by Beth Kassab | May 14, 2026 | City Commission, News
Rare Peacock, White as Snow, Turning Heads in Winter Park
City Commission also sets a discussion about the fate of Blue Bamboo for next month and green lights a new parking garage
May 14, 2026
By Beth Kassab
City Manager Randy Knight was at home one day about a week ago when spotted a strange sight out his window.
Perched on his neighbor’s fence was one of the city’s trademark peacocks, but not the vibrant blue and green variety enshrined on the city’s seal.
“It was all white,” Knight said. “I don’t know if I have ever heard of a white one.”
Neighbors have spotted a rare white peacock near the Winter Park Pines Golf Course. (Photos courtesy of Randy Knight)
It was such a rare sight, he immediately snapped some photos and let his neighbors know, too.
Now the snow white peacock is getting buzz like occasional sightings of celebrities on Park Avenue (think comedian Carrot Top or, a few years ago, Paul McCartney).
Commissioner Kris Cruzada, who also lives near the Winter Park Pines Golf Course, said he hasn’t seen the rare bird yet, but is on the lookout.
It looks “almost heavenly, like an angel practically,” in the photos, he said, after he brought up Knight’s sighting at Wednesday’s City Commission meeting.
White peacocks occur in the wild at an estimated rate of just one in 30,000, according to a post published last year by the Environmental Literacy Council. They are found in Florida and California and descend when a genetic mutation occurs in the more common Indian Blue Peafowl.
The white peacock perched on a roof in Winter Park recently.
Winter Park is well known for the blue variety, which have lived for decades in the Windsong neighborhood, often spotted along Genius Drive.
The council’s post reported that most white peacocks are not albino, but have a condition known as leucism, which results in a reduction of pigment and can still have blue eyes.
Knight said he read that white peacocks can struggle to find mates because they lack the typical brightly colored plume and perhaps this one made its way from the Windsong area to his neighborhood.
“I’ve never even seen the colorful kind in our neighborhood,” Knight said. “I don’t know if this one was in Windsong and started looking for love in all the wrong places, but its been there for about a week and a half.”
Knight, who is set to retire early next year after 35 years with the city, joked that perhaps it’s a good sign for his next chapter.
“It does mean prosperity,” he said.
Blue Bamboo Discussion to be in June
The City Commission on Wednesday scheduled a work session about the Blue Bamboo Center for the Arts’ proposed sublease to a school for June 25.
The move came in response to a request from Blue Bamboo leaders, who pulled the sublease from this week’s City Commission agenda after questions mounted about whether the intended user known as Alpha School meets standards set out in the master lease for the old city library building that was envisioned as an arts and nonprofit hub.
While members of the public are typically not allowed to speak at work sessions, commissioners said they would make an exception and allow people to sign up to voice their opinions at the June meeting.
There was a brief debate among commissioners about whether the work session should take up only the proposed sublease or if there should also be a discussion about what to do with the building if Blue Bamboo is unable to continue operating after its lease payments are scheduled to increase in August.
The comments signaled a clear concern by multiple commissioners about the future of the operation if a sublease is not approved.
“To me, it feels strange to discuss, if they don’t stick around past August, to discuss future plans with them there,” said Commissioner Elizabeth Ingram.
“I would concur with you. I don’t want to talk about trying to sell it out from under them while they are still in there making lease payments,” Mayor Sheila DeCiccio said.
The Blue Bamboo, which opened last summer, has so far met its financial obligations to the city and President Jeff Flowers said the venue is mostly booked with shows through January. But Flowers has also acknowledged the importance of a sublease for the second and third floors to help the music venue cover its increasing rent payments.
A New Parking Garage Behind City Hall
Commissioners on Wednesday also decided to move forward with asking developers for concepts to build a parking garage behind City Hall to help alleviate concerns about enough parking spaces off Park Avenue.
The idea is that the city would provide the land — now a parking lot — and a developer would build the garage, potentially with retail or other commercial spaces, as a public-private partnership.
The city’s ask is for a minimum of 265 spaces or a minimum of 120 new parking spots in the area on top of what is needed for city employees and operations.
Whether the new public parking is free and how many spaces will be added will be part of the negotiations as the city reviews whatever ideas are submitted in the coming months.
Most commissioners appeared in favor of a new garage, but Ingram expressed reservations.
