Mayport Fishing Village in trouble?

[thelakelander]

So most of the riverfront land owned by JaxPort for the cruise ship Mayport didn't owned will end being owned by the Navy to protect the naval station from further encroachment. Does this effectively drive the nail in the coffin of historic fishing village?

Taxpayer money to help Mayport going only to JaxPort



One landowner will get all the money designated by the state to stem encroachment around Mayport Naval Station — the Jacksonville Port Authority.

Lawmakers tacked $7.5 million in taxpayer money onto the "Florida G.I. Bill" (HB 7015) passed by the state Senate on Monday to buy properties or their development rights around Mayport and two other bases as a way to ward off potential base closings as the Pentagon retrenches.

The news came as a surprise to private property owners who wonder why they didn't get offers. It also left some people scratching their heads as to why JaxPort's property, which is separated from the naval station by Mayport Village, was so highly prized.

In Mayport, 11 separate parcels were identified and, although there is privately owned land between them, JaxPort owns each one.

full article: http://members.jacksonville.com/news/metro/2014-03-13/story/taxpayer-money-help-mayport-going-only-jaxport

[tufsu1]

from what I've heard, both the Navy and JAXPORT are on-board with revitalization efforts (whatever that means) for the area

[Ocklawaha]

The reason the Navy was trying to move the master jet base (Virginia Beach) back to Cecil Field JUST a few years ago had everything to do with this issue.  N O I S E ! 

Today the feds are increasingly swinging an axe at the military budget with an amazing dearth of military historical prospective. Closing bases for budget purposes that result in concentration of military assets in single locations is just another Pearl Harbor looking for a place to happen.

At a time when 'grass needs to be mowed' might be seen as a reason to shut down a base cities and states are looking at some pretty radical ideas. To combat those Washington D.C. knee jerk, bean counter solutions, Florida and other places are seeking ways to cut, if not eliminate, complaints of any type from reaching Washington about the existence of a base in our city or state. Of course selling the entire property to Russia, Iran or China might be a way to head this off.

[Overstreet]

Ock that works but they aren't buying home owners that would complain about noise. They are buying the land the port bought to make a cruise terminal that was blocked by local protest. I'm sure most of the folks at the Port Authority can't hear the jet noise from Mayport Air Station from their houses.