but first controversy erupts as the city of Orlando plans to Annex a chunk of land in southeast Orange County County leaders say they didn't know anything about this thanks for joining us on this Friday I'm Matt Austin and I'm Ginger gadon developers are turning it into a new neighborhood called sunbridge the 6300 acre lot of land is along the beach Line Expressway south of Avalon Park new sixes Troy Campbell is there tonight this is the plan Development Area off of the 528 and Innovation Way we
've gone as far as we could until a security guard let us know the rest of that way is private property you can see there's not much out here however the plans call for that to soon change we received that letter in it by by surprise I would say Orange County mayor Jerry demings opposed his plans for the city of Orlando to Annex a portion of the nearly 27,000 acre private land development sunbridge in southeast Orange County Orange County says it was only made aware of the intent by tavas develo
pment company and the City of Orlando to enter into a deal when it received a memo on February 23rd with its findings from a feasibility study the County's attorney wrote a letter and sent it over to the city in it he writes the study revealed several deficiencies namely police is 9 miles away fire is 8 Miles Away Orange County also expresses concern there aren't Parks or solid waste facilities additionally Orange County says the annexation plan with the city of Orlando goes against the deal the
y already have with Tavistock and will make the plan development fail but we contacted the city of Orlando and a spokesperson told us the plan would be a more efficient consolidation of the development in this area and went on to say it's important to note a majority of the proposed Annex property has development plans already approved by Orange County and development on those properties will remain consistent with those approvals both the orange County and the Orlando commissions plan to take u
p the issue on Monday at that time the city of Orlando could potentially pass the first reading of the ordinance in Orange County TR Campbell getting results news six
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