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Approved minutes
Approved the item per Staff’s recommendation with revisions to the unsigned agreement for Magnolia Oaks, removed the Pasco County Florida Federally Assisted Housing Inc. DBA from the first paragraph of the agreement and corrected page numbers 42 through 45, and the revisions to the signed agreement were correcting the page numbers 46 through 49.
Several speakers Hi. This is Jennifer Watts from the Coalition for the Homeless of Pasco County. Thank you for the opportunity to speak this afternoon on this issue. I will say that um on the last several years to the point in time count, most specifically this year, we are seeing hundreds of single adults out on the streets, unsheltered, unhoused. We've all seen this as a growing need in our community. I will say even going back to Youth Lane that was originally aimed to be a single shelter because we all have recognized it as a need and then we put it to a family shelter. So we can all recognize the need in our community and I think finding a location that we all agree on is going to be very difficult and I think this is a great start.
Cindy Terrapani Yeah. Uh Ms. Wilson mentioned a homeless camp. This site had a homeless camp also. It had three dilapidated homes um that were being used as this homeless camp. When my client purchased the property, he demolished the homes and ha had the cops clear out the homeless camp. Um he's recently about two months ago had to clear out for a pretty good fee to him. Um s some debris, construction debris that somebody dumped on the site. So clearly when properties are sitting there, bad things happen, but I think the fact that um there is no more homeless camp there and having a d real development will be a benefit. Um just with regard to Jasmine and people driving through on Jasmine, um, unless you live on Jasmine or you live on Hilltop or Osceola or one of those other streets to the east, there's really no reason to to drive east on Jasmine. Um we don't think that very little of our traffic would go there unless they were stopping off on the way home and then continuing home east on Jasmine. Um it's most likely that our when we get into site planning, That access on Jasmine
Paula Baracaldo Commission Commissioners, if we may um and if you're agreeable with this, we would like to present this uh policy to you during the next upcoming homelessness workshop. Uh that way we can have an opportunity to discuss this.