Remarks by Doris Acosta
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“God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.”
Village Commission · Jul 28, 2026
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“Sure. Thank you. Good evening, everyone. As far as community engagements and events, I was part of hosting for the North Village Chamber of Commerce the World Cup final watch party here at Rosso Indian Restaurant and happy stork lunch. I want to congratulate Spain for a wonderful game. and a fantastic victory. And thank you for the host for a successful community event featuring a fun trivia competition that brought residents together. I also attended the Holiday of Miracles summer kickoff and proudly represented Northside Village. I encourage everyone to mark your calendars for the December…”
Village Commission · Jul 28, 2026
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“Okay. Have they presented any lease to you yet? We have a draft lease.”
Village Commission · Jul 28, 2026
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“Yes. I don't know if you mentioned it earlier and I missed it, but when I met with our principal last week and I invited her to come over and I missed to tell her to speak during open forum or were you planning to have a special section for her to introduce herself?”
Village Commission · Jul 28, 2026
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“She's also a past resident of North Village. She still owns property here in Harbor Island. Her family still resides here. We had a lovely meeting. We spoke about some of the things that we see in the future of our school and how we can work together. So I asked her to come to our meeting because school, as you all know, starts in August. And I wanted our residents to be aware that we have a new principal in town. And yes, with that, please welcome.”
Village Commission · Jul 28, 2026
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“All I did was drive by the property and see the area itself. But no, nothing else to disclose. Read all the information, went through the presentations too.”
Village Commission · Jul 28, 2026
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“After much review and the same not finding any complaints from the neighbors and driving by the property, I actually moved to go ahead and approve the conditions. But if there's any other questions. Okay.”
Village Commission · Jul 28, 2026
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“Okay. Commissioner Acosta? I believe because it's a limited resource, we actually should consider going higher. I would go over the 200,000 at this point. A lot of these developments may not even come about for now. They will benefit from the next units as they close. Prices, as you see, keep going higher. Miami-Dade County land waterfront property is getting more and more reduced. I would like to see these fees actually go higher to encourage people to really not just invest, but build here instead of flipping properties. Okay, so you want to increase these across the board? I want the…”
Village Commission · Jul 28, 2026
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“I can meet you halfway at $250,000. Well, you can propose it.”
Village Commission · Jul 28, 2026
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“A million dollars from the time they're actually going to be doing construction and selling those units. That's also a different price point for those units.”
Village Commission · Jul 28, 2026
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“Got it. When when you mentioned the 90 days, is that a competitive idea? Because I'm worried about a lot of these people basing their payments on construction loans.”
Village Commission · Jul 28, 2026
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“Yes. And as you all know, resources are very minimum out there and Harbor Island is already taking the biggest brunt of all of this high density.”
Village Commission · Jul 28, 2026
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“That is my motion. Before we vote on that, I just want to refer back to Commissioner Darrow's comment about short-sightedness and thinking of the values of the properties. I can tell you this. We're building City Hall on the back of Harbor Island residents and all of us in North Village. We received this study that mentioned how other municipalities are handling all of these monies that they're receiving, whether they're going into their infrastructure, schools, streets. This is also for our public benefit because we do need a police station. We do need a fire station. My ask here is that we…”
Village Commission · Jul 28, 2026
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“No, I know where you're going with that.”
Village Commission · Jul 28, 2026
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“People are not lining down the street to buy units.”
Village Commission · Jul 28, 2026
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“And those are the incentives we're already working with.”
Village Commission · Jul 28, 2026
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“Again, this is something sellers could adjust to. Commissioner Darrow, Vice Mayor Cook, 250. And I appreciate your kind explanation, by the way.”
Village Commission · Jul 28, 2026
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“I agree with you. Let the sellers adjust.”
Village Commission · Jul 28, 2026
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“I have to say face with- You'll continue to see that nobody will pay $300,000 starting now.”
Village Commission · Jul 28, 2026
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“It's just to me, it's again, we're putting the burden on us and not the other way around.”
Village Commission · Jul 28, 2026
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“I'm here on the community, not on you or anybody else.”
Village Commission · Jul 28, 2026
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“Okay. You got me. So we're moving staff's recommendation. I want to do the 250 like you're saying. You got me. Because I'm not going to go under. If it's going to be that, if you draw the line on the sand that way, you're forcing my hand, I'm going to go 250.”
Village Commission · Jul 28, 2026
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“Because we do need to make a decision and we can always come back for whatever is left. Okay, fine.”
Village Commission · Jul 28, 2026
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“I can see that vision. So I will second your motion.”
Village Commission · Jul 28, 2026
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“We do have to move forward. I think that we are going higher than was presented, which makes me feel better about our community with Harbor Island.”
Village Commission · Jul 28, 2026