POSTAL PRSTR STD CUSTOMER U.S. POSTAGE PAID Ponte Vedra Beach, FL Permit #272 October 15, 2015 Volume 45, No. 41 75 cents PonteVedraRecorder.com VyStar branches into Nocatee Photo by Susan Griffin / The Recorder Management from VyStar Credit Union, community members, county commissioners and representatives from the St. Johns County Chamber of Commerce gathered this week to celebrate the open- ing of VyStar’s newest branch in Nocatee. Page 12 Web.com Tour Championship: The Susan G. Komen Event thrilling struggle for PGA Tour cards Inside this weekend’s 21st Susan G. Komen Page 28 North Florida Race for the Cure Page 21 SCHOOLS: PVPV Rawlings Elementary celebrates new mural. Page 16 Serving Ponte Vedra and the Beaches since 1969 2 Ponte Vedra Recorder · October 15, 2015 Send us your news PUZZLE SOLUTIONS INSIDE We welcome submissions of photos, stories, columns and letters to the editor. Let us know what’s happening. 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PVPV area has seen no major improve- Jim Sabo, President of the Ponte Vedra County Commission will consider a Please, for the good of our communi- ments since the mid-1980s. Although Beaches Coalition. “Traffic volume has variance on the 17-acre property at ty, kindly ask all of our county commis- county and FDOT planning studies over picked up even on the side streets as 1044 Ponte Vedra Blvd. to build 22 new sioners to reject this variance request. the past 20 years identified the future motorists try to avoid the bottlenecks. homes instead of the eight which are Dan MacDonald need to widen portions of the corri- Making matters worse, current govern- allowable, due to the prevailing topog- Ponte Vedra Beach dors SR A1A, CR 210 and CR 210A, no ment funding for local roadway im- raphy and wetlands. significant capacity improvements were provements is below even maintenance They would be bringing in some Citizen’s task force calls for full planned due to community concerns levels and funding for new roadways is 20,000 yards of fill, thereby destroy- PV-PV traffic study and resistance.