Developers, crazies in House approve gutting of growth management law
April 29, 2009 at 11:09 am by Wayne GarciaNot to surprising but the tone was amazing. Today in the Florida House of Representatives, Republicans led a hog-slaughtering of Florida’s growth management laws and opened vast areas of rural property to sprawl by approving its version of the controversial SB 360.
The bill was so bad that the Republican governor’s top growth management official, Tom Pelham, said yesterday that it would “seriously undermine Florida’s growth management laws.”
And that pissed off Republican leaders:
The Buzz reported this morning:
Rep. Dave Murzin, chairman of the House Economic Development Council and a Republican Realtor from Pensacola, said the House had been “working on this bill for an awfully long time.
“I’m not hiding the fact that I’d like to see Secertary Pelham find a job in the private sector,” he said.
