Update re the incompatible 1301 S. Ocean Drive project for multimillionaires on Hollywood Beach that The Related Group and Hollywood Mayor Josh Levy have been trying to cram down the community's collective throat for YEARS now

This is what we want to keep, and not let it simply become a memory!
A small reminder of why I and all of my savvy, sensible friends -like Cat Uden- push back so hard versus the serial, nonsensical public policy and misanthropy emanating from #HollywoodFL City Hall the past few years, both the elected Mayor and City Commission, as well as the city's imperious, feckless, and thin-skinned highly-paid bureaucrats. ☀️🌴🏖️😎. 

Hollywood Beach, Florida photo by Catherine "Cat" Uden.

Below, an edited and expanded version of the email that I sent out this morning right around 1:00 am regarding the incompatible 1301 S. Ocean Drive 26-story project for multimillionaires on Hollywood Beach that The Related Group and Hollywood Mayor Josh Levy have been trying to cram down the community's collective throat for YEARS now, despite the vast majority of the community that actually knows the pertinent facts making clear throughout that time that they are firmly AGAINST it. 

Against it today, tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. NO means NO! 

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Just a short note before I go to sleep, having received Steve's email/Substack post, at bottom, late tonight and not immediately seeing it in my inbox because of my watching the Winter Olympics on TV: The current Hollywood City Manager, Mr. Keller, is someone whom I have never liked or supported -and who in any case is on his way to retirement in a few weeks.

IMO, he's already checked out and is biding his time. So all that said, he is NOT of a mind to actually do the right thing for the area's citizens re the incompatible 1301 project before he walks out the door, as far as saving THE most natural remaining part of Hollywood Beach for posterity.
Mr. Keller does not care about that part of Hollywood Beach's future, nor does he care about the past memories that so many of us have with it and why, even if we actually preferred using the beach area near what used to be the one-and-only garage off of Johnson Street, we DO want to see it preserved exactly AS IT IS.

So that said, there's no point in any Hollywood resident thinking even for a moment that he's suddenly -magically- going to see the light and change his spots when he's already more than halfway out the door for good right now.

In his letter below to the Broward Planning Council, which I hasten to remind you, also includes Hollywood Mayor Josh Levy, the individual who more than anyone else in Hollywood has tried to cram this Related Group project for multimillionaires -with its $4 million dollar starting prices- down the throats of the vast majority of the community who zealously opposes it, Keller rather conveniently forgets to mention several salient facts, only one of which I will share with you now, owing to the lateness of the hour, 12:55 am. Wednesday morning.

Among the most important of these facts is that Mr. Keller consciously neglects to mention in his recitation of the history of how the City of Hollywood first managed to obtain the 1301 S. Ocean Drive parcel in the first place from The Summit condominium is that there was a precondition/codicil in the contract that the City of Hollywood had to agree to, and then sign an acknowledgement of, in order to receive the parcel years ago.

That precondition was an important one: the property could ONLY be used for community/

recreation/educational purposes. 

Period.

I myself have personally attended several public meetings in Hollywood since this project came forward as a P3 project, replete with all the secrecy of The Manhattan Project -designed to keep residents and stakeholders in the dark- and heard people say they were on the Board of Directors of The Summit condominium -located across the street on the north of 1301- and publicly declare that they have copies of the germane docs that show that the clause was put in the deal to ensure that the City of Hollywood could never go back on the deal in the future. 

Their biggest fear?
A perfectly understandable one given where The Summit is located on State Road A1A and Hollywood Beach, and how the pay-for-play local government hereabouts is conducted: The City would sell the land to a developer that would build something there in the future.
Perhaps something that would tower over The Summit and ruin thereby ruin both its ambiance and the views that at least some residents there enjoy and were paying a premium for, both at the time, and in all of the ensuing years.

IMO, the City of Hollywood is breaking that original deal with The Summit and any halfway honest judge -even in Broward County- viewing the relevant docs would agree and rule that this project simply can not go forward.

And that, of course, would leave Hollywood Mayor Josh Levy with egg on his face, having to explain to the very people at The Related Group and its 1001 minions and the other developer friends of his who dumped close to $100k into his 2024 re-election campaign coffers in its closing weeks, why HE could not get it across the finish line.

