Miami | Regional | Envisioned Agricultural Wetlands | Residential community project
The Miami urban development boundary is an existing zoning code whose purpose is to protect natural and agricultural land from being bought and re-zoned into for-profit residential development. Adjacent to the existing U.D.B., lies the Everglades National Park along with a unique tropical-agriculture suburb running along chrome avenue. Miami is a part of a urban sprawl crisis, littering the green space of Miami with many abandoned urban projects and increased commuting distances, and ecological pollution. The Everglades National park and historic agriculture community of Chrome avenue are under threat from newly developing residential communities .
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Considering that Miami's outdated sewer/ water system, will soon costs tax payers over 8 billion dollars in repairs, any new development linked to Miami water infrastructure in agricultural zones, will further the monetary burden on Miami’s citizens. This envisioned Agricultural wetlands project proposes an independent, “off the grid” agro-residential community, whose infrastructure is dependent on its own land vs. the cities land. This proposal reaches a sustainable compromise between the agricultural and residential parties on both sides of the U.D.B..
This Envisioned Agricultural Wetland works with South Florida’s wet and dry seasons to propagate economic return from “flood-dependent crops”, rice and fresh water fish. This flood method will help to keep South Florida's critically endangered water supply replenished, through an designed soft infrastructure. This project will also re-invent the social monotony of the suburbs with a new sense of aqua culture-identity. This community will become a model community, with 3 cultural community hubs that celebrate the uniqueness of this sites geographic context, less than 2 miles from Everglades National Park. This is a shift in the public paradigm of what a conventional suburban development looks like.