Surprise, surprise! 1,000 more homes in Alva!
There’s going to be another thousand homes in Alva! To see the details check out this story in the Gulfshore Business publication. When’s the last time you heard a governing board tell a developer no? Somebody in the story was talking about how the wildlife corridors are all being boarded up leaving the wildlife with no place to go. For me I also think about how much wildlife will be killed. Do you think a developer will scour the land for burrowing owls’ nests and gopher tortoise holes? No, that won’t happen. They’ll just plow them under when they clear the land. I watched this happen along the street that leads into our community, Riverhall Parkway, where our developer plans to build 200 some condos and/or town homes. Then they piled up all the vegetation in a few areas and burned it! If anything was alive in the piles, it soon became toast. Here’s a few pics.
When we moved into this community we were told this area along Riverhall Parkway was commercial and would include small shops and some restaurants that we would be able to walk to because this area was so close to us. But this zoning was changed to cash in on the hot housing market at the time. The housing market has since cooled down because of interest rates and guess what? Every other developer in the world had the same idea and there is now a glut of homes on the market. And that’s NEW homes. People who are trying to sell their existing homes are having a hard time because they can’t compete with the prices of the new homes. Some people in our neighborhood had to really lower the price of their home to sell it and for those who don’t do that, the house stays on the market for a very long time.
Anyway, that doesn’t bother me because I ain’t going anywhere! So no need to sell the home! However, as I’m saying that I might have a problem in the future with all the traffic these new homes are going to bring. I can’t imagine what it will be like to get out of the community from Riverhall Parkway to Route 80. Right now, you wait so long at the light to get out that many cars get stacked up. That causes many people to go through that light while its yellow because they don’t want to wait there for the light to go through another cycle. Danger Will Robinson! Plus, just take a drive down Buckingham Road. Many new subdivisions are going up along that road. And that road is only a two lane road with one lane going in each direction with a lot of no passing zones. Good luck with that! And just wait for all the school buses to gum that all up, which already happens!
Build, build, build! But if our developer could just pave our streets with the final coat of asphalt and heat the community pool, that would really get our community closer to the paradise that they advertise in their marketing materials. Maybe the next car I buy will be a flying car so I can drive over all the traffic! I don’t see any problems with that! 🙂
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