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CHARLES WHITED General Land. Use Masten way loop into Biscayne Bay
Herald sun Writer Plan for future growth of from downtown, to feed traf,-
. After years of haggligg, Greater Miami. • fic onto MacArthur Cause=
Dade's' Planning Advisory Also erased from thh map way.
Board finally wiped, away
t • .. ch-debated Mid Bay was another heavy black line And while they were mak-
ausewa Thursday from ifs designating a 'future high- ing changes—all ordered by {I
the Metro Commission••—
the planning board removed
a controversial expressway
corridor from COCONUT
GROVE, superimposing it
instead over U.S.1. •
The action came quietly,
as an anti-climax to long and
sometimes flashing dispute 1
which swirled around the
Mid Bay Causeway line on
the map — flatly rejected
recently by the Metro Com-
mission.
•The mag,-.will,nosy'he pre-
pared for submitting again
-to the commission as Dade
County's official guide, to
development over the next
20 years..
• In addition to the commis-
•i o n-ordered changes, the
planning board also voted
another, also generated in
part by controversy.
At the recommendation of
Chairman Emil Gould, the
board agreed to designate
for commercial use a small
area along NW Seventh Ave.
north of 119th St. previously
indicated for future residen-
tial use.
A Miami Beach attorney
a n d commercial property
owner, Alexander Rubin, had
bitterly criticized the residen-
tial marking, saying a shop-
ping center is already on
part of the tract and the
entire area is commercial.
Gould emphasized that in
recommending ' the change,
he wasn't bending to Rubin's
demands, but felt the seg-
ment should be made to con-
form with a long strip of .
commercial land use designa-
tion north and south of it.