Alan Farago

The Audacity of Parkland: Florida’s squandered promise

Posted in Blogroll, Everglades, Grass roots, Growth/sprawl, Housing implosion, Wall Street, Wetlands by alanfarago on December 17, 2008

(Counterpunch) 50 million barrels of oil are being parked in tankers sitting offshore, lacking buyers. Let’s call it: Parkland. But in Miami, Parkland is a name with another meaning. Parkland is a zoning application to move Miami-Dade’s abused Urban Development Boundary closer to the Everglades.