4.9.25 Pasco Board of County Commissioners Meeting (Morning Session)

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All right. Good morning. Good morning. Um, okay. Where's my screen? Sorry, trying to get online here. Good morning. I'd like to call to order the Pasco County Board of County Commission 10 a.m. meeting of April 9th, 2025. At this time, silence all electronic devices and mute your microphones. Please rise for the invocation and the pledge of allegiance. Oh merciful creator, your hand is open wide to satisfy the needs of every living creature. Make us thankful for your loving providence and grant that we remembering the account that we must one day give may be faithful stewards of your good gifts. Amen. Amen. I aliance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Okay. Um, can we please call the role? District one, Commissioner Oakley, here. District two, Commissioner Waitman, present. District four, Commissioner Joerger here. District five, Commissioner Mariano here. District three, Chairman Starky here. Okay. So, uh, now is the time for public comment. Thank you. Citizens are given an opportunity to comment on any current or future agenda item coming before the board and on other business under the board's purview. Today's public comment will be handled as follows. First, we will take public comment from those are who are here in person and then we will take public comment from those who have pre-registered for a WebEx link and are currently on Q. We request that you that when you address the board, comments are directed not personally against the commissioner or team member, but rather directed at the issues. This provides mutual respect between board members and the public. After stating your name and address for the clerk, a threeminut timer will be activated and a green light will be shown on the podium. After 2 minutes, a yellow light will indicate you have 1 minute left. When your time is up, a red light will be displayed. Three beeps will sound and you should close your comments immediately. WebEx participants will be disconnected automatically when their time is up. And madam clerk, do we have folks signed up for public comments? Yes, madam chair, we do. Um, just for the record, there is no one signed up for WebEx this morning. Okay, we have I'll I'll call up the first three names that have signed up. We have Pastor Troy Peterson, Valerie Lefrance, and then Akila Nunees. Pastor Troy Peterson. Good morning, chair and commissioners. Nikki, staff, Pastor Troy Peterson, 8114 Leo Kid Road at Slide of the World Tabernacle where I serve. Also, evangelist for somebody cares Pasco and the Pasco director for Protect Our Children Project. A couple of things up and coming. Uh last meeting on the other side of the county, I gave you all a a flyer for our Easter egg hunt in Waterfront Park. Uh that'll be April

19th. It's always a good time had by all. The kids get to climb on the fire trucks and police cars and stuff like that. And free food, hot dogs, and popcorn and and uh it's just a real blessed time of the church working with community. Um, you know, I remember back last year when some of the Pascal watch ladies came in and read out of a book that was in our libraries. And uh, when I went and spoke to the school board, I couldn't even speak. I just wept when I found out these books were in our schools and in our libraries. And uh but I want to thank you, Commissioner, uh for standing up against this wickedness that has tried to come in to indoctrinate our children. And um I thank you for fighting with us and anything we can do to to help. You know, I was reminded when the governor asked us to to come to Tallahassee and we took a whole team. Some of us rode our motorcycles. It was a good time. But I could not believe that in the state of Florida, you used to be able to uh a child would say to the counselor that I'm pregnant and I don't want to tell my parents cuz they're going to kill me or ground me or take away my car. and that counselor could take that young lady under the age 18 to go have an abortion. No longer in Florida, um, can that be done? Also found out, we were asked to talk to our state medical board that taxpayer funded mutilization of turning a boy into a girl was happening and hormone blockers and stuff like that. And so the governor stopped that as well. And some of that comes through these books that are in our libraries. Now I'm a taxpayer and it's a small minority of people that are wanting these books. So we here in Pasco County have an opportunity to protect our children from this indoctrination. And I appreciate uh what's being done with the library cards and so that small children can't have access to these books, but I prefer these books not even be in the library. Thank you for your time. Valerie Lebron, followed by Kila Nunes, followed by Rick Morales. Good morning. I'd like to have these passed out to all. May I ask um these to be passed out as just information? Second. All in favor? I thank you. My name is Valerie La France, 9731 Sandstone Lane, Port Richie, Florida 34668. Thank you again for allowing the public to always have an opportunity to speak at your meetings. I I want to first thank um first I must say that I'm here to represent protect our children project and speak on behalf of them as well as parents children who can't have a say here I don't think but it'd be great if I could have all these little children come up and tell you uh regarding the library materials and what is very disturbing. I would like to thank um Commissioner Weightman for

continuing to be in the on the forefront of uh sharing this information. I did have a discussion with Shawn McGarvey uh the library director last time at the one of the meetings and Kathy uh assistant administrator spoke to me also but I still have concerns and there was a new article that just came out. So I would like to address the situation again of the policy of library cars and the type of materials that are in the library that are undisturbing and I will refuse to discuss what the materials are because we all know what they are. I would like to also address the because we have to I can't direct to all of you individually but I would just like a show of hands of those who support Commissioner Weightman because I've not found out anything from any of the other commissioners if they stand in agreement with their colleague. Am I allowed chairman to ask for just a silent hand raise? This is p this is your public comment. This is not interaction with the public. Okay. Well, I am going to request that um Commissioner Weightman that you be um I'm going to charge you gently to ask each one of your colleagues and get back uh with me to find out where each of you stand because we should be standing united, very united. Protect our children. We want to protect the innocence of our children. We want to protect the privacy rights. We are responsible as adults. Even the librarians are responsible to make sure certain types of uh disturbing materials are not available. We wouldn't even have this issue about redoing a card or setting up a new process if the materials weren't even in the library. I'm a taxpayer also. I'd appreciate we remove all these materials like other counties have. This to me is not difficult to do. I would like to see the savings of that uh of savings of taxpayer monies. If people really are calling and asking for these type of materials to be in our public libraries, then why don't they just purchase them themselves and start a private library for those type of materials? There are some businesses that already do that. Protect Our Children Project is dedicated to pushing back against the institutions that are trying to sexualize our children and indoctrinate them into believing anti-God, anti-life, anti-f family, and anti-American philosophies. There's danger to this. These are innocent children. They should be free. Am I done? Okay. So, I'm Thank you very much. Protect our innocent. Thank you. Okay, Kayla Nunes, followed by Rick Morales Nadal, followed by Tona Riddlesworth. Good morning. I'm Kayla Nunes. I live in Newport Richie and I am a mother of three boys. I am here to support the Protect the Children Foundation and to encourage you all as our lawmakers um to turn back toward God's law, the original law and lawmaker. I encourage you, let's go back to what God tells us is right and wrong. Marriage and relationships should be between a man and a woman according to God's law so that our nation would be blessed. America started

out as an as a Christian nation who in God we trust. Let's turn back to that. So again, our nation would be blessed by the one and only God and maker of all things who can bless this nation. So I again support that we remove these materials from our libraries because the library is an extension of the education system as far as I'm concerned or as far as I can think and I would hope we all think that that that is the purpose of our library to bring educational materials to our children. So is this what we are wanting to teach our children that this is acceptable because when you bring these into the library a public place um that is uh funded by taxpayers all of us and we condone these materials by bringing them and making them available freely to our children. We're saying this is okay for you to do so. Um, would it be okay to lead a prayer during my time? [Music] Yes. No. No, I cannot lead a prayer. Okay. Um, but I do ask then that God bless this nation. God bless America. God bless you all. He's put you in a position of authority so that you can make these wise decisions for us and help us to educate our children. Help us to again be a nation that trusts in God. In God we trust. And in God we put our faith. And I proclaim that in the name of Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior. and pray that your families would be blessed, that your children would be blessed and educated and raised to love the Lord, our creator, God of the universe, our maker, our one and only savior, the only one that can redeem our soul that is eternal from eternal damnation. the only one that will call us all into account for what we have done with this life that he gave us that he created us to live and that he has a purpose for us to do it with and in that perfect perfect plan of his perfect purpose of his is where we find our total peace and joy. Thank you. Rick Morales Nadal followed by Tonio Riddlesworth. Uh good morning. Um I'm Rick Morales um from SBA uh the office of disaster assistance. I came to provide uh the updates. Um I'm staying Osmar. I'm from Puerto Rico. I I have stayed here for months uh since Deb. I remember the last time that I was here in the town hall like the room the room it was even more crowded like hundreds of people were here and a lot of speakers and it was a great experience. So the deadlines that are approaching uh is for the physical damages. All those uh for Miltown Helen all those homeowners, renters, nonprofits and businesses that had damages for for Miltown and Helen, they can still apply with us. And because this is recorded uh this can disseminate the information better. Uh we are still here here in Pineelas in Clearwater Epicenter St. Petersburg College in Clearwater Monday to Friday 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. and the phone number is 8006592955 800659 uh 2955. We have had a good relationship with the emergency management department with the economic

development department. Um Laura with Coxin uh she did uh reach out uh to us. Thank you so much for the opportunity. We have been doing a lot of meetings virtually in person. So we are still here providing and doing the Irish with the survivors in this county because Pineelis County is one of the uh worst counties with damages like Hillsboro. So that's why we are still here and the deadlines for economic damages that those ones are for the summer for all those businesses and nonprofits uh that that loss uh profits because of Milton and Helen they are using that um for ordinary expenses for the pay for the payroll uh more than 60,000 uh survivors constituents have applied with Milton and more than 30,000 with Helen between uh both declarations we have approved more than 1 million like 800 million uh for Milton like uh 700 million for Helen. We have uh been doing great the people have been using also um our programs for mitigation combining the program from the state elevate Florida with FEMA and using our programs too. So they are using all these programs on all different ways like obviously the one-year deferment with 0% interest rates that's one of the best benefits and yeah thank you so so much for the opportunity for having me here. Yeah. That was a lot of information. Tonia Riddlesworth. Good morning. Uh, hi. My name is Tanya Riddlesworth. I think some of you know me. I've met with some of you before and I hope to meet with some of you um in the future about this same topic. Uh, address is 8734 Mckendry Road. Um, so I'm on Mckendry Road, the dirt road that connects up to 52 where they're building the old Pasco Town Center and down to Overpass Road where the new hospital is being built. Um, so I'm here to talk to you today about the connected city and the presentation that you'll see later um related to the connected city and the progress there. And I just encourage you guys to ask a lot of questions if you're able to um or maybe have the discussions with them with the planners afterwards about uh what's happening with the connected city and what was planned for and how that's not really what's being played out. Um so I moved here 10 years ago. Uh bought my small farm to raise my family. I have my homestead there. Uh our next door neighbor had 40 acres with cows. Beautiful area. It's now going to be town homes. I had to spend a lot of my money to fight to get those town homes not to be right next to my house. Um we did succeed with getting a little bit of um land there between us, but that's not what was originally sold to us when the connected city was proposed. And I went to those meetings 11 10 11 years ago. Um and Matt Armstrong, he promised us that there was going to be some step down between these new multifamily high development zones and all our small properties that we had here. Um so it you know in order to get that I actually had to fight for it. It wasn't given. Um, so that's that's one topic that I wanted to discuss because coming from from now forward with the

