Halting 7-Eleven at May and San Marco Streets

7-Eleven's own diagrams show the gasoline station would be dangerous. Will FDOT officials take off the rubber bands and read them?Every single public speaker at last night's City of St. Augustine City Commission meeting opposed the 7-Eleven at May and San Marco, but engineer Skip Hutton's presentation was devastating.
Simply devastating.
Skip is an awesome advocate for his neighborhood, who has successfully fought with his neighbors eminent domain for the FLorida School for the Deaf and Blind and this 7-Eleven in a residential neighborhood.
Skip Hutton showed on camera a diagram 7-Eleven filed with the City.
The diagram from 7-Eleven shows the route that gasoline trucks would take in delivering gasoline to the twelve-pump station.
It showed the gasoline truck turning into oncoming traffic both coming and going, and both times crossing the sidewalk, where Florida School for the Deaf and Blind students walk.
It then showed the truck on the 7-Eleven property running over a bollard. Yes, running over a bollard. The 7-Eleven Corporation's own drawings show that on the 7-Eleven property, the fit is so tight that the gasoline trucks will run over a bollard.
Oops.
Back to the drawing board.
Meanwhile, the City staff has NOT, repeat, NOT issued a construction permit.
The City staff will review the permit application with a gimlet eye.
Environmental devastation, gasoline spills, fires, accidents, fatalities and blocked hurricane evacuations from South Ponte Vedra Beach, Guana-Tolomato-Matanzas National Estuarine Research Reserve, and Vilano Beach.
All brought to you by 7-Eleven Corporation, a Japanese multinational, just in time for the 450th birthday of St. Augustine, Florida.
We will stop this.
Yes we can!