A seven-year effort to give voters more control over local growth decisions went down in defeat Tuesday as opponents of Amendment 4 rallied to defeat a proposal they said would have cost thousands of jobs and billions of dollars.
It’s taken seven years to reach the ballot, but voters on Nov. 2 will finally weigh in on whether they should get a vote on proposals to change the way their communities grow.
By: Gray Rohrer
| Posted: October 22, 2010 4:05 AM
Florida TaxWatch issued a scathing report Thursday on the negative impact Amendment 4 would have on the state’s economy and insisting "it should not be in Florida's Constitution."
By: Steve Brown
| Posted: September 18, 2010 4:05 AM
"It comes down to lost jobs and higher taxes. It's an unworkable amendment that will lead to confusion and more lawsuits, and ultimately a system that gets worse and not better.
Backers of a constitutional amendment that would put land-use changes before voters began airing a tough-toned web advertisement that says the measure is needed because Florida leads the nation in corruption among public officials.
