DR funds, Central Village, landscaping, NACO, tree mitigation

2:53:00Oh if you have a minute. All right. Thank you, Chair. So uh with the we voted on the DR funds and the and the uh projects moving forward. Um I wanna make sure that as we embark on the the housing component side of of the DR funds. Uh I personally and hopefully the board agrees want to take any of the county's green space or park space off the table that that those sites that we own, the green space, the park space,

2:53:30not the lots that are that are repo'd on the the taxes or lien or whatever. that uh uh will not be open for discussion to put affordable housing, apartments, whatever on it. Uh I will be adamantly opposed um to any proposal that encompasses the county's parks and green space and uh in fact it concerns me I was hoping to get uh some level of

2:54:01support for a policy that is just not Not not what we're going to do here in this county.

2:54:06Um question because I don't think any of us want to see that h happening, but I thought maybe the legislature le legislature did they take that ability away from the easy.

2:54:16Live it's in the live local. It's in the live local. There's a live local component. However Way I understood it as we could just set our own internal policy as a guiding principle to staff. That this board says uh park space and our green spaces uh are off limits um and and just make it more concrete.

2:54:40Did you see that they're asking I think it's for the school district, the states asking for an inventory of surplus

2:54:45property? Are they asking

2:54:46council?

2:54:48They could. No, we've we've given Pasco County has given a list of its parks, right? It's parks, its green spaces. And this is kind of planting our flag. To anybody that comes in for D R or Live Local or any of the above kind of uh you know uh taxpayer funded subsidized programs, which the taxpayers already own our park space, right? And our green spaces, that th those are off limits. Yeah. Um it's a slippery slope and I just wanna be on the record and I'm hopeful that this board aligns

2:55:19and says, Hey, we'll we're willing to talk to you but those those properties are not on the table.

2:55:24I agree a hundred percent. I that hadn't even given a thought, hadn't been approached by it. So I'm glad you brought it up. Yeah.

2:55:30If if you need a do we need to bring a policy back to us then? I mean we we we can formalize it if the board would like I I don't have a problem to if it helps a position that keeps others from even trying.

2:55:39Yeah. I I'd like to form I think we should make it more formal to it something you know litigious happens in the future, um that we've we've planted our flag. Okay. Um And then the next the next thing I'd like to bring up and we talked about it Uh there was some arm wrestling over the name. Central Pasco employment.

2:56:01I got a good name.

2:56:02Village. I'm not getting between you two. Jeff's in the middle of y'all over that. Uh but looking at those you know, there there's a resid there's the residential component is coming online pretty quick. Met with the applicants on it. And uh just like V O P H Uh our the market has changed drastically. Uh in Pasco and I want to make sure That that's that the Central Pasco employment village is being laid out.

2:56:31I'm not st I'm not getting mill that. Name hasn't been changed. You're out of order. In between yeah. That that we take a closer look at the at the land that's there and the uses. Um uh the the the if if we need to evolve uh the jobs component to attract you know the jobs that we want based on today's market, uh is the residential component formula uh balanced and is it the right Is

2:57:01it fitting for what's going on today? Um I'll bring this up because there's there's there's a lot of action on 52, it's going to be widened, um, air and cutoff, there's projects across the street for to the north, and I just w want to make sure that these legacy plans uh are appropriate for today's market uh with everything that's encompassed. um in in into that into that plan. I wanna make sure that we we get it right. Mr.

2:57:33Starkey.

2:57:34Well, I mean we have to have the landowners or the property owners permission to change it, right?

2:57:41I mean just layout design the road network the substation is currently going in. Just take a look just take a look under the hood is is what I'm saying.

2:57:50I'd be all for that

2:57:51because

2:57:51we'd love to see quality, walkable

2:57:55Yeah, you have the you know the trail cypress are back there. Just take a look under the hood. Um to make sure that that That project, what's left there?

2:58:08m reaches its full um potential. Well

2:58:13I I I could have just done

2:58:14it.

2:58:15Yes sir. So I you know I I I talked to probably the same folks uh about their project and I I do think there's an opportunity for some retail. Uh I do think that you know we we set the employment village there to create jobs though. So I don't want to just see that they get loaded with apartments or just straight residential either. I want to see a lot of job opportunities if it takes time for it to commit so be it.

2:58:35I'm not

2:58:36looking at

2:58:36the

2:58:37right now you've got you've got a couple of major things going on. You got Bellamy Brothers Road that eventually will need to get expanded. You've got fifty two that's not committed to, not even at to the intersection of forty one and even to the north of forty one. So there's still some big infrastructure situations that need to be addressed before I think some changes may to be made or just in counting for that before they can actually do other things that's just gonna increase that traffic 'cause it is still very heavy out there. It it's dangerous frankly with a two lane road with all that traffic, big trucks going back and forth,

2:59:07it's not a safe place.

2:59:08Yeah, I bring this up because the the residential seemingly in the employment district is is starting to get a lot of attention. And I wanna make sure it's not eaten up. With the residential component. And that it's a good quality residential component within the project. It's

2:59:25LAR,

2:59:26right? And um in that we don't we don't uh

2:59:34get bamboozled especially on the employment piece, right? And that we just put our eyes on it 'cause the market's there today. Um And lastly Well with our thank you staff and team for the discussion on the future of our water utility. Um With the landscaping and how much water is being used, especially as more communities come online.

