A former member of the Hernando County Planning Commission is pushing the group to do a true economic study about a proposed mine.
Cemex Construction Materials Florida wants to build a mine along Cortez Boulevard, near Brooksville. Residents have packed county commission meetings to speak out against it.
The planning commission recently voted to see if a 2007 study for the Florida Department of Transportation would work in place of an economic study, according to our partners at the Tampa Bay Times.
The Times reports that former Commissioner Robert Widmar just wrote the commission a letter in which he detailed why he doesn't think swapping the 2007 FDOT study for an economic study would work.