Resolution 7924 RESOLUTION NC. 792+
RESOLUTION EXPRESSING DESIRE OF THE CITY
COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF MIAMI BEACH, DADE
COUNTY, FLORIDA, TO HAVE THE UNITED STATES
AIR FORCES REACTIVATE AIRPORT KNOWN AS
HOMESTEAD AIRPORT.
WHEREAS, the Board of County Commissioners of Dade County,
Florida, own and control an airport formerly known as South
Dade Airport, located near the City of Homestead, Florida, and
now known as the Homestead Airport; and
WHEREAS, the United States Air Forces are showing an
interest in reactivating the Homestead Air Base located in the
southern part of Dade County, with the attendant expenditures
of large sums of money for rehabilitation, expansion and
providing the usual facilities for military and civilian
personnel to be stationed at that airport; and
WHEREAS, the United States Air Forces, by their representa-
tives, have had meetings with representatives of various
municipalities and civic groups in Dade County, and all of said
representatives have evidenced a desire to have the United States
Air Forces reactivate the airport known as Homestead Airport
and to station personnel and aircraft at said airport, which
said reactivation will entail the expenditure of large sums of
money with an attendant growth of the economic conditions of
the entire surrounding area and will also require the cooperation
of the communities, civic groups and governmental agencies in
providing school, hospital and educational facilities for the
personnel based at this airport and require efforts on behalf of
the various municipalities and civic groups to encourage the
providing of housing units sufficient to accommodate the families
of personnel stationed at said airport, and will require the
efforts and expenditure of funds in relocation of roads and
providing facilities to the said airport; and
WHEREAS, the Board of County Commissioners of Dade County,
Florida, have expressed their willingness to cooperate in
relocating roads and furnishing rights of way for ingress and
egress which might be made necessary du- expansion and
extension of the airport facilities;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the City Council of the
City of Miami Beach, Dade County, Florida, that the recitations
of fact and intention hereinbefore set out are hereby approved
and authorized, and the Clerk of this body be and is hereby
authorized to forward a copy of this resolution to A. B. Curry,
Director of the Dade County Port Authority, for use and
transmission to the Secretary of the United States Air Forces
so that said representatives will know of the interest and
desire of this body in having the airport known as Homestead
Airport reactivated as a military base by the United States
Air Forces.
PASSED and ADOPTED this 6th day of February, A.D. 1952.
/6 AIL
Mayor
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