County meetings are always so plain and simple. They hold these meetings to ask the public what they think on an issue. The sad part is that only a handful of citizens attend these meetings. I would say only about 50 people showed up to this meeting that pertained to much more than that.
At the meeting, the county proposed spending a total of $4.8 million on improving the Dale Mabry intersections at Lakeview Drive and Northdale Boulevard. So the county is going to spend all those tax monies on construction. This meeting is their way of showing the public they really do care about what their citizens think.
The county played a video explaining the construction options in a very simple and clear way. There were four different ways to rebuild the Lakeview Drive intersection and three different ways to fix up Northdale Boulevard.
In the video, there were maps and lots of labels and color coding explaining how the end result of each project should be. I thought it was a really good way to explain what the county is considering how to spend those tax dollars.
After the video, we got to look at the maps closer to refresh our memories on the specifics, but there wasn’t really much more to the meeting after that.
On the way out, we were on Northdale Boulevard getting ready to turn onto Dale Mabry: the exact location of the future construction project. There was a sign announcing this public meeting. It read something along the lines of “public meeting at 6:30 Oct. 26.”
What struck me about that sign is that the people that ride through this intersection dealing with bad traffic knew about this meeting and are the ones affected by this the most. I don’t find myself in Carrollwood much but I still showed up to this meeting to witness how the county wants to spend $4.8 million of our tax dollars. The commuters that travel through this intersection are also the people that would best know how to improve the intersection and would be most effective in making the right choice.
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