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City Planning: Different rules, different maps for different folks

The recent debate over the validity of the city’s online maps and whether developers and the public can rely on them isn’t a new problem…

Long Hollow radio tower to be discussed today

Pensacola City Council Executive Donald Kraher was tasked by the City Council in November to research the Long Hollow radio tower. He will present his…

Floodgate: The Story of the Long Hollow Radio Tower

Melanie Nichols will be on News Talk 1370 WCOA’s “Pensacola Speaks” this afternoon to talk about her upcoming presentation, “Floodgate: The Story of the Long…

Pensacola City Council missed opportunity to stop radio tower completion

In February, Councilman Brian Spencer tried to add to the agenda for the next council meeting a discussion of the radio tower being built in…

Olson to address Long Hollow issues tonight

PNJ reporter Will Isern is doing a follow-up story on the Long Hollow Radio Tower. Elizabeth Schrey spoke with Isern about how city staff knew…

Former city planner says city staff knew radio tower was illegal

Elizabeth Schrey worked as a city planner for the City of Pensacola from December 2012-February 2015. She told Inweekly this morning that both her boss,…

More opinions sought on Long Hollow radio tower

Several Pensacola City Council members have been told that the city administration is seeking to find another attorney to render opinions on the non-conformity of…

City stonewalls request for public records of Divine Word Communications

Inweekly has made five requests for the Divine Word Communications’ records regarding the demolition of the old radio tower and the construction of the new,…

Council members wait for more info before debating radio tower quagmire

Inweekly shared with the Pensacola City Council the two legal opinions from John Asmar regarding the non-conformity of the new, larger radio tower built in…

Legal Opinion 2: Divine Word lease and building permits null and void

In light of his legal opinion that the radio tower violates Florida Statutes, the City of Pensacola Land Development Code and its Comprehensive Plan, Inweekly…

Legal Opinion: Divine Word tower should be removed from Long Hollow basin

City Attorney Lysia Bowling misled the Pensacola City Council with a rather narrow legal opinion on the Ground Lease between the City of Pensacola and…

Mayor and City Council violated its policies with radio tower lease

The Pensacola City Council ratified its policy for the disposition (by sale or lease) of city-owned real property on the day Mayor Ashton Hayward and…

City produces missing documents before council meeting

City Administrator Eric Olson delivered to the city council a slew of documents regarding the Long Hollow Radio Tower just hours before its meeting yesterday….

Atkins addresses Long Hollow Stormwater Pond capacity

The Pensacola City Council was sent this memo around noon today by City Administrator Eric Olson To: Eric Olson, City Administrator From: Jeff Helms, P.E….

Radio Tower and public safety

Public safety is one of the most fundamental responsibilities of municipal government. City ordinances are enacted to ensure structures are built soundly and in accordance…

What did Reynolds tell or not tell the council about the radio tower lease ? (Transcript)

Inweekly had the video of the City Administrator Bill Reynolds’s presentation at the May 2012 Committee of the Whole transcribed. Here is the transcript: Mr….

Attorney argues his client did not lose non-conforming use for radio tower

Attorney Edward P. Fleming told Inweekly that the non-conforming use for Divine Communicationsâ€™ radio tower did not end when the old tower was demolished. As…

City Administrator failed to mention Long Hollow conservation district

When the Radio Tower Lease was brought before the Pensacola City Council in May 2012, City Administrator Bill Reynolds failed to mention that the old…