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Residents urge pause on Northeast 13th Avenue sidewalk plan, citing parking loss and notice failures
Summary
Dozens of Oakland Park residents told the City Commission March 4 that the Northeast 13th Avenue project expanded without adequate notice and will remove long-used swale and driveway parking on shallow lots. Speakers urged a pause, lot-by-lot mitigation and clearer communication; staff said drainage work ($~3.2M) is largely grant-funded and an item to reconsider the sidewalks will be placed on a future agenda.
At a packed March 4 City Commission meeting, multiple Oakland Park residents asked commissioners to pause and rework parts of the Northeast 13th Avenue improvement project, saying the plan as currently designed will take away established parking, harm property owners, and was reintroduced into the scope without adequate neighborhood notification.
Madeline Mushetiski, who gave her address as 1585 Northeast 33rd Street, said the revised project "takes a problem that, according to your own 2024 mobility study, does not exist, and it creates three new ones: unfunctional driveways, illegal parking, and unfunctional sidewalks." She said her home was never re-notified after the project scope changed and warned that the project "forces residents into an impossible position" and risks displacement.
Speakers repeated similar complaints: Gordon McNichols told commissioners that a comprehensive plan should act as a restraint on government power and…
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