{"id":331803,"date":"2026-07-07T13:42:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T13:42:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/331803\/"},"modified":"2026-07-07T13:42:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T13:42:11","slug":"fort-pierce-rejects-settlement-offer-in-little-jim-bait-and-tackle-lawsuit-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/331803\/","title":{"rendered":"Fort Pierce rejects settlement offer in Little Jim Bait and Tackle lawsuit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FORT PIERCE, Fla. (CBS12)  \u2014 Fort Pierce city commissioners voted to reject a proposed settlement in a lawsuit challenging the city\u2019s plans for the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.littlejimbaitandtackle.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> Little Jim Bait and Tackle<\/a> property.<\/p>\n<p>The plaintiff, Fort Pierce resident Kevin Keene, argued the city should not move forward with a long-term lease until environmental, permitting and planning issues are addressed.<\/p>\n<p>See also: <\/p>\n<p>Keene offered to drop the lawsuit if the city agreed to halt new leasing efforts for the Little Jim property until environmental issues are resolved and to support a voter referendum on future land-use decisions involving publicly owned waterfront property.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, commissioners rejected the offer and voted to continue the legal fight.<\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>BE THE FIRST TO COMMENT<\/p>\n<p>Little Jim Bait and Tackle has been a fixture on <a href=\"https:\/\/cbs12.com\/news\/local\/little-jims-bait-and-tackle-fights-to-stay-as-lease-expiration-approaches-fort-pierce-february-18-2025\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">North Hutchinson Island for about 80<\/a> years. The lawsuit, filed in October 2025, seeks to stop the city from finalizing a lease for the property until it demonstrates the project meets all legal, environmental and public-interest requirements.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FORT PIERCE, Fla. (CBS12) \u2014 Fort Pierce city commissioners voted to reject a proposed settlement in a lawsuit&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":331395,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[171,173,172],"class_list":["post-331803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-port-st-lucie","tag-port-st-lucie","tag-port-st-lucie-headlines","tag-port-st-lucie-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331803","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=331803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331803\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/331395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}