Application for Paynes Prairie development withdrawn
Staff report
ALACHUA COUNTY, Fla. – An application for a controversial development along the edge of Paynes Prairie Preserve State Park has been withdrawn.
Dozens of people showed up at County Commission meetings and emailed Commissioners when news of the project became public, mainly voicing concerns about the environmental impact of the 134-home development from Maronda Homes located on U.S. Hwy 441, south of the City of Gainesville and along the edge of Payne’s Prairie Preserve State Park.
At the July 8 County Commission meeting, County Manager Michele Lieberman said, “We’re more than likely looking at October before this board would even have an opportunity to hear any information on that, and it has to go through the Planning Commission first.”
According to an email from Alachua County Principal Planner Chris Dawson to County Commissioners, the applicant notified the County today that they wanted to withdraw the application: “Given this, the item will not go before the Planning Commission or the Board for any public hearings, and there will be no further action by Staff on the application.”
It seems to be more of the “I got mine” attitude.
Just think how many people wouldn’t be here if people had protested as much as they do, or if they gave back their properties to the original indigenous people.
People appreciate nature more when they live amongst it. But once they do, they don’t want others to join them. Hence their pushing of apt. and condo towers downtown, the REAL “green” lifestyle.
Don’t blame the folks that live there…it’s the overarching political system that is pushing the trash apartment craze. The “real green lifestyle” is just a euphemism to promote these 15 minute SMART city globalist surveillance states. A control grid. The social/carbon credit climate cult on one end and the uber paranoid zionists and warmongers on the other end both harmoniously partner with the police surveillance state in the end. Both sides are being played
How do other areas of the state seem to avoid having out of state developers ravage the landscape and shack up cheap osb homes and apartments? D R horton comes in with their known garbage and is allowed to put junk up in area..
$2,500/month apartments going up everywhere who is living in these things? The true population of Alachua county now, including Gainesville has to be 450,000. This number does not include the 70,000 Uf students who are not on the census. In the past two years, what new road has been built to handle this?
That was going to be a lot of homes (134) on a narrow strip between US 441 and the Prairie. Other private land up on the Prairie’s edge are occupied with fewer houses on larger tracts, a more sensible use of sensitive lands.
I found that the people who live near the Prairie are very selfish self-centered jerks.
Good for the opponents for taking a stand and beating Maronda. Overdevelopment over the past 10-15 years has turned the Gainesville area into Orlando North. Destroying the city and county for the sake of extra tax revenue and incessant out-of-town developer profits is not the way to make our area better. Too bad more trashy and unneeded developments weren’t stopped before now. We do not need more tax revenue and more tax payers, we just need government to shrink and stop being wasteful.