Last night I had a conversation with someone. They mentioned to me that they enjoy reading what I write but they do not always agree with it. That is a good thing. I do not expect everyone to always agree with me. In fact, that would be bad. Differing opinions
Its Tuesday which means civic engagement day. What is that you ask? Well it's where you can participate in government processes. How? Tonight is the 2nd Comp Plan workshop that is open to the public. It will start at 530 and will be at the Lecanto Government Building.
I hope everyone had a great weekend. This cold was something else. I was in Denver on Saturday and it was in the mid 50s. Very little snow, even at higher elevations. I flew back late Saturday night to low 30s, where it had been snowing earlier in the day.
Last week, I mentioned publicly that I was considering jumping in to the County Commission race and running against incumbent Rebecca Bays. I told everyone that I would decide by the end of this week. Here we are. In short, I will not be running against Rebecca in this election.
Tuesday's BOCC meeting was not really eventful. We heard a presentation by North Florida Land Trust about conservation in Citrus County. The gist here is that we are not really doing enough to protect our drinking water in this county. All 5 commissioners said that was one of
Happy Monday! Hope you all had a great weekend! Back to the potential Data Center. I am still waiting on the public records request from the 16th to be filled. Hoping to have that this week. That will provide more information about the potential data center that I can then
Browsing through the agenda for the meeting on Tuesday, something caught my eye. The Impact Fees are back on the agenda. This item is to set future workshops. This is under consent agenda, so do not expect too much discussion. The idea here is that they want to bring back
On Tuesday, Commissioners will hear an update from North Florida Land Trust on the Greenprinting study that they have started. This was paid for by private donations collected by Commissioner Holly Davis and comes at ZERO cost to tax payers. This report includes the first Task of the study... The
Let's be honest. It is easy to point out the flaws in local government. I could write for days on all the things that are "wrong" in this county. Often times, commissioners need to see the "wrong" things to correct them. However, we also
In case you missed it. The 2nd public workshop for the comp plan update is coming in a couple of weeks. Here is the flyer. It will take place February 3rd at 530pm at the Lecanto Government Building. It is important that you are there to share your opinion. You
Well that was an interesting few days. When I broke the story that Deltona Corp submitted an application for a land use change and some Comp Plan changes for the Holder Industrial Park which will allow a Data Center, social media went wild. 18,000 views, 115 comments, 45 shares.
I had something entirely different planned for today until I got the public records request in for something I found. Due to that, we are shifting gears and talking Data Centers. This is some deep stuff, so a bit long today. If you missed it over on the Facebook page