The city plans to redevelop Rome Yard, an old city storage area, into a new, mixed-use community with hundreds of apartments alongside retail and recreation space.
The director of Miami’s Civilian Investigative Panel said the agency is looking into how the new law will affect its ability to function as a police watchdog.
Both St. Petersburg and Tampa have civilian police review boards and their leaders say the state is once again trying to pre-empt local governments from their own decisions.
New and slick and shiny objects are attractive in their gloss, but need time to develop depth and spirit. This is true for places as well as people. Much of Florida is too newly minted to have this patina, so if we value character, we need to stop demolishing and paving over our older neighborhoods.