A new zoning program in the city of Miami will allow for denser developments in a radius of up to a mile around existing and planned Metrorail and commuter rail stations,including Brightline stations, inside city boundaries.
Within those zones, developers can apply to build high-rise residential and commercial projects with considerably more units and height than the old local rules allowed, a strategy intended to sharply increase housing supply and affordability while boosting transit use.
The city’s current rules under the Miami 21 code’s “transitional zoning” strictly limits the height of new buildings abutting low-scale residential areas. But the new Transit Station Neighborhood Developments could erase those protections, planning board member Paula De Carolis told city planners in a June hearing before she voted against the measure…