05.18.2021 Pasco Board of County Commissioners Hybrid Virtual Meeting (Afternoon Session)

[Music] doctor's appointment stay seated okay good afternoon everyone i would like to call back to order the pasco county board of county commission meeting of may 18 2021 a reminder for everyone present please silence all your electronic devices and mutual microphones just right [Music] all right at this time we have um two public hearing items are being continued we have uh addendum with published public hearing item which is not it's been moved to okay now we will proceed with public hearings agenda starting with ordinances we have no ordinances i have no ordinances today okay um [Music] looks like i'm missing a sheet let's get mr we'll go ahead and read the rules here there are two rezoning agendas regular consent staff will present each application to the board of county commissioners if staff or planning commission has recommended approval and there is no opposition the application will be considered by the board without further presentation if staff or planning commission has recommended denial or if there is opposition to the application the applicant will be given five five minutes for presentation the opposition will be given three minutes for each individual or five minutes for a group representative and the applicant will be given three minutes for rebuttal any individual disagreeing with staff for planning commission recommendation or anyone wishing to object to any condition of the rezoning may at this time request the petition be pulled from the consent agenda in which case that application will be heard under the regular agenda later on during the meeting otherwise all rezoning applications on the consent agenda will be approved by a single motion and vote if you wish to speak to any petition please give your name and address and name and address and whether or not you've been sworn for the record these are quasi-judicial public hearings the law in florida is that near public support or opposition of an application is insufficient for the sport to take action please limit your comments to those criteria found within the board's land development code okay mr chairman can you let him adjust the microphones because uh go ahead here these weren't working wasn't working it's on but it was not okay um at this time madam clerk

would you swear those in that may give testimony today only any item coming forth yes sir um you are here to speak on any of the matters coming before the board and the public hearings please stand and raise your right hands okay now you just have to stand right stand and raise your right hand thank you all right do you swear or affirm the testimony you're about to give is the truth so help you god thank you thank you you may be seated thank you all right we have uh 10 publicarian items on the consent agenda there are two items for continuous and two items that are being charged to continuous an addendum item that added for continuous these items will be approved with one vote without a presentation unless there is someone in objection of the items so we start with p right here 49.49 item p49 was published in the tampa bay times on march 10 2021. okay thank you mr chairman yes sir item p-49 is a zoning amendment in the name of stephen siller tunnel to tower parkway boulevard which is a change in zoning from pud plan united development to a r4 high density residential district there's a request for continuance on this item to continue you got a motion second to continue time certain all those in favor say aye aye aye all opposed like that motion pass 5-0 b-50 terry would you on future ones would you announce when you're continuing it too because that date yes i i don't have it for p49 or p50 right here um your agenda memo says for 49 it was june the june 8th 2021 meeting at 1 30 in dade city oh and p50 is for 1 30 and you pull richie june 22. yeah on june 22nd no i'm sorry chairman what what p50 says is continue to a date uncertain oh they don't sir okay all right um mr chair i have proof if you'd like on item p50 yes item p50 was published in the tempe times on april 14 2021 item p50 is a mining operating permit and conditional use amendment request uh coastal landfill disposal florida llc mining it's a mining operating permit conditional use permit amendment for an existing mining and construction demolition debate disposal facility which is being requested for a continuance to a date uncertain move to continue second i have a motion and a second all those in favor saying hi all right all opposed like sign motion pass five zero now we start the consent items with p51

thank you sir item p51 was published in the tampa times on february 24th 2021 mr chairman before we go to that terry don't you have additional continuance items that you want to take up yes there's a item p94 which was posted as a as a request for a continuance as well and then there are two additional items on the agenda p63 i believe and p 64. we're taking left individually or together individually p 62 and p 63. oh p 62 p 63 thank p63 cpv is p62 63 is the ridge road those are the two comp plan submittals you're continuing both of those correct correct so p t 61 is the first one p 62 and 63. p94 we'll take that one up now we've got uh rubber state yes i do um the p-62 was published in the tampa times on february 17 2021 p-62 is a comprehensive plan amendment cpel 2014 the central pacific employment village it is the transmittal of the proposed comprehensive planned text amendment to the central pacific mint village sub-area policies the request is to continue the transmittal hearing to the june 8th bcc meeting at 1 30pm second i got a motion a second all those in favor say aye aye aye aye opposed black sign motion pass 5-0 mr chairman the next uh p-63 item p-63 was published in the 10-bay times on april 7th 2021 item p-63 is a large-scale cumbersome plant amendment in the name of cpel 2015 ridge road it's the transmittal of the large-scale commercial plant amendment to the future land use map 2-15 and sheet 20 changing from res1 and pd on approximately 20 point changing from res1 to pd on approximately 20.35 acres this is requested a continuance to june 22 2021 at 1 30 p.m here in newport city june 22nd time certainly thank you got a motion a second all those in favor say hi hi i'll post lifetime motion pass five zero let's go to um that's all right mr chairman yeah just for the um folks there's a lot of folks in the audience there's a lot of folks that are still sitting outside that we're here to listen to p63 i just want to make sure they do know that has been continued to now june we say 22nd yes yeah so that item was continued to june all 22nd now i need to so it's p63 p63 is not going to be heard yeah that was continued june 22nd i just know a lot of people were waiting i didn't want them to have to sit there

and [Laughter] just discontinued okay we had an addendum that's being continued yeah p94 i do item p94 was published in tampa times april 14 2021 item p94 is a zoning amendment in the name of kitty campus university inc changing zoning from ar1 agricultural residential district to a c2 general commercial district on the southwest corner of the intersection of state road 54 in meadowbrook drive this is uh requested for a continuance i'm just checking the date which one was that p94 94 it's an addendum it's the last one it's all the way at the end on pages it's after uh n93 the new system puts it at the end of your rotation if you go to the end right here okay right here after the whole agenda all those in favor say aye aye all opposed like sign motion past five zero that was the gas picture okay now we go [Applause] go back so we'll go back to p60 date this is 51. p50 51. 260. we hadn't covered 260 out of it 51 would be your next would be the first consent item we don't do that the 6p60 we didn't cover it we went from 59 to 61. you haven't done 51. which is your first consented consent item so we've gone through all the comments consent agenda starts at 51. we haven't done consent yet at 61. 51. whoa excuse me that turned back in page two okay uh 51 p 51. item p51 was published in the tampa bay times on february 24 2021 item p51 is a zoning amendment bmi llc it's a change in zoning from an ar agricultural residential district to an i-1 light industrial park district on in east central pasco county on the west side of old lakeland highway north of townsend road containing five acres this comes with a recommendation of approval okay this is a public hearing is [Music] anyone here to speak against p51 anywhere anybody on webex i have uh no one signed up um to in public comment on it i have no one on webex for item p51 okay is anyone at the kiocks for p51 at this point you've got plenty of room in the chambers there should be nobody in at the key there is nobody at the kiosk all right thank you the kiosks need to be turned off while we're having going through this so you need a motion on pe51 okay on consent its own consensus remains on consent

p-52 item p-52 was published on the tampa bay times on february 24 2021 item p52 is pdd217524 it's a zoning amendment named swift mud cypress ridge professional centered it's a change in zoning from an ac agricultural district to a po2 professional office district south central pasco county on the west side of wesley chapel boulevard approximately half a mile north of state road 5456 containing 9.1 acres and this comes with a recommendation of approval okay is there anyone to speak against p52 i have on webex i have no um emails no webex for item p52 and i have no one signed up on the um in-person sheet so there's no one at the kiosk i don't think they hear us out there i apologize it's hard to hear you from out here in the lobby but there's nobody here for this item okay thank you may remain on uh consent just come inside since there's no one there's plenty of room yeah at this point anybody who is outside should be in the chambers for so we don't have for hearings so if they're at the beginning so we don't need to ask about the mic out there um that's why we had it ask them out there outside of the kiocks i don't know if she can hear me or not but ask if there's anyone out there that's going to speak they need to they need to move into the room separated oh no one out there to speak okay uh p52 remains on consent p-53 item p-53 was published in the tampa bay times on uh may 2nd 2021. item p53 is the zoning amendment pdd217539 serengeti mpu astro plan unit development uh dune fl land 1 sub llc it's the extension of an expiration date for an existing mpd master planning development zoning district to implement a mediated settlement pursuant to section 70.51 florida statutes this comes with a recommendation of approval with conditions okay is anyone here to speak against p53 i have two individuals that are signed up um in person they're here right there for the atom okay and i have no um email on it and i have no one on webex for this item okay and no one else has come in so there's no one to speak against this item and no one at the key to approve no no no no it remains on consent okay all right all right b-54 item p-54 was published in the tampa times on april 14 2021 and by affidavit of certified mail outs and post site postings item p54s pdd21 for it's your land excavation operating permit and conditional use

request in the name of sitex and our holdings llc it's an operating permit and conditional use permit for land excavation and mpud master plenary development district in west central pasco county on the east side of river glen boulevard approximately 300 800 feet north of the intersection of state road 54 and river glen boulevard on about 19.6 acres this comes with a recommendation of approval with conditions okay is anyone on webex or i think against this item i have no emails i have no one on webex for p54 and i have no one that is signed up in person okay so it remains on consent p55 item p55 was published in tempe times on april 21st 2021. item p55 is pdd210363 scale comprehensive plan amendment cpel 2103 causeway it's the transmittal of a proposed large-scale comprehensive plan amendment to the future land use maps 2-15 and sheet 12 changing from com commercial to pd plan development on approximately 35 acres of real property located at the southwest corner of roaches run in land elix boulevard and a text amendment creating sub-area policy flu 7.1.58 causeway pd and a map amendment to the future language map 2-9 adding sub-area map 2-9-58 causeway this comes with a recommendation of approval in case anyone to speak against p-55 with your own web up i have no one on webex no emails and um i have no one who signed on the sign on sheet okay no one in the room to speak to against p-55 okay remain some consent p-56 item p-56 was published in tempe times on april 21st 2021 all right item p56 is ut210262 it's a resolution by the board of county commissioners of pasco county florida designating that area commonly known as cypress preserve phases 3b and 2b3 as a streetlight surface area and consolidating cypress preserve phases 3b and 2b3 with the existing cypress preserve street light service area for street light improvements and to levy assessments against the property benefited by the street lighting improvements in accordance with the pasco county code of ordinances chapter 94 article 3 sections 94-46 94-46 through 94-56 it comes with recommendation of approval okay does anyone here to speak against p56 is there any webex or so i have um p56 no webex no email and no one has signed on the sign up okay may remain on consent p57 item p57 was published in tempe times on april 21st 2021 item p-57 is a resolution by the board of county commissioners of pasco county florida authorizing an upgrade to the street lighting improvements and an assessment

rate increase for the country close street light service area in accordance with the pasco county court of ordinances chapter 94 article 2 sections 94-46-94-56 okay is anyone here to speak against beef itself i have no email no one on webex and no one signed up on the sign up sheet okay may it remain on consent p-58 item p-58 was published in the tampa bay times on april 21st 2021 item p-58 is a resolution by the board of county commissioners of pasco county florida authorizing an upgrade to the street lighting improvements and an assessment rate increase for ernie's court at van dalen village street light service area in accordance with the pasco county court of chapter 94 article 2 sections 94-46 through 94-56 it comes with a recommendation of approval okay does anyone ever speak against p59 58 858 p58 okay i have um no emails on p58 no one on webex and no one has signed on the sign-in sheet okay may it remain on consent next item p-59 item p-59 was published on tampa bay times on april 21st 2021 item p-59 ut210303 is a resolution by the board of county commissioners of passport county florida authorizing an upgrade to the street lighting improvements and an assessment rate increase for the austin estates street light service area in accordance with the pasqua county court of ordinances chapter 94 article 2 sections 94-46 through 94-56 comes with a recommendation of approval okay is anyone here to speak against so um for item p59 i have no email no one's on webex and no one signed up to speak okay may it remain on consent p-60 item p-60 was published in tempe times on april 21st 2021 item p60 is ut 210306 is a resolution by the border county commissioners of pasco county florida authorizing consolidation of the areas commonly known as wood trail village units 1 2a and 2b and wood trail village and wood trail village unit 3 into one wood trail village street light service area an upgrade to the street lighting improvements and an assessment rate increase in accordance with the pasqua county court of ordinances chapter 94 article 2 sections 94 46 through 94-56 it comes to a recommendation with approval for approval okay anyone here to speak against p60 i have no emails on it i have no one on webex and no one is signed up on the sign up sheet okay with that it remains on consent and i pleasure the board on the consent items remove to approve the consent agenda second got a motion a second all

