Public comment on road, agenda notification, flooding
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And it's important for you to um uh address the board if you have questions and as a whole just address the board and um we'll be happy to to uh try to help you any way we can to answer your questions. Before we start the regular meeting I'd like to open the meeting for public comment on any items that are not on the d on today's agenda. Is there someone here to speak on anything that's not on today's agenda?
Okay, if you'd like to come forward please.
What I'd like you to do is uh when you come to the microphone, state your name and address, please, and we're gonna have everybody sworn in in a minute that might want to speak. Okay, so just we just
Okay, I don't know. I'm here at the moment, but my name is Kathy Lambert, L A M B E R T. I live in Dade City proper, [address removed]. What else did you need?
Well, we're gonna swear everybody in. So anybody that plans to give testimony today, if you'll please stand and raise your right hand, be sworn.
Do you swear upon the testimony you're asked to give is the truth of that you got?
Okay.
Yes uh uh Chairman Gray. Uh I feel like I've been here but I watch on video and then I think that I was there but I wasn't there I just saw it on video. So the thing I wanna mention since you said it's if it's not on the agenda, I haven't seen the agenda but I saw in video a discussion about uh Plan for North 14th Street in which Miss Hazlewood and Miss Moretti were here at that particular meeting. I don't know if it's on the agenda
now, but um I sat there at home watching these guys, not Miss Hazlewood and Miss Moretti, but other people lying through their teeth about the quality of the road of North 14th Street. I just want to let you know. that if you ask the bus drivers who work for this county, the reason we use the oldest bus in the County's fleet is because it has bus thirty one has to go up North Fourteenth Street. It shakes
the Dickens out of the bus and Shakespeare they don't want to ruin the new buses because North Fourteenth is such a terrible street. Thank you.
Chris, do you have any comment about that? Do you have anything about that?
I think that might be the county I mean that's a m county bus, not uh not on.
Not your bus.
Yes. Oh I gotcha, okay.
Okay. Go on.
Nancy Hazwood, [address removed]. Good afternoon to everyone. Um, I'd like the Planning Commission to appreciate your diligence and thoughtfulness when looking at new projects coming before you. You all are very thoughtful on these and we know some It's great, thanks. Also the planning department has its job cut out for it, trying to keep up with the overwhelming number of applications
and projects. And I don't know how they're keeping up with all. Certainly they are doing a good job under these restraints. It would be nice if the commission, County Commission, would give the department and the county funds for more staff. limit the amount or limit the amount of applications they take in or impose a moratorium so they can play ketchup. There is another issue I'd like to bring to the county's attentions. Over and over we have heard from citizens that move
to Pasco County. after studying land use and zoning in the county. And then it's changed from low densities to high densities. They think they have moved to the perfect place for their lifestyle. that they want and just to have the rug pulled out from under um Is this fair to the citizens of our county? To me it seems like false advertising. Tall Timbers and Connected City is just the latest example of this. I
should suggest that since the twenty fifty plan is coming up, is being written, we include some language that keeps the changes from impacting your citizens so negatively. Land use and zoning should be more difficult to change in this county. We also have enough approvals on our county for over the next ten years at least. It's probably more. Thank you for your attention.
Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Nice to see you again.
Hi, Lisa Mari, [address removed]. Excuse my voice, have walking pneumonia.
Did you get that all right? Yeah, okay.
I'm here because um again, we were here at the last commission meeting and we presented the idea that maybe we should have notification to the residents about what's on the agenda in a timely fashion. You have a lot of people here to speak to one of your agenda items today. That's just by luck of the draw, because it didn't show up on the agenda yesterday until late in the afternoon. It's hard to sign up for WebEx and twenty-four hour notice, ask for extra time. When you don't have the item on the agenda. I'd like to request that you try to do this in a more timely
fashion that allows for your community to be engaged. Because of that, I also noticed in the files that the community notes from the Evans 80 community meeting, which we produced as a community, We're never in the file, even though I know that you received it. I you unheld it to all of you. So I've brought copies for each of you and I'd like to draw your attention to the summary especially. Could I have you receive that?
Oh you really need to do that as part of the I'm sorry. If you want us to receive and file documents related to Evans eighty, it needs to be part of the public hearing for Evans eighty. So
I'm prohibited from speaking during Evans eighty because I spoke the first time when we had a continuance.
Well it still suppl still applies to your submission. Well can you get somebody else to to pass the to be received and filed who who can't speak?
I will have them do that then.
Thank you. Thank you.
Thank you very much.
Hello. I want to speak on the flooding with all this building that's happening and we have been we had a beautiful piece of property.
Oh I'm sorry. Dorina Lemus [address removed].
Okay. We we have to have that for the record because they're keeping a record of everything and goods on here.
Okay. Anyway, we had a beautiful piece of property and because of all the butt building with this last hurricane came through and we've been here since nineteen, our property totally flooded. We have not been able to get on our private road. We have asked for all kinds of help from the county. Nobody will call us back. You know, we finally have reached somebody, the news stations have picked it up. And w we're at our wits end. We don't know what to do anymore. We've tried reaching out to FEMA. And I just think something needs to be done about the drainage before y'all
do any more building.
Okay. Where are y where are are you living? Huh? What area are you in? in?
Pasco County, Dade City?
No, I mean specifically what part. Y you have a name of a road or something?
Oh Port King.
Fort King Road.
Mm-hmm. Right up the street from the hospital.
Uh is there somebody here from the county that can speak to that or answer your questions? David.
Uh yes, Mr. Chairman. The Board of County Commissioners will be holding a drainage workshop, I believe, on February 13th. We have information from the storm impacts and the board is deliberately going through them now to try to promulgate regulations to effectuate better stormwater management and avoidance of flooding in the future.
Okay, and that is what's the date of that, David? Uh two thirteenth, sir. February thirteenth. And that would be here or on the other side? Yeah,
I'm gonna check right now to just see my second check and I'm gonna
And I'll confirm the date also.
It was my mistake. It's uh Feb Tuesday, February eighteenth. I do not have a location for that uh meeting yet, but uh presumably it'll be on the west side but we'll have a confirmation shortly. Uh ma'am, I'll meet you outside and it'll give you my card and then we'll uh keep keep connected.
I appreciate any help we can get. Thank you.
Thank you for coming. Yeah.
Okay.
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