Haven't we read this somewhere before?

Saturday's News-Gazette reports that the Kissimmee CRA has delayed their appeal of Osceola County's zoning denial for the proposed relocation site ofthe Rinker cement plant. The reason for the delay? Since Cemex purchased Rinker, a part of the deal was that Cemex has to sell off some of the Rinker plants to allow for competition in certain markets, including Central Florida.

How do we know this? Well, we wrote about the Cemex deal and the announcement that plants would be sold once the deal would be complete, back on April 13th, based on news reports at that time.

So, we think this is a good thing...one less case of government agencies suing each other (even though it wasn't a negotiation that solved the issue). But we have to ask: if Cemex decides to sell the property, and not as a cement plant, but just as a land parcel, does the CRA need to be involved? We would support the free market resolving the issue at that point, leaving just the land already purchased for the unapproved plant relocation to be dealt with.