But of course this is only one of the many things that is both completely unethical and wrong with the deal. My blog is full of fact and photo-filled posts making those points in ways that are easily understandable in making the case AGAINST it

Letter from Hollywood City Manager Sides with Private Developers on 1301 Project Land Use Designation.
Broward Planning Council Meeting Set for Feb. 26, at 10 am, Room 422, Broward County Government Center; Follow Up Article Coming
Steven Paul Schneider
February 17, 2026
Letter from Hollywood City Manager Sides with…
https://stevenpaulschneider.substack.com/p/letter-from-hollywood-city-manager/comments

See also the anti-1301 Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100080492761252 and Cat's campaign Instagram page at 

https://www.instagram.com/catudenforhollywood/

Dave

David Bruce Smith  

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South Florida nature... acting crazy... in Hollywood Beach. A lonely waterspout came ashore as a tornado on Hollywood Beach at 12:43 pm Friday afternoon

South Florida nature... acting crazy... in Hollywood Beach.

A lonely waterspout came ashore as a tornado on Hollywood Beach at 12:43 pm Friday afternoon, just two miles from where your faithful correspondent was busy writing on his laptop. 

Local10 News was doing their noontime news broadcast when it first became evident on radar so dispatched their Sky10 helicopter over to the beach to capture what was is -usually- a very quick, hit-or-miss event 

It wasn't the Hindenburg Disaster, and there were no physical injuries, just LOTS of... VERY freaked out people.
I didn't find out about this until 4:30 pm, so I can't report on this with anything resembling my usual eyewitness reportage. 

via Reporter Rosh Lowe, @roshloweWPLG
WPLG Local 10 YouTube Channel
April 21, 2023

The slow windup set-up... as it makes its way from off-shore towards the beach and the Broadwalk.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6leIWqpeLHo&t=1s

The aftermath

https://youtu.be/IR1tGzvrbPc

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Completely contrary to common sense, logic and Florida's Sunshine Laws, Hollywood city officials, including the city's soon-to-be-resigning Planning Director, Leslie Del Monte, allowed several representatives of The Related Group to speak today for 25 minutes at the city's PACO meeting re their very unpopular 1301 S. Ocean Dr. project

 

Updated Sept. 22, 2022 at 1:00 a.m.

A VERY reliable and well-informed person -and upset- called me late this afternoon to tell me that, completely contrary to Florida's Sunshine Laws, Hollywood city officials, including the city's soon-to-be-resigning Planning Director, Leslie Del Monte, allowed several representatives of The Related Group to speak this afternoon for 25 minutes at the city's PACO meeting re their very unpopular 1301 S. Ocean Dr. project.

A project that continues going forward despite a lack of support among the community AND The Related Group NOT having the REQUIRED community meeting with the public as the city's own rules mandate.

It's the city's own requirement, NOT a suggestion.

And again, what happened today took place despite 1301 NOT being listed by the city as an agenda item on the city's website or any printed agenda.

I'm also told that it was a VERY, VERY chummy 25 minutes, too, like a bunch of old friends just talking about things amongst themselves like they always do when nobody outside their small inner circle knowing anything about it.

I'm further informed by this same trusted source that several City of Hollywood Commissioners were/are blindsided by this news, and had no idea that The Related Group was going to be allowed -encouraged?- to participate at the meeting by city officials

WITHOUT any public awareness or ability by the public to engage or protest what was taking place.

Yes, more than ever, as I've said before, "Special rules for special people" should be the City of Hollywood's official slogan.

By the way, WHERE exactly are the links to any 2022 PACO meetings on the city's own 

website? http://fl-hollywood.civicplus.com/Archive.aspx?AMID=105

Zip. Nada. Nothing. Goose Egg.

No PACO meetings have been posted on the city's website since February of 2021.

Don't kid yourself, things like this do NOT all happen by accident!

FYI, I tweeted about this around 5:15 pm on my way back to Hollywood.

