Our baby is laid to rest in the Babyland section. I worked with Alex during the hardest time of mine and husband's life. As I made the way to where I was going it was just worst and worst there’s weeds growing through the walls, letters of plots just in the floor everywhere, mold/mildew everywhere, several pot holes, even the trash containers have weeds growing through them! What’s happening? Why there’s no maintenance other than cutting the grass whatsoever? Where is all the money we’ve paid for used on? (sadly my mom and 3 siblings also have plots already purchased here for when their time comes) This is just sad and completely unacceptable, this not just occurred in couple of weeks or days. ![]() When I first drove in, the entrance caught my attention as it’s full of weeds, the fountain its off, some bricks has fallen off and it looks abandoned. Due to unforeseen conditions I had not been able to visit this last year until today and the conditions that I’ve found the cemetery in general are short to say just deplorable. Regretfully for me,I have been visiting Glen Haven for the last 19 years as both my grandparents rest here and I try to visit and honor them as frequently as I can. Please consider supporting local journalism by purchasing a digital subscription to the Orlando Sentinel. With the code change denial, there was no need for commissioners to consider the second request at a meeting that lasted nearly eight hours. “I think this is a great use for the property,” Leary said, “however, I don’t believe that’s what the people who signed up for that neighborhood bought into.” At one point, there was a brief discussion of tabling the issue for another meeting before Mayor Steve Leary squashed the idea and called for a vote. “You won’t see it from the road.”Ĭommissioners said they were torn over the request and wished cemetery officials and neighbors could find a way to compromise. “It’s 44 acres and all the way back is a long ways,” Glassinger said. Glassinger put a picture she took of the entrance to the cemetery property on an overhead projector and said most people don’t notice the existing building until they’re inside the gates and the view likely wouldn’t be obstructed by the proposed building either. However, only Chantilly Avenue resident Darlene Glassinger stood up at the meeting to speak. “This is a very reasonable request despite what neighbors say.”Ĭoney presented documents to commissioners containing signatures from 122 households in the area that showed support of the cemetery’s plans. “That’s the Winter Park way of how you fight development,” Johnston said. “It’s not 30 cars over 4 1/2 miles, it’s a very, very short, no sidewalks, no anything.”Ĭemetery officials tried to rebut arguments by residents, telling commissioners that simply choosing not to believe information like a traffic study doesn’t make it untrue. “They’re talking about this increase on two blocks,” Hurley said. ![]() “You’re looking for a rate of return on that.”Ĭayce Hurley, whose home on Lafayette Avenue is up for sale, told commissioners three prospective buyers were discouraged by the expected traffic a funeral home would bring. “Nobody invests $2.5 million for the status quo,” Temple Drive resident Dinos Constantine said. The crux of resident objections is that the entrance, which is on the west side of the property, can only be accessed from Chantilly Avenue or Temple Drive through Place Vendome, which are surrounded by dozens of homes.Ī traffic study of the area concluded that the average daily traffic volume would increase less than 5%, or about an extra 30 cars a day, with the addition of a funeral home.īut many residents said they weren’t buying that cemetery officials would spend millions of dollars for a funeral home without an expectation of increased business, creating an influx of traffic. “This is a $2.5 million structure replacing a dumpy 50-year-old building.” ![]() “We truly believe that a beautiful funeral home to better serve families, especially when half of them are already coming to the cemetery, is completely and totally appropriate,” Coney said. Lisa Coney, Baldwin Fairchild director of cemetery compliance, said having the funeral home on site at the 64-year-old cemetery would make the burial process easier on grieving families. Palm Cemetery and Pineywood Cemetery are city-owned and managed. Entrance to Glen Haven Memorial Park in Winter Park.Ĭity planning staffers noted that giving a nod to Glen Haven’s application wouldn’t set a precedent because it is the only private cemetery in the city.
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