“I’m going to be a hard sell on parking garage but I might be out-voted anyways,” she said. “I just feel it is so permanent and so in your face … I can still find a parking spot anytime I come down here. Sometimes it’s a little farther away or I have to circle around, but even at Christmastime I can find a parking spot.”
Other commissioners agreed they can also typically find spots — and know where to look because they live there — but fear visitors are unfamiliar with the side streets and might experience more frustration at peak times. According to city data the Park Avenue area attracted some 3 million visitors last year.
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by Beth Kassab | May 14, 2026 | Arts and Culture, City Commission, Historic Preservation, News
Preservation Advocates Say Winter Park Must Do More to Save Historic Homes
With three John Gamble Rogers II homes under threat of demolition this year, advocate says dwindling assets should serve as ‘wake up call’
May 14, 2026
By Beth Kassab
With three homes designed by James Gamble Rogers II currently under threat of demolition, historic preservation advocates pleaded with the City Commission on Wednesday to make meaningful changes to the way Winter Park protects its historic assets.
Betsy Owens, executive director of Friends of Casa Feliz and granddaughter of Gamble Rogers, said she hopes the potential loss of three significant houses — all more than 85 years old — in a single year will serve as a “wake up call” for the city to strengthen its historic preservation ordinance. She said the city’s ordinance is among “the weakest in the state.”
“These are not anonymous old buildings,” Owens said. “They are irreplaceable works by the architect who more than any other helped define the visual character of Winter Park.”
None of the three homes are listed on the city’s historic register, meaning there is no protection from demolition. The register is voluntary and many owners deliberately opt to keep homes off the register under the theory that the home will be worth more without demolition restrictions.
Owens, and other advocates who spoke at the meeting, including Jack Rogers, said it’s time for Winter Park to get serious about preservation.
They are recommending the commission consider adding incentives such as property tax breaks or rehabilitation help for people who list their homes on the register. They are also calling for new ideas such as an investment fund to help with purchasing and then reselling historic homes to people who are willing to invest in and preserve them.
Mayor Sheila DeCiccio recommended a discussion about potential changes be added to the next City Commission meeting on May 27 and the other commissioners agreed. The commission would likely send the matter to the Historic Preservation Board for further evaluation before making a final decision on changes.
The homes currently under threat are:
- 1020 Palmer Avenue, also known as Merrywood, which is under active demolition permit and could be demolished by the end of May. The home is one of the largest and most ornate in the dwindling collection of Gamble Rogers homes. Tara Tedrow, the prospective buyer who has the property under contract, facilitated the demolition permit in March and is also asking the city to amend its comprehensive plan to allow the lakefront property to be split into two lots. Under that scenario, she said, she would attempt to find a buyer interested in restoring Merrywood while her family could build a new home on the other portion of the property. A Planning & Zoning Board hearing on the request was delayed at Tedrow’s request until June. “Despite enormous public interest and dozens of interested investors touring the property, no buyer has yet emerged able to reconcile the nearly $10 million (estimated) asking price with the substantial restoration needs of the house, conservatively estimated at more than $3 million,” Owens said in an email to supporters.
- 250 Virginia Drive sits on a large lot overlooking Lake Virginia. The home was sold last year for $2.6 million and a demolition permit was filed by the new owner last month. The home is considered an example of the Colonial Revival style with strong New England influences, including shaker shingles.
- 617 Interlachen Avenue is possibly “the most eclectic and artistically ambitious of Rogers’ Spanish Eclectic residences. There is no demolition permit filed yet, but Rogers said the home is expected to go up for sale soon and in one of the city’s most expensive neighborhoods. “History has shown that when the dirt beneath a home becomes worth many multiples of the structure itself, it is time for that home to get its affairs in order,” she said.
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by Beth Kassab | May 12, 2026 | Arts and Culture, City Commission, News, Zoning and Development
Blue Bamboo Pulls AI School Sublease from City Commission Agenda
The president of the arts group that rents the old library from the city of Winter Park said it will “take a pause” on the idea of renting out the second floor to a private school
May 12, 2026
By Beth Kassab
The leader of the Blue Bamboo Center for the Arts said on Tuesday morning that he would pull a request from this week’s City Commission agenda a request to rent out the second story of the group’s venue to an artificial intelligence-driven private school.
The sublease request, first reported by the Voice on Friday, prompted a number of community questions about whether the for-profit school to be run through a Winter Park couple’s disaster relief foundation met the original intent of creating an arts hub in the old city library building.
