From the moment the two applications were sent in 2004 to annex Section 6 and a portion of Section 15 that both currently belong to the county as unincorporated areas, several things have happened until today that have delayed the process—a change of Doral administration and the current requirement that only the commissioner of the district in which the area to be annexed is located can place the item on the County Board of Commissioners agenda so that the annexation is certified.
Four municipalities in Miami-Dade County want to expand their boundaries and the proposition comes with plenty of controversy. The process is called annexation. It includes for example, a city expanding into unincorporated areas of Miami-Dade County. Miami Springs is interested in annexing county land. So is Doral. The Village of Virginia Gardens is too as
Miami-Dade is looking to replace its Resources Recovery Facility, located in Doral since 1982, with a state-of-the-art waste-to-energy plant on the same or a different site. County commissioners approved a resolution directing the administration to develop and issue a request for information within 60 days for design criteria professionals to create a design criteria package
Miami-Dade commissioners just sidestepped concerns about Biscayne Bay pollution, flooding and hazy development details to give preliminary approval for expanding the Urban Development Boundary and converting farmland into a 9 million-square-foot industrial park near Homestead. By a 9-3 vote, commissioners voted to send the expansion application to state agencies for review, a key step for developers