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BY Wayne Hannaka on Monday September 21, 2026

I received word from George Curtis Development Director at the City of Live Oak that the developer has withdrawn their application for rezoning  THE PROJECT IS DEAD at least until someone else decides to develop the property.

Email from Developer to George:  

We regret to inform you that we are not proceeding with our rezoning request. We are no longer under contract on the property.

We are very appreciative of all of your time and effort on our behalf but unfortunately the timing in our contract was insufficient to ensure that we could achieve a development order.

By Wayne Hannaka on Thursday, August 27, 2026

I discovered this week that the housing project known as Bass Road Development is alive and well. The project has been slowly going through the process to becoming a reality. After the City Council of March 2024 approved to annex the property while ignoring public concerns by a 3 to 2 vote. The Mayor had a chance to veto the approval but did not, ignoring the public, but what is new at Live Oak. Note no one on the current council was sitting except Campbell who voted no. 

Currently the ball is in the Planning and Zoning hands which meets on September 21 in city hall at 5:30PM to hear the request.*Not on the agenda checking why.* The project will be split in two sections with the first part being 79.16 Acres to be zoned City Residential which would result in 4.356 units per acre resulting in 345 housing units . Also in the first phase request is 7.23 acres to be zoned commercial - general.

Phase two will include the remaining 53.40 acres for residential resulting in an additional 230 housing units for a total of 575 units.

If this amount of housing units doesn't scare you with schools around the corner and traffic on 129 then you should move to Ft Lauderdale.

The previous city council had no idea of the impact this type of development would bring to our community, but there is still a chance to squash this insanity. Contact your city planning board and  council and let them know how you feel. You don't have to live in the city to know the negative effects of this development.

By Wayne Hannaka Wednesday September 9, 2026

At last nights city council meeting with a 5-0 vote the council decided to have all Flock Cameras removed and to cancel their contract.

Now let's see what the county does.

By Wayne Hannaka on Wednesday September 2, 2026 

At the Suwannee County Commission Meeting on 9/1/26 it was announced that camera's in the county are turned off. That does not included those in the City of Live Oak, however it appears the city will not fund theirs which would kill them at budget time this month. The DOT sent out a letter informing departments that operate flock camera's would be required to remove them from state road ways within 30 days which may have sparked the Sheriffs office to make a decision to stop using Flock.

WORD OF CAUTION

Is the Sheriff's office just playing a game to keep flock cameras by turning them off to quiet public outcry and then turn them back on at a later date without any notice to the public? You make your own decision.