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We think: Established Wekiva Parkway route serves wildlife, region well
Residents of some communities near what that will become the Wekiva Parkway say they have a better route to complete a beltway around Orlando. If officials were to back that alternative route, however, the parkway would never get built. For starters,...Tags: Orlando-Orange County Expressway Authority, Gardens and Parks, Animals, Transportation, Road Transportation
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Does $11.5M Econlockhatchee deal cross the line?
Sentinel Staff WriterThe Econlockhatchee River is an imperiled environmental treasure and a designated barrier east of Orlando that developers aren't supposed to cross. Nowhere are those facts more in focus than at Rybolt Ranch near the University of Central Florida. On...Tags: Water Restrictions, Wetlands, Colleges and Universities, Transportation, Orlando Real Estate
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Wekiva Parkway worries plague homeowners
Sentinel Staff WriterMark Fields says he's spent about a third of his life fretting whether a planned toll road known as the Wekiva Parkway will barrel through the brick home he built with his own hands in rural Lake County. "We are sick. We feel like we are living in a...Tags: Rivers, Orlando-Orange County Expressway Authority, Gardens and Parks, Transportation, Road Transportation
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We think: Thompson, Randolph and Adams are the best picks in three key Central Florida districts
It's business as usual in the races for state House districts 38, 36 and 33, with the candidates debating crime, education and commuter rail. In one of those races, voters would do well to shake things up, while two of the incumbents deserve a return to...Tags: Laws, Charlie Crist, Sales, State Budgets, Florida
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Land deal helps to pave way for Wekiva Parkway
Sentinel Staff WritersGov. Charlie Crist and the Cabinet agreed Tuesday to buy land critical to construction of a beltway around Orlando, two weeks after rejecting a higher-priced proposal. Instead of the original $37.5 million price tag, the deal now calls for state agencies...Tags: Altamonte Springs, Orlando-Orange County Expressway Authority, Gardens and Parks, Charlie Crist, Transportation
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Land buy for parkway is approved
Sentinel Staff WriterMetro Orlando's toll-road agency agreed Wednesday to buy land crucial to construction of the Wekiva Parkway, even though one board member said he was "embarrassed" by the deal. "I find some of this to be outrageous," said Harvey Massey, a Winter Park...Tags: Orlando-Orange County Expressway Authority, Winter Park, Rich Crotty, Jim Palmer, Gardens and Parks
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Crist halts plan for Orlando beltway, saying cost is too high
Sentinel Staff WritersGov. Charlie Crist and the Florida Cabinet on Tuesday nixed a deal to buy land crucial to construction of a beltway around Orlando, arguing the price is high. Now, road builders must figure out how to salvage the $2 billion plan. They have no easy...Tags: Bill McCollum, Corporate Officers, Court Administration, Justice System, Gardens and Parks
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Theater season preview
Sentinel Staff WriterAmway Shakespeare Opportunity Twitter of the Shrew will be at a site to be announced. The Shakespeariment will be at the Walt Disney Amphitheater at Lake Eola Park, 101 N. Rosalind Ave., Orlando. Details: 407-792-9421. Twitter of the Shrew: Feb. 14....Tags: Classical Music, Religious Festivals, Teen-agers, Martin Charnin, Movies
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Take your pick: Eagles soaring or bulldozers roaring
Imagine the foresight of Gov. Bob Martinez 20 years ago when he decided that the Wekiva River should be protected forever. And why not? This oasis teeming with rare birds and dark swamps sits in the middle of metro Orlando. A place to swim in the...Tags: Wetlands, Orlando-Orange County Expressway Authority, Gardens and Parks, Transportation, Fires
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Apopka supports Pine Plantation purchase
Jane Healy's Sunday piece in the Sentinel leaves readers with the impression that "development-hungry" Apopka cannot wait to despoil a key part of the Wekiva River basin in order to throw up 1,500 tract houses. Nothing could be further from the truth....Tags: Apopka, Orlando-Orange County Expressway Authority, Orange County (Florida)
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For Wekiva Parkway, it's design time
Sentinel Staff WriterAfter more than three decades of dreaming about it, Central Florida's road builders can start designing the final leg of a beltway around Metro Orlando. The final piece of the complex puzzle fell into place Wednesday, when the Orlando-Orange County...Tags: Altamonte Springs, Orlando-Orange County Expressway Authority, Gardens and Parks, Charlie Crist, Transportation
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Another Orlando beltway isn't needed
Studies have been done, public notices given and laws passed, but the Wekiva beltway extension into Lake County, the so-called missing link in the Orlando beltway, is the wrong road at the wrong time and certainly in the wrong place. Let's take one...Tags: Maitland, Apopka, Orlando-Orange County Expressway Authority, Natural Resource Industry, Gardens and Parks
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