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They Said It
“I think the added burden of the traffic would be ridiculous… Every road that goes through now is just bursting at the seams.” -Jeannie Griffis, Tara Preserve It s a public safety issue when it all comes down to it. If emergency response times are improved, the Tara bridge project is a necessity for the people of our community. -Nick Artemik, River Place
“We have people who will stop traffic for turtles, and that s the way it is here. If you don t live there, you re not going to protect natural wildlife there.” -Maureen McFadden, Tara Preserve
When Stan Barr moved from Indiana to Tara in 2016, he noticed a sign at the end of Tara Boulevard.
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County commissioners voted to hire Hopes as acting county administrator on April 1 to serve in the role until a permanent replacement for former County Administrator Cheri Coryea is hired. Commissioner Kevin Van Ostenbridge, who made the initial motion to terminate Coryea, recommended Hopes for the initial search to fill the interim position.
Circumstances surrounding that termination were investigated by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, but that investigation has since been closed. All along, I felt that we would know within the first few months, or at least within six months, whether it was going to work, whether the right chemistry was there, and whether I could help the new board of county commissioners move forward together in a collaborative way, Hopes said.
Lorraine Road
Distance: 2.8 miles
Estimated cost: $38.1 million
Three major road projects in East County that were not previously listed in Manatee County’s five-year capital improvement plan were pushed ahead to the design phase unanimously by county commissioners at an April 20 meeting.
The three projects are the widening of a 2.8-mile stretch of Lorraine Road from State Road 64 to 59th Avenue East from two lanes to four; widening of a 2.6-mile stretch of Upper Manatee River Road from State Road 64 to Fort Hamer Bridge from two lanes to four; and an extension of Lena Road by about a half-mile to create a continuous route from S.R. 64 to State Road 70.