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Accentuate the positive
Article published on Friday, Oct. 28, 2005 |
Editor:
It seems that recent Letters to the Editor have all been written from the same “Train of Negativism.” This train squeaks and wails plaintively as it moves, but has no destination, or final stopping place. In other words, no solution is proposed to the development of that parcel of property that has lain fallow for 20 years.
Perhaps those that would get on this train should hesitate a moment and reflect on some of these issues:
• Approximately 550 IRB Citizens have voted for a Publix on this property.
• Isn’t it time this property is developed?
• Publix would answer the needs of a lot of IRB Citizens for a food store nearby.
• Its nearness would save a lot of citizens of IRB the cost of fuel needed to drive to other places to shop.
• Its tax revenue base would allow more revenues to the City.
• The developer is a quality developer, financially well-funded to develop this location properly.
• The developer has offered to negotiate with the city on this location.
I believe the Commission will not grant an approval on a timely basis, and thus the project will possibly go to referendum, in March; unless the city scuttles that proposal.
Isn’t it time to hear out the developer, arrive at a compromise and eliminate the eyesore of a property? Let’s do something positive. Let’s ask the commission to move forward on the project in a manner where we can all be winners, by negotiating. Ask them to stop the endless rhetoric and inaction that plagues this commission.
Victor Wood
Indian Rocks Beach
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Article published on Friday, Oct. 28, 2005
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