Following residential complaints aiming at cancelling the dance music gathering, the festival wins majority votes and will continue at Bayfront Park!

After relentless efforts by the city’s mayor and other political figures to ban Ultra Music Festival, the Miami City Commission has voted 4-1 to allow Ultra to maintain its current location at Bayfront Park.

The vote to allow Ultra to continue to rave on in Miami’s downtown area came in spite of City Commissioner Marc Sarnoff’s impassioned plea to send the fest packing: β€œWe had one person who died of an overdose at Jackson, two who are in critical condition,” he said (viaΒ CBS Miami), going on to show a video of a fight that happened near one of the stages this year, which went on for a good six minutes before police finally arrived to intervene.

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At this year’sΒ Ultra Music FestivalΒ in Miami, 28-year-old Erica MackΒ was trampledΒ by gate crashers while working as a security guard. It was alsoΒ reportedΒ that 21-year-oldΒ Adonis Pena Escoto died following the festival.

Next year, the festival will be required to have an increasedΒ police presence, two additional layers of G8 fencing to deter gate crashers, plusΒ mental health and drug stations operated by health professionals.

Ultra released an official statement via their Facebook :

 

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