Florida is on its way to being an âapocalyptic hellscapeâ | Letters Hereâs what readers are saying in Mondayâs letters to the editor. Â Â New housing development sprawls outward from Orlando, near where the toll road 429 branches north from Interstate 4. [ CARLTON WARD JR. | by Carlton Ward Jr. ] Published 1 hour ago Tampa moves ahead on slowing down apartment boom | April 18 I came to Tampa Bay in 1998 for a lot of the same reasons other people moved here â the beauty and the laidback lifestyle. Now that thatâs mostly gone, Iâm ready to leave my beloved Orlando ... I mean Tampa ...for good. Florida is an eternal paradox. People want to move and live here because of the climate and the landscape, but the more people move here, the more infrastructure and development is needed, and the less beauty there is to enjoy. Just recently, the University of South Florida put a 700 acre forest preserve up for development.