Jim Polatty has fought for decades with the Department of Community Affairs. But Highlands County's chief planner doesn't want the state agency dismembered. ...more

March 27, 2009

Sam Steffey, Pasco County's chief planner, will retire in less than 60 days, leaving the county's Growth Management department without a leader as Pasco County embarks on major changes to how it conducts business. ...more

March 7, 2009

They don't get much publicity. They're not elected. They're hardly household names. For that matter, they don't even get paid. ...more

October 26, 2008

Every year, Orange-Co sends 15,000 trucks loaded with oranges across 12 to 15 miles of limerock roads on its own land before they get to SR 70 or SR 66 in Highlands County, or SR 74 in Glades County. ...more

October 25, 2008

Too much, too soon. Agreeing with that assessment by its staff and the planning and zoning board, county commissioners on Wednesday denied a rezoning request that would have allowed for an 87-unit apartment complex on Cortez Boulevard east of Brooksville and just west of La Pine Road. ...more

September 11, 2008

A week after Seth Ellis proposed a live-fire training center near Venus, the Marion County Commission turned down a combined law enforcement and search-and-rescue facility near Ocala. ...more

July 30, 2008

Right now, it's mostly scrub brush and pines. Sometime in 2008, though, bulldozers will clear away 53 acres on the southeast corner of the Suncoast Parkway and Spring Hill Drive to make way for a huge retail shopping complex. ...more

December 28, 2007

Right now, it's mostly scrub brush and pines. But sometime in 2008, bulldozers will clear away 53 acres on the southeast corner of the Suncoast Parkway and Spring Hill Drive to make way for a huge retail shopping complex. ...more

December 27, 2007

Right now, it's mostly scrub brush and pines. But sometime in 2008, bulldozers will clear away 53 acres on the southeast corner of the Suncoast Parkway and Spring Hill Drive to make way for a huge retail shopping complex. ...more

December 26, 2007

SEBRING — In January 2005 alone, the four-man crew from S.Y. Moseley's office inspected 1,682 residential, commercial and other buildings. ...more

October 17, 2007