{"id":186331,"date":"2026-03-10T22:12:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T22:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/186331\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T22:12:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T22:12:08","slug":"tallahassee-is-not-the-zoning-board","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/186331\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Tallahassee is not the zoning board\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">MIAMI BEACH, Fla.  \u2014 Miami Beach city leaders and residents spoke out Tuesday morning against <a href=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/news\/local\/2026\/03\/04\/could-the-udb-become-history-tallahassee-takes-aim-at-miami-dade-zoning-rules\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/news\/local\/2026\/03\/04\/could-the-udb-become-history-tallahassee-takes-aim-at-miami-dade-zoning-rules\/\">Florida Senate Bill 208 and House Bill 399<\/a> one day before state leaders could vote to pass it. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cTallahassee is not the zoning board of Miami Beach,\u201d said Miami Beach Mayor Steven Meiner. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The legislation would essentially bypass municipal governments and allow the state to approve or deny development projects. In this case, that would be a waterpark at Miami Beach\u2019s historic Fontainebleau hotel. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cDecisions that affect Miami Beach should be made in Miami Beach,\u201d said Alicia Casanova with the Mid-Beach Neighborhood Association. \u201cIf an idea cannot make it through the normal committee process, it has no business being slipped into an unrelated bill at the last minute like this one did.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Miami Beach residents previously spoke out at the city\u2019s Historic Preservation Board meeting on Feb. 10, opposing the plan by the Fontainebleau Miami Beach to install as many as 11 water slides, including one that\u2019s 120 feet tall.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Residents\u2019 concerns included environmental impact, noise and traffic on Collins Avenue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cTo be able to drive to the doctor\u2019s, where it usually takes five minutes, and it shouldn\u2019t take  45 minutes,\u201d said Miami Beach resident Marsha Schwartz. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Casanova called the legislation a special interest handout.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cThis is a shortcut, elected legislators should not reward rule-bending and shortcuts,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The overarching issue has implications that reach beyond the borders of the beach.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cIt\u2019s not just about Miami Beach,\u201d said Meg Lousteau with the Miami Design Preservation League. \u201cIt\u2019s about local communities being able to control their own destiny.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udfe0 News From Your Neighborhood<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-article-body__copyright\">Copyright 2026 by WPLG Local10.com &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MIAMI BEACH, Fla. \u2014 Miami Beach city leaders and residents spoke out Tuesday morning against Florida Senate Bill&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":186332,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[232,234,233],"class_list":["post-186331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee-headlines","tag-tallahassee-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186331","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=186331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186331\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}