John Bohde discusses plans to four-lane Power Line Road at recent work session
You have to give the folks behind the eastern leg of the Central Polk Parkway, which is proposed to follow a route along the boundary of conservation lands in the Marion Creek basin and some long-standing rural homesteads, some credit for optimism.
The general route seems to be approved, but there is no money available yet for design, right of way purchases and construction, so whether the bulldozers will begin moving to clear the 286-foot-wide path for the road–a width roughly equal to the length of a football field.–in many our lifetimes is unknown.
Nevertheless, the road folks have posed a questionnaire on their website asking the public to suggest a name for the proposed road.
Boondoggle Boulevard seems apt, but unlikely to be considered, but there’s no harm in chiming in.
Meanwhile, there is some good news of sorts on the urban sprawlway front out there.
Polk officials agreed at a recent work session to at least for now scrap plans to extend Power Line Road southward towards Dundee.
Instead they want to use the grant money they received from the Florida Legislature for that project and repurpose it to four-lane the existing route of Power Line Road instead.
They have tentative OK from local legislators for the shift. commissioners were told during a presentation conducted by Deputy County Manager John Bohde.