Is an overlay needed on Bayshore Blvd?
Bayshore Gardens Neighborhood Association president Vicki Pollyea wants to be able to see beautiful Davis Islands when driving along Bayshore Boulevard. Read her guest column in the St. Pete Times – Treasured Bayshore deserves extra protection:
With the sweeping beauty of the bay now healthy and full of wildlife, the vistas of downtown and Davis Islands, the long sidewalk for a variety of sports enthusiasts, its role as a major link in the greenway trail, the historical mansions that grace this tree-lined linear park, Bayshore is a unique treasure that no other city in the world can match.
In the column she argues for a development overlay to restrict how nearby land can be developed. She also suggests that “Everyone agrees that we do not want to see this treasure become a canyon of high-rises, where only the elite can enjoy its many pleasures.”
Do you think Bayshore needs this overlay protection?
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July 2nd, 2007 at 4:02 pm
I absolutely believe Bayshore needs better protection. For nearly 20 years I have bicycled the sidewalk and been horrified by the trash that floats at the edge, most often following a rain.
I brought this to the City’s attention & heard a rediculous response…’it’s the fault of the landscapers who blow debri into the storm gutters’. No matter whose ‘fault’, are we not responsible? Can we not implement those floating barriers that would catch the debri (styrafoam, plastic bottles, horrible amounts of leaves) and scoop them up into the trash & out of the water?!