….” EDR has identified deficiencies with several of the required elements of the Study, particularly Element #8 relating to evidence of fiscal capacity. EDR has concerns that positive budget outcomes are difficult to assess due to the lack of documentation as to how revenues and expenses were determined. EDR would have liked to have seen more explanation of how the costs of services were calculated and what factors were considered in making assumptions about future revenues, expenditures, and population growth rates.

EDR suggests that Indiantown violates one of the six statutory standards of incorporation (i.e., area proposed for incorporation must have an average population density of at least 1.5 persons per acre).

However, EDR notes that the Florida Legislature could exercise its option to waive this standard in order for this incorporation proposal to proceed forward.”…….