there are plenty of schools for coconut grove residents already , we do not need more traffic , noice , pollution and deforestation SPECIALLY for NON property tax payers...

This would be awful for coconut grove, the traffic is already horrific, with the new high rises and the structures by fresh market.

This place does not need another school, the roads are not enough and the environmental contamination would increase

This place does not need another school, the roads are not enough and the enviaron mental contaminación would increase

Absolutely unnecessary- removal of canopy and increase of traffic. I also dislike the misleading to the point of fraudulent ads on instagram.

Stop Grove gridlock by not approving this school. We do not need another school and more traffic in the grove

Just a simple traffic density study should be enough to finish this totally unnecessary project. There is no need for another school in the Grove; we certainly have enough traffic bringing students from all over the area to the Grove. I think we have done our part for education.

unbelievable ! as if the school traffic on main and/or bayshore. NO benefit to residents. ALL fallout to us. Isn't it historically designated already? How'd they get permits to cut down all their trees and lay the slab anyway? It's so obviously NOT the right decision. I don't see how it even got considered with so many things putting it behind the 8 ball to start. So IF this gets passed we know where to look for the X on the dotted line.
why don't the commissioners concentrate on something that would impact positively on all of us: like lowering the speedlimit through Central Grove to 15mph and 20 in all Grove residential areas.
and while I'm on a rant, I saw something for repaving the walkways in main grove AGAIN. somethings just not right.

Carrollton’s proposed school for 336 boys and 50 staff does not reflect genuine stewardship of this coastal neighborhood. It will create significant burdens on safety, critical urban infrastructure, and resiliency of our community. It will have a negative impact on our quality of life, our business district, our world-class sailing competitions & the Future of the City of Miami.
The “3 T’s”, - Traffic, Tree Canopy, and Taxes are the principal factors that Carrollton’s proposed school threatens our way of life, the safety of our community, and our resilience to climate change. The proposed school heightens the impact of coastal disasters such as storm surge and flooding and sabotages county & city climate adaptation and resilience policy goals. Approval of this project would clearly grant special privileges to an individual owner at the expense of the protection of public welfare.
COMMUNITY CONCERNS
1 – TRAFFIC. Adds approx. 1,438 daily school-generated trips increasing traffic on already congested Bayshore Dr., Tigertail, and every side street and increasing climate-altering pollution. (Per 2020 Traffic and Crash Analysis Studies of proposed school location). Do we need more congestion? More carbon emissions?
2 – TREE CANOPY. Removes over 60% of the trees at Woodbine Villa destroying a unique and lush tree canopy that naturally absorbs traffic carbon emissions, slows the rate of water reaching the ground, and reduces soil areas to accommodate drainage. This will heighten the impact of environmental disasters such as storm surge and flooding. Can we afford to lose almost 100 mature trees?
3 – TAXES. 13 private schools in Coconut Grove pay no real estate taxes and have a combined assessed property value totaling over $229 million. When completed, this school would have an estimated value of $50 million and will shift the tax burden for public services onto the city and residents. Do we need to pay more on behalf of a private school where over 75% of students live outside the City?
In addition:
4 – RESILIENCY. Has over 104,000 Sf Footprint, which will aggravate environmental issues and heighten the impact of intensifying rising seas, stronger hurricanes, and coastal flooding. Removal of green areas and tree canopy, combined with increased traffic carbon emissions, has an adverse impact on climate resiliency. In 2019, the City of Miami declared a Climate Crisis and created MIAMI FOREVER CLIMATE READY strategy plan - Do we need to aggravate the impact of flooding and storms, as well as sabotage city adaptation and resilience policy goals?
5 – SAFETY. There were over 138 accidents in the last 3 years within 1/3 mile of Villa Woodbine, per our 2020 Crash Analysis study of the proposed school location. These grim statistics, combined with a considerable increase in gridlock and parking shortages, greatly increase life-safety hazards and risks. Do we need to increase the risk to our first respondents and residents?
6 –SCALE. It is 8 times the size of the historic villa and overwhelms our residential neighborhood with its massive and disproportionate construction in scale, massing, and proximity to Tigertail and its much smaller homes. There is a 47,000sf two-story school building, a 9,000sf auditorium, and a 36 X 75ft pool with two decks, almost 4,000sf of covered walkway and courtyards, and an extensive driveway. Do we need another mammoth commercial entity in our residential neighborhood and jeopardize a resilient and sustainable future?
7 – CONSERVATION. The site has a Historical Designation District Overlay and is within an Archaeological Conservation Area. Construction of the proposed school poses hazards for the protection of grounds that have a high probability of containing significant archaeological objects. A required Phase 1 Archaeological Study will NOT be completed prior to the City determining if the Villa Woodbine property has “appropriateness of use” as a school. Do we need buildings that will pose hazards to protected conservation sites located within the Grove?
8 – PUBLIC WELFARE. Approval of this proposed school sabotages the parameters set forth in 2019 when the City of Miami declared a Climate Crisis and created MIAMI FOREVER CLIMATE READY, to promote sustainability citywide. It does not meet the strategic plan’s policy goal to promote adaptive neighborhoods by utilizing planning decisions based on “Data-Driven and Human-Centered” that are considered critical for climate risk mitigation and resiliency. Nor would it be an investment in “Resilient and Smart Public Infrastructure.” The cumulative impact of all these issues significantly compromises the protection of public welfare and will ultimately result in lower property values. Do we want to compromise the community’s safety, climate resiliency, and financial interests?
We urge our Commissioners to VOTE NO!

