Today, the number is 1,390 and growing as the city council will learn this week from Orlando-based Don Casto Organization seeking to increase its existing 250-unit, six-month-old Villages at East Lake Apartments.

The request follows the council's approval last month of Orlando developer Daryl M. Carter's planned Highpoint at Clermont, a $15 million, 300-unit, 25-acre venture across Citrus Boulevard from the Villages venture.

Residents' protests to the city failed. So did a 5-2 vote rejection from the city's own planning and zoning commission, the same department that is now opposing the addition at the 85%-occupied Villages at East Lake.

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