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leeboy

Beach Lover
Aug 19, 2015
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Emerald City was an ambitious project. It appears we dodged a bullet big time. And gained some amazing protected public land.

Never forget - if developers had their way, our parks would be postage stamps and our waters would be sewers.
 

Matt J

SWGB
May 9, 2007
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Fun fact the county doesn't have to buy it's right of way back. It simply needs to maintain it, because the south end gets ignored by public works people have taken things into their own hands over the decades, but in Florida it's still the counties regardless of maintenance or development.
 

James Bentwood

Beach Fanatic
Feb 24, 2005
1,495
606
Fun fact the county doesn't have to buy it's right of way back. It simply needs to maintain it, because the south end gets ignored by public works people have taken things into their own hands over the decades, but in Florida it's still the counties regardless of maintenance or development.
It's still OURS and grumpy neighbors should be made to remove signs, chains, obstructions!
 

Kurt

Admin
Staff member
Oct 15, 2004
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SoWal
mooncreek.com
Threads merged.

Here is a link to a thread about

One Cent Surtax Ballot Referendum


Which was defeated last Fall and included funds for the connector road.

________________________________________________________________________________

You are hereby notified that the Walton County Board of County Commissioners will hold a Special Meeting on Thursday, March 2, 2023 from 5:00 PM – 7:00 PM at the South Walton High School Auditorium, located at 645 Greenway Trail, Santa Rosa Beach, FL 32459.

The purpose of this Special Meeting is to hear and discuss the South Walton Connector Road PD&E Presentation.

This meeting is open to the public. For additional information, please contact Public Information at (850) 892-8155.
 

Matt J

SWGB
May 9, 2007
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9,496
Everyone needs to keep asking commissioners and planning who is requesting this road as there has been 1 paid representative who has spoken in favor of it.
 

South Walton Community Council

Community Organization
Jan 17, 2007
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www.southwaltoncc.org
South Walton Connector Road Informational Meeting 

LOCATION
South Walton High School Auditorium 645 Greenway Trail 

DATE AND TIME
03/02/23 5:00pm - 03/02/23 7:00pm US/Central

On February 24, 2021, South Walton Community Council sent the following letter to the Board of County Commissioners:

In regard to the proposed/potential 'road through the forest', South Walton Community Council asks the Commissioners and Planning Department to please take a careful look at all alternative routes for any connector road, including the viability of putting the road on private property. The road that is proposed in the Mobility Study would negatively impact Point Washington State Forest and Deer Lake State Park and SWCC feels a very high burden must be met before use of well-established conservation lands is considered.

In particular, St. Joe owns the property just to the east of Deer Lake State Park and this land, which is already partly developed and slated for further development, could potentially house a connector road while preserving our conservation lands. Kristen Shell has stated that St. Joe’s development north of 98 in eastern South Walton and western Bay County will bring 300,000 people to the area. As a major contributor to the need for new road capacity, it seems appropriate for St Joe and St. Joe land be considered as a primary part of the solution.

By way of background, we remind the Commissioners that in May of 2019 when the Atkins Study held an Agency meeting, ALL federal and state agencies involved in the management of Point Washington State Forest and Deer Lake Park spoke on the negative impacts of the proposed road and on the state statutes that protect these conservation lands.

Regards,
Alan Ficarra
President
South Walton Community Council
__________________________________________________


Please email our commissioners if you have opinions on this project proposal

Reference "Road Through The Forest" in the subject line of your email.

Commissioner Contact Information:

Commissioner Boots McCormick

mccboots@co.walton.fl.us

(850) 835-4860


Ms. Breezy Adkinson

adkbreezy@co.walton.fl.us


Commissioner Danny Glidewell

glidanny@co.walton.fl.us

(850)892-4020


Ms. Teresa Lowery

lowteresa@co.walton.fl.us


Commissioner Mike Barker

barmike@co.walton.fl.us

(850) 892-8474


Ms. Teresa Crawford

crateresa@co.walton.fl.us


Commissioner Donna Johns

johdonna@co.walton.fl.us

(850) 835-4834


Ms. Gina Waddell

wadgina@co.walton.fl.us


Commissioner Tony Anderson

andtony@co.walton.fl.us

(850) 231-2978


Ms. Laura Ekstrom

ekslaura@co.walton.fl.us
 

UofL

Beach Fanatic
Jan 21, 2005
693
443
Louisville KY
Those of you who don't want any more development (guess we've long missed that boat) should start suggesting places for us to vacation, now that 30A is no longer the 30A we've been visiting for 3 decades! Start pushing other locations to make a point? I can remember sitting at the beaches with big spaces between us and the next chairs. Standing in the middle of the road taking pictures. Ellen
 

Matt J

SWGB
May 9, 2007
24,643
9,496
Those of you who don't want any more development (guess we've long missed that boat) should start suggesting places for us to vacation, now that 30A is no longer the 30A we've been visiting for 3 decades! Start pushing other locations to make a point? I can remember sitting at the beaches with big spaces between us and the next chairs. Standing in the middle of the road taking pictures. Ellen

A lot of people are moving east to Mexico Beach, Port St. Joe, Apalachicola and other places that will inevitably go through the same thing.

You can face change once, or spend the rest of your life running from it.
 
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