Commissioner Fitzpatrick Ross Lane and events

2:09:23Commissioner Fitzpatrick.

2:09:24Thank you. Um so I would like to address Ross Lane and Little Road. Um they're rechanneling the traffic at the intersection of Ross Lane and Little Road just a mile. Uh we had a couple citizens speak on this today. It's right next to the VA. Um that is the neighborhood's easy. only in and out. I guess there used to be an out in Tanglewood, but that's someone's driveway, so it is blocked off. I don't know if you can get to that part of it.

2:09:54Um Commissioner Fitzpatrick, are you gonna talk about the the event on the twenty eighth shower?

2:09:59Yeah.

2:10:00Okay. Thank you.

2:10:02Um So they have no other way to get in or out of their neighborhood. So seven some several of the residents have been informed that they were supposed to be getting a traffic signal. So when I'm looking at I don't know if you want to skip forward.

2:10:18Okay. That's just them doing the work. I guess the work took less than just a few days. To complete the work. But they made it to where on Ross Lane you can't make a left out onto Little Row. My question was to staff is when does

2:10:40When do they plan on opening? And was this median done prematurely? because they have access on the south side and the north side of the building. And when if you keep going further If it only took a few days then. Why did they not wait until later on down the road instead of people citizens living in this neighborhood that have trailers that have to come out Make a right hand turn, go all the way down, try to make a

2:11:10U turn, On the little road to go south. If you want to keep moving forward, please, thank you.

2:11:22Oh, do you have this?

2:11:26So on this that I have in front of me, do you have

2:11:31Right. He's not in here, is he? Okay, so on

2:11:38The plan that I have I also have a list of Seventy nine. Seventy-two households that have signed the petition. And since we're listening to our citizens and we're gonna use that. I have over I'm not sure how many, but there are over 72 households. that have signed a petition That they don't feel comfortable having this and I'm gonna read this. We the people as the undersigned homeowners of Crescent Forest

2:12:09Division, Ross, Gunshot Lane, Tanglewood, and surrounding areas, reject the county's proposal of any future redevelopment

2:12:18One hundred and eighty apartment units, no buffer and so basically Um the closing of the access to Little Road South routing all traffic north and eliminating the traffic signals that were promised years ago just because the developer wants to save money shall create a nightmare situation. Okay. So again on this sheet, it shows that there's supposed to be a light here, so people citizens can turn left and right. Now the other thing that I was discussing earlier

2:12:48today is If it's and the citizen was here, if it is truly adding two or five minutes where they have to go down, make a U turn This is The veterans hospital?

2:13:06And you have everyone in that neighborhood if an emergency vehicle needs to come out, now they're getting They can't just go right and make a left. They can't come out of their neighborhood and make a left. Now they're adding two, five minutes onto their travel time, which can be life threatening and can save someone's life if they need to get to that closest hospital. And I would assume that closest hospital would be Trinity at this point or Madison. And they can no longer make a left hand turn at that light. So I find

2:13:36it very concerning that This median is going in so quickly And then especially on this proposal, if they're having an access road in the back Well, then maybe they shouldn't be closing off the left hand turn lane until that access road can take them out and make a left on to Little Road. So Again, does anybody need copies of The petitions? Do you have these?

2:14:05I only.

2:14:08Okay. Well Can I pass these around?

2:14:14I I received one.

2:14:15You received one? Okay.

2:14:19So that was I would like to have an update about making sure they have access in and out. Of their neighborhood since that's their only entrance. Um secondly I was gonna mention the Tampa Bay Pro Combine. I did get to go to the event at Advent Help Sports Center at Wiregrass Ranch. in Pasco County. Um it's a beautiful facility. They were talking about they had the Chicago Which is based

2:14:49out of a Ooh. One's based you have Chicago and Virginia. One is based out of a church and one was based out of a high school gymnasium. And they were looking to bring that basketball pro-combine event here, but not just one time, but in future years. And also it can lead into a six-week training camp. So they're really looking forward to coming to Pasco County. And the facility, if you haven't been

2:15:17Amazing. You have the basketball courts on each side. There's twelve volleyball hoops. You have the weight room in the middle, the Everything. So if you haven't been out there I would definitely recommend going there. Of course it's June second to the fifth. and there's gonna be television, radio, webcasts. And there's Daryl Hepburn, which Towers over me completely. Even in my heels. And lastly I'm well, not lastly,

2:15:47but the third thing was the National Day of Prayer. I was fortunate to be able to attend this event. I know Commissioner Starkey and Mariano were there and I would like to see be able to make sure we can host this event in future and upcoming years. I also attended the EDC celebration with everyone and I was able to speak with the keynote speaker Mike Rayburn. He had spoken about what if. I kind of converted it to how can you make the impossible possible? So it was a very good speech. Lastly, I would like to let

2:16:17everyone know we're having the Commissioner Baby Shower. It is on Friday at 2 o'clock 2 o'clock at Starkey Ranch, uh Stark Starkey Market. And Anything that's brought will be distributed to Suncoast voices so it will help the foster families in Pasco County. Thank you.

2:16:37Very good.