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Balancing Growth In Miami

Posted by: Mike Lydon

10 June 2006 - 5:00am

As Miami continues to grow and gentrify, City officials must balance the concerns of their future and existing residents.

"After more than a year of legal challenges and contentious public hearings, Miami city commissioners have settled a pair of high-profile high-rise battles on Biscayne Boulevard: Score it one for developers, one for residents.

But the dust-ups over building heights seem far from over along the rapidly resuscitating upper Biscayne corridor. Residents of its gentrifying neighborhoods have clashed with developers who want to build multistory towers -- buildings now allowed under antiquated rules city leaders are about to scrap.

The developers of Kubik, the edgy 14-story condo-and-retail complex on the boulevard's west side, are set to begin building after the commission gave the project the green light -- for the second time -- by unanimously rejecting an appeal by the Morningside Civic Association."

Full Story: Commission ends two high-rise building disputes
Source: The Miami Herald, June 6, 2006
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