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Scott Wants Lawmakers to Fix Auto, Property Insurance Issues

The issue facing the largest number of Floridians is the rising cost of personal injury protection or PIP coverage that licensed drivers must buy. In some neighborhoods in the Tampa Bay area and South Florida the coverage can add several hundred dollars annually to auto insurance premiums, a cost that's almost entirely the result of rampant fraud.

Scott, a conservative Republican, also expects lawmakers during their annual session that begins Jan. 10 to somehow reverse the runaway growth of the state-backed Citizens Property Insurance Corp., which was created a decade ago as the insurer of last resort for home and business owners. However, Citizens has mushroomed into the biggest property insurer in Florida with 1.5 million policyholders and doesn't collect enough in premiums to guarantee that is could pay off if a catastrophic storm hit the state.

While Scott's predecessors, as well as legislators, have tried to resolve these issues in recent years, the problems remain.

"We were just in an echo chamber here making ourselves feel good by passing bills," said Sen. Don Gaetz, a Niceville Republican slated to become that body's next president.

And the prospect of making gains on either insurance measure, much less both, is uncertain again as lawmakers concentrate on approving new political boundaries during the session before cranking up their re-election campaigns.

"I hope we can make progress on both, but it's too soon to tell," House Speaker Dean Cannon said in a pre-session interview. He points out that fixing the Citizens problem would likely result in higher premiums, at least in the short term, something legislators don't want to do as the state suffers from a down economy and 10 percent unemployment rate.

Both PIP and Citizens began with the best intentions — to make sure anyone injured in an auto accident would quickly get money to treat their injuries and to make sure that property owners in areas especially susceptible to hurricanes could get coverage. But both have turned into annual headaches for the Legislature, where competing interests have made resolution difficult.

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“It’s not just the pollution, it’s all the added traffic, the extra emissions, the crime, anything that’s going to go with it,” said parent Kent Ketterling. “To put this between two schools is just ridiculous.”

The gas station and minimart, along with a car wash and a Jack-in-the-Box restaurant, are planned for the northwest corner of Bradshaw and Calvine roads just north of Elk Grove. Bradshaw Christian’s preschool and elementary school are just north of the property on Bradshaw. The private high school campus is just west of the project on Calvine.

The public hearing, however, was only to answer questions about the emission levels. Dave Grose and others from the Sacramento Metropolitan Air Quality Management District told the audience the estimated levels of benzene were well under the threshhold considered safe.

Parents were also upset they weren’t told of the project when it was going through the permit process at the county level. However, notification was only required for residents actually living within 500 feet of the project.

Sacramento County Supervisor Don Nottoli told the parents if he would’ve known about their concerns he might have voted differently during the approval process. He vowed to keep them more informed, beyond what’s required by notification law, when future projects are planned in the open space area around the school.

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