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Altamonte Springs OKs first reading to abandon portion of Third Street right-of-way after neighbor voices concern
Summary
The City Commission approved first reading of Ordinance 18-32-25 to vacate the easterly 350 feet of an undeveloped 50-foot-wide portion of Third Street between Hermit’s Trail and Newburyport Avenue; a nearby resident raised concerns and asked whether the city would sell the remainder to adjacent owners.
The Altamonte Springs City Commission on March 4 approved on first reading Ordinance 18-32-25, which would close, vacate and abandon the easterly 350 feet of the undeveloped 50-foot-wide Third Street right-of-way between Hermit’s Trail and Newburyport Avenue and set a second reading for March 18, 2025.
The matter drew a public comment from Dr. Robert Wayne, a nearby resident who said he lives at 513 Hermit’s Trail and opposed the development that prompted the abandonment. "My issue is what the remainder of Third Street next to my house. Can you abandon it? Will you sell it to my neighbor and myself? Will I am I safe from developers, or what is the future of that property next door to me?" Wayne said during the public hearing.
City staff told Wayne they would follow up. Mr. Marks asked Jason Burton, a city staff member in the chambers, to meet with Wayne and see what could be done to help him. The commission then closed the public hearing, the city attorney read the ordinance title into the record and a commissioner moved approval of the ordinance on first reading with the second reading scheduled for March 18, 2025. A roll-call vote recorded each commissioner voting yes and the motion passed unanimously.
The ordinance text read into the record described the abandoned area as approximately 17,497.79 square feet (about 0.4 acres) and provided for incorporation of recitals, execution of documents, a business-impact estimate, conflict and severability clauses, scrivener's error corrections and an effective date to be set after final adoption. The first-reading approval advances the request to the second-reading hearing where any final sale, transfer or execution of documents would be considered.
No motion on the record at the March 4 meeting specified sale terms, purchase price, or to whom any portion of the vacated right-of-way would be conveyed; those details were not specified on the record. The commission’s vote on March 4 applied only to the first-reading approval and setting the second-reading date.
