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SJRWMD overrides Judge’s ruling and grants Interchange Permit; Citizens plan to appeal
In a possibly never-before-seen action, the Board of the St. Johns River Water Management District (SJRWMD) heard over a dozen citizens speak out against the disastrous and costly I-95/Pioneer Trail Interchange at their monthly meeting on March 12, 2024 in Palatka, FL, and by making no motion to approve or deny it, by default allowed…
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Local Residents Prevail! Judge rules against Pioneer Interchange permit!
It is our pleasure to inform you that on Monday, January 29, 2024, the Administrative Law Judge reviewing the state case against the St. Johns River Water Management District’s issuance of a permit for the destructive and costly Pioneer Trail Interchange recommended DENIAL of the Permit! This is big news, and a big win for all Floridians! In…
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We made the News-Journal Sunday Paper Front Page
In case you missed it recently, our fight to stop the terrible I-95/Pioneer Trail Interchange got Front Page coverage in the Daytona Beach News-Journal on Sunday, July 30, 2023! That was great news, and we hope to keep the momentum going! The article actually came out online a few days earlier, authored by Mark Harper,…
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How We Got Here
In 2018, the Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) released this map of the I-95 at Pioneer Trail Study Area. Fast forward to 2020, and even as recently as the January 2022 Environmental Report to the St. John’s River Water Management District (SJWRMD), the map looked like this (which was shared with federal agencies.) And, in…
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What is up with this interchange project?
A once-dead, ecologically-devastating, and wildly unpopular project known as the I-95 Interchange/Pioneer Trail project, located in east central Florida next to New Smyrna Beach, has been resuscitated, despite an outpouring of citizen objections If built, this project will directly destroy: 1) scores of wetlands directly and many more indirectly, 2) habitat for endangered species, 3)…