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Lynda Bell Marks Early Success On Growth And City Audits As She Completes First Half Year As Mayor Of Homestead

Written by on June 26, 2008
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Citizens come first, says Lynda Bell, Homestead’s first female mayor. Her election, she says, represents a shift among residents toward supporting officials who they believe will do the best job regardless of gender or social network.

She sees commercial development as Homestead’s future and prides herself on smart-growth policies such as instating a condo and townhouse building moratorium to allow the city’s infrastructure to catch up to the residential boom. A nearly all-new council means change, Ms. Bell says, though she plans to continue some initiatives she pushed as a former council member, namely related to education. This is an excerpt from the weekly profile article published in Miami Today. To read the entire article in full, order this issue or subscribe to the print edition of Miami Today. Advertisement

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