Jane West, Director of Policy and Planning of 1000 Friends of Florida, and Vivienne Handy, Comm’r on the Hillsborough Co. City-County Planning Board discussed SB 540, often called “the worst environmental bill of the 2023 legislative session.” This new law will inhibit local community members from objecting to developer-proposed changes to carefully crafted comprehensive land-use plans and it will have a strong negative impact on the quality of life in many areas where such changes are sought.
Walkertown leaders worry that a proposed 100-unit townhome development will add to traffic woes at the town’s busiest intersection, but improvements suggested by the town’s traffic study are unlikely to
Ten months after a fertilizer plant fire threatened to spark what Winston-Salem’s fire chief suggested could have been “one of the worst explosions in U.S. history,” city council members on