Watch City Commission Monday night, June 12, 2017: Capt. Lee Geanuleas, U.S.N. (Ret.) has skewered the false and fraudulent parking estimates of hotelier KANTI PATEL. The estimated number of cars for a 5000 square foot ballroom is understated by a factor of 75%.
Greed requires liars and lawyers and bumptious bureaucrats to get its way in the Oldest City.
Greedy developer KANTI PATEL's oleaginous "team" and its phony math was blessed by blissfully vapid Planning and Building Director DAVID DOUGLAS BIRCHIM, who has never had another employer other than the City of St. Augustine since 1997, when he received a Master's Degree in Urban Planning from the University of Tennessee. (UT joke: Q: What's the difference between Neyland Stadium and a porcupine? A: Neyland Stadium has 100,000 pricks on the outside.)
Arachnid apparatchik DAVID DOUGLAS BIRCHIM, holder of an expired real estate sales license, is a snooty reactionary rubberstamp for developers, as proven by his huckster sales job at the last City Commission meeting. He once complained to me about my seeking accountability and transparency: "You keep chipping away!" He still won't put developer applications on the City's website. Color him colorless, compromised and utterly unwilling to take a stand against dishonest destructive developers.
Here's Lee Geanuleas' unpacking of the porcine justification for destroying HP-5 with a too-big hotel:
Following up on what appears to be an incredibly bad estimate of the occupancy for the San Marco Hotel ballroom, the picture below is a screen shot from the website Hotelplanner.com.
The picture shows the very simple two-step process for determining how many people a room of a given size can accommodate.
While acknowledging that this website cannot replace the very careful and detailed calculations that will be done by the Fire Marshall, it does give a "ball park" number for what a nearly 5,000 sqft ballroom can handle.
The thing that strikes me is how close hotelplanner.com (499) is to the number that we calculated based on the Casa Monica's ballroom reception occupancy (495).
Yet, on April 4, 2017 our city staff told the PZB on the record that they estimated the San Marco ballroom occupancy at 124 people.
Late April Fool's joke?
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