David Engel, Director for Planning and Economic Growth
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The county’s agenda for Planning Commission, Mar 7, 2024
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The county’s minutes for Planning Commission, Mar 7, 2024
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Mariano. Okay, so this is a good time if you have a a cell phone with you and most of you do. I see some of you are texting at the moment. Um, this is a good time to turn it off so that it doesn't go off when somebody's speaking.
And before we start the meeting, we want to open the meeting for public comment. And uh but also I'd like to introduce to you uh a great friend and a good employee of the county, David Ingall. And uh I think he's here somewhere. Thank you. There you are, I saw you over there somewhere.
Yeah, as soon as I got my job I went under the desk.
David's going to give us some information about his job and and what he sees, his new job at the county and what he sees as you know the path for the correct county going forward.
Well, thank you very much. David Engel, I'm the Director for Planning and Economic Growth. I've had a variety of opportunities here in the county to assist with our purpose and our goals and our mission. And I have a new new position now that I'm going to be providing leadership to planning, zoning administration, land development processes, as well as economic growth. So many of you View me as a more of a business guy, but I I have a master's in city and regional planning from the Blastien School at Rutgers.
I've been a planning director, worked in the planning consulting business for about eight or nine years, and I've worked for large corporations as well as uh over ten years in Wall Street. So we got a lot of tools, and you know, I'm good at assessing organizations, and I have to tell you that our team in planning is right. talented and engaged and uh it's my goal to teach, mentor, and develop uh people. The Board of County Commissioners and our County Administrator has directed me to be more focused on the planning side. We're just not
administrative processors. We want to make Pasco County live up to its aspirations and also its potential. So we're working more in a collaborative context with our development community. And one thing I've noted and I've worked with planning commissions and planning boards throughout the Eastern Seaboard. You are our local planning agency and we want to engage you to start doing planning work and not just reviewing development applications. So more to come on that, but I look forward to working with everybody and I'm very accessible. Please contact
me if you want to talk or have any questions. Thank you.
Yes. Thank you David. We're very fortunate to have you and I appreciate you taking the time to come up and and tell us what your plan is. So we're looking forward to working with you. Yeah, and uh I'll probably be the first one to be kicked out, but you know. That might be a good thing.
All right.