A resolution granting the village authority to use Ocean Club Community Association property for a potential pump station, backup generator and electrical platform, part of Key Biscayne’s ongoing flood mitigation project, was approved unanimously, 6-0, at the June 10 Village Council meeting, though not without pushback over the scale of the proposed infrastructure.<\/p>\n
The resolution was to allow the installation of a pump station, backup generator and electrical platform for the Village’s flood mitigation project,<\/p>\n
“This is just something we’ve worked out with the Ocean Club (in case a generator is necessary),\u201d Mayor Joe Rasco said. \u201cYou will have a shot (at a later vote) if the generator goes there or doesn’t go there.”<\/p>\n
Councilman Fernando Vazquez didn’t see the need for it.<\/p>\n
“I have an issue with massive structures,\u201d he said. \u201cLet’s look at this very carefully, very cautiously.\u201d<\/p>\n
Fellow Council member Nancy Stoner said, “It just gives us the authority, if we’d choose to go that path, which remains to be determined.”<\/p>\n
Added Vazquez, “Let’s understand we’re not an industrial facility here.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A resolution granting the village authority to use Ocean Club Community Association property for a potential pump station,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":310998,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[129651,129652,25535,126,25533,123,125,124,71710,129650,127],"class_list":["post-310997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-backup-generator","tag-electrical-platform","tag-fernando-vazquez","tag-key-biscayne","tag-mayor-joe-rasco","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news","tag-ocean-club","tag-ocean-club-community-association","tag-village-council"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310997","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=310997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310997\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/310998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}