WINTER GARDEN, Fla. — Community members are coming together to make it safer for drivers in a shopping plaza next to a neighborhood in Winter Garden.

Luke Smith wrote into Traffic Inbox because he’s concerned about exiting his Westbrook neighborhood and into a shopping plaza at the corner of Stoneybrook West Parkway and Avalon Road.

“The reason I called you guys is this intersection here, when we’re coming out of our neighborhood on the south side, has not a lot of traffic control signage,” he said. “You can see that truck just went through there. He doesn’t have a stop sign. I don’t have a stop here, but there is a stop sign over here on the left.”

Leaving his community, he’s dumped out into the shopping plaza, and without stop signs, it’s unclear who has the right of way. On top of that, there are blind spots.

“You can’t see anything that way because the big bushes are there,” said Smith.

Spectrum News 13 had Winter Garden City Engineer Jim Monahan look at this intersection. He recommended installing a stop sign at the exit to Westbrook.

But that stop sign, and cutting back any brush, would have to be done by the property owners, since this is private property.

“Removing some of the landscaping and maybe putting in some signage or something to get people to slow down and take notice would benefit us greatly,” said Smith.

The property manager said he has forwarded the concern to his legal team, which will decide what to do about the stop sign.

The Walgreens located inside that plaza is responsible for the landscaping.

“As for landscaping trimming (absolutely) Walgreens can do that ASAP,” Gary Lawson with Walgreens stated in an email to Spectrum News 13.

Smith hopes changes will make it easier when he leaves his community.

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