Winter Springs city commissioners declined Monday to provide $2.6 million in funding for a new airport connector road Monday, but left open the option of negotiating with Seminole County on the project.
The $200 million project, known as the Seminole Connector, is a planned offshoot from State Road 417 to the Orlando Sanford International Airport. It’s been designated State Road 452 by the state, and construction is years away from starting.
Seminole County has committed $50 million for the project, with $25 million coming from penny sales tax funding. The remaining $25 million is expected to come from other sources, including the four Seminole County cities that touch the 417: Sanford, Lake Mary, Oviedo and Winter Springs. It’s proposed that those cities cumulatively contribute about $20 million in gas taxes to the project.
So far, Oviedo and Winter Springs have declined to contribute gas tax money to the project. Sanford has committed more than $11.7 million for the project over the next decade, and Lake Mary has committed $1.5 million…