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The Lee Road Safe Neighborhood Board is currently run by the dynamic team of community leaders, fully volunteer driven and passionate about the importance of community engagement. The Orange County Neighborhood Services team establishes grant opportunities vital to fuel the community engagement opportunities developed by this board. Are you interested in joining the team? Contact Info.LRSN@Gmail.com today!
Board of Directors
Lori Erlacher
Board of Directors: President
Becky Schaff
Board of Directors: Vice President
Lee Perry
Board of Directors: Secretary
LRSN Location
The Lee Road Safe Neighborhood Community is located just west of Interstate 4, where
Interstate 4 serves as the eastern boarder for the Community. W. Fairbanks Avenue and
Edgewater Dr. serve as the southern and western borders, respectively. The northern boundary
can loosely be defined as W. Kennedy Boulevard. Meaning, any of the crossroads off W.
Kennedy Boulevard heading south are not included in the boundary and any of the crossroads
heading north off Lee Road are included in the boundary. This jagged boundary can be seen in
the map above.
Success Stories
These are the examples of successful projects and events which have taken place through the course of the Lee Road Safe Neighborhood Development!
Bi-Monthly Community Meetings
Annual National Night Out
Hotel Toy Drive for the Homeless
Community Surveying
Community Clean-ups
Community Appreciation Events
History of the Lee Road Safe Neighborhood Program
HISTORY
Kingswood Manor was developed in several phases beginning in the late 1950’s. Asbury Park, Albert Lee Ridge and Queenswood were developed around the perimeters. Lake Weston Elementary School was built in 1958 with an initial enrollment of 200 students and now serves approximately 750 students. Some residents have described Kingswood as a “quiet neighborhood in suburbia out in the country”. Lee Road began as a two-lane road and now is a major state highway consisting of six lanes. Many second and third generation families live in both the Lee Road and Fairbanks Avenue areas. Fairview Baptist, Calvary Presbyterian, St. Paul’s Methodist and two Jewish synagogues flourish in the area. Northgate Shopping Center was the prime shopping place in the 1960’s and 1970’s but many of the major tenants moved out with the opening of the Colonial Plaza Mall built on East Colonial
Drive. The residents in the Lee Road study area continue to be encouraged by the consistent commercial redevelopment along Lee Road, considered the heart of the community, as the neighborhoods try to maintain a sense of stability.
Zoning Map
The current zoning throughout the core of Lee Road is Residential‐1, Residential‐1A,
and Residential-2. These zoning types are defined as a single‐family dwelling districts or
residential district. Lot sizes will vary from 4,500 sq. ft. to 7,500 sq. ft. The characteristics of
such areas are single-family homes built on lots larger than the structure itself. The purpose of the single-family residential district is to stabilize and protect the residential characteristics of the
area and to promote and encourage a suitable environment for family life. There is a small
pocket located within Lee Road zoned as P-D, or Planned Development. P-D areas provide a
unique approach for developing large parcels of land with a minimum site area of 2 acres.
Along Lee Road and Edgewater Drive, the two main corridors in the community, there are a
blend of zonings that allow commercial and residential uses such as Residential-3 (R-3),
Commerical-1 (C-1), Commercial-2 (C-2), and Commercial-3 (C-2). In the northwest corner and
small pockets on Lee Road there is a block of zonings for R-3, which allows for multifamily
units to be constructed. This type of construction is typically apartment complexes. A bulk of the
commercial zoning in the Lee Road Safe Neighborhood is C-1 and C-2, or retail commercial and
general commercial respectively. Intermittently, there is a C-3 zoning in the Lee Road area; this
type of identification is used to indicate wholesale commercial zoning.
TRANSPORTATION
Roads: Major roadways include:
Interstate 4 from W. Fairbanks Avenue to Lee Road
Lee Road from Edgewater Drive to Interstate 4
Edgewater Drive from W. Fairbanks Avenue to Forest City Road
Forest City Road from Edgewater Drive to Lake Weston Drive
Transit: LYNX’s bus routes include:
Route 23 – W. Fairbanks Avenue, Edgewater Drive, Forest City Road o Route 443 – Lee Road, Edgewater Drive
Bicycles and Pedestrians:
The Lee Road Safe Neighborhood has designated bicycle lanes on Kingswood Avenue and Edgewater Drive; it has no bicycle trails or signed routes. Sidewalks are present on both sides on most major roadways in the area. In the residential areas north of Lee Road almost every road has sidewalks on both sides of the streets. However, in the residential areas south of Lee Road, there are hardly any sidewalks with exception of Adanson Street.
Wide 4-lane roads place bicyclists and pedestrians directly in the flow of traffic. All the major roadways are medium to high-speed and high traffic, depending on the time of the day. Speeding continues to be an issue, as well as a lack of education for drivers, bicyclists, and pedestrians about proper behavior. A strategy which includes engineering and education is highly recommended to address these issues.
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