Circuit Court Judge R. Lee Smith has DENIED the St. Augustine Beach EMBASSY SUITES' petition for writ of certiorari, in which KEY BEACH argued its rights were somehow violated by denying it a "Splash Park" that was not in the development order and was unanimously denied by the Planning and Zoning Board and St. Augustine Beach City Commission last year.
Thanks and praise to City Mayor UNDINE CELESTE PAWLOWSKI George, whose ten point motion and final order covered all of the elements of the extensive discussion, cleaning up the record and amply satisfying the City's legal burden, after a less than stellar record under mercurial City Planning and Zoning Board Chair Jane West left the City potentially vulnerable to a legal challenge.
Thanks also to James Patrick Wilson, Esq., Jeremiah Sean Mulligan and Coquina Legal Group, the City's attorneys. They drafted a very persuasive brief, which included a table of cases (a novelty unheard of when the other itty-bitty city files briefs in local courts).
Unlike the sloppy legal work emitted to the west by the embittered, embattled, maladroit City of St. Augustine City Attorney, ISABELLE CHRISTINE LOPEZ on those ugly storage units at SR 312 and Route A1A, the City of St. Augustine Beach's attorneys did high quality legal work.
The City of St. Augustine Beach's awesome victory empowers opponents of ugly development projects everywhere to proceed now with great vigor -- in the words of the Battle of the Bulge Weather Prayer of General George S. Patton, Jr., "Graciously hearken to us as soldiers who call upon Thee that, armed with Thy power, we may advance from victory to victory, and crush the oppression and wickedness of our enemies and establish Thy justice among men and nations."
The decision shows the moral bankruptcy of corporation-coddling cynics, including City Building and Planning Director BRIAN LAW and his predecessor GARY LARSON. Their shallow lives are built upon their taking the course of least resistance to avoid getting sued, the public be damned.
The City's legal opponents were with perhaps the wickedest corporate law firm in the State of Florida, AKERMAN, which refused efforts to compromise, talked down to City officials, represented by the arrogant former City of Jacksonville CINDY LAQUIDARA.
EMBASSY SUITES' "multicolored monstrosity" lost, again.
Dodgy AKERMAN lawyers bill Miami developer KEY INTERNATIONAL and the DIEGO ARDID FAMILY to beat up on the City of St. Augustine Beach's rational decision, which was based on the evidence. Another case of corporate lawyers run wild. THOMAS INGRAM (PICTURED BELOW with CINDY LAQUIDARA, former Jacksonville City Attorney) was one of the arrogant AKERMAN anti-environmental lawyers who billed the City of St. Augustine some $200,000 to help City Manager WILLIAM BARRY HARRISS avoid and evade arrest for dumping a landfill in a lake. AKERMAN AND HARRISS then argued that the other itty-bitty City should be permitted to take 40,000 cubic yards of contaminated solid waste in 2000 truckloads to the south end of Lincolnville, plop dirt on top of it, and call it a "park." After fourteen years with the City of St. Augustine, 1992-2016, Jim Wilson quit as City Attorney, later explaining in his St. Augustine Beach interview, "I worked for the City for fourteen years. They dumped a landfill in a lake. They didn't ask me. They didn't tell me. And I figured it was time to move on." HARRISS now works as a janissary for corrupt Sheriff DAVID BERNARD SHOAR, who legally changed his name from "HOAR" in 1994. And the contaminated solid waste is now in a landfill, and the south end of Lincolnville is Dr. Robert S. Hayling, D.D.S. Freedom Park. Why? Because We, the People stood up to the City of St. Augustine and pompous privileged lawyers from AKERMAN SENTERFITT.
Photos below from epic City of St. Augustine Beach hearing last year, unanimously rejecting "multicolored monstrosity."
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