Sunday, April 26, 2009

Beach "Conceptual Plan" on City website...


Click title for link. Interesting that the most recent update to the city's website is a "conceptual rendering" for the beach, courtesy of Michael Singer Group. If you go to the referring page, there is no additional information in terms of what is happening with the process - just two links that lead you to a series of 5 .pdfs of the product from Michael Singer. These were apparently posted on 4/22. On the first page of what is called "Site Vision Plan V08" - the one that I posted previously on here was "V06" - there is a statement that reads as follows:

PLEASE NOTE THAT THE FULL LABELED PLANS AND REPORT WILL BE AVAILABLE AFTER APRIL 27TH AND WILL EXPLAIN THE PROJECT IN MUCH GREATER DETAIL.

When will this version be presented to the public? Checking the website, there is a joint City Commission/P&Z meeting on 4/27 (tomorrow) at 3 p.m., by the way. But there is no other meeting scheduled for the City Commission to receive this report. I guess that this will be what the Mayor takes to the County in an attempt to keep the $5 million in place.

Back at the meeting that the Singer Group made their presentation to the Commission, everyone that spoke was celebrating the fact that this is the first time the city has had a site plan for redevelopment of the beach. See copy of Greater Bay conceptual site plan below, date June 2007:
Here's another site plan dated March 2000 from Treasure Coast Regional Planning Council:

Without parking garage -


With parking garage -

The site plan associated with the Greater Bay plan was always termed "conceptual" and is referred to that in the agreement. This means that it was always subject to revisions and discussions. The Singer plan assumes that the building will remain in the same place and have not seen an alternative site plan which shows this as an option.

Has this decision already been made?

I will monitor the city's website this week regarding publication of the "final" plan.