Potluck and Paint!

February 10, 2019 3PM till dusk

Dear Neighbors,

Please join us in celebrating both another year as neighbors and share our community activism in participating in Xavier Cortada's Under Water Homeowner's Association at our next potluck at All America Park on February 10 beginning at 3PM.

Xavier Cortada will join us as we paint over repurposed campaign signs indicating our property heights above sea level to place in our yards. The signs offer us an opportunity to open discussions with our neighbors about climate change and possible projects we might come together on to mitigate its effects. 

Some of our low-lying neighbors are already seeing problems on their properties. 

Please join the UnderwaterHOA to stay informed about other events. The first meeting was held on Monday night and we have already elected our first chair!

I can collect your old campaign signs to prep for painting on that day (adding a coat of primer that will need to dry). Please PM me if you would like to help in preparation for that day and to pick them up. 

Even if you don't want to participate in this project, please come out to meet your neighbors and bring a dish to share!! 

http://www.fcvedfund.org/Underwaterhoa/…

Come out and share your ideas in this public workshop on the redesign of the Shops at Sunset.

The Public Space Challenge: Imagine SoMi as the best hometown along the M Path!

During the past summer thru September, the Miami Foundation held a Facebook open

competition called "The Open Space Challenge," with hundreds of entries

submitted.  Lee and I attended the kickoff celebration at the Design District,

where many attended and mingled for drinks at the open bar and nibbled on pulled

pork sandwiches and the likes from the nearby food trucks.  During cocktails,

huge plasma screens displayed live Twitter feeds of ideas.  Check out the write

up from The Miami New Times, ttp://blogs.miaminewtimes.com/cultist/2013/08/draft_our_miami_launch.php.

A panel of judges will soon decide which projects will be awarded a share of

the $120,000 for actual project implementation.

Submissions came from folks living in neighborhoods all over Miami wanting to

create a better sense of place for people to gather, and identifying places in

dire need of makeovers. Check out the map dotted with all kinds of suggestions!

http://ideas.ourmiami.org/place/48640.

Our public libraries have been on the news lately.  Here is one idea for making

our downtown library better.  This idea too can be transferred to our own SoMi

public library.http://ideas.ourmiami.org/place/45409

Closer to home in SoMi, we have heard many times before how our parks and trees

make our lives better.  We are again a Tree City, we have committed to planting

trees in our streets, and even have a  commissioner, Bob Welsh, volunteering to

plant trees at our homes.  But what about the public patches of communal spaces

that can stand a makeover?  Here is an idea for Paciencia Park, adjacent to our

South Miami Metrorail Station,  http://ideas.ourmiami.org/place/45387.

--Others have creative ideas for public spaces along the M Path--check out this

idea for student start-up shops at the University of Miami (just minutes north

of us along the M Path),http://ideas.ourmiami.org/place/46220.

--Check out this idea for a park at the Downtown Dadeland area (just minutes

south of us along the M Path),http://ideas.ourmiami.org/place/47187.

--And how about a unifying idea of a linear park along the M Path?  Here's one:

http://ideas.ourmiami.org/place/48640.

The M Path, is our urban bike trail, but on a larger scale functions as an

important element along the East Coast Greenway, spanning from the Florida Keys

to Canada!  Check out,  http://www.greenway.org/about.aspx.