If you can, please help our cause by donating, even a small amount helps. This may likely end up in court for a Judge to decide and we need all the funding we can get.
If everyone pitches in we have a chance to keep our rural lifestyle intact!
Attend the public hearings!
ANNEXATION HEARINGS SCHEDULE!
> “Proposed Annexation into Tarpon Springs”
> “Proposed Amendment to the Future Land Use Map”
> “Proposed Rezoning of a Parcel”
- Planning and Zoning Board. Monday Nov. 18 2019 at 7pm in Tarpon Springs City Hall auditorium
Download the Planning & Zoning Agenda + Pioneer Homes Site-plan here!
- Board of Commissioners. Tuesday Dec. 3 at 6;30 in the Tarpon City Hall auditorium.
Let the Commissioners know this is important to you!
Also, we need to send letters & emails and direct phone calls to our County Commissioners to let them know how important this issue is to us. Also the same to the Tarpon Springs City Commissioners.
Please be nice, the County Commissioners are on our side and right now we can only assume the City Commissioners have an open mind as well.
Contacts
Pinellas County Commissioners
- Dave Eggers – District 4 (North Pinellas)
(727) 464-3276 Tel
[email protected] - Janet C. Long – District 1 – Countywide (East Pinellas inc. East Lake)
(727) 464-3365 Tel
[email protected] - Pat Gerard – District 2 – Countywide (West Pinellas inc. Palm Harbor, Tarpon Springs)
(727) 464-3360 Tel
[email protected] - Charlie Justice – District 3 – Countywide (South Pinellas)
(727) 464-3363 Tel
[email protected] - Karen Williams Seel – District 5
(727) 464-3278 Tel
[email protected] - Kathleen Peters – District 6
(727) 464-3568 Tel
[email protected] - Kenneth T. Welch – District 7
(727) 464-3614 Tel
[email protected]
to mail correspondence to our County Commissioners send letters to:
| Name of County Commissioner 315 Court Street Clearwater, FL 33756 To Fax use cover sheet with the Commissioners name and send to: |
Contact the Tarpon Springs City Commissioners
- Mayor Chris Alahouzos – Email [email protected]
- Townsend Tarapani – Email [email protected]
- Rea Sieber – Email [email protected]
- Jacob Karr – Email [email protected]
- Connor Donovan – Email [email protected]
City Commissioners can be called at (727) 938-3711, or send correspondence to City Hall, Attention “name of commissioner”, 324 East Pine St – Tarpon Springs FL 34689. Lastly you can fax them at (727) 937-8199.
Talking points
The most important item is how this development threatens our way of life!
- Let the Commissioners know this suburban development is incompatible with our lifestyle. We bought into North East Lake way of life because of the rural character and this suburban development is counter to and incompatible with our neighborhood.
- Traffic – If the rezoning goes forward it will double the amount of homes on our street and double the amount of traffic. Imagine how much longer it will take to get to US 19N or East Lake Road.
- Well Water Quality – Forty Four McMansions each with 4-6 Bathrooms squeezed onto tiny quarter-acre lots are going to be on septic with drain fields. Many of us draw water from shallow wells on our property. This housing density will ruin our ability to have potable water from our wells.
- Wildlife – Sadly the current home of our neighborhood herd of deer and wild turkey will be gone, and even sadder is that this is unlikely to sway the commissioners decision as wildlife has not legal right in our country. But it won’t hurt for some of us to talk about the:
– Bald Eagles, Roseate Spoonbills, Wood Storks and Gopher Tortoises inhabit this property and are all protected by the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission.
– Also on this property there are numerous deer, coyotes, wild turkey, raccoons, squirrels and even a bobcat or two.
- Conflict between unlike zoning will cause the Tarpon Springs Code enforcement to tear its hair out!
We are all zoned for either Agricultural Estate or full Agriculture. This means we are allowed to have as many fowl as we want, as well as hoofed animals (there maybe a cap of two (2) large hoofed animals, i.e. horses and cows per acre on the AE zoned lots). Some of us have large garages, warehouses, dog kennels. We don’t have any restrictions on how tall or short our lawns have to be…
The Tarpon Springs zoning only allows up to four chickens (with approval of this permit application) and no roosters, ducks, quail, geese, turkeys, pigeons, guinea fowl, peacocks, pigs, goats, sheep, lamas, alpacas etc.
The potential for neighbor on neighbor conflict is going to be a NIGHTMARE! Especially since the two jurisdictions are so different.