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Near a Revolutionary War battlefield on Jacksonville’s Northside sits a piece of Florida’s past that could be preserved, if the price is right.
City Council members are weighing a plan to pool about $5 million in federal and local cash to buy 288 acres of forest and waterfront close to locale of the Battle of Thomas Creek, the southern boundary of the War of Independence.
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Protecting that as parkland would connect the city- and state-managed Thomas Creek Conservation Area to the Timucuan Ecological and Historic Preserve.
By Steve Patterson at jacksonville.com
http://jacksonville.com/news/florida/2011-11-16/story/jacksonville-debates-parkland-deal-near-revolutionary-war-battlefield
Saw that this am. It is a nice piece but 5mm is 3+ times what it is worth.
^ Agreed.
Well, someone needs to buy it before it becomes a new neighborhood and blocks access to the site.
Did not 2,000 nearby Creek System acres (mere working forests) recently go to Comp Plan development revision?
No doubt the impending alteration packaged under Growth Management,Mitigation and care.
Too bad the entire Creek Corridor,site of spot conservation lands purchase,has the out parcel development potential it has.....and we,the public,have granted it.
Indeed the purchase instruments such as the rare US Forest Service program appear to enable generous compensation,requiring minimal COJ contribution.
Always interesting to see who the attorney,P&C representing the land owner/seller is.
For those interested,note too the Northeast Florida Timberlands Preserve project......the " Green Hedge".