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Tuesday
last chance to speak out on Watermark
Tuesday at
6 p.m.
at Old
City Hall
on Greene Street
will be our community's final opportunity to be heard on the Caroline
Street Partners proposed project to be built on the site of the old
Jabours Trailer Court next to Key West Bight.
At this meeting the city
commissioners will decide the future of this property. It will also
decide whether "anything goes" with future development in Key West.
If this project is
approved by our city commissioners, it will send a "loud and clear"
signal to both in and out of town developers that, as a community, we
have no regard for the architectural standards of our historic city.
McMansion condos will fill our sky.
This is ridiculous.
To get a preview of this
potential reality today, walk or bike down Caroline Street. Look at the
building under construction at 715 Caroline between the old Greg O'Barry
building and West Marine.
This is :
Ground floor = parking
Second and third floors =
apartments
Pitched roof
Total height = 39 feet
The building that would
be constructed behind it would be:
Ground floor = parking
Second and third floors =
condos
Fourth floor = penthouses
Flat roof
Total height = 40 feet
The building that would
be constructed behind West Marine would be:
Ground floor = parking
Second and third floors =
condos
Fourth floor = penthouses
Flat roof
Total height = 43 feet
These are not small
buildings. They are large, larger and largest.
Please come to this
meeting. The city commissioners need to hear from the citizens that
these developers need to follow the existing rules on the books, not
abandon these rules in the face of money and lawyers.
Please go and look for
yourself at how big a conforming building is.
Then imagine two
non-conforming buildings behind it with an extra floor of penthouses
with flat roofs.
Come to this meeting
Tuesday night. This is our last chance to be heard.
Sheila Rowan
Friends & Neighbors of
Key West
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