November 16, 2015
Department of Community Sustainability
Division of Planning, Zoning &
Historical Preservation
1900 2nd Avenue North
Lake Worth, Florida 33461
Re: Historical Resources Board
Case # HRPB 15-0130001
Dear Planning & Zoning Board:
In response to the above referenced request for a Rezoning from Medium Density Multi-Family (MF-30) Zoning District to a Downtown (DT) Zoning District, I take a stand against this action.
The first objection is this zoning change denies my right as a voter. Recognition of the March 2013 Charter Amendment for height restrictions, which was passed by a majority vote, was never filed by the City of Lake Worth Commission.
As an owner having lived at 101 South Lakeside Drive (a historic house ‘The Savannah’) for the past twenty- five years, I strongly object to your lack of consideration to the surrounding properties. There are five (5) designated structures that border the subject lots. And, there are five (5) lots on the map that are being considered as one (1). There are neighboring properties that have been completely renovated following HRPD strict requirements.
To rezone this subject property will demonstrate failure to perform what is expected of you, sustainability for the future and historic preservation for the immediate issue.
These reasons become most important. The applicant has shown total disregard for the voting community and is not trustworthy in the view of the general public. The future consequences of rezoning have not been considered.
I urge the city not to repeat the history of the Gulfstream Hotel’s 1980 demise by letting another unscrupulous developer destroy our city by using this property to manipulate everyone for their schemes. Hudson Holding has not ever been transparent in its plans for the restoration of the Gulfstream Hotel.
Respectfully submitted,
Roseann Malakates
Via: Certified Mail - Return Receipt Requested
7010 1060 0000 7624 7809
12 comments:
thanks for standing up, Roseann
The applicant is "not trustworthy" in the eyes of the general public. Where did that come from. The applicant does not respect the vote? The vote was null and void and has no application to this process. Roseann does not speak for me. Fact is this property is private and the city must follow law to determine whether the owner is entitled to this request. To deny this request makes no sense. This corner needs to become a commercial success. Our city needs the jobs this hotel will create and needs the tourist dollars it will generate. There is nothing around that hotel that cries out to be saved.
Have you been living in a vacuum, anonymous @9:17?
You say there is nothing around that hotel "that cries out to be saved?" What about all of the residential properties adjacent to this property? What about the snowballing effect that will happen throughout that area?
You know, this isn't about you. To me, it is about the vote. It isn't about you believing everything that HH tells you, as naive as that is. It isn't about low paying jobs at this hotel that may or may not ever get built.
I really wish you would give your name as it would better explain where YOU are coming from. What this is about is a group in control of this dais wanting what they want and the hell with the vote. You are gullible perhaps.
What will save this city is eradicating the slum, blight and crime.
Lynn I think you are worried about things that really have nothing to do with this hotel. You know very well that this city needs this hotel and needs it bad. You also know that when this opens we will finally have a shot at changing the big issues of slum and blight. The residential properties around the hotel don't need to be saved and there isn't a chance in hell that this will snowball. You seem to be more concerned about a house down the street then you are about the benefits to the whole city. You now say the jobs the hotel will bring are low paying, that the hotel may never be built, that the vote counts. It's as if you are throwing everything you can at this issue hoping something will stick. Fact is the voters want this hotel opened. They want the jobs it will bring and they don't care if the new building is 60 feet high. They want to sit on that rooftop bar and have a drink enjoying their city. That's the real truth and not the bull you are trying to pull to stop this from happening.
Again, the zoning issue has nothing to do with the eventual way the building looks.
That is determined after HH submits a site plan. That is also the time for you to lose your minds about heights, architectural style parking garage noise and carbon footprint.
The zoning for the property where the new hotel is proposed is ALREADY zoned Downtown/Mixed Use. It is just the lots where the three story parking garage are going that need to change.
So you are also against putting the garage there?
Is this harassment? :)
What I am FOR, anonymous is honoring the vote on 45 foot heights--NOT honoring the new zoning voted in by this commission. Can you please "get it?"
P.s. I am not taking any more of these types of comments.
An election is "null and Void" ? Excuse me???According to WHO? A city attorney's opinion does not overturn the rule of law in this country . The heights vote became law in this city at one minute after midnight ,the day after the vote.And that's just not MY opinion. That's from one of SEVERAL attorneys at the Palm Beach County I.G.'s office. It has NOT BEEN OVERTURNED in a COURT OF LAW. Just because three developer whores named Pam Triolo ,Scott Maxwell and Andy Amoroso (and BTW, those are not even their real names)are spitting in the face of the law and the citizens does not make this null and void.
Does the name John Szerdi ring a bell? Remember how EX Commissioner Szerdi got kicked in the azz over his cheer leading for Hudson Holdings?Oh yeah,that,,,,,
Katie Mcgiveron
" I'm not taking any more of these comments" says it all
Sandy, this has been discussed over and over again on this blog. Ok You don't like my comment? Besides, are you not an employee of the city, if you're really the "real" Sandy Weston that is? You want to start getting political over here?
You have the wrong Sandy
It's tough to take anything in this letter as fact, when the writer is unable to decide which board it is being written to. It says dear p&z, but re: historic. Historic is the one with this, not P&Z. If the writer is unable to determine a simple fact such as that, why would any reasonable person listen beyond that?
The property owner covered all the basis--it was addressed to both plus Wm Waters dept.
So, if you, at 11:56 are unable to read who it's addressed to, why would any reasonable person find your criticism the least bit credible?
I don't know why you guys keep coming over here to find fault with everything.
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