Tavares, FL Nov. 5, 2018 The Daily Commercial wrote about how Lake County Commissioner Wendy Breeden wants to put off badly needed impact fees. The article is wrong, the meeting is not at 5pm, but is the normal time of 9am according to the County meetings and agenda page. They rarely have ever had evening meetings. The impact fees are covered in tab 23 of the agenda, found on the County website. Here are my comments Wendy Breeden is a great Commissioner, but she is affiliated with the local homebuilders, and they fight impact fees tooth and nail that would pay for expanding roads to meet volume created by new construction. The result is that neighborhoods using County feeder roads are rising up, mad as hell, because of traffic jams and poor maintenance. Property owners have risen up about planned growth on Shirley Shores Road near Tavares. They have complained at the Tavares City Council about development approvals on Dead River Road. They are aggravated over connector roads to the Villages. And residents have risen up about Clermont approval for a Charter School on a two lane road with bad access points and no commitment to improve the road. Even...
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