Miami-Dade approves massive industrial project outside UDB, partly on wetlands

A heavy equipment firm scored approval for its headquarters on more than 200 acres outside Miami-Dade County’s Urban Development Boundary, including paving over wetlands in a plan to develop a headquarters.  County planning staff members opposed the proposal and recommended commissioners deny the application, which has riled environmentalists decrying the loss of wetlands necessary for flood mitigation.  Miami-Dade is generally a developer-friendly county where officials for years have accommodated project proposals. But the county has its limits, drawing a hard line against construction outside the urban development boundary. That invisible line was drawn to restrain suburban sprawl onto wetlands, farmland […]

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