M05nov29.doc November 30, 2005

Notes of NEPCC meeting of November 29 at Karyn Pirrello’s home in

Trilby Trails, 7-9:30 pm

Attending: Nancy, Pat, Dot, Carol, Anne, Paul, Karyn, Alma, Richard

and Debbie White, a neighbor of Karyn’s. Debbie has asked to be put on

the mailing list for these notes.

Topics for the meeting were: 1) next week’s meetings and 2) next years

priorities or plans.

Karyn was a gracious host and thanked us for the opportunity to get her

house decked out. We thanked her for the fantastic hospitality, mulled

cider, flavored coffee, eggnog, cookies, etc. Others brought snacks.

My vote for most interesting was Pat’s Pumpkin Dessert. She sent the

recipe a few hours later. I called it Pat’s Upside Down Pumpkin Pie.

Fantastic!

Outside of food, we also had a good meeting.

Calendar for next week:

December 5, Monday

8 a.m. – 5 p.m. Dade City BOCC workshop presentation on comp plan (see

below)

Plan to attend: Dot, Anne, Alma, Nancy, Pat, Richard

December 6, Tuesday

9:30 a.m. – noon BOCC workshop with Glatting, Jackson (see below), NPR

Plan to attend: Pat, Anne

1:30 p.m. – regular BOCC meeting, NPR

Plan to attend: Pat, Annie

5-7 p.m. – Regional MPO meeting, County Commissioner Chambers,

Brooksville

Plan to attend: Nancy, Pat, Dot, Alma, Anne, Richard

December 8, Thursday

10:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m. Pasco MPO, NPR

Planning to attend: Nancy, Anne, Pat

1-5 Comp Plan workshop, NPR

6:30 pm CAC meeting NPR, Full, Administration Provisions Capital

Improvements Element

Planning to attend: Nancy, Anne, Pat (all day in NPR?)

December 9, Friday

11 a.m. — 2 p.m. Stanley Park, Regional MPO CCC meeting

Planning to attend: Dot, Carol, Anne, Paul, Karyn, Debbie, Richard

December 20, Tuesday

1:30 or maybe evening public hearings: Land across from Hickory Hills

that was continued from last month (and the month before).

Sorry there are some gaps in these notes. I missed some details in

things like the 1-5 on Dec 8.

There is a meeting on two developments in San Antonio on the evening of

the 6th. They are medium size, medium to upscale, and in the city

limits. We decided that we have too many things on our plate, not that

far from what we support in other places, and that we should

concentrate on the County activities. We agreed that if somebody from

San Antonio came to us for support, we would try to get involved, but

since none of us are citizens of the city, we should just keep informed

but stay out of it.

Where should we go in the next year after everything is perfect with

the Comp Plan (smile)?

Censuses was that we need to keep on top of regular meetings and

hearings, and start working on political support for candidates. It

was agreed that we should support people based upon their environmental

and development philosophies and not their political parties (whenever

possible).

Other comments, observations, blurts, and feelings:

Alma: continuing on her idea of recapturing taxes of greenbelt land

that is sold to developers after many years of ownership at very, very

low taxes.

Anne: concerns about clustering. Many of the concerns that we have

haggled over the past few months, but we are all still concerned about

legal protection of the “conservation set aside.” What if the

homeowners association wants to abandon or, worse still, expand

development, into their un-clustered land in five or fifty years? What

legal restrictions are there to protect the clustering concept?

Pat: Steve Clark keeps talking about large land owner’s rights. We

need to keep speaking our piece and watch out for back room deals with

the developers. We need to start (or continue) to e-mail all five

commissioners and the Staff with our comments. Hobby’s comments were

not discussed in detail at the last CAC meeting, BUT they were entered

into the record because they were mailed to the staff. (comments

augmented by Richard, as usual).

Nancy: We need to keep our eyes open for commissioner candidates that

are supportive of the Rural lifestyle that we have.

Pat: The commissioners will start listening to the large landowners.

Hobby is paid by 24 owners and they will have a lot of pressure. We

need to support the commissioners and tell them how we appreciate THEIR

support.

(Unknown input): The large land owners have rights, but so do we. If

they reduce our land value because they build junk next to us, we are

losing our right to live in a rural area…

Anne: We need to protect the land, not just for ourselves, but for our

children and the legacy of Florida’s future. Will Pasco be a blight

that needs to be cleaned up, or will the people of 150 years from now

be thankful that we protected much of the land for them?

Whew! Again, thank you Karyn for the hospitality.

Please send corrections or additions to me or to everybody.

--- Richard (5 am)

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BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS, PASCO COUNTY, FLORIDA

WORK SESSION

December 5, 2005

9:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.

Historic Pasco County Courthouse,

Board Room, 2nd Floor

37918 Meridian Avenue

Dade City, Florida 33525

CALL TO ORDER 9:30 a.m.

PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE

ROLL CALL

FUTURE LAND USE ELEMENT

EDUCATION GOALS, OBJECTIVES AND POLICIES

ECONOMIC ELEMENT (TIME PERMITTING)

PRESENTATION BY GLATTING JACKSON

ADJOURN

BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS, PASCO COUNTY, FLORIDA

WORK SESSION

December 6, 2005

9:30 a.m.-11:30 a.m.

West Pasco Government Center

Board Room

7530 Little Road

New Port Richey, Florida 34654

1. CALL TO ORDER - 9:30 a.m.

PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE

ROLL CALL

2. PRESENTATIONS

A. GROWTH MANAGEMENT STAFF

1. BIANNUAL COMPREHENSIVE PLAN AMENDMENTS 05-2

B. GLATTING JACKSON AND PASCO COUNTY STAFF

1. ECONOMIC ELEMENT

2. FUTURE LAND USE MAP AMENDMENTS

ADJOURN

-- sent by Richard K Riley --

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