People who live in Tierra Verde are banding together to fight a major marina expansion which they say doesn\u2019t belong in their neighborhood.<\/p>\n
PINELLAS COUNTY, Fla. \u2014 People who live in Tierra Verde are banding together to fight a major marina expansion they say doesn\u2019t belong in their neighborhood.<\/p>\n
At a packed community open house, neighbors with the group Tierra Verde NEXT discussed strategy and voiced opposition to the project proposed by Greenleaf Capital. The company wants to more than double the number of dry boat slips \u2014 from about 300 to more than 700 \u2014 and add a private club with a restaurant and pool.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThe biggest problem we have with this warehouse is that it is too tall. It does not belong in a residential neighborhood,\u201d said Melanie Coleman Simon, director of Tierra Verde NEXT.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis one is smack dab in the middle of this little island,\u201d added Corrine St. Jean, another member of the group. \u201cIt just doesn\u2019t fit. It doesn\u2019t fit at all.\u201d<\/p>\n
At the meeting, residents spoke up so Tierra Verde NEXT can better shape its argument to bring before St. Petersburg’s Development Review Commission in December. Many said they\u2019re worried about traffic, safety and environmental impacts.<\/p>\n
\u201cAll these extra boats that are harming our animals and our manatees and our turtles and all our beautiful wildlife. We\u2019re all concerned about that,\u201d Coleman Simon said.<\/p>\n
Members of Tierra Verde NEXT said they\u2019re not against redevelopment \u2014 they just want communication from the developer.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey\u2019re not having any communication with us and that\u2019s all we\u2019re asking, is talk with us here at NEXT,\u201d Coleman Simon said.<\/p>\n
The group plans to keep pushing as the city decides the marina\u2019s future. Tierra Verde NEXT will hold another open house on Nov. 29, and members plan to speak at the Development Review Commission meeting on Dec. 3, when the developer presents the project.<\/p>\n
10 Tampa Bay News reached out to the developer but did not hear back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"People who live in Tierra Verde are banding together to fight a major marina expansion which they say…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10583,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-10582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10582\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}