R-502-69 RESOLUTION NO. 502
A RESOLUTION URGING RETENTION
OF INTERAMA LANDS FOR PUBLIC
USE
WHEREAS authority and responsibility for the Interama Authority
was transferred this year from the State of Florida to Metropolitan Dade
C ounty; and
WHEREAS the Interama Authority, in its efforts to organize and develop
the original concept of Interama, has incurred very substantial indebtedness,
including a bonded indebtedness in the principal sum of eleven million dollars,
which indebtedness operates to encumber approximately 1, 700 acres of water-
front land lying north of Biscayne Bay; and
WHEREAS many citizens and interested groups have advocated the sale
to private interests of approximately 600 acres of this land to satisfy and dis-
charge the above described indebtedness; and
WHEREAS the Council of Miami Shores Village deems it essential to
the best interests of its citizens, as well as of the citizens generally of Dade
County and of the State of Florida, to retain these lands for the use and benefit
of the public;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the Village Council of Miami
Shores Village, Dade County, Florida;
That the Commissioners of Metropolitan Dade County, Florida,
be encouraged and urged to take all steps reasonably necessary
and proper to retain all of the above described Interama lands,
for the public use and benefit of the people of Dade County and
of the State of Florida, whether as an Interamerican Cultural
and Trade Center or as the site for a public university, park,
marina, recreational area or otherwise, and to find and utilize
means, other than the sale of any part of said lands to private
interests, to meet and satisfy the bonded indebtedness encumber-
ing said lands and described above.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused
the Great Seal of the Village of Miami Shores, Florida, to be affixed this
2nd day of September, A. D. 1969.
Don G. Nicholson
Mayor
ATTEST;
Village Clerk