You know what?
Come live in my backyard. Even better, come drive north on 535 at 7:30 AM on a weekday.
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News Disney World Earmarks 80 Acres for Affordable Housing
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You know what?
Come live in my backyard. Even better, come drive north on 535 at 7:30 AM on a weekday.
And that high school is at capacity while development along Seidel continues to grow. They are building another apartment complex at the intersection of Seidel and Avalon.
castlecake2.0
Well-Known Member
I do live in the area.
Then you should understand what this 1400 unit complex will do to an area that already is a traffic nightmare.
lazyboy97o
Well-Known Member
It isn’t the complex that is doing this. It is the intentional design of the area’s planning.
This make s no sense.
You don't live there. They did speak up.
again nonsense. You can not pile on a bad system and call it good.
The area is already over run. why add to that?
Where will people live that will not cause over run?
Because, almost everywhere, the infrastructure was built to match the number of houses that were built, with no extra give.
This means any new development exceeds the infrastructure and new infrastructure needs to be built.
This prevents areas from becoming more densely populated... which is the plan of suburban homesteaders and the car industry.
The alternative is continuing suburban sprawl until the entire land is nothing but one-bedroom homes; and hundreds of thousands of people need to drive over an hour to and fro every day... in just one county. Repeat everywhere.
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A little place on the other side of the county called Bithlo (or Christmas). They'll protest worse than Horizon West has, but you'll need significantly less infrastructure (just maybe a new school, but it wouldn't have to be terribly big). That's one of the few places you could put it where infrastructure is much less of a concern because barely anyone lives there!
Which means there's no public transportation option for those who would be living in such a development.
Welcome to Florida. Urban sprawl is the state's middle name.
We did. We met with our County Commissioner. We attended meetings of the planning board. We provided documentation showing the effect on roads and other infrastructure. We provided occupancy data for the apartment complexes and single family homes in the area. We did everything citizens should do. Didn't matter.
That land will bring in more tax revenue to the County if it's developed. And THAT is what drives many decisions.
I hate to say it but there's no transportation worth a darn where this development is going to be built anyway! The county saying a bus is enough for everything outside of downtown basically, is incredibly irresponsible but what can you really do when Orlando has the steadiest source of income and the most power, but doesn't want anything to benefit the bits they don't own?
heapster411
Well-Known Member
First they build the development, then they build the transportation. They have to create a problem to fix it, Right? I don't see any talk of Section 8, yet. I New Orleans, that how our history went. First development, then available shopping, then transportation, and finally low income and Section 8.
The nearby area is built up enough that said transportation (and other things) should already exist.
lazyboy97o
Well-Known Member
The design of the area makes transit inconvenient and difficult to provide. We’ve known dead ends are bad for density, transit and just general urban efficiency for a very long time.
Stripes
Premium Member
FYI, that map is outdated. Before Disney donated the land, RCID de-annexed the property from the district.