...thats the message from Polk County Planning Commission.  The commissioners voted 5-2 on Tuesday to deny a request by Mitchell Davis Kalogridis and Mary Ruth Baity to revise the county's growth map to change a 160-acre tract from the Rural Development Area to the Urban Development Area.

What does this means?  It would change the growth map to allow 700 homes in the area.  Officials pointed out in a recent article to the Reporter that there's enough of a backlog of public services in Poinciana.  So changing the growth map to allow more development in a rural enclave at the edge of it would just make things worse.

There are other issues to consider too as well, overcrowded schools, high traffic volume - the road network near the proposed site is inadequate, there are not enough public parks, fire, ambulance and police services are already strained.  So changing the growth map for an additional 700 homes would not help the situation at this time.