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McKenzie Estates With 404 Homes Proposed For Cottage Hill
December 29, 2024
A developer is proposing to build just over 400 homes in a new subdivision in Cottage Hill.
D.R. Horton has submitted plans to the Escambia County Development Review Committee for “McKenzie Estates” on the east side of Highway 95A in the 800 block of McKenzie Road. The development, as proposed, would be 404 single family homes on three parcels totaling 197.2 acres. (The largest parcel is 189.38 acres, plus small parcels of 5.87 and 1.94 across.)
The site is currently vacant and wooded with a stream and an estimated 43 acres of wetlands.
D.R. Horton has proposed that McKenzie Estates be constructed in three phases, beginning with 136 lots in phase one, followed by 102 lots in phase two and 166 lots in phase three.
A public hearing on the proposal has not yet been set.
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17 Responses to “McKenzie Estates With 404 Homes Proposed For Cottage Hill”
It,s sad what the Pensacola has become—a hub for all of America. Commissioners are all to willing to destroy what once was a beautiful part of our country. Developers dollars buy whatever they want and you my friends continue to vote for the same people. Count yourself as lucky if you live or own a little piece what was once Pensacola.
Over 800 cars on a two lane road! Seriously the county commissioners must be pocketing money The infrastructure can’t handle that amount of traffic on TWO LANES
@Keith
How do you suppose 95A to Four lanes
29 to six when Pine Forest is only 3 lanes north of I-10 to 9 mile…. And this needed fixing long before all the growth on nine mile( including the giant apartment complexes!!!!
Horace Jones no longer allows the public to attend the Initial Application for Development Review. The public can attend the Final Application but at that point, things are pretty much set in motion.
95A will be 4 laned soon and 29 will be 6. Just a matter of time.
We don’t need more mass housing projects.
Boy that kind of news will sure ruin your day . All them on the other side of 95a was bad enough now this crap too . I’m sorry but my welcome is all gone.
I wonder how 404 homeowners will feel about getting stuck by the train going to work or how about the bottle neck traffic on 95A.
This made me want to cry. I am just sick about this. We don’t need all those homes here. I bought out here, 25 years ago, to get away from city life, which I hate. I should have NEVER sold my home and property in Nothern Idaho, where I had 23 acres, surrounded by over 8 thousand acres of forest, creeks, meadows, and so forth. If I were younger, I would sell my place, here in Cottage Hill, and move back to Idaho.
What ever happened to growth management? My question, Is there adequate infrastructure to support the addition of this many homes? Can the water system support 400 more homes? What about sewage and the electrical grid? The traffic alone will create a nightmare. Four hundred homes, that is 600 to 800 more cars traveling these tiny roads. Most homes these days have at least two cars. Families with teenagers have three to four, and everyone going and coming every day. Growth management was created to prevent this kind of situations, but I guess money can buy you what you want.
More homes to strain ECUA trucks.
Trucks that are running on bandaids.
Who will supply the water to an extreme stressed out system. Sewer hookup .
I would be highly concerned on the protection of the 43 acres of wetlands from developement or runoff
EHAT ABOUT THE STREAM
Really?! 43 acres of wetlands and they think it’s a good idea to build houses there?! Idiots.
Oh yay another subdivision! The reasons for living on the north end of the county are diminishing every day! SMH
How sad is this, greedy developers want every piece of land they can grab.
So are wet lands not protected anymore?
More poorly constructed and overpriced vinyl-sided homes.
400 homes, someone’s going to have a 100 plus new neighbors…
It is said that the name came from a white house that sat on what we now call Hinton Hill. “A cottage on a hill.” It had a deep-water well in back of the house. There were many cottages dotting the hill in the area. In the 1930’s, they were known for rose gardens around the houses. There also were satsuma orchards and pear orchards. I’ve also heard of Kumquat and blueberry fields.