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Pasco Countymeeting record

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Machine transcription of 283 recorded meetings — 9% of decided items have one. Speaker names are inferred from voice and can be wrong.

  • Apr 9, 2025Board1:29:57Regular business
    R31Connected City, Village of Pasadena Hills, and Pasco 2050 Discussion

    Several speakers Unidentified A: I like to think outside the box. That's what attracted me to Metro's vision of connected cities. I feel

  • Apr 9, 2025Board2:11:37Regular business
    R31Connected City, Village of Pasadena Hills, and Pasco 2050 Discussion

    Several speakers Seth Weightman: I it's a real quick. I have more questions on Connected City and

  • Apr 9, 2025Board1:03:40Regular business
    R31Connected City, Village of Pasadena Hills, and Pasco 2050 Discussion

    Several speakers Good morning commissioners. Good morning everyone. Um I guess I drew the lucky straw here. I'm honored to be here to represent everyone That's part of the connected city planning area that was connected uh that was created a long long time back and the conversation started obviously with the chatter online I think discussions and Staff said, Hey, why did we even create Connected City? This was ten years back. Maybe just time to go back and see what was the goal, what were we trying to do? And more importantly, was it a good idea? All along. I don't know. I don't have all the answers. Um So I'm going to do my best to walk you through the journey we went on ten years back and the thinking behind it. So it it was year 2014 how it started. If you all kind of look at the map, this connected city in the area to I-75 is

  • Apr 9, 2025Board2:07:28Regular business
    R31Connected City, Village of Pasadena Hills, and Pasco 2050 Discussion

    Several speakers Kathryn Starkey: Well you t you to c I think you skipped a uh connected city slide. Did did I see?

  • Apr 9, 2025Board2:16:56Regular business
    R31Connected City, Village of Pasadena Hills, and Pasco 2050 Discussion

    Several speakers Kathryn Starkey: Is there any executive Space and connected city. David Engel: N not that I know of, ma'am. Kathryn Starkey: Yeah, I'm sure? Yeah.

  • Apr 9, 2025Board1:01:25Regular business
    R31Connected City, Village of Pasadena Hills, and Pasco 2050 Discussion

    David Engel Good morning, Madam Chair. How are you today? My name is David Engel. I am the Planning and Economic Development Director. We have a very timely informational presentation today for through a variety of topics. For the purpose of time management, I just wanted to review them with the board, let them know what's going to be coming up and who's going to be speaking. We're talking about Connected City, V OPH, and the mobility fee study and the PASCO 2050 discussion. It's our intention to spend the predominant amount of time for this agenda item to focus on Connected City. What we're going to do is we're going to invite Metro Development up here for a very brief presentation because they are the largest developer at this time within Connect. Connected City. Then Mr. William Vermilion, he's our MPUD Senior Planner Lead. He's going to provide a report card as to where we stand with Connected City deliverables. We're going to have particular emphasis on the entitlement study because there's been a lot of questions on entitlements, the parts

  • Apr 9, 2025Board2:02:25Regular business
    R31Connected City, Village of Pasadena Hills, and Pasco 2050 Discussion

    Ron Oakley Well I understand what you're saying about sooner, but This is in District One and I would like to give them time to choose the very best spot that goes in District One to help Connected City in this issue about another party.

  • Apr 9, 2025Board1:33:14Regular business
    R31Connected City, Village of Pasadena Hills, and Pasco 2050 Discussion

    Several speakers So that's what happens when someone naive enough raises their hand 10 years back and volunteers and says, How can we help? And this is what we have. Hopefully, others can carry this forward and continue making Connected City better. I want to thank everyone for their time and for having me give uh walk everyone in the past and give the history of the last 10 years, uh, and hopefully the next 40 years. Yes, it's

  • Apr 9, 2025Board2:11:49Regular business
    R31Connected City, Village of Pasadena Hills, and Pasco 2050 Discussion

    Several speakers Kathryn Starkey: Okay. Um yes, sorry, we'll pause you. Yes sir. Thank you. Yes ma'am. Um And let's get back to Connected City real quick. Um Commissioner

  • Apr 9, 2025Board1:07:43Regular business
    R31Connected City, Village of Pasadena Hills, and Pasco 2050 Discussion

    Several speakers don't we create Again, the Connected City is just a placeholder name, but the idea was why don't we create a new town from the internet up? that becomes an economic engine That attracts the jobs, it gets the health care, it gets the fiber connectivity. And by the way, the funding infrastructure. a shortfall that everyone's talking about. I don't know, maybe ask those private guys to pay up a little bit more. than what they were paying in impact fee. And we're like, oh that's great but you know, we could do all of this But no one is going to come to this area unless we put it on the national and international map. So that's how the idea was born. I'm gonna show you a quick video. I don't know why the audio is not playing. If someone could help with that. Uh

  • Apr 9, 2025Board1:32:52Regular business
    R31Connected City, Village of Pasadena Hills, and Pasco 2050 Discussion

    Several speakers tuned. I think there's gonna be more. There just needs to be a little bit of patience as all these parts and pieces come together. But thankfully right now they're coming together, I'd say at an exponential pace. I think the Connected City effect has brought more energy to our area and more economic opportunity to our area, and I think You're just seeing the beginning of that and that's so neighborhood.

  • Apr 9, 2025Board2:08:10Regular business
    R31Connected City, Village of Pasadena Hills, and Pasco 2050 Discussion

    Several speakers David Engel: Well that deck's available as well. I want to see Kathryn Starkey: how the trails connect to each other David Engel: in Kathryn Starkey: Connected City.