The developers of Jubilee, a long-discussed mega-community to be built on agricultural land north of Pace, are scheduled to meet with the Santa Rosa County Planning Board Sept. 9 to discuss rezoning that will allow for the construction of 8,017 new homes.
Those homes, to be built primarily between Luther Fowler and Willard Norris roads , will have an immediate impact on the roadways around the construction area. On Monday, one Planning Board member asked the County Commission to delay consideration of the rezoning until the applicant can come up with a plan to deal with capacity issues.
Planning Board member Alan Isaacson informed the board that he’d found a little known, and apparently seldom enforced, requirement within the county’s Land Development Code . It states that any time a developer’s traffic impact analysis indicated that a roadway segment was going to exceed capacity, their analysis of the project would include the scope and costs of improvements necessary to accommodate the development…