Our position: An economic-development group will help the town ...

Isn't that ironic now. With so many screaming to halt growth, Mt. Dora is frantic to attract businesses to a small town most noted for retirees and quaint gift and antique shops downtown.

Too bad the elitist thinkers of Marion County can't take a page from this kind of thinking. All they have done for the past ten or so years is BLOCK development. Well, not really, they allow unfettered development if it is housing tracks put up by their developer buddies. They still try to attract retirees, who overburden the infrastructure needs of the county. But what they don't do is try to attract NEW INDUSTRY or HIGH TECH jobs. In fact they go out of their way to STOP that.

And guess what? Now they are crying that their finances for the country are in a shambles because of lack of Impact fees from new construction and the like......But not once do we see them even remotely considering trying to draw new business and new industry to this area.

Maybe we need to send them back to school and learn a little critical thinking and "long range' planning with something more in mind than immediate profit for "the few"

When the come back out as I am sure they will for NEW TAXES and RAISING EXISTING TAXES...guess what...MY stance is not just NO but H--- not not even if it freezes over and thaws back out again.

Not until these baffoons VOLUNTARILY leave their posts and or take massive pay cuts themselves....

When the 417 is connected to 429 then there will be some growth possibilities out there. It's probably the same ppl in Mt Dora that's opposed to the connector that want more business downtown.

It not that complex ladies. Cut corporate taxes and build infrastructure. Make the corporate taxes lower than the surrounding areas. Try as much as possible to limit business liability within the city limits like Mississippi did in 2003. See the Wall Street Journal article last week.

Why is this so complex? Businesses go where they are treated well and flee areas where they are not. Hello?

Send me an e-mail and I will do it for you.

Aunt Minnie Pearl wrote:

Isn't that ironic now. With so many screaming to halt growth, Mt. Dora is frantic to attract businesses to a small town most noted for retirees and quaint gift and antique shops downtown.

They are also annexing to the East like it is going out of style. Their plan is to annex all the way out to Sorrento. Makes Winter Springs seem conservative by comparison. I guess they need all that tax base to pay for their previous errors.

Taxpayer wrote:

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They are also annexing to the East like it is going out of style. Their plan is to annex all the way out to Sorrento. Makes Winter Springs seem conservative by comparison. I guess they need all that tax base to pay for their previous errors.

Hike the taxes and then they cry when people leave.

Funny.