Around the state today
“Some Floridians who don’t entirely meet the state’s requirements for the COVID-19 vaccine are scouring the internet to get inoculated. One Facebook group calls itself ‘Florida Vaccine Hunters.’ It’s a group in which people share where there are extra doses of the vaccine available.”
“Just hours after Gov. Ron DeSantis’ office released the draft report Thursday by Chief Inspector General Melinda Miguel, attorneys for the plaintiffs filed a copy of the report in their lawsuit against the Florida Department of Economic Opportunity and Deloitte Consulting, a contractor that helped put in place the state’s CONNECT online unemployment system in 2013.”
Voters can go in person to vote early from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. at four locations: the Supervisor of Elections Office, the Millhopper Branch Library, the Reitz Union and the Martin Luther King Jr. Multipurpose Center.
The city of Gainesville has hired a consulting firm to review its zoning rules and come up with ways city officials can create more affordable housing and help balance racial inequalities.
But a growing number of residents are concerned the review could lead to the ruin of single-family neighborhoods by allowing multifamily student rental housing and all of the problems that go with it to creep into established neighborhoods.
It’s a controversy revived after being debated a couple of years ago.
In November 2018, residents packed City Hall to protest a plan called “GNV Rise” that would have allowed multifamily developments into existing neighborhoods, some of which would be “affordable” rental units.
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