For two years, elected officials in Umatilla, FL (Pop. 2,214) were stymied in efforts to apply for a $1 million maintenance/repair grant from the Federal Aviation Administration for the local airport.
To qualify, they needed to own two small privately owned lots totaling 4.76 acres at the end of a runway protection zone.
The two lot owners haggled with the city over price, largely because they didn't want to sell the land in the first place. They had planned to build dream homes on the dirt overlooking scenic Lake Umatilla, one of 1,400 lakes in Lake County.
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