The growth plan covers unincorporated Polk County, not its cities ... state laws and has been amended every year since, including map and policy amendments. The current version of the Polk ...

Since its founding in 1911, the city in southeast Polk County ... s growth and its potential encroachment on Highland Park. Updike’s concerns grew with the release of the land-use maps.

Polk County has been on an upward growth trajectory. Here are five examples of that growth to watch in the year ahead. $3B transportation funding gap threatens ...

As the Des Moines metro area moves closer to hitting 1 million people, some local family farmers see a one-of-a-kind resource getting lost in all that growth ... In Polk County since 1998 ...

Their shoes slipping through yellow sand, Nancy Bissett and Steve Riefler followed an unpublished graduate thesis like a treasure map ... Polk County leading the state in population growth ...

WINTER HAVEN, Fla. — Polk County is one of the fastest growing counties in the nation, so balancing growth and improving infrastructure is one of the main issues on many Polk County voters’ minds.

There's a state legal limit on how much those fees can be increased, but Polk County wants an exception to address what has been explosive growth over the past few years. Under state law ...

This year alone, he said he needs 125 new deputies because of growth, attrition, a new commitment to provide school resource officers at all Polk County public schools, and requests for service ...