DRAFT OF NEW BEACH SITE PLANThis is just another disappointment on the beach. Obviously, none of you who insisted on Michael Singer Artist looked at any of the videos or any of the interviews from Lake Worth Media. To reduce our upper level parking to this extent will not bode well with the majority of the people who actually use our beach. Green is great but what makes our beach experience really great is the upper level parking remaining intact. Just ask the people, not your tree hugger friends.
I totally disagree with you, Cara, when you say this is what the people want. You used to know what the people wanted and you used to care. This always happens with politicians. And Jo-Ann, you may think that the people "should walk" but hundreds more will take exception with that remark and your view. Tell it to those with families, seniors and the infirmed. Tell it to me. To even think about eliminating decal parking because of the County conditions on the Bond money is not thinking it through. It makes me wonder if ANY elected official has been listening for the past several years. Does it all go in one ear and out the other when it is convenient?
The footprint has been there since 1922 and now you all have gone giddy with green to the point of eliminating 2/3rds of our upper level parking, something that the beachgoers want. They are going to the beach and want to conveniently park, not look at green and walk hundreds of yards to get to the beach when those 84 spaces are filled. Shopping malls are failing for this very reason. People want to park close to where they are going, not walk hundreds of feet. Did you conveniently forget about that in this going green madness?
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When the beach plan of 2001-02 was soundly defeated, that plan had more green on the south end and less parking. When Greater Bay came into town, they again did not listen to the people and tried to put in a building there, less parking and more green space. We ran them out of town. I believe that the people HAVE spoken about what they want relative to our building and to our upper level parking.
