Chronicle: ‘Action needed on Forest Ridge Sidewalk’

Grateful for the Citrus County Chronicle‘s Editorial and position and support of the Forest Ridge/Beverly Hills Sidewalk needs and pleased with the commitment of the staff of the Citrus County Planning Department & Health Department’s efforts to provide a safe route for students and adults.

This is been a project that the people of Beverly Hills have been asking for for sometime. Through the Safe Routes to School grant funding we might best fund this project (rather then ad valorem taxes).

This area is the most residential densely saturated areas that does not have a sidewalk, not only in Citrus County, but in the state of Florida which is why the state has even given it a priority.

The sidewalk would run from Publix, to the new adult apartment complex, down to the library, and down to the Beverly Hills community centers.

This is a project that has come about through the citizens of Beverly Hills. When we had public hearings on this we had residents of Beverly Hills come to the meeting who talk about how they have to walk on the side of the road and in the grass and how unsafe it is as well as how many more people it would serve.

Chronicle’s Position:

THE ISSUE:New sidewalks along Forest Ridge planned. …eventually.

OUR OPINION:Students and seniors need safe routes sooner rather than later

Read the whole editorial by following this link: http://goo.gl/tsrrax

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