{"id":612,"date":"2009-09-30T11:29:24","date_gmt":"2009-09-30T19:29:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/?p=612"},"modified":"2009-09-30T11:29:24","modified_gmt":"2009-09-30T19:29:24","slug":"florida-eco-freaks-fight-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/2009\/09\/30\/florida-eco-freaks-fight-back\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida eco-freaks fight back!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a new wrinkle in the fight to control cancer, aka: urban sprawl. A couple of eco-minded lawyer dudes in sunny Florida finally grew weary of head-bashing every development on the Turnpike. So they came up with a simple and fun idea &#8211; an amendment that allows folks to vote on development before the bulldozers arrive. <\/p>\n<p>The idea is taking roots, causing conniption fits to the multitude of Hard Hatters in the Land of Melanoma. It&#8217;s featured in a zippy piece in the<em> Orlando Sentinel<\/em>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.orlandosentinel.com\/news\/local\/orl-mike-thomas-hometown-democracy-092709,0,24403.column\">which says the proposed amendment &#8220;has sent the entire development industry and business lobby into fits of befuddled panic. All their lawyers and politicians haven&#8217;t been able to shut the duo down.&#8221;<\/a> Ahoy!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.floridahometowndemocracy.com\/\">To get a glimpse of the amendment and its sponsors, hit this cute link and zoom away!<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Lawyers, guns and money&#8230;..<\/p>\n<p>posted by Mudd<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a new wrinkle in the fight to control cancer, aka: urban sprawl. A couple of eco-minded lawyer dudes in sunny Florida finally grew weary of head-bashing every development on the Turnpike. So they came up with a simple and fun idea &#8211; an amendment that allows folks to vote on development before the bulldozers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=612"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":617,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612\/revisions\/617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}