Gainesville Town Hall

I sit on the North Central Florida Planning Council, we met last night. There are three proposals for massive mixed use developments to go into the area where NW 39th Ave intersects I-75. We were looking at the impact of only one of these developments last night. The Council’s traffic analyst said that in order to handle the traffic from this one development 39th would need to be 6 lanes from 13th Street all the way to the other side of I-75. The road in front of Santa Fe College (83rd ST) would need to be four lanes. And I-75 would need to be 8 lanes. They calculated that it would cost over $100 million to make these improvements.
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