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Haden Woods, Jacksonville, Florida

About twenty-seven acres on Hemlock Street, just west of Lem Turner Road, on the Northside of Jacksonville. The land was put together out of nine adjoining parcels, KB Home owns every one of them outright and is named on the site-work permit, and the ground has been cleared across a large contiguous block since late summer 2026. Six floor plans are published, running from about 1,221 to 2,387 square feet. What does not exist yet is a price, a lot count, a street name or an opening date, and this page is careful about the difference between those two lists.

At a glance

Where

Northside Jacksonville, Duval County

Cross streets

Hemlock Street, west of Lem Turner Road

ZIP code

32218

Site size

About 27 acres, assembled from nine parcels

Builder

KB Home, permittee of record and owner of the land

Zoning and future land use

Low-density residential, by enacted city ordinance

Floor plans published

Six plans, about 1,221 to 2,387 square feet

Site work

Mass clearing underway since late summer 2026

Recorded plat

None recorded on the records available

Special flood hazard area

Assembly mapped partly inside

School district

Duval County Public Schools

Homes planned

Not established in any public document Get notified

Street names

Not established until a plat records Get notified

Lot sizes

Not established Get notified

Community development district

Not confirmed from public records Get notified

Pricing

Not released Get notified

Homeowners association dues

Not established Get notified

Sales office

Not announced Get notified

Model home

Not announced Get notified

First deliveries

Not announced Get notified

Details on this page are compiled from public entitlement records and are targets, not commitments. Pricing, floor plans, home counts, and timing have not been released by the builder and are subject to change without notice.

What is actually here

Nine parcels, about twenty-seven acres, one frontage road. The assembly runs back fromHemlock Street on the west side of Lem Turner Road, and the whole of it is zoned and designated for low-density residential use by ordinances the city has already enacted. That is the entitlement question answered: the use is settled, not pending.

The most useful single fact about this community is who holds what. KB Home is named on the site-work permit as permittee of record, and it is also the owner of the land, having taken title to all nine parcels in spring 2026. Those two roles usually sit with different companies at this stage: a land developer permits, clears and plats the ground and then sells finished lots on to a builder, so the timetable depends on a handoff and on somebody else's financing. Here there is no handoff left to make. The company that will build the houses already owns the dirt, already holds the permission to move it, and has spent the money to clear a twenty-seven-acre site. That is an unusually strong commitment signal.

Six floor plans are published for the community, from about 1,221 to 2,387 square feet. A published size range this early is genuinely useful: it is not a price, but it tells you the product category, and the category is a mainstream single-family lineup rather than a move-up or luxury one. Bedroom counts vary by plan and by what is optioned, and which of the six get offered here is decided at release.

Subdiview is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by KB Home. KB Home and its community names are trademarks of their respective owners and are used here for identification only. All community information is compiled from public records and is subject to change.

Where the project actually stands

The record here reads as a straight line, and it is unusually well evidenced. The use was rezoned and the future land use amended to a low-density residential category by city ordinances that are enacted rather than proposed. An individual state environmental resource permit for the site work was issued in late spring 2026 and sits at compliance stage, which is the authorisation that lets earth move and the stormwater system be built; the pending side of the same register returns nothing here, so there is no unissued twin. All nine parcels closed into the builder's name on a single day in spring 2026. And then the ground changed.

That last step is worth explaining, because it is the difference between a project on paper and a project happening. Commercial high-resolution aerial imagery of this area is older than the permit and still shows intact woods, so it cannot answer the question. The answer came from repeat satellite passes, read for vegetation index and masked strictly to the nine parcels, with two patches of neighbouring ground as controls. Between midsummer and late summer 2026 the vegetation signal inside the ownership line collapses while both controls hold at their seasonal peak, and by the clear scenes of autumn 2026 most of the site reads as bare earth while the neighbours do not.

Here is what will confuse anyone checking the records themselves: no final plat has recorded. All nine parcels still carry metes-and-bounds legal descriptions with no subdivision name, and that is a tested negative rather than a failure to look, because the same query returns neighbouring parcels whose descriptions do resolve to recorded plat names. The consequences are concrete and they are why several lines in the table above read as not established. There is no lot count. There are no interior street names. The land is legally still nine parcels, so no lot can be conveyed and no house sold on one. Street and lot numbers normally get fixed when the plat records, which is also the moment most of the unknowns on this page resolve at once.

