This is smack in the middle of the Biscayne Aquifer where South Florida gets its water supply.
Remember Marjorie Stoneman Douglas. A high school was named after her. She was a great champion of the Biscayne aquifer. Wikipedia
Authority officials saw this massive investment of tax dollars as a way to set off an explosion of private development in what they viewed as a soggy and valueless land.
“A new city is going to rise up in the middle of Florida,” the authority chairman boasted.
Imagine his surprise when an odd coalition formed to oppose this supposedly foolproof plan. Hunters, anglers, high school students, Native Americans, and birdwatchers all said, “Whoa, that’s a terrible idea!”
True I only read one article, but I think it was the right one.
AG James Uthmeier claims site is ‘abandoned,’ but doesn’t mention that it’s the reason Big Cypress National Preserve exists. Florida Phoenix June 26, 2025
Republican hate is killing us on so many levels. Pollution of the heart, mind and body.