Coral Gables officials have admitted to making a mistake in February when a rewrite of the zoning code meant to clean up inconsistencies actually increased height and density in an area known as the Biltmore Section.
Whoooooops.
But Gables Village planned area development seems to have no opposition
There will be a status hearing Tuesday morning about the lawsuit against the controversial WaWa gas station and convenience store that is planned on Grand Avenue across from G.W. Carver Elementary School.
More than 120 people attended the last status hearing in April via zoom and Miami-Dade Circuit Court Judge Michael Hanzman acknowledge that there was a lot of engagement in the “interesting” and “important” case. Since then, the city’s attorneys, joined by WaWa and the developer, have tried unsuccessfully to throw out the lawsuit on technical grounds and attack the complaint as frivolous and intentionally misleading.
Here we go again. Again.
Another developer wants to push beyond the limits of zoning and land use in the Crafts Section, less than six months after the city approved a controversial upzoning that just doesn’t seem like enough.
Lobbyist hints at a bait and switch for a smaller project
Developers of a mixed use project on Ponce de Leon Boulevard in Coral Gables want the city to let them add nine stories to the Ponce Park Residences on the corner of Malaga Avenue by changing the zoning limit from seven floors to 16 stories, more than twice as tall as allowed.
Oh, and they want part of University Drive given to them. And an alley, too.
