Frostproof’s Downtown To Get 18 Foxtail Palms

FROSTPROOF | Chamber of Commerce members have their go-ahead to plant 18 foxtail palms downtown. The Frostproof City Council gave final approval Monday to a Frostproof Chamber of Commerce plan to replace downtown shade trees that have “failed to thrive,” as described by DeDe LeFils, chair of the chamber’s Beautification Committee. The plan also will…

Temple Terrace floats preservation plan

TEMPLE TERRACE — Dwight James Baum, who created John Ringling’s lavish Ca’ d’Zan palace in Sarasota, also designed dozens of Mediterranean Revival-style homes in Temple Terrace, the largest collection of the famed architect’s work in the Southeast. To take advantage of the town’s architectural history, the City Council has invited citizens, especially owners of historic…

NSB seeks feedback on redevelopment area

NEW SMYRNA BEACH — A proposed Community Redevelopment Area here accounts for more than half of the city’s crime and almost 40 percent of it’s code enforcement problems. That’s according to a study by Kimley-Horn and Associates of blighted conditions in the prospective CRA that would have U.S. 1, called Dixie Freeway in New Smyrna…