those in favor say aye aye opposed like sign motion pass five zero p-61 item p-61 was published in the tempe times on march 10 2021. good afternoon everyone tammy snyder planning and development um this is a zoning amendment life church npd master planned unit development victorious life assembly of god incorporated a rezoning request from an ar agricultural residential zoning district to an mpud master planned unit development district to allow 122 single-family detached residential units on approximately 41.80 acres and comes to you with a recommendation of approval and i do have a powerpoint all righty live church and pud there's a location map it is just on the east side of old pasco road just a little south of overpass road proposed as a rezoning request from an ar zoning district to an mpd to allow 122 single-family detached residential units next slide also requested are variations from the ldc neighborhood park landscaping the applicant wants to install the landscaping internal to the park rather than around the perimeter neighborhood park acreage the requirement is 1.22 acres the request is 0.7 acres payment into the sidewalk fund in lieu of construction of the sidewalk on old pasco seeing us how old pasco is currently being widened and then allowance of an additional 10 foot lane at the entrance for emergency access there's also a proposed emergency access to the south of this project which will be utilized if and when the roadway to the south blair road i believe it is is constructed however at the time of site plan approval emergency accesses will be reviewed and additional emergency accesses may be required elsewhere regardless of the southern rug construction next slide and here's their master plan next slide all right the planning commission heard the item at the april 22nd 2021 meeting and voted to recommend approval with amended and added conditions of approval first of all the park landscaping the planning commission recommended approval of the cred request and the intent of this section of the code is to create an aesthetically pleasing atmosphere which internal landscaping will achieve and it creates a more open and inviting space rather than a space that can appear segregated and also obstructing the view of children playing you know with fencing or plantings could possibly create a safety concern the park size the planning commission

recommended approval of a park no less than 0.9 acres as you know the request was 0.7 and it must have at least three amenities installed and the intent of the neighborhood park requirement is to create recreational opportunities and is parked with the addition of a minimum of three amenities will certainly provide recreation paying into the sidewalk fund the planning commission recommended approval of that of course as old pasco road is being constructed it wouldn't make sense for them to construct a sidewalk just to have it torn up and reconstructed the emergency access the planning commission recommended approval of this request as well ldc section 901.3 does allow for an extra 10 foot lane at the entrance of a project to serve as the emergency access however as i said the conditions state that the proposal will be reviewed further at the site plan review stage and then their added condition about pond fencing the planning commission recommended addition of a condition to require fencing around the storm water ponds for safety the land development code only requires fencing in certain situations such as wet ponds that have banks with slopes greater than four to one on this project the planning commission has requested that all ponds be fenced regardless of slope this has not been imposed on other similar projects and the planning commission did not provide any unique factors of this site that would justify that requirement being applied here when not applied on other projects and additionally fencing can potentially cause issues with proper pawn maintenance and may become unsightly which could have the potential to devaluate properties in the subdivision next slide the subject parcel currently reflects the original zoning district of ar and it's just under 42 acres of vacant unimproved land and ldc does specify that variations from the code may be reviewed and approved by the planning commission and board during the public hearing held on the application for which the mpd for an mpud zoning amendment and variations are allowed where the bcc specifically finds in that particular case that the proposed variations meter exceed the intent of the code and planning and development department has reviewed this and given you our recommendations the proposed request is consistent with the pasco county ldc and the applicable provisions of the pasco county comprehensive plan and with that pdd recommends approval with conditions

[Music] so the applicant is on webex but not able to be promoted there is a call-in user so he might be calling in on a number we can allow that person to talk if you'd like to see if it is mr al balutia so he's calling him to speak to us well we don't know there's a number we don't know the number oh okay that's in there and oh the number just hung up the number just hung up so um okay so we're not able to promote mr volusia on this okay is anyone here to speak at this item other than the applicant yes sir i um do not have any emails um and besides mr volusia no one else is on webex however we have two individuals that signed up in the sign-in sheet that are here today and they're in the room i hope so okay i'll see you so we have christopher phillips and valerie phillips okay the two that signed up you'd come forward okay [Music] yeah that would be justina and now we've been having a lot of technical issues but we're here we're okay introduce us this is justina gale florida design consultants al balucha bar design consultant mike davey with kpo yep again shelly johnson the applicant's representative craig wick jb from here [Music] or whatever if you'll be available uh let us let the people that are going to speak to this item here in in our presence and then we'll come back to you to answer any questions okay okay okay [Music] name and address for the record um my name is valerie phillips and i'm here to speak on behalf of my son christopher phillips he's a homeowner behind this such property on williams acres on the blair drive um i think i'd emailed everyone i hope you got my email on this i had also sent video that i couldn't get out yesterday and they said they received it this morning but i'm not for sure if you received the video the video was very important to it because i was standing in front of this property the subject property and there's two schools just to the north of old pasco road and overpass road it's um cypress creek middle school and cypress creek high school and then the hernando pasco community college for the former farming arts is there right and

um if you would sustain in front of their property their exit would be one exit because blair drive is a private road williams acres when they developed these uh mobile homes in there they decided that this was going to be a private road and it exited onto old pasco road or overpass road which is now closed so they put them a new entrance there so if you look at the map that i had on uh page 25 of the subject property it shows that blair drive runs in between the subject property and the new industrial park that's going to be built there from the the company on the wastewater uh spray land the old right next year on old basket road and they're developing that as well um there's right now so many cars going up and down through there and with them having one exit because to the south is blair and just south of that is the industrial park right next to it blair drive to the intersection of old pasco road and overpass road is only 0.3 miles and so they if they have one exit they're going to be a tenth of a mile to the intersection am i confused or is there exit on to old pasco road let her finish her comments so you got one more minute be an exit on to old pasco road for the subject community but it would be on the old pasco road which is when it's developed i'm sure if what i've been reading it's going to be four lanes maybe five so and then you got a tenth of a mile here at the intersection to get on i-75 are they going to have to go out and make a u-turn to go south to 54. i mean they're going to have to cross a few lanes to get over there you're talking 122 homes if they have two cars per home a lot of us do and and then some you're talking about 250 more cars in that area right now and i talked to tom lane he's in charge fdot project for the i-75 and he just cannot believe that the industrial park is being built right now and they're right side by side uh because on it the southbound ramps took up most of my son's community back there in the back and then the industrial park if you see that video is right there next to it and so then you got on and off ramps in that little piece of property of 40 acres they want to put 122 homes in there i just am not understanding i think we should wait uh we tried to attend the planning commission meeting and in that planning commission meeting we were registered online and him and my son and i were both there

his name was on there in that little square we never could get connected for them and eventually they said well you wasn't approved well i have the emails that i sent to all of you that shows we were approved and we were on there okay and in that meeting they had said i'm not for sure who represented the community the subject property but they said that uh winslow one of the commissioners asked them one of the people in the planting asked them when is old pascal road going to be done and they said at the same time as 75 and that they said 20 22. well talking to tom lay who's in charge of that project he said it's been pushed back until summer 2023 and if they have problems with that big overpass which is going to come from boyette like the one on bruce b downs does over top of everything to go southbound that it may take into the beginnings of 2024. so there's just a lot of dump trucks and you i talked to the school there's like 80 buses trying to come through there and if you watch the video i sent you you will see that i think we need to put the brakes on this project at least until we get that 75 in that red light and get the infrastructure done there's a lot of construction going on down there on the south side of the the seven mile stretch of old pasco road and it's just if you want to add more in between those two it's going to cause problems for the state with 75 because they're going in and out of there with dump trucks and water trucks and then right there at the industrial park they're doing the same thing and then not even a a half a mile down the road just beyond that mobile home park there they're doing it again right there too 1100 homes going in there i'm real happy that the intersection came there at oakley so we can get people moving out of the way and keep people going my big big big thing to my heart with this project is i live just facing the epperson ranch off of curley road i'm at tenderloin curley the first driveway mr oakley i think i've spoke with you on the phone about that construction but my response time to my son where i used to go down curly and across the limb and over overpass road was five minutes when he had a seizure now i have to go up around 54 i mean down around 54 or up 52 25 minutes so now if you have more your time's up okay if you have more it's probably going to be about 40 minutes all right thank you for your thank you for your comments i appreciate it back to the applicant

hello we hear you can i can i make a comment this is justina we can't understand what you're saying with your uh connection hi can you hear us this is the applicant mike davey with kb home here with al balucha and justina from florida design communities can we answer any questions i have some questions this is okay let's ask questions by uh commissioner starkey um one i i would want there to be no fences i'm in agreement with the staff that defenses are gonna be an eyesore and um i think they're going to trying to make that area all incorporated into a park-like setting and i think the fence would if the slope is within the safety rules of of uh whoever makes those rules then i think it's better to not have the fence that's number one number two i'm just kind of curious from our staff knowing that the um high schools are up here then you've got the park not too far from here right what's it isn't there a park on the other side it's not it's not quick to get to you gotta right now how let's everything's set up it's on the other side of 75. so 75. so i'm wondering um what is there a trail network planned for this area because i don't see any reservation for any multi-use trail on this and so i'm wondering where it is since there's a middle school in high school up the street in a park around the corner has anyone planning anyone looked at the trail network in the area mike you don't have a trail up there in there well you should i've never heard of a trail coming down old pascal well there should be one i'm sure there'll be sidewalks that's not the scene in portland where's the trail coming from there what's the connection of a trail i mean if there isn't one you should be planning for one that's what i'm saying if you don't ask them to put one in they're not going to to to answer the question for old pasco road there's not a trail that is indicated on our official maps there's no other transportation method here but get in your car and drive somewhere the nearest trail is located at overpass road and continues westward down bennington what what amounts to bennington drive but is there i don't know what that is but i'm just i'm just suggesting that you suggesting that someone look and try and plan for something that connects to that school and other amenities that are around because there are many ways to travel beside your car that are coming

and if we don't plan for them you're not going to have that those corridors though that's all is there a trailer connected to boyette road commissioner we'll have to check but i think old pascal road probably has a multi-use path that's part of the design an old pascal road and i think overpass also has one well i'm hoping so and i'm hoping it's not smushed up against the road just like you saw the fatality that just occurred in on the start well it was the pinellas part of the starkey gap connector uh but when you have a trail smushed up against the road it's still dangerous so it's not there yet but so you know when overpass is built they will continue overpass road through connected city across curley on to hankart road and then eventually it comes out at 301 and actually um if we had a trail to that area that could go that way right it could connect to the trail that's on 301 there in jeffrey hills that'd be great and continue on to dade city and on to the north so that that could be a connection we would have there the traffic will change once we open that back up because that road is going to alleviate a lot of problems are happening now because they can't cross over 75 but the connection that's not even built there on the other side for overpass going to the east that's not built but once the overpass is done they're gonna build that area and then eventually four lane uh old pasco road and a lot of issues will be solved when that's all four lane across there from 54 to 52 because it's right now is pretty much a two-lane road and a lot of traffic here yes sir thank you thank you mr chairman um you know you heard from me a lot in the past about old pasco road and the concerns with old pasco road of only being tuned lanes in the amount of development that's currently going in there's there's a ton of development that's currently going on el pascal road there's a lot of proposed development along old pasco road as well um one of the things we all agreed upon when we did the industrial park is that that industrial park cannot receive it co until that portion of old pasco that sits in front of the industrial park was widened um at the same time you know i don't have a set date nobody's giving me a set date of when the remainder of old pascal road is actually going to be wide and we've spoken about it we know thankfully f-type helping once again helping us

