Opponents of Florida Hometown Democracy’s Amendment 4, developers and land-speculators, have been successful in scaring many local governments with misinformation.
Unfortunately, many local governments aren’t even researching these bogus claims. They’re just accepting them and passing resolutions saying that the sky will fall if Amendment 4 is passed.
Overdevelopment helped crash Florida’s economy. We currently have over 400,000 vacant dwellings. Local governments helped create the building boom by charging artificially low impact fees to builders, and not requiring them to fund the needed infrastructure (roads, schools, water, sewer, safety). In spite of what politicians tell their constituents, development doesn’t pay for itself, as numerous studies have proven (Jacksonville, Sarasota, Hillsborough, etc.). It costs government more to provide infrastructure and services for new development than it receives in new tax revenue. [Note: Some in the form of impact fees, or even ‘donations’ of fire trucks]
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Tangerine, Florida 
Profits first, Profits last, Profits in between. Nothing else matters to the ‘Devs’ and ‘Specs’. Anything for a buck, right?
Florida’s economy would be in much better shape if the politicians had to pay for these costs out of their OWN pockets/bank accounts. Spare the taxpayers!
Cheers from Ralph, http://draaiorgelfan.wordpress.com, “Wanted – The Dean Martin Show!”.