South Miami is poised to become Florida's first city to require new homes to include rooftop solar installations, thanks to a teenage girl who helped write the ordinance. Now, despite facing opposition from a Washington, D.C.-based organization, she's set on spreading the measure across the state.
The ordinance received initial approval from South Miami's city commission in a 4-1 vote last week, and it is slated for a final vote on Tuesday. But its origins date back more than a year, to when Delaney Reynolds, then a 16-year-old high school student from Miami-Dade County, read about a similar measure passed in San Francisco, the first major U.S. city to require rooftop solar for new construction.
