![]() to the west, NW 35th, 33rd and 32nd Avenues to the east and State Road 112 to the south. The Hialeah project proposed to incorporate 0.24 square miles surrounded by NW 54th St. “We are pleased with the decision of the city, grateful the process didn’t get further,” said Kilpatrick One of the proposal’s main critics, Kenneth Kilpatrick, president of the Brownsville Civic Neighborhood Association (BCNA), expressed his gratitude for Hialeah’s decision. “Now that we are preparing a master plan for the city, we saw that just to explore the plan it was necessary to invest a lot of money and we lost interest,” his office added.īrownsville residents welcomed the mayor’s surprise announcement. It is dead.”Ī spokesperson for his office explained to el Nuevo Herald that the decision was made because “the community has no desire to join Hialeah.” This is an issue on our end that is no longer being pursued. “I just want you to know,” he said, addressing Brownsville residents attending the council meeting, “that you are hearing from the mayor of the city, who is speaking on behalf of the council members. El Nuevo Herald first reported the city’s annexation efforts. The mayor made the announcement before members of the Brownsville community spoke at City Hall. The city of Hialeah is not pursuing any additions to any industrial area east of the city,” Bovo explained to the City Council. “The city of Hialeah is not pursuing any Brownsville-area annexation. announced Tuesday night that he has dropped the effort to incorporate an industrial zone to the east of Hialeah. ![]() ![]() Less than a month after presenting the annexation plan, Hialeah Mayor Esteban Bovo Jr. Faced with community opposition from the Brownsville neighborhood, Hialeah has reversed its project to annex part of the historic Black area of unincorporated Miami-Dade County. ![]()
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