If you aren't currently Following me on my Twitter feed or regularly visiting my blog on your own every few days, you might want to strongly consider doing both going forward so you have a better context for understanding just what is taking place right in front of all of us at Hollywood City Hall.

Not by accident, but, rather as part of someone's plan.

https://twitter.com/hbbtruth/status/1572023343460585472

https://twitter.com/hbbtruth/status/1572821337256730624

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It's more than a little convenient for the City of Hollywood to decide to close City Hall again. Yes, just as another key Hollywood City Comm. mtg. is coming up on Wed. the 25th re The Related Group's controversial, incompatible 30-story luxury condo building on public land.

It's more than a little convenient for the City of Hollywood to decide to close City Hall again.

Yes, just as another key Hollywood City Comm. mtg. is coming up on Wednesday the 25th re The Related Group's controversial, incompatible 30-story luxury condo building on public land. 

Yes, the one the city seems willing to allow the developer to build on public land at one of the most serene places at Hollywood Beach. 

https://twitter.com/UdenCatherine/status/1417312050959749122 

1301 S. Ocean Drive, Hollywood Beach, Florida. 

No reasonable person walks here and looks at these views and thinks to themselves, "What this beautiful beach area needs is a 30-story luxury condominium to mar the views and the sense of peace and contentment of anyone who lives here or visits here.  

And a year after the unsolicited bid, the Hollywood City Comm. is still acting deaf, dumb, and blind to the fact that the vast majority of Hollywood's citizens are AGAINST this #giveaway to developers. Even now, the City Commission remains convinced that they can do this without following their own rules and having the required voter referendum on the sale. They will lose and some of them will see the end of their nascent political career if I have anything to do with it. 

And I will.

This morning at beautiful green Azalea Terrace (1301 S. Ocean Drive, Hollywood Beach) where we currently have mature dunes protecting the barrier island. #protectspecialplaces 🌱🌱🌱https://t.co/dZT4QHEKqB pic.twitter.com/CZr8dBcvTY

— Catherine Uden (@UdenCatherine) July 20, 2021

As of 3 pm today, 1500 people have signed @BrowardChapter petition to #HollywoodFL Mayor, City Commission + City Mgr. OPPOSING RelatedGroup's INCOMPATIBLE 30-story luxury condo tower going up on beach.🌴🏖️ 🌊https://t.co/kh3HAgHrfj @CGreenbarg @CBSMiami @nbc6 @wsvn @WPLGLocal10

— HallandaleBeach/Hollywood Blog (@hbbtruth) July 29, 2021

 

Here's letter, via @UdenCatherine https://t.co/4ZAMtiKKgy.
Reminder: #HollywoodFL citizens were NOT privy to ANY info re 6/23/20 unsolicited bid re PUBLIC land until Jan. of 2021. 🤫
As of today, public still has NEVER been able to question developer + team IN-PERSON abt it. 😳

— HallandaleBeach/Hollywood Blog (@hbbtruth) August 16, 2021

@SFBJRealEstate 2/ This comes as controversial #RelatedGroup's bid to buy 4 acres of city-owned land on the beach @ 1301 S. Ocean Dr. for 30-story luxury condominium, WITHOUT city following its own rules requiring a voter referendum, is again on the agenda for next Wednesday. pic.twitter.com/2TsJo8mBGh

— HallandaleBeach/Hollywood Blog (@hbbtruth) August 17, 2021

@GovRonDeSantis @AGAshleyMoody @BrowardIG
So, #HollywoodFL, perhaps the LAST #SoFL city to re-open City Hall to in-person mtgs w/residents -in June- has now decided to climb back under its rock when public = irate at them for keeping public in dark.
https://t.co/DfCyCKBiTE

— HallandaleBeach/Hollywood Blog (@hbbtruth) August 17, 2021

@GovRonDeSantis @AGAshleyMoody @BrowardIG The City of #HollywoodFL's public notice that CityHall = closing to public STILL not on its SunshineBoard @ 130 pm.
So in-person mtgs where public can attend + speak are kaput, but Union mtgs on city property are okay?🤔 Very curious! pic.twitter.com/IeQM0q5pP5

— HallandaleBeach/Hollywood Blog (@hbbtruth) August 17, 2021

By forcing public to immediately leave Chambers after speaking -unlike anyone fm Developer's team- if an important point/inconvenient fact has not been said by end, it NEVER gets stated.

