Category: OPINION
EDITORIAL: Coral Gables needs a public strategy on Live Local
By the Coral Gables Gazette editorial board Last week, Miami commissioners voted unanimously to direct the city attorney to explore legal options for challenging the Live Local Act and, if…
EDITORIAL: A UM campus hospital deserves its own public review
By the Coral Gables Gazette editorial board The University of Miami is arguably Coral Gables’ most important civic and economic partner. It has been for over a century, and it…
EDITORIAL: Before Crystal Residences advances, Coral Gables should show its work
By the Coral Gables Gazette editorial board On Wednesday, the Coral Gables Planning and Zoning Board will consider whether to recommend a permanent change to the land beneath one of…
EDITORIAL: Coral Gables should set a higher bar for conflicts than the legal minimum
By the Coral Gables Gazette editorial board The question before Coral Gables on June 2 was not only whether a pool-equipment variance at 722 Aledo Avenue met the city’s zoning…
EDITORIAL: The Youth Center pause should lead to settlement, not leverage
By the Coral Gables Gazette editorial board The Coral Gables commission did the right thing this week when it stepped back from pursuing legal action against War Memorial Youth Center…
EDITORIAL: Coral Gables helped expose disabled parking abuse. Now it must complete the response.
By the Coral Gables Gazette editorial board When Miami-Dade County announced last week that it had canceled more than 4,700 disabled parking permits — more than 11 percent of the…
EDITORIAL: At proposed dog park, evidence should come before action
By the Coral Gables Gazette editorial board For more than 50 years, zoning conditions on a parcel at 520 University Drive have preserved its use as overflow parking for the…
EDITORIAL: Coral Gables is raising garbage fees. Residents deserve the full math.
By Coral Gables Gazette editorial board A few hours can reveal a great deal about municipal government. At the May 19 Coral Gables Commission meeting, Commissioner Ariel Fernandez pointed to…
EDITORIAL: A city commission cannot govern through permanent political warfare
By the Coral Gables Gazette editorial board Coral Gables has spent a century cultivating an identity rooted in civic quality, architectural beauty, and institutional seriousness. That identity depends not only…
EDITORIAL: The cost of deferred decisions
By the Coral Gables Gazette editorial board Cities rarely decline through catastrophe alone. More often, they drift there gradually — through repairs postponed another budget cycle, infrastructure concerns documented but…
