for citizens who care about Tampa Bay's growth management, transportation & environment
The Urban Land Institute bills itself as a broad-based coalition of land-use professionals and planners, dedicated to “creating better places.” Some of their seminars, though, reveal a bunch of developers who seem more concerned...
County Commissioner Al Higginbotham invited several citizen groups and community leaders to be videotaped with him today for what his staff called a “Christmas commercial” to be televised on the county’s TV station, HTV22....
We got our $40 million back. By the time Plant City Mayor Rick Lott presented the proposal for Jim Norman’s giant sports complex at 10:30 a.m. today, it was clear that there was not...
Commissioner Brian Blair wants the county to stop protecting wetlands. Unless we’re talking about the wetlands behind his house. The tiny lake Blair lives on, called Noreast Lake, has become his own personal pork...
Your county government is frantically trying to convince you that you don’t really want your taxes lowered. A conspicuous dollar-sign at the top of the county’s home page links to a scary list of...
Sunday’s editorial by Rosemary Goudreau says we should “engage citizens in a discussion” about growth, but she doesn’t want those pesky citizens actually VOTING on their Comprehensive Plan, because that “could grind growth to...