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At this public this time for public comment.
This is is one way the board does does not uh engage during the public comment period on this agenda moment. Now is the time for public comments or giving uh an opportunity to comment on any current uh current or future agenda item coming before the board and under the board's preview. Today's public comment will be as follows. First, we will take
public comment for those that are here in person and Then we will take those that are signed up pre-registered on WebEx and currently on Q. We request that when you address the board, comments are directed per not personally against a commissioner or team member, but rather to the issues. This provides mutual respect for the board, board members and the public. After stating your name and address for the clerk, three
three minute timer will be activated. After two minutes, single beep will will indicate you have one minute left. When the time is up, two two beeps will sound and you should be closing your statements. Uh WebEx participants will be disconnected automatically. Madam Clerk, we have folks signed up for public comment.
I have four signed up. I'm gonna call you, please approach in the order that you're called. Missy Lowell. Justin McPadden. Nancy Hazelwood and Christine Ankerson.
Okay. Name and address the board?
Missy Coyle, [address removed]
Okay. Pull that mic over to you a little bit. It's hard to hear. Okay.
Should I repeat?
All right. Just McPadden, [address removed]
Good morning, County Commissioners. On behalf of Alliance for Healthy Communities, I wanted to take this opportunity to thank each and every one of you for all the assistance to our residents of Pasco County during the hurricanes and for helping us open up a resource center for the community and providing some resources and working with us to do that. to help others throughout the time of peace. For our public.
Yes, and and this has been a really trying month this last month for everybody involved for Pasco County and I we just want to thank you all for your your uh dedication to this county and for acting quickly on this uh traumatic experiences w that we have here. So thank y'all.
Thank
you
Alright.
Thank you. Next person. Four persons.
Nancy Hazelwood.
Good morning, [address removed] Uh good to see y'all again. Um I wanna also thank you. Name and
address please.
Oh Thank you. [address removed] Um, I want to thank you all for your attention to the flooding also. I heard some good things, especially about Jack Mariano being right on top of some issues. So thank you for your attention. I was also wondering if maybe it's not time to uh have our representatives to SwiftBuds and Swift Mud's board update some rules and regulations so
this doesn't happen again. I know people that have this has been happening two or three times too, and uh maybe it's time to take a look at them and see if we can't update some of them. Um the other issue I have is number seventeen on your agenda. It's about a test site for a well field by Tampa Bay Water. It is in the Northeast Rural Protected Area. And Tampa Bay Waters says
it's for growth in East Pasco. So I've got a couple of questions. This test site is on Christian, you're Christian and on Power Line Road. That is pretty darn close to the Hernando County line. So if this is for growth in East Pasco, why isn't it being put in Central Pasco, someplace around Zephyrhills so you can get your water out there? Um There's a lot of money involved in doing this test site.
That you all are gonna vote on today. And so I I can see that they're probably gonna make it happen in the Northeaster area plan. Our suspicions are in the northeast is that this is gonna be for developing in northeaster area. You've got this water in here, just run some pipes out to our area. And right now we're all unwell and that's helping us stay rural. Um
Uh most of the people in the North East Rural Area Plan don't know that this is going on. I mean I just caught up with it Sunday. And uh everyone out there is on well right now, so they're gonna be concerned. They received no notice of this plan except if you were abutting the place and that happened at about um two months ago. Uh Tampa Bay Water is saying they will have a community
meeting, but after you all have already approved this, that's kinda like Hey, we're thinking about putting an interstate next to your house and uh Well we've already approved thinking about it and going to test it, but we wanted to let you know. And we will tell you how this won't hurt you. So Being that this has been in works for a year, and I think we should have had a meeting right at the beginning of this. Um maybe y'all could
put this on hold or something until more of the community knows about it. And so or else what's with all the secrets on it? Nobody knows about. Thank ya.
Thank you for your comments. David Allen, do you get back there in the chat? Or someone in utilities to speak to her to let her know what this issue's about.
Ms. Hazelwood, if you'll step outside with David there, he'll explain that to you. Thank you. Anyone else?
The last speaker I have signed up is Christine Hankerson.
Name and address.
Good morning. My name is Christine Hankerson. I live in Longleaf in Meadow Point, C D 2. Um I came today to talk about an article that was in the uh local newspaper about will Pasco get Enforcement cameras in school speed zones. Commissioner Starkey brought this up at the February 6th meeting. She noted that the state legislature has authorized the use of cameras in school speed zones. Uh
the cameras uh technology will certainly uh help those that are speeding. Coming over here today, three cars past me in our fifteen mile an hour speed zone. One almost hit me and the car on my left had to veer out of the way. So that they would not get hit. Thankfully there were no children in the road. Uh we have been talking about this for a very long time. I spoke to a Pasco Sheriff's Deputy last
month who said the only way to get rid of these speeders, and we've had another death on County Line Road from speeding. is to ticket these people. And they say they don't have enough money to patrol during our school zone times. So Uh Commissioner Mariano in this article mentioned that I tell you these lead light cameras in Port Ritchie and New Port Ritchie, they were supposed to get rid of them a few years ago. And they're
making too much money and they're not going to make that move. I don't know any parent or citizen or grandparent that puts a dollar amount on children. Uh he voiced concerns uh that if the revenue becomes too attractive The county might become reluctant to pull the cameras, whether or not they're effective. Last time I was here, I already told you two children were hit in the school zone where the crossing guard was
taking them across on Mansfield. Luckily the children were not transported to a hospital. Or killed. So our community has been talking about this for a very long time. And I bring it before you again today because it's not if, but when we have a death. and who we have contacted regarding making changes, which it seems that the state has money programmed for
that. And um so I hope you reconsider before there is a tragic accident. where one of our children get killed or those of us who get hit. Because people are speeding down County Line Road and Mansfield. Thank you.
