Well.
How interesting is this?
Didn't take Miami too long to figure out just how to link child safety zones with the the city's new residency restrictions of 1750 feet, effectively hamstringing the Florida Department of Corrections from assigning homeless citizens designated as sex offenders the address of Julia Tuttle Causeway, Miami, Florida.
The Miami Herald, Brickell residents will soon get new park (3/14/2010):
Residents along Brickell Avenue will see more green space coming their way by year's end.
Thanks to a collaboration between the Hollo family and Commissioner Marc Sarnoff, there will soon be a new park at 1814 Brickell Ave.
Earlier this year, the city of Miami bought the one-acre parcel for $2.6 million and the Hollos contributed a further $200,000, said David Karsh, a spokesman for Sarnoff.
The green space is coming at a crucial time, as more people make downtown Miami their home. A study by the Miami Downtown Development Authority and Goodkin Consulting/Focus Real Estate Advisors found that nearly three-quarters of the 22,079 condo units built since 2003 are occupied. The area spans the Brickell district south of downtown Miami to the Julia Tuttle Causeway.
Possible features of the park include shaded rest areas, a tot lot, dog park and walkways.
Sarnoff said he got the idea for a park in 2008, when he saw that none of the impact fees Miami had collected were being spent in District 2. Impact fees come from building permits and are meant to offset the costs associated with new projects.
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Sarnoff is exploring creating another park in the north end of his district in the Little River area.
``We are looking at a piece of property there,'' he said.
Hmmm. I wonder what's out Little River way that the city may feel the DOC would consider a potential address?
(...)In January, Miami-Dade commissioners passed a sex offender ordinance that repeals more than 24 different sex offender laws enacted by municipalities within the county's borders. The new law creates one standard that commissioners hope will balance the need to protect children while still giving housing options to sex offenders and predators.
The ordinance also creates a new provision that supporters say is a more workable and realistic solution to protecting children: child-safety zones.
Under the child-safety zones, sex offenders are prohibited from loitering within 300 feet of where children congregate. In other words, it restricts sex offenders from being near children, but doesn't leave them homeless.
--Miami Herald, Julia Tuttle Causeway sex offender enclave being dismantled, (2/26/10)
