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nn BuNE COTRI WEDNESDAY 7.1.2009 THE TAMPA TRIBUNE a TB0.COM 1 PAS iPDliit Gills fflDfiS Comments about building rules in business report riled officials. common knowledge in the local development community: It's tough to get a building permit in Pasco County. In recent years, the county has earned a reputation for its maze-like regulatory Stanley Stanley's comments raised eyebrows among the county leaders. "Whether that was a slip of the tongue or whether that is what she truly believes, she needs to be coming to the administration with her concerns," County Commissioner Ted Schrader said Tuesday. Schrader said he discussed Stanley's comments with County Administrator John Gallagher about three weeks ago, shortly after the Maddux story came out.

"When you have the president of the PEDC making those kinds of comments See PRESIDENFS RESIGNATION, Page 2 By KEVIN WIATROWSKI kwlatrowskitampatrlb.com LAND Of LAKES Mary Jane Stanley, president of the Pasco Economic Development Council, may have talked her way out of a job last month. Stanley resigned Tuesday, several weeks after she was quoted in the Maddux Business Report speaking critically of the county's development review process. In the article, Stanley echoed what is process, which was largely cobbled together during the runaway mid-decade building boom. County officials are in the midst of a three-year effort to revamp the development review process along with streamlining the county's internal workings. Hundreds of elementary students attend summer camp offered by the school district.

Tom Jackson tjacksontampatrib.com Healthy heart is the heart of the matter ecent bulletins announcing the f4 deaths of gentlemen well-. known in the Bay area stand in stark confirmation of Rao Musunu-ru's assertion that, when it comes to heart disease, a patient's first symptom is often his last. Musunuru, the distinguished cardiologist who hangs his shingle at Regional Medical Center Bayonet Point, reaffirmed that chilling axiom Tuesday afternoon between patients, most of whom would hear the same sermon a sermon most of whom had heard before. Billy Mays, the Tampa-based human megaphone, and Jeff Swanagan, former director of The Florida Aquarium, died within hours of each other Sunday, both barely into their second half-century; both, evidently, from bad hearts; and both without benefit of Musunuru's wisdom, which we soberly impart today. To begin, the doctor says, if you are on the high side of 40, have no family history of heart disease and are without symptoms, do not use the ticker-related expirations of Mays and Swanagan as an excuse to demand tests from your doctor.

In all likelihood, Musunuru says, you (or your insurer, or some combination) will spend $1,000 without expanding your knowledge base. Mind your risk factors Remarkably, coronary arteries those indispensible tubes of life with the diameter of a strand of spaghetti can be 40 percent or even 50 percent blocked and still disguise their potential for harm from sophisticated probes. On either side of the test, the doctor's advice will be identical: Manage your risk factors. For openers, don't smoke. "Smoking is still the No.

1 cause of preventable deaths." Otherwise: Eat right, stay active, control your weight, mind your cholesterol, track your blood pressure. "Patients come to me," the doctor says. "They want the stress test, they want the MRI. I ask them, "Why do you want to spend all that money to find out what's wrong with you? I'm going to tell you free right But you want a test that will tell you to behave better?" Push away, push up, live It is in the nature of humans to misbehave, often wantonly, then summon medical science to repair self-inflicted damage. But the tragic lesson of Mays and Swanagan is, oftentimes, there isn't time for physicians to intervene.

Like when the plaque comprising an undetectable 40 percent blockage inexplicably erupts, tearing the artery. Just as it would with a wound to the skin, immediately the body goes to work sending platelets and fibroids to seal the rip. "The body doesn't know any better," Musunuru says. Add a blood clot to a 40 percent plaque blockage and you have a design for "electrical irritation," the penthouse of a cascade event that, undetected and untreated, triggers fibrillation a condition in which the heart quivers, but does not pump and cardiac arrest. Better we should embrace Musunuru's free, but priceless, advice.

Push away from the table. Push up from the couch. Put your sneakers on the sidewalk. Go. in'riiliT i m- lAmmnr i 1 li J'" -'v 9 I -irirrti Tribune photos by ANDY JONES Youngsters at the Energy Marine Center in Port Richey kayak, fish and use a seine to gather critters on Thursday.

It's all part of a three-week summer camp for about 400 elementary students from Title I schools. Science was the theme, and one of the goals was to improve the children's grades. ORT RICHEY Students from several Pasco County elementary schools have been getting a break from summer break by attending a three-week science camp. The Pasco County school district offered the free camps to students at Tide I schools, which receive extra funding from the federal government because they have a high percentage of children from low-income families. More than 400 students participated in the camps, which were held at the Energy Marine Center in Port Richey, Starkey Environmental Education Center in New Port Richey, Cross Bar Ranch in Land O' Lakes and Crystal Springs Preserve in southeast Pasco County.

Each Title I school in the county sent 25 students. The students had to be enrolled in the free and reduced-price meal program, and principals also had criteria to decide which of their students would benefit the most. The district spent $35,000 in Title I money to operate the camps, which ended last week. Most of the money was used to staff the camps and pay for bus drivers to provide transportation from the students' home schools, said Summer Romagnoli, a district spokeswoman. She said the goal was to give the children hands-on experience in science and improve their science scores.

Ronnie Blair Keyword: The Jox Files, for Tom Jackson's bonus musings. Filing: Developer's debt halted project Doug Weiland's three Chapter 11 cases are consolidated. SJl A. Albert Gomez wrote. The Chapter 11 filing also gave a detailed account of WeUand's defunct Riverwood Estates project on U.S.

301 south of Zephyrhills. Both cases were consolidated with the existing Chapter 11 case of another Weiland project, Summit View. Mercantile Bank initiated foreclosure proceedings against all three projects in February after Weiland missed two mortgage payments. The bank has appealed to a bankruptcy judge to prevent See PROJECT DEBT, Page 2 Now he says he can't afford to grade the 43-acre site. That was one of many revelations in bankruptcy court papers filed Friday for Ashley Glen, a proposed 2 million-square-foot office complex at State Road 54 and the Suncoast Parkway.

It was part of a 260-acre project that included several multistory office towers and 600 apartments. "The Mass Grading will take 60 days. The permits are in hand, as identified above. However, Ashley Glen currendy lacks the financing ($600,000) necessary to complete the program," attorney Backups crucial By LAURA KINSLER lklnslertampatrlb.com DADE ory Developer Doug Weiland has appeared before the Pasco County Commission numerous times seeking permission to start grading a portion of his Ashley Glen property so he could sell it for $9 million to an apartment part of businc planning. DETAILS, Pag 6.