Updated 11-11: Thank you Madam Mayor for vetoing the South Dade Logistics and Technology District! We stand with you and we ask the Board of County Commissioners to vote to uphold this veto on
Tuesday November 15th, and reject this speculative project. It's a bad trade for Miami-Dade.  
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Background:
The SDLTD is a speculative development on valuable farmland under evaluation for Everglades restoration, secured approval from the Miami-Dade County Commission. This project does not make sense, and Commissioners ignored the science, expert recommendations, and waived county rules to approve it. Some of the major reasons it continues to be the wrong project in the wrong place:

• Fails to meet the county requirement for “demonstrated need” to expand the Urban Development Boundary
• Threatens adjacent neighborhoods with flooding and creates risks to life and property
• Relies on inflated job projections generated with an outdated economic mode
• Changes rules to allow risky building in  Coastal High Hazard areas, vulnerable to storm surge
• Consumes scarce agricultural land under consideration for Everglades and Biscayne Bay restoration projects

Some Commissioners were persuaded by the inclusion of additional EEL lands in a land swap. While those lands deserve to be protected, the acreage, locations, market value, and ecosystem services in this swap make it fundamentally unequal.

Add it all up, it's a bad trade for Miami-Dade.