to widen that road but commissioner starkey is correct when you think about the school and i know that school very well because i have two children um i have one that goes to the high school and that one goes to the middle school and it's very similar to the situation that we've heard about in the kind of the areas where you and i shared commissioner okay so you and i kind of share that area and we kind of share that area on boyette and if you look at boyette road and where wesley chapel district park is there's in and commissioner starkey alluded to this um you got kids walking in the ditches on the grass to go back and forth and adults as well i've known of people that have gotten hit on bikes on boyette road and actually one unfortunately passed away this was a couple years back so we're kind of running into the same situation at old pascal road so when we think about the future and we think about good development in access whether it be trails or for just vehicles alone unfortunately you know and i've stayed this for a long time i mean old pasco we should have considered that or i did but and not you fellow commissioners too a lot of you did too but in the past way down in the way back when it should have been done knowing that a lot of this development was going to come and now we're stuck between a rock and a hard place because you have more proposed developments more proposed developments on a two-lane road that's very dangerous the amount of school buses in that person that mentioned earlier is not incorrect about the amount of school buses again i drive it on a regular basis and um the school but the amount of school buses going along with pasco roads is incredible and some of those areas with the blind spots and the turns with no shoulders where the buses go off the road um even my truck and i've even taken my rv down that road before in the past and uh not doing it again um because that was not fun and there's actually an rv park there so you know i have i have concerns um and unfortunately we're not able to hear from the developer i don't know why the meetings open why are they not here nope well no the only there's no applicant here so i'm just not sure why but the meeting's open now why either the applicant's not here we don't have a good connection because i'd love to hear from them and have a conversation with them but we can't do that right now mike was there well they just kept having to cut they kept cutting it off and they had it cut off

so i would love to have conversations with them but i think this item should be continuing until we can have the applicant sitting right in front of us so we can go back and forth having a conversation because right now we can't so that's fair that's being fair to the applicant but it's also being fair to the people that have come here and spoken that's my motion is to continue this all right um hold it commissioner moore to what date just so that we don't have a reaction well so this is be honest and to be honest with you this should really be being held on the other side of the county now because we have opened up the rooms so i think we should be getting back to where we're hearing items on the appropriate side of the county since there's public comment people are allowed in because they had to drive all the way you know you know for 50 minutes to get here so let's start giving you the june 8th meeting i don't know if you think it's pretty loaded i don't know if two dates aggressively i'll leave it up to staff and you guys but um if you think it could fit in june 8th it's your agenda call well i know there's been some big items continue that are going to take they're going to have a lot of public comment from my understanding but i could be wrong but but i'm fine if you think we can fit it in june 8th i'm fine to continue that but um i need to give application the applicant the opportunity i think we need to give the public an opportunity and i think we need to research that road i think staff needs to come back to come back to us and say this is exactly when old pascal road is going to be widened i hear about it every single week and only a portion a small portion that's like kind of in my district but you know we share that area so there's my motion to june 8th if you want to push it back further it's up to staff and more discussion please so i've got a motion to continue this item till june 8th do you want to say something i did yesterday i'd like to do that go ahead and speak before we do that thank you um and commissioner i think you bring up some great points you get all these homes that come in no sidewalk in front or no trail alongside it it's great to make in the contribution but i don't think that should be opened up until really that sidewalk's in place because all those kids heading up to school coming back we're going to put some safety percussions in there at least until the under construction or even beforehand uh i'm off also not comfortable uh taking the park size down to you know 0.9 acres there's no reason it can't stick at 1.2 which is our code granted they gave us extra right away but still

there's nothing else in for this those kids to do if you look at the development there's no i don't see anything on there anyway does anyone maybe that's something they can discuss but those kids need somewhere to play and not just out going across the school yeah that's busy those kids are using the district park that's what they're going to end up when that's completed trail of the district park on overpass road but in your own neighborhood we put that park ordinance in for a neighborhood for the kids to be able to stay in the neighborhood and play and i really like the fact that the they're not riding bikes planning the commission actually put some amenities in there as far as to do that i like to see them do that too far away yeah yes um i can understand if they were to put a brown wooden fence in there but i know like carlton arms just different for an example that black fence i'm just concerned with safety because i know when we had a pond out north of 52 and three-year-old boy head down in the pond so do we have any safety guidelines around ponds and retention ponds it depends on the slope depends on the slope if it's greater than four to one then yes you're required to put a fence up these are not deeper than four to one and these are not four to one so what's the depth on them they're gentle slopes they're all over starkey there's no fences well you two you're always not gonna know the difference on the slope so that's what my concern is there's the there's the the there mike carbala right there can answer you okay i apologize could you repeat the question please i'm just concerned about the slow um just basically retention puns in general and the water safety of kids and drowning since it is one of the leading cause of deaths in florida for children under the age of five so ponds as far as they being adjacent to roads or expenses around ponds what does that mean it's required four to one if you're typically four to one slopes i'm sorry yes but if it's less than that you don't have to put a fence right correct yeah but what's the depth of the pond just curious it doesn't matter it just depends on where the water ends i mean some ponds never have water some yeah the theory is that if it's less than if it's if the slope is not greater than four to one that anybody can get back out of the pond once they get into it four to one yeah as opposed to a pool where it's a vertical face right it's four to one you can walk up that mr chairman

you know sorry i know he made a motion to continue i don't if i heard a second yet but this was one last thing this is just for something for the team the staff and everybody you know that's involved in any type of projects along with pasco road there there has to be a point here where this is my opinion that we're we need to start requiring some of these developers to put into the pot to widen that road or it's going to take forever i know we said that we're going to have fdot helping but f not is not spent paying for 100 of whiting that road we have net we have not heard that if mr cabal that's not an agreement correct no not yet exactly so that's an assistant so we talk about kicking the can down the road well if we're going to allow projects this road needs to be widened it has to happen do they pay impact fees do they pay transportation impact fees is that where you get the money to widen the road um that doesn't afford everything in this county well i'm just saying where do you get the money to widen the road well i mean that's that's the point of those funds and but you know whether or not they they make the county hole as a different discussion right but wait i just you know again those roads that road is not safe you have multiple schools there this is also the same spot that you have the new um the new um i call it a convention fine arts center right as well oh yeah but and commissioner stark you brought it up you brought it many times you know if we're going to make these roads safe there's going to have to be access for these kids to get back and forth if we're going to have a community in a quote of a walkable community then it you know that has to be thought about but my head's up was kind of to the planning staff that you i mean they need they need to be looking at that right right has to be done right that grid has to be in place and people everyone needs to know where it is but drive on 50 54 in old pasco and see how much traffic is coming out there now and see where it's going don't the impact fees also go to parks there are different impact fees for transportation and for parks and for libraries yeah and for fire stations the each each component has its own its own impact fees right there mr maron thank you mr truman i think the commissioner brings up another good point as far as all the development coming in it's closed now maybe there should be a what they used to have a proportionate chair right there folks oh yeah

make sure you guys hear this you know commission moya i think you bring up a good point development coming in we used to have certain things would make them do a pipeline project can consider a proportionate share on top of what the impact fees would be and i think on this roadway maybe we should be taking a look at that and that can be part of the discussion when it comes up except that the legislature has taken away your ability to do that right that's why we don't do proportionate share anymore okay yeah okay your emotions still stand yeah continue to june 8th date city 1 30 well second well i want it i've got a second okay but okay under discussion let me ask you something if uh if this were to go through then how long would it be and i don't know if the applicant could even interest how long would it be before anyone moved in here it'd be years two years yeah two years yeah yeah let's just find out given the opportunity and you know to let's find out some of that if staff would do some research also and bring it back to us on this item when we come back to dade city also uh all right well i don't want to delay it anymore look at the one look at some of the information we need on when that road will be improved and and the possibility of trails bring that back to us at the same time so i think that'll help everyone concerned so okay all right i got a motion a second all those in favor all right thank you all right all opposed like that motion pass five zero okay and we'll go to item p 64. item p 64 was published in the tampa times on february 17 2021 good afternoon good afternoon sir uh commissioners aims to call the public works and um next slide please this is the lake with the villa spivas number 3354. excuse me um storm damage roads they were temporarily repaired and just by way of reminder um back in march 2021 where the public hearing which was continued which gave commissioner fitzpatrick an opportunity to meet with the community so just by way of refresher these roads were temporary repaired because of the storms in 2015-16 this is a board-initiated project roads are in this project 305 lots 310.79 erus next please estimate this cost is 1.4 million dollars maximum cost per eru is four thousand six hundred and nine dollars eighty-four cents the discounted amount is two hundred and eight two thousand two hundred and fifty one dollars

maximum cost per eru after the discount is three thousand seven hundred and seven dollars and twelve cents um the annual installation is over 10-year period and the interest rate is 3.25 percent interest next please this is the location map of the project area next this is one of the historic photos from 2015 next and these are more recent pictures about six or seven months ago see the point drive and i think there's one more um this is showing where we are chip seal if you see the some areas um to the right midway in the pictures where the um chip seal is no longer it's it's um wearing all wearing off yeah and that's it i have additional photos yeah well sure oh thank you so i had additional photos regarding this and i did have some concerns as you can see when the photos come up and then i know there are four other concerns jumping adjust them now or okay so one was the stormwater project the stormwater project is going to be is already in the works they've already gone out and started the surveying this project would not be started until 12 to 18 months is what i was told yeah next spring making sure that there's enough time for the stormwater project to be completed i do know on the other side there is a storage shed being completed as well and this is this isn't lakewood village but this is the road this the road parallel to lakewood villas on the right side that's what all the roads used to look like but again we'd have to wait until that storage shed was completed because that's what the well the roads are already deteriorating and i'm sharing this picture because if this is what it looks like a couple hundred feet down the road i'm afraid that the other side is not going to hold up um another concern okay so storm water the storage we have paving 12 to 18 months we'll have to make sure it's timed properly another concern newport richie was asking originally to postpone this project because they were thinking about a septic to sewer but that project wouldn't even even be in consideration for another five to seven years which i honestly don't think these roads would last another seven years and lastly mr ainslie were you able to find out the access to the mobile homes because then they would have to be included or are we going to not allow them they're not included and the question about traffic count we don't have that information so because they use that as an access

access road into their neighborhood are we going to not allow them to have that access road or are they going to pay a percentage we'd have to recalculate them pay a percentage percentage but um what i'm saying is that when the original calculation was done there was a gate there and the access was limited so it was told that it was just for emergency reasons i've been hearing in the meetings that they're using it on a daily basis so let's change it but we do not have a traffic count for for that existence and five to ten cars going by in the just the couple minutes i was taking the photos so i do know that should be taking consideration thank you okay did anthony bradford have something to add to the maybe the storm water issues or something how that's going to be done how they're going to fit in with this project yes branford and public waste director um i wanted to add when the question came out about a pending storm water maintenance project yes it's coming up and it's going to be starting spring of next year but it's going to be done well in advance before we start the pvas project which is going to be fy 2023 and and that project is supposed to assist in you know preventing water from getting into homes as well as the roads so there are going to be pipes installed and inlets installed as well so that being done right before the pvas is done and yes would be in great shape at that time yes that'll be done way ahead before we start surveying sticks are already in the ground at the end of cyprus and ronald drive and also on the opposite side of the lake and some a neighbor in the community citizen had said they were getting ready to run pipes or something to the lake to make sure this roads weren't the homes wouldn't be flooding so you're telling us the p vast won't even take into consideration if even if approved today until 2023 fy23 yes so that will continue the project later on down the road and then so the if you can go back to the beginning of the photos okay so this is starting this is the second entrance in which isn't this project but if you go down cypress drive and make a left this is the other entrance into the project on kena and then that's what i'm afraid of as those roads not lasting another five to seven years if you can continue please not sure they'll even last until fiscal year 2023 but you can continue you can continue that was on the other side do we have anyone signed up on webex mr chairman

if we before you get to public i like to comment can we finish the comment so can i finish it go ahead marianne we'll let her finish it all right so the road was kind of up and down here but if you want to keep going this is on rental road going down rental and then this was that side street may have been that same street actually um keep going and then this is where cypress knoll actually starts i think it's madrid if you go to the next photo this is also the entrance into the mobile home park and that they've already have complete filled in all those potholes you can continue please so that's madrid and cypress know and then continue there's a couple more just at this intersection and then we're going to go down cypress knoll and then just it continued and then there's just as you can see and and so when you see when you see it crack in chip seal there's not much to patch i mean that i mean that's can you finish that's very thin layer there it's not like it's a big old deep asphalt road yes again bravo that was director exactly um once you see those crafts coming and the patching what we call the road is beyond portal patching right because any further work that we do is very expensive and costly so it's time for us to mill and pave the road there was another house another street i think parkside when i was driving around the lake when you walk down you could take your foot and move the rocks back and forth and the one gentleman said he's been sweeping up these rocks for about three years now so and then there's a lot of areas where the road is decaying not there anymore so that was the roads oh and there was another one and it was right in front of ronald and cyprus there was actually grass growing up in the middle of the road so okay you want to pull that up oh mr man you got that picture or not yeah he showed it yes he showed it to me previously before the meeting no it was from myself uh while they're pulling that up mr sneinsnider uh this is the road that my bro my brother lives on cypress stole and though he's in favor of the pvas i'm not allowed to vote correct correct okay i can resend it if you would like to is that is that the on the entryway into cyprus into liquid from uh mass ave that's right in the entrance you're coming in right yes when you come in on ronald this is the photo

