Thursday, September 09, 2021

Save Corazon Theater From Greedy Speculator JAY McGARVEY'S 36 GRANADA Street LLC PUD; Monday, SEPTEMBER 13, 2021 City Commission Meeting


Speaking eloquently at the August 10, 2021 PZB meeting, St. Augustine Planning and Zoning Board member John Carl Blow was right.

I agree.  There is no public benefit to a Planned Unit Development for 36 GRANDA Street, the site of our beloved Corazon Theater.  

May we have it back, please?

Rather than work on a legally compliant PUD, PZB members voted 6-1 to approve a badly-written rush job. Why? Because pouty Ponte Vedra real estate speculator JAY McGARVEY wants a full-liquor license next door to Flagler College.  He begged them not to make him come back again.  Mendacious McGARVEY is willing to do anything to get it. In fact, McGARVEY drew gasps and raised eyebrows when he actually hired a full-time federal employee, GARY BRIAN DAVENPORT, Florida National Guard J.A.G. Corps Major, as his mouthpiece for the project.  

Full-time federal employees are unethical if they earn outside income as lawyers.  Neither DAVENPORT nor the Florida National Guard have provided any proof of permission, or waiver, or application for permission or waiver. 

DAVENPORT told me July 5, 2021 that it is all "none of my business," angrily hanging up the telephone.  DAVENPORT has refused to return my telephone calls.  

Thus I have reported GARY DAVENPORT's bizarre outside income scheme and double-dipping from developers to the Inspector General of the National Guard Bureau in Washington, D.C., and under FOIA, I have requested DAVENPORT's personnel and security clearance files.  (Still waiting for records after two months).

McGARVEY's PUD text and memo are here:

Prior blog coverage is here

My August 9, 2021 memo to PZB members is here, together with my complaint to U.S. Attorney General and Federal Trade Commission Chair on unfair and deceptive trade practices.

On Monday, September 13, 2021, you can put in a card and speak in non-agenda public comment in opposition to the badly-written, unjustified Planned Unit Development for 36 GRANADA STREET, Corazon Theater.  If the Commissioners hold their noses and pass the dopey proposal to second reading, that is tentatively set for Monday, September 27, 2021.

The facts are irrefragable -- no response from McGARVEY or his mouthpiece, GARY BRIAN DAVENPORT, a full-time federal employee.

GARY DAVENPORT was formerly a partner in the well-connected Flagler County law firm of CHIUMENTO & DAVENPORT, which in 2020 filed a Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation (SLAPP) against former St. Johns County Commissioner J. Kenneth Bryan and other citizens, seeking to punish them for criticizing developers.  Mr. Bryan was later elected to the Flagler Beach City Commission, and is being defended in the lawsuit by St. Johns Law Group owner Douglas Nelson Burnett, son of retired Florida Adjutant General Douglas Burnett.




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