They let you swim on their bellies, Sean added. Perhaps the manatees visit for the same reasons people live here. We re still a little off the beaten path, said Mayor Ted Erwin. It s still somewhat of a laid-back community. It s a city comprised mostly of retirees and wage-earners, as Erwin described, where residents don t mind the absence of affluence.
Homes err on the modest side, with mostly single-family residences and retirement communities.
Instead, he recalled just one simple thing. Comprehensive Plan amendment that would rezone Veterans Memorial Parkway for mixed use, annexation of unincorporated areas to the city s northwest. Sixteen full-time police officers. Vice Mayor, Al Blue. City Manager, John McCue.