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The East Central Florida Regional Planning Council announced that Family Promise of Brevard’s new headquarters in Cocoa ― a renovated fire station — was the recipients of a 2024 Diamond Award.
A regional team from Central Florida has spent the last several days since Idalia hit helping recovery in a Florida County. "There's still a lot of damage up here in Hamilton County.
Marshall Goodman may have lost his position as regional chancellor of the University of South Florida Polytechnic, but he apparently has not fallen from grace with Gov. Rick Scott.
BARTOW -- Central Florida Regional Planning Council officials will be looking for a new executive director now that Doug Leonard has announced plans to retire. Leonard, 62, who has served as ...
If you can see the value of supporting the regional planning councils, I ask that you reach out to your local legislators and express your support for planning Florida’s future – and your ...
Ponce Inlet employees, residents and members of the East Central Florida Regional Planning Council discussed how to prepare for a changing climate.
Meet East Central Florida Regional Planning Council's Luis Nieves-Ruiz, an Outstanding Diversity Champion in OBJ's 2023 Diversity in Business Awards.
In recent decades, Florida has changed the way it plans for growth. In 1980, after a land boom in the 1970s, Florida's Legislature established 10 regional planning councils. One who championed ...
Phil Laurien, executive director of the East Central Florida Regional Planning Council, announced his retirement from the agency later this year after more than five years in that position ...
The double veto makes critics like Charles Pattison of 1,000 Friends of Florida question Scott's understanding of the role the regional planning councils play in guiding the state's growth.