The very same developers whose plans for an oceanfront highrise on North Beach were quashed by voters in 2015 have gone another route: They got the city to vacate public streets and sidewalks so they can unify a development site and use the FAR to build the condo tower anyway — and a hotel, street-level shops, […]
Your voice apparently matters. There are several community meetings and charrettes going on in different municipalities asking for the public feedback on important issues or projects. Anti-development commissioner hosts forum Coral Gables Commissioner Jeannett Slesnick is hosting a citizens’ forum called “Cranes, codes and collaboration” to discuss the development booming all around the City Beautiful. Slesnick, […]
In one of the few times in politics where money apparently didn’t make the edge, a grass roots activists on Tuesday won their battle against a ballot measure that would have permitted upzoning on Ocean Terrace for a certain developer to build a high rise tower in a historic district with two- and three-story buildings. […]