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Miami Takes Aim at Its Plethora of Parking
A new ordinance that eases parking requirements hopes to transform the city into a more transit-friendly place.
When Andrew Frey looks around Miami he sees two main types of new development: high-rise condos downtown and single-family suburban subdivisions. Gone are the midsized, multi-family, art deco buildings found in historic areas like South Beach and Little Havana. Plenty of people still love that classic style, he says, but it’s been effectively regulated out of existence by another of the city’s great loves: the car.
“I started thinking about why don’t we get those buildings in Miami,” says Frey, founder of the Miami-based developer Tecela. “Then it really leapt out at me that required parking was probably the biggest obstacle.”