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WELLINGTON, FLORIDA this core Town Center, while looking to rede- velop some of the surrounding multi-family neighborhoods that are in the area.We will present to our Council at a visioning session, coming up, a program that is going to be MidTown-based. And we’re going to ask them to give us direction in regards to incentives and things that they want to see happen to further expand on the Town Center infrastructure that we have put in place with taxpayer dollars.We want to increase our density in this particular area. That means that the single-storyquadruplexes and duplexes that are currently in place,mayend up beingmulti-storybuildings–three and possibly even four stories in certain locations.” Barnes adds that replacing some older housing stock could help attract some new residents, such as the millennial generation, or Baby Boomers who might have grown up in Welling- ton but went off to college and never returned. “We’ve got to try and transition to be able to attract a different demographic,” he says. “The big thing is that we want to remain a great hometown and maybe change a little bit so that we stay the same. That’s the goal – a little bit of change so that you’re able to appeal across the differ- ent generations and give them cultural opportunities or a little bit more of an op- portunity to have a sense of place that traditionally older planned communities don’t have. But by the same token, you want to keep all the great things that brought people out here to begin with.” Building a sustainable future is also part of Wel- lington’s Plan. Planning Technician, Brandon Miller states, “We have adopted a