“The Blue Bamboo Board of Directors has decided to take a pause on the agenda item at this time,” read a message from President Jeff Flowers to the group’s supporters. “We feel that the issues the sublease raises will be better addressed by requesting a city work session where the best use of the facility can be addressed.”
Todd Weaver, a former city commissioner who was instrumental in securing the lease for Blue Bamboo during his tenure, is now the group’s vice president.
The Commission, including Weaver, voted 4-1 in July of 2024 to lease the building to the small nonprofit arts venue. Mayor Sheila DeCiccio was the only no vote after she questioned the group’s financial sustainability. Before the Blue Bamboo won the lease, Rollins College was aiming to repurpose the building into a new art museum.
The venue opened in the summer of 2025 and just months later Blue Bamboo founder and musician Chris Cortez died from brain cancer.
But questions about the future use of the building were already mounting. Just months before Cortez died Central Florida Vocal Arts, which had partnered with Blue Bamboo to secure the city lease as well as a nearly $1 million Orange County grant for the venue and was planning to occupy the second floor, walked away from the deal when the two groups couldn’t come to terms.
That left Blue Bamboo without a sublease to help meet a higher rent obligation to the city that is set to begin in August.
Blue Bamboo’s lease payment is scheduled to increase from $132,000 a year to $276,000 a year in three months.
The proposed sublease to Matthew and Paige Wideman’s Love & Life Foundation was the first concept for the second floor to be brought to the commission since Central Florida Vocal Arts opted against moving forward with Blue Bamboo.
The draft lease calls for the foundation, which says it specializes in helicoptering in aid after hurricanes and other disasters, to pay an annual rent of $198,000 for the second floor, or about $18 per square foot for 11,000 square feet.
The lease between Blue Bamboo and the city calls for the second and third floors of the building to be renovated within two years for “arts education, recording studio and local non-profit use.”
Matthew Wideman told the Voice he planned to use the space to start a location of Alpha School, a for-profit model of private school founded in Austin, Texas that has been lauded by the Trump administration and where tuition is expected to be about $45,000 a year.
The Alpha model calls for students to spend about two hours a day on core subjects such as math using AI-led instruction. Human staff members — known as “guides” rather than teachers — spend the rest of the day helping students develop business, public speaking and other project-based skills.
“The school shall not have more than 50 students, and will not accept school vouchers funded by the State of Florida for those students’ tuition or expenses,” according to a copy of the lease posted with the City Commission agenda for Wednesday’s meeting.
The idea, Flowers told the Voice last week, was to use the music and arts expertise of Blue Bamboo to help instruct students at the school.
City spokeswoman Clarissa Howard said commissioners will now discuss on Wednesday whether to hold a potential work session about the lease at a later date.
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by Beth Kassab | May 8, 2026 | Arts and Culture, City Commission, News, Schools
Family Envisions AI-Driven Alpha School for Second Floor of Blue Bamboo
A sublease agreement will be considered by the City Commission next week as the nonprofit music venue looks to fill space before a rent increase later this year
May 8, 2026
By Beth Kassab
The second floor of the Blue Bamboo Center for the Arts, which leases the former library building from the city, could soon house a location of the private, artificial intelligence-driven Alpha School.
The school was praised last year by the Trump administration as a model for education, and tuition is expected to be about $45,000 a year.
The school would operate through the Love & Life Foundation, a nonprofit that delivers disaster aid and is led by Winter Park residents Matthew and Paige Wideman.
Matthew Wideman said that mission overlaps with the for-profit Alpha School because he views K-12 public education as being in crisis.
“What I would argue is our mission is lifting up the hands of those that are oppressed or impacted, and we look at the education system as a disaster,” Matthew Wideman told the Voice.
He said the school’s innovative approach is one potential solution and that the second floor of the old city library is an ideal setting for a school designed to “empower and prepare children for the world of tomorrow.”
The Alpha model was founded in Austin, Texas, where students spend about two hours a day on core subjects such as math using AI-led modules. Human staff members — known as “guides” rather than teachers — spend the rest of the day helping students develop business, public speaking and other project-based skills.
U.S. Secretary of Education Linda McMahon visited the school last year and said she was “blown away” by the model, according to news reports. Her visit came after President Donald Trump signed an executive order promoting the use of AI in schools.
