Tag: Pensacola Beach
Letter from BDI on red clay
Here is a letter dated August 2, 2007 to Santa Rosa Island Authority board members. Read No red clay
BDI adamant about red clay
From IN editor Duwayne Escobedo: RED CLAY DEBATE There are a few issues on Pensacola Beach that will always start a melee, like condos, taxes,…
Conflicting info on beach red clay
Not to beat a dead horse… but my source from the county says that the red clay on Pensacola Beach was trucked out there from…
Red clay follow up
from IN editor Duwayne Escobedo: Red clay is not allowed to be used for the base in road construction on Pensacola Beach because of fear…
Red clay used on the beach
Contractors are not allowed to use red clay on Pensacola Beach. However, the road contractor Roads, Inc. appears to have been given special dispensation and…
NAS does what ECUA should have done
The Monday edition of the News Journal has an article on how NAS Pensacola decided to forego building a new wastewater treatment plant on the…
Hotels become condos, sort of
After two delays and nearly three months of backroom meetings between developers, beach residents, county staff & county commissioners and the firing of one SRIA…
Beach parking garage plan
The Pensacola daily had an article on a proposed parking garage for Pensacola Beach. Here is a drawing of the garage’s location from Baskerville Donovan…
Why? Why? Why?
The Santa Rosa Island Authority avoided any decision on redefining hotels and condos on Pensacola Beach tonight. Why? The word I got was the board…
Gayest peninsula on Earth
The Atlanta-based Southern Voice magazine has declared Florida – particularly Pensacola and Orlando – the gayest peninsula on earth. Estimates 40,000-50,000 will visit here Memorial…
Grover speaks out on hotel-condo idea
Escambia County Commissioner Grover Robinson (version 4.0) has issued a position paper on the hotel-condo issue. He is recommending the maximum stay be cut from…
SRIA will decide what’s a hotel
SRIA chairman Vernon Prather is drafting an ordinance to define what is a hotel room. The broad will discuss and vote on it at its…
SRIA pays for drowning
In 2001, the Santa Rosa Island Authority resisted pressure to increase lifeguard protection on Pensacola Beach. Less than a half mile of Pensacola Beach’s 8.5…
MOBy misses the point
PNJ columnist Mark O’Brien (MOBy) misses the point on the county commission’s debate over hotels vs. condos on Pensacola Beach in his column today (Less…
Who really owns the sand on the beach?
 SRIA GM Buck Lee wants leaseholders to return the sand that’s blown on their property to the SRIA – SRIA takes up coarse issue….
RB Buzz: Lee wants county job
There are consistent rumblings from Pensacola Beach that Santa Rosa Island Authority Buck Lee has been lobbying Escambia County Commissioners to abolish the SRIA and…
PNJ advocates shutting down SRIA
The new editorial board of the PNJ has come out swinging. First, they ask the city council to delay any referendum on the expansion on…
