If approved at several other bureaucratic levels in Tallahassee,FL, the city's comprehensive land-use plan would be revised and thepasture-land project would break ground in 2003 near the hamlet ofOkahumpka, FL (Pop. 332), 50 miles northwest of DowntownOrlando.

The 20-year enterprise would be the largest ever attempted inthis 114-year-old city of 15,624 permanent residents. It's also oneof the largest planned projects of its kind in the state. Leesburgprepared itself in June of this year by annexing the rural 3,334acres, putting the land within the city's boundaries.

Preliminary development plans call for the construction of 1.3million sf of retail/office; four million sf of industrial; 10,102single-family, duplex and triplex shelter units; and 5,320multifamily units.

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