DOT 54/41 and Carson Drive improvements
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take a look take a look at it's they'll give you a tourist end of the arm exercise equipment. Um the place in summer camps really going to The kickback there. Um if it did. The next thing, so last time it was DOT's 5441 conversation. uh public hearing at Harris Park and Land Lakes probably had a dozen or so people show up. Um I'm thinking the concerns of seemingly D O T Is kind of scrapped. All of
its plans have gone back to Did you all want to? We're just looking at doing some finding ways to add some relief. Coming north, south, east, west, but one of those options. It's to close off. the eastbound turn lane when you take forty one south onto Carson Drive. And it was on like name accent, I'm sure we're going to receive And a number of calls from folks. Um Conserving cars and Because you do have to take essentially Carson
in to get into the big lots and McDonald's apartment lot. There's a school back there. It is kinda cumbersome to get back um fifty four Um to turn over the top level meeting your career. Um So I bring this up. Just for awareness and for our transportation team, we're as at DOT trying to figure out what the Fed pass forward is to add relief. Uh for this intersection uh improvement project that's been what
thirty years it's been talked about a long time several decades so The folks at Carson that live back off Carson will have concern. And just the the traveling public had the had the big lots and seven eleven and McDonald's had used that to come in and out. with the term lane. So I just asked staff to Yeah, get up to date if they're not already um With the DOT team. That way we can Yeah. have
a clearer understanding what each other are doing and to make sure Yeah, we we check all the boxes because In case the the phone gets fully aware. uh of the changes that may or may not be having yourself. Uh it was a good workshop last night. The other team did a great job with open house and the pictures and engineers with conversing with folks. There was moms and dads and kids coming in, but This isn't a big one for us and um We need to do
what we can as a county to complement DOT to get a good project and have some
interesting.
Thank you. Is this kind of like a divergence that I'm in to we are told about
it?
But it's right away, I guess. Well part of it is they're not looking yes, they're not moving i think we take somebody especially on You see what Big Lost is party with First Big Energy. Originally DOT was looking to take them all the way back to you know where the beat the beats is and that pizza at the pizza house on the more side of the road. Not doing that, they now just have the corner of CVS. Yeah. They're not even really looking at Tibet's longer right now.
probably look at the south Eastern Lane to go or southwestern lane to go west down fifty four, which PSX will come into play. We all know how CSX. Works. Right. With us. Uh So they're they're gonna open their minds up, I guess we'll put Just do it the inversion. Then we Right, right. Deep conversation going. Uh-huh. Yeah, we don't there's
not any unintended consequences of band-aid fixes or what have you. at this intersection.
But but they're also changing the intersection of Bruce B. There also changes the intersection of Bruce B now, a Del Mabry M41. Exact. Is that a no pass thing? No, there's not. My understanding is There's a great separation and They only read these are is there those that's Volk Pro Candy? Well, is there the other
pictures on there? Are there pictures any
quantifying site modification? Oh, just a video.
Sure. The designs they had. Last night was not years for magic disease.
See the brown? One. Yeah. Yeah, we've we've
made requests right dot for all the slides so since we get those bull. We'll push those out to the board members and then messengers see if we will engage. I think Julie stay engagement. Um and try to anticipate any potential citizen impacts. I Dried that a lot,
so I know
Sean
have trusted that. I don't have a problem with that. I think traffic will move much better down 41 if you're not stopping at also at 41 in Delmet. This is the cost. Did they have the money?
Mr. Rogan. I forgot one thing that I had all of this um The things we've got just putting Well O Ronald's flag by the historic oak tree out here on the farm. And I told them they could not dig or put a hole in in the ground or anything. So I wanted to bring it to y'all and let y'all know what they'd asked for. It was just a plaque. Preferable spot. on the side ball on the front side ball by Meridian. that will be right on
the edge of the site. Won't interfere with anything so right by the where the bench is, but there'll be a Stating about the historic tree here on the corner. They kept referring to the bandstand as the bandstand. I particularly uh take offense to that a little bit because this is World War II Memorial. Uh it is Van Stan, but it is World War Two Memorial. And these things are historic. We need to make sure we we
keep that forward going that They're there are things that really bring your eye to hear what's been it many, many years. Any history of Pasco County. What? Uh I'm telling it B O K apply. We'll mount it through the concrete on the edge. out of anyone's way, but it'll be uh a plaque stating the history of of that tree.
What came
first from the Orton the Band Stand? It came first the Memorial or the Bandstand.
Adoption.
I would like the yes, bro.
Trick slow if you want uh thinking for
Yeah.
I want the flooding of this.
Maybe I get approval from the board that
we approve this plaque to be mattered on the On the uh concrete and Not being an apparently proof.
Go
for the second, all favor say aye. Aye. Any close.
So I see Nick you're a Matt there. He was dead lesson, I'm sure he did. But we can take a extra special look at Carson and how folks can get there from 54. Then also DOTs. Propose. options or opportunities coming Carson to Forty one. I mean you're already jumping three lanes of track you you do you come up do a U turn. At Morgan. Well before morning, like do a U-turn essentially
Morgan's the next street up. They come back round or they're coming up take it Morgan and try to jump this intersection. To go westbound. But we cannot because there is a part of this planning is There's still property back here. Quite a bit, tiny a hundred acres or so. And should that be so for development future, I think land use in this area is Based off members at least probably Red Six in this part of the area of my lease. That we design
and plan for accordingly for the volume of Traffic baby. Capturing It's a family size cell there. Their plates are just profit planning and then like said there is a school it's a charter school So it's not the public school with busing. The school may use some level of busing, but which is directly behind. Wendy's Back in back in here. So this whole area is kind of It's pretty airy in the lymphatic. But it's
wonky and and bit dangerous, you know. for folks to get in and out where they need where they need to go. So I
just
One
ball eyes home. Just depending on what moves forward. Okay, thank you, Chairman M
Thank you.