This effectively gives the #HollywoodFL City Comm. + #RelatedGroup a veto over the public. pic.twitter.com/I5Z48LNU9v

— HallandaleBeach/Hollywood Blog (@hbbtruth) August 17, 2021

 Today, August the 17th, the city posted the following to their website, and to their facebook page, but not to the official Sunshine Board as of 1:45 p.m.

https://www.hollywoodfl.org/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=988

Hollywood Residents Opposed to High Rise on Public Land at Azalea Terrace at Change.org
https://www.change.org/p/hollywood-city-commission-hollywood-residents-opposed-to-high-rise-on-public-land-at-azalea-terrace

Surfrider Foundation Broward County Chapter started this petition to Mayor Josh Levy and 

This petition is for residents of Hollywood opposed to a 30 story high rise condo building being developed on environmentally fragile public land on the barrier island. There is a developer proposal for a 99 year lease on this public land between Azalea Terrace and Bougainvillea Terrace, extending from A1A all the way to the beach. Residents are concerned about impact to quality of life. Sometimes, less is more. This is a quiet section of our beach, and the proposal submitted would bring hundreds of more residents to the barrier island. The developer's "concept drawing" had placed parks/plazas/playgrounds on top of our current mature dunes (east of Surf Road), a larger community center closer to the ocean, added a restaurant, added a private pool for the luxury condo residents, and extended the busy Broadwalk to this quiet section. Harry Berry Park as we know it was eliminated, and the drawing had moved Harry Berry Park on top of our current dune system. The tower will cast a dark shadow over the sand, taking away hours of sunlight (and the view of the sunset) at the end of the day. They propose a new parking garage, but they have not yet promised that residents will be able to use their annual resident parking stickers in this new proposed garage. 

These barrier island streets, and the emergency services, are in a vulnerable area for sea level rise. This is a sea turtle nesting beach which is supposed to be dark, clean, and quiet from May through October so that hatchlings have greater chance at survival. Residents currently on the barrier island already have issues with parking, traffic, and crowds. Please contact your city commissioner to oppose a new high rise on this land, or at least let the residents vote on the fate of our land. Don't silence our voices! 

Email the city: JLevy@hollywoodfl.org, CShuham@hollywoodfl.org, LSherwood@hollywoodfl.org, KBiederman@hollywoodfl.org, TCallari@hollywoodfl.org, LAnderson@hollywoodfl.org, AGruber@hollywoodfl.org, WIshmael@hollywoodfl.org, smaken@hollywoodfl.org, RStorey@hollywoodfl.org  

Related Group's proposal:  http://hollywoodfl.org/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=978 

City Commission: http://hollywoodfl.org/89/City-Commission 

The next CRA meeting and City Commission meeting are on August 25th at City Hall, 2nd floor. Citizen comments are at 5 PM. Use city meetings as an opportunity to state your concerns and opposition. If this is such a great deal/great idea, then why not let residents decide?  

Are you a Hollywood resident? Leave a reason why you love our beach and want to keep this green, open area free from new high rise towers in your "reasons for signing." You do not have to donate anything to sign the petition (donations go to Change.org). Thank you! 

Sun Sentinel article here: https://www.sun-sentinel.com/local/broward/hollywood/fl-ne-hollywood-tower-ss-prem-20210402-smwgro5f7jg4np5l5vizv5bazu-story.html 

Dave 

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“Don’t Trash Our Treasure” - Local10 News anchor/reporter Louis Aguirre recently brought his plastic pollution series to our area of Broward County, and... surprise! The plastic pollution problem remains as bad as you and I see everyday at the beach and along the Intracoastal Waterway. Fortunately for us, he had a chance to speak to our friend and fellow civic activist Catherine "Cat" Uden, someone who talks the talk and walks the walk when it comes to the environment and showing common sense. (Even while on her paddleboard.)

