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The story of Jean Willis Park in South Miami has eerie similarities to the story you’d expect to hear about a park loss in Brickell (*cough cough* Southside Park and Allen Morris Brickell Park). Claims from the city about the park not being used or nice so you won’t miss it anyways, significant pushback from residents about green space and canopy loss, big promises about the bigger/better things coming to replace the park by the almighty developers. At yesterday’s South Miami commission meeting, while the item relating to the park was deferred, concerned residents both from South Miami and across broader Miami came to speak in support of preserving Jean Willis Park, including community advocate Elvis Cruz. Mr. Cruz likens the issue to that of the egregious examples we’ve seen in the City of Miami such as with Watson Island and Allen Morris Brickell Park both serving as cautionary tales and invites the South Miami commission to do better by its residents by not repeating the mistakes we’ve seen by the City of Miami. Watch other South Miami residents also speak in support - they are told the park isn’t used and their city has spent much time tracking usage, which begs the question, why doesn’t the city invest that effort to promote the park rather than track usage to support their desired destruction of the park? Residents rightly push back on their city to promote the park and make it accessible, rather than viewing its destruction and sale to a developer as the inevitable solution to solve the issue of a lack of utilization. South Miami residents: This is not about one park - it’s about all of them. Let Brickell be a lesson: once they take one public green space, they will take them all. It sets an extremely dangerous precedent for your community once it’s seen that developers can view parks as private lots to build on. Our public parks are not for sale, not in Brickell nor South Miami nor anywhere. Miami is not for sale and we need to keep shouting that until someone in our government finally decides our voices might matter as much as developers’.
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