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5 Statistics There has long been plans for Metrorail the local heavy rail rapid transit system to be extended west with two proposed lines terminating at Florida International University's main campus This would ease traffic and parking problems at and around the main campus. 4 Carnival Cruise Lines 3,500 Orlando MCO Orlando International Airport Large Hub 21,565,448 Florida Suncoast. The Board of County Commissioners is the legislative body consisting of 13 members elected from single-member districts Members are elected to serve four-year terms and elections of members are staggered the Board chooses a Chairperson who presides over the Commission as well as appoints the members of its legislative committees the Board has a wide array of powers to enact legislation create departments and regulate businesses operating within the County it also has the power to override the Mayor's veto with a two-thirds vote.

. ! 13 Downtown skyscrapers 1900 528,542 35.0% Miami-Dade County has over 200,000 students enrolled in local colleges and universities placing it seventh in the nation in per capita university enrollment in 2010 the city's four largest colleges and universities (MDC FIU UM and Barry) graduated 28,000 students. Intercity rail Although scientists made headway in decreasing mercury and phosphorus levels in water the natural environment of South Florida continued to decline in the 1990s and life in nearby cities reflected this downturn to address the deterioration of the Miami metropolitan area Governor Lawton Chiles commissioned a report on the sustainability of the area in 1995 Chiles published the commission's findings in a report that related the degradation of the Everglades ecosystems to the lower quality of life in urban areas the report noted past environmental abuses that brought the state to a position to make a decision Not acting to improve the South Florida ecosystem the report predicted would inevitably cause further and intolerable deterioration that would harm local tourism by 12,000 jobs and $200 million annually and commercial fishing by 3,300 jobs and $52 million annually Urban areas had grown beyond their capacities to sustain themselves Crowded cities were facing problems such as high crime rates traffic jams severely overcrowded schools and overtaxed public services; the report noted that water shortages were ironic given the 53 inches (130 cm) of rain the region received annually. With the rise of sea levels that occurred during the Pleistocene approximately 17,000 years ago the runoff of water from Lake Okeechobee slowed and created the vast marshland that is now known as the Everglades Slower runoff also created an accumulation of almost 18 feet (5.5 m) of peat in the area the presence of such peat deposits dated to about 5,000 years ago is evidence that widespread flooding had occurred by then.