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Residents urge caution on rapid development and ask commission to restore Monday meetings
Summary
Residents in the public forum told the Santa Rosa County Commission they worry rapid subdivision growth is worsening traffic, stormwater and emergency recovery; several speakers urged the board to move meetings back to Mondays to preserve public participation.
Several residents used the public-forum portion of the Santa Rosa County Commission meeting to press officials on development impacts and a recent change in the regular-meeting day.
Jerry Cooley of Milton told commissioners a new subdivision near Willard Norris will place a retention pond adjacent to the property line and warned that locating ponds so close to the right-of-way could make future widening to four lanes difficult: "If you get to a 4 lane in…
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