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Home My WebLink AboutTuscawilla Responses-1995 Some in Tuscawilla " shun mall proposal F think it would aeinGOn- ❑One opponent called mall developers' venient to cut through $1 million payment a "travesty." Winter (Tuscawilla] with all the Springs leaders called the deal fair. Silly Stop signs. —Jim Green, By Will Wellons 11-year Tuscawilla resident or Of BENmda STAFF - Winter Sprigs will have a final public hearing at 7 p.m. Monday at WINTER SPRINGS—A proposed$1 million cash city Hall. Commissioners are ex payment by mall developers to the city does not im- pected to approve the settlement press Tuscawilla residents who are worried about gdth Rouse and Visa, a subsidiary shoppers driving through their neighborhood. of the Oviedo-based A. Duda & "It's a travesty," said Tom O'Connell, a Tuscawilla Sons Inc, resident who has led the fight against a road con: -Tuscawilla resident Barbara necting Winter Springs Boulevard to the mall. "Ten Iffitchell hopes the won will days ago, the commission was vehemently opposed select the deaL to the connector road. Some 10 days and $1 million I think if they were going to ne- later,they are in favor of it" gotiate, they should have done a However, city leaders and developers say the deal better job — a million dollars is is fair. chicken feed,"said Mitchell,adding "The commissioners looked at all angles and did that people don't understand how what's in the best interest of Winter Springs,"Mayor the the traffic would affect the John Bush said. entire area,not just Tuscawilla. Mike Bryant of The Rouse Co.said the pact,which The 1.2 million-square-foot mall includes cash and the annexation of 20 acres into Would generate more than 36,000 Winter Springs, is unlike any his company has ever automobile trips a day, and sur- offered.Rouse has built more than 70 malls through. founding development in the Please see MALL,lie Oviedo Crossing project could add another 60,000 trips. The mall would open in 1997. But not everyone in Tuscawilla Final say fears the mall. Jim Greene, an 11-year resident on mall deal who lives one house from the Mere the convenience line, is looking forward to the c nvenience of a mall He said dories about traffic am overstated is Monday 'I think it would be inconvenient fo M through nlrscaw'rllaj with all the silly stop signs,"he said MALL from C-1 The settlement includes another inconvenience for shoppers trying out the country. fo get to the mall from the north. "It is very expensive for us,"said The mall entrance at Winter Bryant whose company will share Springs Boulevard would be de- the costs with The Viera Co.,owners signed so motorists coming from of the mall site north of Red Bug Tuscawilla could not turn in to the Lake Road. mall. Wednesday night, city commis- sioners took the first step to ap- prove a deal that would allow the developers to build a mall entrance 9 .5-0 3 i 7 road connected to Winter Springs 813artre. �would cross a city-controlled easement that had been the stumbling block for the -mall for more than a year. (5 n �pf b n ii-6 Ibt 6 Di �'2 its $ H e1�! 58 sEd E. o ali C a S8 ,aaw'` ° 8Scca3l � m 0 ! «� it's ° ° a lip tb :sa c) b °'"`' EE_ �s.2W % vv 1111 °" mil ^s5.ci rlli-2r8, 111 x 8 1uhfl drat ,2. E $ d'tz Wl I " 0 E b a X50 7vE, Sm E ° -'b.� Eszb�a � mb O .E ;,E:9 E. 3dass dba 8 Y o °5 . .c' EE8 E �Emb vfl 110.4 0v" E vE o ,+'i 8g�«C@E bcH ^ aw"w,ob s `u b gi� Ec rt >'oa6 S8E ntEzeau 3bm EC N dacr 1� y*c bs °'$a° Eat b5o$og !iijl,csbEa) twow08,1 . s, aSg. °/ a d i, m8'E a `E'' E t, �, 2'O v.v.t oy t, 8 7o a cl- Citc,l . % '!c' AT c 2 N 'a a gym," Eco. C7.. �a w o de $8'144i .:§ 2'$ E « wo"b � 3 �a$"o 'u�.. 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Hal Kantor, attorney for Rouse and Viera, main-• , WINTER SPRINGS — The Tuscawilla Homeown- tains that the sole intent of the 10-foot strip, which. er's Association and its president Moti Khemlani are stretched along Winter Springs Boulevard from suing Winter Springs and mall developers over plans Tuscawilla to County Road 426, is to block the en- for a mall entrance road. trance. The suit,filed last week against the city,the Rouse Last week, Winter Springs commissioners aJ Co. and The Viera Co., seeks an injunction against a proved the easement crossing along the southern mall entrance across an easement separating the edge of Tuscawilla as part of a deal with Rouse and mall site from Winter Springs Boulevard, the main Viera for a secondary entrance to the planned Mart entrance to Tuscawilla. ketplace at Oviedo Crossing. The entrance's desiip The suit says Winter Springs is obliged to keep the will prohibit traffic from Tuscawilla from entering easement in place because it was part of an earlier the mall and will prevent mall traffic from entering legal settlement with a Tuscawilla developer. It also Tuscawilla. Only traffic from County Road 427 wilt says the city should be held in contempt of court if it be able to use the entrance to the mall. Don't let naysayers stand Not all homeowners join in the path of progress in endorsement of mall THE PATH to progress is seldom smooth.It is lit- tered with the remnants of old habits and the frag- ,@] RESPONSE to Maryann Fiala's letter saying ments of fears and insecurities. Se Riverside Homeowners Association had endorsed I can imagine the comments years ago by the own- the,Oviedo mall, as one of six liaisons for Riverside ers of land now occupied by residents of Tuscawilla: gstates I was called by Mrs. Fiala (who is not a liai- "They're going to build what?We've spent a lifetime son)and asked my opinion about the mall.Mrs.Fiala cultivating that land! Damned carpetbaggers! Why l es taken personal opinions and used them to speak don't they go back where they've come from?" Or MO homes in our development. Fortunately for our good neighbors, progress and ;As liaisons for Riverside Estates, we can only en- common sense prevailed, and a beautiful area was gorse and speak for issues in our development.After designed and built with care and attention to the I•ieceived multiple phone calls,I was well aware that community's welfare. I would ask the citizens of this not all members of our neighborhood will be embrace community to consider where they would be today ipg the mall. After all, if the mall was built across had the path of progress gone in another direction. from our community,I would be opposed to it for the Let the Marketplace at Oviedo Crossing be a part same reasons as the Tuscawilla community. Yes, a of this progressive spirit. It's a piece Crossing the a part tell roads would be nice,a but increased in a neighborhood where plan whose time has come. Those who oppose it for tlieroads cannot handle increased traffic flaw. no better reason than"They're going to build what?" Heather Duke should not be led astray by naysayers who have OVIEDO nothing better to do than to impede progress for their own egos and aggrandizement. Rey Howard OVIEDO 95-63e ,