Northern influx: As North Jacksonville grows, residents say area not prepared for development

Two-hundred and twenty town homes on Starratt Road. Ninety single-family homes off Scarwin Lane. Forty-eight single-family homes on Yellow Bluff Road. Forty-seven homes on Cedar Bay Road.

That adds up to 405 single-family residences approved in North Jacksonville since January 2025, a period of contentious growth.

Little by little, residential development is taking up space in the historically rural area, the boundaries of which are generally considered the St. Johns and Trout rivers to the south, the county border to the north, Thomas Creek to the west and the Intracoastal Waterway to the east…

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