"Growth management in Florida is a mess.  You can't tell it from the legislative process, though.  The governor and the legislative leaders are holding meetings and musing aloud about 'financing' growth, but proposals mostly would just tinker with the planning and approval process.  And financing?  Growth is already bad enough when we're growing beyond our means.  Heaven knows how bad it would be if we actually set aside money for it."
    "Financing is a real issue, of course.  The state is basically running a pyramid scheme.  We subsidize people's arrival, and we can't afford their upkeep.  The Department of Transportation says it needs another $3.2 billion a year just to keep up with the current level of congestion, and that doesn't start to count the shortage of schools, sewerage, water, parks, affordable housing and all the rest.  If it sounds like a lot of money, consider that the market value of St. Joe Co. stock, the biggest developer in the state, grew by about $2.6 billion, nearly 90%, over the past year…."
    "But talking about financing and the growth management 'process' misses the more fundamental issues about the inadequacy of our growth management laws:

• The most beautiful parts of our state are starting to have the ambiance of an interstate exit.
• We display little sense of urban design, lifestyle and quality of life…."