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School board tours Tradition‑area developments as district maps new school sites
Summary
At an April 28 work‑session bus tour, school district staff and developers summarized thousands of planned homes across the Tradition/Becker/Midway corridor, outlined where K–8 and high‑school sites are reserved, and said a $40 million road‑funding deal will shape access to future schools.
St. Lucie School Board members spent April 28 on a work‑session bus tour of large residential developments near Tradition and Becker to review where future students are expected to come from and how the district will site new schools.
The superintendent convened the board at 9:30 a.m. and turned the program over to Mr. O'Leary, who reviewed three planned stops and the packet of maps and enrollment data attendees would use on the tour. "We did run mitigation tour yesterday," O'Leary said, and asked board members to bring the folder provided "because we'll be referring to that on the bus." The tour focused on a quadrant west of Midway and I‑95 and south to Becker.
Why it matters: developers told the board that the combined developments in the tour area represent several thousand new housing units and multiple reserved school sites. That scale of growth — and an associated $40,000,000 agreement to accelerate road work — will affect traffic patterns…
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