Two honest gaps. Jacksonville does not publish its construction-plan review or its building permits to the open internet, so we cannot tell you whether a notice to proceed has issued or whether a model-home permit exists. Those are not established, which is different from saying there are none. The nine parcels also still carry their old rural addresses and non-zero building values on a lagging annual assessment, because there were pre-existing houses on some of them. What has become of those houses is not something the available imagery resolves, and we are not going to assume.

Hemlock Street is not the community street

Thirty seconds on this will save you a confusing afternoon. Hemlock Street is a real, existing, occupied rural street, carrying older houses on larger parcels in other owners' hands and generating its own resale listings. It is the road this assembly was bought along, not new community inventory.

The interior streets that will serve the houses do not have names yet, because streets get named when a plat records and no plat has. So there is a period, and we are in it, where the community has a published name and a published plan lineup but no addresses at all. If you see a house number attached to it today, treat it with suspicion.

One more disambiguation. A separate community with a different builder on title sits a few hundred metres away at the next crossroads, and other subdivisions adjoin this assembly on their own recorded plats. They are neighbours, not phases.

The Northside, the corridor and the commute

This is the Northside of Jacksonville, the broad area north of the river and the downtown core, and it has a character worth understanding. It is the part of the city where there is still land: semi-rural pockets of large-lot homesteads, pine and oak woods, small churches and roadside businesses, interleaved with subdivisions that have arrived over the last twenty years and are still arriving. Lem Turner Road is one of its spines, a north-south arterial running out of the city toward the county line.

The practical case for this location is access without inner-city prices. The beltway that rings Jacksonville crosses the Northside, which turns an area that feels semi-rural at the front door into a commutable one: from this corridor you reach the interstate system, and from there downtown to the south, the airport and the big-box retail cluster around it to the east, and the port and industrial employment on the river. The Northside carries a real concentration of logistics, port and distribution work, and that is the employment base most buyers out here are drawn from.

Be realistic about the trade. Shopping, restaurants and services are not on your doorstep; they concentrate along the main corridors and around the retail node to the east, and you will drive for most things. Transit is not a practical daily commute. The roads out here were built for a rural population and are carrying a suburban one, which is the familiar growth-corridor story: widenings follow the houses rather than preceding them. Drive your own commute, both directions, at the hour you would really make it, before you sign anything.

What you get in exchange is space and price. Twenty-seven acres of woods becoming a subdivision out here is a different economic proposition from the same house closer in, and the published plan range says this is being built for buyers who care about that difference.

The cost stack, and the question to ask first

Start with the one that catches people out, because it is both the largest unknown and the easiest to forget to ask. Whether a community development district levies an annual assessment here has not been confirmed from public records, and it is one of the first questions to ask. That is not hedging; it is the state of the record. We could not reach a county list of non-ad-valorem levying authorities, and no district-establishing instrument for this community appears in the city's legislative index. Builder portals carry a claim on the point, but a portal is not a public record.

Why it matters: a district assessment is a non-ad-valorem charge on the annual tax bill, repaying the bonds that paid for a community's roads, drainage and utilities. It can run well over a thousand dollars a year for two or three decades, it does not show up in the sale price, and it is routinely discovered late. There is also a trap that defeats most do-it-yourself checking: because these assessments are non-ad-valorem, they never appear in a property's ad-valorem tax code, so finding nothing there proves nothing. Ask in writing for the annual figure and the years remaining rather than a yes or no.

On property taxes, the number you want does not exist yet. These parcels still carry assessments reflecting their rural past, so what they pay today says nothing about what a finished house will pay: your bill is calculated on the completed home, and the first full tax year on new construction typically jumps hard. The two Florida mechanisms that soften it, the homestead exemption and the Save Our Homes assessment cap, do not travel with the house: they begin after you own and occupy it and file for them. Jacksonville and Duval County are a consolidated government, so there is one countywide structure rather than a city millage stacked on a county one, and Florida has no state income tax.

Insurance is the other line that moves the monthly payment, and in Florida it moves it a lot. Buying new helps here rather than being a sales line: a house built to the current code, with a new roof, new openings and documented wind-mitigation features, prices very differently from a comparable house from the nineteen-nineties, and much of the competing stock on the Northside is exactly that age. Get a real quote on a specific plan and lot rather than an area average, and treat flood coverage separately.

Flood, parcel by parcel

This needs stating precisely, because the usual community-level answer is wrong here. The assembly is mapped partly inside the special flood hazard area. Tested parcel by parcel rather than from a point in the middle, two of the nine parcels, both on the north side, are mapped inside it and the other seven are mapped outside it.

