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Wesley Chapel homeowner urges council to press county over five‑year delay on turn lane
Summary
At public comment on Feb. 9, Jim Hill, president of the Courtyards at Wesley Chapel homeowners association, urged village action after a county zoning order from January 2021 required a southbound left turn lane at New Town and Cuthbertson but construction has not been completed; Hill said grading began then stopped and roughly 150 homes remain to be built.
Jim Hill, who identified himself as the president of the Courtyards at Wesley Chapel homeowners association, used the meeting's public comment period on Feb. 9 to press the village for help getting a developer to finish a traffic improvement required by a county zoning order.
Hill told the council he lives at 2314 Wesley Landing Road and said the zoning order — signed by the county in January 2021 — states, verbatim, that "the developer will construct a southbound left turn lane with storage and taper on Cuthbertson Road at its intersection with New Town Road." He said the order does not include a completion date and that grading activity began over the summer but then stopped.
Nut graf: Hill said the delay matters to residents because the development is still only about 50–60% complete after five years, with an estimated 150 homes yet to be built; he asked the village to explore what recourse it has and to encourage action so the turn lane is installed before further traffic growth.
In the comment he described driving by the intersection daily and seeing no discernible progress in recent months. "It seems like they started doing some grading work in the summer, which got us all excited... and then it just kind of stopped," Hill said. He asked the council to consider "whatever the village can do" to move the work along.
Council did not take immediate formal action during public comment but later staff discussion on road projects and the critical intersection study (Lester Davis and New Town Roads) was noted on the agenda; village staff also reported they are continuing to seek county information on the New Town turn lane and that a virtual public meeting on the state design for the general New Town project is tentatively set for March 17.
Ending: Council members and staff said they would follow up and continue to request information from county authorities on timing for the turn lane and related intersection improvements.
