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'
Yesterday, I was sent a picture of a site plan for a Circle K that appears to be wanting to go on the lot on the corner of US 19 and Fort Island Trail. So let's take a look. The plans are 16 pages. You can view them
Good morning! Hope you all are having a wonderful week so far. For those not aware, I did candidate interviews yesterday for Holli Herndon and Diana Finegan. The others, Stacey Worthington, Rebecca Bays and Jennifer Grogan, were invited to participate but either declined (Worthington and Grogan) or did not respond
Last night was the Citrus County Chronicle's candidate forum. This is the big event where 100s of people attend to listen to the candidates speak. The Chronicle claims 500 were in attendance. I arrived just before the BOCC candidates got up on the stage and I certainly did
Let's talk development. Yesterday, we saw the PDC recommend denial of the Pulte Group's housing project that included 667 homes across roughly 266 acres and resort style amenities. The PDC said that the project was too intense for the area and many of them cited the
I am back after being away for a short bit. Every time I do not post of a few days, my messages get filled by many of you all checking in on me. I appreciate all of that. Thank you for checking in. Let's get back into it.
Today, we are going to give credit where it is due. As most of you know, I can get pretty critical of local government officials. Go through the last several posts and you will find mostly critical comments. That has sort of been the point of this page... point out