Florida Governor Signs Bill Overturning Key West Cruise Ship Restrictions
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With the stroke of a pen, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has overturned Key West’s voter-approved limits on cruise ships.
In November 2020, voters in the southern tip of Florida approved three ballot questions that would restrict the number of daily cruise ship visitors to 1,500, ban vessels carrying more than 1,300 passengers, and prioritize docking for cruise lines with the best health and environmental records.
The referendum wasn’t close. Key West citizens voted 63 percent in favor of limiting daily cruise ship visitors to 1,500. About 60 percent said yes to prohibiting larger ships, and over 80 percent agreed that the best cruise line corporate citizens should get the first pick of docking assignments.
Florida Governor Signs Bill That Overrides Cruise Ship in Key West
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National Hurricane Center Director Ken Graham will be the keynote presenter at the annual Hurricane Preparedness Workshop for the Florida Keys Tourism Industry set to begin at 1 p.m. Thursday, May 27.
Graham will focus on enhanced forecast products for the official 2021 Atlantic Basin hurricane season that begins June 1 and continues through Nov. 30. Heâll also concentrate on the seasonâs outlook and the importance of using trusted information sources in the three-hour virtual event.
âThe 2020 hurricane season was the most active on record, with 30 named storms including 14 hurricanes, seven of which were major hurricanes,â Graham noted. âEleven storms made landfall along the U.S. coastline, four of which came ashore in Louisiana.â
Nonprofit Pulls Proposal to Build Affordable Housing
May 3, 2021
A.H. of Monroe County, a social services organization based in Key West, Fla., has withdrawn a proposal to build an affordable housing development, according to
Keys Weekly. Under the terms of the proposal, A.H. of Monroe would have constructed between 80 and 100 units within Key West’s Truman Waterfront.
The proposal had received support from a majority of city commissioners. But members of the Bahama Village Redevelopment Advisory Committee, which advises the city’s Community Redevelopment Agency, raised objections because the proposal had not been part of a competitive bidding process,