Mayor Tomás Regalado and Comissioner Mark Sarnoff were present to discuss what the City of Miami is doing for Grove residents. The key items discussed are listed below:
- There is a capital projects road improvement ready to roll out. Potholes, tree root incursions, drainage problems, and holes from garbage pickup will be repaired along Poincianna and in the Loquat/Avocado areas of Center Grove. This effort was started by residents in these neighborhoods. Utopia was not represented. We need to send Mark Sarnoff photos of places needing repair and drainage as soon as possible to be considered. There is limited capital improvement funds available.
- Mark Sarnoff said residents who had holes created by Miami garbage pickup services should contact his office and he would get them fixed in two (2) days.
- Poinciana is planned for repaving from Main Hwy to Le Jeunne. We need to ask for traffic calming measures with the repaving.
- Miami Police will be more active with traffic laws, esp speeding, in the cut through streets per resident requests.
- Miami Police will provide residents with a safety walkthrough inspection of their homes upon request.
- Coconut Grove Playhouse remains entangled in a web of problems and progress is stalled by the current board.
- CVS store is a dangerous place after dark. Residents are asking CVS to hire security in their parking lot.
- The (2008) crime wave in Coconut Grove continues to be reversed with active patrols.
- Officers are actively stopping pedestrians and getting to know them. Night bikers w/o lights will be questioned.
