Miami is preparing for climate change. Critics say bureaucracy almost slowed it down

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After a heavy rain in August, pedestrians wade across flooded streets in Miami’s Brickell area of Miami. Carl Juste

miamiherald.com - by JOEY FLECHAS AND ALEX HARRIS - May 10, 2018

Facing strong opposition from climate-change groups, Miami on Thursday backed down from a change critics said would undermine the city's quest to position itself as the shining example of how a city should prepare for climate change.

Multiple commissioners and a host of activists were worried a change to the city's leadership structure could send the public and other governments the wrong message about how seriously the city is taking climate change. They feared that high-level planning decisions and big-ticket projects across the city wouldn't get the necessary input from the staffers with expertise.

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