Some claimed that in the wake of the Salamanca rejection. We were fascinated to meet Tim Hernandez, who worked 16 years for Pulte Homes, the last trying to get Salamanca approved. In the wake of that defeat, Hernandez and partner Kevin Rickard set up New Urban Communities, a development firm in Delray Beach, in a closely-packed part of coastal Palm Beach County. Hernandez reports it also has enlightened codes, appropriate to its quite small lots. We need incentives Codes are clearly such a severe problem in some places that some constructive state incentives could help.
Recent examples come from two states.
It has also written new, simplified codes to let older buildings be rehabilitated. South Florida needs a dose of the same, making it easier to develop in built places, recapturing some of the magic of cities, suggests Ben Starrett of the Collins Center for Public Policy. Examining our zoning laws. Florida state government, in time, may also have to intervene with special incentives to lift the heavy weight of post-World War II codes. Today they cast an ominous shadow over every effort to construct attractive, sustainable communities.