THE DEVIL AND ST. AUGUSTINE BEACH BUILDING AND ZONING DEPARTMENT

I was looking for documents on the controversial, too-tall, enormous ugly oceanfront EMBASSY SUITES HOTEL on Halloween.   While there, I found the St. Augustine Beach City Hall Planning and Zoning Department today dressed up for the holiday, with a lady dressed as the Devil from head to toe.  What a perfect Satanic synecdoche for triple-dipping, sexual harasser GARY LARSON's former lair, which developers own, thanks to three successive Mayors of St. Augustine Beach being the "Devil's Triangle" -- ANDREA SAMUELS, RICHARD BURTT O'BRIEN and

This explains the approval of the EMBASSY SUITES at the behest of AKERMAN SENTERIFTT, NEISEN KASDIN and KEY INTERNATIONAL, INC.:
the Devil made them do it.

While Commissioners belatedly obtained a spinal implant to disapprove the water slide park (now on appeal), predecessor Commissioners were louche lapdogs for developers, letting them have their way with St. Augustine Beach, just as it is in the City of St. Augustine, St. Johns County and much of Florida.

There on the walls were framed promotional materials from developers.  The government office that is supposed to regulate developers puts their framed propaganda on its walls.

Controversial City of St. Augustine Beach City Manager BRUCE MAX ROYLE dressed as a ninny. But that's his usual outfit. But it was striking the assistant in the St. Augustine Beach Building and Zoning Department dressed as the Devil, in a stunning floor-to-ceiling costume. Pure poetry in motion. This is the office that rubber-stamped EMBASSY SUITES' ugly new eyesore in "our village," as County Commission Chairman Henry Dean called it when he served on the Charter Review Committee, which recommended a height limit that the City allowed the first developer who asked to violate.