Wildwood Trail Residents Protest Too Much

Unless we're terribly mistaken, this is May. A plan to build a student housing complex on West Irvine Avenue was announced in January. Yet it seems several residents of Wildwood on Cypress attending the last Florence City Council meeting stated they had been blindsided by the project. We'll leave our readers to consider that aspect of this situation.

Would the new apartment complex present a problem for this subdivision? A few residents are expressing concerns about lights and noise. The subdivision sits across Cypress Creek from the proposed new complex. There is a buffer zone of vegetation and water that should prevent light from reaching the sudivision...unless some apartment residents decide to purchase a movie premiere class oscillating spotlight for their anticipated debauchery. 

That leaves noise. We understand the buffer zone also will muffle much of any noise from the wild carousers Wildwood residents fear will inhabit this complex. And just who are these residents who have postponed the zoning vote for two weeks? Only a handful of families live on Wildwood Trail and not all of them are opposed to the new housing. 

One resident's name stood out. Why, yes, it's Steve Eason, the city's project coordinator. We eagerly await the next council meeting. Certainly Mr. Eason has every right to protest something as a private citizen. We simply hope those who are making the decisions concerning this project remember in which capacity he's speaking on this subject.

More on this later...

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This is something we've briefly touched on before, but it's good to remind prospective home buyers. Just because your new dream home is located in an idyllic, secluded section of town, that doesn't mean it will always be secluded. You need to look at adjacent zoning to determine just who might be your neighbors at some point. You also need to look at who owns adjacent property. Wildwood on Cypress residents didn't see a red flag in Hensley-Graves owning property across the creek from them?

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