An environmental education trail will wind through wetlands in the Village of Fenney, which is under construction along County Road 468 several miles from State Road 44.
A site plan for the trail, which will meander through about 25 acres, was recommended for approval by Special Magistrate Archie O. Lowry Jr. at a meeting Tuesday of the Wildwood Planning and Zoning Board. The City Commission will consider the trail later this month.
It was one of several items on the meeting’s agenda related to the Village of Fenney, the newest Villages community.
Part of the trail will be on a boardwalk while another portion will be unpaved. It will include concrete pads for picnic tables or pavilions. The trail also will have elevated cart paths to get from one hole to another on the golf course.
In a related matter, Lowry also recommended a site plan for the 3,200-square-foot Hammock Golf Maintenance Facility, a 2,808-square-foot starter and cart storage building and the 988-square-foot Hummingbird Postal Station plus parking on 3.9 acres in the Village of Fenney.
Roadway improvements and realignment of Bingham Trail, also known as County Road 505, were recommended. A portion of the road is in the Village of Fenney.
The special magistrate also recommended approval of the final plat for Honeysuckle Villas, a Fenney neighborhood with 55 single-family detached homes on 11.4 acres.
A proposed ordinance that would exempt building eave or overhangs from setback requirements in the Village of Fenney also was endorsed by Lowry.
Fenney eventually will have 3,000 homes and 160,000 square feet of retail space on 1,047 acres. The land is owned by the Wildwood Springs company, which is developing the infrastructure, while The Villages will build and market the homes.
