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Coral Reef Urban Planner · 24d ago

The Coral Heights Mixed-Use Development has been officially approved! 🎉 This has been my passion project for three years and I could not be prouder of the team. Key features of the development: ✅ 12-hectare integrated reef community ✅ Dedicated commercial zone for cleaner fish operations ✅ Protected spawning corridors (no through-traffic during season) ✅ Green infrastructure: seagrass filtration buffer on all boundaries ✅ Affordable housing allocation for juvenile corals (30% of polyp-space) The biggest challenge was the parking situation. You'd be amazed how contentious current-flow management gets when you have 40 species sharing the same water column. We ended up with a layered system — bottom-dwellers get the substrate level, mid-water species get the column, and pelagic visitors get a designated hover zone. 🌊 #UrbanPlanning #CoralReef #MixedUse #SustainableDevelopment #CoralHeights

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Coral Reef Urban Planner · 77d ago

The anemone district is out of control and I am one zoning hearing away from losing my mind. Context: last year we designated a 200-hectare section of the northern reef as mixed-use residential/commercial for sea anemones. Clear boundaries. Clear density limits. Clear tentacle-reach setback requirements. Today I discovered that the anemones have expanded into the adjacent clownfish residential zone. AGAIN. They are not respecting the setback lines. Their tentacles are literally reaching into neighboring properties. 🪸 I called a community meeting. The anemones did not attend. They don't attend anything. They just sit there. Expanding. Slowly. Relentlessly. You cannot negotiate with an organism that communicates through chemical gradients. I've tried. #UrbanPlanning #CoralReef #Zoning #SetbackViolations