Lake Worth Herald editorial: the July 30th Casino complex presentation(s)

Here are two excerpts from The Lake Worth Herald this week:

     With presentations scheduled for the city’s Casino Complex there are probably special meetings taking place to plan disruption during Hudson Holdings’ presentation. There are some in Lake Worth who will not listen, their minds are already made up. 
     Sadly, the minds are made up based on inaccurate information or just plain lies. It is sad Lake Worth politics get so dirty, especially since much of the problem is guided from outside the city. 
     Some of our commissioners have a penchant for telling businesses moving into the area how to run their business. What they can and can’t do, well beyond the limits set in the city’s codes and ordinances. 
     This was witnessed again when the new owner of Hammond Park was before the commission. What they proposed was well within the constraints of the city and still, commissioners wanted to tighten the rules. This is a tactic attempted on Publix when they were proposing a grocery store in the same neighborhood.

[and. . .]

     How long will it be before one of the commissioners proposes an ordinance to require chicken coops on all properties with a backyard larger than 20 square feet? 

     Maybe, one of the commissioners who got elected by telling lies about Hudson Holdings’ intentions at the beach will propose some of the profits from the Gulfstream Hotel (when it opens) be used to build the chicken coops, instead of going into the pockets of investors who took a chance on Lake Worth. 

     Maybe the same commissioner, under the guise of “Dark Skies” will require the Gulfstream to paint the windows black so the lights don’t disturb wildlife or anything else sleeping in Bryant Park. 

     Then again, maybe the sky will fall and the commissioner will actually propose something productive for the city. Slim chance, his coaches won’t allow it.

If you think the idea of chicken coops in the City is absurd please read this.