Over the last three years, Benjamin Augustyn had enjoyed observing the fruit trees behind his condominium building. He would sit at his kitchen table and admire the beautiful mango and coconut trees.
“That’s one thing that I liked,” the Miami Dade College associate professor says. “It was just like this kind of sea of green.”
But these days, he looks at an outdoor gym and a dog park, courtesy of the City of Miami and Commissioner Joe Carollo. He says he has lost his sense of privacy. People riding the outdoor elliptical can peer into his home. Dog owners sit on benches a couple feet away from his windows. Floodlights turn the park into a stadium at night…