RELO - Lake Nona & UCF Medical School - Hospital

[Marta1]

Originally Posted by deblirons

That is totally incorrect. The Lake Nona area is NOT zoned for Vista Lakes schools which is the firing range. Also, there is a BRAND new high school being built for the area, scheduled to be completed in 2009. Also, the elementary school is A rated with one of the best reputations of any school in central Florida.

My post has been correct. I never said that the area was zoned for the Odyssey middle school. I said it is near there. The map provided by the Orlando Sentinel shows the whole firing range. Not only there is a potential danger that chemicals have leaked underground, but another issue is that they have taken mud, etc from that area to fill the roads and other places as needed. Everything has been written extensively at the Orlando Sentinel. Even the Innovation way is under danger of not happening due to the munition and chemicals that may exist. Chemicals do not know what is zoned for what but leak at all directions.

As for the school- it is in Orange county, is not it? That's all that matters. I would never send my children to an Orange county school. I visited the schools and read their scores and decided that Seminole was the nearest option. I would never risk their future.

I would like to caution people to read everybody's comment, as well as research newspaper archives and business journals outside of the region to get a pulse for the areas you are interested. And be weary of real estate brokers as they would paint you an extremely rosy picture. Drive around the neighborhoods, and at night, and you'll get a feeling of each area. Visit the neighborhood supermarket and local stores. Even from the customers that you'll see, as well as the type of merchandise that you'll see on the shelves, you can get a very clear idea of the people who live nearby.

[markhunt]

Originally Posted by Marta1

As for the school- it is in Orange county, is not it? That's all that matters. I would never send my children to an Orange county school. I visited the schools and read their scores and decided that Seminole was the nearest option. I would never risk their future.

I would like to caution people to read everybody's comment, as well as research newspaper archives and business journals outside of the region to get a pulse for the areas you are interested. And be weary of real estate brokers as they would paint you an extremely rosy picture. Drive around the neighborhoods, and at night, and you'll get a feeling of each area. Visit the neighborhood supermarket and local stores. Even from the customers that you'll see, as well as the type of merchandise that you'll see on the shelves, you can get a very clear idea of the people who live nearby.

I could not agree more with this.

[Noisenoticer]

The Lake Nona area elementary and junion high schools are rated A for great! AND a new high school is coming. It will be interesting to see what it is rated.

Another area of potential concern:
At Lake Nona the flight path is DIRECTLY over the new medical school, Burnham, VA, Biomedical Sciences buildings, etc.. Landings did not seem to cause a problem with noise. Take offs will be noisy but the new buildings wll hopefully be well insulated for sound.
The residential neighborhoods are way off to the side of the airport and will have actually NO planes overhead so will be much better. Hey if you do not like noise, then do not move to a city or metropolitan area!

[markhunt]

I would never settle my family to live anywhere remotely close to any airport, let alone one as busy as OIA.

What are the Health Effects of Airport Noise and Airport Pollution?


US-CAW, US-Citizens Aviation Watch <--Click on the Studies link

[bny96]

Does anyone know some informaiton on Moss Park Ridge ?