Let’s state this clearly up front:
The City of Ormond Beach is on a course to spend tens of millions of taxpayer dollars fighting a perfectly legal new home development on behalf of a handful of nearby homeowners who are weaponizing local government to deny someone their property rights.[…]
City Attorney censors Planning Director; did commissioners know?
The email from Ormond Beach Planning Director is as damning as it is shocking.[…]
Leon County Commissioner for District 4, Brian Welch, took to Facebook this week to talk about the developments near Chiles High School.[…]
Red Tape Florida’s Skip Foster weighed in on a situation in Ormond Beach where some commissioners are trying to tie up the mayor in knots of bureaucracy by having him defer to “public information officers” when he is approached by the media.[…]
Anytime even the smallest new development is announced in Tallahassee, someone inevitably says “we are turning into Orlando.”
Not only is that not happening, Tallahassee and Leon are getting much farther away from being a growing, vibrant community where our citizens see their incomes rise and our children stick around to build meaningful and rewarding careers.[…]
How much is a fair discount for work not done by local government? And why does that question have so many different answers, even within the same county? […]
The controversy over proposed changes to Thomasville Road in midtown Tallahassee generated overwhelming opposition from local businesses, commuters, and residents alike. […]
We are a new site, powered by Hammerhead Communications, which will shine a light on local and state government bureaucracy in a unique way.[…]
Lost in the national discussion over affordable housing is this: Fully 25 percent of the cost of a new home goes to regulations.[…]
The story of last week’s Thomasville Road controversy started 15 years ago.
But the key date was, believe it or not, Nov. 9, 2019, when a small group of people set into motion the series of events that culminated with a community-wide uproar. […]