Scott PowersNovember 3, 2020
5min1057
Voters approve Split Oak Forest, 'rights of nature' protections.
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Scott PowersNovember 3, 2020Scott PowersMay 9, 2020
8min1140
It's the second bold environmental issue to be placed on Orange County's November ballot.
Scott PowersNovember 18, 2019
5min893
Public workshop set for 5:30 p.m. Tuesday at Lake Nona Middle School.
Scott PowersNovember 5, 20196min797
Proposal would ban development in Split Oak even if road goes through
Scott PowersMarch 8, 2018
11min750
In a move with long-range ramifications for huge developments in Central Florida, road networks linking to the Space Coast, and promises assumed in the state’s nature preservation efforts, the Central Florida Expressway Authority Thursday moved ahead with a study of how best to push a new road through or around the state’s Split Oak Forest […]
Scott PowersMarch 9, 2017
4min540
Plans to push an extension of the Osceola County Parkway through an environmentally-sensitive Split Oak Forest Park are not yet the concern of the Central Florida Expressway Authority but they soon will be and that agency’s leaders promised worried environmentalists Thursday that they will look closely at it. “We’re going to engage the environmental community, […]
Scott PowersMarch 7, 2017
5min596
Osceola County Expressway Authority plans to run a new highway through an Orange County nature park drew strong fire Tuesday at the Orange County Board of Commissioners meeting, but Mayor Teresa Jacobs and the commissioners were uncertain they could do anything about it. Several dozen people came to the meeting to appeal to Jacobs and […]