An airplane cruising over western portions of Lake County offers no clue of what’s to come. Tranquil scenes of grazing cattle, trees and lakes will soon be replaced by rooftops – thousands of rooftops, cul-de-sacs, stores and cars, lots of cars.

Now under review by the state is one of those developments — Oak Ridge — a planned 596-acre neighborhood, with more than 600 single-family homes and 260 duplexes.

Approved by Leesburg City Commissioners in July, it is one of three neighborhoods that will be consolidated into the Oak Ridge Community Development District, a 750-acre master-planned community by Dix Developments that will have up to 1,466 new homes, according to online GrowthSpotter.

Dix Developments did not return repeated requests for comment, but the numbers have been verified by

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