A quiet home life where one’s family is surrounded by vast open land, with a garden full of fresh produce and maybe even a chicken coop in the backyard often comes at the expense of not being able to live near the shops, schools and offices visited often if that same family chooses to live in a city.
An upcoming Alachua County subdivision is looking to challenge that notion by offering the best of both worlds an “agrihood” close to city amenities that’s focused on keeping nature at the forefront.
Flint Rock, located west of Parker Road and south of Oakmont in the 5000 block of Southwest 122nd Street, is the brainchild of the developers Tymber Reed, Tara Beauchamp and Amy Paras who are sisters and their friend Marylin Deas. Once completed, it will consist of three distinct gated communities that have community gardens and natural walking trails. Many homes will back up against conservation lands.
I drive County Road 346 from Archer to Williston Road every day, to and from work. It is unfortunate that the Alachua County Planning Commission recommended erecting a solar farm there against the wishes of the residents of the area.
What is worse is that many of the locals get their electricity from someone other than Gainesville Regional Utilities, so it will be of no benefit to many of them when the project is up and running.
CR 346 is a long patch of pot holes, which is the result of the many heavily laden logging trucks that have been clearing the area for the last few years. It will get much worse.
An Alachua County man was awarded $120 million Thursday by a jury in a lawsuit over a crash involving a Gainesville Regional Utilities employee.
Jacob T. Rodgers won the award against the city of Gainesville for a 2015 crash in which GRU employee William Stormant, driving a city vehicle, ran through a stop sign and slammed into a pickup truck in which Rodgers was a passenger.
Jurors awarded Rodgers more than $16 million for the expenses, loss of income, mental anguish and other factors that he has already incurred and more than $103 million for future expenses and losses, the verdict form shows.
However, the principle of sovereign immunity in holding government agencies liable in lawsuits caps payout at $200,000.