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Woodland Park Molino Development Opt-Out Cases Dropped For August 3 By Applicant
July 18, 2023
The company looking to build a large-scale development in Molino has dropped pending discussion before the Escambia County Commission on August 3.
Last week, the Escambia County Planning Board denied Exit 3 Investment’s Escambia County Sector Plan opt-out applications for the Woodland Park development. At that time, the investment company withdrew all pending rezoning requests.
The Escambia County Commission was set to consider section plan opt-out denial recommendations from the planning board and make a final ruling on August 3.. They will not be on the agenda or discussed at the BOCC’s August 3 meeting.
According to submitted opt-out and rezoning applications, The Woodland Park development as originally proposed would have had 2,356 townhomes and apartments, 2,065 single family lots, and nearly 100 acres of commercial development in a 1,500 acre area to the south and west of Highway 196 and Highway 29.
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Pictured top: Submitted plans for Woodland Park. Pictured inset: Fred Hemmer of Exit 3 Investments addresses the Escambia County Planning Board last week. NorthEcambia.com images, click to enlarge.
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10 Responses to “Woodland Park Molino Development Opt-Out Cases Dropped For August 3 By Applicant”
Love us country people alone we moved out of city to get away.and now they want to bring the city to us.and the wild life Land is being taken away from them.They don’t have any place to go as it is.
They will be purchased before they are even built by another investment group (if not by the same one under a different name) and the leasing will begin. You will have a new neighbor every 8-12 months. So, when will a new sheriff substation in the works for this area? Your going to need it.
@johnberkly, we dont want growth and development. Dont Pensacola our molino. Obviously you dont live here and you have absolutely NO say in what goes in our back yard… and if you do live here, SHAME ON YOU!!!! move back to Pensacola to your city life and leave us tf alone!
John Berkley, have you ever been stuck by the train in front of the paper mill for 20 minutes? With 10k more residents, 29 will be backed up to Bama! I own a business on Muscogee road, it would make my business boom! Yet I’m totally against it, we like our livestock and wildlife and unpolluted rivers. We make sacrifices to live in the country (such as a one hour round trip to get to Walmart) This would triple, at least, our population! We have one gas station, two dollar stores, no grocery store, and one restaurant. I’m not against growth, but this is absolutely irresponsible! Oh yeah, one fire station. It’s pure greed imo
Okay NIMBYs. Riddle me this.
You keep complaining about teacher shortages, and nurse shortages, and service industry/hospitality shortages, and EMS shortages, and firefighter shortages. Why would teachers/nurses/service/hospitality/EMS/firefighters move here if there’s *nowhere to live*?
Don’t let your guard down!!
I think this could be very good for the area. The Pensacola area is in a building boom. It’s not like we can build any more south.
Don’t be fooled
.we residents of the north end are in the FIGHT OF OUR LIFE
THE OPPONENTS ARE BIG MONEY VERSES WAY OF LIFE
HO WILL WIN???
My problem is the issue with amount of people ems can not handle this if something happens we don’t have a ems station out here also we don’t have the extra school teachers we already have shortage the roads cannot handle this and cops can’t get to everything fast enough if something happens we don’t have anything like stores or restaurants this rural area and farm land unfortunately this happened to pace pearidge we got to stop this
My issue does have to way of living but not so much pointed at the argument from last article. We are talking roughly 4-4500 houses. With an average of 2-3 people per household that’s 8-12600 people. Cantonment and Molino combined have about 30,900 according to the 22 census. We are talking about moving in a population of 25-40% of the current population on 1500 acres. Cantonment alon is roughly 49000 acres. What looks awesome on paper isn’t going to be amazing in life. How much are these houses and apartments going for? The average median household income is 75k in this area? As I agree the area needs to grow and develop, this isn’t it. This is cram as much as we can in it, jack up the price and fill our pockets. How bout you care for what’s here first and then pitch an idea.