FROM POLITICAI CORTADITO email newsletter:
May 24, 2024
City will seek action against existing sign at PAMM
After hearing from more than 65 residents from all five city districts speak against the mega LED billboards on public land, and then taking a long break for lunch, Miami Commissioners voted Thursday 4-1 to rollback the ordinance that allows the mega signs in the downtown area
Finally.
Only Commissioner Manolo Reyes voted against it, in protest. Because it still allowed the PAMM sign to stay, for now, and he has been against the signs from the beginning.
It was a confusing discussion, where Commissioner Miguel Gabela first offered an amendment that mirrored the April amendment passed 3-2 by Chairwoman Christine King and written by the lobbyist for Orange Barrel Media, which allowed carve-outs for the signs to stay at PAMM and the Arsht. Gabela’s simply took out the Arsht, which is moot because they have withdrawn their request for a permit from the city after the county said, “Woah Nelly. We have jurisdiction here.” But Gabela left in the limitations on hours of operations, brightness and content in King’s amendment.