This David and Goliath battle is being heard today by the Florida Cabinet, it also sparked an editorial by the Miami Herald. This is the St. Pete time editorial. The decision will have far-reaching implications, also applied to our County. JUST IN: Gov. Charlie Crist and Florida's Cabinet voted in support of two citizens who argued there was no need for a new residential development in Marion County.
The Miami Herald also had an editorial on this and said:
This would reinforce one of Florida's best tools against sprawl -- the ``demonstrating need'' test. How strong is this growth rule?
Strong enough that Karen Lynn Recio and Susan Woods, with few resources, were able to defeat the Marion County proposal. They learned that the Department of Community Affairs, in first approving the development, had overlooked the need test. So the agency gave the county's growth plan a second look and determined there was plenty of space for new development without adding more acres outside designated growth areas.
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So far as I can remember, this is the FIRST time The Miami Herald has weighed in on a land use issue outside its subscriber base. Good for the Herald. Other papers, from the Sarasota Tribune to the Palm Beach Post, routinely examine pressures of unsustainable growth from the perspective of other counties and areas. I hope the Herald editorial board has decided to get with the program and continues to examine these key decision points as reflected through other and similar controversies and involvement of local and state politics, like rock mining for example.
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