(by R. Crumb: A short history of America)The following is from 1000 Friends of Florida: On Thursday, August 6th beginning at 2:00 pm the Miami City Commission will hold a public hearing on a proposed new Smart Growth Zoning Code known as Miami 21. It is a comprehensive rewrite of the current code. The 4 years of planning work has generated much interest throughout the planning, land-use, architecture and real estate industries. The new zoning code is designed and intended to promote redevelopment of the urban core as a high density mixed-use 24 hour city center with neighborhood nodes and mixed-use corridors for easy access to jobs and every day resources. The code has the potential to take development pressure off the Everglades fringe area and reduce Vehicle Miles Traveled (VMT) through planning a land-use pattern that provides for alternative transportation and increased walkability. Miami 21 is a Form-Based Zoning Code that works to achieve specified urban forms. Form-based codes place an emphasis on the relationship between the street and buildings, pedestrian and vehicles, public and private spaces, and the relationship between multiple buildings, a block, a neighborhood and transitions in scale. 1000 Friends members may wish to express their support of this new Smart Growth Zoning Code as it has the potential to act as a template or example for other municipalities around the state.
Miami 21 - Thursday August 6th @ 2pm
Miami City Hall, Pan American Drive, Coconut Grove
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6 comments:
My only problem with Miami 21 is that it was presented to all of the home owners associations. Many of them contacted land use attorneys while others read through the whole thing themselves. (Similar to you guys who look under everything through a microscope)
And then they had a few propositions as a whole and the Mayors office refused to even let it on the Commission for a reading.
Commissioner Gonzalez will not be attending. I hear that there will be a motion to table the discussion, until after the budget has been dealt with.. Joe and Manny are now at war, because Joe believes that Manny has not honored his commitment to help raise funds for Joe's Mayoral campaign. Sarnoff has said in the past that he doesn't like Miami 21, but may consider approving it as an alternative code, as the Herald suggested today. Coincidence??? Nothing is a Coincidence.. That said, with Joe and Tomas voting no, Angel absent, and only two yes votes (Sarnoff, Spence-Jones) the motion to approve will die... Going to be fun!!
That Crumb drawing is one of my favorites. It depicts his rural CA home where he grew up as it evolved into something less....bucolic?
Money Diaz has clearly paid off all 1000 Friends of Florida to get them to support his plan.
Regalado's zoning plan is much better!
Is that the same Crumb that drew all his women with big hefty legs?
If Miami 21 passes property values on 75% of properties will decline. Some properties will increase.
Manny Diaz and the City of Miami are facing a $118 mil deficit per the Herald.
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