Lynn's Little Bit of Trivia -- Lake Worth, February 11, 2013
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| "Super Duper" Lynn Anderson |
Monday, February 11, 2013
From another blogger in town...
"Why do people want to change something wonderful? They say building higher buildings downtown will increase the tax base. We already know that the city will not get any additional tax revenues as it goes to the CRA and the city will be stuck with additional expenses. If we start building higher, developers will make money. Realtors will make money. Planners will make money. And local newspapers will make more money in advertising dollars generated by all of the aforementioned. So when you hear from a naysayer on why we should start building up in our downtown because they say business will go elsewhere, tell them you don't want to be duped! Take another look down Lake Avenue."
Lynn's Little Bit of Trivia -- Lake Worth, February 11, 2013
Ms Anderson, please. No one wants to change something wonderful. In fact, the ballot measure you are so enamored with would actually change height regulations in an area of the downtown that have been in existence for years and our downtown is still filled with "charm." There is no one beating down the door to build a 65 foot high building east of Federal. Our existing Comprehensive Plan and Land Development Regulations will keep the area pretty much the same - period. Do you know that the Gulfstream Hotel is 72 feet high? What about the other tall buildings which surround it? The Respectful Planning PAC is not being respectful to the built environment of our downtown and seeks to change something that has worked for years. What's the pay-off? I would also note that allowable height has been lowered to 45 feet between Dixie and Federal, along Lake and Lucerne Avenues so that we can't build another building as tall as the Lucerne in that area. When is enough enough? When are people going to stop moving the goal line and let the city get out of its own way?
Lynn's Little Bit of Trivia -- Lake Worth, February 11, 2013
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Was that pic in the commission chambers? Tasteless and unflattering. Anyhow, this vote has much to do with other matters, one of which is parking. The condo owners near the Gulfstream fear any development will limit their free and plentiful parking. This is a very big deal in that part of town. Enough so they bought a commissioner to thwart any progress.
Tough day at work. Got home & cracked a beer. Friend calls "you gotta check out Wes' blog." Now I have no appetite and can't get that image out of my head. I hate you. I love you, really, but I hate you right now. "Warning: Graphic" would have helped.
She's passing wind? photoshopped?
Why don't you just stop trying to change our downtown? Didn't you lose 2 elections? How come you never have a good argument other than to denigrate someone with a different opinion? Why do you do that, Wes? It only takes away from your credibility and your overall charming personality. :) And thanks... good pic!
To lynn-a above (or should I say, To Laurel), you need to go back and read Wes' posts. And by the way, there's no shame in running and losing. It's more shameful to scream from the sidelines like Pinkie the Blogging Revisionist Clown does. Pinkie has never run for elected office, ever. Never served on a volunteer board, ever. Never served on neighborhood board, ever. Why?
In a perfect world Lynn will realize she needs a husband and Wes will wake up and realize he needs a clue. They will fall madly in love and find a community somewhere in Eurasia to terrorize with daily missives. Their new nrighbors won't speak English and the world will be in harmony. they'll lay in bed together and fire sharp posts at each other all day long. "Take that you cretan!"
To Dennis D in our wonderful, functional city of Atlantis, FL: Politics is hard in a functional city, when you're "the man behind the curtain," as your fond of joking, influencing votes in Lake Worth via Lynn Anderson's blog, you wonder the purpose? Entertainment? Too much time? Relevance? Retirement should be a time for reflection and contribution, not destruction and resentment. Sorry, Dennis, your a fortunate man and you are better than this.
I know, used to think it was funny when Dennis called himself the proxy-Mayor of Lake Worth. Not so funny now.
Because "Pinkie" does not have an ego to fulfill. Just curious, are you one of our illustrious public servants or part of the 99.9999% who still have a brain?
You know, Pinkie does have a strong resemblance to the Little Dutch Boy.
It is people like you that get in the way by forcing something on the people who live here who want a small town. How come you just think you are smarter and know what the people want? Stop moving the goal line. Until you start playing nicely, we will be around to try and keep you honest. Put back all the former planning and zoning members on the board. Same thing with HRPB. It doesn't matter how tall the Gulfstream Hotel is. All of those buildings will still be there and untouched. The people just don't want every building tall and that could happen in spite of your pitch. You know it. We know it. We have seen what you have done already to our city by allowing certain buildings to be built with no setbacks, etc. and many going into foreclosure. The Lucerne is your claim to fame and what a nightmare. How good was that decision? No one has made money on anything in that building. Not even Greg made out there.
Out comes the "bloody shirt" worn-out battle cry about the Lucerne. For something that has been bandied about during election time for years, guess what. The building is still there. Many people like it, they like living there and they like being part of an active downtown environment - which may have been less active without such a building there. For all the attention it has gotten since being built, you couldn't have told that at the meeting that the Planning and Zoning Board approved it - hardly anyone was there. We also approved it as a recommendation to the City Commission - who had the final say. The project that we recommended approval of was not the building that was eventually built. It had public parking as a part of it that was eliminated between the time it went before Planning and Zoning and the City Commission. Without public parking, it would not have gotten my vote. But it has been hung like an albatross around my neck ever since. It is a very tired, untrue narrative - but it is effective politically speaking.
How's Starbuck's that's crowded all time and Kilwins who just opened another store at the beach doing? They must be making money.
I didn't know it was Wes's job to approve buildings so people can make money.
By spreading lies and fear a small group of residents got 1,700 signatures out of 35,000 people. The core group consists of 10 people. They want the city to abide by what 10 npeople want?
So who's forcing something on the people that live here?
.5% of the city's population signed the petition. Point zero 5 percent.
The naysayers are not only short sighted they are uncredibly IGNORANT
Please keep posting their comments.
That picture must have set her over the edge. Now she sees what everyone else does.
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