BRADENTON — “Since the late 1990’s, new development has been generally focused east of Interstate 75 and Southwest County in a slow, but steady decline in terms of indicators such as property values, average household income levels and other factors in comparison to the overall county. The age of infrastructure, housing, code enforcement cases, crime, and numbers of rental properties in established neighborhoods have been increasing over the years.” That’s how agenda item number five at Thursday’s Manatee County Planning Commission meeting began.