Talk:Brevard County, Florida

message: Wondering how to edit this U.S. County Entry?
The WikiProject U.S. Counties standards might help.— Preceding unsigned comment added by Rambot (talk • contribs) 22:11, 26 July 2003 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: The Brevard County Expressway Authority was created in 1972.  By Florida Statue:
Brevard County Expressway Authority, purpose and powers.
FSS 348.219(3)(m):
The authority is specifically authorized to construct a toll facility in Brevard County
establishing a two-lane or four-lane bridge located in the southern area of Brevard County, 
south of the municipality of Melbourne, connecting existing U.S. Highway No. 1 with 
State Road A1A across the Indian River at such exact location as is determined by the 
authority to be economically feasible.
This permits them to build a bridge across the Indian River Lagoon, and from looking at the Brevard Properties appraiser, there is land owned on both sides by the State of Florida near the end of Malabar Road.
I'm not sure if I should create a new "Brevard County Expressway Authority", or put it somewhere else.  The BCEA isn't really "known", and is sortof a part of Brevard County Government, but not as separate as, say, the Orange County Expressway Authority. 
--Mcmillen76 00:05, 5 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Brevrard County Expressway Authority

message: I will be moving any towns that are not part of the "current" collection of known areas in the county to a separate Brevard History page at some point in the future
--Mcmillen76 00:05, 5 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Former Cities/Towns

message: Is it just me, or does it seem there is too much... "junk" in the opening of this article ? To me a county article should have brief information at the top. Maybe a few things about what makes the county notable, not a dozen paragraphs about different things in the county. And then it should lead into the subsections which would be more apporpriate for that kind of information. Thoughts anyone ? Jcam 03:42, 27 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Article Introduction

message: I'm not sure where they are getting the median salary. As of 11/20/2006, the median salary in Brevard County for all occupations is $25,740. Go here to verify: http://www.floridawages.com/eds.php?geocode=1202037340
67.8.238.11 03:46, 21 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Salary Wrong

message: I added back in Seminole County as an ADJACENT county. It is close enough to considered adjacent. We should leave it in there as the section is titled ADJACENT and not ADJOINING. If it was Adjoining, that would be different. Plus, we should keep it as Adjacent as the county information footer lists Seminole County as being ADJACENT. 198.151.12.8 16:31, 20 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm afraid you are making a distinction that doesn't hold up very well. See the Wiktionary definition of 'adjacent'. And once you go beyond 'contiguous with', it is original reasearch to say whether or not one county is adjacent to another. -- Donald Albury 16:40, 20 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I understand Wikitionary's definition. But take a look at the bottom of the Brevard County article. Seminole county is listed as an adjacent county. Even the public domain list of adjacent counties for the 50 states  lists Seminole County as being adjacent. In fact, adjacent can mean contiguous, which can mean that it can be within close or near proximity without actually touching. Seminole County is "near" enough to be considered adjacent. Seminole County article also lists Brevard County as adjacent. 198.151.12.8 19:39, 20 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: In fact, according to the USDA Economic and Research Service, "to be considered an adjacent county, a nonmetro county must physicallyadjoin one or more metro areas and have at least two percent of its employed labor force commuting to central metro counties." What the USDA ESR is talking about is functional adjacency, rather than physical adjacency.  Since Seminole county is functionally adjacent to Brevard due to the amount of commuters coming to and from that county.. I believe it qualifies for adjacency to Brevard.67.8.238.211
*FWIW, Seminole, Orange, Volusia, and Brevard all touch at one point (roughly 28.612913°N,80.987079°W by Google Earth). Although I fail to see how non-touching counties can be considered adjacent (especially in this context), the whole argument is moot since they do touch. Jdoty 05:08, 12 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Adjacent vs Adjoining

message: About time we had an assessment of this article to point us in the right direction for the future. I have requested one.Student7 11:12, 17 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Requested Assessment

message: To standardize this section, I recommend the following change.  This includes renaming the section to "Print" & adding two papers that serve Brevard County.  It also includes some edits, such as italicizing names of all publications.
===Print===
Florida Today - major daily newspaper serving Melbourne, Brevard County and the Space Coast region of Florida. It is owned by the media conglomerate Gannett.
Brevard Business News - weekly circulated newspaper that serves the business community.
Brevard Technical Journal - monthly circulated industry newspaper for business management, engineering, purchasing, manufacturing, and staff. It contains news & features about the business and the science of technology in Brevard County - Florida's Space & Technology Coast.
El Playero - monthly circulated newspaper that serves the Spanish-speaking population of the Space Coast.
Hometown News - weekly circulated free newspaper, supported by advertising, that has versions in other Florida counties. It presents local news.
Space Coast Parent - monthly circulated magazine with news and articles of local interest for families.
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Thanks FieldMarine 14:20, 24 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Mostly uncontroversial. I would recommend omitting "Parent." We have a LOT of specialized magazines with niche audiences. There is, incredibly, a glossy home decorating magazine with "Indialantic" on the cover. Whether it changes for each town, I don't know. But my thought is that it just clutters up what is already a cluttered article. My thought is to insert, as per most of  your suggestions, mass-circulation stuff and blatantly omit the rest. Student7 23:58, 24 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Newspapers Section

