David Winker, left, and Anthony Parrish, right.
On Dec. 4, the Miami Planning and Zoning Appeals Board (PZAB) voted 8-1 to recommend repealing special area plans (SAPs) from Miami 21's zoning code. This astounding vote came after residents of Little Haiti, Palm Grove and Buena Vista testified that SAPs are destroying their neighborhoods. This was followed by the introduction of an emergency pocket item by Commissioner Manolo Reyes at the December commission meeting organizing a task force to review the impact of the Miami 21 zoning code on Miami's neighborhoods.
Why Is This Happening Now?
Projected sea level rise is making close-by, low-density, high and dry land attractive to developers.
The result :
- Rapid gentrification in poor minority areas
- Neighborhood conservation districts (NCDs) being unenforced
- Demolition of "contributing" historic houses
- For-profit private schools imposed on neighborhoods
- Parkland proposed for for-profit uses
- Gridlocked traffic
- Beaches closed for fecal contamination
The City Has Defaulted
There is indeed a housing crisis. The city has defaulted to the easiest solution: Let the developers build it. But where and for how much?
The city has tools for directing development. Developers adapt; they take the path of least resistance. What we are seeing now is altering and even destroying our neighborhoods without regard to what makes each neighborhood special.
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