River town, river wildlife
Sanford's identity is the St. Johns River and Lake Monroe — and river corridors are wildlife superhighways. Raccoons, opossums, and snakes travel the shoreline and move into the neighborhoods behind it. The historic downtown homes have the age and gaps wildlife loves, while the newer subdivisions to the south and west sit on former ranch land that's still very much wild at the edges.
What we see in Sanford
Raccoons along the river. The Riverwalk and the lakefront neighborhoods get heavy raccoon traffic — trash, pet food, and attic dens. Snakes in the corridor. The river and its wetlands mean more snake encounters than inland neighborhoods, including cottonmouths near water. Opossums under the older homes — Sanford's historic housing stock has the pier-and-beam crawl spaces opossums den in. Armadillos in the sandy-soil subdivisions.
Historic homes need historic-aware exclusion
Sanford's older homes weren't built with wildlife exclusion in mind — they were built when the woods were farther away. We seal them with materials that work with the construction rather than against it, preserving the home's character while closing the gaps a century of settling has opened.
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