At a meeting next week, the Escambia County Commission is set to consider a portion of Ensley as a blighted area with a shortage of affordable housing for low and moderate income housing and that there exists a need for for the “rehabilitation conservation, redevelopment, or a combination of these in the Ensley Community is necessary in the interest of the public health, safety, morals, and welfare of the residents of Escambia County”.
The designation has been recommended to the commission by the Community Redevelopment Agency (CRA), a division of Community and Environment Department.
The area (depicted in the map above, click to enlarge) is bordered generally by Nine Mile Road to the north, railroad tracks just west of Highway 29 to the west, Jernigan Road ad Cody Lane to the east, and I-19 and a portion of Olive Road to the south.