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A reference of the week's public city meetings
The owner of the Boulevard Hotel at 740 Ocean Drive has sued its hotel operator in Miami-Dade Circuit Court, seeking eviction and an emergency injunction after more than $308,000 in rent went unpaid over three months.
A Miami-Dade couple filed suit in September 2026 against Segway, its Chinese parent Ninebot, and Best Buy after a folding electric scooter's handlebar stem collapsed while he rode it in Miami Beach, leaving him with a surgically repaired leg fracture.
The Miami Beach City Commission voted 7-0 to restore city grants to Miami Beach Pride and the Miami-Dade LGBTQ+ & Allied Chamber of Commerce, racing to spend the money before Florida's new anti-DEI law kicks in January 1.
Miami Beach's Finance and Economic Resiliency Committee reviewed ongoing efforts to partner with private parking operators in North Beach, where a city study projects a significant shortage of spaces as development expands.
Miami Beach's Finance and Economic Resiliency Committee voted Wednesday to recommend a new five-year marketing contract with the Greater Miami Convention and Visitors Bureau, replacing a flat fee structure with a sliding-scale compensation model and cutting the maximum incentive payment in half.
A reference of the week's public city meetings
A reference of the week's public city meetings
Miami Beach commissioners unanimously directed city staff to independently evaluate engineering claims that the long-promised 5th Street pedestrian bridge cannot be built, and to begin negotiating an over-water baywalk alternative if the finding holds.
The Miami Beach City Commission voted 4-3 to let the City Manager negotiate a beachfront advertising agreement with Amplify Marketing Inc. tied to Rockstar Games' Grand Theft Auto VI launch, overriding objections about brand image, procedural gaps, and a missing lobbyist disclosure.
Miami Beach commissioners unanimously approved a tentative FY2027 millage rate of 6.0753 mills — down from last year — but a pointed exchange over tax-cut math complicated a smooth path to September 23's final vote.
Eleven items are on the table when the Miami Beach Commission convenes Thursday for its first meeting since the July recess: a 4.1% tax rate increase, police accountability measures, competing license-plate-reader proposals, a verdict on the stalled 5th Street Pedestrian Bridge, rising utility rates, a Live Local Act challenge, and second-reading votes on two major upzonings — Alton City Center and Urban Core.