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Amendment 4 is a proposed citizen's amendment to the Florida Constitution, sponsored by Florida Hometown Democracy, a non-partisan, grass-roots group. It will be on the statewide ballot on November 2, 2010. Amendment 4 will give you a new vote on your community's future.

Every Florida community has a master land-use plan, called the local comprehensive plan. Unfortunately, corporations and speculators pump money into campaigns, and politicians hand them approvals to build wherever they want.

Voters need a seat at the table. We're the ones who watch tax dollars go to extend the police, fire, water, sewer, schools and roads to new developments. Is a new development worth it? We should get a vote before we're forced to pay.

Our homes and communities are too important to leave in the hands of politicians, lobbyists hired by developers, and special interests. Together, we can stop rubber-stamped approvals that clog roads, crowd schools, and wreck natural areas. If we all vote yes on Amendment 4, we can take power back for the people.
Letters To The Editor
St. Petersburg's decoy land use plan shows need for Amendment 4.
By George Niemann, Dover
 St. Petersburg Times
Sunday, July 25, 2010
 
The city of St. Petersburg's efforts to subvert the rights of voters by creating a "decoy" land use plan makes the case for why Floridians need to pass Florida Hometown Democracy Amendment 4 on the statewide ballot Nov. 2...
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Letters To The Editor
Give the people power
By JEFF BOYLE, Ormond Beach
Daytona Beach News-Journal
July 22, 2010
 
 In response to Howard Tipton's suggestion that the Hometown Democracy amendment "would distort our ability to attract economic growth to Florida,"  existing comprehensive land-use plans allow development that would add tens of millions of people to the state population, its roads and its schools...
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Letters To The Editor
Don't believe attacks on Amendment 4
By Jane Padgett, Green Cove Springs
Clay Today
July 22, 2010
 
Don't believe attacks on Amendment 4...I am writing in reference to a recent guest column denouncing Florida Hometown Democracy Amendment 4, which will appear on the November ballot...
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Columns
St. Petersburg's idea to thwart Hometown Democracy
By Howard Troxler
St. Petersburg Times
Tuesday, July 20, 2010
 
This is clever, I do admit...  The city of St. Petersburg has a plan to dodge Amendment 4, even if the voters approve it in November...
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Op-Ed
Real Deal: Amendment 4 will fight corruption
By Lesley Blackner
South Florida Sun-Sentinel.com
July 18, 2010
 
Just look around Broward County - with commissioners being investigated for corruption, one commissioner in jail for taking favors from developers, and now 12 people arrested in a massive mortgage scam - and it is clear we need change...
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News 4 Hometown Democracy
Hometown Democracy Success in Yankeetown Earns 'Citizen Planning Initiative' Award
By Julie Hauserman

Florida Hometown Democracy Press Release
July 14, 2010

Yankeetown - A community that is successfully using a local version of Florida Hometown Democracy Amendment 4 has received top statewide honors from the state’s land-planning agency...

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Letters To The Editor
Amendment 4 benefits community decision-making
By George Olsen
St. Augustine.com
July 14, 2010

Editor: As reporter Brandon Larrabee wrote June 18, the Florida Legislature adjourned without taking the vote needed to keep the state's land-planning agency alive. That leaves the Florida Department of Community Affairs in limbo for another year, and there's talk in Tallahassee of abolishing or weakening DCA next year...
 
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Op-Ed
Keys proposal shows why Amendment 4 needed
By Guest Column
Florida Keys Keynoter
Wednesday, July 14, 2010
 
 Should that little piece of paradise known as Wisteria Island off Key West be paved into 75 units and lots of retail? Right now, three votes by Monroe County commissioners are all it would take...
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Op-Ed
Amendment 4: Give voters power on land use
By DORAN DONOVAN, Amelia Island
The Florida Times-Union
July 12, 2010
 
Regarding the Hometown Democracy proposal that would require votes for changes to compehensive land use plans, no one presumes that the public is bright enough to figure out what is best for them...The fact is: They are..
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News 4 Hometown Democracy
Conservation in Contempt: How Palm Coast Opened the Way to Urbanizing Bulow Creek
By FlaglerLive.com
July 11, 2010

You don’t have to go far to see a ghost town in Flagler County. Drive down Old Kings Road south of State Road 100, a few hundred yards past the dump...
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Op-Ed
Celebrate Amendment 4 this July 4th
By Rebecca Eagan, Winter Park
GainesvilleSun.com
Friday, July 2, 2010
 
 “Government has no right to make itself a party in any debate respecting the principles or modes of forming, or of changing, constitutions. It is not for the benefit of those who exercise the powers of government, that constitutions, and the governments issuing from them, are established…
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Op-Ed
We the People, Put Amendment 4 on the November Ballot
By Greg Gimbert, Daytona Beach
The Bradenton Times
Sunday, July 4, 2010
 
 This July 4th we have an extra reason to honor our Declaration of Independence and our Constitutional right to petition - Amendment 4 is finally on the ballot...
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News 4 Hometown Democracy
Ex-Supreme Court chief justice approves ballot petition, gets hired by firm allied with its sponsor
By Dan Christensen
Broward Bulldog.org
April 28, 2010
 
Weeks after casting the deciding vote to approve a controversial ballot petition in December 2008, former Florida Supreme Court Chief Justice Charles T. Wells joined a law firm aligned with the petition’s sponsor.

The high court’s 4-3 ruling gave life to a push by developers and statewide business interests – led by the Florida Chamber of Commerce – to blunt a possible change in the state constitution to greatly expand citizen powers over local development ...
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