Neighbors,
On 5/19 I spoke before the Municipal Planning Board regarding the Dowd Project on Virginia Drive to urge them to add an additional on-street parallel parking space in front of the building. In spite of our neighborhood’s support of an additional parking space, Dowd’s support of an additional parking space, the City planning department’s [...]
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Here is the staff report which was just finished today. Dowd is asking for a variance for height and will go before the MPB later this month. he wants 55′ (Staff told me that the tower is no longer proposed since the elevator will not go to the loft). Zonning is 35′. There will (again [...]
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• Gordon Spears, Michael Jungen, and Louise Mills met with City of Orlando on March 24, 2008 to continue discussion on LFNA’s vision that incorporates the best aspects of the Neighborhood Horizons project while considering the impact of roadway realignment.
• Dean Grandin, Division Manager of the City Planning Division, has indicated that previous plans are [...]
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• Gordon Spears, LFNA VP, is Board member.
• This group is organized under the City of Orlando’s Main Street Program through National Historic Trust, and is one of the City’s first three Main Street programs – the other two are Parramore Avenue district, and College Park district.
• Intent is to revitalize the historic business corridor [...]
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• Landscaping and construction on curbs in park area across the street from Ronald McDonald house is complete.
• Official name is ‘Orlando Cultural Park.’
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Here is the link to the City of Orlando Downtown Transportation Plan dated 12/11/06.
http://www.cityoforlando.net/planning/Transportation/dto-info.htm
It is a very large document with a lot of very interesting information, maps and diagrams. It makes references to the City’s Alden Road realignment consideration. If you do a search in the .pdf on “Alden” you will find [...]
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From: scottye@mac.com
Subject: Re: LFNA Sign Committee - Draft Letter to Acknowledge Donated Architectural Design and Permitting Services
Date: Sat, 5 Apr 2008 07:30:42 -0400
Hello all,
As you may have heard, we have finally received the necessary right-of-way encroachment signatures from city officials that were the cause of the great delay for this project. Our project is scheduled [...]
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For those unable to attend the meeting last month, Louise got these two documents:epa-presentation-community-meeting-031808.pptepa-public-meeting-information-sheet-031408-final.pdf
These are also available on our documents archive here: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LakeFormosaNeighborhoodAssociation/files/OUC%20Spellman%20Toxic%20Spill/
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This meeting is being held by the City and the Spellman Engineering/Lake Highland pollution site will be discussed. Please attend and be heard.
—–Forwarded Message—–
From: Susan.Harris@CityofOrlando.net
Sent: Feb 29, 2008 4:43 PM
To: johnrader@cfl.rr.com
Cc: Michele.Brennan@CityofOrlando.Net, Patricia.Newton@CityofOrlando.net, Marcia.Goodwin@cityoforlando.net, Brie.Turek@CityofOrlando.net, J_G_Spears@earthlink.net, ckerns@stylestick.com, mjungen@cfl.rr.com
Subject: Lake Highland Project Community Meeting Set for Tuesday, March 18 @ 7 p.m.
Good Day John,
This is [...]
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http://www.orlandosentinel.com/business/orl-millspark2908jan29,0,6785923.story
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