Miami-Dade County commissioners are set to make what could be their most contentious decision in years: where to build a new garbage incinerator.
A vote on the location is scheduled at Tuesday’s 9:30 a.m. commission meeting at the Stephen P. Clark Government Center in downtown Miami. Members of the public are allowed to address commissioners ahead of the vote, and a long line of speakers is expected on a showdown that’s been brewing for years.
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Doral is lobbying to get the county’s trash-burning operation out of the city, where it had been burning nearly half of Miami-Dade’s trash before a fire shut down the facility in early 2023. Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniella Levine Cava wants to build a modern replacement on an abandoned county airfield on the northern edge of Miami-Dade known as Airport West, a site close enough to Miramar that the Broward County city is vowing a court fight to block construction.