Deforestation of Walton County

[sandytoes911]

Are there any meetings / venues to fight what’s happening and hopefully stop all of the development? I’ve spoken to several friends who are seeing panthers and we should not be seeing panthers. Who / how / why did another Walmart get put on 98? And why are all of these cheap, too fast building , clear cutting the lands happening? And the road across the intercostal waterway? Devastating.

 

[PoppaJ]

Are there any meetings / venues to fight what’s happening and hopefully stop all of the development? I’ve spoken to several friends who are seeing panthers and we should not be seeing panthers. Who / how / why did another Walmart get put on 98? And why are all of these cheap, too fast building , clear cutting the lands happening? And the road across the intercostal waterway? Devastating.

The voting booth

 

[Jane]

Are there any meetings / venues to fight what’s happening and hopefully stop all of the development? I’ve spoken to several friends who are seeing panthers and we should not be seeing panthers. Who / how / why did another Walmart get put on 98? And why are all of these cheap, too fast building , clear cutting the lands happening? And the road across the intercostal waterway? Devastating.

You can go to all public meetings and workshops posted on here plus write to the BCC on issues to give your input if you can't attend.

The South Walton Community Council is active on matters of development. Although it seems that when the BCC got a majority of members as pro-development about 10 years ago they give developers whatever they want in most cases.

Walton County wants to develop every square inch, bureaucracies based on tax dollars often eat themselves and leave behind a concrete carcass. A citizen movement based on the environment instead of greed is what is needed. And perhap a city of Santa Rosa Beach with common sense controls.

 

[UpNorth]

The horrors of a grocery only Walmart…

Was in there the other day and it’s as well done as you can do a Walmart. Only groceries and a liquor store. Nice alternative to paying double for everything at Publix or have to drive 40 minutes east or west for the other Walmarts.

But I guess it’s too much. There should be 12 straight miles of totally vacant forest lining both sides of 98, not 11.5 miles as it is now.

 

[James Bentwood]

The horrors of a grocery only Walmart…

Was in there the other day and it’s as well done as you can do a Walmart. Only groceries and a liquor store. Nice alternative to paying double for everything at Publix or have to drive 40 minutes east or west for the other Walmarts.

But I guess it’s too much. There should be 12 straight miles of totally vacant forest lining both sides of 98, not 11.5 miles as it is now.

Preservation is not a joke like you are trying to make it out. Enjoy your Walmart. I'm sure you are most comfortable there among your kind in your native habitat.

 

[UpNorth]

Preservation is not a joke like you are trying to make it out. Enjoy your Walmart. I'm sure you are most comfortable there among your kind in your native habitat.

Yes. Patiently waiting for the uproar over the 2 acres needed for a Whole Foods. It must be stopped! I can pick up matches for you so you have light in the evening.

 

[UpNorth]

It’s funny because coming here and seeing the wealth of conservation land and state parks, and the aesthetics of most of the development; something that spans pretty much the whole panhandle, and then hearing all these frantic people talking about overdevelopment is like going to a desert and hearing people worrying about not having enough sand. You want to politely tell them that they should actually be worried about water in a desert, not sand, but they’re petulant anyway. Then you just kind of shrug your shoulders, wonder why they choose to be so bitter, and then just get back to enjoying life.

 

[Dawn]

It’s funny because coming here and seeing the wealth of conservation land and state parks, and the aesthetics of most of the development; something that spans pretty much the whole panhandle, and then hearing all these frantic people talking about overdevelopment is like going to a desert and hearing people worrying about not having enough sand. You want to politely tell them that they should actually be worried about water in a desert, not sand, but they’re petulant anyway. Then you just kind of shrug your shoulders, wonder why they choose to be so bitter, and then just get back to enjoying life.

The reason we have protected lands are because of people more caring and wiser than people like you who only see potential for development and dollars.

 

[bob1]

Realtor or sub contractor?

@UpNorth

No answer?

 

[UpNorth]

@UpNorth

No answer?

I don’t know what this means. I don’t need either.