Lies in Wise Government Planning and Spending
Miami’s endless cycle of condo booms
and busts has lined coastal acreage with miles of homes, and some prestigious
office towers, of extremely wealthy people.
People who, Jim Murley notes, are
not predisposed to retreating or waiving the white flag of defeat.
Murley is
the chief resiliency officer for Miami-Dade County, responsible for securing
the county’s fate over the next century as sea levels are expected to rise by
at least one foot.
He has decades of experience in planning in the Sunshine
State, including serving as secretary of the Florida Department of Community
Affairs and executive director of the South Florida Regional Planning Council.
Murley said even when looking at building new or upgrading old buildings
operated by the county — which includes some of the largest airports, seaports
and transit systems in the nation — climate adaptation looms large.
Officials
have to look at worst case scenarios both for the slow but inevitable creep of
rising seas and the fast and devastating hit from storm surge.
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