Gainesville Development Review Board to consider Alachua County Land Preservation Office building and parking lot at Four Creeks Preserve
July 21, 2025
Public notice
GAINESVILLE, Fla. – At 6:30 p.m. on July 22, the Gainesville Development Review Board will hold a meeting to consider a site plan for the construction of an office and field operations
compound with parking, utilities, and stormwater for the Alachua County Land Conservation Office, which will be built at the Four Creeks Preserve on NW 43rd Street.
The meeting will be held in the Roberta Lisle Kline Conference Room (Room 16) at City Hall, 200 E. University Avenue.
Click here to see the presentation for this agenda item.
so we spent millions to buy land, take it off the tax roles, limit access and then come up with a plan to pollute the nature preserve with a damn office complex? Geez
Totally unnecessary!
No parking to access the walking trails because of neighbors opposition but now a brand new center for more local government offices
What a great misuse of taxpayer dollars
That will be a wonderful spot for the kids to park when they want to go walkthrough Westchester and look for unlocked car doors or steal out of peoples yards.
Not sure about who future office space is aimed at or the budget, but otherwise a good location both for public use, public facilities, and access to the 4-Creeks area which is almost impossible now.
Totally wrong area! This area is primarily wetlands and the traditional waterflow is to the south into neighborhoods that are already identified as a flood zone. Not to mention there will also be a maintenance facility on the property which will adversely affect the wetlands, as we all know vehicles have leaks from time to time.
This will also affect the local wildlife in the area and increase the traffic on NW 43rd Street. The amount of roadkill since the speed limit was increased each year since that. Politicians created a wildlife corridor to adjoining wild areas unintentionally and the animals pay for it with their lives and people pay with repairs to vehicles.
Something small like a limestone parking area with composting toilets would be more appropriate. Keep the wild spaces wild!
maybe Disc, but there appear to be 2 large retention basins with who knows what treatment operations. As for wildlife corridors, NW 43rd ST is a lost cause for mitigation and a present and future major arterial road. This use will have some, but verylittle impact on traffic on 43rd.
It can take from 5 to 8 minutes just to pull out of any of the subdivisions on that road in the morning. It doesn’t take much to cause even more of a back up. Where do you live Jazzman? Let’s put it next to your place instead since it’s such a great idea.
DOGE please tell the commissions to get their head out of their a$$ and realize they’re already broke as they continue to try to make sure the taxpayers go broke too.
With many downtown government offices getting reshuffled in the near future can’t we find them a spot there instead of expensive new construction on conservation lands?
Surtax money abounds but should it be spent like this?