connected city, you're starting to encroach on all these small farms and the people that already lived here in the connected city. So you're going to be getting a lot of push back from those people and not wanting, you know, town homes and apartments right next to them. So that was one issue that I just want to discuss as we move forward with the connected city. Um the second issue is a little bit more black and white and I I don't understand how some things are being passed um lately with uh the community hub zone uh specifically FAZA and um tall timbers which I know hasn't been passed here yet but has by the planning development um in that community in the land development code apartments are not allowed what is permitted and I'm reading directly here from your land development code is small family detached courtyard houses and row houses. So, so far Tall Timbers is proposing apartments which is not a permitted use and I believe also FAZA apartments again not a permitted use. I think the reasoning prior was because there was no single family home entitlements left which is fine. Um, I know you're going to re-evaluate and see if you can add some of those, but um, if not, the alternate uses would be courtyard houses, row houses, not apartments, not town homes. Um, so that I think is a major issue that needs to be addressed today when you guys have that presentation later. Thank you. Thank you, Madam Chair. That is um, all that I have signed up. I don't know if there's any other um, okay, citizens that attend. Would anyone else here in the room like to address the board this morning? Okay, Madam Chair, before you close u public comment, um Rick Morales, Nadal, the individual who spoke from SBA, he has a bunch of handouts that he would have liked to have made part of the record. He did not ask. Okay. If we take a motion to receive a file second. All in favor? I I Thank you. Great. Okay. Um, we are going to move on to the consent agenda. I have two items here that are pulled for discussion. Um, I have C17 from Commissioner Oakley and I have AC 97 from um, Are you going to stay for the presentation? You going to stay for the presentation? No, it's this morning. Um, it's JP Murphy AC97. All right. Um, is there anything else anyone would like pulled from the consent agenda? Jack, do you have anything? Okay, then I will take a motion. I'll move. Second. All in favor? I C17. Commissioner Oakley. And I just want to say that the motion was to approve consent agenda. Yes. Thank you. Yes. Uh I pulled C17 just for information. Um there's been a lot of talk about back and forth about the intersection of Meridian uh County Road 52 and St. Joe Road and 21st Street here to our west. And uh it's been from being maybe a roundabout to a four-way traffic stop. And the message we got today in this is that it will be a four. It'll be a realignment of St. Joe and it'll be a

four-way lighted. Oh, you're not getting a roundabout. No, this going to be a forward FDOT's planning it to be a four-way stop lights. And is that what was that what the community wanted or is that FDOT pushing a lighted roundabout this continuous movement? It was just it was just spoken at one time it was going to be uh a roundabout and people were for it and people were against it. So a lot of people don't understand roundabouts. I know. So don't listen. But it's been determined by FDOT that it will be a a light signal for four lanes and actually St. Joe will come over and square up with the Meridian. Right. Um I just want to be sure too that the multi-use path is built in in that in that intersection with safely you know a refuge to cross, you know, a good the good. So let's make sure we speak to that that path coming through that area. Honesty We may not know commissioners. Uh my name is Panos Cones. I'm the assistant county engineer. Yes, there will be a multi-use path there as part of probably of the orange belt trail. It's going to be either eight or 10 ft wide. Uh unfortunately, it's got to be more than eight for a major county. Probably will be 10 feet because you know the right way is kind of tight there. So, but we are trying to have a 10 foot multi. I mean, this is this is the this is like the ma a major spine in Pasco County. Can't beat 8B. Um, Madam Chair. Yeah. And about the roundabout, you know, we did one at 52 with a new intersection. That thing has come out fantastic. Tons of ch tons of traffic running through there. Yeah. I don't how much did they really look at this roundabout? I know they used to doing lights and signals, etc. But uh o over the years as we have the right situation for them, I'm actually a fan of them and um rather than having a light because a light you waste time, you sit etc. They're more dangerous for accidents. Um so I just wonder how much how much look was into that. Do originally looked at the roundabout option. Uh I believe they changed the concept to a signal because that works better with Swanyway and St. Joe. it it functionally operates better than a roundabout and also minimize right-of-way impacts in that area. So that's those are were the primary reasons and they had a public involvement uh program. They they informed the local citizens and everything. So it was part of the whole work they they're doing. They they've looked at it very thoroughly because FDOT as you know look at everything safety first and I trust that they figured out this was the best route to go with the light and they're going to line up uh St. Joe Road is going to be moved over and lined up with Meridian. Well, it is now you got actually uh to Yeah, you got you got four rows, but you got two of them mingling right there on the north side of that intersection. And they're going to move that St. go

Yeah. We've requested uh that to be reimbured under category G. We're waiting an answer. That wasn't available. And it fits in the category. So yeah, this is being funded up 21104. So out of the building construction services fund because the whole all the services are being provided are related to building services. Sure. So so it's not a taxable it's not a tax based it's just food based and but we do expect to get reimburseed from FEMA with it as well. Yeah. So no no effect in the budget. Okay. All right. Take a motion. Move approval. Second. All in favor? I oppose. I thank you. Um so once again I pulled the consent agenda in front of the resolution. So, we're going to move to RS1. Okay. If you are here uh for National Crime Victim's Rights Week, please step up to the podium. Okay. I'm going to go ahead and read the resolution. Resolution number 25-170, a resolution by the board of county commissioners of Pasco County, Florida, declaring the week of April 6th through the 12th, 2025 as National Crime Victims Week in Pasco County. Whereas surviving a crime can have a myriad of lasting effects on victims, including physical, psychological, social, and financial issues, and we know that countless survivors never tell anyone about what happened to them. Andraz victims of crime deserve to be treated with dignity and respect by the criminal justice system and should have access to the services they need to rebuild their lives. Andraz victims services provide providers, community members, businesses, places of worship, colleagues, businesses and family members can provide victim-entered trauma-informed and culturally responsive support. And Raz, we must listen to survivors and will be create and willing to create new option options for support to ensure that all victims of crime can receive the help they need to seek justice. And whereas it is necessary to create safe environments for survivors of crime, providing not only support but also access to critical services. And the 2025 theme of National Crime Victims Week Rights Week is kinship, which reminds us of the strength that comes from connection, the importance of listening to every voice, and the power we have to create lasting change when we work together. And whereas Pasco County encourages all Pasco County citizens to participate in lighting their homes and public buildings in purple to commemorate the passage of Marcy's Law in Florida and for recognition and support of all crime victims. Now therefore, be it resolved by the board of county commissioners of Pasco County, Florida, that said board hereby declares the week of April 6 through the 12th, 2025 as National Crime Victim's Rights Week in Pasco County and expresses our gratitude and appreciation for those community members, victims, services providers, and uh criminal justice professionals who are committed

to improving our response to all victims of crime so that they may find assistance, support, justice, and peace. done and resolved in regular session with Corum present and voting this 9th day of April 2025. Approve. Second. All in favor? I. Good morning. Good morning, commissioners. My name is Tracy Toner. I'm the Pasco County Misdemeanor Probation Manager and I'd like to thank you for this resolution recognizing National Crime Victim's Rights Week in Pasco County. This serves to honor the courage of victims and reaffirm our commitment to supporting them in their path towards healing and justice. At Misdemeanor Probation, we're committed to aiding victims in their journey. We collect restitution to help the victims regain financial loss. We case manage offenders to enforce court-ordered no contact provisions, prioritizing safety and peace of mind. We're proud to contribute to the shared mission of protecting victim's rights and providing meaningful support. Together, we can continue to create a community where survivors find strength, dignity, and justice. Thank you for your leadership and for recognition of this vital cause. Absolutely. And who's who's this? Commissioner Waitman. Yeah. Thank you guys. It's it's known fact that pretty often folks have something they're wrong, they just roll with it and don't say anything just out of fear of retaliation from if they knew the the person who did wrong to them or or not. And uh you know leaves you feel violated, insecure, just not a good feeling all around. maybe lose confidence in your community you live in. And so it's important that uh you know, we're all we're all impacted by by crime or offenses every day. And uh it's how we handle those and manage those situations. And um you know, it's it's good to know that folks aren't alone. I don't think there's probably a single person in this room who hasn't uh had something done to themselves or family or property. And uh so it's important that we we recognize you know these societal challenges but know that no one is on an island. So thank you all for being here today. Thank you for your work and um I'll turn over to the board. Yeah. Um any anyone else want to make a comment? Yeah. I'd like to say appreciate everything you do and your staff. Um, a lot of times your job doesn't seem to be uh you think you're being accepted or approved or think you're doing well, but you're doing very well in your job and we appreciate all you do to help the citizens of Pasco County. So, thank you. So, one, thank you. And and two, just adding a little more light onto that. So I worked with at risk youth for 10 years and almost all of my kids were sexually assaulted and the trauma they carry around and just the court process testifying in court how traumatic that is for them. And then also, you know, they talk about the dates that their offender is getting out like that date just is being held over their head and

whenever they talk about it, you know, they they just have a complete panic attack. So there it's it they just carry around so much and I'm I'm just really thankful for you guys because unless you've walked with these people in it, it's truly heartbreaking heartbreaking. So um I'm thankful they have you. Thank you. Yeah, I'd like to thank you as well. The um victim's rights are very important. We we had a breakin many years ago and I will tell you it was I remember it was there was a few things that were going on in that person's career, drugs, etc. So, we watched very closely when he was getting out and then just kind of put a little extra awareness to what was going on. But we appreciate all you do. Um, you know, I I'll throw one out there that happened to um our family. Um, my mother-in-law, father-in-law are in a assisted living. Um, and it turns out that um they had roundthe-clock care while in assisted living. That's a long story, but their trusted most longest serving provider took my mother-in-law's credit card and shopped for a year and a half on it before we caught it. Um, and so gosh, if you have someone that is living in one of those facilities, um, and we don't know how much jewelry is missing. Um, you need to really be careful. Um, and uh, I I bet there's so many victims like that that people don't even know about. I mean, it took us a year and a half to even realize, but we caught her. It's not real smart when you're ordering GrubHub and delivery to your house um, paying your electric bill. Um, it's pretty easy to trace that back. So, thank you for all you do. Thank you. Um, yes. Yeah, I'll I'll echo I'll echo the sentiments of the board and thank you for for working with those that are victims of crime and being able to uh help them move on and in a in a safe um judgment free type environment. Often times even sometimes you even think you're responsible for it and so I know you guys work through a lot of those those types of issues and so it's tough but thank you for doing that. Thank you. We actually never told my mother-in-law that happened because she would have been devastated. Mhm. So, all right. Um, next up is RS2 presentation. The presentation resolution. It's um a picture. Oh, that's right. Presentation. Someone want to go down? All of us. Forgot that part. I was moving us along. Don't complain when we run over time. I don't know. Oh my goodness. Ready? [Applause] That's you. Sorry. You're like, "This looks weird." Chair's dead. All right. RS2 Mariano. Okay. Um, if you are here for there he is for building safety month. I'll go ahead and I'll read the resolution. Anyone else? Yeah, come on up. You have to awkwardly stand up for the next four minutes. You guys all color coordinated. I like this resolution number 25-175, a resolution by the board of

