City Commissioners Monday approved plans for a 276-unit rent-restricted apartment complex on 19 acres at U.S. Highway 27 and County Road 25A despite concerns about traffic and density.
“It’s just a bad location,” says Jay Connell, who voted against it, along with Jimmy Burry in a 3-2 vote.
Plans call for 10 three-story units, adding to the traffic jam that already exists in the area, a handful of residents complained.
There is no left turn lane coming out of the nearby Ravenswood and Lake Denham Estates subdivisions and traffic is backed up every morning from County Road 48 and U.S. 27 to Dixie Avenue, Connell noted, saying it takes 30 minutes to go five miles…