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Neighborhood Update

LRA COMMITTEE

REPORTS

Council of Fort Lauderdale City Manager Update. Chris Lagerbloom was with us via
Civic Association phone from Washington and briefed us on the following:
• Bahia Mar and Onestop to be discussed by Commission
Committee Report 3/15/22.

• Water plant Proposal Ranking with no final decision yet.
By Helena Cooper, Chair
• Kushner Properties Development at Broward Blvd. is in
At the February Council meeting there was a push for the predevelopment stage and many questions before approval.
Association Representatives to vote on the tunnel vs. bridge • Budget start.
project over the New River. Most of us felt like we had not • Navy ship USS Fort Lauderdale commissioning to Port
been given enough of a background on this and decided to Everglades this summer
postpone the vote.
Arts. Anna Sorensen- Director of Development at the NSU Art
It came up again at this meeting and still, I did not feel good Museum came on to remind us to visit the museum and that
about voting for The Landings as we have not been able to the museum offers free admission on the last Sunday of every
form an opinion as a board yet. The voting was done. 21 month from noon to 5:00 pm. Each first Thursday of the month
associations voted on the motion for the Council to support the is free admission all day until 7:00 pm. The current Exhibition
tunnel project. Three associations voted No. Seven abstained. is Keith Haring.
11 voted Yes. However, due to by-law wording, this did not Anna mentioned that the Museum now has a Neighborhood of
constitute a majority and the motion did not pass.
the Month program with a special tour and goody bag. The
During our Landings March Board Meeting, we unanimously Landings is Neighborhood of the Month for April and the
voted in favor of the tunnel, so at the April 12th Council Museum meet and greet for our neighborhood will be on April
Meeting, I will vote accordingly. 24th. (See the flyer invitation on pg. 22 of this issue.)
Bridge vs. Tunnel Study Presentation. Phil Schwab, FDOT City of Fort Lauderdale Neighborhood Recognition Program.
Commuter Rail Project Manager, gave a thorough presentation Jeanetta Maxena, Sr. Management Fellow reminded us to send
of the Broward Commuter Rail Project Development and in our Neighborhood Recognition application, which we have
Environmental Study. The Study outlined four options: a low- sent in. With the approved application comes a free parking
level bridge, a medium-level bridge, a high-level fixed bridge, pass for City Hall, 500 NCIP Points, complementary printing
and the tunnel option, for neighborhood events and more. The registration is free and
With the open bridge alternatives, the bridges would be open gains us the best access to neighborhood support.
10 minutes every hour. There will be a large amount of right-
of-ways, aerial easements and underground easements Public Works
needed. Committee Report
The next commuter train connection to be built is between
Aventura and Deerfield Beach adding trains to now total 100 By Tom Brinkley
per day. The detailed presentation can be found on the Bridge Repairs. The last update we obtained from Engineering
Council’s website: cflca.org. Under ‘CFLCA and City Actions’, indicated an estimated start date for “bridge maintenance” items,
select ‘Minutes-General Meeting.’ Then select ‘March 8th GM including foundation repairs to the South Bayview Drive Monument
video’ and watch it on YouTube. (continued pg 8)

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