What does the new Miami-Dade County mayor have in common with growers in Redland? They have the UDB, or Urban Development Boundary — a line in the county’s master plan designed to limit development from encroaching on precious farmland. Read this excellent article in the Miami Herald which lays out where Carlos Gimenez and Julio [...]
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Will line on growth hold?
Posted in development, location, media, politics, tagged UDB on June 16, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Urban growth limits fading away?
Posted in development, location, politics, tagged UDB on May 23, 2011 | 2 Comments »
State dismantles growth-management laws BY ANDRES VIGLUCCI aviglucci@miamiherald.com For a generation, a sharp and sometimes controversial line has contained Miami-Dade’s explosive urban growth like a gasket, largely insulating the county’s fragile agricultural hinterlands, surviving wetlands and two national parks from subdivisions and commercial-strip development. Now the days of holding the line on the Urban Development [...]
Run Katie run – part two
Posted in development, farm, interview, people, politics, tagged District 119, Katie Edwards on October 29, 2010 |
MW: How to keep the land in agriculture? The farmer thinks that the land was your bank, that’s your retirement fund. KE: I’d rather see us focus, before we start looking out, start looking in and focus more on reinvestment. Even in the city of Homestead there are things that we can be doing for [...]
Run Katie run – part one
Posted in development, farmer/grower, interview, people, politics, tagged District 119, Katie Edwards on October 28, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Several months ago, I had the chance to interview Katie Edwards. She is running for State Representative, District 119, and is currently the executive director of Farm Bureau. Katie is quite familiar with issues that affect growers in South Dade; and since I blog about growers, our interview focused on agricultural issues. I have not [...]
The price of time’s toll
Posted in agritourism, development, location, media, tagged Anderson's Corner, historic preservation, zoning on December 27, 2009 |
Anderson’s Corner doesn’t look like it will last much longer. It’s depressing to drive by there and see it all ramshackle and rickety, instead of restored and vibrant. I doubt if the current owners, who are struggling with upkeep, will be able to hold on much longer if they are going to get fined $500 [...]
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