Agenda - 10-03-2017 - 8-a - Minutes

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21 1 Jonie Alexander said she has been involved with the MTS for many years, and she also 2 really likes the rail to trail projects. She said the MTS mission is to bring people out to more 3 remote areas, and she hopes the initial plan will remain intact, and that the County can pursue 4 greenways etc. separately. 5 Bill Boyarsky is a long time MTS volunteer, and he said there are many volunteers to 6 assist with this project. 7 Chester Sykes said he owns some property that may be impacted by the MTS, and he 8 has had no prior knowledge of any MTS meetings up to this point. 9 Glen Gravestreet said he appreciated the work staff has done. He said it would be 10 unfortunate not to have a mechanism in place for landowners who are willing to give easements 11 in advance of a trail segment being built. He said if this was done in advance, the trail could be 12 built without repeated interruption. He said he would like to see more guidance on this topic. 13 14 Commissioner McKee said he assumed that Orange County notified landowners with 15 any land use or zoning changes. 16 David Stancil said staff did notify the initial group, but on going notifications may have 17 ceased if landowners did not participate in any of the OWASA/MTS meetings. He said this is 18 not a zoning procedure or a planning action. 19 Commissioner McKee said but this does affect landowners. He asked if the number of 20 parcels in the swath from the southwestern corner of the County up to Hillsborough is known. 21 David Stancil said there are 23 private landowners along the red line on the map. He 22 said the half-mile wide swath in the MTS master plan involved 230-250 notices initially. 23 Commissioner McKee asked if any of these landowners have expressed any interest of 24 dedicating right of ways. 25 David Stancil said about 15 or 20 out of the 230 and out of the 23 landowners on the red 26 line, perhaps 8 to 10. He said these conversations have yet to begin in earnest. 27 Commissioner Marcoplos said he started having conversations with Rob Crook about a 28 month ago, and said he is planning on coming to a BOCC meeting to share more about his 29 trails to rails vision. 30 Commissioner Marcoplos said he does not see this as a part of the MTS discussion, but 31 as more of a separate project. 32 Commissioner Price asked if staff has sent out notifications to people along all the 33 related trails, or just those in the original swath. 34 David Stancil said outside of the initial mailing, staff has only notified those on the 35 master list of those expressing interest in the trail, or the OWASA list. He clarified that this was 36 simply a report item tonight. 37 Commissioner Price said all people affected should be notified. 38 David Stancil said now that there are more refined lines on the map, those in need of 39 notification should be a smaller amount; perhaps 75 property owners. 40 Commissioner Rich said she thinks there are two separate proposed paths: the MTS, 41 and the Rails to Trails path. She said the greenways in Orange County do need to be 42 enhanced, but there should be a focus on the MTS mission versus what a multi-modal path 43 would be. She said she has heard about the MTS forever, and it needs to start moving forward. 44 She said there seems to be a lot of people willing to help. 45 Commissioner Jacobs said a greenway system was proposed 30 years ago, and was 46 met with great resistance. He said when the MTS was raised a decade ago, survey markers 47 were put right next to people's homes, which was a mistake. 48 Commissioner Jacobs said he has been to many meetings over the past years, where 49 people have come and had concerns, and staff has responded promptly. He said it would be a