A highly anticipated Wednesday night meeting of Miami’s Planning, Zoning and Appeals Board (PZAB) was canceled after the panel failed to reach a quorum, leaving close to 75 residents and other stakeholders — many of whom had planned to speak — unable to be heard.
The agenda included two closely watched city-backed proposals — to allow added building height and density near bike trails, or “greenways,” and to expand an existing program that allows affordable housing projects to sell and transfer unused density to luxury and market-rate developments elsewhere in the city.
Coconut Grove civic groups have largely opposed the measures, warning they could accelerate overdevelopment in a neighborhood already strained by increased traffic and infrastructure demands.
Under city procedures, PZAB must review such measures before they can advance to the City Commission for final consideration.
PZAB is scheduled to meet again on April 15.
