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Residents and commissioners debate ‘conservation community’ provision in Santa Rosa County land-development update
Summary
Public commenters urged the county not to adopt a proposed “conservation community” provision to the land-development code, citing concerns about density, loss of private property, wetlands counting as green space and fiscal impacts; commissioners expressed differing views but made no formal change.
Public commenters on Aug. 14 urged the Santa Rosa County Board of County Commissioners not to add a proposed “conservation community” provision to the county’s land-development code, saying it would increase density, transfer significant amounts of land to public ownership and could shrink the property tax base.
The proponents of that view included Ryan Fowler of PACE Florida and Anna Fowler, who said the provision would convert large agricultural lots into smaller clustered lots, enable developers to count wetlands as conserved green space and could result in the county owning and managing portions of developments.
"The county will own and manage and centrally control 25% of the conservation…
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