The county seat has a lot of quaint, old buildings just crying out to be preserved.
It also has a road system that encourages large, heavy trucks to barrel through downtown, damaging buildings and scaring off pedestrians, said Christine Dalton of Dalton Studio LLC, who gave the Brooksville City Council a historic resource survey and made suggestions on what the city can do.
It’s not news to the City Council that the big trucks coming through downtown are a problem, and there has been talk of getting rid of the one-way streets that cause trucks to leave the truck route because the city offers a fast shortcut. The trouble is that the Florida Department of Transportation owns and maintains those roads through the city, so it can’t cut the speed limit.
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