Clearwater downtown blueprint ignores Church of Scientology, the ‘elephant in the room’

The latest downtown revitalization plan unveiled this week calls for walkable green spaces and a bustling town square peppered with outdoor dining and retail shops to fill the vacant storefronts. But the 146-page blueprint the city paid consultants nearly $400,000 to write makes no mention of the Church of Scientology’s future implications on downtown revival…

Traffic Roundabout Coming to Mount Dora

Lake County plans to add a traffic roundabout at the intersection of Old US Highway 441 and Eudora Road, along State Road 19A at the Golden Triangle Shopping Center area. Construction of the roundabout is expected to begin by the end of 2018, said T.J. Fish, the executive director of Lake County’s Metropolitan Planning Organization.…