Do you remember the June 2022 article in an Islamorada Community Alliance newsletter about the need to get rid of the ugly orange cones on the Fills?  Guess what!  Three years, two new councils, and a few Village Managers later and they are finally gone. And Sue Miller didn’t have to volunteer her day to remove them.  Click here to read the story.

In 2019 the Village leased the Fills from FDOT for 5 years to control the crowds, the trash, and the haphazard parking and picnicking every weekend.  The lease has expired and FDOT recently asked the Village to remove the orange cones so they can proceed with a landscaping project from MM75 to MM81.4 including the Fills.

It will be interesting to see if the simple “No Parking” signs that have lined the Fills for years will now be as effective as the Village’s employees sitting along the highway every weekend costing taxpayers well over half a million dollars in overtime pay for the last 5 years.