DeFUNIAK SPRINGS Walton County commissioners didn t hold it in Tuesday, urging the executive director of the county s Tourist Development Council to move quickly toward acquisition of property for a public restroom in Grayton Beach.
“We needed bathrooms down there yesterday, Commissioner Danny Glidewell told TDC Executive Director Jay Tusa, who came to the commission Tuesday for guidance on potential acquisition of a number of small tracts along and near County Road 30A. The road is a popular beachside route for tourists staying in Grayton Beach, Seaside and other resort and residential communities along the route.
“We definitely need to make the Grayton property a priority, said Commissioner Tony Anderson.
VILLA TASSO Drive today through the tiny unincorporated southwestern Walton County community of Villa Tasso, and it s easy to understand why resident Tom Gilmore wants to hug the county s commissioners, and maybe a couple of code compliance officers and sheriff s deputies.
Gilmore came to the commission in August with complaints about “trash and garbage spilling into the streets in my neighborhood and what he called a culture of illegal dumping in the unincorporated community sandwiched between State Road 20 and Choctawhatchee Bay just east of Niceville. It s egregious, Gilmore told commissioners at the time.
And in fact, the problem of junk abandoned vehicles, scrap metal, household furniture, construction waste lining the streets and filling some residential lots in the community had earned it the nickname Villa Trasho.