Key Biscayne, Florida This article is about the village titled Key Biscayne.
Village of Key Biscayne Official seal of Village of Key Biscayne Location in Miami-Dade County and the state of Florida Location in Miami-Dade County and the state of Florida Map of Key Biscayne Key Biscayne is an island town in Miami-Dade County, Florida, United States.
Key Biscayne lies south of Miami Beach and east of Miami.
5 Controversy over hotels and condominiums on Key Biscayne According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the village has a total region of 1.4 square miles (3.6 km2).
The village is bordered on the north by Crandon Park, Miami-Dade County park, on the south by Bill Baggs Cape Florida State Park, on the east by the Atlantic Ocean and on the west by Biscayne Bay.
See also: Early history of Key Biscayne While there had been earlier schemes to precarious a town on Key Biscayne, it wasn't until the opening of the four-mile (6 km) long Rickenbacker Causeway from Miami to Virginia Key and on to Key Biscayne in 1947 that the island was opened up to large scale residentiary development.
The northern two-thirds of the island had been directed as the biggest coconut plantation in the continental United States amid the first half of the 20th century.
In 1940 the Matheson family donated over 800 acres (3.2 km2) of their territory to Dade County for a enhance park (Crandon Park) in exchange for a commitment that the county would build a causeway to the island.
Post Office contract branch was opened, the Community Church started holding services in an old coconut-husking shed, and the Key Biscayne Elementary School opened in 1952. The southern third of Key Biscayne, which encompassed Cape Florida, was owned by James Deering and, after his death, by his brother Charles, for 35 years.
After Aleman died in 1951, his widow, Elena Santeiro Garcia, added to her Cape Florida property by buying an ocean-to-bay strip that had been part of the Matheson property.
The territory north of this canal was advanced as part of what is now the Village of Key Biscayne.
Garcia sold the Cape Florida property in 1966 to the state of Florida.
This territory became Bill Baggs Cape Florida State Park, which opened January 1, 1967. Bebe Rebozo, owner of the Key Biscayne Bank, was indicted for laundering a $100,000 donation from Howard Hughes to the Nixon election campaign.
President Kennedy and Nixon met for the first time after the 1960 Election loss by Nixon in an oceanfront villa at the old Key Biscayne Hotel.
Plans for the Watergate break-in at Democratic command posts were discussed at the Key Biscayne Nixon compound and, as the Watergate scandal unfolded, Nixon spent more time in seclusion there.
Nixon visited Key Biscayne more than 50 times between 1969 and 1973.
Department of Defense spent $400,000 constructing a helicopter landing pad in Biscayne Bay adjoining to the Nixon compound and when Nixon sold his property, including the helicopter pad, there were enhance accusations that he enriched himself at taxpayer cost.
In 1992, Hurricane Andrew flooded some homes and businesses on Key Biscayne but the eye wall passed over uninhabited Bill Baggs Cape Florida State Park which received the brunt of the storm.
In recent years, the assembly of a several large resort hotels, condominium complexes and shopping centers on the island has affected the once bucolic island life, as commercialism has continued to accelerate at a frenetic pace.
The Village has its own fire, police and enhance elementary and middle school.
In 2004, the Village instead of the assembly of a civic center including fire, police and administration buildings and a recreation and improve center with indoor multi use courts, outside swimming pool and a famous musical theater program.
Key Biscayne exhibits a tropical monsoon climate despite some temperate influences which results in winter temperatures being more than 16 - F cooler than summer temperatures.
Key Biscayne experiences hot, humid summers and mild, dry winters.
Due to its island location, Key Biscayne is subject to cooler highs than Miami year-round.
Key Biscayne Demographics 2010 Enumeration Key Biscayne Miami-Dade County Florida In 2000, the village populace was spread out with 24.2% under the age of 18, 4.6% from 18 to 24, 29.6% from 25 to 44, 26.0% from 45 to 64, and 15.6% who were 65 years of age or older.
As of 2000, Key Biscayne had the thirty-first highest percentage of Cuban inhabitants in the US, with 15.53% of the populace. It had the eleventh highest percentage of Colombian inhabitants in the US, at 7.07% of the village's population, and the fourteenth highest percentage of Peruvian inhabitants in the US, at 2.48% of its populace (tied with Glen Cove, New York.) It also had the fourth most Venezuelans in the US, at 2.36%, while it had the twenty-first highest percentage of Brazilians, at 1.50% of all inhabitants (tied with Sunny Isles Beach and five other areas.) Key Biscayne's Nicaraguan improve had the forty-second highest percentage of residents, which was at 1.02% of the US population. Key Biscayne is home to 0.70% of the US' Chilean community, making it the 73rd highest concentration of Chileans in the US. Controversy over hotels and condominiums on Key Biscayne As noted above, the assembly of a several condominium complexes in Key Biscayne caused the populace to soar.
The controversy over density in the village is related to the fate of the Sonesta hotel property on the easterly side of the island.
There are a several large condominium and hotel complexes on Key Biscayne, including The Key Colony complex of four buildings, Botanica, Emerald - Bay, Oceansound, and Tidemark.
The Towers of Key Biscayne The Islander News covers news, affairs and happenings on the island.
It is the only journal in South Florida catering exclusively to inhabitants of Key Biscayne.
They also publish "Island Life" The Official Guide and Directory of the Key Biscayne Chamber of Commerce.
Key Biscayne Magazine is a lifestyle periodical based on the island.
Key Biscayne Community School Miami-Dade County Public Schools serves Key Biscayne.
The Key Biscayne K-8 Center serves Key Biscayne. Middle school students may attend Ponce de Leon Middle School in Coral Gables freshwater the Key Biscayne School. High school students are zoned to Coral Gables High School. In 2012 MAST Academy, a magnet school on Virginia Key, announced it will grew by 1,100 seats with preference for eligible Key Biscayne residents. The Miami-Dade Public Library System operates the 6,000-square-foot (560 m2) Key Biscayne Branch Library.
Matheson Drive in Key Biscayne Brad Pitt, actor, once owned a home in Key Biscayne Timothy Ferris, author, went to Key Biscayne Elementary School Key Biscayne also hosts the Tennis Center at Crandon Park, home to the Miami Open Tennis Tournament, and a golf course, along with many amenities for water sports and fishing.
Key Biscayne has a Visitors Center, open 24/7, 365 days a year, positioned in the Village Hall, 88 West Mc - Intyre Street #100, adjoining to the Police Station.
"Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for Incorporated Places: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2015".
"MLA Data Center Results of Key Biscayne, FL".
Key Biscayne Ordinance setting popular vote Retrieved 2008-11-01 Key Biscayne K-8 Center.
"KEY BISCAYNE K-8 CENTER School Legal Boundaries Description." Miami-Dade County Public Schools.
Miami-Dade County Public Schools.
Miami-Dade County Public Schools.
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