Martin County vs. The World: Here Come de Judge | Sunshine State News

Martin County is facing six administrative challenges to its amended Comprehensive Plan. From the sound of the article, it seems like some of the same "opinion is fact" that we contend with around Lake Worth is at play there too. Who needs the experts! We know what we want. Well, it also costs you money on attorneys fees and is the "over-development" wolf really at the door of Martin County? This is from the article, click title for link.

Real numbers tend to kick the legs out from under her argument sometimes. But, hey, no problem. Citizens notice traffic, not numbers.
For example, Martin County growth has always been slow, between 2 percent and 4 percent in the most active years since 1980. According to the last U.S. Census, between April 1, 2010, and July 1, 2012, Martin grew 1.7 percent, as opposed to 2.7 percent for the whole state, and as opposed to neighbors Palm Beach County at 2.8 percent and St. Lucie County at 2.2 percent. Doesn't matter which kind of commission majority gets elected, the Martin County growth rate stays slow.

At the end of the article, Richard Grosso - a land use attorney that teams up with no growth types - is mentioned as having reviewed the changes put forth and put his stamp of approval on them. This is the same gentleman that gave Lake Worth advice on its Comprehensive Plan back in April of 2009, Susan Stanton's first week on the job. Height limits? Sure you can do whatever you want he said. That's when we had a Comp Plan that limited everything to two-stories. It proved to be unworkable and was changed, but now usually pointed to by those in favor of extreme height limitations as an example of how they were able to compromise.

Right.