Peacock Park is set for a climate resilience makeover — but not without controversy.

The $2 million shoreline stabilization project, championed by the City of Miami’s Office of Capital Improvements (OCI), comes with a $465,000 design and permitting price tag, no confirmed construction funding, and the planned removal of a row of mature palm trees from Coconut Grove’s iconic waterfront park.

After more than two years of planning, city officials are finalizing plans for a 450-foot-long, 12-foot-wide landscaped berm to act as a natural seawall. The berm, expected to reach at least six feet in height, is pitched as a hybrid vegetated berm system—a combination of clean fill, FRP sheet piles, riprap, and native vegetation.

The system is designed to stabilize the shoreline, absorb wave energy,

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