"You couldn't ask for a longer list of objections."

A state agency that has approved almost every development project submitted to it has balked at U.S. Sugar's plans to develop land currently slated for Everglades restoration.

On 67 square miles of sugar land southwest of Lake Okeechobee in Hendry County, U.S. Sugar and Hilliard Brothers of Florida, another sugar company with adjoining property, have joined forces on a project called "Sugar Hill."

Now the state Department of Economic Opportunity, which in its three years of existence has rarely objected to anything, has declined to approve the changes to Hendry County's land-use plan.

Read more at the Tampa Bay Times.