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Old 04-15-2025, 08:00 PM
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Leesburg city council voted NO for the moratorium to pause new development until 2027. The city manager and 4 of 5 council members opposed the “stop growth” measure. New business would just go elsewhere in Lake and Sumter counties and Leesburg would be the real looser with such a moratorium. It was suggested that energy and effort would be better used to lobby State and area counties to provide the necessary resources to build roads and infrastructure to handle the growth that is here now and coming in the future. Impact fees were mentioned. Seems like we heard that solution before.
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