Comments on: Escambia To Consider OLF-8 Proposals In April. Right Now, $38 Million Is Top Offer.

By: Mark

Mark — Wed, 08 Mar 2023 04:59:52 +0000

If Breland is following the master plan then you gotta go with them. Consider this. The master plan was approved by the voters because it is a use that is consistent with sound economic policy and will develop the land in a way that is good for the county. D.R. Horton’s potential master plan considers nothing except their own bottom line. The county has a duty to sell the land to the developer who is acting in the county’s best interest.

By: Carola

Carola — Wed, 08 Mar 2023 04:44:08 +0000

Consider this…every home built will most likely have 2 automobiles. That means 9 mile Rd will be bumper to bumper and then turn onto Pine Forest Rd. Bottle neck at
I-10, worse than it is now! Why is there only one lane to travel from interstate to 9 Mile Rd. Somebody needs to study this! They always build and then go oops, we have a problem with traffic!

By: dave lamb

dave lamb — Wed, 08 Mar 2023 03:52:18 +0000

i was in Escambia County last few weeks. I was driving up HI way 99 and 97A. I drove past the new 4H complex and had tears for such a skimpy site. 4H had a lot more in the now Navy Federal site. Merwyn Buerneau {sp}would not be real happy with your skimpy attempt to please 4 H families i am proud that it is on land that a strong supporter of 4 H once farmed. I also noted that one can drive on the mentioned roads only to see little to no signs to inform drivers of where the roads are leading us. Some of the street signs are so faded that one has to stop and actually walk up to them to read them. one is Lamb Lane. I drove past it 4 times to find it. you need to spend more on infostructure and less on padding the pockets of sub par contractors.

By: Charlie

Charlie — Tue, 07 Mar 2023 05:09:04 +0000

Sounds to me that Breland, even if less money offered, has the best reputation (which counts a whole lot), and is willing to go by the Master Plan, which counts a whole lot more, and doesn’t involve another unknown party to do part of “their Horton plan”. Another factor is that some comments have mentioned from experience that Horton homes are lacking in quality promised but not delivered. Whomever did the drawing at the top, must be dreaming, as I doubt that would all fit in the OLF 8 site as big as it is, & doesn’t even look like it includes any houses, but maybe a lot of apartment buildings & parking spaces?

By: Not for us

Not for us — Tue, 07 Mar 2023 03:29:21 +0000

Folks on this end of Pensacola better start selling off their homes soon. If they bring in this many homes it will surely drive home prices straight to the gutter. Add to that if it’s “affordable” housing(meaning cheap and/section the crime rate will rise and schools will be an impossible thing to maintain and even think about quality of education. Time to look at moving somewhere that development without supporting roles from infrastructure are not a thought. The quaint life of some of these rural areas is going to be a thing of the past.

By: camper

camper — Tue, 07 Mar 2023 02:07:41 +0000

Yea, make it affordable, flexible housing. @ 8 RVs/acre, that’s about a 4000 site RV Park.

By: Alex

Alex — Tue, 07 Mar 2023 02:06:00 +0000

@BeachBoy… The County already owns the land, developers want to buy it. Educate yourself.

By: Beach Boy

Beach Boy — Mon, 06 Mar 2023 23:49:36 +0000

I would vote NO for the county to purchase this land. You can bet they will raise our property tax even more so they can pay for it. Just like the School Board raised the millage rate in order to hire more teachers and give School Board employees a raise. I am a senior adult living on a fixed income! How do they expect me to pay inflation rates when we don’t get inflation rate increase????? Most everyone that works at least gets a raise and bonuses. I’m not that lucky.

By: Steve

Steve — Mon, 06 Mar 2023 21:45:14 +0000

Pothole Millview just got a new subdivision ; infrastructure? .

By: J.Larry Seale

J.Larry Seale — Mon, 06 Mar 2023 19:07:49 +0000

can you guess the county would
do with all that money………
Santa Rosa, is trying to do the same
thing. Bet, they would put the land to good use…..