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Cottage Hill Residents Concerned By New 404 Home Development Proposed For McKenzie Road
January 8, 2025
Local residents gathered in a church sanctuary Tuesday night to discuss a 404-home subdivision proposed by a developer for their neighborhood.
The Cottage Hill Neighborhood Watch group hosted the meeting at the First Baptist Church of Cottage Hill to discuss D.R. Horton’s proposal 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 site is currently vacant and wooded with a stream and an estimated 43 acres of wetlands.
Residents of Cottage Hill and surrounding communities expressed concerns about lack of infrastructure including schools, road, traffic and draining; impacts on wetlands and wildlife; and utilities. Residents have questioned if Cottage Hill Water Works can serve the new residents properly and if existing residents might be required to pay a tap fee and forced to connect to sewer from ECUA. They also questioned if their current property values might be impacted.
The proposal has been filed with the county; however, no public meetings or votes have been scheduled to date.
NorthEscambia.com photos by Kristi Barbour and NorthEscambia graphic (bottom), click to enlarge.
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7 Responses to “Cottage Hill Residents Concerned By New 404 Home Development Proposed For McKenzie Road”
D.R Horton homes are garbage but the county commissioners in northwest FL seem to love home builders so this will probably go through. At least make them connect it to Quintette rd. and four lane Quintette from 29 to 5 points.
jbry – Communication is key….coherency is important.
I will be 80 and most of the people in this pic are old as well–STOP keeping us in the woods–NO MORE dollar generals – give us a store –it has been your way forever-backwards and NOTHING for our citizens == Give us what the rest of the world has a grocery store—–fruits-veggies-meats and not 20 miles away so you can hear the chickens—we have the traffic-we are burdened with taxes-let a store help pay those taxes–MOVE
I thought we were all supposed to support de-regulation, private property rights and free market capitalism? This is a direct result of all that, too bad some gotta learn the hard way.
That area would be a great wildlife sanctuary for all the lovely creatures being displaced by cracker box houses already. Makes me sick our town is being over run by buildings AND builders who have no clue about runoff, flooding and, of course, wetlands. They don’t care about wildlife either. It’s all about money. I guess I can say that about our County Officials, as well.
Cottage Hill Water was at max capacity several years ago.. I’m sure by today the wells are running non stop.
With that many new homes. Maybe they can get a Dollar General on Williams Ditch rd. That would be convenient for everyone.