\u00a0Ask Anthony<\/a> team for help.\u00a0<\/p>\n\u201cIt is 6:25 in the morning and there are dump trucks lining up outside my house,\u201d said Christine Suber as she recorded video from her home. \u201cTell me how this is legal.\u201d<\/p>\n
Instead of waking up to an alarm clock, Suber and her neighbors say they wake up to the sound of heavy trucks. Suber has lived on Bradham Road for about 10 years and says what was once a quiet neighborhood now feels like an industrial work site.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s almost like you live in a construction zone instead of a neighborhood,\u201d Anthony Austin told her.
\u201cYou\u2019re telling me, pal,\u201d she replied.<\/p>\n
Suber and other neighbors say dump trucks and heavy equipment connected to nearby excavation have damaged their private road, forcing cars into ditches, disrupting deliveries and making it unsafe for children to play outside.<\/p>\n
\u201cI can\u2019t send my children to the mailbox anymore,\u201d Suber said.<\/p>\n
Neighbors told Anthony Austin the digging started last summer. In October, they were able to get a stop-work order after discovering the work was happening without a permit. But on Jan. 16, they say the trucks returned.<\/p>\n
For some residents, the impact goes beyond the road.<\/p>\n
Gail Hutcherson has lived in the neighborhood for nearly 50 years. She says constant vibrations from the heavy equipment are damaging her home.<\/p>\n
\u201cSitting in my recliner crocheting, it’s like I\u2019m sitting in a massage chair at the spa,\u201d Hutcherson said. \u201cIt\u2019s shaking my house apart. I\u2019ve got a crack in my hallway in the ceiling.\u201d<\/p>\n
Anthony Austin reached out to the city of Jacksonville to ask about the work happening on Bradham Road. The city says the property has an active permit approved by the Building Inspection Division, allowing the excavation of a half-acre pond up to 15 feet deep.<\/p>\n
\u201cHow do you get all these dump trucks out here just for a pond?\u201d Suber asked.<\/p>\n
According to the city, three complaints have been reported at the site so far. Two cases involving permitting and material removal have already been inspected, and no violations were found. Code Compliance says another inspection is planned to check for any additional issues.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, neighbors say daily life continues to be disrupted.<\/p>\n
\u201cGarbage people came to pick up my trash and one of the guys stopped him and said he couldn’t go down there,\u201d Hutcherson said. \u201cSo my garbage is still sitting out.\u201d<\/p>\n
Because Bradham Road is private, maintenance falls on the residents, not the city. Neighbors say no one asked permission, no one warned them the work was starting, and they are worried the damage will not be repaired.<\/p>\n
A man at the site of the construction showed Anthony Austin a permit and said the road will be repaired once the work is finished. The city says the work is legal and that it will continue to monitor the site for any additional issues.<\/p>\n
If you have a problem you can\u2019t solve, you can email AskAnthony@FirstCoastNews.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Neighbors on Jacksonville\u2019s Northside say construction is destroying their private road and shaking their homes, raising legal and…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":553560,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5136],"tags":[5229,3188,723,7310,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-553559","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jacksonville","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-fl","10":"tag-florida","11":"tag-jacksonville","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-united-states-of-america","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","16":"tag-us","17":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115983177370835818","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=553559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553559\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/553560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=553559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=553559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=553559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}