[Opinion] Plans for a second high school in Lakewood Ranch debated due to traffic

Plans for a second high school in Lakewood Ranch debated due to traffic

Commissioner Jason Bearden said there’s a lot of talk about “smart growth” among commissioners in Manatee County, but in his opinion, building a high school off Lorraine Road before finishing the recently defunded widening project on Lorraine Road is “dumb growth.” “We cannot continue to just approve things blindly without a plan because our job is to develop infrastructure around these projects,” Bearden said to his fellow commissioners during …