Local10 News anchor and reporter Louis Aguirre recently brought his “Don’t Trash Our Treasure” series to our area of Broward County, and... surprise! The plastic pollution problem remains as bad as you and I see every day at the beach and along the Intracoastal Waterway. 

See this screen grab I made of a recent tweet thread about our mutual concerns about the situation with respect to garbage and plastic pollution at Hollywood Beach, and when things are cleaned up:  https://twitter.com/hbbtruth/status/1384609513366441987

Fortunately for Louis Aguirre and us, he had a chance to speak to our friend and fellow civic activist Catherine "Cat" Uden, someone whom as I've recounted several times on this blog, always talks the talk and walks the walk when it comes to the environment and showing common sense. 

(Even while on her paddleboard.)

And as we know to our eternal chagrin, disappointment, and anger, common sense is anything but common in South Florida. It is ever thus...

Louis Aguirre's tweet thread on this subject are at: https://twitter.com/LOUISAGUIRRE/status/1392835191845048321

https://www.instagram.com/p/COtUPinn0sZ/

https://www.instagram.com/tv/CO0-8NLnVv3/?hl=en

Thank you @louisaguirre at @local10news for your coverage on the plastic pollution crisis. Watch his series “Don’t trash our treasure” for an eye opening look at plastic pollution in Florida. Then take action PlasticFreeFL.org (Yes, that’s a sky lantern I’m holding. They are illegal in FL and can entangle marine life. Don’t release balloons or sky lanterns). Thanks Emily Robinson for the photos. 🌍 #breakfreefromplastic #riseaboveplastics #plasticfreeseas #plasticfree #marinedebris @oceana @oceana_in_florida @louiswplg #southflorida #florida #broward #browardcounty #wplglocal10 #daniabeach #hollywoodbeach #oceana #oceanaflorida #protectwhatyoulove

If you aren't able to see the video on Cat's second Instagram post above, please see it here at Channel 10's YouTube Channel, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdlc9ttP3aA

A transcript is at: https://www.local10.com/news/local/2021/05/12/broward-beaches-are-suffering-and-plastic-is-top-culprit/

Local10 News, Miami, Florida
Broward beaches are suffering and plastic is top culprit
Louis Aguirre, Anchor/Reporter
Published: May 12, 2021 6:28 pm
Updated: May 12, 2021 11:28 pm

Dave

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Stop the privatization of public beaches in #HollywoodFL. Get involved and vocal on May 5th and let the Hollywood City Commission know that you want Public Beach Access properly maintained, NOT weakened! Hollywood residents, please oppose Wednesday's agenda item #24. Ocean/beach access is for everyone, including sunrise and sunset.

Stop the privatization of public beaches in #HollywoodFL. Get involved and vocal on May 5th and let the Hollywood City Commission know that you want Public Beach Access properly maintained, NOT weakened!

Hollywood residents, please oppose Wednesday's agenda item #24. 

Ocean/beach access is for everyone, including sunrise and sunset.

Photo of Hollywood City Hall by me, March 2021

https://t.co/l6ht9n2Sxh?amp=1

Reminder: This Washington Post article is almost 4 years old.

The Washington Post

Free the beaches, before it’s too late
America's beaches are for everyone. Let's keep them that way.
By Andrew W. Kahrl
August 3, 2017 at 6:00 a.m. EDT

Andrew W. Kahrl is associate professor of history and African American studies at the University of Virginia and author of “The Land Was Ours: How Black Beaches Became White Wealth in the Coastal South.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/made-by-history/wp/2017/08/03/free-the-beaches-before-its-too-late/

So here's the information on Agenda Item #24 for Wednesday's Hollywood City Commission: 

An Ordinance Of The City Of Hollywood, Florida, Amending Chapter 72 Of The Code Of Ordinances Entitled "Parking" To Revise The Parking Permit Program And Update Other Provisions; Providing For A Repealer Provision And A Severability Clause.
https://hollywoodfl.legistar.com/LegislationDetail.aspx?ID=4928396&GUID=6DB1CDE0-0ED5-4395-A27D-B00FCF8B1D4D&Options=&Search=

Below are the three most recent updates on the street parking situation on Hollywood Beach written by my friend and fellow Hollywood civic activist, Catherine "Cat" Uden:

I.  April 10, 2021 https://www.instagram.com/p/CNfdQt4Hzgs/

The city is justifying the “Beach Residential Zones” as elderly residents on fixed incomes with disabled spouses having nowhere to park at night. If elderly residents need more parking, then the city should find a way to do that. But, that's not what this is. 

