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As many of you know, we have been tracking the progress of the proposed Vista Park development.  The owner of the property is nearly complete with the bomb mitigation for the property.  They are awaiting State approval so they can move forward with additional permitting.  In the meantime, they are engaged with a new developer who has plans to develop the property.  It's now time for us to re-engage on this issue as a community.

 

If you recall, we had over 400 residents attend a community meeting in November 2015.  We had an additional 300+ residents sign petitions against the proposed project plan given the significant expansion of the project with no additional infrastructure.  As a result of our collective efforts over several months in 2016, we were able to get many changes to the proposed plan in order to limit the impact to our Vista Lakes community.  Based on the previous project plans, our concerns continue to include the significant increase in traffic on Lee Vista Blvd, Narcoossee, and Chickasaw (tens of thousands of additional car trips per day), concerns with water drainage for our Vista Lakes area which is already at maximum capacity, environmental issues, and the lack of retail space in the new proposed development.  The new development will have nearly twice as many homes as Vista Lakes with limited additional retail space and no plans to build a new school to support a significant increase in residents.  Finally, there are plans to build several apartment houses on the property that are not compatible with the architecture of Vista Lakes and plan to be built immediately behind the Vista Lakes property.

 

The new developer has submitted a new project proposal to the City.  We need your help in attending the next community meeting, virtually.  You have to pre-register to attend (takes no more than 2 minutes to pre-register).  The virtual meeting will be held on August 31st, as noted in this distributed flyer.

 

Please sign up for the virtual meeting & share with all of your neighbors.  This impacts all of East Orlando, not just Vista Lakes!

 

Register here:

 

Let us know if you have any questions or concerns by emailing us at board@vistalakesfl.com.

 

John Daly

VLCA President