{"id":36025,"date":"2015-06-05T10:41:26","date_gmt":"2015-06-05T14:41:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=36025"},"modified":"2015-06-05T10:41:26","modified_gmt":"2015-06-05T14:41:26","slug":"a-push-to-city-hood-lehigh-acres","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2015\/06\/a-push-to-city-hood-lehigh-acres\/","title":{"rendered":"A Push to City Hood: Lehigh Acres"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-32802\" title=\"wooden nickel\" src=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/wooden-nickel-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/wooden-nickel-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/wooden-nickel.jpg 625w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Residents in Lehigh Acres are once again looking into becoming a city.<\/p>\n<p>With the population now over 100,000 people, community leaders say it\u2019s time for change.<\/p>\n<p>Members of a community council have acted as a voice for Lehigh Acres for almost 50 years<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn order for a community to grow, we have to become incorporated,\u201d said Momahed Yasin.<\/p>\n<p>Yasin is the president of the Lehigh Acres Community Council.<\/p>\n<p>He says for too long Lehigh Acres hasn\u2019t been a priority for anyone in Lee County government.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s why he and other community council members are in the process of creating a 42-seat committee that will look into incorporation.<\/p>\n<p>This isn\u2019t the first time topic has come up, but there\u2019s one thing that Yasin believes makes this time different.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday, with 119,000 people and counting, it\u2019s a grave need of things.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>June 8 meeting will be dedicated to the question incorporation of Lehigh Acres.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Residents in Lehigh Acres are once again looking into becoming a city. With the population now over 100,000 people, community leaders say it\u2019s time for change. Members of a community&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":32802,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,32],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36025"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36025\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}