Thanks to all who attended, about 50 Bayfront residents took the time to head down to City Hall to show their support for at minimum, completely funding the SDSTF recommendations.

Also, a special thanks to the 10 of us who spoke, particularly Nancy Day, who continues to show an incredible amount of strength, serious concern and love for her neighbors.

In case you missed it in your mail, view the newsletter [PDF] online.

The Department of Environmental Quality says boaters in Broad Bay, Lynnhaven Bay, and Linkhorn Bay will no longer be allowed to dump treated human waste.
More at WTKR.com.

The Police confirmed another pedestrian was hit on Shore Drive this afternoon. Witnesses said it happened near or in front of Wawa.

Here’s Beachwalker2b’s comments about Kendall Street beach walkway ‘construction’.

This is a typical screw up by our industrial city planners. They are convinced that their college degree entitles them to spread their ignorance on the general population but expect to be paid for it. Anyone who allows a ravine to be established through a sand dune to provide a walkway and ignore the very strong possibility…

A comprehensive study will permit the state ?to fairly weigh the benefits of offshore energy against the concerns expressed by the public, the U.S. Navy, and NASA,? Kaine said in announcing the signing.
Read the article at Pilotonline.com.

APRIL 24th – Shortened, quicker meeting as it followed the City Council Candidate Forum.
ATTENDEES – 19, Called to Order 9:20pm, Adjourned 9:54pm.

General Discussion

Starbucks clean up. Thanks!
Redevelopment – the one SDCC helped co-sponsor had to cancel due to lack of participation.
Todd talked up Public Forums – really worthwhile.

Shore Drive Community Coalition (SDCC)- General Meeting, Monday   May 22, 2006, 7: 30pm to 9:00pm,  Ocean Park Fire & Rescue Hall.

This month we will use the program time to discuss two key issues that will go before City Council soon.  The Shore Drive Safety Task Force Report(SDSTF) and the Rezoning/Development of the property next to WaWa.  Here are a few questions to think about and discuss.

Lawmakers from Florida and California led the fight to continue the drilling moratorium.

More links to news about vote, at Google News.

CBF helped secure a major legal victory when the Virginia Supreme Court ruled that Northampton County, Va., can prohibit houses being built within 100 feet of a Chesapeake Bay creek.
Read more at Chesapeake Bay Foundation’s website.

Today, the dune looks not much like a dune at all. Where there was a thin ravine created by foot traffic, there is now an 8-foot-wide swath cut through the middle, with steep walls on either side. And bulldozer tracks everywhere.

Read entire article at Pilotonline.com.
Link to Pilot Warrior’s blog entries including photos about Kendall Street sand dune destruction.
Link to SDCC.info post of photos of Kendall Street ‘work’.

From Regina…

Last night (Tues. May 16) at approximately 10:15 p.m., a resident returned home in the 2400 or 2500 block of Shore Dr. to find a man in his kitchen.  I don’t have many details but the resident apparently was beaten.

Click on the image to view ‘full size’.

Here’s a few photos sent in by Bobbi showing the construction of the beach walkway at Kendall Street. 

June Barret-McDaniels, P.E. who recently presented the SDSTF Draft Report to SDAC, has forwarded us the SDAC recommendations for the Shore Drive Safety Task Force.

“For an area with this much density, with condo after condo after condo coming in here, we’re just not seeing the infrastructure to support us and the traffic just keeps adding,” she said.

Read article at WTKR.com.

The budget includes $1 million over two years for selected safety improvements on Shore Drive. By the fall, residents should know whether the money is appropriated for the task force?s recommendations, Meyer said.

Read entire article at Pilotonline.com.

At the recent SDAC Meeting one of the comments indicated that a multipurpose trail could be developed in the old “Trolley Lane” along Shore Drive; and, that the Parks and Recreation Project to build a trail in the “Trolley Lane” area has been delayed.

An article in the Virginian-Pilot looks at the condo boom in Hampton Roads, and mentions the trend toward ?new urbanism.”

The Planning Commission, this past Wednesday, approved Ocean Properties request to build 77 units on property currently zoned to have, lets just say, much less.

Bush will attend a $5,000-per-person lunch reception May 19 at the home of Eleanor and Bob Stanton on First Court Road , according to an invitation obtained by The Virginian-Pilot.

More at Pilotonline.com.