Newspaper filler

There is a difference between knowing something and talking like you know something. Some people are good at the latter. Andrew B. Hellinger shows us he is not one of them:

Initiatives to lure suburbia's residents into Miami's urban core need to be considered to maximize what development has already occurred and to prevent Miami from becoming an urban wasteland. Given the scarcity of local, state and federal funds, this will be a challenge for our civic leaders.

I emphasized the words above because they make the author sound like he is knowledgeable. I am going to say that its a bluff, because someone who actually knows about urban planning in Miami would know that something along those lines already exists. But there is nothing substantive in Hellinger's "view" about that plan, or Miami's Comp Plan, or the many, many other plans that are available to the public to read regarding Miami. If Herald editors are hard up for planning analysis, I'd suggest that they solicit fewer Hellingers and request more opinions from people in the know.