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Dog Waste Disposal Issue Breaking News - Bahia Mar

Our publisher received the following letter from a resident asking At the June 6th City Commission meeting, as we were about to
HBPHOA to pass along to neighbors in hopes it will help address go to press with this issue, the City Commission, after a long
the problem. Please read. Thank you! meeting and public hearing that lasted through midnight, voted
I to approve a rezoning request by the developer, Rahn Bahia
wanted to mention a recurring problem my family and at
Mar, LLC, allowing them to incorporate several final revisions
least one of our neighbors is experiencing. Dog walkers are
and enhancements to the site plan and move the approval
leaving their bags of dog poop in our garbage cans. This
along for a final vote on the site plan on June 20th.
is especially annoying when bags of dog poop are tossed in
our empty cans after the garbage has been collected, which he rezoning request approval means that the property
happened again this morning. will be redeveloped under the City of Fort Lauderdale's
TPlanned Development District (PDD) requirements. The
I try to bring in my empty cans as soon as possible to avoid
giving people the opportunity to dump the bags in our cans, inclusion of public enhancements and improvements outlined in
but this morning the garbage was collected earlier than usual. the new development plan will be incorporated into the zoning
By 9:30 am, a dog walker had already tossed a small blue itself to ensure future compliance and performance benchmarks.
bag of dog poop into our can. We do not have a dog and we
certainly don’t like dealing with someone else’s stinky poop.
I spoke with Officer Ashley Schemtob about this when she still
worked in Harbor Beach and she mentioned it was a HOA
issue and not a police issue. She did, however, mention the
East Lake dog poop problem in one of her weekly emails.
The problem seemed to stop for a few months, but has started
again recently.

We have tried to avoid this problem by putting our garbage
cans out late at night so that the evening dog walkers don’t
dump in them. We also have moved our cans from the edge
of the property to an area on our driveway where we can see
them from the front of the house, in hopes that would be a Key elements of the new plan include a significant decrease in
deterrent. That hasn’t worked, either. Thank you for any other the number of residential units from the previously approved
suggestions you might have! 2017 plan of 651 residential units to 350 units and 60 hotel
residences with 256 hotel rooms. The main footprint of the
buildings is to be centralized on the site to provide greater
setbacks for the planned 23-story hotel, two 23-story towers
and two 22-story towers. The overall square footage of
commercial uses will decrease and be distributed throughout
the property providing onsite opportunities for the public to
enjoy various specialty restaurants and greater open space
along the waterway, with 1.8 acres of green space open to the
public. Space available for Fort Lauderdale International Boat
Show exhibitions and guests is also substantially increased.
According to the Sun Sentinel, developer Jimmy Tate expects to
We strongly encourage residents and pet walkers to dispose break ground on the hotel and two of the four condos in
of pet waste in your own trash bins or a bin reserved for pet December 2024.
waste. Proper disposal of pet waste helps prevent stormwater For more information on the new site plan, please visit
pollution, keeps our waterways healthy, is a simple courtesy www.fortlauderdale.gov/government/city-commission-meetings
that makes our neighborhoods more inviting and is respectful and click on the link to meeting agendas. Then select the
of other people’s property. Thank you for your cooperation! HB 6/6/23 Regular Meeting Agenda for links to the new plan. HB

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