In doing so, the transportation agency is ignoring pleas from neighboring Lake County environmentalists fearing a wave of new commercial development in the Wekiva River Protection Area that overlaps into Lake, Orange and Seminole counties. State law bars commercial development at this location which must remain rural.
Bowing to protests from landowners and residents, Lake County commissioners told the authority last week it wasn't interested in going further with the road-building plan.
But the half-finished, $3.3 million study also includes plans to ease traffic gridlock on State Road 50 in Clermont, FL at the southern end of Lake County.
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