Balancing Growth In Miami

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

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June 10, 2006, 5:00 AM PDT

By Mike Lydon


"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."

Tuesday, June 6, 2006 in The Miami Herald

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