October 19th, 2021 @flipflops365 Instagram photo of Hollywood Beach, Florida by Catherine Uden, https://www.instagram.com/p/CVOYElvvMLa/
Today, after being postponed a few weeks, actual Hollywood taxpayers, residents and stakeholders are FINALLY going to be able to light a fire under Hollywood mayor Josh Levy, the other 6 members of the City Commission and City Manager Ismael and his highly-paid minions, all with the South Florida news media there to record the equivocating, melodrama, pointing of fingers and squirming in their seats for posterity.
Based upon all of the in-person conversations and emails and text messages that I have had with others about The Related Group, people are looking forward to seeing and publicly castigating the mayor and the city commission sleepwalk for months and shirk their moral duty to remind The Related Group of their legal obligation to meet with the community in-person
This view of #HollywoodBeach above, this ambiance, this restful peace and quiet, is what my friend Catherine "Cat" Uden -@flipflops365- and I and SO MANY others in #HollywoodFL are working so hard now to preserve and protect at Hollywood Beach, so that people in the future can enjoy it, too.
As so many of you in Hollywood, #SouthFlorida, and the other parts of the #SunshineState and the rest of the globe on my contact list know, via my frequent fact-filled emails, HallandaleBeach/Hollywood Blog posts + tweets - @hbbtruth on both platforms- over the past two years, the most upsetting aspect of this effort by The Related Group -to build a 30-story luxury condo tower on PUBLIC land for multi-millionaires that is 7 TIMES what can legally be built there now- is NOT the sheer gall and audacity of Related trying to fundamentally change -forever- the most peaceful and natural part of Hollywood Beach, nor is it their belief that they and all their money and influence can get them their way without ever ONCE meeting the community in-person in the 19 months-plus since their unsolicited bid to the City of Hollywood.
No, the most upsetting part is the truly craven and cowardly performance of Hollywood Mayor Josh Levy, the other six members of the City Commission, and City Manager Ishmael, plus their continuing bad judgement and tin ears.
They, plus the City Mgr's highly-paid staff, who have actively run interference for Related the past two years, have rather consistently and intentionally misrepresented to the public and the South Florida news media both the history and reality of this plan. Frankly, the city's so-called Communications Dept. is now, from all appearances, not unlike a Propaganda Ministry.
Which is a large part of why their rather sad and pathetic online ads are so unsuccessful and unpersuasive.
People inherently know a con job when they see one.
In over 19 months, rather inconceivably for a city like Hollywood that imagines itself being very high-minded, neither the Mayor, City Comm. or City Mgr. has ever publicly chided Related for their abject failure to meet the citizenry of this city in-person to answer questions that are NOT softballs, unlike Commission's.
This wonderful photo, above, of the most natural and quiet part of #HollywoodBeach is the single best photograph that truly captures what she and I and so many other concerned Hollywood civic activists and residents are fighting to preserve. https://www.instagram.com/p/CVOYElvvMLa/
I strongly urge those of you reading this who want to become more familiar with the FACTS involved here to read Cat's informative, recent Instagram and Twitter posts at
https://www.instagram.com/flipflops365/ and
https://twitter.com/UdenCatherine/with_replies
Please consider joining the vocal opposition to The Related Group's incompatible plan: NoNewTower.com
And as Cat is always writing, Protect what you love ❤️
You can watch the Hollywood City Commission meeting here:
https://www.hollywoodfl.org/146/Watch-Commission-Meetings
Dave
