Concerned citizens, environmental groups and others are lining up to oppose changes to the Tallahassee-Leon County Comprehensive Plan that could open the door to large-scale development north of an already impaired Lake Jackson.
The proposal would expand the urban service area boundary in the unincorporated area around Carr Lake and Mallard Pond, part of the Lake Jackson aquatic preserve, and change the land use designation to allow far more development than currently permitted.
The changes would affect a single property owner, Jeff Phipps, the descendant of one of Tallahassee’s old-money families, and impact land that includes a portion of Orchard Pond Parkway, the toll road he built a decade ago amid public pledges to keep the area around it undeveloped…