The residents of Meadow Pointe II (MPII) and Meadow Pointe III (MPIII) have been down this street earlier than. A gate went up on Wrencrest Dr., the principle thoroughfare by the Wrencrest communities which exist in each MPII and MPIII again in 2020 and Pasco County ended up telling MPII that the gate needed to come down as a result of it wasn’t correctly permitted.
The residents of MPIII thought that the dialogue of a gate on the entrance to MPII on Wrencrest Dr. from the MPIII facet was over, but it surely clearly was not.
On Apr. 23, the MPII Group Improvement District (CDD) hosted a “Neighborhood Assembly” on the MPI clubhouse on County Line Rd. — “a impartial location with a a lot bigger assembly room than the rooms at both MPII or MPIII,” in response to MPII CDD district supervisor Jayna Cooper of Inframark Group Administration (at microphone in picture above) — the place the concept of erecting a brand new gate, much like the one the place Kinnan St. in New Tampa meets Mansfield Blvd., additionally in MPII, was once more the principle matter of dialogue.
“This isn’t a CDD assembly,” Cooper informed these in attendance as she learn the next assertion, “Meadow Pointe II’s purpose in going by this course of is absolutely centered on security enhancement and the safety of all residents, together with in each MPII and MPIII. The purpose in submitting an software to the county is to obtain approval to assemble an emergency gate on Wrencrest Dr. between Blanchard Ct. and Rensselaer Dr. (see picture beneath) to chop down on the extreme site visitors and the speedway this street has change into. The street was by no means supposed as a regional framework roadway for regional transportation makes use of. The coverage purpose is as a substitute to return its use to as a neighborhood inner roadway we’re all paying for as residents whereas nonetheless permitting for emergency entry for emergency providers.”
Cooper then launched Jerry Whited of BDI Engineering, who mentioned, “We did do a site visitors research that confirms our findings and proposal that a big quantity of the site visitors that’s coming to the west facet of Wrencrest is site visitors coming from the MPIII facet but in addition from site visitors that’s accessing MPIII from exterior of the group. It’s getting used as a significant cut-through for residents who’re coming from MPIII who needs to be accessing Mansfield Blvd. through Beardsley Dr., which is a way more pertinent roadway to be utilizing for this sort of vehicular site visitors. It’s a bigger roadway, much less slender and has much less pedestrian site visitors and no driveways, whereas there are lots of of driveways on Wrencrest Dr.”
Roughly two dozen audio system, principally from MPII however some from MPIII, got three minutes every to talk.
And, whereas there have been a few MPII audio system who acknowledged that rushing is going on in each neighborhoods and agreed that putting in strategically-spaced pace tables alongside the complete size of Wrencrest Dr. could be simply as, if no more efficient, a lot of the MPII audio system talked about the 2 MPII Wrencrest residents who had been significantly injured and needed to be airlifted due to speeders and mentioned that putting in the gate was the one actual answer to the issue.
MPII Wrencrest resident Kathy Jimenez learn a shifting assertion written by her neighbor Ray Quinones, who was a type of airlifted after being hit by a automobile that had handed fellow neighbor Marla Mitchell “doing a minimum of 45 mph” and each expressed unhappiness over how Quinones had suffered because the accident, writing, “The worst half is the reminiscence loss. Chunks of my life are gone.”
However, nearly all the MPIII residents who spoke on the assembly mentioned that including pace tables, narrowing the street and even including bushes alongside the parts of Wrencrest Dr. with no houses can be a way more efficient solution to decelerate the site visitors in each communities.
In actual fact, MPIII Wrencrest resident Michael Jenkins mentioned, “It is unnecessary to suppose that one of the simplest ways to resolve the issue is to chop off the group from the principle thoroughfare. We are able to do higher than this. The members of the boards of each MPII and MPIII have allowed this to change into a spiteful, back-and-forth match between the 2 CDDs.”
Updates from the MPII authorized counsel had been anticipated to be supplied on the MPII CDD Board assembly scheduled for Might 7, or two days after this situation went to press, however our telephone name to Cooper to ask if the MPII CDD Board would truly vote on the difficulty at that assembly was not returned earlier than we went to press.
Even when the MPII CDD Board votes tonight to maneuver ahead with approving the gate between the Wrencrest neighborhoods in Meadow Pointe (MP) II & MP III, the ultimate choice would nonetheless be within the arms of the Pasco County Board of County Commissioners (BCC), which must add the vote to a BCC agenda at a future date.
