The Miami Herald

Miami residents and developers alike are discovering the advantage of mixed-use development.

Across the country home sales are slowing and prices are dropping. The trend is causing most production home builders scale back their development plans. However, Lennar views the slowdown differently.

Broward County, Florida, will take a large step Friday towards completing its plan to incorporate the county's 60 unincorporated areas by 2010. Only 14,000 people will still live in unincorporated areas, down from over 150,000 10 years ago.

To compensate for the rising cost of providing parking structures, the city is proposing to hike its impact fee to $35,000 per space.

Miami's City Commission will vote today on Citisquare, a large retail development proposed for a site next to Miami's new performing arts center. Critics deem the project's Times Square like billboards to be inappropriate for the context.

The Miami Herald chronicles how the nation's most ambitious public housing effort in decades has become plagued by corruption and greed.

The developer of Miami's massive Midtown project says selling the project before it is built does not indicate a change in Miami's hot housing market. Some Real Estate analysts disagree.

Meticulously planned down to the last cul-de-sac, Weston, Florida continues to be Miami's most sought after suburb.

Developer Mark Siffin, who some believe to have a troubled past, is planning to build Citisquare Center, a two block commercial center, to compliment Miami's downtown highrise condo boom.

Even with projections that call for a large increase in students, faculty, and therefore congestion, officials at Florida International University are rejecting the Miami-Dade Transit Authority's best laid plans for alleviating traffic.

The City of Miami rejected Florida-based Concalpro's "Citywalk" plan, citing the market would not support the proposal for the 135-acre property adjacent to Miami International Airport. Concalpro has answered the rejection by taking legal action.

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

With a focus on simplifying the development process and historic preservation, Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, the lead consultant on the Miami 21 Project, unveiled the first quadrant of the City's most ambitious urban planning project to date.

The City of Miami is set to change its antiquated zoning laws, hoping for a "grandly ambitious zoning overhaul".

A proposed condo development on one of downtown Miami's last vacant parcels faces opposition from nearby residents who believe that the loss of important viewsheds and an increase in traffic make the project undesirable.

Housing prices have begun to fall as condo supply continues to grow in Miami.

As delays continue in the construction of Miami International Airport's new American Airlines terminal, Miami-Dade County is forced to pay $54,000 a month to maintain a people mover train system in Japan.

Fresh off a recent victory, proponents of maintaining Miami's urban growth boundary are cautiously optimistic about the future.

Despite growing pressure, the Miami-Dade County Commission has decided not to amend its Urban Development Boundary -- for now.

The Everglades-adjacent islands will remain under close watch by state government at least until 2009.