{"id":20810,"date":"2022-03-15T02:05:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-15T06:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=20810"},"modified":"2022-03-12T14:12:34","modified_gmt":"2022-03-12T19:12:34","slug":"letter-to-the-editor-4th-in-a-series-lk-miriam-apartments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2022\/03\/15\/letter-to-the-editor-4th-in-a-series-lk-miriam-apartments\/","title":{"rendered":"Letter to the Editor &#8211; 4th in a series Lk Miriam Apartments"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cStudies show\u201d that there would be less traffic impact with the Proposed 244-unit apartment project than with the hypothetical possibility of some 40,000 sq ft commercial establishment that the Lk Miriam land is currently zoned for.\u00a0 How do you do a study on two entities that don\u2019t yet exist, especially when one is the WORST CASE SCENARIO?\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"738\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" src=\"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/IMG_0416-1024x738.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-20811\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/IMG_0416-1024x738.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/IMG_0416-300x216.jpg 300w, https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/IMG_0416-768x554.jpg 768w, https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/IMG_0416.jpg 1193w\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So, if the Lakeland City Commissions are choosing between those two EVILS, it is still EVIL.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Would you vote to stay in an abusive relationship because there could be someone worse out there?&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That\u2019s the reason for choosing high-density apartments because commercial could be worse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tell Lakeland City commissioners to VOTE to DENY on the zoning change <strong>BECAUSE SOME CURRENTLY UNPLANNED RETAIL COULD BE WORSE<\/strong> at Lk Miriam Plaza.\u00a0 March 21 City Hall 3rd floor 9 am.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Linda Bagley Wiggs<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lakeland Florida<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cStudies show\u201d that there would be less traffic impact with the Proposed 244-unit apartment project than with the hypothetical possibility of some 40,000 sq ft commercial establishment that the Lk&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20811,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"wpai_generated_summary":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"{title}\n\n{excerpt}\n\n{url}","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","default_image_id":71799,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[11],"tags":[2519],"class_list":["post-20810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-letters","tag-letter-to-the-editor-4th-in-a-series-lk-miriam-apartments"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20810\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}