{"id":177587,"date":"2026-03-04T10:10:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T10:10:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/177587\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T10:10:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T10:10:11","slug":"fyi-miami-march-5-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/177587\/","title":{"rendered":"FYI Miami: March 5, 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\tWritten by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.miamitodaynews.com\/author\/admin\/\" title=\"Posts by Miami Today\" rel=\"author nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Miami Today<\/a> on March 4, 2026<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.miamitodaynews.com\/subscribe\/\" title=\"www.miamitodaynews.com\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Subscription_skyscrapper_Green.jpg\" width=\"120\" height=\"600\" border=\"0\" alt=\"www.miamitodaynews.com\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Advertisement\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/FYI_Miami-1.jpg\" alt=\"FYI Miami: March 5, 2026\" class=\"postimage\" width=\"483\" height=\"300\"\/><\/p>\n<p>GARAGE TO OPEN: A five-level, $58 million garage with 644 parking spaces at the Metro Express bus station at Southwest 168th Street has received a county temporary certificate of occupancy and is to be open in March, the Citizens\u2019 Independent Transportation Trust was told last week. \u201cWe are now working through our safety and plans, certification, and the traffic signal inspection for the signal coming in and out of the garage,\u201d Alex Barrios of the county\u2019s transportation department said. \u201cWe have a planned opening date for next month.\u201d The site has a kiss-and-ride area, bicycle storage and electric vehicle charging.<\/p>\n<p>TAX RELIEF LATER: Gov. Ron DeSantis said the effort to offer voters property tax relief will require time beyond the regular session of the legislature. With the regular 60-day session set to end March 13, he said that despite the House approving property tax relief legislation, the Senate agrees with him that the creation of a November ballot item on homestead property taxes will be addressed after that date. \u201cI applaud the House for getting into this fight. I think they\u2019ve got a lot of folks that brought forth a lot of good ideas,\u201d Mr. DeSantis said last week. \u201cBut what I\u2019ve also said, and I said from the beginning, I didn\u2019t see this necessarily happening in this regular session. And I think the Senate agrees with that. We\u2019re going to be coming back. There\u2019s going to be opportunities to be doing it. I think you have to do it right.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>LESS ON OUR PLATES: A proposal to eliminate yellow vehicle registration stickers on vehicle license plates was approved by the House 93-17. The proposal would still require people to renew vehicles\u2019 registration, with the process recorded electronically. Miami Lakes Rep. Tom Fabricio said his proposal, which was recommended by county Tax Collector Dariel Fernandez, will be \u201ccutting yellow tape, an additional burden for motorists.\u201d A House staff analysis doesn\u2019t put an economic impact figure on the bill but notes the Miami-Dade Tax Collectors Office estimated going digital would save the office $2.5 million a year to record registrations and renewals. In voting against the measure, Rep. Yvonne Hinson said the state needs to cover a $2.50 service charge that tax collectors use to offset staffing costs that would be eliminated with the bill.<\/p>\n<p>GAS PRICE RISES SEEN: Average gas prices in Miami rose 1 cent per gallon in the past week to $2.89, according to GasBuddy, which predicted prices above $3 a gallon within a week as war in Iran changes expectations. Prices in Miami are now 2 cents a gallon lower than a month ago.<\/p>\n<p>These are some of the FYIs in this week\u2019s edition. The entire content of this week\u2019s FYIs and Insider sections is available by subscription only. To subscribe\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.miamitodayepaper.com\/sub\/account_login.php\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Written by Miami Today on March 4, 2026 Advertisement GARAGE TO OPEN: A five-level, $58 million garage with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":43511,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[225,227,226],"class_list":["post-177587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-hialeah","tag-hialeah","tag-hialeah-headlines","tag-hialeah-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177587","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=177587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177587\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}