Yesterday, the City of Lake Worth was served with yet another law suit in their long string of suits. This one was directly caused by this city commission of Scott Maxwell, Mayor Pam Triolo and Andy Amoroso, all incumbents up for re-election.
For a simple recap: The trio decided not to honor the vote of the people after they won the Heights Charter Amendment and told them no more than 45 foot heights were to be allowed in that area. The trio commission wanted their favored developer, Hudson Holdings, to be able to build higher as he was promising all sorts of things to "make our city great again." The city did not send the results forward to Tallahassee and waited to see if some law would be signed by Rick Scott three month after the fact that would not allow this election. Scott signed HB 537. The city then jumped on that bill stating that our vote was null and void.
The bill, HB 537 prohibits initiative or referendum processes for any development order, local comprehensive plan amendment, or map amendment. That was NOT what the heights election was about. It was a CHARTER CHANGE and in order to change the Charter, it must be by vote of the electorate. The Charter is the Bible or Constitution of the city, not the comprehensive plan or a map that can be changed by a political vote from the dais. The Charter already addressed heights. That is why Respectful Planning PAC was formed and took the issue to the voters. Their vote was decided on March 12, 2013 and it is supreme.
Hudson Holdings' intent was to build an "additional 150 room hotel with full catering and conference breakout space if awarded the beach front project." They are still in the wings to grab our beach until after this March 15, 2016 election.
The people who are a party to this suit believe we were all wronged by the city. I personally believe that anyone who petitioned for, who campaigned for and/or voted for the heights charter amendment should have standing as well.
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE FIFTEENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT
IN AND FOR PALM BEACH COUNTY, FLORIDA
JO-ANN GOLDEN, LYNDA MAHONEY,
ROSANNE MALAKATES
Petitioners Filed pursuant to
Fla.R.App.P.9.100(f)(2)
v.
Case No:
CITY OF LAKE WORTH
In Re Applicant: GULFSTREAM HOTEL LLC
Respondent
____________________/
PETITION FOR WRIT OF CERTIORARI
Read the entire Writ...
16 comments:
The first one was dropped without explanation. This one will probably go the same way.
Either way, I look forward to the outcome so you can stop your obsessing.
Hope this knocks the snot out of them!
How dare our elected employees deny
US (their Boss) our vote! If the Mayor
goes on about how the city doesn't
obey the signage laws but we the people
must - tell her we ALL have to obey ALL
the laws - there is no such thing (written
or imagined) as Mayor/CM Liberty to go on
and on when other reps are SHUT UP for the
exact same reason! If the Mayor is really
'ticked off' about unequal application of the
sign laws all she needs to do is write some
words on paper - make it law WITH EQUAL fines
or punishments for disobeying! We ALL obey ALL
the laws and not one elected rep or hired person
has the authority to make it up as they go!
...I look forward to the outcome so you can stop your
lying and leading the people astray by empowering
elected reps with Tyrannical powers! This is exactly
why we got ticked at the King and declared our independence!
"For taking away our charters, abolishing our most valuable
laws, and altering fundamentally the forms of our governments:"
"In every stage of these oppressions we have petitioned for
redress in the most humble terms: our repeated petitions have
been answered only by repeated injury. A prince, whose character
is thus marked by every act which may define a tyrant, is unfit
to be the ruler of a free people."
Not obsessing, anonymous at 7:49...just stating the facts. But it might tie up HH for a very long time. They should re-submit plans for 45 feet and end this stupidity.
Just my opinion, but HH is immediately going to flip the property. The only plans they have for the Gulfstream are to somehow make a profit from it.
How can anyone vote for people who participated in a secret plan to hand over Lake Worth Beach to these con men?
Pam Triolo, Scott Maxwell and Andy Amoroso spit on our voting rights.
The entire ITN commission should be up on charges of election tampering and fraud.
I guess these will be the big lie that will be passed door to door on THIS campaign.
There is absolutely NO signs of HH "flipping" the property or any of the other properties they purchased in Lake Worth over the past 5 years.
I imagine that they will one day make a profit when they do decide to sell it. I know that "profit" is a dirty word to many on this blog. (and one running for commission)
There was no secret plan unless you refer to the one where the Inspector General was made part of so that everything would be done legally.
The Florida State legislature spit on your voting rights. The commission followed the city attorney's advice.
