Proposed Vilano Beach hotel voted down unanimously

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ST. JOHNS COUNTY, Fla. – Vilano Beach residents were triumphant successful their combat against a edifice projected for the beach. On Tuesday, the St. Johns County Board of Commissioners unanimously voted down the hotel, 4-0.

The planned 194-room edifice would person been built adjacent A1A and Vilano Road, but residents showed up successful ample numbers to dependable concerns astir gathering what would beryllium the largest edifice successful the area.

Vilano Beach residents were triumphant successful their combat against a edifice projected for the beach. On Tuesday, the St. Johns County Board of Commissioners unanimously voted down the hotel, 4-0.

There were aggregate concerns raised including the planned acreage was incorrect and the region had made mistakes successful the exertion process.

There were besides concerns raised implicit postulation successful the area.

“To get to Vilano there’s a two-lane span to get there. My interest is not surviving excessively acold from the country is that you know, flooding, earthy disasters, hurricanes, it would beryllium a messiness to person arsenic galore edifice rooms arsenic these further rooms would make,” said nonmigratory John Pilecki.

Commissioner Henry Dean was the archetypal commissioner to explicit skepticism implicit the size of the edifice and projected allowing a edifice if it was lone 120 rooms which would beryllium the equivalent of the largest edifice already astatine the beach. But the lawyer and designer for the developer, Key International, said that wouldn’t enactment for their plans.

They said they would lone beryllium consenting to driblet the country full successful a scaled-back connection from 194 rooms to 174 rooms. But Commissioners didn’t look to deliberation that was capable and close earlier the vote, the developer made 1 last transportation for a edifice that would beryllium lone 150 rooms, but commissioners inactive voted down the proposal.

The process, however, is apt not over.

Following the vote, the developer expressed involvement successful either re-applying for a gathering licence oregon appealing the commission’s decision. The region is besides considering whether to waive the accustomed one-year request earlier an exertion tin beryllium re-submitted.

But for now, residents consciousness triumphant.

“Well, I’m not against development, I deliberation the peculiar country they’re looking at, thing tin beryllium done there. But conscionable the scope and standard of what they’re trying to bash is mode excessively large for Vilano,” said nonmigratory Gayla Poythress.