In secret, behind locked gates, our Nation's Oldest City dumped a landfill in a lake (Old City Reservoir), while emitting sewage in our rivers and salt marsh. Organized citizens exposed and defeated pollution, racism and cronyism. We elected a new Mayor. We're transforming our City -- advanced citizenship. Ask questions. Make disclosures. Demand answers. Be involved. Expect democracy. Report and expose corruption. Smile! Help enact a St. Augustine National Park and Seashore. We shall overcome!
Sunday, May 03, 2015
Another Day, Another Kristallnacht: Destruction of Historic Buildings in St. Augustine
Without waiting for 30 day time to appeal to expire, DAVID BARTON CORNEAL destroyed 105-year old Carpenter's House at the former DOW MUSEUM OF HISTORIC HOMES on April 20, 2015, same day day the permit was issued; CORNEAL's son represented former HARB CHAIRMAN CLAUDE LEONARD WEEKS, JR. on the destruction of 62A Spanish Street, for which LEN WEEKS was fined $3600 by City Code Enforcement Appeals Board November 12, 2015
The Carpenter's House stood here, before ethically-impaired Pennsylvania developer DAVID BARTON CORNEAL jumped the gun.
Ex-Mayor, Ex-HARB Chair CLAUDE LEONARD WEEKS, JR. Destroyed 211-Year Old Don Pedro Fornells House Without Permit, Fined only $3600
211-Year Old Don Pedro Fornells House at 62A Spanish Street Destroyed on September 25, 2014
As then-Senator Al Gore, Jr. wrote in The New York Times in 1989: "In the 1940's, as victory neared over the dark forces unleashed on Kristallnacht, Gen. Omar Bradley offered advice that is once again relevant to the challenge that confronts humanity: 'It is time we steered by the stars, not by the lights of each passing ship.'"
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