{"id":158502,"date":"2026-02-17T16:03:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T16:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/158502\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T16:03:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T16:03:10","slug":"st-pete-launching-master-plan-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/158502\/","title":{"rendered":"St. Pete launching master plan"},"content":{"rendered":"

ST. PETE, Fla. \u2014 The city of St. Pete wants input from the community before moving forward with creating a plan that would strengthen 15 miles of city-owned seawalls.<\/p>\n

The city is putting together a Seawall Master Plan<\/a> that would lay the groundwork for future seawall improvements. They hope to create a consistent seawall condition rating system using federal standards<\/a>, as well as make a plan for replacement and repair projects.<\/p>\n

The goal, the city says, is to make the area more resistant to flooding and erosion. This comes after years of storm damage and documented flooding issues that plague parts of St. Pete.<\/p>\n

Before putting a plan together, the city is asking residents to fill out a survey online.<\/a> Those looking to give additional feedback or get more information are invited to a virtual public meeting on Feb. 17 at 6 p.m.<\/a><\/p>\n

As part of the feedback portion of the master plan creation, the city is asking residents if they would support city policy updates that raise the minimum required elevation for private seawalls and if they would support the city taking ownership of private seawalls to provide more consistent maintenance. They also want to know if residents would support a citywide assessment for the city to inspect, maintain and repair or replace private seawalls.<\/p>\n

The city of St. Pete currently has 95 miles of privately owned seawalls. It\u2019s not clear how they would be affected by the upcoming Seawall Master Plan<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Lifelong resident Amy Dinovo says while the quality of one person\u2019s seawall directly affects their neighbor, she\u2019s hoping that should changes come for privately owned seawalls that the city is held to the same standard.<\/p>\n

\u201cI want the city to be held to the same standards that the homeowners are. I don\u2019t want to have somebody getting a fine and then going out and finding city waterfront not in the same condition,\u201d she said. \u201cI think that\u2019s an important thing for people to know, that whatever standards we\u2019re holding the public to, we\u2019re holding the city to as well.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dinovo says she hopes that if this affects private property, there\u2019s a well thought out funding plan.<\/p>\n

\u201cSeawalls aren\u2019t cheap; it\u2019s an expensive endeavor. There\u2019s some great companies out there who make strong seawalls and everything else, but it\u2019s certainly an opportunity for not great companies to come into the marketplace if there\u2019s a lot of need,\u201d she said. \u201cSo there has to be a process to have some funding, have some relief, and have some incentive.\u201d<\/p>\n

The first virtual public meeting on this topic was held on Tuesday, Feb. 10.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ST. PETE, Fla. \u2014 The city of St. Pete wants input from the community before moving forward with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":158297,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[1564,558,28,2287,115,596,202,204,203,199,201,200,135,835],"class_list":{"0":"post-158502","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-st-petersburg","8":"tag-angie-angers","9":"tag-business","10":"tag-florida","11":"tag-local-politics","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-pinellas-county","14":"tag-st-pete","15":"tag-st-pete-headlines","16":"tag-st-pete-news","17":"tag-st-petersburg","18":"tag-st-petersburg-headlines","19":"tag-st-petersburg-news","20":"tag-tampa","21":"tag-vod"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158502","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=158502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158502\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/158297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}