Please, no more schools and no more gridlock in the grove! Save our canopy and put some effort into maintaining the grove! Enough is enough!

Who do the commissioners answer to, the residents who are impacted or the self interests of a select few? Is this a matter of money lining pockets or the wellbeing of the community with these commissioners. It saddens me that it's most likely the former.

I vote NO for this new project. Coconut Grove is already saturated with traffic and new development. Our community should be preserved and investment should be focused on parks, sports, pedestrian crosswalks, bike lanes, round about to slow traffic and recreation for the community. Make this city a pedestrian friendly city and stop overbuilding.

There is already too much traffic in this area. Cars coming in or out of Villa Woodbine would be waiting a long, long time to get onto Bayshore Drive. Also the grounds are lovely and should be protected from more development.

We cannot allow this is massive intrusion our community! Traffic is already horrific and developers are ruining the charm and character of the Grove.

Our neighborhood cannot afford another large private school for students residing outside the neighborhood, not the additional traffic increase or loss of mature tree canopy. Please hear the voices of the neighborhood and vote NO on our behalf. Thank you.

It is already extremely difficult to turn left from Rockerman Road onto S. Bayshore. This will make it much worse. The traffic is already out of hand.

I am opposed to this development. traffic is already a problem, and this will make it significantly worse

No more schools please! There is too much gridlock and traffic. Unable to use tigertail or Bayshore Drive or 17th ave. It is already out of control.

Traffic (It will bad again soon enough.)
Scale
Loss of charm.
This will weaken our neighborhood.

Please convey my objection to this project as the additional traffic would be most difficult and dangerous for BAYSHORE VILLAS residents competing with the park , Ransom and Mercy Hospital ambulance traffic already congesting S Bayshore Drive

This school is not needed. this project is way out of scale with our neighborhood. This school will create more gridlock on busy Tigertail Ave. and Bayshore Drive. This project will significantly reduce the tree canopy in our area, increasing our daily temperatures and decreasing the ability for water shedding. This school will not add (it will decrease) the tax revenue for the approximately 4 acres of presently taxable property. this school does not provide educational increases to our neighborhood as most of the students will come from outside the community (in their family car).
Please deny the Woodbine School project and listen to your HEPB persons, they speak for the MAJORITY of our community.

DENY approval of Carrollton’s proposed elementary school for 336 boys and 50 faculty at VILLA WOODBINE located at 2167 South Bayshore Drive. It's become pure gridlock on Bay Shore Drive. Please realize that enough is enough as far as gridlock which causes increased pollution, traffic fumes quality of life goes down. And quaint Coconut Grove will no longer exist. Actually, it's on the verge of already loosing it's appeal.

Another school will make our residential area impassible. Each student has to be dropped off in their parents car. This on top of the traffic from Ransom, a few hundred yards away,
will be a traffic nightmare and destroy this part of the Grove.

No to Carrolton's proposal

We do not need another school in the Grove.
Traffic is already bad
We need to improve the schools that we already have

Traffic already bad from Ransom This new school will make traffic on Bayshore c, tigertail, Emathla Street and 22 Avenue will be insane

Protect the canopy and charm of the Grove. Save trees. Minimize additional large architectural structures on Bayshore. There is already traffic backup on Tigertail that we North Grovers must maneuver each school day . afternoon.

Not needed in the grove. enough existing traffic congestion in S.Bayshore and Tigertail. Stop decimation of our trees.

