Here is a special Saturday edition. We are going to talk about the Pine Ridge Ruling that just came down. If you want to read it in full, check out yesterday's post. I have posted the full decision on that page. This is a full smack down of
I will have a full article tomorrow (special Saturday edition) but for now, here is the decision by the court if you wish to review it. It is not listed on SCORS yet. Pine Ridge JudgementPine Ridge Judgement.pdf1 MBdownload-circle
Today, I came across an article from the Chronicle talking about the Sand Mine decision from Tuesday. This article is apparently about Commissioner Bays asking questions to the county attorney via email. I have not seen the email in question yet, but the Chronicle apparently has received a copy as
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