Suburban Jacksonville: Durbin Crossing

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Suburban Jacksonville: Durbin Crossing



Metro Jacksonville takes a drive through one of the largest and most complex DRI's ever approved in Northeast Florida: Durbin Crossing


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http://www.metrojacksonville.com/article/2012-mar-suburban-jacksonville-durbin-crossing

[TheProfessor]

Looks horrid!

[ben says]

+1.

[jaxlore]

+2

[Dapperdan]

What do people have against making grid patterned roads? I am tired of cul de sacs and  neighborhoods that all empty out on one single road. I love the grid patterns of neighborhoods like Riverside and Murray Hill. Is this a  thing of the past?

[Clem1029]

Almost bought a house in there...loved the neighborhood and location, but the CDD fees were way too high for my tastes, and if you have to sell the house, you're still competing with new homes due to a 5-10 year build-out there (same is pretty much true for Nocatee).

[Dapperdan]

I live in Oakleaf and CDD plus HOA fees can get high, and for some reason, in recession times, they like to rasie them every year. Definitely not for everyone.

[cline]

What do people have against making grid patterned roads? I am tired of cul de sacs and  neighborhoods that all empty out on one single road. I love the grid patterns of neighborhoods like Riverside and Murray Hill. Is this a  thing of the past?

A lot of people with children prefer living on cul-de-sacs due to perceived safety benefits.

Is this the DRI that was in foreclosure or was that Twin Creeks?

[peestandingup]

Oh well, whatever blows their skirts up. But personally it looks like what my nightmares are made of.

"the development will feature 1,550 single-family homes, 947 multi-family units, over 200,000 square feet of retail/office use, regional parks, and an elementary school."

The sad part is that assuming each of those units has 2-3 people living in them, thats WAY more population than the entire downtown has.

[TREE4309]

Nothing wrong with grid patterned streets, but these big developments have a lot of wetlands to deal with as well as requirements to leave certain green and treed spaces intact, which would be ridiculously expensive (if not impossible) to mitigate during development, so street patterns are designed around most of those areas.

[cline]

The sad part is that assuming each of those units has 2-3 people living in them, thats WAY more population than the entire downtown has.

Is that surprising?  This is the result of land use policies formulated by puppets for developers and Builder's Associations.  The bed has already been made.

But at least we have the mobility plan...wait, no we don't.

[hypnotoad]

Blech!  Those houses are revolting.  Cookie-cutter, box-style, houses with no craftsmanship or architectural interest.... um, no thanks!  And HOA fees?  Gimme a break. 

[aubureck]

This is the type of development that my husband wants to live in.  I used to think it was what I wanted as well; however, the longer I work downtown and in the urban cores the more I realize the benefits of being near the heart of everything.  Now, if I could only get him on the same page...

[RockStar]

No offense to anyone who lives somewhere like that, but you'd find me hanging from a beam in the garage.

[copperfiend]

For a lot of people in this country, neighborhoods like this are the "American Dream" for them. They want to live on a cul-de-sac. They want to live in a neighborhood with an HOA and soccer fields. But drive through any of these types of recent planned communities and they are littered with empty lots and foreclosed houses.