Golden Gate Street neighbors protest the proposed charter school.

A peaceful Golden Gate street learned that a school would soon be constructed in the center of their haven.

Kenneth Beach, a resident on Seventh Avenue Northwest, stated, “I really don’t feel like it’s fair at all. It’d be like 20 feet from my garage.”

Beach has spent more than thirty years residing on the street. A charter school will soon occupy the 16 acres and four houses east of his property; the land next to his home is currently empty, according to a recent article by Bella Line of Fox4.

“I would like to see one of the commissioners go down Vanderbilt at 7:30 in the morning and see if they would like to sit in traffic for, you know, 20–30 minutes and then have some 100 more cars on the road, without even the infrastructure in place,” Beach added.

The street lies immediately south of Golden Gate’s quickly growing Vanderbilt Beach Road. Although neighbors Fox 4 spoke with acknowledged the area’s progress, they believed the school should be somewhere else.

A resident of the neighborhood told Fox 4 that he moved to the estates seven years ago because of its rural atmosphere.

“There are plenty of places on Collier Boulevard or on the other side of Vanderbilt that are commercial spaces,” Conover stated. “The perfect location for a school would be the nearby Hodges University. Such a structure would also be ideal for a Mason Academy-style charter school. All we want is to avoid having our way of life irrevocably altered.”

The Mason Classical Academy’s executive director explains that the reason the build, including the site and timeline, is so important is because of the school’s long waiting list.

“We are not anti-education, but this is the wrong place for a school,” Conover stated. “They want to build four houses and 16 acres of forests on this country road. It is not logical.

This article originally appeared on Fox4