It only fits one head on the dais
The main message in today's newspaper (on heights, an election won by those wanting buildings no more than 45 feet in the downtown) is: State laws take precedence over local laws and that the Charter Amendment is affected by recent Florida legislation, HB 537 and therefore the win by the "low-rise" people is null and void. We totally disagree with this assessment, our right to do so, drama or not. This law did not pertain to referendums on Charter Amendments as this editor claims, facts fed to him by the city attorney who works for the commission that wants 65 feet. Get the picture?
He sums up his editorial with the following:
"The drama at the commission meeting is just that, drama, and it is poorly acted by the same cast at every meeting."
Well, as most of the people who showed up to speak are not at every meeting, (I seldom see any of them and some were new) I guess he is talking about the four commissioners on the dais who are there at EVERY meeting and who are happy in their own skin to usurp the outcome of the vote by the electorate. That must be it. The only drama was delivered by the mayor herself. Ninety-nine percent of those citizens who spoke were calm and professional--no drama but matter-of-fact.
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For god's sake Lynn, would you please stop calling the Herald a newspaper? It's nothing of the sort. It is an opinion blog on paper. The Palm Beach Post is a newspaper.
I can attest to that as I was there. The only craziness or drama was from the mayor herself and some dumb comment from Zerdi.
I watched the comments from the "other" blog and you are correct. The one thing that stood out is how scripted almost everyone was who spoke against the LDRs approval.
Almost robotic in their description of dates time and ordinance numbers. Devoid of emotion so the "record could be clear".
Each individual stating that they wanted the city to send up to Tallahassee a charter change that they were told was against a new law. If they did, it would have required us to change our comprehensive plan and AGAIN delay the passage of clear rules for anyone to re-develop anything above a duplex in Lake Worth.
I hope you do challenge because I agree with your assertion that the people's vote trumps Tallahassee's corrupt lawmakers. I hope you lose the challenge for the sake of Lake Worth. But it is possible your lawsuit will have more far reaching implications in the state.
Your angst was displayed against the wrong people. Your fight is against the ones who passed this law.
As previously stated NOTHING was scripted. However, we were not born yesterday. We know what to say and what to include. If we are talking about a charter Amendment, we need to mention it, the date and the ordinance. If we are talking about your LDR ordinance, we need to mention the ordinance number. That is just common sense...isn't it important to be specific? You fault us for being as precise as possible?
P.S.
Those who spoke are being faulted by the puppet for "drama" mentioning Mr. Timm and referring to Katie McGiveron for speaking out. Now you fault us for being "robotic." You can't win with any opponent no matter what approach you take or what you do. So, your opinion is just that and is meaningless in all of this. I will say that those who spoke were overall polite and focused something you need to be when you are opposing city hall and what we believe to be wrong. The couple of gentlemen who spoke FOR the LDR's were sarcastic.
What the commission has caused is the comprehensive plan being held up. They should have listened and enacted on the will of the people. Yes, it was the will of the people no matter how you want to pretend it was not. Bad guys just should never win but they do in this town with little slaps on the wrist. You never proved your argument on 65 feet. No one believed that you couldn't build a 4 story hotel and make money. People wanted a smaller height city and are happy with the downtown the way it is.
What people? The same 15 people that have hamstringing and suing the city for 10 years? Those people? We've seen what they bring.
When they had the meeting to keep PBSO the room was stacked with people that wanted to keep PBSO. New faces, different faces. With you guys it's the same people over and over again no matter how much you try to claim there were new people involved.
The room was stacked with Wes Blackman, Jim Stafford and the usual suspects. It was mostly STACKED with police and sheriff deputies if you really want to be accurate but that's something that is not in your order of business. We had liaison Dave Vespo there who could not answer a question.
P.S. This blog is not about PBSO.
there is only one queen with drama--andy amorrossa
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