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The Micanopy NO Dog Standing Athwart Tuscawilla Yelling STOP Vol. 1, #7 June 1, 2021 The Micanopy NO Dog Standing athwart Tuscawilla yelling STOP Show Up (dammit)! There are 2½ (potentially 4) important public meetings coming up that will decide whether a Gainesville developer will be allowed to build a Dollar General store on an Alachua County Scenic Road at a Micanopy gateway. If the developer prevails, the forest will be destroyed and a drainage basin will be placed at the foot of the property where Tuscawilla road meets US Highway 441, the Old Florida Heritage Highway. The development site is the very place where William Bartram in 1774 met Chief Ahaya the Cowkeeper, father of the Seminole Tribe and Nation. It's where in 1836 Osceola, a half-breed Seminole, and Gopher John Horse, a half - breed Black Seminole, fought US forces who were intent upon their ethnic cleansing. It's the site of a massive lithic scatter of chert flakes left over from the manufacture of axes and arrow points by Stone Age Natives. It's adjacent to the Micanopy Native American Heritage Preserve and burial ground. It's hammock land bordering Tuscawilla prairie; 170 bird species are documented on the prairie including bald eagles, kestrels, and sandhill cranes. Is any of this important to you?: That we would cap over the land and the history and the wildlife with asphalt in order to sell beer and cigarettes and sugary colas and chips and cheap Chinese junk? Is it important to you to stop the march of sprawl and blight that is now beginning to encroach even upon the very boundaries of this oldest still- inhabited community in our state? Is it important to you to preserve just a little bit of what's left of Florida for your children and your grandchildren? Well if it is, then come to the meetings! Be seen. Be heard. You have immense power. Use it! More inside. too Elections, have Consequences Dog NO Micanopy GENERAL DOLLAR NO 32667 Fla. Micanopy, 9 Box Office Post The Micanopy NO Dog The Devils Submit Their Speed Spy Speaks Final Devel Plan Micanopy, May 26. As a salute to the 21st- Gainesville, May 12. Staff Planner Leslie century on this occasion of Micanopy's McLendon at Alachua County's Growth bicentennial, the town joined along with your Management Department announced receipt of smart phone, your smart hi-fi, and your smart the Final Development Plan from Concept refrigerator to spy on you. Surreptitious devices Companies of Gainesville in alliance with the were installed to check up on your driving CHW engineering and public relations firm to habits. But Micanopy's purpose was entirely build a Dollar General convenience store at the innocent: To better understand ambient intersection of Tuscawilla Road and US Highway conditions on the Seminary and Cholokka 441. Her email announcement was sent as a racetracks, and whether four-way stops would blind copy to five "interested citizen[s]" and put the kabash on alleged speeders. included the below link to the complete set of Plan documents: The felicitous report from Speed Spy shows that Micanopy citizens are the biggest pokey-butts on https://alachuacounty.sharefile.com/d- Earth. Average speed on Cholokka for a count of s37a1dde7c0fa48db9e21563a7aab1784 3565 vehicles was 19.5 MPH. Over on the Seminary Speedway, average speed of 3303 At press time the Alachua County Growth vehicles was 23.4 MPH. Evidently, now 200 Management website displayed only the site years on, folks in Micanopy still putz around in 1- plan, Elevations, and Landscape Plan at this link: HP vehicles. growth-management.alachuacounty.us > But, of course, there's lies, there's damned lies, +Development Review > Development and there's statistics (Sam Clemens). Projects > Under Review > Micanopy Commercial Retail Store (CRS) Closer inspection of the numbers shows that 40% exceeded the 20 MPH limit on Cholokka Ms. McLendon indicated that County staff would whereas only 11% exceeded the 30 MPH limit on review the documents and return comments to the Seminary. Average speeders on Cholokka were applicant the first week of June. When the appli- 5.8 MPH over limit while average speeders on cation is cleared of any insufficiencies by County Seminary were 4 MPH over limit. Max speed in staff, the County must act within 180 days to either place was 61 MPH. approve, approve with conditions, or deny. That process takes place before the Development Review It proves this: You can put up any damn sign you Committee in a quasi-judicial public hearing. want. It doesn't matter. Citizens who are interested to stay abreast on the We do, however, now have a baseline. If the matter of the proposed Micanopy Dollar General convenience store and the important upcoming odious DG is ever built, we could then meeting dates should contact the Growth scientifically determine the unhappy effect of Management Department at 352-374-5249 