county commissioners of Pasco County, Florida, declaring the month of May 2025 as building safety month in Pasco County. Whereas Pasco County is committed to recognizing that our growth and strength depend upon the safety and essential role our homes, buildings, and infrastructure play both in everyday life and when disasters strike. Andraz, our confidence in the resilience of the buildings that make up our community in is achieved through the devotion of diligent professionals such as building safety and fire prevention officials, architects, engineers, builders, trades persons, um, design professionals, laborers, plumbers, and others in the construction industry who work year round to ensure the safe construction of buildings. Andraz as professionals are dedicated members of the international code council a nonprofit that brings together local, state, territorial, tribal and federal officials who are experts in the building industry to create and implement the highest quality codes to protect citizens in the buildings in which they live, work, and play. ANRAZ during ANRAZ modern building codes include safeguards to protect the public from hazards such as hurricanes, snowstorms, tornadoes, uh, wild landfires and earthquakes. ANRAZ building safety month is sponsored by the International Code Council to remind the public about the crucial role, the critical role of our communities largely unknown protectors of public safety, our local code officials who assure us of safe, sustainable, and affordable buildings that are essential to our prosperity. And whereas the 2025 theme for building safety month is game on which encourages us all to raise awareness about building safety on a personal, local, and global scale. And RAZ each year in observance of building safety month, people all over the world are asked to consider the commitment to improve building safety, resilience, and economic investment at home and in the community. and to acknowledge the essential services the essential service provided to all citizens by local and state building departments, fire prevention bureaus and federal agencies in protecting lives and property. Now therefore, be it resolved by the board of county commissioners of Pasco County, Florida, that said board hereby declares the month of May 2025 as building safety month in Pasco County, and encourages all Pasco County citizens to join in participation of building safety month activities. Done and resolved in regular session with a quorum present and voting this 9th day of April, 2025. Move approval. Second. All in favor? I. Good morning. Thank you, chair, and thank you, Madam Clerk, for the the wonderful read. Um the theme this year for building safety month is game on. Uh we put a colon on that. It takes a team. Um because it really does take a team to keep Pasco County safe. And I'd be remiss while BCS is standing up here and I think Aaron from fire is here. Um that's the kind of the primary point team here. But we couldn't do what we do

without other members including the sheriff's office. Um Mr. Stein Snider's office. Actually, you know, we should have Jessica and Sam standing right next to us here as well. Um, but it does take a team. But I'm going to take a moment just to brag about what's happened in the last year since we were last up here. You know, last time I was up here, we were on the verge of doing our first mobile permitting event, which was something that we had never done before in this county. Uh, we did that in the Shady Hills area and we we figured out how that would work and we we said that well that would be good good practice for if we have to to activate in a hurricane. Little would do we know that in three to four months we would have to activate not only once but twice. Uh in that time we activated four mobile permitting sites in various places around the county. Special shout out to uh to Mr. Fano for giving us a home in his lobby in Gulf Harbors for a little bit as well. But I used that a number of times. Well, we learned pretty quickly that um we had to go where our customers needed us because our systems weren't really designed um for a disaster scenario. So, we made sure that we put smiles on the other side of the table um where people were being affected the most. And I thought that was a really great thing to see during the storm that had we not gone through that process ahead of time, we would have known what to do. Um, but in that time frame, you know, we we process about 60,000 permits a year, whether you know it or or not. About 8,000 of those are residential news, but the rest is residential als,000 inspections, which works out, if you do the math, to about three inspections a minute in Pasco County, building inspections, and that's not even inclusive of the fire marshals inspections. Um that all that comes back to say is that we also had this new disaster um that we all had to work through together. We had to learn a lot of things on the fly as did our residents and we had to learn how to communicate and and address what their needs were. Title Basin was a big part of that. Um, and as we go through kind of winding down but learning about what worked, what didn't, one thing really stood out to us uh, recently in a data point and that was in an accidental survey that had gone out um, over the past 73 days at a point of service. Uh we found that over 94% of our customers that came in to either the third floor or to the the first floor at Citizen Center left thinking that the quality of service they got was very high or and they were extremely satisfied. And so yes, we do deal with exceptions. I know commissioner's office send me and my team different things to look at. And while we do the exceptions, by and large, this team does a fantastic job at servicing the needs of the public while keeping them safe. The job of a regulator is never easy. It often comes with bad news. But in Pasco County, we have a real choice on how we work with the public and deliver news and work

with them to find solutions. And after the hurricane, I could not have been more proud of the staff that's behind you and plus at our three standard locations and again the rest of our team. So, um, with this, we thank you for the resolution for building safety month. We will be doing some educational programming and doing some fun things throughout the the month to to not only recognize our staff, but recognize the importance of of our building safety codes. So, thank you, Madam Chair. Commissioner Mayan. Thank you, Madam Chair. I want to change the protocol from these resolutions from now on. He took all my thunder with the Shady Hills presentation. But I tell you, going back to that that uh simulation where you brought all these permitting folks to Shady Hills out there to do the simulation, which was a great test to see how it would work if we had to work remote and all the people that volunteered to go there. They didn't have to do it. You made it out there and the room was full and everybody get to see everything how it could work in a situation and it worked dynamically well up there. Were they actually taking Oh, yeah. They crossed the whole permit right there. What did you do there? I'm curious. We literally set up the room in a horseshoe. So, if you came in and and the goal of that one was um we wanted to take care of after the fact violations cuz we knew we had a lot in there. We had a community that said they couldn't make it to our office, didn't know how to or have access to a computer. Um, so we set them up in a horseshoe where you would just come in, you would start with your the licensing and work your way around the room and essentially go in through the the plan review process and if it was a simple enough permit, you we had a handful of folks walk out with permits. You got to go do that again. We we we had like we we we had people out there that have been in in the mix of like when a citizen tries to get a permit, it's not an easy thing. You got to go here, there. Oh, no. It's so hard. Trust me. And and what I think what we learned in there is how we can actually make it all work and I think that helped with the redesign of the building there. How to make that a little more efficient and make it easier for the consumer which makes it easier for you guys too because I know you guys want to get these things done. It's just a matter it's got to be done the right way with all the right people and the right eyes on it. Uh so what what you've done there was great and I tell you if you could and I'm sure you saw it at Gulf Harbors but at C Ranch it was just an amazing procedure. Uh the people went in there. I mean, we had some people really hot and JP, you were you and I went in a couple of tours to go look at some things to kind of like get on-site what's what's going on out in the field, how we make it work and go. And I'm telling you that involvement in the field to know what was going on was phenomenal. But again, the coordination of what you put together, tremendous. Um working with

FEMA, working with the Florida building code, trying to work on NFIP to make sure we're going to get the discounts is such a complex thing. JP and I probably talk once every couple weeks about something specific. Just the other day we talked about one and it was like, "Okay, let's go this, this, and this." And trying to logically go through what things can be done and and JP's right in the money. Put it together. So for you guys to combine all that with the intensity that people are feeling that they're out of their home still trying to get back in. You're trying to help them get back in but following certain rules. It's just a tough tough situation. And what you guys have done has been phenomenal. Uh I will tell you that when we first opened up the third floor uh Sonia and I we had first day we had five people coming in just because we knew we had big trouble with them folks and we just want to try to help them get through the process. everyone else we kind of let them go but if they have trouble we say come to us and I think Sonia's become pretty much an expert for you guys to try to help get through that process and help people coach to what they got to go do and sometimes they don't know they don't put all the things in they should have put in so it's difficult but you guys are doing a phenomenal job all the way through with it and I want to tell you how important it is with these storms and I think you probably all heard stories we've had so many people that have hired these out oftowners that just come in for a day don't have the license think they had it and how many people got the shaft oh Yeah, tens of thousands of dollars to take out their drywall. I mean, crazy stuff. So, with all that said, all the stuff you do, not only for the storm situation, but daytoday is so important to protect people. And that's what it's all about, protecting people's safety. And Yar costs a little bit more to go do it, but end result is they get better service, they get better quality product, and they go on with their lives knowing uh you paid a little more, but as my wife always says, you pay a little more, but you at least you get the right thing, what you want to get. So, I want to thank you for uh bringing the resolution to me again to have the opportunity to do it because I support you guys a thousand%. You guys are doing phenomenal job and I know you guys get attacked over there, but I would tell you we stand behind you a thousand% to what you're doing and whatever we can do as you just saw we we've had our issues with Title Basin to when they first came out, etc. But they're working for you. They're helping you. We we just supported to go forward to to help you guys keep doing the great work you're doing. So, thank you all, Commissioner. And I just want to be the voice for the seniors. And a huge thank you because when everything was online, that was so hard for them to navigate. And you guys really whether I had you on speed dial, but whether you sent somebody out to 80-year-old people's homes to help them through the permit process, I I just

thank you for on behalf of them. And also, thank you for watching out for them because I Jack touched on what I said is that there's so many like this one couple I'm working with, a builder came from out of town, Orlando, and he kept sending different people and without all those inspections, they would have been in deep trouble because there were live wires everywhere. Their plumbing would have backed. I mean, it was it was horrible. But so glad you guys were there and um again, just thank you for being there. you know, for all of our residents, but especially for our seniors, because this was very, very overwhelming. And I think a big takeaway from the storm was, you know, this happened to all these seniors, right? And they didn't have people helping them, you know, like some of their family members didn't help up to help to. So, they really were carrying that burden on themselves and you all really made a huge difference with that. So, thank you, Commissioner. Yeah, y'all do a great job every day that I've seen you. You really have come a long way in your department to bring things up to stuff and move a lot of projects each and every day throughout the county. And without you, we couldn't get a lot of things done. But here, you went above and beyond when you stepped up during after three storms and did what you did. put citizens back in their homes and get things moving and continue things moving until they can get settled and back into normal life. So, it took a long time, but uh those storms came, you look back, it was like like overnight you had three storms. So, it's amazing what they did. And one of them flooded Zephr Hills area. The first one with and it was just a tropical storm, but it got 12 to 13 inches of rain dumped on the east side of Pasco County. And the others even worse, a lot a lot of damage. But we appreciate that y'all went above and beyond and did that extra that needed to be done to put citizens back in their homes. We certainly appreciate everything you do. Thank you. Um, so did you want to say anything? Sure. Okay. Eden. Okay, I'll go. There was a I'm fine to go last. I need fireworks. Y'all don't look y'all don't look stressed at all. Yeah, look still smiling. You're a resilient bunch. Thank you for hanging tough, being nimble. Um, we know it's not easy, especially when you know residents are stressed and taking out their frustrations on you because you have government on the front of your shirt and we all have a job to do. So, your patience, your resiliency and uh being able to roll with it and hanging tough goes a long way and we recognize that. So, thank you for choosing this job and serving uh our residents and businesses in this county and uh JP Mike, you have a good team. Thank you. And um you know, I probably I don't know if I was more affected than Commissioner over here, but she had issues in the storm, but I certainly and I'm a senior, by the

