OK, so I want to put it to a vote...


Do folks want to see a new metro Miami subforum (like the NYC forum, but within the Florida forum to start. If it proves to be well used like I think it will be, it will be front paged.)


Or... Do folks want to see a Development News subforum created, where all the development threads go, leaving the main forum for other topics.


Or... No change...




I felt like putting this to a vote to help me get some input, because I've heard numerous folks in favor of each option in the past.

miami subforum,because right now the florida forum is really the miami/florida forum.

i like the idea of having one, central place for all the miami talk, so the metro miami subforum gets my vote.

btw, jasonhouse, did you get my pm about skyscraperpage? i wanna know if you're still a mod over there cause i haven't been able to login & can't seem to get a response from anyone over there. thanks.

I wouldn't mind seeing subforums for other metros either (or if need be, regions of the state: panhandle, northeast, central, southwest, etc.), if the demand is there. It would help keep things organized.

well in my opinion right now the only area that really needs a subforum is miami,but tampa is catching up ,and so i think right now miami only.adding so many subforums defeats the purpose of having a florida forum

i beleive we should try the miami subforum here in florida first, cuz now this might actually help the rest of florida by letting some tampa topics and other stuff around the state start to come up, lets see

exactly ballin boi, start wit a subforum within the florida forum, its only fair to the other floridians that ares swamped by use anyways... although honestly, i dont belive there is currently enough demand to front page it, hopefully that will change, or i could b wrong, i dont know how many people there are in the new york/chicago/toronto/etc... forums, but im assuming alot more demand then us

defineite vote for a subforum within florida, worth the experiment

Miami needs its own subforum under florida. So far 7 people agree with me and none disagree (according to the poll results right now).

Jason :) , I have to go with the Majority Here, A MIAMI METRO :) Forum is Needed BAD, and It will Give the REST OF Florida Cities Some Breathing Room in the FLORIDA FORUM :cheers: . LETS TRY IT, BRO !!! :cheers:

Darn, If you do that I feel like Miami isnt even prt of Florida anymore. But Miami does have the most development and deserves its own forum. You could scratch my vote for no change. I just feel that Miami will soon declare independance. :cry:

Dont forget your roots! :grouphug:

"I dont know, but I felt like voting anyways." :D

I wouldnt be surprised if there was a Little Havana one...

bubba, i said that to keep it still in the florida forum just a subforum,

this can even be better for ur hometown of orlando, and gives room for some florida topics to come up! then probably those stickied topics dont gotta be stickied anymore since they will be free of miami clogging it

OK, so what goes in a MIA subforum?

Just Dade county? Or also Broward? And Palm Beach?

I think all three should go! We're one big region, each city half-an-hour from the next, and the regionalism here is increasing day by day (with things like the expansion of tri-rail)!

It makes sense to include the entire tri-county area.

Just as the radio call signs say every hour:
Wxxx - Miami, Fort Lauderdale, and the Palm Beaches!

I goofed my vote- do a Miami subforum within Florida and then the subforums within Miami forum.

The Miami subforum will only have a P&C subforum, just like CHI and TO. Don't get too carried away folks.



So the whole region? ok...

i personally think it should be dade county, so miami, beaches, aventura, sunny isles, gables, kendall, grove, etc... the development in ft lauderdale and palm beach is different and adding them to this new subforum would b defeating the purpose of creating it... to give miami its own place (cause how much of the development that we talk about actually hpns in ft lauderdale or palm beach) so that it doesnt stifle every1 else

jason, wat do u mean by a p&c subforum?

hm, well like now palm beach isnt really in there,

we can leave palm beach with the rest of florida, to give the florida forum a lil more life when miamis not there, (not saying that wpb isnt part of maimi metro)

or we can just put wpb in the miami metro i guess,

cuz like most of the miami stuff and photo updates would be like kendall, sunny isles, some beach pics of broward and miami, and there arent alot of west palm beach, so u can leave wpb as part of florida to give the florida more life,

but w/e,
sounds good

nimby he means that within the miami forum, there will be a subforum thats just for projects and construction updates, then the miami forum will be for pics or whatever city talk i believe

good ideas men

i personally think it should be dade county, so miami, beaches, aventura, sunny isles, gables, kendall, grove, etc... the development in ft lauderdale and palm beach is different and adding them to this new subforum would b defeating the purpose of creating it... to give miami its own place (cause how much of the development that we talk about actually hpns in ft lauderdale or palm beach) so that it doesnt stifle every1 else

jason, wat do u mean by a p&c subforum?


P&C= Projects and Construction

I like how it is now! why would you put up a Miami metro? not everyone is from Miami..

