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Fight against development will continue

This concerns the Pasco County Development Review Committee's intent to issue a class 1 development permit for Sugar Creek warehouse. (IPRO6-0400)

We moved here to Pine Ridge Sugar Creek to avoid urban sprawl and mixed zoning.

This is our eighth attempt at keeping this mixed zoning at a distance.

We paid an additional price for our property on a preserve with woods as our back yard, instead of seeing a commercial building.

Why should we have to look out at a warehouse?

Also, removing our large trees at the corner of our development should be prohibited by common sense, if not law.

We lose the beauty of the old large trees and the natural habitat is lost to the local wildlife.

A monetary contribution to the tree mitigation fund cannot replace the loss that our environment does.

We would not have purchased a house with the knowledge that a warehouse would be erected so that whenever we enter or leave our house, we feel like we are living in a business.

Now, we were not fully aware of the impact of the warehouse until attending a meeting of the adult community that shares our entrance to our development.

They oppose the warehouse as well.

Now the warehouse developers want to use our private entrance road for their entrance off State Road 52.

If they want to be good neighbors, as they proclaim, this commercial property should be a service-related business that would benefit our community, and not a rental warehouse. It does not fit in here!

Furthermore, there should be a totally different entrance off SR 52 east of and away from our community entrance.

We have a school bus stop for our children at the very place they want to put the entrance to their warehouse.

If any resident from our community, or children or anyone from the adult community is injured, the owners of the property as well as Pasco County should be held responsible.

We need to stop this plan, so join your neighbors, at 1:30 p.m. Aug. 24 at the West Pasco Government Center, 7530 Little Road, New Port Richey.

L. Greenberg, Hudson

City's entrance resembles Baghdad

Re: Main Street Landing

I do not comprehend some of the double talk from the partners, city manager, lawyers etc. on the stalled progress of what resembles a scene from Baghdad at the entrance of our city.

Get over it! Welcome to New Port Raunchy!

Mary Oles, New Port Richey

Learn a second language, or a third

It would be an advantage for the Spanish-only speaking person to learn English as it would be for the English-only speaking person to learn Spanish.

Speaking two or more languages has the advantage of a good mind. Many doors will open in the job world.

Rudy Sinkovich, New Port Richey

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