Such a proud record of cutting edge legislation!
It's no wonder they (chiefly Bill Julian) think they're corporate executives due a pay raise!
Look below at just some of the things they've done over the past 18 months.

The fact that you can so easily find at least 15-20 shopping carts within a three-block area on Hallandale Beach Blvd. , the main east-west commercial drag, for days on end just hours after this was passed, shows how truly toothless the city government is and how poorly the city
govt. manages their workers, who shirk from responsibility the way a cat shirks from water: visibly!

http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/local/states/florida/counties/broward_county/cities_neighborhoods/hallandale/14173176.htm
Miami Herald
By Diana Moskovitz
March 26, 2006
HALLANDALE BEACH
Shopping cart theft crackdown
City officials have decided they need to crack down on shopping cart thefts

Shopping carts may be handy for more than just shopping, but Hallandale Beach commissioners don't want them littering the city anymore.
Commissioners said they are tired of seeing shopping carts strewn across the city, from the street curb to the interiors of towering condominiums.
The carts are used for everything from carrying groceries home to moving equipment around.
Removing carts from a store's property is illegal, according to state law, although the law is randomly enforced.
Commissioners took the first step toward beefing up their anti-shopping cart theft ordinance last week, approving a new version by a 4-0 vote. Commissioner Francine Schiller was absent.
A second vote, scheduled for April 3, would make the changes final.
The code would replace the laws commissioners adopted about six years ago that required businesses to come up with a ``cart retrieval plan.''
But not every business came up with its own proposal, Mayor Joy Cooper said. And some of the plans weren't working. Shopping carts could still be found across the city.
She called the displaced carts a ``blight on the community.''
''We've enabled everybody to ignore the situation and it's back again,'' Cooper said.
The old ordinance was little more than one page long. The new regulations take up nearly eight pages.
The new rules specify what the businesses' cart retrieval plans should include. They must outline how many employees are assigned to retrieve carts, how many hours a week are spent retrieving carts, and how much training employees receive in cart recovery.
Signs would be required on carts warning that taking a cart outside the business area is illegal.
Safeguards such as chains around business entrances or electronic devices that lock the wheels beyond a certain point in the parking lot also are part of the new rules, listed as acceptable theft preventers.
Representatives from nearby Publix, Winn-Dixie and Wal-Mart stores attended the meeting Tuesday to voice their support.
Shopping cart thieves or business owners who don't submit plans could face stiff penalties.
Businesses would have 60 days after the rules become final to submit their theft prevention plans.
Commissioner Joe Gibbons suggested a cart amnesty week where people who have taken shopping carts could turn them in without penalty before the new rules kick in.
But what about the elderly who use shopping carts to get their groceries home?
City Manager Mike Good said the new regulations are not meant to punish anyone's grandmother. ''I would never put a 70-year-old woman in jail for taking a shopping cart,'' Good said.
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Here are some more snippets of the area...
Miami Herald
CODE ENFORCEMENT OVERHAULED
BY DIANA MOSKOVITZ
March 12, 2006

Instead of a board of seven, one person will now decide code enforcement issues in Hallandale Beach. City officials say the change will speed up the code enforcement process. Critics say the measure could result in other problems being overlooked in the system. Commissioners last week voted to hire a special magistrate to rule on code violation cases. The Code Enforcement Board will now become the Code Enforcement Advisory Committee and perform duties such as community outreach...
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Miami Herald
OFFICIAL AWAITS ETHICS RULING
BY DIANA MOSKOVITZ
March 9, 2006

Hallandale Beach Vice Mayor Bill Julian may not be able to vote on one of the city's largest development project in decades. The Village at Gulfstream Park is a plan for adding condos, stores and offices to 66 acres owned by the racetrack's parent company. Julian has been a backup steward for the racetrack, overseeing horses and races to make sure everything is fair... Julian doesn't have a contract but is paid for his work by the day, he said...
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So why has the city allowed The Beachside Cafe to put garbage on the beach ever since they moved into their new location, not fix the huge dumpsters that don't have lids or fencing around them? Why do they allow The Beachside Cafe to maintain feral cats by providing water and food on the beach for them rather than call Animal Control?

Miami Herald
PLANTINGS AIM TO PROTECT BEACH
By DIANA MOSKOVITZ
February 12, 2006

Hoping to protect the beachfront it has left, the Hallandale Beach wants to replace the vegetation its shoreline lost decades ago to development. City commissioners agreed unanimously Tuesday to pay for a beach revegetation project. The program focuses on planting sea oats and sea grapes to provide an anchor for the sand and keep it from washing away. The project will cost $402,540. The city is paying for it with a combination of city dollars and money from developers...
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Miami Herald
NEEDED; TOWN CRIER FOR THE 21ST CENTURY
BY DIANA MOSKOVITZ
February 8, 2006

Hallandale Beach leaders are looking for ways to provide residents with more notice about developments proposed near their homes. Last month, people near a planned 29-story tower complained they never heard about the project until before the City Commission's final vote. On Tuesday, commissioners voted 5-0 to have City Manager Mike Good look at ways to notify more residents. Good will bring the list back to commissioners in about a month. Suggestions included...