What they said
“Are you telling me you re going to put this commercial property outside the front gates of our subdivision, and we re going to have to pay for the road maintenance? How’s that going to work? I certainly wasn’t told that. That’s a big burden on residents.” – Savanna s Michelle Rowe
“We re talking about 450 cars per hour traveling on State Road 64 that may be using our front entrance all the time. … The residents of Savanna are being robbed of 5.2 acres that were promised to its residents for passive recreational use only.” – Savanna s Anna Gonnella
Manatee County Commissioners, in voting against a proposal Jan. 7 to commercially develop 5.23 acres at the entrance to Savanna in East County, said they want to stop a trend of developing the front of every new neighborhood without regard to the residents.
in the three months since the ground breaking, portions of the town have changed dramatically. prairie view drive marks one end of the construction. a black wind screen fence spratted a dust field from a new subdivision. they have been acting as foxconn realtor. and the deal that was sold to the state 13,000 jobs, now they re saying they might have 1,000 workers by 2020. so it keeps getting worse and i think that is the deal in the nutshell. it is interesting and unsurprising that this new announcement came after the election. interesting and unsurprising. that is a chartable way to look at it. i wonder when the story is told