The Miami Herald from Miami, Florida • 31

HEWS I WANTED A BUD LIGHT '5 VNV v7 y) 1 --'v -v 1 I i 1 4 't K'" 'a3v's Group sets strategy for mall fight Multifaceted plan aimed at auto park By TANANARIVE DUE Herald Stall Writer The Kendall Federation of Homeowners spearheading the campaign to keep a 22-acre 10-dealer auto park out of West Kendall turned its regular meeting Tuesday night into a strategy session About 50 people attended the meeting and planned strategies including picketing petitions and telephone and telegram campaigns to precede the Metro July 19 zoning hearing With urging from federation members the commission voted last week to have the meeting at 7 pan so working people could attend Federation head Dorothy Cissel said the vote was encouraging but she satisfied "That means willing to she aid "What displeased me was they refused to have it in Kendall and they jacked it up earlier than before They gave us one and took At first the hearing was scheduled for July 27 Then it was publicized for October The federation has a 24-hour telephone number 387-7290 with a recording that tells callers exact dates and times for picketing and the bearing "I call it every day for the Cissel said kind of a hot issue right now so we have to keep it The auto park is the brainchild of developer Jeff Berkowitz and auto mogul Alan Potamkin The lushly landscaped park would be on the northeast corner of Kendall Drive and Southwest 124th Avenue just west of Florida's Turnpike Since the land is zoned for office buildings Berkowitz needs a Metro zoning variance to build the auto malL 'Tm going to be very busy this week" said West Kendall Homeowners Association member Jose Espinosa who lives near the proposed site His concerns echo those of the organizers: of all my traffic would be worse and my property values will go down" RAUL RUBIERA Mlwtl HaraldSU If only somebody had told Bob Snow before he went up to re- munity College South Snow Is a maintenance worker on the pair this 400-watt mercury vapor lamp at Mlaml-Dade Com- Dade-South campus Seat draws lone candidate IFLANH0USEM10 IFLAISENATEB34 By KAREN BRANCH Herald Staff Writer Although many of the special elections resulting from the death of US Rep Claude Pepper have turned into a candidate free-for-all there is one race that has begun as a political yawn: state Rep Lincoln bid to replace state Sen lleana Ros-Lehtinen Senate District 34 with a 51 percent to 40 rcent Republican advantage has drawn on- the two-term representative from the Re- fublican camp And while state Democratic arty chairman Simon Ferro says he expects to see a Democrat in the race there are no takers with the qualifying period looming just a week away think we should just wait and Di-az-Balart said politics seven days is like seven light years But 2 political past is any indication Diaz-Balart may be running the most peaceful race in the midst of a storm of elections Last year in his first bid for re-election he have to campaign at all He won unopposed an honor when that occurs because I think that means constituents look upon the legislator with Diaz-Baiart said certainly prepared for a tough campaign" The battle to replace Diaz-Balart in the House however is a different story Four Republican candidates have announced in the race to fill the seat Two candidates vying for seat even live in the district They lost bids for House seats last year Miguel De Grandy a Coral Gables lawyer lost a Republican runoff bid to Rep Carlos Valdes R-Coral Gables by one vote Carlos Manrique a legislative aide from Westchester came in last in a three-man Republican primary won by Rep Mario Diaz-Balart Westchester bought a house in the district without even knowing this was going said Kathy De Grandy wife and campaign man- era ager said about the singer short to had 8 IM CO are purchasing a house in 110 Manrique 29 who ran his last campaign chastising candidates who moved into the district for political reasons was thinking moving into the district way before I thought about Both De Grandy and Manrique will be pulling old campaign strategies from the mothballs Manrique is touting his five years of experience as a legislative aide De Grandy touts his legal career as important experience for a legislator And in a district where 59 percent of voters are Hispanic De Grandy campaign feels it has a special advantage De grandfather and namesake was a well-known Cuban opera "Name recognition is always a factor in said De Grandy 30 Accountant Justo Luis Pozo who will be running his first campaign has his own claim fame His grandfather Justo Luis Pozo I a long political career in Cuba that concluded as mayor of Havana during the Batista Jose Rojas heads the anti-auto park committee He said members have gathered 3000 signatures on petitions in recent weeks But he said it still enough "Remember up against a modern-day Goliath" be said at the meeting State Rep Art Simon D-Miami attended with copies of a letter urging the commission to consider homeowner association representatives as the voice of Kendall November Simon supported the amendment to the Comprehensive Development Master Plan to allow for consideration of a car dealership Now he says clear that this auto park will not satisfy residents "The first step was to consider an amendment to the master plan" Simon said after the meeting think any doubt that it's quite conceivable a dealership could have a lesser impact on the surrounding i in my said Pozo 32 Marianne Salazar just resigned as regional manager of the state Department of Labor Employment and Training to run her campaign Her hope is that Lincoln support of her bid holds more weight than does nostalgia hope not going to vote because someone has a name that was well-known in Cuba two decades said Salazar 36 The Democrats have yet to field a candidate in the House race Ferro said he expects there to be a Democrat in the race however Republicans hold a 61 percent to 29 percent advantage in House District 110 Qualifying for Senate District 34 is Wednesday and July 6 Qualifying for the House seat has not yet been announced by the state Division of Elections.