um if you need me to send resend it but when you come in there's dips in the road or cracks and there's grass growing into the middle of the road yep my face on my video might even show that oh okay if you would get a defensive senate video so that's why i'm concerned the roads are not going to last well and you know i looked at that too and that was one section of the road that i was suspect with um branford you just mentioned about potholes too now i asked staff to send me how many pothole repairs they've done for the past three years they've sent me the past six years i think there's like six potholes that were done in the past three yeah i'm not i'm not aware of that data but i can look into came from your staff um yes i can i i'll i'll look into it up here on the left um well there's pothole there right off the bat there was there was a pothole wait oh our screen went out but right up here if you slow down like right here that's where that grass is right there right on the side of the road but you don't really do potholes on chip seal well i'll agree so this is what the road condition is so you can look at it just you're driving the road going down and i drove it all the way down i didn't video with the whole thing down but i drove it all the way down i then drove down three cul-de-sacs coming up i then drove on the parallel road that runs up to the side all the way through and that would that's what drove me to actually go find it well how much money we spend to maintain this road and there's like six potholes in the past three years we're not spending a lot of money on this thing this is another one yeah i don't think that's the issue i think the issue is the please let me finish please let me finish when we have people that live in a neighborhood and they respond now a false paving assessment is one thing when you go to the public and ask them what they think i'm open to listen to what they have to to take the results of that even better but you've got a petition that we received i think yesterday maybe this morning 207 people out of 310 erus have said they don't want it i mean why are we forcing this don's people in an area that doesn't need it you could fix that one little section right there i agree take away that one section everything is in good shape and that's the busiest road going into that that little section right there go fix that but the rest of it it can wait and if these people don't want to spend their money so their money why are we forcing it

down their throats 210 people don't want it out of 310 euros i don't even know why we're even discussing this to any any further again this is like another crane's roost people have clearly spoken they don't want it they were also concerned on parkside about people have come also said to me they were told and they remember being told that's and a lot of the roads are cracked like that so they've told me yes we were told originally when they were doing the temporary chip seal they would be come back in five years they were aware they were they knew about it they didn't have an issue with that they knew the roads needed to be done now also one of the major concerns was the speeding so mr mike kabala and i had spoke about that as well and he had addressed that he was going to look into putting in the flash and speeding signs or other caution signs and my other question is what do we need to do to reduce the speed limit in there down from 30 miles an hour to 25. well let's let's stay on the paving first so we would we would want to conduct you know a traffic study a speed study and and i've talked with traffic operations about uh accomplishing that okay thank you all right i have uh this is a public heart on this item so i do have a person here to speak and i have uh an email to read into record so if we'll go ahead and finish that up then we'll decide what to do from here all right the individual that signed up judy markson you could state your name and address for the record you may begin judy markson i have a home at 7161 cedar point drive 722 cedar point drive and recently sold a home on rental i sold that home because of the flooding i have gotten with all of as many residents as i possibly can i totally agree with the comments why are we forcing residents to pay 1.4 million now when when property insurance costs are going up by legislation 13 this year in the state of florida on top of property tax increases and the like we went just a handful of folks and i went door to door went to over 200 well 214 people only five people were for the project only five we stopped knocking on doors because of the risks involved they do have a question um on whether miss fitzpatrick should be a voting member because you if if the records are correct you own a

home on cyprus just five homes past the pavement line and that you've communicated that paved roads increase property values so i have been asked on behalf of residents to ask the board to please look into that that we don't know has already given an opinion that she doesn't have a conflict on this project okay i every everybody just wanted to hear that so she the i brought it up then the the next project where the house is located that she will be assessed on she has a conflict on but in this project where there is no assessment to the property she owns under state law she would not have accomplished okay i just i just needed to clarify thank you but but the sewer i talked to the supervisor over the sewer department emmanuel yesterday he said he's right at this point as of yesterday morning they're not sure whether it's one year two years three years or five years they're not sure there is no plan in place for sewers what they do know they would have to tear up the streets laid on the pipes and repave the streets so and and sewers are all over the place around us 0.4 points of a mile away from us so sewers will be happening new water lines will be happening to upgrade this area i do have the actual petition if you need the hard copy and pictures of flooding um if i could present that to the chairman i'm sorry to receive a file second in a second all those favors say aye aye all right all opposed like that motion pass five zero thank you the flooding is extreme right now and the repairs i've been here for 11 years watching these these floods happen the repairs they've tried to fix this three times i talked to the stormwater engineer the project is on hold they're they're calling in a contractor to really try to assess what they should do with these storm waters because sending it into lake cedar is has always been the answer but that causes extreme flooding in the on the for the lakeside owners which both my homes are on the legs i see it go up to my back door into the pool and take out the pool pump i've seen it so the answers in the last few years is that oh no is that that they have not fixed the flooding so i'm i'm i'm glad they're looking at alternatives it cannot be sending water into lake cedar residents cannot afford these increases at this this time and they really request a no vote from the board of commissioners okay can i say what when i what happened when i had my meeting public comment then you can add in commissioner discussion okay i

believe your time's up i believe so i think thank you thank you for your comments thank you now we have an email to read in the record yes sir and um no one is on webex for this item the email is from kathy norton 7303 amber drive newport richie florida 34653 dear pasco commissioners the common factor in all the 2015-16 storm water drainage board initiated p bass assessment subdivision cranes roost lakewood villas lake world acres etc all have drainage issues that resulted in road flooding to impass to impose a pvas on residents before understanding and properly addressing the flooding issues is putting the cart before the horse in the march 23rd board meeting flooding from road drainage and water basin were both discussed however flooding due to water diverted into the subdivisions from other property development was not cedar lake was designed to manage the water in lakewood villas not run off from new newer construction around lakewood villas development east of the lakewood massachusetts road entrance are about to channel even more water into lakewood not only was this land allowed to be built up two feet higher than the adjacent lakewood land there are two pitiful little drainage ditches also back up to those homes water overflows from these ditches onto the properties into their homes washing out fences and flooding the corner of rental and cedar drive there is an image titled flood area rental and cypress drive of roads underneath it lakewood assessed road marked in black underneath that in yellow highlight christina fitzpatrick's home marked by the yellow gold star provides the address and then in green or in green highlight jenny's house marked by the green star on the map above has not been livable since irma largely due to mold from the flood waters insurance would not cover their their damage nor county or state assistance her veteran husband has passed away february 2021 without being able to return to their home due to mold from the flooding there's additional photos one's titled jenny's house another's development behind jenny's house underneath two lakewood villas was developed in the late 1960s and 70s and cedar lake was built to manage the water drainage in lakewood villas county crews showed up four weeks ago to stake out drainage lines and cut down trees throughout lakewood properties to drain

the two pitiful drainage ditches from the from this development into cedar point lake their water should not be lakewood's problem and then there's two additional pictures rental and cedar is the caption underneath it other land development outside lakewood that are also diverting water into cedar lake from cypress knoll development and the lakewood acres farmland diverting water silt and debris into fresh spring that feed cedar lake what was once a beautiful clear spring fed creek is now a clogged overgrown mess during heavy rains some pumps are used to pump even more water into this creek from the cypress knoll and lakewood acres farms this flooding this floods property adjacent to the creek and raises the cedar lake level and that is the time okay miss fitzpatrick i just i was holding off earlier but the biggest concerns that night was the stormwater which is going to be addressed um they were also concerned about newport richie wanting to implement sewer which there's no funds right now at this time it will be five to seven years until that is addressed if they come in and install sewer they will have to replace the roads where they were to what we have just done um and again that evening they said even if there was a continuance it would be beneficial this is putting the project off hill fiscal year 2023 so that's two three years before the roads are even gonna get fixed and then they won't be assessed taxes until 2024. do we know that's right yeah so 2024 so then they'll pay in their 20th 24th through 2025 year um so i wanted to make sure i did address all of their concerns and again also speeding was another one of their concerns that i wanted to make sure so the stormwater project is already in the way and i'm repeating so again i know they say it's 1.3 million their p-vases are 3707 per eru other areas were 7 800 for a eru so i wouldn't look at the overall number i would look at the individual number per the eru because it's coming in lower than cranes ruse that was at 7 800 just for one eru and 3700 over 10 years is about 25 and it can add up but at this time there's no other projects that are going to be implemented in the next few years i'd like to go after mr moore okay i'm just going along with commissioner mariano we stated this in the past and he i've already made a statement that if if

this if this is a a uh board initiating i hate to say board initiated because i'm not initiated but i'm part of this board um any more board initiative p vases i'm not i'm i'm a no i mean i mean let the people vote that's what i've said before if they get the majority they get the majority if not you know i mean they they don't want it so the majority let me finish if the majority doesn't want it they don't want it there could be they could have 80 90 100 and some people here today making that same statement but instead the citizen decided to go to the door door they let her speak for them i mean i did get another email i think we probably all did a little while ago from a citizen um so it could have been like before and they could have had you know a line out the door but they decided not to do that and let her speak on their behalf i mean i mean there's nothing else for me to say you know it's just the bottom line is though oh it's not it wasn't a 5150 or or anything like that it was an overwhelming majority that says they don't want it so why force it on them to me it makes absolutely no sense right i have the floor after hand so yeah it makes no sense so i'm definitely to know that um i want to ask the woman to come back up to the mic for a second please um and so my brother just bought a house on crest knoll he just moved from gulf harbors there and he bought it so that he can take his rv and park it there um so did you live there before it was uh before they chip sealed it i did and what was your road like before they chip sealed it exactly like it is right now because they missed cedar point drive completely with the chips what about the rest of the roads of why did they come in they were a little rougher than what they are now but but my my other concern is the oversight of these projects if they there was no oversight over the chip and seal project or the little pebbles would have been sealed correctly in some of these courts and our court would have been chipped and sealed but there was no oversight no contractor oversight so the the contractor failed miserably so here we're talking 1.4 million dollars and is there going to be contractor oversight is the job going to be done right and are we going to get our money's worth because we sure didn't get it under the chip and see i'm sorry you didn't even pay for the chip and seal the rest of us paid for your chip and seal we all paid we were told it was bp oil right it was a gift to the whole

all the citizens of pasco county and because your roads were so bad you got a gift from the citizens of pasco county under the condition that this board came in and did a board initiated pvas and now some of the members are going against that which to me is the residents are going against but the residents you know we have very difficult jobs up here and sometimes we have to make decisions that people are upset about but one of them is our is responsibility and if now maybe i'm wrong but i i went and visited those roads with the governor uh and and tried we tried to get fema to help us pay for the roads uh because they were so bad and they wouldn't do it because they were in such bad condition here's my concern my brother just bought a house there so he could drive his rv and park it in in in his yard if if the people if we're going to be so irresponsible and not do our job which is to make sure these people are going to have safe roads we we know what's going to happen when a chip seal road fails and i i'll ask expert when a chip sealed road fails it's lime rock mush and when lime rock mush gets wet you're not going to have be able to drive on it you're not going to have mail you're not going to have garbage you're not going to have school buses this is what happened to those neighborhoods before so i feel it's my responsibility no one wants to pay for their road i have two roads they're going to have i have two homes in the county i'm going to i'm going to have to pay for 2p vases because my both my roads are failing i don't want to i would rather have someone else pay for it but i feel that's our responsibility as commissioners as to what are we going to do when they can't when we have a big storm and they can't drive to their house that but the road no that's coming you know it's coming no the roads are not in that condition right now they are ask the experts they're not well you know what it looks good because you have this thin layer that looks pretty but i can see where the lime rock is coming up all over your roads and i can see it where commit the commissioner showed us where the road is gone you're you're driving in the lime rock sub base there's six or seven areas that need repaired these residents have called for repairs and many residents requests have not been fulfilled i i would say that if you're not willing to help if you don't want your road to be fixed with with full depth reclamation which is a cement based road so even if it floods you won't have any

