During last night’s Clay County board of county commissioner’s meeting, an application to build 62 homes off a dirt road near Green Cove Springs was rescinded.
Action News Jax told you back in December when a proposal to build the 62-home community on Shedd Road was first brought to county leaders. The 20-acre piece of land it would be built on is only zoned for 4 homes.
Neighbors and even some county leaders say they aren’t completely against the neighborhood, but feel it’s in the wrong place.
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“This isn’t a right fit for a community that’s been there for years,” says Ryan Marcyes, who’s lived on Shedd Road for decades.
Other neighbors like Stacee Reape say the reasons why it’s not a ‘right fit’ for them go beyond just the 62 homes.
“These are real problems,” Reape says, “this is not just people not wanting a development, these are real issues of flooding and drainage and traffic and safety.”
Shedd Road sits near both two FEMA flood risk zones and Spring Park Elementary School. Reape and Marcyes say the road becomes somewhat of a river when it rains and is torn up by frequent school traffic. The two say people also use the road as a shortcut to either county road 315 or highway 17.