way. So, um uh it it's been tough and I I'm really grateful for all the help you gave me and my family. And we're still not through it yet. I have to call to close some of my permits, but I saw I still don't have all my electrical outlets covered. But I found one the other day that still needs to cover, but I'm getting very close. And um you know, these guys work weekends. Uh and who knows if any of your own uh lives were upended by the storm, so I'm I'm just I know we're all very grateful for the time you put in. And um I think we all learned a lot, too. Um and a lot of people don't realize the rules changed on us at during the process. And so, um, I think I I would put what we did against any county in the state of Florida on our responses. So, I'm very proud of our team. Um, and I'm very interested in this. Um, what you did in Shady Hills because I think we should repeat that. I think we should have some of these one-stop days around the county to make it easier for our citizens to come into compliance and live safely in their homes and legally. So, I'd love to see a proposal to um you know, move around the county with that kind of exercise. So, with that, I'll take a motion. So, move. Second. All in favor? I Oh, did you Oh, go ahead, Mike. You I want to say Well, let we'll go ahead and vote in favor. I Okay, go ahead, Mike. No, and thank you. Thank you. Uh thank you for the board for reinforcing that again on on on these guys. you know, uh, it is JP difficult to be a regulator, uh, as as we point out based on the number of complaints that I hear usually through through board members and versus that 60,000 permit number, I'd say your average is pretty good. It's my math is it's well over 99.9% of the time, which I think anyone would take that. Uh, but your sincere your sincere approach to customer service is really what makes me proud. You can be a regulator and you can be a bunch of jerks, but you're not. You're there with a smile on your face. You're there about service. I see your third floor team every single day working with our citizens and they do a phenomenal job. And I while I know it takes a team, uh JP, your leadership and commitment to innovation in this department has has made a significant difference into how things are going and Mr. Nasio is is building officially your your common sense approach to things uh is really moving the needle. So I just thank you both for your leadership of of the department. Okay. Um there's a lot. So why does Jack, why don't you go down? We'll stay up here. I think Mr. Stein Center has to be in the picture for this one though. The what? I see him slide off, but your team's vital to us. That's okay. They're here for me to throw away. I got to read those and then throw away. If my folks on the ground [Applause] okay we are on to our Thank you JP Um, we are on to the regular agenda and we have R31. Good morning. Good morning, Madam Chair.

How are you today? My name is David Engel. I am the planning and economic development director. We have a very timelyformational presentation today through a variety of topics. For the purpose of time management, I just wanted to review them with the board. Let them know what's going to be coming up and who's going to be speaking. Uh we're talking about connected city of VOP and the mobility fee study and the Pasco 2050 discussion. It's our intention to spend the predominant amount of time for this agenda item to focus on connected city. Uh what we're going to do is we're going to uh invite Metro Development up here for a very brief presentation because they are the largest developer at this time within connected city. Um then uh Mr. William Vermillion, he's our MPUD senior planner lead. He's going to provide a report card as to where we stand with connected city deliverables. We're going to have particular emphasis on uh the entitlement study because there's been a lot of questions on entitlements, the the parks that have been delivered in Connecticut City to date and also a very concise overview on the road system and our capacity analysis. Uh the next two items are going to be just for very briefformational purposes. uh Terry Ptos, our planning services director. He's going to be presenting where we're at with the VOP study to to give the board a sense of when they're we're going to be complete in front of the board with that study. Also, where we are with the mobility fee study that we do uh every several years. And lastly, uh, Hyatt Misilli, our senior planner lead on Pasco 2050, is going to provide a, uh, Gant chart and let you know exactly when you're going to be able to see and review the, uh, 2050 plan. We are approaching adoption this year, and we want to give the board confidence that there'll be ample time for public and board input. So, at this uh, juncture, I'd like to um, invite Mr. Gani up from Metro Development to provide his uh overview. It'll be about five minutes and then and we're going to have plenty of time for Q&A at the tail end of this presentation. Thank you. Good morning, Cart. Good morning, commissioners. Good morning, everyone. Um I guess I'll drew the lucky straw here. I'm honored to be here to represent everyone that's part of the connected city planning area that was connected uh that was created a long long time back and the conversation started obviously with the chatter online I think discussions and staff said hey why did we even create connected city this was 10 years back maybe it's just time to go back and see what was the goal what were we trying to do and more importantly Was it a good idea all along? I don't know. I don't have all the answers. Um, so I'm going to do my best to walk you through the journey we went on 10 years back and the thinking behind it. So it was year 2014 how it started. If you all kind of look at the map, disconnected city in the area to I75 is kind of on the west side. The north is

state road 52. It wasn't the state road 52 we drive on today with the four-lane divided highway. It was a two-lane undivided that kind of joged which is now the county road 52 to the south. There were a lot of communities regular communities that were built. There was no exit at overpass. Curly road was two lanes. And right at that time the discussion kept coming up everywhere mostly led by then county administrator also based on a urban land institute study that the county had commissioned during the downturn in 2008 and which was we need jobs in Pasco County there's Pasco County is at that time was a bedroom community by some estimates I think of uli estimates there were 70,000 cars heading south every day and something needed to change. I'm going to quickly summarize what got us thinking. Uh when we read the ULI study, so it was it was a large one. These are just some of the findings from there. We didn't commission it. The county commissioned this. It said 50% of workers live the count leave the county every workday. to change that. Create a priority development area along I75. That was one of the recommendation. Focus on economic development and tourism. Use healthcare as an economic engine. Great high-paying jobs. That's what the state needs, the country needs. But oops, there was a funding shortfall of $14 billion for transportation infrastructure. And I say by the way if you can overcome all the things above do focus on fiber internet availability because that is the future on creating something awesome. There was only one problem at that time. This was talk uh we owned you can you can see it a little bit here to the south a portion of Eper portion of Mada which is around 30% of what is now the connected city. And I guess we were naive enough to at that time ask the question, raise our hand and say how can we help? There's a fork in the road. Either we can continue and just to set the stage, we had our entitlements and approvals already. we could have just built a regular community and gone home and gone and done other things throughout the state that we do or like we raised our hands and the smart people at the county said yeah we have a fork in the road either we can continue doing what we do and then one day we're going to die just like the dinosaurs because it's going to stay as a bedroom community with the cookie cutter housing which none of you like or we can change and the idea was why don't we create again the connected city is just a placeholder name but the idea was why don't we create a new town from the internet up that becomes an economic engine that attracts the jobs it gets the healthcare it gets the fiber connectivity and by the way the funding infrastructure uh shortfall that everyone's talking about I don't know maybe ask those private guys to pay up a little bit more than what they were paying in impact

phase and we're like oh that's great but you know we could do all of this but no one is going to come to this area unless we put it on the national and international map. So that's how the idea was born. I'm going to show you a quick video. I don't know why the audio is not playing. If someone could help with that. Uh Perfect. Let's go. It's just It's not on this. That town made We need the video though. Okay. Perfect. There you go. What if that idees sprout and prosper and ideas take shape at the speed of light. What if that town made life better? A place that generates energy and makes getting around a breeze. What if the core of that town was built on education and ideas? A place where the world's smartest minds teach our children and brainstorms are part of the landscape. What made it possible to work? Cart, is this video from before or is this a new video? before this is the video we were using to get companies other developers excited to fall behind the plan because obviously it came with a big big price tag. Can we go to the next slide? It's the pointer's not moving. Sorry. And so when we looked at it and we said, "What would create something truly spectacular that would put this area and Pasco County on the national and international map?" And we asked all the smart people, and when I say smart people, all of these ideas are not ours. We met with county staff. We met with other stakeholders. We had neighborhood workshops. We asked other land owners. We went outside and traveled extensively to see what were making other places successful. And the common theme was you need to tackle infrastructure but also plan for future roadways and options where you can take cars up the road. You need world class amenities because without that people are not going to show up. And you need that big wow for people to look at something on the internet and say maybe I should go check this out. Uh no family is going to move without amazing schools there. So education was a key pillar. Health and wellness is something we truly truly believed in because we thought if we're building a new town from the internet up, we want to be able to help people live healthier but also live longer. So that was a pillar. We talked about fiber connectivity and and 10 gig fiber ultra fast parks and trails. We want people to be outside. That's a big part of recreation. More importantly, could we create an economic engine that goes on for the next 50 years? Something that lives beyond the first developer, which was us that originated the idea, or the county staff or the commission. and it's a good plan for 50 years. And lastly, we said all that sounds great, but what we have seen is all great ideas die, especially when there are pilots, when

the people that were involved with it for the first 10 years end up leaving and there's no money left to do anything. So, we set aside separate funds and we'll talk about those as well as we go through that. So again the goal was everyone focused on the physical infrastructure but we realized that along with the highways you also have to focus on the eyeways were living in the eye generation need a big focus on connectivity so that's the digital infrastructure but most importantly and I fabric is people hanging out the social infrastructure neighbor meeting neighbors and how do we create that in an area at that time was just cow land. There was nothing around it. Um so that was the challenge as I said. So we started talking. Pasco EDC quickly came to the board with great ideas. Other business leaders throughout Tampa Bay also started weighing in during this process and it turned into something exciting and everyone said why do something only for two projects which is the land we had. Let's think big. And that is what led to creating this special planning area which just happens to be around 7,800 acres because to the west is the natural boundary with I75. To the north was the existing 52. South overpass to be completed with no exit but with a plan. And then Curly Road on the east because to the east of that the county had approved already villages of Pasadena Hills with a long-term plan. So that was a great foundation to start thinking the other goal on non-residential at that point going back to 2013 um county so I'm talking about countywide not just one small area there was 300,000 square ft of new commercial in 2013 only 300,000 square ft that's why we were called a bedroom community so as we started laying out the goals for a 50-year plan. We're like, "Yeah, where should we start? Maybe this small area in the county should have 10 times the commercial. That would be a great goal. Like, let's focus for 3 million square ft." And as we started talking, it was that would be too small of a goal. Let's go something that is very ambitious. It's okay if we don't get there, but why don't we do something that's 50 times what the entire county does in one year. And that's how we ended up with a number of 12.8 million square feet 50 times in one area of what the entire county saw in 2013. And that set the stage. That was a very bold and inspirational idea. And sorry going backwards and the state quickly got behind it and in 2015 Senator Simpson said this is a great idea. We should try this because what's the worst? If it doesn't work out, we won't do it again. If it works out, hopefully others see this as an example and do it in other parts of the state. The state created Senate Bill 1216, which was passed into law. The board of county commissioners uh approved a resolution establishing the general area and that let's all work

