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TONY ORTEGA
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[Brooks Gibbs, fighting for Garden Avenue]
After Clearwater’s city council at its November 5 meeting disregarded the will of their own voters to — once again — bend over for Scientology, we said that the Save the Garden movement would have little choice but to sue the city.
This week, they did just that, with Save the Garden filing a lawsuit against Clearwater. It asks a judge to force the city to follow its own charter so that it holds a special election allowing the people of Clearwater to decide if it wants to give a downtown street to the Church of Scientology.
We have the entire lawsuit for you below, and we think it’s brilliant. Brooks Gibbs and Save the Garden have kept it extremely simple, and extremely compelling. After Clearwater’s council voted 3-2 in June to adopt an ordinance that would vacate South Garden Avenue at Scientology’s request, Save the Garden gathered more than 10,000 signatures, with more than 7,500 certified valid, to force the city to reconsider its decision.
But at the November 5 meeting, city council members David Allbritton, Ryan Cotton, and Mike Mannino, who had voted to give the street to Scientology, argued that they had received word from lawyers hired by the city that repealing the ordinance would run afoul of Florida state law that prohibits a referendum from rescinding a “development order.”
In the lawsuit, however, Gibbs and Save the Garden carefully explain that the ordinance passed by Clearwater to vacate the right-of-way of S. Garden Avenue is not a development order and so repealing it would not be a violation of state law.
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After Clearwater’s city council at its November 5 meeting disregarded the will of their own voters to — once again — bend over for Scientology, we said that the Save the Garden movement would have little choice but to sue the city.
This week, they did just that, with Save the Garden filing a lawsuit against Clearwater. It asks a judge to force the city to follow its own charter so that it holds a special election allowing the people of Clearwater to decide if it wants to give a downtown street to the Church of Scientology.
We have the entire lawsuit for you below, and we think it’s brilliant. Brooks Gibbs and Save the Garden have kept it extremely simple, and extremely compelling. After Clearwater’s council voted 3-2 in June to adopt an ordinance that would vacate South Garden Avenue at Scientology’s request, Save the Garden gathered more than 10,000 signatures, with more than 7,500 certified valid, to force the city to reconsider its decision.
But at the November 5 meeting, city council members David Allbritton, Ryan Cotton, and Mike Mannino, who had voted to give the street to Scientology, argued that they had received word from lawyers hired by the city that repealing the ordinance would run afoul of Florida state law that prohibits a referendum from rescinding a “development order.”
In the lawsuit, however, Gibbs and Save the Garden carefully explain that the ordinance passed by Clearwater to vacate the right-of-way of S. Garden Avenue is not a development order and so repealing it would not be a violation of state law.
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Save the Garden sues Clearwater for caving to Scientology: Here’s the lawsuit
After Clearwater’s city council at its November 5 meeting disregarded the will of their own voters to — once again — bend over for Scientology, we said that the Save the Garden movement would have little choice but to sue the city.
tonyortega.substack.com