Public comment on traffic, roads, enclave

1:20Yeah. Okay, now is the time for public comment. Citizens are given an opportunity to comment on any current or future agenda item coming before the board and on other business. under the board's preview. Today's public comment will be handled as follows. First we will take public comment from those who are here in person. Then we will take public comment from those who are online. and have pre registered for a WebEx link. We request that when you address the board, comments are not directed personally against

1:50the Commissioner or team member, but rather directed at the issues. This provides mutual respect between the board members and the public. After stating your name and address for the clerk, a three-minute timer will be activated and a green light will be shown on the podium. After two minutes a yellow light will indicate you have one minute left. When your time is up, a red light will be displayed. Three beeps will sound and you should close your comments. Webex participants will be disconnected automatically. Madam Clerk, do we have anyone signed up for public funding?

2:21We have one signed up, Doug Drozd. Please come up to the podium.

2:36Morning, I'm Doug Droes, [address removed]. Um traffic and centennial. Is Impassable. We came this morning to the meeting. We had to pass 40 cars blocking the full lane of traffic. On we come. To go home in the afternoons. The school has them backed up all the way on the 301 right turn lane. What Any plans? Any help for us to get

3:06out of our homes and onto the roads without having to drive on Townsend and Newsom, which are Impassable. With The washboards and the ruts. And when it rains it's total slush and mud.

3:26That's it.

3:27We don't interact with the public format.

3:29Okay.

3:30Um

3:33Who's here with uh traffic?

3:36I should say I tried talking to the principal. I was sidelined

3:41by Jason. Or Jason will come come see you outside.

3:48That's I

3:49think. You'll come meet you out here. Okay.

3:51Thank you.

3:52Yes, sir.

4:00Is there anyone else?

4:01No one else has signed up and no one is on WebEx. Right. Is there

4:04anyone else here who wishes to speak to the board? Come on up and name an address, please.

4:12Hi, my name is Pamela Williams. I live on [address removed], which is off of Parish Grove Road. Parish Grove is the only way I have to get to my home. It is the worst paved road in Pasco County. I have original I am originally from Dade City and have lived throughout the county. I would like to know what what as what we as the homeowners have to do to get this road repaved. Most of the properties are valued between a hundred eight hundred thousand to well over a million dollars. Mine itself is worth worth $1.3

4:42million. I have lived there for three years. Which is um which With some new houses being built with high impact fee, which some of that money is supposed to be created to improve the roadways and create new ones. Do I need to get petitions for people that live on that road? Will that help? There is absolutely no reason that with the taxes we pay, this road shouldn't be paved. If sh if you could please tell me the formula that someone uses

5:12to determine these roads to be repaid. I have called at least a hundred times in the last three years for patches to be done in the roads. Every time it rains, it gets worse. I have lived there for uh lived in the um with the patches are making it worse to drive on and dangerous for people to drive. So could somebody please tell me the formula that's used to repave these roads? I have called department after department, road maintenance, engineers, and the sheriff's department. I have not gotten any response

5:43on what it takes to get these roads repaved. I have had neck surgery I'm sorry. I have had neck surgery and half my back is metal. I have to hold my car on the road tight with both hands and go one to two miles an hour down for a mile and a half to my home.

6:00That's absurd. I also have elderly parents and it has turned into a single-lane road with overgrowth and washout erosion. If it's hard for emergency vehicles to get down to my house, not to mention excessive wear and tear on our vehicles. The parish grow roads. And the roads that stand off of are beautiful properties in Blanton area. This is hurting the value of our property. Uh all I'm sorry. Again, could someone please

6:30tell me what the formula is to determine what the roads need to be paved so we can make these provisions for for the homeowners on this proper this area? So um if you

6:40I have Alex all here to talk to her.

6:43Um they'll show you the where the where you can go online and see the form see the roads that are gonna be paved and yours is up for in twenty seven so but you can walk outside there. That's that's the commissioner's aid. Yeah. Okay, please make sure all your phones are silenced. Is there anyone else here who wishes to speak? Is he going to talk to

7:03Okay.

7:05Thank you.

7:06Come come on up

7:08if you're gonna speak. Now's your time. All right, good morning. Uh is can I speak on the enclave? Name and

7:13address.

7:13Oh sorry, Tom Shrugar, [address removed]. Is this the right place to ask about the uh enclave at Livingston? Can I speak on that?

7:24Uh well is that I don't is that is that I don't think that's on our afternoon agenda.

7:31Well you came a long way, but

7:34it's not on there,

7:35but I mean if you this is public comment. Okay. I guess he can speak to anything, right? But it's not on today.

7:43I'll take I'll take thirty seconds. There's nothing crazy.

7:46It's on on the future.

7:48I

7:48just

7:48wanted to ask, I know there's vote coming up for that and you

7:50need your name and address for the record.

7:51Tom Shugar, [address removed]. Okay. Yeah, I'm just here to say ask uh you know I know you guys are voting on it. I would ask that you vote no on it or at least postpone the vote until more research can be done on the traffic. Uh I know a lot I know reports have already been done, it anticipates about three and a half seconds increased uh transportation time at that intersection at uh at 41. Uh or 54, I'm sorry. It it's it's a pretty bad area for traffic and uh I know the overpass is gonna improve that a lot, but it doesn't look like any of the deficiencies are gonna be remedied with the

8:21construction of these townhomes. And uh I would just ask potentially if it's uh possible to put the boat off. I'm not coming here with any uh type of riveting information on why you should, but I definitely think it could could use a little more research. I think it's gonna be pretty bad before that overpass is built. It's gets gets getting kinda Brandon esque over there already with the uh increased traffic, so

8:43Say something, Selesa Tried.

8:44Alright, and our agendas are published so you can um find out when that will be um on the board's agenda and it'll be in the afternoon and that's when to take public comment on those those issues too.

8:56So it's the wrong time.

8:57Um so you live in Commissioner Weightman's Yeah. They can email you. Yep.

9:03If you go downstairs, thanks for driving over Tom, but Brian and Lori are downstairs and they can give you all the information you need. They're right behind Cherry at the front desk and help you. We'll keep in touch with you as it as you're Thank you so much. Sorry for wasting your time here. No.

9:15No no, it's okay.

9:16Hope you enjoyed the trip.

9:19Lots of good chaps Roger. Um is there anyone else who wishes to speak to the board?

9:27Okay, there goes the planner that's working on that project. All right, and no one's online. No

9:33one's online.

9:34Okay, so we will um close public comment. And we will go on to the resolution.