Jacksonville's urban core population has been cut in half over the last four decades. Now a new plan seeks to remove another neighborhood in an effort to fight flooding issues.
Jacksonville Florida is no stranger to plans that embrace wholesale destruction of urban neighborhoods. In that context, its latest resiliency plan isn't surprising. The South Shores neighborhood has slowly disappeared due to highway encroachment, and now the nearly century old neighborhood may be completely wiped off the map as the city seeks ways to fight flooding issues in the wealthier San Marco neighborhood.
FULL STORY: South Shores: A historic neighborhood near its end?
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