St. Pete and Pinellas County remain at impasse over Tierra Verde

St. Petersburg and Pinellas County officials met yesterday to resolve the spat over the city's annexation of commercial land on Tierra Verde. They got nowhere and a court battle appears likely. Read today's story here.

Will Van Sant, Times staff writer

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This is all part of the master plan Code Named the West Palm Beachification of Pinellas County.

Namely, it becomes or is made to be too expensive for moderate income people to live here, so people begin moving out. Just look at the contraction of the schools due to decreasing enrollment. Less people, less schools, so we necessarily close more and more schools, a trend that will continue by the way. Start looking at schools with an eye on the property they sit on. Some of these schools are on some very nice property and sooner or later a delinquent taxpaying developer who just might be a campaign contributor will get a sweetheart deal to buy and develop the property when the school board unloads it to fill some future budgetary hole.

Next, quite possibly after we build a multi-billion dollar bridge to say, uhm, Ft DeSoto, costing oh, say, uhm, $5 to $7.50 to get there and (keeping in mind that people will still be moving out of the county, and Florida for that matter), will stop going to all Parks. The numbers of visitors to Parks in general will decline and the costs associated with keeping the parks open will cause some of them to be closed, down the road of course, then some of these very nice properties will sooner rather than later be “sold” to some delinquent taxpaying developer who just might be a campaign contributor in a sweetheart deal to buy and develop the property when the Developer Shills on the BOCC unload them to fill some future budgetary hole.

Now mind you, this is not going to happen overnight, but it is going to happen in some form or fashion, and plans have to be made, criminals have to be elected, other criminals have to donate, and deals need to be in place long before the other shoe drops.

It also becomes easier for the criminals involved to get these things passed because when most of the property is owned or otherwise occupied by absentee landowners, there will be less voters to stop it, not that local elections seem important enough to actually report on, or learn about, or vote on.

And there my friends you have what I like to call the West Palm Beachification of Pinellas County.

Oh and one more thing...

I believe it was Mr Welch who said that even had he (they) known that certain delinquent taxpaying developers were actually delinquent taxpaying developers, it wouldn't have changed the way that he (they) voted...

I'm just sayin...

The only court battle that should take place is one that will fix the rules of annexation once and for all, such that it treats property owners as stakeholders in the very communities and respective governments they finance, and not like poker chips on the political table of Texas Hold’em…. Or Pinellas Hold’em as it were.

To assert that property owners should have the right to do as they please with their property (particularly when it comes to developers), and allow for such governmental action as “Involuntary Annexation” is ignorant, if not a violation of the very principles of our Constitution.

It is time to put and end to the practice of our local politicians and their owners (developers and land-use attorneys), treating Pinellas County like their own personal Monopoly Board.

“Do not collect $200, and do go directly to jail”

But what do I know: “Mongo only pawn in game of life”

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What deals did Mayor Baker and Tony Amico from the Bonanno Family La CosaNostra make to annex Tierra Verde Marina? That is Tony Amico who owns Jannis landing and the Horizon Star ship at Johns Pass.