Preserving Paradise: SoFlo’s Call to Action The grades are in, and South Florida is headed for a mega-disaster if local governments, businesses, and organizations don’t start working together, according to a biennial regional indicators report from Florida Atlantic University.  

The report suggests that South Florida politicians, civic and business leaders should focus on collaborative projects on transportation, especially funding TriRail and other mass transit; creating synergy rather than competition among the region’s 3 airports and 3 seaports; building on the strengths and improving the weaknesses of our schools, colleges, and universities as a collective whole; and restoring the Everglades to the west and the coastline to the east.

For the full text of the report, visit www.soflo.fau.edu.

Monroe County Working Waterfronts Monroe County is losing recreational and commercial working waterfronts along with public access to the water through the redevelopment of marine facilities, including marinas, boatyards, wet and dry storage, fish houses and commercial fishing vessel dockage.  The Council, in partnership with the Center for Urban and Environmental Solutions (CUES) at Florida Atlantic University, has prepared two studies for Monroe County: Monroe County Marine Management Strategic Plan

Monroe County Working Waterfronts Preservation Master Plan