HomeMy WebLinkAboutSchool on Shepard Road-1995 Shepard Road school plan
BY DARRELL JOHNSON gestions are being taken from the pub- the plans on April 4 and make rcc-
lie as to what to call it. ommendations on approval.The vote
STAFF Hspon7iR OF THE Orrnno VOICE
"We're preserving off the wet- Monday did not sign off on the build-
Winter Springs city commission- lands on the site." Ms. Kramer said, ing itself. but only on the agreement
ers approved an interlocal agreement adding that construction will be pri- between the city and the school board.
with the Seminole County' School manly on land already cleared and Input and legalities on the mall
Board Monday night that will put a currently being used for agriculture. The great mall debate continued
new elemental). school on Shepard The school Will be a two-story Monday. with one neutral salvo and
Road on the fast track to approval. structure since only twelve acres are one from the opposition.
Diane Kramer,director offacili- available for construction.The school A week ago the Commission
ties for the school board,said the tar- board has agreed to open the build- voted to accept a $1 payment from
get date for opening the facility is July ing after hours.as needs arise.for use The Rouse Co. and the Viera Co..
of 1996. She also announced that the as a community facility. designers and builders of the Market-
school is as yet unnamed, and sug- City staff members will review place at Oviedo Crossing. As its part
moves to front burner
of the pact.Winter Springs will aban- available. Tuskawilla would be im- 'or of the mall.
don the 111-foot-wide conservation patted by cut-through traffic. Cotn- Heasked for a session.on the spot
casement which blocks the connector missioners rejected any road connec- or at a later date in which commis-
Steve Longdon.a member of the Lion at Winter Springs Boulevard. sioners could explain the reasons for
Board of Directors of the Tuskawilla Last week the traffic specialist their decisions and (heir apparent
Homeowners Association.argued that said there would be zero impact.Corn- change of heart on the issue.
thetraffic studiespresented at the lat- missioners approved the agreement. City Attorney Frank
est session were flawed and hinted opening the door for the connector Kruppenbacher (old commissioners.
that commissioners were influenced road. "I recommend that you not say any-
by a lot of money "I've never seen a Another citizen.William Reeves. thing. You're being sued right now."
dialog like this from up there and said that many of his neighbors"were Kruppenbacher explained that.
down here." he said. not hardened against the commis- since Winter Springs is once again
In June Tipton&Associates tes- sion." Many have not made up their being threatened by a lawsuit. this
tilled that.even using the best design minds. he said. and many are in fa- Continued on Page 3
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2nd awaits legal battle
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WINTER SPRINGS — The . I
Seminole County school district t -itf' - " et W •• i }srrl."�
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will have a groundbreaking mm- . the ,k,,y„ Y Meh •
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ioo day for a new elementary WO/. ; s"., ♦ n @Te, the w i Y I'M-c,•(4iool in winter Springs that is y,d .. f +�` Ltd>
scheduled to open next summer. on M ,ti ry,d ,
Groundbreaking for another - f6r ,�r46.at<)
new elementary school in Oviedo s 0 '' trv}`,' ch04. a .ue: be ;; 1 yr
will have to wait. The project is dYet b' m a v,,: n"
delayed for a variety of reasons, [T� . :iz a >}
and the school won't open before o e• 'w-
W � �K, rm•January 1997. -. '1i' a Imtztl t-. a '
The ceremony Friday,which be- r-R t`y• I,z
gins at 9 a.m., marks the start of
the county's first two-story ale- t d U?'; i A t„ .14..7' . '� ; 4' , i i
memory school. It is on the north win
side of Shepard Road, east of U.S. school a must t Dlamha ,. ..... 4 =i• n+n Fr'
Highway 17-92 and just northwest Ennwq . . a� r t "' t° .• .• %- ,1
of the Highlands community. '%t s• , :id,' ,...1..,,' s ,.;e. ,s,t-±<'
.Some of the proposed xlames _ a - c 'M . - :..t s y �r.-,z : • t~�
the School Board will choose from . Wt - '...“:71:-.01. : r' .•
Sept. 26 are Aussie Elementary.. TO.. •.:
Canberra Elementary; Creek Side ti 'yr.• t i" -.SRSt ak-A.
Elementary, Highlands Elemen- t..raiarnSe.assae:.Ira *::r+aMmn+w +s1,4
tary, Soldier's Creek Elementary,
and Wallaby Elementary: Commissioner Larry Conniff And Mayor John Bush,pointing
Winter Sppprings city commis- asked why the school must be in to traffic problems around Winter
sioners raid several concerns the middle of a residential area Springs Elementary, said the
about the school at a meeting ear- and suggested it will create traffic
tier this mo th, problems on Shepard Road. Please see SCHOOL, 14
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Legal battle lingers over wetlands issue
SCHOOL from. I-1 felled will have a part in making created additional wetlands,
the decision." which cannot be restored without
school district has a tendency to Kramer said Partin Elementary additional permits. Who is to
allow over-enrollment at schools. cannot stand another year of be- blame and what can be done
School planner Dianne Kramer ing as crowded as it is. about it has been the source of a
said school-generated traffic will The School Board bought the complicated legal wrangle involv-
be well within the capacity of the land in the Carillon development ing original and subsequent own-
road,and that the site was chosen in 1991.Part of a stormwater man- ers of the land. -
largely for the safety of the chit agement system was to be built on
dren. the site, but the necessary ponds • The school district must relo-
The school district had wanted were never created. - cate gopher tortoises and two
scrub jays on the property.
to open a new school off Lock- Several problems have emerged
wood Boulevard—in the Carillon since then: . Still, the naming of the school
community—at the same time as The ponds could not be built will go on.
the Winter Springs school. without encroaching on wetlands
Some Elementary,the proposed Cattail names:
But permitting problems have identified by the Army Corps of Carillon Elementary, Cattail Ele-
delayed the project Engineers. The wetlands bound- mentary, Chapman Elementary,
What to do with the students for arses are wider than originally es- Riverside Elementary, Riverwood
six months has not been resolved. fablished. Elementary and University Ele-
But, Kramer said, "everyone af- • Illegal excavation on the site mentary.
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