The fight to develop an “agrihood” in St. Johns County isn’t over.

A special magistrate ruled the county unreasonably denied a rezoning request that would allow up to 3,332 homes west of Interstate 95, between County Road 208 and County Road 214.

In a report issued Aug. 19 under the Florida Land Use and Environmental Dispute Resolution Act, Special Magistrate and former Circuit Court Judge J. Michael Traynor found the county’s 2024 denial of Robinson Improvement Co. LLC’s planned unit development application unfairly burdened the company’s property rights.

Robinson sought to rezone 2,673 acres from Open Rural to Planned Unit Development, consistent with the property’s Residential-B designation added to the county’s comprehensive plan in 2019.

Residential-B allows low-to-moderate densit

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