The ordinance says nothing about elderly or disabled people. The ordinance allows ANY condo resident to apply for more spots. Not only can they apply for more spots for themselves, but I think the ordinance states they can ALSO apply for special guest permits so that their guests can have special beach parking.

That is basically privatizing the beach and stealing good street parking from the rest of the Hollywood residents.

In addition, it seems the city won’t have to give the public any warning or allow us to make public comments on zones being created. 

They will just take away our sunrise/sunset parking, and that’s that.

This ordinance passed on first reading, and I’m hoping there’s a second reading where the public can make comments.

II.  April 20, 2021 https://www.instagram.com/p/CN4rGoOHeus/

For those who enjoy Hollywood Beach- Please make a public comment by the deadline today 4/20. 

🌟Agenda item 14 is Citizen Comments. 

🌟The city plans to take away half of certain streets and turn them into zones for barrier island residents and their guests only from 6 pm until 8 am. No other Hollywood residents or members of the public would be able to park there. 

It’s possible that they could even leave their cars in those zones all day if they purchase another permit. It’s also possible they will be given this special parking even if they already have 2 spots per condo unit. 

The city could create these zones without any warning to the public and we would not get an opportunity or weigh in. 

The privileged who live at the beach could apply for up to 4 permits and 2 for their guests. Residents like me who have paid for a $160 annual sticker would be shut out of these zones.
Please oppose the “Beach Residential Only” parking zones. 

The beach is for all, we all paid for the sand, and they should not be taking away public access or public parking.

http://fl-hollywood2.civicplus.com/FormCenter/City-Clerk-12/2Regular-City-Commission-Meeting-Public--230

You can also choose to speak in person at 5 pm on 4/21 at city hall, agenda item 14.
Check out the @surfriderbroward Facebook event page for more details. 

The final vote is May 5th.

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III.  April 30, 2021  https://www.instagram.com/p/COT4fwYHQwv/

Save our sunrise and sunset parking. Ask the @cityofhollywoodfl to oppose “Beach resident only” parking zones - agenda item 24. 

If this ordinance passes, even Hollywood residents with an annual resident sticker will be excluded from these zones for 14 plus hours every single day. (6 pm until 8 am). 

Beach residents who are already provided spots by their building could also apply for these zones and might get multiple permits and also guest permits. 👎🏾 Save our public street parking. 

May 5th city meeting. 

Make a public comment opposing Agenda item 24 here: Hollywoodfl.org 

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REMINDER: For your comment to be read aloud at the Wednesday meeting it must be received BEFORE 6 p.m. on Tuesday the 4th.

https://www.hollywoodfl.org/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=943

Submit a Public Comment:

• Any member of the public wishing to comment publicly on any matter, including specific agenda items and/or Citizens Comments may do so via the City’s website at the links below or via telephone. 
• Comments are limited to 400 words and/or 3 minute spoken maximum.
• Staff will read the comments into the record during the meeting. All comments received during the submission period will become part of the public record.

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For those of you who are new to this blog, I first wrote about Catherine "Cat" Uden in early 2019

https://hallandalebeachblog.blogspot.com/2019/01/so-proud-of-two-of-my-newer-friends.html

The last time I mentioned Cat here on the blog, in June of last year, came in conjunction with  another matter, namely...

Hollywood residents deserve better than this completely inadequate effort at public engagement on big spending issues, via Hollywood General Obligation Bond Advisory Committee

https://hallandalebeachblog.blogspot.com/2020/06/hollywood-residents-deserve-better-than.html

I received roughly 3,000 views from concerned residents and stakeholders, receiving quite a few comments about how spot-on my comments were, and all wondering when the city was going to loosen things at Hollywood City Hall that prevents more of the public from actively participating, including opening up public Civic Association meetings again.

Just something to consider...

Dave

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