$2 M Housing Bond a Go: South Miami's Community Redevelopment Agency Received a Boost From County Commissioners Who Approved a Plan to Improve a Blighted Neighborhood
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By Jasmine Kripalani, The Miami Herald  Sep. 17--County commissioners gave the go-ahead Tuesday for a $2.73 million bond to help build a mixed-use affordable-housing project in South Miami and extend the city's Community Redevelopment Agency until 2020.
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By Juan Ortega, South Florida Sun-Sentinel  Dec. 19--LAUDERHILL -- City commissioners will decide this afternoon whether to take legal action to seize land from a car dealership and shopping center in separate parts of the city.
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By Ihosvani Rodriguez, South Florida Sun-Sentinel  Sep. 21--HOLLYWOOD -- A $500 million project that critics say would worsen traffic in one of the busiest areas of the city received initial approval by the city commission on Wednesday.
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By Laura Morales, The Miami Herald  Sep. 10--Miami's Historic and Environmental Preservation board has handed Grove residents opposed to a Home Depot in their neighborhood another small victory.
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By Paola Iuspa-Abbott, South Florida Sun-Sentinel  Feb. 4--The planned annexation of nearly 2,000 acres west of Boca Raton by Broward County's Parkland could cost Palm Beach County thousands of dollars.
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By The News Tribune, Tacoma, Wash.  Feb. 11--Pierce County Parks and Recreation will hold three public workshops to gather ideas for developing a master plan for the Meridian Habitat Park and Community Center in South Hill.
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By Tenisha Waldo, The Post and Courier, Charleston, S.C.  Feb. 14--The Charleston County Park and Recreation Commission is applying  for a $200,000 state grant to use toward its $1.5 million commitment to help  preserve the uninhabited northern tip of Morris Island.
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By Jim Siegel, The Columbus Dispatch, Ohio  Jun. 25--Giving people who live in subsidized housing more leverage to ensure that their residences are livable was among the agreements reached yesterday by a conference committee working out the new two-year, $52.3 billion state budget.
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By DREW DIXON  ATLANTIC BEACH - The Community Development Board will hold the first public hearing Tuesday on a proposed renovation of Selva Marina Country Club, a plan that had many nearby residents raising concerns even before it was submitted to the city.
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By Michael Newsom, The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss.  Sep. 13--OCEAN SPRINGS -- Developers have changed their plan for a controversial apartment complex and will build townhouses instead.
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By The Miami Herald  Feb. 18--Despite challenges facing the Miami-Dade County Housing Agency, a federal takeover, or making the agency an independent entity, would be premature. Takeover talk is coming from Orlando Cabrera, assistant secretary of public housing for the U.S.
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By Andy Reid, South Florida Sun-Sentinel  Feb. 14--Developers might get a free pass from affordable-housing rules in the pricey new neighborhoods spreading across Palm Beach County's Agricultural Reserve.
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By Laura Morales, The Miami Herald  Sep. 24--The Miami Commission is scheduled to discuss the issue of revisions to the city's tree ordinance Thursday at City Hall.
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By J.R. Welsh, The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss.  Sep. 13--GULFPORT -- Harrison County officials have signed off on issuance of $7.7 million in public bonds to underwrite development of the proposed Saucier Industrial Park, which fell through in 2004 after encountering opposition.
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By Christine Braden, Florida Keys Keynoter, Marathon  Dec. 16--Though the actual sinking is still more than one year away, the Vandenberg Project is a step closer to reality with the approval of an inter-local agreement between the city of Key West and the Monroe County government.
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By Tania Valdemoro, The Miami Herald  Jun. 3--After four years of battling in court with one of South Beach's most popular nightclubs, Miami Beach recently won an important victory when a federal appeals court ruled that the city's noise ordinance is constitutional.
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By Rebecca Dellagloria, The Miami Herald  Feb. 11--More than a year after Homestead lost a county permit to dig for fill dirt at a city-owned lake, officials have come to an agreement with Miami-Dade to reinstate the permit.