I remember reading in the Leesburg paper the
reader comments loathing the idea of TV building on the farm annexed by Fruitland Park and being built by TV now.
Readers and councilmen's anger and prejudice was (almost verbatim): "We don't want the vote in our city taken over by a huge new voting bloc of "
old (gag)
rich (gag)
white (super gag)
Re______ns (ultra-super gag)." (Don't shoot me. I'm just the messenger, and we know the left-right balance is not that bad.)
But in the end they probably like the millions in increased taxes on former unused agricultural/pasture land, which probably multiplied current city budget/revenues by 10, and schools--a mega expenditure--don't need to be built and funded for over 55 age group.
I think they'll take the tax revenue
…… and housing and economic growth.