Sigh. Florida developers lobby to change Everglades boundaries

[Bluebear]

MIAMI - To fish hatchery owner Paul Radice, the farmlands sandwiched between bustling Miami and the vast Everglades are ideal for his business.

The well water is unpolluted by parking-lot runoff and is the natural temperature for his tanks of exotic koi and African cichlids. Traffic is light and there are few strip malls or fast-food joints.

This landscape, the only subtropical farm region in the continental United States, is protected by a boundary line that was drawn two decades ago to keep development from pushing westward.

Now, to the dismay of farmers such as Radice, developers are snapping up Miami-Dade County's dwindling open land and hoping to persuade politicians to push the boundary line closer toward the Everglades.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=519&ncid=519&e=6&u=/ap/20050502/ap_on_re_us/miami_development

[rkc3]

1. Ah yes, America. Land of the free, home of the brave, and

a Wal-Mart/Starbcuks on every corner.

[Bluebear]

2. And Chick-Fil-A. Don't forget Chick-Fil-A.

[Coexist]

3. I am so sick of Florida being overdeveloped

I miss Marjory Stoneman Douglas and Walkin' Lawton

Who can ever fill Marjory's shoes? Anyone, please?!

[Coexist]

4. I'm kicking this because I can't watch it fall off the page

before dinner.