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Cottage Hill Neighborhood Watch Meeting To Discuss Plan 404 Home Development
January 7, 2025
The Cottage Hill Neighborhood Watch group is hosting a meeting for the community to talk about a proposal by a developer to build over 400 new homes in a new neighborhood subdivision.
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.
The meeting will take place at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday in the sanctuary of the First Baptist Church of Cottage Hill, 230 Williams Ditch Road. This public is invited. This is a Neighborhood Watch meeting, not an Escambia County or developer meeting.
The proposal has been filed with the county; however, no public meetings or votes have been scheduled to date.
NorthEscambia.com graphic.
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This proposed subdivision, sits squarely in the heart of a Low Density Residential zoned area. There is nothing about this proposal that satisfies the intent of an LDR district. “Clustering” of houses in a smaller area is intended to protect adjacent larger areas from development,, however in this case, most of the property areas, consist of clustered houses with only a smaller fraction of wetland that is left undeveloped. There is also the issue of property destruction that will occur to surrounding properties, caused by the laying of utility lines. Increased traffic and environmental impacts, are certainly an issue also. There is no “rural openness” which is a piece of the stated purpose of an LDR.
Sad that greed is so rampant in Escambia County. I lived in that area and it is a special place where you will see all kinds of wildlife, but no one cares anymore. Just Build,Build and forget the wildlife which will no place to live when they get done.
Unfortunately, the only area left to build on is in the middle of the county. At some point Escambia County should have realized we needed more urban higher density living but instead they embraced sprawl. City of Pensacola is also to blame. They keep a height limit on buildings to keep the small town feel, well that ordinance has been a disaster. It prevents more affordable higher rise building apartments in favor for low rise high cost apartment blocks. Than they wonder why teachers, nurses and first responders can’t afford to live in the city of Pensacola.