I know,
beating a dead horse. Look how successful the anti-development (NIMBY) crowd has been along the I-95 corridor and east to the coast in Palm Beach County:
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Pretty impressive, huh? Image from The Palm Beach Post's "NEW COMMUNITIES" locator map. This map appears each Friday on page R4. |
Here is an excerpt from
Andy Reid's article in the
Sun Sentinel:
GL Homes has long owned the nearly 5,000-acre Indian Trails Grove property, where the company nearly a decade ago envisioned building as many as 12,000 homes — before the South Florida development boom fizzled.
Now, with development picking up again, GL Homes is proposing to build at a per-acre rate similar to what the County Commission in October approved for Minto West.
"This is obviously the last big piece of the [development] puzzle," GL Homes Vice President Larry Portnoy said about building planned in the Loxahatchee area. "We have waited 10 years to bring this in. ... It was about time."