Friday, August 29, 2008

Taste of Clearwater Event

The 19th Annual Taste of Clearwater will be on Wednesday, September 17, from 5-8pm at the Harborview Center, 300 Cleveland Street in downtown Clearwater. Tickets may be purchased online at www.clearwaterflorida.org or at the following locations:
Clearwater Regional Chamber of Commerce, Main Office, 1130 Cleveland St.
Clearwater Welcome Center, 3350 Gulf to Bay Blvd. (SR 60), Clearwater
Beach Visitor Information Center, 1 Causeway Blvd., Clearwater Beach
Ruth Eckard Hall's Ticket Center
City of Clearwater Parks & Rec Center, Osceola Street
Individual prepaid tickets $18
All tickets $20 at the door

Wednesday, August 20, 2008

Tropical Storm Fay and Clearwater Beach

It is the morning of Aug 20th and Fay is on the East Coast now. We only had twenty minutes of rain yesterday. Right now the sun is out and it is windy. The storm is expected to come west again, but so far everything is fine.

Sunday, August 10, 2008

Update on Legg Mason's Proposed Cabana Club Hotel

This message was posted on the bulletin board:

Click here for the online petition

Time is running out! Your emails to the city make a difference, and they must be received by Thursday, August 14th to assure that they are delivered to the decision makers on Legg Mason's application to build the 10 story high hotel at the Cabana Club Restaurant site. To provide you some ideas for your message, here are the key issues:

1. The size of the proposed building is too big for the lot because they only have 88 feet to build on and the code requires a 200 foot wide lot.

2. The height of the proposed building is too tall. The code limits them to 25 feet and building something 100 feet or 10 stories high will hurt surrounding property values.

3. There is not enough parking now. Adding a 38 room hotel but only 8 parking spaces makes the problem worse.

4. Taking 25 feet of public beach restored with taxpayers dollars should be stopped.

5. Operating a ferry boat for guests from over 450 hotel rooms on a canal where all of the properties are residential.

Send your email to the Mayor, the City Council and Sherry Watkins( who will forward them to the members of the CDB)

re: Case # FLD2008-02002 ( 1590 Gulf Blvd.) to
Frank.Hibbard@myclearwater.com
Paul.Gibson@myclearwater.com
John.Doran@myclearwater.com
George.Cretekos@myclearwater.com
Sherry.Watkins@myclearwater.com
Carlen.Petersen@myclearwater.com

Mail your letter to: Wayne Wells, Planning Dept., POBox 4748, Clearwater, FL 33767

This matter is scheduled for a public hearing and final decision before the Clearwater Community Development Board (CDB) on August 19th, 1:00pm, City Hall, 112 S. Osceola Street, Clearwater, Florida, Third Floor.

New website at http://www.mysandkey.com/

The new planned Clearwater Beach Hotel

According to the St. Petersburg Times, this is the new planned Clearwater Beach hotel, time share development.

Wednesday, August 6, 2008

Gulf Blvd Gets Funding by County

According to the Tampa Bay Newspaper, approval by Pinellas County officials will award 11 beach communitites $7 Million annually for 5 years beginning in 2010 for Gulf Blvd improvements