together. And then we had Pasco EDC also helping out on thinking through that. So I'm going to go back walk you through just very very high level on each of the items and I can pause anytime you would like me to. The entire thought process was to attract employers large companies or any large user they need certainty with a solid infrastructure plan. And that infrastructure plan is based around cars, autonomous vehicles, golf carts, bikes, ebikes, and all other forms of transportation. And that was the map that was adapt adopted at that point in time. And the good thing is 10 years later, everyone regardless of whether you opt in or opt out, which is more of a technicality on the process you follow, you still have to follow the foundational map that exists. Overpass Road was literally an overpass which is now a new interchange. Some of the fundings from connected city search charges and impact fees had to be committed to accelerate that state road 52. Once Senate Bill 1216 was passed, the state said, "Our investment in this area is going to be to accelerate State Road 52 and create a brand new four-lane divided highway that is going to encourage economic growth, which is kind of what you see there. We started laying dark fiber accessible to everyone with speeds that can go up to 10 gigs as soon as we started uh the physical infrastructure. We call that ultrai. It's set up that any other users that come in can do their own or can tap into it without having to tear up the streets. That was very very key to the thinking. Worldass amenities. You've all heard the lagoons, seen the lagoons, and I'll tell you the honest reason we did the lagoons. It was a wild crazy idea. But we knew when you plan something that is bold and aspirational, it's hard for the outside world to read a textbook on a plan and get excited about it. And we thought what would get people excited is if they see some really cool pictures and they're like, I have to go check it out. And we knew that once people came to check it out, they would want to move here, live here, and work here. So, we invested in building the first lagoon in the country, and then double down and opened up the largest lagoon in the country. I'm going to pause there because some people just call it a community amenity, a swimming pool. It isn't that. The between the two lagoons, they've had 1.2 million people visit from the time they have opened. And here is the craziest thing that we did at that time. All the smart people that I talked about that were involved in the planning said, "Why would you do this? You need to create private enclaves, create luxury housing, and let the lagoon be that great attractor. It's going to result in you can sell homes for more." And we're like, how is that going to help the region? We want to turn this into a reasonable destination so anyone and everyone can come there and companies come there and get

inspired that we want to move here because our employees can have a great lifestyle. So we made the decision to open them to the public. There are no other lagoons in the state that we are aware of that open to the public because they take the conventional approach. U again it's a great asset to the area. Uh parks and trails Again, I can only speak of the parks and trails that we do in our communities. We worked with the staff and everyone to create a 50-year master plan with the goal being that people are going to carry this thinking forward, hopefully make it better. So, I'm going to show you what we did, and I'm sure others have hopefully bigger and bolder ideas, but these are actually from our own community with golf cart paths, jogging paths, toddlots for kids. This is an eagle park um in one of the community. And at that point, I know it's a big part of discussion. Where's the large park going to be? There was lots and lots of discussion. Wesley Chapel District Park existed at that point in time just at the southern boundary and to the east the county had made a big long-term bet to create the region's largest park and hence the name villages of Pasadena Hill Super Park and at that time the board made the great decision let's use all the funds that come out of connected city and have it go towards the super park because that is going to create a truly regional singal destination. We don't need these two or three scattered parks but something that the county can be proud of and that's how kind of the plans were set in motion for that education what we had seen time and again and I think you hear that all the time developments go up existing schools that are far away get crowded there is never any money to build schools so we came up with another crazy idea that people laughed at I think someone even once said to Did you just wake up and smell some mushrooms here? Because this does not make sense. We said we would pay 500 plus dollars in additional school impact fees with every home that is built to accelerate the schools in this area. We quickly worked, sorry it's a little bit of a bad picture, build the first public charter school there which opened right during CO. The impact fees went to the school district. They put all of that money, opened up Kirkland Ranch Academy of Innovation right on the border of connected city to soon be followed by K through 8. And there's other schools in that area too around seven schools. Typically schools, as you know, come much later, not on day one, when you're building something that is basically a dream. Big focus on health and wellness. I think a lot of you were at the opening groundbreaking of John Hopkins which is anchored on the southwest side of connected city something that we've always wanted on the southeast side. It's anchored by Baker that who we've worked with for the longest time to focus on John Hopkins focuses on kids. Baker the focus was wellness for everyone. And on the north side is

Advent Health with the idea of having an hospital all in this one tiny area that was planned a long time back. As we said, the goal was to create an economic engine. And this is something that people overlook or it's kind of just got lost in translation at connected city. And these numbers are pretty much what's come out, I think, of our project so far. On an average, each home pays an additional $4700 in impact fees for infrastructure, schools, and technology. So we didn't take the approach to come here in front of the board 10 years back and say charge us lower impact fees because we're following ULI study which said if you build walkable suburbs you should pay lower impact fees. We came here and said we want to pay more because we want to invest in creating a better future. Let us partner with you. So far the county has collected $30 million in additional impact fees that go towards this area. We also did full transparency. We commissioned this study last year because we were wondering if this was a good idea. So we hired PFM which had done an economic study for Water Street Tampa to say, "Hey, by the way, like what's going on? Can you just do a quick gut check for us?" And they came back and say, "Yeah, we did. You're going to be surprised on the results that in the last 3 years from 2020 to 2023, Pasco County was the count with the most completed and under construction commercial real estate in the state with 36 million square ft going on. Let me pause there. 10 years back we were at 300,000 square ft. to go to 36 million square feet in 10 years. I think you all should stop there for a moment and congratulate yourself. This would have not been possible without the crazy bets. And again, that is a massive number. And they also then concluded that the Pasco County is the only county of major Florida county markets to keep up with the demand for non-residential because it's easy to build residential. It's very very hard to get non-residential without writing billions of dollars in checks, but Pasco County is the only one that is doing that. Community funds. We talked about another idea is and I know the I know the EDC and the county are getting ready to announce this today. We said this is all great. We want a better future. We want to bet on the kids and we want new companies while they're coming here to also be created here. Why don't we create an enterprise fund, a grand fund that can provide grants to, I would say, you know, two kids and a truck or two kids and a Mac that are trying to create the next company but don't want to give up equity. So with every home that we build, $100 is set aside that the county collects. No developer can touch it. No one can touch it. And I believe the first $100,000 is getting ready to be released to Pasco EDC to put that money to use from the $500,000 that's already collected and growing. We did one more thing. What we

had seen time and again over time, as I said, death by pilot is something you see over and over. After 10 years, people forget, people move on, and life goes on. And we didn't want that. Yeah, let's we we we didn't want that to happen. So, with every home that gets built, there's there's another $1,000 that gets set aside for infrastructure technology improvements in the future. Again, we don't get to touch it. The county controls it. That fund is sitting at $5 million to be put towards good use to doing that. Um, how it's going. Just to sum it all up. And in the interest of time, this is the map. We can go into detail, but I think you all have a general idea of the area. 7,841 acres. The goal was for 37,000 homes and 12.8 million ft of non-residential in this area. Usually what we always see is the residential outpaces the commercial. In this case it's flipped. The nonresidential currently approved is at 11.96 million ft² or 93% of that and the residential is only 51% of that. That ratio has changed. And what we saw was some enterprises said you know what this is great but we could just buy land right outside. It's going to cost us less and we can build something more ambitious. And there's another million and 1.7 million square ft of adjacent commercial that's happening all in this area. All that is currently underway as part of what was once said an impossible goal that will never ever happen in our lifetime is happening right today. And I'm going to end it with, you know, we're just getting started. Uh the county approved this in 2017. The plans were in 2025 and we think this is going to continue to get better over time, not older. We've certainly taken it as Metro to heart and we have started using those fund everything the foundation we laid to create Angeline which we internally call it connected city 2.0 O because without this framework it wouldn't have been possible. There would have been no Moffett. We had to go buy an entire 6,000 acres to get Moffett and their campus for 775 acres with 16 million square ft. And we did a couple other things that we couldn't execute on ourselves in this area which was the farm. We always wanted to do one. We ran out of land so we built one. It's open at Angeline and we're working on 150 acre regional park with the county staff. I'm going to keep moving in the interest of time. That is connected city. I'm going to pause but leave you with all the people that couldn't come here on whose behalf I am speaking. I wanted to make sure you heard from them directly. So I'm going to end with this video. Uh assuming we're going to have audio for this. We aren't. Most of my life I've heard most of my life it's it's drive to work every day and schools. We need a job in the county. Those projects are solving the problem. They're bringing jobs.

I like to think outside the box. That's what attracted me to Metro's vision of a connected city. I feel like I'm a part of something bigger. Assets like connected city help us to differentiate. And I think it's something for Pasco County to take a tremendous amount of pride in. Pasco County Commissioners just formally approving the plans on Tuesday. Really, it was a lot of cow pasture at the time and now you look at it and you just cannot believe what's come to fruition. And I think a lot of residents feel that way, too. This forwardinking development was legislatively enabled at the state level. An idea that's as innovative, is exciting, and that has so much potential is really a first of its kind. Back a couple years ago, this was just a bridge. The state 56 extension, the new 52 realignment. Would you say 52 as being the four lane and have a major east west corridor and all that? All great projects. And if the county and the state had not worked together, we'd probably be looking at years before we'd be able to deliver them. The area formerly known as the Pasco Town Center near I75 and Wingy Chapel will soon be called Double Branch. over 7 million square ft of employment opportunities throughout Bubble Branch to support the tens of thousands of rooftops that are coming up around us. The footprint doesn't just impact their own direct geography. Some of this impact is around the the area. They're building it up like crazy, which we love cuz we love restaurants. We love coffee. I think we're getting Chick-fil-A, which we're excited about. Putting a bet on talent and using an amenity like city to attract that talent is really a good feature. It is [Music] worth the grocery store here. You've got a lagoon. You've got Solar Street vice. The fastest internet in Asia. We know that great schools can anchor great communities and we have become them. We are laying a foundation for a healthier future for our community, our patients and generations to come. It's really important that that access point be close to kids uh and families so they don't have to drive a long ways for services. If they're looking for a primary care doctor or urgent care or even a hospital, we are working with connected city to develop a website that is a central hub for their residency. Look at this. The largest man-made lagoon in the US is now open in Pasco County. Once we were on a tourist destination from upstate New York, Syracuse area, Asheville, North Carolina, Ontario, Canada. All of these are people coming to spend money and hang out at the lagoons and have a nice holistic experience. So stay tuned. I think there's going to be more. There just needs to be a little bit of patience as all these parts and pieces come together. But thankfully right now they're coming together, I'd say at an exponential pace. I think the connected

city effect has brought more energy to our area and more economic opportunity to our area. And I think you're just seeing the beginning of that. And that's so many growth here. So that's what happens when someone naive enough raises their hand 10 years back and volunteers and says how can we help and this is what we have. Hopefully others can carry this forward and continue making connected city better. I want to thank everyone for their time and for having me give uh walk everyone in the past and give the history of the last 10 years. Uh and hopefully the next 40 are going to be more exciting. So thank you David. Um, did we get that slide deck? Yes, it's Yeah, you have it. Madam Chair, Commissioner Carrick, I want to thank you from years ago when we first come out with this, you first came out with this idea, brought it forward, you did public hearing after public hearing, just presentations, not even public hearing, just like they went place to place to place, showing what was going on, and continually evolved it every step of the way. And one of the programs I really loved the most was when you talk about the incubator space. when you have a residential piece of property to try to run your small business from, it's frowned elsewhere, but you were promoting it here, knowing that people if they started small, they could grow from within there and go. Um earlier today we had some um young ladies still here with her two two children children mention that and I thought we had addressed this but maybe not that as far as residential entitlements and I know we're looking at it now but I want to tell you that I want us to look closely and work with you to try to get you more residential because those incubator programs that can create jobs, better homes, better lifestyles. I think bring more dynamic people to really want to be entrepreneurs at the same time get themselves a good start. Um, I want to help you going and I will tell you some of those slides I've already sent this lady to bailis, our lobbyist, the utiliz study, the jobs, how we need jobs, just to kind of promote that this live local thing that we're dealing with goes directly against all the great work people like you are doing. So, thank you. No, thank you. Thank you for having us here. Uh, again, we own a very small piece of of of the land here, so there's a lot others that are making this great as well. Uh, but thank you. Um I I just want to make a comment and bring it bring it up. Thank you, Carter. That that was amazing. But we have heard from some residents that there isn't a place where they can go like practice enough sport sports and and and gather outside of the lagoon. And I I had a talked with um the administrator about some property that the county has. Is it is this a good time to see if there's board? I think it'd be good if staff gave their presentation. Oh, that Okay, you guys go then. That's right. Thank you. Uh we're going to address uh entitlements, uh parkland, open space, as well as roadway circulation. At this juncture,

