and not doing the right things to counteract that; as far as these roads go, she would not like to
see these properties be developed into these types of communities with so many homes; but if
she had to pick the lesser of two evils, she is asking the Commission to build the road behind
Angelica Street, not through Angelica Street; and from what she read in the documentation
provided, the Board is who decides that, so this is its chance to show the community that it is
for the people and not for the special interest groups.
Tami Hoisington stated she lives on Pinto Circle and Pinto Circle is off of Ranch Wood Drive,
which is off of Friday Road and James Road; there is a ditch, and then the new road 'James
Annex' will have people driving right past her backyard with headlights in her back bedroom
windows every night, and it is not a very pleasant thing; she kind of just wanted to do that for
everybody else so they could get a feel of what it is going to be like; she comes from a
firefighting family, that area has burnt before, and it will burn again because things do burn;
there is one ingress and one egress, it is a County road which the city people say oh, well, that
is none of their business, that is up to the County to take care of; and the County tells her, that
is not its business, it is all city annexed. She remarked no, the roads are County and so narrow;
she stated they have horses along there, they have families that push little babies in strollers,
they have tortoises crossing the road, which people stop and take off the road, they have all
these different things that are natural and beautiful out there, and it is quiet and peaceful which
is why she bought out there to begin with; these roads cannot handle 700-plus more cars, they
just cannot, and something different is going to have to happen; if that area burns, they are
going to need another way to get out, or they are going to have what happened in Paradise,
California; she used to live in that area years ago when that happened and it was not pretty,
they had 80 souls lost who were never recovered, because they could not get out and they
were burnt to ashes; and it rained two weeks later, but their families could not recover them,
and she would hate to see something like that happen to this area because it is just beautiful.
She continued by saying there are so many wonderful people who live out there from the north
to the south, and they are very concerned; all of those improvements that are going to happen
to those County roads possibly, hopefully, and maybe; and she inquired who is going to be
paying for that. She added it is going to go into peoples tax money and pulled out of their
pockets, which is already pretty tight, because she and her husband are retired, and she is
sure a lot of other people are and on tight budgets like she is; there are concerns of individuals
driving too fast, kids already hot dogging it on these roads, they drive fast and they spin circles
in the intersection where Friday Road goes off and where the James extension is; they are
constantly doing stuff like that; and she asked how all of that is going to be handled, not to
mention the school buses, all of the Amazon vehicles, all the delivery people, and all this other
stuff that is going to happen there because of this addition.
Edmund Litwin stated he is supportive of the road going through Angelica Street or behind
Angelica Street; he is living in that back area on Breezy Point Lane and if there is an
emergency for police or fire to get there, it is an extra five miles to get from that area where he
lives, and to go down to Canaveral Groves Boulevard to get out to Grissom Parkway; so just
like the previous lady said, if there is a disaster, how are they going to get out of there; and
there needs to be another way in and out, it is just too confined over there.
Lance Boncek stated he lives on Angelica Street and he has been on that property for about 11
years, much like those folks who are here voicing their concerns, and he shares the same
concerns; he has a family and has had the opportunity to raise two children out there with the
luxury of being able to walk with his kids and having them start their lives by growing up in a
really tight-knit community; with the opening of this road all of that is going to change, it is going
to be a major concern; the previous lady mentioned individuals speeding and that they are
going to be dealing with the increase of traffic and crime; vehicle burglary is going to go up;
there will be an influx of new individuals that, whether from the area or passing through, and
when increasing the overall population of that general area, they are going to start having some