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[Johnny French]

Dear friends:
We need to mount a campaign based on truth in government. I am asking you to cut and paste the message below into an email and send it to Mayor Henry Garrett, flooding him with emails asking him to honor his word. Please forward this to everyone you know and ask them to do the same. Please cut and paste the message into a new email instead of forwarding to Mayor Garrett; it will be more effective. We can mount a modern people communiations campaign to combat their dollars. Feel free to post on message boards in the surfing and fishing communities. People don't have to live here to send an email telling the mayor how they feel, adding a personal note will help. We need every surfrider, fisherman, family beachgoer and tourist in the state and country let the Mayor know how important this is. It will have an effect.
Sincerely,
John M. Kelley

mayor garrett <lindale@cctexas.com>,

Mayor Garrett:
Please honor your commitment to the people and do not put on the agenda any measure to extend the current ban on vehicle closure in front of the seawall. Let the proponents of the ban extention mount their own initiative to get it on the ballot, just as we have. Let the people decide. With all due respect, it is the people's beach, not the developers' or the Council's. Please honor the commitment you made below.

From page two of Skip Noe's letter to the GLO:

One of the major concerns expressed by numerous groups has been that of precedence. The Council went to extraordinary lengths to verbalize to the opponents that they did not view this as precedent setting. However, as an uprecedented show of good faith, the Council amended the ordinance to include direct verbiage that the Council was not going to close any other beaches to vehicular traffic and specifically directed the City Manatger not to process such request for the elimination of vehicular traffic on any other beach. While no one Council can bind future Councils, the language used by the Council in this regard was the strongest possible language available to the Council and should serve to fully establish legislative intent and policy into the foreseeable future.

We, as City staff, have seldom seen the Council as adamant about an issue as they were at last Tuesday's Council meeting in expressing their opposition to elimination of trafrfic from any other beach. As a result, we, as City staff, cannot foresee any future proposals to eliminate vehicles from any other beach.

From page three of the ordinance itself:

WHEREAS, with the exception of beach seaward of the seawall, it is the policy of the City of Corpus Christi, as adopted in Policy Statements B.33 and C.13 MUSTANG-PADRE AREA DEVELOPMENT PLAN, adopted by City Council Ordinance #025725 on April 20, 2004, an element of the City's Comprehensive Plan, to maintain vehicle access along the Gulf beach unless necessary for an overwhelming public safety concern;

WHEREAS, the City of Corpus Christi does not intend to close any other stretches of beach within its jurisdiction to vehicular traffic, other than the temporary public safety closures authorized by$10-81. Code of Ordinances, for period of extremely high water;

WHEREAS, by the adoption of this ordinance the City Council is directing the City Manager not to process any requests for the closure of the beach to vehicular traffic that may be submitted by a littoral property owner;

[Mike S]

Johnny.......very good idea.


Mike S

[Johnny French]

Can't take the credit for every good idea, like Dilbert's boss.

[Insider View]

You cannot trust most of "them"; i.e., elected and exec's at City Hall (City Manager, Asst. City Mgrs)!

The City staff are mere puppets of Council because they have NO backbone and merely kiss butt to please Council. You know who most of the older Council Members are for??? You think the people or developers and money holders?

Not a difficult question to answer. For those Council Members nearing their end of final terms, they don't have much to lose in supporting major development... even if they fear votes. Sure, few will run for Mayor positions and such.... they don't have to fear "votes" because they'll have big money contributions helping them advertise and campaign for votes!

What has to work is different options to allow for some controlled development without COMPLETELY closing off beaches that starts from seawall... and eventual Council Member campaigns (with Developers in pockets)... all the way down to N. of Sticks. PINS will be restricted because of Feds.

People need to voice enough in MEDIA to scare Developers. Developers NORMALLY don't want to deal with citizen DISAPPROVAL in the MEDIA. Raise stinks with protests in front of City Hall, The Beaches, etc. Get MEDIA Attention.... SOMETHING Spectacular. Get EVERYONE TOGETHER AND BLOCK OFF BEACHES OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT!

GET MEDIA TO TALK ABOUT WHAT IS THE HISTORY OF "SAFETY" CONCERNS. Where's the Data that Council is touting is a safety issue? Where? Where?

Allow for DEVELOPMENT, but in a controlled manner and not COMPLETELY closing off beaches.

Come on guys, let's use our brains. I cannot be publicly vocal because of my situation. I know too much. I can help from behinds the scenes.

INSIDER Tract.

[Guest]

On one of the other threads there was talk of the boost to the tax base. My bet, to lure the developers here with their campaign contributions, they will be offered giant and lengthy tax abatements.

I just sent my mail.

BTW, there is a provision in the ordinances to recall city council members. If there is a need to redo the petition, it would not be that much trouble to have people sign two petitions.

Steve Wright

[funmeters]

Steve Yea, two petitions!!! Something like that should get alot of attention. Right now the city council or their developer buddies don't need attention like that.

[Seabass]

My email is sent from San Antonio...keep the bandwagon goin..

Seabass

[Johnny French]

Steve, funmeters, wish big when you wish. We'll need 3 petitions to sign at one time: one to get a vote to cancel the beach closure du jour, one to vote on a City Charter Amendment automatically providing a vote on future proposed beach closures, and one to recall any council member who has ever suggested a beach closure. That last is the toughest to accomplish because each signature has to be notarized and it takes twice as many signatures. Wonder who made those rules?