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GlobeSt.com UPDATE: Tiny Town Spots Growth Pocket in Green Swamp

GROVELAND, FL-Developers monitor Groveland's planned 2,000-acre annexation as environmentalists and anti-growth foes prepare to fight what local planners say could be the ecological battle of the decade, 25 miles west of Downtown Orlando.

By Alex Finkelstein | Updated on December 28, 2001

GROVELAND, FL-This rural town of 3,100 permanent residents, once a citrus jewel in agricultural Lake County, is kicking up controversy with a plan to annex 2,000 acres in the environmentally sensitive 287,320-acre Green Swamp, the main location of the state’s fresh drinking water supply.

What is infuriating development foes is that Groveland–25 miles west of Downtown Orlando–had the audacity to use $10,000 of state funds for a study that concludes the town’s growth mechanism for the next 20 years lies in land annexation from the nearby Green Swamp.

Equally galling to environmentalists is that only 1,000 acres of the 2,000 acres planned for annexation could be developable. The balance is wetlands where endangered species and vegetation are protected by law.

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