It seems John Drury, the city manager of Tavares, is sending out weekly news releases heralding another large project beginning in the city of Tavares, while sister cities in the Golden Triangle area economically decay with vacant buildings and anti-business reputations. Since the economic turndown, the leadership in Tavares has made bold moves, and they [...]
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How Can Lake County’s Economy Improve in 2012?
The single biggest issue in Lake County is the economy, and there seems to be no shortage of opinions on it. This Great Recession will no doubt go down in the annals of history as one of the worst for Florida, and the bitter lessons learned from it will last a lifetime. One lesson learned [...]
Transportation Impact Fee Suspension Should Be First Step
Last week the Lake County Board of County Commissioners unanimously voted to extend the suspension of transportation impact fees until March of 2012. This suspension was absolutely critical if Lake County has any hopes of firing its economic engines. Commissioner Jimmy Conner initiated the suspension earlier in the month, and there was virtually no opposition [...]
Housing Affordability 101 Impact Fees = Foreclosures
Very strong evidence suggests that Lake County and the State of Florida may be suffering through their worst foreclosure period in history, as a direct result of impact fees and their affect on affordability. The evidence suggests a direct correlation of impact fees to foreclosures nationally, with the most recent foreclosure and impact fee reports [...]
Campaign Mistakes 101 in Lake County
As a post-mortem to Tuesday’s primary elections in Lake County, it is imperative to offer some free, unbiased advice to the next field of political candidates. Over the last few months, our group has interviewed, talked with, watched, and received countless emails from many of the local political candidates. Frankly, many of them were not [...]
