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| In a horror show you never really, fully dispatch the monster. They just keep coming back (Like Jason Voorhees from the Friday the 13th series of films, above). Some issues we deal with (Issues, not people) are eerily reminiscent of this trope... |
As discussed in Part I----Some issues with which we must contend are not unlike the horror show (s). You never really kill the monster, it just keeps coming back. In the case of Jason Voorhees from the 12-movie franchise Friday the 13th----he dies but always comes back.....sometimes in the same movie, frequently also in a follow-on movie. You can NEVER really kill the horror show monster, there is always doubt and it can always come back. This is similar to some ISSUES we face as a county commission.
I'm talking issues, NOT (necessarily) People
Over and over. The same issues. That never get dispatched.
One issue of extreme consternation and gnashing of teeth that keeps coming back is the proposed "Dollar General" discount store that is/was planned for Gulf Beach highway in District 2. The developers and staff have gone back and forth, round and round. Residents don't want it, and the plan was denied.
But then the denial was appealed. Then it went to court. Staff and the petitioners have dueling beliefs about whether or not this proposed development conforms with county planning and zoning ordinances....I wonder what the citizen activists lauded in the paper today think about this particular case? We know how the commissioner from that district feels about this from his public statements on the dais on this issue. But I wonder who is right here, according to these citizen activist planners that the PNJ think are worthy of a Nobel Prize? Dollar General and the petitioners-- or the County's BOA?
Who cares what they think--it's a rhetorical question.
And it doesn't matter as of Friday and the judge's new order in this case.
Because just this past Friday the Circuit Court Judge in the case, Judge Jeffrey Burns, issued a scathing order demanding the Board of Adjustment re-hear the case with no new evidence injected. If not done precisely in this manner, according to the order, the county could be in direct contempt. Yikes! Trouble........
Read the ten page order below, for yourself..
