Family wants to build on 246 acres of wetlands The bulldozers are still in the parking lot. And the Urban Development Boundary is back on the agenda. Again. After months of delays, negotiations, a veto, reconsiderations and enough procedural gymnastics to qualify for the Olympic team, Miami-Dade commissioners are scheduled Tuesday to once again decide […]
As everyone knows, Raquel Regalado can count Residents of Calusa — fighting the development of the long-abandoned golf course with an organic, urban rookery into a mega gated complex of 500+ homes — got a mulligan Thursday when county leaders, again, put off a decision for another month. Ladra has been writing about Calusa since […]
Coral Gables Mayor Vince Lago likes to talk about political theater, but his recent guest appearance in a supporting role at a Miami Commission meeting deserves its own program insert. Lago showed up to the city commission’s December meeting to support a resolution that would help declare several aging hotels along SW 8th Street in […]
Water, water everywhere — except not really Miami-Dade Mayor Daniella Levine Cava took to video last week with a message that sounded less like routine government housekeeping and more like a gentle but unmistakable warning shot: We have a water problem. A “water shortage warning“ is in effect. Not a watch. Not a suggestion. A […]
Protected wetlands are too important, she says Miami-Dade Mayor Daniella Levine Cava dropped a veto this week on the Kelly Tractor project — the same wetlands-eating, UDB-jumping development our esteemed county commissioners approved 9-2 just weeks ago, despite complaints from staff and advocates. Bold? Sure. Effective? Almost certainly not. Political? Now that’s the question. The […]
Miami-Dade has a line. It’s called the Urban Development Boundary. The idea is simple: inside the line, you build. Outside the line, you don’t — because that land is supposed to protect water, absorb floods, and keep the Everglades from becoming a memory. In theory. In practice, the UDB is more of a polite suggestion. […]
Miami’s first official Build-and-Flood™ pilot program is on. Last week, the Miami City Commission gave final approval to an ordinance that will establish a “resiliency infrastructure” slush fund and allow for double allowable density in Edgewater — from 150 to 300 units per acre. Same deal, same sponsor, same developer perfume lingering in the air. […]
Builders get a BOGO special and Miami gets… flooded Miami commissioners are set to vote Thursday on yet another Damian Pardo special. The Miami commissioners has proposed a shiny new ordinance that would let developers double the allowable density in some of the most flood-prone, overdeveloped corners of the city — as long as they […]
Miami City Hall is at it again, mismanaging public land like it’s a clearance rack at Ross. The city commission on Thursday will consider what looks like a fire sale on the south side of Watson Island, and the only ones getting a bargain are — surprise! — the developers. On the agenda for the […]
Looks like Lennar Homes, the country’s second biggest homebuilder and longtime Miami-Dade campaign donor, is back at the county commission asking for a little favor — the kind that turns farmland into profit. On the agenda for Thursday’s meeting: Application No. CDMP20250003 — doesn’t that sound friendly? — which is really about turning 20.1 acres […]