City Council Approves Woodmont Charter School Site Plan

At their meeting June 7, the Mayor Joe Affronti and the Temple Terrace City Council:

● Approved the final site plan for Woodmont Charter School, a new school that Charter Schools USA will put at 10402 N. 56 St. in the old 57,900-square-foot Verizon building.

The plan calls for an interior remodel of the existing building with no new construction of any additional buildings. There will also be entrances and exists on 56th Street and Serena Drive.

When council members saw the preliminary plan on May 3, they were especially concerned with the possibility of students crossing 56th Street.

Charter Schools USA representatives addressed those concerns and will require parents to sign an affidavit that prevents their child or children from crossing 56th Street.

Council members also had concerns about traffic congestion. There will be school entrances and exists on 56th Street and Serena Drive, but parents will be limited to entering on Serena drive only during pick up and drop off times.

School representatives said there will be separate arrival and dismissal times for kindergarten through fourth-grade and fifth- through eighth-grade to alleviate traffic issues. The school will also provide six buses for students.

Woodmont Charter School expects to open in August with about 600 students in kindergarten through sixth-grade. Subsequently, the school will add seventh- and eighth-grades, capping enrollment at 1,100 students.

● Learned that John Spala has been named Officer of the Year.

● Declared this week National Garden Week and presented a proclamation to Norma Walker, incoming president of the Temple Terrace Garden Club.

● Announced that this is also Code Enforcement Officers’ Appreciation Week and presented a proclamation to Code Compliance Director Joe Gross.

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