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On 7/31/13 3:24 PM, wrote:
On Wed, 31 Jul 2013 13:29:14 -0400, "F.O.A.D." wrote:

On 7/31/13 1:21 PM, wrote:
On Wed, 31 Jul 2013 12:11:46 -0400, "F.O.A.D." wrote:

That is great as long as it lasts but if big money targets your area
it is pretty hard to stop them.
Florida, just about everywhere, is still seeing explosive growth. The
amount of money that gets thrown around can easily taint county
legislatures but if you are in a small incorporated city it can be
devastating. That is why I am fighting city status here in Estero.
I watched what happened in Ft Myers Beach and Bonita.
Big money quickly overwhelmed the citizen control they were promised
when they incorporated. That "lower taxes" thing quickly evaporated as
the reality of providing services arose.

Big money has "targeted" us but the county overlords fear us serfs, so
they turned down Wal-Mart's demand for a permit to build a "Supersized"
Wal-Mart in this part of the county. Wal-Mart spent a lot of money on
baksheesh for the politicos and to "reach" us serfs, several hundred
thousand, I was told.

It's not that we don't have commercial development. We do, but it is
pretty much restricted to areas already commercially developed.

Last year, we were all being lobbied by a PR guy who spreading the
wonderment of building a Home Depot or Lowes on a newly vacant large lot
right on Route 4. It would have created a traffic nightmare, so other
sites were suggested. Nope. The developers wanted that lot or the
highway. They took the highway.

They went the other way here. We have kept Walmart at bay but they
built 2 top tier regional malls, snagged a state university and built
dozens of ritzy gated golf course communities.

We're fortunate in that there are no major regional malls in our
immediate area. You have to drive to Annapolis for one of those. So, we
don't have the traffic and congestion such a mall creates. And
apparently there is no need for gated communities, either. We do have a
couple of golf courses and a growing campus of the College of Southern
Maryland. You folks obviously think "growth" is a good thing. It is not
that enthusiastically encouraged here. I don't know if it is still in
effect, but for a while there was a $12,000 "impact fee" imposed on new
single family housing.

That should keep the undesirables out of your neighborhood.........