Sun-Sentinel

A bill tackling crowded schools, urban sprawl and similar problems cleared a key Florida Senate committee, but not without complaints by Senators and lobbyists that more time is needed to study the wide-ranging overhaul of the State.

After a decade of debate on how to revitalize Fort Lauderdale's northwest area, city leaders agreed this week to pay for a $45 million, five-year project aimed at revitalizing the City's poorest section.

The Sun-Sentinel seems amazed that people would want to live in downtown and calls new urbanism a fashionable new housing trend.

Gettysburg and other Civil War sites are among the nation's ten most endangered battlefields because of the threat of development and sprawl.

A developer who sued Weston on the grounds that the City had illegally stopped his 94-home project due to school crowding will pay to settle his own lawsuit; the money will be used to build a road for the school.

Urban sprawl and rapid growth of new streets has helped a St. Louis business that sells area maps.

Governor Jeb Bush's Growth Management Advisory Committee, in its review of Florida's Growth Management Laws, recommends linking development approvals to school capacity.

Bill Lindsey's innovative approach to curing both public housing and the problems of those who lived in it made him a hero to thousands who will never know his name.