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Resident urges Largo to press Duke Energy for plan to remove old utility poles
Summary
Longtime Largo property owner Christine Hughes urged the commission to ask Duke Energy for a removal plan for short utility poles left after grid upgrades, saying the poles blight neighborhoods and depress property values; city staff said utilities remove lines in sequence and Assistant City Attorney Odzer cited a 180‑day removal window per utility.
Christine Hughes, a longtime Largo and Pinellas County property owner, told the commission on Feb. 17 that short utility poles left behind after Duke Energy’s grid-improvement project are an eyesore that lower property values and asked the city to seek a formal removal plan from Duke.
“I stood in my driveway and I had six double poles just by standing here,” Hughes said, identifying her property near 3rd Street Northwest north of City Hall and describing the poles as “ugly” and disproportionate to small homes in…
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