Category: OPINION
EDITORIAL: Why can’t Coral Gables’ transportation board meet regularly?
By the Coral Gables Gazette editorial board On July 21, the Transportation Advisory Board gathered to discuss a potentially significant development in the city’s transit planning: an interagency effort involving…
EDITORIAL: Coral Gables should finally debate a developer-donor ordinance
By the Coral Gables Gazette editorial board For months, Coral Gables First raised almost nothing. Then, in a four-day window immediately after the candidate-qualifying period closed, the Lago-linked political committee…
EDITORIAL: Coral Gables needs one set of numbers before it studies cuts
By the Coral Gables Gazette editorial board Last week, we asked Coral Gables to show its plan for the next budget: to explain, before adopting a spending plan that holds…
EDITORIAL: Coral Gables should show its plan for the next budget
By the Coral Gables Gazette editorial board In several important ways, Coral Gables’ proposed fiscal 2027 budget demonstrates discipline. The $318.44 million plan City Manager Peter Iglesias sent to the…
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…
