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Road plan approved by Indian Rocks Beach Commissioners
By JARED LEONE
Article published on Thursday, June 29, 2006 |
INDIAN ROCKS BEACH – The road around Ocean Glen at Waterside is as good as paved.
City Commissioners voted 4-1 Tuesday night, giving initial approval to a plan vacating Haven Avenue and relocating First Street for the Indian Rocks Partners development. The commission will take another vote to give final approval to the plan.
Mayor Bill Ockunzzi cast the lone no vote.
“I think it is enabling a development that could have been better for Indian Rocks Beach,” he said. “Now we are going to have some convoluted right of way.”
Commissioners were given the choice of two road designs. The new road had to equal 13,214 square feet, the size of the old road. They opted for Exhibit E, a road that curves into the development and around its pool and garage buildings.
Ockunzzi also said he was worried the new road would look like a private road.
Commissioner Ed Piniero said the design looked smaller than the road it was to replace.
However, Jack Boziak, architect for the project, assured the commission the calculations were equal.
Jose Coppen, who voted for the road, said, “We already have a high enough park budget. I prefer any maintenance to be road maintenance.”
Commissioners also heard a report from Pinellas County Sheriffs Sgt. Michael Peasley.
Peasley told the commission that there is a problem with cars being burglarized in the city. He said the Sheriffs Office is investigating and that car burglaries are a problem law enforcement has noticed countywide.
Commissioner R.B. Johnson said there were more arrests for possession of controlled substances than in the past year and questioned the trend.
Peasley said the increase was because of a very proficient special unit in use during that time.
“You are seeing him work your community,” Peasley said. “You may continue to see that figure going up and up.”
In other action, the commission also decided to vote at its Thursday, July 6, meeting on a resolution aligning the city with the county’s local mitigation strategy in the event disaster strikes.
Commissioners voted 3-2 against combining the Local Planning Agency and the Planning and Zoning Board. Commissioner James Palamara, who voted against combining the boards, said, “You’d be taking one step away from the property owners.”
The members of both boards are the same seven people.
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Article published on Thursday, June 29, 2006
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