Small Bites - TPO Bridge vote Post-Mortem review. Please, don't bring up 'environmental studies' at the conflict resolution. Palmetto Bay is vulnerable on this issue.

Is the village council setting themselves up for a new round of embarrassment at the upcoming 'conflict resolution'? They are if they ask the County to perform an environmental assessment prior to proceeding with the C100 bridge. 

Why do I say this? After all, I am an unabashed enviro. Hmmm, Well, Palmetto Bay recently built a bridge over a different section of this same C100 canal system. It was just built a Coral Reef Park, a place where many people go to view the birds, fish and other wildlife living in that specific section of that canal. 

May I see a copy of Palmetto Bay’s environmental study performed prior to initiating construction on that Coral Reef bridge? 

Who here watched the Special Council Meeting of Monday, March 22, 2021? Please tell me I heard the council discussion incorrectly. Or did I hear correctly, that Palmetto Bay officials proposed requiring the county to go through an environmental study prior to building the bridge over the C100 canal, due to the fish, birds and other wildlife that is seen in the area?

I suggest that Palmetto Bay decline to raise any issue of requiring an environmental study. You are seriously exposure on this point and will only embarrass yourselves. It is not that it is not a good idea, but you will be showing yourselves once again to being total hypocrites and lack of concern for the environment by once again holding others to a higher standard that you all hold yourselves. 

Is this another case of Palmetto Bay’s current leadership’s practice of ‘do as we say and not as we do’?

Background: See, March 5, 2020, Palmetto Bay officials – acting as if “permits are for the little guy”: building a bridge without a permit – caught, now on hold, waiting for the permit. WTH (heck)??? Follow up on the issues.

How well did Palmetto Bay do on maintaining environmental barriers during the construction of the bridge at Coral Reef park? See the photo below:

See prior related post of March 1, 2020, This is no way to bridge a community. Both banks are a mess at Coral Reef Park as we near the annual community celebration.