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.