Northeast Rural Area and Connected City concerns
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Mr. Chair, we do have one individual signed up, Nancy Hazelwood. Okay.
So before we start the regular meeting, uh Ms. Hazelwood would you like to come up and speak?
Nancy Hazelwood, [address removed]. Appreciate y'all taking your time to be here and look at applications that are coming in and listening to our woes and I've got plenty of 'em right now. Um, first off I'd like to speak on the Northeast Rural Area Plan. I want to give you in a nutshell to remind you that it was created at the same time as Pasadena Hills and we were told it was in trade. Let Pasadena have
all that density and we could stay the rural protected area. Uh but the county seems that's letting applications in there not sustainable to the Northeast protected area right now. Coming before you sooner or later is Evans eighty and an AC. Let me remind you an AC originally was created for good solid jobs such as medical. Evans eighty makes that a mockery. It is high density. How are we protected? It's
right in the middle of Northeast Rural. Yeah. Blanton Road Project. 19 point something or other acres. They're asking for 10 units on it, which should be okay, but they want res one. All of a sudden you've got res one in the middle of the northeast rural area, and that is the suburban density, not rural, not protecting our area. So
This is a it's next to it's close to a subdivision that was built in the sixties or the seventies, like a HUD project, and they're using that. That was grandfathered in. I consider those people really lucky to live in the Northeast Rural area plan because we have not much in the way of problems out there or traffic or anything else, but they're gonna use it as Yeah.
I don't think that's because of uh that HUD project is not a reason to start destroying the protected area. Better yet, let's find a way um that we can get out of that since it's res three. There's gotta be res one. Uh they're saying that there's no other land use that they can use. But there's gotta be something there. We do not need res one in the Middle North East Rill.
Or maybe this is the idea all along, to break open the Northeaster Rail Area Plan. But wait, there's more. A test well is supposedly for water for the growth in Pasco County is approved is trying to be approved to test water out in the northeaster area. The question is, why is it almost on the Hernando County line and close to the Grand Swamp if it's to supply water for the other side of the county that's growing? L let's return
to Adam Zady. They have a condition on that plan that says they can't begin until they have county water and sooner. So well guess what? Utilities is thinking about putting a wastewater treatment plant in the same area. Do you want to hear more or you want me to go?
Yeah, one more minute.
Okay. Uh so if the well fills for all of Pasco, one would think it'd be put closer to the growth instead of having water lines all the way out to the other side of the county. There is no doubt in my mind that this county is using these projects to open up and get rid of the Northeast protected area. Is it any wonder that people mistrust the county? What is the county giving back from the for this? Crying, congestion? What about our drinking water? Since
the protective area was an exchange for Pasadena Hills, how about taking something from Pasadena Hills and giving it back? This is the taking. The county needs to o start honoring its agreements. It's not happening just here. It seems to be happening all over the place. Y'all just voted on getting not saving a rural area last time you were here. The count one more thing, the county's 2050 plan meeting, the number one item that people all wanted to save were rural areas
and add to them. So what do we do? We're getting rid of 'em more than ever. Did the county hear us? Thank you.
All right, thank you.
Okay.
Limited.
Excuse me sir, did you want us do you have something I'm sorry.
Yes, right.
Oh okay.
Mm.
Michael Pultoric, [address removed].
[address removed]. First, I wanted to just thank you guys for what you do. You're not paid near enough. And more times than none, you're the bad guys.
And
we really do appreciate what you guys do and your service to the county. The other thing I wanted to mention was in December I reached out to each commissioner and also Director Engel and I lead the Pasco Connected Cities Residence Group. We have over eleven hundred members and we have a lot of concerns about the Connected City. I reached out to bring some of our concerns about the Connected City development and rezoning. to their attention. And I want to thank Chairwoman Sarkey who sat
down with us on Monday, and Director Engel, who has also sat down with us to listen to our concerns. We very much appreciate them. Um some of the concerns that we've wanted to bring forward is in the connected city. The majority of the recreational areas and parks and all of the nature trails did not get built. They are not in the rezoning. They did not get past engineering. A big portion of the connected city intent is parks, open
areas, green spaces, and And outdoor trails, a healthier lifestyle. Those are a big portion of our concerns and they sat down and listened to us. Commissioner Yeager, I'm scheduled to meet with her tomorrow, so thank you in advance. We both had to reschedule and um just wanna thank Director Engle and Chairwoman Starkey for taking their time to meet with us. Thank you.
Thank you. Appreciate that.