Imagine being an 8- or 9-year-old foster child without the stability of loving parents or a permanent place to call home. ...more

December 22, 2007

LAND O' LAKES - Affordable housing for school district employees will be back on the agenda when the Pasco County School Board meets at 6 p.m. today. ...more

December 18, 2007

Imagine being an 8- or 9-year-old foster child without the stability of loving parents or a permanent place to call home. ...more

December 13, 2007

Developers of a hotel, retail and residential project along Gibsonton Drive have identified the hotel to be built at the site as a Holiday Inn. ...more

December 1, 2007

The housing market is driving developers of Little Harbor, a residential enclave of 1,500 homes at Bahia Beach, to seek approval to change its zoning to allow shorter-term rentals of its housing units and to convert up to 250 of the housing units to hotel units. ...more

November 21, 2007

Raffles, festive balloons, open houses, car giveaways. Will any of these incentives sell houses? Not at the moment. ...more

November 20, 2007

It's disheartening that two elected boards, plus their legal staffs and administrators, cannot settle a simple dispute over who should pay for off-site road improvements needed for new schools. Yet, that's been the case for years between Pasco County government and the school board, and another round of talks last week failed to solve the issue. ...more

November 4, 2007

Slow job growth, coupled with the effects of a troubled real estate market, is pushing down demand for new homes in the Tampa Bay area, according to a report released Wednesday. ...more

November 1, 2007

SEBRING — The county's long-running dispute with the state over development plans in Highlands County should be settled by mid October. At stake is final state approval that would allow: * Development of 4,637 acres; * Construction of 6,438 housing units, broken down into 4,537 single family homes, 192 mobile homes and 1,739 multi-family units; * Commercial projects totaling 5.1 million square feet; and * Industrial/warehouse projects totaling 5.9 million square feet. That is the total potential growth within 42 large-scale amendments to the Highlands County Comprehensive Plan which were approved by county commissioners in 2004, 2005 and 2006 but not yet approved by the Florida Department of Community Affairs. DCA recently sent the county a final settlement offer to approve all of those comp plan amendments. County commissioners will vote on DCA's settlement offer following a public hearing at their Oct. 16 meeting. ...more

September 30, 2007

It was an unfortunate mistake. That is the argument Daniel Comeau is making as he asks Tarpon Springs officials not to severely punish him for a violation of the city's preservation-minded tree ordinance. ...more

September 8, 2007