Judge Donald R. Alexander, who serves in the administrative law division of the state government, has ruled Lake County should give a second five-year development extension to the Orlando owners of the tract, 25 miles west of Downtown Orlando.
The county refused the extension last September after the developers failed to do anything with the prime dirt in the project's 17-year planning history. The developers plan 800 homes, an 18-hole golf course and clubhouse, and an undetermined amount of commercial and retail on the Lake Apopka site between County Road 561 and County Road 455.
Environmentalists and local neighborhood activists who fought to defeat the project last fall are incensed with the judge's 29-page decision.
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