Article: Battle over Incorporation Stirs Few in Often-Placid Osceola County, Fla.

Nov. 3--BUENAVENTURA LAKES, Fla.--The soccer, football and baseball fields hum with activity as the sun sets over Archie Gordon Memorial Park. Around the corner, two dozen teenagers shoot hoops at an after-school pickup game. Nearby, the Robert Guevara Community Center is about to host salsa-dancing lessons.

The suburban tranquillity and feeling of community belie a bitter battle between two factions that want to control the future of this neighborhood of about 22,000 people. One wants Buenaventura Lakes, which has one of the highest concentrations of Hispanics in Central Florida, to become a city. The other wants it to stay part of unincorporated Osceola County. ...

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