This project lacks informed consent from directly impacted homeowners. Many of us have invested time, money, and care into maintaining our swales for decades—including landscaping, irrigation systems, and historic trees that are now threatened.
Even if you are not directly affected today, think about the precedent this sets for future city overreach onto your property.
The sidewalk project would:
- Encroach just feet from our front doors, violating visual privacy and quiet enjoyment
- Destroy long-maintained landscaping and irrigation systems, and driveway usage without compensation
- Reduce property values and setback aesthetics, which are key to the character of our neighborhood
- Remove healthy shade trees, increasing flood risk, stormwater runoff, and heat
- Mature trees may be “skirted” around, but their root systems will be severely cut, threatening their health and long-term survival.
- Wildlife habitats—including those of birds, butterflies, pollinators, and small mammals—will be destroyed.
- The removal of green infrastructure directly undermines the City’s stated climate resilience goals.
- Override homeowner input, with no meaningful engagement or alternative options presented
- We fully support safe pedestrian infrastructure, but this plan is unnecessarily aggressive, environmentally harmful, and contrary to the principles of Miami 21, which calls for preservation of neighborhood character and avoidance of undue hardship.
📢 We ask the City of Miami and the Department of Resilience & Public Works to:
- Halt the current sidewalk plan
- Engage in meaningful consultation with directly impacted residents
- Propose a context-sensitive design that protects green space, trees, and the residential fabric of our neighborhood
- Let’s build smarter—not just harder.
✍️ Add your name if you agree: Morningside deserves thoughtful planning, not bulldozers.