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Good morning. What we’re covering in today’s Spotlight:

  • The Latest Design Plans for Kirk Munroe Park and Fuller Street 
  • Proposed Changes to Miami’s Density Transfer Program

After more than a year of public debate, the design plans for Kirk Munroe Park and Fuller Street in Coconut Grove’s central business district are headed to the Miami City Commission for review and final approval.

By Jenny Jacoby

More than a year ago, Spencer Morris, chief executive of the Allen Morris Company, stood before a crowd of Coconut Grove residents and presented a proposed redesign of Kirk Munroe Park and Fuller Street – the two public spaces that sandwich his firm’s new Ziggurat development on Grand Avenue at Matilda Street.

Not everyone was charmed. Grove resident Barbara Lange said the design was “beautiful,” but better suited for Coral Gables. 

“I would like to see a design that looks more like Coconut Grove,” she said.


A revised version of the controversial affordable housing density transfer program would exclude Coconut Grove from some aspects, but other late-stage changes — including a doubling of allowable bonus density — have dramatically expanded the scope of the proposal set for a final vote Thursday.

By David Villano

The Miami City Commission will vote Thursday on a final version of a controversial proposal to vastly expand a program that allows developers to transfer housing density from affordable housing projects to market-rate and luxury developments elsewhere in the city — even as Coconut Grove itself would be carved out from some of the program’s reach.

Under the proposed ordinance, Neighborhood Conservation Districts (NCDs), historic districts, and properties within 500 feet of single-family districts would no longer qualify as so-called “receiving sites,” where developers increase the size of their projects by purchasing and applying housing density credits tied to affordable housing developments in Miami’s economically distressed areas.

All of Coconut Grove falls within an NCD.


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