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Originally Posted by LA21st
Once you past palm beach it doesn't look that developed to me.
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Quote:
Originally Posted by LA21st
Development thins out north of Palm Beach pretty hard.
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I don't know how in any sane world, one could look at this map north of the Palm Beach area and assert,
"it doesn't look that developed to me".
Yes, it starts to thin out compared in comparison to the southern portions of the stretch, but it's still quite substantial in terms of intense development of the land. And that's not the point anyway... it is part of the longest continuous stretch of development.
https://www.google.com/maps/@26.8411.../data=!3m1!1e3
Straight-line shot... ~110 miles of continuous development. Just north of Jupiter to Homestead/ Florida City area. Check it... Use the distance finder.
https://www.google.com/maps/@26.3592.../data=!3m1!1e3
Or via highway, ~130 miles of continuous development.
https://www.google.com/maps/dir/Jupi...25.4452724!3e0
And this is being conservative by putting the northern terminus in the Jupiter area, using the ~2-3 mile state park as an end of continuous development. And... it eliminates the fully-developed Jupiter Island along that stretch which connects the development with the Hobe Sound-Port St. Lucie area.
If one doesn't include that rather small state park stretch, then it goes another 60+ miles north to the Sebastian inlet area, where it then thins out to more sparse development and state park for about 5 miles before getting into the whole Melbourne, Cocoa beach, Titusville area... and then you pretty much just have nodal stretches of development (Daytona area, Palm Coast, St. Augustine, up to the Jax coastal areas) interspersed with natural lands on up the coast. Relatively thin areas stretching up the coast, yes.