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Hernando County board declares old DPW parcel surplus amid heated public opposition to proposed RISE food bank lease
Summary
County commissioners declared the former DPW site surplus and agreed to a public information workshop after weeks of public comment opposing a proposed 30-year ground lease to the Community Food Bank—or a RISE empowerment center; board will mail notice and hold a community workshop before final lease action.
Hernando County commissioners voted Sept. 9 to declare the county—oard-owned parcel commonly called the old DPW site surplus and to continue consideration of a proposed 30-year ground lease for a RISE empowerment center proposed by Community Food Bank of Citrus County after an extended public-comment period that produced strong opposition from South Brooksville residents.
The board also directed staff to run a formal public-notice process nd hold a county-run workshop for residents before taking any final lease action.
Why it matters: Several hundred residents and neighborhood leaders told the board that placing a food-distribution warehouse and related services on the notice site, located on Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard in South Brooksville, would not deliver the community benefits the county nd the Community Food Bank described and would instead increase truck traffic, lower property values and constrain…
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