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Mid Beach
UNITED
2025 FALL ELECTION EDITION
Prepared to Lead
Ready to Serve
Endorsed by 50+
Residents and Leaders
Election Day Nov 4, 2025
Vote By Mail Starts Oct 6
Early voting Oct 20 - Nov 2
Daniel Ciraldo grew up on
Biscayne Bay in Miami Beach
Inside:
Let's Keep Mid
Beach Moving
Daniel’s Priorities for Mid Beach
Let’s Keep Mid Beach Moving
Daniel Ciraldo grew up in Mid Beach and has fought tirelessly to protect its neighborhoods and quality of life. Daniel is running for Commission to make Mid Beach work better for its residents. His priorities include:
Limit Construction Impacts
Residents are fed up with endless construction with seemingly no oversight, particularly in residential areas. He will work to strengthen code enforcement limits on construction and demolition hours while ensuring construction sites are kept safe and clean.
Calm Traffic in Residential Areas
Streets like Indian Creek, Collins, and 41st Street are chokepoints that need real solutions – not just talk. He will push for local traffic calming, parking maps, better signage, and more transportation options.
Strengthen Public Safety
According to the Miami Beach resident satisfaction survey, 71% feel safe in their neighborhoods by day — but that drops at night. He’ll expand community policing and street lighting in quieter residential zones.
Reduce Taxes
The City needs to do a better job with the cost of living - and that starts at home with taxes.
Daniel will bring residents into the process with community budget input meetings - well in advance of budget season - ensuring neighbors are heard and priorities are clear.
Broad Support for Daniel Ciraldo Group 1
Miami Beach, FL – Daniel Ciraldo has officially qualified...
Miami Beach, FL – Daniel Ciraldo has officially qualified to run for Miami Beach City Commission Group 1, with more than 50 endorsements from residents and community leaders across the city and a campaign rooted in protecting Miami Beach’s unique character at a time when Tallahassee is threatening local control.
A Record of Service
For eight years, Ciraldo led the Miami Design Preservation League (MDPL) — the nonprofit founded in 1976 by Barbara Baer Capitman and friends, which went on to save Miami Beach’s Art Deco District – the first 20th-century urban neighborhood listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Designated as a Cultural Anchor by the City of Miami Beach, MDPL today produces tours, museum exhibits, educational programs, archives, and the world-famous Art Deco Weekend Festival, which under Ciraldo’s leadership drew more than 100,000 visitors each year and generated an estimated $13 million in local economic impact, according to a study by the Greater Miami Convention and Visitors’ Bureau.
As Executive Director, Ciraldo helped neighbors fight hostile condo takeovers, restore historic buildings, limit new construction impacts in single-family neighborhoods, and promote Miami Beach as an arts and culture destination.
He launched the MDPL Center for Resiliency and Sustainability, promoting sea level rise solution programs such as Miami Beach’s Private Property Adaptation initiative and the Buoyant City study. He also worked to secure national recognition for Little Havana, served on key city preservation panels under Mayor Dan Gelber and Mayor Steven Meiner, and produced the 2025 Art Deco Centennial celebrations.
Fighting for Local Control on Overdevelopment
Ciraldo warns that our way of life is under attack by Tallahassee. Three measures in particular — the Live Local Act, Unsafe Structures, and SB180 — erase Miami Beach’s local zoning protections on height and density, allowing developers to bypass rules and force high-rises into low-rise neighborhoods.
Even more troubling, these laws take away residents’ power to decide the future of their own city. Ciraldo has been a vocal opponent, and in 2023, he took the fight directly to Tallahassee, spearheading a statewide effort to defend historic zoning protections in Florida’s coastal communities and gaining national attention.
“These bills are not about affordability or resiliency — they are about taking away our voice in zoning for our city,” Ciraldo said. “Miami Beach is a barrier island and it deserves thoughtful growth shaped by its residents, not unchecked overdevelopment imposed by politicians and lobbyists in Tallahassee.”
Miami Beach leaders have stood still while other cities mount legal challenges to Tallahassee’s overreach. Ciraldo pledges to change that, making the protection of local zoning laws a cornerstone of his platform.
Ciraldo’s campaign is also rolling out a symbol of his commitment: a vintage 1976 GMC Palm Beach motorhome that will tour Miami Beach neighborhoods, bringing Daniel’s message directly to residents and updating them about our current zoning crises and how we can fight back.
The year 1976 is especially meaningful – it was also the year MDPL was founded, sparking the movement that saved Miami Beach’s Art Deco District.
“This motorhome is more than a vehicle – it’s a rolling reminder of our history and a way to connect with residents in every corner of the city,” Ciraldo said. “Just like the preservationists of 1976 stood up for Miami Beach, we must stand up again today.”
With strong grassroots support, a proven record of leadership, and a clear vision to fight overdevelopment, protect housing, address flooding, and keep Miami Beach safe, Daniel Ciraldo is entering the Commission race as the candidate ready to deliver for residents.
Recipient of the Edith Pinkney Award for “Outstanding Community Service” from the Urban Environment League (2015)
Nominee for Miami Beach Chamber of Commerce Better Beach Citizen Award (2017)
Recipient of Henriette Harris Award from the Dade Heritage Trust (2019)
Appointed by Mayor Dan Gelber to the Mayor’s Blue Ribbon Panel on Ocean Drive (2019) and by Mayor Steven Meiner and the Commission to the 2025 Ad Hoc Historic Preservation Incentives Review Board
Served as Executive Director of the Miami Design Preservation League from 2017-2025. To date, he is the longest continuously serving director in the organization’s history.
*Logos are displayed solely to acknowledge prior awards and recognitions. Their inclusion does not imply endorsement of this campaign.
Here’s Why Mid Beach Neighbors Endorse Daniel Ciraldo ->
Nancy Batchelor
I have known Daniel for over twenty years and respect him very much. Daniel has grown up in Miami Beach and really knows the city and its strengths and weaknesses.
Bernie Matz
He's very intelligent & genuinely cares about the preservation of the City of Miami Beach. He's no nonsense and gets the job done. Working with him is always a pleasure.
Sarah Leddick
He will stand up to developers while protecting our city and state against overdevelopment.
Jeannette Dorfman
At a time when our community is facing unprecedented pressures from climate change, overdevelopment, and affordability challenges, we need a commissioner who knows our history, respects our residents, and isn’t afraid to stand up for what’s right.
Daniel Spring
Daniel has proven his commitment to keeping Miami Beach’s historic buildings while working with new developments to ensure our history is not erased.
Miami Beach is a barrier island and it deserves thoughtful growth shaped by its residents, not imposed by politicians and lobbyists in Tallahassee.”
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