DCA wants Haven to rethink SR 60 growth amendment

Click title for story link. State planning officials at the Florida Department of Community Affairs have finally weighed in on Winter Haven's latest major growth map amendment. I wrote last month that regional planners thought this was probably intense enough to be considered a DRI whenever development is proposed for the property on either side of SR 60 (the idea that Winter Haven extends that far south still seems surreal) as spinoff from the CSX project actually materializes. None of the comments from state planners, to which Winter Haven officials are supposed to respond by the end of the year, was surprising.