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Tommytown work on fast trackBy CHASE SQUIRES, Times Staff Writer© St. Petersburg Times published July 13, 2002 DADE CITY -- Despite months of governmental wrangling over improvements to the Tommytown neighborhood, Pasco County officials are pushing ahead, putting their money where the project is. County Administrator John Gallagher said the county's commitment to spend $7-million to $10-million paving, improving drainage and bringing sewer and water service to the neighborhood on Dade City's northern boundary is not in question. As proof, county commissioners on Tuesday will be asked to continue a land-buying spree, ensuring planners have enough space for proposed water retention areas. Already this year, commissioners agreed to three purchases for $85,000, and on Tuesday's agenda the board will be asked to approve four more, totaling $148,000. The Tommytown project has been in the news since last year. Although design work is not complete, the county has proposed an infrastructure upgrade for 78 to 100 blocks. The roads in most of the area are unpaved, drainage needs to be improved, and few residents have sewer or water connections. The county and Dade City wrestled over the cost of connecting sewer and water lines to the city system, and after a series of negotiations, the issue appears settled, Gallagher said, and the project is under way. "It's going full bore," he said Friday. "We have been committed to do this with or without Dade City." The purchases up for consideration Tuesday are properties at Lee and Patchoosa avenues, near the corner of 14th Street and Tait Avenue, and Pinellas and Seminole avenues. Gallagher said as they are defined, additional properties and easements will be added in preparation for road and utilities improvements. Tuesday's purchase requests are included in the commissioners' regular collection of noncontroversial items often passed as a group without discussion.
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