Janelle Irwin TaylorJanuary 24, 2019
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Developers say City Council caved to what was no more than "a gripe session."
Tag: St. Pete City Council
Janelle Irwin TaylorJanuary 24, 2019Janelle Irwin TaylorJanuary 14, 2019
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St. Petersburg City Council member Lisa Wheeler-Bowman filed for re-election to her District 7 seat, she announced Monday. Wheeler-Bowman served as City Council chair last year and vice-chair the year before. She also serves on the Pinellas Suncoast Transit Authority’s Board of Directors and was the vice chair of the city’s Housing, Land Use and […]
Janelle Irwin TaylorJanuary 11, 2019
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St. Pete City Council is backing a plan to speed up improvements to the Westshore interchange where the Howard Frankland Bridge meets State Road 60, the Veterans Expressway and the on and off-ramp to Tampa International Airport. “The Westshore District and Pinellas County’s Gateway area at the western end of the Howard Frankland Bridge comprise […]
Janelle Irwin TaylorJanuary 9, 2019
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Scott Orsini is launching a bid for St. Pete City Council, the first to file for the seat currently held by Council Chair Charlie Gerdes. “I’m running for City Council because I want to serve my community and make St. Pete an even better city,” the St. Petersburg lawyer said in an announcement Wednesday. Gerdes is term-limited […]
Janelle Irwin TaylorDecember 10, 2018
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The St. Petersburg City Council will consider a conditional ban on plastic straws and single-use plastic foam containers. The council will take up the proposed ban at its meeting Thursday. The ordinance would regulate straws in all food establishments citywide and ban polystyrene to-go containers in establishments on city-owned property or rights of way. The […]
Janelle Irwin TaylorOctober 18, 2018
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St. Petersburg City Council agreed to remove an onerous requirement that consultants working on the city’s sewage problems send all reports to council at the same time they share them with staff members. The vote came during a Committee of the Whole meeting Thursday ahead of City Council’s regular board meeting. Consultants complained the requirement […]
Janelle Irwin TaylorOctober 18, 2018
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Four Historic Old Northeast homeowners are suing their neighbor and the city of St. Petersburg over plans to demolish a historic home in the neighborhood and rebuild a modern home on the property. William and Catherine Cobb and David and Elizabeth Skidmore live on the 700 block of 18th Avenue Northeast want to overturn city […]
Staff ReportsOctober 11, 2018
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Former St. Petersburg City Council member Lorraine Margeson is suing her husband, Don Margeson for divorce, according to documents filed in Pinellas County court. Margeson unsuccessfully ran for St. Pete City Council in 2013 against Jim Kennedy who won his second and final term on the board. That seat is now held by realtor Brandi […]
Janelle Irwin TaylorOctober 1, 2018
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Longtime St. Petersburg community activist Theresa “Momma Tee” Lassiter died Sunday night, according to Pinellas County Commissioner Ken Welch. Welch and his wife, Donna Welch, were planning a celebration of her life and community activism this Friday but canceled the event after her passing. Lassiter had been suffering from cancer for a while, Welch said, […]
Janelle Irwin TaylorSeptember 21, 2018
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Update: The St. Petersburg City Council canceled this item and did not hear the appellant’s case during it’s Sept. 20 meeting. A more than four-year battle over the historic downtown St. Petersburg YMCA will continue Thursday during a City Council meeting. Thomas Nestor, a local music promoter who tried unsuccessfully to purchase the building for […]