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Old 04-16-2025, 08:25 AM
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Originally Posted by justjim View Post
The Leesburg city council is meeting tonight to discuss their residents petition to pause new development until January 2027. Really?

Apparently, 1300 people a day move into Florida. Central Florida is receiving more than their share of new arrivals. When does too much growth become too much? South Florida didn’t stop development in the 70’s, 80’s and 90’s. Look at South Florida now. Look at California and Arizona’s valley of the sun. Do you want to move to LA? Leesburg is next door to The Villages means Leesburg might as well embrace “growth” because it’s certainly coming their way and Leesburg can’t stop it.
They might as well go ahead and amend the agenda to include either tax increases or service cuts. Growth stunts the impact of increases in the cost of providing day-to-day services for the citizens.
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