Daily Archives: November 7, 2015

Dundee Commission OKs agreement to develop downtown vision

DUNDEE — Town commissioners Tuesday unanimously approved an agreement with the Central Florida Regional Planning Council to develop a downtown vision plan. The town will pay the council $25,000 from a Florida Department of Economic Opportunity Community Planning Technical Assistance Grant it received in September. Planning should start in December and be completed in May…

Lots of effort, lots of money bring mixed results from community redevelopment areas

Making bad neighborhoods good takes money and time. Community redevelopment agencies are one way local governments can ensure that struggling areas continue to receive the resources they needed, even through city council turnover and policy changes. Or so went the thinking of state lawmakers when, nearly 50 years ago, they put in place a program…