Up until 2009, Lake Placid has enjoyed clean, unpolluted air as there are no smokestack industries that I am aware of. This has attracted senior mobile home parks as well as senior assisted living facilities to the area. But now the Highlands County Commissioners have decided to change that by giving permission for an ethanol producing plant to locate near U.S. 27 and S.R. 70 just south of Lake Placid (about six and a half miles.) This is one of the worst polluting industries in the country. Even if they agree to install some anti-pollution measures, as everyone knows it would be cheaper for them to pay fines and-or bribe authorities than it would be to install very expensive, adequate anti-pollution equipment. ...more

January 3, 2009

Land that was once slated to become the city's largest subdivision has been taken over by another developer planning to build an industrial park. ...more

January 9, 2008

PLANT CITY - Land that once was slated to become the city's largest subdivision has been taken over by a developer who is planning to build an industrial park. ...more

January 4, 2008