Sunday, September 4, 2011

Gutting Florida's Growth Act

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After Florida's business lobby poured tens of millions in campaign cash into electing Republican supermajorities to the Legislature last year, its top wish was clear: dismantling state oversight of the once-massive development industry.

More than a month before Billy Buzzett took over as Florida's top growth cop in January, lobbyists for some of the state's biggest developers already had outlined a game plan to make it easier for large-scale projects to spread across the rural and exurban landscape, according to public records released by Gov. Rick Scott office seven months after the Orlando Sentinel requested them.

Florida's business lobby had invested millions of dollars to defeat Hometown Democracy — an amendment on the November 2010 ballot that would have required voters to approve changes to land-use plans — and wanted to prevent local governments from putting growth-plan changes to public votes in the future. The new law does that.

Read about it here.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Is this to say basically to open the flood gates and let the growth whores turn their tricks with no legislation to control them?

Anonymous said...

Exactly and Scott ahs ruined Florida.

kkss21 said...

Stop with the crocodile tears from these newspapers who helped to lie about Amendment four!!!Go sell some more development based advertising,you whores at the Orlando Sun!!!