Mitras/Kent Grove Drive rezoning

A 60-year area veteran, he opposed scattered small developments without proven utility access and detailed the importance of the Riles Branch drainage corridor to central Pasco flooding.

Argued no utilities are actually in place for the 77-home project and asked for definitive written commitments before approval.

Said flooding is the community's biggest concern and asked the Board to cut the 77-home footprint in half as a compromise.

Lives in the same flood zone A; warned that fill would worsen his flooding and noted unpaved Lucier Lane would carry subdivision traffic and dust.

A Kent Grove resident since 1971, she warned that replacing 40 acres of natural land with rooftops would increase stormwater runoff into Riles Branch, which already overflows Kent Grove Drive.

Said she doesn't feel heard by the Board and asked commissioners to listen to residents rather than dollar signs.

Called it a 'neighborhood in a neighborhood' and noted Riles Branch regularly floods Kent Grove Drive right at the proposed entrance.

Said the property is loaded with more than 50 gopher tortoises and most land along Riles Branch is protected wetlands; asked for no approval smaller than five-acre lots.