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Mike Jones

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Dec 24, 2008
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Speaking of projects that bust our infrastructure and should be limited more rather than giving them what they want they want. If this is the way things are done then they need to change. We need to start being VERY careful and more restrictive about anything built in SoWal! It seems like a free for all for developers. So sad.

Unanimous approval by planning board of Seagrove project that asked to reduce parking and cut road setback by 10 feet on 30A. Does anything at all need to be that close to the road? Parking reduced from 276 to 208. Seems ludicrous.

On old Collaborations property on north side of 30A across from Clay Nursery.
Rookis Development (Gulf Place town center)
5 acres
8,000 sf restaurant
14,500 sf retail
13,800 sf office
35 condos
50 room hotel

This is a HUGE project on a small road on a small property next to sensitive habitat.

Oh, but they are going to allow the public to access the state forest trails behind the property. WOW! Let's give them whatever they want for allowing us to use OUR land!
 

Everytime

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Jul 9, 2005
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Shelby County, Alabama
The trails have always been accessible from the roadside right there if you know where to look, so they’re not really “giving” the public anything new there. Also accessible from Cassine Garden (where the Cassine Trail has always been a public connector to Eastern Lake Trail) and Seagrove Baptist Church and the ministorage.
 

James Bentwood

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Feb 24, 2005
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The trails have always been accessible from the roadside right there if you know where to look, so they’re not really “giving” the public anything new there. Also accessible from Cassine Garden (where the Cassine Trail has always been a public connector to Eastern Lake Trail) and Seagrove Baptist Church and the ministorage.
Exactly! It's like they just wanted to tell the commission something. Anything. So the commission can attempt to say they aren't a rubber stamp.

It is a very dense and high impact development that is not appropriate. Imagine another Gulf Place town center on that quiet stretch. Not only do they approve it they do it with less setback and less parking.

Ludicrous indeed!
 
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