“They use a more tailored program to find out what the child’s interests and talents and gifts are and help them find that at a young age,” Paige Wideman said. She added that she appreciated the school’s emphasis on “EQ,” or emotional intelligence.
The Widemans, who have five children ranging in age from 2 to 13, said they personally fund their foundation and could potentially provide scholarships for the school, which is known for tuition of about $45,000 a year or, in some cities, more.
Many private schools in Florida accept public vouchers or public education dollars that can be spent at private schools.
But a provision in the draft lease would prohibit the school from accepting vouchers.
“The school shall not have more than 50 students, and will not accept school vouchers funded by the State of Florida for those students’ tuition or expenses,” according to a copy of the lease posted with the City Commission agenda for next Wednesday’s meeting.
The vouchers — commonly known to parents as Step Up for Students scholarships — are at the center of a new lawsuit filed by Florida’s largest teachers union and several parents, including Orange County School Board member Stephanie Vanos, who represents Winter Park and has three children of her own.
The lawsuit alleges the program violates the constitution because the state now sends more than $5 billion in public money to private and charter schools through vouchers while not requiring those schools to follow the same standards as traditional public schools.
Matthew Wideman and Jeff Flowers, who runs Blue Bamboo, said the restriction on vouchers was requested by the city.
City spokeswoman Clarissa Howard said city staff did not advise on the voucher issue or initiate the requirement.
Wideman said his core business is real estate. He holds an ownership interest in Truist Plaza, the downtown Orlando high-rise, among other ventures through The Wideman Company LLC.
He also said his foundation has partnered with Starlink, part of SpaceX, to restore communications after hurricanes and other disasters.
Alpha School also operates a location in Brownsville, Texas, near Elon Musk’s new rocket hub and city known as Starbase. The school also has campuses in five other states, including Florida locations in Palm Beach Gardens and Miami, according to the Alpha website.
Under the draft lease, the Love & Life Foundation would have the right to enter into agreements with third parties such as Alpha to provide operational, management and administrative services for the school.
Wideman said the school would benefit from Blue Bamboo’s performing arts infrastructure and expertise, including its stage, which students could use to practice public speaking and other skills.
Flowers, who helped finance Blue Bamboo for years and took over operations last year after founder Chris Cortez died, said the organization’s performers could serve as music teachers and provide other technical instruction for students.
The lease between Blue Bamboo and the city calls for the second and third floors of the building to be renovated within two years for “arts education, recording studio and local non-profit use.”
Flowers said the sublease is an important part of Blue Bamboo’s financial picture because its lease payment to the city is scheduled to increase from $132,000 a year to $276,000 a year in August.
The proposed lease with Wideman’s foundation calls for annual rent of $198,000 for the second floor, or about $18 per square foot for 11,000 square feet.
Last year, another nonprofit, Central Florida Vocal Arts, walked away from a sublease agreement with Blue Bamboo after becoming dissatisfied with the terms.
Flowers said the building’s third floor remains available for sublease.
He said he has invested both personal funds and Orange County grant money into improvements, including a staircase, a new elevator, a refurbished air-conditioning system and a new fire alarm system. Blue Bamboo received about $900,000 last year through a county grant program funded by the tourist development tax collected on hotel rooms.
Flowers said the venue’s performance calendar is mostly booked through January.
“We’re profitable,” Flowers said. “We’re paying the rent and the utility bill and keeping up with expenses.”
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by Beth Kassab | May 6, 2026 | City Commission, News, Zoning and Development
Former Orlando RV Dealership Plans Move Forward
A proposal for new retail and restaurants along West Fairbanks Avenue netted board approval following a postponed vote last month due to traffic concerns from local residents
May 6, 2026
By Kathryn Brudzinski
After a stalled vote due to lingering traffic concerns, a commercial redevelopment for the former Orlando RV dealership site located along West Fairbanks Avenue is moving ahead following unanimous approval on by Winter Park’s Planning & Zoning Board.
On Tuesday, board members voted 6-0 to approve plans to construct four one-story buildings totaling 29,760 square feet for shops and restaurants on the property owned by the Holler family through DI Partners LLLP. The project, which still must be approved by the City Commission, is contingent on conditions set by the P&Z board.
