There's a ton of crap C-R-A-P in Defuniak that I have never used nor will I, but I'm not pushing to have it closed or sold off as surplus.
Deer Lake State Park [update - not closing]
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There's a ton of crap C-R-A-P in Defuniak that I have never used nor will I, but I'm not pushing to have it closed or sold off as surplus.
Although the State can make cuts in other places to keep parks open ie. medicaid, education, public safety, flying the state jet, etc. I do not support getting rid of the property but I do have issue with local government taking it over. If those of you have a desire to keep it open volunteer your time to do so.
I am sure many of us would be happy to do that...the only problem is, the state/county government is not structured to do that; just as they could not take the private money to fund the installation of the traffic lights at the intersections; or the private money to take down/re-do the big blue signs; they are not set up to allow "civilians" to manage a state or county owned property.
I think I know that about you....
On the commercial note though it is something not regularly considered. I'd estimate that in 10 years there will be another road connecting 98 to 30A with the termination occuring in that small corridor near Deer Lake State Park. In that Watersound West Beach to Watersound Bridges section of 30A there is hundreds of thousands of feet of commercial approved. There is already approved enough commercial in that stretch of 30A to build a Super Walmart, Publix, Target, Home Depot, and Lowes.
Right on - but why should taxpayers foot the bill for the enjoyment of so few?
I don't think you're going to see any of those on 30A anytime soon. The population just isn't here to support those. Of the one that is here, Publix, there are two within very reasonable driving distance.
I agree. I think that JOE completely controls the development timeline.
If there ever is big box commercial development in the area east of Sandestin, it makes infinitely more sense to keep it on US 98 or within a couple hundred feet of 98 rather than putting it on an access road between 98 and 30-A- the road infrastructure's already there, the scale of those kinds of projects fits better with the existing 98 developments (places like Christian International Church, the Chelco palace of electricity, etc) and the legal bills would be significantly less to get approval to change zoning than they would be for something closer to the beach. And a couple parcels there are already zoned for larger commercial development like the western terminus of 30-A where Albertson's was talking about putting a store at some point.
I agree. There is not the present critical mass required to satisfy the hundreds of thousands of square feet approved for that presently quiet stretch of 30A between Deer Lake and Camp Creek Lake.