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Tree doctor says Pier Park won’t work

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A professional arborist is raising some potential problems with plans to create a “coastal thicket” in the Pier Park design concept. According to Joe Samnik, a consulting arborist in the business for 47 years, for every square foot of canopy foliage there would need to be two cubic feet of soil to support the plant’s root structure and growth. “If you stop to do the calculations, two cubic feet of soil for every square foot of mature canopy is one hell of a…

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Survey shows overwhelming support for holding referendum on Pier choices

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St. Pete voters overwhelmingly think the city should place a referendum on the ballot to pick a new Pier, according to a new survey from St. Pete Polls. When asked whether City Council should “call for a referendum where the voters would decide their favorite of the top two designs” more than 63 percent indicated “Yes” on the question while only 32 percent said they didn’t want a referendum. The information comes as City Council prepares to vote on the…

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Pier Park criticism is reminiscent of 2013 Lens saga

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Supporters of Destination St. Pete Pier are gearing up for a fight Thursday as the City Council prepares to approve another design, Pier Park, instead of their favorite. Last month, the Pier Selection Committee ranked Destination St. Pete Pier behind Pier Park in its final ranking, even though a series of public surveys showed broad support for Destination. Since that vote, frustration has spiraled into outrage with a flurry of attacks on both the Pier Park design and the city’s…

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Bill Ballard letter to City Council lays out argument for Destination St. Pete Pier

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Bill Ballard, an outspoken advocate for saving St. Pete’s iconic inverted pyramid, has sent another letter to St. Pete City Council urging them to vote down the final ranking of three concepts for a new Pier. In the letter obtained by SaintPetersblog Ballard seeks to lay out the “subversion of the selection process” and includes a variety of videos containing statements supporting his claim. In one of them, three committee members, Mike Meidel, Melanie Lenz and Gary Mitchum, all say the…

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City of St. Pete email quietly calls for Pier peace

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St. Pete Mayor Rick Kriseman’s administration is getting out ahead of an expected vote Thursday. City Council will hear a staff presentation regarding the Pier Selection Committee’s final ranking in which Pier Park came out on top. “We established a pier process that citizens on every side of this issue agreed would result in a fair and objective decision,” Kriseman wrote in a statement emailed to residents subscribed to citywide email updates. “I am proud that we have stayed true…

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Rick Kriseman is censoring Pier comments on his official Facebook page

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The Pier has been a passionate source of debate in St. Pete for years. Since 2005, when money was first earmarked for renovations to the inverted pyramid, the voice surrounding the Pier’s future has only grown louder. In 2013, the Pier seemed poised to get a facelift – removing the decades-old inverted pyramid and replacing it with a modern pedestrian and bike loop over the water called the Lens. But those diehard inverted pyramid fans rallied and the Lens was…

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Wengay Newton will ask City Council to hold special election for new St. Pete Pier

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St. Pete City Council member Wengay Newton has long been a proponent of saving the city’s iconic inverted pyramid. He was a vocal critic of the Lens and supported former mayoral candidate Kathleen Ford’s petition effort to save the current Pier as well as the successful petition drive by Concerned Citizens that led to the ultimate undoing of the Lens. Now he’s supporting the only design out of the Pier Selection Committee’s top three picks that reuses and renovates the…

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