Miami 21 plan aims to update city's zoning code and incorporate elements of New Urbanism.
Miami residents got an initial glimpse Saturday into how city planners aim to reshape the look and feel of their neighborhoods by overhauling what some say is an antiquated zoning code...Incorporating elements of the New Urbanism movement which invites pedestrian use, the plan proposes wider sidewalks, narrower roads and shady trees in the eastern quadrant, and later citywide...It is also intended to simplify the city's zoning code, which some say encourages hodgepodge development."
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