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U.S. Sugar wants to -- according to the Miami Herald through the Broward Bulldog:
"The Sugar Hill Sector Plan envisions turning 43,313 acres -- or more than 67 square miles -- of sugar cane fields (me: historical Everglades), citrus groves and pasture lands into a planned community featuring 18,000 residential units and 25 million square feet of space to accommodate manufacturing, warehousing, transportation services and other kinds of businesses."
All of this development is North of the Everglades in Hendry County. This is the same group that paid for that nitwit Governor Scott to go to that shoot 'em up ranch in Texas, the secret trip we all know about. Talk about a trip currying favors.
I don't write about sugar. Gimleteye does. Is he trying to shirk his duty as sugar writer? Let him editorialize just how beyond bad this is. He never reads my blogs, so he might miss this. I never read his, so he might have reported on it already. We have a mutual admiration policy --- I think he shudders when he reads what I write. Oops Gimleteye said he DID write about this...
Say goodbye to the Everglades if this goes through. It is just a swamp anyway to most of you, even though it is your source of drinking water.
Good luck trying to find this in the Miami Herald online. If we ever needed Charlie Crist we need him now. Charlie, save us from this development plan.
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Here's a link:
http://www.browardbulldog.org/2014/09/u-s-sugar-seeks-ok-for-huge-development-after-news-it-paid-for-gop-leaders-trips/
I stopped reading the Herald article about this when I got to the part of what Scott has done to decimate our land use policy in Florida in general. Neutering our DCA (department of community affairs) to no oversight and the fact that US Sugar is the pimp of all of this with our electeds as the prostitutes, well, this will be approved by them no matter what we do unless we elect a new governor and state legislators who actually care about our State and our natural resources. "Florida, where you can really build on swampland then wonder why it's flooding or sinking"
It all fits. The coast gets inundated by the ocean. Turkey Point cooled by the ocean, sits far away on a island in the disappearing bay, powering the new hood in the middle of Floridu, owned by sugar barons that own the state Government. As for water, let them drink reconstituted sewage, the stuff presently being injected into the aquifer.
Let's all sing with Mikey Mouse: O what a wonderfaul World it is!!
I used to laugh when they built Weston then wondered why alligators were in their backyard! Duh!!!!!!!!!!!
Now it's not so funny because we are running out of clean water. The huge "Everglades" coin for Florida should just read "Sugar and Swamps" instead.
http://eyeonmiami.blogspot.com/2014/09/why-voting-for-charlie-crist-is-good.html
I did.
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[Yawn] Just another negotiating ploy by the landowners to try to get top dollar from the State (read: taxpayers) for this farmland. By arguing that the highest and best use is mixed use commercial/residential, it raises the cost per acre significantly. Having it master planned and approved supports their position. They would be idiots to ever build this as they would lose their shirts before it was even completed.
Let's not forget the proposed subsidies for the 'inland port' that GOP legislators are pushing that will go...in Big Sugar Country!
The giveaways continue.
Also, this area is at higher elevation than most of Miami...so one can envision the exodus from coastal Miami to the Big Suag Burbs.
Back in college I was taught that one benefit of having sugar in FL was that otherwise, the area would have been covered with housing, roads, commerce, etc.
Rick Scott- + 600,000 jobs
Charlie Crist- -800,000 jobs
Charlie Crist- 15% tuition rate increase; 5.2 billion dollars in new debt.
Rick Scott- Unemployment- 6%
Charlie Crist Unemployment- 11%
Better Governor & Best Choice-
RICK SCOTT/CARLOS LOPEZ-CANTERA!!
Different circumstances, depression remember the economy changed.
Rick Scott and who? LMAO
For those that believe Charlie will do the state right when it comes to Big Sugar you are all wrong. Charlie, once in office will bend over and take one for the team ($$ for Dems) just like Scott did for the Rep. Doesn't matter who is in office. We need to find away around Big Sugar - like cut off all subsidies (ha, ha) by Federal Govt. Harder to do than to say but just try and stop using Florida sugar and go after their bottom line. But don't expect them to play nice either.
I'm not against big business. I am just against big business that steals (abuses) my natural resources (Everglades, Biscayne Bay, etc...). Big Sugar, if they wanted to , could be a leader in environmental issues, a leader in how business can work within the environment they live in. Big Sugar chooses to do neither and that is why they need to go. In the short run tough economics but the jobs will be replaced and in the long run Florida would be better off.
Truly sickening if this occurs. Politicians and corporations have absolutely zero conscious.
Crist was always pandering to Big Sugar. Crist was always pandering to anyone who would write him a check. Rothstein? Crist is still better than Scott.
Anonymous said...
Rick Scott- + 600,000 jobs
I thought Gov. Scott promised 700,000 jobs in his first term... and by the way, those numbers happened DESPITE his inept governance...
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