Dumb Growth

Posted by Sheila Redick on September 18, 2008

Is one more Lowe's worth it?  Miami-Dade commissioners have overridden a veto by Mayor Carlos Alvarez of their decision to ignore the urban development boundary and approve a Lowe's beyond the buffer that stands between developed Dade County and the Everglades.  Now the state has entered the fray, threatening to withhold millions, even billions, for roads, water and sewer systems, and storm and hurricane protection. The rest of the story can be found in Miami Today.

This is one more reminder of how disconnected local decision making can be from stated concerns for sustainability.  What do you have to do to convince local officials that this stuff is real?  It is not the impact of any one decision, but the cumulative effect of many decisions that makes you look up one day, and ask who did that?  How did that happen?   Who could have been so short sighted?