What do the engineering firm of Prosser Hallock (rhymes with "Moloch"), the Rogers Towers law firm and Samco Constructors have in mind for Elkton, FL?

What do the engineering firm of Prosser Hallock (rhymes with "Moloch"), the Rogers Towers law firm and Samco Constructors have in mind for Elkton, Florida?

Elkton is presently a rural area in St. Johns County known for its good soil, for potato and cabbage farms and for rural beauty.

Unknown speculators hiding behind a corporate veil want to plop thousands of homes on top of potentially pesticide-contaminated, petroleum-contaminated and turpentine-contaminated soils (even considering asking for another "brownfield" designation.

On January 29th, Prosser Hallock and Rogers Towers had a get-together at Jim's Place, a restaurant in Elkton, providing lukewarm food (and buckets of sugary iced tea), trying to win friends and influence neighbors.

It didn't work.

Patronizing the residents, few straight answers were given to questions about wetlands, affordable housing and already clogged local roads.
Hurricane evacuation of Anastasia Island and other areas could be imperiled. There were five hour backups on SR 207 during one hurricane, even before some 80,000 new residents moved to the county, one resident said.

One local resident noted the wetlands in the area for which a "Development of Regional Impact" (DRI) is being sought, stating how there was "chest high water" in the area after one rainfall.

Prosser Hallock and Rogers Towers could not and would not answer questions articulately, whether they involved wetlands, traffic or corporate ownership.

"It's a private company," one hobbledehoy sniffed.

Do foreign speculators have to destroy all the farms, nature, beauty, seashores and history in St. Johns County and St. Augustine?

Does money from India, China and elsewhere speak louder than local residents?

Do local farmers have to sell their land, or are they greedy?

Will destruction of agriculture result in U.S. dependency on pesticide-contaminated foreign food imports?

Will there be an OPEC of food once our U.S. agriculture economy is destroyed?

Is the Elkton DRI based upon need, or greed?

Will speculators be candid with citizens, or do they suppose that it is "business as usual," as under the ancien regime, when arrogant, smug, dictatorial, speculators' lawyers ruled the roost in our St. Johns County Commission under the suzerainty of the likes of Bruce Maguire and Karen Stern?

What do you reckon?