Windermere considers golf-cart crossings

The Windermere Town Council is having three intersections studied to determine whether they are best for golf carts to cross.

By Liz Ramos
| 2:50 p.m. April 3, 2025

The town of Windermere will look into other crossing areas for golf carts.

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IN OTHER NEWS

• Council members Tom Stroup, Mandy David and Tony Davit were sworn in to serve another term on Windermere Town Council. David and Davit will be serving their third two-year terms, while Stroup will be serving his second.

• The council unanimously approved the second reading of a public camping ordinance that declared that Orange County’s ordinance relating to the regulation of public camping is effective within the town of Windermere.

• The council approved the second reading of an ordinance to adopt 2COP reporting requirements. The ordinance requires restaurants with 2COP licenses to maintain separate records of food and alcohol sales and submit reports upon the town manager’s request.

• A second reading and public hearing on an ordinance regarding noise from permitted construction will take place at the council’s April 10 meeting. The proposed change in the ordinance allows construction activity from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. Mondays through Fridays, 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturdays. Construction and demolition would be prohibited on Sundays and town-observed holidays.

• Council unanimously approved the Sixth Avenue-Lake Down soil stabilization contract.

• Council members approved purchasing 13 benches from Rep Services Inc. for the Centennial Adopt a Bench program.

Windermere Town Council voted 3-1 to have Kimley-Horn initiate an Individual Project Order to study golf-cart crossing locations in downtown Windermere.

Council Member Andy Williams was absent at the March 25 meeting, and Council Member Tony Davit was the dissenting vote.

Initially, the Individual Project Order selected nine intersections to review in the study, which would have cost about $18,890. The intersections were: Main Street and 11th Avenue; Main Street and 10th Avenue; Main Street and Eighth Avenue; Main Street and Seventh Avenue; Main Street and Fourth Avenue; Main Street and Third Avenue; Main Street and Second Avenue; Sixth Avenue and Oakdale Street; and Sixth Avenue and Magnolia Street.

Council Member Brandi Haines said residents have not been complaining about intersections south of Ninth Street. She wanted to focus on the intersections of East Fifth Avenue and Oakdale Street, East Sixth Avenue and Oakdale Street, and Seventh Avenue and Main Street.

Haines said people are asking to be able to cross Main Street at East Seventh Avenue instead of Eighth Avenue because of better visibility and slower traffic at Seventh Avenue.

Council members debated whether they should wait until the bridge is built to have the study conducted because golf-cart intersections will have to be evaluated then, as well.

Davit supported waiting until after the bridge is built to conduct the study.

Haines argued the intersections she wanted to focus on are not impacted by the bridge, and, therefore, the town should study them now.

“This is a safety issue,” Haines said. “It has nothing to do with whether there’s a bridge or not. This is a safety issue for the residents who live in that corner of town who want to be able to come to Town Hall, be able to come to the library, to be able to come to the park.”

Limiting the Individual Project Order to three intersections will bring down the cost of the study.

Once Kimley-Horn conducts the study, the results will be brought back to Windermere Town Council for further discussion.

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Liz Ramos

Senior Editor Liz Ramos previously covered education and community for the East County Observer. Before moving to Florida, Liz was an education reporter for the Lynchburg News & Advance in Virginia for two years after graduating from the Missouri School of Journalism.