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Article: Nudging the battleship.(Editor's Page)
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- Florida Trend
- Article date:
- June 1, 2007
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Like most of Florida, the seven-county region of Brevard, Lake, Orange, Osceola, Polk, Seminole and Volusia counties is wrestling with growth. The region encompasses some 3 million citizens in 5,600 square miles of cities, suburbs, towns, lakes and coastline. There are more than 80 local governments, including the cities of Orlando, Daytona Beach, Melbourne, Titusville and Palm Bay. About 100,000 new residents have been arriving each year, and the University of Florida Bureau of Economic and Business Research projects that the region's population will reach 7 million by 2050.
I believe, in Yogi Berra fashion, that the region could become so crowded that 7 million ...