Some developers are swine.

[paulsharvey]

Rivertown is quite the investment for someone! I moved away from there due to a neighbor, and ended up just north of the other one you mentioned. I am on the edge of Oakleaf on the southwest side of Jax. We have a large creek buffer of about 1000 acres alongside of us, but unfortunately there are two parcels of land between us and that buffer. Those could become a housing development. I have pretty much decided that if one goes up for sale (owner is 90 years old) I will offer this place up for sale with it and move across the street to our other house! (However, this house won't go cheap!) If they want both places, then I will let them have it, simply because if they plan on buying both of the available ones, they can have both of mine!
David from jax

Governors Park, just south of Greencove Springs is going to be another monster. Wildfire, Wildlight, wild whatever in Yulee.

But these are Thousands of homes, not 72. Also, although NOT for me; they arent the subdivisions of 1970s. They generally shape the roads, landscaping, storm water ponds, to seem less "man made". They also nearly always have landscape buffers to kinda hide them from their neighbors and roadways.

 

[paulsharvey]

There actually is a very nice state park there in the back of Oakleaf. Brananfield Wildlife Preserve or something. If you look at an aerial, there really is a large amount of undisturbed woods even within Oakleaf. I will also freely admit, that's likely not by Choice, that's wetlands, tree mitigation, ect.

Another important point, say Oakleaf, its 30,000 people on 6000 acres. Would you rather that, or as someone suggested, 5 acres per home= 150,000 acres to house the same population.

 

[threepiece]

You have no right to control what was once your property from beyond the grave.

I guess the parents paid in some way to have the covenant in place. Is it not reasonable to expect one to get what they paid for? One pays for a cemetery plot for when they pass. Is it okay to toss their ashes in the river?

 

[paulsharvey]

I guess the parents paid in some way to have the covenant in place. Is it not reasonable to expect one to get what they paid for? One pays for a cemetery plot for when they pass. Is it okay to toss their ashes in the river?

Probably just the opposite; generally, you get paid to reduce your land value.

We dont and never will likely have the full story. We dont know the dead folks did add restrictions or what type. If they did, what type, and how was it worded, did it have a sunset clause? Was it a conservative easement, some zoning thing, verbal agreement, or nothing at all. With that, we also dont know what the dead folks wanted, just what they told some random guy down the road.

 

[sandman2234]

Brannon Field was an OLF (out laying field) named after the Brannon family that owned the land that the government took over for the war effort. it was built over by urban sprawl in early 2002. There are no traces of the actual airfield that I am aware of. Now that is a shame because Brannon Field was where the training began for what is now known as The Blue Angels. Cecil Field was north of Brannon Field.
The toll road going down thru Cecil Field property was always known by locals as Brannon Field Road. I think they have renamed it something else, but it is still called Brannon Field road. Most of the property that resides in Oakleaf was originally either Cecil or Brannon Field property. Cecil while located south of 103rd street actually went all the way to I-10 with a little portion of it going as far as the railroad tracks that parallel Beaver Street (US 90).
When the base was closed, it opened up a huge piece of property for Jacksonville to develope, either in commercial or residential use. Where the houses are built, they are usually 6 or 7 to the acre.
David from jax
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Spencer Bombing range, located about a mile south of Brannon Field is now the site for Kindlewood Housing Developement, or at least very close to it. There is some land to the north of Kindlewood that hasn't been developed yet. The Corp of Engineers (i think) has to release the property after they do a study to confirm that it is safe (no old bombs laying around)
David

 

[ultrarunner]

Probably just the opposite; generally, you get paid to reduce your land value.

We dont and never will likely have the full story. We dont know the dead folks did add restrictions or what type. If they did, what type, and how was it worded, did it have a sunset clause? Was it a conservative easement, some zoning thing, verbal agreement, or nothing at all. With that, we also dont know what the dead folks wanted, just what they told some random guy down the road.

Deed restrictions should be public record…