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d sa rro' no desordenado. Un desarrollo tecnicamente
sensato seria positivo, pero todo parece indicar que
esta no es la realidad que se afronta.
The Reckless Building Boom
in Miami
Any sensible individual, who even has a general
idea about what a city should be, finds that Miami's
growth in recent years represents an alarming ex-
ample of urban disorder in terms of building, to the
point that the natural beauty of the city has been
wasted. The quality of life has also been damaged.
The high towers with hundred of condominiums ob-
struct the view to Biscayne Bay's natural beauty.
Moreover, several hours during the day, sunlight
does not reach some streets and sidewalks.
It is difficult to understand how a masher plan for
the city has been ignored, although it is known that
one exists and has been systematically changed
when certain interests set out to do so. In this case,
today's master plan, or any other in the future, if
exposed to these modifications determined by spe-
cial interests, will suffer the same consequences
from the changes that are swiftly made with the ap-
proval, of course, of the municipal or county author-
ities. In the City of Miami, where so much of this has
been done, the members of the City Commission
modify zoning to make way for these huge, tall build-
ings, without considering all the things that are
needed so that peoyle living there do not represent
a serious inconvemence for the rest of the city.
Hundreds of thousands of new condominiums mean
at least two automobiles for each unit; water and
electricity use; need for schools; for firemen, to only
mention some of the problems among which should
be significantly included automobile traffic which
already puts personal safety in jeopardy and is a
problem for the city's population. Furthermore, the
number of police officers has to be increased consid-
erably to take care of security for those condo resi-
dents and for the city's residents who have to travel
through the crowed streets. There are some streets
particularly vital for certain parts of the city that
are going to be practically impassable because of
the many vehicles of the new neighbors.
The leaders of civil society should mobilize all their
civic resources to defend the city of Miami that is
under attack -so to speak- by this disorderly growth.
A technically sensible growth would be positive, but
everything seems to indicate that this is not what we
are seeing here.
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