{"id":29036,"date":"2023-01-17T12:41:28","date_gmt":"2023-01-17T17:41:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=29036"},"modified":"2023-01-17T12:41:32","modified_gmt":"2023-01-17T17:41:32","slug":"lakeland-commissioners-deny-needed-permit-to-convert-the-former-church-to-public-house-bar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2023\/01\/17\/lakeland-commissioners-deny-needed-permit-to-convert-the-former-church-to-public-house-bar\/","title":{"rendered":"Lakeland Commissioners deny needed permit to convert the former church to Public House (bar)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After more than an hour of passionate debate, Lakeland commissioners voted 5-2 to deny the use permit that would have allowed a former chapel to be transformed into a Public House (bar).<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"604\" height=\"257\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 604px) 100vw, 604px\" src=\"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Screenshot-5-2.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-29037\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Screenshot-5-2.png 604w, https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Screenshot-5-2-300x128.png 300w\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Commissioner Samuel Simmons led the motion to deny Lakeland businessman Stewart Simm, former owner of The Federal Bar, a conditional use permit needed open up a special events venue \u2014 initially dubbed The Chapel at 417 N. Massachusetts Ave.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Quickly Simm gained a second and support from Commissioner Sara Roberts McCarley.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;This conditional use. It\u2019s not allowed. Period. End of story,&#8221; McCarley said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Commissioners Mike Musick and Bill Read voted against denying the business permit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Gregory Fancelli, a Lakeland developer who owns the property, said the city&#8217;s denial is not necessarily the end of the issue, as he will continue to work amicably to address some of the issues raised Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;There is no compatibility issue,&#8221; Fancelli said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After more than an hour of passionate debate, Lakeland commissioners voted 5-2 to deny the use permit that would have allowed a former chapel to be transformed into a Public&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29037,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"wpai_generated_summary":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"{title}\n\n{excerpt}\n\n{url}","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","default_image_id":71799,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[12,14],"tags":[4287],"class_list":["post-29036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local","category-news","tag-lakeland-commissioners-deny-needed-permit-to-convert-the-former-church-to-public-house-bar"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29036\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}