Frank Stanfield
Reporter at Daily Commercial
Author, Christian writer, newspaper reporter, Vietnam-era vet, UGa., Bulldog. Interested in crime, writing, politics, veteran issues.
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1 week ago |
lakeandsumterstyle.com | Frank Stanfield
“Growth needs to pay for growth,” Council member Troy Singer proclaimed. Builders weren’t on board with the idea. “Every dollar matters in the housing market,” Danielle Stroud of Habitat for Humanity in Lake and Sumter counties noted. That is especially true for her clients – teachers, bus drivers and others — who are now renting but trying to buy a home. Christie Folker with the Home Builders Association of Lake-Sumter urged Council members to phase in the increases.
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3 weeks ago |
lakeandsumterstyle.com | Frank Stanfield
City Council, feeling the squeeze of growth and development on its budget, is poised to possibly tripling the size of construction impact fees on May 7. “Why should residents pay the cost of new development?” Council member Lori Pfister says. Not so fast, says the board of directors for the Home Builders Association of Lake & Sumter Counties.
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1 month ago |
lakeandsumterstyle.com | Frank Stanfield
City Commissioners Monday shot down the idea of adopting a moratorium on annexing land for new homes in a 4-1 vote before a packed, sometimes raucous crowd. “It’s bad economic policy,” Al Minner, the city manager, told the 300-plus people at the Venetian Community Building.
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1 month ago |
lakeandsumterstyle.com | Frank Stanfield
“The world’s gone crazy,” Cyn Doyle says. “That’s why I have to do something.”The 70-year-old, whose LinkedIn page lists her occupation as “Activist,” has been doing “something” since 1968 when, as a 13-year-old, her mother took her to the Poor People’s March and encampment Washington, D.C.She and her family were one of the few white people. “My mother was inebriated. She took us all over the country, driving drunk, I thought it was exciting,” she says, unaware of the danger at the time.
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1 month ago |
lakeandsumterstyle.com | Frank Stanfield
City commissioners Monday will square off on the hot-button issue of growth in a proposed resolution that would freeze annexation for new homes. “There are already 35,000 home sites to build on,” says Commissioner Jay Connell, who has proposed what he calls “a temporary stay” until January 2027. Those 35,000 homes will double the number in the city now, he said. The city has moved the 5:30 p.m. meeting to the Venetian Center to handle crowd size.
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