A proposed toll road through Split Oak Forest, which has outraged environmental groups, may end up cleaving acres from another sensitive protected area in Central Florida: Eagles Roost, a park bought 20 years ago with millions from Orange County taxpayers.

The Central Florida Expressway Authority (CFX) will decide Thursday whether to label part of the 232-acre public property west of the forest as “necessary” right-of-way for the planned extension of State Road 534, also known as the Osceola County Parkway.

An agency committee already deemed it so last month, voting 6-1, with Orange County’s rep casting the lone “no.”

Although maps of the parkway route long have shown it passing close to Eagles Roost, CFX’s intentions toward the park have not been widely understood until recently. The a

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