{"id":24474,"date":"2022-08-23T21:47:51","date_gmt":"2022-08-24T01:47:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=24474"},"modified":"2022-08-23T21:47:58","modified_gmt":"2022-08-24T01:47:58","slug":"florida-southern-claims-eminent-domain-over-portion-of-lake-hollingsworth-drive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2022\/08\/23\/florida-southern-claims-eminent-domain-over-portion-of-lake-hollingsworth-drive\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida Southern Claims Eminent Domain Over Portion of Lake Hollingsworth Drive<\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Satire by Swan City News<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Our days of freely circumnavigating Lake Hollingsworth may be numbered.\u00a0 Citing an obscure and long-forgotten ordinance associated with the 1921 purchase of the 67-acre lakefront property, Florida Southern is invoking their rights to eminent domain over the portion of Lake Hollingsworth Drive between Johnson Avenue and S. Ingraham Avenue.\u00a0 Director of Development Heath Farris produced an unauthenticated document at a recent City Commission meeting that purports to support their claim.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Allowing ample time for the initial shock to wear off, Farris continued, \u201cWe have been holding off on playing this card for many years.\u00a0 But after successfully testing our power and influence over the community with the McDonald Street renaming campaign, we are confident that we will prevail here as well. This also coincides with the financial challenges we have faced with the pandemic. To that end, we are prepared to keep the road open to the public for a nominal annual fee of $10 million<\/strong>.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n

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When the validity of the document was called into question, Dr. Brian Augustus, Associate Professor of Political Science, essentially dared the commission to challenge the ordinance.\u00a0 \u201cWe respect your right to do your due diligence in this matter, but any actions taken against our rights here would be ill-advised.\u201d Joel Ferdinand, Lake Hollingsworth resident, and frequent commission meeting gadfly added to the unruly tenor of the meeting by yelling out \u201cFirst the band shell and NOW THIS?!?!<\/strong>\u201d.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n

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City Commissioners hastily voted to add \u201cInvestigate SunPass options around Lake Hollingsworth\u201d to the agenda of their next working session and then promptly adjourned the meeting.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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