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 [...]
Posts Tagged ‘UDB’
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 [...]
State 1, Lowes 0
Posted in development, location, politics, tagged UDB on July 29, 2009 |
What happens here in Miami-Dade County could set precedents for other counties regarding sprawl. Why don’t developers reconsider urban infill? Florida Cabinet thwarts plan to alter Miami-Dade development boundary The state Cabinet overruled Miami-Dade County and stopped an attempt to move the county’s western development line. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/southflorida/story/1161697.html
Urban sprawl and farms
Posted in development, location, politics, tagged UDB on July 27, 2009 |
Urban sprawl is a hot button issue is South Miami-Dade County. Depending on whom you speak to, they’re either strongly for it or against it. The UDB, or Urban Development Boundary, is a line drawn in Miami-Dade’s master plan that separates agriculture from suburbia. Periodically and frequently, developers petition the county and state to move [...]
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