{"id":21653,"date":"2023-11-07T17:50:48","date_gmt":"2023-11-07T17:50:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/diazreus.com\/?p=21653"},"modified":"2023-11-07T17:50:48","modified_gmt":"2023-11-07T17:50:48","slug":"at-zoo-miami-ron-magill-draws-a-crowd-this-time-to-fight-a-zoo-project-miami-wilds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diazreus.com\/es\/at-zoo-miami-ron-magill-draws-a-crowd-this-time-to-fight-a-zoo-project-miami-wilds\/","title":{"rendered":"At Zoo Miami, Ron Magill draws a crowd. This time, to fight a zoo project: Miami Wilds"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Douglas Hanks
\nUpdated November 05, 2023 9:16 AM<\/p>\n

Ron Magill has spent his career in county government promoting Zoo Miami, but he arrived there Saturday morning to fight his employer\u2019s project.
\nStanding on a parking lot planned for the Miami Wilds water park that would anchor a new Zoo Miami Entertainment Area and generate an estimated $3 million a year in rent, Magill ticked off the reasons he thought Miami-Dade commissioners should vote against the plan.
\n\u201cIf we took a countywide vote on this project there\u2019s no way it would pass,\u201d Magill, 63, said about an hour before the longtime zoo communications director took the stage at a rally he organized to oppose Miami Wilds. \u201cI hope the commissioners understand that.\u201d
\nEnvironmental arguments against Miami Wilds hadn\u2019t prevented a string of supportive commission votes for the project in the last few years. <\/p>\n

But developers lost momentum in September with a delayed vote days after Magill publicly urged commissioners to reject a project that his ultimate boss, Mayor Daniella Levine Cava, had recommended. <\/p>\n

It\u2019s Ron Magill versus Miami Wilds in Miami-Dade debate<\/strong>
\nManagement at the Parks department, which operates the zoo, made the case to commissioners to support the project, which first won board approval in 2020. A main selling point for Miami Wilds is that the bulk of the rent would go into the $43 million budget at a zoo that only sells about $21 million worth of tickets a year.
\nMagill said those factors have put him on the outs with superiors, as Zoo Miami\u2019s most famous employee leads the charge against a project now set for a final vote on Dec. 12.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s the Zoo ambassador,\u201d said Jos\u00e9 Romano, president of the Zoo Miami Foundation, a charity supporting the zoo that recently voted to oppose Miami Wilds. \u201cWhen I go out with him in public, people stop him and take pictures.\u201d
\nNow in his 43rd year as a county employee in a $130,000 a year job, Magill got his start when the county zoo was still in Key Biscayne. His longevity puts him well past the 30-year mark that locks in a full county pension, and Magill said he\u2019s limited his Miami Wilds fight to hours before and after work.<\/p>\n

Raquel Regalado, a commissioner who opposes Miami Wilds, said Magill\u2019s opposition undermined the notion that the project would help the zoo.
\n\u201cHe took a stand when a lot of the employees were afraid to take this on,\u201d she said during an interview at the rally. \u201cHis leadership has been amazing.\u201d
\nStanding 6-6, Magill gained fame as the zoo representative who made the media rounds, including frequent appearances on national Spanish-language shows filmed in Miami.
\nDuring a 2015 visit with fellow zoo professionals to his father\u2019s native Cuba, Magill was alarmed when two guards stopped the Miami-Dade County employee at the airport. Then he heard in Spanish: \u201cAre you the guy from S\u00e1bado Gigante?\u201d<\/p>\n

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