[CPEO-MEF] Development near Tyndall Air Force Base (FL)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

St. Joe may revive plan to build houses near Panhandle base


Associated Press
Bradenton News Herald
October 4, 2005

PANAMA CITY, Fla. - The St. Joe Co., Florida's largest private 
landowner, may revive plans to build a new community just outside 
Tyndall Air Force Base and that has local military boosters worried.

St. Joe spokesman Jerry Ray said Monday the company has discussed a 
possible annexation by Mexico Beach, which would remove the land from 
Bay County zoning jurisdiction, but he added that no development plans 
have been completed. Company officials also are meeting this week with 
state wildlife officials, a prelude to a permit request.

Jacksonville-based St. Joe once asked the county to rezone the 400 acre 
site on the eastern perimeter of Tyndall, the county's largest employer, 
for residential and commercial development. The company dropped its 
request to the county in 2002 after the Bay Defense Alliance argued it 
could hurt Tyndall during this year's Base Realignment and Closure, or 
BRAC, process.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.bradenton.com/mld/bradenton/news/local/12815448.htm


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