From the latest installment (Part III), Closed-door City Commission Meeting of December 3, 2008>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

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MR. KARNS: We -- we need the comp plan change and the re-zoning. Whether or not you go with the Greater Bay deal because John G's is not permitted, none of the other tenants up there are permitted under our present land use amendment or plan, but they are, in fact, that was -- I don't know why it was never done in the past other than I think because the beach has been on the -- the beach plan in one form or another has been in front of the Commission for how many years?

MS. LOOWE: Forty.

MR. KARNS: Long before I got here.

MS. LOWE: Forty.

MR. KARNS: So I think the previous planners felt that whenever a plan came in, that would be the opportunity to give -- to do the land use amendment. I mean, there's really no grandfathering of the land use, you know, so we need -- we do need the land use change and the re-zoning that have now been approved by the DCA. And the only thing preventing it from happening is the We Love Lake Worth lawsuit.

MR. BALDWIN: But that's presuming you want to continue the use that's being performed --

MR. KARNS: Yeah. Basically any use other than beach is not a permitted use.

MR. BALDWIN: So if they just want a beach --

MR. KARNS: Right, if you just want totally beach and nothing else there, you wouldn't need any land use or re-zoning changes.

Editor's note: Proof that the city needed the Beach and Casino land use and zoning change which was the subject of the repeal and petition drive of the We Love Lake Worth PAC to have any commercial business on the property.