UPDATE, Sept. 30, 2026. This story was filed on the afternoon of Sept. 28, when nothing the public could read said what the board had done. That is no longer the case, and the answer did not come from the county. The Tattler obtained the recording, transcribed it, and reported the outcome the following day: the board denied both certifications, 3 to 2, on a motion by Commissioner Ann Taylor seconded by Commissioner Joseph, with the third vote coming from Commissioner Sarah Arnold, who had voted to certify both parcels in August. The county’s deputy attorney had told the board that staff read the comprehensive plan and believed the application fit the statutory category. See Staff told the commission the 1,166 acres qualified. The board denied it anyway, 3 to 2.

The rest of this story stands as filed. The Clerk’s board records index still carries an agenda for Sept. 28 and nothing else, and the same is true of both Sept. 15 meetings.

The St. Johns County Commission met at nine o’clock this morning to reconsider two agricultural enclave certifications covering about 1,166 acres either side of Interstate 95, south of State Road 207.

The meeting lasted about an hour and forty minutes. What the board decided is not, as of one twenty this afternoon, written down anywhere the public can read.

A resident who wants to know what happened to those 1,166 acres has one option today, and it is to watch the county’s livestream from beginning to end. It runs 100 minutes and carries no captions, so it cannot be searched, skimmed or quoted.

What exists and what does not

The county put the video up the same day. The GovTV channel entry went live at 8:58 this morning, two minutes before the meeting, and was last updated at 10:38.

The Clerk’s board records index is the page the county points people to for the record of a meeting. Every row on it offers three things: Agenda, Approved Minutes, Watch on GovTV. Each becomes a link when the document exists and sits there as plain text when it does not.

The Sept. 3 special meeting has all three. Its minutes are posted and its video runs seventeen and a half minutes on the county’s own video service.

The Sept. 28 row has one link. It is the agenda.

Minutes are approved at the next regular meeting. That is Oct. 6.

So the written record of a decision on 1,166 acres is due eight days after the decision, and until then the agenda that proposed it is the only document on the page.

The meeting that produced this one is not on the index either

The motion that created Monday’s special meeting was made on Sept. 15, during commissioner comments.

Thirteen days later both Sept. 15 rows carry the agenda and nothing beside it. The minutes column is plain text. So is the video column. If a recording of either meeting exists somewhere, the page a resident is sent to does not say so.

A meeting from Sept. 3 has its full record up. The one from Sept. 15 does not, and it is the one that sent 1,166 acres back to the board.

What was in front of them

ENCERT 2026-05, Heritage Development East, is about 615.41 acres directly east of I-95 and south of State Road 207. ENCERT 2026-06, Heritage Development West, is about 551 acres on the other side of the interstate.

The board certified both on Aug. 19. A motion to deny 2026-05 failed and a motion to approve it carried 3 to 2, with Commissioner Joseph and Commissioner Taylor dissenting. 2026-06 carried 3 to 2 on the same split.

Certification runs under sections 163.3162 and 163.3164 of the Florida Statutes and moves land out from under the county’s comprehensive plan.

Oct. 6

The Sept. 28 minutes go to the next regular meeting as backup to the item that approves them. That is the document, and it is eight days after the vote.

Until then the record of what happened to 1,166 acres is a 100-minute livestream with no transcript, which nobody can quote, search or skim, on a channel the county’s own records index points at only in general, never at this meeting.