City planners in Punta Gorda, Florida, won

City planners in Punta Gorda, Florida, won a dispute with the city housing authority over plans to replace public housing destroyed by Hurricane Charley, according to the Herald-Tribune newspaper. The authority originally planned 184 campus-style units, “but city planners, who were later backed by the city council, said it wouldn’t fit with the fabric of the neighborhood,” according to the report. The city wanted to see buildings that fronted streets and the extension of neighborhood streets into the development. “The housing authority’s designers came up with new plans,” according to the report, “and the city mostly got what it wanted.”