{"id":38278,"date":"2016-01-05T22:30:03","date_gmt":"2016-01-06T03:30:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=38278"},"modified":"2016-01-05T22:31:08","modified_gmt":"2016-01-06T03:31:08","slug":"county-finishes-land-acquisition-for-road-widening-project-in-lehigh-acres","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2016\/01\/county-finishes-land-acquisition-for-road-widening-project-in-lehigh-acres\/","title":{"rendered":"County Finishes Land Acquisition <br>For Road Widening Project in Lehigh Acres"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-38279\" title=\"Homestead Rd\" src=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Homestead-Rd-300x281.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"281\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Homestead-Rd-300x281.png 300w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Homestead-Rd.png 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Lee County Commissioners on Tuesday approved buying the last six parcels of land pieces for right away to the widening of Homestead Rd.<\/p>\n<p>Homestead Road from a quarter mile north of Alabama to just passed Sunrise and around dead man\u2019s curve on Homestead to will be widened to four lanes &#8212; and it will cost $21 million to do it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There are quite a few parcels of property along Homestead Road along Sunshine to Alabama that we have had to acquire,&#8221; said Randy Ceriche of the Lee County Department of Transportation.<\/p>\n<p>With the six pieces the county commissioners approved to purchase on Tuesday, the total count is 43 parcels.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s been a six to seven-year project thus far between design, planning and property acquisition,&#8221; said Ceriche.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->According to NBC-2 the Lehigh Acres Fire Station on Homestead Rd will have more roadway, but will lose property, forcing them to respond to emergencies out the back door. THIS IS NOT TRUE.<\/p>\n<p>The Lehigh Acres Fire Department has paid for an emergency light will be installed in front of station to stop traffic, and clear the main roadway.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have schools out that way, county parks out that way and many, many people who live out there,&#8221; said Chairman of the Lehigh Acres Municipal Services Improvement District, Nathan Stout.<\/p>\n<p>The county has all $21 million lined up for this project, which is expected to begin in 2017.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lee County Commissioners on Tuesday approved buying the last six parcels of land pieces for right away to the widening of Homestead Rd. Homestead Road from a quarter mile north&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":38279,"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\/38278"}],"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=38278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38278\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}