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Board denies Polk Town Road rezoning amid wetland and downstream concerns

Santa Rosa County Board of County Commissioners · January 22, 2026
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Summary

The commission denied Thomas Cornelison’s request to rezone a Polk Town Road parcel from AG2 to AG1 after neighbors and commissioners raised environmental concerns about springs, wetlands and downstream effects.

The Santa Rosa County Board denied a request Thursday to rezone a 28-acre parcel on Polk Town Road from AG2 to AG1. Thomas Cornelison (speaker 6) told the board his intent was to make smaller, more affordable lots on what he called a parcel that had been disturbed by past dirt-pit…

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