Cocoa Beach, Fla., determined to rein in development

Tuesday, December 31, 2002

COCOA BEACH, Fla. -- Cocoa Beach's engineers and technicians put a man on the moon and keep the space shuttle flying. But with its 1950s ranch homes and slanted-roof carports, the community near the Kennedy Space Center still looks like something out of the Sputnik era.

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