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Topic Title: Huge Developments in East Orange/Osceola
Topic Summary: Still can't say no to developers
Created On: 09/23/2016 07:37 AM
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 09/23/2016 07:37 AM
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 09/23/2016 09:11 AM
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What's up Daniel?
That explains why the Orange County Expressway Authority is spending $62.5 million dollars on "another" interchange with Innovation Way and 528. This new interchange is less than a 1/4 mile from the already existing one. I couldn't fathom how anyone could have sold this absurd idea....but now I see where the motivation was. $$$$$$ Absolute balderdash.

Yay! More cars on the road.

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 09/23/2016 07:45 PM
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Originally posted by: Skeeter What's up Daniel? That explains why the Orange County Expressway Authority is spending $62.5 million dollars on "another" interchange with Innovation Way and 528. This new interchange is less than a 1/4 mile from the already existing one. I couldn't fathom how anyone could have sold this absurd idea....but now I see where the motivation was. $$$$$$ Absolute balderdash. Yay! More cars on the road.
So that's what that construction is??

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 09/24/2016 05:52 AM
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Is there enough water to support that? Might be sinkhole city.

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 09/24/2016 06:49 AM
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Originally posted by: Skeeter

What's up Daniel?

That explains why the Orange County Expressway Authority is spending $62.5 million dollars on "another" interchange with Innovation Way and 528. This new interchange is less than a 1/4 mile from the already existing one. I couldn't fathom how anyone could have sold this absurd idea....but now I see where the motivation was. $$$$$$ Absolute balderdash.



Yay! More cars on the road.


similar to how when the were building the 417 there was an overpass between Curry Ford Rd and 528. An overpass over nothing but a dirt road linking cow pasture. Then a decade+ later ..... it is a full on exit to the Lee Vista development. A development brought to you by the heirs to the TG Lee Dairy $$$$$




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 10/03/2016 10:52 AM
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Originally posted by: Skeeter

What's up Daniel?

That explains why the Orange County Expressway Authority is spending $62.5 million dollars on "another" interchange with Innovation Way and 528. This new interchange is less than a 1/4 mile from the already existing one. I couldn't fathom how anyone could have sold this absurd idea....but now I see where the motivation was. $$$$$$ Absolute balderdash.



Yay! More cars on the road.


Yep, everything is going to connect, Dowden road over in the Nona area that's being extended to connect to Avalon. Can't seem to get away from it, I really don't get how this kind of stuff gets passed with major water issues on the horizon.

Hopefully all the people who move into these developments are scared of sharks and will just stay inside watching TV...
 10/03/2016 12:01 PM
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Looks like part of this includes an extension connecting Alafaya Trail to 528? 30 years ago they couldn't do that because of a protected species in the area.

This will let UCF students in Brevard avoid the Bithlo/Colonial mess getting to the main campus, and maybe facilitate Brevard workers getting to the Lockmart plant behind the Stanton Energy center.

Will also put a few more people from Orlando on the path to KooKoo Beach.
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"This will let UCF students in Brevard avoid the Bithlo/Colonial mess getting to the main campus"

When I go to UCF (for games) I take 528, 417, then 408 (bypassing alafaya, then over 50) and into the back end of Research park. It is actually quicker. Toll road and maybe a couple miles extra, but interstate the whole way.

No matter what day or time of day that 50/bithlo is always backed up, or just slow roll.


 10/03/2016 01:10 PM
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Oh yeah, I forgot about the 408 extension into the research park. My old office was a wee bit west of campus, so 408 thru research park was too deep into the woods for me. (I took 417 to the University Blvd exit).

Bithlo traffic wasn't bad when I started UCF. Not even too bad when I finished!

Youngin's can't remember or even imagine when Alafaya and University were both 2-lane roads surrounded by a cow pasture.
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Luckily we avoided 500 new homes to be built on Alligator Lake, citizens chimed in, Water management says it is too dangerous for the eco system. Thank you Lord
 10/03/2016 06:58 PM
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Do you know if that included a highway extension around or a bridge over Alligator Lake itself?

I heard rumors of possible eminent domain takings out there on the ~30 year radar...
 10/04/2016 01:37 PM
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ww

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It would possibly make sense to lay out a light rail or streetcar system, then build the communities.  That's how they did it back when.  

 10/05/2016 05:25 AM
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There is a neighborhood underway on Alligator right now. There was talk of a graveyard further south on Canoe Creek, but I think that fell through.

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 10/05/2016 08:46 AM
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The way it is going, the Orlando sprawl will be rubbing up against 95 in 20 years. On the bright side, think of what that will do to your property values.



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 10/05/2016 09:31 AM
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Someplace for those tens of thousands of displaced beachside and south FL residents to go.

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 10/05/2016 05:05 PM
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See why the local airport is now "Orlando Melbourne"?

 10/06/2016 11:36 AM
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That's partly just to attract traffic, similar to Orlando/Sanford.

At least the St. John's River provides us some buffer.
 10/06/2016 12:58 PM
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The developers of Viera were hoping for a new road to connect Pineda Causeway to Orlando.  I think that was long since dropped.  Sure, the "Orlando Melbourne" bit was probably to attract cheap flights from Europe and maybe some some domestic budget airlines, but the notion that Melbourne is somehow part of "Orlando" is fairly recent.

 

 10/15/2016 04:03 PM
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Originally posted by: RegularJoe

Do you know if that included a highway extension around or a bridge over Alligator Lake itself?



I heard rumors of possible eminent domain takings out there on the ~30 year radar...



They were looking at making a lock type traverse system for canal access, no talk of a bridge,

Cole those houses are not going to be waterfront, we have a special kinda private with only 2 official ramps on 5 lakes, keeping that will keep and or increase our values greatly
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