Budget Amendment and Resolution — Tampa Bay Estuary Stormwater Smart Solution Program and Stormwater Education Program — Increase Expense and Revenue in Granting Agreements — $11,886.09
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Kathryn Starkey So we're trying to do and I gave you an example right here on Little Road of a stormwater pond. There's a couple stormwater ponds, maybe three, that are surrounded by ligh books that we're planting. You we most of these developments with the stormwater ponds, they don't put any trees on the edges when they could. It's a great place to put shade trees.
Kathryn Starkey while you're up there, um I understand that the road paving list has been published. I have not seen it. Um and along with that then comes the stormwater improvements on those roads. I can
Kathryn Starkey following up on that and we're at we're past twelve, so sorry to ask this question. Um On the d there are stormwater ponds that never hold any water. Are are they designed that way? Uh is it a dry stormwater pond? And one comes to mind is next to Chasco Elementary because when I was on the school board we were letting Um little we're letting teams play football in that pond because there's never ever any water in it. And it's high there, right? That's sand underneath. Um, are those designed to never hold water? And stonewater pond versus the detention versus retention.
Kathryn Starkey Um I and thank you. I have a question for The applicant and the engineer, not the traffic engineer. Gina, can you put up the picture that my staff sent you that has the Uh oak trees around the stormwater pond? Um you you've all seen this photo. This is driving up Little Road. It's uh kind of near the entrance of Riverside Village on the right hand side of Little Road. Um so these are stormwater ponds that line Little Road. But look what they did with them. They lined them with oak trees. So um Uh. I'm just wondering if you're not sure if you're not we can get our applicants and our engineers to do this instead of having those bald stormwater ponds we could put some of our tree canopy back around the edges of the stormwater pods. Is there any issue with that? Um Yeah, I don't know why we don't do this or require this personally. Okay.
Kathryn Starkey three hours discussion the other day, last week. about how you can bring stormw take stormwater projects and turn them into really amazing projects for the community. Utili if everyone pools their resources together. And uh they showed us projects. The engineering firm was Genesis. They said they worked with you in Texas, by the way, in El Paso. Uh ha half. This uh this engineering firm called H A L F F Engineering purchased Genesis. If you guys remember Genesis, they've been around here for a long time. They were in Tampa. Um They've done these kind of projects all around the country and they showed us one in in Houston where they took a stormwater project and turned it into ball fields and improve the flooding, okay. Um and the area still floods. They've got a skateboard park because it's all concrete, right? Concrete can go underwater and not get wrecked up. Um so when when that river or tributary, whatever it was, floods The fields go under the Benches go under, the skate park goes under. But When the flooding's gone they clean it up and there's their park again. So they they've stopped the the flooding from going out into the streets. Is that the Houston
Kathryn Starkey regulated by Swift Mud and our our county rules. They they um they have to account for any um displacement of water that has to be captured on their property. So that's why you see in all the new developments the stormwater ponds. In the old developments, probably where you live, there aren't any stormwater ponds.
Kathryn Starkey Okay. I just want that on record. I want is that the applicant back there? I just want y'all to know that. I don't I think that's the applicant. that we're gonna get that that cleaned up. So and um Okay, well those are my questions. Um is there anyone in the public that wish wishes to speak to this? Um a question on stormwater. Um are they gonna have to comply with that as well because there there is nothing I don't think they this was built before there was any stormwater regulations. Will that be part of the site plan?
Kathryn Starkey Uh this item uh was published in the April sixteenth, twenty twenty five edition of the Tampa Bay Times for the May sixth, twenty twenty five meeting where it was continued to today. Yes. There you go.
Kathryn Starkey Yeah, so actually the first one that we did, we did it with all the cities. Um we did it out in Saint Leo, I think. Um and we had I had all the cities. But I don't mind splitting it in two. Um
Kathryn Starkey Yeah. And um what I'm what I the picture that oh, never mind. I it's a picture on my iPad, did you get it up? Um there's two of them. Th these are the oak trees that were are are on the stormwater pond on the little road. And there they are there too. And it's lovely. They surrounded The stormwater ponds without juice. It's large. It's nice. Yeah. Okay.
Kathryn Starkey inches lower. Than it is today. And um the developer was able to get an agreement from Swift Mud who permits the flooding and the water plants to agree that that water table was the new normal. So th that's what exacerbated the flooding in this community and then um Sorry, but the HOAs never maintained their stormwater systems. And trees were actually growing up in some of their stormwater systems. And that frankly is not the county's responsibility in an HOA. I it's the s it's the HOA's responsibility to maintain their storm systems. I actually had a put together a meeting with Swift Bud last last year and I didn't have uh sadly no one from that community could make it to the meeting so we could help educate them on on the responsibility. Responsibilities of permitted stormwater systems within a community. The county
Kathryn Starkey Well it depends if they do stormwater plants. Um Barbara, hang on a second, I know you wanna speak. Um, so what are you are you pulling up some GIS or what what are you guys working on? Um Okay, is that gonna take long? No. And in the meantime, did we find anyone from the Stormwater? Did it get on the line? I don't know which Aka is We're missing an Akka.