I'd like to invite William Vermillion, our senior planner in charge of MPUDS to come up to the uh posture. Thank you. Good morning. Vermillion planning, development, economic growth. Unfortunately, I don't have any dinosaurs on my slide deck. It may not be as interesting, but uh I I hope this is a good data driven presentation. So, like David mentioned, the uh we had an entitlement study that was done and it it was completed a couple months ago. What we found that is especially important is that there's actually 44% of the entitlements remaining for the initial single family detached product where originally I know a couple years ago it was stated that we had no more. It turns out there's actually about uh 4,000 of those single family detached okay entitlements left. We do still have 50% of the multif family which includes some of these single family quote unquote attached products like the town homes but also garden style for the higher density areas in the in the core. We still have roughly 37% of our commercial left, commercial entitlements, 75% of the office. And I know that number there looks zero uh looks weird with the zero there for the industrial and that's because of the the plethora that Pasco Town Center or Double Branch is providing. It's actually one of the initial reasons they didn't officially opt into connected city was they actually wanted more industrial entitlements that was originally contemplated within the overlay. And then one of and then we have roughly 26 um% of the land remaining. So for for that the good news is a lot of that will come in the the urban core with a higher density to where those um those rest of those entitlements can be located. We PTE put together a spa zone checklist which is the various special planning areas within connected city. We can see that the the north innovation zone is currently accomplishing what was set out within the comprehensive plan in terms of uses for the north innovation zone highlighted there by those check marks including retail, commercial, single family, detached, hotels, medical and civic uses. And what what we did was we pulled from the the entitlement study on if there was an approved MPD with those uses within that special planning area. So that the north innovation zone is currently being accomplished per the comprehensive plan. we move over to the south innovation zone. You'll notice there's uh there's one dash mark there and that note there for the highdensity multif family is only speaking to the fact that the comprehensive plan for connected city doesn't directly call out or prescribe what in fact highdensity multif family is. There is multif family that is already approved with imp MPDs within the south innovation zone. However, because the the connected city comprehensive plan doesn't prescribe the the density range for high density, we felt that it was it was worth noting that to the board. Moving on over to the community hub,

there's two uh two dash marks there. first being for cultural and it is worth noting that in both the the tall timbers impunity that's going to be coming before you next month and as well as in the approved kitten impunity there are conditions of approval which encourage public art that can serve that cultural focus that's spoken to by the community hub and lastly that civic use there while there are no currently approved civic uses within the community hub zone uh recently just to the south within water branch we did allocate a 7acre library site which can accommodate some of those those residents for the civic use within the community hub zone. Why couldn't that be a cultural center like at Starky and uh do tackle the cultural and civic at the same time? It it absolutely could be and we can work with development as they as they come in. There's still land available where we could where we could accomplish this. I know that the the bus depot area that you were just speaking to would be perfect for accomplishing that within this uh SPA zone. And finally, the the two higher density and intensity zones, the business core and the urban core. I'm not going to spend too much time going through those. The the connected city comprehensive plan is is currently being met, and Mr. Partic did a great job talking about all those non-residential land uses that are occurring within these two SPA zones as well as the the job creation there and the uh the business incubation. We did conduct a traffic analysis in 2023 and it this is an example of the volume of traffic on State Road 52 east of Pasco. that explosion that happened once we finally started having development within connected city uh postcoid from 2020 to now we can see that spike however no road per this traffic study is expected to exceed the volume ratio of 1.1 which is the uh the current threshold acceptable by by the county and in fact the highest volume capacity road is west of Elon and that is sitting right now at roughly8 VC ratio so it's still well within in capacity. The infrastructure is keeping up with the amount of entitlements that are being improved in connected city. Question on that, Madam Chair. Yeah, and I've got some So on Mckendry, isn't part of it get paved? I saw recently, but isn't some is it all is it all paved now or is it still part of a dirt road? It that that was actually a portion of my next slide. Uh the the Kent Mut is improving Mckenry Road into the into the four-lane segment, which is the first phase of that roadway, and ultimately it'll end up being a six lane. Okay. But is it again is it dirt road still or I believe portions north are still in the south being like reliever right there we we need to look at and then kon was the other one on the on the roadway. We need to take a close look at that too. So commissioner Mariano on Mckindry um number one when Pasco Town Center now known as Double Ranch came in we realigned the new improved Mckendry

away from the residents here. And I think we have a household here that's interested in our presentation today. And the Pasco Town Center folks, Colomar is going to extend Mckendry down. And then we have a MPUDS to the south where um the children's hospital is part of that. And that's it's going to be interconnected with that new alignment. And that'll be completed uh in the next couple of years if not sooner. All right. And and I' I've talked to our county engineer about this several times is things just north of the John John Hopkins site where you could probably put a rotary to make a turn, make it safe. But that connection going closer to 75 going up through you're going to be tearing away homes. You're going to have to remain. I don't I hope we're looking at shifting that to the side. I don't know have made that shift. Well, that we have made room to realign Mckindry Road away from the existing residents in their homes and that was part of the double branch MPU. Was that map? Do you have another more slides? Yeah, there. Yes, ma'am. Yeah, this is the overall special district's roadway obligations map that staff has created. That's BOP as well. Yes. So, this does enco encompass the village of Pasadian Hills. I'm not I'm not going to speak to that. Um we'll have a further presentation on the the roadway obligations and BPH at a later date. We can see here on the left side of the screen, they're divided by Curly Road. Those gold roadway segments are ones that have currently been spoken to by obligations of MPUD developers. The black is currently constructed and the dashed red lines in connected city are what we have left. And really what it is is there's about three major segments left on the master roadway plan that are still to be obligated to a developer, but we're we're very far ahead of schedule with the 2065 buildout now just being in 2025 with the amount of infrastructure that we have built. And if you put Madam Chair, yeah, um looking on the left side of the screen, the section I was just talking about was roadway AF. And if you look at where that roadway is aligned, you're going to go through 10 10 15 20 different homes, farms, whatever may be there. And and if you took further to the right and brought just above where it says phase two to the side, I believe is where it is. You could bring it across connect to old Mckendry and I think you do a lot better than waiting for all that cuz you're going to have to either take those homes or you're going to be waiting a long long time. And if you're going to be making that roadway through, I think you still work with old Mckendry, putting a little rotary in there uh roundabout to to make it connect safely and bring it all the way up. At least while this is all going on because it's going to be many many years to come. Meanwhile, as more and more people get in there, more traffic comes in there, that reliever is not going to happen the way you want it to be. Absolutely. Yes, sir. And uh this

roadway alignment isn't isn't indicative necessarily of what staff is proposing with alternative alignments. This is just the vision road layer we were able to pull from the layering on mapper to make this this map for you. So I the uh that that vision road alignment isn't isn't set in stone there. That's just the the current layer that we have on our mapper. And now we're moving into the the current park service area. So what we what we did here with this map, you can see the the green the green dots throughout connected city. We mapped the neighborhood parks as well as their total acreage. And so roughly right now we have 115 acres of neighborhood parks that are built within connected city not in inclusive of the VOP super park or the Wesley Chapel District Park. And what you see there in the tan color and in the blue color is actually the park service area for both of those respective large parks. It's going to be about 240 acres of VOP super park that is serving that blue area within the park service area and the tan being served by the Wesley Chapel District Park. Initially that is a radius that is set out uh around 5 milesi it allows for that that service area to uh to be built but then as the roadway infrastructure improves the park service area actually expands as people are able to get to the park in less and less time with the the pedestrian and vehicular infrastructure. Madam chair. Yeah. Can you show us which which of those dots is the the VOP district park? It's not a dot there. It's I mean it's showing the west it's shown on there. It it's not just because it couldn't be in the map frame. So it's about 0.25 miles to the east of where that boundary is and uh chair. Yeah. Keith, why you're why you're up since you're the star when it comes to I knew that. I knew that was I was just waiting and then you happened to walk up. So, we know that the VOP super park, we're not going to be able just based on the topo of the land, it's not going to be as as super as anticipated. We're going to have to fall short, right, on a few areas of uses. So, based on that and the board, then the boom happened, everybody moved to Florida and so now we see what's going on today. And as we know, life changes and things evolve. Countyy's grown younger uh in age and we grew ahead of schedule. And I know at the time the the the board or wanted to allocate park funds from connected city over to the VOPA super park. I really think we need to revisit that. We did that. And um I know you we did allocate. I know. But I'm thinking, but my point to that is is this Wesley Chapel District Park is at absolute capacity and we need to find a way to have a similar style park within connected city and whether we look at how do we relocate funds based on the shortfall that the super park is going to have, whether we restructure the way

that funding mechanism works. I think it needs to because connected city is here today. The youth and the parents are demanding that we have field space for you name the sports that are evolving. I mean cricket, baseball, softball, you name the sport, they're needing space and there are people here now and before connect city keeps going on. I know everybody's looking at 40 acres but Keith correct me if I'm wrong. what 40 acres we need to add with there's a Mckendry road site that you alluded to that we own but the park size that we need now today in the state of our county is what 80 acre that's correct plots not 40 acre we've now doubled the size of the land mass that we need to serve the folks that live in these areas so for the 40 acre site isn't going to cut it for it to actually make real movement in a positive direction as far as park services that would go within Connecticut City. We need to double that footprint in my opinion. And I think we really need to take a look at the financial plan between between the BOP and between connected city and figure out how to make something happen sooner than later in the connected city corridor. Folks aren't going to let's kind of use common sense here. Folks aren't going to jump on golf carts and whatever and move east and get to the they'll be out of breath. It's hilly and everything that to get by the time they get to the VOPA super park and get back in the roads and everything. It's it's going to create congestion. Connecticut city has city in its name. There needs to be community uses, true community uses within the Connecticut city uh boundaries. I think it's it's time now that we know what we know and and what the folks and our customers are demanding that we take a look at it. So Keith, based on come of our conversation, share what you're comfortable with or not. Sure. But well, Commissioner Oakley has a question. Yeah. So hang on. Well, not a question. It's actually um I picked up something. He said the the super park wasn't going to be as big as it was planned to be. And I I've never heard that. Me either. And uh the fact of it is, and I know Keith's under the gun, not here today, but he's under the gun because all of our parks and all of our citizens are asking for more space on every park we have in the county. They're not just asking for one. It's many. So, I guess if you could enlighten me, why are we going to fall short on the super park when that's been planned a long time ago and this board uh back when we started connected city about two years after we had started decided to move those funds for a park over to the super park. Sure. Commissioner. So, Keith Wy, director of parks, recreation, natural resources department. So I'm sharing a new map um just so I can hopefully maybe address some of the questions and statements. So on the screen basically is is now you can actually see the super park and I think the idea of that term super park is that uh it is a lot of acreage. It's

