Does the Florida Department of Community Affairs have the discretion not to enter into a pre-development agreement with CSX to allow them to do what they were planning to do initially anyway in exchange for submitting a DRI application?
If CSX doesn't submit a DRI application, what exactly can DCA do about it?
What are the prospects that we could see a replay of the Old Florida Plantation scenario? In that one the Central Florida Regional Planning Council and the County Commission crafted some tough conditions and then many of them were watered down by Bartow officials after they annexed the site. Winter Haven, which has a vested interest in the project's success, has the last say in the local review of the CSX DRI, if there is one.
How can CSX so confidently predict the project's positive impacts, such as numbers of jobs it will create, but remain so vague on projecting the truck and train traffic that the project will generate at build out? -- Side Table Spectator
