| Starting in the early 1990s, there was a lot of discussion in Brevard county, especially in the southern and central part of the county, to officially move the county seat from Titusville to what was at that time uninhabited cow pasture land, now called Viera. This move was very controversial. While Viera would have provided a location for administration of the county nearer to the county's major population center (Melbourne and Palm Bay, the two largest cities in Brevard County are 50 miles from Titusville), many suspected that the real reasons the center of government was moved was to enrich the owners of the once valueless land. An amendment was put onto the ballot to default on the bonds which the county had issued to pay for the massive building project, but it failed. There has also been a movement in Northern Brevard County to break away from the rest of the county and become a new county with the proposed name Playalinda County. |