{"id":3036,"date":"2025-11-18T11:12:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T16:12:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/?p=3036"},"modified":"2025-11-18T11:12:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T16:12:13","slug":"bartow-commissioners-give-tentative-ok-to-peace-creek-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/?p=3036","title":{"rendered":"Bartow Commissioners Give Tentative OK To Peace Creek Development"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/thumbnail-3.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"988\" height=\"475\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/thumbnail-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3041\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/thumbnail-3.jpg 988w, https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/thumbnail-3-300x144.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/thumbnail-3-768x369.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 988px) 100vw, 988px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The Bartow City Commission voted unanimously Monday night to approve the annexation and rezoning for a controversial development called Emilie Springs east of the city along the Peace Creek Drainage Canal.<br>Commissioners made a point of telling the audience that Monday&#8217;s vote does not guarantee final approval when the issue returns to them early next year after state review.<br>Monday&#8217;s hearing was pretty much a replay of the arguments pro and con that occurred at last month&#8217;s Planning and Zoning Commission meeting.<br>Rural residents on Gerber Dairy Road argued the proposed densities would be incompatible with their lifestyle.<br>Bartow residents raised issues about flooding, school capacity, the housing glut and mortgage crisis and just how much the addition of thousands of homes will affect the city&#8217;s small-town atmosphere.<br>Consultants representing the developer dismissed most of those concerns, arguing all of those issues will have to be addressed before home construction can begin. <br>The project came to the city after previously being denied by the County Commission, which typically does not say no to many development projects.<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bartow City Commission voted unanimously Monday night to approve the annexation and rezoning for a controversial development called Emilie Springs east of the city along the Peace Creek Drainage Canal.Commissioners made a point of telling the audience that Monday&#8217;s vote does not guarantee final approval when the issue returns to them early next year [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gci"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3036"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3036\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3042,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3036\/revisions\/3042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}