OVIEDO, Fla. – For years, small business owners in Oviedo say they’ve been blindsided by the city — investing their savings into land and buildings, only to discover fees worth tens of thousands of dollars that no one warned them about until it was too late to turn back.
Mike Lombardo has kept Yard Fellas running in Oviedo for 28 years. Business was good, so he invested in land to store his trucks and equipment. But the moment that purchase went through, he says the city started moving the goalposts.
“I don’t know what to even believe. I’ve been misled, I’ve been lied to so many times, and so many roadblocks have been put up,” said Mike Lombardo, owner of Yard Fellas…