For years, the City has received requests from residents and property owners on Winter Park Street between I-4 and Elizabeth Street, asking for traffic calming measures of some kind.
Residents Seeking Calming
In February, in response to those requests, the City of Orlando will be working with the residents of Winter Park Street to discuss traffic calming options on that portion of the street. Before any traffic calming measures are implemented, the City will gather the opinions and concerns of any of the Winter Park Street residents that participate in the process.
When the residents consider traffic calming measures for the near future, they will also consider the future of Winter Park Street and how it may change.
Health Village 
How exactly will it change? It may become less of a through-way as
Health Village evolves. The eastern most block of Winter Park Street, between Orange Avenue and Dade Avenue, may close. This is shown to the right in this except from a Health Village Illustrative Plan presented to the community in 2008.
The closing of that eastern-most block of Winter Park Street is designed to improve the flow of traffic around this very busy stretch of Orange Avenue. At the same time as that block of Winter Park Street is re-routed, Rollins Street (the street that runs through the Florida Hospital campus) will be realigned at the Orange Avenue intersection so that it will be a four way intersection.
These intersections were designed by Florida Hospital in such a way as to help create a featured entrance from Rollins onto their new (future) administrative building and conference center, as can be seen in the picture to the right.
The Future
After the City and the residents of Winter Park Street work together, any immediate traffic calming they elect to implement should make the street safer. As the Florida Hospital Master Plan moves forward, the volume of traffic along the street may change altogether.
To learn more about Health Village, and its potential future plans, be sure to attend the next
CPNA Meeting, on February 1st, at the College Park Community Center. Florida Hospital will update us on all of the plans around Health Village which includes 15' wide sidewalks, street-side retail, residential condos and apartments, a hotel and conference center, micro-parks, water features and more.