Thanks MIAballinboi :) , Good Ideas Men :) , Sounds GREAT !., Here's another IDEA for a TITLE,,, " MIAMI-DADE REGIONAL, P and C Forum " or " MIAMI-DADE REGIONAL, P and C SubForum " ALL of MIAMI-DADE will be INCLUDED. :cheers:
There's OVER 500 :) or so PROJECTS in Planning and Construction STAGES , And Ft.Lauderdale and Palm Beach Has their Own Development Threads , WHICH aren't really That busy as the 65 Members or NON-members that Live in MIAMI-DADE County Here in the Florida Forum. :cheers:

You crack me up Chuck.

lool chuck,

well it would be fair to have just miami-dade county alone, exclude broward and palm beach leave them with florida,

cuz it would make it more equally like if we moved the entire metro into its forum, the florida forum might see a big drop in activity but if we leave broward and palm beach, it would be cool to post that info with like the tampa news, and the photo threads would also be able to have their threads.

just check how the forum is now, go down the list of the topics on the first page most of them are "miami dade countY"

Chuck cracks me up too....and his capitalization makes me dizzy...
It seems like the number of forum posts are working in direct proportion to the population distribution of the areas where the posters are living (as anyone would guess). I'm not totally in tuned with forum/threading/sticky dynamics, but it seems like the most "Skyscrapers" are scraping in Miami, and specifically within the Downtown Development Authority boundries. With all due respect to other cities in Florida, South Florida is the only place where forumers are whining about the Penthouses scraping the landing gear of the 2 o'clock to Heathrow. I'll let the brighter folk figure out the file structure for the whole thingy, but as a suggestion about the Miami area, perhaps the threads could look like this:
1. Downtown Development Areahttp://www.restainer.com/skyscrapers/DDA_Map.jpg
2. The Beaches (that would be South Beach to Sunny Isles)
3. Biscayne Corridor (includes the skycrapers on the water and the inland not so skycrapers).
4. Coral Gables, Coconut Grove, Kendileah
5. Aventura
6. Breaking News
7. Transportation

Or something like that...Let's let Canes sort this out, he is surely to have a solution incorporating a tunneling method heretofore unheard of. :)

I'd say only Miami Dade. leave Broward and Palm beach out.

I agree with BHK24. If we did start a new Miami subforum, which I have no problem with, I prefer it be just Miami-Dade cause then the Florida forum have lost even more activity forumers. Anyway, the Miami forumers will still be coming through the Florida forum so its not like it will be a ghost town plus, I like to see what is going on in the rest of Florida too.

But, even if we start a new Miami subforum we're still gonna have to keep it organized. We'll start new "Miami = " and stick with those or else it will get flooded. Like, for example we have a Midtown Performing Arts District thread yet someone just started a 900 Biscayne thread. I mean a thread just for one building?? Chuck said it himself there are over 500 projects in Miami and we don't need 500 threads, it would be impossible to find info and stay updated..

I suggest the subforum goes in the Florida forum to keep Florida together. Basically a huge sticky for Miami. I don't really care which counties get it, but Miam-Dade is the active group. Ft.L and WPB are pretty quiet.

i think smiley nailed it. just sticky a miami thread. include ft. lauderdale & palm beach cause there's not a ton being posted about those areas right now.

YES DAVE :) , Smiley :) Has Nailed IT, Lets TRY a STICKY " MIAMI-DADE DEVELOPMENT NEWS ". Sounds LIKE a TEST of KEEPING FLORIDA :) TOGETHER !, We Don't Want a " CIVIL WAR " Here in OUR FRIENDLEY STATE of Florida. :cheers:
Lets GO FOR IT, JASON :) !!!, ITS a TEST of at Least Trying . Could Relieve the REST of the Forum, And Leave Ft. Lauderdale and Palm Beach As their Own Development News Sticky Threads. :cheers:

Chuck cracks me up too....and his capitalization makes me dizzy...
It seems like the number of forum posts are working in direct proportion to the population distribution of the areas where the posters are living (as anyone would guess). I'm not totally in tuned with forum/threading/sticky dynamics, but it seems like the most "Skyscrapers" are scraping in Miami, and specifically within the Downtown Development Authority boundries. With all due respect to other cities in Florida, South Florida is the only place where forumers are whining about the Penthouses scraping the landing gear of the 2 o'clock to Heathrow. I'll let the brighter folk figure out the file structure for the whole thingy, but as a suggestion about the Miami area, perhaps the threads could look like this:
1. Downtown Development Areahttp://www.restainer.com/skyscrapers/DDA_Map.jpg
2. The Beaches (that would be South Beach to Sunny Isles)
3. Biscayne Corridor (includes the skycrapers on the water and the inland not so skycrapers).
4. Coral Gables, Coconut Grove, Kendileah
5. Aventura
6. Breaking News
7. Transportation

Or something like that...Let's let Canes sort this out, he is surely to have a solution incorporating a tunneling method heretofore unheard of. :)

that is perfect, give miami its own subforum, with these seven topics stickied, and the rest will be used for the other crap threads people start... definetly leave broward and west palm in florida forum

yet again, we should just try this out as an experiment, if it doesnt work, well go bak to the way things are now