A plan to save Little Havana from big development?
BY ANDRES
VIGLUCCI AND DAVID SMILEY
aviglucci@miamiherald.com
The National Trust for Historic
Preservation will sponsor a major plan to help guide the preservation
and revitalization of Little Havana, the storied neighborhood where activists
have been battling to stave off large-scale development from adjacent Brickell.
The Trust’s
announcement, scheduled for Friday morning, will come a day after the city of
Miami officially scrapped a controversial two-year-old proposal that would have upzoned
much of East Little Havana with the aim of encouraging redevelopment.
Preservationists
and activists complained the upzoning would have led to displacement of the
neighborhood’s working-class residents and the destruction of an
architecturally valuable collection of early 20th century homes and commercial
buildings.
“Preservation
doesn’t necessarily mean we put everything in a freezer and preserve it for all
time,” said Juan Mullerat, principal at Miami firm PlusUrbia, the Trust’s zoning and
planning consultant, adding that the goal is “to propose new legislation that
will guide the future development in a contextual manner.”
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