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Agri-hood coming near UCF

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http://www.bizjournals.com/orlando/blog/2015/04/exclusive-new-2-900-home-agrihood-planned-near-ucf.html?ana=twt

WTF?



Dwight Saathoff's related Project Finance & Development LLC announced plans to start construction in 2016 on a new 2,900-home working farm community, known as an "agrihood," between Lake Pickett Road and Colonial Drive in east Orange County.

The project, which will be centered around a 9-acre revenue-generating farm, with single-family homes, 11 acres of community gardens, edible walking trails, scenic pastoral spaces, fishing ponds, an equestrian center, neighborhood parks and elementary school around Lake Tanner, said a news release. It also will be designed to be bike- and pedestrian-friendly, with 7 percent less pavement to reduce vehicle use and instead encourage walking or biking.

Edible walking trails? What, are they made of chocolate?

Is this where hipsters want to live? This seems really weird. Yeah, let's make a development that's way outside of job centers and where there's little to no public transportation and let's force the residents not to drive.
 
Picking shrooms and a good view of Space X launches?

Looks like a risky project but there are decent number of students living back there sharing houses. Nice back-roads area to go on a run or bike




This post was edited on 4/15 2:33 PM by Poolside Knight
 
Originally posted by brahmanknight:
Obama's America.

Also, is this a real life Willy Wonka's plant? Are there Ompa Lumpas(sp?)?
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The Oompa Loompas are back to fighting off the Perniscious Knids in Loompa Land since Gene Wilder died.
 
It isn't real. It is an end around to get development past the Econ and then once approved and they get their sign off, they are going to shave it back to be traditional sprawl suburbs. They are trying to make the deal palatable so the commissioners can sign off on it without looking bad for supporting even more sprawl.

There are so many holes in their plan it is laughable. The Save East Orlando folks knew about this garbage about 90 days ago and have or are in the process of filing an injunction against this as well.

The developer has promised 1 home per acre, 1 per 10, 10 per acre and just about everything in between depending on who he is presenting to. He is really just trying to get something to stick so that he can develop the property and make his profit margin.
 
In the last presentation that my friend saw about 3 weeks ago, the working farm was nature trails and a horse stable as they were trying to placate the rural owners out there that own horses. When asked if they would have horses in the stables for residents to ride (as they were implying), they apparently gave a blank stare and then a bit later said no. When asked where the horses would come from for the stables and if they could house their own horses there, the presenter apparently went blank again.

They are going to put something agricultural themed in the middle of it so they can keep people happy and then once they have developed the housing around it, will switch it out for a strip center retail because the "whole farm idea" won't have worked out.

They also are planning a large chunk of zero lot line and multi-family in that group. Where are those people going to farm?

This article is basically a reworded press release. "reporters" are either corrupt, lazy or stupid. I am not sure which.
 
Originally posted by Game_Day_Sports:
In the last presentation that my friend saw about 3 weeks ago, the working farm was nature trails and a horse stable as they were trying to placate the rural owners out there that own horses. When asked if they would have horses in the stables for residents to ride (as they were implying), they apparently gave a blank stare and then a bit later said no. When asked where the horses would come from for the stables and if they could house their own horses there, the presenter apparently went blank again.

They are going to put something agricultural themed in the middle of it so they can keep people happy and then once they have developed the housing around it, will switch it out for a strip center retail because the "whole farm idea" won't have worked out.

They also are planning a large chunk of zero lot line and multi-family in that group. Where are those people going to farm?

This article is basically a reworded press release. "reporters" are either corrupt, lazy or stupid. I am not sure which.
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It's the OBJ - so it's all of the above. They get paid to write these kinds of articles. Anyone with $20 and an e-mail can send them a press release and they'll write it up.
 
think of it this way...what does the grass in your front lawn provide you?

if you said nothing but work you are correct...

i took up 1/2 my grass and planted succulents, agave, and cactus and then put down rock...i turn on my sprinkles once a month and thats it...

on top of not wasting water, it keeps people off my yard...agave hurt...

but i have read about people growing veggies in their front yard, you know actually making the space useful...my grandma in brooklyn used to grow tomatoes in her front yard in the summer...her yard was tiny, but still...
 
Went to the town hall meeting last night and it was pretty informative. They resented the developers concept on this and it's completely bogus. It's going to make Avalon or Waterford look like child's play and Highway 50 traffic will become the world's largest nightmare. There is no intent to ever make this an Agri-hood and the concept will change to maximize $. If they stuck to the single family dwelling per 10 acres zoning it wouldn't be a problem but there's no money in that. They are shooting for R2 zoning with 5 homes per acre for the majority of the property with 270 acres for apartments plus 298000 sq foot of commercial building space. It's insane.

As far as the roads are concerned, the only control the county has on the local roads is 419, Pickett and Tanner so these are the only roads they could expand but ultimately they would all feed into the arterial road which is 50 which is a state road. They have no control over this and the real problem is the number of stoplights.

The rezoning of the
 
That's gonna fill up with Mexicans real fast. Brahman is gonna fit in just fine.
 
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