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Floridians can buy hurricane supplies tax-free this weekend
TALLAHASSEE - Floridians are going to get a chance to buy hurricane supplies tax-free.
A three-day sales tax holiday on hurricane preparation supplies starts Friday and will last through Sunday.
During that period, state and local sales taxes will not be charged on batteries, gas containers, flashlights and portable generators costing $750 or less.
Taxes will also not be charged on coolers, reusable ice packs, tarps, and battery- powered radios.
Florida legislators enacted the sales tax holiday as a way to encourage residents to get ready for this year’s hurricane season. The Atlantic season started Thursday and lasts six months.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration forecast calls for 11 to 17 named storms, with five to nine hurricanes. Two to four hurricanes are expected to be “major” with sustained winds of at least 111 mph.
No sale: PGA rejects $2 million bid
Service district had wanted golf course
PORT ST. LUCIE — The PGA of America has rejected St. Lucie West Service District's bid to buy the St. Lucie Trail Golf Club.
District Manager Dennis Pickle was notified Saturday that the PGA had rejected its $2 million bid for the 18-hole course, he told the district Board of Supervisors on Tuesday. The district, which provides waterutility and surface-water management to 7,000 properties, intended to lease a portion of the course to either the Country Club Estates Homeowners Association or a third party to operate the existing golf course after an unspecified amount of retention ponds were installed to alleviate heavy flooding during major rain events.
The district wanted to maintain the greens; residents with golf-course views would have had waterfront property.
For the PGA's part, it would rather sell the course, at 951 S.W. Country Club Drive, St. Lucie West, to a different kind of buyer, a spokeswoman said Tuesday.
'We informed the water district that we weren’t accepting their pre-emptive offer at this time because we would like additional time to seek out offers which would maintain the property as a golf course,' a PGA spokeswoman said in an email.
The PGA in April announced plans to sell the course, which is in Port St. Lucie, and its PGA Center for Golf Learning and Performance, just west of Interstate 95 in unincorporated St. Lucie County. The district's effort to buy the course was met with fierce opposition from some residents of Country Club Estates, who feared property values for homes
along the course would plunge with a district purchase.
'I am optimistic the course will be purchased by a reputable individual and/or entity who will maintain the course as it has been maintained by the PGA,' Country Club Estates HOA President Mary Ann Russell said in an email Tuesday.
Vice Chairman Gregg Ney said Tuesday.
'The vocal minority within Country Club Estates took very careful aim over the last couple of weeks and shot us all in the foot,' Ney said. 'They put the entire community at risk of going to a developer as opposed to the services district, which would have worked with them to maintain the golf course and would guarantee that it would never be developed into condos.'
The course is the only available St. Lucie West site for more retention ponds to lessen flooding during major rain events, Pickle said. The Enclave and Lake Forest communities were underwater in 2012 during Tropical Storm Isaac. Homes without sandbags nearly flooded, and Cashmere Boulevard was impassable for three days, he said.
Looks like the Lucky's grocery store is going to be building their store in SLW- across from Friendly's. I'm not sure exactly where or what building they will take over, but that is what I was reading from P&Z.
It looks like plans have been submitted to the city to build a Sonic at the NE corner of Cahmere & St Lucie West by Lowes. It also looks like a Taco Bell and a Starbucks have been approved for the corner of port St lucie and SW Wayne St
Looks like the Lucky's grocery store is going to be building their store in SLW- across from Friendly's. I'm not sure exactly where or what building they will take over, but that is what I was reading from P&Z.
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