Man.. what a day! You had heard me talk up the sand mine quite a bit the last few days. There was a reason for that. I was asked to help do the presentation by the intervenor. We wanted to keep that a secret until the meeting took place so
Cue up things that don't make sense. Remember the Sand Mine in Lecanto? I wrote about it several times over the last few months, mainly because they were operating a mining operation without the required county and state permits. Well, Citrus County sent out staff to investigate a
I am back in town... Did you all miss me? This morning I am sitting and watching the Planning and Development Commission (PDC) this morning and Citrus Hills is up talking about Clearview Estates and their desire to add more commercial square footage to its Development of Regional Impact (DRI)
Happy Tuesday.. or what I think is Tuesday. The thing about traveling is that you lose track of what day it is... especially when you go to bed after midnight and wake up around 5/6am each day for a week... then walk around cities all day in the hot
Greetings from Rome. We are on the last leg of the trip. 2 more days and I will be back in the US and back to this.. Surely so many people have missed me! haha This election season is one for the books. We are a little more than two
Happy Wednesday! If it seems quiet around here this week, it is because I am out of the country until the 5th spending the week photographing clients in Italy. The day job does have some perks. I will be in and out and on the Facebook page during the week,
Happy Commission Tuesday! Today may turn into an interesting one. On the agenda, we have a Land Development Code (LDC) amendment. This is being brought by Commissioner Diana Finegan. This item, if approved, would be removing the red text. This all came about back in 2022 when the Dix development
Next Tuesday at the BOCC meeting, commissioners will discuss two Comprehensive Plan Amendments... 1) Transportation Concurrency 2) Open/Space Recreation requirements First, we will hear them discuss Transportation Concurrency. A little history on that. Transportation concurrency requires builders/developers/etc to do transportation studies to show the projected impacts of
A few weeks ago, I was browsing through some records that I requested in regards to the school zone cameras that the board discussed with the Sheriff in May. I wanted to see how involved staff was in the process with the Sheriff's office (very involved). One thing
It has been a minute since we looked at the campaign finances for each candidate. I will do a full breakdown as I did before, but for now, just doing a summary to show where everyone is after the filings done last week. This will be the county commission race.
Today, we are going to talk about social media and how elected officials are responsible for their accounts, even if it is not them posting things regularly. Most people know that elected and government officials are subject to broad public records disclosures in Florida. The laws are intentionally vague to
Happy Tuesday. Today, we are going to look at the county administrator and what appears to be a lack of leadership. I have been working on a way to present this information for some time, but did not really know where I wanted to go with it. Last week'