City planners’ big, overarching plan is to find ways to increase housing within the city’s core and limit urban sprawl.

As few as 120 adult Florida panthers live in the wild in the state's southwestern corner, where they are faced with a booming human population and habitat loss.

The panther population at one point in the 1990s dropped to around 50 animals, in part because of inbreeding that caused numerous health problems.