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Lake Placid workshop urges a phased utility master plan after $40 million grant designs
Summary
Town and regional planners recommended a formal water/wastewater master plan and phasing strategy to use limited funds and to translate partial designs produced under a roughly $40,000,000 grant into prioritized septic‑to‑sewer conversions and infrastructure upgrades.
At a joint Lake Placid workshop, town officials, regional planners and residents pressed for a formal water and wastewater master plan to sequence septic‑to‑sewer conversions and aging system upgrades after partial project designs tied to a roughly $40,000,000 grant. The meeting produced no formal vote but participants agreed a phased, prioritized approach is the next step.
The Central Florida Regional Planning Council and town staff described the grant as having funded preliminary designs but not a final implementation plan. “With some of that $40,000,000 grant, they did some basic designs, but they’ve never really put anything for which way they want to go and how they’re going to fund it,” a staff member said. Utility…
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