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Sponsered Ordinances
County Ordinances, Referenda, and Projects sponsored by Harvey Ruvin, during his
years as a County Commissioner includes the following:
- Miami-Dade County BEACH RENOURISHMENT PROJECT restoring a 200 foot-wide sandy beach
from Haulover Park south to Government Cut (10 and 1/2 miles) and providing full
public access.
- Sponsor of successful Referendum approving a $90 million for the purchase and maintenance
of ENDANGERED LANDS - the nation's largest program of its kind.
- Spearheaded establishment of countywide curbside collection of home-separated RECYCLABLES
later enlarged to include multi-family residential businesses. The largest program
of its kind in the nation.
- Sponsor of Ordinance REGULATING OZONE DEPLETING CHEMICALS and banning cans powered
by CFC's. Sponsor of Ordinance requiring Stage II nozzle heads at commercial gasoline
stations to cut ozone and particulate emissions from pumps.
- Developed and successfully proposed sweeping changes in Dade County's procurement
policies, so as to PROMOTE MARKETS FOR RECYCLED GOODS of all types.
- Sponsor and chairman of the BISCAYNE BAY MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE, he played an important
role in the protection of South Bay, as well as the successful model Restoration
and Enhancement of North Bay.
- Established BAYNANZA, an annual week-long event for the celebration of the environmental,
esthetic, historical and economic values Biscayne Bay represents.
- The establishment of a COMPREHENSIVE ENERGY MANAGEMENT PLAN which is credited with
cutting 20% from County electric bills, including a fuel plan which has cut the
County's gas demand by 37%.
- Sponsored the ENERGY CODE amendment to the South Florida Building code, which for
the first time required specific energy standards.
- With a goal to curtail urban sprawl, he was the earliest advocate of the DADE COMPREHENSIVE
DEVELOPMENT MASTER PLAN establishing an orderly pattern and a timely sequencing
of the necessary services for healthy future growth - in harmony with both our natural
and urban systems.
- Creation and maintenance of the Miami-Dade County CONSUMER ADVOCATE Office.
- Changes to the Building Code, requiring SPRINKLER and SMOKE EXHAUST SYSTEMS in mid
and high-rise buildings; and an Ordinance requiring minimum FIRE-FLOW to fight fires.
- TREE ORDINANCE creating incentives for tree preservation, regulating proper tree
removals and establishing civil and criminal remedies to prevent or fine violators.
- CLEAN AIR ORDINANCE - setting strict standards for CO2 emissions for both economic
and environmental reasons.
- Sponsored changes to the Building Code eliminating architectural barriers for physically
handicapped persons, as well as an Ordinance OUTLAWING DISCRIMINATION in housing
and employment for the "able-disabled".
- Fought to RETURN SECURITY DEPOSITS to water and sewer customers once good credit
is established.
- Sponsored a package of Ordinances dealing with the proper storage, transport and
disposal of HAZARDOUS WASTES. The proposal, now implemented, set up the first local
'mini' super-fund in the nation to deal with hazardous waste emergencies.
- Other measures dealing with the protection of the BISCAYNE AQUIFER that supplies
Miami-Dade County with its sole source of fresh water.
- Sponsored the County’s efforts to REDUCE GREENHOUSE GAS emissions formalized by
the County’s CO2 Reduction Plan - the plan has resulted in approximately 40 million
metric tons of carbon reduced or avoided to date.
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