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'
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