Monday, January 09, 2017

Two victories at CIty Commission tonight




We won two victories today -- defeating DAVID BARTON CORNEAL on weddings/special events and upholding the HARB vote designating 32 Grenada Street as a local landmark. Viva St. Augustine! Venceremos!

First: St. Augustine City Commissioners voted 4-1 to deny the appeal by JOHN LOUIS ARBIZZANI of the local landmark designation for 32 Grenada Street. Denial of the frivolous appeal should have been unanimous, but the vote was 4-1, with Commissioner TODD DAVID NEVILLE, a/k/a "ODD TODD," once again showing that he is a Know-Nothing nattering nabob of negativism, whose rote incantation of the words "property rights" is as insulting as anything else NEVILLE ever does. During the meeting, NEVILLE was busy stuffing his face with cookies, which was a much better use of his mouth than when the tedious tiresome termagant talks.

Second: Commissioners learned that DAVID BARTON CORNEAL's marketing weddings and special events at The Collector hotel, the DOW PUD, has halted. I wrote the City on January 8 (Sunday). On Monday, January 9, City Manager John Patrick Regan, P.E. and City Planning and Building Director David Birchim met with DAVID BARTON CORNEAL. CORNEAL is deleting the wedding and special event solicitation from his website. Pennsylvania DAVID CORNEAL claimed to Messrs. Regan and Birchim that he was going by any earlier version of the DOE PUD, not the one that was adopted. Do you believe that? Another victory.

5 comments:

warren Celli said...

Wow! Wonderful! Superb deployment of resources!

Let's all go celebrate on the hood of Jeremy Bank's SJC police cruiser!

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Tom Reynolds said...

I agree that if the Corneal place is not suppose to have weddings then they should not.

BUT WHO THE H E DOUBLE HOCKEY STICKS ARE THE OLD CITY COMMISSIONERS TO TELL SOMEONE WHAT TO DO WITH THEIR PROPERTY ?

WHAT DO WE HAVE RUNNING THE OLD CITY ?

Ed Slavin said...

Zoning and historic preservation are constitutionally part of the police power of local governments. Only property owners and their lickspittles like ODD TODD NEVILLE, Vice Mayor, would wcwe suppose that the Supreme Court has not spoken on this issue for decades, as in Village of Euclid v. Ambler Realty and in Penn Central Transp. Co. v. New York City.

Anonymous said...

Three Cheers to Ed...thanks for catching and then acting upon your findings regarding Corneal!

Also three cheers to the win on the HARB appeal..to Mr. Reynolds...in theory I agree that citizens should be free to do as they please with their property...however, we as a civilized nation must enact and enforce certain laws to ensure safety and commom good. For example..I think you agree that i would be unwise for me to build a bomb factory next to a school..or a junk yard next to city hall? Yes?

In this case we the people have decided to preserve certain historic buildings...the land owner in this case knew he had a special property but desired to destroy it to turn a profit. Mind you he was even offered money to move the building to another lot but no..he sought destruction of our resources ..all for the almighty dollar.

So Mr. Reynolds...yes do as you please with your property but do so within reason..no junk yards downtown..no bomb factory next to a school and do not ask to destroy our collective heritage because we will say no..keep in mind that nobody forces you to purchase a historic house..if you choose to do so you do so knowing that you have certain obligations.

warren Celli said...

Case Law: When you are naughty you get a lump of coal in your stocking.

The rule of law is a justus scam owned by the gangster rich.

Keep on pretending!