On Tuesday, April 8th St Pete Beach City Commission will meet to discuss Protect St Pete Beach’s Advocacy Group’s settlement offer relating to the pending Sirata and Tradewinds cases. Read our Settlement Letters below:
Sirata
Based on the recent revelations of serious deficiencies in the City of St. Pete Beach’s public works infrastructure and the City Code requirements to ensure zoning decisions take into account infrastructure capabilities, it became clear to us that the Sirata and TradeWinds approvals needed to be brought back to the Commission for further deliberation.
It is outrageous, as well as a violation of the public’s trust, that a former City staff member failed to honestly report the systematic shortfalls of the level of service for reclaimed water, stormwater, and wastewater to the City Commission over a period of two years.
During this time, the Commission approved several large redevelopment projects in the Community Redevelopment District, including the Sirata and TradeWinds redevelopment projects.
To right this wrong, our settlement terms include the following:
1. The City publicly acknowledges that Sirata and Tradewinds approvals are void based on inaccurate and inadequate data relating to public works and infrastructure. The City Commission will pass resolutions repealing the Sirata and TradeWinds recognizing that the inaccurate information led to an
approval without proper evaluation of infrastructure impacts, in violation of the Land Development Code.
2. The City and Petitioners agree to allow the Sirata and Tradewinds Conditional Use Permits to be reheard by the
City Commission to ensure that the criteria under Section 4.4, Section 4.12, and Section 29.6 are evaluated based on the correct data relating to the public infrastructure.
3. Once these approvals are voided, Petitioners will file a motion to dismiss, with prejudice.
4. City shall pay Petitioners’ attorneys’ fees related to the petitions for Writ of Certiorari.