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Friday, 30 April 2010 14:59

We urge residents living along Osceola Parkway and in areas north and east of East Lake Tohopekaliga over the next few months to take advantage of any opportunity to comment on an important road project being studied.

The county recently contracted with an Oviedo firm to study the feasibility of a 10-mile extension of the Osceola Parkway from Boggy Creek Road eastward to the 17,150-acre Northeast District, which abuts the Osceola-Orange County line in the area of Lakes Preston and Myrtle. The proposed residential and business development in this planning area – with its projected 30,000 residential units and 44,130 jobs – would result in more traffic on existing roadways. The extension would provide an additional east-west travel corridor as a way to accommodate these new residents and anyone who might work in the new district and has to commute there.
The study, to be completed by August, will address the financial, engineering, environmental and social aspects of this proposed roadway. Over the next several months, study activities by the consulting firm and the county will involve data collection, development of alignment alternatives and evaluation of potential social and environmental effects. In addition, the study team will hold public meetings, small group meetings and will maintain a project website (www.osceola-parkway.com).
For residents along the existing Osceola Parkway, the extension could bring significant impacts. If the parkway would be the quickest route the new residents could use to get to the Florida’s Turnpike, for example, then that would bring more traffic through Buenaventura Lakes. More traffic in BVL would be something we would not want because homeowners there already endure too much noise and air pollution from a travel corridor that was never intended to handle as much traffic as it does. On the flip side, BVL residents, if they were to have jobs in the new district, could more easily commute to and from work.
Again, we urge residents to comment during the study. That is the only way county officials will know where they stand on this issue.
If your group would like to schedule a meeting, contact Mandy Loughran at 407-971-8850 or by e-mail at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it . Written comments and questions can be faxed to 407-971-8955 or mailed to: Osceola Parkway Extension Feasibility Study, Public Involvement Office, Attention: Mandy Loughran, Inwood Consulting Engineers, 3000 Dovera Drive, Suite 200, Oviedo, FL 32765.