Eileen Higgins
speaker
516 appearances
5 recordings
3 series
first heard Sep 2025
last heard 10 Dec
Eileen Higgins’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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We have to be able to build affordable housing and sure, go fast on a soccer stadium.
We should be able to build things more quickly in our community.
But why?
Can't we?
The system of permitting is broken for everyone.
Every single person.
And I will tell you, I do build large structures.
And we have the hardest time getting them permitted in the city of Miami.
But the system is broken.
If you look into how they run their permitting software, everything is run in series.
nothing's running in parallel right so per department a reviews department b diverge and then department e has comments and it goes back and starts over the county permitting process everything goes in parallel so you can get different approvals right the landscaping people don't care about the plumbing people why should they right in general we can get those things done so the equivalent building in the county permitting system basically so i'll give you an example
I was able to permit a 12-story affordable housing building, also low-income seniors.
I secret shopped the city and the county.
One was in the county zoning, the other was in the city zoning.
Both are located in the city of Miami, by the way.
One's in the RTZ, so we control the zoning and permitting process.
put them in on the same day.
This building was 12 stories, which means it's a different fire code, right?
It's much more complicated to go above eight stories.
I had that thing permitted in 107 days.
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