Miami-Dade may rearrange 19 targeted urban areas

Written by Miami Today on April 4, 2017

Florida International University’s Metropolitan Center, on behalf of the Miami-Dade Economic Advocacy Trust, is recommending to the county a $32,750 study of the county’s 19 targeted urban areas and a subsequent boundaries modification plan.
John Dixon, the advocacy trust’s executive director, wrote a report headed to the county commission meeting this week addressing targeted urban area designations and outlining their expansion, removal or addition; and the efforts to promote economic development in targeted urban areas, which are predominantly black communities…To read the full story click here