CRITICAL FISH ISLAND information for Planning Zoning Meeting at City Hall January 8 2 PM

From our friend and vigilant observer of all things St Augustine, Lee Geanuleas:

On Tuesday, January 8th the Fish Island developers will submit a proposal to the City of St Augustine Planning and Zoning Board (PZB) to allow extensive tree clearing on the Fish Island to allow large draining ditch/retention pond as indicated in the photograph below.

They are making this new request in order to build a “temporary” linear retention pond to serve the proposed Fish Island Village: a 20,056 sq ft commercial office center located south of SR 312– at the corner of SR 312 and Plantation Drive. If approved, this will result in bulldozing and removing all trees in a linear path of destruction 50ft wide, totaling some 57,000 sq ft through the well-established tree canopy and wildlife habitat on Fish Island land.

What Can You Do To Help?

If you don’t want to see another development like “Antigua” on the South side of SR 312, then

please attend the PZB meeting at 2 PM on Tuesday January 8, 2019 in the Alcazar Room at

City Hall (75 King St.) to show your support for the preservation of Fish Island or email the PZB

members urging them to deny the request to remove trees and build a retention ditch on Fish

Island [Item 7(d) 2018-0167].

Here are the emails addresses for the PZB: pzb@citystaug.com, karen@97Park.com,

gmisterly@gmail.com, sshipp@gmail.com, jondepreter@gmail.com, jcblow@aicw.org,

opsahl@OpsahlLaw.com