This Saturday the Hispanic Business Council of the Kissimmee/Osceola Chamber of Commerce is putting on a Dominoes Tournament that promises to be a fun event to attempt to drag a weary business community out to the old Hyatt Orlando hotel that is now called the Orlando Sun Resort by Lexington. The renovated resort has gone through a $5 million dollar face-lift and is in the process of reopening.Wayne Who believes that the selection of a gambling event is the perfect venue in which to bring more hotel rooms into our inventory in Osceola County. With a CVB racked with scandal, and a County Commission confused on the benefits of tourism, gambling could be considered a mild term. It seems the only thing in the county that is not gambling is being a residential home developer. Want to build a new hotel in a tourist corridor on land that is zoned accordingly? The answer is no. Want to destroy wetlands and the last shred of environmentally sensitive lands we have in the county to build a toll road (or should we rename these to tax roads?) that will open up a large pool of land for developers to destroy? Go right ahead, the circle of sprawl is almost complete.
Dominoes could be the most appropriate word ever used for the policies and practices of local governments. We just have to wonder if the residents are ready to clean it all up after the dominoes start to fall?
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Don't forget that the County Commission new there were problems at the CVB, and did nothing about it. I guess they were gambling on whether or not the problem would go away on its own.
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