🚨 MANDARIN SPEAKS OUT: WE SAY NO. 🚨

At the May 14th meeting, we asked a simple, direct question:

What exactly did JTA submit to the Federal Transit Authority to justify a Categorical Exclusion — allowing them to skip critical environmental, historical, and community impact studies?

JTA and Councilman Boylan refused to answer.

So let’s be perfectly clear:

The City of Jacksonville and JTA are choosing to move forward on one of Jacksonville’s last historic tree corridors —

Without a site-specific environmental assessment,
Without a tree impact study,
Without a historical or wildlife impact review.

And they expect the people of Mandarin to simply trust this decision?

We say NO.

Moving forward without transparency means centuries-old trees will be lost, wildlife habitats will be destroyed, and no proper vetting will have been done to prove otherwise.

This refusal to answer is now part of the public record.

And let it be known:

This community will hold the City of Jacksonville and JTA fully accountable for every tree lost, every root destroyed, and every piece of Mandarin’s heritage put at risk.

✅ 688 residents  and counting have already signed the petition demanding a pause and real accountability.