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Review and Approval of Hernando/Citrus MPO Resolution 2024-7 Regarding FDOT Assistance with I-75 Truck Route Study for Citrus County, Florida
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BRIEF OVERVIEW
Citrus County has presented an issue to the Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) concerning large heavy trucks utilizing Interstate-75 (I-75). The trucks are making statewide and regional trips between I-75 and US 41 via CR 48 (Orange Ave). The large trucks are disruptive to the Floral City community (a Historic Overlay District) using CR 48 (Orange Ave), a narrow Tree Canopy Protected 2-lane rural.
The Florida Department of Transportation (Districts 5 and 7) have discussed and confirmed the concerns of Citrus County (District 7) and those of Sumter County (District 5) and indicated a willingness to assist with a traffic study that would be funded by FDOT. The FDOT is proposing to prepare a traffic study to include possible countermeasures to ameliorate the traffic concerns and has requesting support resolutions by both the Citrus County Board of County Commissioners and the Hernando/Citrus Metropolitan Planning Organization to initiate the study.
On August 6, 2024, the Citrus County Board of County Commissioners adopted Resolution 2024-076 (copy attached) supporting the I-75 Truck Route Study funded by the Florida Department of Transportation to evaluate the issues and provide possible strategies to ameliorate the issues.
Attached is MPO Board Resolution 2024-7 in support of Citrus County's request of the FDOT to conduct and fund an I-75 truck route study to evaluate the traffic coming from and going to I-75, traversing through the downtown area of Floral City on CR48 (Orange Avenue), and providing possible solutions and implementation countermeasures to ameliorate the conditions.
On August 29, 2024, the Technical Advisory Committee, the Citizens Advisory Committee, and the Bicycle Pedestrian Advisory Committee conducted public meetings and recommended an update to Resolutio...
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