About that column, Chairman Sue Agresta: Wrong for PZB Chair to Publish Column Supporting Demolition of Historic Echo House

Anyone else troubled that the new St. Augustine PZB chair should write -- identified as such -- a column publicly lobbying another city board, HARB, to demolish an historic building? This is an appearance of impropriety and a conflict of interest, a stench in the nostrils of our Nation's Oldest City. Up until now, Sue Agresta has been a good PZB member, but her judgment on this stinks on ice! There is a de facto lynch mob supporting demolition. Threats of a church to leave the city and playing the race card from the bottom of the deck are immoral. Our PZB Chair should not have "piled on" and tried to influence a co-equal board, charged with conducting fair quasi-judial hearings. HARB must "construe according to the law" in the immortal words of St. Thomas More. Echo House must be saved, rebuilt, preserved and protected, with NPS help. It's our history and our city. We won't be bullied by Rev. Rawls & Co. with empty threats to move the church out of town (at a time when he is building a new building). Enough threats and enough racism for a lifetime, please.