There have been other beach communities that have managed growth and limited development. Not here and not in this time. The wave of greed over the last 20 years was like a hurricane that is still pummeling our once simple county. We went straight from good ole boys who liked to fish to good ole boys who cut bait for developers.
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Connector Road Between 30A and 98 East of Seagrove
- Thread starter Kaydence
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I like the idea of putting "The Road" on St Joe land.
They are eventually going to decimate all the trees in that area anyway for more "Water Something" communities! So build it there and leave "our" trees alone. We are going to need all the trees we can save, as this RAMPANT" development continues on into the future.
Truman
Beach Fanatic
hoo boy - St. Joe's reinvention from developer to land sales and landlord was a complete sellout of our environment and their touted environmentalism. They even had environmentalists on staff. Now they either sell to DR Horton types that take everything down to the dirt or do it themselves. They've learned from the worst.
Thankful Watersound Beach and Watercolor got developed when they realized creating great places meant more profit.
bob bob
Beach Fanatic
Anyone go to meeting? I imagine it was to keep pushing for the road and find new funding.
I did get a spam email from a former county commissioner candidate begging for support of the road. Chaz Galloway I guess is paid by developers. Something to keep in mind next time he runs.
I did get a spam email from a former county commissioner candidate begging for support of the road. Chaz Galloway I guess is paid by developers. Something to keep in mind next time he runs.
SUP Boarder
Beach Lover
Excerpt from Ecology of a Cracker Childhood...
Clearcut
If you clear a forest, you’d better pray continuously. While you’re pushing a road through and rigging the cables and moving between trees on the dozer, you’d better be talking to God. While you’re cruising timber and marking trees with a blue slash, be praying; and pray while you’re peddling the chips and logs and writing Friday’s checks and paying the diesel bill – even if it’s under your breath, a rustling at the lips. If you’re manning the saw head or the scissors, snipping the trees off at the ground, going from one to another, approaching them brusquely and laying them down, I’d say, pray extra hard; and pray hard when you’re hauling them away.
God doesn’t like a clearcut. It makes his heart turn cold, makes him wince and wonder what went wrong with His creation, and sets him to thinking about what spoils the child.
You’d better be pretty sure that the cut is absolutely necessary and be at peace with it, so you can explain it to God, for it’s fairly certain He’s going to question your motives, want to know if your children are hungry and your oldest boy needs asthma medicine – whether you deserve forgiveness or if you’re being greedy and heartless.
Clear cutting is proof there is no God.
Matt J
SWGB
The road will be step one. Once it's approved JOE will go after what they've always viewed as theirs, the State Forest. Make no mistake that the sole local pushing this has no idea, as usual, that he is a TOOL and will regret this more than he can imagine.
SUP Boarder
Beach Lover
Very discouraging.
St Joe still has a lot of undeveloped land north of Hwy 98 (blue). They'll want more roads to 30A as their development progresses.....
That and the expressway over the canal will open up our beaches to 1000 times more land to be developed in addition to what you're showing. See Walton-Bay sector plan thread.