Lakeland officials gave a greenlight for a new townhouse development in the Kathleen area, immediately adjacent to two schools and a major intersection.
The city commission unanimously approved land use and zoning changes on July 21 with a conditional use permit to allow 64 townhomes to be built on roughly 7.5 acres on the northeast corner of the Kathleen Road and Sleepy Hill Road intersection.
The property, currently heavily wooded, is owned by James P. Gills Jr. It’s immediately adjacent to Sleepy Hill Elementary and Middle Schools…