Comment left under: "Why all the pulling of hair? Vice Mayor Scott Maxwell's comments from Lake Worth ITN Beach Workshop Meeting (5/19/15)"

This comment was left last night at 8:19 p.m. on this blog:

The only re-writing of history is right here on this blog and out of the mouth of Maxwell. Mcvoy was not even a commissioner then. In fact, he formed a Pac AGAINST the city for what they did for contracting with Greater Bay. To tell you the truth, the gals above did some great things in Lake Worth. 

My response this morning:

To Anon at 8:19. Fact: McVoy was first elected Commissioner in 2010 in November. Stanton started as City Manager in April of 2009. Demolition of the existing Casino building happened during 2011. There were a lot of decisions regarding the design of the beach project from 2009 on, while Commissioner Jennings was still in office and then after Commissioner McVoy was elected. Commissioner Golden was on the Commission until November 2011. Commissioner Mulvehill was there until 2012. During the Stanton period, we had Varela, Waterman and very late in this period Triolo. It was late in 2011, after the election of Mayor Triolo and Amoroso, that Stanton was led to the door.

Prior to all this, Christopher McVoy led the "We Love Lake Worth" petition drive to rescind the zoning and land use designation on the beach property to Beach and Casino. That is the same zoning classification we have on the property today that was later amended to include a .1 floor area ratio (FAR) which allowed a commercial square footage on what is an 19 acre property, approximately. Doing the math, that means we could ultimately have 82,764 square feet of floor area at the beach, less what is already there in the way of the Casino building and the pool.

McVoy's petition led to him being sued by the city spawned from the rezoning and land use challenge's effect on the Greater Bay agreement and halting progress there. 

As I type this, I can understand the confusion that is out there as this creates a lot of smoke and more than a few mirrors to hide behind.

Many of the major construction decisions were made from 2008 onward by a Commission that included Jennings, Mulvehill and Golden, and then one that replaced Jennings with McVoy.

Hence this picture: