Residents Block 300-Unit Apartment Project

CLERMONT, FL-Newly arrived residents in this booming bedroom community, 25 miles west of Downtown Orlando, have temporarily shut the door on the development of a 25-acre, 300-unit apartment complex that would ring 12 lots in their subdivision.

Their vocal protests were enough to convince the Clermont planning and zoning commission Sept. 6 to deny a renewal permit to Orlando developer Maury L. Carter & Associates Inc. on an estimated $15 million project. The developer hopes to override the denial by taking its permit renewal application directly to the full city council in 30 days.

The company’s principals, Maury Carter, chairman and his son, Daryl, president, couldn’t be reached at GlobeSt.com’s publication deadline for comment on what they might do if the city council backs up the planning and zoning commission.