issue with your road i don't think we should go into these roads anymore and and try and fix them i just think this is your shot i just can't it's irresponsible of us to not fix this this is this is one storm away from a disaster in my opinion if you're and if you have flooding oh my gosh if you have a flood that's gone that road is gone that that lime road explodes like like yeast you know when you're making bread it's just going to it's going to be gone can peave ass be terminated yes that was the other request that what does that mean what do you mean by that the whole the whole methodology of pivas well we are talking about that because listen none of us like doing this and the residents don't like it either in this process i really do everybody is very difficult um but what but when it's terminated something else will be in its place you will be paying for every road in the county to be fixed not just your own but it'll be a smaller amount and and that is how most counties do it um but i and we're working on it but i think we're years away from that really my concern for you and for my brother is that your rodent gonna make it another year i'm not concerned on that based on i know but i've walked every single road are very concerned for you but that's my soapbox yeah so thank you i'm concerned for you you can go sit down thank you thank you miss fitzpatrick i don't know if i need her back up okay so this is a perfect example it was at the end of cyprus drive and runnel that the road looked like this all the way across the street there was a car stuck in the road the mailman carrier could not get down the roads and if the road is already looking like this at the end of the street i'm concerned that's not going to last and that is what it looks like today now well call for the vote because you got you have two that said nay no already and you just make a motion and see if you got the votes the roads had cars in them they were concerned i'm trying to make sure i address every one of their concerns that they had that night because they said there was no con we do have new construction new contractors there will be oversight over the roads this is going to happen in two years they won't even start the project for two years away and that was one of the concerns is they wanted to make sure it was postponed until these issues were addressed now these storm water issues are being addressed today they have the stakes in the grounds they're planning

on putting handling that and then so they have the study um and then you're talk mentioning the affordability of it right now it's only i can't say only right now it's three thousand seven hundred and seven dollars and that can be put over a ten-year span now other communities there will be interest added to that 3.25 at this point correct and other communities cost 7 800. so even if we went ahead and averaged them all together one concern is this may make the p vas go up because other communities are 7 800 and then who's going to discrepancy who's going to go first are we going to go put in moon lake for 4 million 4 40 million dollars first and then the other roads that could definitely use it that used to be paved are not going to be able to get pvest when it's time for them to get pvast because we're going to spend 40 million in other areas right but in the pvas system and ordinance we have to work with it doesn't work that way you don't add them together and divide it and all that each one stands on its own so the work has to be done so we've discussed this pretty well so mr chairman would i would have to see like some kind of even analysis thank you mr chairman i i see one resident that i know in the background there i don't we finished with public comment with everybody that wanted to speak oh no the lady spoke that was the only one we had signed okay okay all right so let me say um you know when we look at what happened five years ago the board made a big investment to a lot of communities one of the big issues with stormwater and i want to say our stormwater team this whole board has done a phenomenal job in fixing stormwater so much so i think this year we're up 13 in ratings which is outstanding so we've addressed a lot of things from as i see it we haven't done anything here yet there could be a septic the sewer program coming in still which could benefit these people which would mean we'd have to tear up the road again but when i get citizens when we always look for a petition leader when we do one of these paving assessments we look for petition leader to go out there well this petition leader on this one out there and out of the 215 people she talked to she says only five went against it that's a pretty strong number add my brother to that okay so this just called sex when you get in there every time if i could finish what they look like when you look at that extraordinary set

of numbers to try to go force this on the people that say they don't want it you're going to tell them what they're going to do with their property with their benefits how they're going to spend their money i can't see how we can even go forward with it okay measure the commissioners on this project i apologize what was that i'm sorry you want to make a motion to uh approve the pves in your district you can't second i would motion because looking at that i can't i already got a motion you can't you can't oh yeah i can't never mind you came oh you're in big trouble you can't do it so i don't know what to say but i am i okay you may have to lean on mr steinsteiner to do another vote so i am truly concerned if this is what it looks like today how those are going to last much longer okay well um i'm going to say this without really knowing but it seems like it's that way there's your emotion has died for lack of can i do an emotion okay can i do a motion to continue because the residents want to see the other projects completed once the other projects are completed then i want to order the project they want to see their storm water issue solved the best way the best way to do that is bring that back to us once that storm water is can we continue this for a year no sense in leaving it like that i don't believe so then most likely with the construction cost excuse me so most likely in the construction costs the price and the fees are going to go up then it will you're going to wait i would rather lock in at a lower rate at a lower interest rate otherwise if you push this off for two years and then wait 10 years to pay for it it doesn't work that way well that's why i feel that it should go through today because those roads if we cancel it today if we even come back in two years from now the construction rates are doubling a hundred percent they're going to a hundred percent increase in lumber alone and all the other construction fees are six to eight percent every year we can't change that we can't change it but this means that they're gonna be probably charged it could be twice as much mr mariano move to deny the paving assessment second all right i got a motion and a second to deny this project all those in favor say aye aye although i always oppose like say okay

i believe i have it uh dungeon and one abstention and one obstacle and so it was an this has died based on a three one vote one upset okay next is another p s uh 65 p 65 yes sir item p65 was published in tampa times on february 24th 2021. nope is it called the public works um this is lake world acres pvas project um at the march 23rd meeting the public um parent was opened and continued to today may 18 21 on april 26 commissioner fitzpatrick had a community meeting and here's just some background information with regards to this project this is a board initiated project this was as a result of the temporary repairs to storm damage road approved by the board back in 2017 there are two streets in this project counter-maintained pave 91 lots involved for a 6.39 erus next please estimate the cost is 477 299 maximum cost per eru 10 288 the discounted amount is 96 575 maximum cost after the discount is seven thousand nine hundred and sixty six dollars and six three cents the annual installment over ten year period and the interest rate is three point two five um percent interest next please this is a location map the two roads in questions uh run north south and um next and this is some condition of the roads a couple weeks ago what number is this one this is 56 sorry 65 65 365 365. last item on the gym on my photos okay is that the white line mark coming up on the roast and the potholes does it scam your drive it was before the last one this was done about the same time yes this almost looks like a gravel road what it almost looks like well more of the chip seal is gone um so ainsley are you gonna take a public comment because i have some questions for anything when's the right time for me to ask him well during the discussion we are do we have anybody signed up for i have um no one on no one submitted an email no one on webex and no one signed up so okay so we have a discussion there's no one public comment all right so i actually have some issues on this one i mean i i think we should you know i am no we made an agreement that we're going to do the board initiated p best so of course i'm gonna stick with what i said i was gonna do even though they're hard votes before but i have a little problem with this one on the methodology and so um i think i was i was looking at some of the sites on here and i'm sorry i don't know what i do with my notes but

i went to one of the houses on cameo because i was looking i was looking at the um ownership that's right here and so for example and i think i said this to you and mike if you look at five oh um let's see here eight six three four is that the ones um or say eight six four six and eight six four four or there's some others where you have um um two people are listed there twice it's a it's an odd development because it looks like they're little teeny tiny lots and then people have built one house on like five lots are you referring to the email you sent about the two parcels yes so then they are getting like five erus so so the methodology i responded to your email with regards to those two parcels um they are not combined they are separate parcels so they are separate assessments um the assessment is based on the size of the parcel and the zoning so based and i had staff recalculate that and the calculations for those two parts that you emailed me are correct so although you may have just a simple example i have one acre you have one acre zone yours zoned for 10 units my zone for one your assessment will be greater than mine because it's based on the the entitlement what you can build now i understand that but there's only one house there i went to the property appraiser's website and there's one house it's not it has nothing to do with the number of houses on themselves it's not about if they want a down zone they can't heck yeah because theirs is seven thousand nine hundred each if they curse it down zone and it's one house so it's one it should be one eru and that's all over the place in there okay so that's the problem each unit is going to take an er no never the way you don't okay i had someone address the citizen addressed that commissioner and they were actually there was two erus on one lot and it was told that they could rezone it right but then they're not going to be allowed to ever build and it's going to depreciate their value so if they want to convert it to one eru they can do that but later on they can't just keep flipping back and forth and later on and say well i want it to be five and i want to sell off each lot yeah so then then they would have to they would get assessed another eru because we've had this happen in my district where there was someone on say a five acre lot and um they were getting hit with five erus and we told them they could down zone it

to one and they'd only pay one but if they ever wanted to split it they would get hit with an assessment that's correct but what maybe i'm wrong but when i looked at that house it was one house on like four lots yes commissioners so just one comment on that so if the entitlement is say four dwellings four houses but they only have one existing the methodology allows for a reduction because they do not have the additional three so we're not fully assessing them for four erus there's a reduction okay there are a lot of people in here with mult with with addresses that are right next to each other on the street with multiple assessments it's all over the place in here we follow the methodology policies and guidelines and for the two examples you sent to me i had staff recheck they're correct and i responded to your email oh i i think i think you know we made this mistake in aristida that some you thought that there was there was uh in the plot an ability to have larger lots but originally but then they were all downsized but they still got us some people got assessed for multiple erus even though the the homeowners association rule said only one house per lot and so it was remember you had to throw out that first this is exactly why the moment i got there email i had staff double check it yeah so i'm comfortable with the calculator you think that there's a house on eight five two six and a house on eight five three two the two parcels that you send to me yes there are there's two houses yes one is a mobile oman one is a more permanent structure okay and then that's the same all through here with all these the only two i double checked was the two that you sent to me commissioner okay all right but i don't think it's going to go through anyway i'll make sure i can vote on this one i'll make a motion to deny i'm in because i've had of a second we only had one person here last time well we already went and rejecting although i had a room full of people here that night now my two concerns are world drive and adonis are both dirt roads and have you been able my photos were right below the other photos from cypress drive because my meeting was with lake worrell and then i had a meeting that night right after my brother is very bummed if he can't drive his mother's house so my biggest concern that's it if you want to stay there for a second this is on broad street and adonis now adonis is first down the street an unpaved road all of the dirt from adonis and warrell

drive run east to the end and then they back up everywhere so if you want to move forward and then i think this is war drive so i actually had two citizens that said they owned property on both north and south sides sides of warrell drive and they actually wanted to see if they could get zoned uh transferred yeah that's not part of this so but that being said they wanted to pave it so i would be okay going through with the project if adonis was included because you have all of that debris and they have to go out and grade this all the time so if they're going to continuously have to go out and grade adonis i just have concerns with that now flake war wants to go and pave theirs so it doesn't their dirt doesn't run down the road that be a different story but if you keep going through the photos because that road isn't included this road isn't even included in the paving but all of their dirt ends up at the bottom and if you want to keep moving forward please is this an alley was that an hour that's world drive so if you have your this page out this is not part of a pvas this okay so this neighborhood is part of the pvas but laurel drive this road specifically in the middle right here is not that's not covered isn't covered but the res those two residents said they would be willing to pave it okay if you want to keep going now on the other side of this road it runs down into this drain and then they're creating a well if you go back they were creating is that swale on the other side a burn and then the water would go into the lake and then now the road is that the road okay that's going in to where the berm would be and then into the lake in the back if you want to keep going forward we should be on cameo at this next point this is cameo is that the lime rock coming out of the road uh yes there's there's nothing there if you want to continue so they actually put pipes underneath in two of these areas to get water from one side of the road to the other and that was permitted but this is their road and if you want to keep going north on cameo there's cameo in sunrise and that's their road and you can keep going i went up through cameo and then this must be a no this is still on cameo this is all the dirt that comes from adonis and sits on cameo and when you back up you're actually going to see the tilt

because back then they had the roads that were inverted and then the water went underneath and then it went off to the side now all the roads are opposite of inverted you can keep going but this is on adonis and cameo if you want to go back to that photo and then that's the curve but this is still the road that's getting paved so if you want to keep moving forward but that's my concern is adonis all this dirt is still going to continue to flood down and get stuck on this road because we're not adonis isn't even included although they said adonis to be included would be cost prohibitive so we're going in doing part of a project here maybe not you know well it's a start they're all going to be dirt roads after once to work projects if you want to keep going is anybody sign up to speak on the side i had the one gentleman that said that he actually would have preferred to have war drive but they also said that was prohibitive cost prohibitive but they were willing to pave it themselves if we would vacate it to them because they're the only two owners on the north and south side of world and no one else has access to those roads but that is uh that's the road right there pleasure of the board move to approve the pvas second and there's there's no one objecting um didn't commissioner moore have a motion why i mean emotions deny earlier but no one seconded it it died for a lack of seconds we didn't have a second at the time i don't think i was listening i didn't i did not thank your problem i was checking the charts on the er there was one we didn't get we didn't get a second on mr borsch but now we have a second on staff's intelligent expert approval and i think it would really fix cameo more discussion please more discussion yes there's no one opposing it not much more no i understand that but i'm i'm listening to a commissioner fitzpatrick talking about adonis road i'm listening to about world drive what about fair avenue what's the deal with that road ending is that is that a dirt road it's not in the list i'm just wondering why probably never dirt right um just to remind the board the roads that are included in the projects are the roads that were chip sealed so we did not include any other product any other roads in this project so we were directed the roads that were chips you should be brought back to the board initiated all right so here's my here's my problem with forcing just what's done here you haven't got any objections

