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Proposal Made To Undo Restrictions Keeping Miami-Dade's Crandon Park From Expanding

A member of the family at the center of governing Miami-Dade’s Crandon Park "wants to undo rules that in recent years have foiled plans from the Miami Open tennis tournament, Donald Trump and local sports leagues eager to expand onto the prime public park," according to a front-page piece by Jackson & Hanks of the MIAMI HERALD. In a letter this week to Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Giménez, a lawyer for Christine Matheson said that she "wanted to explore lifting" the '93 restrictions secured by her family that "gives a family-picked charity two of the four seats of a board governing the park." A cousin, Bruce Matheson, holds one of those seats and is "seen as wielding veto power over growth at Crandon, including an effort" by Trump in '15 to "take over the golf course there." Matheson's attorney, Jerry Breslin, said, "There were positive responses, negative responses, and some family members that have no interest and some she hasn’t heard from." Jackson & Hanks note Key Biscayne Mayor Mayra Lindsay has "proposed paying" the Matheson family $20M in exchange for the deal. Breslin said that the Mathesons "have not requested any money for the deal." Lindsay said that the payments were "her idea." Bruce Matheson has become a "top foe" of the tennis tournament, "sparking threats from the tournament that it would need to leave Miami without an expanded footprint" (MIAMI HERALD, 3/23).

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