Opponents called it sprawl proponents called it growth. At the time, the housing market looked unstoppable, so officials went for it. "Water systems were built, roads were built, and then the boom went bust," Busha says. "The bubble burst. And now, there's a bill to be paid." Lucie it runs right through the middle. After it was built, developers asked the city to annex 42 square miles west of I-95 for commercial and residential development. Today, 15 years after it was completed, I-95 is no longer on the edge of the city of Port St. A new address for business and housing in the western portions of the city." "They wanted an edge road - or a 'ring road,' the planner called it - so there would be access," Busha says. Lucie County successfully lobbied to build it far to the west, through area that had been farmland. There, I-95's route was largely determined by developers. Michael Busha, of the Treasure Coast Regional Planning Council, says when I-95 was being planned, developers from St. Lucie County, deliberations about where to build I-95 took a different course. To have that left at the top, just above the Gold Coast in South Florida, is a miracle." Dark brown is the river, golden is the sand. Standing on the riverbank, she describes it as "truly wild, beautiful, cypress-lined. Maggy Hurchalla is proud to note that the Loxahatchee River is much the same as it was a century ago. That's where much of the sprawl and development-on-steroids that Florida is known for suddenly ends. If you drive north on I-95 in Florida from Miami, you'll eventually cross the Loxahatchee River and be in Martin County. But in return, Interstate 95 demanded sacrifices that changed communities forever. They helped decide how communities would grow. They helped create the suburbs, the megalopolis and the 90-minute commute. Interstates changed the way we think about cities. Ray McNair rests under I-95 in Overtown, a historic black neighborhood in Miami that was nearly wiped out during the construction of the interstate.Īfter the interstate system was built, planners, developers and commuters found it was not just a good way to travel between states, but also within them - from city to city, from home to work, or maybe just a few blocks.
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