Dear Lake Worth Resident,
If the idea of the Town of Palm Beach driving trucks up and down the length of our beach (yes, North to South and back again) sounds awful to you, then please come to City Hall tonight, Tuesday Dec 17. The Town of Palm Beach and your own Commissioners need to hear clearly from you.
I was the lone Nay vote protecting our beach on December 3, so your [loud] voice is needed at City Hall. I apologize for the short notice; the item was only placed back on the agenda yesterday (Monday) afternoon.
Background:
The Town of Palm Beach wants to do a “beach nourishment” project to increase the height of dunes in front of/east of the town of South Palm Beach. To do so, they need to truck sand from Phipps Park down to South Palm Beach. The obvious route would be down A1A, then east between the South Palm condominiums, and then east onto the beach in front of those condominiums.
According to the Town of Palm Beach’s City Manager, the condominiums didn’t like the idea of truck traffic between them, so the Town of Palm Beach figured they would instead just use our beach as a highway. The Town knew that our Charter actually prohibits driving across our beach, so the Town said, aha, Lake Worth doesn’t actually own their whole beach; because the Town owns a 10 foot wide N-S strip above the mean high tide mark, so we’ll just drive up and down that strip. And our Mayor knew about this since February (attached letter). There’s a bit more to the story, but that’s the essence.
This is not a done deal—your voices will make the difference. We do not have to roll over and let Palm Beach drive their trucks on our beach.
Come to City Hall tonight Tuesday Dec 17 and tell our Commission to stand firm in saying No! and to tell the Town to go back to South Palm Beach. Tell them that trucks driving between bathers and swimmers would clearly be a safety hazard, so the city manager should use his authority to prohibit the driving. The project benefits the South Palm Beach dune, so let South Palm Beach deal with the inconvenience. Don’t force it on Lake Worth.
Thank you for speaking out for your beach,
Commissioner Christopher McVoy
Thank you ,Christopher. These Judases selling our beach for 80,000 pieces of silver sucks. Don't re-elect these stinkers.
ReplyDeleteR.G--knock it off, ok? Stop the BS about Christopher McVoy. You may not like the fact he is a liberal, but he is a scientist and helping our beach in this instance. 4 Commissioners agreed to allow Palm Beach to truck sand across the Lake worth beach and PN agreed to pay our city $80,000 for that convenience.
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