Fired former St. Augustine Planning and Building Director was their mouthpiece, the "planner" for the law firm of SUSAN BLOODWORTH, d/b/a "McCLURE BLOODWORTH." (GEORGE MORRIS McCLURE died last year).
Three neighbors -- a pest control business, pizzeria and donut shop -- objected to their streets being stolen as part of the plant.
Every single public hearing witness who spoke opposed the plan -- only KNIGHT and hired gun experts supported it.
BLOODWORTH barely spoke at all, making an emotional plea against the continuance, saying the speculator was working on this for "three years" and planned to spend $40 million, but would bail without approval instanter.
In response, Commissioner Leeanna Freeman rightly called it "insulting."
The developer and its local lobbyist never spoke.
It never held a public information session or design charette.
It wanted to ram this through before the election, to avoid higher fees and greater public scrutiny.
It broke prior promises the vote would be in October, not September -- a sneak attack.
It wanted to steal our streets, while postponing until another day discussion of an annexation.
No business plans were presented.
No financial records were shared.
No concrete proposals were shared.
No responses on global ocean level rise.
No witnesses (other than me) were sworn in (I volunteered).
This is what the Department of Justice Law Enforcement Assistance Administration's 1977 report, "Corruption in Planning and Zoning" focused on -- developers having their way with us.
This is what Romuluo Betancourt had in mind when he talked about Venezuela's corrupt officials "selling their wares" to multinational corporations.
This is GEORGE MORRIS McCLURE's playbook, which produced unproductive, dodgy and failing PUDs, including the Sebastian Inland Harbor Project, which is still flat (despite false, unsworn promises of a fancy-bears hotel, either a Radisson or a Westin.
The ethically impair developer's dodgy Kinley Horne engineering consultant gave vague, speculative, dodgy and unreliable testimony purporting to predict what the Florida Department of Transportation might do on a traffic signal.
The developer's fired former City Planing and Building Director mouthpiece, Mark Knight, claimed it would create jobs, but offered no details.
This is speculation.
This is a project that reeks of corruption, incompetence, flummery, dupery, nincompoopery, waste, fraud, abuse and election-year desire to ram through a project before the winds of change elect a new Mayor and our PUD and Zoning codes are reviewed, revised and reformed.
Thanks to Vice Mayor Nancy Sikes-Kline, Commissioner Leeana Freeman and Commissioner Donald Crichlow for leading the charge against rubber-stamping approval.
We, The People, defeated the dodgy developers.
Unanimous.
5-0.
Congratulations!
We, The People, did it again.
We need answers on all of these issues.
We especially, urgently need to stop work at the site.
We urgently need EPA and its Athens SESD lab to take and analyze soil samples for the VOCs (FSU law graduate BLOODWORTH told me several weeks ago she did not know what they were) beneath the buildings that are now being moved/demolished -- there were some 50 tons of VOCS (Volatile Organic Compounds) emitted into the sky according to EPA TRI data when LUHRS was operating.
BLOODWORTH, who said she did not know what VOCs were, lists these credentials:
EDUCATION
University of West Florida, B.A.(Political Science, magna cum laude, 1994)
Florida State University College of Law, J.D. (Top 10%, magna cum laude, 1998)
Research & Writing Editor, Journal of Transnational Law & Policy
Recent Developments Editor, Journal of Land Use and Environmental Law
Books Awards – Legal Research and Writing, Commercial Law Seminar, Admiralty and Trial Practice
PROFESSIONAL
The Florida Bar
Environmental and Land Use Section
As Kentucky journalist Tom Gish said, "we need to ask a million questions."
Thank you!
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