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Development opponents deliver petitions to Madeira Beach City Hall

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In a move calculated to stop a proposed development in its tracks, activists handed over petitions with 1,025 signatures to Madeira Beach officials Friday morning. The delivery — which activists videotaped — was the latest installment in a battle raging in this beach community over a proposal to develop two parcels of land at the foot of the only bridge linking Madeira Beach directly with the mainland — the main entrance to the city. The proposals would see 11 buildings…

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5 lies in the latest Madeira Beach United mailer

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Madeira Beach residents will soon be facing another storm, and not your garden-variety hurricane. This particular nasty storm comes from Madeira Beach United, the ad-hoc neighborhood group opposing the Madeira Beach Town Center and Holiday Isles projects, the mixed-use development projects proposed for the dilapidated and underdeveloped patches of land at the city’s entrance. After several dubious attempts to accuse city leaders of political corruption, Madeira Beach United has now produced a glossy flyer, which raises the specter of “runaway development.” Despite the group’s…

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Stormy controversy over development engulfs Madeira Beach

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A proposal to build a multi-story complex with a hotel, condominiums, restaurant and parking garage has blown into a full-scale storm between some residents and Madeira Beach officials. It’s a dispute that has grown increasingly nasty with the filing of ethics complaints and accusations of political corruption. The argument seems to have no middle ground for compromise because the two sides appear to agree on only two items – some type of development is needed, and the other side is…

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