Two developers hope to move forward with a residential venture in Miami-Dade County that would offer workforce housing. The venture, known as Summer Breeze, would offer 192 units in three four-story buildings, with floorplans spanning studio to three-bedroom apartments.
Seventy-six homes would be designated as workforce housing, reserved for those earning up to 120 percent of the area median income (AMI). Miami-Dade County records define workforce housing as affordable housing for tenants earning between 60 to 140 percent of the county’s AMI.
Summer Breeze just about reaches the threshold to qualify for incentives under the Live Local Act, with 39.58 percent of its homes being workforce housing. The minimum is 40 percent under the Act. Yet, it doesn’t appear as though developers are applying under the Act; they have just filed a pre-application, which the Act would normally waive.
For the project to move forward, developers want to rezone the 4.6-acre site from “minimum apartment house district” to “high density apartment house district.” 12499 Holdings and 232 Holdings assembled the project’s three-lot site for a combined $739,000, the Real Deal reports.
If given the green light by city officials, Summer Breeze would occupy the southeast corner of US-1 & SW 232nd St in Princeton, FL, 33032, in Miami-Dade County.
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You greedy idiots! I have lived in South Dade for a large portion of my 78 years and have watched greedy developers building future slums (Medium-high density living /commercial structures) up to the curbs of existing major, mainly North-South traffic routes. Every “7th” North-South Avenue South of Flagler is now a bumper to bumper clogged roadway filled with people driving to and from where the living wages jobs are. Construction and commercial vehicle traffic is being pushed farther to the West, where two lane country roads are being turned into high(er) speed access roads to supply the developers with the raw materials to cover up former arable land used for peaceful living, farming and change them into compacted kitchens and bedrooms where the near slave labor can rest and afford the gas, cars, food necessary to head up to the gentrified kingdoms in the North county. Compaction of populations leads to no-good quality of life, exacerbated attacks on mental well being, frustrations from long, tedious commutes, cramped quarters, broken, poorly maintained, or non-existent infrastructure. Take away cars and drivers of the “public servants and elected officials” responsible for looking out for the welfare of constituents living in this jungle being built. Make the decision makers “swim” with the rest of us. We are already overbuilt. JUST STOP! while there is any chance of saving any open space, greenery, manageable transportation, parking, or sanity if you will. When every aspect of what used to be desirable living is gone, the developers will be off corroding the next hot spot for profit and South Dade will be a crumbling jungle of cheaply built, ugly, non-functioning apartments, condos and mini-houses with square blocks of high rise storage units. Follow the UDB at least for now. Power, communications, roadways (quality and quantity), WATER & sewers, are already stressed. Wake the hell up you greedy bastards. Perhaps it will take a few Cat 5 Hurricanes, major floods and urban firestorms to fix what is being cobbled together here. This is clearly a “hip-shooting” rant.