Planning & Zoning Director Allison McGillis said the owners were asked to make revisions to the architecture of the buildings as well as create a plan for Holt Avenue, which “could include either a striping plan demonstrating dedicated on-street parking or enhancements such as a widened sidewalk and improved pedestrian buffer.”
“They updated the plans to reflect that condition, and then also decided to move forward with parallel parking along Holt Avenue,” McGillis added. “…They were able to accommodate 13 parallel parking spaces, so they satisfied that plan by kind of providing both options — an enhanced pedestrian experience with the larger sidewalk, as well as the [landscape] buffer, and then the 13 parking spaces.”
Not including parallel parking, the project plans to provide a total of 199 parking spaces overall, which exceeds the minimum code requirement of 175 spaces.
Z Development Services Chief Executive Bob Ziegnefuss, who is managing the project, said the updated plans reflect the directions previously given by board members and that they’ve “done everything that’s [been] asked” of them.
“Wanting to create that separation from the driving public and the walking public…we’ve accomplished that by creating the separation with those parallel park cars and also with that wider sidewalk for pedestrian safety,” Ziegnefuss said.
A new rendering shows adjustments made to the building’s architecture.
At least some residents still expressed concerns over traffic.
“We want to make sure that we can actually enter and exit our properties without having to check our blood pressure right afterwards,” said Sonia McClean, a resident of 36 years who lives on North Kentucky Avenue. “…We just want to make sure that it doesn’t create more imposing traffic into our area and add more cut through traffic.”
Ziegnefuss noted the project’s developer would also be making a right of way dedication on both the north and south side of Fairbanks to help with the city’s desire to create a left turn lane coming from westbound Fairbanks and southbound Denning Drive.
“We’re contributing and trying to help to the greatest extent possible here with the development plan that we’re putting forward,” Ziegnefuss said, later adding that the development would also cooperate with any future traffic studies conducted by the city’s transportation department in the area.
Susie Stein, another resident of North Kentucky Avenue, asked if any thought had been given to timing the nearby intersection’s traffic lights to run longer so as to allow more vehicles through.
Planning & Zoning Chairman Jason Johnson said light timing came up during the April 28 workshop about traffic concerns in the area.
“Once the turn lanes are put in, and you have that change in the intersection, the lights will be re-timed,” Johnson explained. “We can’t guarantee what that’s going to mean, but that will happen when the turn lanes are put in.”
Board member Michael Dick said he was “always a little apprehensive” of what the project would look like, but no longer had those concerns because the proposal is “understated from what could have been there.” The sentiment was echoed by Johnson, who said he’d shared a similar worry but was instead “heartened” by the “under built, over parked” proposal that’d come instead.
“I’ve long said that development isn’t a dirty word — if it’s attractive in scale and fits within the charm of the city of Winter Park, it should be encouraged,” Johnson said.
Still, he added, board members would continue to share the concerns of local residents along Kentucky Avenue regarding traffic in the area, especially for traveling westbound onto Fairbanks coming southbound from Denning Drive.
“It’s a nightmare intersection,” Johnson said. “Hopefully, it will be improved with the addition of those turn lanes and the retiming of the lights. But as I said at the last meeting, that’s not really the applicant’s issue, it’s really more the city’s issue and [the Department of Transportation’s] issue.”
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by Beth Kassab | Apr 28, 2026 | City Commission, News, Orange Avenue Overlay, Zoning and Development
Plan for Former Orlando RV Dealership Draws Traffic Concerns
Residents close to the West Fairbanks Avenue property welcome new retail and restaurants but fear repercussions of bringing traffic to an area already considered congested
April 28, 2026
By Kathryn Brudzinski
Plans for a commercial redevelopment at the site of the former Orlando RV dealership along West Fairbanks Avenue are stalled, for now, after residents brought up concerns related to parking and traffic.
Winter Park’s Planning & Zoning Board will meet at noon today for a workshop to discuss the project and traffic concerns in the area of Fairbanks, Denning Drive and Kentucky Avenue. No vote is scheduled until the following board meeting on May 5.
During the board’s April 7 meeting members opted to push the vote until next month after hearing from nearby residents and representatives of the Holler family, which owns the property through DI Partners LLLP. Roger Holler III, great-grandson of Bill Holler – the former vice president of General Motors who founded the family’s automotive business – is listed as president of the company in state records.
DI Partners wants to build four one-story buildings totaling 29,760 square feet for shops and restaurants at the former RV dealership.
