19-3131 Accepting the North Winter Park Drive Small Area Study from Canin Associates

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History and Identity The southern neighborhood and a portion of the neighborhood center area were developed by the Casselberry Gardens Corporation from 1959 to 1968 as a series of additions to a project called Lake Kathryn Park. This includes the portion of the study area from Seminola Blvd. to Gee Creek Ln. and west to Wolf Trail (Figure 4). The northern part of the study area, from S.R. 434 to Lazy Circle, was platted next by the Seminole Sites corporation under the name "The Colonnades" (Figure 5). This was followed by the development of the remainder of the central area as "Seminole Sites" starting in 1974 (Figure 6), also by the Seminole Sites corporation. The plat for the Colonnades (Figure 5) shows what is today the Helen Street Mobile Home Community as "Johnson's Poultry Farm", reflecting the changing character of the area since 1970. There is little evidence that the developers attempted to use naming to give these neighborhoods a strong sense of identity. Except for the Colonnades, the names used for platting were generic and there is no evidence of monumentation or other identity markers. The Seminole Sites plat is named for the development corporation and was not likely used as a branding tool. The southern portion was platted and named as an addition to Lake Kathryn Park despite the distance from and lack of connectivity to Lake Kathryn and the original Lake Kathryn Park development to the west. Today, the Colonnades is marked as Lake Hodge Estates, indicated by a small sign (Figure 7) located at the northern entrance at the intersection of Timberlane Trail and S.R. 434. The only other visible residential branding in the community is associated with the mobile home parks in the context area: Helen Street Mobile Home Community and Sherwood Forest. This creates a lack of name recognition that persists to the present; residents identify the area with conflicting names and many residents identify their neighborhood only by the street they live on. While many successful urban neighborhoods do not have formal names or boundaries; naming can help contribute to a sense of community cohesion and common ownership. LOCATION MAP _^ , 11 '` V, 11 I LAKE KATRRY N f /, /J . J l STJ^Jy TJ/I�N_- Y OPEN-� Y CITY 41MIT &EMIN04A PARK f rAPLF Figure 4 Labe Kathryn Park 5th Addition Figure 5 The Colonnades Phase One Originally, N. Winter Park Dr. proceeded through the Figure 6 Seminole Sites Plat residential developments in the Central and North area prepared for the City of Casselberry by: anin ® s ciaces Page 1 5