about 300 acres in total. It was intended through the planning district to be both a passive facility and an active facility. So there are deed restrictions on at least half of that acreage to where it can only pretty much be like a wilderness park passive recreation. The rest the remainder of that acreage which is pretty much right next to um to the existing uh utilities facility or solid waste facility, excuse me. Um that's not going to be enough unfortunately to kind of get all of the facilities and amenities that we need. And and it's mostly to Commissioner Weightman's point site conditions. uh we're probably going to spend more money in retaining walls to actually get the facility up, but we'll you know, we just started that process. So, that in fact is that location. The good news is that we are actually moving forward with design. Um can I can I ask you where is this waste whatever you were saying? I don't know where that is. Transfer station where on hand right transfer station. Yeah. Just south of Prospect and Hankart Road. Okay. I want to try and find that right right up close to the academy of the farm. Oh, okay. I see it now. Just east of the academy. Thank you. Okay. So, um I think William and Cartek did a good job explaining the history of what happened and how we are here today relative to the parks piece. Um, when you do the overlay, which I think was in Williams slide, you see that both the Wesley Chapel District Park, which is in the bottom left corner, and the future VOP Super Park does actually overlap and serve uh serve the actual connected cities district as well as the VOP district. For a point of clarification, when the connected cities pilot was presented, it did trigger a parks concurrency uh requirement at the time. And I think you know just to I wasn't a part of that decision but I would have to make the assumption speculation that based on the overlap of the service areas it was probably you know everyone probably thought that the VOP super park and Wesley Chapel District Park would serve you know would serve the ultimate need. So what we're seeing is unfortunately to Commissioner Weightman's point Chapel District Park is at capacity. uh we know that we're going to have challenges with VOP uh as I just just described and so really the question is is where should we if we need to where should we be locating any other park facilities um and I think that's ultimately the question that's being you know I'm not going to sit here and say and turn down any opportunity for an additional park because my team would be like what did you do we get demands all the time what I will say is that the impact fee study that was approved came with a very specific capital plan of which this project or any contemplation of a park project here was not included. The ordinance was written, and I know David Goldstein's in the audience, he can maybe articulate this. The ordinance was written to allow the BCC the ability to swap projects off the list, but it's

it's a one forone swap. So, if the board chose to decide that they feel like a park, a district park, because a community park really doesn't get it done, an additional district park is needed, the board has the ability to do that. uh we would just have to decide which project in the 21 projects identified in the capital plan would be removed uh in in place of this. Yeah. So um it's there's a there's a willingness obviously to do me. Yeah. Whatever the board directs us to do. Thank you. Okay. Jack. Um Keith, as as the VOP, as you've mentioned, you get bound by some restrictions, wetlands, etc., etc. Um, with that said, part of the penny for Pasco money for Elamp money was designed to like use lands like that and you've got flexibility to actually use funds to actually go build things in Elamp type properties. I'd like you to take a look at and consider bring it back to something. How much of that land could you use for that type of process? Supplement that funding and then maybe redirect that funding that was into the park and then shift it over somewhere maybe additionally to Wesley Chapel Park. Maybe a smaller park that can be more centrally focused that could take some of the stress off West Chapel. That handcard area is so far away. I think you need to look internally to connected cities in that area to try to put something that Jack look at that little orange square the Mckenry site. Yeah. Um, let's talk about that one. Okay. This this one right here. Isn't that the county site property? Yes. Yes, that's correct. Okay. You want me to? Yeah. So, somehat to be clear, um, I haven't had any discussions about Okay. All we've got all we've done is gone through the analysis of what currently exists and why it exists. Let's pull Let's pull up that property. Um, and uh this is this is next to the tall timbers project if you remember that. Well, I don't know if it came here or I listen to it on the hunting commission. I get some of those mixed up sometimes. How big is the first one? Um, 40 acres. So, we have the 40 acres you're looking at is where we plan to put maintenance for the east side of Pasco. Yeah, that that's correct, Commissioner Oakley. So, Tall Timbers is to the east to the west. Can we get Yeah. to a different bus maintenance facility and just south of that is land owned by Pasco County Utilities which is vacant at the moment. Right. So my thought is to um either uh swap with Tall Timbers our 40 acres and put a park on the property you're going to see from Tall Timbers. You know, I'm I'm sorry they're coming forward because um I was would like to have had this kind of deal worked out already, but tall timbers are coming in. Um see where our our bus depot is, which I don't know why we put a bus depot there. Should have been on I don't think that was a great location, but to the right is Tall Timbers. It's got a lake in the middle of it. Um and now now what happened? It's right, Jason. Just Okay. Can you

Can you go back where you were? You had it just right. Okay. That to the right. That's Tall Timbers where the arrow is. Rectangular piece right under the main. Those that piece and the piece below that are owned by Pasco County. Um I've talked with Keith. I talked with Mike. We can fit ball fields in there. We can't fit a whole super park, right? or I mean a whole a whole district park, but we certainly can put in some some playfields, a shelter, barbecue, you know, something that's a good amenity for the for the residents right there. That's a perfect spot for it. That's what I thought, too. Perfect. Um I think there will may come available. I put some texts out here. Um there may be some more property north of 52 that might come available for another park. I'm not sure that family's ready. Um but they one of the members had approached me about a park one day. So if we do need more parks, I think we might have a place. Um but this can blow and go right here. We're in the middle of everything. So we'd have to work out a deal with our utility department. Well, correct. Yeah, the funds the funds would need to be made whole. That that part that part's on our piece. But I mean the you know as far as negotiating with another third party on a land swap. I mean I guess is that something I'm not the attorney but you know what I would ask Keith which site is better and do we get this site this site has more buildable land our site than theirs. So then do they give us money for it? Well, I think and then we use that money to build the park. You know what I mean? Yeah. I mean, I think if if the board wants us to direct to have those conversations, let let us have those conversations so we can we can figure that out rather than negotiate with ourselves here right now from from the deis. So, but if the general consensus of the board here, if the consensus of the board is to move forward with a park, number one, we would need to identify the site. So, and if you want us to consider a land swap, that's fine. We can do that. Bring back a recommendation. And then secondly, if we're going to construct on set site, then as Keith says, we would need to reallocate the funding to do that or determine what the timing would be. So if if that's the and again, we have plans to use this is a utility site. This was to be used for uh future utilities uh and public works maintenance facilities. I' I've put brakes on on those design projects. I don't that's just not a good place right in the middle of town. I guess we were talking about the utility purchased it probably 15 20 years ago. It was the perfect site. Yeah. And you have an alternate move, right? I believe we have 30 acres. We have 300 acres. We have I don't know why this is here. Madam Chair, if I can to add to on to what Mr. Carbologist said, um the master the parks master plan was done over 10 years ago. What I would recommend in addition to what Mike just said is give us an opportunity to do another analysis

looking northward and maybe there depending on future MPDs coming online that we did not take into consideration on the master planning effort. Maybe there is another place that we need to be looking for the land that serves a greater area in in in that area of the county. So I think we could do that rather quickly. It's not something that we rather than use this spot so there you know there we we do have the ability to to fund community parks through the impact fee, but my recommendation is to make sure that we get it in a location that makes the most sense. Logistically, it just becomes a maintenance and operational challenge if you have multiple areas in one one service area. I think what Keith's saying is is he he'd like to optimize the piece right now. That's the piece we have and obviously that's that's in a good in a good location. A strong argument to make to kids, but I I agree. I think uh making sure that it's an optimal decision or at least we can go eyes wide open and make the right decision is is the best way to move forward. Madam Chair, Commissioner. Yeah. I mean, I'm glad you brought this site up. I think it's it's actually right in the dead center of this whole thing, this whole population where everyone's talking about golf cart, golf cart, golf cart. And I would tell you my my daughter's dream is actually be able to walk or golf cart to take her kids to soccer practice. That's right. Right. So that that would take care of a lot of that. I think the like I said with the VOP money with if we've got so much of that super park that we can't use because of environmental stuff, I think we should look at using that el money to help supplant this too. I don't I'm not sure Keith's got a lot of extra money. No, that's why I'm trying to help him get money by using el money to offset that. But I think this location and whatever else you can get around it, even if it's not going to be the full park you want to get, but whatever you can put in there, even if you just focus on the little kids, great place to be. Commissioner, well, I understand what you're saying about it soon, but this is in district one, and I would like to give them time to choose the very best spot that goes in district one to help connected city in this issue about another park. Now, is this a a community park? Are we talking about a Starky regional park? I I think that's that's why I'm asking. You don't have the money for that. Well, that's So I I So techn Yeah, you don't have we don't have the money in the capital plan to add another major project. You have to do a swap. To Commissioner Mariano's point, um the penny allocation does talk about a certain percentage of proceeds that could be used for natural resources facilities. To be clear, this is not really a I and this is going to sound kind of hilarious considering I'm usually in front of you talking about need needing money, but that's more from the maintenance side. From the capital side, it's not a money issue. It's the right location issue. Um, and if there's

if the analysis, if the needs analysis says we do something like Commissioner Mariana says, we drop some smaller amenities at one location and we do something else to the north, that's fine. What I'm what I'm recommending is just the time to do that analysis. So, Tim, Tall Timbers is coming to us. Um can we ask them to hold off? Uh we can have a conversation. I think the policy direction of the board at this point is look we we want a park um some form of a park within the connected city u bring back recommendations to make it happen which could include this could include land swaps and an optimal optimal placement to to make sure that we're addressing the needs of the citizens for parks. I will reach out to Tall Timbers and we'll have a discussion even if these are are are fields that can be used for practice but then the competitions you know if it if it frees up the other fields for practices uh I mean for games and these are practices I think that really helps the community it needs I'm telling you we have the need in all our parts for more fields more fields fields yes and it comes with maintenance money not just practice to which we funded at zero So we can't add we can't add parks without maintaining them. Madam chair, in the interest of time, we had two other items uh in this regular item session. Uh they were justformational to provide uh line of sight to the board when things are going to be delivered to them. We could do that after lunch or I could give you just a brief overview. Now I can go another 15 minutes. Can can everyone else? Well, okay. Yeah, we'll it'll only take that time. So the next next item is Pasco 2050 and I'd like to invite invite Hyatt Misili up here our lead senior planner for the comp plan. Thank you. Good discussion guys. Good afternoon everyone. So this portion of the presentation is a brief status update about the past coach 20150 comprehensive plan update. Um I wanted to walk you quickly through the scope of the past coach 2050 projects. that for the interest of time I'll just uh quickly uh let you know that in 2023 we have done the vision um phase of the comprehensive plan uh process in year four of the process is the 2024 and this is when we start reviewing and revising the elements of the comprehensive plan and now we are in year 2025 which is year five of the update and this year is the adoption of the Uh this slide highlights the um how we restructured and um reformatted the existing elements of the comprehensive plan. On the left side you see the existing elements and on the right side you see how we rebranded the elements into chapters that captured the spirit and the focus of the um of the existing element. So for example, Pasco lives is the housing element. Pasco Partners consolidates the intergovernmental coordination and the public schools facilities element. Pasco grows uh consolidates future land use element and the property rights element. And Pasco specializes

