Financial giant, T. Rowe Price, is moving their operations from Tampa and one of the locations they are considering is Land O' Lakes. This move could potentially bring more than 1,600 jobs to Pasco County. Sounds great, right? A local environmental group doesn't thing so.
Citizens for Sanity, Pasco County's home-grown environmental group, has challenged the development permit T. Rowe Price received from the Southwest Florida Water Management District. Their complaint is that of the 94 acres of land that T. Rowe Price plans to development, 1 acre of the land is wetlands.
So, essentially Citizens for Sanity is willing to trade 1,600 jobs for 1 acre of wetlands. The T. Rowe Price move would bring jobs, home buyers and additional people spending money in our restaurants and other local businesses. Call me insane but I think 1 acre of wetlands is a pretty good trade off in a county that has a large amount of wetlands.
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