East Pasco park site project

1:08:57Thank you, Chairman Yes. Another another similar reason for pulling this $18 million on the consent agenda, but again, uh supportive of of this project. Um what a fantastic park this is this is going to be and uh excited for for the future of the park. System uh in East Pasco County. This is this is going to help Wesley Chapel and Zephyrhills, really everybody all around. And um you know, I it's it's just tough. when we have to acquire parkland

1:09:28And it's you know This is a a very good piece of park land. Um the most prime location for potential commercial development on this site. Uh so under understanding the value of that land and what it what it means for commerce But uh, you know, it's um uh the the generational value that this site will provide in quality of life to our county is just Pretty. Pretty exciting. uh to have. So thank you all for working through the deal, Mike and Keith. Uh you

1:09:58guys I know it was a labor of love getting this thing done. Uh but again just just a large number which is why I pulled it and uh I'll I'll Uh approve C forty four with a motion.

1:10:10Oh well Commissioner Weightman has com some comment I mean Commissioner Oakley has some

1:10:15I um I'm gr very grateful this is coming forward and It's uh another park in District One which is pretty large and we need as many parks as we can get so It takes a lot of funds and all to come up with Uh more parks and better parks throughout uh the super park will come later. But Two Rivers Park is gonna be great and actually work with uh Robert Thomas on this. on this particular park to name it uh Bob Thomas Memorial

1:10:45Park. At two rivers. So It's it's Very welcome site coming in District One. So Certainly appreciate everybody's work toward this. So thank you.

1:10:56Madam Chair? Yes. So I just gonna say it's like it's gonna be a great park, it'd be a great asset. I'm gonna just say that, you know, Kathy, Keith, your whole team does a phenomenal job with parks. Uh people like 'em, they wanna see 'em. And I think continually people see the I'd rather see it when my kid's little than when he gets older, wanna get 'em done. But I do want to say, I think in the future, when we're negotiating, because we're paying a lot of money for this land, a ton, more than we've ever paid before, I think we've got to start working with these developers at the start to say we're gonna put a park there. We want a

1:11:26good price. And I think if we try to negotiate something to say, we're gonna build it quicker, so you're gonna sell more homes, rather than coming at the end, you'll have a lot more leverage to get it done. But I mean, we've there's gotta be a better value that stretched the dollar out. that makes it better for everybody.

1:11:42And I'll second Commissioner Weightman's motion. Okay.

1:11:45Okay. All in favor? Aye. Aye. Opposed? Okay. Um, I wanted to go mention something on on the consent agenda item number eleven. I don't have a map, it just has the legal so uh but I wanna be sure that uh that area has no Kogan grass and that that they're taking care of that. Um before they develop it in a responsible way. Because that I think that area has a lot of coke

1:12:15and grass.

1:12:18Okay, uh we are on to