Three weeks earlier than Ultra Music Festival opens its gates in Miami, Brickell residents within the metropolis have filed an “emergency grievance” towards Miami, alleging that it violated its personal constitution in permitting Ultra to occupy Virginia Key.
The grievance boils right down to the settlement between the City Miami and Ultra Music Festival allegedly being misrepresented as a license, somewhat than a lease. Doing so would sidestep the aggressive bidding course of required by the town constitution.
This isn’t even the primary time that the license-versus-lease argument was used towards Ultra. According to the Miami Herald, writes Miami New Times, “the license-versus-lease tactic was first raised final 12 months by downtown residents attempting to take away Ultra from Bayfront Park. City commissioners rejected an settlement to maintain the competition at Bayfront earlier than the thought developed right into a authorized grievance.”
A consultant the City Miami mentioned , “We are reviewing the grievance and can defend the town’s curiosity.”
H/T Miami New Times | Photo by @Philippe Wuyts Photography