After the much anticipated unveiling of the first quadrant in the Miami 21 project on May 13th, the public is now taking the opportunity to react to the City's most ambitious urban planning effort to date.
"'We know that this is a great moment of uncertainty,' Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, who is spearheading planning, said at one of three NET meetings held following the initial unveiling on May 13. 'And we know that we can't make everyone happy about every part.'
But given that one of the central goals of the zoning overhaul is to put an end to the constant variances and exceptions that developers currently enjoy and neighbors regularly feel called to fight, planners are definitely taking a stab at it by encouraging all within the area to submit detailed comments on the parts of the draft that need to be revisited.
'Rezoning this far into the city's history is kind of like herding cats,' Mayer [owner of Magic City Trailer Park] told Plater-Zyberk at the Saturday morning unveiling. 'I don't envy you.'"
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