The county is offering six lots in West Augustine to anybody who will build on them, and the deadline to say so is 5 p.m. on Thursday, Nov. 12.
Six of 120. The agency has held 120 West Augustine parcels for single-family, owner-occupied houses since 2022, and these six come off that list.
Two of the six are for affordable rental housing. The other four are for what the notice calls infrastructure to support existing community amenities. That is the whole split. Proposals have to be on paper, hand delivered or couriered to 500 San Sebastian View, and the notice says plainly that no email submissions will be accepted and that late ones will not be either.
The agency is not putting money in. That sentence is in the notice twice, once as a requirement that a proposal state its own source of funding, and once flat: the CRA does not intend to provide any funds to the successful proposer to develop or construct the property or to complete the projects.
What the board did on Oct. 6
This started as item 10 on page 11 of the Oct. 6 packet, heard after the regular meeting recessed at 11:13 and the commissioners reconvened themselves as the Community Redevelopment Agency, which they are.
In 2022 the agency set aside 120 parcels in West Augustine for affordable housing. It restricted them to one thing. Single-family, owner-occupied houses. The item text says the community has since identified additional needs, and names two of them, affordable rental housing and infrastructure to support existing community amenities.
So the motion did two things. It adopted CRA Resolution 2026-2, amending the 2022 resolution to take six parcels off that list, and it authorized the county administrator or a designee to publish the notice to dispose of them. It carried 5-0, with Murphy moving and Whitehurst seconding. That leaves something like 114 parcels still under the owner-occupied restriction, which is this paper’s subtraction and not a figure the county prints.
The Community and Destination Director presented the parcels. The minutes record two rounds of discussion, one about other lots being used as affordable rentals and one about manufactured homes and the property turnover process, and five speakers in public comment. Discussion ensued is the whole of what the record says about each, which is fine. The vote is unanimous and the reasoning is not in the file.
The six
Addresses and legal descriptions are as the notice writes them. All six are in the 32084 zip.
| Parcel | Address | Legal description | Use in the notice |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1169300000 | 933 Pearl Street | Afro American Subdivision of Block 85 Dancy Tract Lot 4 | Affordable Rental Housing |
| 1169300050 | 829 Pearl Street | Afro American Subdivision of Block 85 Dancy Tract Lot 5 | Affordable Rental Housing |
| 1173500000 | West King Street | Afro American Subdivision of Block 91-A Dancy Tract Lots 1 and 2 | Community Support Amenities |
| 1173700060 | 141 N Brevard Street | Afro American Subdivision of Lots 1 and 4 Block 92 Dancy Tract Lot 6 | Community Support Amenities |
| 1173700070 | 121 N Brevard Street | Afro American Subdivision of Lots 1 and 4 Block 92 Dancy Tract Lot 7 | Community Support Amenities |
| 1173800090 | Railroad Street | Afro American Subdivision of Lots 1 and 4 Block 92 Dancy Tract Lot 9 | Community Support Amenities |
Three of the six have no street number. The notice gives a street and stops. Two of those are on a named street and one is on Railroad Street, and a reader who wants to stand in front of one will need the parcel number and the property appraiser.
Who it is for, and that answer is in two different places
The notice opens by saying the purpose is constructing affordable rental housing for veterans and seniors. Four paragraphs later it says the agency intends to entertain offers from non-profit entities to build affordable rental housing for very-low and low-income households. Veterans and seniors are not the same category as very-low and low-income households, and the notice does not reconcile the two sentences or say which one governs a proposal.
The statutory hook is Chapter 163.380(3)(a), which requires public notice of a proposed disposition in a newspaper of general circulation at least 30 days before any contract to sell is executed. The agency also keeps the right to reject every proposal, in whole or in part, with or without cause, and says it does not warrant that any award will be made at all.
Thursday, in the Muscovy Conference Room
The county’s other affordable housing body meets at two o’clock on Thursday, and it is voting on the final draft of its Incentive Review and Recommendation Annual Report.
That is the Affordable Housing Advisory Committee, at Health and Human Services, 200 San Sebastian View. The agenda is one page. It carries four lines. The report is not attached to it.
The file the county published it under is named Agenda-10-29-2026-Special-Meeting.pdf. The document inside is headed public hearing. It meets again on Nov. 18.
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