Hi folks, I have mentioned in my previous posts that I enjoy geo-caching. Well recently I found a nice undeveloped spot to put a cache and in the process of locating and requesting permission from the landowner, well, this is the spot.
http://www.atlanticdevelopmentllc.com/index_files/Executivesummary.pdf (http://www.atlanticdevelopmentllc.com/index_files/Executivesummary.pdf)
This came as a surprise to me. I'm a little curious, is anyone/everyone else aware of this project?
The location is the south west end of Mill Cove close to Reddie Point.
Well, the surrounding homeowners shouldn't be too happy with a 13 story monstrosity looking down on their homes and neighborhoods. Typical of the destruction of our way of living at the hands of developers. They sell us a dream and then proceed to undermine it. If this is allowed to be built, no person in Jax should sleep well at night knowing such monsters could invade our lives next.
I hope they need some kind of approval that the public can speak out against. Thank God for the recession or we would likely have many more of these money-at-all-costs developments cropping up all over North Florida.
It also speaks to why we can't preserve enough natural land as none of it is sacred otherwise. That nice little natural oasis consisting of a wooded tract or wetland you enjoy passing in your neighborhood not only could disappear but be transformed into a disproportionate monstrosity such as this. It will also be a blight upon all those sailing down the St. Johns who will have to view it rather than the natural setting it displaces. A further setback will be if it is readily visible from the Timucuan Preserve and/or Fort Caroline.
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=edenfield+road,+jacksonville,+fl&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=46.946584,78.662109&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Edenfield+Rd,+Jacksonville,+Duval,+Florida+32277&ll=30.380798,-81.598206&spn=0.006285,0.009602&t=h&z=17
According to the developer's website, they already have the zoning they need - so no public input. It should not be visible from Ft. Caroline or the Timucuan Preserve - it is several miles away, and the Dames Point bridge is about half-way between. But it will be Hell for the folks in that old single family neighborhood just east of this monstrosity (west is mostly low rise apartments).
Hell? Really? Is it just the added people in the area that are objectionable, the extra traffic or what?
How about people looking down on your backyard from 13 stories up? Shade in the afternoon as this wall blocks the sun? The traffic problem will be on Edenfield, which only goes west from there, unless the developer is allowed to connect to the residential streets to the east, which doesn't seem to be precluded by the site plan. Interesting that they show views "from" the development, but not "of" the development (towers) from nearby residential areas.
Umm, this must be quite old. The company's website isn't even registered anymore.
http://www.atlanticdevelopmentllc.com/
Last articles are from 2005 and early 2006.
http://jacksonville.com/tu-online/stories/011606/bus_20801690.shtml
Well, and last year.
http://triad.bizjournals.com/jacksonville/stories/2008/09/22/story3.html#
I'm still very skeptical though. How is he going to get financing for a condominium development in Florida right now?