Cloud area, where the SEATS study is being conducted, and the county is currently working with the city to establish a joint mobility fee and to identify whether the fee needs to be higher. Olore said mobility fees will help fund some of the projects in the rapidly growing St. “We’ve hired a public involvement officer … to just sort of let them know, ‘Hey this lane is going to be, you know, shut down or flag this around here, please be aware.'” Until then, Olore said, she and the county recognize it will be tough. “We’ll continually look to either go to six lanes or do additional projects,” Olore said.īy 2045, the over $500 million in road improvement projects will be largely completed. If the county grows more than the expected rate, she said more road-widening projects would have to be done to accommodate traffic. “It’s not only to ease congestion for today but look 20 years out and ease that congestion as well,” Olore said. Olore told the Orlando Sentinel road widening projects are to ease the already congested areas while projects with partner agencies and those areas being studied are to mitigate traffic in the future. The county’s portion of projects total over $500 million, with 14 road projects starting construction in 2023 and others just starting to be studied, Olore said. Osceola County is already committed to $5 billion in road improvement projects through partnerships with the Central Florida Expressway Authority, Florida Department of Transportation Central Florida, Florida’s Turnpike Enterprise and MetroPlan Orlando, set to begin within the next five years, Olore said. “You can imagine that this growth is a tremendous amount of pressure on our construction - not only on our transportation, but our utilities our parks and recreational areas,” Olore told the audience, a mix of county staff, partner agencies and residents. and in Florida, is predicted to grow by 55% by 2040, said Tawny Olore, deputy Osceola county manager, at a recent transportation summit. The county, one of the fastest growing in the U.S. “What I’d like to do in terms of making it a priority would be to try to get someone from the private sector to build it on our behalf,” Fisher said to commissioners.
County Manager Don Fisher said the road connection project could cost between $20 and $40 million. One is … to do some economic analysis and figure out how we can fund that risk area.Īnother area within the SEATS study that carries a hefty price tag is the Cross Prairie Parkway connector project, which would connect the road to the Florida Turnpike.Īt the Osceola County Commission workshop meeting on Monday, the board was asked to prioritize finding funding for the Cross Prairie Parkway road connection due to the amount of traffic.
“We’re now in the stage of figuring out how we cover that shortfall,” Kane said. Kane said the mobility fee estimates from developers total about $1 billion, leaving the county to cover the other $1 billion.
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