Next stop: Palmetto (South Florida)
Newcomers love the city’s small-town charm, old-timers wonder what’s being lost and government tries to keep up
Sleepy Palmetto has about 5,000 homes and 14,000 residents. But the city has OK’d another 4,500 homes to go up within the next five years. Most are swank resort condos that contrast sharply with the homespun farm town that old-timers know.