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Developer shut out from low-income housing tax credit sues city of Tampa

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A low-income housing developer is suing the City of Tampa for choosing to fund a city project rather than its 102-unit senior housing project. In December 2015, Madison Highlands purchased a vacant lot at 5315 N. 37th St. in Tampa where it planned to develop the property. Madison Highlands — owned and managed by Patrick E. Law — proposed a low-income housing option for seniors. However, the project needed financial backing from the city. The organization applied to the Florida…

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Family sues Tampa for injury at AIDS Memorial Park

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Nearly a year after an 11-year-old boy broke his arm at AIDS Memorial Park in Tampa, the city is being sued for negligence. Linda and Mark Burgin, parents of now 12-year-old Joshua, are suing the City of Tampa and Crescent Investments for their son’s accident late last year. The two parties were notified of the incoming case Dec. 2, 2015, when the Burgins’ lawyer sent a formal notice to their offices. In the notice, the family claims that around Nov.…

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City, county point fingers as sewage creates smelly problem for Tampa resident

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Sewage can be a real issue in St. Petersburg, as Tropical Storm Colin recently illustrated. A blocked pipe, where things get backed up, and people get messy. On the other side of Tampa Bay, this very same problem is making life difficult – and no doubt smelly – for one Tampa resident. Janice Albury, 53, owns and operates See Saw Junction, a Hillsborough County day care center located at 8720 N. 40th Street in Tampa. On four separate occasions between…

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Tampa public works employee caught making dozens of unauthorized trips in city truck on city time

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Via Adam Walser of WFTS-TV: He was fired after the City of Tampa caught him visiting restaurants, stores and even more in his city truck on city time. But now a Tampa Public Works employee is speaking out, saying he was not the only city worker wasting taxpayers’ money. “I was never told I couldn’t get the truck and ride around,” Mark Williams said. Williams was fired by Tampa Public Works last week. For nearly 15 years, he set up…

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