Thursday, February 26, 2015

Ryan Maier is wrong: Nothing is being hidden from the public

"Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth."
--Buddha

In the Lake Worth Herald this week (Thursday, 2/26) is a statement from the Bryant Park Neighborhood Association correcting an unfair and untrue assertion from candidate Ryan Maier at their Candidate Forum on Monday, 2/23:
     Thank you for attending the Bryant Park Neighborhood Association's (BPNA) Candidate Forum. During last night's candidate forum BPNA desired to keep a neutral position. During the forum BPNA chose not to correct, defend or add additional information to the candidates' responses.
     Unfortunately one candidate, Ryan Maier, chose to claim Commissioner John Szerdi knows about the parking garage that the Gulfstream Hotel will propose to construct. Ryan claims this is information that Comm. Szerdi knows about and is withholding from the general public.
     This information was discussed, publicly, at the Lake Worth Historic Resources Preservation Board as a courtesy conceptual review last December [2014]. A very preliminary plan was submitted for discussion. The Gulfstream Hotel's proposal to construct a parking garage, amongst other items, was discussed as part of their development.
     Reference: December 10th, 2014 on the agenda as item #5.G.4 "Conceptual Review of a request for demolition of two structures at 14 S Lakeside Dr."