The only fraud is your post anonymous at 10:23
There was no secret meeting people... don't you think Amoroso and Waters knew they were in a public meeting and being recorded? You people are obsessing about crap when the real threat is these druggies and leftist groups coming to town. Why do you think they are here? For the palm trees and beaches? Hell no! There here to disrupt the election with chaos and protests and get some stooge puppet to replace one of the three incumbents running for re-election. Don't fall for it people. These leftist are revolutionaries and want to displace actual Lake Worthians at all costs.
And please people, take note of just who is supporting them... It's JoAnn Golden, Cara Jennings, et al, who invited them her to fulfill JoAnn's trust-fund living dream for us all to "get used to living in a ghetto"
Where are all these horrible people? Haven't seen one yet? No tree huggers wandering around--no environmentalists--just angry downtown merchants. :)
And angry parents with scared kids! Or people who just want to enjoy the park without being hassled by people hitting them up for money for drugs and booze. Or angry tourists who don't like being accosted and panhandled while dining. Or angry homeowners finding used condoms, needles, vandalism, crime all a result of these freeloaders.
The standing part of the suit is interesting. One petitioner lives several blocks away, one lives two blocks away and the third one lives caddy-corner from a portion that allegedly will be two stories in height, the same as her building.
I would think the lawsuit would pop up once the site plan was approved showing they plan to take advantage of the exemption to the 45' foot rule by building a hotel of 50 rooms or more to get the extra height.
Many people who wish to keep Lake Worth low rise, as if it is low rise now, don't have a problem with this one exception if it will help make the Gulfstream Hotel viable and successful as it fits right in with surrounding building heights.
Others just want it to fail and remain a blight on our downtown corridor to the beach. Admitting that if the building stays below 45 feet, it would need to consume much of the block and would not be afforded any architectural identity like the original hotel. It would actually look out of place next to the taller buildings in the area.
I think the city has a good chance of getting a dismissal on several counts. But as they say..... stay tuned.
First of all, NO ONE WANTS THE HOTEL TO FAIL.
That is just another one of your bold-faced lies.
Personally, "standing" is just a legal ploy. I have standing. I am a long time resident here. We all have standing but the courts don't want to recognize that. the deck is stacked.
And if you people say, one more time, that people want an exception just for this hotel, then you really don't understand what is going on here.
You lost. We won. Those are facts, not what you wrote that is only opinion. And the voters should not have to go through this crap.
As for whether HH is just going to flip it, we really don't know. I hear he has made a mess out of the historic Sundae House, and left lots of other projects undone in Delray. I did go to the Site Plan Meeting on the Gulfstream and of note is the fact that NO CONSTRUCTION FIRM has been hired. Also their rep objected strongly to following LW rules that they must enclose the project with a black vinyl barrier. He claimed that would be a hardship and could run "20-30 thousand dollars." I believe that is the same sort of barrier just erected down the street on our local crack house poster child at 1528 Cochran that has finally been taken down. It's a few wooden stakes about 18 inches high and looks like a long stretch of black garbage bag plastic. To me it looks like well under $100 would cover everything. Same stuff is now up on the lot being leveled along Boutwell Road. How serious does that sound??
As for the IG's office making all hunky dory by their presence at the ITN: They were not there at all meetings. They were not present when WW and Andy are openly discussing hiding the plans for HH until after the election because then "Szerdi's history." And I have to wonder just how clubby our CM and the IG are since they apparently cooked this up together according to bowtie. I find it particularly disturbing to hear all present at the final meeting having just a great old raucous belly laugh about the "public participation" mandate on our beach. The answer: ho, he, he, he (almost picture them falling off their collective chairs now with mirth) they could "sell a few memberships to one or two residents" and that would take care of the mandate of "some public benefit." From that evidence on tape I can only conclude that this IG's friendship with CM takes precedence over any protection of LW citizens or their right to their public beach. Their rep their certainly seemed to be enjoying a huge laugh at our expense. How very professional--seems to be another one of the good old boys in favor of development dynasties at all costs. Perhaps we should have the developers pay his cost since there is no evidence he is representing ordinary taxpayers here. Apparently thinks it's really funny to pull one over on us--even on tape which surprised me.
Can you give the date and time of this or these alledged 'secret' mtgs?
Yes, Amoroso and Waters knew they were in a meeting that was being recorded. Perhaps they had a brain F%^& for a moment anonymous at 3:14.
@2:59--the dates of the meetings were
March 21, 2015
Feb 10
Dec 9, 2014
Dec 2,
Nov 4
You can find it all on the city web site.
Ok thanks
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