Chase TrailView

[acme54321]

This one is apparently on the edge of the downtown overlay and requires DDRB review.  It's a pretty random site, and I'm honestly surprised they can even build on it because it was a marsh that was filled in with construction debris and trash in the 50s.  On the edges of the surrounding "tidal creeks" aka ditches you can see old tires and other junk sticking out of the banks.

I also don't really like how they end this new part of Reed Ave with a Cul de sac vs connecting it to the adjacent street grid. Or at least connect it on the pedestrian level.  Yes I know those other streets flood a lot.

https://residentnews.net/chase-properties-trailview-townhomes-fuel-capital-improvement-fund-for-humane-society/

[Steve]

For anyone else that couldn't figure out where this is, it's here:

https://www.google.com/maps/@30.3139901,-81.6475198,366m/data=!3m1!1e3?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI1MDMyNC4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D

Looks like they'd extend Reed Ave ALMOST to Alamo Street. I tend to agree that not connecting the street grid is weird in the urban area.

[Captain Zissou]

This looks like the Atlantic Blvd Toll Brothers project taken to the nth degree. 50+ townhomes and surface parking built to the lot lines on environmentally sensitive land. The trash is along the marsh at what looks like the minimum upland buffer.  For resiliency purposes, I imagine the elevation of Reed street at the southeastern end will be well above Alamo, which is why it doesn't connect.  I agree that connecting and continuing the street grid would be preferable in the urban core.

[Jrz Jax]

I imagine the elevation of Reed street at the southeastern end will be well above Alamo, which is why it doesn't connect.  I agree that connecting and continuing the street grid would be preferable in the urban core.

If you look at the two disconnected ends of Reed Ave on Street View, there is clear evidence of a right-of-way that was likely never finished (or was ripped up).

https://maps.app.goo.gl/tGqNrr2kRzJvrxbD7

Also appears that Vine St was intended to connect to Reed St, but now it just functions as free business parking on the dead end.

[Charles Hunter]

Looking at the COJ Property Map, it looks like there is a right-of-way connecting the two parts of Reed Street. At the west end, WJXT and JEA border the ROW, and the west end has Chad Development and JEA on the north and an FDOT retention pond on the south. Using the measurement tool on the GIS Property Map, the ROW is about 60 feet wide, where Reed Street exists on the east and west, and in the middle where there is no road.

[urban_]

Looks like they'd extend Reed Ave ALMOST to Alamo Street. I tend to agree that not connecting the street grid is weird in the urban area.

If you look at the two disconnected ends of Reed Ave on Street View, there is clear evidence of a right-of-way that was likely never finished (or was ripped up).

https://maps.app.goo.gl/tGqNrr2kRzJvrxbD7

The streetview makes me think that if they don't connect it, people will still use it to walk between those areas. It'll just be less accessible and harder to walk on when wet.