3:00:03It'd be n i in and the future of reclaim is uncertain, right? There's always gonna be two point two, is that what it was? Two point two homes now make it to enough reclaim for one. If if there's a way, you know, we have our landscape ordinances and everything. That we require, but if it's if it's the right time to make a shift towards you know more Florida-friendly landscaping within the communities, we we hear them, at least I do, when reclaim

3:00:34is is down and folks can't water, and you have hundreds of thousands to millions of dollars worth of landscaping in communities that aren't able to be watered and it's dying and it has to be replaced, and the CDDs are responsible for. If there's a a way that that I don't I don't know who decides the type of landscaping and how much water they use go into the communities, but if we're looking to you know, try to manage the potable water supply that we have. Uh I hate to see that wasted on landscaping

3:01:04so

3:01:06more more uh I don't know

3:01:08if it's

3:01:08on Saint Augustine grass because you don't can't do drip irrigation on you know the trees and the bushes that's drip irrigation.

3:01:16I figure it's more in your wheelhouse with the with the fish or Starkey, but something like that.

3:01:26I mean we're we're working against ourselves, right? And I think

3:01:31that needs to change. Yeah, I'm I'm fairly certain we've got some things on the books, but let me to use your phrase, look under the hood, let me see what it is that we're doing, uh if things can be tightened up and and what sort of enforcement provisions and how do we how do we go about that?

3:01:45And w you know I looked at the land the watering requirements in our code with s with Patrick, I think, a while ago. And it's pretty vague. I think it should be limited to drip because that's the most environmentally friendly uh landscaping type. It shouldn't be the the heads that half the time spraying the street or something. The drip irrigation, very effective.

3:02:10Say one. Those are Weightman's thoughts of the day.

3:02:13Good job.

3:02:14Thank you. Mr. Starkey.

3:02:16Um yeah, so I I um no one mentioned here the Tri County Workshop but I I enjoyed that and um Oh, who was there? Oh, Jack was there. Jack

3:02:27was there, you were there. No, Lisa was there. And Lisa was there, correct.

3:02:31Yeah. Okay. Um great job on that. And um I I love the way we come together and for the most part.

3:02:38You guys took your first vote. We were so proud.

3:02:40Yeah. Very good. Um

3:02:44The

3:02:44attorneys had a discussion about that on the side. Oh, we know. We'll

3:02:48have to speak into the microphones, though. Um okay, I uh I am sponsoring two resolutions at NACO, and you guys know of the one, um I think you got a copy of it, which is the um public housing authority. Someone on the vouchers. So um uh anyone who wants to help support me on these uh at the NACO conference, I I'd appreciate it. Um that's where we're going to say that um uh

3:03:19Um the housing vouchers need to go to local residents first, and then they can put some uh out-of-county people on our list, but it's gotta be local residents first, and um I don't have it highlighted here, so oh, and uh uh to be considered local, it's one continuous year, not one day. That's ridiculous. So um So we want 80% of the vouchers to go for local residents, and the remaining

3:03:4920 can be prioritized for applicants who have immediate family residing within the jurisdiction or who possess a documented employment offer within the jurisdiction. So those would all be first in line. The next one came to me from William Crozier. If you remember our friend from the White House in the first Trump administration, he asked me to sponsor this resolution that just passed with this the League of Cities. Um it's um modernizing the capital gains tax

3:04:19exclusion. So I I I won't read the whole thing, but I Send it out to all of you to look at. But they said that this should help uh unlock some of the housing market, so I think this is very good. I if you've noticed the landscaping going up Little Road, which is on good for irrigation. I thought, you know, I thought that we should put a sign. You know how you see have a sign when we're building a county building, whatever

3:04:50this this was approved by or this project is. I thought we should let our people know that's being the trees come from the tree mitigation trust fund paid through from development. They will I think that people are really happy when they know the developers are having to put trees back in. So I don't know the pri the right wording, but let's put a project sign up. Right. I mean kinda

3:05:15like

3:05:16a penny sign.

3:05:18I

3:05:18mean

3:05:18I I've anecdotally heard other things through even our ACAs having discussions with individual citizens and when they find out that that's tree mitigation money paid for by developers. Oh.

3:05:28They're very happy.

3:05:29There's uh there's there's a moment of of clarity there.

3:05:31Yeah, and and they're happy that they're that that that's where the money's coming from and that if they took the trees out, we're putting some back in. So Um lastly, I got this really interesting email over here from the Council on Foreign Relations about an Ebola update. So God, I hope they're not like starting to say it's coming to all of us. Like um but I wanted to send that to you. And um I'm sure our health department is on it, but it I think I forwarded it to you.

3:06:02You did. I forwarded it to our emergency management public safety and public health.

3:06:05I'm not I don't think I I can't I think it's the twenty sixth. I I may or may not jump on there but I wanna make sure someone from the county did so we know what the heck's going on. That's it for me?