completely different from the last one we just had right dramatically different scenario we know we're not going to go do the neighborhood the best way we can possibly do it i don't know why we just don't pull it back go do all the roads go out to the residents get a petition leader out there i'm sure you can get one and let's try to do it all right they'll deny that by the ordinance you're saying but do it by the way yeah the regular way by the order yeah okay it's not going to go through all right but after the roads are flooded and half of them yeah i have a motion to approve and a second all those in favor say aye aye i did oh no i made the motion mr fitzpatrick i'm looking up that street all those opposed isn't somebody not able to vote no they voted i think you vote somebody not able to vote on this one no no full board no i don't know now i thought you said right earlier well let's do that again i have a motion second to approve the project all those in favor of the project going forward i say i i all those do not approve that name nay so it fails to pass 3-2 thank you all right that includes everything on the agenda except for um some very short comments no we don't need no motion to join clarification one of the continuances we need to add a sentence to it do you want now one of the continuances we only continued the transmittal hearing we need to continue the adoption hearing as well terry can go in detail about that okay when will their the water mitigation project if we can wealth issue that the difference brought up first actually sorry thank you mr chairman um just for clarification item p62 which was a comprehensive plan amendment for cpel 2014 central pascal employment village their the motion was to the applicant requested a continuance of the transmittal hearing um from today to june 8 1 30 pm in date city which that motion was passed earlier there was a second motion also to continue the adoption hearing of the of the same project from the july 6 bcc meeting to the august 10 bcc meeting in anticipation of the motion to move it to junaid but that wasn't scheduled for today to be heard so how are you how are you continuing an item that was not before the board the transmittal has to occur before the adoption

i understand that but you're contin you're asking the board to continue adoption and that was never before the board today so you're saying that you can't move a motion that's in the future right you're going to continue it the day you advertised it to be heard very well so you just have to re-advertise no what i'm hearing what i'm hearing terry say is that that that is scheduled for a july 6th that's what it was advertised for correct that's the day he's gonna have to continue it to the august date he wants right he can't do it now yeah i mean what what happens is they publish it on the july agenda to continue to august and it gets continued then but there's been no advertising to the public that it's going to be heard today so you can't you can't hear it you can't do anything with it today okay thank you understandable all right nice try it just doesn't work that way so okay all right we're going to go to old business all right and it can be very short-lived it'll be fine i will try this because i have a meeting i'm late for right now i will still have public comments from this morning i will try to talk we got about 12 or 13 emails that have to be hey but i have to leave it at 3 40. well then we get through this and then you can read them because that yeah because she has a label it doesn't matter when you do them yeah it doesn't we can this is all business okay we'll do this but let's uh move it through i'm late for a minute okay because of a meeting so i'll be i'll talk really fast here and i think you have a video queued up that's only going to be 40 seconds i'm not playing the whole thing that's okay um a few things um great event obviously by the tdc and edc all of us were there that evening um just for the public on may 6th the password you see in the florida sports coast held their joint awards event extraordinary event it was at advent health center ice so thanks to all involved had the honor of surprising it was pretty cool to surprise congressman bilarakis with the tdc chairman's choice award for all his years of work supporting travel and tourism it was a great partnership again congratulations to all i will go a little faster just and everybody here saw it but just for the public view if you play that 40 seconds of the florida sports coast and pasco edc video is pretty cool we'll just do the intro you see all of that you know what that

is that's opportunity you probably don't know who i am and that's okay you probably don't know a lot about pasco county either from country to a nature rich coastline pasco county also known as experience florida's sports coast has a little bit of something for everybody let's get down to business specifically your business we are right to work state with a pro-business government that offers low operating costs and no personal state income tax that would be amazing already heart attack that's our stop don't worry it gets that better quick so it's a great video but the public you can go ahead and go on either the edc or the florida sports coast uh youtube channels and watch the remainder of the video again in the essence of time it's another five minutes so thanks for showing that um another great thing going on tourism uh tampa bay pro combine is june 3rd through june 5th it's going to be at the wyograss ranch sports campus of pasco county you're going to have nba players um and other people trying to go pro you'll have scouts there you have coaches a number of people that are going to be there again a great event that's going to happen here at the wiregrass ranch sports campus of pasco county um the um combine it's going to became a bay pro combine again you have people you know top athletes from all over the nation that'll be there um great to see that happening too um and part of the reason they created that event um it was i'm not correct and in uh portsmouth the port's mouth invitation tournament in virginia had cancelled again and that's the pre-draft event it's been around for 67 years since that was canceled we got to read the benefits for it so congratulations to our tourism department great event and we're going to update on the tdt collections quick update on that um we're now over a year since cobia 19 obviously started and we have some of those year-over-year comparisons the second half of march 2020 is when tourism and travel really started to take a hit as we probably all know and then the march 2021 tourist development tax collections were up almost 40 percent for march of 2020 and april 2021 numbers aren't in yet but obviously we expect those to be even a larger percentage jump from april of 2020 so that's great to see tourism coming back and coming back and um pretty hot and heavy here in pasco county and the last thing i will be brief um since we're having a lot of these debates when it comes to the pvas um i think it would behoove us to

[Music] not um i'll make a motion actually too that there's no more forced pvas unless there's a petition a vote from the residents i think we just need to stop it we need to get rid of it moving forward i don't know where the chairman went but oh there is oh uh oh signing documents but um you know i think we're going to continue we continue down the same road we've heard from obviously a couple commissioners you saw the votes went today um i don't we're putting staff through a lot of work i would think you wouldn't have knocked your heads um just to see a lot of these come forward and and fail so and going forward my opinion again is no more forced pvasses bring it to a vote let's do it the way we've always done it i think that looks bad because the last p-vases are me no so i i'm and you're getting me out of it we have had instances where we have had close votes on pvasses that they may have failed by a close vote and then when we looked at it it was because they were landlords and and with a lot of renters on that road so i'm i'm thinking of lake buena vista that hasn't been paved in 60 years or buena vista lane and the um alex pappas came here and said she you know they're ruining their trucks they already went and got rid of their cars and are driving trucks to get to their million dollar homes at the end of buena vista that's a a mobile home park um but they can't they can't even have company anymore so who knows who knows uh what that one's gonna look like and and so there have been times when there's been close votes and we've gone ahead and done a board initiated so i don't want to take that away from us maybe the ones you don't want to do are the ones that are the chip seal ones where people think they have a great road because it looks okay um so let's maybe not do any more chip seal initiated but let's see what votes look like on on a mr chairman i don't think you can i don't think you can amend the ordinance by motion not vote i don't think ever okay and so i don't think the motion's in order but on the other hand you all have to authorize staff to do a board initiated to begin with these were all authorized by the board i understand that that's where you would stop it mr biles you had something you wanted to bring up i was just going to address commissioner starkey's point you know that those had a petition where we went out

and i think in those instances if we would investigate that and then bring to the district commissioner kind of the results of the position and see what the district commissioner wanted to do with it i think that's what we were doing that but those had a petition and a petition leader versus no petition and no petition leader mr chairman yes just to follow up mr steinsteiner so you said the many ordinance so i guess my question is how does it amend the ordinance just we still have the piece of that's process but we're not moving forward with any additional board initiated because the ordinance provides for board initiated yeah and so we would have to admit the order in fact you would be taking that section out of the ordinance by you so okay so let me change my motion so we don't stay here and debate this all day long um i'll i'll amend my motion to state that um making a motion for or i guess or giving direction or make a motion whichever i need to do to bring back and amend the current ordinance through the public hearing process to pull out and get a finish um pull out um force p basses so then we can have our debate at that time instead of having it here because or do you just want to direct the administrator not to bring forward board initiated that's really not doesn't have any teeth to it really because that means any commissioner can go back to the county administrator and say can you bring this forward you know what i mean sport action but wait i mean it is i mean i still don't think that you need to take away things that we have the ability to do by the board's actions and i think we're all smart enough to do it the right way when we're asked or we're faced with an issue before us that comes before us in the future to where we don't need to do that kind of action to you're you're trying to keep yourself from doing what's right so we don't need to do that we just need to do what's right for the citizens at the time and i think when they come forward we're all smart enough to handle that without having a motion like this my opinion again listen will the board you know i mean we had a second but if three people want to keep continuing with it that's fine again i'm not going to keep battling it i just you know i you know my feeling on force b basses and how i state i'm going to vote on every single one of them moving forward so but if there's no let me give you an example yeah we brought these and asked staff to bring these to us and we've turned now three or four of

these down because we didn't think it was right i mean we know whether it's right or not right there's no we approved seven of them there's no need to debate anymore we're done so i mean seriously we can move on because i i get a second on emotion that i can't move forward and mend the ordinance so it is what it is okay there's only two left yeah well no that's two left that are coming before us that we know of now it doesn't mean that more won't come in the future so i think what she means is there's two of the chip seal storm damage ship seal ones gotcha but if you have roads that are in that dis repair and it's gonna impede and just listen mail carriers to go down the road withdrew my motion it's done okay emotions are drawn we're um you're done with your atoms done okay okay um a couple months ago i showed you guys uh some photos and an email from a gentleman whose life is really being um challenged by the lighting the backyard lighting of neighbors and so we had asked for and we had board consensus that we would adjust the ordinance for lighting and i just wanted to know where we are with that because he's asking a couple months later if there's any kind of timeline so they can enjoy their their backyard again so if someone could let me know where that is in the ordinance process if is that going to be i think when we do one of those little catch-ups or i think that i had said i i would the county attorney's office would would do it um although i'm not we'll get you out i will email the board and answer on that question whether it has to go through the ldc process or whether it can be done as an ordinance ordinance review process right thank you um secondly i i just want to say with the comments uh from the woman with vacation rental or i think that was a woman yeah um i have felt that all along that that we that you saw all the little blue dots i can tell you they're all over my neighborhood in gulf harbors and i don't think we can code and force our way out of the new reality of short-term rental so in my opinion we need to we need to um have rules in place that we can enforce but we can't enforce anything when we're not when they're not allowed so um i think our our short-term rental ordinance needs to go and we need to put rules in place fire safety um anyway uh what i can't remember what the word is but we need to manage them

