Play ball! On a new field, possibly.<\/p>\n
After years of meetings, coordination and persistence, the City of Miami has agreed to partner with the Village of Key Biscayne on a joint plan to build a shared-use athletic field on Virginia Key, just east of the wastewater plant.<\/p>\n
A resolution introduced by Commissioner Damian Pardo was on Thursday’s agenda for the City of Miami’s Commission meeting, and it passed.<\/p>\n
The first step will be drafting an Interlocal Agreement (ILA) between the Village and the City of Miami to develop a design criteria package (DCP) for the athletic field.<\/p>\n
The Village has allocated $250,000 in its budget, of which $150,000 will be committed to match the City of Miami’s $150,000 contribution for the initial planning phase.<\/p>\n
Once the design package is complete, Village officials we will have a clear understanding of the path forward, along with any restrictions, and a reliable cost estimate before moving forward with any construction.<\/p>\n
Finding more places to host games and practices for various sports has been a hot topic from parents for several years. Key Biscayne already has a shared agreement with MAST Academy for its sports venue.<\/p>\n
Virginia Key would provide the next closest access for local kids.<\/p>\n
This is a developing story<\/p>\n
Play ball? Virginia Key athletic field proposal advances<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Play ball! On a new field, possibly. After years of meetings, coordination and persistence, the City of Miami…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":111088,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[56603,56604,20301,23503,56602,126,11052,56607,123,23871,125,124,56605,33801,56606,4309],"class_list":["post-111087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-athletic-field","tag-athletic-field-for-village-of-key-biscayne","tag-city-of-miami","tag-damian-pardo","tag-interlocal-agreement","tag-key-biscayne","tag-mast-academy","tag-mast-academy-playing-fields","tag-miami","tag-miami-commission","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news","tag-soccer-baseball","tag-virginia-key","tag-wastewater-plant","tag-youth-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111087\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}