The reason to be careful about the phrasing is that it changes what you should do. A community wholly outside the mapped area has one answer for every buyer. A community that straddles the line does not: whether a lender requires flood insurance on your house depends on where your lot ends up, and that is not knowable until lots exist. So the instruction is specific. Ask for the flood determination on your lot, in writing, before your deposit goes hard, and ask whether that lot sits in a part of the site filled and regraded as part of the stormwater design.

Two general points apply across the whole site. Being mapped outside the special flood hazard area is a statement about the one percent annual chance flood: a statistical line on a map, not a guarantee, and it says little about pluvial flooding, where extreme rainfall exceeds what the drainage can carry. North Florida gets that rainfall, and maps get revised. Where a lender does not require coverage it is usually cheap, and cheap optional coverage is frequently the policy that pays.

Schools

Duval County Public Schools serves the entire consolidated city-county, so the district is certain and there is no choosing between districts by choosing a neighbourhood. That is a simplification you do not get in most Florida metros.

The individual schools are a different matter and this page will not name them. Assignment runs off a street address, the addresses here do not exist yet because no plat has recorded, and boundaries get redrawn in a growth corridor. One builder portal does name a specific elementary school for this community; we could not verify it against the district's own attendance zones, so we are not repeating it. Once your homesite has a real address, run it through the district's locator, and if a particular school is the reason you are buying, make it a written condition.

The honest tradeoffs

A page that only lists advantages is not worth reading, so here are the things about this particular community that a brochure will not lead with.

It is early, and early has real benefits: the widest lot choice, first-release pricing, and time to get your financing and your representation in order instead of deciding in an afternoon. It also means buying into unknowns. There is no lot count, no lot dimension, no street plan, no association budget and no amenity plan to read, and those will arrive together rather than one at a time.

The frontage road is already lived on, and that cuts both ways. You are not moving into open country: there is an established street with grown trees and neighbours who have been here for decades. On the other hand the land around this assembly is a patchwork of larger rural parcels and newer subdivisions, so the character of your surroundings is set partly by what nobody has built yet. Ask what the zoning on each side allows.

Twenty-seven acres is a middling size, with consequences for amenities. It is large enough for interior streets and a stormwater pond, and small enough that a resort pool and a clubhouse are unlikely to pencil, so this page will not invent an amenity list. Expect a homeowners association for the common areas, and read its budget rather than its brochure, with attention to how thin reserves are while the builder still controls the board.

Finally, the clearing you can see from the road is site work, not houses. The gap between bare ground and a finished street with utilities in it is measured in months, and every piece of timing on this page is a target rather than a commitment.

Buying with a production builder, and why representation is a timing question

There is no sales office here yet and no model home, so your first contact with this community will almost certainly be a registration rather than a visit: a form, an enquiry, your name on a list. That is the moment the representation question gets decided, and most people do not realise it is being decided.

The person at the desk in a builder's sales centre works for the builder. They are usually knowledgeable and pleasant, and they are also paid by, and represent, the party on the other side of your contract. Nothing about that is improper; it is their job. You are entitled to your own representation, and on new construction it generally costs the buyer nothing extra, because builders budget for a buyer's agent whether or not you bring one. The catch is timing: most builders will only recognise your agent if that agent is named at your first registration or first visit. Walk in alone, hand over your details, and in many cases you have given away the right to be represented for the rest of the transaction.

Be clear about what an interest list is and is not. It is not a contract, not a deposit, not a reservation, and not a place in a queue anyone is obliged to honour. It is early information, and a way of having your representation sorted before the afternoon it matters.

A pre-construction contract is not a resale contract, and the negotiating room sits elsewhere. At this stage, ask how the contract handles a plat that changes shape or is delayed, and what happens to your deposit if it does, since the lot you are buying does not yet legally exist. Then the ordinary questions: the deposit structure and when deposits go hard, what the builder may substitute, whether the price is locked against cost escalation, what happens if completion slips, how the structural warranty works, whether you can bring your own inspector at frame stage and again before closing, and whether any closing-cost incentive or lot premium is tied to using the builder's own lender. Run that lender against one outside quote on the same terms.

Other names this goes by

The community is published under the retail name Haden Woods. In the state permitting record the same ground was earlier carried under an engineering project name taken from the frontage street, which is why a records search can look like two separate projects, one covering the northern half of the assembly and one the southern. They are the same twenty-seven acres under one owner. Because the land records still describe the property by its metes and bounds rather than by a plat, a tax search on the community name will not find it.

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