and right now we're not so i think we should talk about short-term rentals and commissions all right thank you mr chairman just mr chairman yeah with that just because it's been i've been loaded with emails and i think we all have going through and it is something we need to address so i think you're right we need to scrap the audience start afresh and start allowing people to do this because we can yeah and set a new set of rules i thought we had something coming back before us no no so if you scrap the ordinance you scrap it right you lose our grant this is a this is another one of those that the legislature has taken away your ability to adopt a new one which is why we sort of have stayed with with what we've got um i don't know what areas you'll end up being able to regulate but that is a policy decision for the board the board can you know we can decide to get out of that business i think it's amends a good finish i think what we need to do is we do need to make it get off the 31 days forget the 51 percent and let's get back to where people can do it for i guess not less than six days i don't even know where that comes from but we can regulate not it's not working right now i agree yeah so maybe we need to do an agenda item and let's let's have a discussion it's a workshop or something yeah get tourism involved yep sounds good yeah we definitely need them so let's let's bring something back to us maybe as quick as we can you mentioned grandfathered in if commissioner mariano was able to we could amend something and then we can always change it down the road and then you've got a 1999 ordinance that predated when the when the legislature changed the rules and said anybody who had oh yeah an ordinance in place at the time that they did their help with facilities they passed their their pace to pass their legislation could keep it but once you start playing with it you lose that grandfather can you bring us what the effect would be if we went with just the state regulation so we can all look at it ahead of time before the next meeting thank you mr fitzpatrick thank you um so i would like to address ross lane and little road um they're re-channeling the traffic at the intersection of rosslyn little road just a mile we had a couple citizens speak on this today it's right next to the va um that is the neighborhoods 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 um commissioner if it's practical are you gonna talk about the event on the 20th baby shower yeah okay thank you um so they have no other way to get in around their neighborhood so 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 okay 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 the veterans facility when 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 u-turn on a little road to go sell if you want to keep moving forward please thank you let me keep going forward oh do you have this so on this that i have in front of me do you have right he's not here is he okay so on the plan that i have i also have a list of 79 72 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 going to read this we the people as the undersigned homeowners of crescent forest division ross gunshot lane tanglewood and surrounding areas reject the county's proposal of any future redevelopment 180 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 today is if it 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 and 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 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 it 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 onto little room so again does anybody need copies of the petitions do you have these okay well can i pass these around i received one you received one okay so 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 going to mention the tampa bay pro combine i did get to go to the event at advent health sports center at wiregrass ranch in pasco county it's a beautiful facility they were talking about they have the chicago which is based out of a one space 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 there is very amazing you have the basketball courts on each side there's 12 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 2nd to the 5th and there's going to 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 but 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 spoke 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 everyone know we're having the commissioner baby shower it is on friday at two o'clock two o'clock at starkey rant uh stock 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 very good mr mariana thank you mr chairman um just to touch on russ lane real quick as well years ago when the development was going to come in was approved that light was part of i think that plan so maybe when staff takes a look at that let's go take a look at the approval and we're supposed to get maybe for right away or whatever contributions whatever but something uh may be helpful with that um i've got a one-time fix request for vivian lane uh to be road it's a five thousand dollar fix i'm sorry it's it's a road project that needs fix sometimes we have a road project in your district you'll bring it up and say it's not ready for pvas but they want to do some fixing county right away non-maintained road a b road is that public property private park it's got to be public property yeah oh okay yeah okay i have a motion and a second all those in favor say aye aye all of those like sign motion pass 4-0 okay um and i'm glad we covered those vacation rentals that was a big topic it was going to come up i'd like to have um maybe dan and mike talk about the um dredging as far as we did have the agenda item that you saw everybody in see forester landings it was a little change in plan from one step to another step about who could be included who wouldn't be included who was done before which would be easier or not so they've got some ideas how we can actually take this forward so dan if you would sure sure commissioner yes sir so we we pulled the agenda the item off the agenda today because we we thought we're gonna be able to use one source of funding we found out we can't so we're gonna have to default back to the general fund we didn't want to do another cycle request we're right in the middle of a budget development process so recommended the commissioner just let us

work through the development process and depend on how the capital funds work out those funds may be available to go to this project and so you would see that as part of the budget development over the next few months for this project parallel to that you know the commission has been working several different funding mechanisms to fund not only some of the upfront costs but also long-term maintenance and we've been talking around several options and i think one of the options we've kind of landed on kind of the recommendation we'd like to the board authorization desk to explore more as an msbu over the coastal properties to develop not just maybe an initial you know initial payment for the to help with a one-time dredging cost but also a long-term maintenance plan so we don't get into the situation we are with local roads there's actually a maintenance planning program in place and so it's part of that i think we'd like the board to say yes public works go work on that and we'll walk you through as we we've hit various choke points or various decision points where we are in that process yeah i think that's pretty important that you look at it that way because that's the big issue about any dredging projects is where you're going to get the money to do it so i think that's great and part of that is you know we we work with the county attorney's office too that's part of the process oh yeah i think i agree with that yeah that's good mr moore yeah you agree sorry i gotta get close to the mic i'm sorry all right that i'm good okay we just want to make sure that direction we kind of have board direction to do that and we're kind of out working on our own out there so all right all right and mr chairman just going to bring up one thing with um we've heard from deborah leone from gulf harbors as well they've done a lot of stuff internally on their own as kind of where some of this started um i think they've spent they raised about 85 000 of their own they have a request in and i can make it a border item to bring up the next meeting if it makes it easier to actually what they're looking for is looking for us to pay half of they pay half so i don't want to really at this late hour to kind of go through the whole thing but if you want to make an agenda item up and bring it back before the boat so they look at it as they go through the process yes quick question for the commissioner says you're bringing this back some thing are you thinking it may be like restore money or something like that it could get reimbursed from that uh

well actually maybe not from that but it could be from the msbu later on we could actually pull back from that to go fund it i will tell you that in all my talks with dredging up and down the whole coast you know port richie many years ago was going to assess their people like a thousand dollars per household in the canals everyone i've talked about that same number was comfortable and i think you know we could probably go along the same line here but let me let me bring it back just i didn't want to address it because they were here to to talk about it so how many look at it at the same time we're looking at the msb okay so perfect that'd be good all right and i would like to say uh i want to thank my wonderful wife um i just celebrated my birthday and she took me to a beach boys concert it was over in uh the roof ruth eckert hall it was a complete surprise i want to say a couple years ago we looked at getting the beach boys up at sunwest park and uh when we're up there we're at the event uh marvelous mark marvin was doing the promotions and i got to him afterward i says marvin says do you think you can get the beach boys here to pasco county up at sunwest because they've helped with many events up there and uh he says yeah i think we can i said well here's give whoever the coordinator you're gonna maybe talk to give my card i'd love to talk to him about it so today we had a meeting about doing a festival coming up for a wellness in like november or december depending and it turns out that one of the gentlemen that's gonna wants to put on a concert actually has a connection with the beach boys too so we're gonna try to make it make it do the beach boys actually come to pasco county doing a beach concert right there so it could get kind of interesting that's cool so that's all i have sir okay thanks sir mr biles yes sir uh just update on a couple of the federal initiatives um we received last week some additional emergency rental assistance money it was 40 of our current or our new allocation under the arp act so that was another 4.3 million for rental assistance that we'll put into the heart program and work both with our team and then our non-profit partners on that the guidelines came out for the arp money along with treasury's actual math on the distribution amount and pascal county will get a little over 1.7 million dollars for that um it's 151 pages of guidelines so we're kind of working our way through that right now

but it looks pretty positive on the kind of plan that we thought we were going to have we were going to we'll be able to execute and the last thing i have is um journal obligation bond projects are still moving forward um you know holiday south holiday will close on the 22nd but centennial will open on the 24th so we'll close one but reopen another one right there after in the same area and they're moving forward with speed as best they can through that process so and that's all i have okay thank you mr steinstein i don't have anything of general general import at this late hour i understand but i'll add something to you in a minute [Laughter] i have a quick item just to inform the board mentioned probably late last year that um our inspector general department is looking to be peer-reviewed and that's the mark of excellence um in in the auditing world and we have initiated that process some of you and your management team would have gotten an email from my inspector general saying that your name was provided to the outside auditing firm um that is going to conduct the audit of the inspector general and to seek stakeholder feedback in regards to how the inspector general has conducted their audits and the not everyone will be selected the individual will pick um from the from the group her name is erica smith and she is the deputy inspector general of audit and review for the new orleans office of inspector general and um if you are selected the interviews take place on july 12th or july 13th so i just wanted to make the board aware of that thank you that's it that's it hey mr chairman could you just make one comment um one comment i i want to commend uh commissioner moore uh at the tdc meeting uh for bringing up dr kirk as well as congressman bill rockers and mr dempsey for the great work they've done i thought it was a total class act recognizing those people the great work they did for pasco so kudos to you thank you very good well we all send that wish to you so good job done good job by staff and also i have one thing it's come to my attention that in pasco county if we don't start looking out for what we're getting built in our county in large developments and if we don't start watching it closer then we'll have developed land for houses that'll just be houses and i think what we all really want for our county is to have developed land that becomes a community for each project that we

have going forth one that has architectural design in it one that has a better landscaping and just the fact that a builder that wants to be a part of our community and build for our community for the future we need to have a better product because it's come to my attention i think you've heard commissioner starkey and i think others have said it that there's areas in our county that we've gotten housing developments whether they small large that are really not up to what we really need for our county to be a premier county we need better than that so i i would like to see us um and i've gone there's a new bill coming out from the state but i think we're okay if we make some conditions that will make it better for our county on mpuds and make them be much more a community in pasco than what we've seen in the past and i'm not saying there's ones in the past all of them are bad some of them are great some of them are so so but there's some that i've seen lately and commissioner starkey brought them up showed us a picture when you look down a road and you see concrete sidewalk concrete driveway and houses either all the same color or just bland that you looked at it with no landscaping there's something wrong with us developing that kind of product and we need better than that in our community and so i charge all charge the staff mr biles to bring something forward to us that will improve that look of pasco county i plan on being here until my last days i don't want to see some of the product i've seen that's terrible looking and and not a good community for people to live in we want the best for our folks that live in paso and work here and play and do all the things that we fight to have done the right way we need homes and communities built inside our county that will show that same view so please uh if you will mr biles with some direction of staff and all that please bring that to us [Music] sooner than later because we have a lot of projects i don't want to just push houses because when you push this house you forget it's a live community and it just needs to look better we all want to live in a better place and it looks better i mean we don't want to live a place where you don't have any landscaping or the architect i mean it just takes away from where you live so we need better than that and

i know and there's other places that are building some affordable housing some places some areas and we've gotten some i know dade city is putting up a couple of affordable housing apartments in nate city and some other areas have those too but we still we need those too because all of our services 40 of our citizens need something better and we are to be able to guide it and let it be better for the future and so all i do is ask you to do your best job you can and let's become a very premier county in the future from this day forward and with that i will uh adjourn the meeting oh excuse me i won't ensure that with that i'll be headed over to our clerk because she has about 12 or 13 emails to read into the record at this time mr chairman let me respond to you real quick and i and i appreciate it no i appreciate your comments and stuff and i i think when we talk about that and and some of the things i've brought up in the past especially when we talk about that 54 or 56 corridor and what we're seeing and and again i appreciate the temporary moratorium that was in place now but again let's be very conscious like you just mentioned of what goes as just as you as what i hear too and i see it every day of jumping off 56 and 75 that's not what we want to continue to see and that's not what we want to continue to happen you know in those areas so yes we have to be very very conscious of moving forward of what's going on because that is highly concerning um so i don't disagree with points and i and i would ask the same time to be very let's be very conscious of that corridor that i've been speaking of because it's very important moving forward i know there were some approvals that i did not like and denied and didn't appreciate that move forward but we'll move let's look towards the future and let's be very conscious of things that we do approve along that corridor in the future please thank you mr chairman just on that point so so what you're really asking for is amendments to the land development code so that this would be applied universally to mqd projects right single family primarily but while pasco has traditionally taken taken the approach of a conceptual mpeg plan you i think the board may be looking for a little more detail a little more permanency to that plan right and some regulation that creates a community versus a subdivision right exactly or spot zoning okay multi-family now it's uh basically it's only mpuds and residential um multi-family pretty well it seems like

they they take care of their grounds around those very well and use buffers and and do it i think they do a pretty good job and i've seen some residential areas that are just absolutely terrible uh and and they're supposed to be new and i can tell you they don't look new they look like they're about to fall apart so put on that but on the multi-family family on multi-family uh the the moratorium you have put in place is going to be looking at those sorts of things i would think right exactly right yeah we want to make sure that so that those projects could run in in tandem with one another right right so they blend in without uh being eye sores for one another i forgot this earlier by the way team up team up pasco sports coast okay show that to everybody all right number one all right with that um madam clerk yes there are 22 emails there are some that are duplicates that are left so a total of 19 emails okay that grew while we were sitting here all right so we have an email from sergio palazzi and um andrea mufante both addresses are 5422 jobeth drive this is their email dear resident uh let me see that includes the email to them so i'm not going to read the dear residents of golf landing so dear pasco county commissioners so in fact there are five that are duplicate because i didn't realize that so i'll go ahead and read the other three names and addresses and they're all the same okay okay um barry fassen or faison 6208 spoonbill drive newport richie florida 34652 mark and tina emerson five five five seven c force drive number 214 newport richie florida three four six five two and finally jw and beth bailey 5727 biscayne court number 106. i request pasco county board of county commissioners bocc add an amendment and approval by the board of county board of county commissioners to include all the canals and waterways in the sea forest area which includes gulf landings association to be included in the phase two permitting that is scheduled for may 18 2021 bocc meeting i request my email be right into and entered into the record of the may 18 2021 board of county commissioners meeting sincerely right and the rest are individual emails barry jackson at 6146 bayside drive newport richie florida three four six five two i respectfully request paso county board of county commissioners bocc to add an amendment and to approve looks like this is the same phase two

