Comments on: Escambia Planning Board Rejects Change To Loosen Regulation On Rural Growth

By: David Huie Green

David Huie Green — Sun, 07 Oct 2018 07:44:15 +0000

REGARDING:
“Try eating Asphalt or concrete or construction materials David”

Too salty

By: david lamb

david lamb — Sat, 06 Oct 2018 22:23:06 +0000

Try eating Asphalt or concrete or construction materials David

By: David Huie Green

David Huie Green — Sat, 06 Oct 2018 06:24:47 +0000

Eat mo’ algae

By: david lamb

david lamb — Fri, 05 Oct 2018 15:42:44 +0000

At sone future time when many more trees are gone and farmland is used up for development. you will see the need for two precious commodities…. Oxygen and Food

All over the world trees, rainforests and jungles are under attack. Even the proliferation of the forests of America are being attacked. Our farmers are supposed to be “stewards of the land, yet even they are bulldozing down trees for another acre to plant. They take out fence lines, destroy habitat for game birds and animals with no thought of the dust bowl era that nearly broke this country. There has to be a plan to protect the future. We do not need to forget past mistakes and repeat them!
P trim ytrrs and take out some, but I also replace trees as needed.
Go out and Plant , build some habitat, see what the bible warns about Agriculture and land stewardship..

By: Duns Megus

Duns Megus — Thu, 04 Oct 2018 10:02:25 +0000

Seems to me I remember, a couple decades ago, Pensacola was cited as one of the worst examples of urban sprawl in the country. Developers should seek their profits in the many isolated undeveloped pockets close in. There’s not need to despoil farm and forest to line their pockets.

By: Justin Hall

Justin Hall — Wed, 03 Oct 2018 11:53:57 +0000

@Bonnie Exner regarding your comment “there will be enough food and infrastructure for all…”

According to reports from the United States Department of Agriculture and the World Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, by the year 2050 there will be over 9 Billion people on the planet. If the loss of forest and farm land STOPPED today, we would still not have enough land to feed 9 Billion people using current agricultural technologies and practices. This means, unless we figure out how to grow more food, on less land, using less inputs than we ever have before, we will see a skyrocketing price in food, food shortages, and possibly even mass starvations in developed nations as the year 2050 gets closer. The depelopment of farmland MUST stop and money must be spent to research new farming technologies and techniques if we have any hope of survival as a whole. So I guess the question is, what’s more important: everyone having a piece of paradise or everyone having food to eat?

By: Bonnie Exner

Bonnie Exner — Wed, 03 Oct 2018 02:02:52 +0000

This is a complicated issue..we who live out in the country pride ourselves in having our little piece of Paradise..so why can’t others want the same..then when farmlands are bought up and developed into subdivisions, will there be ENOUGH FOOD AND INFRASTRUCTURE TO ACCOMMODATE ALL.
A BALANCE IS NEEDED AND DEVELOPERS NEED TO BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE FOR INFRASTRUCTURE UPDATES!
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By: Doug

Doug — Wed, 03 Oct 2018 01:48:18 +0000

I appreciate their decision. Farmland is a precious commodity that one day we will wish we had more of. Housing needs to be built on nonproductive land, not fertile crop raising soil..

By: EMD

EMD — Wed, 03 Oct 2018 01:35:06 +0000

I agree with Patricia Rigel

By: Citizen

Citizen — Tue, 02 Oct 2018 17:15:02 +0000

Great Job Mrs Rogers and to the other citizen that spoke against lessening the restriction. I saw this at the regular meeting. The Comp plan and lifting restrictions and runaway growth DO NOT need to be encouraged by the commissioners.

In fact BUY up some conservation lands from Florida FOREVER.

Thanks for the citizen warrior’s tireless effort on these Land Use Decisions.

Duly Noted and appreciated.