ADA<\/a> requirements while also creating \u201call abilities\u201d playgrounds that emphasize usability for people with disabilities.<\/p>\n\u201cWhatever design, whatever play equipment, whatever benches we put in, that will be our first and foremost priority,\u201d Fowler said.<\/p>\n
Council members also received a quarterly update from the city\u2019s mobility department on completed paving projects.<\/p>\n
Work has been finished along the Gomez corridor and nearby side streets, Henry Avenue and 37th Street, Azeele Street in the Beach Park area, Yukon Street, Linebaugh Avenue from Florida Avenue through 12th Street, and Waters Avenue between Nebraska Avenue and 22nd Street.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have accomplished more in the last two years than they probably have in the last 10 years of paving in this city. It\u2019s dramatic,\u201d Councilman Alan Clendenin said.<\/p>\n
Upcoming projects include McCoy Street in Port Tampa, segments of 7th and 2nd avenues in Ybor City, and the intersection of Commerce Palms and Compton Drive in north Tampa.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think the biggest complaint we get is the quality of our roads,\u201d Councilman Guido Maniscalco said. \u201cAnd to be able to show this to the public already \u2014 what\u2019s done and what\u2019s coming \u2014 I think people are very grateful.\u201d<\/p>\n
Council members also heard emotional public comment regarding the removal of a speaker at a previous meeting whose remarks were deemed hateful. Some speakers criticized the decision, calling it censorship.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe freedom of speech is not just freedom of speech when it\u2019s comfortable, polite, or flattering,\u201d said public speaker Antonio Daniel.<\/p>\n
Council members said they have asked city attorneys for a legal opinion on whether individuals who repeatedly use hate speech can be banned from speaking during public comment.<\/p>\n
Separately, the council took initial steps toward designating the Nieto Fuente Buckeye building as a historic landmark. The structure, which once housed the Arturo Fuente cigar company, is currently undergoing renovations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"City Council members listened to public speakers concerned with public speech and reviewed items ranging from parks to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":128384,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,137,136],"class_list":["post-128383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128383","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=128383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128383\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/128384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}