No more digging holes at our beach

Any building can be restored. To suggest that renovation of the casino at Lake Worth beach is political may be true to this extent only, but also may be construed as just good sense: We want to preserve the present zoning of Public Recreation and Open Space and not allow Commercial zoning there. We also do not want developers building on other areas of our 19+ acres of beachfront property. Commercial zoning would open a whole new can of worms that no one wants at our beach. In order to prevent that, restoration is the only acceptable solution.

The entire building will be gutted and brought up to present code and restored to its old glory, similar in architecture of 1922. Even those who say a parking garage would be a wonderful idea as it would give us more green-space, don't realize that this would open the can. The garage would have to be put on pilings. It would be new construction. Therefore, the zoning would have to change to commercial. Next, would come the small hotel across from Benny's.

Don't laugh. Anything is possible. Now that builders and construction workers are dying to get their hands on that pile driver and that hammer as they are all getting hungry from being out of work, our beachfront is heavy on their mind. Can you see the drool?

Don't let it happen. Restore not demolish.

2-22 at 2!