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JuliAnn | posted Oct 8, 2008 - 5:00:43pm
Monies received off the tax base of this development will go to providing the services this development needs, as well as fighting crime, prostitution, homeless shelters, stopping drugs, and providing social services for those that cannot help themselves around gambling establishments. Oh, yes - this will create jobs. THOSE kind of jobs. Go look at Southern California and what happened to nice little family communities that let card parlors come to town! What happened to the social fabric of their communities. And let me ask you folks - do you really want to take the family and grandkids to "Restaurant Row" in the gaming area? Or how about the retail area where the folks who have just lost their bundle are hanging around? What kind of an example will they be to parade your kids around in? These developers can draw all the pretty pictures they want, but it won't be like that. I noticed they even put pictures of the Grand Floridian in their proposal as an "example" of the architecture. I helped build the Grand Floridian and there is not a prayer in *$## that they are spending that kind of money. In DeBary we can't even eat out enough to keep a good restaurant open, so they are either planning on providing a LOT of gambling there to pay for all of that, or they are going to build cheap structures that will look like *$## in a few years. Wise up folks! Someone is making money on this - and it's NOT the citizens of DeBary! These are not folks who are here to develop our beautiful community because they love us, they are here to make money on what we allow them to take from us!
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