and more traffic passing by, some of it being drivers make the request for notifications. Alternatively, in a snit to pick up beer or cigarettes. Staff Planner McLendon can be contacted by email at [email protected]. There is also a message link at the Growth Management website cited above. ! The Micanopy NO Dog Rural Comm-Ag: Unfortunately BoCC's renewed interest comes a More Moratorium in Store? bit too late as far as the prospective Micanopy Dollar General is concerned. But to forestall the same thing from happening again in the few but Gainesville, May 25. The Alachua Board of still remaining Rural Commercial-Ag legacy County Commissioners held the first of two areas, BoCC enacted last December's temporary public hearings on whether to extend a moratorium to give the County time to unsnarl moratorium for an additional six months on the problem. applications and permits for development within areas designated as "Rural Commercial- Evidently the problem is really gnarly. The Agriculture." A 6-month moratorium was County needs more time. BoCC is asking for it. A initially placed on Rural Commercial-Ag last second BoCC public hearing on extending the December to give the County time to work on moratorium will take place in June. some long-overdue revisions to its Comprehensive Plan, the document that sets forth policies on future land use. BoCC Shares a Joint The Rural Commercial-Ag category is to some extent a legacy from earlier comp plans. Prior to with Micanopy 1991 rural lands typically lying along highway corridors were often zoned for commercial use. Micanopy, May 11. Micanopy Mayor Joe However the present Comp Plan signals for Aufmuth announced a joint meeting of the Town reclassifying these "Rural Commercial Commission with the Alachua Board of County Agriculture" areas to "Agriculture." This would Commissioners to be held on Tuesday, June 8 at restrict the kinds of development allowed. The 7:00 PM at Town Hall. At press time the meeting Comp Plan specifies that a somewhat nebulous agenda was not yet released. Apparently the "area-based Community and Neighborhood meeting will afford an important opportunity for Planning program" would do all this (see Policy Micanopy residents to voice their opinions, 3.11.1 of the Future Land Use Element). Strange including those related to a prospective Dollar to say no such process has ever occurred. Ever. General convenience store development at a Not the Community and Neighborhood Planning scenic gateway into town. Mark your calendars. program for the purpose stated. Not the reclassification. Three decades have passed. In the meantime Concept Companies of Gainesville submitted a development plan for a Dollar General convenience store on Rural Commercial-Ag land situated at a tree-canopied gateway to Micanopy. The Comp Plan does, in fact, permit development of "neighborhood convenience centers" on Rural Commercial-Ag land, never mind that this particular piece of property is esthetically, historically, environmentally, and culturally significant. The land is just on the other side of Micanopy Town Limits; people in Micanopy soon discovered they had no say. Public outcry ensued causing BoCC to delve in. Vol. 1, #7 June 1, 2021 The Micanopy NO Dog Standing athwart Tuscawilla yelling STOP Opinion From the Editor... A Strategy Primer Do we want a Dollar General on our scenic Tuscawilla Road? Hell No! Does Concept Companies of Gainesville have the right to build one? Unfortunately, yes. Folks who know that this is one of the facts of life think we're fighting a battle already lost. We are not. The fly in Concept Companies' ointment is that the building must be the one that the prospective tenant wants. But the governing County documents don't permit it; Concept Companies has got to wiggle it past a compliant Development Review Committee. So far, with the advantage of experience in the process, it has handily managed to do this. Influence within county and state governments has been a big help, too. But now the tide is turning. The public is against them. As goes the public, so go the politicians. The rulebooks will be more carefully scrutinized. So. Why should it be that Concept Companies would get a variance for big rig trucks on a County Scenic Road just because that's the way Dollar General likes to stock its stores? Why should the CHW engineers think a made-up single story faux-Cracker Barrel design conforms to any sort of historical architectural vernacular for Micanopy commercial retail space when it clearly does not, and there are documents of record to prove it, just because Dollar General wants a single story? How do you get away with saying it's not a "convenience store" and thus limited to 8000 square feet, smaller than desired, when it clearly is a convenience store? The DRC will be given plenty of ammunition to shoot this turkey down.
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