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Mallory pier project may clash with cruise limits


The next salvo in the cruise ship wars in Key West could take place at Wednesday’s city commission meeting.
Two opposing resolutions to either accept or reject a federal grant that would help pay to rebuild and expand the T-pier at Mallory Square are on the agenda. The decades-old pier is a small, T-shaped concrete slab extending off the front of Mallory Square that is used for docking visiting ships. It is owned by the city.
Normally, accepting federal or state funding for a local infrastructure project is a no-brainer. But this time, some city officials are concerned that taking the grant funding will commit Key West to accepting cruise ships at Mallory Square larger than those approved in last November’s referendum. Indeed, the original grant application from the city, written in 2018, long before cruise ship restrictions were being discussed, said that one reason for the T-pier overhaul was to allow the city to dock larger ships at Mallory Square, contributin ....

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Cruise bill heads to governor


Stung by a last-minute political maneuver that pushed a bill reversing Key West’s limits on large cruise ships across the state legislative finish line, supporters of ship restrictions were licking their wounds Thursday morning and putting their last hopes on Gov. Ron DeSantis to veto the bill.
The odds of that happening, however, may be slim. Not only has DeSantis filed a lawsuit against the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) to force the agency to restore ship sailings in the United States, his political action committee, Friends of Ron DeSantis, last month accepted 11 donations totaling $995,000 from Mark Walsh, owner of Pier B, which handles a majority of cruise ship traffic in Key West, according to a story in the Miami Herald this week. Walsh’s company, Pier B Development Corp., had filed a lawsuit against Key West last year to stop ship and passenger limits referenda from being placed on the city’s November ballot. ....

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