CMB Neighborhods Committee will decide on Tennis Courts on Tues, Mar 30th, 2:30pm; Jeff Donnelly, Chair of HPB -- reports to the Commission: 17 is Enough!

The City of Miami Beach Neighborhoods Committee will meet on Tuesday, March 30th for another  final decision on the number of Tennis Courts.  It is very important to Show Up, Stand Up, Speak Up.  The Historic Preservation Board did a wonderful job and the City Commission referred the matter to the Neighborhoods Committee.

To: Mayor and City Commissioners -- City of Miami Beach
Subject: Fwd: Flamingo Park Tennis -- Historic Preservation Board

Good afternoon.

I wanted to report to you that the HP Board on Tuesday approved a plan for the tennis center at Flamingo Park that had already been approved by the Commission in September 2009:

17 courts and the tennis facility building directly facing the pool facility to create a plaza and preserve the view corridor into the park entrance looking north from Jefferson and 11th.

The HP Board vote on March 9 in support of the Commission's September 2009 position was 7-0.


Jeff Donnelly, Chair
Historic Preservation Board

1. HPB File No. 6088, 1200 Meridian Avenue - Flamingo Park Tennis Center. The
applicant, the City of Miami Beach, is requesting revisions to a previously issued
Certificate of Appropriateness for the demolition of the existing single story tennis
facility and single story restroom building, and the construction of a new single
story tennis facility and associated tennis courts. Specifically, the applicant is
requesting to expand the area of tennis courts northward into the park with the
construction of five (5) additional tennis courts.

APPROVED WITHOUT ANY NEW TENNIS COURTS

This plan, as you know, represented a compromise. This plan does extend the current footprint of the tennis facility approximately 15 feet to the north at the north side and about 30 feet to the west on the northern half of the west side of the facility. At previous discussions, some on the HP Board did not want to lose these spaces, one of which is regularly used by parents of children in the tot lot, but the Board did agree to this compromise.