message: Florida Today - major daily newspaper serving Melbourne, Brevard County and the Space Coast region of Florida. It is owned by the media conglomerate Gannett.
Brevard Business News - weekly circulated newspaper that serves the business community.
Brevard Technical Journal - monthly circulated industry newspaper for business management, engineering, purchasing, manufacturing, and staff. It contains news & features about the business and the science of technology in Brevard County - Florida's Space & Technology Coast.
El Playero - monthly circulated newspaper that serves the Spanish-speaking population of the Space Coast.
Hometown News - weekly circulated free newspaper, supported by advertising, that has versions in other Florida counties. It presents local news.
Space Coast Parent - monthly circulated magazine with news and articles of local interest for families.
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Thanks FieldMarine 14:20, 24 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Mostly uncontroversial. I would recommend omitting "Parent." We have a LOT of specialized magazines with niche audiences. There is, incredibly, a glossy home decorating magazine with "Indialantic" on the cover. Whether it changes for each town, I don't know. But my thought is that it just clutters up what is already a cluttered article. My thought is to insert, as per most of  your suggestions, mass-circulation stuff and blatantly omit the rest. Student7 23:58, 24 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Print

message: Please do not merge this article back into Brevard County. Please see the above discussion on this article being too long. One of the successful forks was to get rid of BCEOC without any annoying fallout in this article. Please see the discussion above about being too long. With a hurricane or two, the EOC will grow, believe me! It won' take long! Student7 (talk) 23:37, 4 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Merging Brevard County Emergency Operations Center

message: These were great! Thanks! But one started at 400,000 population making a relatively slow increase in population look like a tremendous leap. This is WP:POV so I deleted it. Also, I can't read the graphs very well at all without enlarging them. Don't know how to solve that problem easily. I know the editor was aware that while visual representations are greatly needed, we don't want to be dominated by them either. So I can't help with the tradeoffs. Maybe someone else can. Student7 (talk) 13:19, 11 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: New graphs

message: County is tapping landfills for methane, not unusual nowdays. Florida Today article. Another issue is the very expensive closing of landfills, which probably ought to be someplace. The methane doesn't even come close to paying for the closing! Student7 (talk) 16:17, 13 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Landfills

message: An editor has made some improvements to this area. Not sure why Government  services was brought outside of "Government." If the subsection is too long. maybe it would be best to fork some of it rather than categorize in a non-standard manner. Student7 (talk) 14:34, 24 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Restructuring Government

message: While it is nice to have photos and to see an "old time" marker, not sure how non-US residents (or US ones, for that matter) will view the fence. Are we fencing Volusians out? Are they fencing Volusians in? There are two serious barbed wire strands at the top of this fence! I'm pretty sure there is cattle involved, but the allusion for the casual viewer might not be so forgiving. We can't modify photos, but it would be nice to have another one instead IMO. Student7 (talk) 19:30, 5 April 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Photo of Volusia county line

message: "Ponce de León Island" is a proposed name for a geographical feature. As another name has been proposed for that feature, there is no assurance that "Ponce de León Island" will be chosen. Until the Board of Geographic names makes its decision, WP should not have an article for either name. I have added a paragraph about the proposed names to the Geographic features section. That should be sufficient coverage until the Board chooses a name. -- Donald Albury 18:42, 14 January 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Not support merge.  Keep the article as is.  If another name is selected for the island, then rename the article.  Also, the Brevard County article is an inappropriate place for this Island.  It's long enough as written.  Semper Fi! FieldMarine (talk) 03:08, 15 January 2012 (UTC)

text: It's cited at the end of the paragraph I added to this article, but here it is again:  -- Donald Albury 14:09, 15 January 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge [[Ponce de León Island]] here 

message: An editor rm, in good faith, cited material mentioning that there were multiple places for government services, explaining in the edit summary that most counties had multiple sites. I suspect that most counties are rural and do not have multiple sites. IMO the statement illuminated the fact that the county is extremely long and "sufficiently populated" (and sufficiently wealthy) to have multiple sites. Student7 (talk) 18:01, 25 April 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Multiple courthouses,sheriffs locations

message: Note that we probably need an article for "Kempfer Ranch." I don't really know the actual name of the new article, just the original owners. It has changed substantially from it's found in 1904, from 100,000 acres at its peak to about 25,000 under ONE of the Kempfer families. Student7 (talk) 19:40, 13 March 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Kempfer Ranch

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message: We need an article somewhere on "Brevard County Canals," if only to list or categorize them. We probably have more canals in Brevard (and longer), than Venice, Italy. Okay, maybe not as picturesque. Can't find basis on which to start an article. Just stumbled across "MTDD Canal 62." I have no idea what the abbreviation stands for, nor the numbering system. Student7 (talk) 22:54, 3 December 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Canals

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message: After listing hurricanes that affected Brevard County, someone listed hurricanes that did not affect the county. This seems like too much information.Parkwells (talk) 16:27, 12 October 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree. - Donald Albury 12:06, 13 October 2018 (UTC)
thread_title: Question about hurricanes

message: I have not been able to find a table that supports the percentages for national ancestry that were listed in the Demographics section. The table at , which is based on the 2010 census, differs from the percentages in that section for almost every white ancestry group. The tables on the census site are updated every year, and it is difficult to link to those tables. I also question the utility of such specific ancestry data in an encyclopedia article. I have hidden the text in question, and request discussion of the utility of such information. - Donald Albury 00:15, 1 April 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Detailed statistics on ancestry in Demographics section