{"id":13134,"date":"2012-09-12T00:27:46","date_gmt":"2012-09-12T05:27:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=13134"},"modified":"2012-09-11T18:20:03","modified_gmt":"2012-09-11T23:20:03","slug":"making-a-lehigh-acres-road-a-complete-street","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2012\/09\/making-a-lehigh-acres-road-a-complete-street\/","title":{"rendered":"Making a Lehigh Acres <br>Road a &#8216;Complete Street&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_13135\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13135\" style=\"width: 260px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?attachment_id=13135\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-13135\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13135\" title=\"Complete Street Concept\" src=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Complete-Street-Concept.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"260\" height=\"194\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-13135\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Complete Street Concept<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Residents will soon see some major development starting in downtown Lehigh Acres.\u00a0\u00a0Lee County leaders are moving forward with funding a &#8220;complete street&#8221; project on Homestead Road to create a more downtown feel.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s the beginning of what that new downtown is going to look like,&#8221; said Edd Weiner with the Lehigh Acres Economic Development.<\/p>\n<p>Weiner\u00a0said that the main drag will soon look very different,\u00a0include dedicated turn lanes, brick sidewalks, a new drainage system and landscaping.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think it will be more inviting for developers to come in&#8230; the new downtown will be a place where you can park your car along the street, walk to a street side shop, walk to a residence in a mixed used center,&#8221; Weiner said.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The engineering study for the Homestead Road &#8220;complete street project&#8221; will cost about 2.5 million dollars.\u00a0 County leaders said they hope to give about 4.5 million dollars towards the plan.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Compared to recent years and considering we&#8217;re doing this in the middle of a recession, that&#8217;s pretty significant,&#8221; Lee County Commissioner Frank Mann said.<\/p>\n<p>The engineering study will take about 18 months.\u00a0\u00a0Leaders said they hope to start construction in about\u00a0two years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Residents will soon see some major development starting in downtown Lehigh Acres.\u00a0\u00a0Lee County leaders are moving forward with funding a &#8220;complete street&#8221; project on Homestead Road to create a more&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":13135,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,32],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13134"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13134\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}