Currently, the Florida Department of Community Affairs (DCA) has stopped two recently county approved development projects that encroach on the basin's boundaries, violating the Wekiva River Protection Act, the state Growth Management Act and Seminole County's own growth management plan.

The Central Florida Sierra Club, the Friends of Wekiva River, Seminole Audubon Society and residents intend to sue Seminole County in order to halt 'progress' on a large neighborhood in the works for the protected area surrounding the river.

Seminole County
1/31/99 Seminole County Commissioners are attempting to buy 4 parcels totaling 250 acres of Wekiva land. One parcel is known as Wekiva River Landing. The purchase would provide 1200 feet of riverfront for the public. In 1990, Seminole voters agreed to pay extra property taxes for environmentally sensitive land and the county's Natural Lands have about $5 million. The commissioners, oddly enough, would be protecting land that otherwise would be courted for development. This decision does come recently after the agreement not to buy Katie's Landing.

1/26/99 Seminole may also be getting TWO Wal-Mart Superstores.* The first will open next year on SR 426 and Red Bug Lake Rd. The other is being scouted for SR 46 and the Seminole Town Center. Some correctly feel that a Wal-Mart Superstore is not what the county needs considering its current and past development forays into the Wekiva Protection Zone.

1/23/99 Seminole County Commissioners are considering a moratorium on allowing new home plans in order to focus on the Department of Community Affairs (DCA) unsolicited criticism for allowing development to occur in the Wekiva River Protection Area.* County officials have updated their plan by removing a provision that would have allowed up to nearly three homes per acre to be built in the protection zone. The DCA still needs to approve the new plan. Also under fire, is the West Orange Trail, which would cross Wekiva Springs State Park.