A proposed family housing development could put more strain on Rolling Acres Road.
The Lady Lake Planning & Zoning Board on Monday night approved a plan for a family low rise development on 18.5 acres at the intersection of Rolling Acres Road and Lake View Street, south of County Road 466.
The property, which is currently vacant, had been annexed into the Town of Lady Lake in 2007. At the time, it had been looked at as a future commercial development, but those plans never came to fruition.
The new proposal calls for 148 residential units, which would add 39 students to the local schools – 21 elementary, nine middle school and nine high school. An environmental assessment indicated there are 17 potentially occupied gopher tortoise burrows. The nearest Bald Eagle’s nest is a mile and a a half away.
A traffic analysis indicated the housing development would generate about 1,000 “daily trips.”
However, those trips would pour more traffic onto overburdened Rolling Acres Road, which long ago was declared a “failing” road…