All right. Thank you for your comments. Mm-hmm.
Do I have anyone else? That's all that was signed.
In one WebX.
No one no one signed up?
No one a website.
No one a WebEx.
Okay. Uh does anyone in the audience wish to speak this time? Uh come forward and state your name and address.
My name is Tara Castro and I'm at [address removed] That's in the back of Quail Hollow, right by Cypress Creek. I'm really concerned in regards to the building that we have and our infrastructure that has not been followed prior to approving all these buildings. Our schools, Quill Hollow School on Quill Hollow Boulevard, you've done away with the Police that did tra that detour traffic. We're only one lane each way. However, getting
in and out of that area is a cluster bomb. There is no way. There is no direction. Kids cannot walk to school down Quail Hollow because there is no sidewalks. It says 35, but we go 45, 55, 60 miles an hour. Who cares? If we build this community that you guys are gonna pr that is set to approve on Quill Halo Boulevard,
by Cypress Creek, you know where all that water's gonna go? It's gonna go to Cypress Creek. My other question is, do we know how much more water Cypress Creek can handle from these builders? Because we haven't considered anyone in the existing community that got flooded out not even a month ago. We're still pumping water. I'm not flooded, but my fellow citizens of Florida Florida, they're flooded. This is not acceptable. You guys continue to build, but you don't do anything. Mr. Oakley, let me talk to you about
the street that's right by the school or right by 54, named after you. Oakley and 54. That street, as I talked to Seth, has been flooded prior to Milton, when it's a new road that was built in the last eight years. That road right by Marathon at fifty-four before you get to West Grove floods out every thunderstorm. Not supposed to do that with stormwater drainage, public works, what's going on? Why is that not cleaned out? Why is that not addressed? Right after that light, there's another light, Pink Flamingo
on Oakley. You built apartments, now you're building a two-story town or a two-story target. That where's that water gonna go? We just shut that road down between Dayflower and Pink Flamingo when Debbie Downer, the the tropical storm came down. Now you guys want to build more and we're building a two-story target, and then we're building an Amazon and we're building a target distribution. How much more are we gonna handle on Old Pasco Road? That's not a two-lane road all the way down. to fifty-four.
Certain parts are becoming two ways or two lanes, but it's not. And I'm gonna urge you guys to stop the building towards Cypress Creek. And I would urge you to continue to push for the Army Corps of Engineers to come in and fix the damage that has been caused by these builders building three to four feet higher and diverting the water down to existing homes. This is not fair to the existing homeowners of Pasco County. And I urge you to do the right thing because it hasn't been done in the last four years. If you've driven down 75, like I
just explained, to the Planning Development Drive. Yeah. From s about three to four, three to six at PM? All four lanes are blocked up. Where did the The traffic impact studies show that this was gonna impact with all this building that has exploded in Pasco County. What's gonna happen to those roads? I urge you to take the right things.
Okay. Thank you for your comment. Does anyone else in the audience wish to speak at this time?
Come forward, state your name and address.
I have to catch my breath. I just got here. Anyways, my name is Michael T. Houston. I live at [address removed], sometimes [address removed], whatever they want to choose. Uh what I'm here to talk about is uh my park in which I lived in. I live in. It got over flooded. We have Three new subdivisions that they built around us. They came in. And they literally made
their grade higher than us. So our park has become the cesspool. of everybody which is around us. The address of the uh community I live in is uh [address removed] It's referred to as Timberlake Estates. Timberlake States is basically you have uh modular homes there. We have several uh retention ponds. Which I get taxed for. Because they're not going to be able to do that. Spring
fed, but they're nothing more than retention ponds. And they charge me because they say I have waterfront property. My biggest thing is is that yes this was a bad storm. They say I talk to a lot of the people, they tell me Well, this has been the worst that they've ever seen in the last twenty, thirty years. Well, that doesn't mean it's not gonna happen next year or the year after. My problem is they're building all these homes in our area. Thousands
upon thousands of homes. I see no culverts, I see nothing being built that is gonna take that water away from the area. other than the po the problem that I am sitting dead s in the middle of all these homes that are building their property higher than ours. In his swift mud Are these the people that are supposed to take care of the ditches and everything? That's a question. I don't know. I'm learning about this. If Swift Mud has to do
with the county, why are they not cleaning out all these uh Ditches and everything around us. They're also the culverts are not being put in. But I can reassure you that culverts are being put in all these new properties to get their water away. the day after the day after the hurricane and the flood, I literally got in a vehicle, a big tall pickup truck. We drove around and I went to three of these properties. The property's names are Bridge Haven Subdivision,
which is to the uh west of us. Then there's Monroe Manor. Mm I'm sorry. Manor Meadow, which is to the east of us, and then we have Ashbury Village, which is the south of us. So we have these three properties that came in built their land high and now we are the recipients of all their runoff. The thing of it is is that If they're putting culverts to get the water away from them Why are we not having culverts and
ditches made for our uh consumption of all that water. To flow to the North of us. Because from what we saw The water came from Uh it came from uh I'm sorry. Is that the end? Mm-hmm. Okay. Well you got the gist of it. I thank you very much for your own. What
was your address again?
Pardon me.
What was your address? Sorry.
Uh [address removed] And I am planning on I I was a snowbird, but I am gonna uh make permanent residence here. I just gotta change my driver's license to stuff.