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Jacksonville, FL

City Plans To Fix Flood Prone Neighborhoods

Dangerous rapids around McCoy's Creek and rivers through downtown San Marco have been routine in storm season for years.

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May 8, 2008
 
I am having dejavu. I swear I have heard this before. All talk and no action.
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May 8, 2008
 
Oh please!!! I have heard this same old tired promise for the past 20 years (or more). Tell me about it when you've done it. Before then it's just empty rhetoric.
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May 9, 2008
 
since they say the new fee is to help with standing rain water and we are all paying our share, I want my street fixed too. we should start flooding city hall with any complaints of standing rain water
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May 9, 2008
 
taxpayer 35yrs wrote:
since they say the new fee is to help with standing rain water and we are all paying our share, I want my street fixed too. we should start flooding city hall with any complaints of standing rain water
The just fixed all this 5 yrs ago. I hope they raise hell.
They tried to charge me and we dont even have city sewer,storm drains or water on my street. I called the city inspector and showed him where the water from the street drains on my property. So now I dont have to pay, or according to my attorney. I can bill the city.
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May 9, 2008
 
Is the Southwood subdivision (off of Hartley Rd)on the list of eight areas?

Thank you.

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#7
May 9, 2008
 
"Previously we've had to wait for a bond issues for us to execute capital projects, now with a stormwater fee we have a dedicated revenue source, it can only be used for stormwater management," says Cook."

I thought this money was for us to keep the fire, and Police departments due to the property tax cut. I guess it is just a big shell game.
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#8
May 9, 2008
 
The news just repeats itself over and over and over. Fees equal more taxes. Eliminate police taking patrol cars home for personal use and speeding and otherwise wasting our tax dollars. Let the police pay a fee for abusing the system.
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#9
May 9, 2008
 
All of the stormwater runoff that I usually see if the city streets flooding into peoples yard and into our rivers. Why don't they keep the mess from running into our rivers. Cedar and Ortega rivers are filling in with leaves and debris that is washed down the streets and into the rivers. Then the city wants to charge the people that live along the rivers to pay to have it dredged. The city should have taken care of this years ago, and why does a city this big not have a city wide, sewer system instead of septic tanks.
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#10
May 9, 2008
 
yeah as soon as they pay the new storm water fee ...........hee hee
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May 9, 2008
 
the city is working on installing sewers city wide as part of the better jax plan. but personally i dont want it, i like my septic tank that works just fine. what happened to consumer choice, i dont want to pay a fee for sewer when i dont even need the thing

oh and the take home patrol cars create a sense of omni-presence. it lowers the crime rate, educate yourself and you would probably understand that concept.

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May 9, 2008
 
fed-up wrote:
the city is working on installing sewers city wide as part of the better jax plan. but personally i dont want it, i like my septic tank that works just fine. what happened to consumer choice, i dont want to pay a fee for sewer when i dont even need the thing
oh and the take home patrol cars create a sense of omni-presence. it lowers the crime rate, educate yourself and you would probably understand that concept.
I am educated. I see no need for them to drive patrol cars home. Wasted revenue for cost of cars, maintenance, fuel, insurance, liability, vandalism, and also theft; all of these have been in the news just this year involving Patrol cars at homes.

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Tom
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May 9, 2008
 
fed-up wrote:
the city is working on installing sewers city wide as part of the better jax plan. but personally i dont want it, i like my septic tank that works just fine. what happened to consumer choice, i dont want to pay a fee for sewer when i dont even need the thing
oh and the take home patrol cars create a sense of omni-presence. it lowers the crime rate, educate yourself and you would probably understand that concept.
Taking cars home doesn't work. A block from my house on Lake Shore was a murder last sunday. Wanna know who lives next door, a JSO officer who never reports the vagrants living their in tents in the homeowners backyard, or the mess at the junk store the homeowner owns. He parks his car out front, but never does anything about the shootings at the womens club when the blacks rent the place, or the cars speeding through the neighborhoods at all hours of the day and night, leaving their tire tracks all over the street, or flying around the curves and crash land in my front yard. He doesn't even work in the same zone that he lives in.
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May 9, 2008
 
James wrote:
<quoted text>Taking cars home doesn't work. A block from my house on Lake Shore was a murder last sunday. Wanna know who lives next door, a JSO officer who never reports the vagrants living their in tents in the homeowners backyard, or the mess at the junk store the homeowner owns. He parks his car out front, but never does anything about the shootings at the womens club when the blacks rent the place, or the cars speeding through the neighborhoods at all hours of the day and night, leaving their tire tracks all over the street, or flying around the curves and crash land in my front yard. He doesn't even work in the same zone that he lives in.
Do you live in Grove Park? Sounds similar! LOL!
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#15
May 9, 2008
 
this means absolutly nothing.

it's the same old screw you b.s. news the city puts out.

how many years has it been since the city said: city plans a new court house??

sooooo, where is the new court house? they are still planning on a new court house.

millions have already been spent to fix these same areas. so, now they are going to "fix" them again.

this city has been all b.s. for years on top of years.

but, the citizens of suckersville just keep on taking up the arse while continuing to put up with the same old tired do nothings.

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