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Singer Island residents oppose high‑rise development; councilman to ask CRA board to review district boundaries
Summary
Residents at a comprehensive‑plan meeting criticized large development proposals on Singer Island, raised concern about impacts on diving resources and views, described a recent 19‑story zoning application that was overturned on appeal, and heard Councilman Glenn Spertus say he will move to reconsider CRA district boundaries.
Several Singer Island residents used the comprehensive plan meeting to press city officials about proposed high‑rise development, the Community Redevelopment Agency (CRA) district and recent zoning hearings they said affected the island.
Speaker Bill Contole told the meeting that Singer Island was never blighted and that allowing 25‑story planned unit developments in the CRA district would erect “a wall of condos” that could shadow the island’s prominent snorkeling and dive sites. “To allow that kind of project under the guise of a CRA… is an affront to everything that everyone here has said that they’re…
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