Though there appeared to be support for the concept, including a recommendation for approval from city staff, people who live nearby raised questions about parking and traffic.
“We just want to make sure it’s managed and mitigated so that way we maintain the accessibility and the safety for our neighborhood, for drivers, as well as pedestrians and cyclists,” said Sonia McLean, who lives with her husband on Kentucky Avenue. “…We’ve always embraced our commercial neighbors. We understand that concessions have to be made, we just want to make sure that we don’t lose the flexibility and charm of our neighborhood.”
Documents submitted to the city show the location of the proposed development to be known as Fairbanks Crossing.
The project’s approval is subject to certain conditions and other requests by the city, like the inclusion of on-street parking along Holt Avenue “to help calm traffic, provide additional convenient parking for patrons and create a safer and more comfortable pedestrian environment.”
Z Development Services Chief Executive Bob Ziegnefuss, who is managing the project, said the group plans to address each of the city’s conditions for approval, but said some issues like street parking would offer a “very limited benefit” as the project could likely only offer six to seven spaces.
“The concern that we have on the applicant side of this is that this could be an extensive cost for a small community benefit here to get that street parking, but we do want to look at it,” Ziegenfuss said. “We are committed to help and do what we can. I guess we want to hear tonight as part of the discussion, what’s the true desire here? There’s two different things that happen in a situation like this – is the desire to get parking or is the desire for traffic calming?”
While the project plans to provide a total of 199 parking spaces overall, exceeding the minimum code requirement of 175 spaces, concerns from residents centered around a desire for both accessibility to parking as well as measures to limit traffic.
Winter Park attorney Frank Hamner, longtime representative of the Holler family companies, said the goal is to construct the redevelopment in compliance with code while still satisfying the city’s needs and seeking the “least possible number of variances.”
“Even though we can under park this spot or park to code, we’re overparking,” Hamner said. “This is not us trying to force something through and asking for a bunch of variances. This is a long, thought out two-and-a-half to three-year process to get to where we are today.”
Renderings show what the proposed project could look like from Fairbanks Avenue.
Susie Stein, another Winter Park resident located on North Kentucky Avenue, said she is excited about the project, but her primary concerns also centered on parking, safety and how the increased traffic would affect her neighborhood.
“I know that they have overcompensated for the parking, but I don’t know how you control people from parking in this new shopping area who are going to be at the baseball games at Rollins, doing other things in the neighborhood,” Stein said. “So then the overflow parking is going to end up on our street, which is a very, very narrow street already, and when cars are parked on both sides, you are literally squeezing yourself through.”
The proposed redevelopment, which provides access from Holt Avenue and Capen Avenue, intentionally avoids offering direct vehicle access to Fairbanks Avenue and Denning Drive.
But Winter Park resident Brian Barnard, who also lives along North Kentucky Avenue, said the traffic on Denning Drive is at a point where it’s “already overloaded,” causing travel issues for him currently.
“My house is on the west side of Denning, and I can’t get out of our alley in order to get onto the street,” Barnard said. “I have to drive down Denning, probably two or three blocks, then turn around…I’m not saying that I don’t want this project — I just want us to be a little bit thoughtful.”
Board member Alex Stringfellow acknowledged residents’ concerns, saying there’s “an existing issue with traffic” in the area, but that when developments are reviewed by the Planning & Zoning board “traffic is not considered the applicant’s responsibility.”
“In this case, generally speaking, [the applicant’s] contributions to the city to provide turn lanes and so forth… is offsetting mathematically, what the traffic impact is,” he said. “[We] hear what you’re saying and definitely understand that there’s safety concerns out there. There’s a limited amount that we can do here on this particular item, because it represents a small percentage of the existing issue and contributes a small percentage of the ongoing issue.”
Board members ultimately agreed concerns regarding traffic and safety warranted further discussion before any approval could be made. As a result, the workshop was scheduled for today at noon.
“My gut feeling is that answering what makes sense on Holt Avenue from the applicant’s perspective and based on what’s existing out there may provide some answers to safe travel through that area, what parking is going to look like and how people will move in that area,” said Alex Stringfellow. “I don’t want to promise that all these problems are going to go away — it’s a very congested area.”
Correction: A quotation in the original version of this story was incorrectly attributed to Planning & Zoning board member Jason Johnson. The quotation has now been attributed correctly to Alex Stringfellow.
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