Miami Gardens council members set a tentative tax rate that is higher than the current rate, but city officials say property tax revenues will actually decrease.

In the midst of summer’s doldrums, the city features a few oases in unlikely spots

LENOX — “In the summer New York was the only place in which one could escape from New Yorkers,’’ Edith Wharton once quipped. Wharton would have known: She was one of the wealthy New Yorkers who took to the hills and the shores of New England in summer, probably bumping into city friends at every stylish soirée. New England - Edith Wharton - New York City - United States - newyork

The most significant change sets up a two-tier system for reviewing development applications from owners of environmentally sensitive lands. Owners could opt for the current traditional criteria, with their quantitative and clear and objective standards, or the new discretionary development standards.

Vic Priapi, the owner of Priapi Gardens in Cecilton, added a farmers market to his nursery on Augustine Herman Highway earlier this month where he will be selling organic produce grown on the property.

Residents of the 55-and-older Lucas Gardens apartment property on East Lucas Drive could be getting a new place to live if the Beaumont Housing Authority succeeds in raising adequate capital to replace the complex.

Lots for Art to turn vacant land into points of pride.

Animal is raiding local gardens and yards, munching away.