Where is it in your charter that Coconut Grove should become unlivable for its residents? You’ve done a great job destroying the Black Grove, have you set your sights on historic Bayshore now?

NO to SCHOOL! Let’s PRESERVE VILLA WOODBINE and its beautiful lush canopy. It’s historical landmarks like this that make Coconut Grove so special. I’m tired of the overdevelopment in Miami. There is no appreciation for historical buildings or nature around here.

We don’t need another school in this area. Is enough with the traffic we have. We need sidewalks and better public spaces along S Bayshore that improve the quality of life for all residents of north grove.

Allowing the construction of this school here is a terrible mistake. Traffic on Tigertail and S Bayshore Drive is a nightmare already.

Private schools already exist in the area. It does not bring any benefit to the community and it will increase the gridlock already in the area.

This idea is crazy. The traffic and logistical infrastructure just does not exist for such a development at this location. It would be unfair and a great inconvenience to this residential neighborhood. This is not a commercial business district although recent allowed development by the city seems to think differently. Please say no to this school in this location.

It's wrong to continue to burden our community with further out-of-control development. This school is not needed. Please, please serve the needs of the people who elected you!! Not the needs of some outside developer!

I live off Main Hwy on a dead end street near 5 Schools. During the school year I can’t leave my street because of the traffic jam they create in the morning. My daughter lives in the North Grove and has a similar problem with Ransom’s Lower School traffic. The Woodbine School would make her neighborhood totally gridlocked during drop off and pick up areas. The Grove has more than enough, expensive private schools!

We do not need more congested traffic, which this project will cause. I am definitely opposed to it being built.

I don’t live in the area but I work on Tigertail and Mary. Traffic is already congested in the morning and all honesty throughout the day. This would be chaotic for those that work in the area and not to mention for the residents of the area.

NO! We have no need ! Traffic is bad enough as it is! Why other than greediness, would anyone do this to the beautiful grove?

We already have a high volume private school in our neighborhood that creates traffic nightmares and we have Kennedy park that draws people from all over and creates additional traffic. This school needs to go elsewhere and not in a major artery.

Please dont ruin the Grove any further. It was always a special place. No school.
Also, dont remove the lovely peacocks.
Thank you.

Stop the Grove from allowing another school to be built. It will impact local commuters. Plus do we really need another private school ?

The traffic in Coconut Grove is bad enough in the mornings and in the afternoons as it is without adding another school

It is not in the interest of the residents of Coconut Grove to have the denial of their request to build a school in this historically valuable and protected site. The burden was upon them to overcome the legal outcome of a “NO” decision and they have not met this burden.

We have the right to live in a neighborhood where we actually want to walk or drive. I cannot even leave my house with Ransom School's cars blocking my (cool de saac) street. Villa Woodbine is such a landmark. Destroying it to build another school we don't need it's simply abominable. Let's preserve greenery, history, and our community sanity, for God's sake!

I am new to area, and this seems quite obvious this location was never intended for this type of use. This would create a safety issue- there is no way for this to safely benefit the community. The traffic, flow, congestion, and hundreds of children?? The driving infrastructure is not conducive. It’s that simple. Please do not approve projects that would create more based traffic conditions- let alone take away from the community.

We do not need another private school in Coconut Grove. I support instead the idea of “The Villa at Kennedy Park”, Villa Woodbine and Kennedy Park as one, and having Villa Woodbine’s hallmark tree canopy and architectural legacy as a Community Arts and Activity Center, belonging to all residents and fulfilling Kennedy Park’s potential within the City’s fabric of public places. This would qualify the park for listing in the National Register of Historic Places, which will make it eligible for federal tax incentives, municipal bonds, and grants to preserve it for community use.

Schools are an important part of the community, but not when they cause anger and frustration. If the community in which a private school is being built does not support the school, it shouldn't be built. This is bad for the community, as well as the kids, not to mention the old-growth canopy and historical structure that would be irrevocably damaged. It's best we don't do this one.

I have lived in the Grove all my life. The changes are heart breaking. The city has allowed massive development in this small community. For once, the city should listen to the citizens of the Grove. We strongly don’t want this new massive School.

I have fond memories of Coconut Grove. My grandparents lived there when I was a child. There wasn’t any traffic and I played outside with my cousins. More building is not better.

The size and scope, as well as land use of this project, is COMPLETELY out of scale for this neighborhood. The neighboring properties do not deserve the devaluation of their homes this school will bring, and that area cannot take the crush of traffic that will come. The very things that make Coconut Grove a thriving, successful community is consistently being eroded by overdevelopment. Do Not Build This School.