um brings VOP, connected city and project Arthur under one roof. And this is a look at what's ahead as we complete the Basco 2015 comprehensive plan update. We are finalizing the GOPs right now along with the updated map series. We anticipate to have uh workshops with the LPA and the BOCC um in May June time period. Okay. Okay. And now I'll hand it over to Mr. POS for VP for Pasadena Hills update. Thank you. In Pesco 2050, it's our objective not only to interface with the board uh but also have stakeholder engagement to kind of wrap up our public interaction with us showing them the proposed plan after all those initial workshops. Next is uh Nectario Pito. Before you go, can you go back? You you or slide back, please, to the You you to I think you skipped a a connected city slide. Did Did I see I don't believe we did, ma'am. What was one of the green lines? What was that slide at the end of before this one? What was before that one and before that one? No. Oh, that was just the service area park that we used. We didn't We've got everything. You're going the wrong way. Go. There were two slides that were was that a trail slide? That could have just been an artifact from the GIS. That's the only I can think of. Okay. Well, I want to see that under commissioner items. I want to see that. Well, that deck's available. I want to see how the trails connect to each other in connected city. Sure. Um, so Nectarius Pito, uh, our planning service director, he, uh, he's focusing on two of our special projects. We have a lot of special projects, but these two in particular are important. One is, uh, re-evaluating the VOP business plan that's underway and also our our our mobility impact fee study. So, I'm going to turn it over to Terry now. Thank you. Thank you, David. Thank you, Madam Chair. Uh, naros, planning, development, economic growth. Um so part of the villages of Pasadena Hills in as part of their enabling documents includes the VOP financial plan which was uh one of the founding documents uh first originated back in 20089 time frame. Over the years that document has been updated a few times most recently the last update was in October of 2022. um this January that just passed, the board of county commissioners uh commenced the first public sector assessment of the financial plan for VOP uh in January of 2025. All of the previous financial plan assessments and updates that occurred were part and partly were mostly funded by the property owners group in the villages of Pasadena Hills. In this case, this is a public the county um assessing and updating the financial plan using the OP dollars that have been collected through the development administration review fees. Um and the methodology that we're going to be using in the financial plan update or the financial plan assessment, excuse me, is the same sort of methodology that we're going to be using

uh in the mobility fee update study. Basically, we're going to up uh look at uh identifying land use quantities, that is densities and intensities, the proposed versus the actual that's getting uh built in the villages of Pasadena Hills. And we're going to be looking at an assessment of the master roadway plan for VOP to identify infrastructure demands. The basically the volume capacity ratio versus design and what what can we potentially do at that point. Um the financial plan assessment will deliver some recommendations and some ideas on what we can do policy-wise going forward. Those can include things like answering the question, should we increase density in DOP? Should we decrease density intensity in DOP? Should we establish minimums and maximums? Should we change the master roadway plan assumptions and reduce right ofway and infrastructure requirements? Uh those are some of the questions that we're seeking answers to as part of the VOP financial plan assessment. Are you are you wanting us to have a discussion now? No, this is just a brief overview just to give you a sense of what's going to be coming to you. I have some ideas. I have the Gant chart here always. Um right now we're in the data and analysis phase of the VOP financial plan assessment. We're going to be entering into some policy synthesis discussions with our consultant uh and hopefully bringing this forward to um the local planning agency uh and probably to the OP uh planning and policy committee in in the June time frame with uh a final report uh to the BCC in the July time frame. Uh having said that uh the I mentioned mobility fee update study this sort of goes together. Yeah, we just can we just do the afternoon. Terry's going to be here anyway. Well, it's I have more questions on connected city and Yeah, I I have a few10 there in the afternoon anyway, so we can be in the afternoon, too, right? Okay. Um Yes. Sorry. We'll pause you. Yes, sir. Thank you. Yes, ma'am. Um and let's get back to connected city real quick. Um Commissioner Waitman. Hey, back to the 44% that we found 44% of U. Yeah, the housing single family housing. I have a question on that too. Will or angle there. So, hey, fantastic news. That's that's great to see and depending on how markets transition maybe that can evolve. Um, but can I interrupt you for a second and say the caveat is we don't want every house in there to be entry level housing, which as we all know certain values there. There there's a line where if the value isn't high enough, it's it's it takes resources from us. But if it's above that line, it adds adds. So we need we need not 45 you know we need we need homes that are selling 600 700 and above right I'll let you manage that piece okay keep going the direction I was going okay thank you I got a note here so I don't

forget thank you ma'am so when it comes to the the the planning right how we're making decisions on the projects that come in now that we know we have there's 44% remaining of the single family housing stock 50% of the multif family stock is left. So as we make our decisions I I think knowing this information now uh I think within your planning group projects have the opportunity to change or evolve or become more creative uh in what we approve on whatever scale of the of the product line that that we see. Now the question is going to be between the you know 44% of single family housing stock and there's 50% of the multif family stock left which in this definition multif family is towns row houses as well as apartments. Okay. And the single family product is single family detach not including towns. Yes sir. And I'd make a point to you commissioner that we don't ever use all our entitlements. So you have 26% of the land remaining vacant and unentitled. and we have 44% of the single family overall entitlement still available. So there's a lot of flexibility here, right? So, as we move forward, as connected city keeps growing and people keep moving in, I think it's a good exercise to take the land that we have left and then with the percentages of which stock is available, what's the best mix of uses knowing I like that that we need some level of a of a park within there that's currently not in the plan today. So your your your team is is is capable and I think it would be a good exercise that with the information that we know today know we need a park and what's the best missions with the stock that's left for many how we build out to make this phase of connected city as far as living goes you know I think it changes the game a little bit it ups the Annie and it allows us to push what's left in in a you keep going in a good in a good direction. So I absolutely understand commissioner and I think that paraphrase the direction from the board is is that we'd like to look at the 26% remaining and look at the entitlements there and come up with a creative application in that remaining space. We will do so, sir. And I I don't know the price levels of homes in there, but I want to be sure that we're not doing um entry level everything, but that we have that higher higher end home, too, which which helps. Um I don't think you'll find entrylevel housing in in the connected city. It's it's LAR and DR. If you think it's three and a four or 500,000, that's what LAR and DR do. Maybe I'm wrong, but that's not good entry level for people on the east side of Well, I'm not saying affordable. Um um cuz housing is barely affordable for anyone, but I do think they need some workforce housing in there. Oh, I still I don't know necessarily in there, but somewhere on the east side, we need some affordable housing. Yeah. So, Madam Chair, from the standpoint of provision of executive housing here in the county, we have we have a number of uh very

attractive opportunities for executive housing 4G ranch. Exactly. Um on Bellamy Brothers, we just approved 5 acre platted large project and this afternoon we have uh estate residential before the board with another substantial estate based uh executive project. So, we are bringing those in. Now are is there any executive space in connected city? Not that I know of, ma'am. Madam Chair. Yeah. So one of one of the things it was, as I talked about with the incubator pro projects where people would have like nice big homes, be able to run their business out of it or start small and grow. So I I think you're on the money. The estate residential type home is is something you want to see. You want to see the high-end people. Those those are the executives. They want to have those executives homes. That's where they come and they break their business and bring everything else around it. They got to have a place in here. Got to be some to make some. It's got to be got to be some. Yeah. So, I think we should take a closer look at that. Um I think the multifamily home uh and row home should be separated out from the apartments. And if you say we're not going to use all the density, all the land around the the edge of the farms, etc. should can be used for that. But again, the apartment is not affordable housing. They don't charge when they charge 2500 bucks. It's a luxury. Yeah. And right now and right now with what we're dealing with local, I think now's the time to change all this if we can to minimize how many apartments can actually be there. The [Music] um and on the commercial that's left, I mean, we didn't Is there a town center anywhere in here? Well, yes, there is, ma'am. um in the urban core area in the employment center for executive city double branch that's hundreds of thousands of square feet of uh retail commercial destination is it going to but is it going to be laid out as a place as a town center you know what a place where people want to go at night on Saturday night yes ma'am there is a placemaking destination and if you recall the the early rendering in our presentation was actually from the Pasco Town Center it's going to be a walkable mixeduse use retail destination node. There'll be a there'll be restaurants, there'll be plazas, uh gathering points for the public and other types of retail opportunities. Okay. I think that's important. That's really I think that uh Wiregrass is going down that route as well with some of the new stuff that JD is doing. So, we'll That's correct. Over at uh um Overpass Road, there's a a town center going in there that's walkable, accessible to the entire community. Commissioner Oakley and I were out there about a month ago doing an inspection of that. Um, the last thing I I wanted to see how the trail Someone put a GIS up there. I wanted to see how the trails connect to each other when we talk about walkable. So, what was that map that was up there?

Okay. So, that's the trail walking passes. So, so see this is this is a concern to me because unless in cartic I think maybe I showed you this and there's a lot missing from here. Uh maybe. But and I'm not talking about sidewalks now. I'm talking about multi-use paths. So I if there's a better map than this, I'd like to see it because this is this is not connected. So uh I'm concerned on this part. I think we I think Yeah, I'm concerned. Well, um, Madam Chair, um, can we just maybe maybe Keith and I can meet with you, you know, um, in your in your chambers and maybe we can discuss this because we don't really have all the data here today. I think this is Keith's map now that I'm remembering. Yeah, I think this is Keith's map and just so someone someone could get me a better map, I think. No offense. Yeah. No, that's fine. That's what we were just talking about. So, we'll work with um all of our partners, make sure we get all the necessary CAD files and identify what each of those systems are and how they provide connectivity. All right. Because I I think it is I see this road that goes east west in Marada. I don't know the name of that road, but I don't think it has a multi-use path on it. I think it has a 5-ft sidewalk on either side. There's plenty of room for a multi-use path, but that's a mistake because we want these people to be able to ride their bikes over to the town center and then and you can't do it on a 5-ft sidewalk. People get you have to you you have to go into the grass if there's someone else on it. I mean, you just can't do it. It's not safe. Yeah. So, we're going to have to fix that one. I Madam Chair, I think it's like a nomenclature thing and an aiming thing. So, I think there's a lot more trial opportunities here um that we just need to make sure we put them all on a map so we can talk about what they are. Okay. But for sure that east west road and I I don't know what that black road is coming down, but I think that's the main entrance to Marada. Um that east west road must have a multi-use path on it and especially if that's how people get into downtown, not in their car, right? Okay. All right. I think we're done. All right. Thanks everybody. We'll break for lunch. [Music] Pasco County waterways and wildlife depend on you to keep them healthy. Excess fertilizer, grass clippings, trash, oils, and pet waste wash into gutters and storm drains when it rains.