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Approve Right-of-Way Agreement between Polk County and L. Creig Blackburn and Teresa P. Blackburn, his wife and a Right-of-Way Agreement between Polk County and Leon Creig Blackburn, II et ux, all in conjunction with the Thompson Nursery Road Phase 1 (Segment 2) Project. ($3,570,000 one-time expense)
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The County has a project to improve and realign Thompson Nursery Road from West Lake Ruby Drive to U.S. Highway 17. The project consists of primarily new alignment from US Highway 17 to a point on Eloise Loop Road to the west of West Lake Ruby. The project has been separated into four segments of the corridor due to the nature, and associated challenges, of certain portions of the alignment. The County has hired an engineering firm to evaluate, and if necessary, redesign, the designated segments of the planned roadway based on previous engineering plans completed for the corridor. Due to new residential development along the previous alignment a portion of the corridor from Rifle Range Road near its intersection with Eloise Loop Road to the planned railroad crossing, which is identified as Segment 2, will need to be realigned and an alignment study is nearly complete with alternatives and a recommended alignment already developed.
The County was contacted by the owners of two contiguous properties containing a total of approximately 25-acres, located along the west side of Pollard Road in the Winter Haven area who offered the County the opportunity to purchase the properties for the project. The property identified as Parcel ID Number 262916-000000-021020, owned by L. Creig Blackburn and Teresa P. Blackburn is a rectangular shaped parcel containing approximately 20-acres which is improved with a single family residence and steel frame metal building. The property identified as Parcel ID Number 262916-000000-021040, owned by Leon Creig Blackburn II is a rectangular shaped parcel containing approximately 5-acres which is improv...
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