permitting scheduled for the 5 18 21 bocc meeting and inclusion of all canals and waterways in the seaforce area which includes those of golf landing association i also request that my email be read into the record sincerely william vaughn vecton bechden 9823 san sebastian way port richie florida three four six six eight the canals need to be dredged because as sediment builds up on the bottom of the waterway it reduces the depth of the water dredging strips away the accumulated debris which can restore the body the bot the water body to its original depth and reduce the risk of flooding [Applause] john elms 9902 san sebastian way port richie i asked the county commissioners to prove the expense to have our canals dredged such action will contribute to the continuing lifestyle and economic vitality i.e property values and resulting tax bases that paso county and its citizens enjoy kind regards kevin melissa schroeder good morning week kevin and melissa schrader of 9831 i island harbor drive port richie florida three four six six eight i want this right into the record during the may 18th bocc meeting we would like to see our canal canals dredged in the area making passage out of the gulf of mexico easier at low tide while new to the area and anxious to purchase a boat we understand from neighbors that certain canals are limited in depth so we have held off on this purchase while we love this love the area and neighbors had we known the canal passage was so difficult we may have looked in a different area to live we are concerned as to what this problem may have have on our property values as well please address the dredging of the canals immediately thank you for your time and consideration sherry vander galion i am requesting i don't see an address i'm requesting that the westport canals be dredged for safety reasons and due to the smells coming from this area there are times when the smell in this area is overwhelming and we are forced to breathe this in we have been stranded in this area on our boat and a day of fun turns into a nightmare real fast a 46 hour boating trip can become a 10 to 12 hour trip due to the shallow shallowness of these canals and if you have a medical condition diabetes heart disease etc you can find yourself in an emergency situation that will not end these canals need to be made deeper so boaters are safe to exit and enter in their respective homes sincerely james and amara don mills 9835 uh san diego way port richie florida

three four six six eight i james mills went this red into the record during the may 18 20 the may 18th bocc meeting as a resident of westport subdivision for 20 years i and other residents have struggled to clear sand and rocks from our only route from our home to the gulf i among others have spent countless i'm sorry i and others have spent hours grounded day and night if returning at other than high tide and have suffered boat and motor damage residents regularly enter the water to dive and remove rocks and sand and place place and replace pvc path markers at our residence expense we are supportive of any level of channel clearing assistance available next is grant reel i do not see an address i grant real want this email right into the record during the may 18th bocc meeting please consider the dredging of the westport canals to begin the planning process for 2021 as a resident and speaking on behalf of many of my neighbors the dredging of the canals will greatly improve access to the gulf of mexico the majority of the residents with westport canal access are senior with limited access to local beaches and attractions we rely on canals as our only means of getting away to enjoy with friends and family in today's society of cover 19 and fear that what the future holds dredging the canal is vital to our well-being all of us would benefit by improving access through dredging currently we are dependent of the tides contributing to a narrow window to be able to navigate this window is greatly lessened during the winter months when access is almost impossible dredging would open up that window and allow for more versatility for enjoying the water in addition there is a safety factor the shallowness of the crop of the canals makes the only safe passage at high tide which is very narrow any other time we risk damage to our boats and possibly injury to our family and friends that are with us dredging would greatly reduce the risk factor of possibly hitting bottom or other obstacles to both the boat but more importantly the safety of our family and friends improving the navigation of the canal through dredging will positively impact property values and draw in new residents while adding to the local economy currently we are limited to the size of the boat and stray away from new boat purchases and fear of damage while navigating through shallow canal systems dredging the canal would open this up allowing the increased sale at local mariners

local marinas overall please consider this input as a contributing factor in the westport canal dredging discussion this is a win-win for everyone the residents benefit by safe access and expanded access to the gulf housing values will increase attracting new residents to invest in the neighborhood and the county benefits through increased property values dredging will impact not only today's residents of westport but also residents for many years to come thank you for the opportunity to share my input this email is from ryan jessup no email i mean sorry no address i would like to see our canals dredge for a couple of reasons if you ever taken a boat out onto a lake river or canal you know you have to be careful to navigate around the amount of much in the of the water body much is comprised of sediments at the bottom of the body of water the more muck the water has the greater impact it will have on the quality of the water and the recreational activities that take place there dredging is vital in maintaining the health recreational enjoyment and quality of a canal the long-term benefits are crucial to its survival tom and linda howellwell 5749 seabreeze drive port richie we are westport residents and live in the water we choose to purch we chose to purchase the home in 2017 at a premium based on information provided at the time of the sale that a dredging project was approved and imminent but would would dredge the canal and local canals i'm sorry dredged the channel and local canals to retain improve the navigability that the waterfront residents of this neighborhood have paid for however the canals and men and main channel to the gulf continues to fill with silt rocks and other debris and are now in total disrepair the main channel markers and signs are mostly missing and are no longer accurate based on how the surface has changed over the years additionally the ch the canals in our neighborhood have also been neglected these canals continue to shrink due to naturally occurring subsurface growth which makes boating unsafe and will continue to get worse over time we have seen our canal in four short years be drastically reduced with respect to safe navigable water we are forced to be tide dependent and can only safely enjoy the use of even the smallest of boats during a few hour high tide period or risk serious damage to boat or not being able to navigate in and out at all recently a family with small children on an 18-foot boat was struck it was stuck in the canal was stuck in the channel having inadvertently

beached in shallow water for six hours until after midnight so that they could safely come back into the neighborhood our canal specifically ends at san diego way and sea breeze drive and has become a repository of sediment sludge garbage and other debris it has also become home to alligators with numerous baby gators who reside at the end of the canal where the water is shallow the stench and flies during low tide make it difficult to enjoy outdoor life the county the state and federal government are or should be required to provide maintenance of the waterways that the channel and markers and the canal we have already sold our 20-foot v-hall and have removed and have moved to a pontoon boat which requires less draft in an attempt to compensate for the deteriorating candles channels and canals many people have incurred damage expense and hardships as a result of the lack of maintenance yet our tax our taxes continue to increase significantly for the privilege of living in the water in a boating community the significant decline we have witnessed these past four years at current rate it will only be a few more years until we cannot leave our channel at all i'm sorry our canal at all it is not the waterfront life we bought into and continued to pay for we asked you to do the right thing for the westport taxpayers and assist with making the westport community the boating community it should be and once was shannon waycheck waitrek 9931 sand special way port richie florida three four six six eight i don't see an address oh wait sorry i just read the edges getting tired please consider westport subdivision for dredging as a waterfront homeowner i'm concerned about flooding potential erosion wildlife preservation ecosystem maintenance property valuation and overall safety in our community dredging would not only be beneficial to our neighborhood but the adjacent warner bros salt springs state park in nearby areas let's all do our part and take care of our water before it's too late to enjoy it anymore one two three four five six seven you're going pretty good all right okay jason and heidi whipkey 6718 driftwood drive holly hudson boo hudson florida three four six six seven uh dear jack mariano we are inquiring about the fact that we have received a warning for using our newly purchased home in november 2020 as a short-term weekly vacation rental the finest 500 per day if rented out as a weekly rental again

we are most certainly willing to become compliant with the laws of pasco county however we when we called the county permitting department and spoke with ruth ann she assured us that it is virtually impossible to obtain a per the permit as only 16 permits are in place we also spoke with a real estate attorney who told us the same thing apparently this permit has been put into place as a 1999 obviously things have changed in the past 22 years and vrbo airbnb and such vacation rental sites have created a new way of vacationing in times like these most people are more more comfortable vacationing in a home rather than a hotel or resort where there are several people gathering together and utilizing elevators and pools when we purchased this home the previous owners had also been using this method to rent the home on a weekly basis and we continued to follow suit it was our misunderstanding of the need for a permit and he did not already have this permit as a previous renter the realtor that sold us the house was not aware of this permit either when with renting it out a few times we did collect hotel taxes and paid them to the state and county as required as we have researched on vrbo airbnb and many other rental sites there are well over a thousand short-term vacation rentals currently being rented in pasco county ruthanne and the permitting department informed us that there are currently only 16 permits in pasco county how can there be so many weekly short-term rentals without permits the process to apply for the permit includes getting 51 percent of your subdivisions to agree to allow the property to be permitted as we all know many homes here in pasco county are not only second homes for the property owners but also short-term rentals in order to get these signatures it's virtually possible to track down the owners let alone get a response from them we are most certain that most of these 1000 plus properties would be up for sale if this permit continues to be in place and not easily obtainable we would like to request that there be a permit that is in place and charge a fee each year to renew it would be ideal to have a drive-by inspection and proof of hotel taxes being paid in order to renew paso county has many homes as we are all aware of but while driving through the county we have noticed many homes that have not been taken care of over several years some homes have become an eyesore to the community i can assure you that any property being used as a short-term rental is always well maintained and looked and looking its best when renting to vacationers the appearance of the

property will always be kept up as in grass and landscaping will be pristine garbage picked up appearance and maintenance of the property will be top priority we believe that offering a weekly rental not only allows people to visit the area and frequent the businesses that have suffered from covert 19 but perhaps draw more interest in purchasing the many houses that come up for sale as a homestead paso county is a beautiful area why not allow weekly rental permits to keep the economy growing create more jobs and collect more taxes of the county that's the three minute mark okay um alberto martinez uh car carabao let's see i do not see an address oh here it is five nine one five c ranch drive unit 603 hudson florida three four six six seven i'm here to express my opinion in regards to any rulings on vacation rentals vacation rentals is my only source of income for the past four years and i need to make sure there are no restrictions added to how we manage and and the freedom to openly book rentals without the ability to rent freely and by limiting imputation imputation days restrictions it will impair my ability to sustain myself eliminating two salaries as well as the taxes that today we pay to the state and federal tax it is my opinion to allow us vacation rental owners to continue promoting our business without limiting the days of stay and allowing tourists to continue to come enjoy our beaches and in inducing tourism funds by spending in florida businesses helping boost florida's economy i kindly asked for my request to be heard ensuring that the future of these small businesses which also contributes to the tourism industries and the health of florida's economy thank you for considering my request [Applause] vadres patel addresses 6035 sea ranch drive unit 103 hudson florida three four six six seven i own properties in paso county i am in support of vacation rentals and supporting that the idea of requiring the signed signed petition only divides residents of communities and virtually makes it impossible for most owners to get the required pasco license while they can easily obtain the required state of florida occupation license the department of revenue license and the pasco county tourist development tax license not allowing this industry to operate will cost pasco county hundreds of thousands of dollars in lost revenue please voice my opinion in meeting tomorrow to eliminate 51 percent vote in communities to allow vacation around doles thank you so much for listening to

us donald vander gaye gilean i donald van vander gilean juanthismo red into the record during the may 18th bocc meeting because of the canals being so low in westport you can only get in and out during mid and high tide when we bought our property a year ago we were not aware of the canal situation had we known this would that this we would have not brought the bought the property as i am an avid fisherman we have experienced being stuck out in the gulf for hours on end due to these canals being so low this is a very dangerous situation for individuals who have medical needs i.e insulin dependent oral medications and that's saying a day out fishing is better than a day at work not if you live in westport please dredge these canals so everyone can be safe and have an enjoyable day on the golf no email was or no um address was provided kimberly i'll spell the last name l-e-c-h-l-e-i-t-n-e-r no address i am strongly urging the county commissioners to act and get our canals dredged to a usable depth the canals going into westport are less than one foot of water during the low tide cycle and cannot be used i'm urging your action on this important issue as it will affect our property values in the near future thank you joel rayburn 9916 trade winds dive drive port richie florida three four six six eight as a resident of westport subdivision in port richie i would like to see our channel leading to the gulf of mexico properly dredged the channel has never been dredged while neighboring channels have been done multiple times over the past several years we have seen an influx in kayaks paddle boards and other small vessels exploring the conservation area around the channel the current path and configuration of this channel poses significant safety risks to all who enjoy this area the channel is very winding with blind spots and is not wide enough for two vessels to safely pass dredging this channel will not only improve safety for everyone but will also improve water circulation within the conservation area to help maintain the health of our ecosystem i strongly recommend reconfiguring dredging westport channel to mitigate any safety risk to imp to powdered power powered and non-powered vessels as well as wildlife in this area okay last email don't have an address it's from we william and valerie romanczek want this email written to the record during the may 18th bocc meeting we want the westport canal dredge so we can use our boat all year long

not just during summer months when tides are higher during winter months the tides are often so low it is impossible to get to get our boat out we bought our house in order to use our boat and have been hearing about the dredging of our canals for years but with no action would very much appreciate your attention to this matter that's it that's it thank you okay you i'm done with ready we'll adjourn the medium today [Music] you