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“Our plans focus on long-term solutions to the vehicular congestion that comes with population and employment growth while reducing the region’s ecological footprint,” said Maria Bendfeldt, PlusUrbia’s project director for the SMART Plan.
“Our plans focus on long-term solutions to the vehicular congestion that comes with population and employment growth while reducing the region’s ecological footprint,” said Maria Bendfeldt, PlusUrbia’s project director for the SMART Plan.
“Transit-oriented development
increases density and reduces car dependency while promoting affordability,
access and street planning for pedestrians and cyclists as part of sustainable
mobility management.
Investing in viable, accessible transit systems is the
most important component for cities to become resilient to waning oil sources
and increasing impacts of climate change.”
In Coconut Grove, Miami’s original
waterfront village, PlusUrbia completed a plan for the Business Improvement
District that matched economic viability strategies for the village core with
resiliency.
The resulting, approved Action Plan includes green infrastructure
such as: tree succession, maintenance, storm-water management and
hurricane-preparedness plans.
The Grove plan contemplates a redesign of
waterfront parks to protect adjacent properties.
The historic neighborhood is
one of few in Miami where a significant portion of coastline is composed of
public parks, not 30- to 60-story towers located on seawalls built before sea
level rise was contemplated.
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